Perfect Dark Zero - Nightclub (Xenia Emulator 60FPS)

[@Graslu00]

I left a short how-to in the description. This way you can enjoy the game as it's meant to be played, with all its music in place and also improve the experience at 60FPS with no input delay. The game plays like a dream on this! Also sorry for the low audio, didn't notice until it was published, that's on me.

[@MINI_91]

The Limelight and Rooftops music are some of the best bangers Rare ever produced.

[@etoru98]

Entonces la música fue echa por Rare ?

[@judevernichter2.0]

@@etoru98 Si,fue el ultimo juego desarrollado por el equipo original.

[@AnnCatsanndra]

"That gun is for your protection. Stay out of sight, Jo." Joanna: *Immediately murders like 8 dudes with a katana the moment she gets off the boat*

[@LordDarkNe0]

best mission in the game, here it was when I started to love reverberation music effect Glad to see that xenia doesn't stop their improvement, amazing

[@parabolee]

Glad to see you spreading the word after I figured out how to fix the music bug. I am running the Platinum Hits version (AKA REV1), which works perfect with the framerate patch (has it's own version) and the music fix. I believe that one comes with all the patches installed too.

[@Graslu00]

Thank you for finding the fix!!! I don't recommend using Platinum Hits though, you want to play the unpatched version ideally. The 2006 patch broke the music scripts in singleplayer so many levels go silent!

[@parabolee]

@@Graslu00 Have tno had that issue at all after making the "dedicated xma" sound change. But I'll keep my ears pealed. Where it that most noticeable so I can test it? Actually, I am not 100% sure it is the Plat Hits version. It's labelled "Rev 1", so I guessed it was. But if it's missing music I'll get the other version! EDIT: Turns out I have spent so many years playing the updated version I had forgotten all the music that was missing! I'm SHOCKED! I wish I knew this sooner! I have been playing the bugged version for over 15 year!!! MIND BLOWN!

[@Emulator_Crossing]

The game walls bump mapping textures in this game always impressed me, some look better even then some new games.

[@armagt5643]

this level is my favorite, the best ambiance, the best music game.

[@alejandrohuerga7736]

I've been waiting for this since the first day!! Thank you!!!!!!!

[@adidas1984x]

Love the music on this stage!!

[@girlcrazyrockstar]

I like the club music

[@noldorwarrior7791]

"Face in Limelight" i think the music is called.

[@Kyo4100]

I got the patch to work. Thanks my friend :)

[@VoidwalkerHunter]

Now I see how many references taken from this game on cyberpunk

[@sanlorenzo7896]

I remember this game. It may not have been the best compared to its N64 predecessor, but it was still entertaining. I’m glad I’m not the only one who liked to mess around the first level with overpowered weapons 😂

[@Gameprojordan]

For 2005 the multiplayer was amazing on the 360. Competing directly with Call of Duty 2

[@killdano]

unfortunatly the reboot seems to take more notes from this than the original

[@Gameprojordan]

Not really. Only Johanna's hair style. Otherwise it doesn't feel like either PD64 or PDZ

[@mrmunkee]

It seems to take notes more from the more modern Deus Ex games than any perfect dark game. Which might not be a bad thing but doesn't seem like perfect dark exactly.

[@pegasusactua2985]

@@mrmunkee I think the new game looks very Perfect Dark. The series has always been very cyberpunk in style and tone and it just seems like a natural progression of what Rare intended but couldn't achieve on an N64 cartridge.

[@VegitoBlackityBlack]

​@@mrmunkee I feel like the new game is what Rare would've wanted PD to be if they had the hardware and resources to make it that way back then.

[@mastermaniac1911]

@@pegasusactua2985 The one good game shown in that showcase.

[@alejandrohuerga7736]

PERFECT DARK IS FOREVER! 🎵Your face is in the limelight... 🎶

[@Xx_Chava_xX]

i knew you wouldn't let me down... Thank uuuuuuuu 😘

[@zerocore_]

Played PDZ so much when the Xbox 360 launched. Infected was my favourite game type. One if the funniest moments I remember was using the alt-fire on the revolver to give the skeleton players a false position on the radar. I had the entire lobby running back and forth on the dessert map. XD Imagine this emulator version got a fov and mouse injector hack. I think it would transform the way this game plays and feels.

[@jamesevans1897]

Using the sword was usually the fastest way too do the stealth on this mission

[@officedullard8722]

Hope for the day Xenia can emulate direct hard-drive saves. I want to play the xbox360 version of 'Condemned: Criminal Origins' again.

[@Gameprojordan]

Ahhh the early 2000s days when we were optimistic about how advanced the near future would be

[@AintPopular]

Thanks for the line

[@BladeZero238]

And now the XBLA Perfect Dark runs nicely on Xenia as well, a patch was recently made so that the graphical glitch doesn't happen for those with NVIDIA GPUs.

[@Graslu00]

Yeah but there are other issues still. No fog, darkness doesn't work, some transparency is broken and light flares go through everything including map geometry.

[@AlphaZeroX96]

Isn't gameplay more important?

[@Nikkel144]

im so hyped fo new perfect dark, what do you think? i really want for them to use same zoom system as in GE/PD/TS

[@tajmahal248]

Great gameplay, love it! When is the next EON video coming?

[@Graslu00]

Hopefully later today

[@JetAviator01]

Is it finally possible to hear the dialogue of Trinity: Infiltration on the spanish dub in this version? Hope to see a future plugin to play this with mouse and keyboard, maybe finally I'd have a fair advantage against dark agent bots lol

[@MxArgent]

Emulating the 360 has to be like wrestling a bear. From what I understand it does some *really interesting* things with virtualization?

[@StillTheVoid]

What are your thoughts on Xbox's remake of Perfect Dark?

[@Graslu00]

We haven't played it yet so can't really say other than I'm looking forward to it.

[@StillTheVoid]

@@Graslu00 im a gaming vet of 35 years and judging by Microsoft's track record of letdowns...id skip it. Another soulless remake. That's all right though, we have our classics to lean on. 😁👽

[@Graslu00]

@@StillTheVoid It's not a remake though, it's a reboot so it's a completely new thing - has nothing to do with the classic other than characters. I'm open to it.

[@StillTheVoid]

@@Graslu00 I'm looking forward in seeing the final project through social media...on PC. But coming from that teaser, it will most likely be a carbon copy of today's immersive sims through the juxtaposition of Rare's feat in game design. One thing I despise about modern gaming...is that its too damn slow! 😠💢 Saving grace; I'm glad Xenia and their rightful game titles are picking up momentum. 😊

[@X2011racer]

​@StillTheVoid The new Perfect Dark looks much faster than Perfect Dark Zero to me at least. Zero was kinda sluggish compared to Halo at the time, which makes me understand why Microsoft threw Perfect Dark out the window for several years, but it happens when you split a company into small teams without warning.

[@007spudman]

Does the FarSight appear in this game? Maybe not in single player due to it being a Mian gun and this is a prequel but does it appear in lets say multiplayer?

[@Graslu00]

No, but you have the Shockwave Rifle which functions similarly with X-Ray alt fire and it can shoot through the world.

[@joshl3467]

Wish i played this back when

[@Seany1616]

anyone else hear the timesplitters future perfect menu music at 2:09 ?

[@BrazileoTotalBrazil]

Super cool, what kind of hardware do you need for 60fps 1080p? Do you thing my aging RX580 will be enough?

[@DoubustuNoSekai]

There is no render_target_patch_d3d12 = In the Canary file It's only render_target_path_d3d12 = Path not patch And setting that to rover makes the game studder like CRAZY

[@Graslu00]

That's a typo on my end, yes it'll stutter for the first time but after the shaders are done compiling (as you play) it'll be smooth.

[@lordasaki]

I'm using the Oct. 13th build of Canary, and a lot of the textures in this mission are seriously bugged. Some of them turn back to normal when you get closer to them, but the caustic textures are especially trippy o_O Is there an older build I should try? Maybe I will just wait to play the real thing. I'm thinking about trading my Rare Replay for the 360 original.

[@Graslu00]

I'll try out the latest version and let you know

[@Graslu00]

I just tested it, it works fine for me. Are you on D3D12? Vulkan is glitchy so you must use D3D12. Also make sure to apply the changes I list in the description, it'll fix a lot of textures.

[@lordasaki]

@@Graslu00 Oh weird, maybe it just needed to be restarted, because I tried it again tonight without changing the config at all, and everything looks much better.

[@nintendians]

the last time i got it to run at 60fps+, i couldn't even get past mission zero (the beginning part) on my pc - it crashes. playing in 60fps+ does make the looking/ads sensitivity much better than the original's frame rate (30fps), but still feel the same but well you know. hopefully the reboot would have a more modern 1st person's looking/ads sensitivity.

[@TheAmazingLSB]

Oh shit, this is awesome....

[@parabolee]

Also, if you have a decent enough system, you can set the resolution to 4K with - draw_resolution_scale_x=2 draw_resolution_scale_y=2

[@Graslu00]

Raising the internal resolution causes flickering in this game so I don't recommend it yet.

[@parabolee]

@@Graslu00 Yes, I found that out after playing for a bit, shame. But it already looks amazing with the upscaling, so no biggie.

[@armagt5643]

we can play the keyboard mouse for this game but the game crashes after a while and I don’t know how to solve this problem ?

[@Graslu00]

@@armagt5643 The keyboard and mouse build is an outdated one, it isn't fully compatible with PDZ.

[@SuperHornetX]

This game NEEDS mousehook.

[@alexanderkhan9097]

Does xenia not support mousehook?

[@Nicolasviillamar]

Podrías traer Perfect Dark Xbla amigo? Te amariaaa

[@Graslu00]

Tengo un longplay de XBLA desde hace tiempo ya

[@Nicolasviillamar]

@@Graslu00 y se puede jugar en emulador? 😱

[@Graslu00]

@@Nicolasviillamar no muy bien no

[@kerolink826]

I get lost on step 2, I don't know which lines of text I need to edit I also no longer have a working xbox360, mine died with red ring so I cannot rip the game. And feels the patch only works for the USA version anyways, I remember playing this on Spanish, so, I believe, I have the PAL (European) Original disk of Perfect Dark Zero

[@Graslu00]

Did you download the patches from step 2? In the patches folder you'll find one for Perfect Dark Zero which you can edit to enable them as instructed. As for the game, you can easily find it in places like the internet archive.

[@kerolink826]

@@Graslu00 I did download the patches, but I get lost in the inmense amount of code it has. I also read USA around, so feels not much worth to work that hard on this. If I cannot, more or less, get the same experience I had back then, doesn't feel worth the effort and risk

[@Graslu00]

No hay riesgo alguno, puedes encontrar la copia americana en archive.org fácilmente. Después el único código que tienes que cambiar para activar el parche es donde pone 60FPS - is_active = true o algo así y listo. Para el resto dentro del toml, pulsa CTRL + B para buscar si tu Windows es Español y pones lo que hay en la descripción por ejemplo "vsync" y lo cambias a false, "framerate" y lo pones a 60, etc... Si no quieres 60FPS, lo único que necesitarás será arreglar el audio y ya y entonces puedes usar la copia española igualmente.

[@kerolink826]

​@@Graslu00 El idioma en que me lo digas da igual. Sigo sin entender donde ves lo fácil. En archive no veo donde conseguirlo. Aunque consiga modificar el parche de nada me va a valer. Recuerdo que el juego tenia voces en castellano, una pena que mi xbox360 esté muerta y no pueda conseguir otra. Porque esta alternativa no me convence.

[@Graslu00]

Si quieres te ayudo mañana por mensajes privados en Discord o Twitter, no veo dónde te atascas, es simplemente darle a buscar en un archivo de texto es lo que digo. Te ayudo a buscar el juego también.

[@BladeZero238]

Has the multiplayer crash been fixed yet?

[@Graslu00]

@@BladeZero238 Backing out of multiplayer to the main menu will still crash but other than that it's fully playable.

[@AxelFranciscoSVplus]

I already completed the Dark Agent difficulty of this game

[@alejandrohuerga7736]

Please! How to config the key binding for playing with the mouse and keyboard!?

[@Graslu00]

Oh you can't do that. Controller only for now.

[@craig86115]

On mission 0 I having a problem seeing objects and textures trough walls, im playing on Xbox series s 🤔

[@Graslu00]

Xenia on the Series S?

[@craig86115]

@@Graslu00 yeah with the dev mode? On that build is not playable yet?

[@Graslu00]

@@craig86115 No clue to be honest. I only played GoldenEye XBLA on it and that had some issues too. Can you change to ROV on Xbox?

[@sebastercats6123]

Here's hoping this level of emulation quality is also possible with AMD GPUs, if not, maybe one day. Us AMD users gotta trive too, not just NVIDIA users just because they're the majority.

[@BryceCzirr-jz7ju]

Should have went with the superior tech, your fault for being cheap.

[@sebastercats6123]

@@BryceCzirr-jz7ju You seriously wanna go that way, huh? Some people would actually rather support AMD due to their generous pricing and willing competion to the "superior" NVIDIA, you know. It's not about being cheap, it'sabout supporting the minority and its causes. Plus, letting NVIDIA becoming greedy is the last thing you want for your wallet.

[@PowertipBrushhead]

Awesome, did anyone test this on steam deck?

[@ibtAxlCast]

I am surprised about how stealth you can be with Sword... I completed this game in Dark Agent and never tried this. Maybe because i dont like plasma weapon, it makes levels very easy

[@wonderteam1337]

Hello from github !

[@JeisonLopez-jh4ri]

Me ha gustado mucho este Gameplay del videojuego perfect dark zero ya que solo está el de Nintendo 64 y no la versión de Xbox 360

[@markus5237]

Wish we got it running this smooth on the series x. Xenia canary doesn't seem to like my nvidia gpu that much 😅

[@Graslu00]

What issue are you running into? I'm on a NVIDIA too

[@newjackgaming88]

hope we get an update for the xenia on the xbox series x and s

[@markus5237]

@@Graslu00 Just some stuttering every time a door opens. My guess is it's just the shaders' caching, so if I play enough, it'll probably fix. Other typical emulator stuff like audio glitches, but I see them on this video too, so that's just xenia.

[@markus5237]

@@Graslu00 On a sidenote, it looks like PD XBLA finally has a patch that fixes the bright glitchy textures for Nvidia GPUs.

[@rabiroden]

I know everybody hated this game when it released but this looks... _deeeecent...?_ ...Maybe?

[@Graslu00]

It's actually the other way around, it was well received at the start and slowly became hated. But I found this is mostly only within the PD community. Game is legit good, just not comparable to the original.

[@Xeranxies]

Aesthetically this game is amazing, very 2000's. I really didn't enjoy this game when it first came out however, it felt like such a downgrade compared to the original. In my opinion, looking back on it, I think it's safe to say this is an okay FPS game but a bad Perfect Dark game.

[@emprrah]

@4:50 bwahahahahahahaha

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

Holy hell you must have one hell of a super computer. I got a 3080 and 32 gigs of ram and nope, even with your instructions... simply not enough to do what achieved in video. Its so stuttery/slow/choppy.

[@Graslu00]

If you use ROV, which you should to avoid some graphical issues, the stutters should disappear after a bit when all the shaders load. I'm on a i9-13900KF and, RTX 4090 and 32GB of RAM as well so that's definitely a factor too, but seeing how it runs at 30-45FPS on the Steam Deck I think it should be fine?

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

@@Graslu00 I found the issue was a mixture of a typo I made in one of the lines in Xenia config, and I was using the wrong patch for the version of PDZ I had. I don't know what revision my Disc is, so I wound up just downloading all of the patches and enabling them all. It now runs pretty good.

[@LuigianoMariano]

Quite ironic that a prequel with better graphics ended up being a downgrade to the original game.

[@StrawberryPidgey]

and yet this still looks better than the new PD coming out :(

[@merccc1]

@@StrawberryPidgey Honestly, we have hardly seen anything yet of the new one. One gadget barely explained and a single gun for example with no details on alternate fire or anything. Probably still too early on for a real view of it. We shall see when it is more fleshed out. No real details yet on much of anything. Hoping, but pessimistic.

[@MAA-sb2nr]

This game is so badly designed that everbody plays it with the same wepon. Its the unique way to beat an almost impossible game

[@Graslu00]

It's definitely possible with other guns but Dark Agent is brutal and you have to abuse the OP weapons. Perfect Agent is perfectly fine with most guns just like the original.

[@MAA-sb2nr]

@@Graslu00 It would be a great live - dark agent but only with guns that are actually in the level

[@Graslu00]

@@MAA-sb2nr I like playing Perfect Agent that way but Dark Agent is a whole other level lol

[@AlienGenotype]

This game is even worse than i remember. Was such a disappointment. And judging by the trailer of the upcoming PD, i'm not too optimistic about that one either, but we'll see when the game finally drops.

[@Graslu00]

I really like it

[@AlienGenotype]

@@Graslu00 i find that strange coming from you, but good at least some people seem to enjoy it. Imo it doesn’t even come close to Goldeneye or Perfect Dark. The movement and everything is just so slow and boring too.

[@SayVandelay]

The new gameplay reveal makes me cautiously fascinated, given how much development trouble the game has reportedly had. I was expecting it to be a dumpster fire, and it still has the chance to be, but we'll see. I just wish that both the new PD and PD:Z didn't just completely discard the world and artstyle that the N64 original built, they feel like they take place in completely different universes and may as well be completely different IPs.

[@Graslu00]

@@AlienGenotype I played it at release in 2005 and enjoyed the co-op and multiplayer A LOT. It's not close to GE or PD, but it's also not the same game - I don't compare them, they play differently while following the same mission formula which is what I love about it. Movement depends on the weapon you carried and you could run with your hands out, you can play it your way with whatever weapon thanks to the loadout system before every level. The only difficulty that I find less fun is Dark Agent like in this video because you really have to abuse the Plasma / Sword combo.

[@AlienGenotype]

@@SayVandelay yeah exactly. Perfect dark needs ufo’s and grey aliens, and british accents.

[@morriganaensland-hill975]

Glad to see you do playthrough videos of PDZ, but… Why couldn't you do Datacore first?

[@Graslu00]

This is a showcase, not a playthrough video. Nightclub is one if not the most memorable level of the game so I thought it'd be a good one.