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> 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?
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2003 is 22 years ago. The events in the game take place 16 years in the past. I feel nostalgic for Vice City the same way people felt nostalgic for the 80s when the game was released.
Damn, the 80s felt that recent ?
Subjective time speeds up as we age, probably based on how long a give period is vs the rest of your life.
16 years was a much bigger % of your life then than it is now.
Think of 2 year old, a year ago was half their life !
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/
GTA 1 was the first computer game I ever remember buying with my own money: https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto-1997/ I can't get the radio music playing, unfortunately.
The soundtrack is the best part of this game and I'm surprised this site is just allowing anyone to play this, with the soundtrack as-is.
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For the "how" see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330258 - the game has been reverse engineered. There are reverse engineering and reimplementation projects like this for a lot of older games, i.e. Mario 64, Diablo and at least one of the Sonic games Is it legal? Well, the reverse engineering typically is as long as you follow the rules, but hosting all the game assets on a public web server so you can play it…
reVC is clear copyright infringement distributing a derivative work based off the code of the game.
This isn't just reverse engineering, it's a decompiled source from the original binary.
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> 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.
you wouldn't believe what just did hit Nintendo Switch 2's eShop.