You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

Posted by Alifatisk 5 days ago

You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser(dos.zone)

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dailen 5 days ago|

And it consumes less RAM than msn.com

sehugg 5 days ago||

GTA Vice City was released for iOS devices in 2012, and IIRC it ran pretty well. Not surprising that it runs well with WASM/WebGPU, given the massive increase in GPU performance. I'd imagine that the CPU-bound paths are well-optimized for 2002 Pentiums.

al_borland 5 days ago|

I just re-downloaded Vice City on my iPhone yesterday. It runs well, but the on-screen controls are, well, on-screen controls. That limits how much I actually want to play it.

hoten 5 days ago||

Does a USB/bluetooth gamepad work on that version? Or are people really out there playing GTA on a tiny touch screen?

al_borland 5 days ago||

I just tried an 8bitdo controller I had lying around. It does work, but the controls seem all wrong and need to be remapped. I may do that.

I never carry a controller with me. I'd love to just be able to pick up and play in a waiting room or something without needing to plan for it or having an awkward setup. The MCON looked promising, but still probably bigger than what I'd want to carry around.

pipes 5 days ago||

I came here hoping to see some technical explanation of what this is. E.g.JavaScript emulation of PS2 version? Recompilation + wasm? Something else entirely?

Hamuko 5 days ago|

Says reVC in the description, so it's been decompiled from the original Vice City binary and then reimplemented in JavaScript/WebAssembly.

cluckindan 5 days ago||

Site connects to yandex.ru

onion2k 5 days ago||

It's at least 20 years since I last played Vice City, and I can still remember my way around the map. That's weird.

bgirard 5 days ago||

Wow, crazy to see this childhood classic load and run seamlessly in my browser. Better than on my old hot wheels pc.

pinus-cembra 5 days ago||

Web browsers really have come a long way. Will be interesting to see where we'll be in 10 to 20 years.

_fat_santa 5 days ago||

Haven’t tried this yet but I literally just loaded the OG PC version on my steam deck.

The originals are amazing but I have to say for all their faults, the Definitive Editions figured out the camera. For anyone that played the OG versions you were stuck with the “follow cam” unless you had a PC + Mouse

nix0n 5 days ago|

There are QOL mods[0] available for that version to get the camera (and controller in general, and other stuff) working better.

Can't speak to the Deck HW or Steam OS specifically, but the SilentPatch and GInput mods have been working great for me on Proton under Linux Mint.

[0]https://cookieplmonster.github.io/mods/gta-vc/

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