Nintendo 64 · 2000 · Rare · published by Rare / Nintendo · First-person shooter
Statement: Sealed inside a 2000 cartridge and starved of frames. The patient was ambitious and the hardware was not.
Rare's follow-up to GoldenEye 007: Joanna Dark, the Carrington Institute, an alien conspiracy, a full multiplayer suite with bots, and a Nintendo 64 that could barely keep up.
The PC port pushed into a headset: PCVR and standalone Meta Quest, motion-controlled aiming included.
Runs on
Windows (PCVR), Meta Quest (standalone)
Needs
Your own NTSC Final Perfect Dark ROM, renamed to pd.ntsc-final.z64. PCVR: put it in the data folder. Quest: pick it from Downloads with the built-in ROM selector.
The n64decomp reverse-engineering of Perfect Dark, rebuilt as a native modern executable.
Runs on
Windows 7+, Linux, macOS, Nintendo Switch
Needs
Your own Perfect Dark ROM. NTSC Final is the recommended version, placed as pd.ntsc-final.z64 in a data folder next to the executable; PAL and JPN ROMs use separate builds.