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Short version

In January 2020, Valve removed the possibility to download old depot manifests from their client library. Which outdated most guides available out there. Here is how you can download the old patches for WTTG II, but this also applies to other games available on Steam.

First, we need the Game ID, Depot ID and the Manifest ID for the patch we are trying to download. Read the full guide to know how to get those from SteamDB.

For the Windows version of WTTG II, the Game ID is always 720250 and the Depot ID is always 720251.

Here is a list of the current speedrunning categories for WTTG II and their corresponding Manifest ID. The other Manifest are available in the full version or SteamDB.

• Old Patch: 5874631687768504692
• Old Patch / No Hack Cooldown: 6788389228187769585
• Old Patch / With Hack Cooldown: 7851970317935229589

We now have all of the IDs we need. Let's download the manifest. For this, we will need the tool SteamRE/DepotDownloader available here: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/releases/latest. Extract the ZIP archive to a folder and copy its location.

Open the PowerShell (PS) or CMD and go to the directory where you extracted the tool. Replace Location with the one you copied in the previous step. PS: cd "Location" CMD: cd /d "Location"

Now, run the tool using the following command. Make sure that you replace ManifestID and SteamUsername with the corresponding values.
PS: .\depotdownloader.bat -app 720250 -depot 720251 -manifest "ManifestID" -username "SteamUsername" CMD: depotdownloader.bat -app 720250 -depot 720251 -manifest "ManifestID" -username "SteamUsername"

This will create a depots folder inside the directory where you extracted the tool, the old patch will be in a subfolder named with the Game ID. You can either run the game directly off of this folder, or copy it in another location because the tool will overwrite the files each time you download a new manifest.