There is a long and proud tradition of modders running games inside other games, and the latest entry into that hall of fame is a good one. A modder going by RPGKing117 has spent the last several weeks getting The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind up and running inside Fallout 4, playable through the game’s wrist-mounted PipBoy computer. The mod is available now on PC via Nexus Mods.
The technical approach is clever if not exactly simple. OpenMW, the open-source reimplementation of Morrowind, runs in a hidden window locked to 876×700, which then gets upscaled and streamed into Fallout 4 in real time. A custom Fallout 4 Script Extender plugin handles the heavy lifting, bridging keyboard and mouse inputs between the two simultaneously running games. The mod also works on any in-game PC terminal capable of running holotapes, so you are not strictly limited to squinting at Vvardenfell on your character’s wrist.
To get it working, you will need legitimate copies of both Fallout 4 and Morrowind, plus F4SE already installed. OpenMW is bundled with the mod itself. One thing worth flagging: both games run concurrently, so anyone hoping to load this up on a Steam Deck or an older machine should probably temper their expectations before diving in.
RPGKing117 has apparently already fielded the inevitable follow-up question many times over. Yes, a version that runs the original Fallout on the Fallout 4 PipBoy is in progress. It is not finished yet, but the modder has shared early footage showing it in development.
The mod is part of a specific tradition of technically impressive, completely unnecessary projects that the PC modding community keeps producing with admirable regularity. Running Morrowind through OpenMW inside a later Bethesda game, on a fictional wrist computer, while both titles execute in parallel, is precisely the kind of thing that exists because someone decided it should. That is usually enough of a reason.
Source: Kotaku
