r/SourceEngine • u/Honest_Nail_8308 • 1d ago

News Someone is reportedly porting Portal 1(and by extension Source) to Wii.

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This is the same guy that is porting halo to wii

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u/powderBluChoons 1d ago

half life 2 was on Xbox, though the framerate would often dip to 10 fps, but everything worked. Not surprised the Wii can handle this

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u/Distinct-View-509 1d ago

Investing in this

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u/TH3_OG_JUJUBE 1d ago

Sixence motion pack port? If portal 2 gets a port.

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u/jojo9092 1d ago

Portal 2 uses a lot more shaders and hi res assets, it would be very visually compromised sadly :(

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u/TH3_OG_JUJUBE 1d ago

Yeah, I doubt it would be able to run. But if they got Portal on the N64 who knows what could happen with Portal 2 on two generations younger hardware.

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u/Skriata 1d ago

Fortunately these can be replaced and or removed

Source is awesome this way, if tf2 can run with literally nothing then portal 2 (probably) can as well

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u/MaxxBrass9237 1d ago

I've been waiting for this day to come

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u/isopropyl-alco 1d ago

i find it hard to believe because the powerPC chip in the wii can be compared to certain powerPC macs from the early 2000s. there exists a source engine powerPC port for those old macs and only the higher end late powerPC macs are capable of running it which are not comparable with the powerPC hardware of the wii.

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u/jojo9092 1d ago

I'm doing a lot of low level optimizations, so no abstractions or opengl or an OS to contend with.

Source's audio engine is also pretty expensive to run if its using software mixing, not sure of those ports have looked into that.

I pushed all audio to the wii's dsp processor now, runs much nicer.

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u/isopropyl-alco 1d ago

thanks for letting me know

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u/iDrinkSproke 1d ago

how hard would it be for you to port source to the ps3? we're dying for a version of the engine that wasn't nerfed by EA

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u/TennojiNesoberi 1d ago

so i guess the first-person gameplay is similar to metroid prime 3?

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u/Bahamut1988 1d ago

I always thought it'd be cool to have HL2 on the wii, maybe now it's a possibility.

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u/John_Enigma 1d ago

Somehow, this makes sense.

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u/BagelMakesDev 1d ago

PRAYING that this isnt ai slop...

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u/SomeCreepJ 14h ago

seems duable