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Funniest shit on earth

A Tribes 1 client demo — the server’s own packet stream as one player recorded it. The match record below was decoded out of that stream. Anything read off the filename instead is in its own box, and says so.

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Preserved by Tribes 1 JunkYard (twdemos) · listing. Also in the file catalog as Funniest shit on earth.

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This plays the recording with the actual Tribes engine, compiled to WebAssembly — the same playDemo() path the game itself uses. The engine is about 7 MB; it then streams just the game data this recording touches from the archive, as it touches it. Every piece is cached and shared across the site, so a second demo on the same map costs almost nothing. Nothing is fetched until you press play.

Funniest_shit_on_earth.rec

Verified Tribes 1 demo. The engine's own bitstream reader walked all 3,007 server packets, 7,341 recorded inputs to the stream terminator — 100% of the file decoded, no desync.
Map
Ice Ridge (IceRidge)
Server
5150's Competition East Server ATM OC-12
Game version
1.11
Mods loaded
none — stock base only
Recording length
3m 56s
Datablocks pushed
395
Said during the match
257 lines (chat and the server’s own event feed — counted, not republished; they play back inside the recording)
Recorded by
client id 2049 (the player whose machine made this recording)
Server info
5150 Competition East Server ATM OC-12
Admin: TheRedDread
Email: [email redacted]

Blood Eagle 11

Unassigned 3

Contents — 1 file (inside the archive)