A call for competitive demos or shoutcast recordings

fanatic

For a while now, I've been collecting, organizing and uploading demos and shoutcast recordings from official matches. Unfortunately I've run out of demos to fiddle with and as far as I know there's nothing left on the Intarwebz (except for some ENSL season 6 and 7 demos that will be added in due time) that I haven't been able to track down yet.

That's why I'm asking here, in case there's anyone sitting on a bunch of demos or shoutcast recordings. It doesn't matter how old they are -- the older the better actually. Shoutcast recordings are especially important, as they've been very difficult to come by. If you would like to contribute, reply in this thread, e-mail me on okfoss[at]nineLegends.com or query me on #nineLegends @ irc.quakenet.org.

The nineLegends demo archive is by far the largest and best organized demo archive online, stretching back as far as 1.04 and containing demos from the American, Australian and European competitive communities. Check out the demos <a href="http://www.ninelegends.com/files/index.php?dir=Demos/Natural%20Selection/" target="_blank">here</a> and the shoutcasts <a href="http://www.ninelegends.com/files/index.php?dir=Shoutcasts/Natural%20Selection/" target="_blank">here</a>.

I should probably also put in a shoutout to sd here, since he fixed me up with a bunch of demos and made this great <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_NS_Competition_Winners" target="_blank">Past NS Competitions Winners wikipedia page</a>. Big thanks to FreeZe, jiriki (for hosting all the ENSL related demos and HLTVs), sherpa, Talis, lagga (at least I think it was lagga who gave me all the UK demos) and anyone I may have forgotten about as well.

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export

You have mail.

criogenics

At #cri, we kept a large database of our match demos, including first person. I still have all of them except I can't figure out how to play them using steam, since it's an older version and I no longer have the correct install. Have you gotten older versions to work on steam? I'm thinking version 2.1 / 3.0 betas.

Drummer

Theres a few more ANSL recordings done by nsRadio <a href="http://www.nsradio.net/file/esports" target="_blank">here</a>

fanatic

Thanks dudes, keep it coming.

<!--quoteo(post=1645354:date=Aug 25 2007, 06:58 PM:name=Future)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Future @ Aug 25 2007, 06:58 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1645354"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->At #cri, we kept a large database of our match demos, including first person. I still have all of them except I can't figure out how to play them using steam, since it's an older version and I no longer have the correct install. Have you gotten older versions to work on steam? I'm thinking version 2.1 / 3.0 betas.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Unfortunately, no. There is a 1.04 version that works on steam, but it won't be able to play demos that were recorded on WON 1.04. You'll have to install Half-Life, <a href="http://www.ninelegends.com/files/index.php?dir=Games/Half-Life/&file=hl_1110_full.exe" target="_blank">update it</a>, and install either <a href="http://www.ninelegends.com/files/index.php?dir=Games/Natural%20Selection/&file=ns_install_v1.exe" target="_blank">NS 1.0</a> or <a href="http://www.ninelegends.com/files/index.php?dir=Games/Natural%20Selection/&file=ns_install_v20.exe" target="_blank">NS 2.0</a>. The 3.0 betas were on steam, so they work fine, you just need to install <a href="http://www.ninelegends.com/files/index.php?dir=Games/Natural%20Selection/" target="_blank">the right NS version</a>.

If you could share those demos with the rest of us, that would be great. E-mail me or give me a shout on IRC (info in first post) and I'll give you the FTP details so you can upload them.

N_3

sd was asking me about some demos a couple of weeks ago, i guess if you have everything off him then there's not a lot of other aus demos lying around. Unfortunately, i don't think we recorded any of our shoutcasts for nsp comps.