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Friday, December 31st 2021 by Justin Fleck

Too much Coffee

We have a whole bunch of demos for todays update.

Connor Fitzgerald improved EddWardG's Easy Run on e3m14_pinchy1 by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:10 (video link).

Gustav 'Brainfluid' L. improved Melbo's Nightmare Run on e4m17_ing3 by 1 second to get a time of 0:08 (video link).

I did the Easy Run on marcher in 5:51 (video link).

I have been tablefilling the Coffee maps.

By my count, we had 1369 demos this year. Great balls of fire!

Thursday, December 30th 2021 by Justin Fleck

New EU Dream Team

We have nineteen demos for todays update. The Coffee Quake demos are on newly added maps.

Connor Fitzgerald did the Easy Run on e2m9_kamp in 0:06 (video link).

EddWardG has done quite a few demos on Coffee Quake maps.

Melbo has done quite a few demos.

EddWardG and Melbo have done some co-op demos.

I have done a couple demos on bastion.

Tuesday, December 28th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Ing-Ing

We have seven demos for todays update.

The guys have done quite a few demos on e4m17_ing3.

  • Connor Fitzgerald did the Easy Run in 0:08 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Mattias's previous record.
  • EddWardG did the Easy Run in 0:09 (video link), 1 second faster than Matthias's previous record.
  • Mattias Öman did the Easy 100% in 0:33 (video link), 6 seconds faster than my previous record.
  • Melbo did the Nightmare Run in 0:09 (video link), 1 second faster than AEF's previous record.
  • Mattias Öman did the Nightmare 100% in 0:56 (video link), 4 seconds faster than my previous record.

I have added one new map and I did some demos on it.

e1m1rt23 (The Slipgate Massacre) by RickyT23.

Saturday, December 25th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Ho Ho Ho

We have eight demos for todays update.

Jozsef Szalontai improved his Easy Run on phallusy by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:24 (video link), impressive!

Mattias Öman improved my Easy Run on e4m17_ing3 by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:10 (video link), very nice!

I have done a couple demos on ne_sp06.

  • Easy 100% in 4:57 (video link) 43 seconds faster than Jaakko's previous record.
  • Nightmare 100% in 8:35 (video link) 133 seconds faster than Jaakko's previous record.

I have added two new maps and I did some demos on them.

bastion (Bastion of the Underworld) by Kinn.

marcher (The Marcher Fortress) by Kinn.

Thursday, December 23rd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Happy Holidays

We have ten demos for todays update.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore never ceases to amaze us. He improved Jozsef's Nightmare Run on e2m2 by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:29 (video link), holy cow!

ViniVidiVici has sent in his first demo to SDA, welcome! He improved Melbo's Easy Run on d1m1 by 1 second to get a time of 0:54 (video link). Very nice, hope to see more!

I improved Jaakko's Nightmare 100% on fmb_bdg1 by 132 seconds to get a time of 10:45 (video link).

I have done a few demos on e4m17_ing3.

I have added one new map from the Coffee Quake map pack.

e2m10_ing2 (Orge Tunnel) by Ing-ing.

Monday, December 20th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Table fillin'

We have eight demos for todays update.

AEF did the Nightmare Run on e4m17_ing3 in 0:10 (video link), which is a newly added map from the Coffee Quake map pack. Very nice demo!

I have done some tablefillers.

I had to redo some demos on 100b4_ionio since I used the wrong impulse to select the Plasma Gun. The right impulse is 250, not 9.

Joe has updated JoeQuake to v0.17.3. Download it here, changelog is here.

Saturday, December 18th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Legend of the Moore

We have ten demos for todays update.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore has sent in some impressive demos.

  • Nightmare 100% 'normal gravity' of e1m8 in 0:59 (video link) 3 seconds faster than Jonny's previous record.
  • Easy 100% of e4m7 in 1:46 (video link, 4 seconds faster than Aleksander's previous record.
  • Nightmare Run of ep4 in 3:07 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Elias's previous record.
  • Nightmare Run of sm214_moesh in 0:11 (video link), 1 second faster than EddWardG's previous record.

EddWardG did the Easy Run 'trigger bypass' on snaut-acidtrip in 0:18 (video link), tablefiller.

The guys have done a few co-op demos.

  • 2-player Easy Run of 100b4_ionio in 0:24 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller.
  • 4-player Easy 100% of d1 in 0:17 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, Melbo and Sphere, 3 seconds faster than the previous record.
  • 2-player Easy Run of houstrps in 0:23 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, 2 seconds faster than the previous record.

I have done a couple demos.

Thursday, December 16th 2021 by Justin Fleck

The show must go on

We have a dozen demos for todays update.

Melbo improved EddWardG's Easy Run on sp07_henry by 1 second to get a time of 0:20 (video link), very nice!

I have done quite a few demos.

Tuesday, December 14th 2021 by Justin Fleck

The EddWardG show

We have a dozen demos for todays update.

Koren has sent in his first demo to SDA, welcome! He did the Nightmare 100% on smej2end in 30:08 (video link). Well done, hope to see more!

EddWardG has done quite a few demos.

I have done a few tablefillers.

Sunday, December 12th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Joe is back & NA Dream Team

We have nine demos for todays update.

Jozsef Szalontai has sent in a couple impressive demos.

EddWardG has sent in a few excellent demos.

Colossus and I did the 2-player Easy 100% on sm193_ionous in 0:49 (video link), tablefiller.

I have done a few demos on ne_os1.

Saturday, December 11th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Blast from the Past

Thomas informed me about some old demos that were never posted on SDA. I will correct that in todays update.

fmb_bdg1 (This Onion) by Mike Woodham.

ne_sp04 (The Emptiness Without) by Corey 'Necros' Jones.

ne_sp06 (Once Upon Atrocity) by Corey 'Necros' Jones.

nesp09 (Dawn of Eternity) by Corey 'Necros' Jones.

ne_os1 (Survive This!) by Corey 'Necros' Jones.

Friday, December 10th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Furlough Friday

We have ten demos for todays update.

Connor Fitzgerald did the Easy Run on alk_derelict in 0:27 (video link).

Gustav 'Brainfluid' L. improved Petar's Easy Run on rd1m1b by 1 second to get a time of 0:35 (video link).

Melbo improved Colossus's Easy Run on mge1m1 by 3 seconds to get a time of 1:36 (video link).

EddWardG has sent in a few excellent demos.

I have done some demos on the new Alkaline maps.

Tuesday, December 7th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Co-op Madness

We have eleven demos for todays update.

Sleeper Johns improved my Nightmare Run on rd1m3b by 3 seconds to get a time of 0:45 (video link), impressive!

EddWardG improved my Easy Run on e1m14_zungry2 by 1 second to get a time of 0:18 (video link), but AEF did it in 0:15 (video link), which is 4 seconds faster than my previous record.

The guys have done quite a few co-op demos.

Monday, December 6th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Joitain demoja

We have nine demos for todays update.

Mattias Öman improved my Nightmare 100% on sm196_hcm by 31 seconds to get a time of 4:50 (video link), very nice!

EddWardG has sent in a few excellent demos.

I have done some demos.

Sunday, December 5th 2021 by Justin Fleck

New maps

Maps from Alkaline v1.1 and Honey are being added today.

Alkaline v1.1 - More info about the mod can be found here.

  • alk_central (North Central Positronics) by DragonsForLunch - Name your demos "alkcent"
  • alk_chaos (Logistics of Chaos) by EmeraldTiger - Name your demos "alkchao"
  • alk_derelict (Derelict Freighter) by Paul Lawitzki - Name your demos "alkdere"
  • alk_mania (Overengineering Mania) by Mazu & Greenwood - Name your demos "alkmani"

Honey - More info about the mod can be found here.

  • honey (Constantly No Respect) by Christian 'CZG' Grawert - Name your demos "honey"
  • saint (Sheer Hellish Miasma) by Christian 'CZG' Grawert - Name your demos "saint"

Thursday, December 2nd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Noen demoer

We have nine demos for todays update.

AEF has sent in his first demo to SDA, welcome! He did the Easy 100% on e1m14_zungry2 in 1:11 (video link), which is a newly added map from the Coffee Quake map pack. Very nice demo, hope to see more!

Melbo improved Colossus's Easy Run on mge5m1 by 2 seconds to get a time of 1:04 (video link), well done!

EddWardG improved my Easy Run on sm193_ionous by 5 seconds to get a time of 0:31 (video link), impressive!

I have done some tablefillers.

Monday, November 29th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Co-op Madness

We have sixteen demos for todays update.

I stumbled upon an error in the tables. Back in 2011, Basil's Easy Run on dmc2m1 was also entered into the Nightmare Run category by mistake. I corrected this error and now the Nightmare Run record is open for table filling.

Melbo improved my Easy Run on sm188_breezeep by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:21 (video link).

EddWardG and Sphere have improved quite a few co-op demos.

EddWardG, Melbo and Sphere have done a couple co-op demos.

I did a couple demos on 100b4_ionio.

I have added two new maps from various map packs and I did some demos on them.

100b4_ww (Delfan'ka) by WW.

jam6_scampie (10,000 Days in the Fire) by Scampie.

Friday, November 26th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Furlough Friday

We have eleven demos for todays update.

Mattias Öman did a few demos on sm196_hcm.

  • Easy Run in 0:34 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Melbo's previous record.
  • Easy 100% in 3:03 (video link), 20 seconds faster than my previous record.
  • Nightmare Run in 0:36 (video link), 1 second faster than my previous record.

I have done some demos.

I have added one new map from the 100b4 map pack and I did some demos on it.

100b4_ionio (Ioian Shorelines) by Ionous.

Wednesday, November 24th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Speed mappin'

We have ten demos for todays update.

Colossus improved my Easy Run on ad_tears by 6 seconds to get a time of 2:25 (video link), well done!

Melbo has sent in a couple excellent demos.

I have done a few table fillers.

I have added two new maps from various speedmap packs and I did some demos on them.

sm188_breezeep (Prog Town) by Breezeep.

sm189_ww (Marble Banality) by WW.

Monday, November 22nd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Demo Mania

We have nineteen demos for todays update.

Mattias Öman did a few demos on zer1m1.

  • Nightare Run in 0:39 (video link), 1 second faster than Basil's previous record.
  • Easy 100% in 0:50 (video link), 1 second faster than Evan's previous record.
  • Nightmare 100% in 0:53 (video link), 5 seconds faster than Michael's previous record.

EddWardG did the Easy Run on sm207_ionous in 0:17 (video link), but Gustav 'Brainfluid' L. did it 1 second faster, 0:16 (video link).

Gustav 'Brainfluid' L. also did the Easy Run on sm208_beep in 0:09 (video link).

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore improved Mattias's Nightmare Run on sm213_greenwood by 8 seconds to get a time of 0:13 (video link).

Sphere did the Easy Run on sm196_danz in 0:43 (video link).

The guys have done quite a few co-op demos.

I have done a few table fillers.

I have added one new map from the sm193 speedmap pack and I did some demos on it.

sm193_ionous (Up Turning the Jeweled Chalice) by Ionous.

Saturday, November 20th 2021 by Justin Fleck

The Stubgaard God Shrine

We have a dozen demos for todays update.

Thomas Stubgaard has graced us with a demo. He improved his Nightmare 100% on e4m3 by 1 second to get a time of 3:45 (video link). This may not seem like much, but for this run it's quite the feat.

Gustav 'Brainfluid' L. has sent in a couple really nice demos.

EddWardG improved my Nightmare Run on sm214_moesh by 16 seconds to get a time of 0:12 (video link), excellent!

I have added four new maps from various speedmap packs and I did some demos on them.

sm196_danz (Honeyjuice) by Danzadan.

sm196_hcm (The Gate of Long Forgotten Heresy) by Mazu.

sm207_ionous (Atavistic Angles) by Ionous.

sm208_beep (Lux Nocturnal) by Comrade Beep.

Wednesday, November 17th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Vaults of Zin

We have nine demos for todays update.

Petter "lament_" Langseth improved his Nightmare 100% on e3m2 by 6 seconds to get a time of 1:08 (video link), very impressive!

Connor Fitzgerald did the Easy Run on sm214_moesh in 0:11 (video link), looks optimal!

I have been filling the tables.

I have added one new map from the sm214_protoypes-2 speedmap pack.

sm214_hcm (Die or Heal with Pain) by Mazu.

Saturday, November 13th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Weekend rumble

We have fourteen demos for todays update.

Colossus improved my Easy 100% on e5end by 5 seconds to get a time of 0:52 (video link), impressive!

Melbo improved Tom Nguyen's Easy Run on d3 by 1 second to get a time of 0:31 (video link), very nice!

EddWardG has done a few demos.

A few demos on w1m6, previous runs on this map have been moved to 'longway' category.

I have added three new maps from the sm214_protoypes-2 speedmap pack and I did some demos on them.

sm214_breezeep (Pastel Complex) by Breezeep.

sm214_moesh (Three Guns and some Jumps) by Moesh.

sm214_omni (Sanguine Stair) by Omni.

Monday, November 8th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Monday Madness

We have fourteen demos for todays update.

Colossus improved my Easy Run on e2ud by 6 seconds to get a time of 0:22 (video link), excellent!

EddWardG improved my Easy Run on e2ue by 5 seconds to get a time of 0:21 (video link), very nice!

Melbo improved my Easy Run on sp13_fair by 3 seconds to get a time of 0:23 (video link), impressive!

The guys have done quite a few co-op demos.

I have done a few marathons.

Friday, November 5th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Demo Madness

I have gone mad with demo madness.

I have been table filling the Gotshun maps.

Thursday, November 4th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Neun demos

We have nine demos for todays update.

Mattias Öman improved his Nightmare 100% on sm213_zigi by 22 seconds to get a time of 1:27 (video link), impressive!

Connor Fitzgerald did the Easy run on e2uc in 0:06 (video link) and the Nightmare Run in 0:06 (video link), looks optimal!

I have been table filling the Gotshun maps.

Monday, November 1st 2021 by Justin Fleck

Table filling

We have quite a few demos for todays update.

Mattias Öman improved some demos on sm213_zigi.

  • Easy Run 'longway' in 0:36 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Colossus's previous record.
  • Easy 100% in 1:05 (video link), 9 seconds faster than his previous record.
  • Nightmare Run 'longway' in 0:42 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Colossus's previous record.

I have been table filling the Gotshun maps.

Friday, October 29th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Melbo is back baby

We have eleven demos for todays update.

Melbo sent in a few impressive demos.

I have been table filling the Gotshun maps.

Tuesday, October 26th 2021 by Justin Fleck

New maps

Two new episodes by Gotshun are being added today.

-The Realm of Evil-

  • e1ua (The Equanox) - Name your demos "e1ua"
  • e1ub (Sanction) - Name your demos "e1ub"
  • e1uc (Souls Keep) - Name your demos "e1uc"
  • e1ud (The Sleepless Death) - Name your demos "e1ud"
  • e1ue (The Center Piece) - Name your demos "e1ue"
  • e1uf (Trinamania) - Name your demos "e1uf"
  • e1ug (Crypt Keepers) - Name your demos "e1ug"
  • e1sl1 (The Manaraxable) - Name your demos "e1sl1"
  • finale (Armagon's Wrath) - Name your demos "finale"

-The Nether Region-

  • e2ua (The Black Place) - Name your demos "e2ua"
  • e2ub (Infested) - Name your demos "e2ub"
  • e2uc (Suicide Path) - Name your demos "e2uc"
  • e2ud (Forsaken) - Name your demos "e2ud"
  • e2ue (Connect) - Name your demos "e2ue"
  • e2sl1 (The Undone) - Name your demos "e2sl1"

Installation:

  • These episodes require the use of the Hipnotic mission pack.
  • Run JoeQuake like this: joequake-gl.exe -hipnotic -game gotshun

Download the episodes here.

Monday, October 25th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Öman'ed

We have eight demos for todays update.

Mattias Öman took Total Ownage of q25lboxf.

  • Easy Run in 0:51 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Colossus's previous record.
  • Easy 100% in 1:24 (video link), 12 seconds faster than Colossus's previous record.
  • Nightmare Run in 0:51 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Colossus's previous record.
  • Nightmare 100% in 1:30 (video link), 15 seconds faster than Colossus's previous record.

Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere did the 3-player Easy Run of mge1m3 in 0:35 (video link).

I have done a few demos on Smej maps.

Tuesday, October 19th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Nueve demos

We have nine demos for todays update.

Colossus sent in a few demos.

I improved Melbo's Easy Run of mge3m2 by 18 seconds to get a time of 3:05 (video link).

I have done some demos on Smej maps.

Tuesday, October 12th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Taco Tuesday

We have quite a few demos for todays update.

Colossus sent in some impressive demos on mge4m2.

  • Easy Run in 1:25 (video link), 8 seconds faster than Melbo's previous record.
  • Nightmare Run in 1:28 (video link), 14 seconds faster than my previous record.

A few co-op demos from the guys.

  • 2-player Easy 100% of e2m1 in 0:47 (video link) by Ryan and EddWardG, 2 seconds faster than the previous record.
  • 3-player Easy Run of mge1m2 in 0:29 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, and Sphere, tablefiller.
  • 3-player Easy Run of mge2m1 in 0:46 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, and Sphere, tablefiller.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore improved Valeriy's Nightmare Run of sm56_czg by 1 second to get a time of 0:05 (video link).

I have been filling the tables.

Saturday, October 9th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Table Filling x2

We have quite a few demos for todays update.

Colossus sent in some impressive demos on mge5m1.

  • Easy Run in 1:06 (video link), 10 seconds faster than Melbo's previous record.
  • Nightmare Run in 1:14 (video link), 34 seconds faster than my previous record.

I did the Nightmare Run of q25lgrue in 1:24 (video link).

I have been table filling the Smej maps.

I have added one new map and Colossus did some demos on it.

q25lboxf (Technology Base) by BoxFigs.

Wednesday, October 6th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Table Filling

Mostly demos from me and one from Connor in todays update.

Connor Fitzgerald improved Max's Easy Run of e5m6 by 6 seconds to get a time of 0:19 (video link). Impressive!

I have done quite a few demos on Smej maps.

Sunday, October 3rd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Sunday Funday

We have nine demos for todays update.

Sleeper Johns improved my Easy Run of mgend by 4 seconds to get a time of 0:48 (video link). Impressive!

Elias, EddWardG and Sphere did the 3-player Easy Run of mgend in 0:26 (video link).

I have done some demos on Smej maps.

I have added one new map and Colossus did a demo on it.

q25lgrue (Bloodbath) by Grue.

Wednesday, September 29th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Smej & Smej2

Two new episodes of maps are being added today from the excellent Finnish mappers.

Smej - Realm of the Lost - More info about the episode can be found here.

  • w1m1 (Valovoimala) by Smilecythe - Name your demos "w1m1"
  • w1m2 (Pakkasherran Palatsi) by NewHouse - Name your demos "w1m2"
  • w1m3 (Teräksen Arvoitus) by VuRkka - Name your demos "w1m3"
  • w1m4 (Ylä-Tornio) by uKKo - Name your demos "w1m4"
  • w1m5 (Maahan Riivatut) by Naitelveni, VuRkka & NewHouse - Name your demos "w1m5"
  • w1m6 (Pimeyden Kartano) by Ing-ing, uKKo, VuRkka & NewHouse - Name your demos "w1m6"
  • w1m7 (Unhola) by Mazu - Name your demos "w1m7"
  • w1s1 (Keskiaikainen Painajainen) by zigi - Name your demos "w1s1"

Smej2 - Torrent of Impurities - More info about the episode can be found here.

  • smej2m1 (Ydinalkemia) by zigi - Name your demos "smej2m1"
  • smej2m2a (Sillä Aikaa Kun Nukumme) by VuRkka - Name your demos "smej2m2a"
  • smej2m3 (Elielin Holvit) by uKKo - Name your demos "smej2m3"
  • smej2m4 (Lumen Valama) by NewHouse & VuRkka - Name your demos "smej2m4"
  • smej2m5 (Kiellettyjen Riimujen Kammio) by Mazu - Name your demos "smej2m5"
  • smej2s1 (Alakerta) by LuGia - Name your demos "smej2s1"
  • smej2end (Heikkoutesi Kutua) by Smilecythe - Name your demos "smej2end"

Tuesday, September 28th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Chthon's Vengeance

Mini-update with a half dozen demos.

Connor Fitzgerald improved Melbo's Easy Run of alk_geo by 7 seconds to get a time of 0:32 (video link), Impressive!

Colossus improved Sphere's Easy Run of mge1m1 by 2 seconds to get a time of 1:39 (video link), Very nice!

Sleeper Johns used the tried and true Chthon lava ball boost to improve Elias's Easy Run of mgend by 1 second to get a time of 0:54 (video link). But I found a quite different route and got a time of 0:52 (video link), which is 3 seconds faster then Elias.

Melbo improved my Nightmare Run of mgend by 4 seconds to get a time of 1:11 (video link). I also did it, but in a time of 1:04 (video link), which is 11 seconds faster then myself.

Saturday, September 25th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Table filling

We have ten demos for todays update.

Melbo improved my Easy Run of mge3m2 by 17 seconds to get a time of 3:23 (video link).

I improved my Nightmare Run of mgend by 21 seconds to get a time of 1:15 (video link).

I have been filling the tables.

Wednesday, September 22nd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Mid-week Madness

We have eleven demos for todays update.

Elias "Elgu" Solla improved his Easy Run of mgend by 7 seconds to get a time of 0:55 (video link). Very nice!

Melbo sent in a couple impressive demos.

I have been filling the tables.

Sunday, September 19th 2021 by Justin Fleck

DotM Mania

We have a dozen demos for todays update.

EddWardG and Sphere did the 2-player Easy Run of mge1m1 in 1:16 (video link).

Melbo has done some demos on DotM maps.

I have done quite a few demos on DotM maps.

Saturday, September 18th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Sphere is back

Mostly demos from me and one from Sphere in todays update.

Sphere did the Easy Run of mge1m1 in 1:41 (video link).

I have done quite a few demos on DotM maps.

Tuesday, September 14th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Elgu is back

We have a bakers dozen of demos for todays update.

Elias "Elgu" Solla sent in some impressive demos.

Melbo has done some demos on DotM maps.

I have done some demos on DotM maps.

Monday, September 13th 2021 by Justin Fleck

The show must go on

Just demos from me in todays update.

I have done quite a few demos on DotM maps.

Friday, September 10th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Dimension of the Machine

Today we are adding the new mission pack maps made by Machine Games from the rerelease.

  • mge1m1 (The Pain Drain) - Name your demos "mge1m1"
  • mge1m2 (The Wishing Well) - Name your demos "mge1m2"
  • mge1m3 (Sandy's Room) - Name your demos "mge1m3"
  • mge2m1 (Acid Sanctuary) - Name your demos "mge2m1"
  • mge2m2 (Fading Embers) - Name your demos "mge2m2"
  • mge3m1 (Down the Waste) - Name your demos "mge3m1"
  • mge3m2 (Hell or Dark Water) - Name your demos "mge3m2"
  • mge4m1 (Grave Machine) - Name your demos "mge4m1"
  • mge4m2 (A Grave Mistake) - Name your demos "mge4m2"
  • mge5m1 (Nazard Terminal) - Name your demos "mge5m1"
  • mge5m2 (Too Deep, Too Greedy) - Name your demos "mge5m2"
  • mgend (Chthon's Vengeance) - Name your demos "mgend"

Huge shoutout to Joe for his continued work on JoeQuake and updating it to support the DotM maps, get the new version here.

Installation:

  • Copy the "mg1" folder from the "rerelease" folder into your base Quake directory, just like any other mod for JoeQuake.
  • Copy the "QuakeEX.kpf" file from the "rerelease" folder into your base Quake directory.
  • Run JoeQuake like this, "joequake-gl.exe -machine". Do NOT run it with the "-game mg1" parameter.
  • If you have any questions, feel free to ask us in our Discord.

Thursday, September 9th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Colossus Carnage

We have ten demos for todays update.

Colossus improved some demos on Snack Pack maps.

I have done some demos on Alkaline maps.

Monday, September 6th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Alkaline Demos

Mostly demos from me and one from Meblo in todays update.

I have been filling the tables.

I have added one new map from the newly released Alkaline Jam.

alkjam_shades (Subaqueous Requiscat) by Shadesmaster.

Thursday, September 2nd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Chambers Central

We have eleven demos for todays update.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore has a treat for us today. He improved his Nightmare 100% of e3m1 by 1 second to get a time of 1:18 (video link). Must watch!

Melbo did the Easy Run of alk_corrupt in 0:45 (video link). Impressive!

I improved my Easy Run of sp12_gnemeth by 8 seconds to get a time of 0:53 (video link).

I did some demos on Alkaline maps.

Sunday, August 29th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Update Mania

We have quite a few demos for todays update.

Petter "lament_" Langseth is back with some more e3m2 action. He improved his Nightmare 100% by 2 seconds to get a time of 1:14 (video link). Very nice!

Colossus improved Matthias's Nightmare Run of sm213_zigi longway by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:44 (video link). Excellent!

Connor Fitzgerald sent in some amazing demos as usual.

Melbo sent in some impressive demos.

Mattias Öman improved some demos on sp02_cholden.

  • Easy Run in 0:33 (video link), 3 seconds faster than my previous record.
  • Easy 100% in 1:42 (video link), 17 seconds faster than my previous record.
  • Nightmare Run in 0:33 (video link), 4 seconds faster than my previous record.
  • Nightmare 100% in 1:45 (video link), 17 seconds faster than my previous record.

I did some demos on Alkaline maps.

Friday, August 27th 2021 by Justin Fleck

New maps

One new mod of maps are being added today.

Alkaline - More info about the mod can be found here.

  • alk_bdown (Breakdown) by BmFbr - Name your demos "alkbdow"
  • alk_core (Core Meltdown) by Bloodshot - Name your demos "alkcore"
  • alk_corrupt (Foundation for Corruption) by Mista Heita - Name your demos "alkcorr"
  • alk_dancing (Dancing in the Golden Sun) by Benoit 'Bal' Stordeur - Name your demos "alkdanc"
  • alk_eclipse (Beneath a Silicon Eclipse) by Julian 'Juzley' Priestley - Name your demos "alkecli"
  • alk_geo (Geothermal Outpost) by Greenwood - Name your demos "alkgeo"
  • alk_pipes (Dire Pipes) by Grome - Name your demos "alkpipe"
  • alk_sickness (Slipgate Sickness) by Scampie & Greenwood - Name your demos "alksick"
  • alk_tellus (Tellus Terminus) by Zigi - Name your demos "alktell"

Friday, August 27th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Furlough Friday

We have fifteen demos for todays update.

Petter "lament_" Langseth improved his Nightmare 100% of e3m2 by 1 second to get a time of 1:16 (video link). Impressive!

Colossus improved Melbo's Easy Run of sm213_zigi longway by 1 second to get a time of 0:38 (video link). Very nice!

Joshua 'stylaphone' Bransgrove improved his Easy Run of sp06_greenwood by 2 seconds to get a time of 1:10 (video link).

Mattias Öman sent in a some demos.

Melbo sent in a few demos.

I have been filling the tables.

Tuesday, August 24th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Table filling

We have quite a few demos for todays update.

Melbo improved my Easy Run of udob7 by 3 seconds to get a time of 0:31 (video link).

Joshua 'stylaphone' Bransgrove did the Easy Run of sp06_greenwood in 1:12 (video link).

Rutger 'ruja' Baks did the Easy Run of sp10_pinchy in 0:36 (video link).

Colossus did the Easy Run of sm213_zigi in 0:04 (video link) and the Nightmare Run in 0:05 (video link).
Previous runs on this map have been moved to 'longway' category.

I have been filling the tables.

Saturday, August 21st 2021 by Justin Fleck

Mission for 2000 demos

Mission complete, I have done my 2000th demo. What's next you may ask? 1000 records of course.
With that said, lets get on with the demos.

Mattias Öman improved my Easy Run of sm213_greenwood by 9 seconds to get a time of 0:21 (video link). He also did the Nightmare Run in 0:21 (video link). Slick jumps!

Rutger 'ruja' Baks sent in his first demos in 12(!) years, welcome back! He did the Easy Run of sp04_heita in 0:15 (video link) and the Nightmare Run in 0:15 (video link). Very nice!

Ryan, Elias, EddWardG and Sphere have done a couple co-op demos.

Melbo sent in some impressive demos.

I have been filling the tables.

Wednesday, August 18th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Demo Madness

As the title suggests, I have gone mad with demo madness.

Petter "lament_" Langseth improved Thomas's Nightmare 100% of e3m2 by 3 seconds to get a time of 1:17 (video link). Impressive!

Melbo did the Easy Run of sp07_henry in 0:25 (video link). Very nice!

I have done quite a few demos on the Snack Pack.

I have added four new maps from the newly released sm213 - Low Gravity speedmap pack.

sm213_greenwood (Pyramid Scheme) by Greenwood.

sm213_h4724 (The Bouncy Place) by Henry Ambrose.

sm213_maxx (Who Let the Fiends Out?) by MortalMaxx.

sm213_zigi (Suilebis) by Zigi.

Sunday, August 15th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Sunday Funday

We have fourteen demos for todays update.

Brent 'bw' Wise did the Easy Run of sp11_voidforce in 0:33 (video link). Melbo also did it, but in a time of 0:17 (video link).

Brent 'bw' Wise did the Easy 100% of sp11_voidforce in 1:10 (video link).

Melbo did the Easy Run of sp01_bal in 0:40 (video link).

I have done some demos on the new maps.

Friday, August 13th 2021 by Justin Fleck

New maps

One new episode of maps are being added today.

Speedmap Snack Pack - More info about the pack can be found here.

  • smsp01_bal (Dog Barking Over Voice-chat) by Benoit 'Bal' Stordeur - Name your demos "smsp01"
  • smsp02_cholden (A Place we All Know) by Chris Holden - Name your demos "smsp02"
  • smsp03_mc (The Slipgate Incident) by MikeC - Name your demos "smsp03"
  • smsp04_heita (Laser Party Vigilante) by Mista Heita - Name your demos "smsp04"
  • smsp05_burnham (Based) by Burnham - Name your demos "smsp05"
  • smsp06_greenwood (Spasmodic Peristalsis) by Greenwood - Name your demos "smsp06"
  • smsp07_henry (Decay in Green) by Henry Ambrose - Name your demos "smsp07"
  • smsp08_artistical (Cloyster of the Damned) by Artistical - Name your demos "smsp08"
  • smsp09_khreathor (The Dumb Place) by Khreathor - Name your demos "smsp09"
  • smsp10_pinchy (Chonk Well) by Pinchy - Name your demos "smsp10"
  • smsp11_voidforce (No Time for Mercy) by VoidForce - Name your demos "smsp11"
  • smsp12_gnemeth (Humming Tunnels) by Gnemeth - Name your demos "smsp12"
  • smsp13_fairweather (Un Nom Francais Esoterique) by Fairweather - Name your demos "smsp13"
  • smsp14_mazu (The Legacy of Ebineros Lost Kingdom) by Mazu - Name your demos "smsp14"
  • smsp15_newhouse (The Fever Palace) by Newhouse - Name your demos "smsp15"

Thursday, August 12th 2021 by Justin Fleck

The road to 2000

We have a dozen demos for todays update.

Melbo did the Easy Run of xmasjam_mukor in 0:08 (video link). Very nice!

I have been filling the tables.

I have added one new map and I did some demos on it.

jpqm3 (Forgotten Fortress) by JPal.

Tuesday, August 10th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Néhány demó

We have ten demos for todays update.

I have been filling the tables.

I have added two new maps to the tables.

xmasjam_5th (To Absent Fiends) by FifthElephant.

xmasjam_mukor (The Drowning a City Fell Victim to) by Mukor.

Friday, August 6th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Furlough Friday

We have nine demos for todays update.

Colossus improved my Easy 100% of ad_e1m1 by 6 seconds to get a time of 1:27 (video link).

I have been filling the tables.

I have added one new map and I did some demos on it.

purifier (The Purifier) by Zothique.

Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Taco Tuesday

We have eleven demos for todays update.

Jonny Andersson improved his Easy 100% of csa by 7 seconds to get a time of 1:25 (video link).

Colossus improved my Nightmare Run of ad_e1m1 by 1 second to get a time of 0:33 (video link).

I have been filling the tables.

I have added one new map and I did some demos on it.

jp1m2 (The Underkeep) by JPal.

Saturday, July 31st 2021 by Justin Fleck

Chambers did what

We have ten demos for todays update.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore never ceases to amaze us once again. He improved Gustav's Easy Run of e4m7 by 3 seconds to get a time of 0:38 (video link) by using a TAS trick that most humans thought to be impossible. Must watch!

I did the Easy Run of retrojam4_pul in 1:52 (video link). I also did the Easy Run of xmasjam_bal in 2:23 (video link).

Colossus improved my Easy Run of sin625_heresy by 3 seconds to get a time of 2:09 (video link).

Melbo did the Easy Run of hwjam2_here in 0:29 (video link). Very nice!

I have added two new maps to the tables.

jp1m1 (The Darkstone Halls) by JPal.

kaahoo (Castle Kaahoo) by Simon 'Sock' OCallaghan.

Wednesday, July 28th 2021 by Justin Fleck

The Moore

We have eleven demos for todays update.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore improved his Easy Run of e3m1 by 1 second to get a time of 0:20 (video link). He also improved Conny's Nightmare Run of e4m8 by 1 second to get a time of 0:40 (video link). Incredible!

Connor Fitzgerald improved Joe's Easy Run of bbelief2 by 1 second to get a time of 0:14 (video link). He also improved Valeriy's Nightmare Run by 1 second to get a time of 0:14 (video link). Very nice!

Melbo improved my Nightmare Run of sm210_markie by 10 seconds to get a time of 0:34 (video link).

I have added three new maps and I did some demos on them.

hwjam2_here (Honey I Shrank The Ranger) by Heresy.

retrojam4_pul (The Elder Reality) by PuLSaR.

xmasjam_bal (A Warm Welcome Home) by Benoit 'Bal' Stordeur.

Friday, July 23rd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Ziggurat Vertigo

We have fourteen demos for todays update.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore is back with some more e1m8 goodness. He improved Connor's Nightmare Run by 1 second to get a time of 0:28 (video link). A couple days later he improved it to 0:27 (video link), which is 2 seconds faster then Connor.

Ryan also improved Peter's Easy 100% of e1m8 normal gravity by 1 second to get a time of 0:35 (video link).

I have been filling the tables.

Tuesday, July 20th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Chamber of the Moore

We have eleven demos for todays update.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore improved Martin's Nightmare Run of e1m8 normal gravity by 1 second to get a time of 0:23 (video link). He also improved my Nightmare Run of e3m2 long way by 5 seconds to get a time of 0:40 (video link). Very nice!

Ryan and EddWardG improved their 2-player Easy 100% of e1m2 by 1 second to get a time of 0:34 (video link).

Melbo sent in some impressive demos.

I have added two new maps and I did some demos on them.

ctsj_juz (The Dismal Omelette) by Julian 'Juz' Priestley.

jamx_jcr (Garden of Body and Blood) by JCR.

Saturday, July 17th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Goomba is back

We have ten demos for todays update.

Connor Fitzgerald improved Melbo's Easy Run of sin625_newhouse by 5 seconds to get a time of 0:22 (video link). Very nice!

Jonny Andersson improved Paul's Easy Run of percept by 1 second to get a time of 1:26 (video link).

Michael 'Goomba' Eskelinen improved my Easy Run of q1tm2_czg by 3 seconds to get a time of 1:28 (video link).

Colossus sent in his first demo to SDA, welcome! He improved my Easy Run of d1m6 by 1 second to get a time of 0:49 (video link).

I have added three new maps and I did some demos on them.

jam2_lunaran (Persia Inversion) by Lunaran.

q25lmark (The Godless Dream) by Markie.

sm210_markie (Cthalha's Chasm) by Markie.

Wednesday, July 14th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Quidam demos

We have a dozen demos for todays update.

Connor Fitzgerald improved Melbo's Easy Run of sin625_radiator by 17 seconds to get a time of 0:22 (video link). Very nice!

Melbo did the Easy Run of reliq_miasma in 0:58 (video link). Well done!

I have been filling the tables.

Saturday, July 10th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Melbo Mania

Quite a few demos for todays update.

Connor Fitzgerald improved my Easy Run of ad_grendel by 35 seconds to get a time of 1:02 (video link). He also improved Mattias's Easy Run of pun3 by 18 seconds to get a time of 0:16 (video link). Well done!

Melbo improved Connor's Easy Run of eoem3 by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:20 (video link). He also improved his Easy Run of eoem5 by 3 seconds to get a time of 1:16 (video link). Very nice!

I improved my Easy 100% of ad_grendel by 39 seconds to get a time of 5:04 (video link) and the Nightmare 100% by 89 seconds to get a time of 8:04 (video link).

Mattias Öman improved his Nightmare Run of eoem1 by 1 second to get a time of 0:37 (video link).

Jonny Andersson improved his Easy 100% of empire by 3 seconds to get a time of 2:10 (video link).

I have added two new maps and I did some demos on them.

reliq_miasma (Majestic Miasma) by Markie.

reliq_otsego (Otsegolation) by Markie.

I have also added three more new maps and Melbo did some demos on them.

sin625_newhouse (Temple of Taki VI) by Newhouse.

sin625_radiator (Daughter Drink This Water) by RadiatorYang.

sin625_rooster (The Sore) by Rooster.

Tuesday, July 6th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Taco Tuesday

Mostly demos from me and one from Matthias in todays update.

Mattias Öman improved his Nightmare Run of eoem1 by 3 seconds to get a time of 0:38 (video link).

I did a few demos.

I also have added one new map and did some demos on it.

sin625_heresy (Nail Release) by Heresy.

Thursday, July 1st 2021 by Justin Fleck

Algunas demos

Mostly demos from me and a couple from others in todays update.

Grzegorz 'deniu' Gladowski improved Mattias's Easy Run of eoem1 by 5 seconds to get a time of 0:36 (video link).

Melbo improved my Easy Run of eoem5 by 23 seconds to get a time of 1:19 (video link).

I did some demos on the new maps.

Sunday, June 27th 2021 by Justin Fleck

The show must go on

Just demos from me for todays update.

I did quite a few demos on the new maps.

Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Quake 25th Anniversary

Quake is 25 years old today and it's still going strong to this day. Many thanks to everyone in the community for making it a reality. With that said, lets get on with the demos, 56(!) to be exact.

After beating the Nightmare 100% marathons of Episodes 2, 3, and 4. It was only a matter of time before Grzegorz 'deniu' Gladowski set his sights on the Nightmare 100% marathon of all of Quake. He has done just that and improved my previous record by 266 seconds to get a time of 65:07 (video link). Well done!

Grzegorz also improved his Nightmare 100% marathon of ep2 by 17 seconds to get a time of 16:10 (video link) and his Nightmare 100% of ep4 by 18 seconds to get a time of 20:39 (video link).

Grzegorz did one more demo. He improved Kay's Easy Run of compugib by 1 second to get a time of 0:28 (video link).

Melbo improved his Easy Run of xmasjam2018_bal by 6 seconds to get a time of 0:32 (video link) and my Nightmare Run by 40 seconds to get a time of 0:34 (video link).

Mattias Öman did the Easy Run of eoem2 in 0:48 (video link) and the Nightmare Run in 0:48 (video link). Connor Fitzgerald also did the Easy Run but in a time of 0:33 (video link).

Mattias Öman did the Easy Run of eoem3 in 0:23 (video link) and the Nightmare Run in 0:23 (video link). Connor Fitzgerald also did the Easy Run but in a time of 0:22 (video link).

Connor Fitzgerald did the Easy Run of eoem4 in 0:37 (video link) and he improved Sleeper's Nightmare Run of d1m3 by 27 seconds to get a time of 0:19 (video link). Very nice!

Brent 'bw' Wise did the Easy Run of eoem1 in 0:44 (video link). Mattias Öman also did it but in a time of 0:41 (video link) and he did the Nightmare Run in 0:41 (video link).

Philip Chute did the Easy Run of pun3 in 0:48 (video link). Mattias Öman also did it but in a time of 0:34 (video link) and he did the Nightmare Run in 0:35 (video link).

Philip Chute did the Easy Run of pun5 in 1:17 (video link). Brent 'bw' Wise also did it but in a time of 1:04 (video link).

Mattias also did quite a few more demos.

Brent also did a few more demos on the new maps.

Philip also did a few more demos on the new maps.

I did some demos on Arcane Dimensions.

I also did some demos on the new maps.

Joe has released an update for Joequake that fixes issues with the Alkaline mod and some other newer maps. Get it here.

Wednesday, June 16th 2021 by Justin Fleck

New maps

I was planning to add these maps on the 22nd, which is Quake's 25th anniversary, but i decided to do it a few days early. All demos that have been submitted will be posted in the update on the 22nd.

Epochs of Enmity

  • eoem1 (Called to Muster) by JCR - Name your demos "eoem1"
  • eoem2 (Tombs of Omega) by Greenwood - Name your demos "eoem2"
  • eoem3 (Knight on the Town) by FifthElephant & Greenwood - Name your demos "eoem3"
  • eoem4 (The Augur’s Mold) by Rhoq - Name your demos "eoem4"
  • eoem5 (The Citadel of Twilight) by Jpal - Name your demos "eoem5"
  • eoem6 (Knavel Orange) by Fairweather & Greenwood - Name your demos "eoem6"
  • eoem7 (Bunker of Barzai) by Greenwood - Name your demos "eoem7"
  • eoem8 (Obliteration Domain) by Nolcoz - Name your demos "eoem8"
  • eoem9 (Terrorcotta) by Markie - Name your demos "eoem9"
  • eoem13 (Downfire) by ZungryWare - Name your demos "eoem13"

The Punishment Due

  • pun1 (Azure Annoyance) by Juzley - Name your demos "pun1"
  • pun2 (Let Them Eat Quake) by Juzley & Fairweather - Name your demos "pun2"
  • pun3 (Tour de Vores) by Juzley - Name your demos "pun3"
  • pun4 (With Fiends Like These) by Juzley - Name your demos "pun4"
  • pun5 (Ogre and Out) by Juzley - Name your demos "pun5"

Rubicon 2

  • rub2m1 (Hydroexploitation Plant) by Metlslime - Name your demos "rub2m1"
  • rub2m2 (Subterranean Spookworks) by Metlslime - Name your demos "rub2m2"
  • rub2m3 (A Thousand Years Into The Past) by CZG - Name your demos "rub2m3"

Friday, June 11th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Furlough Friday

We have a dozen demos for todays update.

Sleeper Johns improved my Nightmare Run of d1m3 by 9 seconds to get a time of 0:46 (video link).

Melbo improved my Easy Run of xmasjam2018_bal by 30 seconds to get a time of 0:38 (video link).

Joshua 'stylaphone' Bransgrove improved my Nightmare Run of runit by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:31 (video link).

I improved my Nightmare 100% of ad_tears by 564 seconds to get a time of 31:30 (video link).

I also have been filling the tables.

Sunday, June 6th 2021 by Justin Fleck

The show must go on

Just demos from me in todays update.

Friday, June 4th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Day of Frige

Mostly demos from me and a couple from others in todays update.

Grzegorz 'deniu' Gladowski improved Thomas Stubgaard's Nightmare 100% marathon of ep3 by 8 seconds to get a time of 11:56 (video link). Well done!

Sleeper Johns did the Nightmare Run of d1m6 in 0:54 (video link).

I have done quite a few demos.

Wednesday, June 2nd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Mid-week Madness

Quite a few demos for todays update.

Sleeper Johns sent in an impressive demo on d1m2. He improved Mattias's Easy Run by 9 seconds to get a time of 0:38 (video link). Very nice!

Henry Ambrose sent in his first demo to SDA, welcome! He did the Nightmare Run of d1m5 in 1:45 (video link). Henry is the map author of d1m5.

Philip Chute did the Easy Run of d1m6 in 0:57 (video link). I also did it, but in a time of 0:50 (video link).

Philip Chute also did the Nightmare Run of d1m3 in 1:05 (video link).

I did some demos on the new maps.

Sunday, May 30th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Sunday Funday

We have a bakers dozen of demos for todays update.

Sleeper Johns sent in his first demos to SDA, welcome! He improved my Easy Run of d1m1 by 10 seconds to get a time of 0:57 (video link). He also improved EddWardG's Easy Run of d1m3 by 1 second to get a time of 0:13 (video link). But Ryan 'Chambers' Moore did it in 0:12 (video link), which is 2 seconds faster than EddWardG.

Philip Chute did the Easy Run of d1m4 in 2:21 (video link). I also did it, but in a time of 1:25 (video link).

I did some demos on the new maps.

Thursday, May 27th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Update Mania

Quite a few demos for todays update.

Grzegorz 'deniu' Gladowski improved Marlo's Nightmare 100% marathon of ep2 by 14 seconds to get a time of 16:27 (video link). Well done!

Connor Fitzgerald never ceases to amaze us once again. He did the Easy Run of udob4 in 0:13 (video link) and also the Easy Run of udob6 in 0:21 (video link). Very nice!

Mattias Öman improved Philip's Easy Run of d1m3 by 1 second to get a time of 0:19 (video link). But EddWardG did it in 0:14 (video link), which is 6 seconds faster than Philip.

Mattias Öman also improved my Easy Run of d1m2 by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:47 (video link) and the Nightmare Run in 0:47 (video link), which is 3 seconds faster than me.

EddWardG also improved Thomas's Nightmare Run of mappi cheapway by 1 second to get a time of 0:04 (video link).

I did some demos on the new maps.

Please note: Fairweather was kind enough to fix a button in Dwell - Episode 1 (d1m4) that couldn't be reached in Joequake. Get it here.

Monday, May 24th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Keeping it rollin'

Connor shows his presence with some demos as do others in todays update.

Connor Fitzgerald sent in some impressive demos as always.

Mattias Öman improved Philip's Easy Run of d1m2 by 74 seconds to get a time of 1:07 (video link). He also improved Philip's Nightmare Run by 93 seconds to get a time of 1:07 (video link). Unfortunately for him I did the Easy Run in 0:49 (video link) and the Nightmare Run in 0:50 (video link), which are 92 seconds and 110 seconds faster then Philip.

Snakewave sent in his first demos to SDA, welcome! He did the Easy Run of jam2_mfx in 0:12 (video link) and also the Nightmare Run in 0:12 (video link), both are 1 second faster than Melbo.

Philip Chute did the Easy Run of d1m3 in 0:20 (video link).

I did some demos on the new maps.

Sunday, May 23rd 2021 by Justin Fleck

Sunday Funday

Quite a few demos for todays update.

Grzegorz 'deniu' Gladowski improved his recent Nightmare 100% marathon of ep4 by 11 seconds to get a time of 20:57 (video link).

Tony 'cookye' Hänninen improved my Nightmare Run of grim by 35 seconds to get a time of 1:40 (video link).

Philip Chute did the Easy 100% of grim in 7:05 (video link).

Jonny Andersson improved Kimmo's Easy 100% of dis_cr8z by 2 seconds to get a time of 1:01 (video link).

Damian 'ankh' Kulot improved Arturo's Nightmare 100% of climb by 1 second to get a time of 0:39 (video link).

Joshua 'stylaphone' Bransgrove did the Nightmare 100% of quakebhop2 in 0:39 (video link).

I did the Easy 100% of quakebhop2 in 0:33 (video link).

Melbo sent in a few demos.

Philip Chute did some demos on the new maps.

I also did some demos on the new maps.

Friday, May 21st 2021 by Justin Fleck

New maps

Two new episodes are being added today.

Underdark Overbright (Requires the Copper mod) Please note: Make sure you have v1.1 of Underdark Overbright.

  • udob1 (Space Jam) by Lunaran - Name your demos "udob1"
  • udob2 (A Drowning) by Lunaran - Name your demos "udob2"
  • udob3 (Pit of the Living Dead) by Lunaran - Name your demos "udob3"
  • udob4 (A Saint Nobody Has Heard Of) by Lunaran - Name your demos "udob4"
  • udob5 (Last Waltz) by Scampie - Name your demos "udob5"
  • udob6 (How Deep Is Your Lava) by Lunaran - Name your demos "udob6"
  • udob7 (House of Pain) by Scampie - Name your demos "udob7"
  • end (Mothers Be Good To Your Spawns) by Lunaran - Name your demos "udobend"

Dwell - Episode 1 (The Copper mod is included) Please note: Make sure you have v1.2 of Dwell - Episode 1.

  • d1m1 (Into the Myoid) by PoolboyQ - Name your demos "d1m1"
  • d1m2 (Duet with Duat) by Greenwood - Name your demos "d1m2"
  • d1m3 (Under a Funeral Moon) by VoidForce - Name your demos "d1m3"
  • d1m4 (Arrivée de L'étranger) by Fairweather - Name your demos "d1m4"
  • d1m5 (That Which Can Eternal Lie) by Henry Ambrose - Name your demos "d1m5"
  • d1m6 (Within The Flayed Kingdom) by Markie - Name your demos "d1m6"
  • d1m7 (Darkstar Triumvirate) by Pinchy - Name your demos "d1m7"
  • d1m8 (Prescience Overload) by Mazu - Name your demos "d1m8"
  • d1m9 (Vestigial) by JCR - Name your demos "d1m9"

Thursday, May 20th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Thor's day

Mid-week update with a bunch of demos.

Grzegorz 'deniu' Gladowski improved Marlo's Nightmare 100% marathon of ep4 by 2 seconds to get a time of 21:08 (video link). Well done!

Jonny Andersson improved Kay's Easy Run of bnt by 1 second to get a time of 0:43 (video link).

EddWardG improved my Nightmare Run of ghspch01 by 4 seconds to get a time of 0:12 (video link).

Damian 'ankh' Kulot improved Arturo's Easy 100% of climb by 3 seconds to get a time of 0:43 (video link).

Philip Chute did the Nightmare Run of grim in 5:01 (video link). I also did it, but in a time of 2:15 (video link).

I have been filling the tables.

I also have added three new maps and did some demos on them.

ctsj_markie (Grim Gallows) by Markie.

xmasjam2018_bal (Entering the City of Pale) by Benoit Stordeur.

xj19_beep (Morituri Te Salutamus) by Comrade Beep.

Saturday, May 15th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Muchas Demos

Quite a few demos for todays update.

Ryan, EddWardG, Elias and Sphere did two marathon demos on iD maps while preparing for an ESA event. They did the Nightmare 100% of ep1 in 5:08 (video link) and also the Easy 100% of ep2 in 5:24 (video link). Hope to see more!

The rest of the coop demos.

  • 3-player Easy 100% of d1 in 0:20 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller.
  • 3-player Easy 100% of d2 in 0:32 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller.
  • 4-player Nightmare 100% of e1m1 in 0:27 (video link) by Ryan, Elias, EddWardG and Sphere, 3 seconds faster than the previous record.
  • 4-player Easy Run of e3m4 in 0:23 (video link) by Ryan, Elias, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller.
  • 4-player Nightmare Run of e3m4 in 0:25 (video link) by Ryan, Elias, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller.
  • 3-player Easy Run of tdl in 0:28 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, 3 seconds faster than the previous record.

Sphere improved my Nightmare Run of e5m5 by 4 seconds to get a time of 0:33 (video link). He also improved Connor's Nightmare Run of hip2m5 by 3 seconds to get a time of 0:37 (video link). Very nice!

EddWardG improved Matthias's Nightmare Run of e5m2 by 1 second to get a time of 0:21 (video link). He also did the Nightmare Run of snaut-acidtrip in 0:32 (video link), which is 2 seconds faster then the 0:34 (video link) demo that I did.

Philip Chute sent in his first demo in 12(!) years, welcome back! He did the Easy Run of ad_candles in 1:19 (video link). Unfortunately for him I did it a couple days before in 0:59 (video link). I also did the Nightmare Run in 1:04 (video link).

Gustav L. improved Sphere's Easy Run of snaut-acidtrip by 2 seconds to get a time of 0:29 (video link).

I improved my Easy 100% of ad_tears by 416 seconds to get a time of 24:04 (video link).

Melbo has been filling the tables.

I also have been filling the tables.

Sunday, May 9th 2021 by Justin Fleck

The show must go on x2

Just demos from me for todays update.

I improved some demos on ad_e2m2.

  • Easy 100% in 3:14 (video link), 28 seconds faster than my previous record.
  • Nightmare 100% in 4:38 (video link), 48 seconds faster than my previous record.

I also have added some new maps and did some demos on them.

ad_dm2rmx_sham (Acidophilus) by Shambler.

jam2_mfx (Doener mit Shambler und Scharf) by Maik Franz Xaver.

jam2_scampie (The Halls of the Blood God) by Scampie.

jam2_sock (Death by a Thousand Cuts) by Simon OCallaghan.

Sunday, May 2nd 2021 by Justin Fleck

The show must go on

Just demos from me for todays update.

I have done some demos on Arcane Dimensions.

I also have added two new maps and did some demos on them.

ad_candles (Candles of the Damned) by Comrade Beep.

heresp5 (Dismal Signal) by Heresy.

Please note: Dzip v3.0 is required for this and all future updates.

Saturday, April 24th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Castle of the Moore

We have a bakers dozen of demos for todays update.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore has done it again. He skipped the bridge on e1m2 and improved his Easy Run by 1 second to get a time of 0:27 (video link), must watch!

Petter 'lament_' Langseth sent in two Hipnotic demos that he did last Summer. He improved my Nightmare 100% of hip1m2 by 2 seconds to get a time of 1:59 (video link). He also improved Nolan Pflug's Nightmare 100% of hip1m3 by 20 seconds to get a time of 1:55 (video link), nicely done!

I have done some demos on Arcane Dimensions.

I also have added one new AD map and did some demos on it.

ad_heresp2 (Imhotep's Legacy) by Heresy.

Joe has released an update for Joequake that fixes issues with ad_heresp2 and some other maps. Get it here.

Please note: Dzip v3.0 is required for this and all future updates.

Sunday, April 18th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Wind Tunnels

We have an amazing demo on e3m5 and a bunch of others in todays update.

Connor Fitzgerald tried his luck with a Death Knight trick on e3m5 that has only been talked about and done successfully in a TAS run. He first succeeded with a time of 0:47 (video link), which improves Mathias Thore's Easy Run record by 8 seconds. The very next day he sent in a time of 0:42 (video link), which is 13 seconds faster then Mathias. Quite an improvement for a iD Easy run these days. Well done!

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore wasn't satisfied with his 1 second improvement over Peter Horvath's Nightmare 100% on e4m1. He improved it by 1 more second to get a time of 0:56 (video link). Very nice!

Jonny Andersson went normal gravity on e1m8 and improved Daniel Lindberg's Nightmare 100% by 4 seconds to get a time of 1:02 (video link). Nicely done my good sir!

I improved my Easy 100% on ad_magna by 153 seconds to get a time of 16:23 (video link). I also did a tablefiller Nightmare Run on ad_tears in 3:11 (video link).

Sphere improved his Easy Run on nmth_machinery by 15 seconds to get a time of 1:09 (video link).

Last but not least, the coops.

Please note: Dzip v3.0 is required for this and all future updates.

Sunday, April 18th 2021 by Sphere

Dzip Update

Many of us have noticed that our demos on some of the new maps escalate in size quite quickly. Luckily we now have an updated tool that will help to tame these huge demos: Dzip v3.0. Thanks to Radix for sharing the source code!

This version adds support for the special dzip encoding of demos for protocol 666, which many newer, larger maps use. As a result, the compressed files are much smaller.

The new version can of course handle all .dz files created with earlier versions of Dzip. But, files that are created with the new version v3.0 can not be opened with older Dzip versions. So please make sure to start using the new version, so that you can unpack all future demos without issues.

Let us know if you encounter any problems with the new version.

Saturday, April 10th 2021 by Justin Fleck

COOP Madness

Lots of coops and some single player demos in todays update.

Lets start with the coops on ID maps.

  • 2-player Easy Run of e1m4 in 0:20 (video link) by Ryan and EddWardG, 1 second faster than the previous record.
  • 4-player Easy 100% of e1m5 in 0:20 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, Elias and Sphere, 1 second faster than the previous record.
  • 2-player Easy Run of e3m2 longway in 0:33 (video link) by Ryan and EddWardG, tablefiller.
  • 2-player Easy Run of e3m3 in 0:17 (video link) by Ryan and EddWardG, 4 seconds faster than the previous record.
  • 2-player Easy 100% of e4m1 in 0:32 (video link) by Ryan and Sphere, 3 seconds faster than the previous record.
  • 4-player Easy 100% of e4m5 in 0:38 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, Elias and Sphere, 11 seconds faster than the previous record.
  • 4-player Easy 100% of e4m7 in 0:49 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, Elias and Sphere, 2 seconds faster than the previous record.

The coops on other maps.

Connor Fitzgerald improved my Easy Run of ad_e2m2 by 10 seconds to get a time of 0:29 (video link). He also improved EddWardG's Easy Run of ad_juz2 by 5 seconds to get a time of 0:18 (video link). Very nice my good sir!

Sphere has been filling the tables.

Friday, April 9th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Day of Frigg

Just single player demos in todays update. Coops and a few others coming soon.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore never ceases to amaze us once again. He improved Peter Horvath's 20(!) year old Nightmare 100% of e4m1 by one second to get a time of 0:57 (video link). This just shows how fast some of Peter's old demos are. Must watch!

EddWardG improved Thomas Stubgaard's Easy Run of coagula3 cheapway by one second to get a time of 0:03 (video link) and the Nightmare Run by one second, 0:03 (video link). Surely must be optimal now. He also improved my Easy Run of ad_juz2 by 4 seconds to get a time of 0:23 (video link). Nicely done!

I have done some more demos on Arcane Dimensions maps.

Sunday, April 4th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Sunday Funday

Lots of table fillers and an incredible demo in todays update.

Lets start with the incredible demo by Ryan 'Chambers' Moore. He improved his Easy Run of e2m2 by one second to get a time of 0:27 (video link). Must watch!

Melbo improved his Easy Run of snaut-cloister by two seconds to get a time of 0:50 (video link). Nicely done!

Jonny Andersson did some demos on Stylaphone Speedpack contest maps.

I have been continuing my onslaught on Arcane Dimensions maps.

I have added one new AD map and did some demos on it.

ad_e3m2 (The Faults Within) by Maik 'mfx' Franz Xaver.

Good Friday, April 2nd 2021 by Jonny

Fredrik Eckers

So, this is a sad one for me. I have just found out that Fredrik has unfortunately passed away. He was a part of The Udders back in the day and submitted a total of 31 demos between September 2000 and December 2002. Six of them are still valid.

I lost contact with Fredrik around '05 and haven't seen him at all in over 10 years but I'm still quite sad. He was a good friend.

Tuesday, March 30th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

The Results Are In

Stylaphone's Speedpack contest results are up! There's some really wicked demos in between, so go check 'em out right here.

Feel free to send in demos on the contest maps in the other categories.

Sunday, March 28th 2021 by Justin Fleck

COOP and AD demos

We have some COOP and AD demos for todays update.

Quite a few ID coop demos, very nice!

  • 3-player Easy Run of e1m4 in 0:14 (video link) by Ryan, Elias and Sphere, tablefiller.
  • 3-player Easy Run of e3m2 longway in 0:32 (video link) by EddWardG, Elias and Sphere, tablefiller.
  • 3-player Easy Run of e3m3 in 0:16 (video link) by EddWardG, Elias and Sphere, 3 seconds faster than the previous record.
  • 3-player Easy 100% of e4m3 in 0:43 (video link) by Ryan, Elias and Sphere, 3 seconds faster than the previous record.

The coop demos on other maps.

Newcomer Matt 'kipi' Earl sent in a demo for the Easy Run of ad_juz1 in 0:39 (video link) and quickly improved it to 0:37 (video link). Nicely done, hope to see more!

I have improved some demos on Arcane Dimensions.

Stylaphone Speedpack contest ended today, stay tuned for the results!

Sunday, March 21st 2021 by Justin Fleck

Some new AD maps

Just a semi-small update for some AD demos.

I have added three new AD maps and did some demos for them.

ad_beep1m1 (Deep Research) by Comrade Beep.

ad_beep1m2 (The Lima Project) by Comrade Beep.

ad_juz2 (Retribution Revisited) by Julian 'Juz' Priestley.

I also improved some demos on ad_crucial

  • Easy 100% in 6:56 (video link), improved my previous record by 111 seconds.
  • Nightmare 100% in 9:11 (video link), improved my previous record by 192 seconds.

Thomas has updated the Quake-Light, Quake-Large, and All-Current-ID-Records files in the downloads section.

Thursday, March 18th 2021 by Justin Fleck

Blast from the Past

Thanks Jonny! I was recently approched by the master Thomas Stubgaard and he asked if I could help out with updating SDA. I of course said yes, so lets get on with the demos.

Lets start with the coops.

Onto the single player demos.

I have been continuing my onslaught on Arcane Dimensions.

I also have added two new AD maps and did some demos for them.

ad_heresp1 (Oxyblack Fortress) by Heresy.

ad_juz1 (Network Unreachable) by Julian 'Juz' Priestley.

Feel free to send in demos on new maps and we can add them to the tables. We just ask that the maps are fairly well made (or fantastic) and not like Beach. Please note when sending in your demos that it's on a new map.

As a reminder, Stylaphone Speedpack contest ends in 10 days. Click here for the full details.

Thursday, March 18th 2021 by Jonny

The team is growing!

Both me and Stubby will be a bit busy for the foreseeable future and won't be able to dedicate as much time to SDA as we'd like. However, since we have a good thing going on with the Quake community and all the awesome demos being submitted, we have asked two people to join the ranks.

Let me introduce to you Justin 'Optic' Fleck and Sphere!

Welcome guys!

Friday, March 12th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

id maps and mission packs

Continuing with another semi-small update, here's a bunch of demos on the id maps and mission packs.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore did three id demos in spectacular style as always.

  • Easy Run of e3m6 in 0:23 (video link), 1 second faster than Grzegorz 'deniu' Gladowski.
  • Nightmare Run of e2m7 in 0:33 (video link), 1 second faster than Jozsef Szalontai.
  • Nightmare Run ("the long way") of e2m1 in 0:42 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Martin Selinus.
Elias 'Elgu' Solla did three rocking Rogue demos. Tony Hänninen did just one Hipnotic demo, but it's a goodie.

Thursday, March 11th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

Nothing But Coops

There's a ton of demos in the SDA inbox again, so to make it easier for myself I'll do a couple of these short updates over the next few days. We'll be starting with coop demos.

Involved with these demos are Elias 'Elgu' Solla, EddWardG, Ryan 'Chambers' Moore, Sphere, and Ishmael.

Wednesday, March 10th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

Stylaphone's Speedpack

Following up on the success of our first contest in 2021, we're doing another one. This one consists of four maps AND the chance to be crowned the winner in a fun little mini-championship.

Stylaphone's Speedpack

Click here for the full details.

Thursday, March 4th 2021 by Jonny Andersson

Anno Domini

The time has come to present the Arcane Dimensions demos we've received in the last few weeks. There are a total of 41 of them!

Brent 'ws' Wise submitted his first demos since January 2004:

Great demos and welcome back!

Connor Fitzgerald sent in the following demos:

Just as usual, Connor delivers the goods!

EddWardG went crazy on ad_e1m1:

Really cool to see a new player bashing his way in!

With a total playtime of 222:54, Justin 'optic' Fleck provides:

Great balls of fire!

Last but not least, we got Ryan 'chambers' Moore with two really tight demos on ad_s1m1:

Well worth a watch!

Sunday, February 21st 2021 by Jonny Andersson

Sunday funday

With new maps comes new demos. This update will showcase some of them but we've saved the Arcane Dimension demos until later so please keep 'em coming!

First up we have two pretty darn good ID records:

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore did the Easy 100% of e2m2 in 0:48 (video link), 5 seconds faster than Elias 'Elgu' Solla. Incredible demo!

Conny 'Jukebox' Wernersson tried his luck on the long way of e3m2 and got 0:36 (video link), 1 second faster than Petar 'PraskOo' P. Amazing!

Conny also took on the recently-improved-and-according-to-me-unbeatable Nightmare 100% record of tower and got 0:14 (video link), 1 second faster than Tony Hänninen. A day later, he submitted yet another improvement where he exited at 0:13 (video link).

I must say that I love being misproven in situations like this!

The rest of the demos can be found here:

  • Connor Fitzgerald did the first ever Easy Run of ghspch01 and got 0:09 (video link). It sure does look optimised from my point of view, but since there might be another route I don't want jump to conclusion.
  • Connor also beat Mathias Thore's Easy Run of sm57_czg by 1 second and got 0:08 (video link). This one goes on the Unbeatable list.
  • Damian 'Ankh' Kulot improved Justin Fleck's Easy 100% by 8 seconds of his own map hdn. He exited with all the kills in 2:15 (video link).
  • Mattias Öman improved Basil de Vries' Easy 100% record of coagula3 by 17 seconds: 1:49 (video link).
  • Joshua 'Stylaphone' Bransgrove tried out the newly added snaut-cloister. He did the first Easy Run in 0:56 (video link). He then improved it by another second and got 0:55 (video link).
  • EddWardG did the Nightmare Run of jjspq2 and improved Thomas Bergendorff's previous record by 2 seconds and got 0:45 (video link).
  • EddWardG also did the Nightmare Run of q1tm3_hrim2_V2 and improved Justin Fleck's previous record by no less than 31 seconds and got 0:22 (video link).
  • Gustav 'Brainfluid' L. did the first ever Easy Run of e2m5rmx in 0:54 (video link).
For the map sincinch, we actually had a small battle without any knowledge from the involved parts. Gustav 'Brainfluid' L. submitted a demo he recorded all the way back in November for the Easy Run: 0:18 (video link).

Unfortunately for him, Connor skipped the rocket launcher and instead used an ogre grenade getting 0:12 (video link). Connor also did the Nightmare Run and exited at 0:11 (video link).

The third party in this made-up conflict is Ryan who submitted demos with the same times as Connor but a tad too late.

On top of this, we've also received several coop demos:

  • Elias 'Elgu' Sollas and Sphere did the 2-player Easy Run of r2m8 in 0:04 (video link), table filler (1 second faster than the Easy Run).
  • EddWardG and Sphere did the 2-player Easy Run of black1 in 0:48 (video link), table filler (8 seconds faster than the Easy Run).
  • They also did the 2-player Easy Run of black2 in 0:43 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Carl and Johan.

EddWardG, Sphere and Ryan 'Chambers' Moore gave us:

From EddWardG, Sphere, Ryan 'Chambers' Moore and Elias 'Elgu' Sollas we got:

  • 4-player Easy 100% of colony in 0:36 (video link), table filler (18 seconds faster than the 2-player Easy 100%).
  • 4-player Easy 100% of pagan in 0:15 (video link), table filler (2 seconds faster than the 3-player Easy 100%).
  • 4-player Nightmare 100% of pagan in 0:15 (video link), table filler (2 seconds faster than the 3-player Nightmare 100%).
  • 4-player Easy 100% of shoot in 0:12 (video link), table filler (2 seconds faster than the 3-player Easy 100%).

New JoeQuake build

Our good sir Fleck happened upon a bug when playing the new AD maps resulting in crashed games due to "spawning of specific edicts overflew the max_edicts list".

Joe quickly identified the issue and released a new build (version 0.17.1, build 6746) which solves the problem. Make sure to get it here.

What about the bunny comparison?

Well, first of all, the 400m map has been added to this page. Feel free to improve your previous time.

Should you need any tips on how to do this, please check out these two videos (courtesy of kipi):

Secondly, we have several new demos from Damian, Joshua, Angruo and Petar P.
I want you all to pay attention to Petar's demo; the first (unless I'm mistaken) run through e1m1 in 0:20 seconds without using the explobox. Crazy!

Last but not least, here is another video by kipi. He has combined all demos in the 400m contest into one video. Well worth a look.

Tuesday, February 16th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

New Maps

We're adding a bunch of new maps. Seven single player maps and one giant episode to be exact. That should keep you entertained for quite some time. Please note that all these maps require JoeQuake v0.17.0 (or newer).
  • e2m5rmx (The Lizard's Trance) by RJ - Name your demos "x2m5"
  • ghspch01 (Green Hale) by Chris Holden - Name your demos "ghsp"
  • grim (The Grim Outpost) by Andrew Smith - Name your demos "grim"
  • nmth_machinery (The Machinery) by Guilherme Nemeth - Name your demos "mach"
  • sincinch (Sinister Cistern) by Chris Holden - Name your demos "sin"
  • snaut-acidtrip (Organic Dissociation) by Shamblernaut - Name your demos "acid"
  • snaut-cloisterfuck (Cloisterfuck) by Shamblernaut - Name your demos "cloi"
And then there's Arcane Dimension. Coming up with what to name your demo(s) was quite a puzzle, so please bear with me if it all seems a little confusing at first glance. There's an obvious pattern to it if you look closely :-) There's a total of 23 maps, and since we can't go above having 4 letters in the demo name, I had to be smart with the demo-naming.

I'm not overly familiar with Arcane Dimension, so if there's something fishy going on with any of the maps (like if you can't get 100% kills and such), just let me/us know and we'll take it from there.

  • ad_cruical (The Crucial Error) by Maik Franz Xaver - Name your demos "adcr"
  • ad_dm1 (Place of Many Deaths) by Gavin Edgington - Name your demos "add1"
  • ad_lavatomb (Per Aspera Ad Inferi) by Noel Lacaillade - Name your demos "adla"
  • ad_mountain (Firetop Mountain) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "admo"
  • ad_necrokeep (The Necromancer Keep) by Sean Campbell & Matthew Breit - Name your demos "adne"
  • ad_obd (Obsessive Block Disorder) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adob"
  • ad_swampy (Foggy Bogbottom) by Maik Franz Xaver - Name your demos "adsw"
  • ad_azad (The Realm Of Enceladus) by Maik Franz Xaver - Name your demos "adaz"
  • ad_tfuma (Terror Fuma) by Gavin Edgington & Eric Wasylishen - Name your demos "adtf"
  • ad_magna (Leptis Magna) by Noel Lacaillade & Andrey Saenko - Name your demos "adma"
  • ad_metmon (Arcane Monstrosity) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adme"
  • ad_zendar (The Horde Of Zendar) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adze"
  • ad_sepulcher (The Forgotten Sepulcher) by Henrik Oresten & Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adse"
  • ad_ac (Arcane Adamantine) by Dmitry Svetlichny & Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adac"
  • ad_s1m1 (Slipgate Conundrum) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adm1"
  • ad_akalakha (Ak-Alakha) by Andrey Saenko - Name your demos "adak"
  • ad_grendel (Grendels' Blade) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adgr"
  • ad_scastle (Nyarlathoteps Sand Castle) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adsc"
  • ad_tears (Tears of the False God) by Benoit Stordeur - Name your demos "adte"
  • ad_dm5 (The Mire) by Noel Lacaillade - Name your demos "add5"
  • ad_e1m1 (Hangar 16) by Sean Campbell - Name your demos "ad11"
  • ad_e2m2 (Ogre Bastille) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "ad22"
  • ad_e2m7 (The Underearth) by Eric Wasylishen - Name your demos "ad27"
Jozsef Szalontai was kind enough to provide us with QdQstats for Arcane Dimensions. I've included it in the download above, but you can download it individually here too if needed.

Speaking of Joe, he also recently released a new version of JoeQuake which you can grab here.

Here's some highlights from the new version. All the changes can be viewed here.

  • All (bsp/mdl) textures are drawn using OpenGL's VBO and GLSL tech (performance improvement)
  • Added resolution scaling from QuakeSpasm, also added option to adjust in the Video modes menu
  • Added GLSL gamma correction from QuakeSpasm
  • Added dynamic gfx texture loading
  • Added option to set Power bunnyhopping on/off in the menu
  • Changed default key bindings to make more sense for new players (like WASD for movement, MOUSE1 for attack, etc)

Monday, February 15th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

400m Contest

The results are in!

Check 'em out by clicking right here.

Friday, February 12th 2021 (2nd update) by Jonny Andersson

Twice a day make the doctor go away

Let's continue Stubby's update onslaught with number two for today.

EddWardG already has 26 coop demos so it was just a matter of time until he submitted his first single player record:

When one get up to speed, one should continue and so he did: Great to see single player demos from a new player! Keep up the good work.

Justin 'optic' Fleck took back his Nightmare 100% demo on dmc2m3, beating me by 10 seconds and exiting at 1:10 (video link). Very nice!

My brother from the same mother Mattias Öman decided to grace us with his first demos since August 30th:

Great demos - keep 'em coming!

Last but certainly not least, Tony 'cookye' Hänninen submitted two really neat records:

  • Nightmare Run of catacomb in 0:14 (video link), 1 second faster than Justin Fleck's demo from 1999. I dare to say this one is unbeatable! I've also added Connor's Easy Run with the same time to this list.
  • Nightmare 100% of tower in 0:15 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Connor Fitzgerald. This one goes on the unbeatable list as well.

Friday, February 12th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

ID's and Hips

We have our first batch of "the long way" Easy Runs on e3m2. One player in particular seemed to have fun with it.
  • New player to the tables Joshua 'Stylaphone' Bransgrove started out by improving Gunnar's '97 demo by 1 second to 0:46, and then he went on a rampage by improving it further by 1 second to 0:45, another second to 0:44, another second to 0:43, and finally one more second to 0:42 (video link).
  • Sphere had a go at it too and improved Joshua's time by 3 seconds to 0:39 (video link).
  • Not letting them steal the spotlight, Petar 'PraskOo' P. took the time down another 2 seconds to 0:37 (video link)
  • Speaking of Petar 'PraskOo' P., he did the Easy 100% of e4m2 in 1:00 (video link) improving Conny Wernersson's time by 1 second. Highly recommended download!

    And finally we have Tony 'cookye' Hänninen taking two records on Quake's first official mission pack:

    Thursday, February 11th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

    Connor's Hunt For Decimals

    It's always super fun watching demos from Connor Fitzgerald since they're all so short and explosive. These six demos are no exception.
    • Easy Run of dm4sp in 0:06 (video link), 1 second faster than Peter Horvath. This demo is CRAZY! It's going straight to the "unbeatable demos" list.
    • Easy Run of bub2 in 0:11 (video link), 1 second faster than Jozsef Szalontai. Another one for the unbeatable demos list.
    • Easy Run of critters in 0:15 (video link), 1 second faster than Amrik Kochhar.
    • Easy Run of czgtoxic in 0:24 (video link), 1 second faster than Daniel Andersson.
    • Nightmare Run of misery in 0:07 (video link), 1 second faster than Robert Axelsson. And yet another one for the unbeatable demos list.
    • Nightmare Run of nesp10 in 0:08 (video link), 1 second faster than Anders Nordensten. And why not put this demo on the list as well.
    Don't blink!

    Wednesday, February 10th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

    Jonny Loves DMC2

    My young SDA apprentice Jonny Andersson recently gave the DeathMatch Classic Vol. 2 a lot of love. Here's the results: These are all very good demos, so be sure to watch all of them.

    Monday, February 8th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

    Coop Galore

    There's a ton of demos to be posted, so I figured I might as well do several updates with their own little theme. This update is all about coop demos. Let's dig in shall we.

    These demos are all courtesy of Elias 'Elgu' Solla, EddWardG, Ryan 'Chambers' Moore, Gustav 'brainfluid' L., Sphere, Petar 'Praskoo' P. and Sajiki.

    • 5-player Easy Run of e3m4 in 0:24 (video link) by Elias, EddWardG, Ryan, Gustav, Sphere, tablefiller.
    • 3-player Nightmare 100% of e4m2 in 0:49 (video link) by Elias, Sphere and Petar, 10 seconds faster than Jaakko/Robert/Mathias.
    • 2-player Easy 100% of dazsp2 in 0:35 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, 3 seconds faster than Weixing/Xiaokui.
    • 2-player Easy Run of e5m6 in 0:16 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller (9 seconds faster than the SP record).
    • 3-player Easy Run of imp1sp2 in 0:44 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller (6 seconds faster than the 2-player demo).
    • 4-player Easy 100% of imp1sp2 in 1:07 (video link) by EddWardG, Ryan, Gustav and Sphere, tablefiller (7 seconds faster than the 3-player demo).
    • 2-player Easy Run of jjspq2 in 0:35 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, 2 seconds faster than Jason/Adam.
    • 5-player Easy 100% of mcomplex in 0:51 (video link) by Elias, Sajiki, Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller (4 seconds faster than the 6-player demo!).
    • 5-player Easy 100% of misery in 0:11 (video link) by EddWardG, Elias, Ryan, Gustav and Sphere, tablefiller (2 seconds faster than the 4-player demo).
    • 5-player Nightmare 100% of misery in 0:11 (video link) by EddWardG, Elias, Ryan, Gustav and Sphere, tablefiller (3 seconds faster than the 4-player demo).
    • 3-player Easy Run of sm116_adamllis in 0:10 (video link) by EddWardG, Ryan and Sphere, tablefiller.
    • 4-player Easy 100% of spring2 in 0:14 (video link) by Elias, EddWardG, Ryan and Sphere, tablefiller.
    • 3-player Easy Run of tdl in 0:31 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, 4 seconds faster than Basil/Jaakko/Rui.
    • 4-player Easy 100% of trincasp2 in 1:12 (video link) by Elias, Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller.
    • 2-player Easy Run of tyrcoag in 0:22 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, 2 seconds faster than Robert/Rickard.
    • 2-player Easy Run of zooloo in 0:16 (video link) by Ryan and Sphere, 1 second faster than Pif/Luc.
    • 2-player Easy 100% of zooloo in 0:26 (video link) by Ryan and Sphere, 2 seconds faster than Basil/Jaakko.

    Saturday, February 6th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

    e3m2 "The Long Way"

    Just a quick note to let everyone know that we've added "The Long Way" version to e3m2, similar to those on e1m6, e2m1, and e4m5. The current best demos using this route are from 1997/98, so there's plenty of room to optimize and for getting an "easy to grab" id record :-)

    Here's the exact wording on the e3m2 page should you be in doubt:

    "For the long way, you need to take the intended route and not grab the silver key early".

    Saturday, January 23rd 2021 by Jonny

    In retrospect and for the future to come

    This will be the last update regarding the - in many ways shitty - year of our lord 2020. Not Quake-wise though, not at all.

    Let's summarise it!

    Number of updates 44
    Number of demos 836 (7th place behind 1999 with 884 demos)
    Number of players 23
    Most demos Justin Fleck (445 demos)

    Demos per category

    • Easy run:                110 demos (15 marathons)
    • Easy 100%:            220 demos (15 marathons)
    • Nightmare run:       145 demos (21 marathons)
    • Nightmare 100%:   309 demos (21 marathons)
    • Coop:                       52 demos
    Total:                                836 demos

    ID records

    • Easy run:                15 demos
    • Easy 100%:            11 demos
    • Nightmare run:       19 demos
    • Nightmare 100%:   14 demos
    Total:                                59 demos

    It's been an amazing year for Quake speedrunning and both me and Stubby want to take the opportunity to thank you all; Connor, Conny, Damian, EddWardG, Elias, Grzegorz, Gustav, Jonathan, Jozsef, Justin, Mads-Peter, Matthew, Mattias, Michael, Michael, Paul, Petar, Petter, Ryan, Sphere, and Tony.

    Monday, January 11th 2021 by Jonny

    Thrice the haunted halls

    Yet again I have the pleasure of continuating the tradition to notice when a player holds all four single player on an ID level.

    This time it's not a new player but instead Thomas Stubgaard who has improved no less than three of his four single player records on e3m7.

    Let's have a look and try to visualise the hundreds of hours this man has put into this truly haunted map:

    • He is the only one with a valid record on the map (coops included)
    • Between June 26th 2000 and October 15th 2020, he submitted 25 single player records and another 10 coop records
    • There are a total of 56 demos on this map and the craze Dane has submitted 35 of them
    With a few hundred hours under the belt on this map he surely deserves to have the total ownage.

    I've asked him to provide a few words for each of the demos:

    The Nightmare 100% run concludes my lifelong obsession with this map. It has haunted me in my sleep for the last 20 years. I've spent hundreds of hours on this map alone, and that's not just some silly statement, it's actually true! Call it self torture if you will, but I "enjoy" runs that are brutally hard. This is probably the demo I'm the most proud of of all the Quake demos I've done since I started submitting demos to SDA way back in 1999.
    I've never been a quick bunnyhopper, so I naturally gravitated towards 100%'s from the very first demos I ever did. I guess you could say 100%'s appealed more to me because of my shortcomings. Don't get me wrong, I love watching runs like Conny's infamous e1m1_019 Easy Run as much as anyone, but when it comes to my own running I prefer doing 100%'s.

    With that said, let's start with the run that involves the hardest "trick" in any demo EVER, and I stand by that statement! Go ahead and prove me wrong :-)

    Let me explain the "Houdini Ogre" trick in detail:

    A bug in the Quake code sometimes let an Ogre teleport itself to another destination on the map (not just this map, but any Quake map).
    It happens more frequently on some maps for some reason I'm not technically inclined to answer. On e3m7 specifically, the Ogre in the narrow hallway you have to kill in order to progress through the map sometimes teleport to the Fiend pit area close by. It happens so rarely that I've only had it happen about 4 or 5 times in all my hundreds of hours on this map. That trick alone saves 2-3 seconds which makes all the difference in a short run like this. Normally you'd have to shoot the Ogre 9 times with the shotgun for it to die, OR, if it throws a grenade at you while you're up close to it so it takes self-damage you can do it with 8 shots. That's why you see me bump into the Ogre in the skill 3 demos.

    And the irony in it all is that even if you're lucky enough get the Houdini Ogre, everything else in the run has to go according to plan as well which it naturally never does apart from that one time when I got the 0:40 demo.

    I did in fact get it ONCE during my most recent 21-28 hours of Easy 100% grinding. I was on course for maybe beating the 0:40 time when I realised I hadn't pushed the button on the upper section that opens the door to last section of the map. That button has fucked up many of my e3m7 attempts.

    The run in itself isn't highly spectacular apart from the trick mentioned above, but the record has stood since January 2006, and normally any of the top bunnyhoppers would've been able to beat it with ease, so maybe if I'm lucky I can still claim to be the recordholder 20 years from now.

    And yes, I've tried to beat it many times since I did the 0:40 demo, but never got close.

    This one is a lot harder than you think. Here's a snippet from the text file for the 1:25 demo:

    I've been trying to beat this for the past 7 days, about 3-4 hours grind each day. I'm well aware the demo doesn't look amazingly sharp, but this map is brutal, even on skill 0. Squeezing past the 2nd Ogre as fast as I did in this demo happens maybe 1 try out of 50 or even less. It's totally random. And getting as much as luck as I did with the monsters in this run almost never happens. Usually a zombie is knocked down and I'm not able to kill it while having the Quad.

    The start in itself is very technical and requires lots of luck. Let me explain:

    Right after you jump off from the lift and land on the bridge, you need to hit a trigger for the door to open. It's not hard hitting the trigger in itself, but right after hitting the trigger you need to stay all the way to the left on the bridge, so the 2nd Ogre will start moving in that direction. The Ogre can't move too far or you won't be able to squeeze past it when you stun it. It's really a case of 1 or 2 pixels seperating failure from success.
    It's possible to stun the Ogre so it falls on its butt on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th shot. I don't know why it won't get stunned on the 2nd, 4th, and 6th shot, but in the hundreds of hours I've been playing this map in the past it has never occured. Some weird shit in the code probably. Ideally you want to stun it on the 3rd shot as that's when the Ogre is in the perfect position. Getting the 1st stun will just make it fall back in an unwanted direction.

    I was over the moon when I recently improved it to 0:44. When I grind e3m7 on skill 3 I typically aim for doing the 100%, but if I get a fast start up until where the first Quad is, I sometimes switch over to the Run instead. That Quad area is the section that makes all the difference for the run. It's lots of small little details that's makes the difference, but the deciding factor is the fast start and if both Ogres near the Quad on the top section are moving to a favorible position (which they - yeah, you guessed it - very rarely do).

    If you take the Houdini Ogre from the Easy Run out of the equation, this run is the hardest to do of all four. Getting a 0:43 is certainly possible, but it'll be for someone else to try.     Believe it or not, if you can survive the onslaught, this one is actually the "easiest" demo to do fast of all four categories.

    "But what about the Easy 100% I can already hear you asking?", well, to improve the Easy 100% you can't really get a single shot wrong, and the monsters have to cooperate close to perfectly (lots of infightning and no Zombies knocked down). With the Nightmare 100% there's room for small errors here and there, but yeah, first you have to survive the onslaught :-)

    What's new in this demo compared to the previous one is the end room in which I make the Vore and one of the Ogres infight. It saves a lot of precious shots I can use to make other sections of the run go faster. It's super tight on ammo as it is!

    Monday, January 4th, 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

    A New Year Begins

    First demo update 2021! It's mostly the remaining demos from 2020 (there's still three in inbox we're saving for a special occasion).

    UPDATE: Oops, I forgot to mention Sphere's Easy 100% of r2m8 in 0:22 (video link), which is 5 seconds faster than Robert Axelsson.

    Connor Fitzgerald submitted a pile of very short single player demos just before the year rang out:

    And here's a bunch of really cool madcoops from Ryan 'Chambers' Moore, EddWardG, Gustav 'brainfluid' L., Petar 'prask0o' P., and Sphere
    • 3-player Easy Run of 2run5 in 0:22 (video link) by Gustav, EddWardG, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Adam/Jason/Benjamin.
    • 3-player Easy Run of jjspq2 in 0:25 (video link) by EddWardG, Gustav, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Adam/Jason/John.
    • 3-player Easy 100% of 2run5 in 0:22 (video link) by Gustav, EddWardG, and Sphere, 4 seconds faster than Daniel/Jonny/Daniel.
    • 3-player Easy 100% of misery in 0:17 (video link) by EddWardG, Gustav, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Adam/Jason/James.
    • 3-player Nightmare 100% of misery in 0:17 (video link) by EddWardG, Gustav, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Adam/Jason/James.
    • 4-player Easy Run of e2m1 (the long way) in 0:39 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, and Gustav, and Sphere, tablefiller (3 sec. faster than the single player record).
    • 4-player Easy Run of e4m7 in 0:37 (video link) by Gustav, Petar, and EddWardG, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Kay/Jonny/Paul/Thomas.
    • 4-player Easy Run of d3 in 0:16 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, and Gustav, and Sphere, tablefiller.
    • 4-player Easy Run of empire in 0:15 (video link) by Gustav, EddWardG, and Petar, and Sphere, tablefiller.
    • 4-player Easy 100% of deja in 0:37 (video link) by Ryan, Gustav, and Sphere, and EddWardG, tablefiller (3 sec. faster than the 3-player record).
    • 4-player Easy 100% of misery in 0:13 (video link) by EddWardG, Ryan, and Gustav, and Sphere, tablefiller (4 sec. faster than the 3-player record).
    • 4-player Nightmare 100% of misery in 0:14 (video link) by EddWardG, Ryan, and Gustav, and Sphere, tablefiller (3 sec. faster than the 3-player record).
    Ryan, Gustav, EddWardG, and Sphere also did a fun 4-player run of the 100m map in 0:06 (video link).

    Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

    Surprise!

    Let's start 2021 on a positive note with our first contest in 10 years! It's based on an idea I've had in my head for a looong time, but as I can't map for shit I needed to "trick" someone into building the map for me. First it lingered a while with Negke, then it took a detour with Shamblernaut, and finally it ended up in the hands of Stylaphone. A HUGE thanks to all three of them for making this happen!

    Most of you who frequent this website knows about the 100m map that was used as a contest in 2001. It's since been used as a way for Quake speedrunners to measure themselves against eachother as the ultimate bunnyhopping test. The winning time back in 2001 was 10.68 seconds, and by comparison the current record is 9.63 which is a strong testiment to how much Quake speedrunning have advanced over a span of 20 years. Fun fact: Usain Bolt's real life 100m record is 9.58 seconds, so we're inching closer to that.

    This time we're taking it a step further with a 400m run! The current real life world record is held by Wayde van Niekerk and clocks in at 43.03 seconds. It'll be fun to see if anyone can get close - or even surpass - that time. You can also run the map in coop mode for those feeling adventurous.

    400m contest

    Full details of the contest are to be found right here. Make sure you're using the latest JoeQuake build as the map won't run otherwise. The contest will run for nearly 1½ month, so you've got plenty of time to hone those bunnyhopping skills.

    UPDATE: If you're having FPS issues when running the map, use this "stripped down" version instead. It won't look as pretty, but it'll run smoother.

    Demos being run on both maps will be accepted.

    READY, SET, GO!