ORANGE BOX!

[EverBlue]

LOL!
I take offense to the Manchester United 0. -.-
But that made me LOL pretty hard. What an awesome review.
OMG..

Anyways, this is actually PRETTY cool. If you've beaten Orange Box, and wanna give Half-life2 (+ both episodes) a go with the portal gun.. Here's how!!

So youve played through Portal and loved every minute as much as we did. Maybe youve even gone through the advanced maps and tried out some of the challenges? So what comes next?

How about the ability to play through Half-Life 2, HL2 Episodes, or other Source-powered games with the portal gun in-hand? Weve been doing that very thing for the past few days now, and after hours spent experimenting with various techniques and tricks, were here to show you how.

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

Now, follow our instructions below to the letter and youll 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. Its 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 havent 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 thats done, browse to the directory ..\Steam\steamapps\. There, youll see all the available GCF archives. Well start with Half-Life 2.
  
  
• Open the GCF marked half-life 2 content.gcf Youll 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 its 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 youve 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!
  

Source: Primotech

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[Magoo!]

If at first you don't succeed; you fail.

Portal looks so sexy. I really want the Box.