DRZ File Format Question
5 years ago
Michigan, USA

Hi there. I'm fairly new to speedrunning (only been running my main games since March 2018) and watched EZScape's video about the longest standing world records in speedrunning recently. Number 1 brought me to this forum. Now I just wanted to watch both records purely out of curiosity and seeing how many mistakes this Tim guy makes. I also heard this particular game is kind of a bad speed-game leading to its unpopularity. The Nightmare 100% run is easily viewable on Youtube. But the Easy 100% run leads to me an old website with an outdated file format as the source of the video. I'm kind of a noob to properly downloading/converting these old files to something watchable like in an MP4 Format. So if anyone can give me some pointers I would really appreciate it! It also might be better if this old run is truly preserved in a watchable manner. If no one else is willing to do this I will gladly do it myself and release it with full credit on my Youtube channel! Thanks for any help guys. =)

Poland

To watch the run, unpack the .dz file with dzip, and the .pak file should contain all the demos (which is also openable with dzip). You can now watch these demos using joequake (simply use the 'demos' option in the menu).

As for recording these, I suggest using built in commands. More on that here: https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/making_video_from_quake__is_there_a_tutorial.html

Dzip download link: http://quake.speeddemosarchive.com/dzip/ Joequake download link: http://quake.speeddemosarchive.com/quake/downloads/quake-large.zip (should also contain all the doe levels necessary to watch the demos)

I hope you can take it from here

Edited by the author 5 years ago
Hydrus likes this
New Zealand

That guy was pretty bad in some ways, but its a real brutal thing to get through. I'm planning on getting some of my old videos up on my own channel, I didn't know about that video, or other ones people had uploaded about my stuff till today!

Also, after an hour of playing and 1300+ monsters killed, having a dragon flying around, lava beneath you .. and earthquakes everywhere .. its natural to get nervous!!

Hydrus likes this
Michigan, USA

Hey thanks Deniu! Didn't see the thread reply until now. I tried this and still can't watch the demos. Am I doing something wrong? And holy crap its TimDoherty himself! I'm amazed you even found this website. What an old-school speedrunner. Yeah this guy named ShaftShambler re-uploaded your Nightmare 100% run through parts on Youtube. Sure you already found it. Your Easy and Nightmare 100% Records are the oldest untied world records with video proof on this website! That's insane. Hopefully someone can beat them soon. Also, that would be great if you could get your runs onto your channel. Make those time capsules more viewable for a modern audience. I just volunteered to do it because I don't mind doing it.

Edited by the author 5 years ago
Michigan, USA

EZScape has a cash bounty for both of your world records. Watch this video to understand.

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