Is using midipacks permitted in speedrun demos?

[Kwisior]

I wanted to run some Final Doom maps, but I don't think I'll stay sane without the midipacks. Can I load them with the IWADs without being disqualified?

Edited October 16, 2023 by Kwisior

[Andromeda]

Yeah, it's allowed if the additional wads only add/replace music.

[GarrettChan]

I thought you asked whether Medipack is allowed, and I was like, how does it work lmao

 

Yeah, midipack is allowed, but anything else is not allowed, even just sound effect changes.

[ViolentBeetle]

How would anyone know? MIDIs don't affect demos.

[Andrea Rovenski]

On 10/17/2023 at 4:38 PM, ViolentBeetle said:

How would anyone know? MIDIs don't affect demos.

with dsda-doom, the footer to a demo has the wads used in it. You can use notepad to open a lmp and scroll to the bottom to see this stuff if you want (thats how i do it anyway)

[head_cannon]

I appreciate the answers & clarifications in this thread: I had made some PBs for the main 3 episodes of DTWID, and was considering putting them in the archive, but I'd been using a midipack for practice + attempts and only afterwards did I wonder if loading additional WADs besides the levels would be seen as a suspicious practice that would cause administrative headaches.

 

I know that the stakes are so low when posting PBs to make this next question irrelevant in my case, but in general: Should I mention the midipack WAD I used in the text file, just to preemptively explain the anomaly in the metadata in case anyone was concerned? It's a little awkward in this case since it's not one of the "marquee" releases like the TNT or AV soundtrack replacement, but a custom one instead which wouldn't be recognizable - there's only my word that it replaces midis & not sound-effects.

[Andromeda]

1 hour ago, head_cannon said:

Should I mention the midipack WAD I used in the text file, just to preemptively explain the anomaly in the metadata in case anyone was concerned?

Yep, that's good practice.

 

1 hour ago, head_cannon said:

It's a little awkward in this case since it's not one of the "marquee" releases like the TNT or AV soundtrack replacement, but a custom one instead which wouldn't be recognizable - there's only my word that it replaces midis & not sound-effects.

As long as the wad is available to download somewhere so that the maintainers can verify its content, it should be fine. You can even place a link to the wad in the text file accompanying your demo(s) to make the process easier.

Edited October 25, 2023 by Andromeda