An unofficial PC port of Nintendo 64's Perfect Dark is available for download, featuring mouselook, widescreen, FOV & 60fps support
An unofficial PC port of Nintendo 64's Perfect Dark is available for download, featuring mouselook, widescreen, FOV & 60fps support
Today, we are happy to report that there is an unofficial PC port of Perfect Dark that you can go ahead and download.
You need an original ROM file, and this here, according to the article.
Perfect Dark with dual analog controls is something I've wanted to exist and now it does! No Mac support though, gonna have to maybe take another look at clearing things out to make room for boot camp.
Both perfect dark and goldeneye had dual analog support on the N64, though only in single player. Was my first experience with dual analog and all my friends thought I was nuts holding two controllers. Then the Ps2 came out w dual stick and we never looked back.
Not sure about Perfect Dark (never played it), but Goldeneye had the control mode where you hold the left and center grips which was quite similar to dual analog. Of course, that was moving with the d-pad instead of moving with an analog stick, so not quite as smooth on the movement front, but it was definitely a step up from the default control scheme while not being quite as unwieldy as using two separate controllers.
Holy freakin moley I never knew this, that means I might be able to give it a shot on my mac sometime even without this new port. For anyone else as unfortunate as me that's gaming on an old mac, I found the tutorial for how to set this up by Eggyhead.
There was actually an Xbox 360 port. It's very hard to find as it was only on Live Arcade and it's since been delisted (afaik), but it had updated graphics and native dual analog support. I managed to find a ROM and run it on an X360 emulator a year or so back but have no idea where my files ended up.
Grab this now before a takedown occurs
If you need an official ROM then it probably won't be taken down. Much like the ocarina of time and Mario 64 decompilation projects.
Tell that to rockstar and the REVC and RE3 team
Yeah it's a decompile as well. But also, perfect dark is Microsoft's IP now.
That's awesome news. I love these old games getting pc ports and quality of life features.
nice, I didn't even hear someone was doing a de-compilation of this.
Does it, or will it later, have online multiplayer?
It's not my project - I just stumbled upon the repository and figured I'd post a link here - but from what I have seen so far it seems to be a faithful re-implementation so far, so no online MP. I checked the open enhancement requests, and found none. Maybe open one to ask whether they're considering it?
How would they even retrofit that...? Maybe it could do splitscreen through something like Steam Play Together, at least.
Looking at their GitHub page, I'm gonna say no. You need the ROM file of the original game, so while it looks like they're doing some things like key bindings and increased frame rates, I'd be shocked if they went so far as to implement something as complex as online multiplayer.
They need the rom to dump the assets. They can’t legally redistribute those.
My favorite game of all time. I can’t wait to try this out.
The laptop gun is one of the all time greats
If anyone has this running on Steamdeck, lemme know.
I just tried this out a little bit ago. I couldn't get the Linux version working but I downloaded the windows version, added it to steam, set the proton version to the newest one (.8 I think? it had an 8 in it) and it worked pretty well
haven't tried changing any settings but beat the first mission without any issues 👍
edit:
actually, check out the steps in the last comment here https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark/issues/83