Homebrew Homebrew game Half Life 2 (Source Engine) - Switch Port

[cernycaj]

Played through the game, thanks for the port. Only issue is that the console and the options cannot be controlled while docked as they currently require the touchscreen

 

[Nblhrn]

HL2 works flawlessly, thanks a lot!
EP1 and 2 somehow don't load scene files, even though they are present in the right directory. For example at the beginning of EP2 Alyx is supposed to encounter the player. But the console just says that "scenes/outland_01/intro_alyx_findplayer.vcd cannot be found" and nothing happens.

 

[AmogusGamining]

Half Life 2 (nillerusr Source engine) - Nintendo Switch port

This is a wrapper/port of the Android version of the Android Source Engine from nillerusr (v1.16.29 - 1.17.0025).
It loads the original game binary, patches it and runs it.
It's basically as if we emulate a minimalist Android environment in which we natively run the original Android binary as is.

My biggest Switch port so far, episodes 1 and 2 are supported.

The game is fairly CPU intensive, running it with overclock is recommended.

Report any issues you run into.

Credits :
TheOfficialFloW & fgsfds for the vita so-loader
nillerusr for the Android Source engine port this wraps

Available here :
https://github.com/NaGaa95/hl2_nx/

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oh my god this is sick

 

[masagrator]

I vibe coded a simple SDL2 launcher which just edits config file for setting proper game and launches hl2_nx homebrew.

There are no checks if you have ep1 and ep2. It assumes you have both. It supports touch screen and gamepad.

If you want to use this launcher and have hl2_nx hidden, rename "hl2_nx.nro" to "hl2_nx.nrs".

Put "hl2picker.nro" to "switch" folder (if you want to preserve "hl2_nx.nro") or "switch/hl2_nx" (only if you renamed "hl2_nx.nro" to "hl2_nx.nrs").

 

[angelhp]

I vibe coded a simple SDL2 launcher which just edits config file for setting proper game and launches hl2_nx homebrew.

There are no checks if you have ep1 and ep2. It assumes you have both. It supports touch screen and gamepad.

If you want to use this launcher and have hl2_nx hidden, rename "hl2_nx.nro" to "hl2_nx.nrs".

Put "hl2picker.nro" to "switch" folder (if you want to preserve "hl2_nx.nro") or "switch/hl2_nx" (only if you renamed "hl2_nx.nro" to "hl2_nx.nrs").

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This is great!

 

[Nagaa]

I vibe coded a simple SDL2 launcher which just edits config file for setting proper game and launches hl2_nx homebrew.

There are no checks if you have ep1 and ep2. It assumes you have both. It supports touch screen and gamepad.

If you want to use this launcher and have hl2_nx hidden, rename "hl2_nx.nro" to "hl2_nx.nrs".

Put "hl2picker.nro" to "switch" folder (if you want to preserve "hl2_nx.nro") or "switch/hl2_nx" (only if you renamed "hl2_nx.nro" to "hl2_nx.nrs").

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Great work, i'll probably add this as a front-end selector in the next update since i need to fix few issues on EP1/EP2

 

[AmogusGamining]

we are 1 step closer to tf2 on switch

 

[ChanseyIsTheBest]

we are 1 step closer to tf2 on switch

https://github.com/NaGaa95/tf2_nx SoonTM

 

[retro_tastic]

Dark Messiah also uses Source Engine but I guess it would be too much effort to try to adapt / modify this port for that game to work?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/dark-messiah-advanced-sdk

 

[cernycaj]

When I have tried loading Episode 1, it works but none of the NPCs do anything, making it impossible to progress.

 

[Nagaa]

1.0.1 Update : https://github.com/NaGaa95/hl2_nx/releases/tag/1.0.1
This should make Episode 1 / 2 fully playable now

 

[Nblhrn]

1.0.1 Update : https://github.com/NaGaa95/hl2_nx/releases/tag/1.0.1
This should make Episode 1 / 2 fully playable now

The launcher tells me that EP1 and EP2 are not installed. Anything I am doing incorrectly?

Edit: Was missing libclient.so and libserver.so in lib/episodic/. Now it works well. Thanks a lot!

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[ztreetwalker]

I'm very thankful for this
Hopefully we can get adventures of mana
Or just imagine final fantasy 7 ever crisis complete on the android ports hahaha

 

[ChanseyIsTheBest]

I'm very thankful for this
Hopefully we can get adventures of mana
Or just imagine final fantasy 7 ever crisis complete on the android ports hahaha

Don't ever expect the latter because it's a mobile gacha game that would rely on Google Play Services and also uses Unity plus you'd get banned from the game even if it did happen because it's online only.

There hasn't been any ports of Unity Android games to Switch so far but I'm personally trying on another game. Dealing with Unity is a massive pain though lol

 

[ztreetwalker]

Don't ever expect the latter because it's a mobile gacha game that would rely on Google Play Services and also uses Unity plus you'd get banned from the game even if it did happen because it's online only.

There hasn't been any ports of Unity Android games to Switch so far but I'm personally trying on another game. Dealing with Unity is a massive pain though lol

In that case just adventures of mana lol