Overview
- A modder known as Dryxio has posted videos showing Vice City running inside GTA III while GTA III itself runs on a TV inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, producing a stacked, playable display.
- The setup runs the older games inside the San Andreas process and writes their output directly to GPU textures rather than playing back pre‑recorded video.
- Players can switch control between San Andreas’s protagonist and embedded protagonists without pausing the San Andreas world, and each embedded game supports its own saves and progress.
- The publicly shared mod package does not include GTA III or Vice City files, so users must provide original game assets to use the demo; this remains a community mod rather than a Rockstar release.
- The work builds on earlier fan reimplementations and a February 2026 port by the same creator and highlights how modders are preserving and experimenting with classic GTA engines ahead of the new franchise entry.