To avoid distributing Rockstar's proprietary game assets — and to dodge the DMCA takedowns that hit their earlier Vice City port — the team never hosts copyrighted data on its servers. On first launch, players have two options:
The team has said it is "continuing to develop the webtorrent system" so that users do not need to upload anything themselves .
This approach directly responds to the lessons of the GTA: Vice City browser port released in late 2025. That project was hit by a DMCA notice from Take‑Two Interactive and Rockstar Games in December 2025, forcing a temporary takedown . The team later brought Vice City back with a user‑supplied‑files model, and applied the same strategy — with the added WebTorrent option — to the GTA III release .
The DosZone Team has now ported two of the three original 3D‑era GTA games to the browser. The Vice City port (released in late 2025, taken down, then restored) was the first . With reGTA3 DOS, the first two entries of the trilogy are playable in a web browser. (As of this release, GTA: San Andreas has not been announced as a browser port by the team.)