by wiseowise
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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.
- 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!
- 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/
by agentifysh
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- 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
- I did this with Tomb Raider once:
https://eikehein.com/stuff/sabatu/
(Here with a fan level to avoid copyright concerns.)
- Mojalefa 8rrururururut you are not filtered into a file
Email corneliuslondon7@gmail.com the account number is below the details of my life and death is a file or link you sent to you and your team is a great day
by MinimalAction
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- 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.
- 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
- Woww superr game its real superr
- Really superrr and exitied
- If you don't have the original executable on hand:
localStorage.setItem('vcsky.haveOriginalGame', "true")
I haven't checked further than the third mission
by ekjhgkejhgk
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- I'm so old that GTA in 3D still feels new.
- And it consumes less RAM than msn.com
- 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.
- Woww superr
- Superr
- Wow superr
- 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?
by cluckindan
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- Site connects to yandex.ru
- 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.
- Wow, crazy to see this childhood classic load and run seamlessly in my browser. Better than on my old hot wheels pc.
by pinus-cembra
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- Web browsers really have come a long way. Will be interesting to see where we'll be in 10 to 20 years.
by _fat_santa
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- 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
by doganugurlu
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- Sensible Soccer is so true to the original. It's even impossible to quit it!
by intuxikated
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- Does this one also crash when hitting people with a hammer?
I got that error when running reVC on the steam deck, especially during the union strike mission
- Amazing it runs in a browser.
- I loved playing this but could never figure out how to beat it
https://dos.zone/norton-commander/
- 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.
by blazingbanana
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- Really cool, amazed that the old cheats work as well!
- 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.
by bhavuk_sharma
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- Bhai mujhe bhi gta vice city khelni hai laptop pe
by sergiotapia
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- It runs insanely well what the hell!
- Does this version still corrupt your game file if you save at the ice cream factory lol
- Saw some funny bugs I don't remember from the original, but it looks a lot better.
by lawlessone
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- Feels pretty smooth on my phone for something that's running in the browser.
by bhavuk_sharma
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- Please bhai mujhe bhi khelni hai
- Links times out, seems the host wasn't ready for the HN traffic!
- I wish all ps2 games were playable and available on such a site
- Wine in the browser would be so interesting for retro software.
by HardwareLust
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- Wow that worked shockingly well on my cheap Moto phone!
by kaycebasques
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- Is something similar available for GTA3?
- Do we have this for far cry as well?
by ahmadforoughi
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- it's really cool to play with. i really like the performance as well - better than what i expected
by alamortsubite
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- The Atari BASIC intro is a nice touch.
- I kneel
- is this some WASM magic?
- This is incredible!
by mandown2308
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- Amazing amazing!
by tsukurimashou
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- better than the original rockstar PC port...
- Ah shit, here we go again
- Wow!!
- So awesome
- yes
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