vitaRTCW

About

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a 2001 first-person shooter developed by Gray Matter Studios and published by Activision, serving as a reboot of the Wolfenstein series with id Software (creators of Wolfenstein 3D) credited as executive producers. vitaRTCW is a PS Vita port of the Return to Castle Wolfenstein single-player GPL source release, letting id Software's officially open-sourced engine run natively on Vita hardware. It supports online multiplayer, and development is sporadic.

Getting started

Playing requires owning a legitimate copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and patching it to the latest version, since the released source code does not include the original game data.

History

The underlying Return to Castle Wolfenstein single-player source code was released under the GPL by id Software in August 2010, which vitaRTCW is built from.

Known issues & limitations

• platform: Linux users must install and update the game using WINE to extract the game data from the Windows CD.
• Building on Linux requires installing and updating the game via WINE, since the original game CD contains only a Windows version.