Frozen Throne only allows you to watch replays played under the current patch, which is very restricting considering there is a new patch every few months.  So if you want to watch old Dota replays, you have to re-install Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne, then patch to the correct old version in order to watch the replay.  There is an easier way to watch old replays, but you still need to have the old patches and Dota maps available.  First, download Ever-Craft here (original link is missing): http://warcraft.ingame.de/downloads/?file=27187

What is Ever-Craft?  It lets you change between B.net patches without having to re-install Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne each time.  Read more here: http://www.wcreplays.com/scene.php?get=126

Download old Battle.net patches from the Blizzard ftp site here: http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/

The date of each patch is indicated in the ftp list.  Compare with the date created on your replay to figure out which patch you need.  You can also load replays into Ever-Craft and it will tell you which patch version they are for.

Download old Dota maps here (goes back to to version 6.48 from 06/23/2008): http://www.getdota.com/map_archive/map/249/lang/en

If you need older Dota maps, search Google.

Also thanks to this post for more help:

Alright, for those of you getting this run time 53 error read here:

I DL’d the program, trying to view the awesome match up of grubby vs Zacard – http://www.wcreplays.com/replays.php?get=7407&lc=true – but couldn’t get the program to switch to the other version. SO, here’s what I did:

1) use ever craft to back up
2) download patch (blah blah) do all that crap the read me says
3) switch to any version – for some reason it defaults to 1.13 or something – at which point it gives you an error. You EXPECT the program to switch to the version you want, but it just screws it all up.
4) after that, run the stand alone patch by double clicking it – NOT THROUGH EVER CRAFT

Some of these programs and methods are ancient and barely working, but I tested the above method 2/12/2010 and it works!

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