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JuhguPosted - 5 April 2002 7:44 PST
I can't seem to get some of the marathon demos to run. The zip files have only pak0.pak and some .txt files so...

Shouldn't it work just by running eg. winquake.exe -game <the directory where the files are in> ? It only starts to run the crappy quake default demo :D

Eg. qdqwav works fine with just winquake.exe -game qdqwav

MorfansPosted - 5 April 2002 7:57 PST
You are nearly there.

The only thing you're missing is that once you have started Quake you need to pull the console down and type

playdemo first_map_in_the_marathon

So for Timo's l337 new ee4_1400 you would type

playdemo e4m1

or for Amriks new dazsp2 marathon...

playdemo dazsp2

All the demos should play in order, one after the other.


RadixPosted - 5 April 2002 9:42 PST
Since all the marathons are in .dz files you can also expand the pak file inside Dzip by double clicking on it, then you can just extract the .dem files if you want.
timPosted - 5 April 2002 19:04 PST
and when you have multiple pak(number).pak you have to rename then so the one you want to watch is the lowest number (that is not levels)

eg if there is a pak0.pak and pak1.pak for levels, qdqstats etc then the marathon should be pak2.pak otherwise you'll watch someone elses demos :)

JuhguPosted - 5 April 2002 23:11 PST
Oh, didn't guess that playdemo part. Thanks a lot!