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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC)

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for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC)
Reviewed by: Jeff Gerstmann
Review date: 06/07/05
Release date: 06/07/05

Glitchs

Early and riskfree exploration

During the mission "Reuniting the Families", you have to shoot down a group of SWAT team and then enter the motel to save Sweet. Beating the SWAT, instead of getting into the motel, you can travel all around the entire map and enter all the restricted areas like the military base and the maps that are locked. You will have no wanted level and no cops will chase you. You can explore the entire map freely without taking risk. This is the best time to confirm vehicle and item locations and to collect the snapshots, oysters and horseshoes.

Free Vehicle Repair

For free and fast car repair, park your car in one of your garages, back away to let the door close, then step torwards the garage so the door opens again. The car will be instantly repaired of all dents, etc.

This is especially useful if you have an expensive modded car that you want to keep for certain ingame stats.

NOS recharge without waiting.

Instead of having to wait for the NOS to recharge to use again, exit then enter the car, and you can use the NOS again.

Restricted areas open for you

During Woozie's mission "Amphibian Assault", the wanted level system is disabled. You can now travel everywhere in the game including the restricted areas like the Eastern naval base and all police stations without the cops chasing you. This is time to collect the two oysters in the extremely dangerous naval base without being shot.

Secrets

Free Money

Go to a strip club and stand in front of a stripper when the people watching them gives them money CJ will take it instead since you are where they put the money

Basketball Tricks

Click the left mouse button while playing basketball to do tricks with the ball.

Save two cars in your garage

This works in the same way as the previous games. Normally you can only save one car in your garage, but with this you can save two or more! All you have to do is get your two or however many cars and bring them up to your garage. Drive one of them until the garage door opens, and then drive it half way in and get out of the car. This will keep the door open for you. Next, get into the other car and drive that all the way into the garage. Then get into the car half way in and drive it the rest of the way in and get out and leave the garage. Et viola! You now have two cars stored in your garage!

Stop gang attack on your territory.

To stop other gangs from attacking your territory, just save you game, this will stop the gang war and you won't have to fight them.

Choose size of the Moon

Shoot it with sniper to make it change size from bigger to smaller and vice versa.

Edit the stats of any vehicle in game.

First browse to your GTA:SA isntall directory, it will look something like this:

C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas\

Then go to the data directory. MAKE A BACKUP OF ANY FILES BEFORE YOU EDIT THEM. To edit the vehicle stats, open the handling.cfg file in notepad. As you can see, all the info on every vehicle in in there. Follow the instructions in the comments to find out how to edit it.

You can do anyuthing like make a Rhino as light as a PCJ600 and control just as well.

Basically, you can edit anything in the game from these files. Just be careful what you edit and leave them as sane values to prevent glitches.

Unlockables

Infinite sprint

Complete the Burglary mission by having C.J. steal $10,000 worth of stuff.

Code Result
Complete the Burglary mission Infinite Sprint

Unlockable Outfits

These are all the Unlockable Outfits in the game...

Code Result
Date Katie to %100 Medic Uniform
Date Denise to %100 Pimp Suit
Date Helena to %100 Overall's Outfit
Date Michelle to %100 Racing Outfit
Date Barbara to %100 Police Uniform
Complete the mission "555-WE-TIP" Valet Uniform
Complete the mission "The Key to her Heart" Gimp Suit
Complete the mission "Breaking the bank at Caligula's" Croupier Uniform

Girlfriends Cars

These cars are obtained through getting the girfriends to %50...

Code Result
Date Denise to %50 Green Hustler
Date Helena (Her car doesn't have any doors) Bandito
Date Katie to %50 White Romero
Date Michelle to %50 Monster Truck
Date Barbara to %50 Police Ranger
Date Millie to %50 Pink Club

Girlfriend Perks

Code Result
Date Michelle and you can use her Garage as a Pay-and-Spray Free Pay-and-Spray
Date Katie Keep weapons after being Wasted
Date Barbara Keep weapons after being Busted
Date Helena(you can find the weapons in a big shed by her house) Pistol, Chainsaw, Molotov Cocktails, and Flame Thrower

Dual Weildable Weapons

Get these weapons to Hitman to Dual Weild them

Code Result
Reach the Gun Rank "Hitman" Dual Pistol's

"Hidden Package" Rewards

Collect all the "hidden packages" in their respective areas to get these weapons...

Code Result
Spray all 100 Graffiti Tags in Los Santos Tec-9, AK-47, Sawn-off Shotgun, and Molotov Cocktails at CJ's house in Ganton
Snap all 50 Snapshots in San Fierro Sniper Rifle, Grenades, Shotgun, and Micro-SMG at CJ's Garage in San Fierro
Collect all 50 Horseshoes in Las Venturas MP5, Satchel Charge, M4, and Combat Shotgun at The Four Dragons Casino in Las Venturas

Assets

Complete the assets missions/objectives to get money made at that location

Code Result
Complete the Missions for the Airstrip Airstrip Asset
Complete all 4 Deliveries in Las Venturas Burger Shot Asset
Complete all 4 Deliveries in San Fierro Hippy Shopper Asset
Complete all 4 Deliveries in Los Santos Roboi's Food Mart Asset
Take Over Territories in Los Santos The Johnson House
Complete all 5 Levels of Valet Parking in San Fierro Vank Hoff Hotel Valet Parking Asset
Complete the missions for this asset, plus the cars you steal will spawn inside the showroom Wang Cars Asset
Complete all of the RC Shop missions Zero's RC Shop Asset

Vehicle Side-Mission Unlockables

Code Result
Complete all 12 Levels of the Firetruck Missions CJ becomes Fireproof
Complete all 12 Levels of the Vigilante Missions Armor get raised to Maximum
Complete all 12 Levels of the Paramedic Missions Health get raised to Maximum
Complete all 2 Levels of the Freight Train Missions $50,000 & Free Train Rides
Succesfully Transport 50 People(Complete 50 Fares) Nirto on all Taxis/Cabbies and Taxi's and Cabbies can Hop
Complete level 10 of the pimping missions Entertaining prositutes earns you money (instead of taking it away)