Your discs, your PC

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The installer from GitHub, the asset pack for each game you want, and your own discs. The game itself is built on your PC or Steam Deck from the discs you own — nothing of the original games is in any of the downloads.

Step 1 · GitHub

The installer

Project Helix: the installer and the port's own source, MIT licensed. No game code, no game data — it builds both games from your own discs. Install steps are in its README.

Open repo →

Step 2 · 15.2 GB

Fear Effect assets

The remastered pack for Fear Effect: 8× rooms and cutscenes, Hana, Glas, Deke and the enemies remodelled, the redrawn interface.

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Step 2 · 22.6 GB

Fear Effect 2 assets

The remastered pack for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix: 8× rooms and cutscenes, the remodelled cast, live 3D scenes, the redrawn interface.

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What you need

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a graphics card with OpenGL 3.3.
Or a Steam Deck (SteamOS 3): install in Desktop Mode with install.sh, which adds the games to your Steam library, then play in Game Mode. Plan for about 21 GB (Fear Effect) and 33 GB (Fear Effect 2) of free space, internal or SD card.
Your own discs, USA releases: Fear Effect (SLUS-00920, 01056, 01057, 01058) and Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix version 1.1 (SLUS-01266, 01275, 01276, 01277), as BIN/CUE or raw .bin / .img images. A 2048-byte .iso won't work; convert .chd, .pbp or .ecm to BIN/CUE first.
No PlayStation BIOS — the port brings its own.

What's inside — and what isn't

The asset packs hold no programs or scripts — no .exe, .dll, .bat or anything else that runs. Only videos, images, model and animation data, index and table files, and one small generated header, font_table.h: the font layout table the build compiles into the game.
The game is never downloaded as a program. It's compiled on your own PC, from your own discs, by the installer.
The installer is a plain, readable script — install.bat on Windows, install.sh on the Steam Deck. Every tool it fetches comes from its publisher's own download (on Windows: Python from python.org, the GCC compiler, SDL2 and the FFmpeg build from their GitHub releases; on the Deck just the Zig compiler and SDL2's headers, since SteamOS has the rest), pinned to one exact version and verified before it's used.

Take it and run with it

Quality is personal. Some of these rooms will land for you; others won't meet your bar — and that's fair, people hold different standards. So don't take anyone's word for it, this author's included: install it, see the scope for yourself, and judge it on your own terms.

And if you think it falls short, or you can see further than it goes — continue it. The port's code is open, built by one person over many long nights, and it's here for you to carry forward.

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