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There are no limits for the Half-Life community where Manny, a software engineer, managed to run HL1 natively on a Playstation 1! "Not an emulator nor a demake: a renderer and game runtime written from scratch in Rust. Built on PSoXide, a PS1 development suite" Learn more below

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Vedris1 month ago

you guys just LOVE to post things without doing your research its vibecoded

LambdaGeneration1 month ago

We noticed that he 'lean on AI code to speed up the stack' but confirms he has been writing code for 8 yrs before AI wave'.

Tdawg1 month ago

@vedrisnightmare Just because you code for 8 years before doesn’t mean you have the skill or expertise to make something like this without AI. That’s why projects like these are impressive, devs get to show their skills

The du der1 month ago

This was vibecoded. Don't get me wrong though, AI code for a proof of concept isnt the end of the world. For instance, the guy who ported doom to the loopy converted the decomped version of gba doom to loopy machine code out of pure convenience because who in their right mind -

Arcade Random Posting1 month ago

Not gonna lie, that looks fucking horrible. Nothing really impressive about it. If it runs that bad during Hazard Course then imagine surface tension or we got hostles...

Mark Osokin1 month ago

WHAT IF…? • Half-Life (1998 | PlayStation) • Half-Life 2 (2004 | PlayStation 2) • Half-Life: Alyx (2020 | PlayStation 5)

Maxzymator1 month ago

PS1 starting chime is the best thing humanity ever created.

gamingbuddy321 month ago

Who is brave enough to beat the whole game

Tara1 month ago

vibeslop repo

TheLemonBread1 month ago

Sadly it's mostly made with AI. So it's not something like "Net Yaroze".

HowlingKosher1 month ago

"Written in Rust"

Oomeniels1 month ago

Unironically, I theorized about THIS for like 7 years

spamton larper1 month ago

>Ai but it works and is quirky and has the framerate of 3d movie maker

I AM A 991 month ago

This has AI slop vibecoding in it btw

hellacious phlegm1 month ago

it's still a demake if it was made from scratch

BoJustBo1 month ago

I remember playing the first few chapters of the game as a wee lad on a computer too old to properly play it back in 99 and the framerate wasn't much better than this.

Matias45ch🇦🇷🇨🇻🇧🇩🇮🇩🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪1 month ago

un verdadero port imposible, y muchos creiamos que ni una n64 podria.... y lo terminan porteando A LA PLAYSTATION ORIGINAL. Increible.

MiRA1 month ago

Runs about as well as Half Life 2 on Xbox /pos

cheshiregrinch 🇵🇸1 month ago

between this and getting doom to run* on the neo geo, it's always impressive seeing hardware pushed beyond their limits

Matthew Bester 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿1 month ago

Well, at least it sounds OK 👏🏻

Tr!cksy 💅1 month ago

Fhuck yes

Ozeniken1 month ago

this is by definition a demake, no

YEWH1 month ago

Básicamente un port, pero, este es HL1?

Eduardo R.1 month ago

Quiero probarlo :')

Lewber1 month ago

We got a PS1 port before Half life 3

KillerSneak1 month ago

Amazing

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