Is using midipacks permitted in speedrun demos?

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?

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

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.

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

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)

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.

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.