DBP06: Vicarious Reality

DBP06: Vicarious Reality
Credits screen
Authors	Doomer Boards community
Port	Limit-removing
IWAD	Doom II
Year	2018
Link	Doomworld/idgames

Vicarious Reality is a six-level mapset for Doom II designed for limit removing source ports, created by various members of the Doomer Boards community, led by Jon Vail (40oz). It is the sixth entry in the ongoing Doomer Boards Projects. Work on the project was carried out during August 2018. It was first released on Doomer Boards on September 1, 2018, and uploaded to the idgames archive on October 6 of the same year. The mapset features a retro virtual reality theme inspired by 1990s WADs such as STRAIN and Hell To Pay. The resources were donated to Doomer Boards by MagicMaha and were originally intended for a standalone project he intended to make that was ultimately abandoned. This project would be the last to feature contributions from 40oz until DBP23 in 2020 as he would take a year-long hiatus from the Doom community following its release.

Content

The mod includes a custom status bar.

Levels

• MAP01: Landing Pad by MagicMaha
• MAP02: Tram Platform by Jon Vail (40oz)
• MAP03: Ketchup Catch Up by Ilya Lazarev (joe-ilya)
• MAP04: Queijao by Glen McColl (glenzinho)
• MAP05: Cosmic Rave by Devon Barnett (Xyzzy)
• MAP06: Circuit Breaker by Big Ol' Billy

Soundtrack

• MAP01: unknown track from E1M9 of DEATH IS JUST THE BEGINNING
• MAP02: remix of "Somebody Pick Up the Gryphone" by Alexander Brandon, from Tyrian
• MAP03: MIDI rendition of "Tomorrow's Another Day" by MxPx
• MAP04: MIDI rendition of "Demon Cleaner" by Kyuss
• MAP05: "Thumper" by L.A. Sieben, from Hell To Pay
• MAP06: unknown track from E1M4 of DEATH IS JUST THE BEGINNING

• Title screen: "Briefing" from Descent
• Intermission screen: MIDI rendition of "Level Complete" by Yuzo Koshiro, from Streets of Rage (sequenced by Bennettman)
• Text screen: MIDI rendition of "The X-Files" by Mark Snow, from The X-Files

Speedrunning

Current records

The DSDA episode records for DBP06: Vicarious Reality are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed run	14:52	oecleus	2023-06-18	DBP6d2all-1452.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on April 9, 2025.

Gallery

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  This screenshot of MAP01 shows both the "start simulation" area and the custom status bar.

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  MAP01: Landing Pad

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  MAP03: Ketchup Catch Up

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  MAP04: Queijao

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  MAP05: Cosmic Rave

Trivia

• A special rule required mappers to place a "begin simulation" area at the start of their map and that the exit should be made using a prefab of a teleporter gate, which is followed by a death exit to ensure that every level is played from a pistol start. These prefabs were retained during the release of the mapset and are located in the unused MAP30.

External links

• DBP06: Vicarious Reality at Doomworld/idgames
• DBP06: Vicarious Reality at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
• Release thread on Doomer Boards
• Release thread on Doomworld forums