diff --git a/Sources/Plasma/CoreLib/hsStream.h b/Sources/Plasma/CoreLib/hsStream.h
index 9153c51d..9b8902db 100644
--- a/Sources/Plasma/CoreLib/hsStream.h
+++ b/Sources/Plasma/CoreLib/hsStream.h
@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ public:
     virtual bool      IsCompressed() { return false; }
 
     uint32_t        WriteString(const plString & string) { return Write(string.GetSize(), string.c_str()); }
+    hsDeprecated("hsStream::WriteFmt is deprecated -- use plFormat instead")
     uint32_t        WriteFmt(const char * fmt, ...);
+    hsDeprecated("hsStream::WriteFmtV is deprecated -- use plFormat instead")
     uint32_t        WriteFmtV(const char * fmt, va_list av);
 
     uint32_t        WriteSafeStringLong(const plString &string);    // uses 4 bytes for length
diff --git a/Sources/Plasma/CoreLib/plString.h b/Sources/Plasma/CoreLib/plString.h
index 6d16281b..fe68b3b5 100644
--- a/Sources/Plasma/CoreLib/plString.h
+++ b/Sources/Plasma/CoreLib/plString.h
@@ -458,7 +458,6 @@ public:
      *  This function should be called inside of other vararg functions,
      *  but those should be eventually replaced with plFormat-based variants.
      */
-    hsDeprecated("plString::IFormat is deprecated -- use plFormat instead")
     static plString IFormat(const char *fmt, va_list vptr);
 
     enum CaseSensitivity {
diff --git a/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plSDL/plSDL.h b/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plSDL/plSDL.h
index 48053314..d537ea4b 100644
--- a/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plSDL/plSDL.h
+++ b/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plSDL/plSDL.h
@@ -516,7 +516,11 @@ private:
     bool IParseStateDesc(const plFileName& fileName, hsStream* stream, char token[],
                          plStateDescriptor*& curDesc) const;
 
+    void DebugMsg(const plString& msg) const;
+
+    hsDeprecated("plSDLParser::DebugMsg with format is deprecated -- use plFormat instead")
     void DebugMsg(const char* fmt, ...) const;
+    hsDeprecated("plSDLParser::DebugMsgV is deprecated -- use plFormat instead")
     void DebugMsgV(const char* fmt, va_list args) const;
 
 public:
diff --git a/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plSDL/plSDLParser.cpp b/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plSDL/plSDLParser.cpp
index 373d80ed..7ffcac6f 100644
--- a/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plSDL/plSDLParser.cpp
+++ b/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plSDL/plSDLParser.cpp
@@ -47,6 +47,17 @@ You can contact Cyan Worlds, Inc. by email legal@cyan.com
 
 static const int kTokenLen=256;
 
+void plSDLParser::DebugMsg(const plString& msg) const
+{
+    return;
+    plNetApp* netApp = plSDLMgr::GetInstance()->GetNetApp();
+
+    if (netApp)
+        hsLogEntry(netApp->DebugMsg(msg));
+    else
+        hsStatusMessage(msg.c_str());
+}
+
 void plSDLParser::DebugMsg(const char* fmt, ...) const
 {
     return;