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The Glenmeister's Grand Andreas
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 original PC version
with the Mouse and Keyboard Configuration and Mouse Controlled Steering
by Glen T. Winstein (glenster1 at Gamefaqs and IGN, and glenster at Super
Cheats, StuckGamer, neoseeker, and 1UP)
glenster (who's at) rediffmail.com
This walk-through, with active links for (practically all of) the web ad-
dresses I use, is at:
http://www.freewebs.com/glenster1/index.htm
If you find any broken links there--ones longer than one line and for which
only the 1st line is active as a link--Copy and Paste the whole link to the ad-
dress bar then click the "Go" button at the right side of it.
Click "Back" to return from any of the links there--if you "X" it out,
you'll exit the web page. To compare pictures of vehicles, you might bring a
page up twice and click a link from each.
It's a G thang.
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When looking for something in this guide, click "Edit" at the top left of the
screen, then click "Find (on This Page)... Ctrl+F" and a "Find" menu appears.
(Pressing "Ctrl+F" makes it appear, too.) Type in the name, or even just the
start of the name, of the mission or section you're looking for, then keep
clicking "Find Next" till you're taken there. At least that works if you have
Windows XP Home Edition.
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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
the v 1.01 patch, and v.2 and the Special Edition
I.2.f Tweak guides
I.2.g Volume
I.2.h System requirements
I.2.i PC hardware and software on a budget
I.3 How to save games
I.3.a The convenience of copies of your GTA San Andreas User File
I.3.b Where to find a PC save game for nearly each of the main missions
I.3.c Some advice about saving the game
including using save games from v.1 for v.2 or vice versa
I.3.d An application that tells you your mission completion status, and shows
you, on a map, which Tags, Oysters, Photo Ops, Horseshoes, and Jumps
you need to tend to
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--Total 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.5.p Miscellaneous--Progress made
I.6.a Some distinctions between the PS2 and original PC versions
I.6.b Adapters for PS2 and Xbox controllers
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I.7 Controls
A couple of instant replays that should have been (and other odd moments)
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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.aaa Taking Photographs
I.7.b Initial fight moves Controls
I.7.c Swimming Controls
Walking, driving, and flying underwater
Swimming mania hits San Andreas
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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
The San Andreas Superjump
Quadruple Insane Jumps
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
Flying vehicles
Boats
Hybrids
Land vehicles
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
and where to get the 1st two GTA's and "Wild Metal Country" free,
how to see the coordinates on the PC "GTA2,"
how to get Darkel into "III" and let Claude leave Portland early,
where to get the "Liberty City" mod for "Vice City,"
and how you can pick which version of "Mafia" you run
I.12 Glitches
I.13 Radio
I.14 Codes
I.15 Video walk-through/people who help with missions/entire games "Done
Quick"
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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 Bribes
III.5 Maximum Stats of all kinds in one sitting
and the fastest way to raise weapon Stats on PS2
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)
Burglary isn't needed for 100% completion of the game, but I'd consider it
more important than some such options since it offers the infinite sprint as a
reward.
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
There are two opportunities in this mission to use the glitch that lets C.J.
leave in mid-mission and not get a wanted rating while he explores and collects
things in the blocked-off areas.
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 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 1st of two triathlons
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"
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 avail-
able. Three save houses can be bought.
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 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 "AK47 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 2nd of two triathlons
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
C.J. can get six wanted stars
Two Rhinos are available at Area 69
The Airstrip missions
VIII.6 "Learning to Fly" (Pilot 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"
VIII.6.h "Loop-the-Loop"
VIII.6.i "Barrel Roll"
VIII.6.j "Parachute onto Target"
For all bronze awards, C.J. gets the Rustler at Verdant Meadows;
For all silver awards, he gets the Stuntplane at Verdant Meadows;
With all gold awards, the Hunter spawns at Verdant Meadows and Easter Basin;
The Four Dragons Casino is a free save place;
Wu Zi calls with work at the Four Dragons Casino which opens the Casino
missions
VIII.6.k How to jack a Rhino from Area 69
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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 "Freefall" 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 in a hanger at Verdant Meadows, in the NE area of Area 69, which
has two, and on the E end of the Easter Basin aircraft carrier.
The Minigun (with a 500 count for ammo), Rocket Launcher, Heat Seeking Rocket
Launcher, and Flame Thrower 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-Dup" Sweet Johnson
IX.6.a "Grove 4 Life" Sweet Johnson
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IX.6.b Territory takeover
You need 35% (about 19) 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.
********
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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Modding section
Special note about "San Andreas" v.2.
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
CFGStudio
The GTA: San Andreas GXT Editor
The San Andreas Ultimate 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
DeeZire's "Things To Do in San Andreas
'Till You're Dead (Volume 1)" mod
X.9.c The Nude Girlfriends mod
X.9.d How to change the way they walk
X.10 Cars and bikes (TGIOPC)
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 or beef up the severity of attacks
X.12 Helicopters
How to make a helicopter easier to fly
X.13 Miscellaneous mods, etc.
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.13.i The Driver mod
X.13.j The Roberto Clemente shirt
X.13.k The Tommy Vercetti shirt and Tommy's Shirt
X.13.l Pizzadox's Plus 27 Trainer
X.13.m Heli Magnet
X.13.n Darkpact SA
X.13.o Analogue Speedometer
X.13.p Gradius and Gyruss games mod
X.13.q Player Selection Screen
X.13.r MP5 ReSkin and more...
X.13.s rc vehicles (drivable)
X.13.t Spurtster
X.13.u Heavens on Earth
X.13.v The Homie Mod
X.13.w Grove Gang Revision Mod
X.13.x 2 Player Mod
X.13.y Easter Bay Aircraft Carrier Boat
X.13.z Jarra Mono Arsenal v1.3
X.13.aa Detailed Radar mod
X.13.bb Holla Back Girl
X.13.cc 1963 Chevrolet Corvette
X.13.dd Half-Life 2 Buggy
X.13.ee SCM Hook
X.13.aaa Mod requests
X.14 Music
MP3s and wav files
How to save hard disk space with shortcuts
X.15 Screen shots and videos
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XI. And there's always more
XI.a Unique Jumps
XI.b Girlfriends
and jealous 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.
I'm not so big a fan of unofficial rampaging as some. I mainly like it as
something that can seem funny when things get chaotic. One of my favorite
things to do with it is to get the law enforcement vehicles to follow a cycle
and lead them over jumps, then watch it in slow motion.
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." The spinning propellors
don't look as good to me and the escalators don't work (unless C.J. is on one of
the bikes or lighter motorcycles). The red radar screens don't revolve, and
none of the lighthouses have lights that revolve, as in "Vice City." The SA
pedestrian's mouths move when they talk, sort of like a 1950's wax museum of the
Presidents of the United States made by an Asian company with a cheap transla-
tor. And if someone made a mod to make the instant replays have the slow motion
of the Unique Jumps and a variety of "camera" angles like the ones in "Vice
City," I'd grab that right up.
The "camera" doesn't follow the lead player or their vehicle as strictly in
SA. Where previously you swiveled the standing lead player around, "camera" be-
hind them, with one move of the mouse, you now swivel the "camera" around the
standing lead player, and, as you move him, the "camera" gets behind him again.
This can be interesting in playing at making a movie, but it isn't as good for
aiming, something GTA's Mouse Steering was especially good for. Waiting for the
"camera" to stop swirling after C.J. leaves a vehicle, and trying to aim a fast
Banshee while admiring the view behind it during "Burn and Lap," are a couple of
examples of situations I've heard a lot of complaints about.
The land vehicles are bouncier and feel flimsier. You might see them run not
only over but under each other, like some stange way worms mate or something.
And if you get C.J.'s bike skill up, so he's a lot less liable to fall off his
bike, you can even turn it around by running it into a wall. I guess something
about making the flying vehicles able to go higher and have more to fly over
means the land vehicles become flimsier, like pizza dough that's been spread out
too much, and I think some are flatter than their real life counterparts to com-
pensate for that a bit and give them a lower center of gravity.
And the occurrence of enter-able and funny places is more spread out just to
give the flying things more to fly over. "North Point Mall" was a funny take
on a suburban mall, but I'd probably just drive past Wang Motors, and a slot
machine isn't as funny as a pinball machine could be. (You could make the ball
do insane jumps, give it ragdoll physics, use funny voices and sound effects--
don't get me started.)
And it's made the li'l Dodo, always bright red and white, cheerful in the face
of adversity, look gray and sad in the middle of a field on a bright sunny day
(and the li'l mouse isn't thrilled, either). And you can't do that.
And I know why it happened--a lot of you out there complained that the flying
vehicles need to be easier to fly. Now they're incredibly easy to fly. Never-
theless, lately, I've read complaints by reviewers about the flying controls for
"San Andreas"! These people aren't wired up right. We need our motorcycle
stunts with the slow motion replays and different cinematic angles--it's one of
the coolest things GTA's ever did. This may be a plot on the part of competing
game makers to have Rockstar ruin the handling of vehicles on the ground.
People who can't fly the Skimmer get on the message boards, and Sony and Wal-
Mart money looks at the boards for marketing trends, and Rockstar looks at Sony
and Wal-Mart money. Since Skimmer-weenies play an important part in why GTA has
gone in the direction it's gone since the PC "Vice City" I'm familiar with, it's
important to try to understand what they are.
I'll try to depict a Skimmer-weenie--you try to figure out what it is:
"I want it real big, like the last two in one. You can have motorcycles and
stunts but you don't have to do them. I want to buy some snacks--you have to
get the snacks. And I want the cars to just rub each other a lot (pause for a
strange smile)...and make little scratchy sounds when they do. And I want the
Minigun to show up late in the game and sound like the blender I make my pan-
cakes with. And I want to go for a swim. I don't want any sunken subs or boats
down there, they scare me--just little fish, and when you go by them, they swim
away real quick."
"I want as little aiming as possible--it gives me a complex. You just press a
button for that. The "camera" doesn't have to stay behind the lead character or
their vehicle real good--I want to be able to turn them around to see if I
bought them some nice shorts. I want him to have the shorts in case I see that
sex thing, and the woman to have what you see in the more risque parts of Sponge
Bob--people get worried enough if I see that. The lighting for them doesn't
have to be good, just good enough to show the scenary I watch when I go for a
ride in the car--no-one will let me drive one. I want the planes to be easy to
fly--you have to force them at the ground to wreck so I can forget that and
watch the clouds. Some old movies light up the lead character in a dark room so
you can see their acting--I want them in shadow in a bright place because I
don't think anyone does that, and because they do bad things--I don't want to
look at them.... Could you just make The Sims for Sony with different music?"
Let me read the box again--do you have to be over 18 or under? Who are these
people?
I'll try a suggestion. Even if you didn't know the controls for a Skimmer,
you'd try the ones you know, and the Skimmer uses the same controls as a motor-
cycle. Skimmer-weenies aren't 'cycle people. And you can't respect people like
that. You're gonna have them, and you should be nice to them, but you don't put
them in charge of the GTA's.
(PS: my computer went on the blink recently, and I replaced my Athlon 2000 XP
processor with an Athlon 3500 64 bit 90nm one, so I had a new motherboard and
stronger power supply put in, too. Ooo-oo! Smooth! And the hues look better,
too. Then my ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro graphics card finally went on the
blink, too, and I replaced it with an Nvidia 6800. (Update: that was faulty so
I got a refund. I'm going to use a GeForce 7800 GS OC, and that's it for
graphics card updates till after Vista comes out.) If this walk-through could
be updated a little faster at times, I'm probably digging up old games just to
see what they look like with this setup. I can highly recommend the Athlon 3500
and Nvidia 7800 GS OC if you want to get a better idea of what the talented art-
ists have done with the landscapes and architecture, etc., and have a smooth
frame rate, too.)
If anyone from Rockstar North reads this, I have a suggestion for an extra
feature for the next GTA. The lead player could go into a music store and play
with something like ReBirth 2.0.1 by Propellerhead. Previously sold for about
$160, it's been discontinued and is now freeware. The game player doesn't need
to know how to play an instrument to have fun with it, and Rockstar North could
give the lead player and the pedestrians some moves to do to the rhythm. It's
easier to play with, and more fun, than the dance game, and it's only a little
over 4 MBs.
http://www.freefunfiles.com/software/audiovideo/musiccreation/re
birth-2.0.1.html
http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/
A good article about it is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBirth
The article shows a picture of the interface--you can click the picture to see
an enlargement of it. The article mentions a CD you need to play the full free
version, but you don't need the CD to play the demo version I gave a "freefun-
files" link for above that.
If you try it, there are two bass synthesizers and two drum machines. Each of
them has four sets--A to D--of eight buttons each on the left side of the dis-
play. Any one combination--C6, A4, etc.--represents a one measure pattern of
music. You don't need good timing--the combo you pick will start playing at the
start of the next four beat measure; if you don't make a selection, the pattern
keeps repeating. You can change the notes, bend them, adjust the tones, of the
bass lines with the keyboard, etc., displays. You can pick the percussion in-
struments and adjust their tones on the two bottom displays. You can choose
from two overall sets--Pattern or Song mode--at the top of the screen.
By "Skimmer weenies," I don't mean all PS2 people--Nitzkit was flying PS2 VC
cycles onto roofs. I don't mean all 17 year olds, although there's some common
ground with the controversy makers with what I'm saying; 17 year old "Skimmer
weenies" might not be able to handle that soft sex cartoon, either, and become
social aberrants. It's not people who use codes and heaven forbid I make fun of
people who are mentally or physically unable. It's a popular game, attracts a
lot of people, and "Skimmer weenies" are just...weird.
If C.J. needs to get to the building top across the street at the end of
"Breaking the Bank at Caligula's," he can just glide there on PS2! I haven't
seen that since "BloodRayne," except C.J. leaves out the feet twirling part.
And you can just push a button and he rides a jet to another city--you don't
have to fly it. If shopkeepers keep letting those Skimmer weenies get this
game, get on message boards, and influence Rockstar, pretty no more flying, no
driving cars--you just push a button. And you can buy him some shorts, and
some new socks, and make him deep and sensitive, and it's going to be "The
Sims." And, for some reason, we don't know why--zombies.
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't use clothes to morph to a mo-
torcycle or wear a cop outfit to go onto a military base without a wanted
rating, but a hat, shades, or something for torso or legs can remove not just
two but any number of wanted stars.
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" sources for themes and in-jokes includes Allen
and Albert Hughes' "Menace II Society," 1993, and the events of the 1991 Glen
"Rodney" King beating by corrupt policemen, the 1992 acquittal of three officers
and undecided jury for a fourth, and the subsequent riots. (In 1994, two offi-
cers were sentenced to 30 months in prison for violating King's civil rights,
and "Rodney" has since gotten into several troubles--drug and spusal abuse, vio-
lence, and motoring offenses--on his own.) (Al Pacino was funnier.)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/menace_ii_society/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/rodneyking/
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 either
the original version or second edition of San Andreas (TGIPC). The programming
is basically the same as "Vice City" with some added parameters.
As before, somebody might get back up after C.J. runs over them with a vehicle
if he doesn't do it too fast.
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?
The more curious thing, if you think about the GTA's needing to be true to
life (not that I do), is that the guy gets rich and still runs around stealing
cars. That's a desperate poor person thing to do. Who would risk getting shot
at, which, even if you live, can't be a fun experience, when they get rich (not
to mention, in C.J.'s case, after he's supposed to be reformed into a nice guy)?
Can you see Oprah Winfrey or Paul McCartney running around stealing cars?
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.
It's those weenies again--"he's more sensitive and deeper now." Than who--
Hitler? Does the phrase "Dramatic sense" register as a blip anywhere on their
radar scope?
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 and with a big sheaf of clerical work
papers to kill big muscle guys with lizard heads. If the shopkeepers won't
keep the Skimmer weenies from the game, Rockstar has to keep that in mind when
they read the message boards--some kind of Hot Weenie mod censor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Magazine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Kurtzman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Elder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Aragones
I don't care what those well-meaning, do-gooder lunkheads who try to tell
other people what R-rated movies they can watch, or games they could play, and
mess up the modding for version 2's would say. The GTA series rocks. And it
rules, as the kids say. (I think this answers George Carlin's question about
rock 'n' roll: "What happened to 'roll'?" It became "rule.")
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, Dennis of Super Cheats, Kev-
in Walter of StuckGamer, neoseeker, and Brooks Huber of 1UP for hosting a walk-
through that can let people claim they used a guide by someone who didn't write
a FAQ, who doesn't know what IGN means, who isn't a super cheat (using the GTA
SA Control Center doesn't count--using it doesn't show up in the Stats), isn't
nearly as familiar with games to get stuck on as someone like Rusk, and used the
Google search engine to seek for about 180 years, so I could use a one up ("ex-
tra life" in video games). (PS: I've since learned that the letters "IGN"
aren't initals for words anymore--"IGN" just represents the company.)
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
http://www.ign.com/
http://www.supercheats.com/
http://www.stuckgamer.com/
http://www.neoseeker.com/
http://www.1up.com/
Thanks to freewebs for giving this walk-through a web site where you can click
(most of) the links instead of copying and pasting the web addresses to the URL
bar and clicking "Go":
http://www.freewebs.com/glenster1/index.htm
http://members.freewebs.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://www.gamefaqs.com/
http://faqs.ign.com/articles/588/588661p1.html
You might also be interested in his "Hidden Text FAQ" for "San Andreas" at the
same web site. it contains a lot of dialogue he extracted from the PS2 version
of the american.gxt file--dialogue that Rockstar created but didn't use in the
final release of the game.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
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 with the files of the game 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/
********
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). (For the last address,
you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st line in the address bar.)
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=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 Kevin Walter, aka savior at the StuckGamer web site, for telling me
I could relay his sensibly organized method of doing the NRG-500 Challenge in
the least amount of time. I'd been passing along a few tips I'd picked up from
his web site, which features videos he's made showing how to pass the missions,
but I thought this mission deserved a fuller rendition of his treatment. You
can see his videos of "San Andreas," "Vice City," "Conker: Live and Reloaded"
(which Rusk told me I might think was fun some time ago), and many others at:
http://www.stuckgamer.com/
Thanks to the ASCII Generator web page for the "San Andreas" I used in the
title. (For the freewebs version, which uses a different font, I used Microsoft
Paint, which is not the easiest thing for me to try to draw with.)
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
Thanks to the gta-series web site for having clear PC screen shots of the San
Andreas vehicles.
http://www.gta-series.com/
Thanks to these web sites for a lot of the, as Forrest would call them, "big,
fat ol'" pictures of vehicles:
http://www.motorcities.com/
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/
http://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/index.php
http://www.bikepics.com/
http://www.airliners.net/
http://www.helispot.com/
Thanks to imageshack for letting me make copies of a lot of the pictures so
you wouldn't have pop-ups or have the pictures disappear when sales are over.
http://imageshack.us/
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 Merriam-Webster Online and Wikipedia for being my Internet diction-
ary and encyclopedia.
http://www.m-w.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Note: although some have called Wikipedia's accuracy into question recently,
this study by Nature magazine found that their accuracy was at least as good as
that of Britannica:
http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/12/15/1352207.shtml?tid=95&tid=14
Thanks to the Urban Dictionary site for translations of some of the slang.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Thanks to the babelfish web site for the translations of some of the Spanish
phrases.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Personal info:
I was born about a month after "Roll Over, Beethoven" came out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry
I live in an apartment in Pittsburgh, PA, and was raised in a lower middle-
class house in Bridgeville (which I liked better), PA, about eight miles SSW of
Pittsburgh, where I lived till I was about 35.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeville%2C_Pennsylvania
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.
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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" copyright 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 copyright 2005.
And all the other Internet things I mention are by people who have their copy-
rights for that stuff (however you're supposed to say that).
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I.1 Paying tributes and having things in common
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" won the most awards--gongs--at the 2005 Golden
Joysticks Awards: Best Soundtrack, Playstation 2 Game of the Year, Hero of 2005
(C.J.), Villain of 2005 (Officer Tenpenny), and Ultimate Game of 2005. 200,000
voted, making it the biggest awards show ever in the U.K.. ("Half Life 2" was
PC Game of the Year. The Girl's Choice award went to "The Sims 2.") I guess
that's something like the People's Choice Awards in the U.S.A..
http://news.gamewinners.com/index.php/news/3731/
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 Jennifer "Tia" Lynn--"GamerLady"--at the Gamefaqs web
site:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
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 "GTA2," the church where you saved the
game said that in lights with the lights burned out except "U SAVE." (Some of
you may want to go there and ask for forgiveness 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.)
http://www.thegtaplace.com/image.php?img=sanandreas/secrets/jesussaves.jpg
(There's more about this near the end of this section, in my contributions to
physical likenesses fans have found with things in the game.)
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.
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4904/00gta1godis11ll.jpg
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4522/00gta1godis25mi.jpg
A church with the Rockstar logo near the top of the designs in the stained
glass window is at the NE corner of the block above "SON" of "JEFFERSON."
Pedestrians may walk up to the Drive Thru Confessions booth on the SE block
that's surrounded by road of downtown Palomino Creek.
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.
http://santa-monica.org/seascape/05fall/5.htm
http://www.publicartinla.com/sculptures/sm_art_tool.html
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. Mxyzptlk thinks of
it as referring to "Mega Drive.") (Thanks to thedude777.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_MegaDrive
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.thepepper.com/tucson_airplane_graveyard.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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
(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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Management
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 vari-
ety of references. (See "Glenster's Guide to Some of Vice city," section I.2.)
(For the last address, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st line
in the address bar.)
http://www.electricartists.com/scarface/soundboard.html
http://faqs.ign.com/articles/601/601732p1.html
http://www.supercheats.com/pc/walkthroughs/grandtheftautovicecity-walk-
through36.txt
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 and Piggsy, of
"Manhunt," action figure dolls, and model kits for Hydras, Swat vans, NRG-500's,
Turismos (spelled "Tourismo"), Jesters, ZR-350's, U.S.S. Liberty's (like the
aircraft carrier at Easter Basin), and trains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_%28video_game%29
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. Rockstar published
the game "Max Payne" for PS2 and Xbox, and is the sole publisher for "Max Payne
2: The Fall of Max Payne."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Payne
There's a V-Rock Hotel W and across the RR tracks from the "CA" of "ROCA ESCA-
LANTE" 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 vari-
ous 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.
A little similar to knocking off a store in "Vice City," C.J. can break a cash
register (in a clothes store, 24-7, etc.) apart and make paper money appear
briefly. He can't run through it to make it disappear and add to his cash,
though.
Similar to the Goodfellas nature of the body hanging in the freezer near Sonny
Forelli at St. Mark's Bistro at the start of "Vice City," if C.J. shoots the re-
frigerator in the Abandoned A.C. Tower save place at Verdant Meadows, blood
comes out. (Thanks to a post by Jediranger at GTA Forums.)
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.)
"FleischBerg," on a billboard, is German for "Flesh" (or "Meat") "Mountain."
(Thanks to Cojanfee; "Winstein" is German, but I didn't know that.) (It's also
the name of a factory W of lower downtown Blueberry.)
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).
The Montgomery hospital, Crippen Memorial, probably refers to Dr. Crippen, who
became infamous, and was hanged, in England in 1910 for murdering his wife and
calculatingly disposing of her remains. (Thanks to Mogyle.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley_Harvey_Crippen
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/family/crippen/1.html
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. (There's a mostly E-W road below "AIRCRAFT"; there's
a broken circle, representing a rock formation, SW of where the W segment curves
N; the pit with the bags is on the W side of the rock formation.) (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 mounds of recently filled in graves. (There's a shal-
low open grave in "Vice City" behind Funeraria Romero, which is a reference to
director George Romero, who filmed "Night of the Living Dead," 1968, and several
sequels).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Romero
In San Fierro, on the block of "DOWN" of the "DOWNTOWN" that's E of "CHINA
TOWN," is the Zombotech Sky Tower, which is similar to the Umbrella Corp. of the
game series, 1996 onward, "Resident Evil," which seem influenced by Romero's
zombie movies, too. You can enter the building through the roof or on any cor-
ner but the SW. (This, and the jet rides you take with the push of a button,
may be a premonition of what's to come if the little Skimmer weenies ruin the
game--sensitive zombie sims that can't drive. And a smattering of the latest
hit songs. It's not right.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil
There's a biowaste well in a lot in the middle of the block E of the Montgom-
ery hospital. Since there's a Sprunk building on the block to the E, it could
be a reference to Coca-Cola having to recall 500,000 bottles of Dasani water in
the U.K. in 2004 after the water was found to contain illegal levels of bromate.
(A controversy making a company recall so many products--did you ever hear of
such a thing?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani
Shazard saw that Blueberry and Montgomery have shop windows with skeletons as
mannequins. (In Blueberry, the shop is on the S side of the S of the two W
blocks. In Montgomery, the shop is across the street E of the E block.)
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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29
Mogyle saw that, if you look from far to the E of it, you can imagine you're
looking at one of the big statues of a head (moai) that are found on Easter Is-
land when you look at a shack that's on top of an Arco del Oeste rock formation.
Hideo Kojima, creator of the "Metal Gear Solid" videogames, 1998 onward, which
star the character Solid Snake, likes to hide images of those statues in his
games. And a little to the S of Verdant Meadows is a snake farm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_gear_solid
Some think the empty wheelchair at Fisher's Lagoon may suggest the wheel-
chairs, usually empty, in the 1st several "Silent Hill" games, 1999-2003, which,
like the "Metal Gear Solid" series, are also popular games sold by Konami. Use
"Edit" > "Find" with "wheelchair" at this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill
trikkstah, at GTA Forums, put a lot of speculation to rest by identifying that
wheelchair as the one seen by a dumpster in the 1st scene of Rockstar's game
"Manhunt," 2003, although the textures (.txd files) for it are different. The
"Manhunt" version is gray and the two big wheels have spokes, but the shape oth-
erwise is the same. He thinks the textures are from "Manhunt," too, because the
font for the writing on them ("SKIP HIRE," "3:30," and "2:30 PM" or "12:30 PM,"
along with some other numbers) is like font used in "Manhunt." The big wooden
spools by the dock say "Carcer," the city "Manhunt" takes place in.
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2608/00gta1wheelchairdaylight1cq.jpg
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6952/00gta1wheelchairtimes4zz.jpg
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/899/00gta1wheelchairspoolscarcer2n.jpg
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/3726/00gtasaawheelchairmanhunt7vu.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_%28video_game%29
(I still think it may be a kind of "Silent Hill" use of an abandoned wheel-
chair. GTA's rib popular games, and context is important. You put a guy with a
sore foot in that wheelchair in a post office, and it doesn't have the same mys-
tery.)
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
"Manhunt."
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.)
(Thanks to Wikipedia for this batch:
the lot with car crushers, etc., near Angel Pine, is the one used by the gang
called the Skins in "Manhunt";
Sprunk soft drink appeared in "Vice City" and "Manhunt" before "San Andreas";
and "San Andreas" stealth kills were developed during the making of "Man-
hunt.")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_(video_game)
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."
On the N side of the road N of the "D" of BAYSIDE MARINA," the white and or-
ange barricades that say "C-JS BARRICADES" are the ones used at the E end of the
Hyman Condo alley, and the alley by the V-ROCK building, in "Vice City." Sway-
4829 showed that the end credits for "San Andreas" give C-J Dick as an Interior
Environment Artist, probably the same person the "Vice City" booklet calls Map
Designer Campbell J. Dick.
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 saw mill in Angel Pine, Mogyle noticed, is shaped the same as the one in
Portland in "III."
ArturP at GTA Forums noticed that the interior of a Transfender mod garage has
a lot of the same interior features as Joey Leone's garage in Portland in "III."
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).
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,21721/
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/by_genre/developerId,21721/
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" hearse. (Tony's name might add to
the reason there was a reference to the director of "Night of the Living Dead,"
1968, George A. Romero.)
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,87509/
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,50593/
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,50055/
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,163633/
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,87658/
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,163910/
"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 partly embedded in a house in Fort Car-
son (on the N side of the SE block), and a Mower appears in a tree trunk in
Dillimore. (Thanks to xox_vanzant_xox and Cube623.)
On the W side of the Cluckin' Bell, N of the Johnson house in Los Santos, is
a telephone pole pedestrians appear from. Have C.J. stand where it says "RE-
SERVED" (part of "THESE SPACES ARE RESERVED FOR CUSTOMERS") in the parking lot
and look S at the pole. Another spot to watch from is by the little brick pile
E of the Tag that's above the porch roof of the shopping center S of the
Cluckin' Bell parking lot. The pedestrians appear about 15' up, slide down part
of the way, fall the rest, and keep walking. You can turn C.J. away and back to
help them spawn.
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. out of the park and have him turn E, a photo-
grapher appears by the road near the water to the right. They may be played by
one of various pedestrians. They appear to be thoughtfully surveying the scen-
ery for subjects for photos, take a couple photos, then they walk into the water
and drown.
Similar to the DMA (later Rockstar North) game "Lemmings," 1990, pedestrians,
seen from an alley in Las Venturas, will appear on the 3rd floor ledge of a
building and walk off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings
To see them, have C.J. go to the alley on the W side of Welding and Weddings,
which is on the SE section of the block that's W of "ISLE" of "THE EMERALD
ISLE," and go N in that 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 (by day, the upper W part of the building looks gray-blue with dark
gray-blue horizontal stripes).
If you have C.J. stand in the right several foot-wide spot, the pedestrians
appear on that corner of the ledge and walk off, falling out of view behind a
light gray wall. I've also seen some pedestrians appear and fly up to the
ledge 1st, then walk off, which is strange.
You might hear a scream as they fall, and maybe a crunching sound, possibly
followed by the sound of other pedestrians screaming and running away in a pan-
ic.
You can have C.J. zoom in on them with a Sniper Rifle scope or Camera, but you
get the best idea of what's happening there by having C.J. go up a bit with the
Jet Pack. It just looks like someone made a typo in programming the ped path
for the sidewalk below. Most of the ones that fall get up and walk away; I've
even seen some disappear into the side of the building before they hit the
ground.
The fuselage of the Hydra jet has "DMA56" printed on it.
In "Vice City," the Tourist Guide indicated that people couldn't survive the
deep water because of sharks. The shark wasn't employed for "San Andreas," but
the people in it other than C.J. still drown in water that's too deep to stand
in (except for, at least, Ryder in "Pier 69," and anyone that follows C.J. that
isn't required to use a specific type of vehicle; see I.7.c.). I think I've
figured out an explanation for it--even for the photographer by the Flint Inter-
section trailer park--you can use with confidence if it comes up on the Inter-
net game message boards: they don't swim. They lay forwards with their arms
down, and, of course, drown.
The question then becomes: "Why do they do that?" You look around for some-
thing in the game to explain it in the context of the world the game creates,
and I think it could be the chili dogs. They eat that heavy food just before
going in for a swim, and they develop a cramp. (The ones who walk off of the
roof of the Emerald Isle could be self-destructive, but they sound too surprised
to be doing it deliberately. I think someone may have just given a large party
of nearsighted new tenants the wrong directions to some part of the hotel or
such.) This segues pretty nicely into:
Mogyle, who's French, caught that the gimp in "Key to Her Heart" is named Ben-
ny, which is French for "la crampe," and the gimp in the 1993 movie "Pulp Fic-
tion" is called The Cramp. (Samuel L. Jackson plays Jules Winnfield in that.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction
(The pedestrians who jump into the path of C.J.'s vehicle could be disoriented
as a hypoglycemic reaction to the ice cream. Besides, "San Andeas" 24-7's sell
the "Vice City" Cherry Popper brand, and God only know what they put into that.)
On the S side of the 24-7 that's on the W side the block of "O" of "LITTLE
MEXICO," Los Santos, is one of 8 Ball's Bomb Shops. It works like the one in
Staunton in "GTA III." You can have C.J. drive a four-wheel (even an emergen-
cy) vehicle into it, which causes the vehicle to have a bomb with a timer in-
stalled in it. Press F or Enter while C.J. is in the vehicle to prime the eight
second or so timer, and have C.J. leg it.
The Welding and Weddings shop, mentioned eight paragraphs above, is a bomb
shop that works the same way.
ThouShaltBeToxic, at the GTA Forums section by Mxyzptlk and co., says the
problems of famous hacker (the actual illegal kind) 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
controversially held four years in prison without bail, trial, or charges listed
against him, that he could start a missile crisis by whistling into a telephone
and pressing a few numbers on the keypad. (The four years he was held was
counted towards the five years he got.)
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=174800&hl=controlling&st=1520
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/hackers/kevin-mitnick/
pdescobar adds that Emmanuel Goldstein (actually named Eric Corley, editor-
in-chief of "2600: The Hacker Quarterly," and writer, director, and producer of
the documentary about the Free Kevin movement: "Freedom Downtime," 1999) is a
radio caller in "III," "Vice City," and "San Andreas." In the Area 53 section
of WCTR, Emmanuel calls to say: "Hi, my name?s Emmanuel. I?m really worried
about hackers sending a nuclear bomb after me?-you know, through the phones. Do
you think they could pinpoint my location?"
According to United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan:
"2600: The Hacker Quarterly has included articles on such topics as how to
steal an Internet domain name, how to write more secure ASP code, access
other people's e-mail, secure your Linux box, intercept cellular phone
calls, how to put Linux on an Xbox, how to remove spyware, and break into
the computer systems at Costco stores and Federal Express...."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Corley
Frank Bernson wrote to me that "Emmanuel Goldstein" "...was the head of the
supposed 'Resistance' or 'Brotherhood' in the book '1984' by George Orwell. I
just thought you should know, because the Emmanuel Goldstein you mention was
only using that name as a pseudonym. It would appear to me that he chose this
moniker because he essentially was doing the same thing." Thank you to Frank
Bernson--I think that's interesting. It's a good ethical point (and a good
book). I read that book years ago, but I forgot about that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-files
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 the "The Fusilli Jerry" episode, April 27, 1995, of the TV sitcom
"Seinfeld."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld
http://frogstar.com/wav/tv-seinfeld.asp
There's an ad for Disgraceland Wedding Chapel on the ballpark scoreboard in
Las Venturas. There's a Disgraceland territory in "GTA2." (And Disgraceland
refers to Graceland, which was Elvis Presley's home. There's an Elvis gang in
"GTA2," and a code to create Elvis impersonators everywhere in "San Andreas.")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland
http://www.elvis.com/graceland/
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 Tenpenny and Pulaski, seems meant to reflect the "Rod-
ney" King beating by corrupt LA police men on 3/3/1991. The 4/29/1992 1st
judgement on the officers acquitted three, with jurors undecided about a fourth,
which created a shocked reaction that led, hours later, to the LA riots, which
left 53 people dead, over 7,000 people arrested, and created more than $1 bil-
lion in property damage.)
(The riots at the end of the game seems meant to reflect those LA riots, ex-
cept C.J. goes right to the source, although King's subsequent violence and
driving abuses make him about as likely a nominee for a good-guy hero, and scan-
dals involving some of the other LAPD officers seem to ring a bell with the GTA
officers, too.)
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/misc/rodney-king/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/bare.html
(On 8/16/1993, officers Koon and Powell were convicted of violating King's
civil rights and sentenced to 30 months in prison.)
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials24.htm
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/LAW/03/02/beating.anniversity.king.02/
A pedestrian in Los Santos looks like Trey in the movie "Boys N' the Hood,"
1991.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boyz_n_the_hood/
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menace_II_Society
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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Observatory
http://www.skylightweb.com/losangeles/gobservatorypan.html
Ryder looks like Easy-E, a rapper of NWA sometimes referred to as Easy. Den-
nis 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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Rider
Simon Rodia's Watts Towers (the Simon Rodia State Historical Park) of Los An-
geles are represented in Jefferson, Los Santos.
(Imageshack doesn't host pornography. Fair enough, but someone with sex juice
for brains must be in charge of censorship there. At 1st, I couldn't upload the
screen shot below of C.J. and his Jetpack on the Watts towers. Trying to 2nd
guess what the objection could possibly be and changing the title of the shot
before each upload attempt, I used MS Paint and blacked out the tip of the Jet-
pack handle, which was near his crotch, laughing to think it might be inter-
preted differently. But then I had to black out C.J.'s whole crotch area, then
changed his right foot, then covered up the gun in his right hand by making it
look like he's carrying a box. After about ten tries, I got it hosted there.)
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/4762/00gtasacj0fj.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Towers
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/watts/tower2.html
Some think one blonde lady pedestrian in a short white dress looks like Sharon
Stone as Catherine Tramell in the movie "Basic Instinct," 1992. (It must be the
blonde hair and white dress--her face isn't the same to me.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Instinct
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope
The Verona Beach outdoor gym looks like ones on Muscle Beach of Venice, Cali-
fornia. (Thanks to Macsandnines.) (GTW note: I'll guess that the canal that
goes N from between Verona and Santa Maria beaches is supposed to be similar to
one of the canals in Venice, CA.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_Beach
In San Fierro, the wreckage of some buildings seems to reflect the Oct.17,
1989 magnitude 7.1 earthquake that shook San Francisco. A destroyed section of
paved road along the N side of the onramp to the Garver Bridge reflects the dam-
age the quake did to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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. C.J. can enter
the building on the NE side. C.J. can enter those buildings on foot or on a two
wheel vehicle--if C.J. uses a motorcycle, he can take a passenger.
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
In San Fierro, in the "Downtown" that's E of "CHINA TOWN," there's a tall
building 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 imag-
inative 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.
(I dunno. In earlier GTA's, we had the letters just before them: B and J. I
know what they meant.)
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. Valentino used a
Honda NSR 500 in the 500cc class of motorcycle Grand Prix racing to come in 2nd
in 2000 and be the world champion in 2001.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentino_Rossi
http://www.dreamgate.ne.jp/nsr/pics/rossi500.html
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_fault
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, Gordon
Freeman, is popularly known to use a crowbar as one of his weapons, which Area
69 kids by displaying a red and white crowbar on a table in a lab room.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51
http://www.csicop.org/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi?q=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 with a Foreword by Carl Sagan. 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 be-
lievers 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 untrust-
worthy, serves neither of them any good, and that making money from that is a
form of stealing.)
http://members.shaw.ca/mjfinley/vondaniken.html
http://www.debunker.com/texts/vondanik.html
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/R/real_lives/daniken.html
http://skepdic.com/vondanik.html
http://www.csicop.org/si/7601/daniken.html
http://www.rotten.com/library/imagery/nazca-lines/
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/mad-science/erich-von-daniken/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%E4niken
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/pseudobibprint.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Gods_Revealed
(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.)
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
The Li'l Probe Inn is like The Little A'Le'Inn (as in "the little alien") in
Rachel, Nevada (near Area 51). The Li'l Probe Inn and Toreno's cabin each con-
tain a map with markers. The map seems meant to reflect that UFO-watchers and
secret agents like Mike Toreno would regard certain locations with a signifi-
cance unknown to the rest of us.
http://www.littlealeinn.com/
http://users.tkk.fi/~jlakkako/winter_vacation/little_ale_inn.jpg
http://unifiedworlds.com/LittleAleInn.jpg
(Some have wondered if the blinking light that leaves a trail across the sky,
as in "Vice City," is meant as a UFO. I go along with the ones who think you're
supposed to imagine it as a jet flying across the stratosphere. It goes kind of
fast, but some of our jets are fast, and the evidence of the combustion techno-
logy we're familiar with for getting across shorter distances and that leaves a
trail isn't an indication of an advanced kind needed for getting across the cos-
mos. If the idea of an alien origin for it is arbitrarily imaginable, there's
no compelling reason to think so beyond that.)
(If you manage to get close enough to see that it's just a corona of light and
try to imagine what that would be in real life, it could be some kind of testing
device being blown along in a high wind current. Again, the idea of an alien
origin would be arbitrary, not compelling. But I think you're supposed to ima-
gine it as a high flying jet seen from ground level.)
(There have been many fans who wondered if the rumors about a Sasquatch or Ye-
ti monster, Bigfoot, are kidded by Rockstar with an actual monster in the wil-
derness. There is a Monster truck S of the Flint Intersection, and Bigfoot is
the name of the original Monster truck.)
(Thanks to a post by MrSmiles888 at the Gamefaqs message boards.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot_%28truck%29
http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/
(Here's the most famous film alleged to be of the nearly human, hairy-type
Bigfoot. The shakiness has been stabilized and reveals the gait of a guy in a
monkey suit.)
http://www.bigfootencounters.com/files/mk_davis_pgf.gif
(Despite nobody bringing to light the live or dead body of a Bigfoot animal,
those determined to look for the creature in a game might like "Sam and Max Hit
the Road," 1993.)
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/sam-max-hit-the-road/
http://top100.ign.com/2005/061-070.html
http://www.samandmax.net/
Adding to the similarity of the Garver and Kincaid bridges to ones in Scot-
land, mentioned below, lucho writes that a lot of the license plates in the game
are Scottish or Scottish football-related. "Amato, Gazza, McCoist all played
for" the "Rangers, which, going by previous games cheats ('9inarow' for exam-
ple), are the team of R*'s choice. 'BAW BAG'" (the license plate of an imported
Journey) "is also a Scottish derogatory term. This also applies to some of the
horses in the betting shops, e.g. 'Henrik's Jaw,'" since "Scottish footballing
legend Henrik Larsson had his jaw smashed in a tackle by an opposition player."
http://www.rangers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Home/0,,5,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Larsson
http://www.henriklarsson.com/index.php?channel=1
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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
Thanks to ogf_ak for the names of these casinos:
Pink Swan The Flamingo Hotel and Casino.
(The lighting outside the Pink Swan resembles the lights that look like the
plumes of a flamingo over the entrance of the Flamingo since 1972.)
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4418/00gta1flamingoneon6mk.jpg
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3772/00gta1flamingo1ex.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_Hotel
Caligula's Caesar's Palace Casino and Resort.
(I noticed it also features a copy of the Caesar's Palace copy of the statue
Winged Victory.)
(For the 1st link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the
address bar.)
http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/nevada/las-vegas/caesars-pal
ace.php
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6791/s0fo.jpg
http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/2126/00gta1caligulas14fa.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3182/00gta1caligulas23ae.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Palace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace
Four Dragons The Four Queens Hotel and Casino (similar in name, not
appearance--likewise, Franco Dragone)
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/4559/00gta1fourqueens21hk.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Dragone
Come-a-lot The Excalibur Hotel and Casino.
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3696/00gta1excalibur7sp.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_Hotel_and_Casino
The Visage The Mirage Hotel and Casino.
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3714/00gta1miragehotel4yr.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirage
Pirates in Men's Pants Treasure Island Hotel and Casino (and the Gilbert and
Sullivan operetta "The Pirates of Penzance," 1879).
http://www.ankylosaur.com/defcon/treasureisland.html
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/8391/00gta1treasureisland5nq.jpg
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3929/00gta1treasureislandpirate1320.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island_Hotel_and_Casino
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)
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9920/00gta1circus2rg.jpg
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/3992/00gta1circuscircussx9wv.jpg
ice cold killa adds that "clown's pocket" is a derogatory sexual euphemism
(referring to a homosexual male or a heterosexual female) based on the idea that
clowns wear baggy clothes with big baggy pockets.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clown+pocket
matt27689 recognized that the red and orange "SOUVENIRS GIFTS T-SHIRTS" sign,
seen across the street from the Vegas Vic-looking depiction of Avery Carring-
ton, looks identical to the sign that Vegas Vic currently stands on. (There's
more about Vegas Vic in the last section of I.1.)
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.
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5839/00gta1fourqueens2hl.jpg
********
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 (I think fonz808 means the save house NE of
Madd Dogg's place) looks basicly like Pierre Koenig's 1960 house called House
No. 22, aka the Stahl House.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/slide/koenig/008/008Km.jpg
http://www.jetsetmodern.com/koenigarticle.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Koenig
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 Los Santos. (There's more on that in my segment near the end of
this section.)
The Big Pointy building looks like the Transamerican Pyramid. (It's on the
block E of the one with "AL" of "FINANCIAL.")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transamerica_Pyramid
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%27s_Donuts
(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://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5387/00gta1graumanschinese4ff.jpg
http://www.seeing-stars.com/Theatres/ChineseTheatre.shtml
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/280/schinesewalkoffametypeplace4eg.jpg
The Los Santos City Hall building looks like Los Angeles City Hall.
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/7811/00gta1lacityhall0xq.jpg
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/1007/00gta1cityhalllosangeles1zc.jpg
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.)
http://www.seeing-stars.com/Landmarks/CapitolRecords.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welton_Becket
The Los Santos Conference Center looks like The Los Angeles Convention Center,
where The Electronic Entertainment Expo is held. (Thanks to yensed.)
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/805/00gta1conventioncenter6uo.jpg
The San Fierro building with window lights that spell "C" and "K," mentioned
earlier, looks like the Bank of America Center in San Francisco. (Thanks to
krackhead80s.) Some think it refers to "C"esar and "K"endle, and Mokiesmoky
thinks it may refer to the "CoK" cigarette pack found on the floor by Cluckin'
Bell cashiers. Ice cold killa, in turn, thinks "CoK Filters" refers to condoms.
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/4872/00gta1bankofamerica0zg.jpg
The Vinewood Walk of Fame (by the Cathay building) is like the Hollywood one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_of_fame
http://www.hollywoodusa.co.uk/walkoffame.htm
The Sherman Dam is like the Hoover Dam.
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/6504/00gta1hooverdamgenerators7co.jpg
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8758/00gta1hooverdamstatue5ey.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Fabulous_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 Gibson
flying V guitar on the roof.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Rock_Hotel_and_Casino
http://www.fender.com/home.php
http://www.gibson.com/
The name of the Hippy Shopper store is like the Happy Shopper line of foods,
also some shops, in the U.K.. (Thanks to martinson-line.) (It's on the W side
of the block N of "HASH" of "HASHBURY.")
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7650/00gta1happyshopper3ao.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Shopper
Rodeo in Los Santos looks like Rodeo Drive. (Thanks to vivatforx.)
http://www.piaggio.ccii.unipi.it/~pallottino/RodeoDr.htm
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/3366/00gta1rodeodrive5ma.jpg
A recent "Jeopardy" TV show interpreted Glen Park as being like MacArthur Park
(similar bridge or strip of land over a pond, location, and ethnic group) and
the Los Santos Forum and nearby highway as like Sunset Boulevard and Pacific
Coast Highway. (Thanks to Mokiesmoky.)
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/5425/00gta1macarthurpark8mr.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9862/00gta1pacificcoasthighway5vq.jpg
The Avispa Country Club looks similar to the Olympic Golf Club on the SE edge
of San Francisco. (The 1st photo is by Arnold Palmer.)
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/3277/00gta1olympicgolfclubphotobyar.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Club
http://www.dbonnell.com/golf.htm
Esplanade East in NE San Fierro is like the Embarcadero, which is a water
front. (Thanks to thedudley.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero%2C_San_Francisco
http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrhds/Embarcadero.html
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.)
http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/4230/00gta1bigstoney0ii.jpg
Thanks to -La-RaZa, who came up with a whole batch to thank for (although the
"Haight" part of "Haight-Ashbury" is disputed; I supplemented the information
where I could):
Los Santos Los Angeles
http://you-are-here.com/info/map.html
http://map.cartifact.com/CARTIFACT/DTLA/DTLA4.HTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_angeles
Ganton Compton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%2C_California
Idlewood Inglewood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglewood%2C_California
Willow Field Willowbrook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook%2C_California
East Los Santos East LA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_L.A.
Vinewood Hollywood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood
Mulholland Beverly Hills
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills%2C_California
Santa Maria beach Santa Monica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica
Las Colinas El Monte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Monte
Glen Park Morningside Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morningside_Park
Palomino Creek Palmdale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmdale
(Downtown Downtown Los Angeles)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Los_Angeles
San Fierro San Francisco
http://www.virtuar.com/ysf2/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_francisco
Easter Basin Naval Docks Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5673/00gta1hunterspointnavalshipyar.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunters_Point
Chinatown Chinatown (lol)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown%2C_San_Francisco
Hashbury Haight-Ashbury
http://www.rockument.com/links.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight-Ashbury
Queens Castro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castro
Paradiso Presidio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_of_San_Francisco
Juniper Hollow Pacific Heights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Heights%2C_San_Francisco%2C_California
Las Venturas Las Vegas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lasvegas/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas
Blackfield Spring Valley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Valley%2C_NV
Rockshore Henderson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson%2C_Nevada
Redsands Paradise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise%2C_Nevada
Roca Escalante Winchester
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester%2C_Nevada
Prickle Pine Sunrise Manor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_Manor%2C_NV
KACC Military Fuels (Nellis) Air Force base
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base
(The Strip The Strip)
http://www.oldvegaschips.com/lasvegasmap.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Strip
Thanks to D-D-R, who thinks E Los Santos is more like W LA, Glen Park is more
like MacArthur Park and similarly located, although Morningside Park also looks
very similar, and Grove Street could be Martin Luther King Boulevard (or "The
Jungle" as some in CA call it), Crenshaw Boulevard, or La Brea Street.
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Reader Wolfie2k5 gets my thanks for telling me he recognized these similari-
ties:
Interglobal Film Studios (in both "San Andreas" and "Vice City") has a water
tower like the one of Warner Brothers studios,
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/7/00gta1warnerbrosstudioswaterto.jpg
http://www2.warnerbros.com/main/homepage/homepage.html
The tallest building, the one with a Parachute on top, in Los Santos (it's at
the oval NW of the pretzel-looking intersection that's S of Mulholland Intersec-
tion)--the U.S. Bank Tower, aka the Library Tower (formerly the First Interstate
World Center),
http://www.pcf-p.com/a/p/8316/s.html
http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/US/CA/LosAngelesLibraryTower.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Tower
Santa Maria pier--Santa Monica pier (the "...SPORT FISHING BOATING...." sign
over the start of the road leading down to it is about identical except it
doesn't have "Santa Monica" on the top; Santa Monica pier has more amusement
rides),
http://www.santamonicapier.org/
http://www.westland.net/piercam/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_Pier
The High Roller--Bally's Las Vegas (similar columns lit blue at night, moving
sidewalks, and elevators),
http://www.las-vegas-hotel-tours.com/ballys-hotel.php
http://www.rtldlightyears.com/images/ballysblue.jpg
http://www.vegas.com/resorts/ballys2/
The round tower, covered with windows, with four shorter such towers surround-
ing it, S of the right side of the "A" of the big "LOS SANTOS" letters (it has a
bridge to the E to the Atrium)--the Bonaventure Hotel,
http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk/new/bona.html
http://www.seeing-stars.com/Hotels/Bonaventure.shtml
Starfish Casino--the Barbary Coast,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Coast_%28hotel_and_casino%29
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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.
http://www.parkives.com/famous_union.html
http://www.westworld.com/~elson/larail/laus.html
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9898/00gtasacjbyunitystation3jx.jpg
The little baseball field in NW Las Venturas is like minor (Pacific Coast)
league ball park Cashman Field, which is N of the main casino area.
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5447/00gta1cashmanfield0fc.jpg
http://www.minorleagueballparks.com/cash_nv.html
Thanks to reader fonz808 for writing that there are similarities between the
Los Angeles and Los Santos wall paintings of a Madonna.
As mentioned near the start of this section, in Los Santos there is a wall
painting with a heart, Mary, an angel, and the words "Jesus Saves." Flame-
colored symbolism of holiness emanates from Mary, who wears a robe, with the
hood over her head, that's blue with white stars. It shows her from the up-
per torso and up.
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8360/00gta1jesussavessign9vl.jpg
Several outdoor murals in LA show something similar, particularly a couple of
them.
http://home.att.net/~rpmurals/virgin.html
The most similar depiction of Mary, and relevant to overall context, to me is
the traditional depiction of a Madonna and child with an angel nearby on an
outer wall of St. Lucy's Catholic Church in Los Angeles. The depiction of Mary
is part of a mural called "El Tepeyac de Los Angeles" by George Yepes. Mary is
contrasted with a similar image of a Latina mother cradling her slain gang mem-
ber son. "El Tepeyac" is a holy site in Mexico where a 17th century campesino
(Spanish for "farmer") allegedly had a vision of a brown-skinned Virgin Mary.
http://www.grconnect.com/murals/html/pc261069.html
http://www.lamurals.org/MuralFiles/ELA/Tepeyac.html
The middle of the church, and the cross symbol it uses, have shapes similar to
the church and cross symbol (placed differently) in Jefferson, Los Santos, that
has a Rockstar symbol near the top of the stained glass.
A San Fierro church, below the "DO" of the "DOWNTOWN" of N San Fierro, looks
like Grace cathedral.
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/9978/00gta1gracecathedral9rk.jpg
http://www.gracecathedral.org/
http://www.nobhillassociation.org/GC.asp
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/5965/00gta1gracechurch1d9jv.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/2070/00gta1gracechurch2d7ul.jpg
I suppose this is kind of obvious, but I don't see it come up much: I think
the reason the name "San Andreas" was picked may be because it's cracked. I
don't mean the illicit smoke, although that's not an unlikely thought, either.
Wu zi, allegedly blind but able to drive a race car, was preceded by the "Vice
City" black fellow who pretended to be blind but could get around without a
guide dog or cane, and could fight and drive.
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/65/00gta1faggiovcblindguydrives6s.jpg
"San Andreas" has a follow-up to the "Come to Dundee...." billboard of "Vice
City." It's on the roof of the Vinyl Countdown at the intersection N of the N
corner of the block that's NE of the "EO" of "RODEO." It says, "Let's go to
Dundee!! The care in the community...." (I can't make out the last word. The
phrase sounds like a Community Care program slogan to me.).
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7535/00gta1dundeesa4jy.jpg
If you have C.J. stand on the bridge just N of the Cluckin' Bell that's S of
the Johnson house and look S at the yellow pawn shop, you can see a woman, shown
from about waist up, with brown hair and a red dress. She's in the rectangle-
shaped indentation on the near yellow wall (in the screen shot at the link be-
low, she's just above the oval-shaped reticle of the Camera viewfinder).
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/9239/00gta1wtf100gj.jpg
If you have C.J. go to the S end of the bridge, or zoom in with the Camera,
she's covered over with a lighter or darker color than the wall.
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/8206/00gta1wtf129df.jpg
The Rocket Launcher gimmick that let you see through walls in the last two
GTA's doesn't work in "San Andreas," so I don't know how to get a closer look.
USS Numnutz: I think the name of the submarine at the coast of Esplanade East,
San Fierro, may be a pun on the name of Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz,
who helped design and served in submarines during much of his early naval ca-
reer, was the United States signatory to the surrender terms aboard the battle-
ship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay at the end of WW II, and was active in San Fran-
cisco community affairs in the last years of his life.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq36-4.htm
http://www.gta-series.com/it/sanandreas/segreti/eastereggs/012.jpg
The Big Ear looks like one of the 27 antennas of the Very Large Array on the
Plains of San Augustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, fifty miles W
of Socorro, New Mexico. Thanks to Leatherface:
http://www.gta-sanandreas.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6395&st=40
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array
I'll add that the name "The Big Ear" is taken from the Big Ear Radio Observa-
tory, which is aka Ohio State University Radio Observatory (OSURO). The Observ-
atory 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).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street%2C_San_Francisco
The license plate of the 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).
http://www.jackielomax.com/story.html
(For no reason but the name similarity, I wonder if "Las Venturas" is a tie-in
with the 1960's, etc., instrumental rock group The Ventures; did they play Vegas
a lot?) (If it weren't for them popularizing Mosrite guitars, there might never
have been the cherry red, hollow-body electric Mosrite Celebrity my Mom bought
me for a graduation present.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ventures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosrite
http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/9915/00gta1mosritefront7yv.jpg
http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/6366/00gta1mosritehead4rd.jpg
At the SE side of the block W of "MARKET" is a store called "Zu-Zu's Petals,"
which are what George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) was glad to find were still in the
pocket of the nightgown of his youngest daughter, Zuzu Bailey (Karolyn Grimes),
near the end of the 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life."
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2779/00gta1zuzuspetals7vc.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/
Mt. Chiliad looks like....? I vote for El Capitan, aka Agathla Peak in Nava-
jo, just S of beautiful Monument Valley, Arizona, which director John Ford
showed off in movies including "Stagecoach," 1939, "My Darling Clementine,"
1946, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," 1949, and "The Searchers," 1956. Some of
"Easy Rider," 1969, was filmed there, too.
http://imagesoftheworld.org/GrandCircle/capitan.html
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/6119/00gta1elcapitan9cm.jpg
http://amandajane.org/Album/navajo_nation/
The rock arch on the left, in nearby Grand Circle, Arizona and Utah, shown in
the web site below, looks like the one W of Verdant Meadows.
http://www.imagesoftheworld.org/GrandCircle/GC.htm
The Area W of Las Venturas is like Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
It's about 12 miles W of Las Vegas, can be seen from The Strip, and features
Keystone Thrust--large sandstone peaks and walls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rock_Canyon_National_Conse