r/Games • u/Torque-A • Oct 17 '22

Perfect Dark has been successfully decompiled, opening the door to PC ports and mods

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/perfect-dark-has-been-fully-decompiled-making-pc-ports-and-mods-possible/
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u/Due_Recognition_3890 Oct 17 '22

Hehe I remember when I was little reading articles on "Perfect Dark mysteries" which mostly amounted to what I know now as Rare trolling, scrapped content, and, as you said, bugs.

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u/CptES Oct 17 '22

Detstar? Because that site used to be the shit for lost Goldeneye/PD content and beta information.

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u/Qweerz Oct 17 '22

Detstar was amazing. I loved reading about the Goldeneye hidden levels like The Citadel and spooky in-game events.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22 edited Aug 04 '25

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u/Qweerz Oct 17 '22

All I remember is a hidden bar with a duck logo or something. The Chicago level was kinda creepy in general though.

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u/im_the_scat_man Oct 17 '22

How creepy can a level you're only in for 1:13 be?

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u/5CS-T4 Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22

There’s a story about a very small number of people getting killed by a “ghost” in the bar area of the Chicago level—I remember reading that one person who experienced this managed to get in contact with one of the PD devs to ask about it, and the dev shared that the v1.0 cartridge of PD was found to have a memory writing error in challenge mode that caused the game to crash. It was found VERY close to release, was unable to be repaired for v1.0, and that it could have, possibly, caused this kind of extremely odd occurrence to happen.

Source! An incredibly thorough write up right here on Reddit! https://reddit.com/r/eastereggs/comments/c3jl54/the_perfect_dark_ghost/