I grew up with goldeneye and perfect dark.
I decided to play the recompiled version of this game on my steam deck.
First of all, this game had some really big environments for n64. It’s surprising how much they fit in these old games.
Secondly, after you finish the main game, there are two bonus missions where you play as another character to see their side of the story.
Modern day these are called “dlc”.
The shooting range portion of the game is either too easy or impossibly difficult. I’ll try with mouse to kind of cheese it.
My understanding is that when you complete the shooting range and combat simulator there is another unlockable mission.
Now that I am typing this I wonder if there is another unlockable level for completing on the hardest difficulty like golden eye.
Anyway, if you have or have not played this game, it’s totally worth playing the recompiled version of the game.
https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark
Works on Linux and Windows perfectly.
If you run it on the steamdeck, you can just download the Linux version, add it to Steam, then manually tell it to run with proton. I didn’t know this was possible until yesterday, but it will not run on steamdeck without proton due to missing dependencies that are included with proton.
Have fun.
Theres 4 bonus missions
Mr Blondes Revenger for finishing on Agent.
Maian SOS for finishing on Special Agent.
WAR! for finishing on Perfect Agent.
Duel for getting at least a bronze on all weapons in firing range.
New difficulty setting called Perfect Dark unlocked by beating all levels on Perfect Agent.
You can cheese some of the firing range by selecting the laptop gun on bronze, turn to the wall behind you (or where ever you want it) and throw it, when it folds up and disappears out of sight but before its thrown pause the game, cancel out of laptop gun, and choose the one your having issues with. Once it starts the laptop gun should then finish throwing and help out.
Loved playing through the game again but on PC
Edit: fixed difficulty name
Perfect Darkness is the cheat that turns the lights off, I think the difficulty is called Perfect Dark.
Looking at the screen now and that is correct
I forgot about that. I’m sure that’s how I completed it as a kid.
Ive been trying to figure out where to get it for a long while. I loved Perfect Dark, but damn did it run so badly on the N64.
https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark
You’re also going to need a ROM, which shouldn’t be too hard to find on the high seas
That sounds encouraging. I’ve been meaning to give it a shot but the backlog is a fickle beast and lives by its own rules.
How’re the Kb/M controls?
Kb+M controls are awesome, especially for diagonal movement that lets you run at a steady 141% speed - it’s also way easier to land your shots while aiming.
That’s good to know, thanks!
I tested it for a bit and am very excited to play the whole thing. My only full playthrough of the game was on a bad laptop on Project64 as a kid, and playing with full M/KB support now feels amazing.
I also got it working with Special K’s HDR feature and it looks great too.
I installed it on my deck when it first became available. There are probably updates for it at this point. Any word on mods?
