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.
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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.
Nintendo 64 emulation with netplay has existed for 20 years.
20 earth years?!? :O
It's always been pretty janky and very very buggy.
These modifications are possible because the game has been decompiled back to modifiable source code. At this point they can add anything to the game with enough dedication.
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.