Earlier this week, we reported that the source codes for Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto Vice City were fully reverse-engineered and made available to download as re3 and reVC respectively. However, their availability was short-lived as Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of the series, seems to have taken notice of this homebrew activity and issued a DMCA takedown, making the repository unavailable. The message below can be seen if you visit the page:

​

Take-Two's request is also publicly available and reads:

The content in the links below consists of copyrighted materials owned by Take-Two. The use of our copyrighted content in these links are unauthorized and it should be removed immediately.

You can read the rest of the request here.

This takedown might put a halt to modding efforts (at least for those who did not have access to the GitHub repository before the DMCA notice) but the original modders might come with a cleaner reversed code that could be legally shared. That, however, remains to be seen.

 

[jdk8u221]

fuuuuckkkkkkkk i never downloaded it bc i was waiting to buy the games on steam

 

[FAST6191]

fuuuuckkkkkkkk i never downloaded it bc i was waiting to buy the games on steam

This is far from the first time a takedown has come for a piece of homebrew, fan game, ROM hack or similar, and usually it is for games far less popular than this (you should see Tetris vs the world of Tetris homebrews, they have been gunning for things for years -- my favourite to see it happen being Tetris the Grand Masters on the DS by meraman).

Short version. If you are big enough and ugly enough to find a ROM collection then you will similarly not have too much troubling finding this. How far development will go in the future... unknown and probably less than had it been more open and able to do public collaborations, though I doubt that will deter too many people.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

Use tor based file sharing, they can't take those down

Unless they start ddossing

 

[jdk8u221]

This is far from the first time a takedown has come for a piece of homebrew, fan game, ROM hack or similar, and usually it is for games far less popular than this (you should see Tetris vs the world of Tetris homebrews, they have been gunning for things for years -- my favourite to see it happen being Tetris the Grand Masters on the DS by meraman).

Short version. If you are big enough and ugly enough to find a ROM collection then you will similarly not have too much troubling finding this. How far development will go in the future... unknown and probably less than had it been more open and able to do public collaborations, though I doubt that will deter too many people.

Yeahh ik how it is been stalking around the vita scene for about 3 years now, just never was on gbatemp. Buy yeah ur right, could definitely go find it if i reallyy wanted to but meh I'll just stick with San Andreas lol.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

 

[MultiKoopa]

So... what's going on with this?

 

[Viri]

Everything seems to be still there, I think? So, what ever happened?

 

[Localhorst86]

Everything seems to be still there, I think? So, what ever happened?

They filed a counter-claim and got the repo reinstated.