Play Half-Life with the Portal Gun!!!

(* Reprinted from http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/17/half-life-2-portal/.)

To start, check out this video we cut together to show you “Half-Life 2: Portal” in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKg3TUPQ8Sg

Now, follow our instructions below to the letter and you’ll be firing your gravity gun through portals at unsuspecting Combine in no time.

• First off, backup up your entire Portal directory in a safe place. It’s the folder marked ‘portal’ in ..\Steam\steamapps\(your_username)\. We, nor Valve, take any responsibility in the unlikely event of you hosing your game files. Worse comes to worse though, you could always just redownload.
• Next, download and install, if you haven’t already, GCFScape. This handy program will allow you to access the cached game files for any Source-powered game, in addition to several other Steam games you may have downloaded.
• Once that’s done, browse to the directory ..\Steam\steamapps\. There, you’ll see all the available GCF archives. We’ll start with Half-Life 2.
• Open the GCF marked ‘half-life 2 content.gcf’ You’ll see a directory tree in the left pane. Click the box to the left of the folder marked ‘hl2’ to see the directory listing contained within it. Then, right-click ‘maps,’ select ‘Extract’ and extract the entire folder into the directory \Steam\steamapps\the_great_bundini\portal\portal. This will merge it with the existing Portal map folder.
• Do the same with the ’scenes’ folder
• Fire up Steam and run Portal. When it’s done doing its thing, open up the developer console with ‘~’ (you may need to enable it under your keyboard options).
• At the console, type ‘maps *’ to list all the available maps. Now that you’ve imported the Half-Life 2 maps, this will be a fairly lengthy list and some of the names, like citadel and canals, should seem familiar.
• Type ‘map’ and then the map name to open that map. For instance, ‘map d1_canals_01’
• When the map is done loading, pull up the console again and enable cheats by entering ‘sv_cheats 1’
• To give yourself all weapons, including the portal gun, enter ‘impulse 101’
• Depending on how far you got in Portal, you may need to upgrade the portal gun to fire both portals. Enter ‘upgrade_portalgun’ to do so
• Go lay waste to some alien scum with the power of portals!

Here are some more thoughts on our experiences:

• Follow the same steps if you’d like to try it out with Half-Life 2: Deatmatch or Episodes 1 and 2.
• We actually highly recommend starting with the HL2: DM maps to give you a feel of how things operate and allow you to experiment with various techniques. You can spawn an enemy by first looking where you would like him to be placed and then entering, say, ‘npc_create_equipment weapon_shotgun; wait; npc_create npc_combine_s’ to create a Combine soldier with a shotgun. (Visit this HL2 Filefront page for more details)
• Sorry, but we’ve racked our brains and can’t figure out a simple way to get multiple people into a game of HL2: DM this way. We’re sure some enterprising group of modders will come up with something in the coming weeks, though.
• We did not attempt to do this with Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, or Day of Defeat: Source. As fun as it might sound in theory, we would like to dissuade you from trying it as well, as it probably won’t yield any real satisfactory results.
• All the same

No fucking way. If i had time I would try this now... but it will have to wait

now that....is simply AMAZING

that IS amazing.. imagine somebody come up with a mod that allows you to play TF2 with the portal gun.. total mayhem

... more like system crash ... trying to model the physics involved over a multiplayer server would be insane.  Still, this is amazing ...

Zomg *nosebleed headdesk seizure*

The_great_bundini wtf? where is that? cant find it.

omg im a 360 gamer and im really want this hack! is there anyway to get this on my 360?if there is plz send me a invite

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Haha... that's a Steam account that belongs to the dude who wrote the article.  My first guess would be that one would replace that foolish name with their own foolish name.

I haven't tried it yet.  Report if you guys actually get this work.  Looks cool as hell.

I'm SO trying this today!

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Nope, PC only.