The Ports Of Half-Life 2 (ft. Skyclad)

In this video, Skyclad and I talk about three ports of Half-Life 2.
There's the arcade port called "Half-Life 2: Survivor"
Then the Xbox port, and finally, the Orange Box port on the PS3.
Big thanks to Skyclad and the Combine Overwiki (combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Main....
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[@RadiationHazardYT]

Update: I tried installing the Android port on my Note 10+ but it crashes on the Main Menu screen where it says loading on the bottom right. So yeah, can't cover that. Also, I appreciate the help but I've already tried all the troubleshooting steps. No need to share any fixes or solutions. I've tried them all. I'll try installing it on my tablet and see if that works. Forgot to mention in the video, but there's also a fourth port on the Nvidia Shield which is basically the console version ported over. Neither Skyclad or I own a Shield so we didn't cover that one.

[@legordonfreeman4234]

It was ported to Android that's the same thing, just not on the Nvidia shield

[@aSkyclad]

@@legordonfreeman4234 People ported the shield version to android unofficially

[@legordonfreeman4234]

@@aSkyclad so? It's the same thing on either device

[@SuperMario.]

I had it running on my modded Nintendo Switch running android. Aside from a slightly awkward resolution for the Switch's screen it ran perfectly fine. I hope there is an official Switch port in the future, the more people with access to half life the better.

[@a1batross_]

This was the interesting port. I tried to mod it but ultimately failed. NVIDIA for some reason cut Source in random places, not to improve performance but to make modding (???) harder. It's built on top of Valve's Linux port, thus uses their Direct3D to OpenGL translator but because Shield Console didn't had big OpenGL, they also put GL to GLES translator. On Shield Tablet and Shield TV there is full OpenGL 4 support, so the performance is much better. My friend nillerusr taken my initial work and made this port available for other Android devices, and then switched to his own branch of Source (compiled from a recent leak).

[@korbi3449]

The Arcade port feels even more strange and distanced from retail Half Life 2 than the Beta, lol

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

most sensible japanese game

[@bennybouken]

they did the same with Counter Strike, and left 4 dead 2

[@ajflink]

Very...Japanized if that is a thing.

[@JukoYT]

Hl2 survivor unironicly looks kinda cool lol. Never saw a full pc game ported to an arcade before

[@cosmiceyness]

left for dead was had an arcade i think

[@Xeroxthebeautiful]

@@cosmiceyness That would make some sense. I feel like Left 4 dead's basic structure would work better as an arcade game that HL2 would.

[@havoc3-243]

Oh wow, a dead channel

[@djlaw56what]

If you think about it its an old version of half life aylx

[@jess648]

plus Valve allegedly has a cabinet in their offices

[@Masterlegodude]

The original Xbox version of Half Life 2 also has some audio processing effects that makes parts of the game sound and feel much more immersive, but this feature never seemed to be available on the PC version, and i don't think it even exists on the PS3/Xbox 360 versions, making it exclusive to just the original Xbox version of the game

[@aSkyclad]

Yeah, the big one I noticed is the reverb effect, when you get out of the train in the beginning, Breen sounds really ominous and actually kinda more realistic than the PC version somehow

[@FalkVonKrone]

I believe what is also exclusive to the og xbox port is that the Annabelle has it's own weapon slot at the bottom

[@mikeshmit1363]

The reason for this is the Xbox has different audio drivers than pc's have

[@robarmstrong5404]

The menu music was fucking epic

[@imnotshub]

@@mikeshmit1363 not necessarily a reason, it wouldn't be hard to port over the sound processing from regular hl2. think this was an artistic decision that never made it's way out of the OG xbox port

[@dontworryhouston]

Ah yes my favorite consoles, the PS3, Xbox and Japan

[@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R]

You can still play the day-one version of HL2 if you have a physical copy, because a programmer who didn't want to use steam back in the day wrote some software that pulls the game right off the disc. I used it on my collector's edition copy to get a version of half-life from 2 months before release!

[@maybefaith23]

Do you have a link to this program? I think this would be cool to check out Edit: Don't worry about it lol, I found a digital copy of the HL2 Collector's Edition that includes day one builds of not only HL2, but also HL Source and Counter-Strike Source.

[@krle7970]

So you have been waiting for episode 3 since before the release? Oh my

[@WIP03]

The original Xbox can be hardware modded to have a CPU running at 1.4Ghz and use 128mb of ram, it would be cool to see what kind of frame rate improvements this would give to the game.

[@Chuked]

The power of technology at our fingertips

[@JohnSmith-fq3rg]

Literally none, why the fuck would it? It can't run at any faster frame rate, it cannot use additional ram, and thr assumption slowdowns are primarily cpu bound and not gpu bound isnt true for most of the game. Even the load times are more related to reading the disc from the drive than the cpu.

[@chrislaezur730]

You seem like a very measured and fun individual to be around.

[@erxer1]

@@JohnSmith-fq3rg it can as long as you patch the xex file. There's a whole group of people making ram patches for games on xbox.

[@JohnSmith-fq3rg]

@@erxer1 It would be better to focus effort on improving the xbox emulator for access to real improvements to performance and useful modifications like better resolutions and filtering options like the ps2 emulator has access to, rather than expensive and difficult modifications to actual physical hardware to create bootleg xbox devkits.

[@KanetheGoofster]

Hl2 survivor is probably the only Main HL Game with the Most Pre-Rendered Cutscenes.

[@GCB-mf9ir]

ラズロ！彼は彼の世代の最高の頭脳でした！ Also the heavy combines actually look pretty cool in that multiplayer mode for the arcade

[@charly6066]

my first experience with half life as a whole was on the orange box for the 360 when i was 10. it was christmas 2013 and id only had a 360 since my birthday in september and i was obsessed with portal 2 at the time so i asked for the orange box to play portal 1. i played it for a bit and immediately got sidetrackef by HL2 and thus began my obsession with the universe those games r set in and it was also my first experience with tf2, which is now my fav game of all time. i began using my dads laptop a few months later and the rest is history. the orange box will forever have a place in my heart for all this.

[@Chuked]

Fun fact: The orange box is actually the only way to play half life 2 on xbox series x, orange box was not made backwards compatible with ps4/ps5 so its pretty much the only way that your able to play it on a modern console

[@Spewa-em8cm]

@@Chuked Is that why the 360 version is so expensive nowadays?

[@Pinkerton03]

@@Spewa-em8cm That and it has no digital copy capable of being bought. It's disc only

[@trashcanman6649]

@@Chuked The PS3 Orange Box sucked. The performance was sometimes really shitty. But yeah Half Life seriously needs a new release for modern plattforms. The best way to play Half Life is still the PC.

[@mihalytihany]

Orange Box was the best ever game package dreamt up ever.

[@dabogabo]

Yep, the Xbox port kinda is reminiscent of how people played it on low specs in 2004-2005. I certainly played it that way.

[@FinnLovesFP]

i remember back then, the only thing i had to game on that had internet, was my laptop, and valve games were a huge go to. and it was a great time given the modding scene with conversion mods and mappacks and skins. remember all of that. having to run at 480p on my laptop to hit maybe 30 / 40fps. the laptop wasnt powerful. but it certainly helped me discover half life and portal back in the 2000's.

[@dabogabo]

@@FinnLovesFP Yep. I remember I had a P4 or a Celeron and Nvidia with 64 mb of vram and played it on medium-low settings.

[@budenovka747]

my earliest memory of half life 2 was on the original xbox when i was pretty young, i only played for a little bit i still remember the section, i loaded a save where i spawned in boxcars joes little house and played up to the part at station 8 with the metrocops on the turrets i also remember the seesaw puzzle with the concrete cinders, playing hl2 on the xbox is what got me into the series

[@parzivalthewanderer9687]

Man, that original xbox version gets me nostalgic. I remember getting that as my first playthrough

[@bickboose9364]

I had the PS3 version and thought I bought a faulty disc. That audio crackle was quite annoying. You'd just suddenly start hearing all the sfx getting deepfryed then after a minute or two it would go away.

[@domthree]

7:33 "mommy thicc gf co- i mean- the uh, combine assassin model..." oh, radhaz, how you never fail to impress me

[@AnarchistOlogo2005]

the arcade version feels like one of those fever dreams but in a good way, HL2: survivor reminds me that there was a japanese arcade version of left 4 dead 2 aswell, left 4 dead: survivors, It makes me wonder how other popular valve games like tf2 and portal would be if they gotten a japanese arcade version aswell, I like Half life 2 survivor's multiplayer though, makes it look like tf2 and half life combined, like the team fortress 2: invasion before the game was finished, anyways, good video as always radhaz :)

[@the_only_ag1]

Rad take your time making this videos and don't pressure yourself too much, great video as always.

[@cuanta9441]

Man you need to talk the ports for hl1 the sega dreamcast cancelled, the weird ps2 port that its better quality than the damn hd models for tje pc version and more also good video as usual man Edit: 3:04 that voice break lol

[@streetystuff]

You forgot that in HL2:S the goofy ahh soldier gasmask returns!

[@thejonathan130]

Half Life 2 on Xbox was my introduction to Half-Life.

[@spyczech]

2:30 I just wanted to mention a game deve perspective, intentionally breaking player flow during tutorials can be useful to make the information stand out, especially at an arcade where flow state is less important than the person who put quarters in knowing how to play

[@chief6926]

Great video RadHaz, it's amazing to think that the original Xbox was even able to handle half life 2 with only some graphical changes

[@sbplankton_1999]

Time stamp 0:00 intro 0:35 HL2S 7:50 HL2 original Xbox-port 10:00 TOB PS3 & Xbox 360 11:53 outro

[@MinsideLetsplay]

Words can't describe how much I waited for this video!!! so good!

[@bj0urne]

Half-Life 2/Doom 3 for the OG Xbox can be compared to making a port of something like Red Dead Redemption 2 for Xbox 360, back in the day a 2001 console running 2004 pc games was unthinkable.

[@g0rdonfreeman1]

awesome vid, ive been waiting a long time to see hl survivor on here

[@awesomesource12]

I first played the ps3 version and loved it, when I finally played the pc version it was surprising to me how it was basically that same

[@engineergaming4123]

man i didnt watch your vids for a while, i missed em, thanks!

[@ElmeriThePig]

Waterfront sounds like a name for TF2 map.

[@quinnpeterson9138]

Cp_Waterfront I can see it now

[@lambda-m1676]

T H E F O R T R E S S O F W A T E R F R O N T

[@DaRealBruner]

While Half-Life 2 Survivor is kind of a ridiculous port, and to be honest, sucks haaard... I've got a weird love for it. It's charming in my opinion.

[@gladius4487]

My first experiences of HL2 was playing the Orange Box on my 360. That weapon wheel is such an iconic and nostalgic sight for me. Going back to it from the PC version feels dodgy (especially looking around with the joystick) but it was always a lot of fun.

[@coltforceplayer]

Yeah having the weapon wheel cover your screen like it should

[@NOVAFrederick]

Aside from the original Xbox's audio differences, there are several changes to the maps for performance reasons, some of them trimming the skybox, others changing straight up geometry. Several examples of this can be seen in the map right before water hazard (where you encounter the headcrab shellings for the first time) Another painful but nessecary change is that the room full of explosive barrels in route kanal only has a handful of barrels instead. Finally it is worth mentioning that the cheat codes from the orange box are present in the o.g. xbox version as well. (yes you can spam healthpacks until you got a whole pile of them, crash your console at your own risk though!)

[@CallmeAlexey]

i always wondered more informations about survivor! i heard of some people trying to ABH there lol. imo moving yourself is not exactly like other arcade but they made it pretty fitting, its charming.

[@ProdByFlabbzy]

i adore the hl2s orange boxs Title screen UI shame it isnt on the retail version/Bulid

[@plutesmegutes7174]

God I have so MANY memories with the orange box on the PS3!

[@1mpact594]

Its nice you have a colleberation (I Don't know to spell it correctly) anyways your content absolutey Interesting. You earned a sub dude!

[@YYOTT06]

Your videos are soo interesting

[@ConstantBit9]

Sometimes I wish I was born a wee bit earlier than 2005, just to be old enough to experience the whole console wars thing and the good ol' Valve times.

[@re4796]

I was born in 2007, and I was able to experience it in time, the Orange Box on the Xbox 360 was my first introduction to Valve and it's games, more than 7 years ago. Yeah, it's a bummer that I was never able to be there on release day, or recall the same sort of nostalgia for the titles as the adults who were able to play it before I was born. But atleast I'm lucky enough to have played and finished the Half Life franchise during my lifetime. Although, I suppose, either way, I would not have been able to experience the game on release, as my nation was consumed by war during 2003-2005 (Iraq).

[@andresbravo2003]

Well, this might be quite cool to check it out!

[@nicholaswilson4895]

At 9:21 I think he meant the pickup model for the AR2's alt fire ammo. It was yellow and red instead it being black and hollow in the middle. Its on the pulse rifle page on the combine wiki if your interested

[@MrBirchieBirch]

My first playthrough was on the 360 - incredible game, but the end boss battle at the end of episode 2 was ridiculously tough on the hardest difficulty level. Played through it again on PC (Core i7 + GTX 1070 laptop) back in 2017. Loved it just as much! To this day, one of the very best games I've played in 35+ years of gaming.

[@RoshiGaming]

I would love if someone recreated Survivor as a "half life 2 mod" to make it just work like any other hl2 mod on PC... can't help but think some of the classes in that versus mode almost look like a pre-tf2 tf2....

[@aSkyclad]

Actually someone did, it's called Survivor 2.0, but the servers are pretty much dead

[@RoshiGaming]

@@aSkyclad oh neat, I'll have to dig and see if I can't find the files somewhere to even play with just a friend or two

[@RoshiGaming]

@@aSkyclad finally checked it out , looks cool! i need to look more into it and see if theeres a discord for it or something, seems a shame to have no one playing it

[@lambdrey]

Funny story: I bought an Xbox 360, just to try out Half-Life 2 on console. I've regret my decision, but won't sell anything from it. My hype might come back and maybe I can play other games on this console in the future.

[@JohnSmith-fq3rg]

Unlike halo which slows the reticlue when you get close to an enemy organically, or modern shooters like cod with good aim sensitivity and aiming down sights, valve shooters on console generally play like ass, left 4 dead is bearable due to it's gameplay style and the high mobility helping overcome for one stick aiming difficulties, but good god did they barely try to make them feel comfortable to control.

[@lambdrey]

@@JohnSmith-fq3rg I think, I should only play car driving games on console, since they are fun.

[@Zakkious]

If you care about rockstar's games, you now have a dedicated Red Dead Redemption 1 machine

[@lambdrey]

@@Zakkious No, I'm not a big fan of Rockstar's videogames, my brother is.

[@wizardlycash2507]

I remember the original xbox only running at like 30 fps when running half life 2.

[@combine_soldier]

hope to see other ports too

[@Daburubareru]

iirc some models of HL2survivor as you said in the video were based off from the beta, in my theory as someone who make stuff sometimes in Source it's a modified version of the Combine Assassin in my memory iirc and the survival mode look really unique and cool.

[@DeadPollo]

before joining the PC Master Race, my beginning to Valve's title begun with PS3's Orange Box. That made me fall on love with Gaben's titles.

[@justwhattheheck]

7:13 that made my day. Especially the scream. It's nice to see more combine models, but why the heck would they divide combine to male/female is a question that haunts me. And human models look too out of place. Thanks, Japan.

[@bukachell]

Honestly the chapter title cards look awesome

[@4.0.4]

The arcade version feels like a fever dream. It's like if someone took a Tolkien book and tried to make it into a slice of life anime, and Gandalf now is a cute girl.

[@scoregasm]

ty for video mane

[@Stefanutsu]

Out of the consoles on the thumbnail, Japan is definitely my top tier pick.

[@IDoABitOfTrollin]

OG Xbox was my first time playing Half Life 2. First half life game too. I remember breaking out of the map by prop jumping using pallets and small objects (which was removed in Orange Box)

[@JetpacktheSpartan404]

7:32 NO NOT AGAIN RAD! GOSH DARN IT!

[@ireneparkin3360]

The PlayStation 3 version of this game eats memory like no tomorrow, like getting up to 11GB just to save.

[@kylefinn5301]

Honestly, HL2 is the last thing I would’ve expected to have an arcade port of.

[@mihalytihany]

Being a big Half Life fan am really surprised a had not ever seen or heard of the arcade version of HL2.

[@ARF-2345]

Nice video Hazard

[@PopeRecords]

I played the Original Xbox and Xbox 360 versions of the game, that was a fun time I remember how weird it was on the original xbox when I was a really young kid, and then the way better improvement in the 360 version.

[@toprocket8556]

Half-life arcade is what Gordon Freeman sees when he puts on his helmet lol

[@lucialambda]

the old combine ball model is referencing the pickup model btw

[@truthspeaker7878]

IMAGINE being a japanese kid who didnt have a console at home so he went to his local arcade in akihabara cus they had that one wierd survivor half life arcade machine and it was such an in depth game for an arcade and he couldnt get enough

[@tarekcat1]

6:19 it seems to be the kill confirmed game mode

[@ZAXTAX4063]

nice video!

[@matsnilson7727]

Half-Life 2 is very cool, and the only game I have played on four different systems. Started playing the X360 version a few days ago.

[@becraftmeboi]

Radiation Hazard has been uploading great videos every 2-4 days, and i absolutely appreciate that.

[@CombineD3V]

Cool vid👍

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

People managed to port the Combine Assassin and Gordon Freeman from HL2: Survivor which were used in GMod and machinima for a long time.

[@baconbusiness]

I played the ps3 version, and it ran very smoothly and was generally amazing.

[@marcel1372]

wow imagine if they did portal co-op as an arcade cabinet like this. I think it would be very popular

[@johnjohnathon4144]

This man is truly powered by source

[@cropathfinder]

Honestly a HL2 campaign as a rail shooter could work, pretty much all areas and enemies would fit well for that, i think the arcade should have been that honestly .

[@simplex7096]

my first contact with half life 2 was with the xbox version, i was blown by it

[@AngryShooter]

Can you imagine today's Valve going out of their way to port and adapt an entire game to arcade? It would never happen lol. They can't even be bothered to bring Half-Life: Alyx to Playsation VR, the single biggest VR game platform.

[@Jalecko]

i remember playing the japanese arcade version at a random arcade in Tilburg NB

[@johno1544]

I thought the P3 audio bugs were so annoying that I went back to playing my Xbox version back in the day

[@gael53zombieqc13]

Very interesting video for real to see another form of half-life 2 is pretty nice

[@FantasyNero]

9:44 I played Day 1 Half-Life 2 on PC at 1024x768 max settings, i also tried it on my newer PC the Geforce GTS 8600 at 1280x1024 Max settings, it was a much better Visual & Graphics than the Original Xbox Port

[@soundclock2939]

I essentially grew up on Valve games through console cause I didn't have a pc to play any real fps games till I was like 16 so my first time playing HL2 was through the orange box on ps3. It's not that bad of a port but once I played it on pc I couldn't go back, the controller just feels so slow in comparison to using a precise mouse. I do go back and play the classic tf2 on ps3 however, I prefer the game without all the crazy updates when it was just casual

[@Wheagg]

Yeah, the PS3 version also has a config you can edit using a flash drive and a CRC32 bypass tool to bind things like noclip to the controller. Unfortunately I don't think you can add maps. Oh well.

[@markayers6454]

rize and shine mr gmanlol

[@insetfurball5572]

5:50 half-life fortress 2 6:50 zombie house? does it belong to zombie goasts?

[@sometimesidreamaboutcheese]

...to be continued? (c)

[@kynmasters8670]

Orange Box on Series X runs at 60fps with HDR. It's really nice.

[@CatsT.M]

"We remember the Freeman, we are coterminous."

[@chrisvisser-fee2631]

"you can quick ave by holding down the start button" you can?! I played that port like ten tims through!

[@kodak1587]

3:25 So weird seeing a Combine APC in that setting

[@Wamvilles]

the arcade version of half life 2 is like assassin's creed before origins

[@ROM30S]

HL2 xbox 360 version on the xbox one x or series x is a good chilled way to play it. SInce you can lay back in the couch and actually works really well with the xbox controller.

[@mNucleus]

i love half life 2 survivor combine's

[@JUVENTINO1602]

good one pal

[@thejonathan130]

You could spawn medkits on either the xbox or 360 version (maybe both?) Up up, down down, left right, left right, B A

[@PaulSchlock]

It worked on both, the ammo code worked as well. Used it to get The One Free Bullet achievement on the 360 lol

[@genericdude430]

Fun fact: i completed the levels to the first one to office complex I think.

[@Hyperion-5744]

I didn't know this version of half life 2 even existed.

[@jess648]

Survivor is an absolute fever dream

[@the-official-master-gamer]

I didn't say this but much like big Lolly I have seen all of these in a video but it was such a long time ago that this feels like a new video but I played the orange box

[@bitterman213]

If you haven't played half life 2 on an xbox, I definitely recommend it. Get drunk first, then try to propfly on a controller.

[@3333218]

I wish someone would port HL2 survivor models, enemies and weapons into regular HL2. Some of that stuff looks really cool, like a better more polished version of early beta assets.

[@wolfcl0ck]

As someone who's played Half-Life 2 Survivor on a real arcade cabinet, I have to say, it is quite a bizarre experience to play Half-Life 2 with cutscenes, and even more bizarre that we got Valve's original official Gordon Freeman model for the Source engine from here out of any place (Several sources have confirmed over the years that the gordon freeman model in it is the same that was used as a basis for the game's key art.) The Xbox port was such a bizarre thing. It came as the result of Valve needing to do good on their end of a contract with Microsoft wherein which they were obligated to create a game for the Xbox. This was originally going to be "Teebo and Kai," a game commissioned by Valve and planned to be made by Escape Factory. Valve pulled the plug on it, though, and the result was that they needed to port HL2 to the Xbox to honor their agreement. This actually led to the game being quite a bit bottlenecked, as, if not for the Xbox, the game could have had increased level fidelity. Still, the port is miraculous and, even if it feels pretty bad to play compared to the other versions, it's still impressive that it happened in the first place. Ah, and who can forget about the Orange Box? The best game pack to ever be released for, well, anything ever. God bless.

[@klimaxkid]

Survivor may suck, but hey we finally got an official Gordon model

[@returnlaboratories6841]

Nice video homie.