‘Rise and Shine, Mr. Freeman’.
A modder has successfully decompiled the Dreamcast edition of legendary first-person adventure, Half-Life (1998). The project, executed by modder “maximqad” and reported by Sega Dreamcast Info, sees Valve’s cancelled Sega port reverse-engineered, freeing up its source code for the homebrew community.
But that’s not all. Given access to Half-Life’s infrastructure, maximqad has been able to integrate online multiplayer support. This is an especially impressive feat, as while Half-Life DC has been accessible ever since it was first leaked in the early ’00s, the multiplayer component has remained buried deep within its source code, lacking key elements that would have made it playable (even if the title had reached the market)
Read the full article on timeextension.com
‘Rise and Shine, Mr. Freeman’.
A modder has successfully decompiled the Dreamcast edition of legendary first-person adventure, Half-Life (1998). The project, executed by modder “maximqad” and reported by Sega Dreamcast Info, sees Valve’s cancelled Sega port reverse-engineered, freeing up its source code for the homebrew community.
But that’s not all. Given access to Half-Life’s infrastructure, maximqad has been able to integrate online multiplayer support. This is an especially impressive feat, as while Half-Life DC has been accessible ever since it was first leaked in the early ’00s, the multiplayer component has remained buried deep within its source code, lacking key elements that would have made it playable (even if the title had reached the market)
Read the full article on timeextension.com
