Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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One of the more interesting ports to the Original Xbox is Half Life 2 released in 2005. It was handled internally by Valve as their first but important step to bring the Source Engine to consoles for the very first time. In today's episode we take a closer look at the port and understand how it was achieved on the OG Xbox with a 733Mhz CPU and just 64Mb of RAM.

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youtube.com/watch?v=sdBM0ldx0Q0
youtube.com/watch?v=1DlBxCbV8_M

TimeStamps:

00:00 - 01:03 - Intro
01:04 - 05:42 - Xbox port tech breakdown
05:43 - 07:35 - Impressive Xbox Audio
07:36 - 10:25 - Does overclocking fix the framerate?
10:26 - 12:05 - Final thoughts and outro

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