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minus-squareAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·2 years agoSemi-related, but to this day I remain impressed they got Half Life 2 ported to the original Xbox.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 years agoWhy? It was just a PC on the inside with a slimmed down Windows 2000 variant as the OS. Storage concerns aside, it was probably a very straightforward port, just rip out the Steam bindings, and it probably ran pretty immediately.
minus-squareAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·edit-22 years agoRight, architecturally it was probably pretty simple. But the minimum system requirements for HL:2 versus the Xbox’s hardware is pretty stark: Half-Life 2 minimum requirements for PC: CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz Memory: 512 MB Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Xbox System Specs: CPU: Intel Pentium III 733 MHz Memory: 64 MB (shared with GPU) Graphics: Custom NVidia based on Geforce 3 Edit: Definitely meaning the original Xbox and not the 360. Was one of the last games I bought for the original and still have it :)
minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-22 years agoAs a point of comparison, 360 has 512MB RAM. HL2 was targeting PCs comparable to PS3/360, but somehow they got it working on an Xbox.
minus-squaremihnt@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoMakes you wonder what corners they cut to get it functional.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoSo playable frame rate was the main corner cut.
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/c66hfqw4SKc Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
minus-squareChee_Koala@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoThe 00s Doom reboot shares a similar story, but for the 360!
minus-squareTheDrunkard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 years agoNoooo, it was not that simple. Search MVG hl2 port on YouTube and watch and see why the port is actually very impressive
minus-squaresorghum@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoThis is about half life on the dreamcast, not hl2.
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoThis comment chain is actually about HL2.
Semi-related, but to this day I remain impressed they got Half Life 2 ported to the original Xbox.
Why? It was just a PC on the inside with a slimmed down Windows 2000 variant as the OS. Storage concerns aside, it was probably a very straightforward port, just rip out the Steam bindings, and it probably ran pretty immediately.
Right, architecturally it was probably pretty simple. But the minimum system requirements for HL:2 versus the Xbox’s hardware is pretty stark:
Half-Life 2 minimum requirements for PC:
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz Memory: 512 MB Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6100Xbox System Specs:
CPU: Intel Pentium III 733 MHz Memory: 64 MB (shared with GPU) Graphics: Custom NVidia based on Geforce 3Edit: Definitely meaning the original Xbox and not the 360. Was one of the last games I bought for the original and still have it :)
As a point of comparison, 360 has 512MB RAM. HL2 was targeting PCs comparable to PS3/360, but somehow they got it working on an Xbox.
Makes you wonder what corners they cut to get it functional.
https://youtu.be/c66hfqw4SKc
So playable frame rate was the main corner cut.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/c66hfqw4SKc
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
The 00s Doom reboot shares a similar story, but for the 360!
Noooo, it was not that simple. Search MVG hl2 port on YouTube and watch and see why the port is actually very impressive
Half life predates steam
Yes, but HL2 does not.
This is about half life on the dreamcast, not hl2.
This comment chain is actually about HL2.