I was playing as Warlock in Dota 2 when I managed to get quite a lot of kills/assists and I think I played good. Thinking that I want to save the replay so I could use it as a reference in the future, I tried to download it.

To my surprise, I can’t download the replay and something like “Error 206″ occurred. I thought this might be a once off thingy so I tried again. But then, it stuck at 10% before the “Error 206″ popped out.

I tried to download again and again and again but to no avail. So I googled the error and turns out there are lots of people are experiencing the same problem as I am. (See the ongoing thread here => http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=47754&page=7)

I also tried to message the developer through the Dota 2 Facebook and it has been almost 24 hours since I last messaged them. No response so far. I don’t know if they are aware of this problem or simply just don’t care. At least they could get something out in their blog. Something like “We are working on the Error 206 problem” would do.

Maybe we’re not making enough noise about this?

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You wouldn’t believe what this guy did to get 31/0/31 in Dota 2!
Check it out=> http://www.chuangcomputer.com/blog/dota2
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Why don’t we do something and let the Dota 2 developer know about this. Maybe you can help me and those who are affected by the Error 206 by sharing the forum link above (in case you missed it, here it is => http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=47754&page=7) in your Facebook account or you can share this post.

I do appreciate the effort Valve did in this great game and let us hope they will continue to do so in the future.

BTW, if they did reply to my message, I’ll get you guys posted.

(Edit December 19, 2012:  A user by the name of Waistless has posted a way to download your replay from dotabuff.com:

I’m surprised its been this long and the issue hasn’t been resolved. I’ve been using the following as a workaround in order to queue up replay downloads in conjunction with a download manager, so I may as well share:

 It is possible to get direct replay links to download through a browser, which you can find using either the dotabuff website, or a packet sniffer.

Note: There is probably a simpler method, but I have no idea how dotabuff gets replays from match IDs, and the web API (which could easily be used to script up downloads for match IDs) is never working.

 For most pub games; you should be able to put the match ID in dotabuff and it will give you a replay link at the top right corner of the match details page. If the download link doesn’t work, the match is probably just unavailable (unrelated to error 206).

 For tournament, private, and pub games where dotabuff cannot find the match ID; you will need to use a packet sniffer. This guide will show my method using Wireshark, an open source packet sniffer.

Get Wireshark and start the program.

In the capture section on the main page, ctrl+select all the interfaces listed and click start.

Enter the following filter:

Code:

http.request.uri contains “/570/”

and hit apply. This should be remembered in the list, so in the future just click the drop down box and select it.

All that screaming text should now be silent, time to start up Dota 2.

Simply open up the match details of which ever replay you wish to download, where it shows the download link. You don’t need to attempt to download the replay.

Alt-Tab back into Wireshark, and it should have found some HEAD packets, which are used by Dota 2 to confirm whether or not a replay exists. The correct packets will show a .dem.bz2 file in the info section.

Select the packet, and in the information section below, click to unravel the Hypertext Transfer protocol section, and you should have a replay link you can double click. The end result should look like this:

 Once you have the replay, extract the .dem.bz2 file (you will need a program like 7-zip or winrar) to:

Code:

Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\replays\

and remove the second number so that the filename is the match id, followed by .dem (i.e 59649229.dem for match id 59649229)

 Hope that helps any other poor soul suffering from error 206.

For more info, check out the forum link.)

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You wouldn’t believe what this guy did to get 31/0/31 in Dota 2!
Check it out=> http://www.chuangcomputer.com/blog/dota2
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