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GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas 37%
By Etiido Uko33%
7/18/2026, 5:48:22 PM
Topics: Grand Theft Auto, Video Game Mods
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A Grand Theft Auto (GTA) modder has developed a mod that lets you run Grand Theft Auto III (GTA 3) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (GTA VC) as mini games right inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA SA).
The modder, DryxioGTA , demonstrated the feat in a video posted on YouTube on Thursday, running the game on a Windows virtual machine on macOS .
In the video, GTA SA’s main character, CJ, can be seen stepping up to a TV, apparently inserted into the game by the mod.
Once in front of the TV, the option to start either GTA VC or GTA 3 appears.
The selected mini-game immediately starts running on the TV.
Gamers can switch between controlling the main GTA SA game or the mini game, using the F10 key.
When controlling the mini-game — say, GTA 3 , as in the video — players can play it as normal while the rest of the outer SA game continues to run, with characters roaming about.
Similarly, switching control back to the outer SA game leaves the mini-game running on the TV.
Just a few hours after uploading a brief gameplay video, the modder released another video demonstrating an even more mind-blowing mod, this time running GTA Vice City inside GTA 3 , inside GTA San Andreas !
As shown in the clip, the game starts with GTA SA , where players can walk up to a large screen to activate and start running GTA 3 .
Within GTA 3 — now running on the large screen inside San Andreas — gamers can drive to another specific screen and launch GTA VC .
So you can be playing GTA SA , switch to a fully functional GTA 3 within SA , and then switch again to play Vice City right inside the GTA 3 sandbox, all while the other games are simultaneously running.
The remarkable mods are just one of thousands that developers have created since the game was first released on PC over 20 years ago in 2005.
There are also several Mods for other GTA titles .
Older GTA games have seen renewed interest as anticipation builds for GTA 6 , which is scheduled to be released on consoles on November 19 after several postponements .
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