A mod maker, OatmealDome, has found that it is possible to play. Half-Life 2 on Switch via the recently published Portal collection. Obviously it’s not possible to do this regularly, but video the question is how much the mod maker can do by changing the Switch game.
We also state that. work in progress and that the movie was edited: the uploads were interrupted, the FPS counter was added, and some of the technical issues could be related to the fact that the mod maker had to create a rough patch to get around a crashing issue. The mod maker explains that all of this is possible because Portal 1 is basically “a glorified mod of Half-Life 2. The mod maker explains that “For example, Portal’s player character code is based directly on Half-Life 2’s player code.” It also helped that “NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios have released many Half-Life 2 assets in the game.”
this version Half-Life 2However, it’s not fully completed, such as “the game crashes sometimes, some maps cannot be completed, NPS animations are faulty, recordings are not working and camera is not showing properly”. In any case, it’s a remarkable result: It’s no trivial matter to be able to launch a game inside another on a console like the Switch, where modding is definitely not easy.
Finally, we leave you with a video comparison between Switch and Steam Deck for Portal: Companion Collection.
Source: Multiplayer
