I wish all ps2 games were playable and available on such a site
You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser
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#32this 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
> how are they legal ?
they are not, but then again so are many things. We choose what laws to enforce (see 18-20 year olds drinking, unmarried cohabitation, etc). just because it is not legal does not mean that law enforcement will care.
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#33I kneel
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#34Saw some funny bugs I don't remember from the original, but it looks a lot better.
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#35Web browsers really have come a long way. Will be interesting to see where we'll be in 10 to 20 years.
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#36Sensible Soccer is so true to the original. It's even impossible to quit it!
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#37Still 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.
> agree with authors, every game older than 10 years, and that is not in active development, should be made open source so that community
Note that GTA V is now 12 years old and still sells ~20M copies per year. So that’s going to be a tough sell in some cases.
You could argue it’s still actively developed, particularly due to online, so fair enough.
But that’s also sort of true for Vice City. They’ve released mobile version (playable on Netflix) over the past few years at least.
Nevertheless, I’d be thrilled if that was a standard practice.
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#38GTA 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.
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#39Which 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
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#40And it consumes less RAM than msn.com