There's actually a neat little feature in the control settings called "Solitaire" that lets you use two controllers at once to control Bond. The first (left) controller stick controls the movement and the left (second) controller stick controls the camera. It's a bit odd and unwieldy, but it's functionally a twin-stick control setup. Rare carried the feature over to Perfect Dark as well.
There's actually a neat little feature in the control settings called "Solitaire" that lets you use two controllers at once to control Bond. The first (left) controller stick controls the movement and the left (second) controller stick controls the camera. It's a bit odd and unwieldy, but it's functionally a twin-stick control setup. Rare carried the feature over to Perfect Dark as well.
Star Wars Episode I Racer also has a twin-controller setup on N64, letting you operate the pod using the analog sticks as throttles, like they did in the movie.
I'm serious. I honestly thought that it would control much worse than I had anticipated. It admittedly is a bit awkward at times, but it didn't feel that bad to me personally.
There's actually a neat little feature in the control settings called "Solitaire" that lets you use two controllers at once to control Bond. The first (left) controller stick controls the movement and the left (second) controller stick controls the camera. It's a bit odd and unwieldy, but it's functionally a twin-stick control setup. Rare carried the feature over to Perfect Dark as well.
There's actually a neat little feature in the control settings called "Solitaire" that lets you use two controllers at once to control Bond. The first (left) controller stick controls the movement and the left (second) controller stick controls the camera. It's a bit odd and unwieldy, but it's functionally a twin-stick control setup. Rare carried the feature over to Perfect Dark as well.
Bear in mind that if you do this you lose Bond's bugged diagonal movement speed i.e. he always moves at normal speed. Many cheat times in the game were designed with the bugged speed in mind.
RPCS3 is my go to emulator these days. After the recent upgrades and improvements it seems to play almost anything I throw at it in 4k and 120 FPS. Just last night I was playing Killzone 2 and man that game holds up well.
Star Wars Episode I Racer also has a twin-controller setup on N64, letting you operate the pod using the analog sticks as throttles, like they did in the movie.
I wish I had known that as a kid, as that was my one gripe I had between the console ports and the arcade version. The arcade cabinets had two bar throttles that would control engine power for each side and I thought that was cool as hell as a kid. Fast forward a couple decades and I'm getting my first zero-turn lawnmower. Imagine my amusement to find they control essentially the same way. When my old lady asked if I was figuring out how to operate it, she looked at me like a monkey doing a math problem when I autistically replied "It's like Pod Racer".
Yes, I know it's old man shit to be approaching a stage in your life where you look forward to and enjoy your lawn care routine. Let me cling to just a shred of childlike whimsy.
One thing where I think Goldeneye out performs Perfect Dark is that the game seems well tailored to the controls. Perfect Dark expects more from you which makes it future proof but still. I'm kind of surprised that there wasnt hardly any Goldeneye clones too
I found this ebay listing and it's interesting to say the least. Now we need to dump the rom what ever is inside of that cartridge. View attachment 9004643 Ebay listing
I’ve always found prototypes very interesting. I posted about Viewpoint 2064 for the N64 before and I actually recently ordered a repro copy from Vintex 64. I heard that they have great repros of N64 and Virtual Boy titles, including prototypes.
As mentioned hand-me-downs are the #1 method. Typically someone's relative (dad, mom, aunt, uncle, etc) worked at a company in some capacity and were given copies or took work home to do testing on, or took it as a trophy from a completed/abandoned project, it's brought down through a generation who has little/no understanding and they get rid of it. Secondarily, you get the lot sales, defunct office space with leftover shit, or abandoned storage units get sold in bulk, and people paw through it and occasionally find something good to flip.
Worth mentioning, that congo bongo cart is actually not necessarily a prototype, it's a sample cartridge, which despite the name are not analogous to TV "screener" tapes, but rather just a cart you throw in a demo unit at a shop like toys r us or CEX or gamestop or walmart or, well, you get it. Overwhelming number of the time it's running the exact same ROM as retail. But there are a few standouts, like Super Mario Bros 2 that has at least 5 known and still on the market carts, of various stages of localization, some still having many doki doki panic elements.
Prototypes are definitely fun to study, it's unfortunate that in the modern age it's mostly overrun with angry japanese who buy games from lots in JP just so westerners don't get them, then sit on them, or how there are groups in the west that will bid to privately collect and only share amongst a small circle. There have been many a story of james bond level heists for arcade board cloning at expos and events, but my favorite being Akka Arrh, where someone posing as a repair tech specializing in "Atari era arcade hardware" showed up to a house call for a private collector, cloned the board while doing repair on another cab while left unattended, and uploaded it publicly later on and now everyone can play it, even if they don't live in the like 5 city radius the cabs got brought out to. Now, whether it's real or not is a whole other spectacle, some say one of the collectors had a grinch moment and uploaded it himself, but we'll never know.
The Akla Arrr episode was great, there are like a handful of old arcade collectors that sit on hardware like that with no intention of releasing the rims. Crazy shit
Another great story is the Crack House Sundance. Shit there are a handful of doozies, Ram Controls, Steve and the Oregon Mafia. If you want autism arcade collectors is a great place because you have very rich, very smart and very angry autistic people involved
The Akla Arrr episode was great, there are like a handful of old arcade collectors that sit on hardware like that with no intention of releasing the rims. Crazy shit
Another great story is the Crack House Sundance. Shit there are a handful of doozies, Ram Controls, Steve and the Oregon Mafia. If you want autism arcade collectors is a great place because you have very rich, very smart and very angry autistic people involved
I'm still waiting for the crazy Junior cabinet rom to he dumped cause I heard that only a few cabinets are in private hands are functional and are working, it's only a matter of time snab one before some jap snob gets it and sits on it.
