{"id":28262,"date":"2024-03-07T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=28262"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:00:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:00:18","slug":"someone-ran-grand-theft-auto-on-a-wi-fi-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/someone-ran-grand-theft-auto-on-a-wi-fi-router\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone ran Grand Theft Auto on a wi-fi router\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It may not sound as wild as running Doom on a pregnancy test or gut bacteria, but someone managed to modify their household wi-fi router to run <strong>Grand Theft Auto: Vice City<\/strong>, which is almost equally impressive (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/pc.watch.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/yajiuma\/1574042.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PC Watch<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the fourth installment of the Grand Theft Auto series, published in 2002 by Rockstar Games. The popular open-world game was used in what is likely the first successful (or any) attempt to create a \u201cgaming router.\u201d Hardware modders Manawyrm and tSYS modified a TP-Link wi-fi router, attached an AMD Radeon HD 7470 graphics card to it, installed Debian Linux, and finally managed to boot and play GTA: Vice City.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"_Real_ gaming router - GTA Vice City on a TP-Link router\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bcjuoEZg8rI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that what made this possible was the specific model of router \u2013 the TP-Link TL-WDR4900 v1 router uses a relatively high-performance PowerPC e500v2 32-bit processor, which is apparently more than enough to run a game like Vice City.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Externally attaching a graphics card made it possible to connect to a display, however a modified version of Vice City\u2019s source code was needed to get the game booted on the Linux-powered router. A more detailed account of the experiment by the modders themselves can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/kittenlabs.de\/real-gaming-router\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KittenLabs<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two modders have successfully booted Grand Theft Auto: Vice City one a household wi-fi router.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":28268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-28262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Someone ran Grand Theft Auto on a wi-fi router\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two modders have successfully booted and played Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on a modified TP-Link wi-fi router running Linux.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/someone-ran-grand-theft-auto-on-a-wi-fi-router\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Someone ran Grand Theft Auto on a wi-fi router\u00a0\u00a0 - 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