GTA: SA Girlfriend FAQ Version 1.10 Last Updated: April 23, 2005 Game: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas System: Sony PlayStation 2 ******************************************************************************* * Table of Contents: * ********************** 1) Introduction 2) General Information a) Overview b) Dates in General c) Date Types d) Two-Player Dates e) Relationship Change Values f) Phone Calls 3) Potential Girlfriends a) Denise Robinson b) Michelle Cannes c) Helena Wankstein d) Katie Zhan e) Barbara Schternvart f) Millie Perkins 4) Appearance a) Muscle b) Fat c) Sex Appeal 5) Gift Locations a) Flowers b) Dildos c) Vibrators 6) Frequently Asked Questions a) Trouble b) General c) Misc 7) Revision History 8) Credits/Contact Information ******************************************************************************* * 1) Introduction: * ******************** This is a guide to the girlfriends in the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The main reason to date a girl in this game is to get stuff from her. There are six different girls to date, and each one has their own benefits rewards to offer. You will get a benefit just for dating most of the girls, such as the very useful ability to keep your weapons and money after being busted or wasted. Then once you raise your relationship level with a girl to 50% you will get the keys to her car, which will be available whenever the girl is at home. Finally if you raise your relationship level with a girl to 100%, you'll be given a special outfit in your wardrobe. To see what specific rewards each girl gives, see their respective sections. In addition to specific information about each girlfriend, this FAQ will provide information about how to change your appearance, as this is very important for dating most of the girls. There are also some gifts you can give to a girl during a date, so I've included a list of some of the more convenient locations to find these. If you have any questions or comments about this FAQ that you'd like to share, then take a look at the contact information section at the bottom. ******************************************************************************* * 2) General Information * ************************** =============================================================================== = 2a) Overview: = ================= You will be able to recognize a girl that you can date because they will have a blue marker above their head. There's a total of four girls that you can find (you will start dating the other two automatically through missions). All of these girls have a set place where they can be found. To find out where this place is for a given girl, see her section in this FAQ. You can date more than one girl at once, and your other girlfriends won't mind if you pick up another. You'll usually have to meet certain appearance preferences to get a girl to date you. Once you meet these preferences, just approach them and they'll ask you out. If you don't meet their appearance preferences, they will tell you why, and you can try again later. However, with a high enough sex appeal, they will forget about their appearance preferences and will be willing to go out with you no matter how terrible they think your body is. You have a relationship meter with every one of the datable girls that you've met. You can find this meter in the "Achievements" menu of the stat screen after you meet the girl (except Millie, whose meter doesn't appear until after your first date with her). Your relationship level will be a percent value between 0 and 100%, although if your relationship is at 0% the meter will not be visible. The meter usually starts at about 10% when you first meet a girl, and then generally goes to 15% when you start dating her. You can raise a relationship value through successful dates and through certain things you can do on a date, such as giving a gift. However, your relationship can also go down for various reasons. See the section below for the specific values that your relationship can change by. Once you are going out with a girl, they will move from where you found them to their home, which will be indicated on the map by a red heart. However, the girls are generally only home at certain times. Note also that you can only take a girl out once per ingame day, so they may not be available to date during their regularly scheduled time. If you are having a lot of trouble with a girl never being home, see the Frequently Asked Questions section for more information. =============================================================================== = 2b) Dates in General: = ========================= To start a date with a girl, you have to go to her house while she's home. You'll know she's home because her car, a two-player icon, and a red marker will have appeared. Then to start a date, just walk or drive into the red marker. If she's not there, there will be no marker, icon, or car, and a little text box will pop up telling you all about her not home status. Once you enter the marker, one of several types of dates will start. The type of date is chosen automatically, and the girl will tell you what kind of date it is. Each type of date has different requirements, and each girl has slightly different needs for each type of date. The general information about each type of date is listed in this section, while the specific information for each girl is listed in the specific sections for each girl. There are three base types of date outcomes. One is a successful date, which is what you should be going for. This is when you drop your girlfriend off at home after a date, and she was satisfied with the date. A failed date is when you drop the girl off at home after a date in which something went wrong. This could be that you failed to meet the requirements of the date, you took too much time on the date, or you didn't meet the girl's appearance standards when you dropped her off. The third basic type of date outcome is an abandon date. This is when you leave the girl behind (or abandon her, one might say). The easiest way to do this is to get into a car, and then quickly drive away before your girlfriend can get in. Then once you've driven far enough for the game to unload her, you will have abandoned her and the date ends instantly. This is just like a failed date, but faster. One very important thing that you should never do on a date is abuse the girl. This means hitting her or shooting her with any weapons. If you just hit her once, the date might not immediately end. However, shooting the girl or beating her repeatedly will instantly end the date. Either way, your relationship will go down considerably. All of the girls can take quite a few hits, including multiple headshots from various weapons. However, they can die, and if kill a girl through abuse, she will no longer be your girlfriend. There are a few other things you can do on almost any type of date with a girl. What you do may have a positive or negative impact on your relationship with the girl. One thing that you can do is to give her a gift. Gifts can be found all over throughout the game, so see the "Gift Location" section for more information. Once you have a gift, it will be a selectable weapon. You can then give it to a girl by standing near her, selecting the gift as a weapon, and then holding L1. Another thing you can do is to kiss the girl. To do this, just stand near her and hold L1. If your relationship value is somewhat low, she will probably push you away. If not, she should kiss you back. I haven't noticed any differences in how these two types of kisses affect your relationship, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is one in some cases. In my experience, kissing usually causes a negative change in relationship, whether it was a successful kiss or not. However, it seems that if you give the girl a gift first and then kiss her, you should get a positive relationship change. So if you're going to kiss, give her a gift first. One more thing you can do is take the girl's picture. If you point a camera at a girl, you might say something to her, and she will wave. Taking her picture doesn't seem to do anything, but it's still pretty cool. Who doesn't like to be waved at? =============================================================================== = 2c) Date Types: = =================== These are the different types of dates that are available. Specific information about these dates is available in each of the sections about the girls you can date. Food Date: ---------- This is the type of date that you will always start with when you begin a relationship with a girl. The girl will tell you that she's hungry and wants to go out to eat. There are four types of eating places available: fast food, diner, bar (drinking date), and restaurant. The locations of the nearby locations will be marked on the map, so you can locate the closest one that your girl likes and take her there. Don't worry if you go to the same place every time, she doesn't mind. There are certain types of restaurants that each girl likes and dislikes, so whether this date succeeds or fails depends on where you take her. Also, note that you will gain fat during this date since you are eating. So keep that in mind if you're watching your figure. Dancing Date: ------------- In this type of date, your girlfriend will want to go dancing, so you have to go to one of the clubs. These will be marked on the map, so just choose the closest one, as they are all the same. Once you get there, go into the red marker, and then you will have to do the dancing mini-game (like in the "Life's a Beach" mission). If you do well enough, which I'd assume is somewhere around a minimum of 3000, then you will have had a successful date and can take her home. If you don't do well enough, the date is a failure. Driving Date: ------------- In these dates you'll have to drive your girlfriend through an area that she likes at a certain speed. She'll let you know whether she likes an area whenever she rides with you, so you can get an idea of the type of area she likes during your first few eating dates. During this date she'll yell at you if you go too fast or too slow, so you can use that to determine the speed she likes. There will be a fun bar on the screen that starts with just a little bit of fun. A few seconds after you start driving, the fun bar will start to respond to how you're driving. It will go up if you drive at the correct speed in an area that your girlfriend likes. However, if you go too slow or too fast, the fun bar will go down. Fill the fun bar all the way to the top and keep it there for a few seconds, and the girl will ask you to take her home. Let it go completely empty, and the date will fail. Special Dates: -------------- Some of the girls have their own unique types of dates. And by some of the girls, I mean Michelle and Millie. A good way to remember this, in case someone is quizzing you on your knowledge of GTA-based dating, is that all of the girls who have a name that starts with "M" have special dates. To find details about these special dates, see the sections of the girls who have special dates. Quiz: see if you can remember which girls those are without looking back at the previous paragraph. (Hint: remember the memorization system we came up with.) Coffee: ------- Coffee isn't really a type of date, it's more of an extension to the existing dates. Every type of date can end with an invitation into the girl's house for "coffee." You will only be invited in if your relationship level is at a certain level with that girl, and the required level varies depending on which girl it is. During coffee time, you don't actually see the inside of the house or what is really happening. The camera will be focused on the girl's house, and your view will shake around a bit. All the while, the girl will make suggestive comments/noise while some encouraging text is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Then you'll have a short exchange of words, and the sequence ends. Some believe that "coffee" is actually some kind of code, and that what you are supposedly doing during these sequences is having sex. Or maybe all of the girls in this game really enjoy coffee, we don't know for sure. I've heard they have exotic flavors like vanilla now, so it's easy to understand why a girl would be excited. It is always a good idea to have coffee at the end of a date, as this adds an extra +5% bonus to your relationship. You can, however, choose not to have coffee with her without any negative consequences. =============================================================================== = 2d) Two-Player Dates: = ========================= It is possible to do a two-player date with every girl. At the times when a girl is home, in addition to the red marker you would enter to start a normal date, there will be a two-player free-roam icon nearby. To start a two-player date, you just go into this marker and press any button on controller two. This date isn't really a date, it's actually a standard two-player free roam, except that the second player will have the character model of the girl instead of being able to choose from a selection of models. A two-player date will change your relationship with the girl, but it does this at the start of the date. This means that nothing you do during the date will change your relationship with the girl, so you can feel free to let player 2 die or do whatever you want to her. As the date is a standard free roam, all you really have to do is go around killing people until one of you dies. In fact, you don't even have to kill anyone, you just have to die. You can just use one player to shoot/beat the other player to death right at the start, and then you're done. As far as I know, there's no way to actually pass this mission, so you will probably get a mission failed and a wasted or busted in your stats. Failing the mission does not mean that you failed the date though, and it won't affect your relationship with the girl. Also note that the relationship change value seems to be based on whether the last successful date you had with a girl was successful or not. If your last date was successful, you'll get a 5% relationship boost. If your last date was a failure, your relationship will go down by 5%. Also note that sometimes you'll be able to do a two-player date right after you get back from a regular date, so this is can be a good way to increase (or decrease) your relationship with a girl more quickly. =============================================================================== = 2e) Relationship Change Values: = =================================== These are the values that your relationship level with a girl will change for the given situation. I can't guarantee that these values hold for every given situation, but these are the percent changes in relationships that I've observed so far. They may or may not hold in all situations, but they should at least be accurate most of the time. Base: ----- Good date: +5% Failed date: -5% Abandon date: -5% Gifts: ------ Flowers: +1% Dildo: +1% Vibrator: +1% Other: ------ Coffee: +5% Kiss: -1% Kiss after giving a gift: +1% Bad Things: ----------- Abuse: -10% Attempt to start date while below her standards: -1% Finish a date while below her standards: -5% Two-Player Dates: ----------------- After a successful date: +5% After a failed date: -5% Outside of Dates: ----------------- Missed phonecall: -2% =============================================================================== = 2f) Phone Calls: = ==================== Whenever you're in the general area that one of your girlfriends lives in, there's a possibility that she may try to call you. You can only receive a phonecall when you're on foot, so if you're in a vehicle of some kind when a girl tries to call, you will just get a message that your relationship went down. There's no real way to predict when calls are going to happen (that I know of), so I wouldn't worry about missing them. It's just -2%, and it can't really be avoided. This was probably done as a way of having relationships degrade slightly over time. If you are on foot, then your phone will ring, and you should answer it. The girl will tell you to come pick her up, so you should do this. She should be home even if it's not during her normal hours. If you don't show up, then your relationship will go down slightly. If you do show up, it's just a normal date. ******************************************************************************* * 3) Potential Girlfriends: * ***************************** These are all of the known girls that you can date. In this section you will find specific information that may help you date them successfully. The "Appearance Preferences" of a girl is the body type she would prefer that you have. If you do not meet her appearance preferences, a girl may not go out with you or may refuse to go out on a date with you after you've started dating. However, a very high sex appeal will convince her to overlook your flaws and go out with you no matter what body type you have. A girl's "Home" is the place where you can find her once you start dating. This is usually different from where you first met them. When a girl is at her home, there will be a red marker you can go into to start a date. The "Usual Times" are the times that a girl is usually at her home. However, there may be periods of time where a girl is never home, and a girl may rarely be home at a time outside of her usual time (most likely after a phone call). Each girl may have special needs for the different types of dates, so information about these is listed for each girl. Finally, the rewards you get through dating for each girl are listed at the bottom of each of their sections. =============================================================================== = 3a) Denise Robinson = ======================= Denise will be your first girlfriend, and she'll also be the easiest one to please. You'll get her automatically after the Burning Desire mission, so don't worry about doing anything special to go out with her. She doesn't care about appearance, she lives very close to your house, and you never have to take her very far from home. And she even has a date alternative that lets you avoid the date types you don't like. Appearance Preferences: ----------------------- - none Home: ----- Denise lives on the street right behind your initial house, next to the bridge. Usual Times: ------------ 00:00 to 6:00 16:00 to 00:00 Food Date: ---------- The easiest place to take Denise to is the bar a couple blocks away from her house (marked as a "drinking date" on the map). You can also take her to fast food restaurants if you'd prefer some variety. Dancing Date: ------------- Just take her to the only dance club in Los Santos, which is marked on the map. Driving Date: ------------- Denise likes the area all around her house, and there's no speed too slow for her. So you can just barely move down the street and back to fill up her fun meter. Date Alternative: ----------------- With Denise, you have an alternative that you can do during any of the other types of dates. As you drive around, Denise will probably ask to do a drive- by. If you just let her shoot people as you drive around, she will probably be happy and the date will end successfully. So, if there's a particular type of date you don't like, you can choose to do this instead. Coffee: ------- Denise should start inviting you in after dates for coffee when your relationship with her is at about 40%. Rewards: -------- - You don't get anything just for dating Denise, since you don't have to do anything to get a date with her. - At 50% you get the keys to her car, which is a green Hustler. - At 100% Denise will give you a Pimp Suit, which is a light blue suit. =============================================================================== = 3b) Michelle Cannes: = ======================== Michelle is a mechanic who lives in San Fierro. You can find her in the driving school, which you will have a mission at after doing some of the main missions for San Fierro (it will be marked on the map after this mission). She will be standing next to the water cooler in the room with the TV that gives you driving school missions. Note that Michelle will not be in the driving school all of the time. She seems to randomly spawn when you enter through the front door, so if she isn't there, just exit and enter the front door of the driving school until she is. If she still doesn't appear, then you should leave the area and let some game time pass, and then try again. Appearance Preferences: ----------------------- - High fat (around 50% or more) - High sex appeal Home: ----- Michelle lives in the far northern part of San Fierro at her garage. Usual Times: ------------ 00:00 and 12:00 Food date: ---------- She likes bars, so take her to one of those (bars are called "drinking date" on the map). There's one by the gym in San Fierro that is pretty easy to get to, and not terribly far away. Dancing Date: ------------- Just take her to the only club in San Fierro. You may have seen the location of this club in such places as on the map during a dancing date. Driving Date: ------------- Michelle likes you to drive fast, so basically just drive around at top speed and try not to crash so you can keep your speed up. Don't worry about which neighborhood you're in too much, as she doesn't seem to care much about where you are as long as you're going fast. Special Date: ------------- This type of date seems to be unique to Michelle, and it is by far the easiest date type of them all. In this type of date, Michelle wants to drive, so you if you are in a car already you'll automatically get out of the car and go over to the passenger side. Otherwise if you're on foot, just get into a car and you'll automatically switch seats when she gets in. Now Michelle will drive around while the camera is in cinematic mode. All you can do during this date is change the radio station and change the camera view (with left and right on the right joystick). After driving around for about 2 or 3 ingame hours, she'll drive back to her place and the date will end successfully. However, it is still possible to fail this date. If you get out of the car (by pressing triangle), Michelle will drive off and the game will tell you that she stole your car. She'll disappear after the little cutscene though, so the car will just stop or crash into whatever is in front of it. Note: There is a glitch with this date that happens some of the time when you drive into the red marker to start a date instead of walking into it. In this glitch, Michelle will get into the car, but when you get out to go to the passenger side, Michelle will drive away without you. The camera will follow Michelle in the car in cinematic mode as normal, but after a few seconds the date will fail (probably because Michelle got too far away from you), and the camera will stay stuck where it is. Then if you get into a car, the camera will go back to cinematic mode on the car, but then will get stuck again if you get out. This problem doesn't seem to save with the game, but I still would not necessarily recommend saving just in case. If you want to avoid this glitch, you should probably only enter Michelle's red marker on foot. Coffee: ------- Michelle will probably start letting you in at about 40% relationship. Rewards: -------- -For dating: You can use Michelle's garage, located at her house. It works just like a Pay n' Spray, but it's free. -At 50%: She'll give you the keys to her Monster Truck. -At 100%: She gives you a Racing Suit. This is basically a blue jumpsuit with Michelle's Garage logo on the back. =============================================================================== = 3c) Helena Wankstein: = ========================= Helena is a lawyer who likes shooting guns and lives on a farm. She can first be found by in the town of Blueberry in Red County. She is shooting at targets on the Blueberry Ammunation's roof, which can be accessed by a staircase right next to the Ammunation entrance. She doesn't seem to be there every day, so if you can't find her, try coming back the next ingame day. Also, I believe that you have to have unlocked the San Fierro island before she will appear. There is a special thing you can do with Helena before you start dating her. When you stand in front of Helena as she fires at the target, she will shoot you. If you let her shoot you until you die, your relationship with her will go up by 10%. However, you won't get anything from her before you start dating, even if you get your relationship to 100%. And your relationship will reset to 15% when you start going out with her anyway, so there's no real reason to do this. Appearance Preferences: ----------------------- - Low muscle (less than 25%) - Low fat - High sex appeal Home: ----- Helena lives on a farm in Flint Range. This is in between the cities of Los Santos and San Fierro, and nothing is very close to her home. Usual Times: ------------ 00:00 to 2:00 08:00 to 12:00 14:00 to 00:00 Food Date: ---------- Helena likes restaurants. The closest restaurant to Helena's place is in the Rodeo district of Los Santos. Dancing Date: ------------- This date is kind of a pain with Helena, as the dance clubs are all really far away. I recommend the club in Los Santos since it seems to be a little closer, but you can make it to the one in San Fierro as well. Driving Date: ------------- Helena likes you to drive fairly slowly, at about the speed that you naturally coast down a gentle hill. She likes rural areas and some nice parts of town. This includes the area all around her farm, so I recommend just driving in circles through her fields until you get the fun bar up. Coffee: ------- Helena probably won't let you come in until your relationship is at about 70%. Rewards: -------- - For dating Helena, you will gain access to a tool shed on her farm that contains a chainsaw, a flamethrower, molotov cocktails, and a pistol. You will also be able to use her Bandito car. You don't need the keys as it has no doors to lock. - At 50% the game says you get the keys to her Bandito, but since you could already use her car, what you actually get is nothing. - At 100% Helena will give you Rural Clothes, which you can access in the special menu of your wardrobe. These are overalls over a sleeveless flannel shirt. =============================================================================== = 3d) Katie Zhan: = =================== Katie is a nurse who lives in San Fierro. She can be found at the edge of the avispa country club in San Fierro. To find her, go to the northeast corner of the avispa country club (by the gym). Here, you should be able to see her standing on a little grass hill by some bushes. Appearance Preferences: ----------------------- - high muscle (around 75%) - high sex appeal Home: ----- Katie lives in the Paradise district of San Fierro, along the highway in the far north. Usual Times: ------------ 12:00 to 0:00 Food Date: ---------- She likes diners, so you can take her to the diner that's right next to her house. Just go north towards the bridge and take the exit on the right. The road curves downward, and at the bottom turn left into the parking lot of the little diner there. Dancing Date: ------------- Just a standard dance date, take her to the only club in San Fierro. It's marked on the map. Driving Date: ------------- The speed for Katie's date is pretty easy, as she likes a fairly slow speed. For location, Katie likes the Gant Bridge that is just north of her home. The bridge is straight and pretty long, which makes it a great place for a driving date. She doesn't like the areas on either side of the bridge, though, so if you get to the end you'll need to turn around. The median is pretty low here, so you should be able to turn around whenever you want without much difficulty. Note that if you haven't unlocked the third island yet, the bridge will be partially blocked off. You can drive through the first set of barricades on the side unless you have an extra large vehicle. This will get you onto a little section of the bridge, but then there's another set of barricades. The second set of barricades can't be passed by car, so you'll have to turn around when you get to them. You should have enough bridge space to finish the date pretty easily, though, as long as you aren't terrible at turning around. If you don't like bothering with all of the barricades then Chinatown is a workable alternative. There's a nice little square south of the Chinatown safehouse that you can just circle around in until you fill up the fun bar. However, Chinatown is pretty far away, so the bridge is probably your best bet. It's good for those pre-third-island monster truck dates, though. Coffee: ------- Katie should start inviting you in when your relationship with her is at about 50%. Reward: ------- - For dating: Katie will get you out of the hospital for free, and even better is that you also get to keep all of your weapons after being wasted. - At 50%: Katie will give you the keys to her white Romero (it's a hearse). - At 100%: Katie will give you the Medic Uniform. This is a white shirt with medical symbols on it, and dark blue pants. =============================================================================== = 3e) Barbara Schternvart: = ============================ Barbara is a divorced cop with two kids, the perfect match for a super criminal like you. You never get to meet her kids though, so she could be lying about them. Note that even though Barbara is a law enforcement official, she won't care if you commit crimes around her. Barbara can be found in the town of el quebrados in the northwest part of the map (Las Venturas island). She will be in the parking lot of the police station that is just north of the el quebrados pay n' spray. Appearance Preferences: ----------------------- - high fat (around 50% or more) - high sex appeal Home: ----- You never find out where Barbara actually lives. Instead, you'll pick her up right where you first found her, at the police station is el quebrados. Usual Times: ------------ 00:00 to 6:00 16:00 to 00:00 Food Date: ---------- Barbara likes diners, and fortunately for you, there's a diner along the highway just a little ways southwest of el quebrados. If you have a vehicle that can go offroad well, that's a great way to get there quickly. Dancing Date: ------------- Dancing will be Barbara's most annoying type of date to do, since she lives a long way from any cities. You can either go to the club in Las Venturas or the one in San Fierro, but both are pretty far away. I usually go to the one in San Fierro, since it seems to be a little closer. Driving Date: ------------- Barbara likes very slow speeds, but it is possible to go too slow. She likes the area all around el quebrados, so you can just drive her slowly down the roads until she asks you to take her home. Coffee: ------- Barbara should start inviting you in at about 60% relationship. Reward: ------- - For dating: You get out of jail free after being arrested, and you get to keep all of your guns! - At 50%: You'll get the keys to her Ranger (one of those police SUVs you always see in rural areas). - At 100%: You'll get a cop outfit, which is the standard blue uniform worn by the police in the game. =============================================================================== = 3f) Millie Perkins: = ======================= You will get Millie as a girlfriend automatically after the "Key To Her Heart" mission in Las Venturas. Note that you do not have to wear the gimp suit from the mission in order to date her normally, that was just necessary during that one mission. However, it may be a good idea to wear it so that you can do her special date. Your main goal in dating Millie is to get her key card for an upcoming mission, which she will give to you when you get your relationship with her high enough. This will probably take at least 2 or 3 successful dates depending on what kind of dates you do. Appearance Preferences: ----------------------- - none Home: ----- Millie lives in the Prickle Pine district of northern Las Venturas. Usual Times: ------------ 12:00 to 22:00 Food Date: ---------- Millie likes restaurants, and fortunately there's a restaurant not too far southwest of her house. Dancing Date: ------------- You'll want to take her to the Camel's Toe dance club way down in southeast Las Venturas. Driving Date: ------------- Millie likes about an average speed, and has a pretty generous range of approval, so you shouldn't have too much trouble keeping her happy. She also likes the area she lives at, so you can just drive her in circles around her neighborhood area. Special Date: ------------- Millie's special date is definitely her easiest date, and probably her best since you can get 10% from this date even before Millie starts inviting you in normally. To get this date, you have to wear the gimp suit. Then when you show up for a date, you'll just go inside and have sex instead of having to deal with going places or doing things. Note that with this date, you won't be able to give her any gifts or follow it up with coffee. Also, when you finish the date you won't be wearing your gimp suit anymore, but it will still be available from your wardrobe. Coffee: ------- You don't get to start having coffee after normal dates with Millie until you get your relationship with her to about 40%. Reward: ------- - For dating: nothing, since you don't have to do anything to get her. - At about 35%: After your date, Millie will call you on your cellphone and tell you that you can go to her house to get her key card. Now you can enter Millie's house just this once to get it. - At 50%: You get the keys to her car, which is a pink Club. - At 100%: You get absolutely nothing. I guess the gimp suit you got on the mission was considered Millie's outfit gift. ******************************************************************************* * 4) Appearance * ***************** To date most of the girls, you'll need to have an appearance that meets their standards. You can find details about what you have to look like for each specific girl in their respective sections. This section will just tell you how to get the different appearances. Also, keep in mind that most appearance requirements seem to be negated or lessened with high enough sex appeal. So if you really don't want to change your body type, you can choose to just work on sex appeal. =============================================================================== = 4a) Muscle: = =============== To gain muscle, just go to the gym and use either of the weight sets. Note that you can only gain about 20% muscle per day in the gym. Losing muscle is a little more difficult. The first thing to do is to make sure you have no body fat (see the section about losing fat below). As long as you have fat, you can't lose any muscle. Next, you have two options. One is to do a lot of exercise, like walking, swimming, and/or biking. This however takes a very long time, and is not a good way to do it. The best way to lose muscle is to starve yourself. Let the game sit unpaused for a few ingame days and you'll start to lose muscle (or fat first if you have any) as your body eats itself. Don't save, die, or get busted, because that counts as eating. Then, when you get down to the level of muscle you want, just go eat or save and your muscle loss will stop. This process goes somewhat fast once it gets started, and requires little to no effort on your part. =============================================================================== = 4b) Fat: = ============ Gaining fat is easy. Just go to the fast food restaurant of your choice, and order up to 11 of the biggest meal they have. Don't have more than 11 meals in a 6-hour period though, or you'll vomit and gain nothing. To lose fat, you need to exercise. The best way to do this is to go to the gym and use the exercise bike or the treadmill. The exercise bike is very easy to use if you have high bike skill, so in general I'd recommend that over the treadmill, but use whichever one that you can operate at the highest level. You can just run, swim, or bike around normally, too, although this will be slower. You can also use the starving method of not eating for several game days if you'd like. However, it's pretty easy to lose fat through exercise at the gym, so this method isn't necessarily as useful for fat loss as it is for muscle loss. =============================================================================== = 4c) Sex Appeal: = =================== Sex appeal is the most important appearance quality to have. With a very high sex appeal, you do not have to meet a girl's appearance preferences. There are a number of ways to increase your sex appeal. Car: ---- The easiest way to raise sex appeal is to get a nice car. Most sports cars, lowriders, and luxury cars have pretty high boosts, so you might want to try to look at these types first. With a nice enough car, you should be able to get your sex appeal to max no matter what your appearance is like. To get the sex appeal bonus from the car, you have to first enter and then exit the car. Then, as long as the car is intact and fairly close to you (within about 30 steps away), you'll get a bonus in sex appeal from it. One other thing to note is that the condition of the car matters. The more beat up a car is, the less of a sex appeal boost it will give. So do be careful with your car, just this once. But while cars give a great boost to sex appeal, it's a temporary boost that is easy to lose. Just be careful if you're using a high sex appeal from a car to negate a girl's appearance preferences, because you'll have to have the high sex appeal both before you start a date and after you finish the date. If you finish a date in a condition that wouldn't be good enough to get a date with her, it will count as a failed date. Appearance: ----------- Everything you wear can increase your sex appeal. The worst possible boost something can give is zero, so the more you wear, the better. The best boosts you can get come from your torso clothing, and pants also give a decent boost. All the rest can gives relatively small boosts, but it does add up. And the quality of clothes definitely matters. The price of clothes is very closely related to how much sex appeal they give. In general, the more expensive an article of clothing is, the higher the sex appeal is. There are some exceptions to this rule, though, so be sure to try a few different outfits to make sure you didn't pick a weird one. Also, every tattoo you have gives a small boost to sex appeal, so if you really want to get your sex appeal up, you can load up on tattoos. A fancy haircut is also a pretty good way to increase your sex appeal. The best haircuts for sex appeal are the cornrow, blonde cornrow, groove cut, and detail cut. Haircuts that give no boost to sex appeal include pretty much any that involve coloring (other than blonde) and the Elvis hair. Afros, mohawks, and goatees tend to give pretty low boosts as well. Oysters: -------- There are 50 oysters that you can collect in the water all over San Andreas. If you collect all of them, you supposedly get an increase in sex appeal. If you're interested in finding these, there are other FAQs that cover this better than I could, so I recommend that you check one of them. ******************************************************************************* * 5) Gift Locations * ********************* This is by no means a complete list of gifts, and I'm sure you could find plenty more if you look around. I plan to add some more of these at some point, but it probably won't be any time soon. Also note that while the cane fills the same weapon slot as the gifts, it can't be given to a girl. As such, I won't be listing any cane locations here. =============================================================================== = 5a) Flowers: = ================ There are flowers all over the place in San Andreas, so right now this is just a small list of a few of the locations I usually get flowers at. - At the gas station a couple blocks west of Reese's barber shop in Los Santos near your first safe house (the barber shop icon is probably covered on the map by a tattoo parlor). - In the Carlton Heights district of San Fierro at the super-windy street by the mansion that you can buy. This is between Michelle and Katie's houses and a little south. It's on the northern side of this street. - At the tip of the northern curve of the s-curve near Helena's house. - Between the highways at flint intersection near Helena's house, just before the tunnels. - Next to the northernmost house along the dirt road just west of el quebrados. =============================================================================== = 5b) Dildos: = =============== Dildos are large, floppy, and pink. They are fun to hit people with, and they make a great gift. - Go into the police station in Los Santos in the Pershing Square district (make sure not to take out any guns while in there, or you'll get a 2-star wanted level). Take the first right into the showers, and you'll find it there. - Inside Millie's house. =============================================================================== = 5c) Vibrators = ================= The vibrator looks like a large silver bullet. You can stab people with it, or you can give it to one of your girlfriends. - In the northwestern corner of the map there is a little town called Bayside (this is just across the bridge that's next to Katie's house). In Bayside is a small bay next to a four-way intersection, with a little white rectangle at a slight angle on the map next to said intersection. Right at this point is a little construction lot area with some cones at the entrance, and just past the cones is a dumpster. Behind this dumpster is a vibrator. ******************************************************************************* * 6) Frequently Asked Questions: * ********************************** Here is a section for common questions related to dating in this game. =============================================================================== = 6a) Trouble! = ================ Here are some questions that involve having trouble with various girlfriend- related activities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) I went to a girl's home during the time she was supposed to be there, but she never showed up. What's wrong? A.) This is by far the most common question about girlfriends. There are two possible answers to this question: First, you can only go out with a girl once per day, based on when the date ended. If you just went out with the girl, you'll have to wait until the next ingame day to go on another date. However, if you haven't just gone out with the girl and she hasn't been home for over 24 ingame hours, then things are a lot more tricky. This is a common problem and will probably happen to most everyone at some point. For seemingly no reason, a girl can stop being home. Unfortunately I don't know what causes this problem, so I don't know exactly how to fix it. The girls always seems to come back eventually though, so don't feel too discouraged. The best way to fix this problem, in my experience, is to just let time pass in the game. There are plenty of ways to do this. You can go and do something else in the game, or you can just die, get busted, and/or save a few times. Anything that passes in game time will do. If you've let a lot of time pass and the girl still isn't coming back, you may want to consider resetting your PlayStation 2. I doubt that this would do anything in most cases, but it's a possibility and doesn't take much effort, so it might be worth a shot. If these options aren't working for you, I recommend that you try to get a phone call from the girl. To do this, go near the girl in question's home and just wait. Make sure you aren't in a vehicle or anything, as you need to be on foot to get a phonecall. I would also recommend making sure you meet her appearance preferences and/or have very high sex appeal, because I don't think she'll call you otherwise (although it may be possible). The phone call method may take several ingame days to come, so you may want to do something else in real life while you wait, like read a book or bake a pie (I recommend the pie option). Just make sure that you will be able hear the call when it comes and that you answer it. If you get and answer a call from the girl, she will immediately be available for a date, even if it's not her normally scheduled time. And after the date, she should start to be available at her normal time again. These solutions aren't a guaranteed fix, and it can be frustrating to have to wait, but they always seems to work if you let enough time go by. However, since I'm not certain that these methods works in all cases, I'll offer a few other possible solutions that seem to work some of the time. It's my belief that all of the following methods only appear to work because game time passes in all of them, but I will still include them here in case I'm wrong. - Unlikely Solutions - One possibility is that there are certain days of the week when a girl is not available, or is at least less likely to be available. I haven't noticed any patterns, so I would tend to doubt that this is the case, but it's a possibility worth considering. If you haven't beaten the game yet, you could try doing some storyline missions to advance the plot. This has seemed to work for me before, but it's not really an option if you've already finished all of the missions. And as I said before, it probably only seems to work because in-game time is passing. Another possibility is that the girl may not appear, or she may be less likely to appear, if you no longer meet her appearance preferences or don't have enough sex appeal. It is possible for girls to be available for dates even if they won't go out with you, at which time they will tell you what you need to work on. However, I suppose it could be possible that if you are below their standards for a long period of time they will go away until you get back to their standards. One more option is just changing your appearance in general. This has worked for me in the past, but it probably helps that I'm a slow shopper. You could try getting a new outfit, a new haircut, and maybe even some new tattoos. It's good to change every once in a while anyway, it keeps things fresh and new- like. - --- - If none of these methods worked for you, then I don't really know what else you could do. I would say your best bet is to let some more ingame time pass. Hopefully they will come back for you if you wait long enough. Good luck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) I killed one of the girls. Is there anyway to get her back? A.) If you kill a girl before you start going out with her, she does seem to come back to life and continue appearing normally. I can't guarantee that this will always happen, but it has worked for me before. I would still strongly recommend against saving if you kill any of the girls, if at all possible. If you were going out with the girl and you killed her during a date, then I don't know of any way to get her back. It's possible that there is a way, but nothing that I've tried has worked. If it is possible to get her back, then I would guess that the only way would be to go back to where you first met her and hope that she appears again. If she does reappear at the same place, then she isn't there very often, because I've never seen it happen. Also, this method wouldn't work for Denise or Millie, and I can't think of anything that would bring them back. While there's a possibility that this method works for bringing back the other four girls, I don't think it's very likely. So if you ever kill a girl during a date, I highly recommend that you do not save the game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) If a girl dumps me, is there any way to get her back? A.) I have tried several methods for getting a girl back after being dumped, and so far nothing has been successful. This doesn't mean that it's impossible, although it does seem that it's at least not easily done. If it is possible, then I would guess that there are two potential ways to get her back. One possible way might be to go back to where you first found her and then ask her out again. However, I've never been able to get them to reappear, so the amount of time that she would be there would likely be greatly reduced. However, this method wouldn't work for Denise or Millie, since they are found during storyline missions. Another possibility is that the girl could call you and ask you out again after a certain amount of time. As with the previous method, this has never worked for me, so I can't really give any relevant advice. If it's anything like getting a normal phone call you'll probably need to be in the general area of the girl's house, and it will probably take a good deal of waiting. So while it seems like it should be possible to go out with a girl again after you've been dumped, I haven't found a way. You can try the above methods if you're really desperate, but I can't guarantee you any results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) I went to the place where you're supposed to be able to find a girl to ask her out, but she wasn't there. How can I get her to appear? A.) It seems that some of the girls aren't in their locations at certain times. They may not be at their location on certain days of the week, or maybe it's just random. If a girl doesn't appear at first then let an ingame day or so pass, and then try again. A lot of people seem to be having trouble specifically with getting Michelle to appear. In this case, she seems to randomly spawn or not spawn every time you enter the driving school, so if you just leave and come back a few times through the front door, she should be there before long. If not, leave the area and let some ingame time pass, and then try again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) I meet the appearance preferences to date a girl, but she still won't go out with me. What do I do? A.) The best thing to do here is raise your sex appeal. A high sex appeal can even negate the appearance preferences of a girl all together, so it is a very good thing to have for dating. For more information about raising your sex appeal or otherwise changing your appearance, see the Appearance section. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) A girl told me I don't have enough style. Or maybe she told me that I don't dress well enough, I don't remember for sure, but it was one of those two or both. What does this mean? A.) This means you need a higher sex appeal. See the Appearance section for information on how to raise your sex appeal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) The game said I got the keys to a girl's car, why is it still locked? A.) Having the keys just makes the car spawn with the doors unlocked, it doesn't actually give you the ability to unlock the doors. So, if the car was already there when you got the keys, it will still be locked. Just leave the area and come back (at a time when the girl is home), and they car should be unlocked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== = 6b) General: = ================ These are general questions about the game. They may not all be very general, but I'm sure you'll agree that they are questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) Can I date more than one girl at once? A.) Yes, you can date all of the girls at the same time, and I recommend that you do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) Can I just ignore a girl after I get to 100% with her? A.) For the most part, yes. Your relationship can still go down if you miss a phone call from a girl or answer a call and then don't take her out on a date. However, this is a small decrease (-2%) and doesn't happen all that often. You may want to take her on a date if your relationship level starts getting really low, but it would take a lot of playing time for your relationship to get low enough for her to dump you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) Do I have to keep up to a girl's standards even after we've started dating? A.) You do if you want to go out on a date with her. If you go into the red marker thing to start a date but don't meet her standards, she will tell you that and you won't go out. This is worth -1% for your relationship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) Do I get to keep the rewards from a girl if I stop going out with her? A.) You do not get to keep the reward that you got just for going out with her (including the ability to keep your weapons after being busted/wasted), and her car will not spawn if you aren't going out with her. However, you do get to keep the special outfit from the girl even if you are no longer going out with her. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) Do I need to do anything with girlfriends to get to 100% game completion? A.) No, not really. You will automatically get Denise as a girlfriend as part of a storyline mission, and you'll have to get the keycard from Millie for another necessary mission, but other than that having girlfriends is completely optional. However, I would recommend that at the very least you start dating Katie and Barbara, since their starting rewards are so good. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) How do I give gifts? A.) To give a gift to a girl, first you have to find a gift. Gifts include flowers, dildos, and vibrators, and they can be found throughout San Andreas. See the gift location section for more details. A gift is considered a weapon (yes, you can use them to kill people), so you can select it just like you select any other weapon. While you are on a date with a girl, select the gift and then press L1 while you are standing near her. You may have hold L1 for a couple seconds before it registers, but you'll know it worked because a little cut scene will take place. After this, you will no longer have the gift in your inventory. Note: Do not press circle. Circle is the button you hit to attack things. Press L1. If you press circle you will hit her, and that's abuse. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) Can I give more than one gift per date? A.) You can, but only the first one will change your relationship value. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== = 6c) Misc: = ============= This is everyone's favorite section of anything, the miscellaneous section! Some might say that there's little difference between a General Section and a Misc Section, but those people are wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) Where can I find the gimp suit? A.) You will get the gimp suit during the "Key to Her Heart" mission where you first meet Millie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) In the relationship change value section, you have that a kiss is worth -1%. Is that a typo? A.) It seems like it should be +1%, but from what I've observed they are generally worth -1%. Also, I never maek typos, so I don't see why you'd have any doubts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) Are the last names of the girls ever actually revealed in the game? A.) From what I've seen, only in the credits. However, you can also find their full names in the instruction manual. On page 21 is a list of the cast, which tells who did the voices for the main characters. The full names of all six of the girls are listed here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) Can you date Catalina? A.) No. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) What does Millie's key card do? A.) Secret things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q.) How do I end a two-player date? A.) One (or both) of you must die, it is the only way. Don't be afraid. Letting your date die here does not count as the girl dying. Your relationship is not affected by anything you do in a two-player date, because it is not really your girlfriend. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************* * 7) Revision History: * ************************ This is where I'll put the past revision history of this FAQ in case you want to know what was changed between different versions. April 23, 2005 - Version 1.10 (Current Version): ------------------------------------------------ Sorry that it's been so long between updates, I just haven't had the time to work on this much until now. This is a big update, so I thought I'd skip to 1.10, numberwise. A lot of the text has been updated, both for content and to improve unsuckability. Some new information has been added, and some information has been corrected. There are really too many updates to go into any detail here, but just about everything has been updated at least slightly. Also, new email address. I have plans to do another large update in the future, but it will probably be a while before that happens, if it ever does. November 10th, 2004 - Version 1.02: ----------------------------------- I've got some more stuff that I'll probably add later, but I thought I'd just try to take care of the major questions people are having in this update. I've added more details about finding Michelle, added more questions to the FAQ and expanded some of the existing ones, added information on 2-player dates, and I may have changed some other things that I forgot about. November 7th, 2004 - Version 1.01: ---------------------------------- Added information about Millie's special date. November 5th, 2004 - Version 1.00: ---------------------------------- Guide is first submitted. Things are finished for the most part, and the guide is ready for release. I'll probably add a few more details and maybe change around the layout a little in future revisions, but there shouldn't be anything too major. November 3rd, 2004 - Version 0.50: ---------------------------------- Everything is started, but there's still a lot more that needs to be added. Most of the general information is done, most of the specific information about the first three girls is done, and the fourth one is started. There's no real reason to include information about this version since it was never publicly available, but I just don't have the heart to delete it. October 29, 2004 - Version 0.00: -------------------------------- First version of this FAQ is started, but not yet submitted. ******************************************************************************* * 8) Credits/Contact Information: * *********************************** If you have any questions that aren't answered in the FAQ, corrections and/or additions, or just comments about the FAQ in general, then you can email them to me at twotwotwotwo@gmail.com. Please try to put something in the subject about this game or this FAQ. I should warn you I tend to be pretty lazy about checking email, so you might not get a timely response. I should also say that because I was getting an unexpectedly large amount of emails about this FAQ, I was unable to respond to all of them. The amount of mail has been going down lately, though, so there is a better chance that I will read your email if you send one now. If I never replied to your email, then I apologize, and you are welcome to send it again. All trademarks and copyrights that may be contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders. Copyright (c) 2004 - 2005. All rights reserved.