DF Retro EX: Doom 64 - Remaking an N64 Classic For PS4, Xbox One, Switch + PC! 

John when he was 5 years old playing Doom 64: "Mom the frame rate is a solid 30FPS and the frame pacing is good"

This remaster is Fantastic. They need to remaster more 64 titles.

Doom 64 is now one of my all time favourite games.

Remake is also BRIGHTER, which is a blessing. The game was way too dark.

The Kex Engine is like a gift from God, it's so brilliant when you think about it because it can be used to remaster virtually any game out there that's been reverse-engineered or has available source code. I imagine if an open source alternative to it ever came about or Nightdive is ever able to expand their reach that far we'd be seeing a Helluvalotta DOS and early Windows games that were known to bugger-out on new versions of Windows become playable like brand new. They deserve the highest regards for the work they do which is why I bought Doom 64 twice for both my Switch and PC.

Never had an N64, so I just recently played this game for the first time and I love it!

I'm glad this game is starting to get so much love!

This is an amazing remaster, I can't believe it's only 5 bucks.

Dang that custom texture filtering looks great, usually there's lots of shimmering without mipmaps!

Man, watching these videos really brings home just how much of a technical marvel the Nintendo 64 was back in the 90's, and I'm hoping beyond hope we get some kind of N64 Classic or N64 games added to the NSO service. And of course, kudos to the developers that gave us all these experiences back then.

Wow, I had no idea Doom 64 was so advanced. Great video.

I never played this back in the day but it’s one of my favourite Doom games now. I literally just collected the third special rune for the Unmaker when the notification for this video came in. I’m actually on my 6th play through (two of which on my N64). I love how the levels are more puzzle-y and make you think more. I’ve still not actually loaded up Doom Eternal!

All these retro shooters on Switch... I'm praying for Duke 3D

Just finished Doom64 a few days ago. I think it has become my favorite out of the classic Doom games.

I personally prefer no filtering and the 60 FPS new viewmodel animations of Absolution. Of course, I will still purchase it, at minimum to support this wonderful attention to detail and technical investigation of the N64. But I think Absolution's changes are faithful and objectively improve the experience. Edit: Thankfully, the new version supports disabling filtering!

I'm so happy with this new conversion. Nightdive studios has reached legendary status \m/

I was soo sad when I finished this game. Such a fun, amazing and kinda haunting experience !

Doom 64 was a masterpiece

I would like to see Night Dive reverse engineer and remaster Turok 3 and the PC ports of the original Resident Evil 1,2 & 3

This video got me off the fence with picking this up. So great to hear about a team putting such love and effort into restoring old games, rather than the usual slap dash emulation jobs. You earned my £3.99. Thanks John for shining a light on their work in your usual awesome way.

Gonna grab this on my Switch, loved the originals! Another great video guys...as always. Cheers

Beat Doom, Doom 3, and Doom 2016. Currently playing Doom 2. I really hope they bring the Quake games to Xbox. Quake 3 Arena is my 2nd favorite shooter of all time, and I have literally spent over a thousand hours playing it on my PC. Also, where the heck are the Unreal games?!

Jaguar! Alien versus Predator on the Jaguar is still my favorite AVP game. I wish that John would do a retro deep dive on Alien versus Predator for the Jaguar

Great video! Thanks for reaching out to the Nightdive videos and getting this port documented.

Favorite doom game. I love the over the top new dooms, but this game is just doom how I remember it

I`d love a psx doom remaster, the sound effects and music were really eerie.

Played a hell out of both Dooms for PS1 back in the days and the 3DO Doom before it. Bought a PS1 connection cable to play co-op and deathmatch with my friend. Huge thanks for the developers to let me play some more Doom and for DF for the review. Glad to hear the developers work on Shadow Man remake. Even on PlayStation it was one of the best game of the generation for me because of atmosphere and level design.

Hope they remaster next Shadows of the empire 4k 60fps and modern controls please

DF vids are the only thing I base my schedule off of during quarantine.

I've been waiting for this! In my opinion, Doom 64 is *the* best classic style Doom game. It is so freaking good. It has many of the new enemies Doom 2 introduced, plus way better level design. And having just recently replayed Doom 1, 2, and 64-that opinion was only reinforced.

I simply love df retro! Thank you for helping us mantaining sanity in these difficult times

I missed it on the N64 back then and now I'm happy to play it on Xbox today! one of the best Doom ever and a great remaster!

Man... I wish I was able to be part of the team. I used to be a Modder back in the 90's for Doom and Duke3D. I used to study its engine like it was a bible. It's good to hear these devs talk about the hurdles because it reminds me of the days I was into it. Also, only gansta codes in assembly.

and Doom 64 is actually the real third part of the Doom series ;-)

I finally beat this game a few days ago, Unmaker and all! Bless you for this.

The ONLY thing that would make this release better is seeing it on GOG.

That sound when you pick up a key.... omg the memories,playing doom when I was 16 at my parents house

Doom 64 on Xbox One S reach native 1440p 🤤

And people got mad when MS advertised the XB1s as higher resolution than the ps4. Turns out they were just talking about n64 ports the whole time. 😋 All joking aside 1440p on the XB1s is still pretty cool even if it's an old game.

Played it for the first time on the Switch. A fantastic game! One of the best Doom games for sure.

I really looking forward to see Quake 2 on actual consoles 😇

This along with their Turok conversions are great works. I'm curious to see what games Night Dive tackle next! Love to the team also.

Aubrey Hodges soundtracks on PS1 and N64 were god teir!

Not a remake... a remaster. Why are people always getting the two terms mixed up?

I love how the N64 version was so dark that the darkest settings in the remaster is still brighter.

The PC port is pretty much perfect I'm loving it, I haven't even played Doom Eternal yet

I love this release. Doom 64 is one of my favorite games on a platform I otherwise strongly dislike. Given that this version is available now, I have packed up my N64 and stored it in its box in the closet, not needing it now that I can play a superior version of Doom 64, and do so with modern dual analog stick controls. Now, I cross my fingers that Limited Run Games or another outlet can get the rights to produce a physical version, especially on Switch. Doom 64 is totally worth it.

Still got my NTSC Nintendo 64 and ten games all boxed with original bags doom 64 being one of them,truly awesome game.

Such an excellent port and very interesting bro hear how the game was made for each platform. Especially how the Xbone S can do 1440p and having Mouse & Keyboard support.

As always, John and Digital Foundry always put up quality content that’s great to listen to. John is one of the best at doing professional interviews, and always comes prepared. Whenever Richard comes through in certain videos, it’s crazy to think he was writing reviews back in the late 80s for gaming publications, and he’s still as passionate about it now as he was then. As for Doom 64, even though I never had an N64, some of my best friends did, and this game, despite having a good PC, a Saturn, and PS-One, Doom 64 always impressed me. The sprites held up incredibly well, and they have me wondering if only a handful of them are pre-rendered, given that the original 1993 Doom relied on claymation for almost all of the enemies. The Baron of Hell in Doom 64 looks very similar to the original Doom claymation model, but it’s rendered in a higher resolution, with sprite filtering. The N64 Baron of Hell looks like it also has all of the animation that was missing from the other early Doom 1-2 console ports, some of which only had his front facing sprite animations. The way each sprite integrates well with the 3D environment, from the lighting, to the textures, makes Doom 64 one of my favorite Doom games ever made. Based on the official Doom titles, for me, it’s Doom 1, Doom 2, Doom 64, Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, then Doom 3.

Doom, Wolfentein, Heritic, Descent.... such an amazing time for gaming when these came out. I never knew Doom64 was such a classic

Man I love this game. Overall my favorite Doom game and this remaster is perfect. Thank you Nightdive for bringing this thing to life. I've been having a blast with the PC and Switch versions.

Gyro aiming on Nintendo Switch is fantastically implemented.

Icing on the cake Is the fact that it's $5 on all platforms.

Truly the best Doom sequel of all times. Doom3 is an enjoyable horror game, the new Dooms are twichy modern-retro shooters. But Doom64 really manages to get the foreboding atmosphere right without excessively slowing down the gameplay. A masterpiece, still today.

It's always great to see hidden gems that many people missed out on come back completely revamped. I enjoyed the hell out of it on the N64 back in the day plus the EX port on PC. This version is a dream come true.

Great interviews! Glad to see the best Doom game getting love again! :)

Family friendly Nintendo having an exclusive high quality DOOM game back in the 64 days.

Amazing work, guys. I had never played Doom 64 until this port and it’s now my favorite classic Doom game ever. I enjoyed it and held my attention more than any version/port of Doom 1 and/or 2 before it. Now call up Konami and remaster Mystical Ninja 64 Starring Goemon I implore you!

Please support Nightdive and also get the Turok 1 and 2 remasters if you haven't already guys. They also also excellent conversions. Quite a bit more pricey than Doom 64 here, but still worth the dough IMO.

Wow, I had no idea just how advanced the Doom 64 engine is compared to the first two games. It really is the true Doom 3! Always a treat to hear from the developers, they've got a real passion for old shooters it seems like. Might just have to check out the Turok PC ports now.

Great to see the technical achievements at Nightdive get the spotlight! I’d love to see a similar video comparing System Shock Enhanced Edition, original System Shock on floppies, and the latest build of the new remake.

I saw Nightdive just bought the rights to Powerslave / Exhumed which I'm really excited about. BloodGDX 1.8 runs it beautifully, it's great.

This is indeed a great port and tons of fun, I do however wish that I could skip the intro logo movies since it takes so long when I just want to play some Doom64, So devs if you happen to read this, please patch in a skip logo button.

Awesome! The preservation of the 3 point bilinear filtering!

The N64 was such a beast at the time.

Holy hell, ive been dreaming of playing this game for years. Never thought id have a chance to experienceit in 4k lol. Is it wierd that im almost more excited to play Doom 64 than Eternal?

I wish this version would receive some more new levels, like for instance the Absolution levels seen in one of the PC conversions.

The impact of weapons in this remaster is really good, got a lot of fun during my run.

It ran NUTS! and the framerate was steady. Utter madness!

I hope they will release an official port of Exhumed / Powerslave on PC and console (a port of both consoles and PC ones would be even better).

Such a labour of love from those teams I do hope they were well rewarded for their efforts, the love they poured into the conversion is obvious, and coming from an old skool gamer that grew up on DOOM, Hexen and Quake this is one of my favourite versions of DOOM and the fact it's portable on Switch, runs great and feels like the ultimate version of classic DOOM is the absolute cherry on the cake. 10/10 from me, never feels old jumping on this for a blast.

Fantastic. Glad we can enjoy D64 now, tbh when I was a child I don't think I could have finished it. Loved Doom, but it was scary. And this is way darker, haha.

Now I understand why hud elements like weapons are not filtered. And this port is even better without AA and with scanlines shader, which is how I play.

I always knew something was different about the way N64 rendered textures, but I had no idea what or how to even google it. I just noticed smoothing appeared like a smear from the top-right to the bottom-left and every console or pc capable of texture filtering I've played on since hasn't had that same look. Thanks for putting a name to it.

Midway Games were legendary. doom 64 and gauntlet dark legacy (xbox/ps2/gc) were some of my fav games as a kid.

Best Doom game ever.

I loved the N64. Even though it was dumb sticking with cartridges at that point, it was still an amazing console. It was also awesome how every console at that time really had it's own strengths, weaknesses, & personality.

Nightdive already did other N64 games. Turok 1,2, Forsaken among others. I wish they would remaster Turok 3 too. Turok 3 and Turok Rage Wars is still 100% N64 exclusive. Their remasters is always very good. I bought all of them.

Cool video, John. Now round up the original development team and chat with them. 🙃

I still hope Forsaken and Turok 2 Multiplayer finds its way on the Switch.

Great Idea and Work with the Text not longer disappearing! Really, had the Chance to read many of them for the first Time :)

This is an amazing video, so good to have dev insight. By all means if this was an hour long I'd watch the whole thing.

I've been playing Doom 64, it's fantastic, and the remaster looks awaesome. I had it on N64 and always found the graphics so dark and muddy. The remaster is so much brighter and cleaner, the sprites look way better, really brings the game to life. Best version of the game for sure.

This Doom 64 port is miles better than the port Nerve software did for the OG Dooms, despite the great improvements they’ve made to those games. The controls are less slippery and you can rebind the controls. If only Nightdive ported Doom 1 and 2 instead of Nerve. Though I’m just ecstatic that I can play Doom on my switch now.

Really enjoying Doom 64. Aside from the red on black menu text, it's great.

They even did the N64 texture filtering! what an port. Congratulations to the dev for being this awesome.

I enjoyed playing this very much all the way until the last boss. Awesome port!

Awesome deep dive into one of my childhood favorites!

Gotta give it to Night Dive studios for doing an amazing job preserving these classic games. as much as humanly possible.

It was pretty cool hearing directly from the devs on this one. I appreciate their dedication to ensuring the new conversion looked as accurate to the original N64 version as they could possibly get. BUT this new version DOES have a few issues. Buttons can't be remapped particularly well. If you remap a button, the original button remains there, and even if you change that same button to a new mapping, it remains on the original mapped function. For instance, I've always played my PC games where next weapon is scroll down, and previous weapon is scroll up. On this game they're backwards from that, however when I try to remap them, even though the menu says scroll up is now for previous weapon, the function for scroll up remains on next weapon as well, and as far as I know, there's no way to clear a mapped function. I appreciate having multiple mappings for a single function, but you should be able to easily clear it. I had to go into an ini file and adjust it that way. Hopefully they'll fix this in a patch. Minor issue, but still a big irritation.

This is a great package overall. The port was brilliant. The Lost Levels were actually pretty decent as well. Really enjoyed playing this game, I think it's the best classic Doom title.

I'm liking these Retro Doom videos. I'm hoping that you will eventually get to Doom 3. Lots of people hated Doom 3, but I was of the minority that loved it.

i loved doom 64 back in the day - still do. i've always felt it made a better "doom 2" than the actual doom 2.

I love these guys. I bought Doom 64 the day it came out and enjoyed it thoroughly. Years later I would stumble on Absolution & Doom 64 EX, looking to revisit Doom 64, and I never realized some of the same talent was behind both until this new release of Doom 64.

I told everyone who would listen about this game in the 90s and 2000s. I was blown away by Absolution TC and EX and played those to death when they were the latest and greatest way to play Doom 64 on PC. Seeing this game and especially svKaiser get the recognition and acclaim he deserves has been so satisfying.

After watching the intro to doom64, I was blown away and couldn't wait to get into it, turned out it was a sparse maze with nowhere near enough enemies onscreen to make me feel threatened or immersed. I dumped my n64, doom, mario 64 and turok onto my little 8 year old sister in disgust and carried on loving PSX- and she had a blast with it. Turok in particular was played for hundreds of hours by her and became nostalgic so alls well that ends well.

I bought this game when it was released for the N64 and now for the Xbox One and Switch. It’s my favorite game in the Doom series.

Wow looks like they did an amazing job, can't wait to play through this 👍

Night Dive is for retro FPS's what M2 and Hamster are for arcade shooters it seems. lol