Grand Theft Auto titles ported to New Nintendo 3DS via community project

A community-led homebrew project known as ‘reGTA Collection’ has successfully ported three classic Grand Theft Auto titles—GTA III, Vice City, and Liberty City Stories—to the New Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

Rather than using standard emulation, the project adapts the games directly to the console's architecture, utilizing the enhanced processor, L2 cache, and additional memory of the New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS XL, and New Nintendo 2DS XL. Older 3DS models lack the necessary hardware specifications to run these versions.

The ports feature specific optimizations for the handheld's dual-screen layout. Each game includes a custom interface on the bottom screen, touch controls, and a virtual keyboard for cheat codes. Technical improvements include reduced loading times, optimized graphics, and fixes for crashes, mission progression, and save files. Liberty City Stories is noted as a particularly significant achievement, as the project successfully completed the main campaign for play on physical hardware.