Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

Post by ehnto » Tue, Sep 05, 2023, 6:58 AM UTC

dandelany wrote: post #96

lmm wrote: post #73

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> Like your example of a new smartphone or new steamdeck replacing the old Xbox Original: it is almost certain that the electrical consumption gains would not compensate, in terms of total energy and resources spent and pollution made, the discarting of the original xbox Citation needed. We're talking about a huge difference in electrical efficiency.

The “embodied energy” of a new tablet like a Steam Deck is estimated at roughly 1 GJ, which is ~275 kWh. Original Xbox draws around 100W, so you’d need to play for more than 2000 hours to get anywhere close to the energy cost of creating a new device. https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Embodied_energy#:~:t... .

Post by etaioinshrdlu » Tue, Sep 05, 2023, 8:03 AM UTC

bhaney wrote: post #63

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #31

Is there any guide to getting this running on a real N64? I have an everdrive.

I went ahead and built the newest version of the ROM into a .z64 (happened to have a copy of Portal on hand). Here's a magnet link for it if you just want to use it: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5FAD6DBBF02D39AA40062D7F0F498F3F341F8DB3&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

Post by bluescrn » Tue, Sep 05, 2023, 9:18 AM UTC

jtvjan wrote: post #101

bluescrn wrote: post #52

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Looks like you need a PC copy of Portal: https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64/releases (There's some older releases below as a ready-to-go .z64 rom image, though, which should be ready to run on an Everdrive)

Is distributing it as a patch of `portal_pak_000.vpk' meant more as a form of "DRM"? Because I doubt that BPS can manage to reuse a lot of bits from a file meant for a completely different version of the game...

Post by anthk » Tue, Sep 05, 2023, 10:43 AM UTC

Ideenfindung wrote: post #36

I did not know this concept existed, Wonderful Idea, no doubt demakes would be a lot more frequent if we valued ecology and actually tried to curb digital obsolescence as much as possible, in a permacomputing way. I imagine it would be much more straightforward to port pretty much any indie games to consoles like Xbox original onwards, PS3 onwards, Wii onwards, maybe Windows 7 average desktop and notebooks (lots of i…

Post by vel0city » Tue, Sep 05, 2023, 12:19 PM UTC

dandelany wrote: post #96

lmm wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Like your example of a new smartphone or new steamdeck replacing the old Xbox Original: it is almost certain that the electrical consumption gains would not compensate, in terms of total energy and resources spent and pollution made, the discarting of the original xbox Citation needed. We're talking about a huge difference in electrical efficiency.

The “embodied energy” of a new tablet like a Steam Deck is estimated at roughly 1 GJ, which is ~275 kWh. Original Xbox draws around 100W, so you’d need to play for more than 2000 hours to get anywhere close to the energy cost of creating a new device. https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Embodied_energy#:~:t... .