vitaQuakeIII

vitaQuakeIII emulates Quake III Arena.

About this profile

Detail	Value
Type	libretro
Classification	Community fork
Source	https://github.com/libretro/vitaquake3
Upstream	https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3
Version	1.36_GIT_ba68b99c-2018-01-23, stated in Makefile
Revision	libretro/vitaquake3@61374f650f42
Profiled	2026-03-25
Profile	YAML, JSON
Cores	vitaquake3
Systems	Quake III Arena

Technical notes

Quake III Arena source port built from ioquake3 with the libretro backend. Also supports Team Arena (missionpack), OpenArena (baseoa), Quake3Rally (baseq3r), and Urban Terror (q3ut4) via path detection. Content is loaded from the .pk3 file path - the engine resolves the parent directory structure to find baseq3/ and loads pak0.pk3 through pak8.pk3 sequentially. Game data files (.pk3 archives) come from the retail game. No files are required in the RetroArch system directory.

No BIOS or firmware files required.

Next steps

• Get your files, for the setup you play on
• Every system, and the files each one needs
• When a game does not start

Data as of 4 November 2026.