Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas/Frequently Asked Questions: Difference between revisions

* '''[http://www.gtasanandreas.net/sam/ SAM]''': This map shows the location of every parked vehicle, weapon, tag, horseshoe, oyster, snapshot, enterable building, and much more. Go to that page and wait for the java applet to load (2-3 seconds), then either check off what you are looking for on the right, or press "Select All." If you are looking for something specific, click on "Set Filter" and type in the name (or first few letters) and press enter. To zoom in or out, press the + or - buttons. To save the map, click on "External Link" and copy the contents of the box that appears. That link will point to your "saved" map.

Do the health cheat (on the PS2: R1, R2, L1, X, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP)  so you will get health,armour and money.

If you wish to actually kill the perpetrators, but want an advantage, there is another trick. Break into the '''east''' side of Area 69 in Los Venturas, by using a jetpack (from nearby Verdant Meadows Airport), or by breaking down the breakable fence at the south end of this area (this is not recommended, as leaving this fence intact means the ouside law enforcement that shows up can not reach you). Take the [[Grand_Theft_Auto:_San_Andreas/Vehicles/Rhino|Rhino]] tank, which allows you to run vigilante missions via R3. You now have a five star wanted level from entering the area, so drive the tank out through the breakable fence, and take it north to Verdant Meadows. Park it ouside the building and save- it will be there when you exit the building. Then, run the vigilante missions right there at Verdant Meadows (you'll likely end up chasing people into Las Venturas)- the Rhino is almost impossible to damage, it destroys vehicles with one good hit, and it carries a massige gun that can be operated with the right stick and L1. However, be careful not to let the perps (or police if you get a wanted level from firing the big gun) climb onto the tank and pull you out- because of its size, someone that manages to get onto the tank can not be knocked off from speed, swerving, etc.

You can also get the gate to trigger opening by combinations of looking and slamming hard against the gate while running.  Apparently, the game occasionally gets confused about your "current location" and thinks you're inside the gate already but wanting it to open so you can get out, and opens the gate for you.  This trick is handy if you want to drive your vehicle inside the fence. Or just use the car flying cheat and fly across the gate.(sqare,down,L2,up,L1,circle,up,x,left).

In San Fiero, you can enter Easter Bay Airport by jumping a car or motorcycle in from a nearby road: To the southeast of the airport, just outside the city, there's a tunnel through the mountains. From that tunnel, any ground vehicle with enough speed can shoot out and over the cliff edge, landing on or among some hangars at the airport. A motorcycle is best since you'll have to dodge traffic a little to make the jump. If you do this before you have your pilot's license, though, the selection of useable aircraft will be limited to a Maverick helicopter near the hangars where you land. All other aircraft on the grounds will still be locked.

After the second addition to your gang, the "Gang Strength" bar appears onscreen and will fill with a green segment for each new addition. If a gang member dies the bar decreses with a red segment.

It can be difficult to tell on the map, but you might have noticed different shades of green for some territorites that you "own". The shades vary all the way from light green to grey (which is hard to see). The greyer shades of green mean that you don't exclusively own the territory, and you will still find members of other gangs in the territory, who may still attack.

The medium density is a measure of the current medium through which you are travelling (e.g. air or water), but I don't believe it's taken into account, since none of the vehicles are designed to travel underwater. Perhaps one of the cheats that lets you drive an ordinary vehicle underwater might take this into account, but I haven't checked.

X is used to move, but where you move depends on the thruster's position. Push and hold the right stick back to move the thrusters foward so you can fly foward. Push it forward to make the thrusters point downward so you can hover. (Note that you have to ''hold'' the stick in place for a few seconds: otherwise, the thrusters only move part of the way.) Left stick to move. hold R1 to target and when the target thing turns red, hit L1 to fire missile that will seek the target out. If you are under attack, press O to launch countermeasures, which attract heat-seaking missiles. Press R3 to retract or to extend the landing gear.

The text appears just before the graphics and beep. It's only out of synch by about a second or so, so only a really quick and stingy trigger finger (or a paint shortage) will leave it unfinished.

*Another solution which has been known to work (it did for me!) is to have CJ dressed in clothes as well as all accessories i.e. hat, sunglasses, watch, chain and of course, shoes. Then save your game with him dressed like this, I also suggest walking outside of the house/building and walking back in. Then go into the wardrobe and remove everything so he is JUST wearing his boxers. As soon as you walk out of the wardrobe, save your game again. Now try the gym, like i said to my supprise it worked!! For me the exact location where I saved and changed clothes was the house on Santa-Maria beach, and the gym I used was the outdoors one, east of the house on the beach, although I'm not sure that the exact location matters? I also heard that to avoid it happening again, never work out to the amount that it tells you "you've worked out enough for today...". Good Luck!!!!

**[edit]I actually found that this did not completely fix the problem and every time I went into one of my houses, changed clothes, or rode a train the glitch would return. However, I vagely remembered it was only  after I went to the "Below the belt" gym in Las Venturas and learnt the new moves did I get the glitch in the first place....so...I went back to the gym in Los Santos to learn the original moves and since then I havent had the glitch!! [/edit]

*To clear the memory card write error, save your current game (the one you wish to fix) if you need to. Go to your main game menu and reload a previous save where you know the gym was accessable. In the previously saved game, go to the gym and work out until the "You have worked out enough..." message appears, then leave the gym, go to a save point and save the game again, preferrably to an empty save slot, or one past the game you wish to fix. (DO NOT OVERWRITE THE CURRENT SAVE YOU WISH TO FIX. YOU WILL LOOSE ALL OF YOUR PROGRESS!)Once this is done, go back to your main menu and reload the game save you are trying to fix. Go to a gym and try to work out to see if it worked, then save the fixed game. This stops the save error cycle by re-entering the missing data.

Some models of the Xbox will give scratched-disc errors, but with a completely different cause. Some of the Xbox DVD drive brands have trouble keeping up with data synching because the game constantly streams data from the disc (instead of at the beginning of each map as in linear games).

The dots do not point out anything significant. They do not point out UFOs, they do not point out aliens, bigfoot, or any other phenomenon. They do NOT point out the locations of beat-up Glendales ("Ghost Cars"). Below is a link to the location of beat-up Glendales, and you can see clearly that the dots do not correlate. If you'll notice on the walls, there are pictures of UFOs all over, and this is meant to be a typical HQ of a UFO hunter. It's likely that R* meant for this to be a map of UFO sightings that whoever used this room had pinned up to make his/her searching easier. You can count on the fact that if you visit these locations, you will not find anything special. Plenty of gamers, many much more determined than you, have tried before you and failed. The map is decoration and ambience, nothing more.

They are not UFOs, and that's all I can tell you. I'll preempt all the semantic tards who will come and say "A UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object, and those are unidentified." Ok, then I'll clarify what I mean to you all, they are not "Alien UFOs," but out of lazyness, I'm going to say just "UFO." These balls of light are nothing random, rare, or special. When you see one, stop and wait for a few hours (in-game) and you'll see the same ball of light moving along the same path a little later. What could they be? Planes. Just like in Vice City, they are planes that leave vapour trails. For reasons unknown (probably shoddy development practices) R* did not apply models to these lights, so no matter how close you get, they still look like just lights. If you want to think of them as UFOs, that's cool, but if we're applying realism to this game, then what leaves vapour trails, has blinking lights, and flies in a regular, scheduled pattern? Planes. They may actually be leftovers from Vice City's code, but I can't remember if those planes had models or not.