GTA: Vice City Is Now Playable on Nintendo GameCube

A remarkable community project has brought GTA: Vice City to yet another beloved classic system from the turn of the millennium.

The Nintendo GameCube, which defined sixth-generation gaming between 2001 and 2007, originally saw limited official backing from Rockstar Games with the release of Smuggler’s Run: Warzones—an upgraded and expanded iteration of Hostile Territory. Additionally, players utilizing the Game Boy Player peripheral could experience the handheld releases of GTA 1 and GTA 2 (for Game Boy Color) alongside GTA: Advance on their home screens. Although discussions once surrounded native ports for GTA 3 and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, those plans were ultimately abandoned. Industry observers attribute this cancellation to the storage ceiling of the 1.46 GB Mini-DVD format, Nintendo’s conservative stance on explicit mature content, or lukewarm software sales across the ecosystem.

More than two decades later, the open-source reVC reverse-engineering project has finally achieved what once seemed impossible: bringing Tommy Vercetti’s sun-soaked criminal exploits to the GCN hardware. Nevertheless, early adopters should temper their expectations. The current release is in a decidedly experimental state, plagued by persistent crashes and stability hurdles. Significant optimization remains before it delivers a seamless playthrough, but this functional milestone represents a major technical achievement.

Control scheme for GTA Vice City: GameCube Edition. pic.twitter.com/iGKb7Cvf4n

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