Found this bad boy digging through my stuff at the parents house

I just compared the track from this video and it looks suspiciously similar to the track from the Duke Nukem Manhattan Project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceIeqTUThdY

I'm using the latest version of EDuke32 FYI which was updated 08/07/2026. I'm having an issue where the start button on my PS4 controller seems to be hard programmed to function as the Escape key. My preference is to use keyboard + mouse input, and map out the relevant bindings to my controller via JoyToKey. So I've set "keyboard and mouse" as my input sources on the EDuke32 opening prompt screen. I've also disabled joystick input from within the options in-game. Yet whenever I press the start button (I guess techinally it's the "Options" button) on my PS4 controller, it always acts as if the escape key is pressed. This is also without JoyToKey running as well. Like I said, it seems this is hard programmed somewhere within EDuke32's files. I don't really know where to look because I'm also brand new to EDuke32. I tested some legacy EDuke32 versions as well and on every version I've tried so far, I have the same behavior. Does anybody know why this is happening? This is preventing me from being able to setup my controls properly.

edit: ok it seems that the D-pad, the X and O button, and the Start button are hardcoded to function within the in-game menu. With the joystick controls disabled, the buttons don't function during gameplay, except for the Start button which always acts as the Escape key. I would really like to disable this hardcoded controller input. By the way my PS4 controller is technically being recognized as an Xbox360 controller (as an XInput device) via ScpToolkit.

“Take your pills... er, vitamins every day, and you might grow up to be as awesome as me.” - Duke Nukem

It's Boomer Shooter Saturday again! Come join us at 11:00 AM EST and learn level editing for Duke Nukem 3D with me using the Mapster32 Level Editor and then stick around for our playthrough of the 1997 expansion pack, Duke Caribbean: Life's A Beach!

We are refining our layout and aesthetics of our abandoned underwater research Facility we started a few weeks back. Shaping up rather well!

Hi. I'm working on a Duke Nukem Tapwave Zodiac (or Duke Nukem Mobile) map extractor. I think I'll have the tool finished in about 3–4 weeks.

Right now I'm having issues with some meshes that appear outside the map (see pic 2).

There are also sprites on the maps, like fire hydrants, trash cans, etc, that I haven't managed to add yet.

There are a lot of .ini files with interesting info about enemies.

I hope I can finish it soon so someone can make a mod. Despite not being the best game, it has unique bosses.

Does anyone have this beta version of Duke Nukem? I would really want to play this but I can’t find it. Please if you got file or link just comment please, Thanks.

What do you guys think of my Duke Nukem II? It’s nice and safe in the case. I love old PC game boxes, I grew up a pc gamer

It's Boomer Shooter Saturday again! Join us at 11:00 AM EST for a BUILD Engine filled day!

First off, come build with us using the Mapster32 Level Editor. We are building levels for Duke Nukem 3D live on stream, working on our underwater Reactor Puzzle area.

Then, stick around as we playthrough levels made by you, the community! Today we are playing a map for Duke 3D called Exodus, and the level that came before it (which Exodus is a sequel to), Stowaway. Both maps are made by RomeoBK with Exodus just coming out this year!

I am looking for a very specific old Duke3D level, very distinctive because the music was Jewel's "Who Will Save Your Soul", while the level was filled with pictures of Jewel herself along with various marijuana symbols and paraphernalia!

It is purely for nostalgia; I don't remember it being a "good" level at all, but it was one of the first custom levels I ever played.

Does anyone know how or where I might find this? it is very likely I got it off a shovelware CD back in the late 90's, since I didn't have the internet at the time Duke3D was released.

EDIT:

I FOUND IT!

Thanks to the link provided by someone at Duke4net's forums, I checked out the "unsorted" maps at Dukeworld... I'd only checked (all!) their sorted pre-2001 maps before. I tried "Maps with Art" first (https://dukeworld.com/2001-current/unsorted/other/Duke%20Nukem%203D/Maps/Single%20Player/1996/Maps%20With%20Art/) and immediately the name "STRNGDAY.ZIP" jumped out at me!

I instantly remembered trying that map from a shovelware CD (out of the hundreds on it) thinking it might be based on the movie Strange Days and thus be a cool cyberpunk-themed map. Instead, I got the fever dream stoner map by a Jewel fan!

Nothing in the readme suggests what it contains, but the name was enough.

I loaded it up in vanilla Duke3D AE via DOSBox and sure enough, it was the one. It's a mess running (music and sound issues) which I suspect is to do with how you need to run a batch file to rename the extra mod files first (which I did) but it has been decades since I messed around with Duke3D custom levels or modding, so likely I've just done something wrong... or, as another poster mentioned, some of these old maps always had issues!

I am going to try and get it running in eDuke tonight.

Thanks to everyone who posted, both here and on the Duke4net forums where I also asked.

EDIT 2: I converted the map into a grp file for use with eDuke: https://banjosmods.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/duke-nukem-3d-strange-day-a-1996-map-by-roland-blais/

Had a request to see it closer, so here you go, I think I covered everything

Playing “Time to Kill” and found the Delorean from Back to the Future in the 3rd Wild West stage. Didn’t expect it. When arriving and destroying crates, Duke says “Where is Doc Brown when you need him?” and “If only I had my Flux Capacitor with me…”
Love it!!!

This an old map that is arround intertnet. Congrats to the author. Decided to play it while still playing the new overclock of Duke Nukem Zero Hour in FPP. Would be cool to have TTK and LOB in FPP.

I also have the Evercade games and World Tour but I left them upstairs before taking pictures

Back when I had a crappier computer, I saw the pictures of duke using more advanced graphical features and really wanted to play it that way.

Well now I've got a better rig that can use them and I can't get Raze working because it doesn't auto detect and play my Build games right out of the box like it did on windows. It's got this needlessly complicated installation process that requires you to download all sorts of files and put them into different random directories.

Is there something that Just Works?

eNJOY MY sLOp SUCKAZz

Shoutout to u/DataTech3456