New Nintendo 3DS Gets Homebrew Ports of GTA 3, Vice City, and Liberty City Stories

The reGTA Collection brings three classic Grand Theft Auto titles to the New Nintendo 3DS family, offering a portable way to revisit the series. This homebrew project targets owners of the New 3DS, New 3DS XL, and New 2DS XL who want to run these games on handheld hardware. The release matters because it adapts PC-era ports for a specific Nintendo console using reverse-engineering tools.

Modder EpicReds0817 releases custom ports with dedicated interfaces and touch controls for the handheld

Modder EpicReds0817 developed the collection to run GTA 3, Vice City, and Liberty City Stories on the New 3DS lineup. The ports rely on the re3, reVC, and reStories reverse-engineering projects to function. Each game features dedicated lower-screen interfaces and touch controls tailored for the system. Players also get Nintendo-style button prompts and touchscreen cheat keyboards for each title.

• Supported Devices: New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS XL, New Nintendo 2DS XL
• Incompatible Devices: Original 3DS, 3DS XL, 2DS
• Technical Requirements: Homebrew-capable system, legally obtained source games, devkitARM toolchain
• GTA 3 Fixes: Dark-blue lower-screen theme, faster loading, smoother streaming, vehicle material fixes, crash fixes
• Vice City Fixes: Pink interface, restored particle effects and vehicle highlights, character model fixes, water seam fixes, flight-related crash fixes

Support is strictly limited to the New Nintendo 3DS family due to hardware requirements. The original 3DS, 3DS XL, and 2DS cannot run these ports because they lack the necessary CPU upgrades and memory. Users must have a homebrew-capable system and legally obtained copies of the source games. You also need the devkitARM toolchain to build the ports yourself.

GTA 3 includes a dark-blue lower-screen theme, faster loading times, and smoother streaming. The port fixes vehicle materials and resolves several crashes. Vice City uses a pink interface and restores particle effects and vehicle highlights. It also fixes character models, water seams, and flight-related crashes. Liberty City Stories features a red-themed interface with lightweight vehicle reflections. The port fixes missions, saves, world state, cutscenes, and vehicle bugs. It also adds custom text cheats. Not every side mission in Liberty City Stories has been fully verified yet.

This homebrew project demonstrates how reverse-engineering tools can adapt older games for modern handheld constraints. Owners of the New 3DS family can now run these classics with specific visual and control tweaks. The ports require user-side compilation and legal game copies. The collection remains a community-driven effort rather than an official release.

Source: TweakTown