Its because the switch doesnt have an expansion pack port 😂

The missing X tracks is by far the greatest offence here, how dare they do this legendary soundtrack dirty like this.

Nintendo released an effective advertisement for the PC port.

Nintendo doesn't understand emulation, it actively resists it.

It's so disappointing to see Nintendo actively hunt ROM sites, meanwhile they're just completely incapable of providing a good alternative. Nintendo, I have zero issue with giving you money for legacy games, but the emulation quality has to at least be on par with what the community has done over the years. Honestly if I'm paying you, it should be better even.

i gasped when i saw the blurring effect, i can not believe that this got a pass

Blurry Effect broken. Dear god, getting shot by a tranq gun is now an absolute death sentence.

It's a shame some of these old games get such poor treatment for modern re-releases. They already get enough flack and disrespect by people online, and this always makes it worse. They simply don't educate themselves on the differences, while blindly claiming it's the original product's issues.

Wow, this DEFINITELY needs a major patch update. It's a good thing we still got the HD remaster on Rare Replay.

So basically good vs shite

Nintendo: *Goes to war with emulation, wiping their own history that they have slim-chances of ever reselling to the public!* Also Nintendo: *Using emulation that's so awful, you're better off using Project 64.*

I left this comment on the stream archive but I'll post it here too: The glitched texture in Villa isn't a new issue. The Texture has an incorrect setting which results in it appearing as garbage data but it usually has different, darker colors compared to what was seen in the stream. There is technically an emulation error happening because it looks different but it was always broken. Even if discovered during playtesting, it's not exactly simple to figure out why it looks different when pretty much every other Level Texture in the game is fine. At best you discover it was a pre-existing issue that got overlooked and would need an editor to fix it, which you don't have and it's not a big enough deal to try to get access to one. More likely though you can't figure out why it looks different from the N64 version and have to just go with it because you already spent too much time trying to solve a seemingly impossible issue. For anyone curious it's an issue with the Texture's Mipmap setting, which makes the Texture smaller when farther away. Most Textures in the game have them with the Level Geometry having an On/Off switch for this feature, usually so Textures without Mipmaps don't try to load any. If that switch is wrong though, then the Texture will appear as corrupted data which is what happened in Villa. Extremely simple fix with the GE/PD Setup Editor if you're doing any modding but that's not exactly an option for the NSO version.

1:14 TDM with only N-Bombs could be a party!

no suprises there lmao, I imagined it would be a lackluster release

24 years later and they still can’t get it right

That N64 dizzy/blur effect made me nauseous when I was a kid. That plus the 15fps was enough lmao. Literally lost all senses when someone slaps you and the camera goes everywhere.

Ah yes, good old-fashioned Nintendo complacency

What's up with NSO games being broken on release? This isn't the first time this has happened.

Remember as the saying goes Emulation can what Nintendon't. Or something like that.

Still baffles me to this day that perfect dark wasn’t delayed for a gamecube release. It would have really help game performance and early cube sales to have an M rated fps. Oh well can’t change the past.

Switch users should, switch, to the N64 version. :)

Jesus Christ that blur and the online. Nintendo what happened to you.

Cool comparsion video. They F'ed it up. Again.

They patched OoT hopefully with enough noise, they'll patch this as well. Let's send them this video.

They really expect us to pay for bullshit emulation when we can just use an emulator on pc.

Legend. I'm so glad people like you exist to reaxmine these ports vs the original art. It really is far more detrimental to gaming than other formats as it's harder to go back and play the original games without the hardware. A lack of concern in representing the game as it was is really upsetting -- especially when it's worse than the original. It takes away some of the magic of the original title for new folks. The bloom lights not being occluded is wild. Honestly, to think that tech on the N64... It's always been one of my favorite games. It set a bar very high back then and, honestly, still today.

Christ, i got halfway through the video shaking my head and it just kept getting worse. Thanks for the in detail exposee here Graslu. It's such a damned shame

There's also a few things missed: 1. Because there's no N64 Controller Pak functionality, you cannot save your Multiplayer unlocks or Challenge Progress. 2. The NSO version uses US ver. 1.0, which has a serious corruption glitch in the Warehouse Multiplayer arena, where simulants crawling through the vents can cause a garbage data overflow and render the game unplayable upon the next boot up. Also, Trent Easton is invisible when watching the Crash Site outro scene from the theater mode. 3. The N64 Controller icon is not supposed to be visible when wide-screen is activated. This doesn't happen in Goldeneye or Jet Force Gemini. Possibly a glitch on the N64 Mature 17+ app that doesn't exist on the regular version of the app. 4. The Xbox Live Arcade version supports up to 12 players online. Nintendo Switch Online only supports 4 players, which lines up with Goldeneye XBLA's online mode. Also, the XBLA version has Xbox Live public matches, while NSO only supports online with friends, which is comparable to Xbox Live private matches.

The minute they announced it, I knew it would be broken on arrival.

I think i like the N64 version better.

Damn it, Nintendo can't do ANY kind of emulation properly?

Wow, you weren't kidding yesterday, were you...?

Nintendo unintentionally made the best promo for PD's PC port. Edit: Idk why, but the broken blurry effect awfully reminds me of using Flashbangs in CS 1.6 and Source.

How the hell did that blur effect get past QA testing? That's absolutely unacceptable. I'm guessing they didn't even test the game at all.

1:13 I got dizzy along with Joanna 😵‍💫🫨

Wow i never truly appreciated the lighting effects in perfect dark until now. Wow what a fumble lol

I liked the better performance (with some exceptions including firing multiple shots) and higher resolution. But i really hope they patch all of these issues. That multiplayer looked like they applied the missing blur effect from the campaign to the entire multiplayer match 😂. I am wondering what emulator they used here or if they used their own in-house version. I was pretty excited for this even with better alternatives out there as not everyone keeps up with the ports and emulation nor wants to set them up / seek out how to. Me personally i just wanted to finally play thru the whole game with the original controller experience to use my N64 Online controller with. I can and have used the controller with emulation before but it gets annoying having to re-assign all of my buttons back and forth between multiple controllers since i dont want to only use the N64 controller at all times, but I think I will heed your advice and try out that PC port finally. I'm curious if the N64 online controller could be used on the PC port but at same time it isnt really a deal breaker either.

Look how they massacred my girl :(

I'm not surprised the multiplayer for this on switch sucks balls, didn't the same thing happen with Goldeneye when they release it on the Switch?

Best fps of all history, modern games should use this game mechanics, this game its perfect, amazing story, coop, carrigton institute, aliens, girls, lots of weapons, you can hold lots of weapon at same time, all weapons with double function, bots with their own personality, best multiplayer ever, challenges, everything on this game

You know emulation is bad whenever if you paid me to play it I wouldn't.

I think I've seen the glitch on emulators with the X song in Carrington Villa not playing, usually pausing and unpausing resumes at, level 1 did this as well

Why is the X track even missing? Is there a reason for that?

I don't even want to think about what would happen if you started an online multiplayer game with all the simulators and full of N-bombs exploding at the same time xD

Do you have a video comparing the original to the PC port?

I never wanted this gem to be put on NSO for these reasons exactly. For new people who want to try this game, just play the Xbox version or get it on a computer or if you have any access to a N64 and a copy of this game. DON'T PLAY NSO VERSION!!

It would have been better if the XBLA version had been ported to the Switch and fixed instead of releasing this broken emulation. I hope PD XBLA and PD Zero release for PC and they are all fixed.

How does the Switch version compare to the Rare Replay version on Xbox?

i'm assuming the 360 and Rare Replay port of Perfect Dark are still the definitive versions?

There's also the ugly UI and text rendering, many emulators get this wrong, text and UI are NOT filtered in PD, even in the original N64 version!

Nah man that blurry effect turns it up a notch 😂

The blur effect gave me a headache 😅

How is the rare compilation version on xbox compared to thoses?

What a masterpiece fps title. Childhood memories right here I was around 8 years old when I first started to play this game so awesome. Now I have it on the xbox one on Rare replay. Favourite game of all time!

I noticed the timer in 2:23 shows a gap in between the : and the 1, but on the emulated version it's not rendered correctly (2:41).

Is there any advantage the NSO version has over the Xbox 360/Rare Replay version even on paper?

i swear that room was upside-down where the elevator is in basement area of the mission DataDyne Defection and also the first area in Extraction

Interesting that the light goes through everything on the first level like that... Playing the Xbox 360 Emulator Xenia, I've been playing Banjo Tooie on there via XBLA version. Sometimes, the lights do the same exact thing on there that happens here in PD.

If I may ask... is there anything different (better or maybe even worse) with the European version of that game?

If this release was good I'd have bought a Switch just to play it. Safe to say Nintendo won't be seeing any of my money whilst it is in this state.

Nintendo Emulation team 🤝4J "Getting Perfect Dark to run correctly anywhere other than the N64 is hard, man"

is it split screen on the switch? with such a tiny screen?

How can RareWare games still be on Nintendo if rare have moved over to Microsoft?

I am seriously having a hard time getting through the dataDyne chapter, I am not the best player but it's ridiculous how bad the delay is and how bad the frame drops are. I hope they at least do this one some justice and fix some of the problems.. but unlikely.

Raphnet USB N64 adapter + raphnetraw input plugin on emulator = Heaven. Fuck NSO.

Aaaaaaand once again I am reminded why I download Nintendo ROMs and emulate them the way I want.

Nintendo trying to get into the emulation business with its own games be like :

Okay I finally got through dataDyne after sitting down tonight and I DID have the X-theme on Villa, I'm assuming they at least fixed that.. all other problems seem to persist.

Wow, I didn't know it was gonna be that bad on the Switch. I was gonna buy a second Switch (OLED) just to play this but thanks to your video it deterred my purchase. I ended up grabbing an Xbox Series X yesterday and a copy of Rare Replay instead. Something I've been wanting to do for awhile now.

So Graslu, how's the new Perfect Dark?

I wish the N64 was in a higher resolution. Antialiasing, slower frame rate, and no RGB display for PAL almost killed it. Then again, the N64 was known to crash when things got hectic with 8 sims in combat multiplayer. Truly, PD was too radical for anything but PC.

Hold up, the pc port in the description is native with PC and does NOT require 1964? 👀 I'm way behind.

At this point, I'm surprised this emulator got the vertex colors right.

Now you know why I don't pay for switch online and just use 1964!

Looks like Nintendo is trying really hard sabotage the legacy of the N64.

Do you know the status of Goldeneye 007 decompilation? The repo has been inactive for almost a year

How can they do it so wrong? It must be on purpose. Dont know if it is legal to use the pc port, why didnt they use it?

It's not on my NSO. I've tried updating it and still no Perfect dark for me :(

Also, the text of the gui looks like as emulated , it doesn't looks very well

Japanese version doesn't have shooting frame drops, I don't know about the other issues it's odd

Lovely work as always. At least somebody does!

Very good work and demonstration.

Is the Switch version the exact same as the Xbox version, or is that one better?

thanks for the heads up.

Damn, they gave perfect dark the rockstar definitive edition treatment.

I was playing yesterday and X track is not missing what the hell are you playing?

The audio comparison at the beginning in my opinion is unfair and misleading. You have to gain match for proper audio comparison. In music production and mastering, it happens all the time you add a plugin or compressor or something that sounds 'better' because it's louder, but until you gain match, you can't objectively compare a before and after with audio. It's not lower audio quality on Switch just because it's quieter. That's just biases in our hearing that prefers louder. I gain matched both and the audio quality is basically the exact same once they are peaking at the same max loudness. It definitely looks like there's some stuff they need to patch up and address on the visuals, but after throwing the audio into a DAW myself, I feel pretty confident the quality is the same. They may just have implemented some additional headroom that makes it sound quieter, but nothing you can't address with the volume on your TV's remote.

Wow this switch port looks awful. That one level with the blur effect literally looks unplayable. So glad emulation scene at least attempts to make things better. Thanks for the upload!

Another Nintendo banger. What an embarrassing company.

I was laughing seeing the broken dizzy screen effect, but the insane input lag and shooting causing the framerate to drop are 100% deal breakers. Garbage port, as usual with Shitendo.

When I was watching ray playing mario party with his friends on the switch alot of lag but when they were playing on emulator no lag and clean, why can nintendo get that right.

and that's why I would rather stick with the XBLA version. way superior

We need conker bad fur day

Me quedé con las ganas de jugar online; sabes cómo se puede jugar online en el Port para PC? Ayuda 🆘

Ive seen better emulation on potato pc's. At this point if anyone wants pd on the go thay should save up for something like an rog or a steam deck. The latter being my preferred way cus of the gyro

As always, doing gods work Graslu

It's not just raw, it's still frozen! That blur effect upset me deeply but the multiplayer footage was actually hilarious with how bad it was.

I laughed when I noticed it was configured to 4:3 instead of 16:9 by default. Like what? Omg that blurry thing!

Welcome to the newest episode of: Huge companies not being able to comprehend how to emulate their own games, pt. 203921501935...

Lower sound quality.... Than the heavily compressed N64 version. How????