Half-Life (PlayStation 2)

Half-Life
Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: Sierra Entertainment Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in US: November 11, 2001 Released in EU: November 30, 2001 This game has unused animations. This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article This game has a bugs page

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

To do: Tons of content to add: Thread on various findings Cut missions Great related article Animations

Upgraded with improved graphics and slapped onto a CD, this port of Half-Life also included an extra co-op campaign called Decay in which two female scientists fight to stabilize the situation in Black Mesa during the Resonance Cascade. A fan-made port to the PC version of Half-Life emerged from Ukraine in 2008.

Sub-Pages

Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Bugs

Half-Life: Decay Unused content found in the co-op campaign included with this PlayStation 2 port.

Unused Graphics

Save Icon

Texture	Save Icon

The lambda save icon texture has a ring around it that isn't used by the model.

Unused Models

5ton

A model-based version of the military trucks seen throughout the game. In-game they retain their original brush-based appearance. This truck's windows use a separate model. The model also has some animations: drive, drive_left, drive_right, tires_left and tires_right. Two submodels exist: one with opaque windows and another that is destroyed.

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  drive

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  drive_left

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  drive_right

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  Destroyed submodel.

5ton_clear

A model for the aforementioned truck's windows. Judging from the name, this window model is meant to be transparent.

bradley

A model-based version of the M2 Bradleys seen in "Surface Tension" and "Forget about Freeman!". Just like the truck, they retain their original brush-based appearance in-game. The model also has a somewhat unfinished interior. A destroyed submodel also exists.

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  The interior.

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  Destroyed submodel.

chumtoad

The Chumtoad that seems to be directly ported from the PC version instead of getting the HD treatment.

Debug Console

To do: Confirm if launching the ELF with the -console, -toconsole, or -dev arguments also enables it. If -dev is used, it'll also toggle sv_cheats and developer.

A debug console can be activated after either applying one of the codes below, or adding console "1" to system.cfg in the save data, and pressing ~ with an attached USB keyboard. The same European code applies to all five of the known regional releases.

EUR	00331918 00000000
USA	00331C18 00000000
Demo	0033F618 00000000

(Source: Edness)

PS2 Port Specific Console Commands & CVars

To do: There are more commands and CVars, Look further into this.

Commands

goto <x> <y> <z>

Teleports you to the specified coordinates.

fly

Supposed to make you fly, but doesn't seem to do anything.

impulse 222

An "impulse" command that gives the player infinite ammo, likely used for the corresponding unlockable cheat code.

Removed Video Display Mode

Within guidef.txt, which contains the sources for the main menu GUI, is the option for a fully functional toggle between PAL/NTSC display modes that is completely commented out. When this is restored and activated, it toggles the game's refresh rate and internal vertical resolution between appropriate PAL and NTSC values.

(Source: supadupaplex)

Unused Sounds

Alien Mode

There are twelve variations of the "gibberish" that replaces the regular dialogue when playing in Alien Mode, however, only three of these variations are used.

Voice Outtakes

To do: Do the outtakes belong in the Decay subpage?

Since the Half-Life voice cast had to be brought back in to record new lines for Decay, the developers decided to have a bit of fun. According to Randy Pitchford, a special map was made for these, but it doesn't seem to be in the released game data.

Interestingly, these aren't just voice samples - there is a modified scientist model (outtakes_scientist.mdl) that contains a couple of additional animations relating to the name tag and Headcrab lines, and Dr. Keller has a lengthy "surprise" animation to go along with his little Dr. Strangelove tribute.

Sound	Name	Sentence	Transcript
	SC_OUTTAKE01	scientist/ot01_nametag	Can you read my name tag?
	SC_OUTTAKE0	scientist/ot02_nicergraphics	Just about... these graphics are really much nicer.
	SC_OUTTAKE03	scientist/ot03_lookatme	Definitely, I mean, look at me! I can even point now.
	SC_OUTTAKE04	scientist/ot04_eyesclosed	I'm sorry, I had my eyes closed. These new eyelids are amazing.
	SC_OUTTAKE05	scientist/ot05_toilet1	Hey, hey, alright... Which one of you guys locked me in here?
	SC_OUTTAKE06	scientist/ot06_gorman1	I'm afraid we'll be deviating a bit from standard analysis procedures today, Gorman. What?
	SC_OUTTAKE07	scientist/ot07_gorman2	It's Gordon, jeez. Can't even get the hero's name right.
	SC_OUTTAKE08	scientist/ot08_resetthestage	What the hell is wrong with our equip-- I'm sorry. Sorry, can we do this again? Reset the stage, please.
	SC_OUTTAKE09	scientist/ot09_toilet2	I'm serious now, this has become quite annoying.
	SC_OUTTAKE10	scientist/ot10_buttons	Any idea what these buttons do?
	SC_OUTTAKE11	scientist/ot11_buttons2	Not a clue, just pretend like it's something important.
	SC_OUTTAKE12	scientist/ot12_gorman3	Ahh, Gorman, there you are-- Darn it... Let's do it again...
	SC_OUTTAKE13	scientist/ot13_headcrab	Guys, I need some help here! I'm having a hard time breathing through this thing! Can we take five?!
	SC_OUTTAKE14	scientist/ot14_toilet3	Hello, hello? Come on, guys.
	SC_OUTTAKE15	scientist/ot15_gorman4	Good morning, Gorman. Crap... nobody tell Gabe, okay?
	SC_OUTTAKE16	scientist/ot16_typecasting	You know, I'm starting to think that they are typecasting me!
	SC_OUTTAKE17	scientist/ot17_particleguy	♪ Particle Guy, Particle Guy, doing the things that a particle might? What's he like? It's not important. Particle Guy. ♪

Sound	Filename	Transcript	Notes
	forcefield_b	Gordon, I'm very concerned about these electrical force field barriers. What will happen if we have a power outage?	This unused line is a nod to USS Darkstar, a high-quality Half-Life mod by Neil Manke that had less-than-high-quality voice acting. According to Randy Pitchford, the Gearbox team thought it'd be funny to re-record some of the lines with the official Scientist actor.

(Source: Gearbox Software Forums)

Campaign and Decay Model Differences

The main story campaign and Decay use a different set of models from each other. While this mostly results in the model textures in Decay having a lower resolution, there are some models that have some unique differences between the two versions.

Agrunt

The Alien Grunt's texture in Decay has less saturated colors, and its skin is less shiny.

Barney

The security guard's leg holder strap in Decay is modeled into his leg. The security guard's arms, hands, and legs are also thicker.

Zombie

The zombie's labcoat in Decay is much bloodier than the main campaign's, and their shoes aren't shiny.

Regional Differences

To do: Europe has some of its levels revisioned with bug fixes.

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Europe

These changes are shared across all five of the known regional releases (Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy).

Anomalous Materials

A few scientists can no longer be forcibly pushed by the player to open doors or skip sections of the chapter. All 3 scientists in the control room and both scientists right before the test chamber are affected.

Intensity dialog

The aforementioned secret dialog in the mission Intensity is absent, and can't be triggered.
While the sound entry in sentences.txt was removed and the map modified, the line was still translated into other languages.

Germany

German releases of Half-Life on PlayStation 2 feature mostly identical censorship to the PC counterpart.

Robot Grunt

Like in the original release, the Human Grunts have been replaced by robots. The model was remade to keep with the game's upgraded visuals. They have the rank insignia of a corporal on their left arm and a white star surrounded by a circle on their chest.

Of interest is that Decay specific lines are simply spoken in a normal human voice instead of having a robotic filter, and they are still referred to as being "soldiers" by other characters.

Violence

Low violence mode is enabled, removing all forms of gibs and blood, and characters fade away whenever they are gibbed. However, Barnacles spew normal human gibs, as the mechanical gibs replacement wasn't ported over.

Like in the original, when a scientist or security guard is killed, they will sit down with their legs crossed and shake their head from side to side in disappointment. Those put into the "sit down" state are still considered solid for a while, and can even be gibbed.

Anomalous Materials

The sitting scientist with a headcrab on his head was completely removed from the map c1a1a.

Oddities

Alien Mode

The Alien Slave "weapon" used for the Alien Mode reuses the Crowbar's world model, player model (p_ model) and HUD icon. These normally go unseen as this "weapon" is given to the player when the game starts in Alien Mode.

0xDEADBEEF

A code oddity like no other. Four console commands seemingly exclusive to this port, those being memmodels, memsound, memhunk and memall, only output 2 different outputs, one of them being 0xDEADBEEF. At one point, these commands were seemingly working before having their functions dummied out for whatever reason. These commands can be easily patched to have their functionality restored.

(Source: supadupaplex)