PC games with a record replay feature:

Pendrokar

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2008-12-22 04:40:17 am

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What games out there on the PC, freeware or otherwise, are some that support some manner of self contained "record your replay/playthroughs" option and/or mode? I'm positive there's at least a couple out there, and emulators have managed this for awhile now, but I'm drawing blanks on concrete examples.I ask this in order to perhaps convince an indy RPG nearing final developments that such a feature would be very handy somewhere down the line for people archiving their best playthroughs while keeping file sizes down, sharing adventures with the community, Let's Play thread fodder, and so on.I appreciate any and all help.www.heroicfantasygames.com the game in question along with awesome trailer.

also their mods

--Games that used previously noted game engine--

Unconfirmed (Make a post if you know that a game with "*" has demo recording (Starting demo recording would be also helpful))

*James Bond 007: Nightfire

Left 4 Dead
Portal
*Alien Swarm: Infested
*The Crossing
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
*Mabinogi Heroes
*Postal III
*Salvation
*SiN Episodes
The Ship { record <demoname>.dem | stop | Timedemo <demoname>.dem }
*Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
*Zeno Clash

Doom II
Final Doom
Heretic
Hexen: Beyond Heretic
Hexen Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
Strife

Hexen II(GLQuake) //record need to be started before starting a game

*Daikatana
Soldier Of Fortune

Quake III Team Arena
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force
Star Trek: Elite Force II
Return To Castle Wolfenstein -- Unable to playback single player demos
Call Of Duty { /record | /stop | /demo <demoname> }
*American McGee's Alice
*Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²
*Iron Grip: Warlord
*James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
*James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing

Doom 3: Ressurection Of Evil
*Quake 4
Prey { recorddemo <demoname> | <stoprecording> | timedemo <demoname> ]
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

*Rage

*Take No Prisoners

Unreal Tournament
*The Wheel Of Time
*Rune
*X-COM: Enforcer
*Mobile Forces
Deus Ex -- Bad for speedrunning
*Clive Barker's Undying
*Nerf Arena Blast
*Rune
*Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen
*Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard
*Dr. Brain's Thinking Games: Action/Reaction
*Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island
*TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter

Unreal Tournament 2004(UE 2.5)
Unreal II: The Awakening <-- demo playback heavily glitched
*Advent Rising
*Brothers In Arms
*Dead Man's Hand
*Deus Ex: Invisible War
*Devastation
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
*Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green
*Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
*Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds
*Men of Valor
*Open Season
*Pariah
Postal 2
*Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
*Surf's Up
*Thief: Deadly Shadows
*Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
*Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
*Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
*Tribes: Vengeance
*World War II Combat
*WarPath
*XIII/Thirteen

*Aliens: Colonial Marines
*Alpha Protocol
*American McGee's Grimm
*Batman: Arkham Asylum
*Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
*Bioshock
*BlackSite: Area 51
*Borderlands
*Damnation
*Earth No More
*Frontlines: Fuel of War
*Gears of War
*Highlander: The Game
*Heist
*Hour of Victory
*I Am Alive
*Legendary
*Mass Effect
*Medal of Honor: Airborne
*Mirror's Edge
*Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
*Rise of the Argonauts
*RoboBlitz
*Rogue Warrior: Black Razor
*Saw: The Videogame
*Section 8
*Singularity
*Stranglehold
*The Last Remnant
*The Scourge Project
*Tom Clancy's EndWar
*Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
*Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
*Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
*Turok
*The Wheelman
*Mass Effect 2
*X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Ghost Recon: Desert Siege
Ghost Recon: Island Thunder

Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour

Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath

Crysis:Warhead

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare { /record <demoname> | /stoprecord | /demo <demoname> | /disconnect}

Call of Juarez {Check post}

*SWAT 4

*Shadow Warrior

Kaiten Patissier
Green Island

*X3: Terran Conflict

Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet
Marathon 2: Durandal
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Marble Blast Gold
Descent 1
Descent 2
Descent 3 {Check end of Post}
DoomRL
Painkiller
Roguelike Brogue (1.4)
Sins Of The Solar Empire
Serious Sam
Serious Sam 2
Starcraft
SunAge
Warcraft 3
IL-2 Sturmovik
Worms Armageddon

Games that have demo recording only for multi player games(also their mods):
*Return to castle Wolfenstein[/list]

Thread title:

[list]Old Post:[quote]What games out there on the PC, freeware or otherwise, are some that support some manner of self contained  "record your replay/playthroughs" option and/or mode?  I'm positive there's at least a couple out there, and emulators have managed this for awhile now, but I'm drawing blanks on concrete examples.

I ask this in order to perhaps convince an indy RPG nearing final developments that such a feature would be very handy somewhere down the line for people archiving their best playthroughs while keeping file sizes down, sharing adventures with the community, Let's Play thread fodder, and so on.

I appreciate any and all help.

www.heroicfantasygames.com    the game in question along with awesome trailer.[/quote]
Here is the list of games that have demo recording capability.

Games that have demo recording for single player games([b]also their mods[/b]):
--Game--(--Engine--)
{ <startingdemorecord> | <stoppingdemorecord> | <watchingdemo> | <exitingplayback> }
[list]
[li]--Games that used previously noted game engine--[/li]
[/list]
* - [b]Unconfirmed (Make a post if you know that a game with "*" has demo recording (Starting demo recording would be also helpful))[/b]

Half-Life(GoldSrc)
[list]
[li]*James Bond 007: Nightfire[/li]
[/list]

Half-Life 2(Source)
[list]
[li]Left 4 Dead[/li]
[li]Portal[/li]
[li]*Alien Swarm: Infested[/li]
[li]*The Crossing[/li]
[li]Dark Messiah of Might and Magic[/li]
[li]*Mabinogi Heroes[/li]
[li]*Postal III[/li]
[li]*Salvation[/li]
[li]*SiN Episodes[/li]
[li]The Ship { record <demoname>.dem | stop | Timedemo <demoname>.dem } [/li]
[li]*Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines[/li]
[li]*Zeno Clash[/li]
[/list]

Doom(Doom Engine/Id Tech 1)
[list]
[li]Doom II[/li]
[li]Final Doom[/li]
[li]Heretic[/li]
[li]Hexen: Beyond Heretic[/li]
[li]   Hexen Deathkings of the Dark Citadel[/li]
[li]Strife[/li]
[/list]

Quake(Quake Engine/id Tech 2)
[list]
[li]Hexen II(GLQuake) //record need to be started before starting a game[/li]
[/list]

Quake II(Quake II Engine/id Tech 2)
[list]
[li]*Daikatana[/li]
[li]Soldier Of Fortune[/li]
[/list]

Quake III Arena(Quake III Engine/id Tech 3)
[list]
[li]Quake III Team Arena[/li]
[li]Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast[/li]
[li]Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy[/li]
[li]Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force[/li]
[li]Star Trek: Elite Force II[/li]
[li]Return To Castle Wolfenstein -- Unable to playback single player demos[/li]
[li]Call Of Duty { /record | /stop | /demo <demoname> } [/li]
[li]*American McGee's Alice[/li]
[li]*Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²[/li]
[li]*Iron Grip: Warlord[/li]
[li]*James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire[/li]
[li]*James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing[/li]
[/list]

Doom 3(Doom 3 Engine/id Tech 4) -- Graphical glitches in demos
[list]
[li]Doom 3: Ressurection Of Evil[/li]
[li]*Quake 4[/li]
[li]Prey { recorddemo <demoname> | <stoprecording> | timedemo <demoname> ][/li]
[li]Enemy Territory: Quake Wars[/li]
[/list]

*Doom 4(Doom 4 Engine/id Tech 5)
[list]
[li]*Rage[/li]
[/list]

Mageslayer(Vampire) //Needs to start new game+When playing demo if player uses Invisibility character will be totally invisible. 
[list]
[li]*Take No Prisoners[/li]
[/list]

Unreal(Unreal Engine 1)
[list]
[li]Unreal Tournament[/li]
[li]*The Wheel Of Time[/li]
[li]*Rune[/li]
[li]*X-COM: Enforcer[/li]
[li]*Mobile Forces[/li]
[li]Deus Ex -- Bad for speedrunning[/li]
[li]*Clive Barker's Undying[/li]
[li]*Nerf Arena Blast[/li]
[li]*Rune[/li]
[li]*Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen[/li]
[li]*Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard[/li]
[li]*Dr. Brain's Thinking Games: Action/Reaction[/li]
[li]*Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island[/li]
[li]*TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter[/li]
[/list]

Unreal Tournament 2003(Unreal Engine 2)
[list]
[li]Unreal Tournament 2004(UE 2.5)[/li]
[li]Unreal II: The Awakening <-- demo playback heavily glitched[/li]
[li]*Advent Rising[/li]
[li]*Brothers In Arms[/li]
[li]*Dead Man's Hand[/li]
[li]*Deus Ex: Invisible War[/li]
[li]*Devastation[/li]
[li]*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban[/li]
[li]*Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green[/li]
[li]*Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events[/li]
[li]*Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds[/li]
[li]*Men of Valor[/li]
[li]*Open Season[/li]
[li]*Pariah[/li]
[li]Postal 2[/li]
[li]*Shadow Ops: Red Mercury[/li]
[li]*Surf's Up[/li]
[li]*Thief: Deadly Shadows[/li]
[li]*Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3[/li]
[li]*Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell[/li]
[li]*Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter[/li]
[li]*Tribes: Vengeance[/li]
[li]*World War II Combat[/li]
[li]*WarPath[/li]
[li]*XIII/Thirteen[/li]
[/list]

OK! Roboblitz was the first Unreal Engine 3 game but I still go with unreals...
Unreal Tournament 3 (Unreal Engine 3) 
[list]
[li]*Aliens: Colonial Marines[/li]
[li]*Alpha Protocol[/li]
[li]*American McGee's Grimm[/li]
[li]*Batman: Arkham Asylum[/li]
[li]*Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway[/li]
[li]*Bioshock[/li]
[li]*BlackSite: Area 51[/li]
[li]*Borderlands[/li]
[li]*Damnation[/li]
[li]*Earth No More[/li]
[li]*Frontlines: Fuel of War[/li]
[li]*Gears of War[/li]
[li]*Highlander: The Game[/li]
[li]*Heist[/li]
[li]*Hour of Victory[/li]
[li]*I Am Alive[/li]
[li]*Legendary[/li]
[li]*Mass Effect[/li]
[li]*Medal of Honor: Airborne[/li]
[li]*Mirror's Edge[/li]
[li]*Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia[/li]
[li]*Rise of the Argonauts[/li]
[li]*RoboBlitz[/li]
[li]*Rogue Warrior: Black Razor[/li]
[li]*Saw: The Videogame[/li]
[li]*Section 8[/li]
[li]*Singularity[/li]
[li]*Stranglehold[/li]
[li]*The Last Remnant[/li]
[li]*The Scourge Project[/li]
[li]*Tom Clancy's EndWar[/li]
[li]*Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas[/li]
[li]    *Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2[/li]
[li]*Turning Point: Fall of Liberty[/li]
[li]*Turok[/li]
[li]*The Wheelman[/li]
[li]*Mass Effect 2[/li]
[li]*X-Men Origins: Wolverine[/li]
[/list]

Ghost Recon
[list]
[li]Ghost Recon: Desert Siege[/li]
[li]Ghost Recon: Island Thunder[/li]
[/list]

Command & Conquer: Generals
[list]
[li]Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour[/li]
[/list]

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
[list]
[li]Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath[/li]
[/list]

Far Cry(CryEngine 1) {DevMode Only: \RECORD <demoname> | \STOPRECORDING | \DEMO <demoname>| \STOPDEMO}

Crysis(CryEngine 2) {record <demoname> | stoprecording | demo <demoname> | stopdemo} <-- Reported issues of which I have no idea.
[list]
[li]Crysis:Warhead[/li]
[/list]

Call Of Duty 2(Proprietary)   { Record <demoname> | StopRecord | Demo <demoname>}
[list]
[li]Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare   { /record <demoname> | /stoprecord | /demo <demoname> | /disconnect}[/li]
[/list]
*Chrome(Chrome)
[list]
[li]Call of Juarez {[url=http://speeddemosarchive.com/forum/index.php/topic,9337.msg266531.html#msg266531]Check post[/url]}[/li]
[/list]

Tribes: Vengeance(Vengeance) {demorec <demoname> | demoplay <demoname> ("-console" to shortcut to enable)}
[list]
[li]*SWAT 4[/li]
[/list]

*Duke Nukem 3D (Build)
[list]
[li]*Shadow Warrior[/li]
[/list]

Ganbare Natsuki-san (Action Love)
[list]
[li]Kaiten Patissier[/li]
[li]Green Island[/li]
[/list]

X2: The Threat {AFAIK Alt+R} <- does not record main menu and audio
*X3: The Reunion
[list]
[li]*X3: Terran Conflict[/li]
[/list]

Others:
[li]Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet[/li]
[li]Marathon 2: Durandal[/li]
[li]Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six[/li]
[li]Marble Blast Gold[/li]
[li]Descent 1[/li]
[li]Descent 2[/li]
[li]Descent 3 {[url=http://speeddemosarchive.com/forum/index.php/topic,9337.msg270717.html#msg270717]Check end of Post[/url]}[/li]
[li][url=http://doom.chaosforge.org/articles/21/doomrl-0991-released#body]DoomRL[/url][/li]
[li]Painkiller[/li]
[li]Roguelike Brogue (1.4)[/li]
[li]Sins Of The Solar Empire[/li]
[li]Serious Sam[/li]
[li]Serious Sam 2[/li]
[li]Starcraft[/li]
[li]SunAge[/li]
[li]Warcraft 3[/li]
[li]IL-2 Sturmovik[/li]
[li]Worms Armageddon[/li]
[/list]

Games that have demo recording only for multi player games(also their mods):
*Return to castle Wolfenstein[/list]

Idkbutlike2

2008-12-22 04:57:17 am

You mean games that automatically record demos? In that case I only know one series, Bungie's Marathon series. "Film" files are automatically recorded each time you play and can be saved at your own will. The bad thing about Marathon is that the only one of the original games is out for PC, Marathon 2: Durandal. The games are freeware and can be download at your own will.

Kibbo

2008-12-22 05:22:46 am

TIOLET!

Good demo/replay recorders are too rare these days. Last time I saw one was in HL2.

Ewil

2008-12-22 07:58:26 am

Doom
Quake
Half-Life
Return to castle Wolfenstein (doesn't work for single-player)
Daikatana (I think)
Serious Sam
Driver
Call of Duty
Counter-Strike
City of Heroes
Starcraft
Warcraft 3
Unreal Tournament
Portal

Can't think of more.

Lag.Com

2008-12-22 11:08:53 am

sda loyalist

Descent

Sid

2008-12-22 01:05:10 pm

Now it's Sui^^

- Soldier of Fortune
as I remember it was:
/record x
and
/demomap x

- most of games using id Tech 4 engine have record (but it's bugged :-\)
- Hexen 2 (record need to be started before starting a game)
- probably all games using Source Engine (Half-Life 2 [+EP1, +EP2, +Lost Coast], Portal, Left 4 Dead)

IsraeliRD

2008-12-22 04:06:35 pm

Dragon Power Supreme

Marble Blast Gold , needs to be done before the level is started.

Nihilus

2008-12-22 07:47:18 pm

Sins of a Solar Empire as well. I experimented with speedrunning the smallest map against the easiest computer, and it's like watching paint dry. It autosaves demos of all games though.

grndino

2008-12-22 10:17:11 pm

Quote from Nihilus:

Sins of a Solar Empire as well. I experimented with speedrunning the smallest map against the easiest computer, and it's like watching paint dry. It autosaves demos of all games though.

You can speed up the game, dunno what the hotkey is off the top of my head. I'd hope that it doesn't speed up any in-game timer as well, but then that would probably be wanting my pie and eating it too.

Nihilus

2008-12-23 01:21:54 am

The settings I had it on made it far too simple for a legitimate submission. As I had it, it was just build capital ship factory, build military research base, build planet killer cap ship, research planet killer ships, build planet killer ships, kill enemy planet. Maybe the smallest map against the hardest computer will be more interesting, I'll play around with that.

Thinkshooter

2008-12-23 07:52:40 am

Runs: FCP, FC3, XWA, HD1-2, KotOR1-2

Star Wars X-Wing Alliance has a film room if you install the latest update.

Trackmania Nations and TN Forever can record your driving as well. The other games in the series can surely do the same.

IIRC, Test Drive Unlimited replays your last lap(s) -- it should have a "Save replay" feature as well.

ExplodingCabbage

2008-12-23 08:04:47 am

Gish

Ewil

2008-12-23 10:26:48 am

Quote from Thinkshooter:

Star Wars X-Wing Alliance has a film room if you install the latest update.

Trackmania Nations and TN Forever can record your driving as well. The other games in the series can surely do the same.

IIRC, Test Drive Unlimited replays your last lap(s) -- it should have a "Save replay" feature as well.

Then you can count most of the racing games including Need for Speed.

mikwuyma

2008-12-23 10:59:33 am

My feelings on The Demon Rush

This is a cool topic, I'm not sure why no one thought of the idea sooner. I'll sticky this topic if someone is willing to maintain a list in the first post.

djcj

2008-12-23 12:48:29 pm

All games and game mods based on Half-Life.

And isn't there a record function in Halo 3 (I know, it's not PC)?

getter77

2008-12-23 05:41:48 pm

100% runs=great to watch

Quote from mikwuyma:

This is a cool topic, I'm not sure why no one thought of the idea sooner. I'll sticky this topic if someone is willing to maintain a list in the first post.

Heh, here and there now even I can manage some nifty stuff around here even if tangentially! I'm also fine with updating the list as people tell me stuff..just keep me on my toes with posts and PM's folks.

Pendrokar

2008-12-24 04:21:08 pm

Sry getter77 I did it faster! Grin

Looking at engines it is hard to say which games did not remove the demo recording if the engine had one already! Maybe I should just list game engines that have demo recording? Otherwise ppl should confirm which games really have demo recording!
Because some of them have long lists. Like unreal engine which has demo recording capabilities! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games

Ewil

2008-12-25 01:17:55 am

Not every game running on an engine capable of demo recording does actually support it or it doesn't work properly.

The best way would be probably to google it.

Here's a list of games supported in Seismovision demo player:

http://www.seismovision.net/site.php?c=features

getter77

2008-12-25 06:19:35 am

100% runs=great to watch

Quote from Pendrokar:

Sry getter77 I did it faster! Grin

Looking at engines it is hard to say which games did not remove the demo recording if the engine had one already! Maybe I should just list game engines that have demo recording? Otherwise ppl should confirm which games really have demo recording!
Because some of them have long lists. Like unreal engine which has demo recording capabilities! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games

No problem! You've done it much fancier and indepth than I would've. You can check the forum topic in the website where I've at least got them considering it in part, down the line, with one part, as a start...

(I so see the makings of a badass SDA run with this game considering the PC RPG folk here Grin

)

Lag.Com

2008-12-25 10:52:19 am

sda loyalist

I mentioned Descent before; both Descent and Descent 2 have this feature, and they share the same engine (though I can't find a decent name for it... Portal Rendering System?)

I think Descent³ also supports demo recording but it has a vastly different engine called Fusion. It's also a crap game.

djcj

2008-12-27 10:25:12 am

Medal of Honor Allied Assault doesn't have a demo function, even if it's using the Q3 engine.

Pendrokar

2008-12-27 11:01:25 am

Thanks!
I hope people will keep informing!

Ewil

2008-12-28 03:27:37 am

Quote from djcj:

Medal of Honor Allied Assault doesn't have a demo function, even if it's using the Q3 engine.

That's weird. How come Seismovision supports it ?

Sid

2008-12-28 06:29:31 am

Now it's Sui^^

Quote from Ewil:

Quote from djcj:

Medal of Honor Allied Assault doesn't have a demo function, even if it's using the Q3 engine.

That's weird. How come Seismovision supports it ?

Maybe because of this: http://forums.gamespace.net.au/tutorial_enable_console_and_record-t16984.html

Kibbo

Edit history:

Kibbo: 2008-12-28 01:03:18 pm

2008-12-28 11:01:27 am

TIOLET!

I think it would be good if the list covered which games have a good enough demo recorder to be used for runs intended for SDA. A lot of games/game engines have a demo recorder, but some produce demos of such "bad quality" they can't be used for recording SDA content.

Edit: A few examples of games where demo recorder can't be used.

Deus Ex: Various issues, ask dex for a detailed list Wink

All games based on Doom 3 engine: Issues vary from game to game, but common things are graphical glitches such as certain consoles not being rendered etc.