01-29-2014 05:50 PM
01-30-2014 09:11 AM
"Marulu" wrote:
Back in June Valve accidentally released a beta update for the original Portal which added Oculus Rift support to the game. The beta was pretty buggy and because of that they removed the support using an update.
Someone who didn´t update Portal and who was opted into this beta should still have the official Portal 1 VR support on their PC. If you still have it on your PC, you could check the files of your Portal installation and based on the file changing date determine which files were part of the VR update. Using those files someone could make a VR patch for the community.
I really would love to replay Portal 1 in VR, I sadly lost my VR beta because of this update. I hope someone gives this a shot and makes a VR patch.
Just releasing these files in a zip file, with instructions on where to place them would re-enable us to play the game in VR.
-Marulu
P.S. I don´t think doing this would be illegal, because there are many websites distributing official patches for games that are no longer available.
01-31-2014 05:54 PM
01-31-2014 06:46 PM
"bobv5" wrote:
I think I still have it on my other machine.
Data want to be free, happy to share, but not much upload bandwidth. Sugestions?
02-01-2014 07:42 PM
02-01-2014 11:50 PM
02-02-2014 05:25 AM
"bobv5" wrote:
OK, Have a directory named "portal" Fairly certain it is the right thing.
It is just under 4 gigabyte. Compressing it now. Dont know if it will help...
EDIT: Files from june 28, before the disable update was pushed to me.
EDIT 2: Drop box sucks. They want to install stuff on my computer, that ain't happening. Using some other generic fille upload site.
02-03-2014 04:00 AM
02-05-2014 04:09 PM
02-05-2014 06:37 PM
"bobv5" wrote:
The 28th is not when the files changed, but when I copied them to a different disk. The files are from before the VR was disabled. I tried to upload on Sunday, but something went wrong when I was sleeping.
I don't think it could be illegal to send you a copy of a game you already own (have licence, or whatever), as long as I dont include a crack.
If you only want specific files, you are either going to have to explain it to me like you would to your grandmother, or write some sort of script that will harvest them for you. (This is a windows machine generally, but can boot linux if that is easier)