Hey guys, I am new to this community and wanna know if I can submit runs if I got doom for free and didn't pay?

Truth is - I can't really tell who has legit versions or not. Regardless - if demos playback on normal version, then it is all good. If it is video submission I just look for abnormalities.

I will reply to this with a run of me doing the first level an you could tell me if everything is fine?

so i have downloaded the game and i cannot figure out how to share a demo. I would like to have some help

go here and read info for sourceport you are using https://dsdarchive.com/intro

thank you so much but i don't understand where i can find my demos and how to record them

If you have the shareware version then you can only submit for the first episode, as you can't play the rest.

If you got "FreeDOOM" then that's a different game, so you'll have to submit that elsewhere (there's a section in the Doomworld forums for it)

If you "pirated" or """legally acquired""" the game, then you're good to go, just don't tell Bethesda.

ok, i just don't understand HOW I record demos or even find them if they are recorded automatically

Read this: https://dsdarchive.com/intro and it'll tell you how to do the demos.

how do i open the command line?

On Windows you'll want to just open Notepad and save the file as "record.bat" and run that.

I don't understand, do I drag the game into notepad or what?

I have a video in the guides section that can help you with demos 😉

hey, pretty avearge I would like you to send me everything that I need. Thank you for suggesting, sorry for not DM'ing you back, I created my accout today ;-;

fact that you are new doesn't justify that you put 0 effort into figuring something that is done with few google searches or actually checking game page here and then go and ask questions. You get sourceport. Put wad file in sourceport's folder. Create bat file, add command with "-record mydemo" in it. run that command, play game, quit, you get demo.

thanks so much

Damn tezuro why do you gotta be so rude

that isn't "so rude" If I were to be rude you'd see some actual language. It is fairly often as of lately that people just pop into discord or doomworld and start asking questions that they will find answers for faster themselves without bothering anyone, yet they go on this texting adventure. It gets annoying. So while I still try to navigate people somewhere where they can read stuff, they choose not to.

Back when I started running doom, I actually couldn't find any info on how to record demos or anything and I had to refer to a friend to figure it out. The reason I made a video too is because I thought it would help newcomers so they wouldn't have to find out themselves. The idea that "they can find everything themselves" is complete bs, because it's way harder than you think. I dont even think the dsda has any info on how to exactly set up a demo.

"I don't even think the dsda has any info on how to exactly set up a demo"

Yet it does. From DSDA prboom section: Recording In order to record a demo, you'll want to launch prboom+ along with the relevant command line options described above. This can be done on the actual command line, or via a batch file (.bat). Here is an example command:

prboom-plus.exe -iwad /path/to/doom.wad -skill 4 -warp 1 1 -complevel 3 -levelstat -record my_demo

From dsda crispy section: Recording In order to record a demo, you'll want to launch Crispy Doom along with the relevant command line options described above. This can be done on the actual command line, or via a batch file (.bat). Here is an example command:

crispy-doom.exe -iwad /path/to/doom.wad -skill 4 -warp 1 1 -record my_demo

I am not linking this (https://dsdarchive.com/intro) page for nothing everywhere, you know. Plus as you said, there's your video now. Making it even harder to justify not being able to find "how to".