Demos

Tribes was recorded. A player could hit record and the client would keep every packet the server sent it — the whole match, playable back inside the game. These are those recordings: ladder matches, scrims and pickups from the game’s competitive years, preserved by groov’s Tribes 1 JunkYard.

Every one of them is opened and decoded here, not just filed. A port of the engine’s own bitstream reader walks each recording and pulls out what the server actually sent: the map, the server, the rosters, the mod it was running and how the match ended. A file is called a demo only if that parse succeeds. What people typed to each other is counted but not republished: the chat is still in the recording, and plays back with it.

They are also just files. The original ZIP and RAR archives, exactly as posted, are listed under Recorded matches — the same recordings, sortable by name, date or size and there to download.

That check is also what this collection is filtered by. Of the archives mirrored from the JunkYard, 447 held no Tribes 1 recording at all (304 are Tribes 2 demos, misfiled among the Tribes 1 ones) and 78 were the same match posted again under another name, matched on the checksum of the recording itself — they were examined, and are not kept here.

Every demo 1–400 of 2,010