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Playing the Steinway Grand
The Glenman's Gotta Whole Lot o' Auto
San Las Los the cosmos
co-starring the li'l Dodo
Rated just O (for "Oo-oo!")
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 and Super Cheats, Glenster1 at
IGN)
glenster (who's at) rediffmail.com
It's a G thang.
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Windows XP Home Edition.
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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
and the v 1.01 patch
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.a Some distinctions between the PC and PS2 versions
I.6.b Adapters for PS2 and Xbox controllers
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I.7 Controls
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I.7.a Foot Controls
Note: I remap Spacebar and Left Shift Foot Controls so each does the job
of the other--so Jump is Spacebar and Run is Left Shift, like for "Vice City."
I.7.aa Climbing trees
I.7.b Initial fight moves Controls
I.7.c Swimming Controls
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I.7.d Vehicle Controls
Note: I remap Horn from Caps Lock to Left Shift--same reason.
I.7.e Four-Wheel vehicle Controls
I.7.f Motorcycle or Bicycle Controls
Stunt information
I.7.g Note for all flying vehicles
I.7.h Plane or Jet Controls
I.7.i Hydra Controls
I.7.j Helicopter Controls
I.7.k Parachute Controls
I.7.l Jetpack Controls
I.7.m Crane Controls
I.7.n Boat Controls
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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
I.15 Video walk-through/people who help with missions
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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
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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
C.J.'s gets Respect, and the AK-47, Tec9, Sawnoff Shotgun, and Molotov
Cocktails are available in the kitchen of the Johnson house.
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
C.J. has the infinite sprint
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 Some non-mission vehicle locations
III.28 Make a copy of your save game
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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 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 and Red County save houses are now
available
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V The Badlands and San Fierro Preliminaries
V.1.a Photo Ops 50
Use the camera you're given in IV.28--it has an unlimited amount of film.
The Micro SMG, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, and Grenades are available at the
Xoomer garage in Doherty, San Fierro
V.1.b Weapon gathering
V.2 Save houses
V.3 Barber and Tattoo shops
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 Scotch Bonnet Yellow route
V.7.b Race 2 Birdseye Winder Yellow route
V.7.c Race 3 Cobra Run
V.8 Hippy Shopper Courier Asset Mission (four stages)
V.9 NRG-500 Challenge
V.10 Blood Bowl (Corvin Stadium) (like Bloodring but with drive-bys)
A Bloodring 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 Beat the Cock Not needed for 100% completion
V.13 Some non-mission vehicle locations
V.14 Make a copy of your save game
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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
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The RS Haul Trucking Asset mission (part one)
VI.4.a 1. Timed: 2:15
VI.4.b 2. Fragile cargo
VI.4.c 3. Three star wanted level
VI.4.d 4. Timed: 6:00
VI.4.e 5. Fragile cargo
VI.4.f 6. Three star wanted level
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The Truth calls and you can meet him for missions
VI.5 "Body Harvest" The Truth The Rifle, $1,000, and Remote Explosives,
$2,000, are at Ammu-Nation
Cesar calls
VI.6 "King in Exile" Cesar Vialpando Cesar Vialpando cut scene
Save house:
Fern Ridge C4 free
At the dot just NE of the "O" of "RED COUNTY" (Red County).
VI.7 "First Base" Catalina Catalonia cut scene
C.J. can rob the three remaining places
VI.8 "Against All Odds" Catalina Cesar calls about street racing
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
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VI.13 Big Smoke's Cash/Yay Courier (not needed for 100% completion of the
game)
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Cesar calls about street racing in the country. Get a Cheetah, Hotring Racer,
Buffalo, Elegy--something like that--and go to:
VI.14 "Wu Zi Mu" Cesar Vialpando
VI.15 "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.16 "Are You Going to San Fierro?" The Truth
A glitch lets you send C.J. to the blocked off areas without a wanted rating.
The San Fierro missions
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VI.17 Save houses
VI.18 Clothes Zip clothes stores are open
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The Garage missions
VI.19 "Wear Flowers In Your Hair" Carl Johnson Call from Zero
Buy his RC shop
The Zero RC Store Asset missions
VI.20 "Air Raid" Zero
VI.21 "Supply Lines" Zero
VI.22.a "New Model Army" Zero Completes Zero RC Store asset--
it makes $5,000 a day and max.
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VI.22.b "Beefy Baron" Not needed for 100% completion of the game
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The Garage missions continued
VI.23 "555 WE TIP" Carl Johnson The Valet outfit is available
Opens the Valet mission
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VI.24 Valet Parking Asset Mission (5 Levels) Vank Off Hotel in Financial
The hotel makes $2,000 a day and max.
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The last Garage mission
VI.25 "Deconstruction" Carl Johnson Jethro calls--Driving School opens
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VI.26 "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.
VI.26.a "The 360"
VI.26.b "The 180"
VI.26.c "Whip and Terminate"
VI.26.d "Pop and Control"
VI.26.e "Burn and Lap"
VI.26.f "Cone Coil"
VI.26.g "The '90'"
VI.26.h "Wheelie Weave"
VI.26.i "Spin and Go"
VI.26.j "P.I.T. Maneuver"
VI.26.k "Alley Oop"
VI.26.l "City Slicking" "Back to School" is completed
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The Syndicate missions
VI.27 "Photo Opportunity"
VI.28 "Jizzy" Opens Wu Zi Mu missions, which need to be done
before "Yay Ka-Boom-Boom."
VI.29 "T-Bone Mendez"
VI.30 "Mike Toreno"
VI.31 "Outrider"
VI.32 "Snail Trail"
VI.33 "Ice Cold Killa"
VI.34 "Pier 69" Sniper Rifle $5,000 at Ammu-Nation
VI.35 "Toreno's Last Fight"
The Woozie missions
VI.36 "Mountain Cloud Boys" Wu Zi Mu
VI.37 "Ran Fa Li" Wu Zi Mu
VI.38 "Lure" Wu Zi Mu AK-47 $3,500 at Ammu-Nation
features the trip skip time saver--after your 1st try,
you can start over from the checkpoints.
VI.39 "Amphibious Assault" Wu Zi Mu
VI.40 "The Da Nang Thang" Wu Zi Mu
The last Syndicate mission
VI.41 "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.42 "Zeroing In" Cesar Vialpando Wheel Arch Angels mod shop
opens
VI.43 "Test Drive" Cesar Vialpando
VI.44 "Customs Fast Track" Cesar Vialpando Export/Import boards open
VI.45 Exports and Imports for the Cranberry Crane (30 vehicles)
VI.46 "Puncture Wounds" Cesar Vialpando Completes Wang Car asset
$8,000 a day and max.
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VII The Desert and Las Venturas Preliminaries
VII.1 Save houses
VII.2 Barber and Tattoo shops The Redsands East tattoo parlor is available
VII.3 Ammu-Nation and weapons
VII.4 Armor and Police bribes
VII.5 Oysters
VII.6 Bayside Marina Boat School
VII.6.a "Basic Seamanship"
VII.6.b "Plot a Course"
VII.6.c "Fresh Slalom"
VII.6.d "Flying Fish"
VII.6.e "Land, Sea, and Air"
VII.7 RS Haul Trucking Asset Mission (final two missions)
VII.7.a Mission 7
VII.7.b Mission 8
VII.8 Horseshoes
$100 x 50 and $100,000
The Combat Shotgun, Remote Explosive, M4, and SMG are in front of
The Four Dragons Casino
VII.9 Las Venturas Bike School
VII.9.a "360"
VII.9.b "180"
VII.9.c "Wheelie"
VII.9.d "Jump and Stop"
VII.9.e "Stoppie"
VII.9.f "Jump and Stoppie"
VII.10 Burger Shot Courier Asset Mission (4 runs)
VII.11 Kick start and Dirt Track (Black field Stadium)
VII.12 The Freight Train mission $50,000 and free train rides
VII.13 The Ammu-Nation "Shooting Range Challenge"
VII.13.a "Pistol Challenge"
VII.13.b "SMG Challenge"
VII.13.c "Shotgun Challenge"
VII.13.d "AK-47 Challenge"
VII.14 Las Venturas Gym Stamina and Muscle should be past the buff stage,
so beat the trainer to get kick boxing moves.
VII.15 Beat the Cock Not needed for 100% completion
VII.16 Some non-mission vehicle locations
VII.17 Make a copy of your save game
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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 in four places
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.6.b "Land Plane"
VIII.6.c "Circle Airstrip"
VIII.6.d "Circle Airstrip and Land"
VIII.6.e "Helicopter Takeoff"
VIII.6.f "Land Helicopter"
VIII.6.g "Destroy Targets" PITER
VIII.6.h "Loop-the-Loop"
VIII.6.i "Barrel Roll"
VIII.6.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
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VIII.7 Buy the remaining save houses
VIII.8 Clothes The Victim clothes store is open
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VIII.9 Los Santos Race Tournaments
VIII.9.a "Lowrider Race"
VIII.9.b "Little Loop"
VIII.9.c "Backroad Wanderer"
VIII.9.d "City Circuit"
VIII.9.e "Vinewood"
VIII.9.f "Freeway"
VIII.9.g "Into the Country"
VIII.9.h "Badlands A"
VIII.9.i "Badlands B"
VIII.10 San Fierro Race Tournaments
VIII.10.a "Dirtbike Danger"
VIII.10.b "Bandito County"
VIII.10.c "Go-Go Carting"
VIII.10.d "San Fierro Fastlane"
VIII.10.e "San Fierro Hills"
VIII.10.f "Country Endurance"
VIII.11 Las Venturas Race Tournaments (Cars)
VIII.11.a "San Fierro to Las Venturas"
VIII.11.b "Dam Rider"
VIII.11.c "Desert Tricks"
VIII.11.d "Las Venturas Ringroad"
VIII.12 Las Venturas Race Tournaments (Aircraft)
VIII.12.a "World War Aces"
VIII.12.b "Barnstorming"
VIII.12.c "Military Service"
VIII.12.d "Chopper Checkpoint"
VIII.12.e "Whirly Bird Waypoint"
VIII.12.f "Heli Hell"
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The Airstrip missions continued
VIII.13 "N.O.E."
VIII.14 "Stowaway"
VIII.15 "Black Project" the Desert Eagle is at Ammu-Nations $1,200
the Thermal Goggles are available
VIII.16 "Green Goo" the airstrip will make $10,000 a day and max.
the Jetpack is available
The Casino missions
VIII.17 "Fender Ketchup" The Four Dragons Casino
VIII.18 "Explosive Situation" The Four Dragons Casino
Opens The Heist missions and Hunter Quarry missions
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Hunter Quarry Asset missions
VIII.19.a Mission 1
VIII.19.b Mission 2
VIII.19.c Mission 3
VIII.19.d Mission 4
VIII.19.e Mission 5
VIII.19.f Mission 6
VIII.19.g Mission 7 Hunter Quarry makes $2,000 a day and max.
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The Casino missions continued
VIII.20 "You've Had Your Chips" The Four Dragons Casino
VIII.21 "Don Peyote" The Four Dragons Casino
Combat Shotgun $1,000 at Ammu-Nations
VIII.22 "Intensive Care" Caligula's Palace
VIII.23 "Misappropriation" C.R.A.S.H.
VIII.24 "The Meat Business" Caligula's Palace
VIII.25 "Fish in a Barrel" The Four Dragons Casino
VIII.26 "Madd Dogg" Madd Dogg
VIII.27 "Free fall" Caligula's Palace
VIII.28 "High Noon" C.R.A.S.H.
VIII.29 "Saint Mark's Bistro" Caligula's Palace
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VIII.30 Clothes Didier Sachs is open in Rodeo, Los Santos
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The Heist missions
VIII.31 "Architectural Espionage" The Heist
VIII.32 "Key to Her Heart" The Heist Millie is available
for dates
VIII.33 "Dam and Blast" The Heist
VIII.34 "Cop Wheels" The Heist
VIII.35 "Up, Up, and Away!" The Heist
VIII.36 "Breaking the Bank at Caligula's" The Heist
Night Vision Goggles available
VIII.37 Make a copy of your save game
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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, with a gym, basketball court, and all four videogames, 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.
The basketball doesn't always appear at all courts, and the glitch may come
and go, anyway. You can download a fix for the PC version of it (I.12).
IX.2 "Vertical Bird" Carl Johnson
The Hydra is at Verdant Meadows.
The Minigun, Rocket Launcher, Heat-Seeking Rocket Launcher, and Flamethrower
are available in Mike Toreno's's (Tierra Robada) ranch.
IX.3 "Home Coming" Carl Johnson
IX.4 "Cut Throat Business" Carl Johnson
The Grove Street missions
IX.5 "Beat Down on B-Dump" Sweet Johnson
IX.6.a "Grove 4 Life" Sweet Johnson
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IX.6.b Territory takeover
You need 35% or more of the gang territories to finish the game.
Get all of them and C.J. won't be attacked by rival gang members again.
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The Riots missions
IX.7 "Riot" Carl Johnson
IX.8 "Los Desperados" Carl Johnson
IX.9 "End of the Line" Sweet Johnson
100% completion
IX.10 Make a copy of your save game
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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 Other hidden San Andreas pedestrians
X.9.c The Nude Girlfriends mod
X.9.d 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 GTA SA Control Center
X.13.d The Skateboard mod
X.13.e The No Rust mod
X.13.f 2x, 4x, and 10x Draw Distance mods
X.13.g John Lennon's glasses
X.13.h The Horseshoe Help mod
X.14 Music
MP3s and wave files
How to save hard disk space with shortcuts
X.15 Screen shots
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XI. And there's always more
XI.a Unique Jumps
XI.b Girlfriends
XI.c Basketball
XI.d Video games
XI.e Gambling
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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 discour-
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 C.J. takes over all the gang
territories 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." The vehicles with fixed locations may not show up till C.J. has
gone by the spot two or three times in "San Andreas." And if someone made a mod
to make the instant replays have slow motion and a variety of "camera" angles
like the ones in "Vice City," I'd grab that right up.
The land vehicles are bouncier and slipperier in a way. You might see them
run not only over but under each other, like some stange way worms mate or some-
thing. And if you get C.J.'s bike skill up, he's a lot less liable to fall off
his bike. You can even turn it around by running it into a wall.
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 little
Dodo that always flew around in the sky has been replaced by a variety of planes
that sometimes runs into the ground and blow up, but they're just as capable of
being blown up by a Rocket Launcher. 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 throw-
ing 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. There are a lot more bathrooms
and I don't know why (but see X.9.b).
C.J. can climb, including the trees that rest on square flat boxes, such as
along the sidewalks of the couple of blocks N of Avispa Country Club--to have
him do it, have him jump from beyond a corner of the base to the highest of the
bottom limbs. (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 the Gamefaqs web site, Steve Ng of IGN, and Dennis of Super Cheats,
for hosting a walk-through that can let people claim they used a guide by some-
one who's barely gotten into the main missions.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
http://www.ign.com/
http://www.supercheats.com/
Thanks to Robert Rusk, of the PS2 walk-through for ("III," "Vice City," and)
"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 organization 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 use-
ful 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 Cer-
bera," which is a British sports car.)
http://projectcerbera.com/
********
A special 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 tug-
ging on his coat sleeve all the time) after I asked him to help when I messed up
his lyrics a little bit.
http://www.youngmaylay.net/
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Thanks to Jacob and Racer_S: The San Andreas Place Manager, Blehbeb: The Map
Teleporter/Vehicle Spawn, and saracoglu: The Control Center, 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 information
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/
Thanks to the Urban Dictionary site for translations.
http://www.urbandictionary.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 pub-
licly 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.
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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 some-
thing out of the movie "The Truman Show," 1998. He and a guy with a sign that
says, "Weel work for pot," also found around there, may say some curious things.
A roller with designs on the face of the roller, S of the Santa Maria save
house and across the parking lot, looks like the one created by Chen Chang in
1988 for Santa Monica Beach, CA. He designed it to be hitched and towed to make
designs in the sand.
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 preservation 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
The Julius Thru Ways, Harry Gold Parkway, Greenglass College, and Ken Rosen-
berg were named after people involved in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosen-
berg, executed, after a confused trial about spying, in 1953. (Thanks to
thedude777.) Some good articles about the Rosenberg trial are at:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/rosen/rosenmain.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/intercepts.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gold
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArosenbergT.htm
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, about where the "CIA" of "GARCIA" is San Fierro, has Tommy
Vercetti and Lance Vance, of "Vice City" and James Earl Cash, of "Manhunt,"
action figure dolls, and RC versions of of Hydras, NRG 500's, and Rhinos.
The Gasso station, on the SW block of Dillimore, has Max Pane bullet-proof
glass and "Vice City" (gum or candy?) boxes on the counter.
There's a V-Rock Hotel W and across the RR tracks from the "CA" of "ROCA
ESCALANTE" in 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 big 24/7 stores. They all sell "Cherry Pop-
pers" ice cream, the brand made in the place of that name in "Vice City." One
big 24/7 is W of the W tip of the Mulholland Intersection, Los Santos, and an-
other is on the block N of the block with "O" of "THE STARFISH CASINO," Las Ven-
turas.
The Video Poker machines in the Casinos of Las Venturas have cards with pic-
tures 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.)
By a spade near Catalina's shack, which is at the dot NE of the "O" of "RED
COUNTY," there are three shallow graves (there was one behind Funeraria Romero
in "Vice City").
"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 W side of the Los Santos Graveyard in Vinewood contains a crypt with a
TV, a La-Z-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. The graveyard is on the block N of the
one with "WOOD" of "VINEWOOD."
The roads of the Badlands, from around "FLINT COUNTY" to "EASTER BAY CHEMI-
CALS," look like a caricature of a woman facing E taking a stream of fluid be-
tween her lips at the "FLINT INTERSECTION." (Thanks to DApeoplezCHAMP).
In San Fierro, on the block of "DOWN" of "DOWNTOWN," is the Zombotech Sky
Tower, which contains similarities to the movie, 2002, and game series "Resident
Evil." You can enter the building through the roof or on any corner but the SW.
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.
Big Smoke's crack den is on the NE corner of the block that's W of the one
with "F" of "LOS FLORES." The door mat outside the door on the top floor says,
"Not Welcome" and "Rockstar North."
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 foot-
ball.)
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."
There are others that aren't reversed on the corner of the pink-orange building
at the 2nd intersection N of the "W" of "VINEWOOD."
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.
A number of places or things in the game feature the names of people who have
been employed by Rockstar North. Steven Mulholland, one of those who worked on
the Los Santos art for "San Andreas" and was one of the Map Designers for "Vice
City," has his name on a tombstone in the window of Funeraria Romero in "Vice
City," has a neighborhood named after him in Los Santos in "San Andreas" (Mul-
holland is also a wealthy Drive in LA), and some billboards in "San Andreas"
refer to "Mulholland and Dulaly."
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," which I guess is meant metaphorically due
to the size of it.
On the W side of the "L"-shaped block that's NW of the "EAST" of "EAST LOS
SANTOS" is a Tiki Theater Xymposium with a big 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 Asian pelican that flew into a window.) (Fragger, in a dif-
ferent post at the site, says it, without the statue, is in LA on Western at the
corner on Western and Santa Monica.)
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 photograph-
er 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 scenery
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 on the SE section of the block that's W of
"ISLE" of "THE EMERALD ISLE." 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 pedes-
trians appear on that corner of the ledge and walk off, falling out of view be-
hind a light gray wall. (You can zoom in on them with a Sniper Rifle scope or
Camera.) You might hear a scream as they fall, followed by a crunching sound,
possibly followed by other pedestrians screaming and running away in a panic.
(There's no sign of an accident if you go to the landing area, though. 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 pe-
destrians 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 three 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.
Mxyzptlk saw that the bowl-shaped light display of The Four Queens casino
looks like the one in the game at a corner of The Strip and Old Venturas Strip.
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 en-
ter 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 Ten-
penny 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 South-
ern), 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 the "Air Raid"
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
seems to reflect the Oct.17, 1989 magnitude 7.1 earthquake that shook San Fran-
cisco.
http://www.sfmuseum.net/alm/quakes3.html#1989
The Big Pointy building, on the block E of the one with "AL" of "FINANCIAL,"
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.
Those Parachutes, and others in high places, reflect 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 some-
thing tall for the thrill of the rush toward the ground before opening the para-
chute. 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. Mokiesmoky wonders if it could be related to the
CoK cigarette pack found on the floor by Cluckin' Bell cashiers, and some wonder
if it's related to "C"esar and "K"endl.
The number on the NRG 500 is usually 46, the number of MotoGP race champion
Valentino Rossi. You can find the bike by the largely bowl-shaped dry dock
shown on the paper map by the big square NW of the ship that's E of "DOHERTY."
(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 beneath the W end of the big ship N of San Fierro.
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 ru-
mors 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 specimen 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 an-
cient yet requiring modern technology to make them. The Cliff is along the N
side of the E-W potion of the road E of "THE FARM" and NW of "BEACON HILL.")
(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 persuasive rheto-
ric in it.)
(For a good remedy that's entertaining as well, see your local library, possi-
bly 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://www.rotten.com/library/imagery/nazca-lines/
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 the film studio in "Vice City," a reference
to the idea by a caller to the "Area 53" segment of WCTR in "San Andreas," and,
most clearly giving Rockstar's regard of the "hoax" hoax, given by The Truth as
one of a number of conspiracy ideas he's fallen for.)
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. The
site's secrets list, p.1, gives an early view, since discounted, that some of
the markers refer to sites of San Andreas history. The map seems meant to re-
flect that UFO-watchers and secret agents like Mike Toreno would have special
concerns for locations.
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").
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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)
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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/lofiversion/index.php/t6395.html
Thanks to fonz808 for this batch:
A one-floor house in Los Santos looks like Pierre Koenig's 1960 house called
the Stahl House.
In one of the wall paintings in LA, the part that depicts the Madonna, with
flame-like shading around her, is like that part of the "Jesus Saves" wall
painting in the game.
The Big Pointy building looks like the Transamerican Pyramid. (It's on the
block E of the one with "AL" of "FINANCIAL.")
Tuff Nut Donuts (and other little shops with big replicas of donuts on the
roof) looks like Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, CA., a little one story shop with
a big replica of a doughnut on top.
(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.") (The Cathay
building is on the S side of the block that's W of the block with the bottom of
"TE" of "TEMPLE.")
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. (It's on the NE part of the block that's N of
"ARKET" of "MARKET" in Los Santos.) (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.) Mokiesmoky thinks it may refer to the "CoK" cigarette pack found
on the floor by Cluckin' Bell cashiers, and some think it refers to "C"esar and
"K"endle.
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 (NW of the Pilson Intersection)
looks like the one by an entrance to Las Vegas.
The V-ROCK Hotel and Casino in Las Venturas looks like The Hard Rock Cafe
Hotel and Casino. (The Hard Rock Hotel has a big replica of a Fender Strato-
caster guitar on the roof, and the V-ROCK Hotel has a big replica of a flying V
guitar on the roof.)
A San Fierro church, below the "DO" of "DOWNTOWN," looks like Saint Francis of
Assisi Cathedral. (Thanks to OptimumPx.)
The Hippy Shopper is like the Happy Shopper in the UK. (Thanks to martinson-
line.) (It's on the W side of the block N of "HASH" of "HASHBURY.")
Rodeo in Los Santos looks like Rodeo Drive. (Thanks to vivatforx.)
A recent "Jeopardy" TV show interpreted Glen Park as like MacArthur Park (sim-
ilar bridge or strip of land over a pond) and the Los Santos Forum and nearby
highway as like Sunset Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway. (Thanks to Mokie-
smoky.)
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.)
Thanks to -La-RaZa, who 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
Thanks to D-D-R, who thinks E Los Santos is more like W LA, Glen Park is more
like McArthur Park and similarly located, although Morningside Park also 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.
********
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 Leath-
erface 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 Observato-
ry, which is aka Ohio State University Radio Observatory (OSURO). The Observa-
tory 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 dis-
tant known objects in the universe, the loud "Wow!" signal, and made the long-
est-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 Ven-
tures; 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 tuneful, bouncy 1967 Herb Albert
recording of a Burt Bacharach song.
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 An-
dreas.")
"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
The Big Spread Ranch, pointed to by the martini glass symbol E of the No Fly
Zone, and not far from Las Venturas, probably came from the idea of the Chicken
Ranch, the famous "Best Little whorehouse in the West," near Las Vegas, Nevada,
which is the recent version of the one closed in 1973 in La Grange, Texas, that
the movie "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," 1982, fictionalized, and is
what the song "La Grange" by ZZ Top refers to.
http://www.chickenranchbrothel.com/
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.
The Brown Streak railroad company seems to be a reference to the movie "Silver
Streak," 1976, which starred Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, and Gene Wilder.
There are some spherical gas tanks C.J. can climb to the top of on the E side
of the block that's S of the block with an Ammu-Nation icon that's S of "WILLOW
FIELD," but I don't think the ending of "White Heat," 1949, with James Cagney
fits into the context of anything here. I guess you could have C.J. throw down
some Molotovs at the top of one and do a parody of it, though, during a high
wanted level.
E of Mt. Chiliad, near the corner where the road meets the river, is Angel
Pines Junkyard. I think one of the three dirty pink domed buildings is the same
one that held Lance Vance in "Death Row" in "Vice City." If you go into the
back left of it, there's a window you can see through, but if you look for the
window on the outside of the building, it's not there. (There's no bloody chair
in there, though.)
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.
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Rusk has at least several real-life similarities to add that I know of, too:
"Body Harvest," the name of a mission for The Truth in "San Andreas," is also
the name of a Nintendo 64 game made by DMA Design (some of whom later helped
form Rockstar North) in 1998.
"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 not-
ing these similarities between real life places and places in the game:
(The Los Santos Conference Center and) The Los Angeles Convention Center
(The Cathay building and) Grauman's Chinese Theater
(Pier 69 and) 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 ar-
ranged 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 on Old Venturas Strip looks like The Pioneer Club (of Freemont
Street) of 1942-1956, and 1983-1995, with Vegas Vic replaced by Avery Carring-
ton.
Another display on the same road depicts 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 (They Crawled from Uranus), and Defender and Gradius (Go Go Space
Monkey) (see XI.d).
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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 key-
board, 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 De-
fragmenter. 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 Mi-
crosoft 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 com-
puter specifics are, and see how they compare with the requirements for comput-
ers 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 befor run-
ning 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 An-
dreas (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 other-
wise, 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 fol-
lowing:
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
********
The v.1.01 patch
The Take 2 Games web site has a patch for "San Andreas" now.
http://www.take2games.com/index.php?p=support&product=191%2C3%2CGrand+Theft+
Auto%3A+San+Andreas%2CPC%2CRockstar_Games%2Cgtasa%A7ion%3Dpatches§ion=
patches
You might also wnat to follow the posts on the topic at GTA Forums > GTA Se-
ries > GTA San Andreas > Xbox & PC Chat > PC Patch up...
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=208932
You can use your old save games with the patch installed. It shouldn't create
a problem with txd and dff change mods, but check to see if a trainer or tool is
compatible with v1.01 if you use the patch.
On the plus side, it helps with DVD streaming, lets vehicles get dirty and
clean, and makes the dance game easier (I'm more concerned to see if "Lowrider
Challenge" is easier). I noticed my motorcycle turning doesn't lag now, and mo-
torcycle stunts and such are basic to my enjoyment of the game.
On the negative side, the game often doesn't start for me and a menu that says
"the original disk could not be found or authenticated" appears instead. A
spokesperson at Take 2 said the cure for that is to uninstall and reinstall the
game without the patch, and that Rockstar doesn't plan to put out another patch
at this time.
I've kept the patch awhile to see what else I'd see. When C.J. said "Yes" to
Michelle's invitation to go inside to have some coffee, the game screen, black
with "Downtown" in the lower right corner, froze and I had to use the Device
Manager to get out of it. Opius, at GTA Forums, explained that the patch makes
the game eact to that by going into an infinite loop instead of loading the ani-
mations and models. If, instead, it censored the indoor coffee scenes with a
variable at the start of the file, it would let the game show the short scene of
the outside of the house jostling, but that wouldn't be as thorough and would
cause problems for modding the SCM file.
So if you use the patch, press "N" for "No" when the girlfriend asks if C.J.
wants some coffee or you may need to press your computer's reset button.
Another glitch I've had with it, which I haven't seen a report of anywhere
else, is that a date with Michelle ended with her giving C.J. a BJ (suggested;
you couldn't see the Johnson Johnson) on the sidewalk. (Update: Katie did the
same thing.)
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 TweakGuides 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 en-
gine, download them, and run them. You can not only find out a lot of informa-
tion 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:
The TweakGuides 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 Re-
store, or Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, System, System Re-
store) 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 de-
fault settings make it checked but then I can't hear the sound with my head-
phones.
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.
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 giv-
en 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 pre-
pare 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.
See "I.12 Glitches" for a download that fixes the basketball glitch.
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 ve-
hicles, disappear.
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I.4 Settings
Configuration
I use the Keyboard and Mouse setting.
The Joystick choice is similar to the Classic Controls setting of "Vice City":
you don't get mouse steering but you can auto-target by pressing the RMB. The
number of things you can use auto-target with has been increased for "San An-
dreas." In the little testing I did with it, it worked for Brass Knuckles,
Chainsaw, a Cane, M4, SMG, Sawnoff Shotgun, and Silenced 9mm. I mainly use it
as a novelty to hear the pedestrians say things they only say when held up that
way. GTA's are more like interactive movies than other games, and my favorite
movies don't star robots. If you use the Joystick setting, you move C.J. with
the keyboard, and can have the "camera" get behind him and look in the same di-
rection as him by pressing Tab.
Mouse Settings > Invert Mouse Vertically: I turn this off so when I push the
mouse forward, the view will go down, etc.
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, nota-
bly 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 Ap-
ple 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 Cam-
era 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.
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=195185&st=0
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 C.J. runs 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.
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I.5 Stats
I.5.a Criminal Rating
-10,000 to -6,000 Crackhead Derogatory term like "moron," based on derog-
atory things to call someone who helps fi-
nance 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 part-
ner"; 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 "moth-
erfu**er," probably because it sounds silly
by itself.
300 to 329 Buster A youngster trying to be a gangster; generic de-
rogatory 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, possi-
bly bullied.
500 to 549 Peon Like "peasant" is meant when used conde-
scendingly as an insult; a person of low
standing.
550 to 599 Pee-Wee A young gangster; a small pe*is; $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 some-
one 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 influ-
ence, the greater his "game," therefore
respect among those so inclined to re-
spect 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; mari-
juana; cocaine in Dublin, according to one
source.
3,000 to 3,499 Li'l G A little gangsta/gangster/criminal, in this var-
iation often accompanied by crimes against lan-
guage, or at least spelling; a buster.
3,500 to 3,999 Loc Someone who shows a love of crips; a crip (com-
munity 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 per-
son or a crazy loco person or both.
4,000 to 4,999 Jacker Thief, especially a carjacker. In a multi-play-
er video game, they shoot someone who was al-
ready 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; in-
fantry gangster.
10,000 to 19,999 Hoo-Rider An annoying person or Mrs. Pete Townsend.
20,000 to 29,999 Soldier A gangster (in this context, not just some-
one 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 character-
ized by the acronym for Business Instead of
Games (Notorious Big--rapper).
100,000 to 149,999 Boss Hawg Someone that's e 
