Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

A city built around driving and missions

Vice City follows Tommy Vercetti’s rise through a fictional 1980s coastal city. Driving connects its missions: steal a car, find a contact, then alternate between chases, combat and jobs for rival characters. The open city also leaves room to explore between story assignments.

That combination is the appeal of the original game: a mission can give a drive across town a purpose, while an unfamiliar vehicle or a police pursuit can turn the journey into its own diversion. This listing concerns the classic PC game through reVC, with the original’s game data supplied by the player.

Original GTA Trilogy on Rockstar

What reVC Web changes

reVC Web is Erasmo Bellumat and Origami’s browser adaptation of the community reVC engine. It compiles the engine with Emscripten and uses WebGL 2 to draw the game. The creator describes complete-game support and retains the game’s own menus, loading screens and options.

The useful distinction is how it gets the game: the hosted page reads your installed files from disk instead of asking you to retrieve a game archive from a mirror. Large archives stream from that local installation as the engine needs them. This is a separate browser adaptation from the Joncode client based on reVCDOS; the two launch sites use different setup instructions and separate browser save stores.

reVC Web project and requirements · Browser launcher and local saves

Choose the classic PC installation

Have the original PC edition installed before opening the launcher. Select the folder containing models/gta3.img and data/gta_vc.dat, keeping the rest of the installation together. Those names identify the classic data format; buying the Definitive Edition does not provide this installation.

For an existing Steam copy, Manage → Browse local files opens the folder to locate. The creator also documents using a disc installation copied to disk. The official original GTA Trilogy bundle is a current purchase route for the classic PC games; install Vice City first and check the required folder contents before selecting it.

On the web page, press Play and then Select folder or file when the setup panel appears. The supported path reviewed here is an already installed folder. The page may ask you to grant access again on a later visit. No game files need to be uploaded to start this local-file workflow.

Creator installation help · Browser launcher and local saves · Original GTA Trilogy on Rockstar

Start with keyboard and mouse

Use a desktop browser that supports WebGL 2, SharedArrayBuffer and selecting a local folder. The page offers 16:9 or 4:3 display framing, a sound toggle and fullscreen. Changing the aspect selection reloads the page, so choose it before beginning a session.

The source defaults map movement to WASD or the arrow keys. F or Enter enters and exits vehicles; left mouse fires; Space jumps on foot and applies the handbrake in a vehicle; Shift sprints. The in-game options remain available for configuring controls. The creator also supports browser Gamepad API input, but no physical-controller or phone-play compatibility is promised here.

reVC Web project and requirements · Browser launcher and local saves · Default keyboard and mouse controls

Keep your installation and browser saves

The port stores saves and settings in IndexedDB for the current browser profile. Keep the original installation available for subsequent sessions. Local browser saves are separate from your retail installation’s progress and from saves on other browser hosts.

Use the game’s own save system before leaving. Clearing the site’s storage or moving to another browser profile can remove or separate that progress. The launcher’s Reset action forgets the selected installation, so it is a setup control rather than a way to transfer saves.

Browser launcher and local saves