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"Skybuck Flying" <BloodyShame@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm not sure why you keep posting to NG's that are unrelated to your
questions...

> I made a Quake 3 Arena Demo Demo/Recording
...
> I want to play this recording

Goto "DEMOS" in the main menu.  Your demo should be listed there.  Select
it.

> ...playing against bots...  ...see if it becomes a slightly populair
> video...

Against bots?  Um, I'm sorry to say, that's not going to happen... unless
you manage to impress non-Q3A players.

> Now I have a problem:
>
> Quake 3 Arena Demo cannot play the recording ?!

Did you install onto a legitimate copy of Q3A?...  Did you apply the final
Q3A update version?...  q3pointrelease_132.exe

> The recording is stored in a file called: SkybuckPlaying!.dm3

The extension should be something like:  .dm_68

That's dm underscore two_digit_number.  Look under "DEMOS" in the main menu.
Your demo should be in the "Quake III Arena\baseq3\demos" or maybe it's just
"demo" singular directory.  If you set  g_synchronousClients "1" and used
"record <demoname>" and "stopdemo", I don't understand why your demo was
incorrectly named and/or misplaced.

> I searched the internet for reasons, idea's and hacks and cracks, so far
> unsuccessfull.

I don't think you need any...

> This is what I learned:
>
> 1. Quake 3 Arena Demo can probably only play recordings which are located
> inside the Pak0.PK3 file.

I've got no problems recording and replaying, but I updated from a legal
version of Q3A.  Is that the difference?

> 2. Pak0.PK3 file can be opened with WinRar.

That's because .PK3 's are just PKZIP's with the .ZIP extension changed to
.PK3.  (Hint: Does this clarify your CRC32 issue any?...)

[overkill removed...]

> Which leads me to the following recommendations to hackers/crackers trying
> to crack Quake 3 Arena Demo so that it will start up with modified pak
> file and so that it can play demos inside pak files or alternatively maybe
> get rid of the crc32 check:

These settings are to allow modified dll's.  I'm not sure about modified
.pk3's.  They should be entered into the console or q3config.cfg file (in
baseq3 directory):

com_blindlyLoadDLLs "1"
seta vm_ui "0"
seta vm_cgame "0"
seta vm_game "0"


I'm not sure why you're having problems.  It might be they restricted the
demo.  Or, it might be that you've got a bad install.


Rod Pemberton