Grand Theft Auto 5, a title that’s been round and kicking for over a decade, may quickly be operating on newer platforms. Rockstar Video games’ GTA 5 is at the moment playable on PC alongside PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Now, a bunch of modders try to run GTA 5 on Nintendo Change console, Android telephones, and PCs that run the Linux working system.
Fansite GTA Focal reported (noticed by GameSpot) that the modders are determining easy methods to obtain this by making use of the supply code leaked final yr. The X (previously Twitter) web page additionally posted a video showcasing the GTA 5 loading display screen adopted by a collection of errors throughout loading, to show the modders’ try and get the open-world sport operating on Nintendo Change. There’s one other picture which exhibits an error message on an Android cellphone, confirming that the modders try to attain the identical for Android smartphones as effectively.
A gaggle of modders try to port GTA 5 to the Nintendo Change, Linux, and Android because of the supply code leak from December pic.twitter.com/6Ij2c1ENcp
— GTA Focal (@GTAFocal) March 28, 2024
GTA 5 got here out in 2013, initially for the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles. In comparison with the duo, the Nintendo Change is a extra highly effective console that ought to be capable of deal with a earlier construct of GTA 5. Nonetheless, the sport has acquired a number of upgrades since then for newer generations of consoles, so it might be an even bigger ask of Nintendo Change to run a GTA 5 construct made for the likes of PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S.
The aforementioned GTA 5 supply code leak, which is reportedly aiding these modders of their activity, happened in December 2023. This leak occurred resulting from a serious hack that Rockstar Video games suffered.
Whereas operating the sport natively on a cell phone is the objective, different methods to play GTA 5 on a cellular system exist already. Earlier this yr, GTA 5 lastly grew to become playable on cellular by means of emulation.