TOP 10 Hardest Target Times / Cheats in Goldeneye [Nintendo 64 Capture] Unlocking ALL CHEATS 

I couldnt defeat Jaws for years in Aztec. Then I realized, if you stand right in front of him so that the distance of his gun tip is further than you, he literally cant hit you at all

I quite literally spent pretty much an entire summer years ago playing through this game, steadily unlocking each and every cheat. Looking back on it, I have no idea how I managed to complete some of these timed requirements. While it does feel good to see a complete list of cheats on the main menu, it was quite an incredible feat that I never want to do again.

That Facility time is goddamn insane. Having an absolutely perfect run get shafted because Doak refused to spawn is crushing

Facility run completely depends on Doak's spawn point. This was awesome.

On control when you're protecting Natalya. You can go to the stairs on the second floor in the center, and that's where they mainly spawn from the third floor and it's super easy dropping enemies there. Just stand in front of the set that goes up to the third floor.

I really like that you let the levels fade out before the next. Good creativity. Edit: also your advice on continuing the level even if you fail is crucial to get these times. Great video.

A few helpful tips for anybody stuck on the Facility 00 agent time: 1. Instead of coming down the stairs into the side room to kill the guard with a keycard (25:50), The PP7 is just loud enough to alert the guards in the control room to come out, saving a few seconds to rush in and out. 2. When you come to end of the hallway nearing the second control room, As soon as you break towards the left door use the KF7 and spray for a few seconds. The guard on the other side will open the locked door and you can spray him down immediately after. 3. Skip the hallway doors. You're better off resetting near the end if Dr Doaks not there, Rather than waste precious time scouring room to room

control's always kinda an interesting one with a weird trick i don't think most players realize. every enemy that targets natalia spawns on the top floor from which there's only one stairway leading to the lower levels. there's also a balcony on the second floor overlooking natalia that juts out in a way that you can be close enough to natalia so that she completes her objective while allowing you to monitor this lone stairway and protecting her (you'll still have some guards spawning to your sides targeting you). as long as you don't miss a guard coming down the stairs, protecting natalia is relatively simple.

We need to bring back local multiplayer hype for legendary 4-player classics like Goldeneye!

As a 7, 8 year old with no computer nor guide, playin this on release it was all about unlocking the difficulties 1st, figuring out all missions and locations for everything 2nd then playin the same level over and over, refining my strat times. Unlocking these cheats was some of my earliest showings of a hardcore player..my brother was 5 years older and we grew up gaming but i grew an edge fast.

You could argue the Egyptian level time is difficult but only from the perspective of beating all the levels (especially Aztec) on 00 Agent to unlock it. That level was a unicorn for a few years for me. But I completely agree Facility is the most difficult time to beat.

This vid brought me back 🙏. Awesome content man!

Yeah, some of these are a pain, even on the Xbox re-release with better controls. A couple of things I've found to help out: 1. On Control while protecting Natalya, stay on the second floor in front of the stairs. It's a great place to take out every guard. Just ignore her comments. 2. On Cradle after you destroy the console, stay on that same level and run to the fence above Alec. You can then aim for his head without him shooting at you. Then run back through the control house and go to the other side by the fence above where Alec is standing. Repeat until he runs to the bottom floor. When you follow him, fall backwards down the ladder and immediately crouch. You'll get an extra second or two to shoot him. It really helps.

I remember playing 5-10 runs of facility before school each day trying to perfect it.

Time to breakout the Game Shark to get that facilities time.

Doing this without using walk throughs and just old man memory and reflexes, is the most satisfied ive been gaming in a long time!

You know the Invincibility cheat is a pain in the ass when the Xbox Edition has a “number of 00 Agent Facility attempts” section under Game Statistics.

Awesome video, I been watching all the Goldeneye speedrunning stuff for years but this video puts you back to how it was in the 90s getting these cheats.

Great vid. The nostalgia is strong with this one my man!

Thank you for sharing this video! Low key got PTSD flashback from my childhood trying to beat those damn levels. Gonna see if I can do them again with your tips 🙌

Great List. Dead on honestly. Loved the Diddy kong racing reference that was one of my favorite games along with Goldeneye when they came out.

Bro thanks for all the help on my revisit to goldeneye! Nostalgia is what made me download the game on gamepass, but you are what made me able to get through some of these levels. Young me must of been cracked to be able to do it alone because I lost my touch hahaha.

Great video nostalgia is strong here

Definitely spot-on list. Those top three are where most of the struggle I had with the target times lied. Though Control and Aztec certainly were somewhat grueling as well. Those super long levels along with Caverns felt the most taxing even if they aren't even the hardest ones necessarily. Facility absolutely took more attempts than anything but given how short that level is the actual time investment might have been less overall. I do remember spending several hours on it as well though. Clearing all of these target times was an awesome challenge and honestly something I would like to do again sometime. Props for finishing the challenge yourself!

Fantastic video dude, thanks for making this. 👍

Awesome man! I gotta pull out the old games now!

Not watched it all yet.... FACILITY is an absolute nightmare. Dr. Doak, is a BAD-CHUMP!

Facility, Train and Aztec I 100% agree are some of the hardest to get to target time on. We've already discussed at length our battles with some these. Awesome top 10 Jeff! Star Fox 64 medals would be a great top 10 as well. I await the future vid. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎮🔥

Solid work brother good job good job

great video! ah the nostalgia

Great vid!

Golden Eye, Rush 2, and Star Fox 64 are my favorite games. I played a lot of Call of Duty games, and I beaten campaign mode on Veteran 5 different games and beated 2 missions on Veteran without a death. Goldeneye takes skill because there are objectives that have to be complated.

I waited for this video ever since you mentioned it in your previous video

Great video mate 👌

The strategy for doing these is burned into my mind to the point of being simple. However, it took YEARS to get to that point. Explaining how tough Goldeneye is to someone is remarkably difficult.

Did the Facility in 1:37 on 00 Agent tonight.. haven’t speedrun it in decades. My best time ever I believe. Game has new life on Gamepass, havin a blast with it all these years later. Gonna go have a vodka martini now 🍸

Good video man.

Facility was always my favorite level as a kid, so I remember thinking I could get that target time… 😂 oh boy… I sunk hours into attempting it. Can’t remember if I ever pulled it off though, but I do remember the grind. Sucks that a couple of these depend on getting good luck as opposed to pure skill. Also, I just love that little elevator ditty that plays at the end of control 😂 totally undercuts the intensity of the stage. Gets me every time.

Really solid video, just another reminder that I'll be screwed when doing this lol

I really wish I could remember how many tries it took for me to get the Facility target time as a kid. It took me 25 tries on the Xbox release. But, I'm just happy I was still able to do it lol

Facility is such strange level. As a player, the 2:05 mark is daunting and seems impossible, a major challenge for such a valuable cheat. However, once you go down the hole of speed running, facility becomes an extremely easy level that is hugely forgiving, and doesn’t even feel challenging. Casually going under 90 seconds isn’t even hard, it’s just a matter of getting the doak spawn. Speedrunning opens a whole can of worms on this game because you never play or see it the same way again

I am currently in my 00Agent playtrough on Xbox and it's pretty hard - right now at Bunker 2, my least favourite level together with archives. Instead of trying again, I went for some target times. I actually felt, that surface 2 was pretty doable. At least after getting familiar with the level and knowing where to go. I kind of rushed through it, thank god for the fast strafing with the D-Pad. I also forgot about the one camera behind the one hut. Cradle was also okay - it's at least on Agent and a very short and also easy to navigate level. All in all, I feel, most 00 Agent times are pretty hard, just because the difficulty is hard. Well, but maybe only, because I am still getting used to it. Definitly agree with your top 3 though... Nice video!

Yesterday I got all Time Targets and also 00 Agent completions on Switch in all levels up until Cradle... I am so scared of Aztec, it gives nightmares. Control, Caverns and Train were incredibly hard but it was satisfying going through them multiple times and developing my own path through the levels (where to stand to shoot soldiers, when to use extra mines, how to save ammo, etc etc). Facility was pure luck LOL

One thing I learnt on Control was that at the beginning, those first two computer mainframes make sure you place the mine on the box itself so that the glass next to them breaks because this come in handy for later on when protecting Natalia because you can see the guards run to the sides who break the glass and shoot Natalia.

There's a few things to make these easier, like the cradle, 006 is killable in the chase if you damage him enough in the vulnerable states, on top of that it's faster to actually double back between the operation rooms and wait for him to open the door, he'll actually wait in the room allowing you to shoot him then run to the bottom of the ramp to shoot him again making it twice as fast. Honestly having 100% the game on Xbox makes me both appreciate strafe boosting and realize how much time is actually wasted by sloppy boosting and not using auto aim. Jaws can actually be beat with no issues by blasting him with lasers up close as he comes out of the narrow passage he's standing in front of, he can't shoot you up close most of the time.

Strangely enough about the control room mission is the enemy soldiers and what they look like. What i deduced is that if the enemy is wearing a beret, they're gunning for you, but if they any hat they're gunning for natalya and you if don't kill them in time, that's a restart buddy.

I just finished facility oo agent in 1:56. My best time ever.

Having such a blast and enjoying the nostalgia from almost 30 years ago when playing Goldeneye on Nintendo. Thank you for the vids on completing the cheats for this. I haven't gamed in decades but wanted to try again, especially with Goldeneye returning and how much I loved it back then. Really brings back the memories of just how difficult some levels were to get, lol. Never did do all the cheats back then, was just happy to complete the missions and now wonder how without the strategies and tips here on the youtube channels. Facility looks incredibly tough to do in a short time. The one I'm coming so close to doing now is Archives in 1:20......my best is 1:24 and thought I did a perfect clean run.....wow is that one tough for me :D Some great tips here and other channels. I remember back in the day chasing OO6 all over the place wasting time and not knowing how much easier it is to just go back and forth through the two rooms and stop near the edge of the railing and peek down to give him a head shot. He'll say to "finish the job" much quicker then. I like the route you take for Archives but somehow I need to shave another four seconds of my time, and no idea how. Maybe Xbox doesn't allow you to run as fast? Some cheats are easy to do, but wow this one is tough.

I did all of this as a kid in the 90s, I bet I can't do it as an adult

Been waiting for so long. Woohoo

"Half of everything is luck, James !" How appropriate for Facility ! I would like to see some other "Top 10 Hardest", like "Jiggies in Banjo-Kazooie", "Golden Bananas in Donkey Kong 64" or "Silver Coin Challenges from Diddy Kong Racing" !

Take the multiplayer away and this is still one of my favorite games ever. The campaign is so much fun. And once you've completed every level on 00 agent, you get the additional challenge of trying to unlock every cheat. Man this game is so good. I replay it every couple of years and always have a blast. Something I've wondered is, is the cheat harder if it takes you more tries or takes you more time? Archives might take 20 tries but if it only takes 30 minutes, who cares?

That Service 2 Music when Bond got caught scared the crap out of me when I was a child 😅

Solid list and great video! Personally I’d make two small changes. Surface 2 is ez imo once you have the lay of the land and know which order and direction of things. Bunker 1 is more difficult to make consistent so that is my spot 10. Or maybe depot. I’d also swap spot 1 and 3. And basically for the same reason; consistency. Yes facility is the hardest one in the top 3 I agree. But it is also a lot more fun. Yes there is the Doak RNG but other than that it’s a quick attempt and you can enjoy having noticeable progress as you learn to perfect the run. Train and caverns suck more because of the reasons mentioned in the video. 5-8 minute runs just to lose Natalya or the friggin Wade radio. Bloody hell.

I've been playing, beating and getting every achievement on the xbox game pass version recently more times than I could count.. opening 3 different xbox accounts to regain achievements again. This game is truly a classic. Each playthrough I've gotten much better at beating each level on 00 Agent and getting the cheats. Based on your list, I agree to Facility and Caverns being on the top 2. Facility just takes a few tries depending on Doaks spawn location. Caverns is too long and tedious with those blue hat guards, the scientists at the inlet pump controls are so stubborn, and you begin to hope and pray the radio doesn't blow up. I'm surprised I wanted to keep doing those cheat unlocks on numerous occasions

Can we take a moment to appreciate the bumping soundtrack they made for this game?

I don’t know if it will help speed runs, but it definitely makes the level a little easier if at the start of frigate, you walk out onto the front of the ship you can headshot the guard with the gun pointed at the hostage from the window. When you enter the bridge it will be empty and the other guards will now be behind the doors with their back to you.

So pleased that Facility was your number 1, I have only had time to do the first 3 levels and their challenges so I have done it already, easy Street from now on then….yeah right!

I'm running back through this game for the first time in over 2 decades, and man, I forgot how challenging it is. Especially with the Switch controls (I'm beginning to get the hang of it now, but aiming is super difficult for sniping). I have been actually conquering more 00 Agent missions now than I did when I was a kid (not sure how many I did without a GameShark). You're right about some of top 5 missions, they are rage inducing. Caverns, and Facility in particular. Ive come so close to Caverns target time (or under) so many times, but the stupid scientists keep getting in the way of destroying the pump controls.

Sick vid dude

I feel like I just watched the birth of a Goldeneye speedrunner. Great video bud, reminds me of when I was learning how to run the game. Go out and get yourself a 2:30 on Statue! That was my original goal and it took FOREVER for me to get there.

I'm amazed at how much better at this game I am now than when I was a kid. I beat these all with relative ease. The hardest ones for me were Train, Control and Caverns. All others I think I got within a few tries. The one I dreaded, Facility, which did take a bunch of resets, but only because Doak was never where I needed him to be, I didn't find too bad, because I could always make it to the end quickly and easily, despite Doak's placement. Also, I practiced Aztec on Secret Agent a bunch before getting the cheat, but then once I tried it on 00 Agent, I got it on the first try... Like, I was expecting that one to definitely take a while, but I think the exploits in that level make it more of a cakewalk than it really should be. The invisible enemy bullet walls are so cheap IMO. Helps cheese so many otherwise very difficult parts.

Facility...a total nightmare. I finally beat the level in time, but the level burnt into my memory to the point that I had a dream about it. Dr. Doak, 006, and the gas tanks are such trolls.

Never got Caverns.... only cheat code I didn't accomplish. Great list.

Love this vid. Goodwork! I'm replaying on SWITCH with the godawful controls and taking out that Turret in Depot is absolutely torturous. I'm already concerned about the other turrets in later levels. The only saving grace on Depot for me is how disgustingly sick the theme for that level is, I don't mind doing it over and over ha. Anyone know the best control scheme for Switch? They really f'd up on that but I've learned to make it work until these turrets. I'm just unlocking as I get to a level. So I still have top 5 minus facility. Minus Doak spawn, I didn't think it was that hard. I don't think the Spawn luck makes it challenging as much as annoying. Anyway great vid. And glad to see everyone is enjoying the newly-old journey. I saw a bunch of whiney hate vids, but the nostalgia is incredible replaying this I've happily spent hours.

Once did the target time on the villa from perfect dark just before my bus for school arrived. I knew the t.t. was exactly how long i had to get before my bus looped back around to my stop. It was either i get it or im late to school. That was a very satisfying bus ride.

What makes Control level more difficult is that guards can break the glass beside the stairs when defending Nataya. When that happens. The player has to check both sides more regularly while checking the stairs. Usually I break the tables, except the one Nataya needs to use, to make it easier to see the guards. Facility level is definitely the hardest but thankfully one of the quickest missions to clear. I'm not a fan of the random chance with Dr Doak though. I could get a good run when he's not there. I like that he spawns in a random place but not during a very tight target time.

I only just learnt last few weeks that to completely make this level easier mainly protecting Natalya, don;t protect her from where she is standing, instead stand on the higher platform, the stairs where you went up to get the armour, apparently all the guards will come through through there and u easily pick them off till Natalya is done. no guards go downstairs or go through the glass

Typing this before watching the video for my own top 5 at least. I'm not sure there are 10 worth talking about, but I know: Train: Cutting the floor, and Natalya not dying - I never got this one. Caverns: Caverns was just long and I never got this one either Facility: Dr. Doak location, and some speedrun strats required for this one. I got it probably some Saturday morning in 1998 and it was a huge feeling of accomplishment. None of the others stick out in my mind. I guess I would round out the top 5 with Control and either Aztec or Jungle: just because they are pretty much the hardest remaining levels in my memory. Now I'll watch the video and see how I did. At #3 (Train) and I can confidently say the rest will be the same as mine. Nailed it.

I’m playing through Golden eye on Xbox as it was just rereleased yesterday. When I was a kid, I had all the target times completed. I am wondering how the heck I was able to do that on an N64 controller lol. Much easier with an Xbox controller now. I’m doing the target times in order and of course facilities was #2. It took me 3 hours to get it. I just kept repeating my run until I got Dr Doak in the glass rooms to make it easy. I am sweating the thought of doing train as I recall that one being a pain for a very long time in my N64 days.

15 suits of body armour and a needle in both eyes full of adrenaline Yep that sums up N64 Jaws

Ahh that archive run

Already knew number 1 before starting the video 😂

Archives for me, everything else was easy enough. My best was 1:19 and couldn't figure out how to draw better lol

Caverns and Aztec speed runs are so much harder than Facility in my opinion but great video

I got all except for Invincibility back when I had the N64. Getting that one wasn’t worth the trouble IMO, as you need Doak to be in one specific place (out of six possible places)

I remember a high school classmate of mine unlocked all the cheats on the N64 version, before the tap-in codes were discovered. We saw him as a living God and it made him genuinely cool. And for future video suggestion: remake this video but for Perfect Dark. Now _that's_ a challenge. Apparently the invincibility cheat on PD was made deliberately easy just to give people a bit of hope and something nice to aim for, in recognition of the fact that the game eventually got too hard to be any fun. 00 Agent is a challenge for the right person. Perfect Agent is sadistic and just too much.

Completed all the time runs and have all cheats. Took me 3 days :). The train was not as bad as I remembered. Actually got train almost done on the first try . Shot in back running from train lol. Also managed to beat the Aztec level in the record time but under 00 agent wow. Unfortunately it doesn’t give you the cheat unless you do it under secret agent. Fun playing this again though. Wish they came up with a way to play multiplayer online but I’m happy for a direct port of the game to Xbox.

I recently got 100% on Goldeneye on the Xbox One port. I know it's easier there than on the original N64 version. That said, once you know the strategies, most of these weren't too bad to get. Facility is the worst to get, but still didn’t take me more than 10 attempts on each save slot. But I had help through YT tutorials. I can't imagine figuring these out and performing them on the original N64. Major respect to the OGs. As a kid I couldn't beat Surface 2 Agent alone, because I was too scared. 😂

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Going through this right now myself and i have tonsay frigate is pretty easy. I ended with 2:30 something. There is definitely an optimized path where you hit everything without needing to backtrack. I recomend entring the bridge from the other side as the hostage wont be blocking your line of site. Im currently stuck on statue park.

I got Cradle target first try yesterday just doing it casually to finish the game on the switch version. I was like what!!

Cradle is really easy if you take your time and let 006 blow himself up. Just follow him down to the control room, but as soon as you go down the stairs turn 90 degrees left, run to the wall, and stand with your back to it. At this point you should be lined up pretty much with the end of the stair rail and the opposing door. Shoot any guards coming down the stairs, you might have to turn left occasionally to shoot guards coming from the control room, and ~1:45 on the countdown you should hear a grenade clank followed by an explosion and objective B complete ~1:40 on the countdown. Then it's just a matter of opening the door if it's closed, stepping back a little to take out the right corner autogun, take out the left corner autogun from the doorway (shooting guards as required), destroying the console if it wasn't destroyed in the blast, then exit the stage by making your way to the lower platform as per usual. I can't confirm this, but it might be possible to lower your time even further by simply dying on the way out, as on my first cradle run on my most recent playthrough (xbox series x) I killed 006 the traditional way on the lower platform, but someone threw a grenade (006 martyrdom perhaps?) Which exploded, killing bond, and resulting in the cutscene where bond falls from the platform. I didn't get any end credits, but agent difficulty was ticked off when I went to run it again for the Gold PP7. For what it's worth, my best times on cradle are 1:24, 1:25, and 1:23 respectively on this playthrough (respective runs) once I remembered how to get Alec to blow himself up. P.s. there's a body armour behind the pylon at the start, but you don't need it, not even for 00 Agent Edit: wait, I ment 2:45 and 2:40 respectively. I thought the timer was 2 minutes, not 3

i thought aztec was gonna be alot harder than it was. got all achievements on xbox and id say caverns gave me the most trouble and control was the most time consuming...honestly the hardest part of all this wasnt the speed running but was remembering how to complete levels..like archives shooting a window to jump out off maybe i skipped past the reports but i dont know how i figured that out as a kid and depot had me running in circles..also shooting xenia to give you more time

Just started Goldeneye on Xbox and started with Facility first not knowing it’s the hardest time run. I beat that time, now it just gets easier from here🤘🏻

Before looking at it, I hated doing Caverns and Jungle on 00 Agent. Everything else was pretty free for me as a kid.

Took me 15 hours to get all Xbox Achievements! Facility I agree was the hardest time trials! Archie’s was also a struggle! Cavern was okay just had to take my time and to converse ammo I only used the pistol the whole time.

Perfect Dark had that same issues too. It's all about practice and patience. I have all the cheats of both games in real hardware.

Your #1 wasn't on my list.... because I'm not effin' doing it. LoL.

As soon as Train showed up I groaned and then you said it. It was the hardest level to get through the first time on 00 and then while trying this I kept getting to the end and running out of time. So annoying.

There is simply no other choice for number 1, when i did it when i was young, it took me an intense day of playing to get it! And damn the joy when i finally achieved it 😂 !

Aztec is killing me lol back in the day on the 64 completed it on everything every cheat on the switch different story lol

I got all of the cheats relatively easily, except Facility. I went through periods of trying and trying, giving up, then trying again, giving up, over years, and then one time a finally did it. Beat the time by about 1 second.

I did facility on 1 minute 50 and I think I stalled a bit at the end. Was actually really challenging and enjoyable! Silo is hilariously enjoyable lol.

For the surface 2 one if you memorise the locations (or have an imaginary compass which you marked them on) And just walk path to path.

Statue was the hardest for me. It used to be facility until I found out about the mine trick

Got Facility at 1:47 like 2 days ago. Took about 30 tries. Though I’m taking it level by so I’ve only beaten the time on Dam and Facility but it’s good to know I cleared the hardest one early.

Control can be easier by throwing remote mines between the mainframe and the glass. The glass will break giving you a shortcut to the lower saving you a lot of time.

Just did all of these for my xbox achievements. I was able to first or second try all of them but a few like streets and statue that absolutely require strafing but as far as difficulty I'd rank them 1. Facility 2. Statue 3. Caverns 4. Streets 5. Train (died twice during the final sequence)

My first clear time surviving on pave was a 2:03 // you can save a few seconds by intentionally spamming [negating your silencer] shooting the floor rapidly as you are coming down the restroom stairs// still need that damned keycard from the guard under the rest room but can immediately reach the console without waiting for the door to open because you summoned the guards... you'll likely be hit but it is almost a full 3 seconds faster// switch to the rifle - its rough, but after all, you are James Bond