Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
3 ports
Tomb Raider (OpenLara)
XProger/OpenLara
OpenLara: an open-source engine for the classic Tomb Raider games, created by XProger. The project offers a web version with a demo level and a standalone version; GitHub’s “latest” tag gathers builds for a huge range of platforms (Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, 3DS, PS Vita, Raspberry Pi, GBA, 32X, 3DO, and others), and its notes give each one’s update date: Windows, March 23, 2021; Linux and macOS, March 2023. The README is terse and points to a roadmap in the repository’s issues. The repository includes already-packed level data for its GBA and 32X versions (several MB), a few 3DO system drivers (the cport*.rom files, barely 1.5 KB each), and DOS4GW.exe for the DOS version.
You needThe data files from your own copy of one of the classic Tomb Raider games; the README doesn’t say which versions or exact files. The web version includes a demo level. Windows, Linux, or macOS.
Tomb Raider I–III (TRX)
LostArtefacts/TRX
TRX: an open-source reimplementation of Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II, and Tomb Raider III for PC, built from the decompiled games and with open-source replacements for their proprietary components. A single engine runs all three games, their expansions, and custom levels while keeping each original’s mechanics, and the README says all three are playable from start to finish; Tomb Raider IV support is underway, still at an early stage. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It adds 60 fps interpolation, adjustable draw distance, UI scaling, enemy health bars, a photo mode, 3D pickups, skyboxes, sprinting and other moves, Lara’s braid in the first game, a developer console, controller support with remappable controls, and Lua scripting, and it fixes many bugs in the originals. The latest release is 1.11.1 (September 22). The repo and the downloads include “injection” files with models, animations, and textures from other games in the series, such as Lara’s outfits from Tomb Raider II to IV and a Natla outfit, Winston’s model, and the Tomb Raider IV guns; the downloads also bring what’s needed to play the Tomb Raider PC demo and Tomb Raider II: The Golden Mask without your own files, which the project says can be freely distributed. The Windows installer downloads from lostartefacts.dev, as separate boxes you have to tick, the levels of Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (original or fan-patched), the demo, and The Golden Mask, and for Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II it offers to download their music, in a box that comes ticked.
You needYour own PC copies of Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II, and Tomb Raider III, from Steam, GOG, or disc: their levels, videos, and music; the Unfinished Business, The Golden Mask, and The Lost Artifact expansions are added separately. The Windows installer finds Steam, GOG, or disc copies by itself and copies the files; with the Windows and Linux zips, or on macOS, you copy them by hand into each game’s folder. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.
Tomb Raider III (tomb3)
Trxyebeep/tomb3
tomb3: a decompilation of the PC version of Tomb Raider III, by the authors of TOMB4 and TOMB5, the decompilations of The Last Revelation and Chronicles; it’s inspired by Arsunt’s TR2Main, whose code it also uses for some features. Its stated goal is to preserve the original source code of the PC version. It started as a DLL that replaced game functions, and with 2.0.0 (April 18, 2023) it finished decompiling the game and began building its own executable. It fixes many bugs in the original (collisions on triangular geometry, data that wasn’t saved, crashes, New Game+ errors) and adds windowed mode, a configuration tool made by Lahm86, internal 32-bit color rendering instead of 16-bit, better dynamic lights and fog, the PlayStation version’s shadow and explosion colors, the PlayStation save system as an option, a 3D level map, Discord presence, much higher internal limits, and new script commands for level builders (TRLE). It also runs The Lost Artifact expansion, with its own New Game+. It’s Windows-only. The latest release is 2.0.2 (May 10, 2023) and the last commit is from September 2023. The download also includes, for each language, a modified version of the game’s script file (tombpc.dat), which 2.0 needs to work properly.
You needYour own copy of Tomb Raider III for PC, from Steam, GOG, or on CD; with the CD you also copy the audio, cuts, data, fmv, and pix folders and several DLLs from the disc into the game folder. The download’s contents are copied over the game folder. For The Lost Artifact, the data and pix folders from its disc. Plus Windows.
Installs with
Quiver Launcher · ReComp Launcher
Questions
What projects are there for Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft?
The catalog has 3 ports for Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft, all on this page with their status.
What do I need to play it?
Your own copy of Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft (Windows). Recompendium only links projects that don’t distribute the game, and each entry says which version or region you need.
Which one is the most popular?
Tomb Raider (OpenLara), with 5,142 stars on GitHub.