The New Definitive Experience | Perfect Dark (PC Port)

[@Estan5412]

Wait. As far as im aware Graslu00 isn't the developer of the pc port 4:41 the github even shows the name of the man behind it lol. As far as im aware Graslu was showcasing the pc port and giving feedback when encountering bugs.

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

Ahh you're right. I must've just assumed in my fervor to make a video about this. I'll amend the description and pin your post. Thanks for the correction!

[@Estan5412]

@@bucketofowlsgaming No prob!

[@britnifer]

Joanna representing all of us who were never meant to be in 1080p.

[@bigboicreme]

Haha brit

[@SwiftSmashGamingZone]

It's unfortunate that this game was overshadowed by Goldeneye so much 🎮

[@Palendrome]

It's not the c-button aim they're using. Perfect Dark and Goldeneye had an option where you could hold both the player one and player 2 controllers, one in each hand with that weird middle handle, and have DUAL ANALOGUE all the way back on N64.

[@PierceArner]

One of the things I remember about the combat simulator is that if you choose the alien body with a human head and crouch, it prevents the auto-seeking rockets from pathing to you correctly and they will just circle around you if you don't move too fast. So, if you do that while standing in the middle of the structure at 30:56, they will circle _JUST_ inside the perimeter of that room, and when they explode, the explosion damage radius doesn't even reach you. So against the highest difficulty sims, you can wait in that room, and they have to open the door or shutters to fire at you. Not only can you shoot them when they do, but those sims prioritize the alternative fire of seeking rockets, so they form a massive swarm of defense around you, so that if they enter the room, they die to a massive chain of explosions and you're left unharmed. This is also how I learned that the game will allow you to shoot the rocket projectiles out of the air as soon as they're fired. It's a tiny detail that will almost never occur, but the fact that it CAN happen is just one of many things that made this game feel awesome back in the day.

[@XeroLimitGaming]

Perfect Dark had an option for a dual analog control scheme for single player that required you to use two N64 controllers. Shit blew my mind when I discovered that and I set up my emulator to map P1 analog to my controllers left stick and P2 analog to my controllers right stick. It isn't flawless, but it made the game feel much more modern.

[@Palendrome]

i grew up NEVER knowing about this as a kid, only learned this passed year

[@erik9817]

Wow I hav to try it out.

[@mastermaniac1911]

"Dude wtf, you're playing with two controllers?" Made 14 year-old me feel like a badass showing that off. Heh.

[@LegionIscariot]

If Microsoft was a competent gaming company it would have had an official pc remaster.

[@zerocore_]

I’ve been playing this on the Steam Deck for weeks. The game holds up so well with the QoL features this PC port brings. To this day few fps games make movement and shooting feel this good. And I imo Perfect Dark has the only camera head-bob that actually feels good.

[@ak2112]

Yeah when I played the Xbox port of GoldenEye recently, I was struck by how good shooting people still felt. That shit holds up.

[@Sylphina1]

God damn, was a long time ago I saw this game. Played it 4 players split-screen on a 9 inch TV when it came out back then >.

[@GarethAUS]

The best of times.

[@MeatSim64]

23 years ago this got released I can't believe it. As you can tell from my name and pfp I am a big fan of this game. Even to this day, the game will never get old for me. I love it so much 🥰 The Simulants was a great addition to the multiplayer and I spent a lot of time playing it. Now I gotta play the XBLA version again. I hope we can play that version as well on the PC someday.

[@David_K_C]

23 years ago, incredible. I was 11 when I was playing Perfect Dark on the N64 in our basement. I spent so many months of my life on the Combat Simulator against the Sims! The challenges were refreshing for the time.

[@sc3ku]

I played heavily with sim types in the combat simulator for years. this game just has so much staying power

[@StefanSochinsky]

Perfect Dark was so much better than Golden Eye. Fight me

[@aleckermit]

Objectively, yes, but everyone wants to be Bond and every little boy loved the movie Goldeneye.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

​​​@@aleckermitNo, some of us wanted to be more like Spock. Or Kal-El. Or other superheroes, like Jesus. I'll take Dark over Bond, any day. At least she never forced herself on a lesbian.

[@vembrace]

Totally agree

[@justaregulargamer1860]

I totally love Goldeneye, however, when I played Perfect Dark on 1964 Emulator with keyboard and mouse it was some of the best gaming I've ever experienced.

[@StefanSochinsky]

@@justaregulargamer1860 I agree; Goldeneye was fun for what it was, but Perfect Dark built and improved on the formula in every way. It's almost beyond any subjective debate.

[@beebop7039]

I played the hell out of this game during my Junior/Senior year of High School. So many memories from 4-p split screen with the boys. 😊

[@js100serch]

How many N64 PC ports do we have so far?. Super Mario 64, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Perfect Dark, and yeah maybe the Turok Trilogy. We are building quite the Nintendo 64 library here. I'm very excited for the Banjo Kazooie PC Port. I want the Render98 graphics 😍

[@ElekiSerket]

Majora's Mask is also making progress very fast

[@desamster]

So cool, although unfortunately as a big F-Zero X fan, I don't ever expect it to see a PC port for being too niche. A modernized version of the track editor and online play would be amazing, especially since Nintendo abandoned the series. Breathes life into the existing games which are still amazing to play.

[@9ner]

would love a shadows of the empire port. perfect companion game with the jedi knight series.

[@tuckerschwinn]

a note for minute 22:45: Perfect Dark was released before the Bean was in Chicago.

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

The bean was always there, they built Chicago around it.

[@SegaMario]

The XBLA Remaster came out 13 years ago in early 2010...man, I feel so old. I remember being hyped for the remaster when it was about to come out as the graphics look amazing and still do for the most part. Fans would *REALLY* love Rare for bringing Rare Replay to PC, as it'll allow for much more potential with things like mods. They could bring on Nightdive Studios to handle it, or at least some of their games they could use enhancements the most, like Banjo-Kazooie and Jet Force Gemini.

[@paulanderson929]

Yes this is correct

[@donaldjdz]

How can you handle how ugly everybody is in the xbox versions?

[@SegaMario]

@@donaldjdz How can you handle opinions?

[@SwiftSmashGamingZone]

It's unfortunate that this game was overshadowed by Goldeneye so much, as I personally found it slightly more enjoyable than the Goldeneye series. This is largely due to the multiplayer feature where you could obtain an auto sentry gun; I found it to be a lot of fun and somewhat OP at times

[@Palendrome]

It is absolutely the spiritual sequel to Goldeneye, and youre right that it is better

[@cikame]

As a kid i used to play both back to back, i can't have one without the other :P.

[@Palendrome]

@@cikame they definitely go together

[@pzych0p4th]

To be honest single player Goldeneye was genius and tons of fun, multiplayer not so much unless you actually had people over to play with. Perfect Dark is in my opinion by far much better in terms of both single player and multiplayer, they added so much more with PD. With that said Goldeneye will always be dear to me as this was my first experience with 3D first person shooter, and back then it was an absolute blast!

[@farmervillager1376]

auto sentry gun is nothing compared to the alien sniper rifle

[@mahkhardy8588]

Modern retro remasters eat your hearts out.

[@khululyp]

Nah Nightdive still reigns as king.

[@PsychoBackflip]

@@khululyp It's not a competition, it's about love for the games. Which is what should always be priority, not money.

[@khululyp]

@@PsychoBackflip I know, but I see so much anger n the gaming community lately and a lot is justified mind you. But I still believe there is still a lot of love in the industry.

[@Draknfyre]

Been playing PD again after seeing this video. It feels so nice running at a high, stable framerate. I've noticed a couple issues, mainly how using the aiming reticle isn't perfectly mapped to the mouse, and some texture flickering/poly seams and colored lines being occasionally visible but it's still a work in progress and it's pretty damned good already. One addition I'd love to see are all the textures run through an AI upscaler. That's produced great results for older games like Quake and Doom. I'd love to see PD's textures get the same treatment.

[@goopah]

Thanks for the review and for the link. Successfully got it up and running with zero issues. Windows 11 with rtx4080. Never played this one before, but I love the old shooters, and this one looks really great!

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

Yooo I wish I could play Perfect Dark for the first time again! Enjoy!

[@SynthLizard8]

It's pretty amazing just how well N64 games age to modern emulation, I've completed all the single-player levels on Perfect Agent and honestly that's where the good challenge is at, still took me a couple of tries to get through some of the later levels (Carrington Institute being the hardest) but man, it's stacks up great.

[@jamesclark2663]

Omg why am I so hyped to try this? I literally don't even play FPSes anymore and haven't been excited about one since I dunno, Halo2 maybe? Def gonna go find this and give it a try. Thanks for the heads up! I never thought I'd get the chance to experience the chaotic bot-filled pvp mode ever again, much less in high def with a great framerate!

[@martynadams754]

Ha! I have just started playing the XBLA version in the Xenia emulator on my Steam Deck OLED - its fantastic!

[@PlayersPurity]

Just like with the Ocarina Of Time PC port, I hope someone will port most of the models from the XBLA version of Perfect Dark into this port, it'd be amazing!

[@husleman]

Sometimes, youtube recommendations hit you with some gems, like this video. I had ZERO clue there was even a PC port for this game. Which is weird because I was thinking about this game lately and thinking how it would be good to play this again. And then days later, this video shows up in my recommendations. I dont even want to think about how google knew that. Anyways, I set all of this up early this morning before going to work and made sure it all ran well and set up the controls and screen size so when I get home from work today, boy oh boy ima play the ever living shit out of this game and christmas is monday too!? AAWW FUCK YEA!!!!!

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

Enjoy dude!

[@PsychoBackflip]

I don't think that is google 😛 I think it's just the incredible universe we live in and it's mystery of syncronicities 🤷‍♂ Speaking of lately: Yesterday I had an insane experience that left me speechless. I was watching a clip of a movie called Ready Player 1 in the livingroom with my dad. (I had never seen it before). There was this hero guy being invited to a meeting with the villian right.. The villian had a helper in his ear, feeding him with things to say in order to fool the hero. When this was going on, I said to my dad: Oh it's another one of these scenarios, where the hero just eats it up foolishly. Then I said: It would have been so much more interesting IF the hero actually saw through the bullshit and called the vilian out for it. To see how that would play out instead, to make it something fresh and different. The literal EXACT SECOND I finished saying it, THAT is what happened in the movie!!! I was like WHAT ?!?! My dad just looked at me with a big wtf smile on his face and we just laughed in disbelief 😂 I have completely lost count of how many times I have come across something right after having given some thought about it, I guess this experience was more about my intuition and timing though. It's sooooo fascinating how our Universe works 🤩 Yet, it's probably just natural when we don't spend time offering resistance in our lives 🤪 Oh yeah: Perfect Dark is the best game ever made and I'm loving every second of getting to FINALLY play this with a mouse and keyboard 🙏💙

[@sweetnumb]

And now it's also been added to the Nintendo Switch and looks just as good, and seems to be an absolutely PERFECT replica of the game except without the frame rate issues and of course it looks just as good as that PC port. I have a usb-to-N64 controller converter (with two N64 inputs, so buy two if you want four people) so I've been using the original N64 controller to play the game and I'm loving it. Though obviously moving around with a mouse and keyboard makes it so much easier to be precise, but also lowers the difficulty because of how easy it is to get headshots that way. It's fun playing the game again as it actually was intended to be played with none of the slowdown (except in the alien ship level when you use the Farsight on some ridiculously far-away targets) and all of the resolution. I'd recently got out my real N64 using the HDMI converter to play on my television, but holy crap how blurry everything is made it even significantly harder. Since often you'd try to shoot at a dude in the distance but you could only see a vague blob of what you were shooting at. It's great that they did this, but the Switch version is just perfect in terms of experiencing the actual game again in all its glory. I remember they totally fucked up the X-Box port of it when that came out, so I'm glad the Switch version stayed true to the original game. The X-Box port "fixed" the N-bombs and tranquilizers, since after you respawned you no longer had any effects from getting N-bombed. I hope they didn't do that for this PC port, since most of the fun with using all N-bombs on the original was just how hilarious it was how bad everyone's screen looked at pretty much all times throwing N-bombs everywhere in multiplayer.

[@cikame]

I've been playing it since the frame rate unlock update and it's so so good, the higher difficulties are still challenging despite mouse control, sometimes i feel like AI behaviour is maybe a bit affected by higher frame rates but it could just be me, even if they are faster at responding it sort of balances the PC advantage. I'm wondering if the HD edition updates can be brought in, it's probably quite a lot of work but it would be cool to see.

[@PsychoBackflip]

Yeah, it's amazing! I just saw a video where someone confirms what you say about the AI being tied to frame rate. So you are spot on! I am having an interesting experience with the aiming in this game, that I didn't feel was present on N64. I wonder if it's something I need to change in settings or something else. I have been playing FPS games on PC since Counter-Strike 1.6 in like 2004 ish. So I know how to handle a mouse and keyboard hehe. Yet I find myself struggling a little with the aiming in this game. Also, the sway thing makes me feel like I am almost on a boat whenever I stand still. I can't remember if the game has this or not, nor if it felt this noticeable. I think or at least hope that this is not the end of the port. As I want this to look as good as it can. If the HD edition you are refering to would make text and thumbnails HD. Then I see this as the next natural step. IF there is some slight mouse delay (without V Sync) I want this fixed too. Ofcourse I'm not just demanding haha. I am absolutely willing to pay for this! Speaking of pay I am going to donate a decent amount of money to whoever made this possible. This is a dream come true! 🥰

[@cikame]

@@PsychoBackflip I don't feel any mouse delay with v-sync off capped at 118fps (to reduce screen tearing). The motion of the ocean effect is in the original and gets worse as Joanna runs making aiming harder, it's probably possible to include an option to remove it, the HD edition did increase text resolution but someone will probably make a mod just for that before someone brings over the graphics upgrades. You may be finding aiming difficult because the actual firing point is slightly to the left or right of the crosshair, i can't remember which, it wasn't as noticeable in N64 resolutions and with the auto aim but it's something that became obvious in emulation. Walk up to a wall with the Falcon 2 and see where the laser dot is in comparison to the crosshair, hopefully that gets adjusted some day also.

[@MohammadDoesIRL]

I love this port! It's the BEST

[@GAZAMAN93X]

If they put this on steam I'd definitely get it.

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

Microsoft can't get it together with the new Perfect Dark, they should release a nice port in the mean time!

[@GAZAMAN93X]

@@bucketofowlsgaming they've been fumbling a lot lately.

[@modermonkula]

The xbla version needs to come to PC with mod support

[@MeatSim64]

For real!

[@LordExor]

The definitive experience would be a PC port of the remaster.

[@lionocyborg6030]

Damn right. That’s how I first played the game and want those better models on PC.

[@PsychoBackflip]

Even with both versions availbable: This and the Remaster with all textures, thumbnails etc in HD. The definitive experience will still be a subjective matter. Because some prefer the remaster and others the OG 😛

[@Motoskichimo1974]

I'm going to assume they used the turok control scheme as the base. As all three turoks on the n64 used c buttons to move and control stick to aim. They even had a button dedicated for swapping between run and walk.

[@Pikmit]

I've spent hours over hours playing that game on the N64. 🙂

[@rcp9ty]

Have you ever played perfect dark source. It was started the same time as GoldenEye source but the project was abandoned.

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

I didn't know there was one! I remember GE:S but it was aaaages ago and pretty rough.

[@mervin0070]

i have tried for weeks to play this without any luck is there a video tutorial for this??

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

There's bound to be! Or maybe someone on Reddit has put together a tutorial.

[@cday131]

the aim assist lessens as you raise the difficulty

[@Jim1Dean]

4k texture mod would be good like these from SM64

[@poppysgtspanky]

The meme bits you throw in when something funny happens is the cherry on top 😂😂😂

[@roflBeck]

Move over, MW3! Seriously though, after hearing about the decompilation, I've been waiting for this! Can't wait to get this going.

[@FooodSandwich]

the Rainbow Road music during the FarSight use, lol

[@KYBlueJedi]

33:03 For reference

[@9ner]

Playing it at 1080p with mouse and keyboard...honestly it's one of the best games ever made. top 10 for me.

[@h8GW]

They definitely need a a blur filter for the textures in the background models & skybox.

[@gnubbolo]

I'm going for Adaptive Fog.

[@DGneoseeker1]

There's a PC port!?

[@nintendoninjanews]

Great PC Port. I'll be enjoying this one

[@ryanwarren2970]

I never knew any of these guns had different modes when I played this in the 90s. I was so stupid.

[@magneticsuccubus6885]

2000

[@Allen2saint]

Did they port the combat simulator as well? Oh they did!!! Honestly, a slightly upgraded combat sim with leaning would probably do it for me as absolute gaming perfection.

[@KSS1992]

Does this look even better than the XBLA port? I remember that that one I think might have some updated textures and character models but this looks so good that possibly it’s even better looking at moments.

[@Scinester]

so next they should make a goldeneye64 PC port

[@bacreeton]

There’s a project for it already. It takes time obviously but there’s loads of N64 titles specifically that are currently being decompiled to create native PC ports for them.

[@psimbyosis8162]

@@bacreeton Really cool. i´m Waiting for Goldeneye, Jet Force Gemini and Star Fox 64 decomp projects.

[@ShiroColdkeyesTheHedgehog]

Why not conker? We cannot forget that

[@Texasmediatv]

Now imagine how it would be with ray tracing

[@ch1mera302]

The XBLA remaster is very well done but was missing allot of the iconic original engine stuff like iconic shiny effect making weapons like the falcon or k7 not look right. Also the lighting was off like you got contrast too high. This on the other hand is perfect dark perfected. Been playing this version for years absolutely amazing work. Also includes goldeneye.... for free.

[@PsychoBackflip]

What do you mean includes GoldenEye ?

[@jackwilliam4436]

Does the port enable manual and quick saves ?

[@eazyrat]

waiting for better hud and mods. any idea on the development on these?

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

I haven't followed it too closely since I made the video - so maybe!

[@ShiroColdkeyesTheHedgehog]

will we get a Conker Live and Reloaded PC port with no cuts and no censors?

[@aryudsoh]

Perhaps if it gets reverse engineered and then somebody ports it. After that they could look into the feasibility of removing the censorship in the game. More than likely the N64 game would be the more likely port of Conker that you could expect anytime soon.

[@grasshopper-ln9us]

I have no idea how to get this running Apparently I'm supposed to modify something in the code l Hopefully someone will just turn this into a full blown rom

[@TheLM281]

Can you finish the entire single player with this port? Tried playing the X360 remaster a few years ago but I wasn't comfortable with any of the controller layouts

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

I haven't gone all the way through myself but from what I've read, yes you can. You can also activate built-in cheats to level select and I poked around in some later ones and it seemed fine!

[@TheLM281]

Thank you so much! I gotta give this a try@@bucketofowlsgaming

[@Shnowz]

You can do this with the xbla port too for even better graphics

[@axelgallardo6959]

will there ever be a PC PORT for Goldeneye ????

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

Probably sooner than you think, check out N64 recompilation, lots of promise in that area!

[@LucioBlackwine]

Imagine this in vr

[@o0junglist0o93]

Is the rom easy to find?

[@brilliantmonarch]

Yup. It's still up at Vimm's.

[@PaulRezaei]

Top tier game

[@christophervalentino6692]

To me this was way better than Goldeneye.

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

Me too! Goldeneye's got that nostalgia vibe that's hard to resist tho

[@erik9817]

If only on Apple Silicon!!!

[@DaveElectric]

You can play it with a mouse and keyboard as well.

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

I need to try that!

[@GarethAUS]

Someone needs to do this for Conkers bad fur day

[@Dinofly4]

The main file got flagged as a Wacatac trojan in virus software for me

[@lordjavathe3rd]

Yeah, I downloaded it anyway and now I'm trying to get rid of it.

[@Atari-Dude]

I'm pretty sure it's just a false positive, I get the virus warning too. But I nor anyone I know in the community has found any evidence of a virus. Not saying it's impossible, but pretty unlikely imo

[@ingGmoPs]

It would be nice if there were a mode that improves the polys just a little

[@RevenantAD]

I kinda wish they did it the edit from the Xbox 360 version because they added a few things including old 007 weapons I miss that game

[@thetombuck]

The original had them available via cheats in single player. The Xbox version added them to multi

[@DrGreenThumbNZL]

I wish someone ported to android, it works pretty good on winlator though

[@bobbywattz3050]

21:25 you're right those body guards are hot 🥵🥵

[@FlynnMcTaggart]

Would it be possible to get this to play on Steam Deck?

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

I'm not sure! I wish I had one to test it T_T

[@mintmag8748]

THe best way to play Perfect Dark is the same as with any FPS game. On the PC

[@icky_thump]

8:43 that actually IS a thing lol

[@NW10S7]

🎉

[@BenoitAdam2]

I wish they port that to Raspberry Pi

[@MrHappyNappy]

No pal support? Only NTSC?

[@deus_nsf]

Get me unfiltered textures (hope the option exists) and I'm IN!

[@grasshopper-ln9us]

We need the timesplitters trilogy on pc...

[@APEXGuerilla]

The blue line at the top when Joanna is typing in the intro IS ANNOYING

[@houragents5490]

A """"""""pee c port""""""""? I didn't know Microsoft put Perfect Dark on pc, and here I am playing it on the Rare Replay.

[@trexmtb4381]

🤔I don't understand how someone can claim to have played the game and not remember anything. I remember more about video games than I do about real-life events,😆lol. In my opinion, they should update the game with modern graphics like ray tracing, HD models and textures, and online play, fix glitches, and modernize the maps now that it's a port of the N64 game. It should be a separate build specifically for online gaming, similar to what they've done with Slippi for Super Smash Bros. Melee, where it automatically finds players based on points, ratings, and skill levels. Hell, Perfect Dark itself has a system that's better than many modern games and should be the basis for finding players.

[@javi994]

There is a version with updated graphics on XBLA

[@ChrisXPZ]

I mean... it's 1080p which looks great of course, but it looks like you're missing a lot of effects. Everything looks completely sterile compared to paraLLEl or real hardware

[@retropwned]

nuyce

[@officedullard8722]

luxor

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

luxor

[@DhinCardoso]

Do you believe I've never owned and played PD? Time to apologize with this PC Port

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

You got overdue homework!

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

It'll be definitive when the XBLA remaster is on pc... Also that Buffalo Bill cut got me hard.

[@PureBloodedwolf]

Laptop gun

[@bucketofowlsgaming]

Laptop gun

[@UltimateEnd0]

Best version is this...Xbox 360 remake is meh and this is yeh!

[@DivergentDroid]

Actually, this version kind of sucks. I have all 3 playable versions on PC, the 1964 GEPD edition, the Port you showcase above and the Xbox360 version played on a modified version of the Xenia emulator. The Xbox 360 version has updated graphics and engine. It's the best.

[@thetombuck]

I like the Rare Replay version, there's some good qol improvements but some of the new models are awful. I much prefer the original models and heads. It's sacrilegious that the new devs erased and replaced the heads of the old devs.

[@Atari-Dude]

@@thetombuckPlus you can't even put an alien head on a human body, because they made it so that you can't interchange male/female heads & bodies. Which, fine. But they never fixed the alien head on a human body, and the ONLY sims I like fighting against are tuxedo wearing aliens. So they literally took away the single most important Perfect Dark feature for me lol. Plus the forced 45% deadzone, sterile art direction/graphics in multiplayer arenas, and lack of proper strafing support or a good southpaw option (which would've been movement with the right stick, and d-pad for strafing and vertical aiming, just like the default 1.1 control scheme from the N64 game)... The XBLA version of PD really sucks and I strongly dislike it.

[@JohnSmith-XYZ]

gave the video a "Dislike" because of the pride flag avatar.

[@dannyd4339]

Wouldn't say definitive. That's the 360 remaster tbh. Now if they could port that to pc. Or at least the assets