This is a DHT5 exam file. Its place is in the dht-exams directory.
The DOOM Honorific Titles
Created by Frank Stajano on 1994 05 01
George Bell hereby conquers the title of Doom 2 Speedy Gonzales
Exam file name : d2sg-gib.zip
Title conquered : Doom 2 Speedy Gonzales
Author : George I. Bell (GIB)
Completion date : 1996 02 29
Game and version used : Doom II v. 1.9
Log entry 1/16/96:
CHAL: D2SG GIB George I. Bell 07 09 08 RLR-RRF-RRR
: George Bell <
[email protected]>
Substitutions? : NO
Free interpretation : MAP09 "The Pit" under Par in UV, showing
harmless pain elementals.
System used : 486 DX2/66, 16MB RAM, NO SOUND CARD
Controls used : Mouse+Keyboard
Mouse : Left button - fire
Right button - forward
Keyboard : Z - strafe left
X - backward
C - strafe right
Ctrl - speed mode
Comments: All three of these levels are quite easy once the route was
discovered. So I decided to also beat the best times set by
previous D2SG title holders.
MAP07: Under 1:00 is a fun challenge here. The best SG time I found was
1:38 by JLE, I blew this away with a time of 0:56 (Par 2:00).
This took countless tries coming in just over a minute, including
two runs of exactly 1:00.
MAP09: "The Pit". This is a complex level and finding a fast route
it is the hard part. I resorted to watching Andreas Kren's (AAK)
performance where I discovered the trick for keeping the
chaingunners under wraps while getting the rocket launcher.
After this par was pretty easy, but beating Andreas' time took
many more tries. I finally beat it by 6 seconds, 3:01 (Par 4:30).
MAP08: No way is this level hard. In fact it's probably the easiest
of the three. This is a near flawless run, except that I got
boxed in by the Demon in the final room and lost maybe 7 seconds.
The reason I open the door at the beginning is to divert the
Baron who teleports into the starting area. Otherwise he
often re-enters the Baron/Cyberdemon room and when you hit the
switch the door is already open and closes by the time you
get over to it. Watch this in overhead view to watch the Baron
being diverted (type iddt twice in map mode). This clean a run
is considerably more difficult than it appears; took me dozens
of tries, 0:41 (Par 2:00).
FREE: Level 9, "The Pit", has a lot more monsters in UV, so I figured it
would be a challenge to beat par. You run into many pain
elementals, but they are all completely harmless as they can't
spit lost souls. This lmp shows this anomaly well, I even use
them strategically as "blockers". I did this a half dozen times
under par, and this isn't the cleanest run, but it was the fastest.
Watch me run right into a Baron-Caco sandwich trap, from which I
barely escape alive. The whole last half of the level I'm limping
along, ending with 7% health, 4:08 (Par 4:30)!
Author Unlike many DHT holders, I am not 14 years old! Over 30, in fact.
Info: I have never played this game with sound, I suppose this may
put me at somewhat of a disadvantage.
