From various weird level designs like being trapped inside of a CD-ROM drive, being able to add music to the game, and other quirks, there’s plenty to discover about the design choices that came early in Duke Nukem Forever’s long and troubled development. Though it cannot be accessed and played easily, there’s also a reddit thread about how to get things working in the build. In the time since the leak, players and online enthusiasts have been digging in and dissecting everything the 2001 build had in it. Proton.Įven so, the leak of the Duke Nukem Forever 2001 build has been considered to be a holy grail of FPS history.
One of the weirder decisions in the Duke Nukem Forever 2001 build is a level in which Duke finds himself trapped inside the CD-ROM of Dr. Duke creator George Broussard and Apogee’s Scott Miller both claimed (albeit begrudgingly in light of one another) that the 2001 build of Duke Nukem Forever was a scattered collection of levels, weapons, and gameplay that were never supposed to see the light of day past E3 2001. It’s by no means a complete and working game. It includes the 2001 build of the game, a few videos and technical tools, and, for some reason, a link to the 4chan thread where original leaker x0r first posted reveals of the build. The files for the Duke Nukem Forever E3 2001 build were made available on. While the leaker that discovered it planned on making it available to players in June, it looks like they decided to move quicker. If you’re not sure about which sound card to choose, select Sound Blaster for each and stick with the default settings.One of the more curious and amusing bits of first-person shooter history and news in the past weeks has been the unearthing of a supposed build of Duke Nukem Forever that was shown at E3 2001. When the installer completes (assuming you have the 12.8 megabytes of required free space), you will be immediately instructed to run the Duke Nukem 3D setup utility by typing SETUP at the command line.įeel free to fiddle to your heart’s content, but be sure to pay special attention to the ‘Sound Setup’ options playing Duke Nukem 3D without listening to Duke dropping one-liners is like eating a bowl of Lucky Charms without the marshmallows.
Run the installer by typing install at the prompt, and press Enter a few times to get the ball rolling.
Navigate to the game installation directory using the cd command if you’ve followed our guide so far, typing cd Duke3D at the prompt should get you to the appropriate directory. Ignore the background window (it’s just a status display) and take a moment to familiarize yourself with your old friend, the DOS command prompt. Boot up DOSBox, and a pair of windows will pop up. Now that you’ve cranked your machine down to Pentium 1 standards, it’s time to start gaming.
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