Modder Claims They Used Portal to Get Half-Life 2 Running on the Nintendo Switch

Valve’s beforehand introduced ports of Portal and Portal 2 lastly arrived on the Nintendo Switch yesterday. At simply $20 for each titles it’s an absolute steal for 2 of the perfect puzzle video games of all time, however according to one modder, the discharge additionally apparently signifies that different basic Valve video games will run on the Switch too—mostly.

There’s good cause to roll your eyes when a console maker publicizes ports of previous video games to newer programs and pads it lineup with titles you’ve already performed and paid for. But for the Switch it’s been totally different because it means numerous basic video games are actually transportable and will be performed nearly wherever, not simply in the lounge or at a desk with a gaming PC. Portal stays probably the greatest and most authentic video games of all time, and its sequel supplied a welcome second serving to.

But according to OatmealDome, who on Twitter payments themselves as a “Switch, iOS, and macOS tinkerer” and in addition works on the Dolphin Emulator, the arrival of Portal on the Switch is noteworthy as a result of the sport was actually nothing greater than an add-on mod for Half-Life 2, leveraging that recreation’s authentic code at its core. So with Portal ported to the Switch and the Source engine put in on the console, it’s opened the door for Half-Life 2 to run on the transportable system as effectively.

For the time being, this mod isn’t for everybody—you actually need to know you’re means across the internal workings of the Switch to make this work—and, as OatmealDome additionally factors out, “the game occasionally crashes, some maps are impossible to progress in, NPC animations are bugged, saves don’t work, and world cameras don’t spawn correctly.” There’s additionally fairly a little bit of stuttering within the gameplay, which isn’t stunning given it’s been solely about 24 hours since Portal was made out there on the Switch and Half-Life 2 has been under no circumstances optimized to run on the {hardware} but.

Eventually somebody would possibly put collectively a information on easy methods to get Half-Life 2 working on the Switch by means of Portal, however our preferrred consequence is that sufficient gamers purchase the Portal bundle that Valve follows-up with official ports of Half-Life 2 and Gordon Freeman’s authentic journey: two video games we’re greater than desirous to play by means of once more on the can.