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The amount of decompiled games has seen a considerable increase during the last 5 years.
A lot of N64 games have been the main focus of such decompilation projects, since the console's many games were originally coded in C/C++.

One of the many projects currently being decompiled from the N64 console is none other than one of Rare's top games for it, Perfect Dark.
The current status of the decompilation project is nearing its completion, with both the NTSC 1.0 and NTSC Final versions of the game currently sitting at 97% completion.

The other versions of the game are not far off, either.
The PAL and Japanese versions are sitting at 96% and 95%, respectively. Even the Beta versions of the game are getting a decompilation as well, with both the NTSC and PAL Betas sitting at 94% and 96%, respectively. With all the work being done, the completion and possibility of a PC port (and other devices) is coming closer and closer to being a near-future reality.

There's a lot more N64 games being decompiled at the moment, with the most recent one being Ocarina of Time, which has been seeing ports to many devices and consoles thanks to the combined effort of the community, with Majora's Mask being another one that's closing up above 70% completion. If you want to take a peek at other decompilation projects currently being worked on, you can visit the N64Decomp community at GitHub, while the Zelda titles decompilations are currently hosted at Zelda Reverse Engineering Team's page.

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[Jayro]

That game desperately needed a pause map.

But pausing the game every 5 seconds to draw your own map was lit back in the day.

Post automatically merged: Oct 12, 2022

With Goldeneye finally coming, maybe someone can use it to inject Perfect Dark's N64 ROM to get it playable in the Nintendo Online.

 

[M7L7NK7]

But pausing the game every 5 seconds to draw your own map was lit back in the day.

Post automatically merged: Oct 12, 2022

With Goldeneye finally coming, maybe someone can use it to inject Perfect Dark's N64 ROM to get it playable in the Nintendo Online.

Doubt it, currently injecting either game has very different issues to the other. If GE's release fixes PD then that could mean PD is planned

 

[M7L7NK7]

From the github:

The ntsc-1.0 and ntsc-final versions are fully decompiled, but a small handful of functions are not yet byte-matching even though they are functionally the same. The status page doesn't show these as 100% because it counts matching functions only.

 

[FAST6191]

I find this quest for 1:1 that seems to be so pervasive in the decompilation of old games world a curious thing. Certainly have it as a goal if you want, or eventual thing, but functionally the same would have been the baseline for me. There might be edge cases with timing* or exceptions (numbers outside normal ranges and associated behaviours) but eh.

*maybe timing issues or delays stack and cause a miss where there would not be but this is getting thin at this point.

 

[Viri]

I think BOTW's decompile is more interesting. Though, it seems like it'll take years for that, maybe half a decade.

Also, where is Ogre Battle 64's decompile. Square pls port it to current gen! It runs like shit on every n64 emulator I've tried.

 

[M7L7NK7]

I think BOTW's decompile is more interesting. Though, it seems like it'll take years for that, maybe half a decade.

Also, where is Ogre Battle 64's decompile. Square pls port it to current gen! It runs like shit on every n64 emulator I've tried.

I can't wait for a Switch release with a stable framerate, goldeneye guns in combat simulator (which is already a patch for the n64 version) and QOL enhancements like more sims in combat simulator

 

[Sk17]

I've been following this closely since it was like 30%. Perfect Dark is a childhood favorite of mine. The art direction for this game is so amazing. We're still a long way to see a PC port, but man. Seeing this game outside of the N64 (and that XBLA version) will be a bless.

Massive thanks to the guy doing this, Ryan.

 

[Viri]

apparently it's 100% now, despite what their website says.

 

[MikaDubbz]

apparently it's 100% now, despite what their website says.

Yeah, just read the news on Nintendolife. I look forward to the ports we'll see, really hoping for a Wii U build again.

 

[Viri]

Yeah, just read the news on Nintendolife. I look forward to the ports we'll see, really hoping for a Wii U build again.

Their article is odd. They say that it's difficult to get the game in the first paragraph, even though you can buy Rare Replay, which includes Perfect Dark for less than 10 dollars.

 

[MikaDubbz]

I wonder if a Wii U port could be optimized so that if you play 2 players that instead of splitscreen one player gets their own screen on the TV and the other gets the screen on the Gamepad. I'm obviously jumping the gun here, but I'm very excited for this decomp haha.

 

[ShadowOne333]

apparently it's 100% now, despite what their website says.

I did read about it yesterday, but I was too busy with some personal issues to post it.
I'll do it right now and post a news entry about it.

 

[flowlapache]

Their article is odd. They say that it's difficult to get the game in the first paragraph, even though you can buy Rare Replay, which includes Perfect Dark for less than 10 dollars.

isn't a trap? rare replay is not on pc, only on xbox360 or next... and i believed there was only perfect dark zero on this compilation!!

 

[godreborn]

isn't a trap? rare replay is not on pc, only on xbox360 or next... and i believed there was only perfect dark zero on this compilation!!

perfect dark is on rare replay, and you get the games as standalone as well, when you buy it for the series x.

Post automatically merged: Oct 17, 2022

btw, perfect dark zero is on there as well.

 

[M7L7NK7]

Zero is trash

 

[flowlapache]

so cool! because it's never gone to pc, i'll have to find a x one at least..thanks

 

[godreborn]

so cool! because it's never gone to pc, i'll have to find a x one at least..thanks

I can't share the builds, if they come elsewhere, because the assets are baked into the game, just like sm64. it should be like sonic mania or the undertale for ds games, but unfortunately, it's not.

Post automatically merged: Oct 17, 2022

nm, I forgot, undertale ds does the same. it should be more like sonic mania or soh, I guess.

 

[Viri]

isn't a trap? rare replay is not on pc, only on xbox360 or next... and i believed there was only perfect dark zero on this compilation!!

Nah, both are on there. You can get a physical copy of Rare Replay for less than 10 dollars on eBay or Amazon. They're even going to add Golden Eye to it next year.

https://rare.fandom.com/wiki/Rare_Replay

 

[wolf-snake]

isn't a trap? rare replay is not on pc, only on xbox360 or next... and i believed there was only perfect dark zero on this compilation!!

Tecnically it is. its on Xcloud which can be played on PC.

 

[godreborn]

Tecnically it is. its on Xcloud which can be played on PC.

I think I checked above, and Perfect Dark is part of rare replay. you can play it as part of the game itself or as standalone which is free if you buy rare replay. I'm not sure if it's digital only or not, but I did buy it that way.