Gaming Homebrew Project Source Engine 2017 (nillusr) native Port in progress

[Cybercom684]

Source Engine 2017 - Nintendo Switch
based on nillusr's project
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SENX is a complete, native port of the Source Engine for the Nintendo Switch.

Based on the project by nillusr and his work on the well-known Android port, including his adjustments and optimizations, I ported the raw engine to the Switch. SENX itself is a passion project. I'm pretty much burned out on... no wait — I'm a huge Half-Life fan; it shaped my youth and still shapes who I am today, and it's always brought me a lot of joy.

I've been working on this project for several months now, if not years. Today is a very exciting day for me — I've been looking forward to sharing this project with you all for a long time, but I'm quite a perfectionist, which is why it took a while. SENX is a fusion of nillusr's Android version, the PC version, and a few small bits from the 360 version.

And here we're only talking about the engine itself.

Spoiler: Features

• senx_engine – the core engine that powers the following games: cstrike, dod, episodic, hl1, hl1mp, hl2, hl2mp, lostcoast, portal
• senx – the launcher, used to start your games and download them via the built-in Steam depot downloader
• Steam depot downloader – downloads your games from your Steam account directly to "/Downloads"
• game_files – game logic for each title, packaged as *.nro (client & server)
• Multi-language support – for both the launcher and all supported games

Spoiler: Known Issues

• Language of the SteamDepot Downloader is only German (patch in progress)
• The game sometimes hangs/stutters, because (not Source was originally designed as single-threaded but yes) — the GL-Layer is to low by drawing the path. (i use mesa because i dont like to precompile all shaders, deko3d doesnt use live compiling for shaders...)

Spoiler: Installation

1. Download SENX from the Download area
2. Extract the ZIP and put the "SENX" folder on your SD card under "sd:/switch/"
3. Before you start, make sure you're not in applet mode — the game needs some resources
4. Add senx.nro (!!! not senx_engine.nro !!!) as a forwarder to your HomeScreen
5. Launch SENX, add your Steam account, and play your favorites (alternatively, add your games under SENX/Games/*)

Spoiler: Screenshots

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------------------------------- Download -------------------------------
Download the latest version (v1.7.3_stable)


---------------------------- older versions ----------------------------
Download SENX_v1.7.2_nightly​

 

[turtle017]

Nice work! Have a repo up yet?

 

[Cybercom684]

I’m on vacation next week. If I can get a build working by then that at least launches both single-player and multiplayer, I’ll probably upload it.

The only thing I’m unsure about is whether that could be an issue, since it’s based on a leaked version of the engine. From what I understand, though, Valve has been tolerating it.

 

[Cybercom684]

Nice work! Have a repo up yet?

Now you can check out my work, later this month i will upload the source code if this is intressting for you.
i'm happy about feedback

 

[ttyyaa]

Will csgo and left 4 dead work?

 

[tehrzky]

nice. what games are supported?

 

[Cybercom684]

Will csgo and left 4 dead work?

In theory yes. But for this Games i need the source Code of the Game logic for any Game. I know there is a leak of csgo so i can Put add this files to my build for native "bin" files. Than you can Play this Games.

I will Release an Update for Performance and Bug fixes and than i add some more Game logic files.

This engine is based of the leak of 2018 but without tf2, because the Game files are filled with a lot of new logic. My plan is a stable Version, than i add more Games.

A second Idea was to add box64 (win Emulation) for load DLL files as an Plugin. Than you can Play any Game or Mod too. But thats a lot of Work.

I think you must wait a little Bit, before you can Play These Games. But i have it in my Plans.

Post automatically merged: Friday at 6:41 AM

nice. what games are supported?

At this time i Support the following Games:
- Half-Life 1
- Half-Life 1: Deathmatch
- Half-Life 2
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
- Half-Life 2: Lostcoast (use the "episodic" bin files)
- Half-Life 2: Episode One
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two
- Portal
- Portal 2 (Not tested)
- Counter-Strike: source
- Day of Defeat: source

- Any Mod for any of this Games without extra Game logic ("no bin/DLL files")

 

[tehrzky]

In theory yes. But for this Games i need the source Code of the Game logic for any Game. I know there is a leak of csgo so i can Put add this files to my build for native "bin" files. Than you can Play this Games.

I will Release an Update for Performance and Bug fixes and than i add some more Game logic files.

This engine is based of the leak of 2018 but without tf2, because the Game files are filled with a lot of new logic. My plan is a stable Version, than i add more Games.

A second Idea was to add box64 (win Emulation) for load DLL files as an Plugin. Than you can Play any Game or Mod too. But thats a lot of Work.

I think you must wait a little Bit, before you can Play These Games. But i have it in my Plans.

Post automatically merged: Friday at 6:41 AM

At this time i Support the following Games:
- Half-Life 1
- Half-Life 1: Deathmatch
- Half-Life 2
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
- Half-Life 2: Lostcoast (use the "episodic" bin files)
- Half-Life 2: Episode One
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two
- Portal
- Portal 2 (Not tested)
- Counter-Strike: source
- Day of Defeat: source

- Any Mod for any of this Games without extra Game logic ("no bin/DLL files")

i really appreciate the hard work youre putting into it. I'd love to play They Hunger and classic CS on the Switch someday. best of luck with the development.

 

[Nickky9x]

How about Black Mesa?

 

[Cybercom684]

How about Black Mesa?

unfortunately not.
Black Mesa contains His own Game logic and the source Code is private, so i cant build it for senx.

Thats the Same Problem why we dont have a Blue Shift Version of it...