-ddcheat Demos

[JennyGenesis]

Here's an interesting little thing I noticed,

I got the -ddcheat working for AE, I started the game and just wanted to make sure it worked, so I pressed Tab and it worked, but I didn't put Abe back to normal, I simply pressed ESC and quit back to the main menu, the debug menu was still visible in the top left at the main menu, but after leaving it for a while a demo started up, but instead of the demos running as usual, they were running in -ddcheat mode to the point where the game started to move Abe up through platforms and other cool magic tricks you an perform whilst using it.

I find this interesting, because surely somebody would have had to record the demo's in -ddcheat mode for the game to know what it's supposed to be doing.

[StrangerEastwood]

lol that's awesome, little did we know Abe was secretly a wizard.

[Paul]

The demos are just recordings of keys and for how long they're pressed. So in ddcheat mode in a demo this is what you're seeing.

[JennyGenesis]

Yeah but were the recordings for the demos made in -ddcheat mode,

Why would they do that?

[Paul]

There was some button combo on psx to do like triangle and R2 or something..

[Mudokon_Master]

That's weird. I would have thought they'd record actual gameplay, but then again that would use a lot of space.

[JennyGenesis]

And the quality would suffer,

Just look at the AO gameplay clips from the backstory in AE.

[Mudokon_Master]

Yeah, almost like it was recorded with Hypercam O.o

[Jango]

Yeah, almost like it was recorded with Hypercam O.o

They didn't have Hypercam in 1997, did they? o.O

[JennyGenesis]

1997,

I can only assume they had a VCR hooked up to the TV and simply pressed record.

[Crashpunk]

So do the demos go into the files? What file type would they be?