Description
How to play Duke Nukem 3D multiplayer.
So lets get started.
The windows xDuke game port lets you play Duke Nukem 3D on Windows, plus for people on Linux you can try to get it to run on wine.
The xDuke way is recommended by me since it feels smooth and fps is fast and much to the original gameplay.
Another port that is being used also is eDuke32.
There are advantages and disadvantages of each port but I will continue on about xDuke.
http://vision.gel.ulaval.ca/~klein/duke3d/
Download xDuke from the link above or click here to download.
You need the game discs so you can copy the duke3d.grp file to were you extracted xDuke.
The GRP file contains all the data sound, characters. You need at least one version of the GRP file mostly all use Atomic 1.5.
You can also download the shareware GRP file but I would definately use the full version Atomic 1.5 since almost all the duke players use this.
So use 1.5 atomic to avoid compatibility problems when launching your game.
Controls can be set up inside the game menu.
Then all you need to find players to play and join games is YANG and Dukesterx.
YANG is recommended by me for numerous reasons and now many people are beginning to use YANG there is also Dukesterx though on Dukesterx looks as if it's becomming a bit dead latley and unupdated.
Visit http://ny.duke4.net << New YANG v0.47j ALPHA is out.
YANG will have new version releases and it will be kept updated with new features.
However we havn't seen any updates to Dukesterx for a long time except bug fixes.
YANG screenshots
Screenshots
Dukesterx went down on March 1st 2009 but it's now back up with a new version 1.6.x and older versions won't work.
Due to Lycos stopping some of their services in Europe and the credit crunch I would say.
Read below for more info on Dukesterx and YANG.
Create game rooms using many of the Duke ports to play Duke and seems like Shadow Warrior also.
YANG is very easy to set it up and supports Eduke32, JFDuke3D, Icculus.org/duke3d, JFShadowWarrior, Rancidmeat, xDuke and it also support Dos Duke requires Dosbox.
To find games online to play people using xDuke download YANG!
YANG can run natively on Windows, Linux, and probably other platforms like Mac OS X and FreeBSD.
YANG should automatically tell you if there is a problem with one of your ports not being forwarded.
Dukesterx though it's harder to set up
DukesterX-Full.zip
The 2 following ports should be open on your router as below
8501 (Yang) and 23513 (duke nukem). And should not be closed.
Click on the 2 links below to check your port status
https://www.grc.com/x/portprobe=8501
https://www.grc.com/x/portprobe=23513
For example host your game room on port 8501 then check if port says open on links above.
Your game port 23513 is a UDP port and 8501 is TCP. 23513 might say stealth so you won't really know if it's open untill you try to connect to someone on xDuke etc.
You can also check look for rooms on startup.
Change your crosshairs as the DEFAULT yellow one is boring
I still use my favorite crosshair FDF~c-eAGLE used to use.
And have allways njoyed it over the default one.
You can download it here.
Just extract the file in your xDuke installation folder.
More crosshairs are available here.
You may need to configure your firewall to forward some ports.
My joystick doesn't work?
Try the Hybrid exe as it has joystick support.
Just put it in your xDuke folder.
You might have to rename the exe to duke3d_w32.exe to avoid problems.
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| TOOL NAME | Description | Download |
| xDuke Game Protector v0.3 By Mack and Replica |
This was a project I worked on that mostly only protects you from coop K-View hacks and not much else yet. Feel free to try it. |
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| xDuke Demo Loader (Beta) by Poda | The xDuke Demo Loader makes watching demos easy. Just double-click and you're off. This will work on 1.5 DOS demos, 1.3D xDuke demos, and 1.5 xDuke demos. It assumes you have both the standard 1.3D grp and the standard 1.5 grp. | |
| xDuke 19.7.1 Demo Recorder v1.0 Beta 2 by Replica | This records your game in xDuke 19.7.1. made by me! | |
| Demo Checker | Checks if a demo is for DOS Duke3D 1.3D, DOS Duke3D 1.5, or xDuke. | |
| Camera Remover | This tool can remove cameras on any of your maps you play. Now you can play demos back on your own maps that you recorded without these annoying zoom out camera views just like the No-Cam maps can. |
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| Echo effects remover | This will remove all the echos from a specified map. This is useful for avoiding crashing bugs on certain sound cards in stages like L.A. Rumble and Red Light District. It basically replaces the music effectors with a lotag >= 1000 with a blank sprite this problem was only in the dos version of Duke. |
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| eDuke32 snapshot 20090313 Demo Recorder v1.0 By Replica | Released early as not much time on my hands to work on it. Njoy!! | |
Duke videos made
Above video
Part 2 of 3 Heniek Vs. Replica Duke Nukem 3D Atomic 1.5 xDuke Karnage3 Dukematch fun game played on Yang network
Above video recorded using an old dos demo
00000816: Richthofen vs. c-eAGLE, 14.06.2000, E3L4 (76:35, Richthofen won)
One of the demos played in Richthofens homemap, he won of course :)
Reduced to 10 min.
Above video is
Zookem vs Mako Part 1 of 3
Above video is
Zookem vs Mako Part 2 of 3
Above video is
Zookem vs Mako Part 3 of 3
Above video is
Mako vs Unknown 2 Part 1 of 2
Above video is
Mako vs Unknown 2 Part 2 of 2
Above video is
Mako vs. Un_named demo 1 out of 2
Above video is
Mako vs. Un_named demo 2 out of 2