Duke Nukem 3D: E1S1 in 11 s (Piece of Cake)

This video is from Duke Nukem 3D (PC shareware version 1.3D). After several hundreds of tries, I managed to get through the stage 1 of episode 1 in 11 seconds (according to the built in timer) with "Piece of Cake" difficulty level. The real time that expired from the beginning of the level to the nuclear bomb explosion was also approx. 11.00 seconds (and approx. 9.76 s to the self-destruct button press).

I've managed to do an almost as good run dozens of times, but the built-in timer always showed 13 seconds, because I was alive at the end of the level instead of squished to death because of the wall glitch. The timer seems to stop after death, so I saved about two seconds when I luckily managed to press the button just before accidentally squishing myself. The next stage (stage 2) started normally with 100 health like I had just died on stage 2.

The accidental wall squish happens actually very often to me at the end of the stage when I do a fast run, and it usually ruins the run annoyingly. This was the first time I managed to press the button before squishing myself to death, and fortunately, this happened in the end of my fastest (or second fastest) run. However, in one of my previous runs, I managed to kick the glass broken but didn't manage to press the button before I accidentally died when 9.64 s had expired. So probably the wall glitch in the end also ruined my would-have-been-fastest run (when counting the real time expired).

This stage can be played through almost one second faster on the difficulty levels "Come Get Some" and "Damn I'm Good". That's because there is then a pig under the exit bridge, which can be used as a stair for getting on the ledge below the bridge, from where you can finally jump on the bridge. You can see the fastest speed-runs on each level with best fitting difficulty levels on the page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmLF52X18F0 . However, I haven't yet seen someone do that kind of fast run with wall squish death at the end. So at the moment, that way has probably been proven faster only when counting the real time, not when looking at the built-in timer... unless there is another way to stop the timer that is unknown to me...

By the way, I also used the wall glitch to get out of the air-conditioning tunnel before it ended.

I ran the game in DOSBox 0.72. I used these settings: core=dynamic, cycles=36000, frameskip=0, sbtype=sb1. I recorded the video with DOSBox and uploaded the original video (which YouTube then recompressed).

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[everlast575]

How do you do the wall glitch? My best time is 13 also but i know i can get it at least to 11 if i know how to do the wall glitch. Please Comment back. Thank Tou.

[Ma5terViking]

On steroids, I just strafe run against the edge of the box where the self-destruct button is and die accidentally. I needs some luck and timing skills to press the button before dying though...

And the common way to do it:

1) Find a corner where this wall glitch is possible (there are very many of them, at some of them the wall glitch happens easier than at some others)

2) Strafe run alongside either wall as fast as possible and hit the corner. Turning slowly at the corner can help sometimes.

[TheTopMostDog]

How. The. Fuck.

[GTASANOOB]

haha this level is done in 9.6 seconds

[sheenkar]

great!

u have other record?

plis post the second boss video of the second episode i am in the first one and wanna see a way to kill de second

[Ma5terViking]

I think the main reason for the high energy usage in AMD processors is that they use 65 nm technology, while Intel uses more advnaced 45 nm technology.

Anyway, I agree with you. Especially with laptops, it's important to have as low power usage as possible to 1) maximize batter life 2) ensure the surface does not get too hot to hold hands on it comfortably 3) lower the space needed for cooling in the machine whose volume is tried to be kept in minimum.

[BloodySword1987]

Maybe it works but it isn't worth it, not only because your old laptop is broken.

AMD-Processors are heater coils:

Laptop with Core 2 Duo 2GHz 35W CPU, same Battery-Capacity and similar energy configuration: 3-4 h

Laptop with AMD processor X2 technology (2 GHz): 1 - 2 h...

So if AMD does not come with energy saving processors, they are supposed to DIE!

[Ma5terViking]

Maybe the build they share is optimized for Intel processors? Maybe I could try to build DosBox so that it will be optimized for AMD processors? But I don't think any free C++ compiler offers better optimization for AMD... Not that it matters much anymore: My old laptop broke down and it seems I'm going to get a new one with Core 2 Duo :)

[BloodySword1987]

Use Intel and you are faster. Core 2 Duo @2x2GHz rocks DSOBOX at all.

[zummone]

I didn't actually consider that lol