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

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

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Post by stevezsa8 »

bossyTeacher wrote: post #32
agentifysh wrote: post #22

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

> 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.

In which country is unmarried cohabitation not legal?

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

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Post by basch »

agentifysh wrote: post #22

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

If you boot the game, it only loads the demo, and it tells you to supply your own game file to play the rest.

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

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Post by kube-system »

stevezsa8 wrote: post #41
bossyTeacher wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

In which country is unmarried cohabitation not legal?

Today, Iran. And even parts of Europe as late as the 90s

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

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Post by amarant »

doublerabbit wrote: post #16
amarant wrote: post #13

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/

Carmageddon is another old classic of mine, https://dos.zone/carmageddon I used to watch my older brother play this when I was younger and he always hid the CD.

Oh damn, my cousin had carmageddon! We'd stay up all night long playing it when I visited him!

Now I gotta find that other game he had, but I don't remember what it was called. It was kinda like reverse GTA: you played as a female cop and you had to stop the criminals. Iirc there were corrupt cops later on in the game.

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

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Post by Hamuko »

basch wrote: post #42
agentifysh wrote: post #22

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

If you boot the game, it only loads the demo, and it tells you to supply your own game file to play the rest.

The demo includes a lot of the game assets though. Looks like it has the full map, probably a lot if not all of the vehicles, peds too.

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

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Post by sho_hn »

agentifysh wrote: post #22

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

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

It's most likely using reVC, a reverse-engineering of the original binaries by decompilation, and then built for the web using emscripten, which does a fairly good job making OpenGL code work on WebGL.

My Tomb Raider web build I linked here elsewhere was done the same way (reversing by the amazing people in the TR1X project).

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

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Post by ASalazarMX »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #37
wiseowise wrote: post #7

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.

> 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…

Fallout 4 is ten years old and just recently was sold again as a remake, basically a small update with pre-included mods. Skyrim is 14 years old and I'm sure it will be resold at least one more time before TES VI is released.

Moddable games are like prescription pills that add one ingredient to a patent-expired recipe, to repatent it as new.

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