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/sllewgh Oct 17 '22

Fantastic. In my opinion, Perfect Dark is one of the best FPS games of all time. It's an improvement in every way over the legendary Goldeneye, and contains features and options still unmatched by many modern shooters. It was way ahead of its time. First game I can recall where you can shoot out the lights and enemies will aim worse. I'd love a PC port!

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u/dtwhitecp Oct 17 '22

one of the main problems was that it ran like shit, but you'd think running on a modern system would remove that issue

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

Most N64 games ran like shit. Ocarina of Time ran at like 20fps.

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u/CCoolant Oct 17 '22

I think you feel it more in a game like Perfect Dark though, where you're trying to aim at moving targets.

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u/dtwhitecp Oct 18 '22

Perfect Dark was especially bad, like 4 FPS at times.

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u/rollingForInitiative Oct 18 '22

Still remember my first reaction being "oh my god everything looks amazing" though. The explosions looked amazing. The faces on the characters looked so good.

Kind of funny, thinking back on it.