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Don't adjust your sets--I'm the one with the draw distance problem. (Thanks already to Ernie Kovaks.) Oriented for the PC version with the Mouse and Keyboard Configuration and Mouse Controlled Steering by Glen T. Winstein (glenster at Gamefaqs, Glenster1 at IGN) It's a G thang. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& When looking for something in this guide, click "Edit" at the top left of the screen, then click "Find (on This Page)... Ctrl+F" and a "Find" menu appears. (Pressing "Ctrl+F" makes it appear, too.) Type in the name, or even just the start of the name, of the mission or section you're looking for, then keep clicking "Find Next" till you're taken there. At least that works if you have Windows XP Home Edition. ******** CONTENTS I Introduction I.1 Paying tributes and having things in common I.2 PC Health I.2.a Clean your disk, disk player, and PC I.2.b Get your hard drive clean and in order I.2.c Use the latest updates I.2.d Turn off unnecessary applications before running the game I.2.e Take2 Games web site and toll-free phone number I.2.f Tweak guides I.2.g Volume I.2.h System requirements I.3 How to save games The convenience of copies of your GTA San Andreas User File I.4 Settings I.5 Stats I.5.a Criminal Rating I.5.b Health in relationship to Stats I.5.c Player--Muscle and Fat Stats I.5.d Player--Stamina and Lung Capacity Stats I.5.e Player--Respect and Sex Appeal Stats I.5.f Player--vehicle Stats I.5.g Player--Pilot Ranking I.5.h Player--Gambling and Luck Stats I.5.i Weapons I.5.j Crimes--Total number of wanted stars attained and evaded I.5.k Crimes--Criminals wasted I.5.l Crimes--Gang members wasted I.5.m Crimes--Cost of property damaged I.5.n Gangs I.5.o Achievements--Flight time I.6 Some distinctions between the PC and PS2 versions I.7 Controls Note: I remap Spacebar and Left Shift so either does the role of the other. I.7.a Foot Controls I.7.b Special fight moves Controls I.7.c Swimming Controls I.7.d Four-Wheel vehicle Controls I.7.e Motorcycle or Bicycle Controls Stunt information I.7.f Note for all flying vehicles I.7.g Plane or Jet Controls I.7.h Hydra Controls I.7.i Helicopter Controls I.7.j Parachute Controls I.7.k Jetpack Controls I.7.l Crane Controls I.7.m Boat Controls I.8.a A rundown of some of the vehicles and some of their real names I.8.b A rundown of some of the people who drive them I.9 Wanted Ratings I.10 Ghost hell, ghost world, ghost heaven, and Liberty City I.11 Odds and Ends I.12 Glitches I.13 Radio I.14 Codes &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& II The beginning II.1 "The Introduction" II.2 "The San Andreas Theme Song" Lyrics by Young MayLay II.3 Los Santos 1st main missions II.4 "In The Beginning" The Johnson garage, E6 on your paper map, is free and immediately available II.5 "Big Smoke" Carl Johnson II.6 "Sweet and Kendl" Carl Johnson Sweet Johnson calls about local turf battles a Camera is in C.J.'s room at the Johnson house II.7 "Ryder" Carl Johnson The restaurants, barber shops, and tattoo parlors are open &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& III Preliminaries for Los Santos III.1 Maps, map markers, teleportation, and a trainer: how to control space and time III.2 Spraying Tags 100 Tags When all 100 Tags are finished, C.J.'s Respect will increase, and the following Weapon Icons will spawn in the kitchen of his house: the AK47, Tec9, Sawnoff Shotgun, and Molotov Cocktails. III.3 Weapons 8 Ball's Bomb Shop III.4 Armor and Police Bribes III.5 Maximum Stats of all kinds in one sitting III.6 Cycling Stat (bicycle) Bicycles reverse faster, C.J. stays on a bike better, and he can Bunny Hop higher III.7 The Commerce 24-7 Courier Asset Mission, aka the Roboi's Food Mart Asset Mission III.8 BMX Challenge III.9 The Taxi mission (a Sub-mission) 50 fares unlimited NOS Boost for Taxis and Cabbies III.10 Burglary (a Sub-mission) Not needed for 100% completion III.11 Kill Criminals III.12 Inside Track Betting III.13 Save houses III.14 Weapon Stats and Gang Respect III.14.a Initial weapon gathering III.14.b What weapon upgrading does III.14.c Upgrading weapon skills while earning Respect III.15 Recruiting gang members C.J. has more moves for all, and can dual wield some, weapons, and, with Respect, can recruit up to seven gang members III.16 Lung Capacity III.17 Oysters Good for Sex Appeal III.18 Sex Appeal Oo-oo! III.19 Flying Stat The airport opens, flying vehicles handle better, and C.J. gets a parachute if he bails III.20 Bike Stat (motorcycle) C.J. stays on a motorcycle better III.21 Driving Stat C.J.'s four-wheel vehicles handle better III.22 Pimping Mission (a Sub-mission) level 10 Hookers pay C.J. III.23 Firetruck Mission (a Sub-mission) level 12 C.J. gets the fireproof feature, good for using Molotovs III.24 Vigilante Mission (a Sub-mission) level 12 C.J. gets 150 armor III.25 Ambulance Mission (a Sub-mission) level 12 maximum health III.26 8-Track Los Santos Forum A Hotring Racer and a Monster Truck are available III.27 Make a copy of your save game &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& IV The main story missions of Los Santos continued The Sweet missions IV.1 "Tagging Up Turf" Sweet Johnson The basketball game is available IV.2 "Cleaning the Hood" Sweet Johnson IV.3 "Drive-Thru" Sweet Johnson Opens all three Gyms IV.4 Los Santos gym Get Stamina and Muscle developed quicker, and beat the trainer to get boxing moves. IV.5 "Nines and AKs" Sweet Johnson Opens OG Loc and Big Smoke missions A Pistol is at Emmet's place IV.6 Clothes Binco, Prolaps, and SubUrban clothes stores are open IV.7 "Drive-By" Sweet Johnson Opens Ryder missions IV.8 "Sweet's Girl" Sweet Johnson IV.9 "Cesar Vialpando" Sweet Johnson Unlocks Loco Low Co. Lowrider garage, "Lowrider Challenge," and Cesar's missions IV.10 Lowrider Challenge Not required for 100% Use a Lowrider for it and the next mission Cesar mission IV.11 "High Stakes, Low-Rider" Cesar Vialpando The Ryder missions IV.12 "Home Invasion" Ryder IV.13 "Catalyst" Ryder IV.14 "Robbing Uncle Sam" Ryder The Big Smoke missions IV.15 "OG Loc" Big Smoke IV.16 "Running Dog" Big Smoke IV.17 "Wrong Side of the Tracks" Big Smoke IV.18 "Just Business" Big Smoke The OG Loc missions IV.19 "Life's a Beach" OG Loc IV.20 "Madd Dogg's Rhymes" OG Loc Opens C.R.A.S.H. missions IV.21 "Management Issues" OG Loc IV.22 "House Party" OG Loc The C.R.A.S.H. missions IV.23 "Burning Desire" C.R.A.S.H. Denise is available to be a girlfriend and the Sweet Johnson missions can continue IV.24 "Gray Imports" C.R.A.S.H. The Sweet missions continued IV.25 "Doberman" Sweet Johnson Unlocks the ability to take territories from gangs, but you'll lose any you gained in Los Santos in the events after "The Green Sabre," so it's not an immediate concern. Ammu-Nations and two of the four Ammu-Nation Challenges are available. But since you need to do all four in a row to complete the mission, and the 4th isn't available till the Desert and Las Venturas open up, you can just practice the 1st two for now. Body Armor $200, 9mm Pistol $200, Silenced 9mm Pistol $600, Tec9 $300, Micro SMG $500, SMG $2,000, Shotgun $600, Sawnoff Shotgun $800, and Grenades $300, are at Ammu-Nation. IV.26 "Los Sepulcros" Sweet Johnson The last of the 1st batch of Los Santos missions IV.27 "Reuniting the Families" Sweet Johnson The glitch is available that lets you leave in mid mission--killing the SWAT agents but leaving Sweet to shoot down the helicopter--and explore the blocked off and otherwise unwelcome areas without a wanted rating. IV.28 "The Green Sabre" Sweet Johnson Cesar tips C.J. to the sight of a couple of Ballas, Big Smoke, Ryder, and Officer Tenpenny together near the green Sabre used when his Mom was gunned down. The Badlands and San Fierro are officially open The Badlands save houses are now available &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& V The Badlands and San Fierro Preliminaries V.1 Photo Ops 50 Use the camera you're given--it has an unlimited amount of film. The Micro SMG, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, and Grenades will be available at the Xoomer garage in Doherty, San Fierro. V.2 Save houses V.3 Clothes Zip clothes stores are open V.4 Weapons V.5 Armor and police bribes V.6 Oysters V.7 Mount Chiliad Challenge 7:00 to 18:00 (three races) V.7.a Race 1 V.7.b Race 2 V.7.c Race 3 V.8 Hippy Shopper Courier Asset Mission (four stages) V.9 NRG-500 Challenge V.10 Blood Bowl (Corvin Stadium) (like Blood ring but with shooters in cars) Blood ring Banger will be by Corvin Stadium V.11 San Fierro Gym Get stamina and muscle past the buff stage, and beat the trainer to get martial arts moves. V.12 Make a copy of your save game &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& VI The main story missions of the Badlands and San Fierro The Badlands missions VI.1 Badlands C.R.A.S.H. VI.2 First Date ?? Catalina cut scene--she wants to rob four places VI.3 Tanker Commander Catalina Opens RS Haul Trucking Asset Mission The Truth calls ******** The RS Haul Trucking Asset mission (part one) VI.4.a VI.4.b VI.4.c VI.4.d VI.4.e VI.4.f ******** The Truth calls and you can meet him for missions VI.5 "Body Harvest" The Truth Rifle $1,000, and Remote Explosives $2,000, are at Ammu-Nation VI.6 "King in Exile" Cesar Vialpando Cesar Vialpando cut scene Afterwards, he'll occasionally call to have Carl get shipments (these Any couriers aren't needed for 100%) Free save house: Fern Ridge C4 free Location: In the middle of Fern Ridge (Red County). VI.7 "First Base" Catalina Catalonia cut scene C.J. can rob the three remaining places VI.8 "Against All Odds" Catalina VI.9 "Gone Courting" Catalina Catalina cut scene VI.10 "Local Liquor Store" Catalina Cesar calls about courier missions VI.11 "Made in Heaven" Catalina Catalina cut scene VI.12 "Small Town Bank" Catalina Cesar calls about street racing from the police in the country Another glitch that lets you explore the unwelcome areas--by failing a Unique Jump with a motorcycle and leaving Catalina to fend off the police for awhile-- is available in "Small Town Bank." take a Cheetah, Banshee, Buffalo, Elegy--something like that--and go to: VI.13 "Wu Zi Mu" Cesar Vialpando VI.14 "Farewell, My Love" Cesar Vialpando The Truth calls C.J. can get five wanted stars Free save place in Doherty The Xoomer garage W edge of C2 garage free VI.15 "Are You Going to San Fierro?" The Truth The San Fierro missions VI.16 Save houses VI.17 "Big Smoke's Cash" and "Yay Courier" aren't needed for 100%, but, if you do them, they need to be done before "Yay Ka-Boom-Boom"--after the Syndic- cate is destroyed, Big Smoke's couriers won't be running anymore. The Garage missions VI.18 "Wear Flowers In Your Hair" Carl Johnson Call from Zero Buy his RC shop The Zero RC Store Asset missions VI.19 "Air Raid" Zero VI.20 "Supply Lines" Zero "Beefy Baron" Zero is optional VI.21 "New Model Army" Zero Completes Zero RC Store asset-- it makes $5,000 a day and max. The Garage missions continued VI.22 "555 WE TIP" Carl Johnson The Valet outfit is available Opens the Valet mission ******** VI.23 Valet Parking Asset Mission (5 Levels) Vank Off Hotel in Financial The hotel makes $2,000 a day and max. ******** The last Garage mission VI.24 "Deconstruction" Carl Johnson Jethro calls--Driving School opens ******** VI.25 "Back To School" Turning Tricks Driving School Have C.J. start dating Michelle before finishing driving school to avoid the glitch of her not showing up very often. She's inside the school by the water cooler. VI.25.a "The 360" VI.25.b "The 180" VI.25.c "Whip and Terminate" VI.25.d "Pop and Control" VI.25.e "Burn and Lap" VI.25.f "Cone Coil" VI.25.g "The '90'" VI.25.h "Wheelie Weave" VI.25.i "Spin and Go" VI.25.j "P.I.T. Maneuver" VI.25.k "Alley Oop" VI.25.l "City Slicking" "Back to School" is completed ******** The Syndicate missions VI.26 "Photo Opportunity" VI.27 "Jizzy" Opens Wu Zi Mu missions, which need to be done before "Yay Ka-Boom-Boom." VI.28 "T-Bone Mendez" VI.29 "Mike Toreno" VI.30 "Outrider" VI.31 "Snail Trail" VI.32 "Ice Cold Killa" VI.33 "Pier 69" Sniper Rifle $5,000 at Ammu-Nation VI.34 "Toreno's Last Fight" The Woozie missions VI.35 "Mountain Cloud Boys" Wu Zi Mu VI.36 "Ran Fa Li" Wu Zi Mu VI.37 "Lure" Wu Zi Mu AK47 $3,500 at Ammu-Nation features the trip skip time saver--after your 1st try, you can start over from the checkpoints. VI.38 "Amphibious Assault" Wu Zi Mu VI.39 "The Da Nang Thang" Wu Zi Mu The last Syndicate mission VI.40 "Yay Ka-Boom-Boom" M4 $4,500 at Ammu-Nation Someone calls using an electronic voice disguiser. Jethro calls and a CV icon appears at Wang's Autos. The Desert and Las Venturas (and the Miniguns there) are officially available. Three save houses can be bought. C.J. can get six wanted stars. The Steal Cars missions VI.41 "Zeroing In" Cesar Vialpando Wheel Arch Angels mod shop opens VI.42 "Test Drive" Cesar Vialpando VI.43 "Customs Fast Track" Cesar Vialpando Export/Import boards open VI.44 Exports and Imports for the Cranberry Crane (30 vehicles) VI.45 "Puncture Wounds" Cesar Vialpando Completes Wang Car asset $8,000 a day and max. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& VII The Desert and Las Venturas Preliminaries VII.1 Save houses VII.2 Clothes The Victim clothes store is open VII.3 Tattoos The Redsands East tattoo parlor is open VII.4 Ammu-Nation and weapons VII.5 Armor and Police bribes VII.6 Oysters VII.7 Bayside Marina Boat School VII.7.a "Basic Seamanship" VII.7.b "Plot a Course" VII.7.c "Fresh Slalom" VII.7.d "Flying Fish" VII.7.e "Land, Sea, and Air" VII.8 RS Haul Trucking Asset Mission (final two missions) VII.8.a Mission 7 VII.8.b Mission 8 VII.9 Horseshoes $100 x 50 and $100,000 The Combat Shotgun, Remote Explosive, M4, and SMG will be in front of The Four Dragons Casino VII.10 Las Venturas Bike School VII.10.a "360" VII.10.b "180" VII.10.c "Wheelie" VII.10.d "Jump and Stop" VII.10.e "Stoppie" VII.10.f "Jump and Stoppie" VII.11 Burger Shot Courier Asset Mission (4 runs) VII.12 Kick start and Dirt Track (Black field Stadium) VII.13 The Freight Train mission $50,000 and free train rides VII.14 The Ammu-Nation "Shooting Range Challenge" VII.14.a "Pistol Challenge" VII.14.b "SMG Challenge" VII.14.c "Shotgun Challenge" VII.14.d "AK-47 Challenge" VII.15 Las Venturas Gym Stamina and Muscle should be past the buff stage, so beat the trainer to get kick boxing moves. VII.16 Make a copy of your save game &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& VIII The Desert and Las Venturas The Desert The Toreno missions VIII.1 "Monster" Mike Toreno VIII.2 "Highjack" Mike Toreno VIII.3 "Interdiction" Mike Toreno VIII.4 "Verdant Meadows" Mike Toreno Jethro calls about street races--checkered flag icons appear showing where each begins VIII.5 Buy Verdant Meadows Aircraft Graveyard $80,000 opens next mission The Airstrip missions VIII.6 "Learning to Fly" (Verdant Meadows Flight School) VIII.6.a "Takeoff VIII.14.b "Land Plane" VIII.14.c "Circle Airstrip" VIII.14.d "Circle Airstrip and Land" VIII.14.e "Helicopter Takeoff" VIII.14.f "Land Helicopter" VIII.14.g "Destroy Targets" VIII.14.h "Loop-the-Loop" VIII.14.i "Barrel Roll" VIII.14.j "Parachute onto Target" The Four Dragons Casino is a free save place; Wu Zi calls with work at the Four Dragons Casino which opens the Casino missions ******** VIII.15 Buy the remaining save houses ******** VIII.16 Los Santos Race Tournaments VIII.16.a "Lowrider Race" VIII.16.b "Little Loop" VIII.16.c "Backroad Wanderer" VIII.16.d "City Circuit" VIII.16.e "Vinewood" VIII.16.f "Freeway" VIII.16.g "Into the Country" VIII.16.h "Badlands A" VIII.16.i "Badlands B" VIII.17 San Fierro Race Tournaments VIII.17.a "Dirtbike Danger" VIII.17.b "Bandito County" VIII.17.c "Go-Go Carting" VIII.17.d "San Fierro Fastlane" VIII.17.e "San Fierro Hills" VIII.17.f "Country Endurance" VIII.18 Las Venturas Race Tournaments (Cars) VIII.18.a "San Fierro to Las Venturas" VIII.18.b "Dam Rider" VIII.18.c "Desert Tricks" VIII.18.d "Las Venturas Ringroad" VIII.19 Las Venturas Race Tournaments (Aircraft) VIII.19.a "World War Aces" VIII.19.b "Barnstorming" VIII.19.c "Military Service" VIII.19.d "Chopper Checkpoint" VIII.19.e "Whirly Bird Waypoint" VIII.19.f "Heli Heli" ******** The Airstrip missions continued VIII.20.a "N.O.E." VIII.20.b "Stowaway" VIII.20.c "Black Project" the Desert Eagle is at Ammu-Nations $1,200 the Thermal Goggles are available VIII.20.d "Green Goo" the airstrip will make $10,000 a day and max. the Jetpack is available The Casino missions VIII.21 "Fender Ketchup" The Four Dragons Casino VIII.22 "Explosive Situation" The Four Dragons Casino Opens The Heist missions and Hunter Quarry missions ******** Hunter Quarry Asset missions VIII.23.a Mission 1 VIII.23.b Mission 2 VIII.23.c Mission 3 VIII.23.d Mission 4 VIII.23.e Mission 5 VIII.23.f Mission 6 VIII.23.g Mission 7 Hunter Quarry makes $2,000 a day and max ******** The Casino missions continued VIII.24 "You've Had Your Chips" The Four Dragons Casino VIII.25 "Don Peyote" The Four Dragons Casino Combat Shotgun $1,000 at Ammu-Nations VIII.26 "Intensive Care" Caligula's Palace VIII.27 "Misappropriation" C.R.A.S.H. VIII.28 "The Meat Business" Caligula's Palace VIII.29 "Fish in a Barrel" The Four Dragons Casino VIII.30 "Madd Dogg" Madd Dogg VIII.31 "Free fall" Caligula's Palace VIII.32 "High Noon" C.R.A.S.H. VIII.33 "Saint Mark's Bistro" Caligula's Palace Didier Sachs is open in Rodeo, Los Santos. The Heist missions VIII.34 "Architectural Espionage" The Heist VIII.35 "Key to Her Heart" The Heist Millie is available for dates VIII.36 "Dam and Blast" The Heist VIII.37 "Cop Wheels" The Heist VIII.38 "Up, Up, and Away!" The Heist VIII.39 "Breaking the Bank at Caligula's" The Heist Night Vision Goggles by kitchen of Madd Dogg's crib &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& IX Return to Los Santos for the final Los Santos missions The Mansion missions IX.1 "A Home in the Hills" The Four Dragons Casino Thermal Goggles are in the bar room, and a heart icon--the only one in the game that will always be available--is in the kitchen, of Madd Dogg's crib; Madd Dogg's Crib is available. Don't save the game at Madd Dogg's Vinewood mansion since PS2 players report that doing so corrupts their save game and causes the basketball to not appear at courts. If you want to save in the area, save at the mansion nearby. ******** IX.2 Final Los Santos Missions Preliminaries IX.3 Clothes Didier Sachs ******** The Mansion missions continued IX.4 "Vertical Bird" Carl Johnson The Hydra is at Verdant Meadows. The Mini gun, Rocket Launcher, Heat-Seeking Rocket Launcher, and Flamethrower are available in Mike Toreno's's (Tierra Robada) ranch. IX.5 "Home Coming" Carl Johnson IX.6 "Cut Throat Business" Carl Johnson The Grove Street missions IX.7 "Beat Down on B-Dump" Sweet Johnson IX.8 "Grove 4 Life" Sweet Johnson You need 35% or more of the gang territories to finish the game. Get all 53 and you won't be attacked by rival gang members again. The Riots missions IX.9 "Riot" Carl Johnson IX.10 "Los Desperados" Carl Johnson IX.11 "End of the Line" Sweet Johnson 100% completion IX.12 Make a copy of your save game &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& X Basic skins, modding (use at your own risk), music, and screen shot tutorial. X.1 Compressed File Utility X.2 Web sites for skins and mods X.3 Mods X.4 Un-check the green dot 1st X.5 Make backups X.6 Tools: The IMG Tool v.2 IMG The TXD Workshop The Rescaler and Flag Studio CFGStudio The GTA: San Andreas GXT Editor X.7 Installing most car, bike, or pedestrian mods: changing dff and txd files X.8 Skin viewing and editing X.9 Women X.9.a The Hot Coffee mod X.9.b The Nude Girlfriends mod X.9.c How to change the way they walk X.10 Cars and bikes (TGIPC) X.10.a How to change their wheels X.10.b How to change their mass, ability to stay upright and hug the driving surface, ability to survive in water, cornering and braking, top speed, acceleration, suspension, durability, and miscellaneous jazz X.10.c Game play advantages X.10.d Making vehicles weaker or stronger X.10.e How to create your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Freeway X.10.f How to change their colors X.10.g How to change their on-screen names X.10.h How to change the traction of surfaces X.11 Weapons and Attackers How to lessen the severity of attacks X.12 Helicopters How to make a helicopter easier to fly X.13 Miscellaneous mods X.13.a The San Andreas Place Manager X.13.b The Map Teleporter/Vehicle Spawn X.13.c The Administrative Console X.13.d The Skateboard mod X.13.e The No Rust mod X.14 Music MP3s and wave files How to save hard disk space with shortcuts X.15 Screen shots &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& XI. And there's always more XI.a Unique Jumps XI.b Girlfriends XI.c Basketball XI.d Video games &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I Introduction A few things I've noticed about "San Andreas" are different than in "Vice City." Besides being bigger, it's generally easier and does a bit to disc our- age unofficial rampaging--pedestrians disappear and Heart icons are mainly available during certain missions, and there aren't any two player rampage icons at all in the PC version of the game. If you take over all 53 gang ter- ritories by the end of the game, you don't have something like the attacks of Mafia or Haitian gangsters making it hard to use an area do stunts afterward. Because it's supposed to be parts of California, the Hermes and all have better paint jobs. And some things in "San Andreas," like distant sections of the road, come into focus as C.J. approaches them like in the PC version of the game "Mafia." There are gas pumps and birds (white gulls and black buzzards; red hawks?) in "San Andreas," but you can't make them explode by shooting them. The fish swim better, you can fly through the clouds, and you can shoot the ball through a hoop. The pedestrians sometimes ran into walls then bent over like they were throwing up in "Vice City"; I haven't seen them do that in "San Andreas," but if you feed C.J. eleven meals in a row, he throws up. C.J. can climb, includ- ing the trees that rest on square flat boxes, such as along the sidewalks of the couple of blocks N of Avispa Country Club in S. (To be fair to Tommy, palm trees don't have limbs.) While both Tommy Vercetti and C.J. can push vehicles around, C.J. can't run fast enough to catch them as often. He can swim, though. The early '90's CA "Scarface" source for themes and in-jokes is Allen and Albert Hughes' "Menace II Society," 1993. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/menace_ii_society/ A few things are the same, such as the things I learned before about using copies your User Files to play again with certain things already done. This isn't usually brought up in reasons to be partial to the PC version, but I'd put it among things at the top of the list: if anything is hard or repetitive, the things I learned before about changing vehicles and weapons with the handling and weapons files, to make racing and fighting things easier, work for San Andreas, too (TGIPC). The programming is basically the same as "Vice City" with some added parameters. One curious thing about a main plot point is that bad guy Officer Tenpenny holds it over C.J.'s head that he could frame him for the death of a police officer. All he's have to do is follow C.J. around with a camcorder for a half an hour, let alone what he'd have by the time you're nearly through with the game, and why would he bother threatening to make anything up? Another is that you play a guy who thinks nothing of running down five old ladies to drive down the street and get a newspaper ("I have to beat the timer"), and the plot resolution is to kill a bad guy. But you are a bad guy. But a different bad guy. But as a work of fiction with a sense of tongue-in-cheek humor about finding a way to come up with an excuse to play with the videogame weapons and vehicles, it makes a kind of sense. You would be a bad guy, but it's a funny fiction--a kind of early Mad magazine take on a world of the bad adults of all the groups. A more serious, ethical approach usually means it's relatively boring, and even seems kind of silly for the context. You'll probably point and click your way around to some boring incidental music to kill big muscle guys with lizard heads. The GTA series is like an artist adding colors to their palette and new brush strokes to the canvas to add to what they've done and refine it. I love the blend they come up with. The most momentous thing is that the little Dodo is back--awwwr! Thanks to Robert Rusk, of the PS2 walk-through for "San Andreas" at Gamefaqs and IGN, and my oldest friend at Gamefaqs, once again leading the way (don't go blaming him for where I go running after that) with his very sensible organiza- tion and strategies for the game. http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/grand_theft_auto_sa_n_1.txt http://faqs.ign.com/articles/588/588661p1.html Thanks to the BradyGames strategy guide for Xbox and PC. It has lots of useful maps (except for the screw-ups; I took a pen to some of the dots on the maps--why couldn't they pinpoint correct locations with darker dots that way?) and screenshots, and statistics for the percentage of fat, percentage changed in Respect for killing gangsters, the Sex Appeal of watches, etc., I'm sure most of us would never have known without it. Either Rockstar told them or they figured it out by testing the programming somehow. http://www.bradygames.com/index.asp?rl=1 Thanks to Ben "Cerbera" Millard for being a good friend, and for helping with the modding section, car names, punctuation, etc. ("Cerbera" is for "TVR Cerbera," which is a British sports car.) http://projectcerbera.com/ Thanks to Young MayLay, the trampoline-high jumping, ultra Visine clarity, call out the Marines-alerting young man about the town, and the star of the show, for kindly dropping me a note (and he must have a hundred people tugging on his coat tail all the time) after I asked him to help when I messed up his lyrics a little bit. http://www.youngmaylay.net/ Thanks to Jacob and Racer_S: The San Andreas Place Manager, Blehbeb: The Map Teleporter/Vehicle Spawn, and saracoglu: The Administrative Console, for the help in finding the Tags, etc., faster (see section X.13.a-c). http://www.gtagaming.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=954 http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=194346&st=0 http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=194346&st=0 http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=198750&hl=GTA%20SA%20GXT% 20Tool&st=0 Thanks to a post by Old School Hustla at GTA Forums for his considerably time-saving file-changing tip which lets you maximize all vehicle, weapon, Stamina, etc., Stats a lot faster. http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=202014 Thanks to PatrickW: author, Hammer83: the sacensor tool, Craig Kostelecky: "Opened Up" mod creator, Barton Waterduck: animation finder, and illspirit: nude model finder (that sounds like a good job) for the Hot Coffee mod (see section X.9.a). http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=194356&st=0 http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=28 Thanks to Mxyzptlk, the famous chronicler and cartographer, for overcoming the vowel shortage where he comes from to further Shaft21's formidable list of "San Andreas" secrets, etc., http://faqs.ign.com/articles/584/584765p1.html and oversee the GTA Forum expansion of it, supplying very useful maps for it as well. http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=174800&st=0 Thanks to the ASCII Generator web page for the "San Andreas" I used in the title. http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ Thanks to the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb) site for much of the informa- tion about the voice actors we're going to spend so much time with. http://www.imdb.com/ Thanks to the babelfish web site for the translations of some of the Spanish phrases. http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Personal info: Bill Winstein won the Golden Quill Award for newspaper excellence in 1971, and his art and cartoons were in the Baseball, Football, and Basketball Halls of Fame, and a number of local bars and barbershops, like Evangelista's. It was cool to watch him draw, and he knew a lot more of the cooler comedians and movie stars than the other kids parents (you have to imagine an eight year old going around thinking, "Well, they're just kids, they don't know....") And my Mom, who was a volunteer at the local library and hospital, had such and inven- tive sense of gentle silliness and sing-song voice delivery I can't imagine any- one imitating it. Something about them was passed over by the world it didn't mesh with, and was passed on to me. My Dad was born in 1914, and my Mom was born in 1923. Their childhoods lived on in them, and live on in me. And that's bigger than anything in these two PC-choking walk-throughs of mine combined. "Glenster's Glimpse into San Andreas" © 2005 Glen T. Winstein This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. I hope I didn't scare anyone. (What a dope you'd have to be to be scared by me.) "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" © 2005 Rockstar Games, Inc. Rockstar Games, Rockstar North, the R* logo, Grand Theft Auto and the Grand Theft Auto logo and A Take-Two Company logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. "San Andreas Theme Song" lyrics by Young MayLay/Chris Bellard © 2005. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I.1 Paying tributes and having things in common Thanks to Shaft21 for a very healthy-sized list of secrets, references, and in-jokes of "San Andreas." http://faqs.ign.com/articles/584/584765p1.html Thanks to Mxyzptlk, who, with the assistance of many "San Andreas" fans of the GTA Forums web site, expanded the list, and thanks to Mxyzptlk for making very helpful maps for it. Go to the web addresses I give here for the maps and more secrets like these. http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=174800&hl=EP+vehicle Another good map is by gamerlady at the Gamefaqs web site: http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/grand_theft_auto_sa_secrets.png In Los Santos there is a wall painting with a heart, Mary, an angel, and the words "Jesus Saves." (The closest examples initially are in the Ten Green Bottles bar W of the Johnson house.) In "GTA 2" it said that on the buildings where you saved the game. (Some of you may want to go there and ask for for- giveness from the prince of peace for what you've been doing in the rest of town occasionally. On the other hand, controlling an interactive movie is a little like playing God yourself, like in the game "Black and White," so you might just use your prerogative to think of it as a pun about the saving part.) A guy with "Keep out" written on the box on his head, and "God is playing with us" written on the sign hanging from his neck, can be found in San Fierro near Turning Tricks Driving School. (Thanks to samadriel.) (It's at the N end of the light gray block S of where "DOHERTY" is written on the paper map. It's as if he rebels against the idea of you playing with him in a game, or like something out of the movie "The Truman Show," 1998. He and a guy with a sign that says, "Will work for pot," also found around there, may say some curious things. A roller with designs on the face of the roller that can be hitched and towed is S of the Santa Maria save house and across the parking lot. It looks like the one made by Chen Chang in 1988 for Santa Monica Beach, CA. The game controller, called a CJD 500, in the Johnson house, Wu Zi's place, and Big Smoke's crack den, looks like a Sega Megadrive, popular in the early 1990's, with a PS2-type keypad except with keys lettered C, J, M, and D. The "C" and "J" probably stand for "C.J."/"Carl Johnson." (Some wonder if the "M" and "D" stand for "Madd Dogg, whom Carl ends up producing.) (Thanks to thedude777.) Verdant Meadows is similar to an aspect of Davis Monthan Air Force Base, which is in Tucson, Arizona, and is the main site for the storage and preserva- tion of decommissioned aircraft in the U.S.. (Thanks to Shadenfreude) http://www.virtualtucsonmagazine.com/vtmse...planegrave.html http://www.dm.af.mil/AMARC/images/arials/Aerial9.jpg Burgher Shots have Freedom Fries--what French Fries were called in the U.S. Capitol in response to the lack of support from France during the Iraq war of 2003. (The International Corporation set up by Saddam Hussein to launder money from his various enterprises was called "Montana Management." Tony Montana is the name of the title character of "Scarface," 1983, another major organized crime leader, if not as grand in scope, damage, and fatalities.) http://www.scarface1983.com/trivia.html In "Intensive Care," Lawyer Ken Rosenberg's parrot Tony says, "I never f**ked anyone over in my life who didn't have it coming to 'em." Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino, says that in "Scarface," 1983, to which "Vice City" makes a variety of references. Zero's RC Shop in the mid S region of San Fierro has "Vice City" and "Manhunt" action figure dolls, including Tommy Vercetti. There's a V-Rock hotel in NE Las Venturas. There's a V-Rock building, where Lovefist records, Downtown in "Vice City." Lovefist is referred to, and seen in pictures in various places, in San Andreas, too. A construction site at the S side of Blueberry, Red County, has a sign saying, "Avery Construction," referring to crooked realtor Avery Carrington in "Vice City." An area SE of Mt. Chiliad is called "Shady Creeks" (similar to the "Shady Acres" he advertised in "Vice City"). Avery himself appears as the Vegas Vic sign of Las Vegas on the Old Ventura Strip. "Bi**hin' Dog food" (featuring "pu**y flavored horse eyelids") from "GTA III" is in the dog food section of the 24-7 stores. They also sell "Cherry Poppers" ice cream, the brand made in the place of that name in "Vice City." The Video Poker machines in the Casinos of Las Venturas have cards with pictures of people from "III" and "Vice City." The key in "Key to Her Heart" is the ID card from "No Escape" in "Vice City." (Thanks to PresidentKiller.) There are a bunch of dead bodies in bags by a Bobcat in El Castillo Del Diablo (Spanish for "The Castle of the Devil") in the desert SW of the Verdant Meadow Aircraft Graveyard. (In "Vice City," there are two guys underwater with their feet in cement.) In Fern Ridge, Red County, E of the N-most block of Blueberry Acres, by a spade near Catalina's cabin, there are two shallow graves (there was one behind Funeraria Romero in "Vice City"). The W side of the Los Santos Graveyard in Vinewood contains a crypt with a TV, Laz-e-Boy chair, and pizza boxes. Spike, seen in the last five years of the 1997-2003 TV series "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," has a similar setup. On the E side of the graveyard, between 20:00 and 6:00, there are several ghost tags/examples of graffiti on the walls. To get there, go E over the S-most bridge over Los Santos Inlet, take the 2nd left, take the 4th right, and look on the left side of the road. In San Fierro, N of the Doherty garage, is the Zombotech Sky Tower, which contains similarities to the movie, 2002, and game series "Resident Evil." On the E-most road of San Fierro that the Garver Bridge passes over, go a bit N, turn left, and go past the 4th left to find it on the left side of the road. The wall of art in many bars shows a black and white depiction of the upper body of a soldier wearing red goggles and holding a gun in his hand. It looks like the concept art you can unlock of one of the Cerberus Foot Officers in the game "Manhunt," 2003, by Rockstar. K-Rose features an advertisement for Carcer City, where "Manhunt" takes place. (Carcer City was also mentioned on LIPS 106 in "III" as being near Liberty City and where a police chief was cleared of corruption charges. It's also mentioned by a caller to KCHAT in "Vice City" as a place where B.J. Smith played football.) Zero's RC Shop in San Fierro has boxes of action figures of Tommy Vercetti, Lance Vance, James Earl Cash (the lead figure in "Manhunt"), and RC versions of Hydras, NRG 500's, and Rhinos. It's in San Fierro a block W of the S end of the block that's brown on the radar and in-game map. The windows of the buildings to the E of the five silos NE of Mt. Chiliad have some blurry reversed Steven Bliss cartoon cover art from "III" and "Vice City." Across the street from the Angel Pine Cluckin' Bell are three trash cans. You can knock over the two with open tops to find maps of Vice City inside them. It's in the cluster of blocks S of Mt. Chiliad along the street that also extends SW from those blocks. A number of places or things in the game feature the names of people who have been employed by Rockstar North. Steven Mulholland, who worked on the Los Santos art for "San Andreas," has his name on a tombstone in the window of Funeraria Romero in "Vice City," and Mulholland is an area of Los Santos in "San Andreas" and a wealthy Drive in LA. Mattlac, on the same GTA Forums message board, noticed that Scott Wilson, who worked on the countryside art for "San Andreas, is named on a tombstone in the game (in the SW corner of the SW block of Palomino Creek in NE Red County). thedude777, at the same message board, suggests these possible sources for names: Steven Mulholland--Los Santos art--the city "Mulholland"; Lee Montgomery--interior environment art--the city "Montgomery"; Toks Solarin--character art--the PC "Solarin Industries" sign that replaces the PS2 "Shady Industries" sign in San Fierro; Nicholas Montgomery--cut scene supervising sound editor--the city "Montgomery"; Noelle Sadler--voice-over production, the voice of Bettina (also seen as the blonde lady with her tongue out in a loading screen), a radio commercial voice, and a pedestrian voice--the "Sadler" truck; and Tony Romero--pedestrian voice--the "Romero" car. "Chiliad" means "a group of 1,000," so I'm guessing the idea meant is that it's big, like 1,000 mountains rolled into one. Across from the Watts-type towers in the Ganton area of E Los Santos is a little Tiki shop with a huge display of a "Vice City" hidden package. (It's like something you'd see on the shore of Easter Island except shaped like a royal Oriental pelican that flew into a window.) An airplane called a Beagle may appear halfway in a house in Fort Carson (on the N side of the SE block of Fort Carson), and a mower appears in a tree trunk in Dillimore. (Thanks to xox_vanzant_xox and Cube623. By the W coast of Los Santos inlet, S of the S-most bridge across it, is a trailer park. If you send C.J. into the park and have him turn E, a photo- grapher appears by the road near the water to the right. They may be played by one of several pedestrians. They appear to be thoughtfully surveying the scen- ery for subjects for photos, take a couple photos, then they walk into the water and drown. Similar to the DNA (later Rockstar North) game "Lemmings," 1990, pedestrians, seen from an alley in Las Venturas, will appear on the ledge of a building and walk off, possibly to their deaths. Have C.J. go to the alley on the W side of Weldings and Weddings, which is E of the Gym in Redsands East. Go N in the alley to where it intersects an alley that goes W from it. Look NE at the near corner of the 3rd story gray ledge of the Emerald Isle skyscraper (the upper part is blue-gray with gray horizontal stripes by day). If you stand in the right several foot-wide spot, the pedestrians appear on that corner of the ledge and walk off, falling out of view behind a light gray wall. You may hear a scream as they fall, followed by a crunching sound, possibly followed by other pedestrians screaming and running off in a panic. (There's no sign of an accident if you go to the landing area, though.) You can zoom in on them with a Sniper Rifle scope. I've also seen some pedestrians appear and fly up to the ledge 1st, then walk off, which is strange. As bad as Liberty City and Vice City were, those last two things indicate morale around San Andreas seems to be the worst. On the W side of the Cluckin' Bell, N of the Johnson house in Los Santos, is a telephone pole pedestrians appear from to do something similar, if not self- destructive. Have C.J. stand where it says "RESERVED" (part of "THESE SPACES ARE RESERVED FOR CUSTOMERS") in the parking lot and look S at the pole. The pedestrians appear about 15' up, slide down part of the way, fall the rest, and keep walking. You can turn C.J. away and back to help them spawn. The Weldings and Weddings shop, mentioned a few paragraphs above, is a "GTA III" Portland-style bomb shop. After driving a four-wheel vehicle into it and making the garage door close and open, the vehicle is equipped with a bomb that uses a timer. You can press the LMB to start the timer, then have C.J. get out and leg it. ThouShaltBeToxic, at the GTA Forums section by Mxyzptlk and co., says the problems of famous hacker Kevin Mitnick, arrested in 1995, are parodied on WCTR in "San Andreas," and is probably meant as the one referred to in "GTA III"on Chatterbox when one of the callers calls out, "Free Kevin!" before hanging up. The book that comes with the PC "SA" gives "Kevin Mitnick" as one of the Radio Station callers, and the radio segment seems to play off the fact that it was rumored (confirmed to be a rumor), while he was held without bail, that he could start a missile crisis by whistling into a telephone and pressing a few numbers on the keypad. http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=174800&hl=controlling&st=1520 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick The Mothership van of the Truth has a license plate that says, "OUTTHERE" in mirror image. The 1993-2002 TV series about UFO's and such, "The X-Files," used the slogan: "The truth is out there." The license plate of a car in the "Badlands" mission says "ASSMAN," which is what Kramer, played by Michael Richards, was upset to learn his new license plate said in an April, 1995, episode of the TV sitcom "Seinfeld." There's an ad for Disgraceland Wedding Chapel on the ballpark scoreboard in Las Venturas. There's a Disgraceland territory in "GTA 2." (And Disgraceland refers to Graceland, which was Elvis Presley's home. There's an Elvis gang in "GTA 2," and a code to create Elvis impersonators everywhere in "San Andreas.") Police can be seen beating up someone in the impound lots, such as one of the pair of policemen in the garage of the Los Santos police station. (C.J. can enter without a wanted rating if he uses a police vehicle. The victim seems to be able to take interminable abuse. If C.J. drives closer, they all stand still, but the errant policemen don't seem happy about it.) This, and the ways of Tenpenny and Pulaski, seems meant to reflect the Rodney King beating by errant LA police men on 3/3/1991. The 4/29/1992 1st judgment on the officers acquitted them, which led, hours later, to the LA riots, which left 53 people dead, over 7,000 people arrested, and created more than $1 billion in property damage. (On 8/16/1993, officers Koon and Powell were convicted of violating King's civil rights.) The riots at the end of the game seems meant to reflect those LA riots, except C.J. goes right to the source. http://users.commkey.net/fussichen/otdking.htm A pedestrian in Los Santos looks like Trey in the movie "Boys N' the Hood," 1991. One ped looks like Will Smith wearing an orange shirt similar to one worn by Cuba Gooding in "Boyz n the Hood" except with a square instead of a round black shirt pocket. One the Grove Street gangsters looks like Kevin "O-Dog," played by Larenz Tate, in the movie "Menace II Society," 1993, which also stars Samuel L. Jackson as Tat Lawson. Like O-Dog, the gangster has short dreadlocks and a green and black checkered shirt like O-Dog wore at times. There is an observatory on Verdant Bluffs in S Los Santos, NW of the airport, like the one (Griffith) in LA where the ending of "Rebel Without a Cause," 1955, was filmed. One of the stars, Dennis Hopper, did the voice acting for Steve Scott in "Vice City." Ryder looks like Easy-E, a rapper of NWA sometimes referred to as Easy. Dennis Hopper was one of the stars and writers, and the director, of the movie "Easy Rider," 1969. Another star of it, and co-writer (along with Terry Southern), producer Peter Fonda, does the voice of "The Truth" in "San Andreas." One blonde lady pedestrian in a short white dress looks like Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell in the movie "Basic Instinct," 1992. After you have C.J. shoot down some RC Barons with a Minigun in a mission for Zero, Zero says, "Nice shooting kid, but don't get cocky," which is a line Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford, says to Luke Skywalker, played by Mark Hamill, in the movie "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" (the 1981 title change given to "Star Wars," 1977). The pilot ratings Briggs and Wedge were taken from the Star Wars series, too. Some wreckage of buildings is seen around San Fierro, and there's a destroyed section of paved road along the N side of the onramp to the Garver Bridge, which seem to reflect the Oct.17, 1989 magnitude 7.1 earthquake that shook San Francisco. http://www.sfmuseum.net/alm/quakes3.html#1989 The tallest building, the one with a pointed top, in San Fierro, is in the NE area, and has a parachute at the top and messages about it on signs at the bottom. Enter the building on the S side. The tallest building in Los Santos, which is on the NE side of the block that's NW of the intersection that looks like a pretzel S of the Mulholland Intersection, has a parachute at the top, too. You can enter the building on the NE side. That building reflects the BASE jumping that's illegal at most spots it could be done from in the U.S.A. because many have died from trying it. BASE (Building, Antenna, Span--bridges, etc., and Earth--cliffs, etc.) jumping is like sky diving, except it involves jumping from something tall for the thrill of the rush toward the ground before opening the parachute. BASE jumps are usually made from 1,000 ft. or less, and sky divers are told to deploy their parachutes at no less than 2,000 ft.. At 1,000 ft.or less, the parachute must be quickly deployed, with less ability to correct movement once it's deployed, and there would be no time to deploy a 2nd chute if the 1st one malfunctions. http://www.answers.com/topic/base-jumping http://hometown.aol.com/base194/myhomepage/base_fatality_list There's a tall building in Downtown, San Fierro, N of the onramp for the Garver Bridge. The windows of it light up at night to form letters: "C" on one side and "K" on another. Some imagine an "R" and "O" up there on a 3rd side, too (for "ROCK"star), but it requires some imaginative interpretation or wishful thinking to do so. The number on the NRG 500 is usually 46, the number of MotoGP race champion Valentino Rossi. You can find the bike W of the magnetic crane which is at the N end of the dead end road on the projection of land N of the Easter Bay Airport terminal building. (There are also two in the multi-story parking garage at the S end of the "L"-shaped block two blocks N of the E side of Los Santos Forum.) There's a crack on the ocean floor by San Fierro that's similar to the San Andreas fault. Part of it is by an oyster at the W end of the big ship N of San Fierro. "FleischBerg," on a billboard, is German for "Flesh" (or "Meat") "Mountain." (Thanks to Cojanfee.) (It's also the name of a factory W of lower downtown Blueberry.) The number 69 figures prominently at the Easter Bay Airport runway, in shop windows, Area 69, etc. (The Dodo in "III" and "Vice City" said YME-369. It might reaffirm my suspicion that the "369" part was a reference to a mutual oral sex threesome to see that the number 69 figures prominently in the overall punning and kidding around about sex in "San Andreas.") Area 69, in the No Fly Zone at the end of a road in Bone County, kids the rumors about Area 51, a 6 x 10 mile secret aircraft testing Air Force base, off-limits to outsiders, in Groom Lake, Nevada, about 90 miles N of Las Vegas. It's been the victim of rumors about it harboring evidence of outer space folks from a Roswell space craft crash, etc. (It's also fictionalized as the Black Mesa Research Facility in the game "Half Life." The lead character of it, Morgan Freeman, was popularly known to use a crowbar as one of his weapons, which Area 69 kids by displaying a red and white crowbar like a special speci- men behind the glass of a case.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51 (I guess in the same spirit of kidding, Mxyzptlk compares, Erich Von Daniken- style, some dark marks of the side of a cliff to those in Nazca, as being ancient yet requiring modern technology to make them. To get to the site, go W from the Rodeo area of Los Santos across the Los Santos Inlet, and continue through the Beacon Hill area till the road has a pretty steady W to E section-- the cliff is to the N of it.) (Serious editorial interlude: Erich Von Daniken got famous with cooked-up, allegedly compelling, possibilities about flying saucer people being required to explain various acts of ancient ingenuity, typically picking on darker- skinned African and South American people and not the makers of Stonehenge or such. I think he manages to con as many people as he does because the remedy to his effort is information that's obscure to most, as in his book "Chariots of the Gods"--one web source gives it 1967 for a 1st pub. date, another has 1968. Look for a lot of "no other reasonable way to explain it"-type persua- sive rhetoric in it.) (For a good remedy that's entertaining as well, see your local library, pos- sibly for an inter-library loan, of "Flim Flam," 1982, by James Randi and "The Space Gods Revealed," 1976, by Ronald Story. It's good to remember that in any area of sincere religious or non-religious belief or speculation, there will be bilko artists who cook stuff up to sell the believers what they want to hear. Both the sincere believers in the possible and non-believers should be on the same page that fibbing is unethical and untrustworthy, serves neither of them any good, and that making money from that is a form of stealing.) For a similar recommendation by Carl Sagan, see: http://www.ronaldstory.com/space.htm Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%E4niken (In a similar line of concern, there's a representation of a set as imagined for the "lunar landing hoax" hoax in a film studio in "Vice City.") The Li'l Probe Inn is like The Li'l Ale Inn, Rachel, Nevada (near Area 51). The Li'l Probe Inn and Toreno's cabin each contain a map with markers. Mxyzptlk noticed that some of the markers refer to sites of local history, such as Blackfield, where a bunch of hippies died after choking on toads at Los Venturas Stadium in the '60's. I thought that sounded familiar, so I looked it up. There actually have been people who tried to get high by licking toads (LOL). Kids, kids, kids--don't try this at home. http://www.bufoalvarius.org/almost.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_toad There are Hopi ruins just E of the roads of Los Barrancas (Spanish for "The Ravines") on the side of a cliff across the street from the cemetery building. The bigger batch of ruins are Native American and Mexican and are called Aldea Malvada, the Lost Pueblo (Spanish for "Evil Village, The Lost Town") at the end of a dead end road in Tierra Robada (Spanish for "Robbed Earth"). ******** Here are some findings from the gamers at the GTA Forums regarding the real life names and places of those in the game: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=189424&hl=ogf_ak Los Santos Los Angeles Ganton Compton (thanks to MissileDefender) Idlewood Inglewood (thanks to thegloaming) Hashbury Ashbury (thanks to VitisVinifera) The desert Nevada (thanks to Raptomex) Thanks to ogf_ak for the names of these casinos: Pink Swan The Flamingo Hotel and Casino. Caligula's Caesar's Palace Casino and Resort. Four Dragons The Four Queens Hotel and Casino. Come-a-lot The Excalibur Hotel and Casino. The Visage The Mirage Hotel and Casino. Pirates in Men's Pants Treasure Island Hotel and Casino (and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "The Pirates of Penzance," 1879). The Clown's Pocket and nearby crane Circus, Circus (with the crane nearby to prepare for the large dome with an amusement park inside put up in 1993-1994) (thanks to milkymilky) ******** Thanks to those mentioned below at the GTA-SanAndreas web site for some more real life names. It shows a lot of photographic comparisons, too. http://www.gta-sanandreas.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6395&st=0 Thanks to fonz808 for this batch: A one-floor house in Los Santos looks like Pierre Koenig's 1960 house called the Stahl House. There's a wall painting in LA that looks like the "Jesus Saves" one in the game. The Big Pointy building looks like the Transamerican Pyramid. (On the E-most street in San Fierro that the Garver Bridge passes over, go N, make the 2nd left, pass the 1st right, and it's on the right.) Tuff Nut Donuts looks like Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, CA. (The Cathay building looks like) Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. (It was renamed "Mann's Chinese Theatre" in 1973 after it was purchased by Ted Mann, the owner of the Mann's Theatre chain and husband of actress Rhonda Fleming. But many still call it "Grauman's Chinese Theater.") http://www.seeing-stars.com/Theatres/ChineseTheatre.shtml The Los Santos City Hall building looks like Los Angeles City Hall. In Los Santos, Blastin' Fools Records, which makes rap records, looks like The Capitol Records building. (Thanks to nsupra27.) The Los Santos Conference Center looks like The Los Angeles Convention Center, where The Electronic Entertainment Expo is held. (Thanks to yensed.) The San Fierro building with window lights that spell "C" and "K," mentioned earlier, looks like the Bank of America building in San Francisco. (Thanks to krackhead80s.) The Vinewood Walk of Fame (by the Cathay building) is like the Hollywood one. The Sherman Dam is like the Hoover Dam. The Welcome to the Fabulous Las Venturas sign at an entrance to the city looks like the one at the entrance to Las Vegas. The V-Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Venturas looks like The Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino. A San Fierro church, at the N end of the block that has a curvy Lombard-like street in Calton Heights, looks like Saint Francis of Assisi Cathedral. (Thanks to OptimumPx.) The Hippy Shopper is like the Happy Shopper in the UK. (Thanks to martinsonline.) (To get there, go E three blocks from the E end of the longest straight E to W street at the S end of San Fierro.) Rodeo in Los Santos looks like Rodeo Drive. (Thanks to vivatforx.) The Avispa Country club looks similar to the Olympic Golf Club on the SE edge of San Francisco. Esplanade East in NE San Fierro is like the Embarcadero, which is a water front. (Thanks to thedudley.) C**k Rock, mentioned before, W of Verdant Meadows Aircraft Graveyard, looks like Big Stoney in Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah. (Thanks to flying fox; I'm not sure which of us thought of it 1st.) -La-RaZa came up with a whole batch to thank for (although the "Haight" part of "Haight-Ashbury" is disputed): Los Santos: Ganton Compton Idlewood Inglewood Willow Field Willowbrook East Los Santos East LA Vinewood Hollywood Mulholland Beverly Hills Santa Maria beach Santa Monica Las Colinas El Monte Glen Park Morningside Park Palomino Creek Palmdale San Fierro: Easter basin Naval Docks Hunter's Point Naval shipyard Chinatown Chinatown (lol) Hashbury Haight-Ashbury Queens Castro Paradiso Presidio Juniper hollow Pacific heights Las Venturas: Blackfield Spring valley Rockshore Henderson Redsands Paradise Roca Escalante Winchester Prickle pine Sunrise Manor KACC military fuels Air force military base D-D-R thinks E Los Santos is more like W LA, Glen Park is more like McArthur Park and more similarly located although there's room for doubt because Morningside Park looks very similar, and Grove Street could be Martin Luther King Boulevard (or "The Jungle" as it's called in CA), Crenshaw Boulevard, or La Brea Street. (Thanks to D-D-R.) ******** Mt. Chiliad looks (roughly) similar to Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. (Source?) ******** I better slip in a few of the ones I came up with myself (if not necessarily as the 1st to do it): Union Station, N of Los Santos airport, looks like Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, "The last of America's great rail stations." It's at 800 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA. The Big Ear looks like the Very Large Array in New Mexico. (Thanks to Leatherface of http://www.gta-sanandreas.com/forums/index.php?showtopic= 6395&st=40.) I'll add that the name "The Big Ear" is taken from the Big Ear Radio Observatory, which is aka Ohio State University Radio Observatory (OSURO). The Observatory was named after the Big Ear Radio Telescope--a Kraus-type radio telescope named after Dr. John D. Kraus, the founder and director of the observatory and the designer and builder of the telescope. Big Ear covered more area than three football fields. The telescope was famous for discovering some of the most distant known objects in the universe, the loud "Wow!" signal, and made the longest-lasting search for extra-terrestrial intelligence entered into the Guinness Book of Records. After nearly 40 years, it was destroyed in 1998. http://www.bigear.org/ The steep winding road in San Fierro looks like Lombard St. in San Francisco (which I remember from one of the earlier Bill Cosby records). The license plate of a Windsor in the "Home on the Hills" mission says "J LOMAX" (which may refer to British singer-songwriter Jackie Lomax or a relative of Vincent Lomax, a voice actor for one of the gangsters). Las Venturas looks like Las Vegas (For no reason but the name similarity, I wonder if it's a tie-in with the 1960's, etc., instrumental rock group The Ventures; did they play Vegas a lot?) Royale Casino takes a reversal of Casino Royale, also the name of The James Bond spoof movie and the theme song for it, a peppy and bouncy 1967 Herb Albert recording of a Burt Bacharach tune. As Mxyzptlk notes, "C**k Rock" (at the W side of where the dead end road goes to a T intersection W of Verdant Meadows Aircraft Graveyard), looks like a huge c**k, as do some rocks in Foster Valley, San Fierro. (In "Glenster's Guide to Some of Vice City," referring to the 11 pm to midnight light display of the WK Chariot hotel, I wondered if there would be something like that in "San Andreas.") "C**k Rock" is similar to Big Stoney in Kodachrome Basin, Utah (also found by flying fox in the group given above): http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/geosci/f1995_96.htm http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/833...esFeatures.html Since the 1955-1959 TV show "The Phil Silvers Show," called "Sgt. Bilko" in syndication. may be the source of the name Fort Baxter in Vice City, Doberman maybe named after Private Doberman, played by Maurice Gosfield. As noted earlier, the windows of the buildings to the E of the five silos NE of Mt. Chiliad have some blurry reversed Steven Bliss cartoon cover art from "III" and "Vice City." It seems to me that several also have a blurry depiction of the old RCA logo of Nipper the dog listening to a Victrola. If so, that would seem to connect with the idea of Elvis Presley that appears in GTA's, from the Elvis gang in "GTA 2" to the Elvis impersonators in Las Venturas in "San Andreas.") Looking at an online drug slang dictionary, I've noticed that various names in the GTA games are also slang words for crack: Xoomer could be pronounced "Zoomer" (someone who sells fake crack and runs away), smoke, wave, Johnson (also c**k), Eightball (crack and heroin), candy, B.J.'s (also bl** job), even rock star, possibly others. Since the subject of cocaine comes up in this and the last GTA (it's what Vice City hidden packages contained, etc.), and given the game maker's inclination to punning, it may be more than a coincidence. http://parentingteens.about.com/cs/cocainecrack/l/blsldiccrack.htm Some babelfish translations of Spanish: Avispa Country Club Wasp Country Club Las Barrancas the Ravines El Quebrados the Fraction Aldea Malvada Evil Village Valle Ocultado Hidden Valley Arco Del Oeste Arc of the West Las Brujas the Witches El Castillo Del Diablo the Castle of the Devil Tierra Robada Robbed Earth Las Venturas the Lucks (the Good Fortunes, I guess) Los Sepulcros Cemetery the Tombs Cemetery http://babelfish.altavista.com/ In the Hot Coffee mod, Denise's bedroom has a big picture of the cover of "Vice City" on the wall. ******** Rusk has at least two real-life similarities to add that I know of, too: "Pier 69 is based on San Francisco's Pier 39 which is on the Embarcadero. How do I know this? That's because I used to work there at the Namco CyberStation Arcade which was at the front of the pier (1991-1993). Rockstar did a good job in recreating the tourist attraction except that they did not put in an arcade where you can play the arcade mini-games within San Andreas. What's up with that?." ("Embarcadero" means "wharf.") "When I first saw the town of Fort Carson on the enclosed map I had to smile. You see, there is a real life Fort Carson. It is located on the southern edge of Colorado Springs, Colorado and is also one of the largest Army bases in the US. Fort Carson is also my birthplace (4/24/1967)." That's when he was just a li'l baby Rusk. Awwr! ******** Thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_San_Andreas for noting these similarities between real life places and places in the game: The Los Angeles Convention Center Grauman's Chinese Theater The Embarcadero clock tower The Camel's Toe--The Luxor Resort Hotel and Casino Sphinx and pyramid. The Grove is like the NWA-era Compton, Inglewood, and E LA. Mulholland is a wealthy neighborhood like Rodeo Drive. San Fierro looks like San Francisco The Gant Bridge looks like the Golden Gate Bridge. The two bridges from Easter Basin to Bone County look like a couple of bridges in Fife, Scotland. They're W of Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland and where Rockstar North is based. (The ones in the game are SE of Esplanade North.) The Garver Bridge resembles the Forth Road Bridge (the Golden Gate-type suspension bridge), which is a bit west of the Forth Bridge mentioned below. (Some say it looks like the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, too.) The Kincaid Bridge looks like the Forth (Rail) Bridge (the one with beams arranged in horizontal diamond shapes), which is nine miles west of Edinburgh. The Glory Hole Theme Park references refer to holes between stalls in sex joints used for anonymous sex. One place looks like The Pioneer Club (of Freemont Street) of 1942-1956, and 1983-1995, with Vegas Vic replaced by Avery Carrington. A sign nearby shows Candy Suxxx. Across the street from Vic, over a strip joint, was Sassy Sally, later called Vegas Vicki, who was posed, and originally raised and lowered one lower leg, the same way at Glitter Gulch. It also notes that San Andreas features playable games similar to the arcade games Gyruss, Defender, and Gradius. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I.2 PC Health I.2.a Clean your disk, disk player, and PC Clean your Play disk and use a CD laser lens cleaner disk in your player. Turn off your PC and use a can of compressed air and clean out your PC box, CD/DVD player compartment, and keyboard. If you spill something into your keyboard, disconnect it, flush it thoroughly with water, and let it dry for a few days. (I've seen disk cleaners, laser disk cleaners, and cans of compressed air on sale at department and drug stores.) I.2.b Get your hard drive clean and in order After using the Internet go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and use the Disk Cleanup--remove the Temporary Files, Temporary Internet Files, and Recycle Bin. The Temporary Internet Files can help you surf the web faster, but I search it fast enough without them and they can build up into a huge batch of bytes in no time. Get the free software versions, at least, of Ad-aware and Spybot. You might like to go to the Downloads section of the Microsoft web site and try their free beta version of AntiSpyware. Keep them updated and run them regularly. Buy an anti-virus program, keep it updated, and run it regularly. Disable auto protect to play games or download drivers. At least once a month--even a week--run Disk Defragmenter. For Windows XP Home Edition, go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and Disk Defragmenter. Run it after crashes and after you make any big changes to your PC, too, like after putting in new graphics card drivers or downloading a big game demo or such. I.2.c Use the latest updates On your browser, click Tools and run Windows Update about once a week. Make sure you have the latest updates for your sound (Creative Labs, etc.) and graphics cards (ATI, NVIDEA, etc.), motherboard chipset driver (probably VIA Hyperion, Intel chipset, Forceware Unified, or SiS Chipset), DirectX (the Microsoft web site Downloads section), mouse, keyboard, and whatever else you use for the game you can get updates for. Go to Run, type in "msinfo32," and click OK if you're not sure what your computer specifics are, and see how they compare with the requirements for computers given on the bottom flap of the box of the game. You might want to upgrade something. You could try the same thing except type in "dxdiag," too. Better yet, try something like Sandra Lite 2005, mentioned below in the Tweak guides part of this section, and run the various modules it contains. You can not only learn what your various PC components are, but get helpful recommenda- tions about changing settings and making upgrades to improve the performance of your PC. I.2.d Turn off unnecessary applications before running the game Run a free utility called Enditall to shut down other applications before running the game. I.2.e Take2 Games web site and toll-free phone number For technical support, check the support section for the PC "San Andreas" at the Take2 Games web site. Go to Take2 Games, Support, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC). They have a toll free number, too, which connects you to some nice people who offer personal support: 1-866-219-9839. Help them isolate the source of your problem by doing the other things recommended in this section 1st. Try to avoid things that make your game freeze so you have no ability to get out of the game with the keyboard. Turning your PC off at the main power button is bad for your computer, so use the reset button (just below the main power button on my PC) instead at such times. You may have to remove a mod because you made an installation mistake or it's corrupted due to a faulty download, etc. My PC has bad reactions to some otherwise, too, for some reason. Try getting advice from the creator of the mod, from GTA Forums web site, etc. If worse comes to worse, for whatever reason you may never learn--some unfortunate combination of the mod with some component or setting of your PC--you may need to just remove it. According to the "Read Me" for the game: For support please visit: http://www.rockstargames.com/support If you prefer to contact tech support via e-mail or phone please use the following: For US Support Phone: 1-866-405-5464 E-mail: usa@rockstarsupport.com For Canadian Support Phone: 1-800-269-5721 Em ail: canada@rockstarsupport.com I.2.f Tweak guides Go to the TweakGuides.com web site, as recommended in the helpful "Tweak Guide" FAQ for "Half Life 2," PC, by Lefteris Aslanoglou--Leftos--at Gamefaqs. The last time I checked it was at: http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/half_life_2_tweak.txt It makes a good point about the value of going to the Tweak Guides web site: http://www.tweakguides.com/ which features various helpful, informative guides by Koroush Ghazi. If you're like me, and have had a glitch or freeze or stuttering frame rate now and then and couldn't afford to pay dozens of dollars every time you had a question, it's good to know you're at least using preventative medicine to give your computer every chance to work as efficiently as it can. You'll get the best performance out of it for games and maximize the mileage you'll get out of that expensive computer hardware. And if you do need to hire someone, you'll be more well-informed when you talk to them. A couple of such tips I picked up from the "Windows XP Tweaking Companion" there: Download one of the free software, or freeware, programs it recommends. Put "Everest Home Edition freeware" or "Sandra Lite 2005 freeware" in a search engine, download them, and run them. You can not only find out a lot of infor- mation about the components of your computer, but get useful tips on what might work better with a different setting or upgrade. Sometimes glitches and freezes are due, at least partly, to poor PC performance--overheating alone can cause such things. If you want to learn more about your components and how they compare to others at running games, you could put "3D Mark 2005 freeware" in a search engine, download it, and run it. It's a popular benchmarking tool that has been used at various web sites to get test results of new components. I especially recommend you make backups and carefully use the advice given in: Windows XP Tweaking Companion ATI Catalyst Simple Antialiasing and Anisotropic VIA Hyperion FAQ It especially focuses on getting good performance out of your PC, and a good frames per second (fps) rate, etc., for games. It has special sections for Half Life 2, Morrowind, Far Cry, and some others. And there's a section on Game Music Extraction. which I notice someone has a question about now and then on the Gamefaqs message boards. Use System Restore (Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore, or Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, System, System Restore) if you screw up and aren't sure how you did it and need to revert to your old configuration. I.2.g Volume If your sound card software is similar to mine (for a Sound Blaster Audigy 2), you can adjust the volume of the game with your general volume control or the sound mixer's wav control. (I once had a glitch that caused the game to get quiet. I thought I needed another sound card update download when I stumbled onto the fact that the Wave slider of the Surround Sound mixer of the card had gone to the bottom, for some reason. I just turned it back up.) I like to keep a volume control icon in the taskbar in the lower right of my screen as well. After installing an update for the driver, I have to make sure the "Digital Output Only" box is unchecked for headphones in Speaker Settings, too. The default settings make it checked but then I can't hear the sound with my head- phones. To access those things: Go to Start, All Programs, Creative, Sound Blaster Audigy 2, Creative Surround Mixer for the Master Control: Volume slider and the Source: Wave slider. I like to hear things loud and clear, but don't overdo it or you'll start losing the ability to hear higher frequencies (the standard way people go deaf). You'll start playing "an eh au-oe ah ah-ayuh"--that's no good. While at the Creative Surround Mixer, click the square button with a picture of a big dark gray speaker on it, which is along the bottom of the menu, to bring up the Speaker Settings menu, which allows you to choose your speaker configuration (I like studio quality headphones)--that's where the "Digital Output Only" box is that I uncheck. (You can also get there by going to Start, All Programs, Creative, Sound Blaster Audigy 2, and Creative Speaker Settings.) While at still at the Creative Surround Mixer, you can use your sound card software to put a volume icon in your taskbar. Go to the upper right corner and click the button with the downward-pointing triangle. This causes some choices to appear below it. Click the bar that says, "Place volume icon on the taskbar." To use the general Windows way to put a volume icon in your taskbar, go to Start, Control Panel, Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices, then use any of these three choices--Adjust the system volume or Change the speaker settings or Sounds and Audio Devices--to bring up the Sounds and Audio Devices menu. Check the box by "Place volume icon in the taskbar." You can adjust your system volume from there, too. The Audio section of the game Options lets you adjust the volume of your MP3s, too, if you want them to have the same volume that the rest of the radio stations have. I.2.h System requirements Minimum System Requirements: 1GHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon Processor 256MB of RAM 8x DVD-ROM Drive 3.6 GB of free Hard Disk space for a minimal install 64MB Video Card with DirectX 9 compatible drivers ("GeForce3" or better) DirectX 9 compatible Stereo Sound Card Keyboard and Mouse Recommended System Requirements: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP processor (or better) 384(+) MB of RAM 16x DVD-ROM drive 4.7 GB of free Hard Disk space for a full install 128(+) MB Video Card with DirectX 9 compatible drivers ("GeForce4" or better) DirectX 9 compatible Surround Sound Card Game pad with twin axis analog controls (USB or Joystick Port) Keyboard and Mouse Supported operating systems: Windows 2000 Professional (Workstation) (plus Service Pack 1 or higher) plus DirectX 9 Windows XP (Home and Professional) (plus Service Pack 1 or higher) plus DirectX 9 I.3 How to save games and things to avoid when you do. The convenience of copies of your GTA San Andreas User File You can save your achievements--Stats--for a number of efforts at the game in a number of save game slots at the same time. It's also good to know your whole set of save game statistics are saved in My Documents in "GTA San Andreas User Files." A very useful gimmick to know is that you can keep multiple copies of it there (I'd right-click the folders and rename them "Backup of...." or such). You can copy the individual file for a save game slot (GTASAsf1.b, GTASAsf2.b, etc.) that already has a section or 100% of the game done on it. I'd be sure to save one that already has the weapon, vehicle, and ability Stats completed. You might have the Tag spraying and whatever Sub-missions, etc., done already, too. Here are a couple of important uses for a copy: 1. If, for whatever reason, you need to reinstall the game, you don't have to lose your accomplishments. When you uninstall, it doesn't uninstall the User Files (including User Tracks tunes) or Skins file, which it leaves for you to uninstall manually. So the old User File may serve the new install and not be replaced by a new one--I'm not sure, considering the glitches that can happen. To be sure you keep your old statistics, I'd let the new installation create a new User File by playing the game a little, delete the new User File it creates in My Documents, then rename "Backup of...." by taking "Backup of...." off the name. It may not be necessary to go through that, but it makes me feel a little more confident that it will work. 2. You can save one or more backup copies with parts of the game already done on them. For example, one copy I have has 100% completion in one save game slot and all the side missions done on another. This way, I can use it to play around Vice City with all the benefits that come with 100% completion, or just play the main story missions. Another way you could do it is to create a User File copy that just has your least favorite side missions, and the missions that give C.J. extra abilities, done on it. For example, the vehicle and weapon Stats can be long and tedious to build up over and over, but you can speed that up a lot with the methods given in III.5. You might build them up, use the modification ideas of section X.10.b for the Ambulance, Firetruck, and a Vigilante vehicle, do the missions for them, get all 100 Tags, easy to do with one of the teleporters of section X.13.a-c, save the game, and copy the save file. You'll always have the choice to play the game with all those missions over with and all the abilities and weapons that come from them to enjoy everything else about the game with. To afford yourself even more such choices, you could follow that by making a copy of that save slot for another save slot and finishing whatever missions you like the least of the middle of the game. Make a copy of the User File, etc. Rename the copy with two save slots occupied with something at the beginning like "1 LS Prelim 2 SF prelim" or such which you can remove from the name if you want to use it. Before you use the copy to have everything else about the game to play with, make another copy of it so you have a spare to use that way later. Some advice about saving the game When you save your game at one of those floppy disk icons, make sure you have your full armor (saving and loading the game restores full health), the weapons you'll need (each run through a weapon icon after the 1st adds to the ammo it has), and the vehicles you'll need saved in your garages, so you're prepared for whatever you'll need the next time you load the game. You can't save during a mission--the cassette icons disappear until you either pass or fail it. Saving the game advances the game clock six hours. You can use this to prepare the time clock so it's a certain time at a convenient place when you load the game. This is handy for making multiple efforts from C.J.'s house for the Burglary sub-mission, which can be activated at eight p.m. (20:00), for example. Saving the game restores all weapon icons, which can be handy in stocking up on ammunition without doing a lot of traveling between game saving places. You can get rid of a wanted level by saving a game, returning to the game, then loading the last game; I try to do it without saving that, though. Don't save your game at Madd Dogg's mansion after "A Home in the Hills." There was a glitch on PS2 that caused that to corrupt your Stats and make the basketball disappear from all the courts of San Andreas. Don't save your game after "The End of the Line"--do something else 1st. Some PS2 players have reported game Stats corruption, so I'd play it safe for PC and do something else, too, before saving. Try to save just one hard to replace vehicle in any one garage. Saving more than one in a garage has been known to make mods and paint jobs, even whole vehicles, disappear. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I.4 Settings Configuration Mouse Settings > Steer With Mouse lets you steer C.J., and both two and four wheel vehicles, with the mouse. It doesn't disable the keys you can use, notably to right a tipping four wheel vehicle or when using a motorcycle for stunts. Fly With Mouse lets you steer aircraft with the mouse, which I usually don't use. You can add recordings to the My Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files\User Tracks folder, then hear them on a User Tracks radio station in the game. The game comes with support for Windows Wave files (WAV) and Ogg Vorbis (OGG) files. You can also use MP3, WMA, M4A, etc. files if your PC has the right codecs for them. (You have them if you have Windows Media Player 9 or above, a recent Apple Quicktime Player, or a combined CODEC package installed.) Audio Setup > Radio EQ On causes the radio to have a different sound quality depending on what vehicle C.J. drives. Audio > Radio Audio Tune causes a vehicle to play the same radio station that C.J. was listening to in his last vehicle. Audio Setup > User Track Options > Play Mode Radio Commercials appear between User Tracks Random User Tracks play without commercials in random order Sequential User Tracks play in alphabetical order If you add recordings to the User Tracks folder, have the game scan for them in order to hear them in the game. The options for that are: Audio Setup > User Track Options > Automatic Media Scan causes the game to scan for User Tracks each time you load the game. Audio Setup > User Track Options > Scan User Tracks lets you choose when to have the game scan for User Tracks (such as just after adding something to User Tracks). (Note: C.J. looks like he's changing the station when you switch stations.) Display Setup > Store Gallery Photos lets you save pictures taken by the Camera in the game to My Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files\Gallery. Display Setup > Advanced For a better frames per second (fps) rate, you'll have to know your graphics card and PC capabilities. The PC Health section may offer some information that's useful in getting a good performance out of the game in conjunction with these concerns. Having a decent fps is so basic to the smooth performance of the action, I'd start at a low setting and stop at higher ones if they cause lags, etc., and just try anything higher for a screen shot. A complete instal- lation is less likely to have performance troubles, too. The options you can adjust accordingly are: Draw Distance determines how soon things in the distance appear as you get near them. If you have a better PC setup, there are mods that let you increase this 2, 4, and 10 times beyond the limit offered. Frame Limiter It's 30 frames per second when this is on, which is generally advised. Even with a fast machine, turning this off can make for things that appear after you run into them and such, which is no fun. Visual FX Quality (Low/Medium/High/Very High) Changes the number and degree of effects used, such as shadows and how detailed they are. The shadows of Low are more like "GTA III" shadows. MIP Mapping This smoothes out differences in textures, such as the distant parts of roads that don't fully appear till you near them. Anti-Aliasing (Modes 1--6). I typically have my graphics card set to Applica- tion Preference and use the Anti-Aliasing offered by an individual game. Resolution I've read that it's good to make this the same as you use for your Desktop to avoid a performance conflict. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I.5 Stats I.5.a Criminal Rating -10,000 to -6,000 Crackhead Derogatory term like "moron," based on derogatory things to call someone who helps finance organized crime by smoking crack, which makes you wonder how it got on this side of the list; rock star not Rockstar; cluckin' but not at the Bell. -5,999 to -4,000 Bitch-made Misogynist term for either a man who does what a woman wants him to do or is like a woman therefore less than a man. -3,999 to -2,000 Off-Brand Not the genuine article; faulty; janky; has no friends or fashion sense. -1,999 to -500 Scandalous So bad it's liable to cause gossip. -499 to -1 Player-hater One who hates others for having more than they do, notably out of jealousy for a playa who has game; someone critical of the type of playa given for "playa partner"; a Ph'in' c**k blocker. 0 to 19 Vic Victimizes others or is a victim. 20 to 49 Square Considered boring for not being trendy; a punk a**. 50 to 74 Civilian A stranger; it may be derogatory. 75 to 99 Rat More derogatory than snitch for someone who betrays a criminal. 100 to 119 Snitch Doesn't keep a criminal's secrets for them that allow them to get away with the crime; busta in the sense of crime-buster. 120 to 149 Dry Snitch Says something critical or incriminating about someone intending that someone else overhears it but pretends it's inadvertent; may be used about a sexually unresponsive woman (as if "a" were used instead of "i"). 150 to 199 Transformer Someone who changes in a negative way: seems less attractive up close, changes fashion too often, etc. 200 to 239 Punk-ass Bitch Misogynist derogatory term for a man, like "pu**y" combined with "punk." 240 to 269 Sucka Generic derogatory term; a hoo rider mark; a hoe cake. 270 to 299 Poot Butt A stupid, lazy person, often said with "motherfu**er," probably because it sounds silly by itself. 300 to 329 Buster A youngster trying to be a gangster; generic derogatory term like "fool"; busta; a phoney that doesn't deserve respect; seems to have nothing to do with the actual Keaton. 330 to 369 Mark Busta. 370 to 399 Chump Busta, possibly fooled by something. 400 to 449 Trick A woman who's a tease, a whore; a man who's a client of a whore; something a whore does to her client. 450 to 499 Red-headed Stepchild Someone who doesn't fit in, possibly bullied. 500 to 549 Peon Like "peasant" is meant when used condescendingly as an insult; a person of low standing. 550 to 599 Pee-Wee A young gangster; a small penis; $5 of crack. 600 to 609 Prankster A buster gangster. 610 to 649 Fool Someone who lacks intelligent judgement. 650 to 699 Street Cat Urban (possibly poor)/underground/hip-hop/ gangster culture-oriented person. 700 to 849 Thug Generally a brutal criminal (not simply someone who's gone through struggles as when meant in the Tupac Shakur sense). 850 to 999 Hustler In this context probably not just someone who's energetically ambitious but one who will scam and cheat people to obtain things. 1,000 to 1,049 Playa Partner A sexual partner or friend of a guy who tries to con a lot of women to have sex with him; the more his range of influence, the greater his "game," therefore respect among those so inclined to respect that. 1,150 to 1,299 Mack A playa in the sense of "playboy"; in this context, probably even a pimp. 1,300 to 1,499 Pimp Hustles patrons for whores aka ho's. 1,500 to 1,699 Crime Partner The friend or sex partner of someone who commits offenses against the law and/or morality. 1,700 to 1,999 Homeboy Homie; folkie; friend 2,000 to 2,099 Homie Homeboy; homeslice; friend 2,100 to 2,299 Road Dawg A loyal friend whether in or out of prison; a woman who's become less attractive with age: a d-dub-a. 2,300 to 2,499 Hoodsta A term originated on the W coast for someone from the 'hood, probably in a gang. 2,500 to 2,749 Hard-ass A tough person; in this context, probably one who picks on others and starts fights to show off for whoever is stupid enough to admire that. 2,750 to 2,999 Banger In this context, probably a gang banger; marijuana; cocaine in Dublin, according to one source. 3,000 to 3,499 Li'l G A little gangsta/gangster/criminal, in this variation often accompanied by crimes against language, or at least spelling; a buster. 3,500 to 3,999 Loc Someone who shows a love of crips; a crip (community restoration in progress) was originally a member of a gang in LA that wanted to eliminate crime in their neighborhood; ironically, the crips became gangsters themselves; a local person or a crazy loco person or both. 4,000 to 4,999 Jacker Thief, especially a carjacker. In a multi- player video game, they shoot someone who was already shot and claim credit for the kill. 5,000 to 7,499 Shooter Gangsta term of brotherhood for another; the gambler who is rolling the dice at the craps table. 7,500 to 9,999 Foot Soldier Standard initial rank of a gang member; infantry gangster. 10,000 to 19,999 Hoo-Rider An annoying person or Mrs. Dr. Suess. 20,000 to 29,999 Soldier A gangster (in this context, not just someone who fights through rough times). 30,000 to 39,999 Hawg Acronym for Heterosexual Aging White Guy (how'd I get up this high on this list? Hey?!) 40,000 to 49,999 Gangsta Criminal. 50,000 to 69,999 Ghetto Star A popular gangsta. 60,000 to 79,999 Monster A very successful threatening force, considered crazy; a socially misunderstood person who meant well but became ostracized and violent in a sensitive performance by Boris Karloff. 80,000 to 99,999 Big Homie A well-respected homeboy; A friend characterized by the acronym for Business Instead of Games (Notorious Big--rapper). 100,000 to 149,999 Boss Hawg Someone that's extremely selfish with their money; a feisty, chubby guy in a TV show I didn't see. 150,000 to 199,999 Shot Caller Someone who gives orders. 200,000 to 299,999 OG An original gangster--what a gangsta is considered if they shoot someone. Then they're no longer a BG--a baby gangster. 300,000 to 374,999 High Roller Someone who wagers large sums of money at the casino. 375,000 to 499,999 Four-Star General The leader of a gang; Patton. 500,000 to 999,999 Godfather An organized crime leader; an originator of extreme motorcycle stunts; James Brown. 1,000,000 and above King of San Andreas A GTA Master of all they survey. Destroying a helicopter or plane adds 30 points, getting busted or wasted subtracts 3 points, and using a cheat subtracts 10 points. Similar to the "Vice City" method of blowing up a handful of Sparrows over and over at the Hyman Condo roof and garage, the fastest way to reach Godfather in "San Andreas" is to blow up a handful of planes in a hanger at Verdant Meadows over and over. (Note: I haven't double checked yet to see if the way the game adds and subtracts points is as varied and glitchy as for "Vice City.") Thanks to The Great Onion Kid and GTADomain, blaze888888, diego siles, and others for the list given at: http://www.planetgrandtheftauto.com/gtasa/guide/extraneous/ For definitions, thanks to http://www.urbandictionary.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_slang http://www.blackstate.com/allthingsghetto/ghettoslang.html http://www.gizoogle.com/index.php?translate=false http://www.scummagazine.com/backissues/issue18/gangstaslang.html http://www.lvol.com/lvoleg/hist/lvlingo.html http://www.riceplate.com/rap/rap.php http://www.rapdict.org/ I.5.b Health in relationship to Stats Health isn't given in the Stats, just the heads up display (HUD), but if you use up C.J.'s Muscle and Fat, he can lose health till he dies. C.J. looks thin with about 1/6th Fat and a tiny amount of Muscle after "Sweet and Kendl," which is the 1st time you can save the game. All that's available to eat are snacks and soft drinks (such as in front of the bar a block to the W of the Johnson house). The Fat burns off slowly, so you can replenish it with those, keep his red health bar full, and build up his other Stats. But his health can be diminished quickly and C.J. can die after some confron- tations with traffic or the bullets of policemen and rival gangsters, and snack and soft drink vending machines aren't shown on the radar or in-game map. So I'd play the next mission, "Ryder," after which the restaurants open, to give him various places shown on the radar and in-game map to get the fuel to replen- ish his health. He'll get stronger while more quickly doing the various prelim- inary things that increase his weapon and vehicle skills. Once he develops some muscle, he can get stronger even faster using the outdoor gym at Verona beach (the indoor ones open up after "Drive Thru"). (After doing the preliminaries, I'd make a copy of my save game, in case I want to play it again with all that work already done. I can always start a new game if I want to see the 1st few main missions, which don't require C.J. to have any special skills.) Keep C.J. healthy by feeding him every day or two and protecting him from injury, including by using armor. There's an armor icon under the W side of the bridge that's a bit N along the big drainage ditch E of the Johnson house. The amount of armor C.J. has is given in the HUD and in the Player Stats. The Paramedic mission gives you a fast way to increase C.J.'s maximum health Stat potential. The hooker gimmick works like it did in the previous couple of GTA's. If C.J. drives one of most of the four-wheel vehicles by a hooker, and she asks if C.J. wants a good time, press "Y" for "Yes," and she'll get into the vehicle. Park somewhere secluded that raises green, brown, or gray stuff from the rear wheels while C.J. drives. The vehicle rocking lasts about 15 seconds (a little over 15 minutes in real time), during which time she charges $28 while C.J.'s health goes up a little. After the Pimping mission, she pays him for it. ******** One hooker asks, "Did somebody say 'milkshake'?" milkshake: 1. The qualities a sh*t woman uses to attract men; whether her body, person- ality, face, money etc. Kelis said it means "whatever you do well." on MTV. "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard" -- Kelis featuring Pharrell, Pusha T (Milkshake (Remix)) [1] (http://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/misc/r_and_b/milk_rmx. kel.txt) 2. The female version of pimp juice 3. Women's vaginal secretion 4. To Give Head (Fellatio) 5. a girls c*m http://www.rapdict.org/Milkshake ******** The 1st time C.J. enters an Ambulance his health goes up a little bit, too. Changes in Stats are shown in the upper left corner of the screen. The Muscle, etc., Stats, and Stat for an upgradable weapon, if C.J. is equipped with one, can be seen in the lower left of the screen by pressing Tab. All the Stats can be seen in the menu by pressing Esc and clicking Stats. I.5.c Player--Muscle and Fat Stats Basically, you keep a little Fat there for C.J. to burn off instead of burning off Muscle--I fill about 1/4th to 1/3rd of the Fat bar--and to keep C.J. from getting so muscle-bound or flabby that he doesn't run as athletically. If both of those Stats are depleted, C.J. will lose health and die. But Fat burns off slowly, so it's easy to keep enough in the Fat Stat. Take 2 recommends having C.J. eat once a day to avoid the glitch that appears late in the game that doesn't let him work out at the gym at all (not to be confused with C.J. reaching a limit of development so not being able to use the gym for 12 hours). Once the restaurants open, after "Ryder," have him eat non-salad meals for Fat--the bigger the meal, the more the Fat. If he has about 1/4th to 1/3rd Fat, enough so he can get around and burn it off instead of Muscle and not be flabby, you can give C.J. a meal every day or two, and keep his health bar full, with salad meals, snacks, and soft drinks, too. Have him go running, swimming, or cycling to convert Fat to Muscle (and increase his Stamina). Once he gets to the Buff stage, the game says he's allowed to use gyms, but the indoor gym equipment is unavailable because the indoor gyms don't have yellow entrance lights in front of the doors until "Drive-Thru." Before that, the fastest way is to have him lose fat is to use the stationary bike of the outdoor gym at Verona Beach. (You could give him 11 meals in a row to make him throw up and he'll lose a lot of Fat, too, if not gain Muscle or Stamina.) To have him use the dumbbells and bench press weights at the Verona Beach gym, quickly alternate presses of Left Shift and the LMB. He'll develop even more muscle, which mainly improves the strength of his melee attacks and shows in his appearance--it's 20% of his Sex Appeal Stat. (Note: I remap Left Shift and Spacebar to each do what the other normally does to make the controls like the ones for "Vice City.") The fastest way to raise these Stats is at III.5 Maximum Stats of all kinds in one sitting. I.5.d Player--Stamina and Lung Capacity Stats Stamina is, with Muscle and Lung Capacity, another health Stat you want to increase to maximum strength. It's like doing the "Vice City" Paramedic mission for the infinite run has been replaced with a busier infinite run aspect--C.J.'s ability at biking fast, swimming fast, and running for a longer time is improved by having him do one or more of them. Like the infinite run, it doesn't diminish, and it's good to build it up early in the game. The bigger the Lung Capacity Stat, the longer C.J. can swim underwater. It's increased by having him swim underwater till his air bar gets low then surface. C.J. is the only one in the game who can swim. The fastest way to raise these Stats is at III.5 Maximum Stats of all kinds in one sitting. I.5.e Player--Respect and Sex Appeal Stats Respect Running Respect: 40% Mission advancement: 36% Territories owned: 6% Amount of money: 6% Muscle (physical fitness): 4% Progress with girlfriend: 4% Appearance: 4% Running Respect: Killing a drug dealer: +.005% Killing a rival gang member: +.5% Killing one of your gang members: –.0005% One of your gang members dies: –2% Territory won: +30% (a major part of the final Los Santos section of the game) Territory lost: –3% Thanks to the Brady guide for those figures. (How do they figure out numbers like -.0005%? There must be some way of testing the programming to do that.) The main way C.J. can increase his Respect Stat is by killing lots of rival gang members and recruiting Grove Street Family gang members to help him, then by taking over rival gang territories. (Taking over rival gang territories is possible after "Doberman," but C.J. loses any he gains in Los Santos when he 1st leaves it.) It can also be increased by having C.J. be healthy, spray the 100 Tags, and use the better vehicles, clothes, haircuts, and tattoos. Sex Appeal can be increased by keeping C.J. muscular and having him use the better vehicles, clothes, haircuts, and tattoos. Clothes and the better vehicles seem to be the most important, and they're 1st covered in the "Prelimi- naries for Los Santos" section. Later in the game, Sex Appeal can be increased by having him succeed with dates, too, which is made easier by the Sex Appeal increase in having C.J. find all the Oysters 1st. I.5.f Player--vehicle Stats The more C.J. uses a type of vehicle--car, bicycle, motorcycle, or aircraft--the higher the Stat for that type till the Stat is maxed out and the type of vehicle gets the easiest handling it will get in the game. The fastest way to raise them is at III.5 Maximum Stats of all kinds in one sitting. I.5.g Player--Pilot Ranking The rankings are the same as in "Vice City" with a lot more aircraft to climb the list with. The "Vice City" glitch that causes the Stats to consider you an "Ace" too soon is back. Most importantly, the little Dodo is back. Awwwr!-- the little one.... Pilot ranking 0:00 to 0:04 No Ranking 0:05 to 0:09 Flyboy 0:10 to 0:19 Aircraftman 0:20 to 0:29 Pilot Officer 0:30 to 0:59 Corporal 1:00 to 1:29 Lieutenant 1:30 to 1:59 Sergeant 2:00 to 2:29 Captain 2:30 to 2:59 Biggs 3:00 to 3:29 Wedge 3:30 to 3:59 Red Baron 4:00 to 4:29 Goose 4:30 to 4:59 Viper 5:00 to 5:59 Jester 6:00 to 6:59 Chappy 7:00 to 7:59 Iceman 8:00 to 8:59 Maverick 9:00 to 9:59 Noops 10:00 to 10:59 Air Chief Marshal 20:00 to 30:00 Ace See "Glenster's Guide to Some of Vice City" for more about the rankings. Flight time is given in Achievements. I.5.h Player--Gambling and Luck Stats All I did so far in Los Santos was have C.J. bet on the horses at Inside Track (which doesn't have a limit on the amount wagered), and just saved the game when he won (about one out of five times) till he was a millionaire. Otherwise, I tried having him use the horse race machine over and over for ten minutes to see if he seemed to win more often, and he didn't. But the more C.J. gambles, the higher his gambling Stat and money he can borrow against from a Las Venturas casino, therefore bet in one when he's poor. I tell you the truth, if I wanted to play card games, I'd have used the ones that come with Windows XP, and I didn't. I can't see buying the Crossfire cards and everything for a card game or the video version of the lottery tickets at the convenience store. Now a pinball game in the bars--that could get me going a little bit. A Pro Pinball game might be a lot of megabytes for one aspect of a bar in a GTA game, but maybe a decent one wouldn't have to be very big. GTA could do it up good with sound effects and voices--maybe having the ball get a Unique Jump cinematic as it goes over a ramp. Luck in gambling can be increased by collecting all 50 Horseshoes in San Fierro, so you might not worry yourself about it till after that. I.5.i Weapons C.J. can improve the weapon Stats certain weapons have by shooting rival gangsters or law enforcers. Shooting the gangsters creates less of a problem with getting rid of wanted ratings. Likewise, he can improve his various vehicle Stats by using the vehicles. These are covered more in the "Preliminaries for Los Santos" section. The fastest way to raise them is at III.5 Maximum Stats of all kinds in one sitting. I.5.j Crimes--Total number of wanted stars attained and evaded Total number of wanted stars attained and evaded They were nearly the same number for me while C.J. built his Stats and only did a few missions, and he hadn't been busted. I think the ones attained yet not evaded in this GTA may just refer to wanted stars attained during missions and erased by completing those missions. I.5.k Crimes--Criminals wasted Criminals wasted refers to times C.J. killed criminals, which includes four drug dealers (see III.11 Kill Criminals). The criminals listed in data\peds.ide are BMYCG, BMYCR, HMYCM, HMYCR, SWMYCR, SBMYCR, SHMYCR, VBMYCR, VHMYCR VWMYCR, WFYCRK (a lady), WMYCR, MAFFA, MAFFB, MAFFBOSS, BIKDRUG, BMYDRUG, HMYDRUG, and WMYDRUG. BMYCG black guy, hospital mask over mouth, dark brimless cap, dark gray jersey with white short sleeves, gray pants, white shoes. BMYCR black guy, a bit unshaven, silver chain, light and dark vertical striped short sleeve shirt, green-gray calf-high pants, white sneakers. HMYCM white guy, hospital mask over mouth, dark gray shorts with a red band at the end of each leg, brown and black slippers. HMYCR Hispanic guy, short hair, Fu Manchu mustache, cross chain, white jersey, mostly gray plaid shirt only buttoned at top, light gray pants, black and white shoes. SBMYCR black guy, bit unshaven, dark shades, white baggy cap like nurses wear, white jersey with blue unbuttoned shirt, light gray green pants, white shoes. SHMYCR Hispanic guy, dark pompadour, pink long sleeve shirt, gold watch, gray pants, brown and black shoes. SWMYCR Asian guy, short dark hair, green short sleeve jersey over black long sleeve jersey, blue jeans, light and dark gray shoes. VBMYCR black guy, a bit unshaven, short hair w/dreads in back, mostly gray plaid jacket, gray pants and shoes. VHMYCR Asian guy, short hair, short mustache and beard, horizontal black and white striped jersey, blue jeans, gray and black shoes. VWMYCR white guy, tall spiky brown mullet, bit unshaven, gray jersey w/red on chest and "ox" below, sleeveless jacket vest, torn blue jeans, high tied boots. WMYCR white guy, short brown hair combed straight back, light beard, silver chain, black jersey, black leather vest, light brown pants to above the ankle, gray shoes. WFYCRK white woman, hospital mask over mouth, white "X" taped on nipples, white thong bikini bottom, black and see-through gray shoes. MAFFA white chunky guy, black jersey/suit/shoes. MAFFB white chunky guy, bald with brown mustache, gray jersey with dark gray horizontal stripes, brown-gray jacket, pale gray pants, brown shoes. MAFFBOSS white guy, short dark hair and goatee, pale pink-peach shirt with a white collar, gray suit with a white handkerchief in the pocket, black shoes. BIKDRUG white guy, light brown short mustache and beard, black headband and bracelet, tattoos on arms, white muscle shirt with a black leather vest, calf- high gray pants, gray shoes. BMYDRUG black guy, short goatee, black muscle t-shirt, brimless black cap, silver chain and bracelet, gray pants, black and white shoes, often has his hands folded before him. HMYDRUG Hispanic guy, dark shades, goatee, cross chain, gray muscle shirt, dark gray pants, red-gray bandana, tattoos on arms. WMYDRUG white guy with a smirk, gray Rockstar hoody pulled up over his head, dark baseball cap, blue jeans, white sneakers, often has his hands folded before him. To view them, use the tutorial referred to at X.8.a Skin viewing and editing. See I.8.b for the vehicles they drive. Strangely, the pimp, BMYPIMP (black guy, light gray hat, brown fur coat, light blue or reflecting blue? shades, gray jacket, white shirt, red tie, black pants, gray shoes), isn't given a criminal status like the pimp in bold red and black in "Vice City." And, as before, the prostitutes and gang members aren't given a criminal status, either, I guess just because the lead character inter- acts differently with them. I.5.l Crimes--Gang members wasted The Gang members wasted by C.J. can belong to one of eight gangs. According to data\peds.ide and pedgrp.ide, they are: the Ballas, the Grove Street Family, the Los Santos Vagos, the San Fierro Rifa, the De Nang Boys, the Italian Mafia, the Triads, and the Varrio Los Aztecas. See I.8.b for the vehicles they drive. I.5.m Crimes--Cost of property damaged The costs of vehicles in column d of data\handling.cfg go toward calculating this. (Thanks to Ben "Cerbera" Millard.) I.5.n Gangs The size of the three biggest gangs is given in the order of the number of territories held by each. I.5.o Achievements--Flight time Flight time in "San Andreas" is created by how long you fly both planes and helicopters. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I.6 Some distinctions between the PC and PS2 versions The PS2 version comes out 1st. The graphics aren't diminished for the PC version. A good article about it, and refinements made to GTA since "Vice City," is an interview with a few of the developers--Obbe Vermeij, John Whyte, and Chris Rothwell--which can be found at the Gamespot web site: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/gta4/preview_6126774.html In the PC version, you can put WAV or OGG (Ogg Vorbis) files (with the correct CODECs installed, also MP3, WMA, M4A, etc., files)--to save space, put shortcut icons--in My Documents/GTA San Andreas User Files/User Tracks for your own radio station. In the Play Mode section, you can choose "Radio" to have the game play them with the commercials, etc., provided to make it seem like another of the stations of the game. Otherwise, "Sequential" plays them in alphabetical order and "Random" plays them in a random order. To have them play on the radio station, run "Scan User Tracks" 1st in "Audio Setup." Automatic Media Scan will make the radio start with the 1st track after the game loads. In the PC version, you can use or make mods for the game, including changing various attributes of the vehicles in data\handling.cfg. to make certain missions easier (see X.10.a-h), changing data\ar_stats.dat to make Stat building as fast as you like (see III.5), and, if you have the original version, activating the Hot Coffee sex game there have been over reactions about (see X.9.a). You can use a teleporter to make Tag, etc., gathering, and visits to Liberty City, etc., as fast as you like (see X.13.a-c). The PS2 two player mini-games have been dropped for the PC version. The PC version has online multi-player versions. The moon stays full and doesn't go through phases as pre-release information said it would. The PS2 method of raising C.J.'s weapon Stats quicker by having him shoot at a tire doesn't work for PC. Again, see III.5 for a way to make any Stat climb as fast as you like on PC. The PS2 vigilante mission gimmick of sending a Police car or motorcycle to a building C.J. can enter such as a Cluckin' Bell, sending C.J. into the building for about ten seconds to cause the criminal to be considered dead, then sending him back to the police vehicle, etc., doesn't work for PC. See X.11 for how to change the power of weapons, and, again, see X.10.a-h for how to improve a vehicle (including for the Vigilante mission), in the PC version. The basketballs appear at the start of the PS2 version but don't appear in the PC version till after "Tagging Up Turf." The PS2 Chiliad Challenge gimmick--have C.J. equip a parachute, start the Challenge, jump off the ramp by the flag, bail a second later and open the parachute, and soon C.J. is morphed to the bike with the parachute attached and open above him--doesn't work for PC. Shady Industries in has been renamed Solaris Industries. (I'm guessing an actual Shady Industries didn't like the association with Avery Carrington's Shady Acres, etc., in "Vice City.") Some Benson trucks still say "Shady Industries," though. (Thanks to PresidentKiller at GTA Forums.) The PS2 Los Santos Cluckin' Bell that wasn't noted on the in-game map is noted on it in the PC version, and the PS2 Las Venturas Pay 'n' Spray (on the S end of the littlest square block between Royale Casino and Pilgrim) that wasn't noted on the in-game map but worked isn't noted on the in-game map and doesn't work for the PC version. On PS2, the cars get dirty and you can take them to a car wash. On PC, they just stay however dirty they are and the car washes aren't functional. (There is a mod that keeps the rust off, though, at X.13.e The No Rust mod.) &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I.7 Controls ******** Note: I remap Spacebar and Left Shift so either does the role of the other. ******** Esc Pause game and go to the menu F1 Instant Replay F2 Save replay F3 Play back last saved replay Prt Scr see X.15 for how to use Prt Scr, etc., to make screenshots. To have a longer look at onscreen instructions or dialogue, press Esc and go to Brief. You can go back through earlier instructions and dialogue by pressing Up and go forward through them with Down. If you leave the controls alone, the HUD will disappear and the "camera" will act like it's hand held and zoom in on and back from this and that activity. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I.7.a Foot Controls W Forward S Backwards Mouse Steering or A Left Mouse Steering or D Right You can turn the "camera" with the mouse so to face C.J., then press S to keep him going in the same direction in the scenery yet now towards you and the camera; a similar thing can be done with A and D. W,S,A, and D can also be used for the dance game, and A and D can be used to go through the food selection at a restaurant. Mouse Look anywhere, though you need to move C.J. to look directly up or down. When standing still, C.J. doesn't swivel as you move the mouse as Tommy Vercetti or Claude Speed did. You get a greater variety of views of him that way, but it makes aiming him busier. While he faces in one direction, you can look in another with the Mouse; if you want to face him in the new direction, press W,S,A, or D as needed. I usually press W, which makes him go in the direction the Mouse is pointed, to turn him. F or Enter (Return) Enter or get on a vehicle, buy a soft drink or snack, end a transaction at a restaurant or barber shop, have C.J. spend $100 for, or quit watching, a lap dance, have C.J. let go of something he's hanging from, and skip cut scene. The camera swirl after C.J. leaves a vehicle can be disorienting for a moment. When that happens, you may speed things up by pressing W to turn him in the direction you want him to go, then W again to continue. If two choices are near when you press F, C.J. goes in the direction of the one he's pointed toward. ******** Left Shift Sprint (I remap it from Spacebar). The sprint lasts longer as C.J. gets stronger, as does the faster sprint created by pressing it quickly and repeatedly. It's used so C.J. can swim underwater, too (I.7.c). It's also used to buy food at a restaurant, and preview and buy a haircut. Spacebar Jump, grab something to climb, climb something, and block attack (I.7.b) (I remap it from Left Shift). ******** Left Alt Walk C Crouch; use W,S,A, and D to have C.J. move while crouching. It can help C.J. sneak up on enemies, and he can fire a weapon with more accuracy while crouching. If you tap A or D while C.J. is crouching, he can roll left or right. Tab or \ View player health and weapon Stats, answer a cell phone, or give a gift to and kiss a girlfriend (awwwr!). LMB Fire, punch, hit with a melee weapon, throw, spray paint, deploy a parachute while C.J. is falling, change the "camera" view of a lap dance, and take a snap shot. As in "Vice City," you can hold it down to keep a Chainsaw revved up and pointed forward, then move C.J. around with W,S,A,D, and Spacebar to create fast Chainsaw attacks. RMB or Caps Lock Aim Weapon, bring up the scope of a Sniper Rifle or Rocket Launcher so it can be aimed and fired, and make an arrow point down at someone's head. The arrow indicates if your effort to recruit them for a gang, or shot from a weapon, will connect. It turns from green to red and disappears as they weaken and die. RMB or Caps Lock, and G or H When you press the RMB or Caps Lock while pointing C.J. at someone to make a green arrow point down at their head, and you want C.J. to recruit them for a gang, you can press G, and, if C.J. has enough respect, they'll follow him as a gang member, including into a vehicle, and attack opposing gang members. (They're like more aggressive versions of the bodyguards at the end of "Vice City"). The more respect C.J. has, the more he can enlist. Press G to draw them to C.J. if they run away, and press H to have them wait in place (I remember the keys by thinking of "G" for "Gang" and "H" for "Hang back"). After recruiting a gang member, you can switch to Camera and the gang member will offer to take C.J.'s photo. Press Tab to accept, Tab to have the picture taken, and Enter to have them return the Camera. E or Mouse Wheel Down Next weapon/Target Q or Mouse Wheel Up Previous Weapon/Target X or Mouse Wheel Up Zoom In Z or Mouse Wheel Down Zoom Out Y Conversation "Yes" N Conversation "No" V View: you can pick one of several distances for a 3rd person view that mainly follows C.J. from behind. Num 1 or MMB Look Behind C.J. can walk up sloped trees, too, like Tommy Vercetti could in "Vice City." One tall one is at the N side of the swamp in Back O Beyond. If he jumps on a vehicle 1st, he can jump up into the ones on square boxes on some of the side- walks. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I.7.b Special fight moves Controls LMB (hold the RMB to target) Advances with left and right jabs Hold the RMB and press F Advances with Right jabs and right kicks Hold W (and hold the RMB to target) and press the LMB or F Advances at a trot with right jabs ******** Note: I remap Left Shift and Spacebar for Foot Controls so each does the default job of the other. ******** Hold the RMB and press Spacebar Blocks with both arms Hold W and the RMB then press Spacebar Advances at a trot while blocking with both arms Hold W, Left Shift, and the RMB then press Spacebar Runs while blocking with both arms (Later in the game, hold the RMB and press F and C.J. guards with his left and jabs with his right) &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I.7.c Swimming Controls No key Tread water; if underwater, slowly rise to the surface W Swim forward with a breast stroke ******** Note: I remap Left Shift and Spacebar for Foot Controls so each does the default job of the other Left Shift Swim forward fast with a crawl; press it quickly and repeatedly to have C.J. swim faster Spacebar Jump till the wat