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

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Still remember how my PC was freezing on VC 20 years ago, and now I can play it in a browser in 120 fps. Wild.

Big kudos to https://github.com/SugaryHull/re3/tree/miami on which this is based on. Wholeheartedly agree with authors, every game older than 10 years, and that is not in active development, should be made open source so that community can keep games alive instead of letting them rot.

15 hours agoby wiseowise

This works amazing well. I started playing and just 5 minutes in, I was completely hooked and ended up playing for almost half hour.

It could be that I'm a bit old-school, but this really seemed to confirm that ready to play fun gameplay trumps realistic graphics any day!

15 hours agoby superasn

This got me thinking that one of my childhood favourites ought to be playable in the browser too, and sure enough, here's GTA 2 if anyone else is as old as I am:

https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto2/

15 hours agoby amarant

this is one of the most impressive thing i've see on HN

how is this done ?? what engine is used ? it feels exactly like the original

also the whole website dos zone seems to have all these browser versions of half life etc ???

how are people making these things and how are they legal ?

so many questions

15 hours agoby agentifysh

Crazy! Brought back the summers of my childhood where I mindlessly roamed around the Vice City with my custom MP3 list of songs. For so long, I was stuck on flying the RC helicopter in an abandoned skyscraper level. It has been years, and now I have the itch to try that again!

Thanks to whoever made this possible. There goes my weekend.

15 hours agoby MinimalAction

I did this with Tomb Raider once:

https://eikehein.com/stuff/sabatu/

(Here with a fan level to avoid copyright concerns.)

14 hours agoby sho_hn

Which was the GTA where you rode around on a dirtbike out in the california mountains, and there was like bootleggers and stuff.... man i have serious memories of that game

14 hours agoby Exuma

If you don't have the original executable on hand:

localStorage.setItem('vcsky.haveOriginalGame', "true")

I haven't checked further than the third mission

5 hours agoby 698969

And it consumes less RAM than msn.com

14 hours agoby dailen

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.

15 hours agoby sehugg

I'm so old that GTA in 3D still feels new.

15 hours agoby ekjhgkejhgk

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?

15 hours agoby pipes

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.

14 hours agoby onion2k

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

15 hours agoby bgirard

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

15 hours agoby _fat_santa

I loved playing this but could never figure out how to beat it

https://dos.zone/norton-commander/

11 hours agoby moondev

Site connects to yandex.ru

13 hours agoby cluckindan

Sensible Soccer is so true to the original. It's even impossible to quit it!

15 hours agoby doganugurlu

Incredible! Not sure if I am just bad at the game, but I dont see any blood and the hookers dont get in the car. Maybe Im just remembering this wrong.

12 hours agoby ionwake

Really cool, amazed that the old cheats work as well!

12 hours agoby blazingbanana