From my testing, OpenArena runs far better and stable now and will load more maps than before, although not everything loads and I didn't really expect it to either, considering how large some of these maps and assets are. I also realized part of the reason why it's a bit heavier than vanilla Quake 3 is that OpenArena is actually supposed to be a replacement for Quake 3 Team Arena instead of just regular Q3, so it actually does have all the extra game modes, weapons and powerups of TA. Z-fighting on decals still remains an issue unfortunately although it appears to be slightly better than before? Either way you can always easily turn it off from the options menu so it's not the biggest deal in the world. This is for both Quake 3 and OA.
On the Quake 3 side, everything runs like a beauty! I have yet to find a vanilla map or asset that doesn't load. I was even able to play on a few custom maps with a few custom skins just fine. Very cool!
EDIT: If you ask me, anyone wanting to port Quake 3 to the gamecube I would say OpenArena is your best bet. Because OpenArena is a GPL2 game that can be freely modified, you can in theory do things like convert all the assets to native GX formats, the textures can be converted from JPG and TGA to compressed TPL files which would cut down on memory usage a lot. Yes in theory you can also cut down Quake 3 assets too but you'd run into legality issues on whether or not it's allowed to distribute modified copyrighted material. Not that ID Software/Bethesda would particularly care either way but still.
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