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Introduction
Threat is a 2D top-down Alien Breed-inspired shooter from Finland. It features extremely engaging gameplay, unsettling atmospheres, and a terrifying feeling of being in danger. I used to play this game coop with my brother and would be scared out of our minds trying to achieve each of the level's objectives.
In this game, the levels are designed for the maximum (three) number of players. Nevertheless, they all can be solved by even a single player. In this movie, I play all three players simultaneously to finish Episode 1, going for the objectives right away even at the cost of taking damage or skipping monsters when possible.
In terms of strategy, this game has a shop where you can buy a diversity of weapons. These weapons are very useful to attack enemies that hide behind corners or when you need to deal AoE damage. However, I found using the initial Trigun and grenades led to the fastest solutions. The gun deals a lot of DPS and the grenades are useful for reaching enemies/targets beyond walls. So I didn't need to go for the fancier arsenal. It was a lot of fun to do this TAS. I will make movies for EP2 and EP3 in the following weeks, if I have time.
If you are going to play this game, this is the recommended soundtrack:
Finding this game was extremely hard. The shareware versions (1.30, ... 1.45) are findable all over the internet. The only registered version is findable on only-playable sites that do not expose a download button. I had to check into the browser's cache to find the associated .zip file. See the steps below to reproduce this process.
Software + Hardware
Emulator
- EmuHawk 2.11 (Core: DOSBox-X)
ROM
Steps:
- Find one of the sites that allow you to play the registered version this game online
- Go to your browser's cache (e.g., Chrome: %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\<Profile Name>\Cache) and find a recently downloaded file of size 1451972 bytes and SHA1: a5eb6ca4ebc3ec9af0f0a4273492703936a5c5a5
- Rename that file to thread.zip
- Extract the files within the 'Threat' folder into a folder and use this method to create a reproducible .iso file out of them. Do not include the Threat folder. See list of files below
- You should end up with a file like this: threat.iso, SHA1: f4346f9d3a792947131d9f9e1977842570b46c13, 2926592 bytes
List of files
6eb221c000cfba7182e7a8d1d6d830c9490fc192 *1.NMP
c3eb64852e66f8498842568a7c66aa4194833234 *2.NMP
897b9097b6c1874e939d8caac7811323ebc61bee *3.NMP
dcc60e1cfbbacca29cef2fded2c218cb8d758eca *4.NMP
88092f76397374733589e8305cd8b05241eec9f8 *5.NMP
711825fdf1762aead64705eb61d63a5956e3b34d *ALIEN.DAT
a81f207d2d10424e97d81e6e7cd58ed03e68eb09 *ALIEN3.DAT
a56f62699728bbf924629c3ab623f5fc528ecc74 *ALIEN4.DAT
af784c00b51d62e57044140d65e8bddfff7fcf0f *ASTEROI3.DAT
1cf96af782bd808eca4b5144eb9ed46554f20bc8 *BAT1.DAT
3a11b4b7ed5139883396ea595b4962bc4a7efd32 *BATTLE.DAT
b7f2f7ed5a774fa2d5f547707c12529e02fae668 *BEAM.DAT
50b11261b164d7e24f25e9b16b08810915e16a98 *BIGEXPO.DAT
dc07944fb922cab155bb440ca3ae3852c42e36cd *DEFSETUP.DAT
ef88a6a4da694198ab2f6a2be349702c32445cc8 *ENEMIES.DAT
77e1a9e7275baae384c67fcdc72cea09548c8db4 *EPISODES.DAT
cb2e5e864b57cd3986aa8b0db37b93b9aecf50b0 *EXPL.DAT
c70fdf80204143a7549278122b3434f6bae1068b *EXPO2.DAT
f2347935a3486efeb26800178a72964d0a96a54b *FACTORYN.DAT
8ae100553aee2efea57ffed4d2a3dea2ec8cedcc *FASTEST.FIN
c50e45d971ee4e3e7c5e065f3d3b358fe5028ba0 *FEA2.DAT
7cdaac3df4a6a36012ddfd0e375b2aca119c8f7a *FILE_ID.DIZ
0a0e87717b4e376d91ea69d507a847343bdbc052 *FLAME.DAT
08928f02093bd0c727d7d6060e521a4e356868cf *FRAGMEN3.DAT
466f2b7dfffb2dfa1c3db5806cc1245fc04340db *HELL-BBS.ADD
aa8fac5a7190acddc1325971a4a39bf883fe5f13 *HUM1218.DAT
247ca7cf4549c58935ce68ce25e32261d66ab158 *HUUTO.DAT
e8e62122d2538ac857c8d9fe42f3527c9fd97a30 *ICONS.DAT
c79d5c9cc0dba3c3cd683b52cf13034204ed2d96 *INSTALL.BAT
a2438373b9bd0d1af33b12a385b34aaba0dffd3c *INSTCON.DAT
cc9cd0058e446ce51f1b61591a8d8da9086927a7 *LASER.DAT
ff884c45c0b9ed22b228e2a07148510cb02a8455 *LVL1.DAT
06f27e3b307e3d80e717c328af2c8129e7fa9a7e *LVL2.DAT
430de730c2847345a115e910c00d273d04a8a368 *LVL3.DAT
1d5815bd403e70e6e6188b37095f1bd0351c0306 *MARBLE.DAT
d3e5bbf3e1cc417948a057b86e94adff1ce88630 *METAL2.DAT
dd3c47db1eb2a4fdc1f9f9d351c09998999b67bb *MINE.DAT
d4ba111845d47d4fadeb87fdd76a7e69aa56ab63 *MIS.DAT
2ff598d3a5ab9929c854942108d3bf766414bfa5 *MONSTER.DAT
6cb4e19a40ea0932d0b53015d539fe3a5ef582f8 *ORDER.DOC
d61f580ea996d851dc684ae9ee82bb09e62954b8 *ORDERFIN.DOC
ce1ebd09323f13b87ce7b93d7e8ee0c5500b86f5 *PAM1.DAT
f9fcf2788e3cae47bbd02679149abb52c03ec79d *PLANET.DAT
d0d57c1617482dc93ef7552ab33425bd705de232 *PLOTCON.DAT
911a78ba3f701c4e6e68dc90f8553722f45d8dac *REG1.DAT
0709c86bbb55b46d4ae5297c775910f041431026 *REGEXE1.DAT
d254389290969f54bc0cc06dfd743e892cea832a *REGEXE2.DAT
8f90e3c9323e0ef6abe681b98a0ce1a4423e5bbe *REGISTER.EXE
4dcda5950eb089ad33293870cbef277e3bbc0a9d *SETUP.DAT
bc826f7dd87aa6819f2b35b23fd85fc13d21c852 *SETUP.EXE
a554c3ed04ec5af8271fa95838d18ea021875176 *SHI7.DAT
d10c94ee292e0b7f8249066616be41cd37a6b1e1 *SHIP.DAT
b4e2ca18a425367ad52ece1a627753eb43f43ef1 *SHIPGAR.DAT
b9a28dbbff255005941f0c3bd25142b04f64d37b *SINPALOL.DAT
397b4f8c9857511293aad7570cfbc3092220817f *SLIME4.DAT
fe8afc7646cbbe916c521a60e545d48cfc8096da *SPACE2.DAT
84826a501fd3ccb75eb5113ce725ca46359fe728 *STAR.DAT
c8b44f26870352812e8437d61a40d7d76d592c4a *STONE.DAT
eeca8dc5943d94792bd4e93902513daa26f06eb4 *Threat (1995).ba1
8e9ff7a8f401da8235c765c56028bb9a789cc8cc *THREAT.DOC
ce5344813cedb15c65d3a164bb575bb4a268a385 *THREAT.EXE
310cd7fb4b8a11bd1b7eb4aab7da7b971825037e *THREAT1.DAT
3fab632735433bbf2aca28f51cfbe2c54f87fe31 *THREAT2.DAT
59ab26aeadac65e852ef65aae1363666fb494e04 *THREATIN.DOC
32f426af4c472eaf9ae9d46379e2bce4223dea5f *TILES.DAT
486bda582d9743fe2a7ec79f6254c1886afd700d *UNTIL.DAT
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: Here’s one thing I can say about this TAS: if real life were TASable, I think I’d soil my pants and run like a scared sissy when eien86 showed up.
—wakes up—
Dang, what a nightmare. Thank goodness it was just a TAS... a very good TAS!
We have something similar here as the Wolfenstein series, where episodes are individually TASed. So...accepting to Standard as "Episode 1" branch.
fsvgm777: Processing.