Perfect Dark thread
probably
This is a record of a twitter thread, originally posted in 2020
will see if I can get any significant distance into this without major technical issues or repetitive stress injury or debilitating motion sickness lmao
I love this game a lot but also oof
also my N64 is physically failing and has locked up multiple times while I'm writing tweets so uhhhh dunno how well this is gonna go lol
rip nintend of 64
Interestingly it does this without changing the console's actual output resolution
as far as I can tell it's rendering the game to a texture and then scaling that onto the actual backbuffer. Meaning, dynamic resolution tricks on a *nintendo 64*
The game has other "render to texture" effects that are pretty mindblowing for an N64
the menu background is a blurred version of whatever you happen to be looking at. It grabs the frame, downsamples, maybe actually blurs(?), and then does the weird/rad N64 ""bilinear"" upsample
The whole UI is incredible honestly
It's supposed to be projected into the player's retinas by that little headset thing that pops out
Check out how the text starts to fade out and then gets refreshed by the projector scanning back over it
her voice actress also doesn't really attempt to do like a sultry femme fatale affectation either
basically Joanna Dark is a middle-aged british mum who happens to be incredibly good at murdering security guards, and that's honestly cooler than Sexy Assassin anyway