Perfect Dark is a conspicuously aged game many years older it seems, than Halo, and somehow even older than the less ambitious but more solid GoldenEye from four years earlier.
But if you were there at the time, if you queued with us atthe game storeand claimed your pre-order, if you remember that summer’s multiplayer bloodbaths at a framerate you never realised was bad, if you can hum the Carrington Institute’s pause music without even thinking - you simply have to get hold of this revival of Perfect Dark, no matter how sadly imperfect it is today. It was a special game, not least because it was GoldenEye’s only real sequel and a fond farewell to a console we loved. Every N64 owner has their own Perfect Dark story – the pre-orders, the lengths they went to get a copy on release day, the expense of the expansion pack, the gunfights with friends, unlocking every last cheat. Every minute of the summer of 2000 was spent locked in four-player deathmatches with friends and conquering that campaign.
It’s an irresistible package for anyone who was playing games at the time it’s the chance to return to a world in which we lived.
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This is Perfect Dark: the same 20-level campaign, the same brilliant sci-fi weapons, the same stirring tunes, and the same massively complete multiplayer mode with split-screen and bots and now full online functions.
This then is Perfect Dark the way it was meant to be played and the way it existed in our heads – smooth, clear, and razor-sharp. The last truly great N64 game was too ambitious for the console to handle, but we loved it despite the creaking tech powering it – and somehow those framerates and smeary textures never registered as a problem. ~ The readme guide to change the crouch key was a little difficult to follow, you need to convert a hex value to decimal and replace the last line in mouseinjector.Of course, the N64 could barely run Perfect Dark the way it was either – even with the RAM booster pack it chugged along at about 20 frames per second and dropped to single figures if anyone dared make anything explode. ~ Maintainer is dead, most likely will be the last version released despite the needed improvements ~ Emulator uses counter-flag 1 to get games to run at 60fps, this breaks some game logic such as the Focus Pill effect and makes all the guns fire at a faster rate ~ GE-MP is unfinished, couldn't get it to work ~ Mouse Injector makes the games too easy ~ Mouse Injector can use a different key for crouch ~ Readme guide was useful and helped troubleshoot my problems ~ Mouse Injector seems clear from viruses, and never connected to the internet Now that I've tried this version I can say this is the best release of 1964 I've used. When I had tried this emulator in 2012, it was lacking a proper readme and the Mouse Injector didn't have the ability to change the crouch key for a ESDF setup.
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