I've finally gotten JPC-RR set up and working, and I'm trying on the original Duke Nukem.
So far I've only completed a draft run of level 1, in 26.2s.
I don't know of any glitches in this game that'd be useful for speedrunning, so this'll be pretty straightforward.
Here's an interesting theoretical question. Is the world record for completing Duke Nukem Forever 0 seconds, or infinity seconds?
The world record for completing Duke Nukem Forever is still in progress, but so far it's taken them since 1997.
If you mean completing as in playing... Well, it's true that every completion of the game has taken 0 seconds. It's also true that every completion of it has taken infinite seconds. Hm...
That physically can't be completed. First off, the human body expires after a given time period. Second, this would require the proper hardware to automate eating, sleeping, and excreting waste. Also, the term "forever" has no true beginning and no true ending.
You can't run duke nukem "forever," that's just silly.
Level 2 completed
I encoded this but the PC speaker came in at about +billion decibels, so I need to reencode it so it doesn't cause hearing damage. Maybe after stage three, that'll be much more interesting.
Stage 2 is very very straightforward, there's nothing to do but blast the ice-blocks as fast as possible. Stage 3 has some route choices to be made, so it'll hopefully be more interesting/annoying to TAS.
Stage 3, preliminary
I think a different path during the backtracking for the pink key will be a bit faster, and I wasn't worried about health in this level. I realized that he next level starts out with a lot of damaging enemies, it'd be a good idea to keep maximum health here so I can just run through them in the next level.
Annoyingly, I don't seem to have the right version of the game - it's missing NUKUM.TXT, ORDER.FRM, and VENDOR.DOC, and it has an extra DUKE1.BAT. All of the files are dated 1991/11/01 and were extracted from DN1-ASP.EXE from my official "Duke Nukum - All Three Episodes" floppy. When I actually run it, it says it's version 2.0, the same as what you've got.
The fact that JPC-RR movies require a byte-for-byte match on the hard disk image (and have no option to say "I don't care if it doesn't match, play the movie anyways") would seem to be a bit of an annoyance...
* Quietust, QMT Productions
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The fact that JPC-RR movies require a byte-for-byte match on the hard disk image (and have no option to say "I don't care if it doesn't match, play the movie anyways") would seem to be a bit of an annoyance...
If its movie and not a savestate, you can edit the image ID in initialization section to match what you have (no need to edit that imageinfo stuff, emulator won't read it anyway). I have done this few times, usually with bad results (desync due to wrong "ROM")...
This trick doesn't work with savestates (unless you force emulator to load it as movie file) and you really want to have byte-to-byte identical image when loading one as otherwise all bets are off when emulator blindly patches it with copy-on-write sectors from savestate.
Stage 4, finally
I was busy with work and a gamejam, so I got delayed a lot. I'm not 100% happy with this one, there's a few place I might be able to try a different route and maybe save some frames. I haven't had time to try all of them, yet.
I'm probably going to do some exploratory tasing to see if I can optimize it, just so I can avoid going on to stage 5. Dear god, it's going to take as long as all the previous levels put together.
Stage 5, completed
This one was pretty straightforward with help of a map, just long and tedious.
I got as far as uploading a copy to youtube before I realized that I could optimize the reactor destruction by not running right up to it. I don't think the previous level could benefit from the same optimization, since I can't sit on a ledge and wail on the reactor, I've got to jump and jump.
Stage 6, done
The ice/destroyable blocks were a pain to optimize, but I'm pretty sure I've gotten it now.
ok, so stage 6 is done: There's three levels left. One annoyingly long one (lots of enemies and nasty short jumps), an insanely short one, and the final boss level. I gotta run all over and backtrack and it's a mess.
You're in luck then, as I was already working on encoding it.
I've encoded it onto youtube, with less-than-stellar quality. The sound doesn't kill you anymore, thankfully. 
I'm probably going to do some exploratory tasing to see if I can optimize it, just so I can avoid going on to stage 5. Dear god, it's going to take as long as all the previous levels put together.
