Version 56t
Glenster's Guide to Some of Vice City
Oriented for the PC version
with Standard Controls and Mouse Controlled Steering
by Glen T. Winstein (glenster1 at Gamefaqs and IGN, and glenster at Super
Cheats, StuckGamer, neoseeker, 1UP, My Cheats, GamerHelp, Game Revolution, Game-
Border, and Gamesradar)
glenster (who's at) rediffmail.com
This walk-through, with active links for the web addresses I use, is at:
http://www.freewebs.com/glenster1/index.htm
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.
While you're there, you might want see if you find any useful information
in "Glenster's Guide to GTJ Brooklyn," which is also at the next link:
http://gtw6437.tripod.com/
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CONTENTS
Introduction, credits, and personal indulgences.
I.1 Prelude to a prequel
Some background information about the intro to Vice City.
I.2 Paying tributes, references, or at least having things in common
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,"
Al Capone--"Scarface,"
"The Untouchables" starring Robert De Niro as Al Capone,
"Scarface" by "Armitage Trail" (Maurice Coons), Paul Muni, and Al Pacino,
the "Vice City"/"Scarface" (with Al Pacino) similarities,
"Cop Land," "No Escape," "Blow," Pablo Escobar, "Carlito's Way,"
"The Godfather," "Goodfellas," "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," Martin Scorsese,
Tiger Cabs, "Blue Thunder," Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino,
Joanna Taylor, Robert De Negro, "Heat," "Manhunter," "Miami Vice," "Manhunt,"
"The Sopranos," "Nice Dreams," John Wayne, "Easy Rider," "Speed," "Boogie
Nights," "To Live and Die in L.A.," George Romero, "Lady Frankenstein,"
"Miami Vice," Miss Cleo, the Psychic Friends Network,
wiccans, selling witchcraft as a way to get practical help from spirits,
the Lunar Landing Hoax hoax,
Phil Silvers, Andy Kaufman, "Top Gun," "Iron Eagle," Iron Maiden,
"Spycatcher," Frank Sinatra, "Disco Inferno," Rambo, "The Final Countdown,"
"Driving Miss Daisy,"
Game makers and voice actors, soundalike game names, celebrity soundalikes
(Walter Brennan, etc.), more funny things pedestrians say,
Captain Scott and Dundee, Scotland, look-alike mall and soundalike island,
Little Havana, Little Haiti, and Liberty City--Miami,
and other places "Vice City" is based on
I.3 How to go to New York and get there a couple years before you leave:
some of the "Grand Theft Auto III" tie-ins with "Vice City."
People and the Dodo
Places
Things
Walk out over thin air (hoo-ha!)
Darkel and discarded game ideas
PS: "San Andreas," "GTA," "Wild Metal Country," and "GTA 2"
I.4 PC health.
Clean your disk, disk player, and PC
Get your hard drive clean and in order
Use the latest updates
Turn off unnecessary applications before running the game
and use one processor core
Take-Two Games web site and support
Tweak guides
Volume
A cure for crackling noises with reverb
System requirements
I.5 How to save games and things to avoid when you do.
The convenience of copies of your GTA Vice City User File
Some advice about saving the game
A checklist for 100% completion
I.6 Settings
I.7 Stats
Including how long a day in the game really is,
what Wanted Stars Attained and Evaded is about
(and why times of stress are the worst times to shop for clothes),
whose heads are tallied for Head Shots,
why you shouldn't worry about Daily Police Spending
or your percentage of Accuracy for Bullets Fired/Bullets That Hit,
who the Gang members and Criminals are,
the difference between Unique and Insane Jumps,
how to mod the game to make it recognize Quadruple Insane Jumps,
the ratings given for Flight hours,
and the CRiminal Ratings and Highest media attention levels
(and the easiest ways to raise them).
I.8.A Some distinctions between the PC and PS2 versions,
and some distinctions between
the PC Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering
and PC Classic Controls versions.
I.8.b Adapters for PS2 and Xbox controllers
Gamepad controls
I.9 Controls--basic information
The Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering/W, S, A, D format
Some controls that are good to use on foot, while using any vehicle,
or just anytime you're enjoying the show
Going up without gaining altitude
I.9.A On Foot
Controls
Running
(Hi)jacking vehicles except boats, Rhinos, and Hunters
Harder punches and faster attacks with the Left Mouse Button
Punching to work up an appetite,
punching your neighbors to get to know them,
and punching for a Good Citizen bonus
LMB throwing, shooting, and taking photographs
Aiming with the whole Mouse, not just part of it, and auto-aim
Bouncing a beach ball off Tommy's head.
I.9.B Four-wheel Vehicles
Controls for four-wheel vehicles
Some notable things about the four-wheel vehicles
Driving indoors
Locations of the secret Caddy, Cheetah, Voodoo, BF Injection, Packer, and
the gang car with a Teddy Bear
How to put your convertible roof or Teddy Bear up or down, change the things
you can find in delivery trucks, and make other quick vehicle changes with
instant replays
Bus driver income and bus "routes"
Police cars: safe collisions and spike strip-proof tires
Securicars
The Cabbie Climb
Fast and complimentary Pay 'n' Sprays
Chauffeured rides
The Rhino--how to hijack it, save it, and destroy it
(rampage with it--see I.32; and fly it--see I.9.D)
Two-Wheelers and one-railers
A run down of all the four-wheel vehicles
including the real names for most, and top speeds for all,
of the four-wheeled vehicles
Good/distinctive two-door vehicles
Good/cute little vehicles
Good/distinctive four-door cars
Emergency and military vehicles
Others
I.9.C Motorcycles
Controls for the PCJ 600 (or the place of wheelship of your choice)
Getting a good look at Tommy
A run down of all the motorcycles
including the real names and top speeds of the motorcycles
Some notable things about the motorcycles
Fast and complimentary Pay 'n' Sprays
Wheelies
Wheelies for jumps
Stoppies
The 360 degree Stoppie
The flip gimmick
The PC Super Jump
The BSM
Airgrabs
Headers
Half pipe stunts
Climbing and jumping from trees
Hitting poles
Wallrides
Bumps
Grinds
Stunt videos
A bunch of jumps that are often overlooked
Insane Jumps and Insane Stunts
Morphing
Controls for Tommy morphed to a bike
Outfit locations
Some favorite spots for big Insane Jump statistics
I.9.D Helicopters, the Skimmer, the jets, and the flying Rhino
The worst criminal destruction in Vice City
Controls for the helicopters
A run down of all the helicopters
including the real names and speeds of the helicopters
and how many passengers Tommy can take in each of them for rides
Some notable things about the helicopters
The game physics of following helicopters with the "camera"
and moving them forward with NP9
Bailing from helicopters
Getting a good look at the big guy
Controls for The Skimmer
The real names and speeds of the Dodo and the Skimmer
Loop de loops
Flying the Skimmer upside down
Dodo emeritus
Dodo ephemeralis
The real names of the solid motionless jets
The real name of the solid, motionless lunar module
The real name of the solid, motionless UFO
The real (and handling.cfg) names of the flying non-solid vehicles
How to (hi)jack the Hunter
How to fly the Rhino
I.9.E Boats
Controls for the boats
Special concerns for embarking and disembarking
A run down of all the boats
including the real names of some, and top speeds of all, of the boats
Some notable things about the boats
"Miami Vice" boats
(Hi)jacking boats
Boat jumps
How to fly a speed boat
Battleship
I.9.F General vehicle information
Healing vehicles with "aspirine," garages, and Pay 'n' Sprays
Keeping vehicles from disappearing
Handling
Bailing
Donuts
Drive-bys
Picking up prostitutes
Fast switch to the MP3 station
Sometimes the people in this town are just too weird dept.
I.9.G How to go to Ghost World and the Underworld
The WK Chariot Hotel
Apartment 3C
The Pole Position Club
The Washington Beach Police Station
Ring_of_Fire's way to make interior graphics load in Ghost World
Let me see Ghost World--I've got a Bazooka here
The Lithjoe's Trainer Jetpack (No Clip) Way to Visit Ghost World
Getting to Ghost World with a BF Injection
The Ocean Beach Triangle
Going Nowhere Fast
Taking your Time About It
The Ocean View of Ghost World
Ghost World Headquarters, Airport, and Map
Ghosts in 2D
Ghost Barriers in Alleys
Ghost World and Gaming: Flying and Biking
Driving a Blown-Up Car
Driving a Ghost on a PCJ 600
Ghost Beach Ball Soccer
"I never drink...wine"
Diaz, the Invisible Man
You can have it--arsenal
I.10 Weapons
One possible combination
Weapon advice
A rundown of all the weapons (including fast Chainsaw attacks,
and, for the Sniper rifle, a seagull hunting guide),
the real names of the weapons,
and some history for most of them
8 Ball's Bomb Shop
I.11 Armor, Police Bribe, Health, and Adrenaline pickups
I.12 Wanted Ratings
What happens at each wanted level
What to do about wanted ratings
Things any major fugitive should know
I.13 Odds and Ends
Ambient sounds
The WK Chariot Hotel
Interacting with your town
Huh? What?
Marine world
A few exploration duds
Strange but fun--that's the important thing
Creative plugging
WTF screen shots
I.14 Glitches
Stats glitches
The Havana Outfit glitch
Persistent slow motion stunts
The bomb detonator glitch
The Hyman Condo and Cherry Popper glitches
Rampage 13 and Knocking Off Stores
I.15 Radio
A rundown of the stations
How to have your own MP3 station
How to hear Lazlow's Chatterbox FM from "GTA III" in "Vice City"
Toll free phone numbers
I.16 Codes
Some basic advice
Some favorite codes: aspirine, bigbang, chasestat, seaways,
comeflywithme, istilllikedressingup, chickswithguns, fannymagnet,
certaindeath, hopingirl, the weather codes, gripiseverything,
airship
HUD (heads up display) codes
Game speed codes
Lead player codes
Vehicle spawning codes
Traffic codes
Three codes that make you start a new game to get rid of them
if you save the game after using them
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I.17 The initial main story missions
The advantages of doing all the side missions you can do for now
that you need to do for 100% completion,
and of getting to the mainland/west island,
Starfish Island, and Leaf Links
earlier than normal people.
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I.17.A "In the beginning...."
I.17.B "An Old Friend"
I.17.C "The Party" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
Main missions continued at I.33.
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I.18 Getting past the barricades and locked gates and back
Going to the west island early
...by PCJ 600 and a Packer,
...by Coach/Enforcer/Firetruck/station wagon and a boat,
...by jumping off a bridge or through a gate and using a boat,
...by PCJ 600 alone,
...and by using a code, codes, or a mod
Stealing money from parking meters, buying the Skumole Shack for $1,000,
and several ways to get back to the east island,
making a side trip to sneak aboard the yacht
Jumping on a shrub to get to Starfish Island early
Four ways to jump into Leaf Links early
Getting to know the town
I.19 Finding Hidden Packages
A mod that can help if you lose count,
how to find the secret chocolate Easter egg by H61
and printing press by H66,
and buying all the other non-moneymaking properties.
I.20 Taxi job (a Sub-mission)
and how to jump over anything that gets in your way
Getting honest work in town while building endurance and speed
I.21 Pizza Delivery Mission (a Sub-mission)
and how to make things easier
for the Pizza Delivery, Paramedic, and Firetruck missions.
I.22 Paramedic Mission (a Sub-mission)
I.23 Firetruck Mission (a Sub-mission)
Turning from small time crime to big time (unofficial) law enforcement
I.24 Knocking Off Stores
GTA_Loc's way to get $1,000 per store and not confront the police
I.25 Vigilante Mission (a Sub-mission)--Brown Thunder, if using the Hunter
How to max out your cash and kill a small town's worth of criminals
Learning that what you want to do in life is make a rewarding hobby
a rewarding source of income
I.26 Unique Jumps
(except six that aren't available yet: J's 1,3, and 4--I.81;
J17--I.43; and J's 34 and 35--I.46)
How to use J19 to give Tommy a car
that's suspended in midair to stand on
Skillfully driving, jumping, and flying through glowing disks
for increasing acclaim, becoming a ham of the radio
I.27 PCJ Playground
I.28 Test Track and Trial by Dirt
How to adjust to the statistics glitch for Trial by Dirt
How to get the cab driver to run the course
I.29 Cone Crazy
And a map to help you plan your course
I.30 Top Fun van: RC Bandit, RC Baron, and RC Copter
And Demarest's way to alter the handling.cfg code for RC Bandit
(THANK you).
I.31 Hyman Memorial Stadium: Hotring, Bloodring, and Dirt Ring
How to pick your time for the dirt bike event
How to be the only one in the Hotring
Giving something back to the community
I.32 Rampages
How to make a little cash
and kill a small town's worth of local armed gang members,
with the option of using the old Liberty City trick
of using the Rhino, updated to include the Hunter and drive-bys, too,
to help you clean up this town.
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I.33 The Rest of the Main Story Missions (continued from I.17.C)
Learning that being a celebrity
gives you access to other celebrities that most people never have,
especially if you're ethically impaired in how you go about it--
and polishing off the side missions.
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I.34 "Back Alley Brawl" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
I.35 "Jury Fury" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
I.36 "Road Kill" Phone: Assassination Mission 1
I.37 "Riot" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
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Some of the non-asset missions for people (Avery Carrington/Umberto Robina/
Auntie Poulet, and Love Fist/Mitch Baker) can be done in any order at any time
after they're available.
Rusk saves most of them for near the end, and I'm not doing that. But I go
along with Rusk in putting "Trojan Voodoo" for Robina last among all missions
except the last mission of the game, which is given to Vercetti. That's because
the Haitian gang members will run and shoot at Tommy after "Trojan Voodoo," mak-
ing it harder to get things done, explore, and play with jumps in Little Haiti.
(As an alternative, you could make the Haitian gang members more peaceful by
modifying the files with Notepad as explained at I.100.D.ee Weapons and Attack-
ers--how to lessen the severity of attacks.)
I'd delay "Two Bit Hit" for Avery till some time after "Cop Land" and "The
Job" to make sure you don't get the Havana Outfit glitch. Since "Two Bit Hit"
also provokes a conflict between the Cuban and Haitian gangs and initiates the
Robina and Poulet missions, and I moved "Trojan Voodoo" to be the next to the
last mission, I opted for moving "Two Bit Hit" closer to the end so the bunch of
them would be done at about the same time.
I restructured the order of the Love Fist/Mitch Baker missions--also the Mali-
bu Club and Sunshine Autos asset missions--as little as possible to jack Hila-
ry's Sabre Turbo (just as an option for something different to do--it's not bul-
let-proof for PC) and use the "Wheels of Steel" Angel for eight races in a row.
If you go along with that, do the other non-property missions in any order you
want. So, with those exceptions, I've leaned in favor of doing them about the
time the opportunity to do them is presented in the game.
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I.38 "Four Iron" Avery Carrington
(Leaf Links will be open)
I.39A "Demolition Man" Avery Carrington
(and a map to help you beat the clock
with the RC Goblin helicopter)
("Two Bit Hit" Avery Carrington--
delayed till I.83, after "Cop Land" and "The Job,"
to avoid the Havana Outfit glitch,
and to put it and the Robina/Poulet missions it initiates,
notably "Trojan Voodoo," close together near the end)
I.39B A multiple choice of things you can do about the Havana Outfit glitch.
I.40 "Treacherous Swine" Col. Cortez
I.41 "Mall Shootout" Col. Cortez
I.42 "Guardian Angels" Col. Cortez
(make sure you save the "Everything-Proof" Admiral in a garage;
Starfish Island will be officially available)
I.43 Unique Jump 17
I.44 "The Chase" Diaz
I.45 "Phnom Penh '86" Diaz
(the mainland--west island--
and Piers 1 and 2 will be officially available)
I.46 Unique Jumps 34 and 35
I.47 "Waste The Wife" Phone: Assassination Mission 2
(get out the Rhino: "Gangway, coming through")
I.48 "Sir, Yes Sir!" Col. Cortez
(how to take on the army and take their tank, armed or unarmed)
I.49 "The Fastest Boat" Diaz
I.50 "Autocide" Phone: Assassination Mission 3
I.51 "Supply & Demand" Diaz (the fastest course)
I.52 "Death Row" Kent Paul
I.53 "Rub Out" Diaz (and get his mansion)
GTA_Loc's "Felony Allowed" gimmick
I.54 "All Hands on Deck!" Col. Cortez
I.55 Checkpoint Chopper Missions 1 to 3
(the 4th is available at I.82)
I.56 "Love Juice" Love Fist
I.57 "Psycho Killer" Love Fist
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Please consider this before continuing beyond "Psycho Killer" with the mis-
sions:
The bike with the best handling in the game is the Angel you can jack from one
of the other three contestants at the start of the "Alloy Wheels of Steel" race
(I.69). It loses the practically "gripiseverything" handling it has after you
put it in a garage and the door goes down. Like other vehicles, it can be de-
stroyed by a hazardous mission, and can disappear from the game memory if you
use a couple of other vehicles after using it. So the easiest way to use it for
other races--"The Driver," which can be frustrating, and the six Sunshine Autos
races--is to do them one after another without saving the bike in a garage. It
remained in the Hyman Condo alley after I saved a game there without exiting the
game, but this bike makes it easy to do all eight races in a row.
(Alternatively, you can use Notepad to change the handling.cfg file as ex-
plained in I.100.D.e Cars and bikes, under Gameplay advantages: How to create
your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel. If you do that, before you do, follow
the advice given in I.100.D.a Uncheck the green dot. And during "Alloy Wheels
of Steel," have Tommy jack an Angel from in front of the bar and not one of the
Angels the other contestants have--those would be twice as jazzed up and hard to
win the race with.)
I didn't want to rule out the ability to get Hilary's Sabre Turbo from "The
Driver" (bullet-proof on PS2 but not on PC). Using the Sentinel of that mis-
sion, and possibly another vehicle to use with it to make a roadblock for Hila-
ry, might make the Angel disappear. So I scheduled "The Driver" twice: option-
ally, to deliberately fail it so you can get Hilary's car, and a 2nd time to win
the race once you have the "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel.
(Alternatively, you could go to I.100.D.a Uncheck the green dot, then to
I.100.D.e Cars and bikes, under Gameplay advantages, and use the handling.cfg
change given for a strong Sentinel. If you do, poor Hilary won't have a
chance--just try not to kill him.)
If you want to do that, which I think is fun, I hope you don't mind that I
start three sets of missions to line up the several missions in a row that let
you do that.
If you try to use the Angel for missions beyond the races, there aren't many
I can see using it for or that it would survive through. Something like "Mess-
ing with the Man" (I.72) would be risky. You could also try to put it out of
harm's way, like on the roof of the condo or the Skumole Shack, and try to
use only one other vehicle between times you drive it.
Of the asset property missions, which make money for you after you do their
missions, the Vercetti ones come up 1st. They allow Tommy to buy the other as-
set properties, which can be done in any order, and receive protection money at
the mansion.
An exception is the Phil Cassidy asset property in that it doesn't make money
for you after you do the missions for it, but it provides a place where you can
buy heavy weapons and remote grenades.
In order to skewer the order of a few missions to use the Angel for the races,
I schedule the Malibu Club ones early. I pass along the easiest method to score
enough points for one of them, "Rifle Range" (not an asset mission but one which
needs to be done for 100% completion), so you can earn the Rapid Load feature.
Among other things, this makes it easier to succeed with the Sniper Rifle for
"Dirty Lickin's" and the Rocket Launcher for later attempts at the Sunshine Au-
tos races.
I follow Rusk's logic to leave the Print Works among them for last. Since one
of the missions for it (actually, a related Vercetti mission: I.97) involves
stopping Sonny's henchmen from taking money from Tommy's asset properties, you
have more time to stop them if you have more such places for them to go.
I follow Rusk in putting the Cherry Popper mission after the Sunshine Autos
vehicle collection garage mission because you need it to complete the 4th list
of the vehicle collection. You can just drive the Cherry Popper truck to Sun-
shine Autos when you're done with it.
You can't do the last two Vercetti missions and see the final credits till
after doing the Print Works missions, so you might as well do all the other mis-
sions before the last two Vercetti missions (and "Trojan Voodoo"), too, and have
the credits roll at the end of it all in Hollywood tradition.
If you go along with that, do the other Asset properties in whatever order you
like, depending on what you want: with Interglobal Films you open up the rooftop
jumps and ability to fly the Skimmer. After the Kaufman Cabs missions, you get
Deborah Harry dispatcher messages on the radio in Kaufman Cabs. You can get
hard liquor and heavy weapons with Phil (bring the kids), go see the wild love
flesh inside the Pole Position Club (use Gunslinger's mods--I.100.D.d), or get a
couple of speedboats, including the fastest, at the Boatyard.
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I.58 "Shakedown" Vercetti
(then you can buy money-making properties)
I.59 "Check in at the Check Out" Phone: Assassination Mission 4
I.60 "Bar Brawl" Vercetti
I.61 "Cop Land" Vercetti
GTA_Loc's "Never Wanted" gimmick
(the Vercetti mansion will collect protection money,
and the policeman outfit, Hunter, and Rhino will be freely available)
I.62.A Buy Sunshine Autos (car showroom asset)
I.62.B Sunshine Autos Vehicle Collection (car showroom asset)
(it will make money, provide bonus vehicles,
and carry on the traditions of B.J. Smith and "GTA III")
I.63 "Distribution" Cherry Poppers (ice cream factory asset)
(it will make money and let you polish off the vehicle collection)
I.64 "No Escape?" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
I.65 "The Shootist" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
(how to score high with "The Shootist")
I.66 "Rifle Range"
(an easy way to get the points needed for the Fast Load feature)
I.67 "Loose Ends" Phone: Assassination Mission 5
I.68 "The Driver" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
(optional: how to jack Hilary's Sabre Turbo--not bullet-proof for PC,
and how to get a BP/FP/EP Sabre Turbo from Hilary on PC)
I.69 "Alloy Wheels Of Steel" Big Mitch Baker
(jack a Biker's Angel--the best racing bike you'll get in the game)
I.70 "The Driver" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
(another race with the same Angel)
I.71 Sunshine Autos Street Races
(six more races with the same Angel)
I.72 "Messing With The Man" Big Mitch Baker
(cause havoc with the Hunter or the Rhino
and create a bumptious media attention level)
I.73 "Hogtied" Big Mitch Baker
I.74 "Publicity Tour" Love Fist
(afterwards, the Love Fist limo will appear Downtown
in front of the VROCK building)
I.75 "The Job" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
(the Malibu will make money;
El Banco Currupto will always be open)
I.76 "Gun Runner" Phil Cassidy asset
I.77 "Boomshine Saigon" Phil Cassidy asset
(hard liquor and heavy weapons will be available)
I.78 "Recruitment Drive" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
I.79 "Dildo Dodo" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
(how to fly the little Dodo with pontoons with time to spare)
I.80 "Martha's Mug Shot" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
I.81 "G-Spotlight" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
(the film studio will make money;
many rooftop jumps will be available)
I.82 Checkpoint Chopper 4
(this Downtown chopper is also convenient to use
to go for the CRiminal Rating of "Godfather" given in section I.7)
I.83 "Two Bit Hit" Avery Carrington
(how to get both the black Voodoo and Romero's Hearse)
I.84 "Stunt Boat Challenge" Umberto Robina
I.85 "Cannon Fodder" Umberto Robina
I.86 "Naval Engagement" Umberto Robina
I.87 "Juju Scramble" Auntie Poulet
(a detailed route to run through a five star wanted level with)
I.88 "Bombs Away!" Auntie Poulet
I.89 "Dirty Lickin's" Auntie Poulet
("Trojan Voodoo" Umberto Robina--
having the Haitian gang go nuts is delayed till I.98)
I.90A Buy Kaufman Cabs taxi company (taxi firm asset)
I.90B "V.I.P." Kaufman Cabs (taxi firm asset)
I.91 "Friendly Rivalry" Kaufman Cabs (taxi firm asset)
I.92 "Cabmageddon" Kaufman Cabs (taxi firm asset)
(how to incorporate the sadly neglected 8 Ball;
the Zebra Cab will be available;
the taxi company will make money for you)
I.93A Buy the Boatyard (boatyard asset)
I.93B "Checkpoint Charlie" the Boatyard (boatyard asset)
I.94 The Pole Position Club ass and asset
(to make the strippers--
and other club dancers, prostitutes, or any lady peds you want--
cuter and naked, see my tutorial, I.100.D.d,
you ridiculous ffffffilth.)
I.95 "Spilling The Beans" the Print Works (print works asset)
I.96 "Hit The Courier" the Print Works (print works asset)
(the Print Works will make money for you)
I.97 "Cap The Collector" Tommy Vercetti
I.98 "Trojan Voodoo" Umberto Robina
I.99 "Keep Your Friends Close..." Tommy Vercetti
(Al Pacino/Tony Montana voice: "Say hello to my little friend"--pa-HOOOM.)
A checklist for 100% completion
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I.100 Basic skins, modding (use at your own risk),
music, and screen shot tutorial.
I.100.A Compressed File Utility
I.100.B Web sites for skins and mods
I.100.C Skins for Tommy
Gunslinger: Robert De Niro and Hot Shirts
Make your own skin
I.100.D Mods
I.100.D.a Uncheck the green dot
I.100.D.b Make backups (and where to find other VC backup files)
I.100.D.c Tools:
The IMG Tool v.2
DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3
The Vice TXD Tool
The Rescaler and CFGStudio
The GXT Editor v.1.2
I.100.D.d Women
Gunslinger: "Prostitute Pack"s 1 and 2
Dr. Colossus: "Ultimate Nudes"
"GTA Vice City Nudes"
Naked Women: a variety of methods of insertion
Another Naked Woman
Russificator: black stripa
How to change the way they walk
I.100.D.e Cars and bikes
Installing car and bike mods (Example: a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air)
How to change their colors
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
Gameplay advantages
Making vehicles weaker or stronger
How to create your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel
One possible 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air
How to change the traction of surfaces
Failure to lower the cannon shots of Rhinos
Grand Theft Auto: Vice Bedrock
The hot Cougar scandal
How to change their wheels
DMagic1's Wheel Mod
Xbox wheels
How to change their on-screen names
Spookie's Speedometer mod
The Pole Position bike
I.100.D.ee Weapons and Attackers
How to lessen the severity of attacks
The MP5 A2 ("Counter Strike") mod
The highly mysterious sexual Busker
I.100.D.eee Helicopters
How to make the RC Copter easier to fly
Low flying jets
I.100.D.f Miscellaneous mods
The RC Mod
The Surf's Up Billboard Jump mod
The Havana Outfit Bug Fix
The Rampage and Package Finder Mod (the Northern Lights Mod)
The Hidden Interiors and Steed mods
The NOS mod
VC Code Tools (tools that tell you which missions are left to be
done, give you credit for all the Unique Jumps, etc.)
Spaceeinstein's All In One Mod
Timetwister
Carl Johnson in Vice City
I.100.D.ff Trainers
Pizzadox' +10 Trainer
Alper Saracoglu's GTA Vice City Administrative Console
Lithjoe's Vice City Ultimate Trainer
I.100.D.g Total conversion mod
The Liberty City mod
I.100.E Music
MP3s and wav files
How to save hard disk space with shortcuts
MP3 volume boost
Shareaza
I.100.F Screen shots and videos
Fraps, the Easy Graphic Converter, and Virtual Dub
How I make videos
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Introduction
This guide is geared toward helping someone who is new to the game, so I try
to find an easy way to do anything. I bought the game for a couple of friends
of mine who are new to games, and wanted to make sure they had fun and got a lot
of the inside references. If you've gotten the hang of that, I hope I might tip
you to something you didn't know about before.
If you've never played a PC game like "Vice City" before, I recommend it, if
you don't mind some colorful language. It's the 1st one I ever played all the
way through--the 1st time in mid-2003--and it's fascinating to me. It's not
like anything else in movies or music, except that it's like acting out a fanta-
sy of being the star and director of a movie, and the mouse and keyboard move
the star and your hand held camera. You pick how to interact with a whole city
filled with pedestrians chattering away with snippets of conversation that some-
times make for funny coincidences with what you've just been doing.
It's enough like the real world that doing the surreal gaming things in it
seem funny. That a guy needs to do something so he drives down a normal subur-
ban street in his tank, or drives from here to there as fast as he can to get
the game mission done, then the guy going by says, "Unnecessary!" like Regis
Philbin, just looks and sounds funny to me.
You frame shots with clouds that swirl like real clouds, and the sun rises and
sets and makes some beautiful hues and reflections when it does. You choose
from dozens of cars, motorcycles, helicopters, and you get a variety of cinemat-
ic shots for the dozens of jumps through town you can do with the PCJ 600 (best
bike for jumps). You score your show with dozens of songs and parodies of talk
stations on the radio stations you get with most vehicles, and, if you feel like
adding others, you can put in your own MP3s and have your own radio station.
I don't think stars and directors have had that much control over something
that's that much fun since Buster Keaton.
I think Robert Rusk, who has a PS2/PC--Classic Controls/Xbox guide for it at
the Gamefaqs web site, has done an excellent job, and his guide has been very
helpful to me. He doesn't have a PC to use for games just now, though, and I
don't have a PS2. My notes are meant to help adapt it to the way I use PC Stan-
dard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering. After Rockstar and company, I owe
the most debt to his guide, which is mainly organized to help you achieve 100%
completion of the necessary parts of the game.
One of the best things about Rusk's guide is how he organizes what could be
overwhelming into something manageable. After doing the initial few story mis-
sions, doing some of the side missions early on gives Tommy benefits and abili-
ties that can help him in the rest of the side missions and main storyline mis-
sions. He puts nearly all of the side missions together, which frees you up to
enjoy the rest of the main story in an uninterrupted sequence. The strategies
minimize time spent frustrated and help likewise, although the easiest way can
be different for my format. I highly recommend his guides for "GTA III" and
"San Andreas," which have the same basic structure and strategic assistance.
I basically use his advice, often hard to improve on, with the same basic con-
cern to supply the easiest way to do things, and change something if it's dif-
ferent for PC, or just add a little something now and then for the variety.
Put "shopping search" or such in a search engine. You'll find lots of sites
like dealtime, bizrate, froogle, shopping.yahoo, mysimon, etc., that you can use
to search for "Vice City," PC components, or anything else. The last time
I tried, I found "Vice City" for about $20. If you don't mind your games being
2nd hand, you can find some real bargains for them at eBay.
You can get the Brady Games Official Strategy Guide for Grand Theft Auto Vice
City, PC version, on eBay for a few bucks. If you do, be sure to check the
seller's ad to be sure it's the PC version you're bidding on and buying. It has
lots of useful maps, including ones for specific missions, and pictures and
descriptions of all the vehicles, weapons, and other features of the game. I'd
be open to other ideas for a little of the guidance, however (i.e. I.94 in this
guide). To be fair, it's an early effort that hasn't benefited from years of
millions of players trying out new ideas and sending them to message boards. So
it's official, though none of us voted for it. It's a totalitarian leader
that's colorful to have around except for all the unnecessary deaths. It's Cas-
tro's new Cuba, which is where Tony Montana came from; then again, he got
killed.... No, no, no--actually, the Brady guide has been very helpful. Some
of the strategies haven't been topped yet.
Some whole categories of important concern, like the locations of armor and
police bribes, are best helped with maps. The Gamefaqs web site and BradyGames
Official Strategy Guide are good sources for them. Some of the best advice
you're going to get is to get copies or print outs of them and make notes all
over the print outs. Nobody expects you to memorize all this "2nd block from
the E and 3rd from the W" stuff of mine.
There are various other things that can only be done with, or are features
special to, the PC version; there are unnecessary but fun things and related in-
terests, and I'll add my notes for them. I'll thank everybody I can remember
who hipped me to anything, all the while trying to avoid legal suits with any-
body--they didn't help the Beatles get along any better. I'll change to a dif-
ferent horse midstream if I find out different.
Some of the following is True:
Thanks to the artists at developer Rockstar North (sort of the Brothers Grimm
of Scotland, but more tuneful), and the publishers Rockstar and Take-Two Inter-
active Inc, the little Dodo and the PCJ 600, and Ray Liotta and the whole cast
of "Vice City." It's my favorite game:
http://www.rockstarnorth.com/
http://www.rockstargames.com/
http://www.take2games.com/
Rockstar was previously Dan and Sam Houser and Jamie King, of the video games
publishing division of BMG Interactive, and Terry Donovan, of Arista Records,
who'd all worked with DMA Design of Dundee, with a small branch in Edinburgh, on
the 1st GTA games. BMG Interactive was sold by BMG to Take-Two Interactive in
1998, the year Rockstar Games was founded and the Houser brothers, King, and
Donovan moved to New York. They picked a DMA team based around Leslie Benzies,
Aaron Garbut, Obbe Vermeij and Adam Fowler, which they built up in a big studio
in the Leigh district of Edinburgh (which is the beautiful, so says Glen True,
capital city of Scotland) as Rockstar North. Rockstar North has been part of
the Rockstar Games companies since it was bought, in Sept., 1999, by the parent
company Take-Two Interactive Inc of NYC. It's worked closely and creatively
with its NYC publishing branch Rockstar Games, which is one of the subsidiaries
of Take-Two that Take-Two publishes and develops games through (other subsidiar-
ies include Gathering of Developers).
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/index.php?id=67
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/rockstar_pr.html
http://www.rockstarnorth.com/
Thanks to Rusk and his time honored, proven strategies and research, which is
what this walk-through originated with, and for being the oldest friend I know
here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
thanks to A.M.S. Siva Ganesh Maharajan, aka HandsomeRockus, for graciously
letting me help communicate his ideas for his walk-through of "Vice City" at the
Gamefaqs web site, teaching me some things in the process, his spelling and
spacing corrections, and for being such a nice friend:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
("A.M.S.," in his culture, Tamil Nadu, refers to the 1st initial of those on
the paternal line you may honor that way. For great-grandfather to father,
that's Ayyadurai, Maharajan, and Subbaraj. You can call me H.W. Glenster, if
you want. I never met my Dad's Dad Howard, who died before I was born, but my
Dad's parents meant so much to him, as mine do to me, that I'd honor him that
way. My Dad's given name was William but he used the common nickname for it,
Bill, in his work as an artist/cartoonist.)
thank you very much to the Gamefaqs web site for patiently hosting this pon-
derous walk-through from the start and always taking care of the trailing spaces
for me:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
thanks to Stephen Ng and the IGN web site for kindly finding a place on the
reference shelf somewhere in the library for such a dauntingly large reference
book of a walk-through:
http://ign.com/
thanks to Dennis and the Supercheats web site for allowing more of an occa-
sional data file modifier than a super cheater to find their way in there:
http://www.supercheats.com/index.htm
thanks to Kevin Walter and the StuckGamer web site for making a trek from the
old-fashioned (pre-high speed Internet video) way into the future of videogame
guides about "San Andreas" so enjoyable:
http://www.stuckgamer.com/
thanks to the neoseeker web site for letting a dilapidated old seeker look
around:
http://www.neoseeker.com/
thanks to Brooks Huber and the 1UP and My Cheats web sites for scattering
some empowerment for me and many others around the scenery:
http://www.1up.com/
http://www.mycheats.com/list/hot/0/games
thanks to Spenser Hall and the GamerHelp web site for letting me help:
http://www.gamerhelp.com/
thanks to Tim and the Game Revolution web site for letting me have a place in
their revolution:
https://gamerevolution.staging.vip.gnmedia.net/
thanks to Emanuele and the GameBorder web site for hosting this big fat Sun-
day newspaper complete with the funnies:
http://www.gameborder.com/
thanks to Paul Ryan and the gamesradar web site for helping my walk-through
travel safe and sound:
http://www.gamesradar.com/us/index.jsp
thanks to Ben "Cerbera" Millard for sharing so much information that can help
anyone understand how to modify vehicles in "Vice City," and providing his Re-
scaler and CFGStudio tools to make it easier still:
http://www.projectcerbera.com/
thanks to the enigmatic and industrious modder spaceeinstein for the well-re-
searched repository of some of the glitches and tricks I've read about at his
web site, showing me where the brakes are on a helicopter, pointing me to Cer-
bera's web site, various helpful tips scattered throughout the walk-through, and
his latest "All In One Mod":
http://www.freewebs.com/spaceeinstein/grandtheftauto.htm
http://www.youtube.com/user/spaceeinstein
thanks to Madeye, alias some name, alias Mohammed Kahn, for the "Ocean Beach
Triangle" way to go through Ghost World, the shooting the garbage bags tip, and
some much-appreciated web site help most of all,
thanks to Demarest, of the GTA Forums (and now defunct tfads) web site, for
supplying some much-appreciated information on how to change the files of the
game to make RC Bandit and going for a two-wheeler easier, a way to get to Star-
fish Island early; the Timetwister mods that let you pick any mission of "III"
and "Vice City" from the beginning of the game; and, with spaceeinstein and the
rest of the team behind it, for the Liberty City mod (a pretty ponderous piece
of work in its own right, I'm sure):
http://hosted.filefront.com/ThunderPower/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221164812/www.tfads.com/sacode/released.html
http://www.gtaforums.com/
thanks to the ardent quests of Chris Phillips for finding an invisible plate
in the roof of the Schuman Health Care Center, a way to get a two-wheeler Stat
with a helicopter, and some tips on English slang (and giving me a preview of
"San Andreas" with MSN Messenger; the man tears a mean rampage, even at the mil-
itary base):
http://www.thegtaplace.com/vicecity/glitches.php
thanks to U.K. reader Colin Attle several times over for the correct calcula-
tion for pay for the Paramedic, Firetruck, and Vigilante Sub-missions, and var-
ious references, including that that Fizz Bombs ("Love Juice") are candies in
the U.K., that "Broons" is also a reference to the Scottish comic strip "The
Broons," where the graffiti for the Rockstar Vancouver game "Bully" is, and that
the Ocean View apartment magazine "ERSE" probably refers to the U.K. videogame
magazine "Edge."
thanks to helpful modder DiCanio for fun ideas like the RC mod and his adap-
tation of Yoyo's '57 Chevy Bel Air (like my Dad's car) mod:
http://www.gtagaming.com/downloads?p=file&id=535
http://grandtheftauto.filefront.com/file/1957_Chevrolet_Bel_Air_Convertible;
63196
thanks to Klarnetist, whom I learned of from a Russian web site, for several
hardtop versions (even more like my Dad's car) of Yoyo's 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air:
http://www.gta-classics.de/
http://gta.com.ua/klarny/
thanks to Gunslinger for the models and skins for Tommy and lady pedestrians
that just can't be beat. The codenamenetwork web site seems to have changed
hands, so I don't know if we'll see his http://gunslinger.codenamenetwork.com/
site again. If not, it's a shame--it was a distinctive one. You can still
find a number of his skins and models at:
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1915
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1133
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1912
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1913
http://gtaplanet.gamigo.de/content/index.php?seite=filezone&ordner_id=60&sz=2
thanks to the http://www.imdb.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/ web sites,
and "Leonard Maltin's 1998 Movie and Video Guide," 1997, edited by fellow Buster
Keaton fan Leonard Maltin, for much of the information about movies,
thanks to the educational web site "A Dictionary of Slang," which specializes
in the British perspective, for some U.K. slang definitions:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
thanks to the research of modder Nuclear Hedgehog for the real names of some
of the land and flying vehicles,
thanks to Tobias Nilsson for the real names of some of the other land and
flying vehicles. This is a Swedish site of his:
http://www.sanandreas.info.se/
thanks to explorer yOman69, in message board posts for the PC version of
"Vice City" at Gamefaqs, for the PC super jump discovery. His post is no longer
there, but you can find the Gamefaqs message board at:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
thanks to dare demon stunt man Gav, in a Gav's Stunt Guide (v.1) post at the
message boards at GTA Forums/GTA Vice City/Gameplay, for some extra jump spots
and grinds information. The last time I checked, it was still at:
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=151429
thanks to video bike pilot Brad Ward, aka ThaShoka89 and Southern Finest, for
the BSM--Bike Stuck Method--which uses a PCJ 600 as a portable jump ramp for a
2nd PCJ 600. Like yOman69, he shared his find with us at the message boards for
the PC "Vice City" at Gamefaqs. Thanks on top of that for tipping me to the Cab
Climbing, Air Grabbing, etc., stunting tutorials by Ghostchild, Kaneda, and oth-
ers at:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/index.php?
http://www.gtastunting.com/forums/
thanks to stunt man's stunt man Ghostchild for making it easy for many of us
to understand so many ways to do some of those stunts, and for letting me pass
it along to you:
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/index.php?
thanks to GTA_Loc's post at GTA Forums for the "Felony Allowed" (I.53) and
Never Wanted (I.61) gimmicks, useful for Knocking Off Stores (I.24),
thanks to Reverend Ted for the Havana Outfit Bug Fix--amen:
http://www.planetgrandtheftauto.com/gtavc/miscmods/
thanks to eL dudE for the Game Script FAQ at the Gamefaqs web site:
At http://www.gamefaqs.com/, go to "PC," "G," "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,"
"FAQs," "In-Depth FAQs," then "Game Script (PS2)."
thanks to Aggrosk8er's full walk-though and FAQ for "Vice City" for the Pilot
ratings:
At http://www.gamefaqs.com/, go to "PC," "G," "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,"
"FAQs," "General FAQs," then the "FAQ/Walkthrough (PS2)" by Aggrosk8er.
thanks to the "Criminal Rating/Media/Money FAQ" by Zarathustra for the High-
est media attention level and CRiminal Rating scores, and for the fastest way to
get the "Godfather" CRiminal Rating:
At http://www.gamefaqs.com/, go to "PC," "G," "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,"
"FAQs," "In-Depth FAQs," then "Criminal Rating/Media/Money FAQ (PS2)."
thanks to the BradyGames Official Strategy Guide by Tim Bogenn for some his-
torical and technical information about a few of the weapons, a few strategies,
some helpful maps and photos, and the "official" numbers of the hidden packages,
rampages, and jumps:
http://www.bradygames.com/
thanks to the gta-series web site for having such nice clear screen shots of
the Vice City 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 web site given below, which lets you type in phrases that it
translates into ANSII art:
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
thanks to all the other people with individual tips mentioned in the text;
and thanks to eBay for being a good way to get stuff cheap:
http://www.ebay.com/
If any of the web sites given in this guide become obsolete, you might lop
the end off of it, try the basic web site, and look around in it for the infor-
mation referred to. You might also try a search engine for it, or see if it
turns up at http://www.archive.org/ (thanks again to HandsomeRockus for the ar-
chive web site tip).
PC info: I have a PC--no big deal. You should be saving up for one of those
top end (64 bit when related software uses it--128 bit is down the road) quad
core (more cores are down the road) 45nm (smaller is down the road) processors
with a motherboard that uses SLI or Crossfire and PCI Express 2, when they start
making them to do more and cost even less, the way I was told they would. As
long as the other requirements were met, I bet most everyone's "Vice City" would
run smoothly then. Damn, I bet most everyone's "The Elder Scrolls" would run
smoothly then--even "The Sims" would be zippy.
On one hand, I hope the speed of these changes doesn't create a compatibility
problem with PCs for game developers who may take a couple years to work on a PC
game. On the other hand, I hope the improved technology for PCs and of PS3 al-
lows developers an easier time of transferring game titles from PC to PS3 and
vice versa, especially if you can use keyboard and mouse or a gamepad for either
one.
I got a good PC to use Cakewalk Producer, a MIDI Strat, Yamaha DD-55 drums,
M-Audio Oxygen 8 keyboard, etc., with, to do something about the music and come-
dy I've come up with since I was in high school. I fell in love with "Vice
City" as a side track. The ability to aim and explore the world with the mouse
and keyboard as with a hand held camera seems as good a way to format a game as
you could like, and, in some ways, better than PS2. The exclusive availability
of some games to certain consoles seems like a bad telemarketer scam to me, as
if the Beatles made a deal in hell to only sell their albums to people with Pio-
neer hi-fis or such.
Personal info: "Winstein" is pronounced "Win," like win or lose, and "stein,"
like beer stein or Steinway piano; so many people have called me "Weinstein" I
usually joke I might as well convert. It was originally "Windstein" a long time
ago, but somebody that came from Germany or France had bad handwriting.
"Glen" is Scotch/Irish and is a little wooded valley, like in "Danny Boy";
with two "n"'s, it's someone that lives in it. "True" is Scotch/Irish, my Mom's
maiden name, and the etymology goes back to "constant, like the hardness of a
tree."
So just think "In a shady valley constantly hard by the piano" and it's easy
to remember, if misleading.
The main thing to know about me is I'll always love my Mom and Dad. How you
can tell from a town like this, I have no idea.
He was an artist/cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Press and this is something vi-
sual. Me and each of them watched movies and listened to music together. I re-
member him in the art room with some swing or Dixieland playing. My Mom mainly
went for what you might call MOR (middle of the road) music, but it included
more recent music. So I put in a few appropriate MP3s and make some movie
scenes for them now and then.
We even had our own words for things. An outsider would never understand.
"Glenster's Guide to Some of Vice City" copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and
2008 Glen T. Winstein
This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal,
private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed pub-
licly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web
site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation
of copyright.
I hope I didn't scare anyone. You're supposed to say that.
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" copyright 2003 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.
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I.1 Prelude to a prequel
The intro, showing a command being typed into a computer to start the game,
looks like the start of an old Commodore 64 game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
The song clip heard during the typing is from the 1979 song by The Buggles,
"Video Killed the Radio Star," which is heard on radio station Flash FM in the
game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8
http://artists.letssingit.com/buggles-video-killed-the-radio-star-mz5ht6j
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_killed_the_radio_star
As the game prompted, "Vice City," begins, alternating bands of color are seen
while a bit of music that sounds like a calliope played by a MIDI machine is
heard. The musical phrase played is the one that accompanies the appearance, in
the upper left corner of the screen, of the pager that makes announcements in
"GTA III."
GTAs, from "III" on, use Pricedown font for the "Grand Theft Auto" title.
It's similar to the font used since 1972 for the title of the TV game show "The
Price is Right." Ray Larabie created the Pricedown font and named it in 1998.
The name of the font combines "Price" with the word "down" of the line used on
the show to call an audience member to be a contestant: "Come on down."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_%28series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Larabie
The silhouette of trees is similar to the one in "Scarface," 1983 (I.2). Then
you see a Squalo II speed boat, Haitian gangsters, and Tommy and Mercedes on a
Freeway motorcycle on the road that goes by the Ocean View apartment.
If you want to recreate the intro scene of the car doing a jump, it's a Sabre
Turbo driving on the bridge that connects Leaf Links to the west island, then
jumping from the stairs of the "stilt" building. The "stilt' building is on the
E island, NW side of the 3rd block from the E and 2nd block from the S.
Then you see a Maverick, and a Chartered Libertine Lines ship docked at the SE
corner of the west island.
The little Dodo with pontoons, the Skimmer, becomes available at I.79.
Then you see a Mean Street Taxis bench, a Marquis 69 sail boat, and Washington
Beach by the low beachfront wall.
The final shot is of the Standing Vice Point hotel. It's about halfway up the
E island, SE of the Malibu Club.
As with "GTA III," don't look for some of the things in the Stephen Bliss car-
toon montage, also shown on the front of the box the game comes in, during the
game. The game doesn't have a helicopter with rails on the bottom that has two
machine guns; the most similar motorcycle in the game, the PCJ 600, doesn't have
a standard headlight--it has one that looks like an evil grin; Sonny Forelli
doesn't look like the cartoon in the top center section; and the Pole Position
pole dancer doesn't wear long black hair and a pink bikini.
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I.2 Paying Tributes, making references, or at least having things in
common
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,"
Al Capone--"Scarface,"
"The Untouchables" starring Robert De Niro as Al Capone,
"Scarface" by "Armitage Trail" (Maurice Coons), Paul Muni, and Al Pacino,
the "Vice City"/"Scarface" (with Al Pacino) similarities,
"Cop Land," "No Escape," "Blow," Pablo Escobar, "Carlito's Way,"
"The Godfather," "Goodfellas," "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," Martin Scorsese,
Tiger Cabs, "Blue Thunder," Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino,
Joanna Taylor, Robert De Negro, "Heat," "Manhunter," "Miami Vice," "Manhunt,"
"The Sopranos," "Nice Dreams," John Wayne, "Easy Rider," "Speed," "Boogie
Nights," "To Live and Die in L.A.," George Romero, "Lady Frankenstein,"
"Miami Vice," Miss Cleo, the Psychic Friends Network,
wiccans, selling witchcraft as a way to get practical help from spirits,
the Lunar Landing Hoax hoax,
Phil Silvers, Andy Kaufman, "Top Gun," "Iron Eagle," Iron Maiden,
"Spycatcher," Frank Sinatra, "Disco Inferno," Rambo, "The Final Countdown,"
"Driving Miss Daisy,"
Game makers and voice actors, soundalike game names, celebrity soundalikes
(Walter Brennan, etc.), more funny things pedestrians say,
Captain Scott and Dundee, Scotland, look-alike mall and soundalike island,
Little Havana, Little Haiti, and Liberty City--Miami,
and other places "Vice City" is based on
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City"
In honor and recognition of your esteemed gaming goodness
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" has received "best of" awards and acclaim from
all over the gaming community, including the AIAS (Academy of Interactive Arts
and Sciences) award for Console Action Adventure Game of the Year, 2002 ("III"
won for Computer Action Game of the Year), and even winning a handful of BAFTA
(British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards in 2004 (design, sound, ac-
tion title, PS2 title, and PC title).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA_Games_Awards
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/awards
Since "III," Grand Theft Auto has also been one of the most popular and suc-
cessful video game series in the world.
According to the gamerankings web site on July 8, 2008, "Vice City" was the
4th best PC game--"III" was 9th and "San Andreas" was 18th. You can go to the
web site given below to see the latest scores.
http://www.gamerankings.com/
Also see http://www.designmuseum.org/designerex/rockstar-games.htm for an in-
terview with Dan Houser, one of the creators of "Vice City."
Among other things, I notice his mention of the concern of the creators of the
GTA games to take the interactive features of games and combine them with a love
of movies, music, and books, not so much to make more such games but to make ex-
amples of a new kind of interactive movie. I think this has a lot to do with
why I like the blend they come up with so much.
A new game that takes place in Vice City, "Vice City Stories," was released on
PSP in 2006 and PS2 in 2007.
http://psp.ign.com/articles/707/707025p1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City_Stories
Al Capone--"Scarface"
Alphonse Capone, "Scarface," built his criminal empire in Chicago and Cicero,
Ill., in the 1920's. He moved, with his wife Mae and son Albert, "Sonny," to 93
Palm Avenue (built by brewer Clarence Busch), Miami, Florida, in 1928. (Unlike
Sonny Forelli, Sonny Capone didn't choose a life of crime.) It was the year be-
fore Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, began having him investigated by
the IRS and Eliot Ness. It remained the home of the brutal organized crime
leader, when he wasn't in prison, for the rest of his life--till 1/25/1947. (If
you send Tommy to the prostitutes a lot, remember that the original Scarface
died at 48 years old, ravaged by syphilis, so have him put a helmet on that lit-
tle soldier.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone
A good source for material on Al Capone is:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/
Put "Al Capone" in the search engine.
"The Untouchables" starring Robert De Niro as Al Capone
Robert De Niro starred for "Scarface," 1983, director Brian De Palma in "The
Untouchables," 1987, in which he played Al Capone, Kevin Costner played Eliot
Ness, and Sean Connery played Jim Malone. Some of Robert's earliest movie
roles--as Jon Rubin in "Greetings," 1968, as Cecil (as Robert Denero) in "The
Wedding Party" 1969, and as Jon Rubin in "Hi, Mom!" 1970, were directed by Brian
De Palma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Untouchables_%281987_film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_niro
http://www.askmen.com/men/entertainment/28_robert_de_niro.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Costner
Sean Connery, originally from Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, and who has a wonder-
ful and distinctive voice, did the voice acting and supplied the physical like-
ness for the 2005 Electronic Arts Xbox, PS2, GameCube, and PlayStation Portable
game based on the James Bond movie "From Russia with Love," 1963 (I was in the
theater). Robert Shaw, mentioned in the Boats section, I.9.E, in this guide as
playing Quint in "Jaws," 1975, and also blessed with a distinctive voice, re-
prised his role as Donald "Red" Grant, too.
http://www.seanconnery.com/index.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shaw_%28actor%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_with_Love
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_with_Love_%28video_game%29
http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchreview.asp?reviewid=635208
For the real story of Eliot Ness, go to...
http://www.crimelibrary.com/
...and put "Eliot Ness" in the search engine, and pick "Eliot Ness: The Man
Behind the Myth." Another good source is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Ness
The novel "Scarface" by "Armitage Trail" (Maurice Coons), followed by Paul Mu-
ni as "Scarface" Tony Camonte, followed by Al Pacino as "Scarface" Tony Montana
"Scarface," 1983, starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana and directed by Brian De
Palma, takes its basic story from "Scarface," 1932, starring Paul Muni as Tony
Camonte, directed by Howard Hawks, and produced by the uncredited Howard Hughes.
Among the differences, the 1983 movie changes the story about Chicago bootleg-
gers to one about Miami cocaine dealers. Among the similarities, the blimp in
the 1983 version says the same thing as the statue in the pool in Tony Montana's
mansion when he's shot to death, which says the same thing that's found on a
billboard seen outside of Tony Camonte's apartment when he's shot to death: "The
World is Yours."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_%281983_film%29
"Scarface," 1932, a fictional account of a Capone-like gangster and thinly-
disguised portrayals of related gangsters, was loosely adapted, largely by Ben
Hecht, from the novel "Scarface," 1930, by Maurice Coons, who wrote it using the
name "Armitage Trail." In the novel, as in real life, Scarface isn't killed by
the authorities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_%281932_film%29
Like "Vice City," both movies had their problems with people demanding revi-
sions or censorship. Modern versions of the 1932 version have restored the
original ending in which Camonte is shot to death by the police instead of being
apprehended, judged, and hanged offscreen.
The "Vice City"/"Scarface" (with Al Pacino) similarities
Both "Vice City," 2002, starring voice actor Ray Liotta as Tommy Vercetti, and
"Scarface," 1983, starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, take place in 1980's Mi-
ami.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Liotta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pacino
http://www.rayliotta.net/
http://velvet_peach.tripod.com/apacino.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Vercetti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Montana
Tommy Vercetti and Tony Montana each come from prison, do menial labor jobs
when they 1st get into Florida, and work their way up the criminal ladder of
success. Tony Montana gets a job as a dishwasher in El Paraiso, across from the
Little Havana Restaurante; at the Little Havana, he gets work from Frank Lopez
via Omar Suarez (F. Murray Abraham). Tommy Vercetti gets jobs from Umberto Ro-
bina (voice acted by Danny Trejo) at Umberto Robina's Cafe in Little Havana.
(And there is a Little Havana Restaurant which serves Cuban food in North Mi-
ami.)
In "Vice City," the neon-lit side of the street the Ocean View Hotel is part
of, and the area of grass and trees, a low wall, and then beach on the other
side, looks like a street in Florida used in filming the exterior scenes of the
chainsaw segment of "Scarface," 1983. (The neon-lit buildings remind me of pic-
tures I've seen of the Art Deco section of South Beach in Miami.)
The Deacon Motel is one door to the S of Tommy Vercetti's 1st apartment, at
the Ocean View, and three doors S of the Deacon is the Colon hotel. The chain-
saw murder in "Scarface" takes place in the Sun Ray Motel; the Beacon Hotel is
on the left of it and The Colony is on the right. (And Miriam Colon plays Mama
Montana in "Scarface.")
Apartment 3C has bloodstains on the walls and floor indicating a bloody tor-
ture of someone, which look like the stains on a wall and the floor of the room
of the Staunton police station that Claude, the lead character, breaks a Yazuka
free from for Kenji in "GTA III," and call to mind the chainsaw murder scene in
"Scarface," 1983, especially since Apartment 3C is where you can also find a
Chainsaw in Vice City.
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8838/00gta1screenvc367pm3.jpg
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5152/00gta1screenvc362vi1.jpg
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/7133/00gta1screenvc349nd1.jpg
The clothes Tony Montana wears in the chainsaw segment of "Scarface" look like
the ones Diaz wears in "Vice City" except the pattern of flowers on the shirt is
a little different.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2947/00gta1screenvc171np7.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4114/00gta1screenvc161nt3.jpg
In "Vice City," the Voodoo is a reddish-brown '60 Chevrolet Bel Air (much of
the body is the same as an Impala) lowrider...
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4410/00gta1screenvc372gq4.jpg
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5902/00gta1voodoo60chevbelair1ng2.jpg
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/3851/00gta1voodoo60chevbelair3wc7.jpg
...and the car Tony drives in the chainsaw segment of "Scarface" is a reddish-
brown '68 Chevrolet Impala.
http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/8372/00gta1screenvc350pm1.jpg
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/9063/00gta1screenvc36668impalats9.jpg
In "GTA III," Flashback FM is a radio station hosted by Toni (as in "Tony Mon-
tana"). All it plays are five of the synthesizer-oriented songs, by Giogio Mor-
oder, from the movie "Scarface," 1983. The station seems to be an ongoing con-
cern, despite the playlist restriction. One of the songs, "Rush Rush," has lyr-
ics and a lead vocal by Deborah Harry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Moroder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Harry
Toni hosts Flash FM in "Vice City," which also ribs 80's synthesizer music in
a Synth and Son commercial. Deborah Harry does the voice acting for the Kaufman
Cab company dispatcher. And in "Jury Fury," Tommy muscles some jurists to give
Giorgio a verdict of "innocent."
Tony Montana tells Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar) that Bell 209 assault helicop-
ters are among the hazards of bringing cocaine into Florida; the Sea Sparrow in
"Vice City" is a Bell 47G.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-1_Cobra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_47G
Robert Loggia is the voice actor for crooked policeman Ray Machowski in "GTA
III," who's similar to crooked policeman Mel Bernstein (Harris Yulin) in "Scar-
face," 1983. Robert Loggia plays crooked BMW car salesman/crime leader Frank
Lopez in "Scarface," 1983.
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/1918/00gta1screenvc351wn4.jpg
Frank tells Tony he needs a guy with steel in his b**ls. Umberto tells Tommy
he wants to hire someone with big cajones (which may be a Peruvian or flamenco
percussion instrument or a Jimmy Durante reference--I'm not sure).
One of the cars Tony Montana drives is a silver-gray BMW that looks a little
bit like a rounded off "Vice City" Deluxo (a DeLorean).
The purple triangular neon-lit and draped stage by a dance floor in the Malibu
Club has similarities to the disco concert stage and dance floor of the Babylon
in "Scarface," 1983.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5832/00gta1screenvc128gs1.jpg
http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/1848/00gta1screenvc347qy2.jpg
Tony likes to smoke cigars. A lady who sells cigars from a horizontal box
hanging from her neck is one of the pedestrians you may see around the Ocean
View, and there's a La Tradicion Cuban Cigar Factory store in Little Haiti in
"Vice City." You have to use the "certaindeath" code to get Tommy to smoke,
though.
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9277/00gta1screenvc353of1.jpg
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7876/00gta1screenvc365sv7.jpg
The title of "Vice City" is shown over a mostly orange picture of palm trees,
which is also seen as a picture on the wall in the TV room of the mansion, and
on the wall of the upstairs room and behind the 1st floor bar of the Malibu
Club, which is very similar to the picture of palm trees on the wall in Frank
Lopez' office in "Scarface," 1983.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2825/00gta1screenvc127ayo7.jpg
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6391/00gta1screenvc127bcu7.jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1028/00gta1screenvc352lb7.jpg
Tony Montana refers disparagingly (take a wild guess how) to the Diaz broth-
ers; Tommy Vercetti works for, then kills, a crack baron named Diaz.
(For the next link, Copy and paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the Address
bar.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_
word_****
Tony goes to Elvira, who's lounging by an L (for "Lopez") shaped pool.
There's a Rockstar logo shaped pool in back of a house, where hidden package 53
is, on Starfish Island in "Vice City."
Tony kills Lopez. Tommy kills Diaz.
The blimp in "Scarface," 1983, says, "The World Is Yours.." The "Vice City"
blimp, on one side, says, "GASH," the name of the "Vice City" parody of the Gap
clothing stores. (The other side of it has the mirror image of "GASH.")
Tony launders his cocaine money at the corrupt Tri-American City Bank. Tommy
holds up El Banco Currupto in Little Havana.
There's a tiger skin rug in the TV room of Tommy's mansion, and a tiger skin
on the back of the couch in Tommy's apartment in the Ocean View. There's a ti-
ger in "Scarface," 1983. The tiger on Montana's property is suggestive of the
private zoo on Escobar's (see below) property.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5152/00gta1screenvc127uv4.jpg
http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/4350/00gta1screenvc246mu3.jpg
Tony is chauffeured in a white car. Tommy's Stretch limo is white.
The clothes Tony Montana wears near the end of "Scarface" look like the Ver-
cetti outfit of "Vice City" except Tony's shirt is white--not pink.
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3258/00gta1screenvc162ic8.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1150/00gta1screenvc142ajb4.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6775/00gta1screenvc159bq9.jpg
Tony's mansion has statues of women in robes by it. Tommy's mansion has stat-
ues of women in robes in the 1st floor indoor pool room that opens to the back
yard.
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/3309/00gta1screenvc363wo4.jpg
Tommy's office door at the back of the 2nd floor, big stairway to the 1st
floor before it with balconies and portraits on either side, and the emphasis of
the color red inside the main entrance room of his mansion, are like Tony Mon-
tana's, except Tony's has a staircase that goes down along the wall from either
side of his office and a small pool with a "The World is Yours" statue in the
middle of the 1st floor instead of a central staircase.
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/2443/00gta1screenvc140rm9.jpg
Tommy's office, with a high back black chair at a desk and twelve monitors in
the back right corner, facing the desk, is like Tony Montana's, except Tony has
six monitors in two horizontal rows of three.
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6559/00gta1screenvc141qx7.jpg
In "Vice City," the twelve monitors are in the main office of the Starfish Is-
land mansion, 1st seen in "The Chase." The monitors show the same scenes
throughout the game, notably when Diaz looks at them and realizes his mansion is
being invaded in "Rub Out," and when Tommy starts his war against Sonny's Mafia
men in the same office in "Keep Your Friends Close."
The twelve monitors show the scenes shown on two of the six monitors in "Scar-
face," 1983, when Tony Montana realizes his mansion is being invaded--not the
estate of the "Vice City" mansion.
- Six show the curved stairs and the small pool with the "The World is Yours"
statue in Tony's mansion--the monitor Tony has in the middle of his bot-
tom row of three.
- Six show the exterior, pillars, and driveway of Tony's mansion at night, lit
by lamp light--Tony's lower left monitor.
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/1260/guide18monqc9.jpg
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/9818/00gta1screenvc348fv1.jpg
When Tony defends his mansion against Sosa's invading Columbian henchmen, he
uses a machine gun that also shoots a grenade from a thicker lower barrel. Wi-
kipedia says it's an M16 fitted with an M203 grenade launcher. The M4 is the
weapon Tommy has that looks the most like it.
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9613/00gta1screenvc121na0.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5135/00gta1screenvc157et1.jpg
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/364/00gta1screenvc157aja4.jpg
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3296/00gta1screenvc158sx3.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_%281983_film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M203_grenade_launcher
When Tommy Vercetti has to defend the mansion against invasion at the end of
the main story missions of "Vice City," however, I recommend the Minigun over
the Rocket Launcher. Either way, go ahead and equip the Rocket Launcher at the
door of the main room, overlooking the stairs, and give it a "Say hello to my
little friend,"--pa-HOOM!--for me. (It's also one of the "Scarface," 1983,
lines the peds say in "GTA III." In "Vice City," an Hispanic ped says, "You
want to meet my little friend?")
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1894/00gta1screenvc123tv4.jpg
Cliff O'Neill's web site web site showing some of the "Vice City"/"Scarface,"
1983, similarities is at:
http://www.gamechronicles.com/features/gtascarface/body.htm
A brunette pedestrian with a pink top and pale blue short skirt in "Vice
City" says she graduated from Scarford (a pun on "Scarface" and "Stanford," I
think).
Another PC game, "Scarface: The World is Yours" by Radical Games for VU Games,
was released in October, 2006. It features a number of the same actors from the
1983 movie as voice actors. Al Pacino, except for some clips from the film at
the beginning, is only represented with a visual likeness with someone else pro-
viding the voice. It starts with Tony Montana in the office in his mansion,
like at the end of the movie, but he lives. (I guess, after major crime leader
Tony Montana had the ammunition for the east coast poured into him, Al Pacino
figured he's had it, or, at least, should have. Al Pacino allowed his likeness
to be used and chose the voice actor, Andre Sogliuzzo, though.)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812220/
Besides original cast members like Robert Loggia (Ray Machowski, "III"), it
features Michael Rapaport (Joey Leone, "III"), Robert Davi (Col. Cortez, "Vice
City"), and James Woods (Mike Toreno, "San Andreas"). I haven't tried it yet,
but it sounds like it has a lot going for it; no cycle jumps, though. I hope it
has interesting pedestrians and car jumps. (I suppose the Dodo is too much to
ask for).
http://www.scarfacegame.com/us/
http://pc.ign.com/articles/737/737783p1.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451192/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface:_The_World_is_Yours
"Cop Land" starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Frank Vincent, Michael Rapa-
port, and Deborah Harry
Ray Liotta stars as coke addict Gary Figgis in "Cop Land," 1997. It also
stars Robert De Niro as Lt. Moe Tilden, Frank Vincent as PDA President Vincent
Lassaro, Michael Rapaport as Murray "Superboy" Ba*****, and Deborah Harry as
Delores. Frank Vincent and Michael Rapaport do the voices of Salvatore and Joey
and Leone, respectively, in "GTA III"--Vincent returns as Salvatore in "Grand
Theft Auto: San Andreas," 2004. And Deborah Harry is the voice of the Taxi Con-
troller in "Vice City."
http://www.deborahharry.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rapaport
"No Escape" starring Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta starred in "No Escape," 1994, in which he plays Robbins, a prisoner
who wants to escape from various strange brutal places.
"Cop Land" and "No Escape" are also the names of two of the missions in "Vice
City" in which you can get Tommy a policeman's outfit.
"Blow" starring Ray Liotta and Johnny Depp
Ray Liotta played Fred Jung, the father of George Jung, played by Johnny Depp,
in "Blow," 2001. George Jung claimed he imported 85% of the U.S. supply of co-
caine in the 1970's (working with Carlos Lehder--Diego Delgado, in the movie--as
a U.S. extension of the activities of Pablo Escobar).
http://www.deppimpact.com/
http://www.lawbuzz.com/movies/blow/blow.htm
However, he never claimed that his packages could glow lime green while he
helped screw up a lot of people's lives.
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/051/051145p1.html
http://www.smokemag.com/0901/cover.htm
Pablo Escobar
Shortly after the opening scenes in "Vice City," Tommy tries to make a cocaine
deal for Sonny at Escobar International Airport (S end of the west island).
(Escobar is also the name of the neighborhood in the SW section of the industri-
al sector in "GTA 2.") The most successful cocaine dealer through this period
in the real world was Pablo Escobar.
Various points are disputed in the variety of web sites I checked. I'll try
to weed out the points that are repeated.
He is said to have started his criminal career grinding the writing from tomb-
stones and stealing cars and selling them.
The little jets at the airport may suggest private jets used to make some of
the illegal transactions made with his group. Forbes Magazine listed him as the
7th wealthiest person in the world in 1989. He was also a violent criminal.
(Some say he invented the Columbian necktie, whereby a person's tongue was
pulled through a hole cut in their neck, but http://en.wikipedia.org/ says it
was invented during the 1950's Columbian civil war. Sounds like something he'd
have done, though.) He had at least 100 people murdered while holding Columbia
under a reign of terror for his own gain. Hundreds of others were murdered by
his mob. His hit men fired snub nosed machine guns in drive-bys from the back
of motorcycles.
He proudly had his picture taken in front of a car he owned that once belonged
to Al Capone.
Pablo's brother Roberto says Pablo showed off one which was full of bullet
holes that he claimed was owned by Bonnie and Clyde.
http://gangstersinc.tripod.com/tele.html
He tried, like Al Capone, to use some of his wealth to buy respectability, and
deflect some criticism from the credulous--and deflect some of the all-too prev-
alent bullets--with some very public shows of charity. Like Capone, he was
imagined to be a folk hero by some of the poor people of his area, who admired
anyone who could give them money, wherever it came from.
In a country with an awful record for human rights, he nevertheless progressed
from desperate efforts to validate his ego to desperate attempts to stay alive,
and was shot to death at 44 years old in 1993. Police Colonel Aquilar claims
to have shot him.
http://cocaine.org/colombia/pabloescobar-killer.html
But the identity of the one who can claim credit is disputed. (For the 1st
web address, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st line in the ad-
dress bar.)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/godfathercocaine.
html
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/12/cgs.00.html
(Editorial note: don't ever do anything to help finance organized crime. The
money used for whatever you buy goes to finance the whole operation, including
some of the worst people in the world. My substantiation for that from a vic-
tim's view goes beyond the scope of this article.)
The main terminel building at Escobar International looks like the TWA Flight
Center, Terminel 5, designed by Eero Saarinen, at John F. Kennedy International
Airport in New York City. (Thanks to dogzilla for the tip.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_Center
"Carlito's Way" starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn, and Luis Guzman
Ken Rosenberg, Tommy's cocaine-addicted lawyer, gets ex-con Tommy involved in
more crimes. Cocaine-addicted lawyer David Kleinfeld, played by Sean Penn, gets
ex-con Corlito Brigante, played by Al Pacino, involved in crime again in "Carli-
to's Way," 1993 (based on a true story).
Like "Scarface," 1983, before it, it stars Al Pacino and was directed by Brian
De Palma.
Again, in "Scarface," Tony Montana curses the Diaz brothers; Carlito's body-
guard is played by Luis Guzman, who does the voice acting for Diaz in "Vice
City."
http://www.myspace.com/elpaposwing
"The Godfather" starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino
In "GTA III," 2001, and the "GTA III" set in the film studio in "Vice City,"
there are movie posters for "Badfellas" that feature a drawing of Marlon Brando
as he appears as Don Vito Corleone in the title role of "The Godfather," 1972,
which also stars Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, James Caan as Santino "Sonny"
Corleone, and Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen. It won the Academy Award for Best
Picture and Best Actor (Marlon Brando) of 1972.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_godfather
The last name of Salvatore Leone (Frank Vincent) of "III" and "San Andreas" is
an abbreviated version of the last name of Don Vito "Corleone." Salvatore's son
Joey is a bit like Don Vito's son Michael.
Thanks to Konstantinos for this reference: Hyman Memorial Stadium may be named
after the character of Hyman Roth, the Florida-based jewish gangster from "The
Godfather Part II." Roth himself was based on the real life famous gangster
Meyer Lansky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_Part_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Roth
And Electronic Arts released a PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Wii game
of "The Godfather" starring the voices of over 20 people from the movie, includ-
ing Marlon Brando (made for the game before he was taken from us), Robert Du-
vall, and James Caan, (no Al Pacino?), with their visual likenesses, in March,
2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather:_The_Game
http://pc.ign.com/articles/697/697319p1.html
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-godfather/701193p1.html
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/thegodfather/review.html?om_act=convert&om_
clk=tabs&tag=tabs;reviews
Robert De Niro got one of his Academy Awards, for Best Supporting Actor, for
"The Godfather Part II," 1974.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_Part_II
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800010759/bio
"Goodfellas" starring Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta with Frank Vincent and
Debi Mazar, directed by Martin Scorsese
During the opening scenes with Sonny Forelli in "Vice City," you can see some-
one hung on a meat hook in a freezer, which is how Frankie Carbone (Frank Si-
vero) ended up in "Goodfellas," 1990, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring
Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway, Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, Joe Pesci as Tommy De-
Vito, and Paul Sorvino as Paul Cicero. Joe Pesci won the 1990 Academy Award for
Best supporting Actor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas
http://www.scorsesefilms.com/
"Goodfellas" also features Frank Vincent as Billy Batts (the guy who's stomped
on and ends up being brutally murdered in a car trunk) and Debi Mazar as Sandy,
who did the voice acting for Salvatore Leone and Maria, respectively, in "GTA
III."
http://www.frankvincent.com/
http://www.heavenlycelebrities.com/debi_mazar.html
Frank Vincent, as Phil Leotardo, kills Angelo Garepe, who pleads from the
trunk of a car, in one of the episodes of the TV show "The Sopranos."
Joe Pesci vs. Frank Vincent in Scorsese movies with Batts/bats:
- Joey La Motta (Joe Pesci) beats up Salvy Batts (Frank Vincent) in "Raging
Bull," 1980, then
- Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) and Jimmy Conway (Robert Di Niro) stomp and shoot
Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) to death, for which DeVito's own mob later kills him
for, in "Goodfellas," 1990, then
- Frank Marino (Frank Vincent) leads a group of men who beat Nicky Santoro
(Joe Pesci) nearly to death with bats then bury him alive in "Casino," 1995.
Don't ever kill Joe Pesci or Frank Vincent. They're mighty, mighty men.
You'll just make them mad, and they'll come back and hurt you.
Somehow, the Joe Pesci and Paul Sorvino ("Goodfellas") look-alikes ended up in
the game "Mafia," 2002 (best seen on PC), which began production before "GTA
III" yet isn't a prequel. It's a "Goodfella" parallelogram.
"Goodfellas" is largely based on the true experiences of mobster-turned-in-
formant Henry Hill, played in the movie by Ray Liotta. Here's an interesting
account of the real story behind "Goodfellas" (if the link still works by the
time you read this):
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/goodfellas.php
The link at the bottom of that, about the 1978 Lufthansa heist, is informa-
tive, too.
Further information about actual criminals as the models for characters in
"Goodfellas" and "The Sopranos" can be found at this web site (you have to Copy
and Paste the 2nd to the 1st line of the link in your address bar):
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/lucchese1/
8.html?sect=16
"Mean Streets" and "Taxi Driver" starring Robert De Niro and directed by Mar-
tin Scorsese, Tiger Cabs, "Blue Thunder" starring a helicopter, and Samuel L.
Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Joanna Taylor, and Robert De Negro
Robert De Niro starred as John "Johnny Boy" Civello in "Mean Streets," 1973,
and as Travis ("You talkin' to me?") Bickle (as Robert DeNiro) in "Taxi Driver,"
1976, earlier than "Goodfellas," 1990, for director Martin Scorsese. "GTA III"
has Mean Streets Taxis, which is advertised on benches in "Vice City"--you can
see one of the benches during the intro. In Little Havana, there's a "Mean
Street Taxis" building; the window of the "Pizza Face" place beside it says
"DINERO WITHOUT LIMITE," which is Spanish for "money without limits."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqLyTdcMLhc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Streets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver
According to Wikipedia, a couple of related references are:
"In the first Grand Theft Auto game one of the available characters with the
default name 'Travis' sports a mohawk and wears a green jacket."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_%28video_game%29
"In the video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, an unlockable taxi
cab named the Bickle '76 is available after completing 100 fares in the 'Taxi
Driver' side mission."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_City_Stories
Ryton Aide in Little Haiti in "Vice City" advertises Martin's Sciateze Back
Tablets.
http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/9837/00gta1screenvc46ri0.jpg
In "Scarface," 1983, Tony Montana fails to impress Elvira Hancock (Michelle
Pfeiffer) with a pale yellow Cadillac with fins and a zebra skin interior. The
rewards for dropping off 100 fares with a cab in "Vice City" include the Zebra
Cab, which is a combined Al Pacino and Robert De Niro reference, but I wouldn't
try to impress Michelle Pfeiffer with it.
Thanks to reader Jeff Sims who sent me his theory that the Zebra Cab is a ref-
erence to a taxi company called Tiger Cabs, a front for a drug running (and oth-
er criminal business) outfit in Miami, in the book "American Tabloid" by James
Ellroy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Tabloid
(The other GTA reference to "Zebra" is the Zebra Bar, a reference to inter-ra-
cial sex, in "San Andeas." So it may be a sex pun-related way to come up with
an alternative name for Tiger Cabs.)
Papaya Studio has cancelled plans for a "Taxi Driver" game which was to be
published by Majesco and released in 2006.
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/taxi-driver/
The Vigilante Mission, if done with the Hunter, is called "Brown Thunder."
There was a 1983 movie, then a 1984 TV show, about an advanced experimental at-
tack helicopter called "Blue Thunder."
According to a web page devoted to "Blue Thunder" by Greg Donner:
"Contributor Eddie Duca notes that writer's Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby's
original concept was similar to the movie "Taxi Driver" with Robert De-
Niro. According to interviews O'Bannon did for the July/August '83 issue
of Film Comment Magazine and an August '85 issue of the L.A. Times, the
original story had Murphy as a paranoid schizophrenic who would have bi-
zarre hallucinations from his helicopter. Eventually he becomes convinced
he's a reincarnation of the Norse god THOR, god of thunder. As O'Bannon
put it, he would devastate L.A., turning it into a Beirut like nightmare.
O'Bannon mentioned that they even had a scene where the Hollywood freeway
collapses (never filmed.) The story was changed to make Murphy heroic (and
therefore more commercial.)"
http://www.gregdonner.org/blue_thunder/blue_thunder.html
PS: I wonder if this had anything to do with Thor being a guest on KCHAT?
"Chicks 'N Guns," on a movie poster in the trailer at Phil's Place, was the
title of the video watched by Robert De Niro and Samuel Jackson at the beginning
of the movie "Jackie Brown." (Thanks again to Rusk for the "Jackie Brown" tip.)
In "Vice City," "chickswithguns" is a code that replaces the Vercetti gang with
women in bikinis carrying guns.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8194/00gta1screenvc169xl4.jpg
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5854/00gta1screenvc170bg0.jpg
Samuel L. Jackson, besides starring in "Jackie Brown," 1997, is Stacks Ed-
wards, the big heist assistant shot on his bed in "Goodfellas," and is the voice
of Officer Frank Tenpenny in "San Andreas."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown_%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tenpenny#Officer_Frank_Tenpenny
http://www.samuelljackson.com/
"Jackie Brown" was directed by Quentin Tarantino, who has used a camera shot
made from the trunk of a car in several movies. Lance has Diaz think his name
is Quentin in the opening of "Phnom Penh '86," and a camera shot made from a car
trunk is used in the opening of the mission "Rub Out."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino
Joanna Taylor's picture on the cover of a Maxim magazine is altered for the
"Fun Bags" poster in the bedroom of the trailer at Phil's Place.
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/979/00gta1screenvc168vb2.jpg
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2192/00gta1screenvc167joannataylorsy5.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/trivia
Robert De Negro is mentioned in the radio tracks of "Grand Theft Auto 2."
While that sounds like a play on the name "Robert De Niro," it's the name (nick-
name?) of a real person. He helped with the music for the 1st "GTA," did the
vocals for "Grand Theft Auto" by Da Shootaz on LIPS 106 for "III," and, as Rob-
bott De Negro, did the vocal for Beatbox for "Vice City." Beatboxing is vocally
imitating percussion, particularly as it's done for hip hop and such, but I'm
not sure just where he shows up on the soundtrack.
http://imdb.com/name/nm1013613/
"Heat," starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner,
and Danny Trejo, "Heat" and "Manhunter" directed by Michael Mann, the executive
producer and a writer for "Miami Vice," and "Manhunt"
"Heat," 1995, starred Robert De Niro as Neil McCauley and Al Pacino as Lt.
Vincent Hanna. It also starred Tom Sizemore as Michael Cherrito, William Ficht-
ner as Roger Van Zant, and Danny Trejo as Trejo--Sonny Forelli, Ken Rosenberg,
and Umberto Robina, respectively, in "Vice City."
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4562/00gta1screenvc125ob1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sizemore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fichtner
http://www.williamfichtner.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Trejo
"Heat" was directed by Michael Mann, who also directed "Manhunter," 1986, in
which Brian Cox plays Hannibal Lector.
Michael Mann was also the executive producer and a writer for the TV series
"Miami Vice," 1984, and is the writer/director for an upcoming movie based on
the show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mann_%28director%29
Brian Cox did the voice acting for the TV director in Rockstar North's M-rated
violent action stealth game "Manhunt," 2003 (what are you kids watching on TV
here?). It's not by the same basic group of people of Rockstar North that work
on the "Grand Theft Auto" series, although there are some (such as Renaud Seb-
bane, Hunter Platin, Navid Khonsari, and writers Alan Davidson and James Wor-
rall) in common. (I'm guessing that the son of "Vice City"'s Gregory Sims is
Greg Sims II in "Manhunt.")
Danny Trejo, Umberto Robina in "Vice City," had a minor role as a guy named
Scarface in a teen comedy called "Trojan War," 1997, which also featured Lee Ma-
jors, the voice of Mitch Baker in "Vice City."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Majors
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120376/fullcredits
"The Sopranos," Lawrence Taylor--the MVP of the NFL in 1986, Fairuza Balk, and
Jorge Pupo
"The Sopranos" won the Emmy Award for Best Drama in 2004.
Lawrence Taylor, the voice of B.J. Smith in "Vice City," was the Most Valuable
Player in the NFL in 1986, the year "Vice City" takes place in. (B.J. is a co-
medic take on O.J. Simpson, another football star from the period who, unfortu-
nately, murdered a couple of people in 1994 and went to live in Miami and play
golf.) Lawrence has also guested as himself in 2004 in the "All Happy Fami-
lies..." episode of "The Sopranos," a TV show about fictional mob leader Tony
Soprano.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Taylor
http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=212
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.J._Simpson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sopranos
Fairuza Balk, the voice of Mercedes Cortez in "Vice City," is in two 1999 epi-
sodes of "The Sopranos" as FBI Agent Deborah Ciccerone, and in a 2001 episode as
FBI Agent Deborah Ciccerone/Danielle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairuza_Balk
http://www.fairuza.com/
Jorge Pupo, the voice of Gonzales--Diaz' right hand man who betrays him--in
"Vice City" is the 2nd valet in the "All Happy Families" episode of "The Sopra-
nos," 2004.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700664/
Joe Pantoliano was also on "The Sopranos" as Ralph Oifaretto, 2001-2002; he's
the voice of Luigi Goterelli in "GTA III."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pantoliano
"Nice Dreams"
The mission "Distribution" for the Cherry Poppers ice cream factory is similar
to Cheech and Chong using a truck to sell ice cream that contains experimental
marijuana in the 1981 movie "Nice Dreams."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_Dreams
Thanks again to reader Colin Attle for the tip that the Cherry Poppers mission
is also likely a reference to the Glascow Ice Cream Wars of the 1980's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars
John Wayne and "Easy Rider"
Dennis Hopper, the voice of Steve Scott in "Vice City," also plays Dave Hast-
ings in "The Sons of Katie Elder," 1965, and Moon in "True Grit," 1969. In both
of them he has death scenes with John Wayne (who plays John Elder and "Rooster"
Cogburn, respectively, and who won the Best Actor Award in 1969). This may be
why one of the "Vice City" missions is called "The Shootist"--it's the title of
John's last movie, in which John plays John Bernard Books. "The Shootist,"
1976, is also a poignant reflection on the life and career of John Wayne.
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/364/364793p1.html
http://www.salon.com/july97/wayne970711.html
http://www.jwayne.com/biography.shtml
According to Dennis Hopper, on the Maximonline web site, John, during the mak-
ing of "True Grit," figured Dennis persuaded John's daughter to go to an El-
dridge Cleaver (Black Panthers) speech. John got out of a helicopter and pulled
out a .45: "Where's that go***mned Hopper?" He chased Dennis around, so Dennis
hid in Glen Campbell's trailer for a while.
I think the red, white, and blue cycles in front of Mitch Baker's Biker Bar
are supposed to look like the bike Peter Fonda rode in "Easy Rider," 1969, which
"Vice City" voice actor Dennis Hopper directed, and which he also starred in and
co-wrote (with Terry Southern) with producer Fonda (as Billy and Wyatt, respec-
tively). The Bikers are one of the most non-violent gangs in "Vice City."
(P.S.: I'd also enjoy Jack Nicholson as a voice actor for Rockstar North to
get for Grand Theft Auto. He played alcoholic lawyer George Hanson in "Easy
Rider" and won one of his three Academy Awards for playing Randle Patrick McMur-
phy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"," 1975. He has a distinctive voice and
he's played all kinds of parts. You usually think of a celebrity for the cut
scenes, but you hear the pedestrians more, although you stand a better chance of
being run over or shot that way. How about having him on the radio?--covering a
basketball game?--something.)
Peter Fonda is the voice actor for The Truth in "Grand Theft Auto San An-
dreas," 2004. He also starred with Luis Guzman in "The Limey," 1999.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001228/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fonda
Dennis Hopper plays Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet," 1986, directed by David
Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachian as Jeffrey Beaumont. Kyle MacLachian does
the voice acting for Donald Love in "GTA III." The joke I know for this one is
that Dennis called David Lynch about getting the role of the psychopathic, ni-
tros-oxide-sniffing guy who's brutal to Isabella Rosselini's character. Dennis
pleaded, "You have to let me play Frank Booth--because I am Frank Booth!" This
raised a question for David: "That's great for the movie, but how are we going
to have lunch with him?"
http://www.dennis-hopper.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper
You might also go to the section on videos for "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City"
at the Planet Grand Theft Auto web site to download the "Vice City Voice Actors"
video featuring Dennis Hopper, Youree Cleomili Harris/Miss Cleo, and others.
You need Apple Quicktime to play it.
http://www.planetgrandtheftauto.com/gtavc/videos/
"Speed"
The idea of a vehicle that will blow up unless it goes at least a certain
speed, used in the Love Fist mission "Publicity Tour," was seen in the 1994 mov-
ie "Speed," in which Dennis Hopper played Howard Payne.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_%28film%29
"Boogie Nights" starring Luis Guzman and Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds, who does the voice acting for Avery Carrington in "Vice City,"
stars as Jack Horner, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting
Actor, in "Boogie Nights," 1997, which also stars Luis Guzman as Maurice T. Rod-
riguez.
http://www.burtreynolds.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Reynolds
"To Live and Die in L.A."
According to the International Movie Data Base web site, "Vice City" has a
number of connections with the movie "To Live and Die in L.A." The movie's last
line, "You work for me now," is something Diaz tells Tommy, both feature the
Wang Chung tune "Dance Hall Days," the perspective of Waxman when he's murdered
is like that of Diaz when he's killed by Tommy and Lance, and both feature coun-
terfeiting.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/movieconnections
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Live_and_Die_in_L.A._%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Hall_Days
George Romero, writer and director of "Night of the Living Dead"
Funeraria Romero, just S of the pizza place in Little Haiti, features a dis-
play window containing a photo of Bela Lugosi as Dracula that someone has drawn
a mustache, etc., on. It's in front of an alley where you'll find a shallow
open grave of a skeleton missing the left forearm, and is just a bit N of Carni-
zero Romero Family Butchers shop, which features hanging pig carcasses, a human
arm, and a box labeled "HUMAN ORGAN for transplant" in the window.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2139/00gta1screenvc96lp.jpg
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/4265/00gta1screenvc100sd.jpg
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/6933/00gta1screenvc89hd.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5522/00gta1screenvc63mi.jpg
It's probably named after director/writer George Romero, who made "Night of
the Living Dead," 1968, "Dawn of the Dead," 1978, "Day of the Dead," 1985, and
scripted a remake of "Night of the Living Dead," 1990. They're all horror mov-
ies about people trying to survive when recently dead people come to (basic in-
stinctive) life, need to eat other people's flesh to survive, and are only
stopped if their brains are destroyed.
http://www.georgeromero.com/
"Lady Frankenstein"
Flicko found that the poster with the line "ONLY THE MONSTER SHE MADE COULD
SATISFY HER STRANGE DESIRES" is for the 1971 movie "Lady Frankenstein." The
poster is on the N outer wall of Interglobal Films.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/2212/vcladyfrankensteinbu1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Frankenstein
"Miami Vice" starring Phillip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson
The voice of Lance Vance is provided by Phillip Michael Thomas of the 1984-
1989 TV show "Miami Vice." The pair of guys who come after Tommy in a "Vice"
Cheetah if his wanted rating goes to three stars may look vaguely like Crockett
and Tubbs from that show. I do mean "vaguely": when the pair who show up are a
black and a white guy and not two white guys, that handsome Phillip Michael
Thomas is represented by the pedestrian you see that has a Gilligan-type sailor
cap pulled down over his eyes, and that handsome Don Johnson is represented by
some guy with a goatee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Michael_Thomas
The "Vice" Cheetah does look like Crockett's white Ferrari Testarossa of the
last three seasons of the show. The Stinger looks like the Ferrari Daytona Spy-
der he drove in the 1st two seasons. The Spyder was actually a replica built on
the chassis of a 1980 Corvette, which is a slightly earlier model Corvette than
the one the Banshee in Vice City is based on.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/trivia
http://www.buyersmls.com/miamivice/facts.htm
I didn't see "Miami Vice," but I've read that there are similarities, such as
with the scenery and variety of vehicles. The heroes were savvy to the ways of
the criminals they were after, and Tommy Vercetti sure is. It wasn't a prequel,
but Don Johnson lit up between 11 and 12 (no, no, no....).
Luis Guzman (the voice of Diaz in "Vice City") was in a couple of episodes of
"Miami Vice," too--as Miguel in a 1985 episode and as the 1st Goon in a 1986 ep-
isode. I'm starting to think I have to give Luiz Guzman his own walk-through--
he's in everything, this guy.
Jan Hammer (the Mahavishnu Orchestra) came up with music for "Miami Vice" such
as "Crockett's Theme," which is played on Emotion 98.3 in "Vice City."
http://www.janhammer.com/
Miss Cleo, the Psychic Friends Network, wiccans, attempts to sell the ability
to acquire paranormal abilities, and the lunar landing hoax hoax
Youree Cleomili Harris, who plays the Haitian gang leader Auntie Poulet who
seems to have Tommy Vercetti under her spell in "Vice City," is also known as
Miss Cleo and claims to be a psychic of a line of Jamaican shamans. (Uh-oh.
Somebody call James Randi. Shirley McLaine was unavailable?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Cleo
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/60478_misscleo.shtml
According to the Bella Online web page by Lisa Shea, Youree was actually born
in Los Angeles to American parents. Miss Cleo's Mind and Spirit Psychic Net-
work, started in 1999, was the most popular telephone psychic service in the
country, advertised on TV, with Youree fronting it but phones answered by people
using scripts, telemarketer-style. It was built by South Florida businessman,
Steven Feder, with his cousin, Peter Stolz, who before had created Dionne War-
wick's Psychic Friends Network, which was promoted by celebrities such as Philip
Michael Thomas, the voice of Lance Vance in "Vice City." Youree also helped
"hawk a Web-based psychic consultation service, a line of at-home tarot prod-
ucts distributed by the Walgreens drug store chain, apparel, and even an online
dating service," according to a Jan.17, 2002, web site about the company and
controversy around it. It also says that Youree claims a distance between her-
self and the practices of the business people of it.
http://www.courttv.com/news/feature/cleo/misscleo_ctv.html
The Miss Cleo...Network, after an investigation by Court TV and several Attor-
ney Generals, was shut down. She appeared as Miss Cleo in early 2005 in TV ads
for a Miami used car dealership.
http://www.weht.net/WEHT/Miss_Cleo.html
A Sept.-Oct., 1995, Skeptical Enquirer report that says a bit about a psychic
network that includes the Philip Michael Thomas Network is at:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_n5_v19/ai_17450601
A web site about Philip Michael Thomas winning a suit for back payment from
the Psychic Readers Network is at:
http://extratv.warnerbros.com/dailynews/extra/06_02/06_06e.html
You might also go to the James Randi Educational, or CSICOP, home page and put
"Miss Cleo" and "psychics" or such in the search engine.
Fairuza Balk, Mercedes Cortez in "Vice City," was named Fairuza by her father
regarding her blue eyes--"Fairuza" is Persian for "turquoise." She used to, at
least, claim she was a wiccan (member of a wicca/witchcraft-oriented religion;
a witch), and ran a store for it, Panpipes Magickal, she's since sold. Proba-
bly related to that, she stars as Nancy Downs, one of the high school girls who
form a coven of witches who practice "The Craft," 1996. I think the segment by
Gethsemanee (Lynn Lipton) the witch on KCHAT in "Vice City" is meant to be a
parody of that.
Konstantinos, a guest on VCPR, has a web site:
http://konstantinos.com/
For various fees, you can buy books in which the victim is promised to catch
the dead on audio and video tape, summon spirits to locate treasure, control the
weather, guard their home while they're away (I could have used that a few
times), combat "psychic vampires" who use mind over matter to kill people, etc.
It's not given as a philosophical speculation on a possibility, pro or con, but
something you can pay him to learn to be able to do.
You might also go to the James Randi Educational, or CSICOP, home page and put
various topics Konstantinos brings up in the search engine.
If the lunar landing stage at Interglobal films calls to mind the lunar land-
ing hoax rumor, which it probably parodies, you might want to look at a good
criticism of the rumor at:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-03/commentary.html
Phil Silvers, Andy Kaufman, "Top Gun," "Iron Eagle," Iron Maiden,
"Spycatcher," Frank Sinatra, "Disco Inferno," Rambo, "The Final Countdown,"
and "Driving Miss Daisy"
I think Fort Baxter is named after the Fort Baxter in the 1950's TV comedy
"Sgt. Bilko" that starred Phil Silvers. Rockstar North is based in Scotland,
and "Sgt. Bilko" is as popular on TV in Great Britain as "The Honeymooners" is
here in the United States. I don't know why "Sgt. Bilko" isn't more popular
here--I thought it was pretty good in the reruns I saw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phil_Silvers_Show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Silvers
The interior of Kaufman Cabs looks like the main set of the 1978-1983 TV come-
dy "Taxi." Someone has written that if you drive a cab out of it, you may hear
an Andy Kaufman as Latka Gravas-type voice say, "Stop--What are you doing?," but
that's actually something a (Kaufman only?) cab driver says if Tommy jacks his
cab.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_%28TV_series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kaufman
Some of the titles given in the Statistics section on Flight ratings are from
the movie "Top Gun," 1986. (Thanks to the FAQ by Aggrosk8er at Gamefaqs.) The
"top fun" logo on some vans is similar to the "Top Gun" logo. "Chappy" is taken
from the "Iron Eagle" movies I, 1986, through IV, 1995, starring Lou Gossett,
Jr., as Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun_%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eagle
The Iron Maiden poster of a skeleton playing guitar is parodied on a window of
the Downtown Rock City record store.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Head
"The Number of the Beast," a 1982 Iron Maiden album title, is parodied for the
Love Fist ad "The Number of the Breast" at Vinyl Countdown at North Point Mall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_%28album%29
The font used for the Iron Maiden logo is basically the same as that used for
the Downtown Love Fist billboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden
Thanks to Konstantinos for the Love Fist/Iron Maiden connections. I'll add
that Couzin Ed and Lazlow talk about Iron Maiden and their mascot Eddie the Head
(parodied by the skeleton on the poster at Rock City) on VROCK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Head
Colin Attle caught a reference across the street to the E of the Pole Position
club. "Mairis bestsellers" advertises the "Book of the North" (not "month," so
I guess it might refer to Rockstar North) a book of "insect espionage" called
"Flycatcher," which is a reference to the 1987 book "Spycatcher." It was con-
troversial because the British government tried to ban it.
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6034/0tommyflycatchergd9.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher
Colin also noticed that the store next door to the N is a travel agency called
"Avec Moi Holidays" (see I.3 Places) and has a symbol of a jet pointing to the
store with "fly...." The combination "fly...." and "Avec Moi," which is French
for "with me," like the COMEFLYWITHME code, refers to the 1958 Frank Sinatra al-
bum and single "Come Fly with Me."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Fly_with_Me_%28album%29
(I'll add that since the nearby store "Burn Baby Burn" also has a sign that
says "since 1977," "Burn Baby Burn" seems to refer to a line from The Trammps
song "Disco Inferno." It was released in 1976 but became more popular as part
of the soundtrack of the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever.")
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/4857/0tommyburnbabyburnjm8.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Inferno_%28The_Trammps_song%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever
Colin saw that across from the police station in Little Havana is Calegg's
Delicatessen, and on the roof of it is a billboard that shows a fiery explosion
and advertises a movie starring Howitzer called "Exploder--Evacuator Part II."
It's a reference to "Rambo: First Blood Part II."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo:_First_Blood_Part_II
A couple of blocks E of it is a shop called "Pizza Face." Colin recognized
that the name is a U.K. slang phrase for a face with a bad complexion such as
one with acne.
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/p.htm
Colin Attle also saw that in the middle of the 1st floor of the Escobar air-
port terminal is a booth for Cut 'n' Shut automobile rentals. "Cut 'n' shut"
refers to cutting the bad part from one car, and using another car to cut a re-
placement section from to weld to the 1st one. The car is probably unsafe,
since it may come apart easily where it was welded, and is usually made by crim-
inals.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/CARS/buying/cut_and_shuts.jsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_%28automobile%29
"Vinyl Countdown," the name of the record store at North point Mall, is a pun
that refers to the 1986 single and album by Europe called "The Final Countdown"
(thanks to derty).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Countdown_%28song%29
One confused-sounding black guy says, "Is that you, Miss Daisy?" referring to
the 1989 movie "Driving Miss Daisy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_miss_daisy
Game makers and voice actors
Sam and Dan Houser and Jamie King worked for BMG Interactive, later Rockstar.
Terry Donovan worked for Arista, later Rockstar. Together with DMA Designs,
later Rockstar North, they created the Grand Theft Auto series. Dan worked on
them from "2" on, and Terry began on the series by joining Dan to work with Buka
Entertainment to create "London 1969." Dan also worked on "Manhunt" and the
"Midnight Club" games for Rockstar, and the other games Sam and Terry helped
with include Take-Two Interactive's "Oni" (I have it), Gathering of Develop-
ers' "Serious Sam: The Second Encounter," and, for Rockstar Games, the "Mid-
night Club" games, "Max Payne," "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne," "Mafia" (I
have it), and others.
For a much larger list by each of them, go to
http://www.mobygames.com/
and put their names in the search engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_North
http://www.dmadesign.org/
"Mafia: City of Lost Heaven," 2002, a game best admired for the PC version,
has a some other people in common with "Vice City" and "III," too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia:_The_City_of_Lost_Heaven
http://pc.ign.com/articles/369/369550p1.html
Name "Mafia" "III" "Vice City"
Renaud Sebbane producer/ Barry Stark/producer: pedestrian dialogue
director: ("Vice City" and "III")
voice overs
Chris Phillips various voices Marty Chonks/
El Burro
George Dicenzo Salieri Ernest Kelly (Print Works)
Laura Maxwell Michelle (as Laura Bubbles) pedestrian
Judy Henderson casting casting
John Zurhellen various voices Jethro (Boatyard--wears a flowered
shirt)
Others who did various voices for "Mafia" include "Vice City" voice actors Ad-
am Davidson and Steve Kenezevitch/Kenzevich (pedestrians, both also in "III"),
Gilliam Telling (radio caller), Laura Paterson (commercials and "III" pedestri-
an), and Gene/Gean Hilgreen (commercial voice).
Note: George Dicenzo also played District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi in "Hel-
ter Skelter," 1976, Major Benchley in "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind," 1977,
and Sam Baines in "Back to the Future," 1985.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225191/
http://www.randomactsoftheater.com/ABOUTgeorge.html
The game "Max Payne," 2001, shares Renaud Sebbane, Jane Gennaro (Maude the Ice
Cream lady), and Navid Khonsari (Dwayne of the Boatyard--he wears a yellow jer-
sey) with "Vice City." And in "Grand Theft Auto 2," a Max Paint garage does
what a Pay 'n' Spray does in subsequent installments of the series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Payne
Navid also does voice acting in "GTA III" (the one who calls Lazlow about
killer bees), "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne," 2003 (the porn host), "Man-
hunt," 2003 (Cerberus guard #3), and reprises Dwayne in "San Andreas." He also
directed the motion capture for the cut scenes, helped Dan Houser direct the
audio for the cut scenes, and helped write the pedestrian dialogue for "Vice
City."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Payne_2:_The_Fall_of_Max_Payne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_%28video_game%29
After Navid played a caller who told Lazlow that killer ants are more dan-
gerous than killer bees on the radio station Chatterbox FM in "GTA III," 2001,
a reference seems to have been made about it in "Half-Life 2," 2004.
http://www.lazlow.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazlow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_2
In the chapter "Sandtraps" of "Half-Life 2," an antlion kills a man and an-
other man says, "Dear God! Poor Laszlo! The finest mind of his generation
come to such an end."
Robert Davi, Col. Cortez in "Vice City," is the voice of the SpecOps leader in
the game "Halo 2," 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davi
http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/D/davi_robert/index.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2
And you can find Jenna Jameson, Candy Suxxx in "Vice City," as Daisy, the
skater you have to complete the game, etc., to unlock (oo-oo) in "Tony Hawk's
Pro Skater 4," 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Jameson
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7264/00gta1jennajameson1da.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hawk%27s_Pro_Skater_4
Soundalike game names
In the "Autocide" assassination mission in "Vice City, you're to have Tommy
kill six people with names like characters in other crime games:
- Mike Griffin--like Mace Griffin in "Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter," 2003.
- Dick Tanner--the same as Tanner in "Driv3r," 2004, who, like Tony Cipriani
in GTA's "III," 2001, and Rafferty in the game "True Crime: Streets of LA,"
2003, is voice acted by Michael Madsen. He also stars as Sonny Black in "Donny
Brasco," 1997, which stars Al Pacino as Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero, and plays
Vladimir in the movie based on the game "Bloodrayne," 2002. In the mission
"Madd Dogg's Rhymes" in "San Andreas," a man plays a video game and says, "This
sucks. I mean, how could Refractions mess up so bad? Tanner, you suck ass!"
"Driv3r," 2004, is designed by Reflections Interactive.
- Marcus Hammond and Franco Carter--like Mark Hammond and Frank Carter in "The
Getaway," 2002.
- Nick Kong--like Nick Kang in "True Crime: Streets of LA."
- Charlie Dilson--like Charlie Jolson in "The Getaway."
Thanks to this web site for the "Autocide" game references:
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/trivia
Celebrity soundalikes (Walter Brennan, etc.)
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but some of the other pedestrians sound like
celebrities not listed in the cast.
The police man shouting, "Dangerous driving is a crime" sounds like Jim Car-
rey;
(And the pool of water and sky backdrop at Interglobal film studio reminds me
of the end of "The Truman Show," 1998, starring Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank.
The idea of manipulating a character for a video game is similar, too.)
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/817/00gta1screenvc40qe5.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3033/00gta1screenvc39yg1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show
the light brunette guy in a brown leather jacket who says, "Do you want me to
push you?" sounds like Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle in "The French Connection,"
1971 (or Brian Doyle Murray, Bill's brother);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Connection_%28film%29
one of the policemen sounds like comic/TV game show "Family Feud" host Louie
Anderson: "I'd chase you if I didn't have so many doughnuts";
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Anderson
a matronly business lady says, "Oh, no, you don't" like Goldie Hawn;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldie_Hawn
the lady selling cigars by the Ocean View sounds like Olive Oyl of "Popeye"
cartoons;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Oyl
some business guy says,"Mm-mm, yes" like the late Jim Backus (another hint is
that he refers to Jim Backus' role in the '60's sitcom "Gilligan's Island" by
saying something like "Save me, Thurston Howell")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Backus
the victimized shopkeepers of "Shakedown" all sound vaguely like Woody Allen:
"My livelihood--destroyed";
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_allen
the construction worker who says, "I'll dunk your f-in' doughnut" and "Ha ha,
you missed" sounds like someone from "The Simpsons";
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons
and the ped who says, "Money is the root of all evil--gimme some," "Jesus, Jo-
seph, and Mary," and "Somebody should hit you with a brick," etc., sounds like
the late Walter Brennan. Someone named Dream Projects at the Gamefaqs message
boards recently wrote that you hear that last voice say a lot of funny things if
you get into a lot of fights with what he called "hillbillies" in the construc-
tion area. They're barefoot with blue jeans, red jerseys, brown sweaters, black
hair and beards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Brennan
More funny things pedestrians say
An old lady: "I think I s**t my pants."
A tramp: "Fire in the hole!"; a drunken one: "I'm lost again."
The skater lady: "Gangway, Disco Duck!"
A rich businessman: "Where the hell is my yacht?"
A young black lady in jeans: "S**tknockers!" ("S**tknockers"?)
For me, part of the fun is thinking of things you'd say in response to them.
In response to some of the harsher things, I get a lot of mileage out of an im-
pression of Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor on the 1960-1968 TV show "The Andy
Griffith Show": "That wouldn't be very sociable" or "I don't think I'd be par-
tial to that." And shaking your head "No" like an exasperated Don Rickles about
to say, "You dummy" comes up when a member of the Vercetti gang says, "Where are
we?" (These are the people I have to protect me if homicidal criminals come
around....) And when the police radio dispatcher seems to know what vehicle
Tommy is in when he has a wanted level--"suspect last seen in a helicopter"--
it's enough to say something like "I'll have to keep an eye out for that; I al-
ways try to do my civic duty...."
Captain Scott and Dundee, Scotland
According to Amnesiac at the Easter Eggs Archive web site, a billboard by the
airport which says "Come to Dundee," shows the ship "Discovery," which Captain
Scott sailed to Antarctica and which currently resides at Dundee, Scotland, and
the sign says that because some of the Rockstar North programmers came from DMA
Designs in Dundee. (It also says, "Look, we have a boat that belonged to a los-
er!" which is a harsh joke. Robert Falcon Scott made a couple of pioneering
expeditions to the Antarctic, fraught with tragedy but bringing scientific dis-
covery and acclaim. In his 2nd effort, he led a team that tried to be the 1st
to reach the South Pole but were beaten there by a Norwegian group led by Roald
Amundsen that got there 21 days earlier. The effort by Scott's group was also
made at the cost of their lives, having gotten caught in blizzards in 1904.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Scott
Update: there's another billboard about Dundee in "San Andreas" on the roof of
a Vinyl Countdown in N Rodeo.
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7535/00gta1dundeesa4jy.jpg
Look-alike mall and soundalike island
Washington Mall looks like the Bal Harbor Mall in Miami, which has expensive
stores like Gucci's. (Thanks to the Secrets FAQ by THaguyINgta3 at the Gamefaqs
web site for the Bal Harbor Mall tip.)
http://db.gamefaqs.com/
If you want to see it, go to this web site:
http://www.balharbourshops.com/
The porn film studio is on Prawn Island. "Prawn," besides being a name for
edible crustaceans, is a pun that sounds like "prOn," deliberately illiterate
Internet slang for "porn."
Little Havana, Little Haiti, and Liberty City--Miami
There's a Little Havana district, named after the capital of Cuba and which
has a predominantly Cuban population, in SW Miami. It's centered along SW 8th
St.--"Calle Ocho" (8th St.). It began growing with people fleeing the Cuban
revolution in 1959.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Havana%2C_Miami%2C_Florida
Little Haiti, with a predominantly Haitian population, is about 15 miles NW of
it in Miami. It spans NW 12th to 19th Aves. and 62nd to 73rd Sts.. It began
growing with refugees fleeing extreme poverty in Haiti in the 1960's. As in the
game, Little Haiti has more poverty and crime of the two, indicated in the game
with the shacks of Auntie Poulet's neighborhood and the harsher behavior of the
Little Haiti gangsters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Haiti%2C_Miami%2C_Florida
I'm no big sociology professor--I don't even follow the news as much as some.
But the conflict in real life doesn't seem to be as much a matter of how the im-
migrants of one group get along with the members of the other, although Miami is
a relatively segregated place of recent great changes in proportions of ethnic
groups, but more over differences in how the attempts at immigration from each
country to the U.S. have been considered and handled.
1980 saw a wave of immigration from both and pointed up this difference.
While the Haitians were accepted in NYC they were rejected in Miami, considered
as fleeing an American protectorate in comparison with Cubans who were accepted
as fleeing communism and Fidel Castro. Castro opened the harbor at Mariel and
made sure the 1000's of Cubans taken from it to the U.S. were from jails and
hospitals for the criminally insane. (Though it was done to spite the U.S. view
of him as cruel, it ironically reaffirmed the U.S. view that he could be a real
nutcake.) The crime rate went up.
There is a Liberty City section of Miami, too, which is the largest African-
American section of Miami, about two miles from Little Havana. It originated in
the 1930's with people moving from overcrowding in the African-American Miami
neighborhood of Overtown to the concrete buildings with indoor plumbing in what
became known as Liberty City. Many of them viewed the difference above, with
the Cuban-Americans being more successfully accepted and integrated into Miami,
as having the added factor of racism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_City%2C_Miami%2C_Florida
Liberty City hasn't recovered from the riots there after the all white jury
acquittal of the white policemen who beat Arthur McDuffie to death in 1980. Mc-
Duffie was a black insurance man. The officers said he was killed when his mo-
torcycle crashed after a high speed getaway attempt, then changed it when one
officer said he was beaten to death with flashlights when he forcefully resisted
arrest.
In 2002, the U.S. Census Bureau named Miami as the poorest large urban center
in the United States.
Among many sources, you might read:
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/flipside/vol3/jan00/00ja23a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_migration_to_Miami
Other places "Vice City" is based on
Ybakker at GTA Forums came up with some good similarities between Miami and
"Vice City."
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=256227#1
The areas marked with letters in Vice City are like those with the same let-
ters in Miami in the two pictures at the next link:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/290/00gta1screenvc368oo9.jpg
The layout of Escobar International is similar to the one of Miami Interna-
tional:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9513/00gta1screenvc369cy2.jpg
Starfish Island looks like Belle Isle:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6750/00gta1screenvc370ek0.jpg
These Ocean Beach buildings look very similar to ones of the Art Deco sec-
tion of Miami:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/2397/00gta1screenvc371wa3.jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9248/00gta1screenvc372ou0.jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1175/00gta1screenvc373fs5.jpg
Ocean View:
Go to the Google Search engine and put in "710 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL."
Click it, "Street view," and "Full screen." (The actual address is 700, but
"710" puts the camera in front of it.) The Deacon/Beacon and Colon/Colony are a
bit to the N.
The lighthouse looks like Cape Florida lighthouse in Key Biscayne:
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3519/00gta1screenvc374lk5.jpg
Links Bridge looks like Port bridge:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/483/00gta1screenvc375zj6.jpg
The tallest skyscraper Downtown is like the Bank of America building:
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/860/00gta1screenvc376vj7.jpg
Wikipedia has a good article about places "Vice City" is based on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_city
A few examples:
The lighthouse is based on Cape Florida lighthouse in Key Biscayne.
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9817/00gta1rhinovc14qpn7.jpg
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/6702/00gta1lighthousevc19tj.jpg
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/8862/00gta1lighthousevc2pn.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Florida_lighthouse
The park at the S end of the E island is like South Pointe Park.
http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/1984/00gta1southpointepark9vk.jpg
North Point Mall is a parody of Aventura Mall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aventura_Mall
One of the places Starfish Island seems like, and the one that the name is
based on, is Star Island. (See ybakker's picture of Belle Isle, above, for a
good comparison of the layout of the island itself.)
http://www.star-island.com/
Leaf Links seems to represent a number of Country Clubs on the E side of Mi-
ami. The name comes from Leith Links, which is in Leith near Edinburgh, Scot-
land, where Rockstar North is. Leith Links is where the earliest record of golf
is found. It's considered the "home of golf" because the first official rules
were formed there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28golf%29
"Rockstar North is located on Leith Street, the road (continued as Leith
Walk) to Leith from central Edinburgh. Prior to this, the company was
based within Leith itself--in an office building situated next to Leith
Links park. The park itself is honored in the fourth Grand Theft Auto
game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where the local country club is called
Leaf Links."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith
GTW notes:
The name of the WK Chariot hotel is probably a variation of the name of the
"JW Marriot Hotel" of Miami. The curved porch roof is similar, too.
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2807/00gta1screenvc922nv5.jpg
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/4909/00gta1jwmarriotthotelvc3fo.jpg
The Beach Patrol Headquarters, S of the Ocean View Apartment, resembles the
Miami place of the same name.
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/2128/0tommybeachpatrolds2.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/688/0tommybeachpatrolrealkj7.jpg
http://www.miamibeach411.com/photo-gallery/deco-tour/index.html
The water tower at Interglobal Films is probably meant as symbolic of the wa-
ter tower of Warner Bros. studios at 4000 Warner Blvd. in Burbank, CA. A couple
similar water towers appear in Interglobal Film Studios in Los Santos in "San
Andreas," too. (Thanks to reader and contributor Wolfie2k5.)
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9387/00gta1screenvc917nk6.jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4756/00gta1screen970vi9.jpg
One of the Miami Beach life guard huts:
http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/6021/00gta1lifeguardhut14dh.jpg
The Art Deco district of Ocean Drive in South Beach, Miami:
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1492/00gta1artdecodistrict4gb.jpg
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9638/00gta1artdecodistrict16qf.jpg
http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/1738/00gta1artdeco21ir.jpg
Ocean View:
Go to the Google Search engine and put in "710 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL."
Click it, "Street view," and "Full screen."
The logo for the Malibu Club looks something like the logo for the Malibu
Country Club, which has a golf course on Encinal Canyon Road (which you'd prob-
ably reach from Mulholland Highway, which, in turn, suggests Stephen Mulholland
of Rockstar North and an intersection in "San Andreas") in Malibu, CA.
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/3417/guide66malibuvq1.jpg
http://www.malibucountryclub.net/page/81-2054.htm
Downtown Miami:
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1871/00gta1downtownmiami5vr.jpg
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I.3 How to go to New York and get there a couple years before you leave:
some of the "Grand Theft Auto III" tie-ins with "Vice City."
People and the Dodo
Places
Things
Walk out over thin air (hobo-ha!)
Darkel and discarded game ideas
PS: "San Andreas," "GTA," "Wild Metal Country," and "GTA 2"
"Grand Theft Auto Vice City" is a prequel, set in 1986 Vice City/Miami, to
"Grand Theft Auto III," set in 2001? Liberty City/New York City, of the same
world, if not main story line.
People and the Dodo
Sonny Forelli (Tom Sizemore), who seems to have set Tommy Vercetti up to go to
prison for 15 years, sends him to Vice City, and is killed by him in the end,
must have criminal relatives. In "GTA III," Joey Leone (Michael Rapaport) wants
Claude (Claude Speed of "Grand Theft Auto 2"?), the lead character, to deal with
the Forelli brothers.
Lazlow Jones, one of the GTA writers, hosts VROCK in "Vice City." One of the
CDs of "Vice City," and extra, songs reveals how Lazlow got kicked off the rock
station. (See the "Radio Station Scripts" FAQ by Kintaro Oe age 25 at Gamefaqs.
Basically, the normally level-headed Lazlow gets a little naively carried away
with his rock star wild man effort.) He hosts Chatterbox FM in "III."
Fernando (Frank Chavez) hosts Emotion 98.3 in "Vice City." He's a pimp pre-
tending he's something better to the increasing annoyance of Lazlow on Chatter-
box FM in "GTA III."
Barry Stark, the guest who's a nudist on VCPR in "Vice City," is a nudist who
calls in to Chatterbox FM in "III." He's voice acted by Renaud Sebbane, who
produced the pedestrian dialogue for "Vice City" and "III."
The British fellow who calls in to KCHAT and wants to be spanked in "Vice
City" calls in to Chatterbox FM wanting the same thing in "III."
The caller to KCHAT who's a fan of Claude Maginot (John Mauceri) in "Vice
City" is Morgan Merryweather (Gerry Cosgrove), who's the DJ of the classical
station Double Clef FM in "III."
Toni (Maria Chambers) hosts Flash in "Vice City" and Flashback FM in "III."
The group onstage at the Malibu Club is a Village People-looking group of Vice
City pedestrians (except the Native American Indian and cowboy are replaced by a
fireman). A pedestrian ribs the lyrics of songs by the Village People ("Young
man," "There's a place you can go," "In the navy," etc.) in "GTA III."
8 Ball has a bomb shop in "Vice City," and is one of the characters, voice
acted by Guru, and has three bomb shops, each with a different way to detonate
bombs, in "III."
Donald Love, as Avery Carrington's silent stenographer in "Vice City," picks
up on Avery's line "...nothing brings down real estate prices quicker than a
good old-fashioned gang war, 'cept maybe a disaster, like a biblical plague..."
and uses a slightly paraphrased version of it himself as a media mogul, voice
acted by Kyle MacLachlan, in "III." (I think "Donald" may be meant to suggest
Donald Trump. The wealthy media mogul part reminds me a bit of Ted Turner.)
Diaz (Luis Guzman), the crack dealing crime boss, complains to Tommy Vercetti
that his favorite "El burro" movie wouldn't play. El Burro (Chris Phillips),
leader of the Diablos gang, gives Claude, the lead character of "GTA III," some
missions in Portland and likes porno of...el burro. (El Burro also gives mis-
sions in the 1st "Grand Theft Auto.")
El Burro is among the Stephen Bliss cartoon representations of a few charac-
ters of "GTA III" you can find in "Vice City" (El Burro is that fat guy laughing
and pulling his t-shirt off his belly to show a tattoo). You can find him with
8 Ball, Kenji Kasen, and Maria in the display window of the Rockstar Video Games
store, S end of the east island, 2nd street from the E, a little over half a
block up on the E side of the street. You can find ones of Luigi Goterellio,
Misty, Asuka Kasen, and Toni Cipriani as targets in the windows of the 2nd and
3rd shooting tests in "The Shootist" and in "Rifle Range."
http://www.stephenbliss.com/
Phil Cassidy (Gary Busey), who has heavy artillery to sell Tommy and loses his
arm in "Vice City," has an Army Surplus place and is featured as the One Armed
Bandit in the "Arms Shortage" mission for Ray Machowski (Robert Loggia) in "GTA
III."
http://www.garybusey.com/
http://www.buseyworld.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Busey
Hunter Platin, the Psycho in "Vice City," is Phil Cassidy, Curly Bob, and Chi-
co in "III."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1066291/
Kim Gurney, who is one of the people who supply the voices of pedestrians in
"Vice City" and "San Andreas," is the voice of Misty in "III."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1065373/
The little Dodo (you can't fly), pulling a sign behind it, and the Skimmer (a
Dodo with pontoons you can fly) in "Vice City," show up as a Dodo (you can fly)
with clipped wings at the airport, and a Dodo (you can't fly) flying overhead,
in "GTA III." As the "Vice City" Dodo (you can't fly), it's afforded the spe-
cial status of being the only thing (and person, considering that there must be
someone in there flying it) that you can get 30 criminal rating points and a
three star wanted level for destroying, which may create the biggest explosion
of the game. Like Tommy, however, it won't stay lying down no matter what you
do to it--it keeps coming back. Both the non-flyable "Vice City" Dodo and at
least the flyable Dodo in "III" have Y-ME369, as in "Why me?" (369 implying a
trio of mutual oral sex?) written on the side of it, meaning they're the same
small plane(s).
I like it. It's in "San Andreas," too, and they fixed the wings.
Places
The "looks like a temple--sounds like a church" (organ services--settle down--
between 10 and 11 am) building at the S end of the east island has a star of
David, and what I think is meant as a depiction of Moses' tablets, over the
front door. It was preceded by the big star of David statue at the S end of
Staunton in "GTA III."
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/253/guide69templechurch1011ic4.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3652/00gta1screenvc257bzo8.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1480/00gta1screenvc257iq0.jpg
There's a set of a bit of the Broadway-like Bedford Point section of Staunton
Island of "GTA III" at Interglobal Films on Prawn Island in "Vice City." It's
the outdoor set with the huge half of a hamburger marquee. The set makes the
area for the street a little narrower.
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8623/00gta1screenvc303aeo8.jpg
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8858/00gta1screenvc303cez2.jpg
You can find a lot more Liberty City/New York City and New Jersey similari-
ties at the page at the next link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_City_%28Grand_Theft_Auto%29
Thanks to reader Colin Attle for the location of a couple of places with Rock-
star references. S of the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray is a bed store with a mar-
quee that says "This is the number 1 bed store in Carcer City"--Carcer City is
the setting for the Rockstar Game "Manhunt," 2003. (N of that Pay 'n' Spray is
the Ryton Aide store that appears in "Manhunt," too.) If you continue N, take
the 2nd left, and look right at the left curve, you'll see the RIVERSIDE PAVIL-
LION, and to the right of it are a couple of store shutters that each have graf-
fiti of the name of the 2006 Rockstar Vancouver game "BULLY" by the Rockstar
logo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_%28video_game%29
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/3538/vicecitybullyuk4.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_%28video_game%29
Another thank you goes to Colin Attle for reminding me that E and across the
street from the Pole Position, on a store front with a sign that says "avec moi
holidays" ("avec moi" means "with me" in French), is an advertisement for a $399
holiday to Edinburgh--the home of Rockstar North.
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/1217/0tommyavecmoiai2.jpg
(I'll add that Tenerife, a place it advertises for a $299 holiday, is a Span-
ish island that's the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean
off the coast of Africa.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife
Colin also wrote to me that "to the east of Washington Mall there is a barbers
called 'Gay Gordos'--this could be reference to a Scottish dance: the Gay Gor-
dons." (I'll add that there's a Gay Gordos Boufon Boutique in Redsands East in
"San Andreas.")
http://www.scotlandsmusic.com/thegaygordons.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Gordons_%28dance%29
Things
The terrarium in Tommy's Ocean View apartment contains basic versions of a
rock arch and a light house which symbolize the ones behind the NW Portland man-
sion of Mafia leader Salvatore Leone (Frank Vincent) in "GTA III." The open
chest in it seems to refer to the open chest that Claude, the lead character of
"GTA III," finds at Donald Love's place as he realizes that Donald Love has dis-
appeared. A poster of Claude is on the Ocean View wall.
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/5844/00gta1screenvc237oy7.jpg
http://img432.imageshack.us/img432/8174/00gta1screenvc238xw3.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/134/00gta1screenvc239jz9.jpg
http://img432.imageshack.us/img432/9264/00gta1screenvc233yg9.jpg
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/4057/00gta1screenvc232bh3.jpg
Between 23:00 and midnight, the lights in the windows of the WK Chariot Hotel
in "Vice City" depict the outline of a huge c**ck and balls, and spray squirts
periodically from the roof. (The WK Chariot is E and across the street from the
parking lot of the Malibu Club.) The "Zombie Elvis" papers that litter the city
are put out by the Liberty C**k. The guy with a ponytail by Liberty College in
Staunton in "III" has a sketch on his notepad by someone that might have had the
WK Chariot in mind. The fans at the stadium hold up cards that spell the name
of their team: C**KS. I wonder if the GTA "San Andreas" is going to have some-
thing like that.
http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/359/00gta1screenvc236li4.jpg
http://img308.imageshack.us/img308/7092/00gta1screenvc250ed9.jpg
(Update: in "San Andreas," W of Verdant Meadows, and in an entrance lot at the
S end of the block of "TOS" of "LOS SANTOS," are GTA versions of Big Stoney of
Kodachrome Basin, Utah. I leave it to some modder to figure out how to put Reg-
ular Tom on top of it.)
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/699/00gta1screenshot111a8sp.jpg
http://img426.imageshack.us/img426/9458/00gta1screen29iu.jpg
http://www.mnmuseumofthems.org/Faces/labels/Stoney.html
The Degenatron and Pogo the Monkey (non-working) arcade games are found in the
Kaufman Cab building and the Little Haiti Well Stacked pizza store in "Vice
City." Degenatron is advertised on a billboard over a NW Downtown road in
"Vice City," and both games are advertised on the radio in "III." Since "III"
came out, if you want to play them, you have to go to the 2nd and 3rd links be-
low.
http://img331.imageshack.us/img331/5061/00gta1screenvc245vr9.jpg
http://www.degenatron.com/
http://www.pogothemonkey.com/base.html
Pogo the Monkey may be a reference to the 1983 Commodore 64 and Atari 400/800
game "Pogo Joe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_Joe
The Predator, the police boat with a built-in machine gun (I.9.E), is in "Pa-
parazzi Purge" in "GTA III."
Some billboards by the airport in "Vice City" say "Take a vacation in Liberty
City." It's blurry, but I think it's Claude in the blue Blista in the fore-
ground of it. In "GTA III," on a poster in the tunnel to the airport and on at
least a couple of billboards in Liberty City, there's an ad that says, "see you
in MIAMI." There's a small picture of palm trees on a beach that says, "GET-
AWAY" on the refrigerator in the trailer at Phil's Place in "Vice City." On a
wall of the Portland hideout in "III" is a poster of the same thing.
http://img287.imageshack.us/img287/336/00gta1screenvc230qs1.jpg
http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/5404/00gta1screenvc217ns4.jpg
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3937/00gta1screenvc218ct2.jpg
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/2553/00gta1screenvc222be5.jpg
The McAdam Airways hangers in "Vice City" were preceded by ads for McAdam Air-
ways in "GTA III."
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/691/00gta1screenvc255adi3.jpg
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9919/00gta1screenvc255xs0.jpg
If there's parallel to the "GTA III" Shoreside Vale unfinished tunnel in "Vice
City," it's the big tan sewer pipe sticking out from the land into the water at
the base of the V in the water between Fort Baxter and Little Havana. You could
type the "seaways" code and drive into it to the length of a small car, but
that's it. It's about as exciting. I haven't heard about anyone wondering
what's behind it, though.
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/1128/00gta1screenvc235gc1.jpg
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4356/00gta1screenvc282bv4.jpg
Phil's refrigerator also has an ad for the Bloody Choppers (rock band?), and a
poster in the trailer advertises the movie "Soldiers of Misfortune." Both ads
can be seen on billboards in "III" and both things are advertised on LED panels
in Bedford in "III." I'll guess that "Soldiers of Misfortune" is a play on the
names of the two "Soldier of Fortune" computer games.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/2225/00gta1screenvc263hm9.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/2741/00gta1screenvc252lh8.jpg
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2535/00gta1screenvc253ru7.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_%28computer_game%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED#LED_panels
The Bitch 'n' Dog Food trucks in "Vice City" have boxes with a light bulb with
a human face drawn on them in the back (knock the back door off with a night
stick or such to see them). The boxes just show the logo of the "Sparki" elec-
tric company logo from "III." But a Boxville or Yankee R. S. and L. Bows truck
has boxes of red meat and blood stains on the walls inside. In the "Her Lover"
mission in "III," Marty Chonks (Chris Phillips), who runs the Bitch 'n' Dog Food
company, intends that the lover of his late wife is going to give the dogs of
Liberty City a new flavor that month.
By the subway entrance that's near the airport in "III," there's a statue of a
man planting a flag--it appears to be a war memorial (and that someone put a
traffic cone on his head). The writing on the base says: "For those who fought
for freedom. 1936." The statue may be meant as a reference to the fictional
Australian/U.S.A. war mentioned by a caller in "Chatterbox" in "III" and by a
"Vice City" Ammu-Nation commercial which is repeated over the store speaker sys-
tems of Ammu-Nations in "San Andreas."
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/7316/00gta1screen963up5.jpg
Colin Attle wrote to me with some background on the Whippet coaches seen in
"III" and "Vice City": "these are dogs in the U.K. and are similar to greyhound
dogs, which is a reference to the Greyhound coaches that service most of the
USA."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whippet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Lines
Walk out over thin air (hoo-ha!)
In "GTA III," you can have Claude jump from atop an Ambulance that's backed
onto a mound of dirt along the wall on the top level of Marco's Bistro (across
the street to the S of Salvatore's mansion) and have him walk out into thin air
on a couple long plates of invisible solid stuff. He can walk a long way that
way, and through most of it he can jump to the right and end up in a walled yard
with no way in but that, the Dodo, or flying Rhino, and no way out except on a
ramp that's provided. I think the ramp shows the game developers paid attention
to the area and this wasn't an accident.
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3193/00gta1screenvc234qg2.jpg
In "Vice City," you can have Tommy land a chopper on thin air in the middle of
the four towers at the top of the big beige building across the street to the E
of the Vice Point police station then get out and stand on thin air. You can do
the same basic thing on the invisible plate on a narrow plank along the roof
three doors S of that. A screen shot, I.100.F, might make some people curious,
since nobody normally bothers with those buildings for anything.
If you don't want to travel, have Tommy jump on the low round table in the
middle of the TV room of the mansion and he'll hover high above it.
But one of the three biggest ones I know of, and the most unusually placed as
well, is a plate of invisible stuff over part of the dirt lot of trees (S of
Little Havana Streetwear) which is behind the building with "PIP DUI SR-22" in
the window. (Between this and the Havana Outfit glitch, this neighborhood has
some strange problems.)
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5913/00gta1screenvc220kz9.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8718/00gta1screenvc75mc5.jpg
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6752/00gta1screenvc221uo5.jpg
To get to it via the dirt lot of trees, go N from the Starfish Island bridge
on the main N-S road of the W island; make the 1st turn left and go to a T in-
tersection; turn left and it's down the road on the right side. Have Tommy go
on foot up the ramp at the SW corner of the dirt lot of trees, then to the top
of the 2nd ramp before him, jump from it onto the roof to the E, then go to just
before the NW corner and drop off the roof to the W. Another way is to have him
climb, or drive a PCJ 600, up the S tree of the two climbable trees in the lot,
jump on the roof, and jump off the NW corner to the W.
The plate runs from about ten feet lower than the NW corner of the building,
about 25 feet from the building out to the W, and slants a bit upward for about
15 feet from the S to N, where it's about six and a half feet lower than the
roof. You can have Tommy look down to see where his shadow cuts off at the S
edge of the plate or shoot at it to let the ricochets show you how big it is.
You can make a PCJ 600 jump to the invisible plate from the rooftop on the W
side of the dirt lot, too. Get to that rooftop by starting the series of jumps
leading up to Unique Jump 8 but stop on the2nd rooftop, then start your runway
from the NW corner of that rooftop.
There's a similar invisible plate across a 3rd of the central clearing, sur-
rounded by guard rails, of the roof of the Schuman Health Care Center, Downtown.
It's the 5th roof you land on in "G Spotlight" (I.81). Have Tommy run and jump
from the ramp used for a jump in "G Spotlight" to get over the railing and land
on the plate.
(Thanks to a post by Chris at "the gta place" web site for the tip about the
invisible plate at the Schuman Health Center.)
A 3rd one is in the office Tommy rides up to in an elevator at the start of
his jumps for "G-Spotlight," I.81. Send him S from the breakable glass to the
two chairs on the left. Have him jump on the chairs then onto the office cubi-
cle. Then have him do a running jump for the closed-off office beyond that.
When it works, he can run around over a variety of the closed-off office areas,
not that the developers provided much detail to see in them. To get him out, I
walked Tommy over an edge of the building in the middle of it somewhere. He
fell, then fell through "gray hell," and ended up on the sidewalk he was on be-
fore he went in the building. (I don't know if it's a glitch you can predict,
but one of the times I had Tommy return on a PCJ 600 is the 1st time I saw him
drive around inside the elevator like a nut, which I think is a glitch you can
make happen on PS2 that had generally been fixed for the PC version.)
(Thanks to a post at the GTA Forums web site by gav1100, of the stunt guide
mentioned in I.9.C. In his post, he got into the office and couldn't leave
without starting a new game.)
Darkel and discarded game ideas
"GTA III" had the infamous Darkel, a character listed as being voice acted by
Bill Fiore in the booklet that comes with the game. Darkel was edited out of
the game before it was released. According to rumors on the game web sites, he
was the leader of a gang of tramps who gave the lead character missions to kill
some of whatever other gang but his own. Supposedly, his meeting place became
the location of a hidden package with four tramps with Molotovs around it in the
tunnel that goes S from 8 Ball's place in Portland; his missions were changed to
rampages and the El Burro mission "I Scream, You Scream." He's also still there
in the Grand Theft Auto IIImodelsgta3 file.
According to a Wikipedia web site article, he was taken from the game in reac-
tion to the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedy. It's also why the "ilikedressingup" code
won't let you choose the mid-Eastern fellow with a turban, seen as a taxi driver
otherwise, to use as an alternate lead character.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_III#Cuts.2C_changes.2C_and_the_
9.2F11_effect
(I'm still waiting for a GTA game to explain what happened to the wings of the
Dodo.)
If you're curious enough about him, you can put Darkel (if not his missions or
voice) into "III" with Notepad. Un-check the green dot 1st (I.100.D.a). Then
click Edit > Replace, and replace "scum_man" (the hunched over tramp with a
beard and long overcoat) with "darkel" in datadefault.ide and datapedgrp.dat.
This changes which .dff and .txd files the game calls for to have it call for
Darkel's.
"Vice City" has it's less well-known remnants of earlier game ideas, too. At
the end of Rusk's guide at the Gamefaqs web site, he's given interesting exam-
ples of bits of script that were edited from the final release you can find in
the PS2 version in the american.gxt file. PC fans can look for them with Note-
pad in the Program FilesRockstarGrand Theft Auto Vice CityTEXTamerican.gxt
file.
The relationship between Tommy and Mercedes was developed further in earlier
ideas, for example.
And the Stats "Visits from Loan Sharks" and "Garbage Pickups Made" were
dropped.
PS: "San Andreas," "GTA," "Wild Metal Country," and "GTA 2"
"San Andreas" includes Claude, the star of "III," action figures from "Vice
City" and "Manhunt," St. Mark's Bistro and the spherical building at Francis In-
ternational Airport (which resembles the Theme Building at Los Angeles Interna-
tional Airport) ("III"), Frank Vincent (Salvatore Leone, "III"), Cynthia Farrell
(Catalina, "III"), Debi Mazar (Maria, "III"), Lazlow Jones (Lazlow, "Vice City"
and "III"), Frank Chavez (Fernando, "Vice City" and "III"), Danny Dyer (Kent
Paul, "Vice City"), Navid Khonsari and John Zurhellen (Dwayne and Jethro of the
Boatyard in "Vice City"), and Hunter Platin (Phil Cassidy, Curly Bob, and Chico
in "III"; the Psycho in "Vice City"; he does the voice acting for Ran Fa Li in
"San Andreas").
http://www.dannydyer.co.uk/
http://www.dannydyer.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dyer
Vice City, Liberty City, and San Andreas 1st appear (in different form--even
the neighborhoods have different names) in the 1998 game "Grand Theft Auto." I
suppose it's meant as a fictional take on the gangs and crime of Miami, NYC, and
Los Angeles, etc., of the late 1990's. Currently, you can download it, "Wild
Metal Country," 1999, a futuristic shooter in which Rockstar North tanks are 1st
called Rhinos, and "Grand Theft Auto 2," 1999 (in which the three main areas are
the downtown, industrial, and residential sectors), all three games optimized
for current PCs and in their entirety, from the Rockstar web site.
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/
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I.4 PC health
Clean your disk, disk player, and PC
Clean your Play disk and use a CD laser lens cleaner disk in your player.
Turn off your PC and use a can of compressed air and clean out your PC box,
CD/DVD player compartment, and keyboard. If you spill something into your key-
board, disconnect it, flush it thoroughly with water, and let it dry for a few
days.
(I've seen disk cleaners, laser disk cleaners, and cans of compressed air on
sale at department and drug stores.)
Get your hard drive clean and in order
After using the Internet go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools,
and use the Disk Cleanup--remove the Temporary Files, Temporary Internet Files,
and empty the Recycle Bin. The Temporary Internet Files can help you surf the
web faster, but I search it fast enough without them and they can build up into
a huge batch of bytes in no time.
Get the free software versions, at least, of Ad-aware and Spybot. You might
want to go to the Downloads section of the Microsoft web site and try Windows
Defender. Keep them updated and run them regularly.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx
Buy an anti-virus program, keep it updated, and run it regularly. I currently
use and recommend BitDefender. (If you do that, don't use similar software like
the kind I mentioned in the last paragraph--it can cause compatibility prob-
lems.)
http://www.bitdefender.com/ca/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/124475-1/article.html
At least once a week--even a day--run Disk Defragmenter. For Windows XP Home
Edition, go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and Disk Defrag-
menter. Run it after crashes and after you make any big changes to your PC,
too, like after putting in new graphics card drivers or downloading or removing
a big game demo or such.
Even better is Diskeeper, which is what the Windows defragmenter is a scaled
down version of. I recommend the Professional version--it lets you do a boot
time defragmentation, which defragments the Pagefile and Master File Table.
Your other files run in co-ordination with those, but you can't defragment those
with the Windows defragmenter.
http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp
Use the latest updates
On your browser, click Tools and run Windows Update about once a week.
Make sure you have the latest updates for your sound (Creative Labs, etc.) and
graphics cards (ATI, NVIDEA, etc.), motherboard chipset driver (probably VIA Hy-
perion, Intel chipset, Forceware Unified, or SiS Chipset), DirectX (the Micro-
soft web site Downloads section), mouse, keyboard, and whatever else you use for
the game you can get updates for.
Go to Run, type in "msinfo32," and click OK if you're not sure what your com-
puter specifics are, and see how they compare with the requirements for comput-
ers given on the bottom flap of the box of the game. You might want to upgrade
something.
You could try the same thing except type in "dxdiag," too.
Better yet, try something like Sandra Lite, mentioned below in the Tweak
guides part of this section, and run the various modules it contains. You can
not only learn what your various PC components are, but get helpful recommenda-
tions about changing settings and making upgrades to improve the performance of
your PC.
http://www.sisoftware.net/
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/
Turn off unnecessary applications before running the game
and use one processor core
Run a free utility called End-It-All 2 and use the "Close all" button to shut
down other applications before running the game.
http://www.docsdownloads.com/
If you have a multi core computer, the game may play too fast unless you use
only one processor core. Run the game, press Alt and Tab to go to your Desktop,
and open the Task Manager by right clicking the Task Bar and selecting Task Man-
ager or by pressing Ctrl Shift and Esc. (In Vista, you can get there from the
Desktop by pressing Ctrl Alt and Delete then selecting it from the menu. If you
change your mind, press Esc to exit the menu.) Click the Processes tab, right
click gta_sa.exe, and un-check one of the CPUs. (Thanks to silentexistence
whose tip is given by DXNathan in his pinned topic at Gamefaqs)
Take-Two Games web site and support
For technical support, check the support section for the PC "Vice City" at the
Take-Two Games web site. They have a page of common problems there. They have
a page that lets you send them an E-mail, too, which connects you to some nice
people who offer personal support.
Help them isolate the source of your problem by doing the other things recom-
mended in this section 1st.
http://www.take2games.com/index.php?p=support
Try to avoid things that make your game freeze so you have no ability to get
out of the game with the keyboard. Turning your PC off at the main power button
is bad for your computer, so thanks to gtavicer9 for recommending the important
tip that you use the reset button, just below the main power button on my PC,
instead at such times.
You may have to remove a mod because you made an installation mistake or it's
corrupted due to a faulty download, etc. My PC has bad reactions to some other-
wise, too, for some reason. Try getting advice from the creator of the mod,
from GTA Forums web site, etc. If worse comes to worse, for whatever reason you
may never learn--some unfortunate combination of the mod with some component or
setting of your PC--you may need to just remove it.
Tweak guides
Go to the TweakGuides.com web site, as recommended in the helpful "Tweak
Guide" FAQ for "Half Life 2," PC, by Lefteris Aslanoglou--Leftos--at Gamefaqs.
http://db.gamefaqs.com/
It makes a good point about the value of going to the Tweak Guides web site...
http://www.tweakguides.com/
...which features various helpful, informative guides by Koroush Ghazi.
If you're like me, and have had a glitch or freeze or stuttering frame rate
now and then and couldn't afford to pay dozens of dollars every time you had a
question, it's good to know you're at least using preventative medicine to give
your computer every chance to work as efficiently as it can. You'll get the
best performance out of it for games and maximize the mileage you'll get out of
that expensive computer hardware. And if you do need to hire someone, you'll be
more well-informed when you talk to them.
A couple of such tips I picked up from "The TweakGuides Tweaking Companion"
there:
By using SiSoft Sandra Lite (free software, or freeware), you can not only
find out a lot of information about the components of your computer, but get
useful tips on what might work better with a different setting or upgrade.
Sometimes glitches and freezes are due, at least partly, to poor PC perform-
ance--overheating alone can cause such things.
At the SiSoftware site, click on the icon for the latest version of SiSoftware
Sandra, then click to download the shareware (Lite) version, then, below the
column labeled "Lite," click "Download."
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/
http://www.sisoftware.net/index.html?dir=dload&location=sware_dl_3264&langx=en
If you want to learn more about your components and how they compare to others
at running games, you could go to the Futuremark web site and download a free
version of 3DMark. It's a popular benchmarking tool that has been used at var-
ious web sites to get test results of new components.
http://www.futuremark.com/download/
I especially recommend you make backups and carefully use the advice given in:
The TweakGuides Tweaking Companion
ATI Catalyst
NVIDIA Forceware
VIA Hyperion FAQ
Gamer's Graphics & Display Settings
The emphasis at Tweakguides is to teach you how to get a good performance out
of your PC, and get a good frames per second (fps) rate, etc., for games ("Vice
City" should be run with the frame limiter on and runs at 30 fps; "San Andreas,"
if you turn on the frame limiter, should be 25 fps). It has special sections
for "Half Life 2," "Morrowind" and "Oblivion," "Bioshock," "Crysis," "Far Cry,"
and some others. And there's a section on Game Music Extraction, which I notice
someone has a question about now and then on the Gamefaqs message boards.
Use System Restore (Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Re-
store, or Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, System, System Re-
store) if you screw up and aren't sure how you did it and need to revert to your
old configuration.
Volume
If your sound card software is similar to mine (for a Sound Blaster Audigy 2),
you can adjust the volume of the game with your general volume control or the
sound mixer's wav control. (I once had a glitch that caused the game to get
quiet. I thought I needed another sound card update download when I stumbled
onto the fact that the Wave slider of the Surround Sound mixer of the card had
gone to the bottom, for some reason. I just turned it back up.)
I like to keep a volume control icon in the taskbar in the lower right of my
screen as well.
After installing an update for the driver, I have to make sure the "Digital
Output Only" box is unchecked for headphones in Speaker Settings, too. The de-
fault settings make it checked but then I can't hear the sound with my head-
phones.
To use the general Windows way to put a volume icon in your taskbar, go to
Start, Control Panel, Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices, then use any of these
three choices--Adjust the system volume or Change the speaker settings or Sounds
and Audio Devices--to bring up the Sounds and Audio Devices menu. Check the box
by "Place volume icon in the taskbar." You can adjust your system volume from
there, too.
The Audio section of the game Options lets you adjust the volume of your MP3s,
too, if you want them to have the same volume that the rest of the radio sta-
tions have.
A cure for crackling noises with reverb
I called a nice fellow at Take Two support who helped me get rid of the pops
and crackles with reverb that were interfering with the audio of my GTA's. I
have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card, but he told me to go to "op-
tions," "audio setup," "audio hardware," and set it to "desound3d software emu-
lation."
System requirements
Minimum Hardware
800 MHz Intel Pentium III or 800 MHz AMD Athlon or 1.2GHz Intel Celeron or 1.2
GHz AMD Duron processor
128 MB of RAM
8 speed CD / DVD drive
915 MB of free hard disk space
(+ 635 MB if video card does NOT support DirectX Texture Compression)
32 MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers ("GeForce" or better)
Sound Card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers Keyboard & Mouse
Recommended Hardware:
Intel Pentium IV or AMD Athlon XP processor 256(+) MB of RAM
16 speed CD / DVD drive
1.55 GB of free hard disk space
(+ 635 MB if video card does NOT support DirectX Texture Compression)
64(+) MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers ("GeForce 3"/"Radeon
8500" or better with DirectX Texture Compression support)
DirectX 9.0 compatible sound card with surround sound
Gamepad (USB or Joystick Port)
Keyboard & Mouse
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City uses Microsoft DirectX 9.0.
Supported Operating Systems:
Windows 98
Windows 98 2nd Edition
Windows Millennium
Windows 2000 Professional (Workstation) plus Service Pack 3
Windows XP (Home and Professional) plus Service Pack 1
The following operating systems are NOT supported:
Windows 95 (any version)
Windows NT (any version)
I'll add that "Vice City" runs fine for me on Windows Vista Home Premium.
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I.5 How to save games and things to avoid when you do.
The convenience of copies of your GTA Vice City User File
You can save your achievements--Stats--for a number of efforts at the game in
a number of save game slots at the same time.
It's also good to know your whole set of save game statistics are saved in My
Documents in "GTA Vice City User Files."
A very useful gimmick to know is that you can keep multiple copies of it there
(I'd right-click the folders and rename them "Backup of...." or such).
You can also open the User Files and make a copy of the save game for a single
save slot. "GTAVCsf1.b" ("Grand Theft Auto Vice City save file one.b") is for
the 1st slot, "GTAVCsf2.b" is for the 2nd, etc. You can rename the file to
change the number to the save game slot you want to use.
Here are a couple of important uses for a copy:
1. If, for whatever reason, you need to reinstall the game, you don't have to
lose your accomplishments. When you uninstall, it doesn't uninstall the User
Files, Skins file, or MP3 file, which it leaves for you to uninstall manually.
So the old User File may serve the new install and not be replaced by a new
one--I'm not sure, considering the glitches that can happen. To be sure you
keep your old statistics, I'd let the new installation create a new User File
by playing the game a little, delete the new User File it creates in My Docu-
ments, then rename "Backup of...." by taking "Backup of...." off the name. It
may not be necessary to go through that, but it makes me feel a little more con-
fident that it will work.
2. You can save one or more backup copies with parts of the game already done
on them.
For example, one copy I have has 100% completion in one save game slot and all
the side missions done on another. This way, I can use it to play around Vice
City with all the benefits that come with 100% completion, or just play the main
story missions.
Another way you could do it is to create a User File copy that just has your
least favorite side missions, and the missions that give Tommy extra abilities,
done on it. For example, I particularly dislike the PC version of RC Bandit
(unless using Demarest's mod of it), and the Paramedic mission can be long and
tedious to do over and over, too. You might use the modification ideas of sec-
tion I.100.D.e for the Ambulance, Firetruck, and Pizza Boy, and Demarest's modi-
fication idea for the RC Bandit given at I.30, then do the missions for them,
get all 100 hidden packages, save the game, and copy the save file. You'll al-
ways have the choice to play the game with all those missions over with and all
the abilities and weapons that come from them to enjoy everything else about the
game with.
To afford yourself even more such choices, you could follow that by using a
copy of that save slot, renamed to have the number of another save slot, and use
it to finish whatever missions you like the least of the middle of the game
("The Driver" or whatever the case is for you). Make a copy of the User File,
etc.
Rename the copy with two save slots occupied with something at the beginning
like "Copy 1 HPs 2 Driver..." or such which you can remove if you want to use
it.
Before you use the copy to have everything else about the game to play with,
make another copy of it so you have a spare to use that way later.
As an alternative, you could use Demarest's "Timetwister" mod that lets you
choose from any of the missions of the game from the start (see I.100.D.f Mis-
cellaneous).
Some advice about saving the game
When you save your game at one of those pink cassettes, make sure Tommy has
full armor (saving and loading the game restores full health--in fact, just
walking Tommy into a cassette then resuming the game does that; thanks to Siva
for the tip), the weapons you'll need (each run through a weapon pickup after
the 1st adds to the ammo it has), and the vehicle(s) you'll need saved in your
garage(s), so you're prepared for whatever you'll need the next time you load
the game.
You can't save during a mission--the cassettes disappear until you either pass
or fail it.
Saving the game advances the game clock six hours. You can use this to pre-
pare the time clock so it's a certain time at a convenient place when you load
the game. This is handy for making multiple efforts to go from the Hyman Condo
to the Hyman Memorial Stadium, where the doors are open between 20:00 (8 pm) and
midnight, for example.
Health points made with a prostitute beyond the normal maximum are lost when
you save and load the game, which helps keep them in business.
Saving the game restores all weapon pickups, which can be handy in stocking up
on ammunition without doing a lot of traveling between game saving places.
You can get rid of a wanted level by saving a game, returning to the game,
then loading the last game; I try to do it without saving that, though.
Don't save your game at Cherry Poppers after you buy it. There was a glitch
on PS2 that caused that to corrupt your Stats and ability to achieve 100% com-
pletion, and some say it's true for their PC version, too. Don't jump on a bike
as you save for the same reason (thanks to the spaceeinstein web site for the
cycle tip).
Try to slowly approach the save game cassette at the Hyman Condo from the E so
you don't open the big garage door, or so you save just as it closes. Saving
while it's open can cause vehicles inside it to disappear, especially if it's
full. It has been known to eat cars, so it's a lot less risky to put any spe-
cial vehicles, especially the "EP" Admiral, somewhere else. If you use it for a
tank or such, just be careful. You can also fit a tank in the garage at the
mansion or one of the ones at Sunshine Autos instead.
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I.6 Options
These are just my personal suggestions (besides having a clean work area and
turning the lights out to bring out the hues on the screen):
Display Setup:
Draw Distance: I like it to be set to the right. Draw Distance determines how
near or far things like vehicles and pedestrians will be drawn in--will be load-
ed up by the graphics. If your combination of computer stuff is strong enough
to allow it without a stuttering frame rate or other glitches, I'd set it as far
right as you can. Besides being fascinating to look at for me, there are gaming
advantages. You don't want to be surprised by a policeman spawning right beside
Tommy when he's gotten a wanted rating (that may happen enough with a full draw
distance), or have a telephone pole suddenly appear in front of his speeding PCJ
600--that's no fun.
Frame Limiter: On. This is the default position. If you turn it off, you'll
have graphics that take too long to load (more smacking into invisible things
with the PCJ 600, then having them appear).
Thanks to Orion_SR's advice for "San Andreas" that I would apply to "Vice
City" more sparingly: turning off the frame limiter makes timers count slower.
You can repeatedly beat your old time for "Checkpoint Charlie," for example,
easier by turning it off.
Keep it on while you have Tommy fly the Skimmer or he won't be able to get it
to take off from the water.
Subtitles: On. Sometimes, it helps me tell what the characters are saying.
Wide Screen: Off, because it cuts out parts of the picture when on.
Radar Mode: Maps and Blips. The radar in the lower left corner of the screen
shows the streets, colored dots representing your targets, and save places, etc.
I don't care about dumb generalizations about men not using maps--give me a map.
HUD mode: On. The Heads Up Display in the upper right corner of the screen
shows your current armor, health, and wanted rating and amount of money earned.
Controller Setup:
Standard Controls (optimized for PC keyboard and mouse), not Classic.
Redefine Controls: change Run to Left Shift (press Backspace twice then Left
Shift). I use W,S,A, and D a lot, so unless you have a foot-long thumb, the de-
fault key, Right Shift, is too far away from them.
Mouse Settings:
Mouse Controlled Steering: On.
Player Skin Setup: you can choose which look you want for Tommy (I.100.C).
You can start a new game or load a saved game at the start or by pressing Esc
during the game to pause it and go to that menu.
During the game, press Esc to pause the game and see more options.
Start New Game:
- Start New game: you can start a new game from the very beginning of "Vice
City,"
- Load game: load the game efforts of a save slot (one convenience of that is
it lets you load the same saved game you started with in your latest efforts,
wipe out any record of those latest efforts, and go back to the last time you
saved in that save slot), or
- Delete game: delete everything in a save slot that has game efforts you're
not crazy about.
Map: you've got a map of the town that also shows your location, properties
(pink cassette icons for private properties and logos for businesses), Pay 'n'
Sprays (remember, you can pause during hectic situations to see where they are,
too), Ammu-Nations, and Tool Stores.
Dots that show the targets (the Psycho in "Psycho Killer" is an exception) and
intended destinations of missions will appear on the map, too. (For example,
you can pause the pizza mission to look at the map and see where the customers
are to plan a fast route.)
Use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. The things that appear on the map ap-
pear on the radar, too. A dot that indicates a target or intended destination
that's beyond the territory shown on the radar will appear on the appropriate
edge of the radar.
Brief: the most recent main story dialogue, instructions, or certain achieve-
ments.
and:
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I.7 Stats
Including how long a day in the game really is,
what Wanted Stars Attained and Evaded is about
(and why times of stress are the worst times to shop for clothes),
whose heads are tallied for Head Shots,
why you shouldn't worry about Daily Police Spending
or your percentage of Accuracy for Bullets Fired/Bullets That Hit,
who the Gang members and Criminals are,
the difference between Unique and Insane Jumps,
the ratings given for Flight hours,
and the CRiminal Ratings and Highest media attention levels
(and the easiest ways to raise them).
You can use your mouse scroller to make the Stats roll up or down and speed
them up a little.
The statistics are your achievements, including:
Days Passed in Game: the clock in the upper right corner of the screen counts
one hour in 65 sec., so it counts a day in 26 minutes.
Mission attempts: it just gives the number of attempts, not of failures or the
percent that were successful.
Wanted Stars Attained and Evaded: I did a little testing to figure out a lit-
tle bit about what the Stats make of the different ways you can get rid of
wanted stars. Ultimately, it looks like a glitch or two has gummed up the
works.
1st, the basic rules any experienced Vice City player knows:
- Each bribe gets rid of one wanted star,
- a clothes pickup (locations: I.9.C--Morphing) can only be used to get rid of
a maximum of two wanted stars--not two of a higher number, and
- a Pay 'n' Spray gets rid of any number of wanted stars.
Most, not all, completions of missions (successful or unsuccessful) get rid of
all wanted stars. Getting busted, wasted, or saving a game then reloading it,
gets rid of all wanted stars.
This is what the Stats make of your choices:
At one star, running till the star disappears, running through a bribe, using
a clothes pickup, or using a Pay 'n' Spray--causes you to get one wanted point
Attained and one Evaded.
At two or more stars, using bribes, or using a bribe or bribes and running one
off, or using a bribe or bribes and a clothes pickup for one star, causes you to
get one star Attained and one Evaded.
Another simple thing about it is that any number of wanted stars removed with
a Pay 'n' Spray causes that many points to be added to Attained and Evaded
(three wanted stars removed--three Attained and three Evaded, etc.).
But whereas using a clothes pickup to get rid of one wanted star gives you one
star Attained and one Evaded, the use of a clothes pickup to get rid of two, or
the remaining two, wanted stars causes you to get two points for Attained and no
points for Evaded (?!). (I suspect a glitch there.)
Completing a mission, successfully or unsuccessfully, in most cases makes your
wanted rating go away without using any of the methods available to get rid of
it, but adds that many stars to Attained and none to Evaded. Unfortunately, this
seems unavoidable with rampages and some other missions.
Getting busted, wasted, or saving then reloading a game to get rid of wanted
stars, adds that many stars to Attained but none to Evaded.
In terms of gameplay, I'm not sure what meaning is meant by some of the dif-
ferences found there, except to assume it would normally be better to try to
keep the number of points Attained from getting bigger than the number Evaded.
It would show Tommy is better at getting away with whatever crimes if he Evades
all that he Attains. Since the Stats don't allow that possibility, then the
next best thing would be to try to keep Attained from getting too much bigger
than Evaded.
If you try to understand it all as the game rewarding you for creating your
Attained verses Evaded record with that to guide you, it gets puzzling, anyway:
It's easy to figure that the game rewards you for not getting busted, wasted,
or saving the game with wanted stars then reloading it.
Less clear is what to make of how it also rewards you differently for handling
two or more wanted stars by using bribes, a bribe or bribes and running one star
off, or a bribe or bribes and using a clothes pickup for one star, instead of
using a Pay 'n' Spray. Again, all but the Pay 'n' Spray give you one star At-
tained and one Evaded, but using a Pay 'n' Spray gives you an identical pair of
bigger numbers for both Attained and Evaded.
One possibility is that you're being rewarded for using one of the 1st choices
because they show more effort and accomplishment than by using a Pay 'n' Spray--
you had less Attained you had to Evade.
Instead, it may mean that you're being rewarded for using a Pay 'n' Spray--a
disguise--without giving bribes to the police, which carries the risk of being
turned in to the authorities by an informant--you Evaded an equal and bigger
number Attained. Supporting that theory, using a Pay 'n' Spray in those situa-
tions is the best way to add points to your CRiminal Rating (described below).
Against that theory, using a clothes pickup for two stars is to use a disguise
and not a bribe, too, yet the game punishes you for using a clothes pickup for
two stars.
And it rewards you for getting rid of a wanted rating before the mission is
over when it's possible, but the game often makes that impossible, as for ram-
pages. If the game is going to make it convenient for us by automatically get-
ting rid of wanted stars by ending certain missions, it should add an equal
amount to Attained and Evaded for those missions and let us create a record for
Attained and Evaded with those missions it's possible to be responsible about
that with. I think the current arrangement is a glitch or just carelessness.
The reason you're rewarded for using a clothes pickup for one wanted star but
punished for using a clothes pickup for two wanted stars is.... Sometimes you
need to say "I don't know" when that's the honest thing to say. Is it punish-
ment for trying to use the Clark Kent glasses method of trying to be incognito
when the heat is turned up? I don't know.
Safehouse visits: the number of times you save the game.
Among things I never save are Times Busted, Hospital Visits (if Tommy is wast-
ed, he's taken to a hospital to continue in the game), Fishes Fed (drownings; it
adds to Hospital Visits), active wanted stars, or mission failures (except RC
Van missions, since it's convenient to blow up the RC toy and try again, which
saves time and minimizes any time spent frustrated).
P.S. for Fishes Fed: you might wonder why so many people hang out at the beach
or have swimming pools since nobody in town seems to know how to swim. The
Vice City Tourist Guide, p.10, suggests that nobody survives the water due to
shark attacks. This could be why the Reefer looks like a little version of
Quint's shark hunting boat in "Jaws," and Steve Scott (Dennis Hopper) has his
variations on Steven Spielberg's concerns about them. (His shark prop is basic-
ally similar to the shark in the waters around Vice City.)
Number of Head Shots: the ones made by Tommy with other people's heads, fortu-
nately.
Daily police spending: it refers to how much the police spend a day, which I
don't think Tommy can increase with greater destruction. I think it's random.
The last couple of times I started this game, it was $75,354 one time and
$30,000-something another, before Tommy had done anything to influence how much
they spend. I had Tommy go on a 24 hour (game time) rampage with the Rhino, and
it went from $81,740 down to $20,435.
Least favorite gang: the gangs are:
Cubans: wear white t-shirts with a red and black splotch on the front and red
headbands, or light yellow jerseys with gray sleeves and black fedoras with red
hat bands,
drive the Cuban Hermes car (and the Cuban Jetmax boat),
live in Little Havana,
and are led by Umberto Robina.
Haitians: wear dark blue jerseys that have "RELAX" in white letters on the
front with white baseball cap-type caps with dark blue brims, or light purple
sleeveless t-shirts with a purple and white splotch on the front with blue head-
bands,
drive the Voodoo lowrider car with four hydraulic jump directions and two sus-
pension levels,
live in Little Haiti,
and are led by Auntie Poulet.
Streetwannabe's wear blue jean vests with either a shark or a dragon or pais-
ley splotch on the back,
drive the Gang Burrito van which may have either a white or brown-faced Teddy
Bear in front of the grill or over the windshield,
and live on Prawn Island and are found there and in and around North Point
Mall.
(Note: owing to more glitches with the Stat section, killing the soldiers at
VICE CITY AIR RESERVE Fort Baxter--not the soldiers you deal with elsewhere--is
counted as Gang members wasted and they're categorized as Streetwannabe's. When
you have Tommy kill Mafia criminals in "Cap the Collector" and "Keep Your
Friends Close," they're not counted as Criminals wasted for either mission but
they're counted as Gang members wasted for "Keep Your Friends Close." Sonny and
Lance aren't counted as either one.)
(Thanks to the spaceeinstein site for calling the glitch about soldiers to my
attention.)
Diaz's gang: wears pale blue pants, dark cranberry red shirts with white flow-
ers, and mustaches, or white pants and red-violet jerseys with horizontal gray
pinstripes,
are aggressive, which you may find out during rampages,
are found at the mansion on Starfish Island up to and including "Rub Out,"
and are led by Ricardo Diaz.
Security Guards: wear dark gray-blue uniforms and caps--the shirts have "PA-
TROL INVESTMENT GROUP" in white letters on the back,
drive the Baggage Handler in and around the airport,
are found around the airport, North Point Mall, Prawn Island, Starfish Island,
and the metal detector at Leaf Links golf course,
and are led by whoever will hire them and crazed inner workings.
Bikers: wear "Duffy the bum" blue jeans, black leather jackets, tattoos,
beards and mustaches,
are fat and docile despite Mitch Baker's claims of fierceness,
drive Angels,
are found around Mitch Baker's Biker Bar,
and are led by Mitch Baker.
Golfers: the male is fat with brown hair, bald on top, wears a mustache,
green, white, and gold plaid shorts, a lavender shirt, pink socks, and black and
white saddle shoes,
the female is thin with gray and white hair pulled back in a ponytail, wears a
white blouse, lavender shorts, and white athletic shoes with lavender stripes,
drive Caddys,
and are found in and around Leaf Links.
(There is a the 3rd Golfer, the young dirty blonde male that wears blue pants,
a lavender shirt, and saddle shoes, but it doesn't count for the statistic if
you have Tommy shoot him in public or when Tommy kills him for "Four Iron"--
I.38.)
The Vercetti gang: wears white pants and purple shirts with dark gray pin-
stripes or dark blue pants, a dark olive green shirt with olive green and white
flowers, and a reddish-brown mustache and a beard,
are found at the mansion on Starfish Island after "Rub Out" and at various
Vercetti asset properties after Tommy owns them,
and are led by Tommy Vercetti.
In all the gangs, some or all of the members carry Pistols except the Golfers
carry Golf Clubs and the Vercetti gang, after "Keep Your Friends Close," carry
Uz-I submachine guns. (The soldiers at Fort Baxter carry M4 rifles, and the
ones who appear otherwise, for six wanted stars, carry MPs.)
(Thanks again to the spaceeinstein web site for the weaponry information. I
hope he's not in line behind Rusk asking for royalties; I'm guarding the money
I make from this entertainment extravaganza furiously.)
Criminals wasted: includes criminals killed in the vigilante mission and these
pedestrians (using their modelsgta3.img names; "cr" stands for "criminal" and
"pi" stands for "pimp"):
wmycr: young white male, light brown hair, a trace of a mustache, black t-
shirt, brown leather jacket, blue jeans, and black shoes.
bmycr: young black male, mustache, white t-shirt, black leather jacket, blue
jeans, and white tennis shoes.
wmypi: young white male, black hair, a mustache connected to his sideburns,
bold dark red and black clothes and hat, and black slippers.
There's a glitch right after doing the Vigilante mission that mixes up your
numbers for Criminals wasted and Criminals killed on Vigilante Mission. They
become:
Criminals wasted: actually, only those killed in the vigilante mission.
Criminals killed on Vigilante Mission: actually, the number you killed in the
vigilante mission plus the number you killed otherwise before.
After the glitch messes up the numbers this way so neither one represents what
it's supposed to, the number of criminals you kill outside of the Vigilante mis-
sion is added to Criminals wasted.
Kgs. of explosives used: 1 kilogram = 2.20462 pounds.
Bullets Fired/Bullets That Hit refers to all those shot in the game, so don't
worry that you have to get your Accuracy percentage higher if it's low. I'd be
glad it's low since many of those bullets are shot at Tommy. Don't have someone
walk in your room and ask why you're spending a half hour shooting a machine gun
at a blown-up van (a gimmick that works to make the percentage higher).
Unique Jumps, Insane Jumps and Insane Stunts:
Unique Jumps are 36 jumps you need to do for 100% completion.
Insane Jumps, which can coincide with them, are measured in distance, height,
flips, and rotation; a big score in one category is an Insane Stunt, in two is
a Double Insane Stunt, etc. (Nobody gets a Quadruple Insane in this or "III"
though it's listed in TEXTamerican.gxt; see the next section if you'd like to
be able to get one).
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How to mod the game to make it recognize Quadruple Insane Jumps
PLPynton at GTA Forums says that Insane Jumps are based on jumps that are one
to three of these four things:
-more than 40 meters long
-more than 4 meters high
-2 flips or more
-more than 360 degree of rotation z (around a vertical axis)
He says you can get the game to recognize Quadruple Insane Jumps by changing
the datamain.scm file. You find the heading:
:HJ_238
The 2nd line there is:
0020: $1304 > 4.0 ;; floating-point values
Change it to:
0018: $1292 > 4 ;; integer values
(You can use Demarest's "Darkpact" to change the datamain.scm file so you
won't have to create a new save game file for it. "Darkpact" is among the "VC
Code Tools," which are found under "Miscellaneous mods" at I.100.D.f.)
********
The "GTA III" "perfect" insane award for landing on all four-wheels isn't used
in "Vice City."
Various things are measured in meters. A meter is 39.3696 inches, 3.28084
feet, or 1.09361 yards.
"'Ice Cream' Sold" gives the total number of deals made from the Mr. Whoopie
truck.
"Number of drug deals made" gives the highest number of deals made during one
mission attempt with the Mr. Whoopie truck.
(Thanks to Demarest at GTA Forums for the way to interpret the ice cream and
drug deal figures.)
Best Percentage of hits for Shooter: your best percentage of hits for "The
Shootist" and, if you score over 45 points, "Rifle Range," whichever is higher.
Sprayings: the number of uses of a Pay 'n' Spray or spray 'n' go to get a land
vehicle or checkpoint chopper (or whatever else you go to the trouble to shove
in there) a paint job. Once Tommy has $100, the cost of the use of the place
for a repair or to remove a wanted rating, he always get a free paint job in one
whether he uses it for one of those other things or not. It won't work with a
police or military vehicle--if you try, you'll get a message saying the people
that run the place don't handle anything that hot.
Flight hours: the number of hours you fly the Skimmer, which is available be-
hind the film studio after the "Dildo Dodo" mission. I think the timer for this
counts in real time, or at least a lot more like it than the regular clock for
the game. So going up the ranks, which is based on time spent flying, can take
a while.
There's a glitch that makes you an "Ace" most of the time. But you're sup-
posed to be able to go from no rating up though 19 titles like "Flyboy,"
"Biggs," "Red Baron," and "Maverick" and such up to "Ace."
Flyboy is a slang word for a member of the air force, and, even more general-
ly, an aircraft pilot.
Aircraftman is the lowest rank in the RAF; Aircraftmen are known in British
slang as erks.
Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force is like the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the
United States Air Force.
A Corporal in the RAF is like a Senior Airman in the USAF.
A Lieutenant, or Flight Lieutenant, in the RAF is like a Captain in the USAF.
A Sergeant in the RAF is like a Staff or Technical Sergeant in the USAF.
A Captain, or Group Captain, in the RAF is like a Colonel in the USAF.
In "Star Wars," 1977, Garrick Hagon plays Red Three, Biggs, and Denis (as
"Dennis") Lawson plays Red Two, Wedge Antilles (also in Episode V, "The Empire
Strikes Back," 1980, and Episode VI, "Return of the Jedi," 1983), who are pilots
who help Luke Skywalker, played by Mark Hamill. destroy a huge space station
called the Death Star. According to cjshoup of the forums at the toonzone.net
web site, there are characters named Biggs and Wedge in versions VI, 1994, VII,
1997, VIII, 1999, and X, 2001, of the "Final Fantasy" games, too.
The Red Baron, before he was a character fought by Snoopy from the dog house
he pretended was a Sopwith Camel in the late Charles Schultz' cartoon strip
"Peanuts," was a famous WW I German fighter pilot named Manfred von Richthofen.
At a time when 20 victories garnered the Blue Max award, he had 80. Most of his
biplanes were partly red, as then became the case with the other planes in his
squadron starting in 1917, but he's usually identified with the entirely red
Fokker Dr.1 triplane he flew at the end of his career. He died when he was shot
(possibly from the ground or a British plane chasing him) chasing a British Sop-
with Camel over France.
Thanks to
http://www.briggsenterprises.com/bluemax/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richtofen
As the FAQ by Aggrosk8er at the Gamefaqs web site notes, some of the names
come from the movie "Top Gun." Thanks to him and his FAQ for all the titles and
points required for them.
In "Top Gun," 1986, Tom Cruise plays Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Val Kilmer
plays Lt. Tom "Iceman" Kazanski, Michael Ironside plays Lt. Cmdr. Rick "Jester"
Heather, Tom Skerritt plays Cmdr. Mike "Viper" Metcalf, and Anthony Edwards
plays Lt. Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, at a Navy flight school given the nickname "Top
Gun."
"Chappy" is taken from the "Iron Eagles" movies I, 1986, through IV, 1995,
starring Lou Gossett, Jr., as Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair.
A special mention should be made of Poland's young Andrew Noops n Gleh, who
used to frequent the ign.com message boards. From what seems most reliable from
looking at various web pages, he flew the GTA "III" Dodo for 176,488 seconds and
was awarded by Rockstar with a special flight rating in "Vice City."
Air Chief Marshal is the highest rank in the RAF (Marshal of the Royal Air
Force was discontinued in the peace time of the 1990's) and is like a General in
the USAF (General of the Air Force used during war time).
Thanks to these web sites for the comparison of RAF and USAF ranks (for the
3rd link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st line in your ad-
dress bar):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraftman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_military_ranks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_military_ranks#British.2C_US.2C_and_Canadian_officer_ranks
Ace is a more general term for a particularly skilled person, in this case an
aircraft pilot.
0:00 to 0:04 No Rating
0:05 to 0:09 Flyboy
0:10 to 0:19 Aircraftman
0:20 to 0:29 Pilot Officer
0:30 to 0:59 Corporal
1:00 to 1:29 Lieutenant
1:30 to 1:59 Sergeant
2:00 to 2:29 Captain
2:30 to 2:99 Biggs
3:00 to 3:29 Wedge
3:30 to 3:59 Red Baron
4:00 to 4:29 Goose
4:30 to 4:59 Viper
5:00 to 5:59 Jester
6:00 to 6:59 Chappy
7:00 to 7:59 Iceman
8:00 to 8:59 Maverick
9:00 to 9:59 Noops
10:00 to 19:59 Air Chief Marshal
20:00 to 30:00 Ace
Auto Repair and Painting Budget: costs created by Sprayings.
CRiminal Rating and Highest media attention:
CRiminal Rating:
There are 52 titles in all.
Negative numbers:
The negative titles--"Total Liar," "Hacker" and such--are for using the vehi-
cle spawning codes. Using one subtracts 1000 points. This is Grand Theft Auto,
so you'll be severely chastised for not thefting an auto--"Grand"ly is optional.
Positive numbers:
Tommy gets various points anytime in the game for each mission accomplished:
six points for "Trial by Dirt," forty points for "Guardian Angels," etc. The
points for rampages, at least, are added after you save the game.
He gets thirty points anytime in the game for each helicopter, Skimmer, or
Dodo (the plane pulling a "Zombie Elvis Found" sign) destroyed. (The Dodo is
only destroyed by a rocket from the Hunter, and the Dodo is also the only thing
Tommy can destroy that he always gets both 30 CRiminal Rating points and a three
star wanted level for destroying.)
The more points he has, the higher he is on the organized crime ladder of suc-
cess, which, apparently, hates the idea of anyone flying above all else in
life--I didn't know that.
Beyond that, my (sketchy) testing results for getting positive numbers show
that Tommy can get various points depending on who or what he destroys and with
what, and what he does about a wanted rating. And the results are "glitchy."
This isn't to be mistaken for a thorough scientific test--I do have a life.
There are about 100 vehicles, about 100 types of peds, 33 weapons with two modes
of attack for the Fist/Melee slots, seven wanted levels including none, a hand-
ful of ways to handle it, and police spawn randomly at the lowest wanted level.
By the time I was through testing, you'd be playing "Grand Theft Auto: Pitts-
burgh."
And maybe you will--is that Fort Pitt Beer I see advertised on the wall of
Mitch Bakers Biker Bar, or is it Fort Pizz? (Note: I've decided it's a slight
variation of a Fort Pitt Beer scoreboard--see I.13 under "Creative plugging.")
Is that "Pittsburgh radio" someone on the Wildstyle radio station says through a
vocoder, I think (the thing used on the vocals for Cher's "Believe" or anything
by Britney Spears)? It might be another clue....
Destroying boats with a Minigun, he got anything from 0 to 4 points for each--
once, he even had three points subtracted, for some weird reason.
Destroying land vehicles not used by law enforcers created no points for a
Faggio, one point for a PCJ 600, and several points for an SUV, etc.
Tommy got nine points for destroying a police car and a policeman with a gre-
nade, six points for killing an old lady shopper with a Chainsaw but only one
point for killing an old lady shopper with a shotgun, and no points for killing
most examples of the beach or business people, and never got any points for
killing tramps or leather jacket criminals, etc.
The Minigun, Rocket Launcher, and Uz-1 or MP submachine gun worked more often
to create points than the .357 handgun, S.P.A.S. 12 shotgun, or the .308 sniper
rifle in the time I tested them, and the Minigun and Rocket Launcher are more
powerful than a submachine gun at doing that faster. The Hunter rockets created
a wanted level faster than the Hunter machine gun.
Using a clothes pickup, or using a bribe and running a star off, for two stars
added no points, but using a Pay 'n' Spray for two stars added various amounts.
Ordinarily, the easiest way to get the most CRiminal Rating points was to
have Tommy kill law enforcers, destroy their vehicles, notably helicopters, and
anyone and any other vehicle handy while he does, with the Minigun, Rocket
Launcher, or Hunter rockets, then use a Pay 'n' Spray.
(Don't try this at home and end up on World's Most Stupid Criminals--don't
even think of it.)
Also, if you use the "bigbang" code and blow up any of the vehicles the game
counts, the rating actually goes up. "aspirine" does nothing to the rating at
all. Ironically, using the code "leavemealone" to remove wanted stars doesn't
hurt Tommy's CRiminal Rating (but it adds that many stars to Wanted Stars
Attained and none to Evaded).
The positive titles are spaced farther apart as the numbers get bigger. If
you want to get the title of Capo, it's productive to achieve at least part of
that by doing the Vigilante mission "Brown Thunder" and by trying to attain the
"Stuff of Legends" Media attention level by going on unofficial rampages, which
are mostly matters of destroying law enforcers and their vehicles. After the
rampage, use a vehicle from a Sunshine Autos garage in the nearby spray 'n' go.
The fastest way to make the big jump from Capo to Godfather, which is the
highest rating, is to use the "bigbang" code for a multi-helicopter destruction
rampage, a method provided by the "Criminal Rating/Media/Money FAQ" by Zarathus-
tra at the Gamefaqs web site.
Use the Hunter for the Vigilante mission "Brown Thunder" and go to level 400
or so and max out your cash, if you want to do something productive with the
game on the way up the ratings. (Go nuts for your Highest media attention lev-
el, too.) You'll make Capo--200,000 points. Only "Boss," "Kingpin," and "Don"
stand in your way.
Then put four Checkpoint Choppers in the big garage of the Hyman Condo. They
slide in real easy if you push them in from the front. Put three Mavericks on
the roof by flying the one on the helipad a few blocks S, returning to find an-
other one spawned there, and repeating that.
Stand Tommy on the roof in the marked off section shown below:
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5470/0020glensterguidegodfatkb8.jpg
|-- --- ---- -- ----- -- ---|
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|__|__| |_____|
Since the game is judging Tommy's position horizontally, not vertically, you
can hear the big garage door open when he enters this section. With seven heli-
copters in the game, 210 points, keep typing "bigbang" over and over. For some
reason, they keep blowing up after they've already blown up.
Faster still is to download a trainer with a "blow up all cars"--and helicop-
ters--key for your keyboard from any of a variety of Grand Theft Auto Vice City
web sites. You can get Random's trainer, which lets you assign a couple of hot-
keys to the code, at:
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=12
Then use a Pay 'n' Spray or spray 'n' go to get rid of whatever wanted rating
you have. You might leave the "EP" Admiral in the eastmost little garage at the
condo for that.
****
Update: the fastest way to get "Godfather" on PC
Spuds725, at GTA Forums, showed that the minimum requirements for "Godfather"
are $10,000,000 and 1,000,000 CRiminal Rating points. He recommends using the
Cone Crazy glitch in the original PS2 version as the fastest way to make
$10,000,000. The glitch causes the game, after each success with the mission,
to say the time per cone has been reduced but it isn't actually reduced. Since
the reward doubles with each success at the mission, you could keep repeating
the mission and build up a lot of cash.
Therefore, the Spuds725/Zarathustra/glenster method might be the fastest way
to get Godfather on PC:
Use the Cone Crazy glitch in the original PS2 version, otherwise use Brown
Thunder, which also gives Tommy increased armor, for ten million dollars.
Use a hotkey on a trainer to use the bigbang code about 100 times a minute: 30
CR pts. per helicopter x seven helicopters = 210 pts. per press = 21,000 CR
points per min.. If you went for maxing out your cash and Capo with Brown Thun-
der, that leaves 800,000 CR points to get in about 38 min.. If you just went
for $10,000,000 with Brown Thunder or Cone Crazy, use the hotkey, etc., for
about an hour. (You sometimes lose a helicopter that disappears, so I won't
make an exact calculation.)
****
You might also want to use GTA_Loc's method to let Tommy create destruction
without any police intervention. See I.53, "Rub Out," and I.61, "Cop Land." If
you use GTA_Loc's method for this, put Lance somewhere, like the inside of the
Ocean View, where he won't get hurt.
below -6,000 Total Liar lies a lot.
-6,000 to -4,001 Cheater breaks rules for personal gain.
-4,000 to -2,001 Hacker intrudes illegally on your PC.
-2,000 to -501 Embarrassment may bring shame to their self or to
another by association; cafone;
gavone.
-500 to -1 Untrustworthy isn't dependably truthful.
0 to 19 Upstanding Citizen Why can't everybody be like me?
20 to 49 Nobody Special hasn't done anything especially
good or bad.
50 to 74 Litterer a petty offender.
75 to 99 Shoplifter steals from stores.
100 to 119 Vandal destroys property and anything of value.
120 to 149 Do Boy a criminal errand boy? To "do" someone
could be to swindle or murder them.
150 to 199 Pickpocket steals from your clothing.
200 to 240 Clepto a kleptomaniac: someone with a constant
neurotic compulsion to steal for the
sake of stealing itself regardless of
any other need.
241 to 269 Snitch tells the truth about crime to authorities;
see "rat."
270 to 299 Rat a crime family member who violates the
Omerta--code of silence--by being an
informer, a violation punishable by death.
300 to 334 Leece illiterate slang for "lice," so a general
term for a worthless person, like "maggot"?
335 to 369 Scam Artist tells lies for money.
370 to 399 Trickster a deceiver, cheat, or fraud.
400 to 449 Numbers Runner takes, relays, and may pay off bets
for a bookmaker or numbers pool.
450 to 499 Hustler general--any con artist, pimp,
etc., just in it for the money;
a car in "San Andreas."
500 to 549 Bully a tough, intimidating, abusive person;
the name of a 2006 Rockstar Vancouver
game.
550 to 599 Riff-Raff a lowlife; a worthless person.
600 to 609 Scalawag an unprincipled person; a rascal.
610 to 649 Ruffian an especially abusive person.
650 to 699 Outlaw has a habit of illegal activities.
700 to 849 Thug a ruffian outlaw; a vicious criminal.
850 to 999 Drop Man a grown-up do boy, I guess; makes illegal
deliveries/payments; ("drop" as in "kill"?).
1,000 to 1,004 SA Goon
According to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/trivia, "SA Goon" (1000-1004
points) refers to the humor web site somethingawful.com, and the "Front Page
News" (a PS2 version paper found floating around town?) is a reference to the
front page of Somethingawful.
1,005 to 1,299 Goon more general than SA Goon; a hired thug.
(GTW note: I think "Jailbird" was supposed to go here since it's in the TEXT
american.gxt file; I guess it's another glitch)
1,300 to 1,499 Ex-Con ex-convict; did time/paid penalties.
1,500 to 1,699 Felon committed one or more felonies, grave crimes
often punishable in the U.S. by more than a
year imprisonment.
1,700 to 1,999 Bag Man an organized crime leader; a dishonest
official that collects or distributes
illegal payoff money; a conveyer of money;
someone who handles large quantities of
drugs.
2,000 to 2,099 Wiseguy organized crime muscle; a made man;
indoctrinated member of the Cosa
Nostra, whose members are of Italian-
Sicilian ethnic origin, at times
called the Mafia, which was Sicilian;
a goodfella.
2,100 to 2,299 Wheelman a getaway driver.
2,300 to 2,499 Hired Muscle works in a menial way for a crime
group for money; they may need to be
tough.
2,500 to 2,749 Hatchetman a professional murderer.
2,750 to 2,999 Headhunter an assassin; a whore for cocaine.
3,000 to 3,499 Enforcer is violent and/or kills for his crime
group leader; uses violence or murder, if
needed, to ensure deals are carried
through for a crime family; a head
crusher; a strong-arm man.
3,500 to 3,999 Ronin Japanese (literally "wave man"--one who is
tossed about by the sea), was originally,
during the feudal period of Japan, 1185-
1868 AD, a samurai that no longer had a
master. They were often looked down on
since they were supposed to commit suicide
if they lost their masters. They were
fictionalized in movies, such as "The Seven
Samurai," 1954 (which "The Magnificent
Seven," 1960, is based on), to be mercenary
soldiers, an idea which is transplanted to
20th century Europe for the 1998 movie
"Ronin" starring Robert De Niro as Sam. In
recent years, it's been used as slang in
Japan to refer to students who failed their
college exam, and was the code name of a
famous multiplayer game hacker of the last
few years who recently co-created a web
site: EliteCoders.org.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin
4,000 to 4,999 Fixer sells narcotics to addicts; someone who
makes dubious deals ("fixes" the outcome
of a sports game, etc.) and gets them
done.
5,000 to 7,499 Hitman kills for pay and/or for a crime boss.
7,500 to 9,999 Associate a member of a crime family who works with
wiseguys but hasn't been sworn into the
family yet or won't be because the member
is non-Italian or non-Sicilian; someone
who's connected.
10,000 to 19,999 Butcher a big-time hitman.
20,000 to 29,999 Cleaner a mob assassin.
30,000 to 39,999 Assassin a mob assassin.
40,000 to 49,999 Consigliere a counselor for an underboss or a don.
50,000 to 64,999 Made Man "has it made" in that they have organized
crime job security for life and are
entrusted with the rights that go with
it; sworn into La Cosa Nostra; a wise
guy.
65,000 to 79,999 Right-Hand Man a close associate of a crime boss.
80,000 to 99,999 Executioner it generally means a killer, but on
this list it seems to refer to one of
a high position or regard in the crime
organization.
100,000 to 149,999 Lieutenant a crime boss.
150,000 to 199,999 Underboss 2nd to the Don, and handles more routine
matters of running a crime family; a
right arm.
200,000 to 299,999 Capo short for "capodecina"; A captain of an
organized crime family; a boss; a skipper over
a crew of soldiers.
300,000 to 300,000 Boss a crime leader of the rank of Lieutenant or
higher.
300,000 to 499,999 Kingpin a major organized crime leader.
500,000 to 999,999 Don head of an organized crime family; gives
permission to whack (kill) or make
somebody; makes money from all family
operations; usually born in Sicily.
1,000,000 and higher Godfather organized crime Chief Executive Officer;
a top boss.
For help with some of these terms, thanks to:
Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 1996.
http://goodfellas.martin-scorsese.net/information/lingo.html
http://metropolice.users1.50megs.com/slang.htm
http://www.urbandictionary.com/ (see "made," etc.)
www.weird-websites.com/justweird/Mafia.htm
http://capo_wizeguy.tripod.com/mafiaonuri/id5.html
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/4448/mobterm.html
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/mobspeak/index.shtml
I hope you didn't think I'd know all this stuff on my own.
Given the quirky way the points accumulate, described before, and as long as
it would take to get to a high score if you screw up and have to start over from
your last save point, it would take a lot of work to go over all that unless you
know some way to determine it in the file system. I'd normally try to double
check anything I put in this walk-through, but as far as I know from any time
I've checked on it, those are the reliable scores.
Highest media attention:
The other goal provided for wanton destruction, with credit given for safely
getting rid of your wanted rating afterwards.
There are 21 titles in all.
I like to type in the code "chasestat" so I can watch the ratings reported
like news bulletins in purple letters on the screen. You'll see from doing that
just how the game awards points for the frequency, magnitude, and duration of
destruction. The Stats will credit you with the highest title you've achieved.
You can use "aspirine" for vehicle repair without interrupting your effort.
Neither it nor "chasestat" will effect your CRiminal Rating or prompt the game
to warn you not to save the game.
I'd use the Rhino or the Hunter for this. See I.12, Wanted Ratings--For three
stars and higher wanted ratings, for how to get rid of your high wanted rating
when you're done.
If using the Rhino, it's easiest to use one of the long N and S stretches of
road on the SE side of either the east or west island. Make sure you give your-
self a broad space to turn around on at either end of the loop you intend to
drive on it, and try to avoid getting jammed anywhere. Try to ram into and
shoot anything around.
I recommend that you turn the cannon backwards. That helps propel Tommy out
of jams and out-maneuver the Rhinos that ram his tank at six stars. The Rhino
is otherwise slow to accelerate and you get less points if Tommy is busted.
Your score is also based on the frequency of Tommy's destruction, and shooting
backwards can make the Rhino go faster than you need it to. I've read the Rhino
can withstand about 200 explosions before it's destroyed.
If using the Hunter, you can get Tommy into aerial dogfights with the helicop-
ters that attack. You can use Number Pad 6 to shoot up at them and try to get
them as they approach, or wait till they're at Tommy's altitude. Remember that
the normally non-solid police helicopter is a solid one when it fires at Tommy,
and Tommy can be damaged by the explosion of it. You can swoop the Hunter down
to get the law enforcers shooting at Tommy, too.
0 to 19 Ignored
20 to 49 Boring
50 to 74 Vaguely Interesting
75 to 99 Local Paper Page 7
100 to 149 Front Page of Local Paper
150 to 199 Vice Courier Page 2
200 to 249 Vice Courier Front Page
250 to 299 Local TV 3 AM
300 to 349 Local TV News
350 to 399 Local TV Live Coverage
400 to 499 UFA Today Page 12
500 to 599 UFA Today Page 4
600 to 699 Picture in UFA Today
700 to 799 National TV 4 AM
800 to 899 National TV News
900 to 999 National TV Live Coverage
1,000 to 1,199 International News
1,200 to 1,399 National Crisis
1,400 to 1,599 International Crisis
1,600 to 1,799 World Event
1,800 and higher Stuff of Legends
"UFA Today" is most likely a variation of "USA Today."
Thanks again to the "Criminal Rating/Media/Money FAQ" by Zarathustra for the
Highest media attention level and CRiminal Rating scores:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/
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I.8.a Some distinctions between the PC and PS2 versions,
and some distinctions between
the PC Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering
and PC Classic Controls versions.
The PS2 version comes out 1st, but the PC version has better graphics.
Unlike PS2, you can upgrade the quality of your PC, and the basic PC system
requirements (see I.4 PC Health) aren't very demanding by today's standards.
On PC, you can drive a vehicle, including a motorcycle, into the mansion, so
you can use the Street outfit (also the Frankie outfit after "Keep Your Friends
Close," I.99) in the office to morph (I.9.C). In "Keep Your Friends Close," you
can use a vehicle to run Sonny down or for a drive-by shooting.
The method of using a PCJ 600 at Interglobal studios to get to the blocked off
areas early works for the PS2 and PC versions (it and others are in section
I.18) but not for Xbox.
The PS2 and PC Classic Controls aren't as smooth and don't have the degree of
range of motion of PC Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering for hav-
ing Tommy move, look around, or aim weapons, except when you bring up the scope
for a few weapons, although you have Tommy stand still when you do. You can get
more views of the front of Tommy with PS2 and PC Classic Controls, though, which
I like for the variety. Generally, I like to see where I'm going, but a front
view is good for screenshots sometimes.
Unlike the keyboard and mouse setups of some games I've tried, the one used by
GTA is tight and fluent.
Notably, the Minigun isn't limited to side-to-side movement, and the M4 and
M60 scopes don't jump around the screen when you fire, for PC Standard Controls
with Mouse Controlled Steering, used for this guide, as in the PS2 or PC Classic
Controls versions of the game. Their scopes remain steady and can be aimed
smoothly in practically any direction. (You may move Tommy a bit to see some-
thing directly over his head.) The M4 has an optional scope created by pressing
the Right Mouse Button, and it jiggles a bit when you fire, so just don't use
it. I don't know why it's even given as an option.
And Mouse Controlled Steering of the moving, revved-up, jumping fast Chainsaw
attacks I describe in I.10 Weapons, and of Fist/Brass Knuckles movements be-
tween Minigun attacks (using the scroller on the mouse to alternate), makes them
speedier and more useful attacks than with other controls.
The PS2 and PC Classic Controls auto-aim feature for handguns, submachine
guns, and shotguns is not used by the PC Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled
Steering used for this guide. The PS2 auto-aim feature used to guide Tommy over
a girder or such isn't used for either control setup for the PC version.
Mouse Controlled Steering, the hand held camera effect that allows Tommy to
move and look around smoothly like a human instead of like a robot and is used
to guide four-wheel vehicles smoothly, is just used by the PC Standard Controls,
not PC Classic Controls. While using Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled
Steering, you can still use the keyboard if you want Tommy to dance the Robot at
the Malibu.
On PS2, the Hunter rockets have auto-aim. On PC, the Hunter machine gun has
auto-aim.
If you want to use an adapter to use your PS2 or Xbox controls for PC, Game-
spy, Aug., 2005, recommended these USB adapters, about $12 each, you can plug
them into:
SmartJoy PLUS - PlayStation 2-USB adapter
SmartJoy X - Xbox-USB adapter
http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/637/637880p8.html
The various things Lawyer Ken Rosenberg says after Tommy gets busted ("My cli-
ent wasn't even in town today, and you know it"), and Tommy's stretches and
looks at his watch when you don't move him for a while, can be heard and seen in
the PC Classic Controls version and are rarely heard or seen in the Standard
Controls version.
In Standard Controls, one way to see the moves Tommy makes in Classic Controls
when you don't move him for a while is to send him into the green surveillance
screen view at the entrance of Leaf Links. (It's also like Classic Controls in
that Mouse Steering won't work while he's there.)
The view change on foot, used by PS2 and PC Classic Controls, isn't used by PC
Standard Controls. If you use Standard Controls and press V while Tommy is on
foot, it just makes a "blink" sound.
On PC, you can press F1 for a 30 second (more or less) instant replay, F2 to
save your last replay, and F3 to play back your last saved replay. The replays
come in a variety of camera angles, and you can get an angle you can control
with the mouse by moving the mouse. All kinds of things take on an added dimen-
sion of seeming like scenes from a movie when seen this way, including stunt
jumps and fire trails from a burning PCJ 600 or Cuban Hermes. Bumping the mouse
helps you see a stunt from a view you prefer, and the view is flexible enough to
allow the only way I know to use the old top down view in "Vice City," such as
while flying.
On PC, you can put MP3s and wav files, or shortcuts for them, in the MP3 fold-
er of the game and have your own radio station (I.100.E Music, MP3s and wav
files, How to save hard disk space with shortcuts, MP3 volume boost, and Sharea-
za). (Also see I.15 Radio.)
On PC, you can use mods of a great variety of different vehicles, buildings,
pedestrians, stunt parks, etc.--even change Vice City into an updated Liberty
City with motorcycles and helicopters. See I.100 through I.100.D.g for a small
sampling of the possibilities, some of which are found in places throughout the
text.
The three PS2 Super Jumps, performed at Phil's Place behind the crack of the
entrance door, on a diving board by the east island beach, or at the light
house, don't work for PC. The explanation I read is that super jumps cause
whatever that directs the behavior of PS2 pixels to direct them some way it
shouldn't, and when the game corrects itself, Tommy can go flying across the
sky. This began with having PS2 Banshees smacked by the El train in "GTA III."
A good site for it is:
http://www.mygtastuff.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
However, yOman69 saves the day with a way to do a genuine "PCJ 600 ceiling
fan for the sky" super jump for PC (I.9.C).
On PC, A transaction with a prostitute will always give Tommy health 25 points
higher than the usual maximum, not 25 points lower after the pizza mission as on
PS2. (The usual maximum starts out at 100, succeeding at the pizza mission puts
it at 150, and getting 100% completion puts it at 200.) Apparently, this is
particular to the PC version. This is useful before hazardous missions to in-
crease Tommy's durability, but the extra 25 points are not preserved if you save
then reload the game.
On PC, Hilary's Sabre Turbo in "The Driver" isn't bullet-proof as it is for
PS2.
When Tommy jacks a vehicle with a passenger and end up with a hostage on PC,
the hostage doesn't constantly scream as in a PS2 example given in Rusk's guide.
I did get something similarly funny when I failed to jack an Ambulance, on the
passenger side, that was driving into a corner: repeatedly, Tommy would enter
and get right out, then the driver would quickly exit, scream one of several
different ways, and get back in!
The PS2 Vice Point Langer hotel, for some reason, is instead called "ST HOTEL"
along the top and "WK CHARIOT HOTEL" over the front doors in the PC version.
(My guess would be it's similar to the name changes for weapons and cars--be-
cause there's already a place out there called Langer, although I've never heard
of it. Maybe it's an inside reference to the name of a friend or co-worker of
someone at Rockstar North they changed their mind about--I don't know.) It's
across the street and east of the Malibu Club parking lot. (See I.3 for the
"GTA III" connections, and I.13 and I.9.G for the Odds and Ends and Ghost World
distinctions it has.)
On PC, there isn't the extra line of dialogue, reported in the Game Script FAQ
at Gamefaqs, by Lance while Tommy drives Lance to the Ocean View at the end of
"Back Alley Brawl": "Tommy, every man needs a little R & R once in a while.
This here's the Pole Position Strip Club. You might want to drop in some time."
Rusk tells me he hasn't heard it on PS2, either. If it's just in one version, I
know it isn't the original PC one--it's in the audio files of the game disk,
though.
On PC, not PS2:
the Eddie the Head (Iron Maiden skeleton cartoon mascot)-type "Jock Star"
posters are used at the Rock City store Downtown;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_head
the Enforcer is in the lot by the Vice Point police station (the station to
the N of the two on the east island);
the Securicar (I.9.B) can be found by El Banco Corrupto Grande;
the Love Fist limo shows up in front of the VROCK place after doing the Love
Fist missions;
and the "Vice" Cheetah is behind the Little Havana police station.
On PC, there's also a Bus in the lot near the dead end of the road that goes
down the middle of the S end of the west island. (It looks like an old school
bus--it won't pick up passengers at bus stops.) It's by the door to a big hang-
er over water where there are two of the gas pumps you can shoot and blow up.
In the PC version, there isn't a sign calling the place "Seaplanes Tours," as
Rusk's walk-through and the Brady guide call it.
The Admiral sometimes shows up instead of the Stretch at the mansion. On PC,
you only need to drive the Admiral about a block way, not far away, and ditch it
to make the Stretch appear at the mansion.
In the Xbox version, all the Washington cars on the street are white. In the
PC and PS2 versions, they come in in a variety of colors.
You can't get a PC FBI Rancher serviced by a Pay N' Spray as on PS2.
Whenever I try the PS2 gimmick of running from an FBI Rancher and turning back
to find the FBI agents gone and the FBI Rancher there for the taking, the FBI
Rancher is gone but the damn agents are still there shooting. (If I wanted one,
I'd probably have Tommy throw a Molotov at one in the Hyman Condo alley.)
I haven't gotten the same gimmick to work for a PC "Vice" Cheetah, either.
But there's always one behind the Little Havana police station.
(See I.25 for more about both vehicles.)
The PS2 gimmick of blocking the pier with a Firetruck so the French men can't
enter it in "All Hands on Deck" doesn't work in the PC version--the truck disap-
pears during the cut scene. (Just have Tommy use the Minigun and don't worry.)
The PS2 gimmick of having Tommy drive the Dinghy upside down won't work on
PC--Tommy will just drown if you try it.
In the absurdist GTA world of the bad people of all types (I guess it's partly
to give you an excuse to use that ammo dump of video game weaponry available),
the soldiers at Fort Baxter hate civilians and may shoot Tommy on sight if he
walks, drives, or flies near the base. On PC, they may do this when you have
Tommy try Rampage 34 to the east of it, although, when that happened, I just had
him drive a bit to the east and it stopped. (Once the police uniform is avail-
able, after "Cop Land," and you have Tommy wear it, they won't shoot him on
sight, allowing him to walk freely around Fort Baxter. Otherwise, I generally
have him keep a distance from it, and have him jack a Rhino or a Hunter from it
quickly.) I wonder if this has anything to do with the glitch, reported in I.7
Stats, that has the game consider the soldiers at the base a gang.
On PC and newer PS2 versions:
Rampage 1, on the roofless shack in the S ocean, doesn't naturally tend to
produce enough targets where you activate it; there are a few ways around that
at I.32;
a variety of the weapons have been given fictional names;
and the Lionel Ritchie song "Running with the Night" has been removed from
Flash FM.
Also, the tear gas cannisters, behind the police station S of the Malibu Club,
are replaced with Grenades on PC and the newer PS2 versions. On PC, the tear
gas was replaced because Rockstar got complaints that using it caused game slow-
downs, even on better computers. (The tear gas has been improved and brought
back for "San Andreas.")
In the PC version, there are no special sidewalk collision problems like there
are on PS2, just the regular collision problems.
To recap some PS2/PC differences for those keeping score on the home game:
PS2 comes out 1st, Hilary's Sabre Turbo is bullet-proof, you can use an FBI
Rancher in a Pay 'n' Spray, block the pier in "All Hands on Deck," drive a Din-
ghy upside-down, the prostitutes are good for Tommy's health until he delivers
pizza, and you have a Vice Point Langer hotel.
PC comes out later with the original graphics (not lessened as for PS2), the
ability to improve the machine you play it on to make them better yet (although
what is currently a low end gaming machine should be able to play it fine), in-
stant replays (cool for cycle stunts), allows you to install MP3 and wav files
and short-cuts for them, allows you to install mods (including the ability for
anyone to modify the datahandling.cfg file for vehicles, which can make some
missions (Paramedic, The Driver, RC Bandit, etc.) easier, and the LC mod to have
"III" with cycles), you use a different super jump, a variety of vehicles can be
dependably found in certain locations, Tommy can drive into the mansion, he
doesn't trip over the curb, the prostitutes are always good for Tommy's health,
and you have a WK Chariot hotel.
On PS2, you use a gamepad.
On PC, you can use the keyboard and mouse or a gamepad.
PS2 features auto-aim for the handguns, submachine guns, and shotguns.
PC Classic Controls feature auto-aim for the handguns, submachine guns, and
shotguns, and on
PC Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering (my favorite), without
auto-aim, Tommy can look around and aim his weapons, notably the Minigun, freely
in practically any direction, cars and trucks can be steered smoothly, and Tommy
moves like a human being instead of like a robot.
I.8.b Adapters for PS2 and Xbox controllers
Gamepad controls
If you want to use an adapter that lets you use your PS2 or Xbox controls for
PC, Gamespy, Aug., 2005, recommended these USB adapters, about $12 each, you can
plug them into:
SmartJoy PLUS - PlayStation 2-USB adapter
SmartJoy X - Xbox-USB adapter
http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/637/637880p8.html
You might also want to see this message board about the San Andreas Advanced
Control:
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=198093
Some prefer to get a Logitech Dual Action gamepad, or a Logitech Rumblepad 2,
which is much the same as a PS2 controller and is much easier to connect to your
PC--just plug it into a USB slot.
I got the Rumblepad 2 in late 2006 and can recommend it for something like
that. I like the keyboard and mouse better for "Vice City" for having Tommy
move and look around, aim weapons, do motorcycle stunts, etc., though. A game-
pad is clumsier at that, which is why it has auto-aim for some weapons. Aiming
a sniper rifle with a gamepad is the worst.
The gamepad is fun for a little variety--some things (like people saying
things when they're held at gun point) are programmed a little differently for
it and Classic Controls.
The reason some people feel it makes flying helicopters easier is that it com-
bines up, down, left, and right on the left analogue stick, which makes some-
thing easy a little easier. (Those people who can't fly without one are still
weenies, though. The main thing I don't like about flying helicopters is the
sluggish way the "camera" looks ahead while going forward compared to how fast
it does that for land vehicles, and that's the same problem if you use a gamepad
or not.) You don't have Tommy fly nearly as often as aim weapons in the game,
and the Hunter has auto-aim for the machine gun for Brown Thunder, which is
pretty easy.
Since you can attach a keyboard and mouse or a gamepad to a PC or the new PS3,
more people may get used to both kinds of controls and, most importantly, GTA
'cycle stunts can live on.
Thanks to Orion_SR for telling me the gamepad setup given below:
Foot Controls
Fire Joy3
Next Weapon Joy8
Prev Weapon Joy7
Zoom In Joy1
Zoom Out Joy2
Enter+Exit Joy4
Camera Joy10 (or Joy9)
Jump Joy1
Sprint Joy2
Aim Joy6
Crouch Joy11 (or Joy12)
Action Joy5
Look Behind Joy12 (or Joy11)
Vehicle Controls
Fire Joy3
Secondary Fire Joy5
Accelerate Joy1
Brake Joy2
Enter+Exit Joy4
Horn Joy11
Sub-mission Joy12
Camera Joy10 (or Joy9)
Handbrake Joy6
Look Left Joy7
Look Right Joy8
Look Behind Joy7+8
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I.9 Controls--basic information
The Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering/W, S, A, D format
This guide was written using the controls given below. I guess I favored ori-
enting things around the W, S, A, and D area over the directional arrows area to
situate my controls more in the middle of other buttons I would need to use.
But use the method you feel best about, and scratch out my choices and put in
your own, if you want.
The game accommodates the use of a game pad, too, but I like Mouse Controlled
Steering the best, so I don't use mine. You could use a joystick, too, which
some people prefer for flying the helicopters. But they're generally easy to
fly without one. The VCN helicopter has the most oversteer of the ones Tommy
can ride in, but you don't have to use it. There are two missions with a wobbly
RC copter, but the Top Fun van one just records your time, you don't need to
beat one or race anyone, and I hope the advice I offer for "Demolition Man" will
let you beat the clock without denting your keypad cushion.
I recommend Standard Controls. The alternative, Classic Controls, is designed
to be a bit like PS2 controls. In the Standard Controls, designed for the PC
version particularly, the distinctive aiming concern is to turn on Mouse Con-
trolled Steering in the Options. Mouse Controlled Steering is the hand held
camera effect, with the camera mainly kept behind Tommy's back, used for having
Tommy (and you) look around and drive land vehicles except bikes. Tommy moves
too much like a robot the Classic way for me, and I don't like how it restricts
the camera so it isn't freely looking where Tommy is looking unless you press
a key or have certain weapon scopes equipped. If this is like making an inter-
active movie, whoever saw a movie where anyone moves that way? If I did, I'd
call the station and report a technical problem.
Mouse Controlled Steering seems to make a beneficial difference in aiming
four-wheel vehicles, since, for instance, I'm a lot newer to this than Rusk, so
probably (undoubtedly?) less agile, yet beat his 30 sec. Cone Crazy time with
20 sec.. And it makes a difference in aiming weapons, too, since Standard Con-
trols with Mouse Controlled Steering doesn't feature an M4 scope that jumps
around the screen, or restricted side-to-side movement for the Minigun, he com-
plains about for their PS2 counterparts. (I've read that the PS2 "San Andreas"
changes that for the PS2 Minigun.) The use of the mouse-aimed Minigun is one
area where "point and click" is a compliment, and not a complaint about the
duller RPG games.
It's not to say which setup is the one anyone else has to like better for all
games--there is no such thing. But the GTA use of the keyboard and mouse setup
improves the steering control of certain things, including a few driving or
shooting things some people have a difficult time with. As mouse steering goes,
the GTA version is particularly good at creating a tightly-controlled, fluid
manipulation of those things. It does the same for your ability to immerse
yourself in the game as a movie setting, and if ever there was a game that was
more of an interactive movie-game than just another shoot them before they shoot
you/who has the most technically demanding graphics-game, it's one of the latest
GTA games.
If someone has a PS2/Classic Controls setup, with auto-targeting for the .357,
in mind, and tells the person controlling their Minigun with Mouse Controlled
Steering to use the .357 for certain missions, they're inadvertently telling
them to take a knife to a gun fight. (Try blowing up everything and anything
within draw distance in about the time it takes to point to them with a hand-
gun.) Since different things are easier with different setups, and most walk-
throughs I read weren't addressing the special concerns of the PC Standard Con-
trols setup I use, I saw an area I know about where what I know might help some-
one if I translated the game for anyone else who might like to use that setup,
too.
And I recommend Mouse controlled Steering just because it's a good game that
makes it fun to look around more freely. I'd mainly go to Classic Controls to
try out the auto-aim for the handgun on pedestrians to hear some dialogue they
only say when held up that way, hear the things Lawyer Ken Rosenberg says some-
times after Tommy gets busted, or use some different camera angles for screen
shots.
Some controls that are good to use on foot, while using any vehicle,
or just anytime you're enjoying the show
Enter....in most cases, when you repeat a mission that has an opening se-
quence and you want to skip the opening scene, press Enter (or Left or Right
Shift). The exceptions are a few that begin with Tommy in a vehicle--press W.
Esc....when you want to pause the game and go to the menus, press Esc.
- You can enter codes while the game is paused. So if you need to type "as-
pirine" before Tommy's vehicle blows up, or type "hopingirl" while the pedestri-
an you want to get into Tommy's vehicle is near it, press "Esc" 1st.
- Pausing and returning to the game makes the name of the neighborhood Tommy
is in appear on the screen. It also changes the appearance of some of the vehi-
cles (see I.9.B "Putting your convertible roof or Teddy Bear up or down....).
Also fun on foot or in or on any vehicle:
F1....instant replay. It's supposed to be for 30 sec., but you get longer
and shorter ones.
It creates an enjoyable variety of camera shots that follow Tommy's recent
actions. You can change the view by moving the mouse. Just bump the mouse and
it switches, and you can keep moving it slowly so it doesn't switch back.
A few drawbacks:
The people that the game programs to follow Tommy, including into or onto ve-
hicles, during missions (at least the people I tried this with, like Mercedes in
"The Party" and the Vercetti gang henchmen with Uz-Is in "Bar Brawl") are invis-
ible in replays.
Sometimes fires and explosions are invisible in replays.
The beach ball will hover over the spot it spawns in instead of being shown
bouncing off Tommy's head.
Too often the "camera" will take a close shot from Tommy's side just when you
want to see a stunt or jump he did from farther away--this is when I'm most
likely to bump and move the mouse to change the camera angle.
A few bonuses:
Turning the "camera" with the mouse lets you see details not viewable during
the original shots.
It causes the convertible roofs of Stallions and Mesa Grandes to appear and
disappear. (The hookers only rock cars with roofs.) It has the same effect on
the Teddy Bears of Gang Burrito vans and makes changes to some other vehicles,
too (see the "How to put your convertible roof or Teddy Bear up or down, change
the things you can find in delivery trucks, and make other quick vehicle changes
with instant replays" section of I.9.B).
The exhausts of the Cuban Hermes make cool fire trails in replays, most im-
pressively in replays of jumps.
It pauses the tune on your radio so you don't have to miss any of it.
F2....saves replay
F3....plays back last saved replay
See I.100.F for how to use Prt Scr, etc., to make screenshots.
Going up without gaining altitude
This is true when on foot or in any vehicle.
The game judges Tommy's location on roof tops horizontally, not vertically, so
reacts like he's inside a building when he's on the middle of the roof. This
can cause attacking helicopters to fly away, and peds and police to talk and act
like he's on ground level with them. It can also open the big garage door of
the Hyman Condo while he's on a portion of the roof, which is helpful to know in
using the multi-helicopter "bigbang" way to increase his CRiminal Rating to God-
father.
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I.9.A On Foot
Controls
Running
(Hi)jacking vehicles except boats, Rhinos, and Hunters
Harder punches and faster attacks with the Left Mouse Button
Punching to work up an appetite,
punching your neighbors to get to know them,
and punching for a Good Citizen bonus
LMB throwing, shooting, and taking photographs
Aiming with the whole Mouse, not just part of it, and auto-aim
Bouncing a beach ball off Tommy's head.
When you go to the Malibu Club, walk Tommy up to a lady and play with W, S, A,
D, Space Bar, and C (Crouch) to have Tommy dance with her.
Standard Controls
TURN ON MOUSE CONTROLLED STEERING! Don't make me come out there....
W....Forward (the general movement button--steer with the mouse)
(Most of us call it "walk," but it's more of a trot.)
S....Backward
Mouse Controlled Steering....Turn Left
A....Walk Sideways Left
Mouse Controlled Steering....Turn Right
D....Walk Sideways Right
Note: you can also move the mouse to look up, down, or anywhere around.
Left Shift (remap the control by pressing Backspace twice then Left
Shift) added to W....Run
Space Bar....Jump
Left Mouse Button (LMB)....Attack, throw, shoot, and take photographs;
you can also hold down W, then hold down the LMB as well, and Tommy prepares his
Fist/Brass Knuckles or melee weapon to attack, then release the LMB when he's at
the target for a more powerful attack; try attacks to the right, left, and be-
hind, too. More on this below.
Note: try different combinations of all of the above.
Right Mouse Button (RMB)....bring up the scope of the Rocket Launcher or
a sniper rifle, or the viewfinder of a camera, to enable it to shoot. (There's
an optional scope for the M4 rifle which I don't recommend. There's no PS2-like
target button for the RMB in Standard Controls, and you don't need it, either.)
Z or Mouse Wheel up....Zoom in with the Sniper Rifle scope or Camera
lens.
X or Mouse Wheel down....Zoom out with the Sniper Rifle scope or Camera
lens.
F....Enter nearest vehicle or the one Tommy is pointed toward (if you
change your mind about entering, press W, S, A, or D).
Mouse Wheel up....Previous weapon
Mouse Wheel down....Next weapon
C....Crouch
Caps Lock or Middle Mouse Button....Look Behind
Tab....Have Tommy answer the ringing cell phone, buy property when stand-
ing in an available property pickup, or change the weapon in a weapon slot when
he's standing in the pickup of a weapon of the same category.
V....View change not available on foot; pressing these buttons on foot in
the Classic Controls adjusts how far back from Tommy the camera is. For Stan-
dard Controls, which feature camera angles that take in a more comprehensive
view, hitting them just makes a "Blink!" sound, like Tommy just had an idea. I
guess you could use it for that, if you're a little more dramatically ambitious.
Running
Press W (forward) and Left Shift (make it Run in the Controls Options) and
Tommy can run faster than any criminal or policeman that chases him. He can run
faster than most of the traffic, too, which is handy for jacking a vehicle.
He only has so much energy for that, then he trots again, so pulse Left Shift
to prolong Tommy's running ability before you get the Infinite Run with the
Paramedic mission. Pulsing Space Bar (Jump) can help speed him up before that,
too, and running increases his endurance so he can run farther.
But get the Infinite Run (I.22) as soon as possible so he can run indefinite-
ly. It can make the difference between not wanting to save the game because
Tommy got busted, so having to do it all over again, and easily getting away
from an arrest. It's very annoying to have him pull off a wild move, or be near
a vehicle that's about to explode, and have him start trotting along like he's
asking to be busted or killed.
If you have Tommy run at oncoming traffic and jump before each vehicle, he may
run over the hood and keep running or dive to the side.
When Tommy runs, he can shove and move vehicles of any size because he's a
mighty, mighty man.
One of the most important innovations for the lead character of "Vice City"
compared to the one for "III," besides that he can talk, is that when he's in a
hurry to get something done, he won't pause to do that "Eek, it's a mouse" deal
with his arms up, staggering backward, that could be so annoying in "III" in a
tight spot.
(Hi)jacking vehicles except boats, Rhinos, and Hunters
Normally, to jack a vehicle, send Tommy toward it then press F, and he'll yank
the driver out or give a biker an elbow to the head or a kick, probably scare
out any others, and take it. If the land vehicle is moving, standing or parking
in front of it will probably stop all but the aggressive drivers (getting run
over is uncommon except during high wanted ratings or "Cabmageddon"). On foot
or in a vehicle, it only takes one or a few bullets into a vehicle to make most
drivers stop and run away. Be careful with a powerful weapon like the Minigun,
or you'll just blow it up. Tommy can shoot people through the vehicle windows
in Vice City, too, if you want to jack a Sabre Turbo (I.68) or Zebra Cab (I.92).
There are aggressive drivers whom you may have to corral into driving into a
corner before you can jack their vehicle. They stop at nothing to get where
they're going--they drive like it's an online game and someone else is driving
like me or you. They're usually just good for thrills when you try to avoid
them in traffic. Otherwise, you might see how long you can follow them and
break parts off of their vehicle. But I usually pass on them if I need a vehi-
cle right away.
Some land vehicles are driven by people who try to take it back (the Cab and
Taxi drivers, the fat golfer, a dumpy-looking brunette with straight hair, a guy
in a light tan jersey with dark hair and sunglasses, the construction worker
with a yellow hard hat, a pimp in bold red and black hat and clothes, the black
and a white criminals in leather jackets, etc.), but most run away. Be ready to
gun it just in case.
Sometimes Tommy jacks a vehicle and a passenger isn't scared away, and he
drives around with a hostage. But they get out and run away when he stops or
gets out and goes to get back in. (As noted in the PC distinctions section, the
hostages on PC rarely make funny screams as they do so often for PS2.)
A Molotov can be useful to jack a vehicle with attackers inside. It will take
care of them as they emerge and leave the vehicle for you.
To jack a police vehicle with a police officer in it ("Vice City" or "III"
only!), send Tommy to the passenger side and hit F three times. The police man
exits on the 1st or 2nd yank, unlocking his doors (the emergency vehicle owners
are the only ones who, at least erratically, seem to want to protect themselves
from all the vehicle jackings going on!). Tommy enters on the 3rd--hit W and
gun it.
The pimp in red and black, and the black and white criminals in leather jack-
ets, may jack Tommy's vehicle, including a helicopter (!), while he's sitting in
it. They don't seem to know what to do with a helicopter once they have it,
though. You can just jack it back and take off (or beat the c**p out of them,
so they won't keep trying to do it, if you plan to have Tommy sit a bit).
If they drive off in a land vehicle before Tommy can get up and take it back,
you might have him blow up the vehicle with the Minigun.
If gang members yank Tommy out of a vehicle, they'll throw Tommy to the ground
and attack him, and try to keep him from getting back in the vehicle. (The more
aggressive gang members will retaliate if members are attacked, and the Haitian
gang members will do it any time Tommy goes near them after he does "Trojan Voo-
doo" for Umberto Robina.) When using the Standard Controls with Mouse Con-
trolled Steering, this is a good reason have a Minigun with lots of ammo. Have
Tommy break away, run off a bit, turn, and share a generous helping of his Mini-
gun ammo with them.
You may find a vehicle you want that's locked (fortunately, not often; I think
it just happens sometimes with the four-wheel emergency vehicles). Just have
Tommy run about a block away and go back to try again because the locking is
programmed to be random.
If Tommy jacks a parked four-wheel vehicle that sets off an alarm (also not
often), have him watch for police and wait till the alarm stops if you still
want to drive it onto the road because it can bring unwanted police attention.
Certain parking places, such as across the street from the Ocean View, may
have these vehicles.
Left Mouse Button: harder punches and faster attacks.
Use the Left Mouse Button for using Fist/Brass Knuckles or melee weapons. If
you press LMB repeatedly, it nudges Tommy forward. And if he's fighting two or
more, he's got a variety of moves to use with his feet and head in various di-
rections, too, which you can supplement by using W, S, A, D, and Mouse Con-
trolled Steering. Use them with Jump, Space Bar, when Tommy needs room to at-
tack.
You can also have Tommy walk, holding W, S, A, or D, then hold the LMB, too,
and he'll raise his Fist/Brass Knuckles or melee weapon in preparation to
strike. Release the LMB to have him strike. I've seen him knock down several
people at once this way. While the other one recovers or gets up off the
ground, back Tommy up, then send him trotting forward again and hold LMB, too,
etc. Get a back and forward rhythm going.
Get the Brass Knuckles behind the Moonlite Hotel, two doors N of the Ocean
View.
(See I.10, Weapons, Melee weapons, for fast Chainsaw attacks.)
When Tommy's in a fist fight, you can press C--crouch--and have him duck. The
attacker usually swings overhead and misses (although kicks still connect).
When they pause, you can have Tommy stand up and clobber them.
Here comes one of the basic lessons of fighting in Vice City: don't let your-
self get crowded in on by attackers, esp. if they have weapons. Something about
the collision files of the programming or whatever make Tommy's weapons ineffec-
tual when the target is too close, and while he's punching his way out with one
or two of them, he could get killed by another. Don't get caught having to use
fists at a gun or knife fight. If Tommy starts to get crowded in on and it gets
to be too much, just have him break him loose from his attackers, run to give
himself some distance, equip a weapon, then turn back and let them have it, or
run away.
You can scroll between Minigun, a shotgun, MP, etc., and check Tommy's walking
speed. To me, the movement may be different but the slower speed looks the
same. So, given that choice, I'd use the Minigun.
Punching to work up an appetite.
As Rusk notes, you can have Tommy get into fist fights with some of the guys
by a fast food place to put his health below 100 (or below 99?), which activates
his ability to buy fast food in a pink shaft of light that appears at the count-
er. This works at any of the several Well Stacked Pizza places around Vice City
or the fast food booths in the middle of the 1st floor of North Point Mall. And
check the hands of potential targets 1st: don't try fist fights with gangs of
guys with guns since they can kill Tommy quickly at close range when his health
is low. Don't take Brass Knuckles to a gun fight.
The Burger Shot cashier says, "We get this cheap from the abattoirs" (French
for "slaughterhouse").
Punching your neighbors to get to know them.
It may not be something it otherwise would occur to you to do, but punching
pedestrians, leading to fights with the same certain ones, is a way to get to
know the identities of the ones who fight. It makes them say a lot more.
The barefoot guy with black hair and a beard sounds like the late Walter Bren-
nan: "I'll send you to Kingdom come, I wi--ll."
The guy in bold red and black clothes and hat is a crass pimp on the make for
sex: "Hey, you're an ugly bi**h--I'll do you my way" and "You need some action?"
and "Relax, babe, with one of my girls."
The dirty blonde criminal with a brown leather jacket hates yuppies.
The black guy in a hat with dark glasses pretends he's blind but says he can
smell you and you smell like s**t. (I think he's a precursor to Wu Zi of "San
Andreas," who pretends he's blind but can aim weapons and drive vehicles.)
The dirty blonde hooker says, "You didn't think I had brass knuckles, did
you?" and "How do you like getting bi**ch slapped?."
The black hooker says, "I used to be a marine" and "The name's Pearl" (then,
with a male voice) "but I used to be Brian."
The brunette with a black netting top and red shorts says, "I am gonna rip off
your ba**s and shove 'em down your throat." I don't think I'd be partial to
that.
The brunette lady in a pink top and short pale blue skirt who says she "gradu-
ated from Scarford" tells you to "Die in a pool of your own blood."
And that nice skater lady says, "I'll roll right over your ass," etc.!
Tommy says more things, too, like "At least you ain't gonna worry about your
looks," or, to a policeman: "I did your wife, you poor bastard." That's not
very sociable.
Punching for a Good Citizen bonus.
If you have Tommy punch a man running from a police officer, you get a $50
Good Citizen bonus. You might even get several punches in for several bonuses.
If you have Tommy punch one of the ones that fights to get them to say stuff
and they start running, they're eluding a policeman, or scared by a local gang
fight, and won't say any more, so you might as well get a Good Citizen bonus out
of it. Be careful not to have Tommy hit the nice police man.... (Say, "Nice
evening, officer!" like one of the Bowery Boys, or Eddie Haskell from the 1960's
sit-com "Leave It To Beaver.")
LMB throwing, shooting, and taking photographs.
Use the Left Mouse Button to have Tommy throw stuff. The longer you hold down
the button before releasing it, the farther he throws.
Use Left Mouse Button to shoot hand held weapons. You need to press the RMB
to equip the scope of either sniper rifle or the Rocket Launcher before they'll
shoot. Zoom with Z and X or the Mouse Scroller.
Use the Left Mouse Button to take up to twelve pictures ("Martha's Mug Shot"
mission only). Equip the lens with the RMB so it will shoot pictures and Zoom
with Z and X or the Mouse Scroller.
Aiming with the whole Mouse, not just part of it, and auto-aim.
The PS2-type PC Classic controls have a RMB auto-target feature for shooting
certain weapons. But since I'd STRONGLY recommend using Standard Controls, de-
signed for the improved PC version, the important aiming consideration is to
turn Mouse Controlled Steering on in the options. For the PC Standard Controls
we're using, the RMB is just used to enable the scope on the Rocket Launcher,
a sniper rifle, or a camera, so they'll shoot, and thereby enable the zoom for
either of the two sniper rifles or the camera. Zoom with Z and X or the Mouse
Scroller.
The Minigun, notably, can be aimed in any direction with PC Standard Controls,
too.
For Standard or Classic Controls, the Sea Sparrow and Hunter machine guns have
a bit of auto-aim (one way to see it is to shoot boats with it)--during "Brown
Thunder," the Hunter machine gun has even more. Fire it with the RMB.
Bouncing a beach ball off Tommy's head
Walk Tommy into the beach ball to make it bounce, then keep moving him to
where the shadow of it appears on the ground to make it bounce off his head. My
highest score so far for Keepie Uppie Beach Ball is 80.
Here are some of the famous examples of high scores:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keepie_uppie
Go from the east island to Starfish island--once there, make the 1st right;
the empty swimming pool of the 1st house on the right, and the pool with water
of the 3rd house on the right, contain a beach ball.
On a rare occasion, you may find it on Washington Beach, where you can rack up
more points without any obstructions to get in the way.
I'd read that it can be found on the east island on the N end of the little
extension of beach in the S, around where rampage 2 is, at 8 am or pm, though
I've only found it that way once. I've also found it by the RC Bandit Top Fun
van, and once on the beach to the E of the WK Chariot hotel around noon.
The place on the beach I've found it the most often--about a handful of times
and at various times of day--is a little NE of the 3rd life guard hut from the
S. Each time, Tommy went W from the E coast, sometimes having landed a boat--or
car combined with the "seaways" code--on the coast.
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I'm still waiting to learn of a reliable way to trigger it to appear anywhere
on the beach.
One drawback: it sometimes seems to hesitate over Tommy's head, as if the game
is deciding if it's going to bounce it or not, and sometimes you get the bad
luck of the draw.
If you shoot it, it flies high in the air. A S.P.A.S. 12 shotgun at close
range gets a good result for that--you can send it up into the stratosphere that
way.
If you bounce it to a Starfish Island basketball hoop, you can't get it
through it. You can play mansion door soccer, though (see Ghost Beach Ball Soc-
cer in I.9.G).
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I.9.B Four-wheel Vehicles
Controls for four-wheel vehicles
Some notable things about the four-wheel vehicles
Driving indoors
Locations of the secret Caddy, Cheetah, Voodoo, BF Injection, Packer, and
the gang car with a Teddy Bear
How to put your convertible roof or Teddy Bear up or down, change the things
you can find in delivery trucks, and make other quick vehicle changes with
instant replays
Bus driver income and bus "routes"
Police cars: safe collisions and spike strip-proof tires
Securicars
The Cabbie Climb
Fast and complimentary Pay 'n' Sprays
Chauffeured rides
The Rhino--how to hijack it, save it, and destroy it
(rampage with it--I.32; and fly it--I.9.D)
Two-Wheelers and one-railers
A run down of all the four-wheel vehicles
including the real names for most, and top speeds for all,
of the four-wheeled vehicles
Good/distinctive two-door vehicles
Good/cute little vehicles
Good/distinctive four-door cars
Emergency and military vehicles
Others
When people honk as they go by, have Tommy honk back--they could be friends of
his.
Controls for four-wheel vehicles
GTW recommends
Standard Controls
TURN ON MOUSE CONTROLLED STEERING!! to steer four-wheel vehicles. A and D are
mainly used for four-wheel vehicles to turn the front wheels to try to get ve-
hicles upright, or as part of going for a Two-Wheeler, or steer an airborne
four-wheel land vehicle while using the "comeflywithme" code.
W....Forward (Touch it to send the camera looking forward from behind
Tommy's vehicle, too.)
S....Backward (The screen message calls it "brake"; if your brakes work
like this in real life, take your vehicle to a mechanic.)
Mouse Controlled Steering, A....Left; tilt tipping vehicle to the right
Mouse Controlled Steering, D....Right; tilt tipping vehicle to the left
Space Bar....Brake (The screen message calls it "handbrake.")
F....Exit vehicle
R or Mouse Wheel Up....Change radio station except for the Police car,
the Enforcer (SWAT van), the Police Cheetah, the Rhino, the Barracks OL, and the
FBI vehicles, which get police calls, and, after the Kaufman Cabs missions,
Kaufman Cabs, which then get special Taxi dispatches
Left Shift (remap Controls to use Left Shift)....Horn except it instead
causes the boost jump for the Taxi and cabs after completing 100 fares, and it
changes the height, via the lowrider suspension, of the Voodoo; press it several
times to turn the emergency vehicle siren/flashing lights, or Mr. Whoopee truck
jingle, on or off
Caps Lock....Activate/cancel Sub-mission--for four-wheel vehicles, a
Taxi, Paramedic, Firetruck, or Vigilante mission--when in the corresponding ve-
hicle.
Q with E, or Middle Mouse Button....Look behind
Q....Look/aim submachine gun left
E....Look/aim submachine gun right
Left Mouse button (LMB)....Shoot submachine gun
V....View (Change Camera Mode)
Rhino cannon and Firetruck water cannon
NP4....Turn left
NP5....Turn right
NP9....Firetruck water cannon up
NP6....Firetruck water cannon down
Note about NP5 for this section and the one below: I don't know if this is a
common glitch or not, but my NP5 doesn't work for a function it's the default
key for until I "remap" the function for it to NP5. Then it appears on the menu
as "#" but NP5 works for the function.
Voodoo hydraulics
Left Shift or
Right Shift....the body goes to a held raised position from a lowered one;
the body goes to a held lowered position from a raised one
(I use both Left and Right Shift for Horn.)
NP4....Raises the left side while pressed when the body is lowered;
lowers the left side while pressed when the body is raised
NP5....Raises the right side while pressed when the body is lowered;
lowers the right side while pressed when the body is raised
NP9....Raises the back end while pressed when the body is lowered;
lowers the back end while pressed when the body is raised
NP6....Raises the front end while pressed when the body is lowered;
lowers the front end while pressed when the body is raised
You can combine pairs of the number pad keys above for diagonal body move-
ments.
You can help the Voodoo make sharper turns by making it lean in the direction
of the turn. For example, to make a sharper right turn, raise the left side if
the body is lowered or lower the right side if the body is raised.
About V....View (Change Camera Mode): 1st person view, multi-view, and long,
mid-, and near distance back views.
I generally use the mid-distance back view, but the long distance one is good
for safely backing a vehicle to the edge of a rooftop. The multi-view mode is
fun to watch Tommy drive different things with, if harder to see where you're
going with. Trying to do it is a game by itself, and fun to try when you're not
in a hurry to go anywhere. The 1st person view is different, and might help you
drive a Coach so you can see what's in front of it. Hit W to aim the camera
view ahead from behind Tommy.
The 1st person view can give you a chance to play with Q and E, and Q + E, to
get some interesting close up views of the other pedestrians, such as when using
the hooker gimmick, during "Distribution," I.63, the Taxi mission, or when using
the "hopingirl" code to take pedestrians for rides in a helicopter.
Q and E, and Q + E, can be used a bit during routine driving, which I use the
mid-distance view for, to add some variety to the interactive "movie" you're
making. If you're not in a hurry and don't mind wrecking occasionally, holding
the side view for longer stretches can give you an interesting change of scen-
ery.
The overhead view of "GTA 2," an option in "GTA III," isn't available. Howev-
er, you can use the mouse to swerve the camera to that view for a bit during in-
stant replays. This can provide an especially different view while flying.
Some notable things about the four-wheel vehicles
Driving indoors
Some four-wheel vehicles can be driven into the mansion (for example, the "EP"
Admiral, I.99).
The Caddy can also be driven into North Point Mall. You can drive the Caddy
or the Baggage Handler into the Malibu Club, but it creates Ghost World if you
do.
Locations of the secret Caddy, Cheetah, Voodoo, BF Injection, Packer, and gang
car with a Teddy Bear.
Secret Caddy
There's always a Caddy hidden in the 1st shrub on the left when you take the
path that leads W from the light house. Make sure no police are close by and
don't linger there because otherwise you could get busted. Use the radar to
avoid driving into the sea--I'd turn N 1st.
It can be driven into the mansion, North Point Mall, and the Malibu Club.
Cheetah
There's always a Cheetah by Pier 2 on the SW side of the east island, and by
the 1st house on the right when you cross the bridge from the east island to
Starfish Island and make the 1st right. The "Vice" Cheetah is always behind the
Little Havana police station.
Voodoo
There's always a Voodoo, the Haitian gang car, by Auntie Poulet's (the Haitian
gang leader's) shack. To get there, go W on the road that curves N in a roughly
half a circular bend from Links Bridge; after the road has gone as far W as it
will go and starts to go E, Auntie Poulet's shack will be ahead of you on the
left--it's across the street to the N of the Voodoo. Some raise the Voodoo on
one side to make a sharp turn to the other, which is easier to do if you use
your left hand to turn it with A and D instead of using Mouse Controlled Steer-
ing and use your right hand at the number pad. You can make it ride high or low
on the wheels.
The hydraulic lift ability is like that of the Yardie Lobo gang car in "GTA
III."
BF Injection
There's always a BF Injection, a dune buggy, on the east island, in the middle
of the W side of the beach, between the Standing vice Point hotel and a big
shrub. Besides being good on sand, the big wheels it has make it good for
climbing onto land or a low pier if you use the "seaways" code. The climbing
ability is also shown by the Patriot; there's always one at the film studio on
Prawn Island and in a shed at Phil's Place. The Sandking you get for completing
the 3rd Sunshine Autos vehicle collection handles even better for an SUV.
Packer
There's always a Packer (ramp truck) in the film studio on Prawn Island, on
the tarmac at the airport at the S end of the west island, and in the lot of the
Vice City Port Authority on the W side of the SW block of the section of blocks
on the SE side of the west island.
It's handy for one of my methods of beating Hilary with the Sentinel in "The
Driver" (see I.70). It's also good for Jump to Grinds and concocting some new
jumps for the PCJ 600, when the truck doesn't disappear in the middle of the ef-
fort. Leave the door of it open when you have Tommy exit it by having him imme-
diately move away from it to give it a better chance to stay in the memory of
the game. It's also used for the PC super jump (I.9.C).
Gang car with a Teddy Bear
The Gang Burrito, a maroon van with graffiti on it, sometimes has a Teddy Bear
on the grill or above the windshield; the Teddy Bear has a brown or white face.
I like the brown ones better; the white ones look more like monkeys or some kind
of hentai lady-faced mutants. You can always find a Gang Burrito in front of
the N-most house on Prawn Island.
How to put your convertible roof or Teddy Bear up or down, change the things
you can find in delivery trucks, and make other quick vehicle changes with
instant replays
If you press F1, for instant replay, twice, you can:
- put the convertible top up or down on a Mesa Grande or Stallion.
- make a Gang Burrito plain,
a Gang Burrito with a Teddy Bear with a brown face in front of the grill, or
a Gang Burrito with a Teddy Bear with a white face on the hood over the
windshield.
- make a Barracks OL plain, or
a Barracks OL with a canvas top or a bare frame top.
- make Bloodring Banger A or B have different decals on the roof and back half
of the sides.
- make a Caddy plain or
a Caddy with one or two of three golf bags or two satchel bags on the back.
- make a Cheetah or Vice Cheetah plain or
a Cheetah or Vice Cheetah with one or two side rear view mirrors.
- make a Coach plain or
a Coach with a sign on both sides advertising that it's a Bullet, Vicefree,
or Whippet Coach.
- make a Benson plain,
a Sumo truck with nothing in the back,
a "Vice 'n' Easy" truck with boxes that say "Turtle Head" (a "GTA III" fish
company), I think--the letters are blurry, in the back,
a Bi*ch 'n' Dog Food (a "GTA III" company) truck with boxes that have the
cartoon logo of the "Sparki--the POWER-FUEL people" company (seen on some Mule
trucks in "III") in the back, or
a Zip truck with boxes in the back (they have something like a caricature of
the face of a 1972 Bette Midler or ? on them).
- make a Boxville or Yankee plain,
an R. S. and L. Bows ("arse and elbows," as in "you don't know your arse
from your elbows") truck with boxes of red meat and blood stains on the walls
inside,
a Marlin truck with boxes of fish inside, or
a City Haul or Haul truck with plain boxes inside.
- make a Flatbed cargo bed carry
one of two sets of wooden boxes,
one of two objects (each is bigger in the front with what may be a vertical
fin in the back) covered with canvas, or
large rusty pipes.
- make Hotring Racer A or B have different decals except the ones on the en-
gine hood and the front half of the sides. The car just called "Hotring Racer"
isn't changed by instant replays.
- make a Mule plain,
an R. S. & L. Bows truck with halves of red pig carcasses hanging in the
back,
a Haul truck with boxes in the back that say, "Haul,"
a Marlin truck with boxes in the back that have a doodle of a marlin on
them,
a Vice Voice truck with stacks of newspapers, I guess, in the back, or
an Outta Sight truck with boxes with blurry letters that say "Outta Sight"
in the back.
- make a Perennial plain or
a Perennial with a luggage rack on the roof.
- make a Romero's Hearse plain or
a hearse with a brown or blue coffin in the back.
- make a Rumpo plain,
a GasMaster van, or
an R. S. & L. Bows van.
(It also makes Klarnetist's 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air two-door hardtop,
I.100.D.e, have either a pair of red dice hanging from the rear view mirror, a
Well Stacked Pizza box on the back seat, or a green gas can in the trunk.)
Bus driver income and bus "routes"
You can drive the Coach to bus stops, then use the side view, Q, while posi-
tioning the door so it's to the left of one of the bus stop signs, and pick up
passengers. You get $5 per fare.
Occasionally, someone wants to figure out what the bus route is for it. After
following a number of them, it looks like they don't have one in the sense of a
sensible repeated circuit in which they take the shortest route to each stop and
stop at all of them. They seem to be programmed like a slow, lumbering version
of the random pattern of aggressive drivers that do anything to get where
they're going, and usually end up driving endlessly into a part of the off-road
neighborhood.
One stopped at a bus stop in Little Havana by the tool store, then didn't stop
at any more it passed while it drove in random circuits around Vice Port, where
there aren't any stops, then over the Starfish Island bridge and up and down the
east island, including some loops on the road that ends in a loop (W of the Ma-
libu Club), where there aren't any stops. I think the point of the randomness
of it was driven home to me by seeing a 2nd bus begin driving ahead of the 1st.
They went the same way a few blocks, then one went ahead and right and the other
went left.
But, at 1st, Coaches typically also stop at at least one red light and at
least one bus stop, maybe several, if sometimes missing stops on nearby blocks
in Little Havana when they do. I've had the best luck seeing them stop at sev-
eral going N from NW Vice Point, S from the E side of North Point Mall, or W
from the NE end of Downtown. When they stop at a bus stop, they drop off three
passengers--guys in light blue shirts and dark blue pants. They may pick up a
passenger, too. If you jack the Coach, a random ped comes out.
Coach: MCI 102C3 '83-'86, or an Ikarus '86 of the Miami Dade Transit Authori-
ty with Greyhound-like squared-off wheel wells
Police cars: safe collisions and spike strip-proof tires
Sometimes a police man or police car surprises you by running into the path of
your vehicle. And sometimes you get a wanted level by just brushing against
them. But you can drive full force into the front of a police car and not get
any wanted level at all. (Thanks to spaceeinstein's web site for reminding me
about driving into the front of police cars.) I think this means they're
stunned.
As Rusk notes, you can activate then deactivate the vigilante mission--on PC,
with Caps Lock--and the tires become spike strip proof.
Securicars
As explained a few paragraphs above, if you have Tommy smash the back doors
off some of the trucks with a melee weapon or by backing it into something, you
see stuff inside. The Securicar has boxes marked "Loot."
There's a Securicar you can't drive parked in front of El Banco Corrupto
Grande (N of the Starfish Island bridge on the main N-S road of the W island).
It looks as it did in "GTA III." It has "Gruppe Sechs"--German for "Group
Six"--written on it.
There's a security company that operates worldwide called Group 4 Securicor (a
recent merger between Securicor plc and Group 4 Falck A/S security business),
and in English "Gruppe Sechs" sounds like "Group Sex." (I can't remember where
I 1st read the German translation and Group 4 ideas, so "thank you," whoever you
are.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securicor
Other Securicars in Vice City can be driven, but you can't drive them to a Se-
curicar-cracking garage to collect the money for them as in "III."
The Cabbie Climb
(or: "I'm gonna climb a wall if you keep doing that"; thanks to John Byner for
the joke, which, I think, comes from the show where David Letterman got into a
suit of Velcro, jumped onto a wall, and stuck to it.)
As explained in a tutorial by Kaneda, the boost jump for Taxis and Cabs can
also be used to shoot them up the side of a wall. If you use it to jump from a
ramp or steps toward the side of a building, then jump some more once it meets
the wall, the jump will continue to send it vertical instead of away from the
building. Taxis are good for distance, but the various Cabs are the best for
the Cabbie Climb, especially the light Cabbie and Kaufman Cab. Among spots he
recommends for it (the screen shots with instructional markings in this section
are all by Ghostchild for your dining and dancing pleasure):
The big hotel with a curved front and awning on the block that looks like a
cartoon nose pointed W in the NW area of the east island. Get a long diagonal
run at it, avoiding the awning, from across the street to the SW of it.
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(I'll add my other favorite choice: the WestHaven Community Healthcare Centre
along the main N-S road in Little Havana.)
The big beige hotel (?) with an orange tile roof E of the police station
that's E of El Swanko Casa. Start a run from across the street to the SW of it.
(The roof has a ledge that extends past the wall and can create a barrier for
jumps, though.)
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The Links View Apt. building. Make a run NE to SW and jump at the slope of
the driveway for a recessed wall that faces forward.
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A few jumping spots he recommends for it:
From the NW corner of the block S of El Swanko Casa, go S across the street
and driveway and jump at the edge of the lawn onto a garage roof with orange
tiles, and jump from there onto the roof of the pink building beyond that.
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Make a diagonal run SW across the steps of the Little Havana medical center,
where you jump to the roof S of that.
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One of the triangular markers on the S tarmac of the airport.
Thanks to Brad Ward/ThaShoka89/Southern Finest, who helped me in the section
on the BSM, I.9.C, for the tip to check out Ghostchild's presentation of Kane-
da's tutorial.
For Kaneda's two videos that feature the Cabbie Climb, "Off Duty" and "Off Du-
ty 2," see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-eIjnsEio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pap0uy2b7fM
http://files.filefront.com/off_duty/;3395365;;/fileinfo.html
Nitzkit's "Taxi/Cabbie Boosting Tutorial" video gives these tips:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g1VOKmETzMQ
Boost the Taxi or Cabbie on a ramp, such as steps, to give it a vertical slant
by a wall, then tap Boost repeatedly while it goes up the wall.
If there's no ramp for the wall,
- make the Cabbie wiggle by steering away from then toward the wall, Boost to
send the Cabbie to the wall, and Boost repeatedly once it's on the wall.
- Boost the Taxi so the two side wheels nearest the wall get close to the
wall, then tap Boost repeatedly. You might also try a Packer to help you do
that.
I'll just add that the boost jump and a cab can be used on Unique Jumps and
similar ramps better than you might think. For example, you can use it on the
concrete ramp S of Howlin' Petes Biker Emporium to jump over the bike shop and
land on the roof N of that. It adds new life to some jumps I might otherwise
pass on at the airport and elsewhere around town, helps you get over fences (see
the 1st "Cabmageddon" mission method), and might occasionally lead to some roof
jumping, too, like I managed to do W of the S tarmac of the airport.
"Cabbie Boost Jumps"--a Li'l Dodo film by Glen T. Winstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8aIwdzoHcM
You can download it (109.93 MB) or any of my other video files from filefront:
http://hosted.filefront.com/glenster/
If anyone wants to make another Cabbie stunt video, I have an idea for one:
use Gunslinger's Robert De Niro skin (I.100.C). With all the GTA references to
the Robert De Niro/Martin Scorsese movies "Mean Streets," 1973, and "Taxi Driv-
er," 1976, like Mean Street Taxis in "III" and the benches that say it in "Vice
City" (I.2), it seems like a natural to me. For "Taxi Driver 2," Travis Bickle
would be a little older (the Gunslinger De Niro skin is for how Robert De Niro
looked in "Heat," 1995) and REALLY go nuts against the crime all around him in
Vice City.
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/466/00gta1screen5143ep.jpg
Fast and complimentary Pay 'n' Sprays
You can save some of the time taken to use a Pay 'n' Spray by leaving a (two
or) four-wheel vehicle in it. Just have Tommy board the vehicle, and it trig-
gers the Pay 'n' Spray actions.
After Tommy makes $100, when he doesn't have a wanted rating or need repairs,
he can still use one for complimentary sprays to give his vehicle the color you
like.
Chauffeured rides
If you have Tommy jump on a four-wheeled vehicle driven by a pedestrian, he
can go for a ride while you catch a snack with something more to see than if you
pause the game by pressing Esc. Unlike "GTA III," in which Claude, the lead
character, caused the driver to drive wildly if he shot their car, in Vice City,
if Tommy shoots their car, the occupants will as likely just get out and run
away in a panic. It can be a wild ride if Tommy gets a driver who panics and a
car hood he doesn't slide off of easily. You might have him shoot out a tire or
two 1st for a variation of it.
Sometimes, he can jump on the invisible stuff over the shoulders of someone
driving a PCJ 600 and not slide off and get a chauffeured ride, too.
The Rhino--how to hijack it, save it, and destroy it
(rampage with it--I.32; and fly it--I.9.D)
One thing Fernando says on Emotion that's true: you can go on safari in Vice
City and get a Rhino.
To have Tommy jack the Rhino, which appears at Fort Baxter after getting 90
hidden packages, you can wait until after "Cop Land," when the police outfit be-
comes available in the Washington Beach police station, and have Tommy wear it
so he can go onto the base without being attacked. Don't wait. Getting the
Rhino before you get the outfit is easier than getting the Hunter beforehand.
Just have Tommy speed into the base in a fast car right up to the Rhino, which
is right ahead past the entrance, get into it, and gun it back out the way he
went in. There might be some shooting, but he'll be safe in the Rhino.
I'd save it in the garage of the mansion (available after "Rub Out") or a ga-
rage at Sunshine Autos (available for purchase after "Shakedown"). You can save
it in the big garage at the Hyman Condo (get 70 hidden packages 1st), but it's
been known to make vehicles disappear when it's full, and the Rhino fills it a
lot all by itself.
The game represents the ability of a tank to flatten vehicles by having vehi-
cles (except other Rhinos) that bump it blow up. The Rhino is said to be able
to withstand about 200 explosions before being destroyed itself, but I've seen
it happen earlier. You can type "aspirine" to ward that off.
The Rhino can be destroyed with about six Molotovs. So if you want to jack
one during a six star wanted level, have Tommy throw a couple Molotovs at it so
the soldiers that come out of it can't attack him. The soldiers never fire the
cannon at Tommy.
Unfortunately, the turret is aimed higher than the turret for the Rhino of
"GTA III." So while it can be used for certain Rampages, as in "GTA III," it's
hard to do a drive by on gang members with one unless you get them with the ef-
fect of the blast by hitting a wall they're near. It makes vehicle destruction
rampages the easiest, though.
Rotate the turret of the Rhino left with Number Pad 4 and right with Number
Pad 5. Rotate it to aim backwards and fire repeatedly for extra speed, good for
getting it out of a clinch, doing a spectacular jump on a long runway with a
slanted platform at the end of it at the airport, J11, and, with the flying cars
code "comeflywithme" typed in, flying the Rhino higher than any other vehicle in
the game, except by the PC super jump, basically using the same controls used to
fly a Skimmer with the need to make swoops like a helicopter (see section
I.9.D).
Two-Wheelers and one-railers
On rare occasions, you may get a "Two wheels double bonus" on screen and in
your brief for driving a four-wheel vehicle on two wheels. It's measured in
seconds and feet except in your Stats, which record it in seconds and meters un-
der "Longest 2 wheels time" and "...distance." Nothing seems to be "double"d
for it.
No one knows a quick and easy way to get the game to give you a statistic for
a Two-wheels double bonus with a land vehicle.
To do a conventional two-wheeler, take something tippy like a Caddy to the S
tarmac of the airport and keep driving both right or both left wheels over one
of those little yellow triangle-shaped markers. When it goes up on two wheels
without rolling over, do a two-wheel balancing act with A and D (which turn the
front wheels, good to know to try to keep a car or truck from ending up on its
back and catching on fire, too). The A key tips it to the right and D tips it
to the left. Out of dozens of tries, the game will count one two-wheeler which
probably doesn't look any different than a lot of the other ones--some kind of
glitch, I guess.
Some like to try for one with an Ambulance, Landstalker, or Cab, too, because
they tip over easily. You might even get one accidentally in most any four-
wheeled vehicle by going out of control for a moment while going around a bend
fast. So good luck getting the game to count one of your longer, deliberate
ones.
You could uncheck the green box as explained in the mod tutorial at I.100.D.a,
then go to C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto Vice Citydatahan-
dling.cfg and fiddle with the X center of mass, as Demarest suggested to me in a
post at the GTA Forums web site. The X center of mass is currently 0.0 for ev-
erything, and he thought that adding something on one side of the decimal point
might help--trying to keep the heavier side lifted could help create a stoppie.
I haven't tried it yet, but it makes sense.
If you really want to get an impressive Stat for a two-wheeler, and you aren't
fussy about the part about using wheels, you could benefit from one of the re-
sults of the explorations of Chris, who shared them in a post with pictures at
the "gta place" web site:
http://www.thegtaplace.com/vicecity/glitches.php
It's a glitch that gives you the Stat from doing a one railer and not a two-
wheeler, but such experiments are part of the tradition of Grand Theft Auto.
You use a helicopter--I used a regular Maverick--with a land vehicle nearby.
Press A or D repeatedly to tilt the helicopter up one one rail, holding down S
to keep the one rail grounded. After you've gotten the length of time you want
to record, have Tommy exit the helicopter and get into or onto the land vehicle.
The two-wheeler bonus Stat will appear on your screen and in your Stats.
A run down of all the four-wheel vehicles
including the real names for most, and top speeds for all,
of the four-wheeled vehicles
The years I give represent the years for which I found vehicles on the Inter-
net that resembled the vehicles in the game, not necessarily the full span of
years the vehicle was made to look like that. In some cases, the pictures
weren't accompanied by dates.
I also used a Speedometer mod by Spookie to test the top speed of the vehi-
cles, give or take a mile per hour, on a runway at the airport.
I pick on some of them for being slow or not having great traction, but any of
them can be fun to drive for the variety when the heat's not turned up.
Good/distinctive two-door vehicles
Cheetah/"Vice" Cheetah: Ferrari Testarossa '86 (The trunk has a rectangular
indented area. See "Some notable four-wheel vehicles" above for locations. Al-
so see the "Vice" Cheetah below. After the Hotring Racers, the vehicles with
the lowest center of gravity are all built low to the ground: Cheetah, Stinger,
Comet, Infernus, and Blista Compact. Of them, the Cheetah has the best acceler-
ation. It's got the best cornering ability and is the lightest car in this
group--lighter than a Comet, and about as fast, but bigger, which somehow makes
for a blend that makes it my favorite car for jumps.) 100 mph.
(A cheetah is also an exceptionally fast, long-legged African, formerly Asian,
cat, with nonretractile claws, often bred to run down game.)
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/cheetah
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/03IMH063701856A.jpeg/0/
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/03IMH063701856C.jpeg/0/
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Rhino: ? It looks to me like a fictional tank, boxier than a modern Abrams and
without the body slant of an old Sherman. It's not a great match, but it's sim-
ilar to a Bradley M2/M3, customized with a bigger cannon, a wide viewing slot in
the front, a simplified body design with more body along the bottom of the sides
than an M6 Linebacker to cover up the fact that it doesn't have continuous
tracks, and two low side doors instead of a rear hatch so Tommy can jack it like
a car.
(It blows up any vehicle it bumps, withstands a lot of damage, and has a work-
ing cannon. While the 2nd most durable vehicle in the unmodified game--the 1st
is the "EP" Admiral--it can be destroyed after about 200 explosions or colli-
sions (I've seen it happen sooner, too), six Molotovs, or by flipping upside
down, which it does sometimes when it blows up another vehicle or collides with
something while travelling fast. Tommy can still drown if it falls into deep
enough water, and, since it has slow acceleration, be busted in one.)
(The biggest drawback, slow acceleration, is improved by firing the cannon
backwards. It will accelerate from 56 mph to about 130-140 mph in about 12-14
cannon shots. But I recommend caution about using the top speed--the Rhino then
becomes difficult to control, you quickly run out of a clearing to maintain it
in, and if it wrecks at that speed, it can flip and land upside-down or become
wedged between things long enough for Tommy to get busted.
(Use Caps Lock to turn the Vigilante mission on or off.)
(Rhinos make great additions to mansion garages, and you can show those rich
Hummer people a thing or two.) 56 mph; shooting the cannon backwards, 130-140
mph.
http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product.php?prodID=364
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Stinger: Ferrari Daytona Spyder '71-'73 (It's a convertible with the top
down. It's like a Cheetah. Of the vehicles with the low center of gravity of a
Cheetah, it's shares the top speed of the Cheetah and doesn't carry the objec-
tions of the Infernus or Blista Compact, and is more durable than a Phoenix.
The worst thing you can say about it is it won't shake for the hooker gimmick.)
100 mph.
http://www.seriouswheels.com/def/Ferrari-Daytona-Spyder-r-fa.htm
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/stinger.jpg
Hotring Racers: the two you can drive in the unmodified game look similar in
shape except for the very front and the back half. Hotring Racer A has higher
front lights, bigger side rear windows, and a trunk that's less thick and long
than the trunk of the one just named "Hotring Racer." Different copies of one
may have different decals of numbers on the hood of the cab, and some of the de-
cals advertising businesses may be different on the body. (You can get Hotring
Racer B for Tommy by using spaceeinstein's "Vice City" version of his "All In
One Mod"--see I.100.D.f "Miscellaneous mods.")
(The two Hotring Racers share the same row of numbers in handling.cfg, and,
after the Rhino firing the cannon backwards, have the best top speed and accel-
eration of the land vehicles. Though they have the lowest center of gravity,
too, they're somehow kind of wobbly if you press the speed, so don't be afraid
to let go of acceleration when you need to make a maneuver--they can quickly ac-
celerate back up to a high speed.)
Hotring Racer Ford Mustang LX '83-'86 (preferably '86 because it got
stronger through that period) with some Ford Mustang GT '87-'88 hatchback fea-
tures.
You give it the sort of headlights and grill of a Ford Mustang '83-'86 except
each pair of headlights are merged into one rectangular headlight as found on a
Ford Mustang '87-'88. You give it the sort of windows of an '86 LX and the air-
foil found on the back edge of the trunk of some of the '87-'88 GT hatchback
versions. Then you improvise a few other NASCAR design changes for the front
and back ends. The Wikipedia article at a link below has a section on popular
ways the Mustang has been customized. A couple of '86 LX models and an '87 GT
hatchback version are shown in the 1st three links below. The 2nd '86 model has
been customized a bit in the Hotring way.
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/8343/00gta1hotring1986fordmustanggt.jpg
http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/8567/00gta1hotring1986fordmustanglx.jpg
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2300/00gta1hotring1987fordmustangsa.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang
The engine hood has decals advertising "Drink Sprunk" and "SUMO." The decal
on the trunk has the Rockstar logo. The decals on the doors have "27" on them.
(It's available after completing the 4th Sunshine Autos vehicle list--after
I.63.) 112 mph.
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http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/250/00gta1hotringvc2ez9.jpg
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7862/00gta1hotringvc3dt3.jpg
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Hotring Racer A The front end looks like a Chrysler Laser/Dodge Daytona '84-
'86...
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/6127/guide145hotring85lasergy7.jpg
http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/8578/guide146hotring8486daytrf3.jpg
http://daytona.vehmic.com/gallery/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Laser
...or a Vauxhall Firenza--a "Droopsnoot"--'73-'75.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Firenza
It looks like the front end of one of those cars listed was grafted onto a
Ford Thunderbird Aero Bird '87 used for NASCAR racing, although with a thicker
divider between the side windows and less body behind the rear side window like
those on a Ford Thunderbird '89-'92 (more a "San Andreas" time frame) (shown at
the 2nd link below).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Thunderbird
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8866/00gta1hotringa1989fordthunderb.jpg
The engine hood always has decals advertising "THE BURGHER SHOT" and "Pets
overnight." The doors have decals advertising "PIZZA FACE." (To get it, you
need to use the "getthereveryfastindeed" code.) 112 mph.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4660/00gta1hotringavc1ky2.jpg
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Hotring Racer B Thanks to Ben "Cerbera" Millard for telling me the 3rd racer
of "San Andreas" also appears in "Vice City." In "Vice City," it's just seen
inside Hyman Stadium; in "San Andreas," it's by Los Santos Forum if you beat "8
Track" there. It looks like a Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe Notchback
'86. The Aero Coupe model, introduced in '86, has a shorter trunk, which is
good for the match, but has a rear window that slopes out more from the back of
the cab, which is bad for it. A Notchback doesn't have that big rear window.
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/03C68312002211B.jpeg/0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Monte_Carlo
The bars on the grill look like those on the front end of a Hurst/Olds by
Oldsmobile '84 except put in the middle like on the front end of a Buick Regal
T-Type/Grand National '86.
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4036/00gta1hotringracer1984hurstold.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2576/00gta1hotringb1986buickregaltt.jpg
The driver's door has a decal advertising "THE BURGER SHOT" and the passenger
door has a decal advertising "TELECOM VICE CITY."
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Banshee: Chevrolet Corvette '83 to '86 except with low set round headlights,
and I don't think Corvettes have had round headlights since 1962. (It has the
low center of gravity of a Phoenix or Taxi with an acceleration a tiny bit
faster than a Cheetah. It's a little less durable than a Stinger.) 97 mph.
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/02G3G475006391A.jpeg/0/
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/banshee.jpg
Voodoo: Chevrolet Bel Air '60 coupe low-rider The '60 Chevrolet Biscayne
Fleetmaster, Biscayne, and Bel Air models had two brake lights per side--the Im-
pala had three per side. The Biscayne Fleetmaster was the least expensive, with
some parts painted instead of being chrome-plated. The regular Biscayne had
less "brightwork," as the Wikipedia site describes it, than the Bel Air.
Some of the small number of Biscaynes and Bel Airs I found with the Google
search engine have been fixed up and painted, and I can't be sure which, if any,
of the Biscaynes I saw are Biscayne Fleetmasters.
The Voodoo has a chrome plate across the back that the brake lights are set
in. The Bel Air had that chrome plate or a chrome ring around the same area.
Unless all the Biscaynes I saw were Fleetmasters, it looks like the Biscayne
didn't have the chrome plate or ring.
The Voodoo doesn't have chrome-plating on the edges of the tail fins. All the
Biscaynes I found had that chrome plating on them, so the lack of it could be a
detail of a Biscayne Fleetmaster or just a detail that was left off.
The chrome stripe on each side of the Voodoo looks wider than the one on the
Bel Air and I didn't see one on a Biscayne, so it either suggests the Bel Air or
a customization.
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5902/00gta1voodoo60chevbelair1ng2.jpg
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/3555/00gta1voodoo60chevbelair2kl0.jpg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Bel_Air
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Biscayne
(It's fast, about like a Phoenix, if a bit slower to accelerate. It has good
handling, but it's mainly distinctive for the ability to bounce various ways and
ride high or low.) 93 mph.
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http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/5578/00gta1voodoovc8qz4.jpg
(If you want it to look a little like ZZ Top lead guitar player Billy Gibbon's
Slampala, a modified '62 Chevy Impala, the car he gets around in during his time
off, see I.100.D.e for how to give it a light blue color.)
(Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the address bar.)
http://www.valvoline.com/carcare/articleviewer.asp?pg=pht20020801zz&ccci
d=4&scccid=6
Phoenix: Pontiac Firebird Trans Am '79-'81 The separating strip was removed
from between each pair of headlights, and the optional engine hood vent was en-
larged. The dividing strip between the side windows was narrowed an made verti-
cal, and the back window was enlarged. It has the two pairs of round brake
lights of a '61-'86 Chevrolet Corvette. (View it from the front and accelerate
to see the three red hickeys flip up in the air scoop. It has the low center of
gravity of a Banshee and accelerates like a Stinger, but it corners and brakes a
little bit worse than a Banshee, and has the lowest top speed, and is 2nd least
durable, of the high performance sports cars in this group. It's spelled
"PHEONIX" in datahandling.cfg.) 92 mph.
A Pontiac Firebird Trans Am '79 and a Chevrolet Corvette '80 are shown at the
1st two links below.
(For the 1st link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line of the link to the
1st in the address bar.)
http://www.motorcities.com/contents/03/1979-Pontiac-Trans-Am-Silver-Anniver
sary-silver_03CIF244441805.html
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/05AC1222913333B.jpeg/0/
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7994/00gta1phoenixvc1sc5.jpg
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/6562/00gta1phoenixvc2yy8.jpg
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/3174/00gta1phoenixvc3ot0.jpg
Infernus: Lamborghini Countach QV '78-'86 (Handle the extreme speed with
care; it has an air foil on the back. It's the 2nd fastest and the least dura-
ble high performance car. The Stretch shares the same low endurance, and the
only ones with worse durability are the Romero's Hearse, Virgo, Moonbeam, Mr.
Whoopee, and Bus. None of those are nearly as able to collide at a tremendous
speed as an Infernus, though. Keep your thumb at the brake, Spacebar, to be
ready to make Tommy jump from any pending explosion.) 110 mph.
(For the 1st link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line of the link to the
1st in the address bar.)
http://www.motorcities.com/contents/04/1986-Lamborghini-Countach-LP5000-Q
V-black_04GJ2255630441.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Countach
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http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6465/00gta1infernusvc6mb9.jpg
Hermes: Mercury two-door '49 with uncovered rear wheel wells and two pairs of
brake lights instead of one pair; the Cuban Hermes is customized (Honk and
wave--Billy Gibbons is driving home from work; do you have an MP3 of "Sharp
Dressed Man"? Actually, the last I heard, Billy Gibbons uses his Slampala to
get around in during his time off--see "Voodoo" above.)
(As a performer, the Hermes is kind of ordinary, and the Cuban Hermes has an
unfortunately high center of gravity, which gives it a lot of lean on turns,
makes it wobbly, and have bad road grip. But it is fast. The Hermes is mainly
distinctive for looking like a car from the 1940's, and the Cuban Hermes leaves
cool fire trails in instant replays of jumps--use F1 for replays. I think this
is where they got the fire trails for the NOS Boost mods.) Hermes: 86 mph; Cu-
ban Hermes: 95 mph.
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/4805/00gta1mercury1949514dj.png
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/merc5001.htm
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5662/00gta1mercury1949hermesrusty2w.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8872/00gta1mercury1949cubanhermes5h.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/3916/00gta1mercury1949cubanhermes25.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28car%29
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1910/00gta1hermesvc1ayo7.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1125/00gta1hermesvc2auw8.jpg
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6552/00gta1hermesvc3aid6.jpg
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/774/00gta1cubanhermes1aut2.jpg
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/6048/00gta1cubanhermes2apz2.jpg
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/3072/00gta1cubanhermes3ala3.jpg
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2865/00gta1cubanhermes4ayx3.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/223/00gta1cubanhermes5aco6.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3874/00gta1cubanhermes6ahr7.jpg
Packer: Peterbilt 359 '67-'85, 379 '86 The closest match I've found so far
for the fenders and headlights are those on a GMC General, which would be a bet-
ter match if the back of those fenders extended down farther.
(The 1st model shown below is a more modern Peterbilt 379 but they've looked
the same for years. The 2nd model shown below is a toy 1986 Peterbilt 379. The
3rd is a 379 being used as a car hauler. The 4th is a GMC General; I don't know
the year of the model--the picture was taken in 1985.)
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/dmckenzie/peterbilt379_wilride_
transportation.jpg
http://www.motormint.com/ProductImages/fullsize07/12003.jpg
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/dfaust/2004/sept_visit/file0052.jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7730/guide202packer1985gmcgeyl1.jpg
The truck is connected to an unenclosed four or five vehicle transport trail-
er--a car hauler--with an upper ramp that, unlike the actual ones I've seen,
slants in a rigid straight line from over the roof down to the ground.
(Then again, with the modifications that go on in real life--including at mov-
ie studios like Interglobal, where you can find one of the Packers--you never
know what someone might come up with who looks at something like that for the
mobile jump possibilities.)
(The Packer is also commonly called a "ramp truck." It's mainly distinctive
as a mobile jump ramp for the PCJ 600, setting up Jump to Grinds, Bumps, etc.,
and for yOman69's PC superjump. The length makes it useful as a roadblock for
Hilary in "The Driver," I.68, too.) 90 mph, although it takes a while to get
there.
If you want to try the Packer for the first several jumps shown below, use the
COMEFLYWITHME code (also SEAWAYS if you plan to do it by water).
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/1496/guide203packer1gx4.jpg
http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/1756/guide203packer2qo7.jpg
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/5061/guide203packer3oq6.jpg
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/6899/guide203packer4av4.jpg
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/483/00gta1packervc1aau5.jpg
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/7954/00gta1packervc2all9.jpg
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/7861/00gta1packervc3alp2.jpg
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/4913/00gta1packervc4aip8.jpg
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/7642/00gta1packervc5aav0.jpg
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/5881/00gta1packervc6atj4.jpg
Mesa Grande: Jeep Wrangler (It has about the speed and handling of a Taxi and
is nearly as durable as a Zebra Cab. The datahandling.cfg name for it is DES-
PERAD, for some reason--thanks to spaceeinstein for the tip.) 80 mph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Wrangler
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/mesagrande.jpg
Good/cute little vehicles
Two of the three best performers in this category take 2nd place to the best
performers in the "Good/distinctive two-door vehicles" category because they're
made for a better world, not for the traffic in "Vice City." You want a little
more heft and durability for that.
Comet Porsches and Jaguars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Cars
It has the uncovered recessed headlights of a series 2 ('69-'71) Jaguar E-
type.
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/2159/00gta1jaguarxkeconvertible42b1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_E_Type
The middle and back of the body is like a Porsche 911 '78-'83 featuring the
"whale tail."
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3410/00gta1porsche911sc1982vcbody3m.jpg
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/619/00gta1porsche911sccoupe1979vcb.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_911
The roof is removed as with a Porsche 911 Targa. The slanted front of the
Porsche roll bar is made vertical. An '80 model is shown at the link below.
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/9894/00gta1porsche911sctarga1980vcc.jpg
The back of the cab is covered as with a Porsche 911 Turbo except without side
windows. An '81 model is shown at the link below.
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/04H2B211008074F.jpeg/0/
The top of the front of the body has been flattened horizontally but slants
down from across the back of the headlights to the front bumper.
The two vertical black segments of the rear bumper are slimmer and repeated on
the front bumper, like blackened versions of the ones found on the bumpers of
some of the Porsche 911 '67-'73 models I saw .
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9567/00gta1porsche911targa19729qq.jpg
The horizontal bumpers look more like those on a Jaguar XJ-S '85-'90.
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/492/00gta1jaguarxjs1989rear9zx.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_xjs
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/2805/00gta1cometvc0jq4.jpg
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/546/00gta1cometvc1ob2.jpg
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/1193/00gta1cometvc2aqd0.jpg
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/263/00gta1cometvc3pf1.jpg
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/4386/00gta1cometvc4az3.jpg
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/4088/00gta1cometvc5ap6.jpg
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/8098/00gta1cometvc6aph2.jpg
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1816/00gta1cometvc7dw9.jpg
Blista Compact: Honda CR-X '83-'87 (It's about as fast as a Phoenix and has
good handling, has the low center of gravity of a Cheetah, and accelerates like
an Infernus, but it's the lightest of the 1st three cars in this category, so it
will spin out easily and a lot when it bumps things.) 92 mph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_cr-x
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/blistacompact.jpg
Deluxo: DeLorean DMC-12 '81 to '83; it also looks like a '75 to '82 Lotus
Eclat, which isn't so surprising since it was built on a Lotus-designed chassis.
(It's the time travel hover car of "Back to the Future," 1985, without the cus-
tomization. It's fast but it has less handling ability than a Blista or a Com-
et, and has a high center of gravity--higher than a Cabbie. It's like the Blis-
ta people tried to make one bigger but had to sacrifice some traction. It's
wonderful till you hit something with it. If your favorite ride at the amuse-
ment park is the bumper cars, you ought to get this, the Blista Compact, and the
Bloodring Bangers in your garage.) 93 mph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_DMC-12
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/deluxo.jpg
Caddy: Golf cart/car/buggy. It looks like a stripped-down version of the EZ-
GO Clay's Car, so they may have had an earlier model that matches. A Western
400 is similar; a more squared-off, earlier version might match. (I just think
it's cute. It tends to right itself if it rolls over. It has the same weight
as a Blista Compact but with a very low center of gravity. Not counting the RC
Bandit, this and the Baggage Handler are the two electric vehicles in the game.
Of the two, which share similar specifics, the golf cart has better accelera-
tion and speed.
You can also morph Tommy to it, I.9.C, for a Fred Flintstone impression, com-
plete with his feet running on the ground below. If you make the Caddy indes-
tructible, I.100.D.e, it might make a different way to do a drive-by rampage.
See "Grand Theft Auto: Vice Bedrock," most of the way through I.100.D.e, if you
want a mod that gets Fred and his car in the game.
To everyone who wonders why there isn't a golf game at Leaf Links, I say take
another look at the size of it--two or three holes and you'd be done. How many
megabytes would you want to give up so Tommy could putt?) 63 mph.
http://www.ezgo.com/personal/sport/clays_car.html
http://www.customgolfcars.us/m400.html
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8466/00gta1caddyvc1iw7.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2029/00gta1caddyvc2cw5.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7407/00gta1caddyvc3do2.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7507/00gta1caddyvc4aa7.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1883/00gta1caddyvc5of9.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5131/00gta1caddyvc6qh4.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8654/00gta1caddyvc7im1.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3061/00gta1caddyvc8tx5.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5205/00gta1caddyvc9ry6.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2000/00gta1caddyvc10hq2.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/871/00gta1caddyvc11fl4.jpg
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/3295/00gta1caddyvc12rm6.jpg
Good/distinctive four-door cars
"EP" Admiral: Mercedes Benz E Class (W123) '76-'85 (The Admiral is a little
faster than an FBI Washington and has good handling. The "EP" ("Everything
Proof") Admiral, available during or after "Guardian Angels," I.42, is also the
only vehicle available in the unmodified game that's invulnerable to some kinds
of damage. Although it's unharmed by collisions, fires, or explosions, it can
have the tires popped, the glass broken, explode if it lands upside down or is
hit by a Rhino or is shot at by the Haitian weapons during "Cannon Fodder,"
Tommy can drown if it falls in deep water, and he can be jacked from it and
busted. It retains the so-called "EP" quality after being saved in a garage.)
96 mph.
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/869/00gta1mercedesbenzw12319857rq.png
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/3919/00gta1mercedesbenzw12319860la.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W123
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/admiral.jpg
Taxi: Ford LTD '83-'85 (not the Crown Victoria, which doesn't have the 3rd
window on each side) (It isn't the fastest in this group, but it has a good
combination of speed and the best handling of all the cars I've listed in this
group, and is available from the start of the game. It's a real good all-round-
er period. Tommy is given $12 when he enters a Taxi--thanks to HandsomeRockus
for the tip. Press Caps Lock to turn the Taxi mission on or off. Press Left
Shift after delivering 100 fares for the boost jump.) 84 mph.
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Shop/3234/
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_16005-Ford-LTD-1981.html
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2150299
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5769/00gta1taxivc1adr4.jpg
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/6196/00gta1taxivc2abb3.jpg
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4489/00gta1taxivc3alm4.jpg
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/6619/00gta1taxivc4adr2.jpg
Zebra Cab/Kaufman Cab/Cabbie: Checker Taxicab '56-'82 (The Zebra Cab has the
fastest acceleration and most durability of not only the cabs but all the cars
I've listed in this group, and is one of the few fastest. It also has the best
handling, due to having the lowest center of gravity, of the cabs--nearly as
good as a Taxi. It sounds like a Bloodring Banger but doesn't have the awful
handling of one--like a Sentinel XS but is more durable. It's the "GTA III"
Borgnine Taxi of "Vice City." One drawback is it isn't available until you com-
plete the Kaufman Cab missions.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_Cab
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/6867/00gta1zebracab1jr9.jpg
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/9048/00gta1zebracab2am7.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2378/00gta1zebracab3wf1.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6153/00gta1zebracab4nz8.jpg
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/1732/00gta1zebracab5wr7.jpg
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3618/00gta1zebracab6fe6.jpg
(The Cabbie, with the highest center of gravity of the cabs and sharp corner-
ing radius--column U in handling.cfg--has the worst handling of the cars I've
listed here, notably in how it tips over too easily.)
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_16157-Checker-Marathon.html
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/cabbie.jpg
(The Kaufman Cab doesn't share that problem--it's only a little wobbly. You
might wonder why they laid such a clunker on Andy Kaufman, but it's with the
boost jump that the Kaufman Cab and Cabbie begin to shine. See the section
above on Cab Climbing. Of the two cabs, the Kaufman Cab is the one that carries
the distinction of getting Deborah Harry radio dispatches after the Kaufman Cab
missions.)
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/5135/00gta1kaufmancab1air6.jpg
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/9522/00gta1kaufmancab2ant1.jpg
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/6194/00gta1kaufmancab3aon6.jpg
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/4710/00gta1kaufmancab4aiy8.jpg
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/7734/00gta1kaufmancab5alb7.jpg
(Press Caps Lock in any of the cabs to turn the Taxi mission on or off. As
with the Taxi, Tommy is given $12 when he enters any of the cabs. Press Left
Shift after delivering 100 fares for the boost jump.) Zebra Cab: 95 mph; Kauf-
man Cab: 86 mph; Cabbie: 83 mph.
FBI Washington: Lincoln Continental '82-'87 The body seems more like one
from the '82-'83 end of the range--less rounded. The rear window is bigger and
the roof and tops of the windows have been squared off. It doesn't have the
round raised section, where the spare tire goes, on the trunk. The outside
edges of the parking lights, which seem more like the ones of the latter part of
the range, have been made vertical. The bumpers look more like the ones from
the latter part of the range, too. The top of the grill is rounded to the front
of the engine hood. (The "San Andreas" Washington mainly looks more like a Lin-
coln Continental from the latter part of the time range.)
A couple of '83 Lincoln Continentals and an '86 model are shown at the 1st
three links below.
http://img316.imageshack.us/img316/5362/00gta1washingtonvc1983lincolnc.jpg
http://img316.imageshack.us/img316/1558/00gta1washingtonvc1983lincolnc1.jpg
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9574/00gta1washington1986lincolncon1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Continental
(It has nearly the speed and handling of the Sentinel XS but with much better
durability--it's nearly as durable as the Zebra Cab. The only color it comes in
is black. The Washington has the same shape but only comes in colors other than
black and the handling for it isn't as good.) 94 mph.
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/9205/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc1rr4.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6771/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc2td1.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6008/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc3gz5.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/2105/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc4if2.jpg
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1394/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc5pu4.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6328/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc6qd8.jpg
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8179/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc7cf8.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/8823/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc8bn7.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/64/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc9df4.jpg
Admiral: Mercedes Benz E Klasse (W123) '76-'85 (It's a little faster than an
FBI Washington, accelerates like one, has a little higher a center of gravity
and a little less cornering and braking ability than one, and has the durability
of a Sentinel.) 96 mph.
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/7645/00gta1mercedesbenzw12319828tc.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W123
http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/5640/00gta1admiralvc1acp3.jpg
http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/9971/00gta1admiralvc24no.jpg
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/8851/00gta1admiralvc31qf.jpg
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/4373/00gta1admiralvc47ny.jpg
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/9302/00gta1admiralvc52vy.jpg
Sentinel: BMW E28 M5 '84-'86 four door sedan without the little rear side win-
dow dividers, and with the grill and headlights made rectangular. The parking
lights, and the forward flare of the body below the front bumper, are more like
the ones found on a BMW M635CSi, aka M6, coupe '83-'89. The M5/M6 mix is a lit-
tle different in "San Andreas."
(The Sentinel is a bit faster than a Taxi, handles nearly as good with a low
center of gravity, accelerates like an FBI Washington, and is one of the better
cars. It's more durable than the Sentinel XS and just a little less durable
than a Taxi. The regular Sentinel looks the same as the Sentinel XS except it
doesn't have the hood vent, venetian blinds-looking addition to the rear window,
or the little air foil flap at the back of the trunk.) 92 mph.
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/01F69521417701A.jpeg/0/
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/00HTC562539905A.jpeg/0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M5
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/05GKM413211949A.jpeg/0/
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/03GEK041837063B.jpeg/0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M6
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/2070/00gta1sentinelvc1arz2.jpg
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1469/00gta1sentinelvc2acv0.jpg
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/284/00gta1sentinelvc3agw9.jpg
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9022/00gta1sentinelvc4asb1.jpg
Patriot: AM General M998 Military HMMWV '85-?, aka a Humvee (not the civilian
Hummer), with extra bumpers made of pipes. HMMWV stands for "High-Mobility Mul-
ti-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle." (It has good cornering ability and is the 3rd most
durable car in this group. The worst thing you can say about it is the acceler-
ation is like that of a Taxi, which isn't bad at all.) 87 mph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Mobility_Multipurpose_Wheeled_Vehicle
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/patriot.jpg
FBI Rancher: Chevrolet Suburban '86 (It's the fastest SUV and has good han-
dling. It sounds and feels to me like a Bloodring Banger without the wobbliness
problem. The Sandking has good handling but is slower. Press Left Shift a few
times to turn the siren and flashing dashboard light on and off. Press Caps
Lock to turn the Vigilante mission on or off.) 98 mph.
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/01H8C050417603A.jpeg/0/
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/fbirancher.jpg
Lovefist: a Ladillac or Cadincoln Most limousines are customized Lincolns and
Cadillacs (see "Stretch" below). I used the pictures of a few to identify most
of the parts of the Lovefist limo.
Front end: similar to a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham '80--the fenders should
extend back to the wheel wells, for example.
http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/2725/00gta1lovefist1980cadfleetbroudo8.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Fleetwood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Brougham
Back end and rear window: Cadillac DeVille '85-'86 An '85-'93 (?) and an '86
model are shown at the links below.
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/4553/00gta1lovefist198593cadsedandevrw2.jpg
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/4199/00gta1lovefist1986caddevilleue2.jpg
Front wheel wells: Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham '80
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/9925/00gta1lovefist1980cadfleetbropw3.jpg
Rear wheel wells: Lincoln Continental Mark III '69-'71 A '70 Lincoln is shown
at the link below.
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3898/00gta1lovefist1970lincontmarkiiipu6.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Continental_Mark_III
(Like the Phoenix, the engine hood has a blower on it, but the red hickeys in-
side it don't move when Tommy accelerates. It's slower than a Patriot to accel-
erate and handles just a little worse than one, the brakes could be better, but
it gets about as fast as a Banshee, so it has much better speed and handling
than a Stretch, which is like a long Love Fist. And if you've ever had a long
Love Fist, you know exactly--no, no, no...that's not a very happy thought.) 97
mph.
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5210/00gta1lovefistlimo1hj9.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5744/00gta1lovefistlimo2na8.jpg
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/4364/00gta1lovefisttorrent1fl3.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3315/00gta1lovefistlimo3zf3.jpg
Sentinel XS: basically, the same as a Sentinel (see "Sentinel" above). The
main visual distinction of the Sentinel XS is it looks like the designers saw
the venetian blind on the inside of the rear window of the cab used for the fa-
mous climactic encounter between Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger in "On The Water-
front," 1954, and thought it would be a good design idea if you'd put the blind
on the outside.
(The Sentinel XS has better BMW-like handling and speed than the Sentinel.
It's one of the best at speed and acceleration on this list, but it's the least
durable--it's nearly as fragile as an Infernus. You can always find one in the
parking lot on the W side of the lot with four big jet fuel tanks in S Little
Havana. If you look for it in the handling.cfg file, look for "MAFIA"--appar-
ently, it's kept the name of the Mafia Sentinel of "GTA III.") 99 mph.
(For the 2nd link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st line in
the address bar.)
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/05LBN294628045A.jpeg/0/
http://www.motorcities.com/contents/03/1987-BMW-M6-cinnabar-red_03DSE213314
511.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M6
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/3395/00gta1sentinelxs1gc7.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2808/00gta1sentinelxs2hy4.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/754/00gta1sentinelxs3uz9.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/2681/00gta1sentinelxs4ba9.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1189/00gta1sentinelxs5vm5.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5835/00gta1sentinelxs6vm2.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3003/00gta1sentinelxs7dq6.jpg
http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/1719/00gta1sentinelxs8ox6.jpg
Emergency and military vehicles
"Vice Squad" Cheetah: Ferrari Testarossa '86 (The "Vice" Cheetah has a red
light on the dashboard--you can turn the flashing dashboard light on and off and
run the siren by pressing Left Shift a few times. Press Caps Lock to turn the
Vigilante mission on or off. If you don't want to hazard getting one from the
agents who drive it, there's always one sitting behind the Little Havana police
station along the main N and S road of the west island. Like the regular Chee-
tah, it's one of the best cars, and it lights up.) 100 mph.
(For the 1st link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the
address bar.)
http://www.motorcities.com/contents/03/1986-Ferrari-Testarossa-yellow_03G6G0
50506641.html
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/vcpdcheetah.jpg
In "Miami Vice," the Ferrari Daytona Spyder ("Vice City" Stinger) Crockett
drove the 1st two seasons was actually a 1980 Corvette (a little earlier a Cor-
vette than the one the "Vice City" Banshee is based on) chassis with a repli-
cated body and interior. But Ferrari executives, seeing this "Ferrari" become
so popular, offered the series their new flagship car, a (white) Testarossa
("Vice City" Cheetah), which Crockett drove the last three seasons. A modified
DeTomaso Pantera, destroyed when the series ended, was the stunt double for it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/trivia
http://www.buyersmls.com/miamivice/facts.htm
Rhino: see "Good/distinctive four-door cars" above for the real vehicle com-
parisons. (Press Caps Lock to turn the Vigilante mission on or off. Use NP4
and NP5 to turn the cannon.) 56 mph; shooting the cannon backwards, 130-140
mph.
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/4826/00gta1rhinovc15azf9.jpg
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/9143/00gta1rhinovc15bwq2.jpg
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/729/00gta1rhinovc15crm2.jpg
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6440/00gta1rhinovc15ddu0.jpg
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/8961/00gta1rhinovc15emd8.jpg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9107/00gta1rhinovc15fep2.jpg
FBI Washington: see the listing for it in the "Good/distinctive four-door
cars" section above for the real car comparisons. (Press Left Shift a few times
to turn the siren and flashing dashboard light on and off. Press Caps Lock to
turn the Vigilante mission on or off.) 94 mph.
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6771/00gta1fbiwashingtonvc2td1.jpg
Firetruck: the earliest models I found with the same kind of slant to the roof
at the back of the cab were 1987 and 1988 models of Thibault trucks. The next
earliest in similarity were the 1991 E-One, aka Emergency One, Cyclone then sim-
ilar models by Pierce.
(It's wobbly with bad grip for a bad cornering and braking ability, but it's
durable and tends to knock other vehicles away when it hits them. As with the
Ambulance, learn to make the best you can out of skidding turns. This is a good
vehicle to use the Brake/Reverse extra stopping power for while doing it, too.
With better acceleration than a Barracks OL, the Firetruck is a king of the fast
burly bruisers. Brush vehicles aside as though they were match sticks with your
heft or a mighty squirt. Press Left Shift a few times to turn the siren and
flashing lights on and off. Press Caps Lock to turn the Firetruck mission on or
off. Use NP4, NP5, NP6, and NP9 to adjust the water turret.) 99 mph.
(For the 4th link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the
address bar.)
http://www.thibaultfiretrucks.com/
http://www.onondagahillfire.freeservers.com/custom.html
http://www.piercemfg.com/new_deliveries/new_delivery.cfm?Truck=435&Type=indus
trial
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1246/00gta1firetruckvc1avz7.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7990/00gta1firetruckvc2avw9.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6937/00gta1firetruckvc3atz0.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5316/00gta1firetruckvc4ajx1.jpg
Police car: Ford LTD LX '83-'85 I'm seeing a trend here. The "Vice City"
Taxi and Police car are based on the same car just as the "San Andreas" Taxi is
based on the same car as the Police cars found in Los Santos and San Fierro.
(Entering it gives Tommy a Chrome Shotgun with five shells if he has no shot-
gun; it's a fast car, but it has a high center of gravity and spins out like
someone accidentally put the James Bond oil slick releaser on the front. If you
don't hit anything--I mean anything--along your runway, it's good for jumps.
Press Left Shift a few times to turn the siren and flashing lights on and off.
Press Caps Lock to turn the Vigilante mission on or off.) 100 mph.
http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/55758/
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9039/00gta1policevc1xw0.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/9244/00gta1policevc2ro9.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/1438/00gta1policevc3rm7.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5812/00gta1policevc4em1.jpg
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/1208/00gta1policevc5kw9.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2293/00gta1policevc6dd1.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7725/00gta1policevc7cd2.jpg
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/82/00gta1policevc8yi0.jpg
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7752/00gta1policevc9ya7.jpg
FBI Rancher: Chevrolet Suburban '86 with each pair of headlights simplified
into one and the parking lights moved to the front corners. (It's the fastest
SUV and has good handling. It sounds and feels to me like a Bloodring Banger
without the wobbliness problem. The Sandking has good handling but is slower.)
(See "Good/distinctive four-door cars" above.) (Press Left Shift a few times to
turn the siren and flashing dashboard light on and off. Press Caps Lock to turn
the Vigilante mission on or off.) 98 mph.
(For the 1st link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the
address bar.)
http://www.motorcities.com/contents/01/1985-Chevrolet-Suburban-red_01H8C050
417603.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Suburban
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/fbirancher.jpg
Ambulance: Ford E350 Diesel (cube or box type) Ambulance '86 ("E" stands for
"Econoline.") (It's wobbly, but it has a lower center of gravity and better
cornering and braking ability than a Firetruck, and it's durable. As with the
Firetruck, learn to make the best you can out of sliding, braking skids for
faster, sharper turns, and use the Brake/Reverse combo for better stopping pow-
er. Let go of Reverse 1st, then Brake, when stopping around patients so you
don't accidentally reverse a bit and bump them.
Tommy gets 20 points for health, up to 100 points, the 1st time he enters each
of the Ambulances around during one gameplay effort--it's like a sick prosti-
tute. This can help Tommy during a fight that attracts an Ambulance or two.
Press Left Shift a few times to turn the siren and flashing lights on and off.
Press Caps Lock to turn the Paramedic mission on or off.) 102 mph.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5337/guide351ambulance2uj2.jpg
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/152/guide350ambulancech3.jpg
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6062/guide351ambulancexr9.jpg
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/ambulance.jpg
Barracks OL: M939 five ton U.S. military transport truck (I don't know, but I
think "OL" may come from the British abbreviation "POL," which is applied to
petrol (gasoline), oil, and lubricants. Big trucks have been used to transport
POL in times of war. It may have appealed to the sexual innuendo side of some-
one at Rockstar North to focus on the "OL" part--I'm just guessing. It's the
heaviest of the big trucks with the durability of a Patriot if you don't mind
that it accelerates about like a Coach and has ordinary handling ability. Press
Caps Lock to turn the Vigilante mission on or off.) 87 mph.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m939.htm
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/barracksol.jpg
Enforcer: it could be in the heavy rescue, armored car, or crowd control cate-
gory. Most of it, except for the front of the body and front of the fenders,
looks like the 1991 Pierce Heavy Rescue truck shown in the 1st link. It's pret-
ty similar to, but not a match with, the unknown vehicle at the 2nd link. If it
was modified to be an armored law enforcement vehicle, it might look a bit like
the Alpine company vehicle at the 3rd link.
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/7397/guide353enforcer1991pienx0.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6530/guide353enforcerunknowngn9.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/686/guide353enforceralpineeb0.jpg
http://www.alpineco.com/armored/swat/trucks.htm
(Entering it gives Tommy full armor. It has poor road grip and ordinary han-
dling, but it's durable, especially since you'll practically never use it.
Press Left Shift a few times to turn the siren and flashing lights on and off.
Press Caps Lock to turn the Vigilante mission on or off.) 90 mph.
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5571/guide354enforcer1bj6.jpg
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/7044/guide354enforcer2wz0.jpg
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/5858/guide354enforcer3jj7.jpg
Others
BF Injection: Volkswagen Beetle-based-type customized, fiberglass, street reg-
istered beach or dune buggy (It's the beach buggy from "GTA III," now given
beaches to use. It has decent speed and handling, although it's a bit wobbly,
and has big wheels for driving on sand and climbing over things. But, surpris-
ingly for the size of it, it's even lighter than a Blista, so try not to bump
things with it.
All context considered, I'll guess that "BF" might stand for either "Big
Fu**ing" or "Butt Fu**k" Injection. It could also just be someone's initials--I
don't know. Update: thanks to pdescobar at GTA Forums, I now know the name is
based on the phrase "hot beef injection," which is used as a reference to hot
dogs in the TV cartoon show "The Simpsons," 1989-present, and is also used in
the euphemistic way I'd thought it was. 88 mph.
http://www.manxclub.com/
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4779/00gta1bfinjectionvc1vg9.jpg
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/5917/00gta1bfinjectionvc2tj5.jpg
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6197/00gta1bfinjectionvc3na9.jpg
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8093/00gta1bfinjectionvc4tt0.jpg
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/4546/00gta1bfinjectionvc5me6.jpg
Baggage Handler: ? baggage tug (An Equitech M40 '85 baggage tractor is
close.) 57 mph.
http://www.mercurygse.com/images/2001_Equitech_M40_webpage.htm
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/baggagehandler.jpg
Benson: Ford F-series truck '84-'86 used as a 14' (?) U-Haul moving van U-Haul
attaches prefabricated truck boxes to Ford and GMC trucks. A 1985 model is at
the next link. (The Benson is one of the top four fastest of the six box
trucks, but it also has the highest center of gravity of the group. See "Yan-
kee.") 80 mph.
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3521/guide363benson1985po2.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F_Series
http://www.uhaul.com/trucks/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Haul
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/benson.jpg
Bloodring Bangers: I don't think they are real cars that would have real
names. They each look like a hybrid of a mid-'50's Chevy Bel Air or two and a
'61 Dodge Dart. One has the shape of a "Vice City" Oceanic and the other has
the shape of a "Vice City" Glendale, each described below, except customized,
faster, and given better handling (which still isn't great) for use in a demoli-
tion derby.
http://www.derbypro.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_derby
Different copies of either car may appear with different decals of numbers on
the hood of the cab, and with some changes in the decals advertising local busi-
nesses found on the body.
(BB B accelerates and corners a little bit better than A, which is a little
faster than B, and they're both poor at handling yet fast and durable. Watch
your turns unless you want some off-track demolition derby. Then they're all
the fun of getting knocked around by the police cars without having the police
cars to blame for it--they're like bulky Blistas.)
Bloodring Banger A is the customized Oceanic. The engine hood has a decal ad-
vertising "the Cherry Popper ice cream company." The decal on the trunk has the
Rockstar logo. Both front doors have a decal advertising "Drink Sprunk." 92
mph.
http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/4978/00gta1bloodringavc1tp2.jpg
http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/632/00gta1bloodringavc2wy0.jpg
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/774/00gta1bloodringavc3qc7.jpg
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/2127/00gta1bloodringavc4he1.jpg
Bloodring Banger B is the customized Glendale. The engine hood has a decal
with the logo of the Well-Stacked Pizza store--a yellow triangle with six orange
dots on it. The trunk has a decal advertising Kaufman Cabs. Both front doors
have a decal advertising "VINYL COUNTDOWN." 92 mph.
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/bloodderby.jpg
Bobcat: Ford Ranger '83-'86 (One of the two pickup trucks of the game--the
other is the Walton. Both have ordinary speed and handling. The Bobcat has a
little bit better speed and handling, but is wobbly and doesn't have great road
grip.) 80 mph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/bobcat.jpg
Boxville: GMC Grumman Step van or Chevrolet Step Van P-30 '86 (It has the
basic features of a bigger version of the van the Mr. Whoopee van is based on.
It's wobbly, so be ready to use A and D to correct the tipping. This truck may
display the name of a company that's brought up in real life when people say
someone doesn't know their "R.S." from their "L. Bows.") 79 mph.
http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/2166/00gta1chevstepvanp304mh.jpg
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/358/00gta1boxvillevcprofile5sx.jpg
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/boxville.jpg
Burrito: '83?-'86 Dodge Ram Van except the fenders flare out a bit and the
flare of the front fenders continues around the bottom of the front a bit simi-
lar to Pimp Daddy Snapp's customization of an '87 model Three '83 models, one
from '85, and the front of Snapp's '87 customization are shown at the links be-
low.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/9814/00gta1burritovc1983dodramvan2ga5.jpg
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8387/00gta1burritovc1983dodramvanfl3.jpg
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_10091-Dodge-Ram+Van-1983.html
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2725/00gta1burritovc1985dodramvanhh5.jpg
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/7715/00gta1burritovcdodramvan87custmf1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Ram_Van
(The regular Burrito is the 2nd fastest van but has ordinary handling and bad
road grip.) 87 mph
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/burrito.jpg
Bus: It looked a little, but not exactly, like lots of old buses shown on In-
ternet bus photo sites like the 1st link below. The fenders and domed roof are
easy to match. But the round mark on the grill didn't look like anything I saw
at all--it looks like a stain left after removing a tire that had been used as a
makeshift bumper. (Neither the Bus nor the Coach can activate a Pay 'n' Spray.
The Bus is one of the handful of vehicles with the worst durability, so it may
be fortunate that it's slow.) 70 mph.
http://members.aol.com/SchoolBusYard/
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/bus.jpg
Coach Mid-1980's (range of years?) Greyhound MCI MC9 with a cap built onto
the front of the roof to show destination (see the Motor Coach Industries arti-
cle below), MCI C3 European Style Coach (see the richfieldbus article below--I
think it refers to the 102C3), and some models of MCI 102A3, 102C3, 102D3, or
102DL3.
Thanks to robin24k at GTA Forums for the tip about adding the 102DL3
A 1982 MCI MC9, 1986 MCI 102A3, (year?) MCI 102C3, and a mid-1990's MCI 102D3
are shown below.
http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/708/00gta1coach1982mcimc91vd.jpg
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/1441/00gta1coach1986mci102a31nj.jpg
http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/5230/00gta1coachmci102c3year4pw.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8504/00gta1coachmid1990smci102d30sj.jpg
http://www.richfieldbus.com/page4.html
http://www.geocities.com/njt4148/greyhound.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Lines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Coach_Industries
(Between the slow accelerating, poor handling, durable Bus and Coach, the
Coach is bigger and faster. If you have it stop at bus stops, it picks up fares
at $5 a fare. Neither the Bus nor the Coach can activate a Pay 'n' Spray.) 93
mph.
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/9269/00gta1coachvcbonus53ek.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1597/00gta1coachvcskaterbeach4fa.jpg
Esperanto: Cadillac Eldorado Coupe '78 for most of the body except the raised
part in the middle of the hood is wider in the front.
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2378/00gta1esperanto1978cadillaceld.jpg
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2378/00gta1esperanto1978cadillaceld.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado
It has the grill and headlights of a '68-'71 Lincoln Continental Mark III (or
an '80 Lincoln Continental?) and the back end of a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham
'79. (The "San Andreas" Esperanto is mostly a '78 Cadillac Eldorado, too, but
pudgier, and with different Lincoln things on the front and back.)
A couple of '70 Mark III's and a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham '79 are shown at
the links below.
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5382/00gta1esperanto1970lincolncont.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3746/00gta1esperanto1970lincolnmark.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9737/00gta1esperanto1979cadillacfle.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Continental_Mark_III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Fleetwood_Brougham
(Boat. Stick the sail from a Marquis 69 on the roof and do a Popeye impres-
sion. It can be wobbly. Be careful with turns when driving fast to minimize
the chance of it going out of control (it's one of the GTA cars prone to side to
side weaving) and it's a nice enough ordinary car.) 90 mph.
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2786/00gta1esperantovc1uy8.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1302/00gta1esperantovc2bj3.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1973/00gta1esperantovc3rp5.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3257/00gta1esperantovc4hr6.jpg
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/9125/00gta1esperantovc5fp2.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7760/00gta1screenvc183xa9.jpg
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/8548/00gta1esperantovc6nh9.jpg
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/6327/00gta1esperantovc7sx1.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6114/00gta1esperantovc8xz6.jpg
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7642/00gta1esperantovc9fe1.jpg
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/9962/00gta1esperantovc10dm1.jpg
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3681/00gta1esperantovc11oa0.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6471/00gta1esperantovc12bx2.jpg
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/4067/00gta1esperantovc12ahm9.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1763/00gta1esperantovc14bs0.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8982/00gta1esperantovc15qf7.jpg
Flatbed: M-939 '83-'86 A five ton military supply truck It's a Barracks OL
with an enclosed cab, a different kind of siding for the bed, and it isn't olive
drab. (It has ordinary handling ability, and the highest center of gravity and
2nd greatest weight of the big trucks. It makes all those big truck sounds and
has a nice hearty horn, though.) 79 mph.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m939.htm
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/flatbed.jpg
Gang Burrito: for the real vehicle comparison, see "Burrito" above (The Gang
Burrito has the best acceleration, speed, and handling of the five vans. I
would pick it as the best of the vans. But like a Hotring Racer, it tempts you
with speed into situations it can't handle; slow down a bit for maneuvers--for-
tunately, it's also like a Hotring Racer in that it accelerates quickly back to
a high speed. But it slides around when it bangs into things too much for me to
want to put it up in the "Good/distinctive four-door cars" category. Press F1
twice to make a Teddy Bear appear or disappear over the windshield or grill.)
93 mph.
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4319/00gta1gangburrito1bee6.jpg
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/5625/00gta1gangburrito2buj0.jpg
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/351/00gta1gangburrito3bxq7.jpg
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/8458/00gta1gangburrito4bvb9.jpg
Glendale: it has headlights above the grill, which has a round spear-like
bumper project from it on either side, like a smoothed-out, simplified front of
a Chevrolet Bel Air '57 (my Dad's car till the end of the '60's). For example,
Rockstar North removed the horizontal bar that goes across the middle of the
front. (A Buick '55 is similar and would be simplified, too.)
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/9505/00gta1chevroletbelair1957grill.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Bel_Air
The middle and back end is like a Dodge Dart Pioneer four-door '61 except for
two things.
One, once at the back of the trunk, the Glendale strange tail fins slope down
to the rear bumper and the Dodge Dart '61 strange tail fins curl forward in a
horizontal line to the middle of the side of the body.
http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclecars/dodge-dart/images/dodge-dart-1961a.jpg
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/dodg6101.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Dart
And two, it has the housing of the brake lights of a Dodge Dart Phoenix '60
except smoothed off from front to back.
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/dodg6001.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Phoenix
The Oceanic uses the front end of the Dodge Dart Pioneer '61 (see below).
(The Glendale is wobbly with bad road grip. Souped up, it's one of the Blood-
ring Bangers, which is a waste of good soup--you'll probably spill too much.)
84 mph.
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9264/00gta1glendalevc1us1.jpg
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/4376/00gta1glendalevc2he6.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8956/00gta1glendalevc3zf2.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8728/00gta1glendalevc4gv1.jpg
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8886/00gta1glendalevc5rt5.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/3360/00gta1glendalevc6kc1.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9269/00gta1glendalevc7sj7.jpg
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/7623/00gta1glendalevc8cf5.jpg
Greenwood: Chrysler 5th Avenue '83-'89 (It's pretty ordinary. I guess the
best ability it has is for cornering, although it doesn't have great road grip
to do it with.) 84 mph.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/mikesspot/fifthavenue.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Fifth_Avenue
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8316/00gta1greenwoodvc0pl3.jpg
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/265/00gta1greenwoodvc1qv9.jpg
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/2431/00gta1greenwoodvc2tt1.jpg
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/8411/00gta1greenwoodvc3bx4.jpg
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/9877/00gta1greenwoodvc4eg2.jpg
Idaho: Buick Riviera '74 The front end look like a '75 Chevrolet Caprice
Classic except flat across the front and modified a bit. (It has a high center
of gravity so it has bad road grip for the lousy handling it has.) 84 mph.
http://www.buickcarclub.org.au/photos/australia/1974_Buick_Riviera_Tas.jpg
http://www.lowridermagazine.com/features/0610_lrm_1975_chevrolet_caprice/
index.html
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5502/00gta1idahovc1amm2.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6606/00gta1idahovc2ana6.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5702/00gta1idahovc3alf7.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8159/00gta1idahovc4rz3.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8159/00gta1idahovc5gt8.jpg
http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/5603/00gta1idahovc6hh0.jpg
Landstalker: I'd say '91 to '94 Ford Explorer, but since it didn't come out
till '91, and if you need it to be something from the right time period, I'd say
Chevrolet Suburban '86 but with the windows, grill, and wheel wells of one of
those Ford Explorers. You could also say it looks like a big Jeep Cherokee '86
with the Ford Explorer grill and wheel wells. I'd just say it looks like a Ford
Explorer.
(A big SUV with the traditional "GTA III" SUV lousy handling. It's the slow-
est SUV with the worst handling. It's so wobbly that the wheels come off the
ground easily. Be prepared to use A and D to correct tipping.) 85 mph.
http://4wheeldrive.about.com/library/uc/ucAndrew_V.htm
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/02BHF073886644A.jpeg/0/
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/487172/2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Cherokee
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/landstalker.jpg
Linerunner: Peterbilt 379 '86 (later models look about the same) for the nar-
row cab and level engine hood, but the headlights and fenders don't match An
'89 model is at the next link.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3493/guide436linerunner1989wd9.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterbilt
Thanks to DazzaJay for matching the fenders with built-in headlights, and
wider grill, with a Freightliner Classic XL '94 (range of years?).
http://www.devilliertrucks.com/freight.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freightliner_LLC
The 1988 Western Star shown at the next three links combines the features
pretty good.
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7063/guide435linerunner1988wtp4.jpg
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5921/guide435linerunner1988wxj7.jpg
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7798/guide435linerunner1988wzl0.jpg
(It has the best cornering ability of the big trucks but it's kind of wobbly,
and exhaust comes out of the pipes near the roof of the cab. If you go "Hmm
hmm" in the back of your throat, you can imitate the horn.) 77 mph.
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5369/guide435linerunner2ga9.jpg
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5859/guide435linerunner3al4.jpg
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1626/guide435linerunner4xk7.jpg
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6781/guide435linerunner5ui8.jpg
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2558/guide435linerunner6lh3.jpg
Manana: Dodge Aries coupe '81-'84
Ford Tempo '84-'85
(Speaking for Chrysler, Lee Iacocca said the K-cars "saved our bacon.") It
looks like the Aries without the vertical strip on the rear side window, and has
the grill vents of the Tempo. Like the Tempo, the front is curved.
Thanks to CKYbassplayer69 for the Ford Tempo tip
An '82, '83, and '84 Dodge Aries, and an '84 Ford Tempo, are shown below.
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/01HEB172435976A.jpeg/0/
http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/6684/00gta1manana1983dodgeariesprof.jpg
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/1606/00gta1manana1984dodgearies3ts.jpg
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8637/00gta1manana19845fordtempocurv.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Aries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Tempo
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/manana.jpg
Moonbeam: Chevrolet Astro Van '85-'86 (It's one of the handful of least dura-
ble vehicles in the game, so it may be fortunate that it's about as slow as a
Bus.) 74 mph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevy_Astro
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/moonbeam.jpg
Mr. Whoopee: GMC Grumman Step van or Chevrolet Step Van P-10 '86 (wide range
of years) (and an all-natural Chloe Vevrier) A 1987 Chevrolet Step Van P-10 is
at the next link. (It's one of the least durable vehicles in the game, but
you'll be going so slowly you probably won't hit that much with it.) 67 mph.
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5858/guide443mrwhoopie1987chqn7.jpg
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/4492/00gta1mrwhoopeevc1bt1.jpg
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/1498/00gta1mrwhoopeevc2qt6.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9939/00gta1mrwhoopeevc3ea4.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6999/00gta1mrwhoopeevc4wd0.jpg
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/318/00gta1mrwhoopeevc5kh0.jpg
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/6410/00gta1mrwhoopeevc6jc5.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6804/00gta1mrwhoopeevc7hz7.jpg
Thanks to Andrew for telling me the name is a reference to Mr. Whippy, which
is an Australian based ice cream franchise with stores and ice cream vans that
are popular in the UK.
http://www.mrwhippy.com.au/index1.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRChGdJCVJY
Mule: Ford E-350 '83-'86 cube/box truck except with windows that have sharp
corners. (The shape is the same as a Spand Ex truck. It has the highest center
of gravity of any vehicle in the game, which isn't great for handling, but it
accelerates slowly and handles okay.) 74 mph.
An '84 model is shown at the 1st link below.
http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/6884/00gta1mule1984forde350cubevan3.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_E-Series
http://www.uhaul.com/trucks/
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2390/00gta1mulevc1xf5.jpg
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/7442/00gta1mulevc2sc9.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9943/00gta1mulevc3hw4.jpg
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/483/00gta1mulevc4dh9.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/584/00gta1mulevc5yb9.jpg
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/5640/00gta1mulevc6pp0.jpg
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/3565/00gta1mulevc7pk2.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4149/00gta1mulevc8wm5.jpg
Oceanic: it has the grill and front end of a Dodge Dart Pioneer '61...
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/dodg6101.htm
It has the wheel wells of a Chevrolet Bel Air '55.
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/04H33072820934D.jpeg/0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Bel_Air
It has the loop of color on the side of a Chevrolet Bel Air '56 four door ex-
cept the loop goes from the middle toward the back instead of the front.
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/5139/guide462oceanic1956qo3.jpg
It has the back end and brake lights of a Chevrolet Bel Air '56 except each
red brake light covers the entire back of the metal plate for it.
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/03KHG102427988B.jpeg/0/
I haven't found a great match for the cab yet. It's roughly like a cab for a
four door Chrysler Windsor '57 with the little window dividers removed, and with
the back window of a Chevrolet Bel Air '56.
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/2877/00gta1oceanic1957chryslerwinds.jpg
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/03KHG102427988B.jpeg/0/
The Glendale uses the middle and back of the Dodge Dart Pioneer '61 (see
above).
(There's a yellow and white Oceanic parked in front of the Ocean View.)
(Unfortunately for the road grip they can manage, especially after collisions,
the Oceanic and the Glendale have the highest center of gravity of any vehicles
in the game except for a Mule. The Oceanic is wobbly and has bad road grip.
Bloodring Banger 1 is a faster, better handling version of the Oceanic custom-
ized for demolition derby use. I'd have more of a nostalgic feeling for it if
it were a '57 Chevy Bel Air two-door hardtop. I don't remember my Dad's car
driving at all badly, either.) 88 mph.
http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/3944/00gta1oceanicvc1ako9.jpg
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/585/00gta1oceanicvc2atn3.jpg
http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/3198/00gta1oceanicvc3atl0.jpg
http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/1662/00gta1oceanicvc4axr5.jpg
http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/855/00gta1oceanicvc5aww6.jpg
Perennial: Chevrolet Nova (or "Nova II") station wagon '63 to '65 (One of the
two station wagons--the other is the Regina. This one handles a bit less badly
but is a lot slower and less durable.) 76 mph.
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/2779/
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4410/00gta1perennialvc1yb4.jpg
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3695/00gta1perennialvc2kq3.jpg
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4900/00gta1perennialvc3jz4.jpg
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7897/00gta1perennialvc4ob4.jpg
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8412/00gta1perennialvc5wb4.jpg
Pony: see Top Fun van. (It has good handling for a van.) 81 mph.
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6599/00gta1ponyvc1vj3.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7457/00gta1ponyvc2yb8.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7378/00gta1ponyvc3jm5.jpg
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/4756/00gta1ponyvc4aw2.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4710/00gta1ponyvc5ko5.jpg
Rancher: Chevrolet K5 Blazer (the GMC Jimmy is similar) '83-'88 for most of
the body with each pair of headlights simplified into one.
Thanks to the GTA Forums > GTA San Andreas > General Discussion > Real Car
Names list by nekkidhillbilly for the Chevrolet K5 Blazer tip.
And thanks to reader Logan King for pointing out that the models of this range
of years make a better match for the grill and headlights.
An '85 model is at the next link.
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/518/guide484rancher1985k5blba8.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_K5_Blazer
http://www.answers.com/topic/chevrolet-k5-blazer
The parking lights on the front corners are like those on a Chevrolet S10
Blazer from the same period. An '85 model is at the next link.
http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/2788/guide485rancher1985s10bqi4.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_S-10_Blazer
The back window and brake lights look like those on an '84-'92 Jeep Cherokee
XJ. An '85 model is at the next link.
http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/5838/guide485rancher1985jeepdr1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Cherokee_%28XJ%29
B.J. Smith is a comedic take on O.J. Simpson, but there isn't a white '94 Ford
Bronco in the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_trial
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/simpson/index_1.html
(It and the Sandking have the best road grip of the SUVs, but the Rancher is
kind of wobbly. The Sandking accelerates a bit faster of the two. Neither one
is as fast as an FBI Rancher.) 82 mph.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/6785/00gta1ranchervc1va0.jpg
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/374/00gta1ranchervc2rq2.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/67/00gta1ranchervc3te5.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2476/00gta1ranchervc4rc9.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6006/00gta1ranchervc5kr7.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9559/00gta1ranchervc6ci1.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/515/00gta1ranchervc7qd3.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/3834/00gta1ranchervc8ku2.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7070/00gta1ranchervc9dl9.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5848/00gta1ranchervc10hl5.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5917/00gta1ranchervc11hf4.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5310/00gta1ranchervc12be3.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6485/00gta1ranchervc12ajo9.jpg
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6884/00gta1ranchervc14mn4.jpg
Regina: Pontiac Parisienne Safari '83-'86 with the back end shorter, and the
top of the windshield rounded up a bit higher, as with a Volvo 740 wagon '85-
'86. The front of the engine hood is higher, and it curves down to the grill in
a way seen on some Cadillac customizations. The grill has been made to project
in the middle like the grill on some Cadillacs. The bottom of the back windows
are made the same height as the bottom of the others. A couple of '85 Pontiac
Parisienne Safaris are shown at the links below.
Thanks to Gman8 at GTA Forums for the Pontiac Parisienne Safari tip.
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7689/00gta1reginavc1985pontiacparis.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9383/00gta1reginavc1985pontiacparis1.jpg
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/7689/00gta1reginavc1985pontiacparis.jpg
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/7689/00gta1reginavc1985pontiacparis.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Parisienne
A couple of '88 Volvo 740's are shown at the links below.
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9094/00gta1regina1988volvo740grill7.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5475/00gta1regina1988volvo740profil.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_740
Cadillacs have been customized as hearses (see "Romero"), limousines (see
"Stretch"), and sometimes station wagons. Such customizing may create a lower
horizontal line for the front of the engine hood, which gives it a rounded,
chunkier look of a '60's-'70's Cadillac. An example of an '84 Cadillac that's
been customized into a station wagon, and a '74 Cadillac Fleetwood, are shown at
the links below.
http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/3426/00gta1reginavc1984cadillac3ny.jpg
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/8779/00gta1reginavc1974cadillacflee.jpg
The closest I found for a definition for "Regina" in Urban Dictionary are a
couple of phrases it's part of that use the word to mean a woman who thinks
they're better than they are--I cleaned that up a little. This could be symbol-
ized in the Regina with the customized Cadillac front though the rest isn't a
custom Cadillac. The name could also be due to the fact that "Volvo" sounds a
little like "vulva."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/browse.php?word=regina
(It's wobbly and has bad road grip.) 81 mph.
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8281/00gta1reginavc1kb3.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6405/00gta1reginavc2uf9.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/1049/00gta1reginavc3ov7.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6250/00gta1reginavc4ww9.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6489/00gta1reginavc5ml3.jpg
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8904/00gta1reginavc6ww3.jpg
Romero's Hearse: Buick '80's hearse. Some Cadillac modifications are similar,
but the front end, especially around the headlights, slants out from top to bot-
tom like the front of some mid-'80's Buicks. It could be a customized Buick
Electra wagon or Regal (?). It's not the same as the "San Andreas" Romero,
which is a customization of a Lincoln or Cadillac.
(A couple show up during "Two Bit Hit"--it may have a coffin in the back; it
tips over too easily like the coffin put the vertical center of gravity too
high. It has the worst endurance of any vehicle in the game and is fast, too,
which adds up to using it for a garage trophy if you jack it from the Haitian
gang leader in "Two Bit Hit.") 94 mph.
Shown at the links below are a Buick Electra '86, Buick Regal '86, and four
Buick hearses: an '82, an '82 by B and B, an '86 by Superior, and an '88 Buick
Lasabre by Superior.
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1016/00gta1romeros1986buickelectrae.jpg
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/9940/00gta1romeros1986buickregal6sa.jpg
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4382/00gta1romeroshearse1982buickhe.jpg
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/889/00gta1romeroshearse1982bandbbu.jpg
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3741/00gta1romeros1986buicksuperior.jpg
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/9373/00gta1romeros1988buicklesabres.jpg
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/7647/00gta1romerosvc1fa7.jpg
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/214/00gta1romerosvc2fz3.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9282/00gta1romeroshearsevc4fy5.jpg
Rumpo: Dodge Ram Van Conversion, aka Hi-Top '81-'86 A Dodge Camper Van '78-
'86 of the same size looks similar (It tips over easily and has the worst dura-
bility of all the vans.) 84 mph.
(I added a later model to show one with the same Hi-Top shape.)
http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/7669/00gta1dodgecampervan2jr.jpg
http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/4039/00gta1dodgeramhightop8mh.png
http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/6674/00gta1dodgeramvan19910iw.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Ram_Van
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/rumpo.jpg
Thanks to reader Andrew for telling me that "Rumpo" is a slang word for sex.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rumpo
Sabre/Sabre Turbo Buick GSX '71-'72 for the pairs of round headlights and the
sides of the front bumper. Of the three cars listed, it also comes the closest
to matching the middle of the grill, although it should be flat and not project
to a vertical line in the middle. The Buick Gran Sport GSX '70 is remembered as
the powerful GSX since GM requirements of the next two years--to use low lead
gasoline, etc.--made the GSX less powerful. If we choose the Buick, the "Vice
City" Sabre Turbo could be the '70 GSX and the Sabre could represent the '71-'72
models.
Thanks to nekkidhillbilly at GTA Forums for the Buick GSX
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/buic7101.htm
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/5333/00gta1sabrebuickgsx19722xu.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_GSX
The Oldsmobile 442 '70 gets the headlights and sides of the front bumper right
but the grill is less of a match.
Thanks to Pesci at GTA Forums for the 1970 Oldsmobile 442
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/3103/00gta1sabre1970oldsmobile4424p.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_442
Thanks to reader Ruffin Bailey for suggesting that the name "Sabre" may be
meant as a synonym for "Cutlass." The 442, prior to 1968, was an optional
souped-up version of an Oldsmobile Cutlass.
Chevrolet Chevelle '70 for the body It matches the arch at the back of the
side window better than the two listed above. The "Vice City" Sabre Turbo could
be the SS 454 (see the Wikipedia article at the link below).
Thanks to El_Diablo, reaffirmed by CKYbassplayer69, at GTA Forums
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/03H49331895815A.jpeg/0/
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/03H49331895815B.jpeg/0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevelle
The back end looks like that of an Oldsmobile 442 '70 convertible, with the
hard top cab of one of the Chevelle given a window squared off to be a bit
smaller than that of a convertible Chevrolet Chevelle, Buick GS, or Oldsmobile
442. But the Sabre/Sabre Turbo has only one pair of brake lights as on the
Oldsmobile 442 '69 shown at the 3rd link below. (In "San Andreas," the Sabre
has two pairs of brake lights.)
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1713/00gta1sabre1970oldsmobile442co.jpg
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/5674/00gta1sabre1970oldsmobile442co1.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7943/00gta1sabrevc1969oldsmobile442.jpg
(The Sabre Turbo--the one that's always orange-copper-colored with an off-
white stripe down the middle from front to back, and the one you see doing a
jump in the intro of the game--is a bit faster. But the road grip for both is
bad.) Sabre: 90 mph; Sabre Turbo: 99 mph.
A Sabre and two Sabre Turbos are shown below.
http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/7497/00gta1sabrevcprofile4zu.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/9450/00gta1sabreturbo6dk.jpg
http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/1315/00gta1sabreturboback28xm.jpg
Sandking The overall style is that of a Jeep XJ Cherokee '84-'92 two door
with bigger suspension, a hood vent, an air foil on the back of the roof, and
the headlights made the same vertical length as the grill.
An '86 and a '92 model, and three models of unknown years, are shown at the
links below.
http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/2868/00gta186jeepcherokeexjpioneer2.jpg
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/566/00gta1sandking1992jeepxjcherok.jpg
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/4337/00gta1sandkingyearjeepxj0ln.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6629/00gta1sandkingyearjeepxjtoo5mw.jpg
http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/2784/00gta1sandkingjeepxjyearagainn.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Cherokee_%28XJ%29
The body, except the front end, has been rounded a bit like a Jeep Grand Cher-
okee, aka a Jeep ZJ, '93 to look more aerodynamic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Grand_Cherokee
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7324/00gta1sandkingvc1ww9.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6862/00gta1sandkingvc2gy2.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9112/00gta1sandkingvc3tl0.jpg
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8335/00gta1sandkingvc4nv7.jpg
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1905/00gta1sandkingvc5vv8.jpg
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/2218/00gta1sandkingvc6ci7.jpg
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/7451/00gta1sandkingvc7jc5.jpg
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7109/00gta1sandkingvc8tm8.jpg
Securicar: I think the origin of this vehicle is the Humber "Pig," an armored
truck that was used by the British Army from the '50's to the '90's. It begins
to look like a Securicar with the 2nd version, the FV 1609. It's shown at the
1st link below followed by two 1611's.
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/7388/00gta1humberpigf16091ar.jpg
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1633/00gta1humberpigfv1611too9fy.jpg
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/4434/00gta1humberpigfv16110za.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Pig
I think it became a basic model for a variety of armored vehicles, used for
troop transport, cash transport, etc. They may be made from the chassis of one
company with an armored body made by another.
Compared to more recent vehicles, the Securicar looks like a combined GMC
Guardsman, GMC Guardsman Troop Transporter (upper body, cab, windows, and
grill), and Bulldog II S.W.A.T. truck (modified International Navistar 4900 but
with a narrower grill)-type armored cash transit vehicle with a cow catcher on
the front. (Cow catchers are more commonly remembered as being the grating that
sloped down toward the track on the front of steam locomotives.) For the Bull-
dog II, it's called a "Ram Front Bumper With Heavy Duty Grill Guard." The one
on the Securicar slants out like a cow catcher. The fenders look like they're
from a 1954-1955 GMC W620 truck.
The GMC Guardsman shown in the 1st two links below have Securicar traits but
older examples would be preferable.
http://www.aavi.com/guardsman-troop-transporter.html
http://www.aavi.com/guardsman-sale.html
http://www.swat-truck.com/Bulldog2.htm
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/gmc.htm
I wonder if the Group 4 Securicor security company, used for the name of the
car and the Gruppe Sechs joke printed on it, ever used a GMC Guardsman or a sim-
ilar-looking armored car.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securicor
http://www.securicor.com/sa/sa-services.htm
The design of the Humber "Pig" is reflected in the APV (All Protected Vehicle)
Dingo, recently used by the German and other armies.
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/2866/00gta1dingo6hl.jpg
http://www.defense-update.com/products/d/dingo-kmw.htm
The Securicar also looks like a precursor to the Buffalo and Cougar/Tempest,
2003-present, made by Force Protection, and a troop transporter (name?).
http://www.forceprotectioninc.com/
http://www.forceprotectioninc.com/models/buffalo/
http://www.defense-update.com/products/c/cougar.htm
http://www.defense-update.com/features/du-3-04/LIC-vehicle-protection.htm
(If you knock the back doors off, you can see boxes of loot inside. It drives
like an Enforcer, except it's slower with worse cornering ability and less dura-
bility.) 78 mph.
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6883/00gta1securicarvc1wl5.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/843/00gta1securicarvc2pc9.jpg
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/8743/00gta1securicarvc3ys8.jpg
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7760/00gta1securicarvc4vo5.jpg
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8547/00gta1securicarvc5bn1.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/354/00gta1securicarvc6le4.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7307/00gta1securicarvc7vc3.jpg
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9277/00gta1securicarvc8kd3.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7758/00gta1securicarvc9dg9.jpg
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5935/00gta1securicarvc10co5.jpg
Spand Express: Ford E-350 '83-'86 cube/box truck except the windows have sharp
corners (The shape is the same as that of a Mule. Despite being a truck, it's
one of the least durable vehicles in the game. It has good speed and handling
for a box truck.) 79 mph.
A 1984 model is shown at the 1st link below.
http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/6884/00gta1mule1984forde350cubevan3.jpg
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/spandex.jpg
Stallion: It has the head lights and grill of an Oldsmobile 442 '78.
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/9726/00gta1stallionvc0rg7.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2927/00gta1stallion1978oldsmobile44.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_442
It has a pair of hood scoops something like those seen on some 1971-1973, at
least, models of the Ford Mustang Mach 1. A 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1 is shown
at the 2nd link below.
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/6913/00gta1stallionvc0cqd4.jpg
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/650/00gta1stallion1973fordmustangm.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_Mach_1
Seen in profile, the body looks like a 1987-1992 Ford Mustang LX except with
the back rounded off and the wheel wells squared off.
The profiles of the "Vice City" and "San Andreas" Stallions, and a Ford Mus-
tang '86 are shown at the links below.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6853/00gta1stallionvc0asm1.jpg
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/8310/00gta1stallionprofilesa6za.jpg
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8833/00gta1stallion1986fordmustangl.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang
The Ford Mustang LX rear side windows have been covered with vinyl so the
front side edge is above the back of the doors. The rear side window dividers
are slid forward to make little nearly triangular rectangular front side windows
except the dividers are vertical. The back windows look like those on the Mus-
tang convertible.
A couple of Ford Mustang LX '86 models and a '68 MG Midget are shown below.
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/135/00gta1stallionvc1986fordmustan.jpg
http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/8833/00gta1stallion1986fordmustangl.jpg
http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/292/00gta1stallion1968mgmidget8lt.gif
http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/4368/00gta1stallionvc8ogt3.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3549/00gta1stallionvc8oosa7.jpg
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/218/00gta1stallionvc8oooar2.jpg
It has a back bumper and brake lights like a simplified version of those on an
early '70's Oldsmobile 442. Thanks to Prodigital at GTA Forums for the Oldsmo-
bile 442 '70 brake lights tip. A '72 model is shown at the 2nd link below.
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5733/00gta1stallionvc0bcf4.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4324/00gta1stallion1972oldsmobile44.jpg
(It's fast with bad road grip and cornering ability.) 90 mph.
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/702/00gta1stallionvc11adw3.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/586/00gta1stallionvc11aalr1.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9195/00gta1stallionvc11aaauy4.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/6696/00gta1stallionvc11aaaaxc5.jpg
Stretch: Cadillac DeVille '86 limousine Most limousines are customizations of
Lincoln Town cars and Cadillacs. Some parts don't help identify the original
car because they're the customizer's choice. Add the fact that Rockstar may
create a car from a mix of real ones, and identifying the original car or cars
can be tricky. I've mainly relied on pictures of some '86 Lincoln Town Car and
Cadillac sedans and limousines to identify some of the parts of the Stretch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Deville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limousine
Front end: Cadillac DeVille '86.
http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/6914/00gta1stretchvc1986cadillacdev.jpg
http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/6409/00gta1stretchvc1986cadillacdev1.jpg
Back bumper, back end, brake lights, and rear window: Cadillac DeVille '86
without the little horizontal reflector strip (?) just above the bumper. The
rear window is like the one on a Cadillac DeVille--bigger than the one on the
Lincoln.
http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/6914/00gta1stretchvc1986cadillacdev.jpg
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/867/00gta1stretch1986cadillacbacka.jpg
Wheel wells: Cadillac DeVille '86--rectangular with rounded corners and, un-
like the ones on a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, about evenly deep.
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/3818/guide598stretch1986pa4.jpg
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/2373/00gta1stretch1986cadillacwheel.jpg
It has an antenna on the trunk--an example on a Lincoln is shown below.
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9710/00gta1stretch1986lincolnstretc.jpg
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/619/00gta1stretch1986lincolnstretc1.jpg
(It doesn't accelerate or corner very well, and it's only as durable as an In-
fernus--as dopey as they are, none of Tommy's henchmen will chauffeur him in it.
It looks nice in the driveway, and I'd usually leave it there.) 85 mph.
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/9470/00gta1stretchvc1vw8.jpg
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/3276/00gta1stretchvc2ih5.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1450/00gta1stretchvc3hq8.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2298/00gta1stretchvc4jj3.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4985/00gta1stretchvc5jk8.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3471/00gta1stretchvc6vd6.jpg
Top Fun van: Dodge Ram van or B series cargo van '86 a bit less fat and with a
longer engine hood--more like a GMC Vandura '86 (range of years?) in those ways
The grill and hood vents are like those on a Honda Life '71-'74, and the head-
lights are like the ones on one of the '86 or so Dodge vans.
A "Vice City" Pony is the same. (Among the vans, this one has the worst han-
dling but is the most durable.) 74 mph.
A Dodge B3500 '85, a Honda Life '71-'74 (year?), and GMC Vandura '86 are shown
below.
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6182/00gta1berkleys1985dodgeb3500ra.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_B_Series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Ram_Van
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/9726/00gta1berkleyshondalifestepvan.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Life
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8112/guide608topfun1986gmche3.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_Vandura
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/4997/00gta1topfun1kc2.jpg
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/998/00gta1topfunvc2cr1.jpg
Trashmaster Ford F800 '92 ten-wheeler used as a rear loader garbage truck
It's the same truck as the Yankee. For more about this model, a 9th generation
('92-'96) F series truck, appearing in the time period of the game, '86, see
"Yankee."
A Ford F800 '95 and an International DT360 '92, just shown to show the big
trash box on the back, are shown at the 1st two links below. A '97 model--10th
generation but it looks the same to me--with a similar trash box is shown at the
3rd link.
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/2889/00gta1trashmasterfordf8009hy.jpg
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6209/00gta1trashmaster1992internati.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6206/00gta1trashmaster1997fordf8001.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F-Series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_truck
(It takes wide turns and is slow at acceleration, but attacking police cars
don't matter so much from inside one.) 65 mph.
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/5862/00gta1trashmastervc5hg.jpg
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/7782/00gta1trashmastervcgrill2mu.jpg
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/trashmaster.jpg
Virgo: Mercury Cougar XR7 '77-'79 (thanks to Grand Theft Grampa at GTA Forums)
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=157661&st=260
with the brake lights of a Lincoln Continental Mark V '77-'79
(It's one of the handful of least durable vehicles in the game. It has good
cornering but a high center of gravity.) 84 mph.
A Mercury Cougar XR7 '78 and a Lincoln Continental Mark V '77 are shown at the
links below.
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/00G9B571206962D.jpeg/0/
http://www.motorcities.com/photo/view/00G9B571206962A.jpeg/0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Cougar
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/5522/00gta1virgo1977lincolncontmark.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Continental_Mark_V
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/9301/00gta1virgovc1avf5.jpg
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/5816/00gta1virgovc2ank4.jpg
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/8395/00gta1virgovc3aay8.jpg
Walton: Chevrolet 1st Series '55 model 3014 with the cab of a Chevrolet 2nd
Series 3100 "Task Force" pickup '55 and a wooden cargo bed (As it says in the
Brady guide: "Goodnight, John Boy." It's a pickup truck with a wooden fence
around the back. It's practically as fast as a Bobcat, and it lets you drive a
little bit of pickup truck history.) 76 mph.
http://www.pickuptruck.com/html/history/chev_segment6.html
http://www.stovebolt.com/gallery/shirlin_dave_1955.htm
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/6342/00gta1waltonvc1eh2.jpg
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/75/00gta1waltonvc2ac2.jpg
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8105/00gta1waltonvc3bw7.jpg
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/2201/00gta1waltonvc4st8.jpg
Washington: see the listing for "FBI Washington" in the "Good/distinctive
four-door cars" section above for the real car comparisons. (It looks like the
FBI Washington except in colors other than black. The handling for it is dif-
ferent, though. It has a good speed for a regular sedan, but the road grip and
handling could be better.) 90 mph.
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6164/00gta1washingtonvc31oy.jpg
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/4994/00gta1washingtonvc21ll.jpg
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1912/00gta1washingtonvc19lb.jpg
Yankee: Ford F800 '92 used as a box truck
It's the same truck as the one used as a Trashmaster. The earliest matching
picture I found was from '94, so it's probably from the F series 9th generation
('92-'96) described in the Wikipedia article below. If so, since it appears in
an '86 setting, it's like the "San Andreas" Slamvan in having a real life count-
erpart that appeared after the time frame of the game. (The Yankee 1st ap-
peared, and looked about like it does in "Vice City," in "GTA III," which has a
2001 or so time frame.)
I try to pick vehicles that appeared within the time frame of the game when I
can, but to adhere to that too strictly is impossible. Many of the vehicles,
like the Glendale, are mixtures that never appeared in that combination in any
period in real life at all. I only have a hard and fast rule that if a vehicle
has a real life counterpart, it has to appear before the game was created--af-
terward is right out...unless someone mods a Mercury to look like the Cuban
Hermes after "Vice City" comes out or such.
A couple of '95 Ford F800s, one with a 16' box and one with an 18' box, are
shown at the 1st two links below.
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/5171/00gta1yankeefordf800box16ft3lb.jpg
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/1231/00gta1yankee1995fordf80018ftbo.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F-Series
(Of the box trucks, which mostly have ordinary to worse road grip and han-
dling, all the others have a higher center of gravity except the Mr. Whoopee,
which is one of the least durable vehicles in the game. The Yankee grips the
road with ordinary handling but is among the fastest, and one of the most dur-
able, box trucks. The other box trucks are the Mule, Boxville, Benson, Spand
Express, and Mr. Whoopee. The Spand Express and Mr. Whoopee are among the least
durable vehicles in the game.) 80 mph.
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/7260/00gta1yankee6hhnl8.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6158/00gta1yankeevc1and4.jpg
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1994/00gta1yankeevc2fs6.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/374/00gta1yankeevc3hz5.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7537/00gta1yankeevc4ic8.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3632/00gta1yankeevc5jv6.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8611/00gta1yankeevc6xx2.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2876/00gta1yankeevc7aq7.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8562/00gta1yankeevc8aj0.jpg
Again, thanks to GTA/Mafia/Midtown Madness modder Nuclear Hedgehog (probably
not his given name) and Tobias Nilsson for many of the real names of the vehi-
cles listed here and elsewhere in this guide.
Thanks to the GTA Forums > GTA San Andreas > General Discussion > Real Car
Names message board for the ones marked with an asterisk.
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=157661&st=0
Some of the real names, and all of the comments otherwise, are by me.
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I.9.C Motorcycles
Controls for the PCJ 600 (or the place of wheelship of your choice)
Getting a good look at Tommy
A run down of all the motorcycles
including the real names and top speeds of the motorcycles
Some notable things about the motorcycles
Fast and complimentary Pay 'n' Sprays
Wheelies
Wheelies for jumps
Stoppies
The 360 degree Stoppie
The flip gimmick
The PC Super Jump
The BSM
Airgrabs
Headers
Half pipe stunts
Climbing and jumping from trees
Hitting poles
Wallrides
Bumps
Grinds
Stunt videos
A bunch of jumps that are often overlooked
Insane Jumps and Insane Stunts
Morphing
Controls for Tommy morphed to a bike
Outfit locations
Some favorite spots for big Insane Jump statistics
Controls
W....Acceleration Give it a touch to swirl the camera to look forward from
behind Tommy, too, which works better in "Vice City" than in "San Andreas."
S....Reverse
A....Left
D....Right
Space Bar....Brake. Combine reverse and brake for extra stopping power.
Space Bar can be used to help create sharp turns with a controlled skid that you
accelerate out of, too.
F....(Board or) dismount from cycle
Number Pad 9....Stand and lean forward It's one of the controls used to go
for a stoppie, which is the easiest to do on a Faggio or a Pizza Boy. Press it
quickly and repeatedly, trying to keep Tommy hunched down without letting him
stand up, to make the motorcycle go faster. It's as though it cuts down on wind
resistance.
Number Pad 6....Lean back It's one of the controls used to go for a wheel-
ie, which is the easiest to do with a Sanchez. NP6 can also give a bike a sharp
cornering ability; used carefully, you can even get a quick 180 degree turn with
it.
Use NP6 and NP9 to adjust the level of the bike, once airborne, to land
safely on two wheels, too.
Q....Look/aim submachine gun or pizza left
E....Look/aim submachine gun or pizza right It's easiest for me to shoot
the submachine gun forward, though.
Q and E....Look behind
Left Mouse Button....Shoot submachine gun/throw pizza
Caps Lock....cancel Pizza Delivery Sub-mission
V....View (Change Camera Mode)
Type "aspirine" to heal any cycle Tommy is on. If you need to do it quickly,
press Esc to pause the game, type "aspirine," then press Esc again.
A bike can be driven into North Point Mall, the mansion, and, if you have
Tommy bail 1st, the Malibu, the Ocean View, and the Pole Position Club.
Getting a good look at Tommy
When Tommy's on a bike, you can pick the 1st person view with V then use Q
and/or E to get a close front view and couple of side views of Tommy you won't
otherwise see. ("Tommy Vercetti--it's time for your closeup.")
A run down of all the motorcycles
including the real names and top speeds of the motorcycles
I used Spookie's Speedometer mod and sent each bike over a runway at the air-
port to get the top speed for it.
"Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel
Angel: Harley Davidson Shovelhead FLH--the best matches I found were made in
'76. For more information on the comparable real vehicle, see the section on
the Freeway and Angel below.
This refers to any of the Angels driven by Tommy's competitors in the bike
race of "Alloy Wheels of Steel." I recommend you have Tommy jack one and use it
at I.69. It's the best racing bike in the game. I tested it against a regular
Angel. It pointed up the difference a higher or lower center of gravity and
cornering traction can make.
If you want a "Wheels of Steel" Angel more often in the game, one you can save
in a garage and it will hug the road and retain that special amount of cornering
grip, see I.100.D.e Cars and bikes, Gameplay advantages, How to create your own
"Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel.
Angel: 103 mph.
PCJ 600
The Honda CBX 750 is the most like a PCJ 600 of the '86 models I saw. I don't
think the CBR 600 was built till '87, but it also has some similar features.
After those Hondas, the next most similar to a PCJ 600 I saw was a Yamaha FZR
600 '86.
The PCJ 600 has a windscreen, with a distinctive funny evil grin headlight,
I've seen on some Hondas from around then or later but not always the same mod-
el. It may have been a customization option.
To look more like a PCJ 600, the Honda should have a little body with a vent
over the upper motor that's below the gas tank, but it shouldn't cover the lower
motor. The body of the CBR 600 '87 in back of the seat should be angled lower
as it is on the CBX 750 '86.
The PCJ 600 is my favorite vehicle for getting around town fast when the
"Wheels of Steel" Angel isn't around. It has a fairly high-pitched bike sound.
It's the best for jumps, due to its combination of light weight, fast accelera-
tion, and high top speed. The BradyGames guide doesn't give it much for han-
dling, but the writer must not have driven one around much to get a feel for
what turning with controlled skids can be for the cycle. Get me a pilot's li-
cense for this thing. Tommy falls now and then, but he gets right back up.
He's a mighty man--a mighty, mighty mountain man. I'd use "aspirine" on the
bike now and then, though.
There's always a PCJ 600 at four locations:
1. by the piers on the SW side of the east island;
2. in the "stilt" building (there's also a Banshee there) on the east island
on the N side of the 2nd block S of Washington Mall;
3. in the display window of Howlin' Petes Biker Emporium on the west island:
where the main N and S road divides in the lower Downtown area, take the road
to the E--it's on the left; use a weapon or vehicle to break the glass; and
4. on a little hillside NE of the Washington Beach police station. Having
Tommy board it will trigger the "PCJ Playground" mission unless you have him
nudge it from the spot 1st.
PCJ 600: 109 mph.
The pictures at the links below show:
a Honda CBX 750 '86,
a PCJ 600-type Honda headlight,
a Honda CBR 600 '87,
a Yamaha FZR 600 '86, and
a Honda CBR 929 (2000 or later) with a PCJ 600-type Honda headlight.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/476/guide643pcj6001986crx75pr9.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/8859/00gta1hondacbr600headlight3sg.jpg
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/665/00gta1hondacbr600198721ii.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9008/00gta1yamahafzr60019866qr.jpg
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8365/00gta1hondacbr92919844un.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CBX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CBX750
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CBR_series
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/618/00gta1pcj600vc18fx.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/8558/00gta1pcj600vc22nq.jpg
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/8498/00gta1pcj600vc2a9qq.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/2102/00gta1pcj600vc38pq.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1280/00gta1pcj600vc49ra.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1412/00gta1pcj600vc56dl.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/2424/00gta1pcj600vc62az.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/175/00gta1pcj600vc75wm.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/7574/00gta1pcj600vc82wq.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/5326/00gta1pcj600vc98sd.jpg
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/1271/00gta1pcj600vc106jf.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/5157/00gta1pcj600vc119su.jpg
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/4769/00gta1pcj600vc128ty.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7146/00gta1pcj600vc143pd.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4599/00gta1pcj600vc157bn.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1159/00gta1pcj600vc169vu.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3895/00gta1pcj600vc178uj.jpg
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/2493/00gta1pcj600vc184nj.jpg
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/7662/00gta1pcj600vc191qc.jpg
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/696/00gta1pcj600vc201pa.jpg
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/8920/00gta1pcj600vc219de.jpg
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/6389/00gta1pcj600vc227uj.jpg
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/1516/00gta1pcj600vc235do.jpg
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/6185/00gta1pcj600vc249rh.jpg
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/4048/00gta1pcj600vc253ou.jpg
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/788/00gta1pcj600vc262at.jpg
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9494/00gta1pcj600vc270tw.jpg
Sanchez
Sanchez: Yamaha DT 200 dirt bike '85-'86
The Sanchez is a dirt bike and the best for doing wheelies. It sounds like a
mix of lawnmower and bike sounds. Save one at the condo if you want to try the
gimmick to beat "Dirt Ring" (I.31), too. If there isn't one handy to jack, you
can always find a Sanchez at the dirt track at the top of the west island. Hav-
ing Tommy get aboard that one always triggers the "Dirt Track" mission unless
you have him nudge it from the spot 1st.
Sanchez: 91 mph.
http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/364536/
http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/012871/
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Freeway and Angel
Freeway: Harley Davidson Shovelhead '66-'85; the best matches I found were
made in '76.
Angel: it's the same as the Freeway--even in having two exhaust pipes on each
side--except it has a wider front tire and gas tank, saddlebags on the back, and
three headlights--one big one and two little ones--instead of one. I've seen
one or more of these distinctions on some Shovelhead FLH Harley Davidsons.
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F: big twin: a two-cylinder V-twin engine.
L: hydraulically damped "Hydra Glide" fork.
H: high compression.
(Sometimes I found them in Touring and/or Electra Glide versions, which may
have big hard trunks instead of saddlebags.) Another exception to the Freeway
look is that the Freeway headlight has a blurry happy face on it but the three
Angel headlights have sad faces.
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As with the Freeway, the best matches I found were made in '76 (which was the
middle of a bad period for Harley Davidson and the quality of the vehicles it
made).
Hogs. They sound like ones, too. Compared to some actual Harley Davidsons,
these bikes don't have the best speed/handling/weight combo for much of any-
thing. They slide out on turns and are a bit heavy and slow to accelerate for
making the jumps unless you have a Super Dave or George of the Jungle fantasy
going. (The "gripiseverything" code doesn't effect bikes.) Use your handling
skills and don't corner so fast and it's a nice ride, and they look cooler than
Faggios.
I think the Angels in front of Mitch Baker's Biker Bar are red, white, and
blue to be colored like the gas tank on the (very customized) bike Peter Fonda
drove in "Easy Rider," which "Vice City" voice actor Dennis Hopper directed, and
which he co-starred in and co-wrote (with Terry Southern) with Fonda, who pro-
duced it.
http://www.bikemenu.com/photoseasyrider.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~sirkus/chop.html
There are always red, white, and blue Angels in the front of Mitch Baker's
Biker bar: where the main N and S road of the west island divides in the lower
Downtown area, take the road to the E--the bar is on the right side. Baker's
bikers in the game seem pretty docile (except when in a Rampage), so it
shouldn't be hard to jack an Angel.
The best bike for racing is an Angel you can have Tommy jack from one of the
Bikers before the race in "Alloy Wheels of Steel" (I.69) (see the "'Alloy Wheels
of Steel' Angel" above).
To find a Freeway, cross the bridge from Prawn Island to the east island and
make the 1st right; there's always a Freeway near the corner on the left.
There's a simplified version of a Freeway over a beer cabinet in The Greasy
Chopper.
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Freeway: 102 mph; Angel: 103 mph.
The 1st two links below show Harley Davidson Shovelheads--the 2nd one shows
Terri Haas, the National Vice President of Leather and Lace, a women's motorcy-
cle club. The next three show an FLH. All of them are bikes made in '76. The
link after that is another FLH but made in '86.
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Faggio
Faggio: Piaggio Vespa PX 200 '84-'86
The Faggio is a scooter (thanks to Andrew for telling me the correct category)
and the bike that's the easiest to use to do a Stoppie. It sounds like a lawn-
mower--the way some real scooters sound. As it says in the BradyGames guide,
"Man, get off that thing before someone sees you!" It has good handling and
makes sharp turns, but don't try to have Tommy jump the channel in one unless
you have a morbid curiosity about him drowning. Maybe it's not that bad. They
were big with some of the Mods in the U.K. in the 1960's. It's good for getting
you to a PCJ 600.
There's always a Faggio in two places on the east island: on the W side of the
5th block from the S and 1st row along the E, and in the alley beside Lawyer Ken
Rosenberg's office--in the panhandle of the 3rd block from the E and the 4th
block from the S.
The Pizza Boy, a customized Faggio, is the other scooter in the game. It's by
any Well Stacked Pizza shop.
Faggio: 76 mph.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa
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Some notable things about the motorcycles
Fast and complimentary Pay 'n' Sprays.
You can save some of the time taken to use a Pay 'n' Spray by leaving a two
(or four)-wheel vehicle in it. Just have Tommy run and get on (or in) it, and
it triggers the Pay 'n' Spray actions. Once Tommy has at least $100, you can
also use one when he doesn't have a wanted rating, or need to repair his vehi-
cle, for complimentary sprays to give his vehicle the color you like.
Wheelies
The easiest way to do wheelies is with a Sanchez dirt bike. Accelerate, W,
while Tommy leans back, Number Pad 6, until the bike stays up at an angle while
just holding Number Pad 6. Add taps of W to keep the speed and front wheel up,
and turn with A and D. It only counts if you land safely on both wheels.
You can do one on a PCJ 600, or on a Freeway or Angel (hog), but it usually
doesn't stay up at an angle automatically with NP6 like the Sanchez does, so you
keep playing with NP6 and W to keep it up, and it probably won't last too long.
But by persisting at trying for that wheelie angle with the PCJ 600, by playing
with NP6 and W, I can get it to stay up the Sanchez way for brief stretches, and
could repeat several such stretches in a row, with Tommy hugging the body of the
bike when it went down. You can steer it as with the Sanchez, too, but give
Tommy a lot of room ahead of him when you try. It's a heavier bike, so it's
harder to create and control the front lift for it.
Tommy can also use the PCJ 600 for a wheelie to ramp off the front of some of
the oncoming sport cars with low angled engine hoods (this takes some trial and
error).
There is a wheelie gimmick, not that a regular one is hard to do. Sometimes,
if you get the front wheel of a PCJ 600 over the hedge while trying to have Tom-
my drive from the yard in front of the building he jumps to for J33, you can
press W and the back wheel spins in place. When you stop, you may get a wheelie
bonus. You could try for an incredibly long wheelie time that way, but it's not
as much fun as a regular one.
Wheelies for jumps
I've revised my thinking about Siva's (HandsomeRockus') idea about doing a
wheelie just before a jump for extra distance. At least when hitting one of
those gray concrete ramps with a PCJ 600, it looks like you may get some extra
distance if you have it wheelie just before hitting the ramp.
It didn't add distance when I 1st tested his idea using the yellow marker at
the airport tarmac--it was noticeable when using a ramp that's more horizontal.
Hitting things in "Vice City" slows a vehicle down (you may have noticed this
even with the breakaway cardboard boxes). So it looks like hitting a more ver-
tical ramp, even with a wheelie, slows the horizontal movement of the bike a bit
whereas slanting the bike with a wheelie for a more horizontal ramp diminishes
the impact of hitting it and lets it fly farther.
Stoppies
The easiest way to do them is with a Faggio or Pizza Boy scooter. Find a long
stretch of runway at the airport because you can't turn while doing a stoppie.
Accelerate, W, while having Tommy stand and lean forward, Number Pad 9. You
don't need to go very fast--in fact, you probably shouldn't or you'll get a
shorter stoppie time by running out of runway sooner. Holding Number Pad 9
throughout the following, go from W to both brake, Space Bar, and reverse, S,
until the back wheel stays up at an angle, then go back to W to keep it going.
You can even let go of W a bit to let the scooter slow down, and it will contin-
ue at a constant slower pace when you hold W again. Use A and D to turn the
back end so it doesn't spin out so much and end the stoppie. Again, it only
counts if you land safely on both wheels.
You can do a brief one on a PCJ 600 or Sanchez which brings it to a stop.
The 360 degree Stoppie
According to Xtramus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwFsA6kXOfA
- Do a stoppie (not too fast). When the scooter turns 90 degrees, press re-
verse--Tommy sits down.
- When it's almost 90 degrees to the other side, release reverse and slowly
spin past 90 degrees, then accelerate.
The flip gimmick
When Tommy is doing a jump and isn't morphed, and you want to get a statistic
for Flips, have him lean back, Number Pad 6, until the front wheel is just back
of vertical, then lean forward, Number Pad 9, and it's counted as a flip. (I
got a count of four flips this way jumping over the Callahan Bridge in Staunton
with the Liberty City mod--I.100.D.g.) The same gimmick works if you lean Tom-
my's bike forward with NP9 till it revolves more than vertical then bring it
back with NP6.
Obviously, you can get more flips out of this gimmick if he's airborne longer,
so pick a jump for it that gives him a lot of flight time.
The PC super jump
Thanks to yOman69, in posts at the message board at Gamefaqs, Sept., 2004, for
the PC super jump, something that had been given up on as something you could
only do for PS2. As his messages and videos demonstrated, his new method can be
done with a Packer (ramp truck). You can use any bike, although a PCJ 600
brought greater results than a Pizza Boy. You have the option of having Tommy
morphed (see below) or not, although morphing brought me greater results.
I used Tommy morphed to a PCJ 600 and the Packer at the airport, as in a video
by yOman69, and my greatest score for revolutions so far has been 34,057 degrees
(unfortunately, Tommy ended up bouncing off the tarmac and into the ocean, so
I didn't save it). At the most spectacular, I've seen Tommy flying higher than
anything else in the city--in some replay shots, he was a dot in the sky. It's
like he was stuck up there like a ceiling fan for awhile. In less fantastic
successes, he still twirled around like crazy.
Drive a PCJ 600 into the back of the rear wheel housing of the right side of
the Packer--not at a 90 degree angle, but with a slight turn from 90 degrees in
the direction of the truck, and giving the bike a right turn.
Highly sophisticated, life-like--ASCII art, even--depiction of a Packer
and where to point your morph
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As the bike is pushed down along the truck to a 90 degree angle, change to a
left turn to keep the bike pushing against the truck. The bike keeps pushing
with success, and you see the back of the truck raise higher as the front of the
bike slides down toward the back end of the ramp and pushes it up. I usually
back out just before reaching the back end of the ramp. You can then see that
the truck holds that position with the front wheels embedded a bit into the
ground.
Sometimes pushing till the bike reaches the back of the ramp makes the truck
fall. Sometimes you can pull the bike out and push it back in to nudge the back
of the truck higher, but often it makes the truck fall.
Then position the bike to drive at the middle, or just left of middle, of the
right side of the segment of the ramp that extends back from the rear wheel
housing--the middle of the segment before you. A line on the ramp shows the
middle. Tommy's head and shoulders will pass right through it.
Just past the far side of the ramp, begin doing some careful little forward
left and backward right turns, careful not to bump the truck and make it fall
prematurely, till Tommy is within the middle of the back segment of the ramp and
pointed in the direction of the truck. I think it helps to get the "camera"
swerved back behind Tommy. Then go straight forward and bump some solid part of
the truck--it's somewhere in between the backs of the back wheel housings--to
make the truck fall.
With success, Tommy flies and twirls like nothing else in the game, or at
least flies a bit and twirls a lot, and sometimes the truck flips in the air and
blows up. If the bike falls sideways under the truck, which is more often, and
which makes the truck constantly slowly reverse into the bike for some reason,
just drive it out and you can try again.
A few of the other bad things that can happen--fortunately, not as often-in-
clude: the jump works but Tommy ends up in the ocean and drowns; the jump works
but you realize the bike is burning and you don't type "aspirine" fast enough;
the jump works in that Tommy ends up credited with a lot of revolutions but all
you see is him fall through gray hell; or Tommy ends up on his back on the ramp
and his armor then health drop to zero. You can also get the bike stuck under
the truck, and hit F to make Tommy appear standing on the ramp. So you drive
the Packer off it to see the bike is irremovably embedded nose up halfway into
the ground, at which time you might blow it up to get it out of the memory of
the game. One time when the bike was stuck under the truck and I pressed F,
Tommy ended up in the Gate 1--8 hallway of the 2nd floor of the main terminal,
for some reason.
Again, if the bike burns, you can type "aspirine." If Tommy gets wasted or
you lose the bike to the ground or fire, you can reload the game. You might
keep a PCJ 600, and even a Packer, in the garage of the mansion. The mansion
office also has a street outfit pickup (and a Frankie outfit after "Keep Your
Friends Close") to use for morphing on PC. The back of the Packer sticks out of
a garage, but disappears while the door is down (an old "GTA III" gimmick).
The BSM
Another fine bike jumping method, one that turns a PCJ 600 into a portable
jump ramp for a 2nd PCJ 600, is the BSM offered by video stunt man Brad Ward,
who's aka ThaShoka89 and Southern Finest. It's called the "Bike Stunt Method,"
although he likes to call it the "Bike Stuck Method." I relay it here with his
magnanimous permission and my thanks.
Find a telephone pole you can make a good runway toward and which has a nice
long clearing, or roof you want to land on, beyond it. Gather a couple of PCJ
600's by the pole without using any other vehicles so the two bikes stay in the
memory of the game.
You put the middle of a side of a PCJ 600 a couple feet from a telephone pole,
tree trunk, the side of a building--whatever is vertical and solid. Then drive
a 2nd PCJ 600 from a few feet away at the middle of the other side of the 1st
bike, and bump it so it leans against the telephone pole at an angle you can use
for a jump.
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Then get a good run at either side of the 1st bike with the 2nd one, and give
it a little wheelie just before impact.
Tommy often stays on the bike and can get some good height and revolutions.
This can give you a lot more jumps to try, and rooftops and narrow walks in
front of billboards, etc., to shoot for a landing on, in Vice City.
If you like such things as much as me, then follow me in following ThaShoka-
89's advice to register at these web sites about stunting:
http://www.gtastunting.com/forums/
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/index.php?act=idx
Ghostchild, of the 2nd web site, has a good tutorial about it at:
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/index.php?showtopic=222
Ghostchild calls the "Bike Stunt Method" a "PCJ Bump." He says it originated
with Neo Anderson (reaffirmed in the opening of "Fusion," a collaboration of
Neo's ATS crew and the TS team I learned of from a post by celebrated Terror
Squad participant Urban L3gend his own self at Gamefaqs). If you use a pole for
it, you hook the front 1/4 of the PCJ 600 against the pole at a 25 to 45 degree
angle as shown in this screen shot by Ghostchild:
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He says the three kinds of poles you can hook a bike to are:
The white posts such as the ones for an overhead road sign a bit to the N of
the W end of the South Bridge;
the very tall gray poles on the S side of Viceport;
and wooden telephone poles.
I'm still working on "catching air"--"airgrabs"--where Tommy lets go of the
handlebars of his bike for a second (and doesn't just wreck), but ThaShoka89
says it's easy.
Airgrabs
To do an Airgrab, you have Tommy let go of the handlebars of his bike, grab
some air, and grab the handlebars again--have him jump off and back onto the
bike.
Thanks again to ThaShoka89 for relaying Taclite's tutorial on Airgrabbing from
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/ at the Gamefaqs web site message
board for the PC "Vice City." I've condensed it here and described a few loca-
tions so I can still find them if the web addresses for Taclite's screen shots
ever change. Thanks to Ghostchild for telling me the skin for Tommy in the
screen shots I've used to show locations looks like one used by NightFear. And
thanks to Taclite, proud inventor of the Packer 2 stoppie 2 grind, and inventor
of the Airgrab 2 Frontflip groundgrab, whom I hope doesn't mind how I've con-
densed it:
****
There are several different types of Airgrabs, the most common being the
Groundgrab, where you jump off and on while touching the ground. A regular Air-
grab also covers doing the same thing when hitting a wall. Then there are the
Frontflip and Backflip Airgrabs--I don't think I need to explain what they are.
FIRST OF ALL: You need a good jump with a wall pretty close by (I'll give some
locations later) and a PCJ (it's the best for Airgrabbing).
Normal Airgrab:
Have Tommy make a fast approach to the jump, start leaning back (NP6) to let
the bike tilt vertically while airborne, have Tommy jump off (F) when he's
around 1 - 2 feet away from the wall, then quickly and repeatedly press Enter
(F). If he jumps off and on, you've just managed to have him do an airgrab.
Frontflip Airgrab:
Get a good roof with a ledge at the edge of it as in the location given below.
Have Tommy do a high wheelie (but without the tail of the bike scraping the
ground or he'll fall off). Just as his motorcycle is about to hit the ledge,
have him jump off (F), hit Enter (F) repeatedly and quickly, and he'll do a
Frontflip Airgrab (if you're lucky).
Backflip Airgrab:
This type of airgrab requires s**tloads of luck. Have Tommy wheelie at 45 de-
grees against a wall. When his motorcycle hits it, have him jump off and on
(press F quickly and repeatedly). If you're lucky enough, he'll do a backflip
airgrab.
Normal Airgrab location: in the parking lot of the building just S of the
Downtown Schuman Health Care Center, which is S and across the street from the W
end of the Hyman Condo alley. Go W to E and wheelie at the ramp at the NE cor-
ner of the lot. Try the airgrab as the bike as about to hit the wall of the
building beyond that.
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Frontflip Airgrab location: the roof of the Downtown Ammu-Nation; an easy way
there is to have Tommy jump from the long stairway S of it. Have him go N to S,
wheelie, do the airgrab as he approaches the ledge at the edge of the roof, and
flip down to the ground.
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Backflip Airgrab location: the parking lot W and across the street from the S
tarmac of the airport. To get there, go S from the W end of the South Bridge,
go right, go through the intersection, follow the road as it curves 90 degrees
N, and enter the parking lot with the red and blue poles across the entrances on
your right. From somewhere E of the Sentinel XS that's always parked there,
have Tommy go S to N to the low wall with a fence on top of it, get a 45 degree
angle wheelie to hit the wall with, press F quickly and repeatedly as Tommy's
motorcycle hits it, and backflip S onto the same parking lot.
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While trying airgrabs, you may occasionally find that spaceeinstein is right
about the gimmick used to have Tommy stand on a car in midair, given at I.26 for
Unique Jump 19: it works with motorcycles, too.
You might try the airgrab found in the "Vice City Tribute" stunt video. Push
a PCJ 600 off the roof of the airport terminal and quickly and repeatedly press
F.
Madmax of ATS might add that there's something to be said for the possibili-
ties of the Pizza Boy airgrab.
Turtle Boy has a video of a batch of stunters in a gtas.net airgrab competi-
tion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU1vOYhJWkg
A lot of airgrabs, and an admirably long drive along the top of a fence, are
included in "inclined." by jessrocked and knives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O57UOrYQjQA
Headers
Press F before a collision, when you can react fast enough, to prevent Tommy
from getting damaged in a wreck. This is obvious, but practice by doing headers
with oncoming vehicles and pressing F a split second before impact. Since he
flies off a bit and lands safely on his feet, you might use it in a mission and
save his neck someday, or at least give him a cooler-looking dismount than a
wreck.
Likewise, if you can tell Tommy's bike is going to have a landing that knocks
him off the bike, press F a few times as it approaches the ground. He'll jump
off to land safely on his feet, and then may run to get back on the bike.
Half pipe stunts
The roof of the Escobar airport terminal makes a fair half pipe. You can
practice having Tommy stay on his wheels after a surprisingly long drop by driv-
ing off of the roof, too. Have him try to get some forward momentum, level the
wheels once airborne, and have him land with acceleration.
Climbing and jumping from trees
To have Tommy's motorcycle climb a tree, have him go up the upper side of a
palm tree that slants over diagonally from the ground up. In some cases, Tommy
can drive a PCJ 600 or a Sanchez to the top of it, too. Among several, one is
the tree NW of the Malibu Club, and another is N of Leaf Links club house and W
of the tennis court. You can even get some runway to use that last one, the one
across the street to the E of the Vice Point pizza shop, and the one N of the
road to the W side of the Starfish Island Bridge, as a jump. It's not too spec-
tacular, but it sure looks different.
You might try the Bump or Pole or BSM method with a tree trunk, too.
Hitting Poles
Thanks to Ghostchild for his clear and helpful information and screen shots
about doing stunts with poles:
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/
One thing that distinguishes these stunts from bumps is that you want to get a
wheelie going, at about 40 degrees, for a bit before the motorcycle hits the
pole, not just at the time of impact. Use NP6 and NP9 to level the wheels for
landing, too.
He also cautions that you can only hit the breakaway poles, like the white
ones for traffic lights, so fast or the motorcycle will break through them and
not bounce back as with the wooden telephone poles.
Turn with A or D upon impact if you want the motorcycle to bounce back and up
onto a roof.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/989/00a40degreewheeliehittingpoles.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5809/00a40degreewheeliehittingpoles1.jpg
Wallrides
According to Fugitive at the GTA Place Forums > Grand Theft Auto Gaming >
Stunting, to do a wallride:
- wheelie before the wall (unless there's already a slope up to it at the base
of it), and
- hit the wall and press and hold right (if the wall is to the right) or left
(if the wall is on the left).
(For SA, he also recommends you hold Lean Forward--NP9.)
http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNzBX3fy_00
Wallride tutorial by Aries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld0B8yaZawk
An easy wallride in VC is shown in Enid's video "foxylittlething." To get to
the location, go E from the E end of the Hyman Condo alley, past the Degenatron
billboard that's over the road, and just past the bend in the road and the Shaft
hotdogs billboard that's over it. The curved wall, part of the next to the last
"G-Spotlight" building, is on the E side of the road, and you can use the S
steps of the two sets of steps as a ramp. Try not to let Tommy's motorcycle hit
the brown pole supporting the billboard unless he's morphed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjOdvjERZsA
Bumps
Thanks to Ghostchild again for the screen shots and basics of what he's done
with stunts called bumps:
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/
One distinction with doing bumps from hitting poles is that you do your wheel-
ie at the moment before impact, and start a bit earlier to go for a higher
wheelie for a higher obstacle.
Ghostchild cautions that this is the hardest type of stunt to do, but also
looks the coolest when you pull it off.
For a beginner, he recommends doing the following bump till you can have Tommy
land--on the ground, at least, if not the roof--without falling four out of five
times. To get to the spot he uses, go N from the Skumole Shack, continue past
the left turn, and turn left into the lot after the 1st building on the left
(the building where HP62 and J4 is--where the Downtown Checkpoint Chopper mis-
sion starts after "G-Spotlight," I.81). You have Tommy make an E to W run and
bump a spot of the low wall of the 2nd terrace/planter thing to the W--aim for a
spot a foot or two left of the palm tree that grows from it. Tommy's motorcycle
may even land on the landing to the left (the one the Downtown Checkpoint Chop-
per appears on).
Another spot to try, but not for beginners, is the gray fence at the N end of
the alley across the street to the N of the "stilt" building (the N end of the
alley used for a runway for J32 and for the last jump of PCJ Playground, except
this time you're going S to N). You have to start a wheelie a bit earlier and
higher for this one. Have Tommy's motorcycle bump a high spot of the gray wood-
en fence just left of the telephone pole and he may end up on the roof of the
beige building N of that.
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/8396/00apullbackjustbeforebump22tg.jpg
Another place to try a bump is at the stack of gray wooden pallets used for
J27. To have Tommy get there, send him up the alley of the 1st blocks along the
E at the SE end of the east island, and you'll see the stack of pallets as he
enters the alley of the 4th block from the S. For J27, you send him N to S, but
for this you send him S to N, have his motorcycle wheelie just before bumping
the top edge of the pallets laying flat, and you may have him end up on the roof
of the several story-high building to the left and N of that. Since it's ramp
used for a Unique Jump, you might also trigger the cinematic effect.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1420/00apullbackjustbeforebump14gg.jpg
You might also try Bumps with the benches around town.
One of the easier ways to do a bump is to have Tommy's motorcycle make a SE to
NW run across the Viceport lot that has a Packer, wheelie before the low ledge
along the sidewalk to hit the top of it with the front wheel, and try for the
roof across the street.
A variation I see in the stunt videos is to put a Rhino, truck, or whatever
vehicle, at the top of a set of steps, or whatever sloped surface, and have Tom-
my's motorcycle do a bump up against it. The Rhino seems to create a strong
bounce and be a popular choice--good luck keeping it from disappearing, though.
Fugitive, at the GTA Place Forums > Grand Theft Auto Gaming > Stunting, ad-
vises that you make the motorcycle wheelie so the front wheel hits the top of
the ledge 1st. For small ledges, wheelie just before the ledge; for higher
ledges, wheelie higher from farther back from the ledge and press Lean Forward
(NP9) upon impact. For a curb bump. wheelie at about 80 degrees so the back of
the motorcycle hits the curb.
http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums/
For a double bump, wheelie at least 45 degrees to hit the sidewalk with the
back of the motorcycle at the time of the 1st bump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7p4pCs49qo
According to Flat Face's and Nitzkit's "Bump Tutorial"s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9lh067bKKc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGVcKAXW4NE
Hit the top of the ledge with the bottom of the front wheel for most bumps.
Wheelie to have the bike at 30-45 degrees for a small bump (such as a one foot
high ledge). If you manage to do it by pulling the wheelie at the last moment
(the Pull Up Late, PUL, method, which doesn't look like you pulled a wheelie),
you can get more height and the same distance.
For a medium height or tall thing (about two feet high, such as the wall at
the edge of the water around Hyman Stadium, or three feet high), wheelie soon
enough to have the bottom of the front tire hit the top of the ledge. An alter-
native (used more often in "San Andreas") is the Wheelie Drop to Bump, WD2B,
method. Fot it, have the motorcycle at about a 30-45 degree angle well before
the bump.
For the thick light poles, have the motorcycle at about 30-45 degrees and be
pulling up when you bump. For a tall wall as on the side of a building, do the
same but have the motorcycle at about 45 to 60 degrees for the bump. If the
motorcycle goes back, lean back to flip rightside up for the landing.
Double Bump
Wheelie so the license plate of the motorcycle scrapes the ground and hits a
curb, then stop pulling back, to bump up a bit to bump off a wall or fence
that's about shoulder height on the other side of the sidewalk.
Nitzkit adds that a Sanchez, at about 60 degrees when it get to the curb, is
good for double bumps, too.
Vehicle Bump
The best vehicles for this kind of bump are the Flatbed (over the gas tank)
and the Rhino (at the door). Do a little wheelie at the bump.
If you have the motorcycle hit the Rhino about halfway up the door, it will
probably bounce backwards. You might have a ramp or bump before the Rhino, or
have the Rhino lower than the runway to it, to be able to bump it higher and fly
forwards.
Natural Bumps
VenomX shows some places to do some natural bumps in his video "Vice City Be-
ginner Stunts."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBewSnIWi5s
- in the Viceport lot with a Packer, go SE to NW and wheelie at the ledge
that runs along the sidewalk. Go over the street and onto the roof.
- in the ground level lot by the stairs of the 1st G Spotlight jump, go S to N
from the street, hit the ledge of the planter, and land on the roof.
- on the last roof of the G Spotlight jumps, go S to N , bump the ledge at the
edge of the roof, go N to the next roof.
- at the Washington Beach police station, go N to S past the low concrete
planter to bump the hedge a few feet from the W end, and land on the roof.
Grinds
They won't be as long as the longest grinds Tony Hawks can do with a skate
board, but can Tony Hawks do a grind with a motorcycle? Ha! I don't know, may-
be he can. That Tony Hawks is pretty talented.
Have Tommy take a PCJ 600 to the Links Bridge, drive slowly at the low white
fence along the inside of one of the sidewalks, and wheelie up across it at a 90
degree angle with the wheels on either side of it--sometimes just the front
wheel, not the front of the midsection of the bike, beyond the far side of it.
Keep the front wheel a bit lower than the back wheel. The bike will spark and
slide along the top, which you can prolong by balancing the bike with NP9 and
NP6.
Thanks to Gav for his Gav's Stunt Guide (v.1) post on the GTA Forums/GTA Vice
City/Gameplay message board for those tips on grinds.
Thanks to Norwegian stunt man of renown Ghostchild for a few more tips and
places to grind:
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/
Ghostchild recommends that you have Tommy lean back before leaning forward
with a grind, and make sure to be careful of balance since a lot of people make
the mistake of having him lean forward too far. Ghostchild also recommends you
have Tommy try the railing of the Links Bridge as a "jump to grind" using a
Packer. Angle the Packer so Tommy can turn from it as he jumps to get a 90 de-
gree angle on the railing.
Some other grinding spots Ghostchild recommends are:
the rail along the walk on the S side of North Point Mall (you can position
the Packer on the street to the W of it for a "jump to grind," too);
down the railing of the stairs from the Downtown roof the Skumole Shack is on;
down a railing of a boarding ramp for the Chartered Libertine Lines ship at
the SE end of the W island;
and a fence reached by having Tommy jump up the steps from the lower landing
at the S side of the Boatyard.
You might see I.100.D.e for how to change column I in handling.cfg to -1 to
take the worry out of landing in water for those last two spots.
According to Willzyyy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uj4RmgQrZk
Approach the rail or fence with a high wheelie, slow down and turn toward it
to put the front wheel over it. Once on the rail or fence, don't accelerate.
Just lean backward, then forward and backward repeatedly for balance with the
front wheel lower than the back wheel when you lean forward.
You might have Tommy try a "jump to grind" from the gray wooden pallet ramp to
the fence behind Sunshine Autos (like I saw in the stunt video "The 4 Horse-
men"), try a "jump to grind" to the fence in front of the Downtown fire station,
jump from a Packer in the construction area to grind on the inner rail of the
Starfish Island Bridge, grind on the rail along the coast of the S side of the
land that sticks out S of the Starfish Island Bridge, grind down the rail of the
stairs in the middle of the main room of the mansion, or try a grind with a car,
too.
Stunt videos
Once you know some of the basics of doing stunts, you can get a lot of ideas
for specific applications for them from watching stunt videos, and might enjoy
just watching them, too.
You can check out Ghostchild's stunt videos, such as his contributions to "The
Heroes Return," and the videos of many other stunt people, including the two
videos mentioned in the Cabbie Climb section ("Off Duty" and "Off Duty 2" by
Busted Joypad Films), at the Ghostchildren web site "Grand Theft Auto Forums"
(not to be confused with "GTA Forums"):
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/
You can also look for Ghostchild at the Fileplanet web site.
He and his web site tipped me to other stuntmen, such as Nitzkit, Kaneda, Neo
Anderson, and Darkness, too. To enjoy some of their stunts in "The Four Horse-
men," "5ive" with GTA Fanatic, and others, you can also go to the video section
for "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" at the Planet Grand Theft Auto web site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2pWfuIiIaU
You might also try http://www.filefront.com/ Then go to "Grand Theft Auto:
Vice City," "Media," "Videos and Trailers," and see hundreds of choices. You
can also put "Nitzkit," of the best backwards stoppie, or the name of whomever
you like, in the search engine. I thought "Ignition," a recent one he took part
in with Kaneda, Madmax, and Neo Anderson, was pretty good. There's a good one
by a lady named enid, if with a feminism chip on her shoulder, called "foxylit-
tlething." You might also put "Liberty City" or "San Andreas" in the search en-
gine and keep clicking "Next" at the bottom to see the next 15 video choices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjOdvjERZsA
You may find them and others, such as the ATS (Addicted To Stunting)/TS (Ter-
ror Squad) all star collaboration of Urban Legend, GTA Fanatic, Nitzkit, Neo An-
derson, Matt, Darkness, Kaneda, Madmax, and ZeroX in "Fusion" at:
http://www.gtastunting.net/forums/index.php?act=idx
Another place to try is The GTA Place Forums > Grand Theft Auto Gaming >
Stunting.
http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums/index.php?showforum=67
The Dark Army web site, and their popular and highly acclaimed videos like
"Extinction" and "Hatred," can be found at:
http://darkarmy.5.forumer.com/index.php?act=idx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTOvgGe5OSk
You might enjoy looking into the work of young Australian Barney and Nebras-
ka's Andy aka GTA Fanatic.
In an interview at planetgrandtheftauto, they gave some advice on doing air-
grabs, which they say were invented by Mike of AMPT and made their debut in "Ar-
mageddon." They listed some of the videos they've made--"Pulse" by Barney,
"Liberate" by GTA Fanatic--and some of their favorites by others like "Decan's
Auto Stunt Reel" by d8cam, "Stunt'd" by Phil Harrison, "Armageddon" and "Arma-
geddon 2: Liberty City" by Mike, and "Vice City Tribute" (the edited version is
at the 2nd You Tube link below) and "Vice City: Miss This" by the Grand Theft
Auto Online Community (featuring Cerbera, who figures prominently in the modding
section at I.100.D.e).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-soGcFOEWU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdB_OsiOlgE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRq9iVy_6xw
Since then, Barney is aka Kemical, and he and GTA Fanatic have worked with
ATS. GTA Fanatic contributed stunts for "5ive" and edited and did stunts for
the ATS/Terror Squad collaboration "Fusion," which I thought was good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxXhlSEiXlU
Barney, Brainkiller (TMS crew), and BloodyHook (TS crew) have a batch of good
stunts in "BBB," 2006, edited by Barney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0AL-WMLy5k
BloodyHook, Brainkiller, Daffy, Kabanchik, Lord Peres, Neo, NightKnight, Nitz-
kit, and WEREWOLF make a formidable team effort with "Aetas," 2006, edited by
DafFy!. (The download link is on the right side of the page at the 2nd link be-
low.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmu86aznTuA
http://www.own-age.com/vids/video.aspx?id=8183
"Interlocked" is a 2007 community stunt video from gtastunting. Kaneda's
sideways drive through the tunnel made me laugh. The Daffy and Plumpegg Cabbie
Climbs were good--I have to get one to go that high. Dannye's loop through the
burning loop was good, too. All star stunting. Everybody: cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQkXnBqf67M
"Super Mario in Vice City" by Southern Finest and Hazzard provides hours and
hours of good clean stunting fun for the whole family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNUa3Uz5sec
"Lagoon" by Brulla, Samurai, Kaneda, Dannye, MadMax, and Neo Anderson shows a
variety of stunts that are possible without using a PCJ 600, Taxi, or Cabbie.
Even the little Caddy gets an FBI Rancher bump from behind to a roof from the
Prawn Island fountain, it lands nose down on a bridge support, Tommy leaps from
the Squalo II to a lighthouse window, there's a Police Maverick bump (that must
be hard to place), a Prawn Island Packer to wallride, etc.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=faafwvHtZKQ
A bunch of jumps that are often overlooked
Get a long runway, keep going W instead of doing the beginner's Bump recom-
mended by Ghostchild in the section on Bumps (in the lot of the Downtown office
building used for "G-Spotlight"), go up the gray ramp at the W end of the lot,
over the roof, and land on the roof across the street.
Go S to N and do a wheelie just before hitting the 1st palm tree S of the
mostly-square lot that's S of the mostly-square bay S of Hyman Memorial Stadium.
From SE of the crease in the grass that runs SE from the end of the concrete
sea wall SE of Hyman Memorial Stadium, go NE, along the crease, across the
mostly-square lot, and do a wheelie just before hitting the ramp in the grass by
the low wall. Go over the mostly-square bay into the parking lot, possibly onto
the porch roof, of Hyman Memorial Stadium.
(This is number 11 of "Some favorite spots for big Insane Jump statistics"
given below.) Start your run at the far NW end of an empty lot--the entrance is
a small alley W of the Downtown Schuman Health Care Center and N of the Lovefist
concert building. Go through the lot and alley, cross the street, and wheelie
at the grass that makes a slope up to the side of the building, turning left so
Tommy flies up onto the roof of the Schuman Health Care Center. You can do the
last G-Spotlight jumps from there.
Go E to W on the street the Greasy Chopper is on, turn S to cross the street,
and wheelie at the grass that slopes up to the concrete wall. Use a left turn
and hit it at an angle, turned a bit S, and Tommy can revolve before continuing
S.
Go S to N in the front lot of the Downtown fire station, go W around the far
end of the building, go N to S behind the station, do a wheelie as you get to
the gray ramp, go over the street onto a roof, then go over the slant on the
roof to land in the yard beyond.
As an alternative, go slower and turn right going over the gray ramp behind
the fire station, go through the lot to the right of the building ahead instead
of landing on it, and do a wheelie at the mound of grass at the end of the lot
to go over the white stone fence. You can add this to the next example to make
it six in a row.
Four in a row: you can go S over the concrete ramp at the S end of the back
yard of the Moist Palms Hotel, Downtown, onto the cobblestone walk;
go W, S, then E into the alley around the back of Phil's Place; turn N, E,
and S and go over the slope of dirt piled against a low wall;
immediately turn W into the front entrance of Phil's Place, go a bit N, do a
180 degree turn, and go S to jump using the large pile of black stuff;
continue S across the lot and over a pile of dirt sloped against a low wall;
and continue in the direction of traffic.
Go E to W into Phil's Place and do a wheelie against the tires piled against
his trailer.
From the alley on the N side of the Little Haiti pizza store, go E to W over
the small set of steps at the N side of Rough 'n' Ready Streetwear into the Hai-
tian gangster's processing plant (the jump described in the section on "Trojan
Voodoo," I.98). Use the stairs on the S end to leave.
From behind the Little Havana Streetwear store, begin the rooftop jumps of
Unique Jump 8 but turn left, just before the Unique Jump, onto the pane of in-
visible stuff (I.3) over the lot of trees.
Go N to S and do a wheelie just before hitting the slanted palm tree NW of the
W end of the Starfish Island Bridge in Little Havana.
Go W to E in the alley N of the lawn of Sunshine Autos and wheelie just before
going a bit left over the wooden ramp and land on one of the roofs of ramps.
Turn around and use one of the ramps to leave.
Go E to W in the alley N of the lawn of Sunshine Autos, cross the street,
and wheelie just before hitting the grass that slopes up to a fence.
Go E to W from the lawn of the Hooker Inn, cross the street, go over the slope
in the grass and the roofs of the row houses and continue on the street.
Make an E to W run from the grass by the ship and the gates of Viceport and do
a little wheelie before hitting the slope of grass by a palm tree N of the Pay
'n' Spray (spot number 8 given below as a good place for big Insane Stunt sta-
tistics). You may shoot up the tree or, if you get lucky aiming for a spot just
S of it and turning a bit left, land on the roof beyond it.
From the back of the lot across the street to the W of the Viceport Pay 'n'
Spray (the N end of the lot that 8 Ball's Bomb Shop is in--the one where "Cabma-
geddon" takes place), go SE along the road and hit the front of the steps on the
right at the end of the 2nd block. Try not to crash into the truck and trailers
beyond them. As the jump at the low yellow marker by the airport radar building
shows, a little ramp can help make a big jump if you give it enough runway.
The N to S jump over the ramp at the W side of the N airport terminal--the
"Ghost World Headquarters" described in I.9.G. You can veer left, land on the
road, and go up the sloped embankment to the left of it to make a double jump of
it.
Unique Jump 31 (I.26), from the roof of the Ocean Beach parking garage, can be
continued S for two more roofs and onto the street.
Go E to W across Washington Beach and wheelie just before hitting the slanted
palm tree that hangs over the sidewalk. The tree is across the street to the SE
of the SE corner of the Vice Point police station.
After you do Unique Jump 36 into Interglobal Film Studios, try to wheelie just
before using the roof vent that slants away from you as another jump.
The four ways to jump into Leaf Links described in I.18.
If you'd like a way to go to the street from the Starfish Island mansion on a
PCJ 600 other than by using the front gate, you can start a run at the SW corner
of the front yard, go NE up the slope in the grass, and over the low wall to the
street.
Insane Jumps and Insane Stunts
As noted in I.7--Stats, Unique Jumps are the 36 jumps you need to do for 100%
completion.
Insane Jumps, which can coincide with them, are measured in distance, height,
flips, and rotation; a big score in one category is an Insane Stunt, in two is a
Double Insane Stunt, etc. (though I've never heard of anyone getting a Quadruple
Insane). The "GTA III" "perfect" insane award for landing on all four wheels
isn't used in "Vice City."
My 1st choice for them would be the PCJ 600, but you can get good results with
a sports car like the Cheetah.
Morphing
According to the Merriam-Webster Online web site, METAMORPHOSE suggests an
abrupt or startling change induced by or as if by magic or a supernatural power
<awkward girls metamorphosed into graceful ballerinas>.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metamorphose
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=transform
Morphing Tommy to his PCJ 600 ensures that he won't fall off his bike when go-
ing for Insane Stunt statistics. Have Tommy park the bike so an outfit pickup
rotates about halfway into his right side and bike. Have him get off the bike
and back on by pressing F twice. The screen blacks out, and when it comes back
on, if you did it right, Tommy will seem to be standing and straddling his bike.
Hit F again to get him unmorphled.
Controls for Tommy morphed to a bike
Left Shift....Forward
Space Bar....Reverse
A....Left
D....Right
W....Lean forward
S....Lean back
Tab....change radio stations
I like F1 for Replays of Insane Stunts, too.
C....Crouch looks different since he crouches into the body of the bike.
I would use my left thumb for Space Bar, the 1st left two fingers for A and D,
and the left pinky for Left Shift; I reach in with the 1st two right fingers for
W and S.
You can fire a submachine gun with the LMB, but it changes him back to normal,
with him appearing morphed occasionally in a glitchy way, and the controls go
back to normal.
You can morph him to a hog, including the one I suggest you take from "Alloy
Wheels of Steel," although the bottoms of his legs go into the ground like a
ghost's. You can also morph him to a Caddy with the Golf Club outfit that's at
Leaf Links after "Four Iron." Then it looks surprisingly like a scene out of
the 1960-1966 TV cartoon show "The Flintstones."
You can also morph Tommy to a Stinger, a Stallion without a roof, a Comet, or
a Sea Sparrow. (Thanks to ViCeCiTyPlAyEr5's tip about the cars, and Kevin War-
ner's tip about the helicopter, at the Gamewinners web site.)
http://www.gamewinners.com/
But you get the best stunt results using a PCJ 600.
Whether with a morphed Tommy or as in the Insane Stunts done with a sports car
in "GTA III," you get the best results by ramming him into something. (I think
going for an Insane Stunt this way best points out why they're called Insane
Stunts. It would normally be insane to do such things just to see if you could
get more flips or rotation.)
Be ready to press Esc, type "aspirine," and press Esc again when the bike
starts smoking.
Outfit locations
Outfit pickups get rid of a wanted rating up to two stars, but I recommend you
try to just use it for one star to minimize how much bigger Wanted Stars At-
tained gets than those Evaded (see I.7). It will also change how Tommy appears
in the cutscenes. But I'd mainly want them for morphing. You have to make Tom-
my drive at the door and bail, so the cycle goes in the door and Tommy has to go
in after it, to get a cycle into the Ocean View or Malibu Club to use the out-
fits inside them for morphing.
The Street outfit is at the Ocean View Hotel, Hyman Condo, and the Mansion af-
ter "The Party" (I.17.C)--$50.
The Soiree outfit is at Rafael's--S end of the east island, two blocks from
the E and the 2nd block from the S, on the NW corner of the block--after "The
Party" (I.17.C)--$100.
The Coveralls outfit is on the 1st floor of the SW side of North Point Mall in
the tool store after "Riot" (I.37)--$80.
The Golf Club outfit is in front of Leaf Links after "Four Iron" (I.38)--$40.
The Little Havana outfit is in Little Havana Streetwear--cross the Starfish
Island bridge to the west island, go right, go left, go right, and it's on the
left--after "Two Bit Hit" (I.78)--$70.
The Police Uniform outfit is in the locker room--the 1st room on the left--in
the Washington Beach Police Station after "Cop Land" (I.61)--$90.
The Bank Job outfit is in the 2nd floor office you get at the Malibu Club af-
ter "The Job" (I.75). $120.
The Casual outfit is at the 2nd floor door of the Gash clothes store in the
middle of the S end of North Point Mall after "Treacherous Swine" (I.40)--$120.
The Mr. Vercetti outfit is at Collars & Cuffs (S end of the east island, 2nd
block from the E and 2nd block from the S, on the NE corner of the building) af-
ter the Pole Position Club mission (I.94)--$30.
The Tracksuit outfit that's maroon with yellow stripes is in the doorway of
the Little Havana laundromat from the start of the game. To get there, cross
the Starfish Island bridge to the west island, go right, then left, then right,
then left, and it's just past the corner ahead on the right--$50.
The Tracksuit that's black is at the Downtown Jocksport after "Supply & De-
mand" (I.51). Go S from the W end of the Hyman Condo alley, continue straight
past the left turn, and it's among some stores set back away from the road on
the right--$100.
The Frankie outfit is in the office on the 2nd floor of the mansion after you
get 100% for the game (I.99). Since it's a variation of the Casual outfit, it's
$120.
Some favorite spots for big Insane Jump statistics
1. The fountain in the middle of Prawn Island.
Go from the end of the road that goes S from it, or, for greater speed, from
the Downtown area across the bridge to the W of it (I once jumped over the roof
of the house behind the fountain starting my run there). Aim for the statue in
the middle and into the fountain. Give it a wheelie, S, and a left or right
twist, A or D, just before impact.
If he ends up on someone's 2nd floor balcony, keep driving around doing wheel-
ies at corners and such to get him out.
You'll get your statistics and a Triple Insane in no time.
"Prawn Island Fountain Jumps"--GTA Pittsburgh presents a film by Glen T.
Winstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ_Drf07v5Q
This file (49.37 MB) can be downloaded from filefront:
http://files.filefront.com/VCPrawnIslandFountainJumpswmv/;8894195;/fileinfo.html
You can download it or any of my other filefront video files at:
http://hosted.filefront.com/glenster/
This is the most popular spot, unless it's:
2. The mound of dirt sloped up to the curved edge of the broken wire fence at
the wall by the channel E of the E end of the bridge from Starfish Island to the
east island.
Drive E from the E end of the Starfish Island Bridge, and turn right into the
lot before you get to the little bridge. Aim for the mound of dirt (which is
Unique Jump 22) at the wall by the channel, and hit the upward curve of the
fence right at the right side of opening. You might want to inspect it with
Tommy on foot 1st to see just what you're shooting for--the sweet spot is nar-
row. Again, give it a wheelie and maybe a twist as you do, but you also want
enough forward momentum to get over the river.
Though you might want to start farther W on the Starfish Island Bridge to
build up more speed, you don't want to go out of control by going too fast or by
making the right turn too soon into the lot. You can smack into something or
bump a curb and spin out if you're not careful.
Save the game before trying this because there is a risk of drowning. But
when you hit the sweet spot, Tommy flies up like he was shot out of a cannon.
"Vice City Broken Fence Jump" (a brief demonstration video I made)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S0V70R9nlY
You can download this file (26.15 MB) from filefront:
http://files.filefront.com/VCBrokenFenceJumpwmv/;8894584;/fileinfo.html
You can download it or any of my other filefront video files at:
http://hosted.filefront.com/glenster/
This is the most popular spot, unless it's:
3. The slat of wood propped up against the corner of the top floor of the
North Point Mall parking garage.
Try to nick the wall a bit as you go over. Again, give it a wheelie and a
twist for flavoring.
4. The helipad on the roof of the Hyman Condo.
Go E to W, nick a post, etc., on the way over, and shoot for a place that lets
you get more flips in a longer fall downwards.
5. Oncoming heavy vehicles.
Normally, Tommy can wheelie and ramp off the front of oncoming sport cars with
low slanted engine hoods. When morphed, he gets better results with SUVs and
trucks--he might spin beyond 1,000 degrees.
6. The middle palm tree trunk behind the concrete ramp in the NW corner of the
yard behind the Moist Palms Hotel. The hotel is along the main N and S road at
the S end of the Downtown area.
7. The grass slope from the sidewalk up to the fence that's across the street
to the W of Sunshine Autos--the section of slope and fence N of Sunshine Autos
is usually used.
Start your runway N of it, across the intersection on a little concrete area
in front of a store, or get a long runway starting beyond the intersection to
the S.
Four more good spots pointed out by Gav's Stunt Guide (v.1) post at the GTA
Forums web site under GTA Vice City--Gameplay, relayed here with his kind per-
mission:
8. This spot lets you jump a tree with a little more snazz than the ways de-
scribed a few paragraphs above. From the lawn by the ship by the gates of Vice-
port, make a SE to NW run and do a little wheelie just before hitting the slope
of grass by a palm tree (similar to the Prawn Island fountain set up--#1) just N
of the Pay 'n' Spray. You may shoot up the tree or, if you get lucky aiming for
a spot just S of it and using a little left turn, land on the roof beyond it.
9. Go S on the W sidewalk from the intersection by the W end of the Hyman Con-
do alley and smack the fat traffic light post with a little wheelie. Go slower
than you might for a telephone pole or hope you have the post disassemble before
the bike just right.
10. The slanted edge of the low white wall, at the S side of a broken-open
part of the wall, at the N side of a curve in the road (by North Point Mall) at
the E end of the North Bridge from the east island to Prawn Island.
From a spot a block and a half S of the sloped wall edge, go N on the E side
of the road and hit the slanted wall edge with a little wheelie.
11. The NW section of the grass that slopes up to the wall of the upper lot
that goes around the front of the building that's one door S of Schuman Health
Care, which is at the intersection S of the W end of the condo alley.
Go W to E in the alley and lot S and W of the VROCK building (which is across
the street to the W of Schuman Health Care Center), go a bit SE across the
street, and either
- go up the slope of grass with a stone wall on top of it--use a left turn and
a wheelie to try to fly NE onto the roof of the Schuman Health Care Center (the
location of a "G-Spotlight" jump), or
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http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/8429/00gta1jumpvc2sz1.jpg
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- wheelie up the slanted NW edge of the stone wall that goes around the lower
lot of the building that's one door S of Schuman Health Care Center (good luck
with your landing).
Just a reminder: if you want an astronomical score for rotations, try the PC
super jump described above.
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I.9.D Helicopters, the Skimmer, the jets, and the flying Rhino
The worst criminal destruction in Vice City
Controls for the helicopters
A run down of all the helicopters
including the real names and speeds of the helicopters
and how many passengers Tommy can take in each of them for rides
Some notable things about helicopters
The game physics of following helicopters with the "camera"
and moving them forward with NP9
Bailing from helicopters
Getting a good look at the big guy
Controls for The Skimmer
The real names and speeds of the Dodo and the Skimmer
Loop de loops
Flying the Skimmer upside down
Dodo emeritus
Dodo ephemeralis
The real names of the solid motionless jets
The real name of the solid, motionless lunar module
The real name of the solid, motionless UFO
The real (and handling.cfg) names of the flying non-solid vehicles
How to (hi)jack the Hunter
How to fly the Rhino
The worst criminal destruction in Vice City
The Skimmer, the Dodo pulling a "Zombie Elvis Found" sign, and the helicopters
are the only things in the game you can destroy and get 30 points in your CRimi-
nal Ratings for; everything else is worth one point. The only way to destroy
the Dodo is with a rocket from the Hunter.
Controls for the helicopters
W....Up
S....Down
Number Pad 9....Forward (pulse to go forward in dips and raises)
Number Pad 6....Backward (rears up and back, good for stopping and
reversing)
A....Bank left
D....Bank Right
E....Pivot right
Q....Pivot left
Left Shift....Brake (halts horizontal movement; thanks to spaceeinstein)
F....(Enter or) Exit
Left Mouse Button....Fire rockets (Hunter)
Space Bar or Right Mouse Button....Fire Sea Sparrow or Hunter machine gun
with a bit of auto aim; the Hunter machine gun has more auto aim during "Brown
Thunder"
Caps Lock....Activate/cancel vigilante mission--a Sub-mission (Hunter)
R or Mouse Wheel up....Change radio station (except VCN, Vice City News,
or VCPD, Vice City Police Department, helicopters, which get police calls on the
radio)
Q and E or Middle Mouse Button....Look behind (in the 1st person view,
look down)
Again, for all vehicles I like:
V....View (I like the mid-distance back view, but some prefer the 1st per-
son view; the multi-view is fun to play with if you pick a place with lots of
space ahead of you)
F1....Instant Replay
Again, typing "aspirine" will heal any vehicle Tommy is within.
A good gimmick with NP6 is to use it to avoid something when you try to fly
fast--close to the surface of things. When you realize you misjudged your path
and are about to fly into the top of something, use NP6 to point the nose up--
the copter will go in that direction and over the obstacle. Then continue with
NP9.
NP6 with Q or E is similar to a braking turn for a land vehicle, and looks
kind of cool, too.
Holding A or D for a big banking turn looks cool, too. Wait for the teardrop-
shaped icon on your in-game radar to point at the place you want to go, then
continue with NP9.
Remember that the horizontal traffic light posts are non-solid; it's the ver-
tical ones you need to avoid. Once the vertical ones, and lamp posts, are
knocked horizontal, they're non-solid.
The horizontal posts with signs that give the names of bridges and neighbor-
hoods are non-solid at either end of the Links Bridge, Starfish Island Bridges,
and Prawn Island (not the North Bridge signs, though).
Likewise, the leaves are non-solid; it's the tree trunks you want to avoid.
It may not come up often as a game strategy, but you can use NP9 to tip the
blades forward at pedestrians, possibly flinging them high in the air. Doing it
a lot while laughing maniacally with a therapist in the room is not recommended.
Use V to get the 1st person view from a helicopter then rotate it with Q and E
to see the rotating moon effect (thanks to Rusk's guide).
See section I.18 for various ways to get past the barricades that prevent you
from getting to the west island at the beginning of the game if you want to get
to a chopper early on.
A run down of all the helicopters
including the real names and speeds of the helicopters
and how many passengers Tommy can take in each of them for rides
I used Spookie's Speedometer mod to determine the speed of the helicopters.
Like the Skimmer, the helicopters are faster going down and slower going up.
Unlike the Skimmer, helicopters can't maintain speed or accelerate at a constant
altitude--you have to keep making dips and raises with them to do that. While
making these swoops, the speed will keep going up and down, and I'd report the
point in the middle, the average, as the speed of the helicopter. They each had
a top speed while maintaining a general altitude for these swoops. For each,
you could see that going 10 mph faster than that would cause the helicopter to
keep flying lower until it couldn't do it anymore without crashing.
What I've decided to do is give the top speed of the helicopter that allowed
it to maintain a general altitude.
Sea Sparrow/Sparrow
The Sea Sparrow appears behind the mansion on the SE side of Starfish Island
after you get 80 hidden packages. It's easy to fly, has a machine gun with a
little auto-aim, plays music on the radio, and has pontoons so it will float on
water. You might practice using the gun by destroying boats, which is noted in
your Stats. As Rusk notes, the auto-aim "...allows the gun to lock-on to vari-
ous targets near the center of the screen regardless of whether you see the tar-
get or not." It provides Tommy with some airborne distance from which to shoot
a machine gun with some auto-aim, so it's obviously helpful for certain mis-
sions.
It's also useful for flying up into the ceiling of the WK Chariot Hotel to en-
ter Ghost World (I.9.G), because if you leave by flying up through the surface
of the water you can land on it.
The Sea Sparrow seats two, which comes into play in the game if you use it for
"Death Row," "Bar Brawl," or "Cop Land," in choosing it over the Hunter. The
Hunter just seats one--the pilot.
You can get one passenger with the "hopingirl" code.
Sea Sparrow: Bell 47G (Army: H-13, OH-13D, and OH-13E; Navy/Marines: HTL-4)
helicopter with pontoons 95 mph; at 100 mph, it descends very slowly.
http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/419/00gta1bell47g3pl.jpg
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/seasparrow.jpg
A Bell 47D-1, an earlier model, is suspended for viewers as an example of ex-
cellence in design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
(For the 1st link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the
address bar.)
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/socialdiary/2004/12_17_04/socialdiar
y12_17_04.php
http://cellmath.med.utoronto.ca/B47/bell_of_month/bom_sp_Sep99.html
There are also four Checkpoint Chopper mission Sparrows with rails on the bot-
tom without the pontoons. Three appear after "Rub Out" (I.53) and the 4th after
"G Spotlight" (I.81). The rails make it easy to shove one from the front to
slide it into a garage. The PS2 Pay 'n' Spray gimmick to give one wheels won't
work for the PC version, but the method of blowing a bunch of them up with the
"bigbang" code, to go for the "Godfather" CRiminal Rating, works.
http://www.helispot.com/heli/type/0000028
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/sparrow.jpg
The Hunter
The Hunter appears at the N end of Fort Baxter, at the N end of the tip of
land that juts up on the W side of the west island N of the airport, after you
get 100 hidden packages or complete "Keep Your Friends Close." It also appears
on the helipad at the S end of the east island after you both collect 100 hidden
packages and complete "Keep Your Friends Close."
It's the easiest to use for the vigilante mission, and, along with the Rhino,
for raising your CRiminal Rating and Highest media attention level. Learn to
use the auto-aim machine gun without needing to go down between lamp posts and
all and bang it up. It's durable, but use "aspirine" if it starts smoking.
It plays music on the radio, too, even though you can use it for Vigilante
missions.
Use "aspirine" if it starts smoking.
It's a single seat vehicle, so the "hopingirl" code won't work for it.
Hunter: Hughes/McDonnell Douglas AH-64A Apache '84-'86 140 mph.
(For the 2nd link, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the
address bar.)
http://www.1000pictures.com/view.htm?caircraft/helos+fapache1.jpg+x496+y350
http://www.1000pictures.com/view.htm?caircraft/helos+fiaf-mag-calen
dar-jan2004.jpg+x1024+y768
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/hunter.jpg
(Hughes Helicopters, during 1984, became a subsidiary of the McDonnell Douglas
Corporation.)
http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resources/dft_avsafety_pdf_032620.pdf
This U.S. Army AAH (Advanced Attack Helicopter) includes a 30mm XM-230E1 auto-
matic cannon firing 750 rounds, and 16 Hellfire antitank missiles or seventy-six
2.75 inch rockets beneath the stub wings.
http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/mcdonnel_apache-r.html
In real life, the Apache has a crew of two and a top speed of 184 mph.
http://www.military.cz/usa/air/in_service/helicopters/ah64/ah64_en.htm
VCN Maverick/VCPD Maverick
The VCN (Vice City News) Maverick and VCPD (Vice City Police Department) Mav-
erick helicopters are atop helipads on buildings in the Downtown area of the
west island from the start of the game.
For the VCN chopper, go across the bridge from Prawn Island to the west is-
land. The VCN building is on the N side of the road just past the bridge. Have
Tommy go in the door and he's transported to the roof by the base of the heli-
pad.
The VCN Maverick is the passenger helicopter that handles the most like the RC
Copter of I.30. It can easily curl forward or bank more than you want it to, so
you get the best results if you stop short of that in directing the movement of
it.
There's a back seat but no access to it, so you can only get one passenger
with the "hopingirl" code.
VCN Maverick: Bell 206 or 206B-3 Jet Ranger '86 110 mph.
(I used the 1st link because it's for WTVT of Tampa, but I think it's a
206L-4.)
http://www.helispot.com/heli/type/0000010
http://www.helispot.com/heli/type/0000012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_206
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/3571/00gta1vcnmaverick7eq3.jpg
http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/7329/00gta1vcnmaverick6hdp6.jpg
For the VCPD (vice City Police Department) chopper, go W from the W end of the
bridge from Prawn Island to the west island, take the 1st left, then take the
1st left, The police station is on the left. Go left into the lot and up the
stairs to the helipad.
It's a four-door, so you can get three passengers in it with the "hopingirl"
code.
VCPD Maverick: Bell 206L-4 except without the little wings 110 mph.
http://www.helispot.com/heli/type/0000017
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_206
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/vcpdmaverick.jpg
The VCPD Maverick you can see patrolling over Vice City generally flies at 60
mph (the same as the Dodo).
Maverick
A Maverick will appear on the helipad on the roof of the mansion after you
take it and of the Hyman Condo after you buy it.
It's a four-door, so you can get three passengers with the "hopingirl" code.
Maverick: Bell 206L-4 LongRanger except without the little wings (and isn't
that a good Hendrix tune? No, no, no....) 100 mph. At 10 mph faster, it
moved slowly toward the ground.
http://www.helispot.com/heli/type/0000017
http://www.bellhelicopter.textron.com/en/aircraft/commercial/bell206L-4.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_206
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/maverick.jpg
If you get three passengers with the "hopingirl" code, the two in the back
seat will merge into one person. I had to laugh when I saw an interesting look-
ing older businessman back there once as a result of that; as best I can remem-
ber, he was in a gray suit and dark tie with a brunette lady's red shorts above
dark stockings and garters. When they get out, they divide into two people
again.
Some notable things about the helicopters
The game physics of following helicopters with the "camera" and moving them
forward with NP9.
My theory for the problem the biggest (the Hunter) and smallest (RC) helicop-
ters have with the "camera" (your point of view) is that the same game physics
that determine the ability of the "camera" to swerve to stay behind one was used
for all the helicopters. It works the best for mid-size copters. A little turn
of either RC copter creates a big arc behind it for the "camera" to follow,
which is partly what can make them difficult to fly (see I.30). And the Hunter
is the biggest, so the "camera" movement for it is too sluggish.
Unfortunately, though it has the ability to fire rockets and has more auto-aim
for its machine gun than the Sea Sparrow has, the Hunter is far and away the
worst of the helicopters at keeping the "camera" behind it aimed in the direc-
tion Tommy is looking. If you like the mid-distance back view as much as I do,
expect to spend time patiently cajoling the "camera" into swerving back there
with NP9 or pressing V a handful of times. Otherwise, your target will be un-
seen while the "camera" lingers on the front or side of the Hunter a lot.
Thanks to spaceeinstein for reminding me that if you tap Q and E to make the
"camera" look behind for a moment, the "camera" will then aim ahead again. It
won't stay that way if the helicopter is turning, but it's the best you can do.
The auto-aim goes some way toward making up for it, but some prefer the 1st
person view as a remedy. The drawback to the 1st person view is being a lot
less able to see, and safely maneuver in, the area around the helicopter. You
could also just fly the Sea Sparrow instead.
I think the same may be true for other aspects of helicopter control as well,
which is why the RC copters oversteer when you have them pivot and a heavier
helicopter has an unfortunate degree of momentum for drift when you're trying to
fix your position.
For the RC copters, the RC Goblin ("Demolition Man") and especially the RC
Copter (RC Raider)--their handling.cfg file names--do your best to restrict
their movement to look like that of a medium-sized helicopter.
The ability to hold NP9 to go forward before the nose of the helicopter points
too far downward is an exception in that the size of the helicopter seems to
have nothing to do with it. The "Demolition Man" RC copter is very good at it
and the "RC Raider" RC copter is terrible at it. The Sea Sparrow and regular
Sparrows are good at it and the various Mavericks, especially the VCN Maverick,
aren't. NP9 and the Hunter will get you somewhere quickly but it isn't as easy
to maneuver the "camera" for the Hunter once you get there.
See "I.100.D.eee Helicopters--How to make the RC Copter easier to fly" if
you'd like to change the datahandling.cfg file and make it a little easier to
fly the helicopter that's the hardest to control.
Bailing from helicopters
You can bail from choppers, but sometimes I have to press F more than once to
get Tommy to do it, which is a little harrying if the chopper's on fire at the
time--he doesn't always do it before the explosion.
Bailing as the chopper is landing to hurry things up doesn't work sometimes
till the chopper is on the ground--press S.
Bailing while the chopper is in the air seems to require that the chopper is
going forward fast enough--press NP9. The best way to learn how fast is to
practice, and you might use a wide open area at the airport for that.
So if Tommy is in a helicopter and it catches on fire, you have a few choices,
whichever you think you can do the fastest: type "aspirine," press S to get it
firmly on the ground (without blowing it up by banging it on the ground) and
press F, press NP9 a few times rapidly to get the copter going fast enough for F
to work, or reload the game.
Getting a good look at the big guy
A helicopter is a good way to view the lights on the front of the WK Chariot
outline a giant c**k and balls, with periodic squirts out of the roof, between
23:00 (11 pm) and midnight (see I.13). I once used "hopingirl" to get a hooker
in a chopper and she rocked it at a slow rhythm while airborne doing this, but
when I tried it again, it didn't work; it's probably not a glitch you can plan.
The Squirt ad is on Callegg's delicatessen, though.
Controls for The Skimmer
W....Forward
S....Backward (in water;
in air, it decreases speed faster than by releasing W alone)
A....Left
D....Right
Number Pad 6....Up
Number Pad 9....Down
Q....Look Left
E....Look Right
Q+E or Middle Mouse Button....Look Behind
F....(Enter or) Exit
R or Mouse Wheel Up....Change radio station.
You fly it like a bike except that when you lean back you take off.
As always, I like to use V to watch it fly with the multi-view sometimes when
there's enough room ahead to do it without wrecking, but it can be fun to try
otherwise, too. It probably won't catch on fire and explode even if you crash
land unless it lands on its back or you do it over and over.
It can have a hard time trying to take off going against the waves. If that
happens, turn it to take off in the direction of the crests of the waves.
Keep the frame limiter on or the Skimmer won't be able to take off from the
water.
The Skimmer doesn't attract passengers with the hooker trick or the "hopin-
girl" code, I guess because it's part boat and you can only have Tommy enter or
exit it by pressing F for the magic transportation act you can use to have him
enter boats.
The real names and speeds of the Dodo and the Skimmer
Dodo: Cessna 150, called a 152 since 1978. It's a single pilot small plane
prior to having the wings clipped in Liberty City. You can't fly it, and you're
punished with a three star wanted rating if you shoot it with a rocket from the
Hunter for 30 CRiminal Rating points. 60 mph.
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http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/5335/00gta1planetowingamdsign4fy.jpg
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2117/00gta1planetowingabanner1ty.jpg
http://www.aviation-central.com/private_planes/apb00.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_150
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_152
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/592/00gta1dodobyskimmer54qd.jpg
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/2891/00gta1dodovc1c2sa.jpg
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/9242/00gta1dodovc2c0iw.jpg
"GTA III" Dodo:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8978/00gta1dodoiii1ig.jpg
Controls for the Dodo:
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/122/00gta1dodocontrols9ub.jpg
Skimmer: Cessna 150 on floats. (A Dodo with pontoons and improved handling.)
Flying at a constant altitude, it has a top speed of 116 mph. The speed in-
creases if it dives and decreases if it climbs.
http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/9287/00gtacessna150onfloats6im.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/838/00gta1skimmer9vd.jpg
http://www.seaplanes.org/cgi-bin/forum/displaymsg.cgi?thread=2897%26ts=1
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1079/00gta1skimmervc90pr.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2134/00gta1skimmervc0xc.jpg
The little Skimmer appears behind the film studio--S of the E end of the
bridge from Prawn Island to the west island--after you succeed at the "Dildo Do-
do" mission (I.79).
I like it a lot. It's a lot easier to fly than you might think at 1st from
the flying test you're thrown right into in "Dildo Dodo." It's also a lot easi-
er to fly than the Dodo with clipped wings in "GTA III."
The Liberty City Dodo can be seen, with full wings, pulling a "Zombie Elvis
Found" sign behind it in Vice City, but you can't fly it and nobody explains how
the ends of the wings get lopped off later.
Loop de loops
Try to swoop beneath bridges and through the Starfish Island Bridge road
arches with it. If you make progressively bigger dips with it, you can then get
a side view with Q or E and hold Number Pad 6 and see it do a back flip loop de
loop. Do this over water so it won't wreck if it flies too low. Get a strong
swoop going 1st because it can still stall out and land on it's back in the wa-
ter. If it lands like that, you can hit F and make Tommy appear over it, but
there's not much to do then but reload the game. (One side glitch: if Tommy's
in that situation, pressing NP6 will make the scenery swirl around him.)
You can also fly it through the hole in the building used in I.81 and I.82.
It's SE of the Hyman Condo.
Flying the Skimmer upside down
According to Xtramus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2an8iLTfTyU
- fly up and down to increase speed, then
- steer up and to one side to do a partial barrel roll.
Directional controls are reversed while upside down.
Dodo emeritus
Shooting the star of the show, the little Dodo pulling a sign, with the only
thing that can shoot it out of the air--a rocket from the Hunter, has the dis-
tinction of being the only way to simultaneously create 30 CRiminal Rating
points and a three star wanted level as the Dodo explodes with what may be the
biggest explosion of the game.
Dodo ephemeralis
There's a Ghost Dodo glitch that sometimes makes it disappear on its own ex-
cept for the sign, which elongates and thins as it wafts down into a point on
the ground.
The real names of the solid motionless jets
The big jets, with three engines at each tail fin, look like Boeing 727's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_727
The private jets look like Learjet 25B's.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=232176
The real name of the solid, motionless lunar module
The lunar module in stage B of Interglobal Film Studios is similar to the
Apollo lunar module--LM. The LM named Eagle, of Apollo 11, was the 1st to land
men on the moon.
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/1874/00gta1screenvc41cx1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_module
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
The real name of the solid, motionless UFO
The prop that looks like it could have been used in a 1950's movie about fly-
ing saucers looks like a big replica of a hubcap. The top would be like the
outer part of the hubcap. Director Edward D. Wood is said to have used hubcaps
to represent flying saucers in his 1959 movie "Plan 9 From outer Space" (I for-
get what model of car I once read they allegedly came from--Cadillac?), but he
actually used toy models of UFOs, so maybe it's supposed to look like one of
those.
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9615/00gta1screenvc42vf0.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_outer_space
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/trivia
The real (and handling.cfg) names of the flying non-solid vehicles
In datahandling.cfg, AIRTRAIN, TRAIN, DEADDODO, and HELI all have the same
figures except HELI, which, under column ae, has 2000, which identifies it as a
helicopter. They're the jets (Boeing 727's), lights in the sky indicating jets
(or ?) in the stratosphere, Dodo (Cessna 150), and the police helicopter (Bell
206L-4) you see in the sky (and, with the jets, see landing and taking off at
the airport) and can pass through like ghosts. Since the figures that determine
speed are the same for all of them and the Dodo goes 60 mph, I guess they all
do.
The police helicopter that attacks with a machine gun, one that SWAT agents
rappel down from, at three or more wanted stars is a different Bell 206L-4 Long-
Ranger--you can bang into it and blow it up, etc. During a chase, the faster
you go, the farther behind you it follows you. If you get the Hunter up to 120
mph or faster, it will disappear beyond the draw distance, but you can't shake
it. If you slow down, it will reappear and close in on you. If you lower the
rating below three stars, it disappears into the distance at some faster speed I
haven't determined.
I don't know the name of the Downtown blimp, but around Redondo and Pompana
Beaches:
Away out here they've got a name for wind and rain and fire,
The rain is Tess, the fire's Joe, and their blimps are Goodyear tires
("They Call the Wind Maria," Lerner and Loewe)
Also, an AIRSHIP isn't a blimp--it makes your boat fly.
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/738/00gta1rhinovcblimp9arr5.jpg
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9844/00gta1rhinovcblimp9bnb4.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/3728/00gta1blimpvc9cca3.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9365/00gta1goodyearblimpoverbayfron.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6144/00gta1goodyearblimpatdusk6qi.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7633/00gta1goodyearmayfloweratmiami.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2804/00gta1goodyearblimpoverfortlau.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7204/00gta1goodyearblimpoveroceanfr.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Blimp
http://www.goodyearblimp.com/
How to (hi)jack the Hunter
You can wait until you have access to a police outfit at the Washington Beach
police station, after the "Cop Land" (I.61) mission, so Tommy can walk into Fort
Baxter without getting shot to death. I recommend you have him use another
chopper to sneak into the base from low over the water to the N of it, go quick-
ly over the wall, land beside it as close as possible, and gun it out of there.
If the soldiers at the base start shooting at Tommy when he tries to jack the
Hunter and he doesn't make it out of there before you can save the helicopter by
typing "aspirine," just reload the game and try again. As Rusk says, the odds
of success are about 50/50.
As an alternative, you could edit the files for the soldiers and the M4 with
Notepad as explained in I.100.D.ee Weapons and Attackers--how to lessen the se-
verity of attacks. Then the soldiers aren't hard to deal with and Tommy can
just run in and grab it.
When Tommy jacks it, it's always tuned to VROCK (which you can change, if you
want).
How to fly the Rhino
While Tommy's in the Rhino on a long runway at the airport, type "comeflywith-
me"--the flying vehicles code. Turn the cannon backwards, NP4 or NP5, acceler-
ate, W, keep shooting the cannon, Left Mouse Button or NP0, and press Number Pad
6 for up, Number Pad 9 for down, A for left and D for right. You don't need to
accelerate once airborne, but keep shooting. Once you have a good altitude, you
can stop shooting and make swoops with NP6 and NP9 to keep it going. If it
points downward too much for a turn, let go of A or D and press NP6 to level it
out. Let it tilt left or right in the direction you want to turn before trying
to turn--it won't turn in the opposite direction from the one it's tilting in.
You can fly higher than any other vehicle in the game--higher than the blimp
and the jets. You might add the "seaways" code to take the worry out of landing
(upright, anyway) on water.
This is a good one to try different views with V and watch instant replays
with F1 for.
I'll have to try a try a loop-de-loop sometime.
The "comeflywithme" code takes 1,000 points off your CRiminal Rating," so you
might not save the game if you're trying to go for the "Godfather" level.
Everything else about it taken along with the use of it with the "seaways"
code, it's a pretty versatile vehicle: "Is it a bird, is it a plane?"--no, it's
a rhinoceros.
In the 4th screen shot below, the Squalo is behind the mansion because I was
using Spaceeinstein's "All In One Mod" (I.100.D.f).
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4932/00gta1rhinovcflying0wn0.jpg
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3032/00gta1rhinovcflying1asp4.jpg
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I.9.E Boats
Controls for the boats
Special concerns for embarking and disembarking
A run down of all the boats
including the real names of some, and top speeds of all, of the boats
Some notable things about the boats
"Miami Vice" boats
(Hi)jacking boats
Boat jumps
How to fly a speed boat
Battleship
Controls for the boats
Special concerns for embarking and disembarking
F....Enter--If you don't want to try to have Tommy jump into a boat, just put
Tommy close to the boat, hit F, and he's transported to be behind the wheel.
Hit F again, and he releases the wheel and can move around the boat to look
around or fire weapons.
To have Tommy go ashore, stop the boat beside a dock or ledge the game intends
for it, have him get to the edge of the boat closest to it, and jump towards it.
The game will bounce Tommy off the water and onto the dock or ledge if he's
close enough to it but lands in the water. He'll only lose a bit of health for
each of the 1st few jumps if you have a hard time with it.
It might make you feel easier about it if you see how generous the game can be
about that in places where you're meant to disembark. Try sailing a Dinghy,
which rides low in the water, to the Sniper Rifle pickup on the ledge of the S
side of the W end of the South Bridge. Stop the Dinghy beside the bridge. No-
tice how Tommy could never jump high enough to get on the ledge. Jump him at
the pickup, and he'll be bounced up off the water onto the ledge. To get him
back in the Dinghy, just turn him to it and press F again. and he's transported
to be behind the wheel.
It's easy to do, but if it makes you feel safer, just run the boat aground 1st
at the driveway-type thing that slopes into the water at the Boatyard at the SE
end of the west island, the grassy section on the N side of the west
island, the sand at the NW side of the west island, the grass E or W of Fort
Baxter, the south island of Leaf Links, on the beach along the E side of the
east island, or by using a jump ramp or a slope at the S end of the east island.
You can also get a Dinghy up the grass slope on the S side of the pier on the W
side of Prawn Island.
W....Forward
S....Reverse
A....Left
D....Right
Space Bar....Brake
Q....Look left
E....Look right
Q + E....Look back
R or Mouse Wheel up....change radio stations, except for the Coast Guard boat
and the Predator, the police boat, which get police calls on the radio.
Left Mouse Button....Fire the machine gun of the Predator. It shoots
forward, and shoots left with Q and right with E.
Boats don't attract passengers with the hooker trick or the "hopingirl" code.
A run down of all the boats
including the real names of some, and top speeds of all, of the boats
I tested them all with a Speedometer mod by Spookie (the one who made the IMG
Tool v.1.3 recommend in I.100.D.c) to see what the top speed was for each.
Don't expect it to represent your typical cruising speed, though. To get to top
speed, I had to sail in the direction of the crests of the waves for a long way.
All of them were slower going against the waves, and even slower going against
the higher waves of stormy weather. Some were notably better than others at
keeping a stable speed, too.
Squalo II: it looks like the Wellcraft 38 Scarab KV "cigarette" speedboat
Crockett had in the TV series "Miami Vice" for the 2nd season and onward. The
next five links show Wellcrafts, the last three of which show the one Wellcraft
made for Don Johnson (thanks to posts by DJdude at the Miami-Vice.org forum for
those five pictures of Wellcrafts).
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1808/saguide858squaloiii2welba6.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5478/saguide858squaloiii3welru1.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6027/saguide858squaloiii4welqg5.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2958/saguide858squaloiii5weltx7.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6079/saguide858squaloiii6welox3.jpg
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/miami-vice-1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Vice
It's the fastest speedboat--a nautical Cheetah. I got a top speed of 130
mph for it, although 120 is more typical. It bounces around like a Blista,
though, if you hit the jumps an unlucky way during "Checkpoint Charlie." It's
violet and white and available at the Boathouse after buying it--I.93A. Getting
into it always starts "Checkpoint Charlie," I.93B, which it's good for. 130
mph.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8219/00gta1squallovc1dr5.jpg
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9676/00gta1squallovc2gx9.jpg
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Cuban Jetmax: a turbine jet boat. A jet boat is propelled by sending water
out through nozzles in the back instead of using propellers. A turbine jet boat
can do it a lot faster. It has a showy inboard motor with an air scoop and two
exhaust pipes. I got it up to 100 mph, and it's better than the Speeder at
maintaining top speed. It's easy to make turns with it. It's yellow-brown and
brown and available at the Boathouse after buying it--I.93A. Getting into it
always starts "Checkpoint Charlie," I.93B, which you don't want it for (at least
not if you're trying for the bigger numbers of times to beat your old time).
100 mph.
http://www.njbaracing.net/gallery/gallery.php
http://img326.imageshack.us/img326/7513/00gta1jetmaxvc1afv4.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6532/00gta1jetmaxvc2avy1.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4116/00gta1jetmaxvc3azr5.jpg
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7375/00gta1jetmaxvc4aeb4.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2971/00gta1jetmaxvc5agk8.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/8751/00gta1jetmaxvc6aco4.jpg
Speeder: a "cigarette" speedboat with two red seats. I managed to get it up
to 110 mph, but it's less able to keep a steady speed against the waves than the
Cuban Jetmax. It's the speedboat commonly seen in the waters. 110 mph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Aronow
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3002/00gta1speedervc7qu4.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7163/00gta1speedervc8kn0.jpg
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http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5957/00gta1speedervc12kv1.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3803/00gta1speedervc14nu5.jpg
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8479/00gta1speedervc15rz2.jpg
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8237/00gta1speedervc16xv3.jpg
Predator: I found a couple basically comparable fast patrol boats, shown in
the links below. It's a fast patrol police boat with a driver's cab that has a
radar that revolves on top. I got it up to 100 mph. It's held over from "Papa-
razzi Purge" in "GTA III." It has a built-in machine gun that shoots forward or
to either side. It can't be used for vigilante missions, but it can be used for
raising your wanted level on waters that don't have any police bribes. So to
compensate, you can leave a getaway helicopter on the desolate slice of the east
island beach coastline or such.
http://img491.imageshack.us/img491/1830/00gta1predatorpoliceboat13gz.jpg
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/8325/00gta1predatorpoliceboats9yd.jpg
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/predator.jpg
It's also the boat police use on the waters, and they use it to shoot at Tommy
when his wanted rating goes up.
The Predator is always on the S side of the E end of the bridge between Leaf
Links and the west island after "Phnom Penh '86" (I.45). There are stairs
across from it on the N side of the bridge. 100 mph.
Tropic: a sedan bridge powerboat. A 1980 Sea Ray 270 Sedan Bridge is shown by
the 1st link below. It's the white boat with a guard rail around the front and
a little 3D cabin interior to look in at. It has a hickey on top like the Reef-
er does but it doesn't spin around. I got it up to 75 mph. It's on the seas,
and also by Mercedes house (NE of the E end of the little bridge from Leaf Links
to the east island) after "Phnom Penh '86" (I.45). 75 mph.
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/4449/00gta1980searay270sedanbridge3.jpg
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3685/00gta1tropicvc18ei.jpg
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/1876/00gta1tropicvc25vo.jpg
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/6131/00gta1tropicvc39zk.jpg
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1285/00gta1tropicvc40if.jpg
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/5926/00gta1tropicvc55jj.jpg
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/4962/00gta1tropicvc68dx.jpg
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/5685/00gta1tropicvc73xt.jpg
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/6171/00gta1tropicvc85bo.jpg
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/994/00gta1tropicvc94le.jpg
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/4392/00gta1screen639ng.jpg
Coast Guard: it's a low flats boat, the kind that's good in shallow water so
often used for lake and stream fishing (as shown at the 1st two links below),
used here as a Coast Guard harbor patrol boat. It has a rollover bar-looking
thing over the engines at the back. I got it up to 70 mph. It's available from
the start of the game, at a dock N of the big ship that's along the S end of the
E side of the west island. 70 mph.
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1916/00gta1coastguardtype2dt.jpg
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/9150/00gta1coastguardtype28ek.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_police
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/coastguard.jpg
Dinghy: it's a fast rescue boat. It looks like a life raft with a steering
wheel stuck in the front. Normally, the pilot would sit at the back to steer
with a stick attached to the motor. I guess it was just convenient to have Tom-
my drive it like a Jet Ski because he doesn't sit but has a steering wheel
steering animation. The PS2 gimmick of having Tommy drive it upside down won't
work on PC. I got it up to 60 mph. A pair of Dinghies are always docked on
either side of the land N of the building under construction with red girders
after ""Phnom Penh '86" (I.45) and it's on the seas. 60 mph.
http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/4649/00gtazodiacinflatablerescueboa.jpg
http://yachts-vip.com/uploads/posts/2007-10/1193226576_image001.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinghy
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/dinghy.jpg
Reefer: a sport fisherman boat. It's like a little Orca, the fishing boat
Quint, Robert Shaw, hunts sharks with in the Steven Spielberg movie "Jaws,"
1975. (Note: Lance Vance's alias in "Supply and Demand" is Quentin, which Diaz
pronounces "Quintin.") It's a black-bottomed dingy white boat with a guard rail
around the front, two fishing poles sticking up from the back, and a radar that
revolves over the cab.
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9837/00gta1radar5he.jpg
It's also what they smoke at the Boathouse. It's at Pier 2 and on the seas.
I got it up to a steady 40 mph.
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/5209/00gta1reefer6ef.jpg
http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/6582/00gtaspaortfishermanboat63ld.jpg
http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/2149/00gtasportfishermanboat22br.jpg
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/reefer.jpg
Rio: a catamaran. I'll guess it's about 50' long. A catamaran has two hulls
that are connected with a frame. It looks like a cab on a plank laid across two
pontoons. This one doesn't have steps built into the back ends of the pontoons,
so you can climb onto it from the water, like lot of them I saw on the Internet.
It doesn't have a plank across the front ends of the pontoons, which I guess is
a safety feature used since sometime after 1986, either. It has a working pin-
wheel on a revolving pivot, used to detect the direction (and speed?) of the
wind, and a lowered sail. I got it up to 40 mph. It's at Pier 1 and on the
seas. 40 mph.
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/7753/00gtario4lv.jpg
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Marquis 69: it looks like an Endeavour 42 sailboat, a sloop, one of the two
Crockett had in the TV series "Miami Vice," except smaller--more the length of
an Endeavor 32, 33, or 35. A 35' model is shown at the next link.
http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/3593/saguide819marquisendeavog0.jpg
http://www.endeavourowners.com/
http://www.endeavourowners.com/photos.html
http://www.endeavourowners.com/boats/e32/e32specs.html
http://www.endeavourowners.com/boats/e33/e33specs.html
http://www.endeavourowners.com/boats/e35/e35specs.html
http://www.infracity.de/miamivice/ausruestung.html
http://carlgaffney.users.btopenworld.com/miamifacts.html
It's the boat with a big lowered sail you see in the game intro. I got it up
to a steady 30 mph. It's on the seas. 30 mph.
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/9434/00gtamarquis0gx.jpg
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/marquis.jpg
A good feature of the Rio and Marquis 69, because they're sailboats without
motor noise, is that they let you hear the music and talk on the radio clearly.
Another is that the sail posts pass through bridges.
Pier 2 (the S one) always has a Reefer and either a Marquis or a Speeder.
Pier 1 (the N one) always has a Rio.
The piers become unlocked after "Phnom Penh '86" (I.45).
You can get to the piers earlier using one of the variety of ways to get past
the barriers given in I.18.
(The pier S of Pier 2 doesn't have a walkway connected to land and is shaped
like a cross. Besides being a place to put a ramp to jump for the Boatyard mis-
sion--I.93, I think it might have been meant as a sight gag about needing to
walk on water to walk there.)
Some notable things about the boats
"Miami Vice" boats
In "Miami Vice," Sonny Crockett had two boats--an Endeavour 42 sailboat called
"The St. Vitus' Dance" (the Marquis 69 looks like a small version of it) and a
Wellcraft 38 Scarab KV "cigarette" speedboat (the Squalo II looks like it).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/trivia
(Hi)jacking boats
You can have Tommy jack a boat by jumping off a bridge. As Rusk notes, the
easiest way is to have him jump to a boat from the N side of the bridge from the
east island to Prawn Island, which is one of the ways he can get to the blocked-
off sections early (I.9.E). The pilot panics and jumps off the boat.
But an easier way for him to take someone's boat, provided he already has a
boat or the Skimmer, is to have him sail beside the boat you want him to take
and try to stop his just ahead of the other one a bit, sort of like stopping a
land vehicle by stopping Tommy's land vehicle in front of it. Then have Tommy
get to the back of his boat, or onto the wings of his Skimmer, and jump on their
boat. Once Tommy jumps on their boat, the owner jumps into the water and leaves
it to him.
It's also easy to have Tommy drive-by the pilot while driving a boat, or have
him let go of the wheel to do it with a bigger choice of weapons. You can have
him use a boat, or drive the Skimmer like a boat, and try to corral them into
driving into a corner by a bridge abutment 1st, but you don't have to.
Boat jumps
There are six boat ramp jumps: there's one at the S end of the north island of
Leaf Links, there are a few by piers 1 and 2, one at the S end of the east is-
land, and one S of the wooden shack without a roof in the middle of the waters
at the S end of the map.
How to fly a speed boat
The code "airship" enables ships to take to the air. The faster they go, the
better they can do it. A speed boat at full throttle will fly a bit for brief
stretches, which you can help with NP6. (Warning: one time, I used this code
and exited without saving the game, yet, the next couple of times I tried to
save a game I hadn't used a code for, I got the screen warning about one or more
cheats having been used?! I saved the game anyway, it didn't happen anymore,
and I didn't notice any problem in getting 100% for the game or such.)
Battleship
I've read that the ships you see on the horizon of the sea during the game
look like the ships from a video game, "Battleship," which was popular since be-
fore the time of "Vice City." I don't know which game platform was meant--Com-
modore 64? One of the silhouettes is of a sail boat, though. A screen shot
from "Battleship," 1988, by Epyx, for Amiga, Atari, and Commodore64/128, is
shown below.
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/6598/00gta1screenvc923xr7.gif
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/histsci/GamesB_BE.htm
(The movie prop battleship in Studio A of Interglobal Films is numbered 4370.
The closest thing to a match for the number I have so far is that it's nearly
the same as the item number, 4730, for the board game "Battleship," sold by Mil-
ton Bradley, now Hasbro, since 1967. The board game was based on a 1931 Milton
Bradley board game that was based on an earlier public domain paper and pencil
game.)
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I.9.F General vehicle information
Healing vehicles with "aspirine," garages, and Pay 'n' Sprays
Keeping vehicles from disappearing
Handling
Bailing
Donuts
Drive-bys
Picking up prostitutes
Fast switch to the MP3 station
Healing vehicles with "aspirine," garages, and Pay 'n' Sprays
You can type "aspirine" and heal any vehicle Tommy is within and at the wheel
of--as Rusk notes, it won't hurt your save games or ability to achieve 100% in
the game. You won't get a screen warning when you try to save the game. It
won't work for RC vehicles because Tommy isn't inside them.
For fast-working aspirine when things get hectic, press Esc to pause the game,
type "aspirine," then press Esc to resume the game.
A vehicle shows white then black smoke before it catches on fire and blows up.
And if it lands on its back, it will soon catch on fire then blow up, too--in
that case, just bail and run unless you type fast. (If Tommy uses a strong
weapon like the Minigun, he can cause other vehicles to explode immediately.)
They say the Hunter gets more durable as you go through the Vigilante mission.
Rusk says the ambulance does that to a minor degree (fixing white smoke damage,
or black smoke to white) with each level passed of the Ambulance mission. Per-
sonally, I'd still be ready to type "aspirine"--that works 100% right away.
Sometimes, you want to get a little fast and messy.
You can heal any vehicle with one of Tommy's garages.
You can heal any but police, military, and emergency vehicles with a Pay 'n'
Spray or Sunshine Autos spray 'n' go. It costs $100. One drawback: it makes
distinctively colored cars that are only available in certain missions revert
irreversibly to a regular color. One bonus: once Tommy makes $100, he can get
complimentary sprays to see the color selection the vehicle has.
Keeping vehicles from disappearing
An important trick, held over from "GTA III," to use if you want a four-wheel
vehicle or helicopter you exit to not disappear, is to leave the door of it open
as you exit by moving away from it quickly. And remember that the game will of-
ten only remember a couple of them: if you try for a 3rd (as when blockading the
road to get Hillary's Sabre Turbo (bullet-proof on PS2, not PC) during "The
Driver"--I.68), the game will make the 1st one disappear.
Sometimes, the game made the Packer--the ramp truck--disappear when I set it
up for a special jump idea for the PCJ 600, too, though the bike was only the
2nd vehicle I used. I've had the Hunter disappear when I had Tommy get out of
it amidst a bunch of blown-up cars and hadn't used a 2nd vehicle.
I don't know a fail-safe way to prevent the disappearances, but leaving the
door open helps.
Also, if I know I'm not going to return to a vehicle, I have Tommy blow it up
to get it out of the memory of the game.
Handling
Combine Space Bar (brake) and S (reverse) for the shortest stops with less
skidding. Ease up on it if you start to spin out.
You can also tap brake while turning to turn a bit more with a controlled
skid, such as during the "Hotring" race.
Use an acceleration boost during a sliding or wide turn to propel the vehicle
into the new direction, which is good for tightening a turn. Practice weaving a
Taxi through traffic with accents of W for each turn you make. The Taxi can be
good to learn the fast swirling reverse to change direction with, too.
The PCJ 600 helps you learn to brake with a controlled turning skid you accel-
erate from. It tightens turns and makes them faster. If you really want to
speed to turns and tighten them, try a brake/reverse/turn combo you accelerate
out of.
Also notice how turning for a small jump can make a difference in how the ve-
hicle leans and moves through the air, and how the turned wheels and lean of a
bike can better prepare a bike for landing, notably for bigger jumps with the
PCJ 600.
Use A and D to correct the sideways tipping of a four-wheel vehicle. The A
key tips it to the right, and D tips it to the left.
Use NP9 and NP6 to correct the forward and backward lean of an airborne two-
wheel vehicle. It has a better chance of not spilling if it lands on two
wheels.
Acceleration can help a bike go forward and not spill after a long drop, too.
If the front of your four-wheel vehicle starts to swerve back and forth uncon-
trollably, you regain control quicker if you let go of acceleration while let-
ting the programming that creates that run its course instead of trying to steer
and accelerate out of it, which could prolong it.
One gimmick I use to slow down without spinning out is the poor man's anti-
lock brake system--pump the brake repeatedly.
Don't be discouraged if you hit someone or a vehicle now and then. It's un-
avoidable since the pedestrians have a habit of driving and jumping right into
the path of your vehicle and making quick "gripiseverything"-like turns, includ-
ing into your path. There is no peripheral vision--you'll occasionally see sol-
id objects close up when you turn your vehicle and the "camera" into them. You
just have to make the best of it. If you have Tommy ride and get thrown off a
bike a lot, get the infinite run and learn where the bribes are, etc.
Bailing
Press F to bail from vehicles. It's possible to aim a moving vehicle at a
target and bail to use it as a weapon, too. But you control your aim better
staying behind the wheel. So bailing mainly comes in handy when Tommy's vehicle
stays upturned or gets too damaged: when it catches on fire it's going to ex-
plode, so press F and have him run away.
Helicopters need to be moving fast enough to allow bailing; practice with NP9
at the airport. Sometimes they allow it just before landing, sometimes they
don't; press S to land when they don't. Sometimes you can type "aspirine" fast
enough. Sometimes nothing works fast enough for burning helicopters and Tommy
gets wasted--just reload the game.
Bailing from boats is an exception to the vehicle bailing advice given above.
Hitting F will just cause Tommy to release the steering wheel. To get him
ashore, he'll have to jump. If the boat isn't aground and Tommy lands on water,
bouncing off the water works right beside the places the game intends us to use
as docks.
Donuts
To make a donut--a round skid mark--with a land vehicle, hold down W, S, and
either the left arrow or right arrow. For a four-wheel vehicle, you can use
Mouse Steering instead of a directional arrow (and may have to with some key-
boards that don't recognize three simultaneous key presses).
Drive-bys
Drive-bys done with a submachine gun can be done to the side with a two-
wheel, four-wheel, or nautical vehicle, or the Skimmer. Use Q or E to look left
or right then use the LMB to shoot. The MP, available at the Downtown Ammu-Na-
tion after "Rub Out," is the best submachine gun. I'd use an Uz-I till it's
available.
That's also how you do drive-bys with pizzas on a Pizza Boy scooter for the
Pizza Delivery Mission, except I'd stop 1st to throw it.
Since I've never been crazy great about looking sideways while trying to drive
forward, it's good to know that Tommy can also shoot, if not throw pizzas, for-
ward on a bike, which is easier. Waggle your bike with A and D to spread your
shots out a bit when helpful, like when shooting at an attacking gang.
Since you need to be moving forward to waggle side to side, don't go too
fast--you need to maintain control and pick a distance with which you can get
the retaliators who will rush you, as when you shoot at them on foot. Get Tommy
out of there if gang members or police come near to surround him --they'll knock
him off the bike and Tommy can't punch from the bike. If that happens during a
mission, and you can't have Tommy run off, turn back, and mow them down quick
enough to complete the mission (remember, shooting the police is liable to raise
his wanted level), I'd just reload the game.
Not that there's a tremendous gaming advantage for it, but you can do a drive-
by shooting while doing a wheelie or a stoppie, too. If you do that, try using
your left hand for NP6 or NP9 with the directional arrow that points up instead
of W while the right hand uses the mouse. The wheelie version reminds me of a
cowboy shooting into the air as he gallops through a town.
The Predator, a police boat also seen in "Paparazzi Purge" in "GTA III," has a
built-in machine gun that shoots left, right, or forward. You can't do Vigilan-
te missions with it and there are no bribes on the waters. I'd leave a getaway
copter on the coast of the east island beach if you're going to use it to try
sea battles with the police, who use the same boat, or on the boats of the crim-
inals in leather jackets and pimps that try to jack your car.
Picking up prostitutes
There are three prostitutes in Vice City, and, man, are they worn out; no, no,
no.... There's a dirty blonde with a black top and shorts, a black lady with
blue/gray shorts and a pink/violet bikini top, and a brunette with a red halter
top, black shorts slit on the side, and brown stockings and garters. (The dumpy
lady with the straight reddish-brown hair and the green jersey who says, "Any-
thing for a fifty," and "Pay me and I'll go away," is not one of them. She used
to be--"I used to charge for that"--but now she just has a bad attitude about
begging.) They show up between seven p.m. and five a.m..
To pick one up, stop next to one in any four-wheeled vehicle except the ones
listed in the next paragraph. I recommend one with two doors and a hood; if
it's a convertible, she'll do the same bit but won't rock the car; she just
takes Tommy's money for the lively conversation. (If it's a Mesa Grande or a
Stallion convertible, press F1 several times until it makes the roof appear.)
And if it's a four-door, she may get in the back to rock it.
The biggest trucks (Flatbeds, Linerunners, and Packers), a boat, motorcycle,
or a police, military, emergency, or flying vehicle won't work. A "Vice" Chee-
tah or an FBI vehicle won't work, but a regular Cheetah, Washington, or Rancher
will. A gang vehicle--a Gang Burrito, Cuban Hermes, Caddy, Baggage Handler, or
Voodoo--won't work, but a regular Burrito or Hermes will. A Hotring racer or
Bloodring Banger won't work, but an Oceanic or a Glendale will. A Mr. Whoopee
van won't work, but a Boxville, which seems like a bigger version of the van the
Mr. Whoopee van is based on, will. A Zebra Cab won't work, but any of the other
cabs or a Taxi will. A Sabre Turbo, Deluxo, or Sandking won't work, but a Sabre
will. You can use the "hopingirl" code to overcome their objections to most of
the vehicles they won't enter otherwise (see I.16).
I'd turn off the radio so I can hear what they say better ("You just left the
convent or something?"), too.
Once she walks around the vehicle and gets in, take her some place over grass
(where the vehicle kicks up green grass) or sand (where the vehicle kicks up tan
sand) and park. It also works, as spaceeinstein notes, if you park over ground
that the vehicle kicks up gray dirt from, like in or around Phil's Place or City
Scrap, the lot across the street from Umberto Robina's Cafe, and the part of the
mansion driveway by the opening to the street.
The vehicle rocks and squeaks, and Tommy's money goes down while his health
goes up.
In the PC version, unlike the PS2 version, Tommy's health can even go up 25
points higher than the usual maximum of 150 or 200, but the extra 25 points dis-
appear if you save the game.
They charge $136, which begins being taken as soon as they enter the vehicle.
The actual vehicle-rocking takes 30 seconds, or a little over half an hour in
game time.
I don't have Tommy kill her to get the money back as some suggest. I hope the
strategies used in this guide will keep Tommy from ever getting so desperate for
you.
You might even have Tommy drive around to pick the same one up over and over.
Besides being a fun side thing, it increases Tommy's durability for hazardous
missions.
This is one of the things I might play around with the view, V, for; playing
with Q and E during the 1st person view gives a different perspective on it,
too.
If you have Tommy get out before she can enter, she'll follow him around.
If she gets into his vehicle and Tommy leaves before she can rock it, she re-
mains inside, but if he gets back in, she gets out. She can handle being a
prostitute, but being fickle is just too much for her.
The hooker trick also works if Tommy is in any helicopter or bike but the
Hunter or Pizza Boy, which only seats one, and you type the code "hopingirl"
when a prostitute goes by. The only things that can carry two or more passen-
gers that the "hopingirl" code doesn't help the hooker trick with are a boat or
the Skimmer (which, as spaceeinstein notes, is partly classified as a boat) and
the Linerunner or a Firetruck (I think the doors are too high). It overcomes
their objections to Caddies, Packers, and Police Cars, etc., though.
She'll get back in or on it if Tommy wrecks and get back in or on it quick,
too--if she boards it 1st, she'll leave when he boards it.
Restick's "Hook The Hooker" trick, which Rusk passes along for the Sunshine
Auto races (I.71), works for PC, too. Not only will she follow Tommy around and
get into any vehicle he gets into (like when using the "hopingirl" code), but
she'll do it vehicle after vehicle. The racing hooker is the dirty blonde with
the black top and shorts. To do it, you tail the hooker's car during the race,
then quickly drive-by her car to get her to get out close to yours. The easiest
way is to do the short race by the airport and not go through any glowing disks,
so the other cars slow down and drive single file.
Fast switch to the MP3 station
Thanks to radioman and GTA game player of reknown Demarest for this tip: a
fast way to change the radio station to MP3 is to press F9.
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I.9.G How to go to Ghost World and the Underworld
The WK Chariot Hotel
Apartment 3C
The Pole Position Club
The Washington Beach Police Station
Ring_of_Fire's way to make interior graphics load in Ghost World
Let me see Ghost World--I've got a Bazooka here
The Lithjoe's Trainer Jetpack (No Clip) Way to Visit Ghost World
Getting to Ghost World with a BF Injection
The Ocean Beach Triangle
Going Nowhere Fast
Taking your Time About It
The Ocean View of Ghost World
Ghost World Headquarters, Airport, and Map
Ghosts in 2D
Ghost Barriers in Alleys
Ghost World and Gaming: Flying and Biking
Driving a Blown-Up Car
Driving a Ghost on a PCJ 600
Ghost Beach Ball Soccer
"I never drink...wine"
Diaz, the Invisible Man
In Ghost World, some things are invisible--you'll see through things to see
parts of things, and people and vehicles moving on air, like in a surrealist
Salvador Dali painting.
There are basically three ways to see it:
- a lot of the city from below ground/water level as a graphics glitch,
- less of the city from above ground/water level as a graphics/audio glitch,
- and little sections from above ground/water level as a graphics glitch.
The easiest way to see and hear the most of the Ghost World of Vice City is
from below ground/water level:
The WK Chariot Hotel
The easiest way to see the most of the Ghost World of Vice City, even if it
won't be featured in the Old Mill at the amusement park in San Andreas:
Get a Sea Sparrow (behind the mansion on the SE side of Starfish Island after
you find 80 hidden packages) which is little and easy to maneuver.
Fly to the WK Chariot Hotel (it's just a little more than halfway up the east
island, and E of the Malibu Club parking lot). Carefully fly over the driveway
that goes to the front door until you're under the front porch. Fly up--the
porch ceiling isn't solid--and into the hotel, going slowly and trying to avoid
hitting the invisible walls. Type "aspirine" to repair the helicopter if it
starts to show smoke now or later.
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You'll start to see Ghost World immediately. Go down and out of the hotel,
and you can fly around just beneath the city for an extensive look at it.
Try to fly beneath the surface of the land or water and over the featureless
gray stuff below or you'll wreck or end up back over the land or water.
You can fly around under the ocean and see things like the sunken boats and
submarine more clearly and close up--even go through those ones because they're
not solid. The piles of rocks that jut above the surface of the water, and the
beaches, are solid. Tommy can get out of the helicopter and walk around on
them, which lets you get a close up view of one of the men with his feet in a
block of cement.
You can enter the areas under the east or west islands from openings you can
find in, at least, the N or S ends. I know there are some invisible solid walls
along the inner E and W sides, but I haven't explored it as much as some have.
One way to get beyond the east island is to go NW from the WK Chariot and under
the bridge to Leaf Links or thereabouts.
One of the unique things to see there is a light green printing press with a
screen-like tray sticking out of it in an otherwise empty little room. It's
where the courier tries to deliver the counterfeit money plates in "Hit the
Courier"--I.96. The only door to it, which only opens during that mission, is
the door at the bottom of the steps referred to for hidden package 66 in Little
Haiti. If you have Tommy fly just under the room and bail, he falls a bit then
winds up in the room. There's no way out, though, so you have to reload the
game to get Tommy safely back to his last save place.
The big hotel on the NE side of the east island, on the block that looks like
a cartoon nose pointed W, has a non-solid mirror image below it. This is the
same method used to make the 1st floor of the Ocean View look reflective. For
some reason, there was an abandoned effort to do this with this building and in-
stead they put more road and beach around it, but the mirror image was left
there. Now the only way to see it is in Ghost World.
The E side of the Moist Palms Hotel has a mirror image below it, too, to pro-
vide a mirror image of it in the pool in front of it. There's a curved sheet
around the mirror image to help shade the color of the pool as seen from above
and keep you from seeing other graphics below Vice City.
One way to leave is to fly up through the surface of the water. The underside
of it isn't solid, and you can land on it, if you want (that's another reason
I'd do this with the Sea Sparrow).
Some, like spaceeinstein, call the gray featureless stuff at the lowest level
the Underworld. You can fly through it, and it provides another way to leave
this Ghost World--if you go low enough into it, you appear nearby on land.
(A variation of the WK Chariot method is to fly a little helicopter into the
indoor pool area at the back of the mansion, although I've had a hard time of
getting the helicopter in there with the PC version. The ledge of tinted glass
hanging down from the ceiling of the entrance of the pool area doesn't help. I
think this may just be a PS2 way to get to Ghost World, because the PC helicop-
ter I got in there just banged against everything instead.)
In the type of ghost world that truly seems like one, you experience more of
an absence of the graphics and audio with Tommy above ground or water level.
You might mainly or only hear the footsteps of those nearby, or the music of the
indoor setting you used to get there.
Use the radar and have Tommy follow the roads to get around without getting
lost and trapped in invisible stuff (a drawback of using this to look for hidden
packages).
A couple of ways to enter this type of Ghost World cause an interior that's
normally seen just in cutscenes to load up.
To leave this type of Ghost World, have Tommy enter a place that causes the
graphics of an interior to load up, like the Ocean View or the Malibu Club. I'd
pick the North Point Mall, because it has so many doors with a lot of space
around them and it's easily seen on the map.
Here are a few of them:
Apartment 3C
This is the easiest way to get to this type of Ghost World, and it causes the
interior and the front of the exterior of Mitch Baker's Biker bar to load.
Apartment 3C is on the east island, S end, 3rd block from the E, 2nd block up,
on the S side of the block--look for a 2nd story apartment door that's blacked
out.
(The interior and Chainsaw are another tribute to "Scarface," 1983, and the
blood in the bathroom has a pattern like the blood in the Staunton Island jail
cell the lead character breaks a Yazuka out of for Kenji in "GTA III.")
Have Tommy go to the lamp on the N side of the bed and keep jumping up and
down on it. Tommy's head sticks through the ceiling, then it looks like he's
standing on thin air. Have him jump out to the N.
Use the radar and have Tommy follow the roads to have him get around since
much of the scenery is gone. The position of the pedestrians help you judge
where the road is, too.
This way of going to Ghost World causes the game to load the graphics of the
interior of big Mitch Baker's Biker bar--The Greasy Chopper. It's a shame you
see it so fleetingly in the game since it's one of the more detailed interiors
made for it.
To get there, go N on the main N-S road of the west island; where it divides
in the S Downtown area, take the branch that goes NE, and the bar is along the
right side of the road.
To leave this Ghost World, enter a place that causes an interior to load.
Again, I'd pick the North Point Mall.
Use the Rocket Launcher for the looking through walls gimmick described a few
paragraphs down if you want to see through the exterior into the interior of
the Greasy Chopper. You can use Ring_of_Fire's Jetpack method, given below,
to have Tommy look around inside it.
The Pole Position Club
This is one of the ways to go to Ghost World with a PCJ 600. (The Ocean View
ways are given below.)
Drive it at the open door (after you buy it--I.94) of the Pole Position club.
Have Tommy bail before he gets to the door, and let the bike go to the end of
the entrance hall. Send Tommy in after it and the game will load the interior
of the club. You'll either see Tommy standing on the bike or be able to find
the bike in the club. Drive it back out into Ghost World.
You can see inside the club from outside. You also continue hearing the music
playing inside it anywhere Tommy goes, in or out of a vehicle.
Again, to leave Ghost World, enter a place that causes an interior to load;
you can use the Pole Position club itself, if you want.
The Washington Beach Police Station
This way is easy when it works, and is a way to have Tommy spend a lot of time
jamming a doorway and jumping around when it doesn't. It causes the interior
and exterior of Auntie Poulet's shack to load.
To get to Ghost World using the Washington Beach police station, have a Caddy
saved at Links View in case you need to try this again. Have a Rocket Launcher,
a handgun, and have Tommy change into the police uniform.
Back the Caddy to the door of the police station, shoot the back tires with a
handgun, then reverse into the building. If you get it to squirm through, walk
to the doorway to make the interior load. Type the code to speed up gameplay,
"onspeed," and have Tommy run into walls and corners till he goes through the
wall--this can take a while.
(As an alternative, you can send the Caddy to the bottom floor--you can see a
cell door to help guide you, turn the Caddy around, and point it at the steps.
Have Tommy jump up and down on top of it till he goes to the ceiling. Have him
go to the SW corner, careful not to fall into holes, till he falls out of the
station. I just tried this once, and opted for the other way when it didn't
work for me for a while.)
You'll see the interior of the police station from outside.
Use the Rocket Launcher for the looking through walls gimmick described a few
paragraphs down if you want to see through the exterior into the interior of
Auntie Poulet's shack. You can use Ring_of_Fire's Jetpack method, given below,
to have Tommy look around inside it.
To get there, take one of the bridges to the main N-S road of the west island.
Go W at the W end of Links Bridge. Where the road curves N, Auntie Poulet's
shack is ahead to the left.
To leave this Ghost World, I'd use the North Point Mall.
Thanks again to spaceeinstein, of the many modifications, whose web site
showed me the Apt. 3C, Pole Position, and Washington Beach Police Station ways
to go to Ghost World. It's a good reference source for many such things.
Ring_of_Fire's way to make interior graphics load in Ghost World
Thanks to glitch tester Ring_of_Fire for showing there's an easy way to do
this which works for interiors which have graphics that load seperately but in
the same place as the exterior.
It involves the commonly known ability of Tommy to enter a boat or the Skimmer
from a little distance away from it. This also lets Tommy disappear on one side
of solid things and reappear on the other side of them, like the fence near "The
Fastest Boat" (see I.49). What Ring_of_Fire showed that isn't so well known is
that having Tommy jump on a motorcycle from in front of it lets Tommy go through
solids as well, and that having Tommy jump from such an interior (like the man-
sion interior) to one of those vehicles in the exterior world is a pretty easy
way to cause those interior graphics to load in Ghost World.
For several interiors, Ring_of_Fire has Tommy leave a motorcycle outside, go
inside to load the interior, and do a turning kick to jump onto the motorcycle
from in front of it, in some cases through walls.
For example, for the VCPD HQ interior, Ring_of_Fire leaves a PCJ 600 pointed
toward the front door with the front wheel on the lower step of the couple just
beyond the door. He has Tommy walk inside, which loads the interior, then has
Tommy turn and do the jump onto the bike. (Have Tommy get away fast because it
creates a two star wanted level Tommy can't get rid of within a couple blocks of
the VCPD HQ. This causes the interior of Auntie Poulet's shack to load, too,
which Tommy can see from outside it with the Rocket Launcher gimmick, and he can
look around inside it with the Lithjoe Jetpack method given lower in this sec-
tion.)
For the mansion, El Banco Corrupto Grande, and the Malibu Club, Ring_of_Fire
parks the PCJ 600 with it pointed at the outside wall a few feet from either
side of the front door, has Tommy walk inside which loads the interior, then has
Tommy jump through the wall onto the bike.
For Apt.3C: park the PCJ 600 with the front wheel at the wall straight ahead
beyond the top of the steps, send Tommy inside, and have him jump out through
the bathroom onto the cycle. (This causes the graphics of the biker bar, the
Greasy Chopper, to load, too. You could have Tommy look inside it as with Aunt-
ie Poulet's shack.)
For the Ocean View Apt.: park the PCJ 600 to the left/S of the front door and
diagonally, pointing more toward the dinner table area inside than the front en-
trance, send Tommy inside, and have him jump from the corner of the dinner table
area nearest to the bike onto the bike.
For Cafe Robina, have Tommy park the bike with it pointed at the door on the E
side.
Ring_of_Fire also uses this method with the Skimmer for a few interiors.
For the Malibu Club, park it facing the wall at the N side of the building.
For North Point Mall, park it pointed roughly N at the innermost wall of the
indented section between the S doors, send Tommy inside, and have him enter the
Skimmer from the wall just past the lower floor door of Gash.
For the Pole Position, park the Skimmer at a slant against the outer wall and
aimed at the 2nd to 3rd major section of window W of the entrance, have Tommy
go inside to the SW corner (I'll leave it to you how you have Tommy get rid of
the guys watching the dancing girl there to get closer to the corner), and press
F/Enter.
For the Downtown Ammu-Nation, park the Skimmer so it's pointed E and against
the wall in the NE corner of the lot used in "Hog Tied" behind the Downtown Am-
mu-Nation, have Tommy go inside the Ammu-Nation and "Rifle Range" section to the
W wall of the NW corner, and enter the Skimmer. The stairs to the roof of Ammu-
Nation will be invisible--they run W to E on the S end of the lot. (Unfortu-
nately, the Ronald Reagan/Gorbachev picture doesn't appear this way.)
Ring_of_Fire's alternative method is to park a Caddy in the "Rifle Range" sec-
tion with the front end of the Caddy in the 2nd archway to the N (by the "Please
refrain...." sign) with the front wheels past the step to make the Caddy lower,
then have Tommy jump on the roof of the Caddy and go N over the interior.
Another use Ring_of_Fire has for having Tommy jump through solids is for an
alternative way to get him into Leaf Links or the airport terminal with all his
weapons. Ring_of_Fire also parks the PCJ 600 so it's pointed at a clothes pick-
up and has Tommy jump through the clothes pickup and over the handlebars onto
the PCJ 600 as an alternative way to morph him to it.
A 3rd variety of ways to see Ghost World lets you see little sections of the
city as a graphics glitch, to which you could add examples of graphics for non-
solid objects or solid objects without graphics.
Let me see Ghost World--I've got a Bazooka here
The easiest way to see the most little sections of the city as a graphics
glitch is to use the Rocket Launcher to look through many of the walls (a gim-
mick mentioned in the weapons section). Equip Tommy with it and have him stand
with his right side against the wall you want to see through. Press RMB to
bring up the scope and turn Tommy toward the wall.
If you do this with Tommy standing on stuff on the N side of the counter of
the Downtown Ammu-Nation and have him turn right to the wall and look up, you
can see a secret picture of Ronald Reagan holding a gun and laughing with the
Russian leader Gorbachev beside him looking scared. I've only managed to see
the bottom part of the picture so far this way.
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Be careful not to let the aim stray to the Ammu-Nation cashier. When an Ammu-
Nation cashier thinks Tommy's trying to hold up the store, he shoots at him with
a .357.
If you have Tommy go to the back wall inside Cherry Poppers, you'll see an of-
fice with windows that seems to be empty. But if you have him crouch under the
stairs and use the Rocket Launcher gimmick against the back wall, you can see
that the office contains three desks. The desk on the right has a chair, and
behind the desk is a bulletin board. (Sorry my screen shot for the interior of
the office is so dark. To see it in the game, you may want to crank up the
Brightness option in both your game and your graphics card settings.)
(Thanks to Knockout at GTA Forums.)
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If you have Tommy break the glass of the W window display of the two in front
of Howlin' Pete's Biker Emporium, then use the Rocket Launcher gimmick against
the back wall of the display, you can see a counter and a row of five brown
leather jackets identical to the jackets used in the display.
(Thanks to spaceeinstein.)
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(It reminds me a bit of the inside of the Little Havana Streetwear store.
Maybe it's left from an abandoned idea to have Tommy get a Biker gang jacket
there.)
If you use a mod that lets you see the hidden interiors of the game (like the
Love Fist recording studio), you can use the Rocket Launcher gimmick on the wall
across from the top of the stairs at the Ocean View, especially about halfway
along the wall, and on the wall across from the door to Tommy's Ocean View
apartment, to see the Marco's Bistro setting used for "An Old Friend"
(I.17.B).
You can use this gimmick to see the interior of Kaufman Cabs before you open
it by buying it.
You can use this to see through the door that hidden package 66 is in front of
to see the printing press referred to in the WK Chariot section of I.9.G.
The Rocket Launcher gimmick lets you look through the inside W wall of the
Washington Mall garage to see inside the mall.
If you go to Ghost World by way of the Washington Beach police station method,
described above, you'll need this gimmick to see inside Auntie Poulet's shack,
too--or, you could use:
The Lithjoe's Trainer Jetpack (No Clip) Way to Visit Ghost World
The jetpack feature of Lithjoe's "Vice City Ultimate Trainer v.2" is just like
the No Clip feature of a "Half-Life" game except Tommy is in the foreground in a
frozen falling position and he doesn't slide a bit farther when you let go of a
key.
http://grandtheftauto.filefront.com/file/Vice_City_Ultimate_Trainer_20;44460
I used it to have Tommy get inside a few places he normally can't enter: the
apartment he looks into in "The Chase," the back room at Cherry Poppers, the
bookstore at North Point Mall, and the area between walls, with a picture of
Reagan and Gorbachev on the inner one, at the Downtown Ammu-Nation, and took a
few screen shots of them:
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http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3433/zlithjoechaseroom2vt2.jpg
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/374/zlithjoecherrybackroompe9.jpg
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9725/zlithjoenpmallbookstoreeu3.jpg
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http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/553/zlithjoereaganxt3.jpg
The screenshot of the back room of Cherry Poppers came out so dark it's hard
to tell, but the room has three desks, a chair at the N one, a bulletin board on
the wall behind the N one, and a stand of shelves S of the S one.
Another possibility is to use Ring_of_Fire's method, given above, of using
Apt.3C to cause the Greasy Chopper graphics to load, use the Lithjoe Jetpack
method to get Tommy into the biker bar, then turn off the Jetpack feature to
have Tommy look around. The same method could be used with the Washington Beach
police station to have Tommy look around inside Auntie Poulet's shack.
Getting to Ghost World with a BF Injection
To see through a bridge, type in the code "seaways" while driving the BF In-
jection and drive it under the low E end of the bridge from Prawn Island to the
west island. Wedge Tommy in there where he can just fit. When he's lifted by
the waves, you can see the traffic and pedestrians above, but the bridge above
is invisible. (You can also see that there's no body in the bridge, supposedly
a take-off on one of the rumors about what happened to Jimmy Hoffa, as has been
reported.)
The Ocean Beach Triangle
If you drive a PCJ 600 to the NE side of the building that apartment 3C is a
part of, you'll find a light green triangle of grass. Drive onto it, and you'll
sink through the ground, go through Ghost World, and end up on the sidewalk
nearby.
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http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1859/00gta1screenvc214ul5.jpg
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Thanks to Mohammed Kahn, alias Madeye or "some name," for the Ocean Beach Tri-
angle idea.
Going Nowhere Fast
Something similar can be done by using the code to speed up gameplay, "on-
speed," twice and having Tommy run at a corner created by setting a vehicle di-
agonally to a wall; he can go through the wall, but it takes a while. This
works at the wall by the steps S of the W end of the bridge to Downtown; some
claim success at the wall along the upward slope of the E side of the Schuman
Health Care Center, Downtown.
Taking your Time About It
The same Chris who has the gta place post about an invisible plate at the top
of the Schuman Health Center (I.3) knows an easier way to get through the walls
at ground level, too: walk in. If you have Tommy go onto the dark gray rectan-
gle of ground at the SW corner, then walk at the E side of the off-white wall at
the N end of it, he'll walk right in.
The Ocean View of Ghost World
Likewise, you can drive a PCJ 600 onto the alcove behind the Ocean View with
the back at the bicycle rack-looking railing and accelerate at the corner to
your right. With success, Tommy ends up inside a Ghost World-looking Ocean View
with everything else the same outside.
(Thanks to the Glitch FAQ for the PS2 "Vice City" by AJ at Gamefaqs.)
http://db.gamefaqs.com/
I had Tommy run NW to SE at the N side of the front door to get him out of it.
The spaceeinstein web site has another way to go to Ghost World there. You
have Tommy drive the PCJ 600 at the front door and bail to let the cycle go in
by itself. Then have Tommy go inside and drive it S from the area where the ar-
mor pickup is after you find ten hidden packages. Have him scrape against the E
wall as he does it. It worked for me when I got him to the far corner.
Ring_of_Fire's method, given above, is easy if you want to see the interior
from a ghost world that's outside.
I don't think you need to wonder if these things indicate that Rockstar aban-
doned a horror movie theme in which you find beings and things that don't abide
by the laws that govern the three dimensional world we live in. I do know that
I like the surreal parts in the blend that Rockstar creates, too.
In a few cases, it makes for a department of transportation from another di-
mension:
Ghost World Headquarters, Airport, and Map
If you take a helicopter W over the W section of the Starfish Island Bridge,
before the graphics are fully loaded for the west island, you can see the basic
shape of a skyscraper or tower. It sticks up a bit N of due W of you--from the
NE end of the airport tarmac--and looks like a vertical rectangle with a narrow
one on top of it. From this angle you can see that the only other thing stick-
ing up from the airport area is the tall radar tower. After the "Welcome to
Vice City" screen is shown while the graphics load, it's gone.
I used the flying Rhino to get Tommy pretty close to the skyscraper:
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5175/00gta1screenvc26bl8.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/742/00gta1screenvc27ai1.jpg
I used the jetpack feature of Lithjoe's "Vice City Ultimate Trainer v.2"...
http://grandtheftauto.filefront.com/file/Vice_City_Ultimate_Trainer_20;44460
...to take a couple of screenshots that make it clear where the tower is--it's
on the upper part of the inside of the bend in the road that has a lot of bill-
boards around the outside of it.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1503/zlithjoeghosttower1ji8.jpg
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8950/zlithjoeghosttower2fs4.jpg
You might consider it to be the ghost's secret headquarters which disappears
when Tommy approaches it. The jets nearby would just be for invisible people
since you never see anyone else boarding or disembarking from them; Tommy can go
right through the ones that fly but can't see anyone inside.
Since the N airport terminal isn't used for anything important in the game,
and to avoid confusion, I'll just refer to the terminal by the "Vice Surf" bill-
board as "the airport terminal" in my guide.
If you send Tommy by the front of the airport terminal, you can see that one
of the newspaper dispensers is red and hovers over the ground. If Tommy, or
even a vehicle, knocks it around, it still hovers.
There's even a map that shows the special layout of Vice City that the ghost
airport tower is meant for:
DutchBudokai_Fan, at the neoseeker web site, noticed a dutch Wikipedia web
site that showed that when you look at the Vice Racer Street map at Sunshine Au-
tos, you see an earlier draft of VC with no lighthouse, no Hyman Stadium, a dif-
ferent Leaf Links, and Fort Baxter isn't drawn in yet N of the airport.
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6699/00gta1vicecityearliermap7ik.jpg
Ghosts in 2D
Have Tommy go to the 2nd floor of Sunshine Autos and go to the corner closest
to the road--you'll see a potted plant hovering over the floor. It's also one
of the examples of how Rockstar made many things two dimensional to conserve
megabytes while making Vice City bigger than Liberty City. If you look at ei-
ther plant there from the side or back of the two dimensional plate it's made
of, it's invisible. Someone didn't program color for the other flat side of it.
You can also see this with the wire fences around houses in Little Haiti and
the tennis net of the house two doors E of the Starfish Island mansion, etc.
Ghost Barriers in Alleys
A couple examples of invisible barriers in alleys: there's an invisible wall
partway back in the little alley on the N side of Cherry Poppers. Another is
behind the big shrub in the yard S of the big garage used in "Cop Land." The
garage is on the left side of the road that's the 3rd left N of the Malibu Club.
If you have Tommy walk into the shrub going W, he hits an invisible wall yet can
see through a small alley to the street beyond it. Seen from the other side,
the little alley has a gray wall with blurry graffiti on it.
(See "Walk out over thin air" in section I.3, too, for the same thing side-
ways.)
Ghost World and Gaming: Flying and Biking
To go through ethereal road signs, fly a helicopter or the Skimmer at the hor-
izontal green and white signs over the road at either end of the Starfish Island
bridge or Links Bridge, or the brown and white ones at either end of Prawn Is-
land. The horizontal traffic light posts, but not the vertical ones, are in the
same condition. Likewise, the lamp posts are solid till they're knocked over,
then they're partly solid or non-solid.
Look for the reflection on the invisible but solid stuff sticking out from
otherwise normal palm tree trunks and such, too, or you might have Tommy drive a
PCJ 600 into it and wreck (more often).
Driving a Blown-Up Car
To drive the wheels of the living dead, have Tommy stand in front of a car
with a driver and no passenger, type the start of the code to blow up all vehi-
cles: "bigban," enter the car by pressing the "Enter" key (aka "Return"), press
"g" when Tommy's foot enters the car, then type "aspirine" fast before the car
blows up again. Tommy will have a blown-up car to drive around in. It has
three wheels, as when the same gimmick is used in "GTA III," except in "Vice
City" it drives like it has four wheels. If you drive it into a Pay 'n' Spray,
it will be repaired but still be as black as before. (Thanks to the spaceein-
stein web site for reminding me about that one.)
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http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5629/00gta1screenvc202go3.jpg
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If you need to move Tommy after typing "bigban," use the mouse to steer and
the up directional arrow to move him forward so you don't interrupt the code
with a letter. While in a blown-up vehicle, Tommy and any passenger are as
black as the vehicle.
Driving a Ghost on a PCJ 600
While Tommy sits on a PCJ 600 and a lady is near, type "hopingirl" so she gets
on the back. Back the bike into the water at the beach and let some of Tommy's
health subside before accelerating back onto dry land. Wherever he drives, the
bike will leave a trail of blood and you'll hear the crunching noises you hear
in the game when someone is run over by a vehicle.
Use the Q and E buttons to view the bike from different angles--sometimes you
can see her and sometimes you can't. If Tommy gets off the bike, he'll leave
red footprints like he just walked through the blood of someone who was recently
killed.
To get her off the bike, he has to either back the bike into the water again
(I'd have him get a health boost 1st) or ram it into something. Then you'll see
her get off the bike and die again.
You could use the Pole Position trick to drive her to Ghost World to drop her
off, but don't run the bike into the Pole Position too hard or you might knock
her off the bike too soon.
Ghost Beach Ball Soccer
Bounce one of the Starfish Island beach balls into the front doorway of the
mansion. When I did this and sent Tommy inside for it, the ball had disap-
peared, but it made a couple of bouncing sounds while I sent Tommy around look-
ing for it. When he went back outside, there it was, so I had him bounce it
back in. It was visible at the back of the little entrance area. When I sent
him in again, and the interior graphics loaded, it had vanished again, but made
another bouncing sound while Tommy walked around. When he tried looking outside
for it again, it was gone.
"I never drink...wine"
If you have Tommy look into the mirror by the model of Cortez' yacht in the
upper room of the Malibu Club, he doesn't cast a reflection like the other
things in the room do. (I can't remember where I 1st read the reminder of this;
thank you, mystery ghost buster.)
Besides the ways you can notice Ghost World anytime in "Vice City"--peds and
vehicles disappear when they go beyond your draw distance or even when you just
have Tommy look away and back, you can see Ghost World make special appearances
during missions, too. The tank you put in the garage in "Sir, Yes Sir" disap-
pears between two solid invisible walls once the door goes down. And Diaz is
going to have a hard time finding the gangster he makes Tommy make "The Chase"
after, since the gangster disappears once he runs to the house.
Then again, Diaz might not have such a hard time of it:
Diaz, the Invisible Man
During the intro to "Supply and Demand," I.51, look at the opening at the base
of Diaz' shirt--he's invisible. The same condition gave Claude Rains' character
a similar personality problem in "The Invisible Man." After all, the name of
the place is Ghost World, not Heaven; you might be curious enough to visit it,
but you wouldn't want to stay there.
Liam Dunn voice ("Blazing Saddles," 1974): I'm leaving.
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I.10 Weapons
One possible combination
Weapon advice
A rundown of all the weapons (including fast Chainsaw attacks,
and, for the Sniper rifle, a seagull hunting guide),
the real names of the weapons,
and some history for most of them
8 Ball's Bomb Shop
One possible combination
Any of the weapons can be fun to try, but here's my reasoning for one possible
strong combination. I'll make your PC weapon life simple.
Equip Tommy with Brass Knuckles, a .308 sniper rifle, a Minigun, an MP (an
Uz-I till the MP is available), and Molotovs. Have an "EP" Admiral and a Rhino
in garages and the Sea Sparrow behind the mansion. (Also have the infinite run,
fireproof feature, and a cop outfit for getting the Hunter.)
The Minigun will get you through most of the game for your 100% completion.
It's the best all-rounder of them, even good for distant targets some might want
a sniper rifle for. (The M60 and Rocket Launcher, and the M4 rifle, come in
2nd.)
The Brass Knuckles are good for punching out of a clinch without attracting
the police attention that some melee weapons create.
The spread of Molotovs lets you shoot around corners, so to speak, and even
ones nearby once you get the fireproof ability.
The .308 sniper rifle is good for looking closely at things, sniping drivers
through windshields, sniping seagulls, shooting through glass that doesn't
break, and shooting through the gate the Zebra Cab drives at in "Cabmageddon"
(I.92).
The MP is the most powerful and accurate for drive-by shootings. (The Uz-I
comes in 2nd.)
The "Everything-Proof" Admiral sedan is nearly "EP" (use "aspirine" if the
tires are shot out), and is quicker at accelerating out of a jam than the Rhino,
Sea Sparrow, or the Hunter.
The Hunter helicopter has more auto-aim for its machine gun than the Sea Spar-
row machine gun. It's fast, but I think the camera follows it like molasses for
maneuvers because it's the biggest helicopter and the same camera physics were
used for all the helicopters.
The Sea Sparrow machine gun has less auto-aim than the Hunter machine gun, but
the camera follows it faster because it's smaller. It's probably closer to
where you'll save your game or need to do a mission.
The Rhino keeps Tommy safe while using its bump and explode ability on vehi-
cles.
Of those weapons that aren't in parenthesis, only the Brass Knuckles, MP, Mol-
otovs, and Hunter aren't either at your save places or things you can store in
garages.
But you can get Brass Knuckles behind the Moonlight Hotel, two doors N of
the Ocean View,
get Molotovs at Tacopalypse, across the street from the E end of the Hyman
Condo alley,
and get the MP, after "Rub Out," about a block S of the alley at the Downtown
Ammu-Nation.
See I.9.B for how to jack the Rhino after you find 90 hidden packages (I.19).
The Sea Sparrow is available behind the mansion on SE Starfish Island after
you find 80 hidden packages (I.19).
See I.9.D for how to jack the Hunter after you find all 100 hidden packages
(I.19) and/or complete "Keep Your Friends Close" (I.99).
Make sure to take the "EP" Admiral to a garage at the end of "Guardian Angels"
(I.42).
For all the others, see below.
Weapon advice
You only need to shoot some part of someone for them to go down. You can
shoot them in the toe with a Minigun and kill them.
You can shoot any part of a vehicle and blow it up--faster with stronger weap-
ons. When destroying a helicopter, that includes the span of the rotating
blades.
There's also a gimmick I haven't tried yet whereby if Tommy runs out of ammo
for a clip you quickly scroll up away from the weapon and back down to it for it
to be reloaded.
You can't get Tommy through either of the airport terminal entrance metal de-
tectors with any weapons.
The only weapons you can get Tommy through the Leaf Links entrance metal de-
tector with are Brass Knuckles and any melee weapon. If Tommy walks into the
golf club pickup beyond the entrance, a golf club will automatically replace any
melee weapon he had.
But Tommy can jump from about any vehicle and get over the lawn roller to the
N of the metal detector in the entrance to Leaf Links, and jump over the rail at
the side of the airport terminal entrance metal detectors, to get by them with
all of his weapons. (You can also get a motorcycle through any metal detector.)
According to Keffa, a reader of Rusk's, the original PS2 names for some of the
weapons were probably changed for later releases of the game to avoid problems
with the owners of the trademarked names of the real weapons they resemble.
This would be in keeping with the practice to give vehicles in the game differ-
ent names than the names of the real vehicles they resemble.
You can only have one hand held weapon at a time in each of the ten categor-
ies.
If Tommy has a submachine gun, needed for drive-bys, it's automatically chos-
en as his weapon while he's in or on a vehicle.
When he exits a vehicle, he's automatically equipped with the weapon he was
equipped with when he entered it.
Equip the same category of weapon as is used in a rampage you're about to do,
and you won't have the weapon of that category replaced afterwards by the weap-
on of the rampage (thanks to the Rusk guide).
If you equip Tommy with a weapon that doesn't use the 1st person view but just
puts cross hairs on the screen, and press Tab so he can answer a ringing cell
phone, he stands or moves while still in the stance he uses for brandishing the
weapon (thanks to spaceeinstein's web site).
A rundown of all the weapons (including fast Chainsaw attacks, and, for the
Sniper rifle, a seagull hunting guide),
the real names of the weapons,
and some history for most of them
1. Camera (only supplied during the "Martha's Mug Shot" mission). Equip the
viewfinder with the RMB, zoom with Z and X or the mouse scroller, and shoot the
picture with the LMB. It has a limit of 12 pictures. It has a stronger zoom
than the scope for either Sniper rifle, so, after you have Tommy follow Candy to
her meeting place and before you have him take 12 pictures with it, you can make
a detour to use it to magnify some things in some other parts of town.
2. Fist or Brass Knuckles
Brass Knuckles (in an alcove behind the Moonlite Hotel, two doors N of the
Ocean View; and they're worn by the security guys at the Malibu Club)
Get the Brass Knuckles (knuckle dusters)--they often make Tommy's punches one
hit knock downs. Besides, the only other choice for this weapon slot is Fist.
Sometimes, when Tommy is crowded in on, his weapons won't be effective owing to
some collision file programming or whatever it is, or he just needs to get
through the crowd, and he needs to punch his way out.
Add the gimmick, described in I.9.A, of having Tommy walk, add LMB and hold it
so he prepares to punch, then release LMB for a more powerful punch, and his
punches are the most effective.
3. Melee weapons
Tommy can break the breakable glass at North Point Mall or Sunshine Autos (or
of the 1st building you jump from in "G-Spotlight," I.81, not that there's any
reason to do it with anything other than a PCJ 600) with melee weapons. To do
this with the Chainsaw, have him use the fast Chainsaw attack method given be-
low.
He can also damage and break the parts off of a vehicle with the Baseball bat,
Hammer, Nightstick, Golf Club, and Chainsaw.
The gimmick described in I.9.A, and referred to above for Fist/Brass Knuckles,
works for most melee weapons, too. While Tommy is walking (W,S,A, or D), hold
down the LMB--he'll raise his melee weapon prepared to strike. Release the LMB
near the target and he'll strike it.
The exception is the Chainsaw, which uses a variation of that method. It
makes the most dramatic improvement for it, too.
Fast Chainsaw attacks
Normally, if you just press a directional key and press LMB for attack, the
Chainsaw makes Tommy lumber around, like with a heavy weapon, and stand still
and wave it for attacks. But you can speed him up by having him jump toward
targets with it, then, while having him walk, hold down the LMB, aiming with the
mouse (I.9.A). Tommy will keep the Chainsaw revved up and moving and pointed in
any direction you want.
He can jump in any direction while he does this, too.
This makes Chainsaw attacks much faster with a free range of motion. This is
useful for rampages requiring a number of Chainsaw kills in a limited time, or
if you use the Chainsaw provided for "Treacherous Swine" (I.40).
Another distinction it has as a melee weapon is to cause people nearby to pan-
ic, and possibly police to attack, if you press the LMB for it without having
Tommy attack anyone with it, the same as can happen if you have Tommy shoot a
gun without aiming it at anyone.
Using it on people throws drops of blood on the "camera." It can also carve
the parts off of a vehicle.
Baseball bat (behind the Ocean View; and at the Bunch of Tools in Washing-
ton Beach, $80, after "Riot"--I.37)
Nightstick (in the Washington Beach Police Station; and they're carried by
policemen)
The Nightstick (baton, billy club, truncheon) with a side handle originated in
the 15th century in Okinawa as the tonfa. The wooden handle of a millstone,
used for grinding grain, was removed and used as a weapon. Some sources put the
origin further back into Chinese martial arts and Indonesian cultures. The side
handled baton, along with the telescopic straight baton, became popular varia-
tions of the nightstick with law enforcers, correctional, riot control, and se-
curity personnel in the late 1990's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonfa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightstick
Golf Club (behind the Leaf Links club house; and they're carried by Golf-
ers)
It's likely that golf originated with chole, a derivative of hockey played in
Flanders, Belgium; the earliest known reference to it is from 1353 AD. In the
next century it was taken to Scotland, and golf continued to evolve in Scotland
and England in the centuries thereafter.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blchainsaw.htm
Screwdriver (at any tool store, $10)
It provides one of the swiftest and least conspicuous kills of the melee weap-
ons.
Meat Cleaver (at any tool store, $50; and by the Vice Point pizza store)
Knife (at the North Point Mall tool store after "Back Alley Brawl"--I.34;
and the S end of alley of the SE block of the east island)
Hammer (at any tool store, $20)
Machete (at the Washington Beach tool store, $100, after "Treacherous
Swine"--I.40; at the Little Havana tool store, $100; and over the sidewalk on
the SE end of the bridge from the east island to Starfish Island)
The American machete was preceded by sticks used by natives to hack through
the bush. The enlarged butcher knives called machetes are used likewise for
sugar cane and jungle undergrowth (the lack of a grinding edge makes them less
useful against woody vegetation) and for weaponry in Latin America.
http://www.vikingsword.com/rila/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete
Katana (at the North Point Mall tool store, $300, after "The Chase"--I.44;
at the North Point Mall Tarbrush Cafe until Tommy blows it up in "Cop Land"--
I.61; and in the garage W of the Starfish Island mansion)
In the 8th century, Japan had a need for curved swords for fighting from
horseback. Shorter swords for foot soldiers were more common during the fight-
ing of the early Muromachi era (1394-1466 AD), and the Katana, a short sword
carried in the belt with the cutting edge upwards, was most commonly used in the
mid-Muromachi era (1467-1554). It is now mainly used for cutting and the ori-
ginal purpose is generally obsolete, although sword schools of the old style ex-
ist.
http://www.shadowofleaves.com/sword_history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana
Chainsaw (at all save places with weapon pickups after finding 20 hidden
packages; Apt. 3C--see below for directions; and the Little Havana tool store,
$150)
In 1830, German Bernard Heine invented the osteotome, a chain carrying cutting
teeth set at an angle which moved around a guiding blade by turning a sprocket
wheel. This surgical tool was the 1st chain saw.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blchainsaw.htm
Andreas Stihl invented the 1st electric chain saw in 1926, and in 1950 his
Stihl company came up with the 1st chain saw that could be operated by one per-
son.
http://www.stihl.co.uk/html/stihl_history.php
Apartment 3C is one of the tributes to "Scarface," 1983, in "GTA VC." Apt. 3C
is in the S area of the east island behind a blacked-out door on the 2nd floor
of an apartment building on the S side of a block three blocks from the E and
two blocks from the S.
Since it's a melee weapon, it will pass through the metal detector into Leaf
Links (which the PCJ 600 can do, too) for "Four Iron" (I.38).
4. Weapons you throw
The longer you hold the LMB down before releasing it, the farther Tommy throws
the weapon.
Grenades (behind the Washington beach police station; at the North Point
Mall Ammu-Nation, $300 for eight; and in a basketball court in the N area of the
block of the west island across from the Starfish Island bridge)
Basic grenades were used in the 1600's (the name probably comes from the
French word for pomegranate). They started being considered practical for siege
operations in Napoleonic times, and got the attention of German war planners,
notably, during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
The Germans had the most advanced ideas for grenades at the start of WW I, for
which grenades were so popularly used that rifles and bayonets were mainly used
to protect grenadiers. In 1915, William Mills of Britain developed a grenade
with a serrated exterior so that it blew up into many pieces--a fragmentation
bomb. Pulling the pin from it set off a four second fuse.
Development on the grenade continues to today, and the grenade remains a sta-
ple of armies around the world.
http://www.1stworldwar.com/weaponry/grenades.htm
Rockstar used Grenades to replace the Tear Gas in the game because some people
complained that it caused game slow downs on their PCs. That's why this version
has standard grenades behind the Washington Beach Police Station. Spaceein-
stein's All In One Mod (I.100.D.f) puts Tear Gas back in. Tear Gas doesn't hurt
Tommy but kills anyone else (except the dancers and bouncers at the Malibu Club,
for some reason) that dwells in it, like police men trying to attack Tommy if
Tommy stands in a cloud of it.
Molotovs (at Tacopalypse, which is across the street from the E end of the
alley by the Hyman Condo)
A Molotov cocktail is a bottle of flammable fluid that has an oil soaked rag
stuck in the opening; the rag is ignited just before throwing it.
Molotovs may have been 1st used during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) (by
the Spanish republican troops), and were named (afterward) for Vyacheslav Mik-
hailovich Molotov, the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949.
Finns who hated Molotov came up with the name for the weapon during the Winter
War of 1939 to 1940 between Finland and Russia.
http://www.sproe.com/m/molotov.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail
Another web site, however, says that the Finns were referring to the fuel mix-
ture used by Russian tanks and the name was later applied to the weapon:
http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/factlets/molotov-cocktail.shtml
Molotovs are the neutron bombs of the game: you can have Tommy destroy those
who exit a vehicle but not destroy it, if you're careful. This comes in handy
if you want him to jack a law enforcement vehicle occupied by armed law enforc-
ers, especially if followed up on with judicious use of the Minigun. About six
Molotovs are needed to destroy a Rhino, so that gives you some leeway in using
Molotovs to take care of any armed soldiers that could emerge from it.
They're good for getting targets that are around corners, and can be used
safely near Tommy once he gets the fire-proof feature. Like the Flame Thrower,
they can even be used against targets pressing toward Tommy on the other side of
glass doors. They're also good for attracting Firetrucks.
Remote Grenade (behind a building across the street and a couple buildings
N of the Malibu Club; during "Gun Runner," a mission for Phil Cassidy--I.76; and
at Phil's Place, $1,000 for eight, after Phil's missions--after I.77)
Once Tommy gets it, he's equipped with a detonator for it. He's stuck with it
till he uses it, as with the 8 Ball's bomb shop detonator bug.
5. Handguns
Pistol (at the Ocean Beach and North Point Mall Ammu-Nations, $100; across
the outdoor parking lot from the east island piers; and on the 1st floor of the
east island building under construction that the red girder jump is a part of;
it's also the weapon the police and some of members of any of the gangs carry
except for the Vercetti gang after "Keep Your Friends Close," which then carries
Uz-Is, and the Golfers, which carry Golf Clubs)
The 1st revolver of quality was invented in 1831 and patented in the U.S. by
Samuel Colt in 1836. The cylindrical mechanism allowed five or six shots to be
fired in rapid succession without reloading. He also had them mass-produced,
and they were reliable and affordable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Colt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver#History
The Colt .45 was developed by John Moses Browning. It was chosen as the offi-
cial sidearm of the Armed Forces of the U.S.A. in 1911 for being the most reli-
able, accurate, and easily taken apart when replacing parts. With some modifi-
cations, the same basic design continues to this day, and has been copied by
others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moses_Browning
It's remained the standard sidearm for U.S. soldiers into recent years.
http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/military/weapons-handguns.html
Pistols, along with Tec-9s and Macs, are the only weapons Tommy can run with
and fire at the same time, which can be handy. They're less accurate than a
.357, though. You can get one from a dead policeman, but you might prefer to
get one from a dead Patrol Investment Group (PIG) security guard since they're
prone to start gun battles at North Point Mall or the airport terminal. (I once
had Security Guards as my "Least Favorite Gang," which is arrived at by killing
gang members, in my Stats. If you get to know them, you'll probably feel the
same way. They're always going ballistic.)
(On PS2, it's called a Colt .45.)
.357 (at all save places with weapon pickups after finding 30 hidden pack-
ages, the Downtown Ammu-Nation, $2,000, after "Rub Out"--I.53, in the TV room of
the mansion after "Keep Your Friends Close"--I.99, and in an alley by the "Wel-
come to Hell" sign a couple blocks W of Ryton Aide in Little Haiti; it's also
the weapon carried by Ammu-Nation clerks.)
Smith and Wesson introduced the .357 Magnum in 1935.
The Colt Python .357 Magnum was developed by Colt in 1955 as a response to the
popularity of the .38 Special. Colt wanted to create the ultimate target re-
volver. The Python is renowned for accuracy, adjustable sights, durability, and
less kickback than when shooting DA Magnum guns of a similar weight, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Python
The .357 is the best handgun in the game.
(On PS2, it's called a Python.)
6. Shotguns
In the early 1600's, scatterguns helped hunters kill birds in flight. Either
Fred Kimble, U.S., 1870, or W.R. Pape, England, 1866, introduced barrel choking,
which concentrated the shot in a smaller area over a longer distance.
http://www.discovertheoutdoors.com/hunting/waterfowl/guns.jsp
http://www.chrisbatha.com/clays1.html
The word "shotgun" 1st appeared in Kentucky in 1776, recorded by James Feni-
more Cooper. Shotguns were favored by pony express riders and stagecoach
guards. Sawing off the end caused the shot to disperse over a wider area, mak-
ing them effective to handle a group of nearby attackers.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mrideshotgun.html
The 1st semi-automatic, the A-5, was created by John Moses Browning in 1900.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Auto-5
The gauge of a shotgun is the number of lead balls the size of the bore which
weigh a pound. The smaller the gauge number, the larger the bore size (except
for the .410, which is the bore size in inches). The most popular shotgun gauge
is 12.
http://www.wonderquest.com/rain-run-big-guns-universe-begins.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_%28bore_diameter%29
"Vice City" shotguns cause Run, Left Shift, to be ineffective.
One special use for shotguns, since they often require more than one shot to
kill someone who isn't nearby, is to use them to hear extra dialogue in the game
(a variation on punching your neighbors to get to know them).
Shotgun (at the Ocean Beach Ammu-Nation, $500, after "Mall Shootout"--I.41;
by a bench by the beach NE of the Washington Beach police station; on the top of
the Washington Mall parking garage; and in a room at the bottom of the mansion
after "Rub Out"--I.53)
If Tommy doesn't have one of the several kinds of shotgun, he'll get a Shotgun
with five shells if he enters a Police Car.
S.P.A.S. 12 (at the Downtown Ammu-Nation, $4,000, after "Bar Brawl"--I.60;
and behind the "Vice Surf" billboard by the airport terminal)
The SPAS-12 (Sporting Purpose Automatic Shotgun) was designed in the 1970's as
a semi-automatic 12 gauge shotgun for the military and law enforcement but mar-
keted in the U.S. as a sporting shotgun. It can function as a pump-action shot-
gun or a self-loading semi-automatic. In recent years, it has become illegal to
import it since it fits the description of a military weapon. It's been seen in
the movies "Jurassic Park," 1993, "The Matrix," 1999, and in the games "Half
Life," 1998, and "Grand Theft Auto Vice City."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spas_12
The S.P.A.S. 12 shotgun is the best shotgun in the game. Why pay for one
when you can get one for free behind the "Vice Surf" billboard across the street
from the airport terminal?
(On PS2, it's called a Spaz Shotgun.)
Stubby shotgun (at the North Point Mall Ammu-Nation, $600, after "The
Chase"--I.44; and behind a building in the Little Haiti City Scrap)
A sawed-off shotgun.
7. Submachine guns
Submachine guns are the only weapons you can use for drive-bys while driving
most land vehicles. (Actually, you can do a drive-by with any weapon you want
when you have Tommy release the steering wheel of a boat or jump on top of a
land vehicle with a driver; you can also do one with the Predator police boat or
by turning the cannon of the Rhino to the side. The Rhino in "Vice City" shoots
a bit too high--over people's heads--though.)
The submachine gun was 1st used by German storm troopers in the last part of
WW I. It was also popularized by movies with James Cagney and others as gang-
sters brandishing Thompson SMGs (Tommy guns).
A good history of submachine guns can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submachine_gun
Tec-9 (on the N side of a house on the N side of the street that ends in a
loop on the east island)
Created by Intratec US as a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, it was originally inex-
pensive--about $200--and is easily converted to be fully automatic by criminals.
It's inaccurate and said to be useful only for drive-bys, school shootings, and
hold-ups. Government efforts have made it hard to find and expensive.
http://www.phoenixcommand.com/Tec9.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tec-9
Mac (at the Ocean Beach Ammu-Nation, $300 or free if you kill the cashier
and take his; and by the road across from the Boatyard on the SE end of the west
island)
It was developed in 1964 by Gordon Ingram and 1st produced in 1970 at his Mil-
itary Armament Company (MAC). It's a light and reliable .45ACP or 9mm subma-
chine gun with a high rate of fire, but it has marginal accuracy in full auto-
matic fire and a short range, so it's mainly used for small area sweeps.
http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg22-e.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC-10
(on PS2, it's called an Ingram Mac 10.)
The Pistol, Tec-9, and Mac are the only weapons Tommy can fire while he runs.
Uz-I (at the North Point Mall Ammu-Nation, $400 or free if Tommy kills the
cashier and takes his; on a front porch on the N side of Prawn Island; behind
the Ocean Beach Pay 'n' Spray; by a tall pink building NE of Washington Mall;
and under the stairs to the Skumole Shack:
to get there, go N from the S end of Downtown on the main N and S road of the
west island--where the road divides, take the lane that veers E then veers NE--
the steps are at the side of a building at the left side of that curve;
it's also the weapon used by vice squad and SWAT agents)
The Uzi, a 9mm submachine gun, was developed for the Israeli army in the
1950's by Uziel Gal. The 1st model was accepted in 1951 and it was 1st used in
battle in 1956. His request not to have it named after him was ignored. The
design is based on that of the Czech M23/25 submachine gun. It's become famous
for having the magazine housing in the pistol grip. It's used in 26 countries
by the police and military in non-combat roles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi
(It may be related that "Uzi" means "my strength" in Hebrew.)
http://www.allboybabynames.com/names-u/boybabynames-uzi.html
(On PS2, it's called an Uzi 9mm.)
MP (at the Downtown Ammu-Nation, $3,000, after "Rub Out"--I.53;
it's also used by the FBI agents who appear at five wanted stars, which Tommy
can get after "Guardian Angels"--I.42, and by the soldiers who show up at six
wanted stars, which Tommy can get after "Rub Out"--I.53)
The MP is the best submachine gun for drive-by shootings.
It uses a delayed blowback technology for greater accuracy. Many military and
law enforcement units in over 60 nations use it--it's the world's most recogniz-
able submachine gun. (Thanks again to the Brady guide.)
The H & K HK54. a 9mm submachine gun, was 1st produced by Heckler und Koch in
1966. It got the name "MP5" when the West German Police and Border Guard used
it as a Maschinepistole 5 (Machine Pistol 5). It's been imported into the U.S.
since the early 1970's and it's meant for military and law enforcement use only.
It's also appeared in many video games, such as "Counter-Strike," and movies.
http://www.streetpro.com/usp/hkmp5.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP5
(On PS2, it's called an MP5.)
8. Assault Rifles
Assault rifles cause Run, Left Shift, to be ineffective.
Kruger (at the Ocean Beach Ammu-Nation, $1,000, after "Guardian Angels"--
I.42;
and on the roof of El Swanko Casa--to get there, take the bridge from Prawn
Island to the east island, continue on the road S to where it comes to a T in-
tersection--El Swanko Casa will be ahead of you across the street; have Tommy
get on the 2nd floor balcony and jump to the roof to find the Kruger)
Ruger Firearms, of Sturm, Ruger & Co., 1st released a bolt action rifle, the
affordable Model 77, in 1968, and it's become very popular. It was updated to
the Model 77 Mark II with a redesigned trigger and safety in 1989.
http://hunting.about.com/library/weekly/aastrugerlonggunsb.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger
(On PS2, it's called a Ruger.)
M4 (at the Downtown Ammu-Nation, $5,000, after "Rub Out"--I.53; in a room
at the bottom of the mansion after "Rub Out"--I.53; in Studio B of Interglobal
Films on Prawn Island;
between some shacks S of Auntie Poulet's shack--to get there, go W from the W
end of the Links Bridge to the west island and go off-road at the W-most side of
the curve;
and behind some buildings W of Cafe Robina--to get there, go S from the W end
of the bridge from Starfish Island to the west island, go right, and follow the
road as it curves 90 degrees N--at the N end, Cafe Robina is on the right and
the buildings you want are on the left;
it's also the weapon used by the soldiers at Fort Baxter--the ones who appear
otherwise, who appear at six wanted stars, use MPs.)
In 1994, the U.S. Army began using the Colt Model 720 selective-fire carbine,
a shortened M16A2 rifle, as a US M4 Carbine. The M4 has been used by Special
Operation forces and other select members of the military.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m16.htm
Unlike the PS2 version, the scope of the PC M4 doesn't jump around when you
fire the rifle. It has an optional aim brought up by the RMB that jiggles a bit
when you fire, so I wouldn't use the option--I don't know any good reason it's
given as an option. Since the gun has a strong rapid fire, I'd just watch the
screen for results.
9. Heavy Weapons
Heavy weapons cause Run, Left Shift, to be ineffective.
These are the only weapons, of the ones that make Tommy unable to run, that
make him unable to jump, too. Scroll to Fist/Brass Knuckles and back for the
best combination of fire and movement.
M60 (the W tower at Fort Baxter--get the Cop Outfit after doing "Cop Land,"
I.61, to walk around the base without being shot at; and Phil's Place, $8,000,
after Phil's missions--after I.77)
The earliest ideas for a machine gun can be found with plans by Leonardo Da
Vinci in the 1400's and the traits of some guns in the 1700's.
A good history of the machine gun can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_gun
Since the 1950's, the M60 been the Army's general purpose medium machine gun.
It weighs 23 lbs. and is used with a tripod or bipod mount. It has a cyclic
fire of 550 rounds per minute, rapid fire of 100 rpm, and, with the barrel
changed every 100 rounds, sustained fire at 100 rpm.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m60e3.htm
Unlike the PS2 version, the sight doesn't jump around while you're shooting
it. In fact, it's a slightly slower shooting and weaker version of the Minigun,
which is the best all-arounder of the weapons in the game on PC. It's less ac-
cessible than the Minigun, though.
Flame Thrower (at all save places that have weapon pickups after getting 40
hidden packages; in the Rockstar logo-shaped swimming pool in the W section of
the two sections encircled by road on Starfish Island; and in front of a build-
ing at the SW corner of the SE section of blocks--Viceport--on the west island)
The modern flamethrower was used by Germany in WW I, both sides in WW II, and
by the U.S. Marines in the Korean War and Vietnam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_thrower
Like Molotovs, it can be used to destroy the Rhino, except Tommy has to get
closer to it to do it. It doesn't have the advantage of getting around corners
to the degree of the spread of the Molotovs. But, like Molotovs, and owing to
some kind of programming glitch, the Flame Thrower can burn targets nearby on
the other side of glass, like the doors of the Malibu or around the airport ter-
minal, while Tommy is protected on his side of them.
Minigun (at all save places that have weapon pickups after getting 60 hid-
den packages; at Phil's Place, $10,000, after doing Phil's missions--after I.77;
and in the Haitian processing plant after Tommy blows it up in "Trojan Voodoo"--
after I.98: see my note for "Trojan Voodoo" for the way to jump in on a PCJ 600
to help specify the location)
The Minigun originated with the Gatling Gun, which was declared obsolete by
the U.S. Army in 1911 after 45 years of service due to the advent of the auto-
matic machine gun. The powerful, fast, multi-barrel Minigun is strictly mili-
tary issue and has been mounted on helicopters and light aircraft.
The hand-held General Electric XM214 Automatic Gun--a Minigun--of the movie
"Predator," 1987, used by Blaine (Jesse Ventura) is real except it used reduced
power blank rounds. Otherwise, the gun would have had too strong a recoil (at
least 11 kg. continuously). Moreover, the Minigun (30 lbs.) and the power sup-
ply (7 lbs. for 1,000 rounds) and ammo (35 lbs. for 1,000 rounds) it would re-
quire would be too heavy for such use to be practical. The battery belt would
be discharged after 1,000 rounds and require three to four hours to recharge.
Even if a crew lugged all 72 lbs. of needed equipment somewhere, the recoil
would spin the gunner around, possibly shooting his own crew.
It costs $25,000 for the gun alone.
http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Machine-Guns/GE_XM214_Minigun.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minigun
In the PC version, using Standard Controls with Mouse Aim, where Tommy is a
mighty, mighty mountain man, the Minigun is the hand-held weapon star of the
show. It's a big "Predator"/"Terminator 2," 1991/"The Matrix," 1999/"Blackhawk
Down," 2001 (and add a big list of games)-type machine gun that makes quick work
of anything. (I also think it's a funny part of the absurdist world Rockstar
creates, which includes making tongue-in-cheek fun of gaming traditions.)
As Demarest (see I.100.D.f and g) says, it's the "Vice City" version of the
"GTA III" M-16.
Tommy isn't limited to side-to-side movement with it as with the PS2 version.
It's easy to spread the shots around with it for a crowd or a jiggling target.
(For example, in Phnom Penh '86, shooting an M60, which is similar, from a jig-
gling helicopter, just waggle the stream of bullets across the targets. Don't
worry about locking your aim onto one target accurately.) Since it's available
for free at several of your hideouts after you find 60 hidden packages, it's
more accessible than an M60.
It works for long distance targets others might use a Sniper Rifle for, too.
And you don't have to wait to get the fast reload feature for it with "Rifle
Range," as for the Sniper Rifle or Rocket Launcher.
You don't have to worry about Tommy damaging or killing himself with the ex-
plosion by hitting something nearby with the Minigun, as can happen with the
concussive effect of the explosion of rockets.
Again, one drawback is that Tommy can't move fast with it, so just scroll to
Fist/Brass Knuckles to have him run, then scroll to Minigun to use it.
(I've read that the aiming ability and range of motion for the PS2 "San An-
dreas" Minigun has been improved, so people who play that will get to know from
personal experience why the PC VC gamers have been so fond of it. I like the VC
one better than the SA one; the SA one shows up too late in the game and sounds
like a blender.)
Rocket Launcher (at all save places after getting 70 hidden packages; at
Phil's Place, $8,000, after doing Phil's missions--after I.77;
and in the swimming pool of the Hooker Inn--to get there, go S from the W end
of the South Bridge, go right, continue past the intersection, and the driveway
for it is on the left.)
A Rocket Launcher fires an RPG--rocket propelled grenade. The most popular
RPG in the world is the RPG-7, developed during WW II in the Soviet Union. It
incorporates ideas taken from the U.S. Bazooka and the German Panzerfaust. The
RPG-7 weighs 15.2 lbs and is relatively cheap. It's found all over the world
and has been very effective for downing helicopters, damaging tanks, and close
combat. Thanks to Mr. Lester W. Grau, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort
Leavenworth, KS.:
http://www.g2mil.com/RPG.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Launcher
You need to hold down the Right Mouse Button to bring up the scope so it will
fire. It can shoot faster after you get the fast load feature by getting over
45 points during "Rifle Range"--I.66.
The Rocket Launcher blasts can be directed at a wall a target is pressing to
the other side of to get to Tommy, too, and the concussion effect will kill
them. Have Tommy stand a good distance away from anything he shoots with it,
though. Such rockets are useful the same way as when using the Hunter for the
vigilante mission and you get the glitch where the target shows up inside a
building you can't enter, and you use a rocket at the wall the target is be-
hind.
Likewise, the concussive effect of the explosion can kill people by the near
side of walls without hitting them directly with a rocket.
After getting the fast reload feature, especially, it's good for taking out
the competitors for the Sunshine Auto races. The cars in those races are bul-
let-proof, but not explosion-proof.
Like the Minigun, it's good for taking attacking helicopters out of the sky.
As noted in the Ghost World section, I.9.G, if you place Tommy with his right
side against a wall and equip him with the Rocket Launcher and press Right Mouse
Button to bring up the scope, you can turn him right and see through the wall.
10. Sniper Rifle
As with the Camera and the Rocket Launcher, the scope has to be equipped, RMB,
before it will shoot. As with the Camera, you zoom with the mouse scroller or Z
and X.
The zoom feature is good for looking closely at the details of things. So
Sniper Rifles are the easiest to chalk up Head Shots statistics with, which,
fortunately, refer to other people's heads that Tommy shoots.
These are the only weapons you can use to get Seagulls Sniped statistics. If
you have Tommy shoot seagulls with one, pick a place away from the public, since
it tends to panic them and cause them to jump in the ocean, if it's nearby, and
drown, and the police who don't drown will hit Tommy and try to bust him. Pick
a place where you never see the police and where you get a good wide view of the
horizon. Some good locations are along the E edge of the east island beach,
along the W edge of the airport tarmac, and on a pier on the N edge of Starfish
Island.
It also shoots through the windows of glass that doesn't break, if you have
Tommy stand far enough away from it when he fires. You can find some such glass
at the Ocean View, Sunshine Autos (I don't mean the glass you can drive a car
through), Ryton Aide, and the Downtown Ammu-Nation. Likewise, it shoots through
the gate the Zebra Cab drives through in "Cabmageddon"--I.92.
As in "GTA III," you can have Tommy shoot the moon (this is born of a pun, I
think) with his sniper rifle, too, and make it cycle through six different sizes
to pick the moon you're partial to.
Sniper rifle (at the North Point Mall Ammu-Nation, $1,500, after "Phnom Penh
'86"--I.45; in the maze of hedges on the W side of the mansion;
and on a ledge at the S side of the W end of the South Bridge. To get this
one and return safely, go to the ledge and put the boat against it--even a
Dingy, though it rides so low in the water it looks like Tommy could never jump
high enough to reach the ledge. Put the boat beside the ledge and have Tommy
jump at it, and the game will bounce Tommy up onto the ledge. After getting the
rifle, hit F to transport Tommy behind the wheel of the boat.)
The word "sniper" is derived from snipe, a game bird which is difficult to
sneak up on. The 1st modern snipers were part of the ninja warriors of 16th
century Japan, but their rifles had poor accuracy. Those used by Louis XIV of
France in the late 1600's/early 1700's are claimed by some to have made calvary
of armored knights obsolete by shooting through the armor. In 1777, Timothy
Murphy used a Kentucky rifle to shoot Gen. Simon Fraser at about 500 yards,
amazing for the time and which turned the tide of the battle against the British
in favor of the rebels.
For more on the history of snipers, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper
It's a single shot rifle, so getting the fast load feature with "Rifle Range"
(I.66) speeds it up.
.308 Sniper (at all save places that have weapon pickups after getting 50
hidden packages; the Downtown Ammu-Nation, $6,000, after "Shakedown"--I.58; and
on the roof, E of Cafe Robina, used to get hidden package 75)
It's the standard of quality for semi-automatic rifles in the world. It has
an expected accuracy of 1 MOA (minute of arc--1/60th of a degree; there are 360
degrees in a circle). The Heckler und Koch PSG-1 weighs nearly 18 lbs., is .308
Win caliber, and costs about $9,000. It's been used by police forces in the
Americas and Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSG-1_Sniper_Rifle
(On PS2, it's called a PSG-1. PSG in German is short for PrazisionsScharf-
schutzenGewehr, which, in English, means "high-precision marksman's rifle."
Thanks to Max R. Popenker.)
http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn14-e.htm
8 Ball's Bomb Shop
To go to the bomb shop, go S from the W end of the South Bridge, go right, go
left, make the 1st right into a lot, continue through the gateway, then go left
to the door, with a 3D 8 Ball over it, on the right near the end of the lot.
The buddy of Claude (the lead character of "GTA III"), Eight Ball, has one of
his Shoreside Vale-type bomb shops in Vice City. You have Tommy drive a land
vehicle into it, or push a Checkpoint Chopper in backwards, and it's equipped
with a bomb that Tommy gets a hand held detonator for. It's generally neglected
for Vice City mission strategies, but some uses for blowing up a vehicle with it
include:
Preparing a vehicle with it and letting one of the pedestrians who try to jack
Tommy's vehicle take it;
"Cabmageddon"--I.92--see the Brady Games method, and my variation of it;
"Four Iron"--I.38--leave a rigged PCJ 600 just outside the Leaf Links metal
detector for the target to run to;
"Treacherous Swine"--I.40--leave a rigged car outside and to the S of the tar-
get's place, since he always goes that way to escape;
"Psycho Killer"--I.57--rig the bus that the Rusk strategy has you block the
psycho's escape with;
And rigging a vehicle with it to use as a weapon against whomever you'd like
to lure to it (any attacking gangs, especially if they yank Tommy out of the ve-
hicle, etc.).
I haven't tested the "Four Iron" and "Treacherous Swine" ideas yet, but I
imagine they could add a little variety into the proceedings if you replay the
game like I do. "Cabmageddon" would be the most convenient mission to try it
with.
Note: if you want to use a vehicle rigged with a bomb during a mission, take
it to 8 Ball's place during the mission and not before it. When I tried rigging
the Coach to add some variety to Rusk's use of it for "Psycho Killer" before the
mission, it wouldn't work during the mission. When I rigged the Coach during
the mission, it worked fine.
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I.11 Armor, Police Bribe, Health, and Adrenaline pickups
Time to take a Civil Service test for clerk and see how good you can follow
directions. Use the paper map the game provides for the locations of the neigh-
borhoods. If you don't have the BradyGames guide, you should use a print out of
a map from Gamefaqs for the location of the pickups, then just use my directions
to make notes in the margins to help pinpoint the location of a few.
It's more important to know where armor pickups are than health pickups be-
cause armor is your 1st line of defense against damage; Tommy's health won't de-
crease from hits or bullets till his armor is gone. Drowning is different; ar-
mor stays the same and health decreases, so try to keep Tommy out of the water.
Police bribe pickups are important to learn the locations of, too. Even when
Tommy is showing the best of behavior, a policeman may run in front of his vehi-
cle, or nick it with their police car, and give Tommy a wanted rating. The po-
lice can also give Tommy a wanted rating when he's fighting someone else, even
if it's a gang that attacked him 1st--likewise, unfair and interruptive. You
start to understand why one of the things the peds say in "GTA III" is "Damn po-
lice" and start saying it yourself (again, in GTA only!).
(Be sure to get the infinite run by getting level 12 of the ambulance mission,
too. Tommy will most commonly get one star, maybe two, and you can knock two
down to one, which is easy to have him just run off.)
I generally don't have much use for the Adrenaline Pills, except to help Tommy
kill Hilary with a Minigun, failing the mission, to get his Sabre Turbo (not
bullet-proof on PC) in "The Driver," I.68, and in "Dirty Lickin's," I.84, for
Auntie Poulet, to make it easier to snipe the moving targets.
Since they briefly make everything slower and make Tommy use broader move-
ments. I think they should have been drink pickups in the bars and clubs around
Vice City. A contest could have been to see who gets the most insane stunt
while driving the RC Bandit while drunk, for example. ("I'd rather have a free
bottle in front of me than have a pre-frontal lobotomy"--Fred Allen.)
They also briefly give Tommy super strength. He can belt somebody for yards
and destroy or shove a vehicle around easier than usual. I often get a street
of elderly and handicapped people going by at such times. That's another reason
I don't use them so much.
The effect goes away if Tommy uses a vehicle, so you'll have to blame all the
car wrecks on something else.
Body Armor pickup
At 1st, the top strength of your armor is 100 points. Complete level 12 of
the vigilante mission (I.25) to make it able to go up to 150. When you achieve
100% completion of the game (I.99), it can go up to 200.
The pickup looks like a blue bullet proof vest.
You can find some armor:
in the Ocean View upstairs hallway after finding 10 hidden packages; in
the Starfish Island mansion front yard after both "Rub Out" (I.53) and finding
10 Hidden Packages; on the Hyman Condo roof after finding 10 hidden packages and
buying the condo (but buy the condo after finding 70 hidden packages--see I.19)
(to get to the condo entrance, go into the alley represented by the SW to NE
diagonal line on your map S of the W of the two most N blocks on the W island),
in a weapon room on the bottom floor of the mansion after "Rub Out"
(I.53).
in the 1st floor TV room of the mansion after "Keep Your Friends Close"
(I.99).
at the Downtown Ammu-Nation from the start of the game, but, for some rea-
son, not at the Ocean Beach and North Point Mall Ammu-Nations until after "Jury
Fury"--I.35 (but it costs $200--I rarely buy it).
on the N patio of the beige and white building E of the N end of North
Point Mall, which is at the N end of the E island.
atop the 2nd ramp that goes E-W up into the gray-blue and white building
on the S side of the E end of the bridge from the E island to Prawn Island.
Enter on the E side.
in the Polynesian gazebo/hut surrounded by torches in a back yard of the
block S of El Swanko Casa. To get to El Swanko Casa, follow the road from the
bridge from Prawn Island to the E island as it curves S down the E island. At
the T intersection, El Swanko Casa is across the street from you.
on the driveway of the Standing Vice Point Hotel, which is across the
street S of the Malibu Club, which is in the middle of the N-S road that runs
the length of the E island.
by a basketball court: go N on the street E of the pizza store which is
around the block to the N and W of the Malibu Club. Turn right into the little
gray alley. Go into the space between the walls on the left and turn left.
at the top of the stairs of the "stilt" building, which is entered on the
N side of the block two blocks S of Washington Mall, which in on the S area of
the E island, 3 blocks from the E and 4 blocks from the S (the mall looks like a
cartoon face looking W on the map in the game).
behind a 1st floor wall on the NE side of a building with blue windows un-
der construction N of the road that's at the E end of the bridge from the E is-
land to Starfish Island.
behind a large pink building on the E island--enter the area on the S side
of the block, 2nd block from the E and 4th from the S.
N of the inside of the opening of a fence, which is across the street from
the N big front gate of the film studio, which is in the SW area of Prawn Is-
land.
over a sand trap on the N island of Leaf Links golf course, near the N
coast, W of the middle of the coast.
after "G-Spotlight": go S from the W end of the North Dirt Track, which is
on the NE end of the W island, and climb the stairs to a roof; it's E of the top
of the stairs.
in the W length of the alley that goes around a building that's S of the
Downtown pizza store, which is on the W side of the S end of the road that runs
S from the W end of the Hyman Condo.
in the white roofless garage at the E side of the road where the main N-S
road of the W island divides at the S Downtown area.
by a house in Little Havana: go S on the road that goes S from the Little
Havana Laundromat; turn left/E off the road at the 3rd junked car on your left
and go through the shrubs to the side of the pale green house; on your in-game
map, the block it's on is green with white dots. To get to the laundromat, go N
on the main N-S road of the W island past the Starfish Island bridge and take
the 2nd left; go W then S to a T intersection; go right/W, and the laundromat is
on the lot on the right corner just past the 1st right.
on the roof of the Print Works in S Little Haiti; enter the opening in the
building to get to the stairs to the roof. To get to the Printworks, go N on
the main N-S road of the W island past the Starfish Island bridge and take the
2nd left; just before it curves to the S, go off the road to the NW to the off-
yellow two story building.
in the SE tower of the several at Fort Baxter.
in a parking lot between lot with the four big jet fuel tanks and the air-
port: go S on the main N-S road of the W island past Cherry Poppers (which is
just S of the Starfish Island bridge), and turn right/E. Continue through the
intersection; after the road makes a 90 degree curve N, turn right off the road
to the gates with blue and red banded bars across them. Go through the S end of
the S bar. The armor is across the lot to your left.
and in the doorway across the street from the big ship that's at the S end
of the E side of the W island.
Note: you get the same armor benefit by getting into the Enforcer at the
Vice Point police station. It's a block S and E of El Swanko Casa.
Police Bribe pickup
Each bribe takes one star off any wanted rating you get due to the deplorable
prevalence of cops on the take.
You can find a bribe:
in the middle of the lower walk S of North Point Mall (which is on the N
end of the E island).
in an alley: go N from the Malibu Club (it's by the middle of the N-S road
that runs the length of the E island) and take the 3rd left--you'll see it ahead
in the alley of the next block over.
on the 1st corner on the left N of the Malibu Club.
on the SE side of a manilla-white-gray and brown calico house; go SE from
the base of the road that ends in a circle (NW of the Malibu Club) on the E is-
land, cross the intersection, and the house is in front of you.
in the N-S alley of the 5th block from the S along the E side of the E is-
land.
in the E-W sunken shopping mall on the E island, 2nd block from the S and
2nd block from the E.
in the middle of the road: take the bridge from the E island to Prawn Is-
land and take the 1st left--it's a bit down that road.
in the Hyman Condo alley; on the map in your game, it's the SW to NE diag-
onal line that's S of the W of the two most N blocks on the W island.
in an alley: go S on the main N-S road of the W island past the Starfish
Island bridge and turn right/E; go past the 1st right, and turn right into an
alley for the bribe.
in an alley: go S on the N-S road of the W island under the Leaf Links
bridge (about the middle of the W island) and immediately go right. (Note how
easy it would be to go over the grass median strip to get onto the bridge--it's
a good shortcut to know for some other time.) Go past the 1st right and turn
right into the alley: the bribe is by a picture of boxes--one that someone put
in backwards--that represents what's seen in an open garage door.
airborne in the path of Jump 7 (see I.26), which is done over the large
gray N-S concrete drainage ditch of Little Haiti; go N from the Starfish Island
bridge on the main N-S road of the W island; take either the 2nd or 3rd left--
the ditch runs between them. (It's also W of the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray.)
airborne in the path of Jump 5 (see I.26) in Little Haiti; Jump 5 goes
over two ramps S of the pale yellow building on the most N E-W street in Little
Haiti.
airborne over the fence with a ramp leaned against it at the back of the
yard behind Sunshine Autos; to get to Sunshine Autos, go S from the Starfish Is-
land bridge on the main N-S road of the W island; either take the 1st right then
1st left or 2nd right then 1st right; Sunshine Autos is N of where you'd run in-
to yourself if you could do both at the same time.
Again, you don't have to jump through the three airborne bribes--they're air-
borne to get rid of wanted ratings when you're in a helicopter.
If you use them, you can get a 4th bribe by landing on the condo roof to go
down to the alley to use the one there. If you still have one more wanted star,
go up to the roof and use the clothes pickup. If you have two more wanted
stars, you might go back up and fly to the bribe in the lowest walk S of North
Point Mall and plop down in it, then fly or run off the last one.
Health pickup
At 1st, the top strength of your health is 100. Complete level 10 of the
pizza pie mission (I.21) to make it able to go up to 150. When you achieve 100%
completion of the game (I.99), it can go up to 200.
Seeing a whore can put it 25 points higher than the usual maximum at any of
those stages in the PC version.
Saving and reloading a game, or even just using a save cassette then resuming
the game without saving (thanks to Siva for the tip), restores health to the
usual maximum; any points higher than that, created by seeing a whore, are
dropped.
Health pickups look like symbols of love (awwwwr).
You can get healthy:
at the Shady Palms Hospital, Vice Point; It's on the W side of the block
which is E of the block that looks like a cartoon nose sticking out to the W be-
neath North Point Mall.
at the Ocean View Hospital, S area of the E island, W of the Washington
Mall, which is on the 3rd block from the E and 4th block from the S.
at the WestHaven Community Healthcare Centre, Little Havana; go N on the
main N-S road of the W island past the Starfish Island bridge--it's on your
left.
at the Schuman Healthcare Center, Downtown; go W from the W end of the
bridge from Prawn Island to the W island till you get to a T intersection--it's
on your left.
in the Dispensary (pharmacy), Vice Point; go E from the E end of the
bridge from Prawn Island to the E island, continue on the road as it curves S
and keep going to a T intersection, then go right then right again--the Dispen-
sary is about halfway up the block on your right.
in Ryton Aid, Little Havana; go S on the main N-S road of the W island and
pass beneath Links Bridge and beyond the 1st right--it's on your right.
in the Dispensary (pharmacy), Downtown: go W from the W end of the bridge
from Prawn Island to the W island till you get to a T intersection; go left/S
and around a 90 degree curve to the E--the Dispensary is on your right.
(Note: it costs $20 at hospitals and pharmacies.)
in a huge green drinking cup, we don't know why, you need to run or
squeeze in and out of in the NW area of the 1st floor of North Point Mall.
by a Dumpster: go E from the E end of the bridge from Prawn Island to the
E island, continue S to a T intersection, then go right/W then go left/S, and go
to the 2nd left--it's on the corner on the far left.
on a rooftop; take a PCJ 600 onto the grass across the street to the N of
the block which is the 6th from the S on the E side of the E island; drive S
over the ramps and onto the roof. Continue S over a few roofs to the pickup.
along the winding path from the N end of the piers area to the road; the
piers are near the S end of the W side of the E island.
over the spraying love fish fountain just N of the middle of the E-W road
that runs through Prawn Island.
over a little bridge; go behind Leaf Links club house, go N past the cir-
cle of road and continue on the road that goes N--it's ahead of you.
in the TV room on the 1st floor and in the little weapons room on the bot-
tom level of the mansion on SE Starfish Island after "Rub Out" (I.53).
on the S sidewalk by the peachy-pink archway at the E end of the bridge
from Starfish Island to the W island.
over the Downtown Dirt Track on the NE end of the W island.
on the N side of the roof of the Downtown Ammu-Nation; from the W side of
the bridge from Prawn Island to the W island, go W then make the 1st left; the
long stairway on your left makes a good jump to the roof--get a long runway for
it.
on the roof of the Schuman Healthcare Center, Downtown; go W from the W
end of the bridge from Prawn Island to the W island; at the T intersection, go S
and around the 90 degree turn; the Dispensary is on your right. (You'll proba-
bly never use this pickup unless you're an incredibly terrible "G-Spotlight"
jumper.)
on top of the conveyer belt of the S green garbage crusher at the Junk-
yard, City Scrap. Go S on the main N-S road from Downtown, then make the 2nd
right, then make the 2nd right, and then make the 2nd right (you'll probably
never use it unless you have a terrible sense of direction during "Death Row";
you can look in the building at the N end of the yard for the bloody chair
you'll have to free Lance from then).
in the S lot by the stairs you'll run up, and S of the building you'll
blow up, for "Cannon Fodder"; before that, drive a PCJ 600 S from Downtown on
the main N-S road of the W island; take the 1st right to a T intersection, then
go right, and after the road curves S you'll see a pizza place on your left;
drive from the E end of the alley on the N side of the pizza place into the
steps on the N side of the building across the street and you'll jump into the
compound;
or: go there in a helicopter; look for a complex with a gray building and
gray, pink, and yellow walls E of the S garbage crusher of the Junkyard.
on the 2nd floor of the airport terminal across from Gate 1-8; to get to
the terminal, go S past the S bridge on the main N-S road of the W island and
make the 1st right; go through the intersection and follow the road as it makes
a 90 degree turn N then a 90 degree turn W; the terminal is the big building on
your left.
on the roof of the one story discount department store (LUGGAGE 65% OFF)
three buildings W of Callegg's Deli; you'll probably never use this heart pickup
unless you need it during the 5th Assassination mission, when a gate opens to a
lot and stairs behind the store; if you want to get to the store roof before
that, take a helicopter S past the W end of the bridge from Starfish Island to
the W island; make the 1st right--around the deli on the corner--and go three
doors on your right farther W.
under the N ramp to the large ship at the S end of the E side of the W is-
land.
by the stairs for the low wooden walk on the W side of the Boatyard; to
get to the Boatyard, go S past the W end of the S bridge on the main N-S road of
the W island--where the road divides, take the E road past the big ship on the
left; look for a building with a crummy black fence and a glowing house pickup
in front of it (you buy it later) on your left (you can use your Rocket Launcher
gimmick to look through the walls of such places for now).
Adrenaline pickup
They look like red and white medical capsules.
You can find this strange street drug:
in the Dispensary (pharmacy), Vice Point; go E from the E end of the
bridge from Prawn Island to the E island, continue on the road which curves S
and go to a T intersection; go right then right again--it's about halfway up the
block on your right.
in Ryton Aid, Little Havana; go S on the main N-S road of the W island and
pass beneath Links Bridge and beyond the 1st right--it's on your right.
in the Dispensary (pharmacy), Downtown: go W from the W end of the bridge
from Prawn Island to the W island till you get to a T intersection; go left/S
and around a 90 degree curve to the E--the Dispensary is on your right.
(Note: it costs $10 at pharmacies.)
behind the pale blue and gray apartment building on the N side of the Ma-
libu Club parking lot.
at the NW corner of the manilla and white building S of North Point Mall.
on the 2nd floor balcony of the apartment building on the S side of the E
end of the road that goes E from the E end of Leaf Links bridge.
in a N-S alley in the 1st block from the E and the 5th block from the S on
the E island.
inside Washington Mall, 1st floor, W end; the mall is on the S area of the
E island, 3rd block from the E and 4th block from the S.
on the SE side of the roof of the mansion, which is on the SE side of
Starfish Island.
in the yard of the mansion, across from the garage and near the low wall
by the road.
on the NE corner of a walk in the E Downtown area; the walk connects the S
side of the W end of the bridge from the W island to Prawn Island with the road
that goes under the bridge.
by the stairs in an alley; go S from Downtown on the main N-S road of the
W island, take the 2nd right, and go off road into the 2nd alley on the left:
it's ahead of you by the stairs at the other end of the alley.
over a small set of steps you can see when you look W from the alley on
the N side of the Little Haiti pizza store; to get to the pizza store, go S from
Downtown on the main N-S road of the W island, take the 2nd right then the 2nd
right--after it curves S, the pizza store is on the left.
at the S side of a dirty pink house; to get there, go S from Downtown on
the main N-S road of the W island and make the 1st right after passing under the
Links Bridge--after it makes a 90 degree curve S, the house is the 5th one on
the left.
in the SE corner of a dirt lot of palm trees (you can climb two of them);
to get there, go N past the Starfish Island bridge on the main N-S road of the W
island, take the 1st left to a T intersection and go left--the lot is off the
road on the right. (It's also a location where you can have Tommy walk out over
thin air--see I.3.)
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I.12 Wanted Ratings
(Also see section I.7--Wanted Stars Attained and Evaded)
What happens at each wanted level
What to do about wanted ratings
Things any major fugitive should know
What happens at each wanted level
One star
Tommy attracts a nearby policeman to chase him. If Tommy gets closer to an-
other officer, the 1st one will give up the chase and the 2nd will chase Tommy.
The officer will try to hit him with a Nightstick, pull him from his vehicle,
and bust him. Getting busted involves having Tommy get knocked flat on his back
on the ground while the officer aims his Pistol down at him with both hands and
may make a wisecrack.
Two stars
Tommy attracts a police car with two officers, and the officers ram his vehi-
cle, pull him from his vehicle, get out to shoot at him with Pistols, and try to
bust or kill him. They seem more likely to go for busting if Tommy's in a vehi-
cle and shooting to warn or kill if he's on foot, which I've seen linger into a
reduced rating of one star. And, unfortunately, there isn't a mechanism for
having Tommy say, "I surrender" and just get busted when he's on foot and the
police are going for a kill. Even if he just stands there with his back to
them, they'll shoot him to death. The Predator police boat (also used in "Papa-
razzi Purge" in "GTA III") will chase and shoot at him if he's sailing or flying
over the water.
Three stars
The city Police Dept. vice squad guys (possibly the "Miami Vice" look-vaguely-
alikes, possibly two white guys) with Uz-Is in a "Vice" Cheetah who shoot at him
and try to bust or kill him, pairs of police cars and saw horses used for road
blocks, policemen who throw strips of tire spikes both across and away from the
road, and a trailing helicopter join the above.
Four stars
In addition to the above, helicopters shoot and send armed SWAT (Special Weap-
ons And Tactics) agents rappelling down ropes to shoot Uz-Is, and Enforcers
(SWAT vans) arrive with SWAT agents to shoot Uz-Is, and they all try to bust or
kill him. This is the highest wanted rating Tommy can get at the start of the
game.
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/691/00gta1wantedratingfunvc3ow0.jpg
The SWAT team originated in Delano, CA, and the idea was embraced by the Los
Angeles Police Dept., in the 1960's. In the years since, it has arrested scores
of violent suspects, freed numerous hostages, and earned hundreds of commenda-
tions and citations, including several Medals of Valor. In the U.S., it's the
popular name for a major city police force trained and allowed to use paramili-
tary weaponry and tactics beyond the kind the regular police department uses.
For Miami, Florida, fictionalized for Vice City, it's the Miami Police SWAT
Team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAT
Five stars
FBI Ranchers join the above. In each SUV there are four FBI agents who will
try to shoot him with MPs and bust him. Tommy can get a five star wanted level
after "Guardian Angels"--I.42.
The forerunner of the FBI was a group of Special Agents called the Bureau of
Investigation (BOI) created on July 26, 1908, for the Dept. of Justice and
headed by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte. It's had a vast history of accom-
plishments in combating crime. Under director J. Edgar Hoover, it had Al Capone
investigated beginning in 1929, and gathered evidence of his Chicago racketeer-
ing, bribing of prison officials, determined the falsehood of his claim to post-
pone an appearance before the Federal Grand Jury due to poor health, etc. It
became known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935.
In the 1980's ("Vice City" takes place in 1986), it made an increasingly im-
portant impact in defeating terrorists, drug traffickers, and violent criminals.
http://www.fbi.gov/fbihistory.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI
Six stars
The army joins in with MPs. They travel in Rhinos (they don't use the cannon,
but don't bump into one with Tommy's vehicle) and Barracks OLs. I think they
just shoot to kill and leave busting to the others. Tommy can get a six star
wanted level after "Rub Out"--I.53.
What to do about wanted ratings
Hiding
Tommy doesn't really need to hide anywhere. Police can run most places on
ground level, so hiding in a shrub or around a corner is about as effective as
waiting on the sidewalk. They don't bother about going along a desolate slice
along the shore of the E beach at any rating, and you might rarely see one in
the front lobby of the Ocean View at a high rating. They won't send a chopper
to a rooftop until he has at least three stars, and I think it has to be at
least that high before a policeman appears in some such places. It might make
for a decent place to take a break, and one star might even go away.
But even if you find such a place, sometimes hiding, or assuming a policeman
isn't around because you don't see one, backfires, because a policeman you can't
see is running indefinitely against a wall, etc., toward Tommy, so a one star
rating could linger indefinitely. You might have a long one star rating and
look around to see a policeman has assumed a funny patient stance while they
wait for Tommy to come from behind something. Their effort in one spot on the
ground nearby could make the rating linger till you at least have him run some-
where else.
The Infinite Run
Any wanted rating makes for a very good reason to get the infinite run feature
by doing the Paramedic mission (I.22) to level twelve. With the best of behav-
ior on Tommy's part, the police may nick his car or run out in front of it and
get hit, and give Tommy a wanted rating. Tommy could shoot a brick when a po-
liceman is in the vicinity and get a wanted rating. It doesn't help that so
many of the people in town have an unfortunate tendency to jump or drive right
into the path of his vehicle. With the infinite run feature, he can play "Catch
Me If You Can" with the police.
Tommy is a lot better at chasing down a getaway vehicle you want him to nab
with it, too. Otherwise, he can shoot a vehicle he can't catch up with and most
drivers will abandon it.
Tommy can run one star off, it gives him plenty of time to handle two, and it
helps him do whatever he does for a higher rating faster and with less risk.
For one star/one remaining star:
Use a bribe (see I.11 for locations), clothes pickup (see I.9.C for loca-
tions), Pay 'n' Spray ($100 if not a complimentary spray just for the color
change--Tommy can get a free spray for that once he's earned $100; see your in-
game map for locations), Sunshine Autos spray 'n' go (same payment plan as for a
Pay 'n' Spray, even though he owns it), or run/drive/fly unceasingly till it
disappears.
There doesn't seem to be a set length of time for one star. It can be brief,
but the more prolonged ones can be annoying when you're in a hurry, and Tommy's
pre-"infinite run" running ability can be used up a lot quicker. Without it,
Tommy can out-run the policeman briefly, then he gets tired and jogs, so you
make him jump repeatedly and he just barely makes it. If that's the case, have
him jump around like a nut or make sure no police men are around and jack a ve-
hicle.
With the Infinite Run (Paramedic mission, I.22), running, etc., till one dis-
appears only works for one star--not for higher levels.
For two stars/two remaining stars:
Use bribes, a Pay 'n' Spray, a clothes pickup (but I'd discourage using it for
two stars--see I.7), or use one bribe and either use a clothes pickup or have
Tommy run off the one remaining star. Two stars and up won't go away until you
do something about it.
Even two stars is easy for Tommy to survive a run with, as when holding up a
sequence of stores. The police will appear here but not there as he does it.
It's less hectic than having them constantly try to ram Tommy's vehicle, espe-
cially a bike. Trying to get him back on or into a vehicle with police nearby
carries a higher risk of getting busted.
You can have Tommy pause to make a pursuing police car stop, then have him run
before the officers get out and start using their guns. Have him weave around
posts, buildings, tree trunks, and through swimming pools to lure the pursuers
into them and avoid bullets.
For three to six Wanted stars:
You might want to use any bribes available till you can do one of the things
given above, but I'd start preferring Tommy to be airborne. When he is, there
are over six things that are convenient for removing one wanted star apiece.
Three airborne bribes
You can fly a helicopter, or, in two cases, a Skimmer, into airborne bribes on
the west island:
1. The bribe over the fence with a ramp leaned against it at the back of the
yard behind Sunshine Autos.
To get to Sunshine Autos by land, go S from the Starfish Island Bridge on the
main N-S road of the W island; either take the 1st right then 1st left or 2nd
right then 1st right; Sunshine Autos is a bit N of where you'd run into yourself
if you could do both at the same time.
You can also gun it W from the W end of the South Bridge, continue over the
ramp across the street, go through the lot, and it's on your right.
This one is also available for the Skimmer.
2. The bribe in the path of Jump 7 (I.26), which is over a grass stained box
with a ramp leaned against it by a large gray concrete N-S drainage ditch in
Little Haiti.
To get to the ditch by land, go N from the Starfish Island bridge on the main
N-S road of the W island; take either the 2nd or 3rd left--the ditch runs be-
tween them.
It's W of the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray.
This one is also available for the Skimmer.
3. The bribe in the path of Jump 5 (I.26), which is over the red and blue
crates with a ramp leaned against them in Little Haiti.
Jump 5 goes over two ramps S of the pale yellow building on the most N E-W
street in Little Haiti.
Again, Tommy doesn't have to jump through the airborne bribes--they're air-
borne to get rid of wanted ratings when he's in a helicopter. So you need to
remember where they are from the air.
Also available from the air:
4. You can momentarily plop the helicopter down onto the bribe S of the S end
of North Point Mall.
5. The bribe in the sunken shopping center, which is on the block one block W
of the Ocean View apartment, is kind of fun to use if you can fly a helicopter
good enough.
6 and 7. You can land a helicopter on the Hyman Condo roof, go to the ground
level to use the alley bribe, then return to the roof to use the clothes pickup
(again, for one wanted star to keep stars Attained from getting much bigger than
Evaded).
This is also available for the Skimmer. I recommend crashing into the struc-
ture on the E side of the roof from the SE.
8. Tommy can also fly or run one off. If Tommy is moving, the last one will
probably disappear before he can do much about it.
If Tommy isn't in a helicopter, get him to the Hyman Condo alley bribe 1st for
a variation of the above.
When Tommy owns Sunshine Autos (I.62A), have him fly a chopper or drive a Rhi-
no to the garages in back of it, then drive a car from one of the garages right
across into his own "spray 'n' go."
Before Tommy owns Sunshine Autos, have him leave a vehicle in a Pay 'n' Spray,
avoid using more than one other vehicle before he returns so it stays in the
game memory, then return after whatever wildness and get in or on it again, and
it will trigger the Pay 'n' Spray actions. This gives him another four loca-
tions to use like he would his own Sunshine Autos spray 'n' go--therefore, to
use for wildness.
Leaving a vehicle in a Pay 'n' Spray can also help when Tommy has a high
wanted rating while using a police or military vehicle, which can't be used in a
Pay 'n' Spray, or while using a vehicle you want to keep for the special color,
like the black Voodoo, which will revert to the usual maroon color if used in a
Pay 'n' Spray.
If you plan to have Tommy cause an unofficial rampage on the waters among the
shooting police boats, 1st leave a helicopter on the desolate strip along the E
side of the beach of the east island. Get the helicopter when you're through
with the boat, then use the method given above. Make sure the chopper isn't on
a slope down to the water, or it might slowly slide into it.
You could also exit the game without saving, or reload the game, which takes
you to the previous starting point, if it got nastier than you care to remember.
Things any major fugitive should know
After Tommy uses a Pay 'n' Spray or spray 'n' go, any wanted stars he may have
flash on and off for a bit. That signals a probation period. If he gets in
trouble with the law during the probation period, the same wanted level is rein-
stated.
While the condo alley provides cover from helicopter shots, you'll do best to
move Tommy into the open to shoot down helicopters before SWAT agents drop from
them and start shooting. The Minigun usually makes anything (but a Rhino) that
drives into the alley blow up before anyone can get out, and they don't last
long if they do.
The area beneath the Links Bridge provides some cover for driving an unoffi-
cial rampage to the highest wanted level, too. The helicopters can't shoot Tom-
my and the land vehicles tend to drive onto the bridge above him. A Pay 'n'
Spray is just S of that on the same main road.
You can shoot any part of a person or vehicle to kill them or destroy it. In
the case of a helicopter, this includes the span of the rotating blades.
Police and military vehicles, like the Rhino, and emergency vehicles, like the
Firetruck, can't activate a Pay 'n' Spray. This includes the PC version of the
FBI Rancher. For some reason, neither the Bus nor the Coach can activate a Pay
'n' Spray, either.
As Rusk writes, if you're in a police car, press Activate Mission--on PC, Caps
Lock--twice to start then end a Vigilante mission. For some reason, it makes
the tires spike strip proof.
Get to know the driving shortcuts to avoid driving over tire spike strips and
bumping into Rhinos.
The only thing that can destroy a tank is about six Molotovs (or the Haitian
weapons during "Cannon Fodder"), another reason I prefer Molotovs over Grenades
(I.10). This also gives Tommy some leeway in jacking a tank: he can use several
Molotovs to make sure the soldiers who emerge fall before they kill him.
The PS2 gimmick of having Tommy run from a Vice Cheetah or FBI Rancher then
turn to see it abandoned for him hasn't worked for me yet on PC. Tommy turns
and the vehicle's gone but the damn agents firing at him are still there. But
there's always a "Vice" Cheetah behind the Little Havana police station along
the main N and S road, and you can use a Molotov to take care of the attackers
that emerge from an FBI Rancher (or any other vehicle).
An earlier edition of Rusk's guide for "Vice City" ended with a challenge to
drive a Hotring Racer around the town with a six star wanted level. You might
try it for a change of scenery and to learn how good you can maneuver in it.
Once you get the hang of weaving through traffic (see I.9.F), avoiding the
places Rhinos spawn on, and taking shortcuts the law enforcers and spike strips
don't appear on, you'll probably think that it's easier than you expected.
A high wanted rating is a good time to improve your CRiminal Rating and High-
est media attention level (I.7).
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I.13 Odds and Ends
Ambient sounds
The WK Chariot Hotel
Interacting with your town
Huh? What?
Marine world
A few exploration duds
Strange but fun--that's the important thing
Creative plugging
WTF screen shots
Ambient sounds
Some buildings in "III" and "Vice City" have their own ambient sounds.
You can hear organ music if Tommy goes near the looks-like-a-temple--sounds-
like-a-church building on the S end of the east island between 10:00 and 11:00
o'clock. (Thanks to Spuds725 at the GTA Forums web site; I didn't know what
time that happened before.)
And you can hear music by Sunshine Cabs or the Little Haiti pizza store from
the arcades playing inside. The North Point Mall is alive with the sound of Mu-
zak, and the Ocean View with "La Vida Es Una Lenteja" by Unaesta.
While giving buildings their own sounds was featured more often in "III," you
couldn't go inside the buildings as extensively. You could only enter save
places, personal/Shoreside Vale police station/Pay 'n' Spray garages, a living
room of Salvatore's mansion, the cell the Yazuka was held in, the booth in front
of the Cartel mansion, and, by using codes, get into Joey's garage for the "EP"
Mafia stretch limo.
The WK Chariot Hotel
The WK Chariot Hotel has several special features. (It's E and across the
street from the parking lot of the Malibu Club.) (See I.9.G for how to use it
to go to Ghost World, I.19 for how to find hidden package 25 there, and I.8 for
the name change it was given for the PC version, for some reason.)
Between 23:00 and midnight, the lights in the windows depict the outline of a
huge c**ck and b*lls, and spray squirts periodically from the roof. (See I.3.)
It also has a blue door on the N side that opens during "Martha's Mug Shot"
and stays open thereafter. If you have Tommy go inside, climb the stairs to the
top floor, and go to the W end of the hall, you'll find a message by the window:
"The Samartians DON'T JUST JUMP, HYPER-JUMP call 555-7000."
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/4103/00gta1screenvc50hpq8.jpg
The Samartians are an ancient Christian group known for their charity (I think
"Samartians" it may be a variant of "Samaritans"), so it may be meant as ironic
humor.
One web site, dogbomb.co.uk, message board post mentioned Phil Daniels being
shown at the start of the movie "Quadrophenia" as not having actually gone with
his (Piaggio Vespa--"Vice City" Faggio) scooter over a cliff at Beachy Head,
which the movie later shows him as having driven it to. The post said there's a
phone box with a "call the Samartians sign" beside it at the location now.
Andrew sent me the correct explanation for this, and the category of the Piag-
gio Vespa, for this update in May, 2008:
"As an Englishman I can shed some more light on the 'Samartians' thing. The
Samaritans provide a phone helpline in the UK for people in despair. The organ-
ization was started in the Fifties by a priest called Chad Varah, (Google him &
read the Wikipedia entry in particular). It is still likely that if you use a
callbox (English for a phone booth) anywhere in the UK you will see a sticker
like the one you describe, and they can also be seen at high points, on bridges
etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans_%28charity%29
"Tangentially, my opinion on Quadrophenia...is that Jimmy (played by Phil Dan-
iels in the movie) doesn't die at Beachy Head....in either the album or the mov-
ie. It's worse than that--he grows up.... I saw the movie of Quadrophenia in
London back in the day, and witnessed a running battle between Mods and Skin-
heads in front of the cinema after the show. But please note: the Vespa is most
definitely *not* a moped--it's a scooter."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia_%28film%29
I think "scooter" is probably generally the preferable word. In the han-
dling.cfg file, it's listed as MOPED, which I guess is another word for it for
some people. But the Wikipedia article for "moped" indicates a moped is more
generally thought of as something you can pedal, like a motorized bicycle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moped
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_%28motorcycle%29
Interacting with your town
If you shoot the black garbage bags--some are by Cherry Poppers--they may in-
flate one size larger. (Thanks to Madeye/some name/Mohammed Kahn)
If Tommy shoots the gas pumps at the gas station just S of Washington Mall, at
the back of Interglobal Studios, or in the hanger over water at the end of the
dead end road down the middle of the S end of the west island, they'll explode.
If you use the bottom of a helicopter to bop the top of one of the Starfish
Island picnic tables that has a red and white umbrella over it, the picnic table
assumes a broken shape. They're not fixed to a spot and can be moved around.
They're like the ones in "GTA III." Benches, like those in front of the Ocean
View, can be moved and given a broken shape with a vehicle, too.
If you want to see the secret Easter egg and printing press, go to I.19 for
the sections on hidden packages 61 and 66.
Huh? What?
I've put most of the foreign language translations in the guide where they
come up in the game. I translated some of the French and Spanish writing in
Little Haiti and Little Havana for this section with the Free2Professional
Translation web site that translates phrases for a variety of languages automat-
ically for free. So if this is a little off compared to the results I could
have gotten with a personal translator, that's why.
Thanks to:
http://www.freetranslation.com/
If you go N across the street from Auntie Poulet's shack in Little Haiti,
you'll find a little blue-green building with red and orange letters: "Eglise
Baptiste de la Regeneration," which is French for "Baptist Church of Revival" or
"...of Spiritual Renewal."
There are several beige buildings with red letters that say "EL NUEVO SIGLO
SUPERMARKET" with the "G" missing from "SIGLO." One is just S of the Little
Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, one is E across the street from Phil's Place, and one is E
across the street from the dirt lot of palm trees mentioned near the end of I.3.
The phrase is Spanish for "The New Century Supermarket." (I tried "si lo"--the
web site just translated it as "if it.")
E of the "Welcome to Hell" billboard is a blue-green building called BILLY'S
RECORDS. In black letters it says, "Donde los HITS Suenan Primero," which is
Spanish for "Where the HITS sound 1st," which I'm guessing is "Where the HITS
are heard 1st."
Beside it to the E is a yellow building with black letters that say "C.A.M.
ENVIO DE VALORES Y ALIMENTOS A LA REPUBLICA DOMINICANA," which translated as
"C.to.M. I send of values and food to the Dominican Republic." "C.A.M." should
probably stay "C.A.M.," which are probably the initials of some humanitarian
assistance group which "sends valuables and food to the Dominican Republic." In
red letters it says "ENTREGA EN 2 HORAS" which translated as "Delivers in two
hours."
I got most of the next ones from the Babel Fish Translation web site, thanks
to:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt?fr=avbbf-us
Across the street going S from Billy's, on the right side of the road, is the
Baran Discount and Coffee Shop, advertising 99 cents & "PLUS ARTICULOS PARA EL
HOGAR," which is Spanish for "extra articles for the home."
S of the garage you deliver the Rhino to in "Sir, Yes Sir," and around the
corner of the same block, is a store with green letters that say "GALERIA MUSI-
CAL COMPRA Y VENTA DE CD'S USADOS," which is Spanish for "Musical Gallery Used
purchase and sale of CD's." (Thanks to woozie92 for telling me it's "venta,"
which means "sale," when I thought it said "yenta," which is a Yiddish word that
gives it a different translation. The "V" looks like a "Y" unless you compare
it closely with the "Y" before it.)
Beside that store to the E is a pink building with Spanish in black letters
that say "CALLE 8 CAFETERIA." For "CALLE" I have "silence" (the free transla-
tion site) and "Street" (the Babel Fish site). If "Street," it says "Street
Eight Cafeteria." It has red letters that say "DESA YUNO," which is "break-
fast," and blue letters that say "ALMUERZO," which is "lunch."
On the outside of Robina's Cafe Cubano is a sign that says "CALLE 8 CAFETERIA
TREMENDOs ESPECIALES CANTINA 6 Dias BATIDOS SANDWICHES Comidas y Desayunos."
The English translation I got is (adding commas to indicate breaks) "Street 8
Special, Tremendous Cafeteria bar, 6 days, dangerous meals sandwiches" (or
"eaten sandwiches"!) and breakfasts." I'll take a guess that could be "8th
Street Cafeteria, Tremendous Special Bar, (open) 6 days (a week), (featuring)
hot meals, sandwiches, and breakfasts."
Near the front door inside Robina's Cafe Cubano, there's a sign that says,
"Que bo es el Pollasire. condiment vegetal." In Catalan it means "That good is
the chicken. Vegetable seasoning." (Thanks to _CuBaN_VeRcEttI_.) I guess it
means "That's good chicken" and the chicken has "vegetable seasoning."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language
Robina's Cafe Cubano and The Pizza Face in Little Havana have windows featur-
ing the Spanish words "DINERO SIN LIMITE," mentioned in I.2 as another Robert De
Niro connection. The translation I got is "MONEY WITHOUT LIMITS." I wonder if
that could mean "credit without limit" since another sign of The Pizza Face says
"Finance Layaway Plan."
Marine world
There are two men underwater with their feet in a block of cement:
One is on a big pile of rocks E of big Mitch Baker's Biker Bar. (The ends of
his hands reach above the surface of the waves during a storm, which reminds me
a little of the last reach for freedom by Harry Lime, played by Orson Welles, in
the movie "The Third Man," 1949.)
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/4687/00gta1screenvc72dx9.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man
The other is by the S coast of the W-most 90 degree angled projection of land
at the SW portion of the area which is S of the E end of the bridge from the
east island to Starfish Island. It's a S coast of the area the multi-colored
showers are on.
You see the same fat mustached guy in swimming trunks around the light house
and Ocean View areas sometimes.
There's a broken Chartered Libertine Lines ship and a submarine underwater N
of the North Point Mall of the east island, and a broken Chartered Libertine
Lines ship underwater S of the SE corner of the west island. Each of the two
ships is a more basic version of the unbroken types at the S end of the west is-
land. The submarine is the same one used, in a solid version, for the U.S.S.
Numnutz in "San Andreas."
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http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3518/00gta1screenvc62me3.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8430/00gta1screenvc63yf9.jpg
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2323/00gta1screenvc64kp1.jpg
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/6481/00gta1ussnumnutz3oj.jpg
There are the remains of a sunken Reefer, with the parts over the roof of the
cab, etc., removed, on the N side of the W end of the bridge from Prawn Island
to the west island.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3096/00gta1screenvc60jo8.jpg
There are four junked cars by the S side of the W end of Links Bridge. I'd
have Tommy use a boat or the Sea Sparrow, or use the zoom lens of the Sniper
Rifle or Camera, to see those because if Tommy jumps from the shore to the base
of the support of the bridge, he can't jump back up to the shore.
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The Sea Sparrow can help you look at the underwater things--it has pontoons,
and it's easier to position over a spot than the Skimmer. You might also try
any of the boats for that.
You can fly the Sea Sparrow into the WK Chariot Hotel (I.9.G) to see most of
the underwater things even closer. I wouldn't use that to see the four junked
cars or the man with his feet in cement that's by the east island since they're
so close to the surface of the water.
You can also walk Tommy waist-high into the water, have him crouch with C (he
won't drown), or have him fly a helicopter through the porch ceiling of the WK
Chariot Hotel and bail onto something solid underwater (see "The WK Chariot Ho-
tel" at I.13), equipped with a sniper rifle or Camera, and use the zoom (right
mouse button and Z and X or scroll) to get a clear close underwater view of a
variety of kinds of aquatic life. Press F1 (instant replay) twice to change
which marine animals are on view.
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http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7794/00gta1screenvc209jg7.jpg
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4773/00gta1screenvc208ck5.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8933/00gta1screenvc194pq8.jpg
You can see a 2nd batch of junked cars under the E end of the red foot bridge
at the S end of the east island. They can't be seen from above because they're
covered with grass and water.
http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/9976/00gta1screenvc251ze1.jpg
The shark at Interglobal Films is a bedraggled simplified variation of the
kind found underwater.
http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/1457/00gta1screenvc114xa1.jpg
http://img336.imageshack.us/img336/6357/00gta1screenvc115kz6.jpg
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/100/00gta1screenvc207ha0.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/2417/00gta1screenvc112aoe1.jpg
In Tommy's Ocean View apartment, there's a poster of the bow of an ocean luxu-
ry liner that looks like the SS Normandie. It says "Vice City via Le Havre et
Southampton--C. G. Transatlantique French line." Le Havre, a city of Normandy
in N France, and Southampton, a city of the S coast of the U.K., are two of the
three chief ports of the English Channel. Le Havre was a chief port of call for
French ocean liners making the Transatlantic crossing. Such crossings were gen-
erally assumed to go to New York City, but this one is given as going to Vice
City (fictionalized Miami).
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/3519/00gta1screenvc249nr8.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie
"C. G." stands for "Compagnie Generale." The Babelfish translation I got for
"Compagnie Generale Transatlantique" was "Transatlantic General Company," the
French line the steamship was a part of.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/?fr=avbbf-us
A few exploration duds
From the beginning of the game, you can walk Tommy into the VROCK building.
To get there, go W from the W end of the bridge to Downtown to a T intersection,
and it's across the street. Tommy disappears up the stairs, he can move left or
right a little--and that's it. You can get a little view of Ghost World if you
give the PCJ 600 the long distance back view and back it in.
Another one is found by landing a helicopter on the very top of the Vice City
Beach water tower across the street in a lot E of the Malibu Club. If you have
Tommy get out onto it, he sinks 1 1/2 feet or so into the roof of it and can't
get back in the chopper, so he has to jump to the ground.
Don't bother waiting for the yellow tape to be removed from the staircases in
Washington Mall; they don't come off anytime in the game. (If you contract an
attack of the Laura Crofts, though, you can have Tommy do an easy jumping game
on the lily pads in one of the indoor pools.)
In Little Havana is a pink "fudge PACKING CORP" building with an open garage
door, and Tommy can go into the garage--it's empty.
Across the street from the VCN building is a place that gives psychic read-
ings. There's a 3D showroom beside it with unbreakable glass in front of it.
Tommy can't enter it and it's empty.
Strange but fun--that's the important thing
If you're fond of the optical illusions of Maurits Cornelis Escher ("Drawing
Hands," "Relativity," etc.), you might like the yellow crane at the E end of the
big ship at the E end of the S side of the west island. Have tommy stand close
to the crane to get the effect.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/91/00gta1screenvc68vn3.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUENO0mMWfI
If you're interested in those and other optical illusions, you might try the
gallery at http://www.mcescher.com/ or http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/
One of the posts that hold a traffic light over the road is planted on top of
the Little Havana laundromat, making the traffic light way too high for anyone
driving up to it to see easily. (Thanks to spaceeinstein's web site for point-
ing out the traffic light.)
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4880/00gta1screenvc70ub4.jpg
If you land a chopper on the SW corner of the building the Pole Position is a
part of, you can see a tree growing up from the roof of the 1st floor through an
invisible but solid 7' or so wide hole in the roof of the 2nd floor that you
landed on. You can see it from the sidewalk across the street to the S as well.
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1392/00gta1screenvc69vs4.jpg
You'll occasionally see what I call the mole people, with just their head and
shoulders sticking out of the sand, and moving through it with the sound of ve-
hicles skidding across sand, just W of the RC Bandit dirt track on Washington
Beach.
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8220/00gta1screenvc200bs2.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1325/00gta1screenvc210ne7.jpg
I'm not sure how to come up with a real life comparison with the thing any of
the pedestrians might do when they walk persistently into something and then
bend over. Whatever got them drunk enough to walk into something is making
them throw up? Sometimes they just walk away like nothing happened, or, worse,
bend over with their head stuck through a wall, so I'm not sure.
See Unique Jump 19 in section I.26 for a way to let Tommy stand on a car
that's frozen in midair.
Creative plugging
I think there may be more commercial plugs in "Vice City" than in any other
GTA (which might be where they got the money for all that Hollywood voice acting
and big name music and the Li'l Dodo. If so, if Rockstar is reading this: good,
do it again--I like "Vice City"):
- "Squirt," the grapefruit-flavored soda pop, is advertised in several places
at Callegg's Deli in Little Havana.
http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/634/00gta1screenvc34lm6.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirt
In a couple of places on the Prawn Island Elbee pharmacy roof, a sign...
http://img320.imageshack.us/img320/888/00gta1screenvc33aqe6.jpg
...advertises:
- "Spiegel," which has been a mail order store since putting out a catalogue
in 1905.
http://www.spiegel.com/?cm_ven=Google&cm_cat=Brand&cm_ite=spiegel
- "Florsheim," which has been selling shoes since 1892.
http://www.florsheim.com/shop-fl/index.ep
- "Stride-Rite," which has been selling shoes for over eighty-five years as of
July, 2006.
http://www.striderite.com/jump.jsp?itemID=1&itemType=HOME_PAGE
- a "Corby" (U.K. brand) vacuum cleaner is mentioned in the chatter by one of
Diaz' gang. (Rusk tells me he thinks the mention is of a "Kirby" vacuum clean-
er. I wonder if it's a sort of pun on "Kirby" since "Corby," a town in England,
has been nicknamed "Little Scotland," and Scotland is the home of Rockstar
North.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_Company
- Painted on the wall of a building that faces the lot which is across the
street to the E of Interglobal Films, the Doehler Metal Furniture Co., Inc. ad
looks like the one painted on the wall of a building at 192 Lexington Ave. near
32nd St. in N.Y.C., NY.
http://img431.imageshack.us/img431/7251/00gta1screenvc124gx0.jpg
http://img450.imageshack.us/img450/461/00gta1screenvc120rv3.jpg
http://www.14to42.net/32street2.html
At the Greasy Chopper:
The "Space Mission" pinball table in the Greasy Chopper is a 1976 pinball
machine by Williams.
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/6729/00gta1screenvc90zz0.jpg
http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/space_mission/space_mission_pinball.htm
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9287/00gta1screenvc80wy4.jpg
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/9971/00gta1screenvc82lq2.jpg
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9966/00gta1screenvc83vq1.jpg
The "Jolly Roger" (the letters of "Roger" are altered a bit) pinball table is
a 1967 machine by Williams. (I never had most of the beers listed below, but
somebody has good taste in pinball machines--Williams had some good ones.)
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1098/00gta1screenvc273aiz7.jpg
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/7433/00gta1screenvc273bxb0.jpg
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/3488/00gta1screenvc271xb0.gif
http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1314&picno=18639
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=jolly+roger&sortby=name&searchtype=quick#1314
The guitar on the stage is a fretted Fender Jazz Bass. Originally called the
Deluxe Model, it's been made by Fender since 1960.
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5363/00gta1screenvc274gr8.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1747/00gta1screenvc274abg6.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Jazz_Bass
I think the cymbals on the drum set are supposed to be Zildjians since the
name on them has a big "Z" in it. Zildjian cymbals have been made since Avedin
Zildjian made the 1st ones in 1623.
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/4004/00gta1screenvc274clb9.jpg
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/5071/00gta1screenvc274dvu7.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zildjian
Old German has been a popular discount beer for over a century. It's now
owned by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company.
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/1443/00gta1screenvc99vz3.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6018/00gta1screenvc91mc2.jpg
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/410/6070/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuengling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Brewing_Company
Old Dutch beer was made by the Eagle Brewing Company. It was founded in 1867
in Catasauqua, PA as Eagle Brewery, Schaefer & Kostenbader and closed in 1964.
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/9171/00gta1screenvc105iw0.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6622/00gta1screenvc107pg3.jpg
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/2245/00gta1screenvc106wy9.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pennsylvania_breweries
Foster's lager has been made by the Foster brothers of Australia since 1887
and is now made in various breweries around the world.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2428/00gta1screenvc92jy9.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s_Lager
http://www.fosters.com.au/enjoy/beer/fosters_lager.htm
Horton beer was made from 1865 to 1941 by various owners, the last one being
the Horton Pilsner Brewing Company.
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8832/00gta1screenvc343kd8.jpg
http://trayman.net/Brewery/Horton.htm
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7489/00gta1screenvc94wx7.jpg
"Bell Label" Blue Label beer was made from 1912 to ? by the Northern Brewing
Company of Superior, Wisconsin. The ad I found for it is basically the same ex-
cept "Blue" is changed to "Bell" for the GTA version--I have no idea why.
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/229/00gta1screenvc109vg8.jpg
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/7776/00gta1screenvc104sd3.jpg
http://www.americanbreweriana.org/history/northern.htm
"Bellend" Ballantine beer was 1st made by Peter Ballantine, who came from
Scotland, in Newark, NJ, in 1840. His company was originally incorporated as
Patterson & Ballantine Brewing Company. Joined by his three sons, it became P.
Ballantine and Sons in 1857 and until the breweries closed in the 1960's. It
was very popular beer, once the 6th biggest selling beer in the U.S.A.. In
2005, Ballantine Ale was owned and marketed by the Pabst Brewing Company and
brewed by the Miller Brewing Company.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/4079/00gta1screenvc341fy4.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5711/00gta1screenvc905hx0.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballantine
One clue on the GTA clock to the identity of the real beer is the set of three
rings, which are Borromean rings on Ballantine labels and ads. (And here I
thought it was just a pretzel.)
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~spmr02/rings/beer.html
"Bell end" is a slang term for the head of a c**k. This may also explain the
name change in the previous sign.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bell+End
Likewise, one sign refers to "FREE ASSTASHE RIDES." An "asstache," as best I
can figure from using the Google search engine a bit, is created when someone
shaves but leaves a mustache amount of hair on their bottom.
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1558/00gta1screenvc909br1.jpg
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swamp+ass
"Blatzaa" beer is advertised as coming from Milwaukee. Blatz beer was 1st
made in Milwaukee, WI, in 1851. It's now made by the Miller Brewing Company of
Milwaukee under contract for Pabst Brewing Company.
http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/1619/00gta1screenvc270kd4.jpg
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4426/00gta1screenvc98li4.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/673/00gta1screenvc97uq2.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blatz_Brewing_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blatz
"GUFF JUICE": "Guff" can mean "nonsense" ("He doesn't take any guff") or
"fart." The latter would make the phrase mean someone had an accident--it
wouldn't be a compliment about the liquor. "Guff" is also a NE Scotland term
for "English."
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/917/00gta1screenvc292sv6.jpg
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/g.htm
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guff
A couple of signs advertise "Old Realing." I couldn't find an Old Realing
beer, but the "l" in "Realing" has a mark on either side of it that makes it
take more space than the other letters, so I'm guessing that it could be an al-
tered "d," and it could originally have been an ad for "Old Reading" beer of
Reading, Pennsylvania. Old Reading cans use similar lettering. The Reading
Brewing Company was founded in 1886 and closed in 1976.
http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/5505/00gta1screenvc269cq4.jpg
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/8365/00gta1screenvc102jh6.jpg
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6633/00gta1screenvc101ig4.jpg
http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/214/00gta1screenvc100yr7.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pennsylvania_breweries
Coors Light beer has been made since 1978 by the Molson Coors Brewing Company
of Golden, CO.
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8170/00gta1screenvc279bq5.jpg
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2121/00gta1screenvc305lb6.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coors_Brewing_Company
"Pusch" Busch beer has been made since 1955 by the Anheuser-Busch brewery of
St. Louis, MO.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7503/00gta1screenvc278un0.jpg
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/1498/00gta1screenvc306fr7.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busch_Beer
"Dudweiner" Budweiser beer has been made since 1876 by the Anheuser-Busch
brewery and is produced in various breweries around the world.
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5499/00gta1screenvc284dy1.jpg
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/6349/00gta1screenvc302mt0.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_%28Anheuser-Busch%29
"Vice City's Best" Miller brewing was founded in Milwaukee in 1855 by Freder-
ick Miller. Miller Brewing bought the A. Gettelman Brewing Company in 1971. A
couple of popular inexpensive beers they've made are Milwaukee's Best and Mil-
waukee's Best Light.
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/1777/00gta1screenvc908tz2.jpg
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8445/00gta1screenvc916on8.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Brewing
"Dental Cele" and "dental Cet" Also by Miller Brewing, Miller Light ("Tastes
great, Less filling") was 1st sold in 1975 (after the recipe for Meister Brau
"Lite," previously Gablinger's Diet Beer, was bought and reformulated by Mil-
ler). It remains a very popular beer.
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7163/00gta1screenvc914oi9.jpg
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/174/00gta1screenvc912rs0.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2011/00gta1screenvc911al8.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Lite
"Dental cet" in French means "dental this," which could be a GTA phrase.
"Dental cele" in Spanish means "dental it watches over" (?).
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/?fr=avbbf-us
Daeufer's Beer The Dauefer Lieberman Brewing Company was founded in Allen-
town, PA, in 1869 as Henry Koenig & Company and closed in 1938.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3491/00gta1screenvc304pt6.jpg
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/7330/00gta1screenvc304aap2.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pennsylvania_breweries
Fort Pitt beer was made by the Fort Pitt Brewing Company of Sharpsburg, PA,
from 1906 to 1957. The metal scoreboard is for football on one side and base-
ball on the other. It was the most popular beer in the Pittsburgh area in the
1950's and spawned the expression "Fort Pitt--that's it." (This came up in con-
versations with my Mom now and then--one: "That's it"; the other: "Fort Pitt.")
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5883/00gta1screenvc340jq3.jpg
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2963/00gta1screenvc309lp2.jpg
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8256/00gta1screenvc308us3.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pennsylvania_breweries
"Beer Farm" is just a humorous sign, as far as I know.
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8832/00gta1screenvc288xd5.jpg
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/658/00gta1screenvc310td3.jpg
Ortlieb's Beer was originally made in 1859 in Philadelphia, PA, and was made
by different breweries ending with Ortlieb's micro brewery in 2004.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/1828/00gta1screenvc289zm3.jpg
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8806/00gta1screenvc307vu1.jpg
http://pabreweryhistorians.tripod.com/OrtliebFinalEdit.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_beer_and_breweries
"Paul Daniels" Jack Daniel's whiskey has been made by Brown-Forman of Lynch-
burg, TN, since 1875. Paul Daniels has been a popular magician, quiz show host,
etc., on TV in the U.K. since the 1970's. And if you mix the two, the magic
comes out slower, but you don't care. I don't know.
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/2239/00gta1screenvc285er2.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Daniel%27s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Daniels
http://www.pauldaniels.co.uk/
(A few letters I'm not sure about then) "cadian Club." I think this is an al-
tered version of an ad for Canadian Club whiskey because, besides having some
letters of the name in common and also being "IMPORTED," it has the same slogan:
"The best in the house." Canadian Club, "C.C.," has been made since 1858 in
Walkerville, Ontario, which is now part of Windsor.
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4955/00gta1screenvc344na6.jpg
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5658/00gta1screenvc345ev0.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Club
"DROPPIN' SCIENCE" is a compliment for a unique or well done rap lyric (as if
to say, "You dropped something clever into what you were saying"), and is the
name of a book of essays about rap music and hip-hop culture edited by William
Eric Perkins, 1995.
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1828/00gta1screenvc290bi2.jpg
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=droppin'+science
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/996_reg.html
"ART COLLEGE...GO BANG!" I think this could be an ad for the band Shriekback
playing at an art college as part of a tour for their 1988 album "Go Bang!" An-
other connection with that idea is that director Michael Mann used songs of
theirs in a couple of his movies, including "Manhunter," 1986. Brian Cox plays
Hannibal Lector in that and does the voice acting for the TV director in the
Rockstar game "Manhunt." Michael Mann was also the executive producer and a
writer of the TV series "Miami Vice," which influenced some things in "Vice
City." (See I.2.)
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/6766/00gta1screenvc291ik7.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriekback
"FUNKY-LIKE A TRAIN" may refer to the song of that name (without the hyphen)
released in the U.K. by the Equals, 1986.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4509/00gta1screenvc906rh3.jpg
http://www.discogs.com/release/526678
"DRIVE," shown near a depiction of the tail fin of a car, may refer to the
1984 song "Drive," which was the biggest-selling single in the U.S. for The
Cars.
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7672/00gta1screenvc907ae2.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_cars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_%28The_Cars_song%29
On the shelves in Sonny's room in "An Old Friend," I.17.B, there are:
- cans of "Crispo," a slight change-up on the "Crisco" shortening cans,
http://img426.imageshack.us/img426/6123/00gta1screenvc36xr7.jpg
http://www.crisco.com/index.asp
- boxes of "Ardon Porn Farts," a change of the Argo corn starch boxes, and
http://img446.imageshack.us/img446/3505/00gta1screenvc37nr4.jpg
http://www.argostarch.com/index.htm
- bottles of "BRO ON SAUCE." Broon (old Scottish for "brown") sauce is the
kind of brown sauce mixed with spirit vinegar that's popular in Edinburgh, Scot-
land, for fish and chips, etc. Breaking "broon" into two syllables creates
wordplay that can mean a guy ("BRO"--short for "brother" meant as a friend or,
more generally, a guy) is having some brown sauce and/or an alcohol drink
("sauce" can be slang for liquor or gravy), which is also popular in Edinburgh.
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/156/00gta1screenvc120qw5.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_sauce
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brother
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sauce
http://wikitravel.org/en/Edinburgh
A store called "Broons" shows up in both "III" and "Vice City."
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3402/00gta1screenvc258ds4.jpg
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9104/00gta1screenvc259uc3.jpg
Colin Attle, who sent me a helpful explanation of how to calculate the pay for
the Paramedic, Firetruck, and Vigilante Sub-missions, wrote: "I can shed light
on this. There is a comic strip in Scotland called 'The Broons'--check the fol-
lowing link out":
http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/
My Dad was a cartoonist, so I'm adding that one. As mentioned above, some of
the Rockstar North programmers came from DMA Designs in Dundee. According to
the Wikipedia article at the next link, the Broons have a Dundee dialect but
live in Glascow, though some strips have left the impression that their home
town was Dundee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broons
Thanks to Colin for several others, too:
- to find the graffiti for the 2006 Rockstar Vancouver game "Bully," go N from
the little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, take the 2nd left, and look right at the left
curve. You'll see the RIVERSIDE PAVILLION, and to the right of it are a couple
of store shutters that each have graffiti of "BULLY."
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/3538/vicecitybullyuk4.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_%28video_game%29
- Fizz Bombs, mentioned as part of the recipe for "Love Juice" (I.56), are
fruit flavored balls of candy with a sour coating in the UK.
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/mtype2/whatever/archives/fizz_bombs/
- "ERSE," the name of a magazine on the low table in the Ocean View apartment,
may refer to the popular U.K. videogame magazine "EDGE."
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4707/vcerseoj6.jpg
http://www.edge-online.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_%28magazine%29
- as mentioned in section I.2, across the street to the E of the Pole Position
club is "Mairis bestsellers," which advertises the "Book of the North" (not
"month," so I guess it might refer to Rockstar North), a book of "insect espio-
nage" called "Flycatcher," which is a reference to the 1987 book "Spycatcher."
It was controversial because the British government tried to ban it.
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6034/0tommyflycatchergd9.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher
(I'll add that since the nearby store "Burn Baby Burn" also has a sign that
says "since 1977," "Burn Baby Burn" seems to refer to a line from The Trammps
song "Disco Inferno." It was released in 1976 but became more popular as part
of the soundtrack of the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever.")
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/4857/0tommyburnbabyburnjm8.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Inferno_%28The_Trammps_song%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever
The motto of the Rockstar crest appears in some GTAs (such as on a store in
Market, Los Santos, in "San Andreas"). In "Vice City," it appears on the front
of an otherwise nameless Downtown building N of the Moist Palms Hotel.
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5/00gta1screenvc48vf9.jpg
According to the "gouranga" web site, ReverendTed has this translation for it:
"FYI: The motto on the Rockstar crest, "Hostes Ad Pulverem Ferire" has a num-
ber of translations in Latin depending on the ambiguous conjugation, but the
most likely is "Pulverizing the enemy". (Since it's unlikely they'd put "We were
pulverized by the enemy" on their crest.)"
http://www.gouranga.com/
The Rockstar logo can be found in various places: on beach towels, as graffiti
in the big drainage ditch in Little Haiti, and on Bela Lugosi's cape in the win-
dow of the Funeraria Romero in Little Haiti, etc. And the next time you're out
at night, look up at the stars in the E....
That's all I've found so far, unless that's Peter Frampton from his 1976
"Frampton Comes Alive!" days (his live double album of music was released in
1976 and was very popular) in a faint picture in some windows at the "Rock City"
music store Downtown.
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/15/00gta1screenvc35mt3.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frampton_Comes_Alive
WTF screen shots
The lady shown in the two screen shots below hovered towards Tommy's Freeway
(the "hopingirl" code was used) like Linda Blair's character in the 1973 movie
"The Exorcist" for a couple of seconds before she started walking.
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5005/00gta1wtfvc149et.jpg
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8404/00gta1wtfvc154le.jpg
I may actually have a first here. I just wish it was at all, y'know, excit-
ing.
If you do a Cabbie Boost up into the underside of a jet at the airport, you
can see the highly mysterious face in the jet.
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1584/00vcwtffaceinjetgr7.jpg
It had a more developed role in the original game, where Tommy talked to his
jet and his jet talked to him. But they deleted it at the last minute because
they thought it was strange.
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I.14 Glitches
Stats glitches
The Havana Outfit glitch
Persistent slow motion stunts
The bomb detonator glitch
The Hyman Condo and Cherry Popper glitches
Rampage 13 and Knocking Off Stores
Stats glitches
See section I.14 on "Trial By Dirt" and "Test Track" for the glitch they have
about recording Stats.
The Flight Hours Stats have a glitch that causes the top rating, Ace, to show
up a lot while you go up the ratings--see I.7.
The Stats for who constitutes a Gang member and Wanted Stars Attained and
Evaded have glitches--see I.7.
The Criminals wasted and Criminals killed on Vigilante Mission Stats get
mixed up after doing a vigilante mission--see I.7.
The Havana Outfit glitch
There's a glitch that causes the Little Havana outfit to appear in the S sec-
tion inside the Little Havana Streetwear shop behind a solid invisible wall in-
stead of in the little accessible area just inside the door if you do "Two Bit
Hit" for Avery Carrington before "Cop Land" and "The Job." See I.39.B for sev-
eral ways to get the outfit, anyway.
Persistent slow motion stunts
If you get the PC glitch that causes the camera to freeze in position and re-
main in slow motion during Unique Jumps, and a sniper rifle (other guns?) to on-
ly be able to fire once and cause an unending earthquake after using an Adrena-
line Pill pickup, you can Alt Tab out of the game and click back in a couple
times to shake it. It won't be there if you start a new game on the same in-
stallment. I had this, as did USAF777 of the Gamefaqs message boards, in mid-
2004. Take-Two Games seemed unfamiliar with it, and said to set my graphics
settings lower. I didn't, but kept using updates for everything and reinstalled
the game, and I haven't had it again.
The bomb detonator glitch
Rusk notes that the only way to change from the remote grenade, or 8 Ball's
bomb shop detonator, before you trigger the bomb, on PS2 is go through a metal
detector, or get wasted or busted. The PC version features the same thing. And
when I prepared the Coach of Rusk's strategy with one of 8 Ball's bombs for
"Psycho Killer," the detonator wouldn't work if I prepared the Coach before the
mission, only if I prepared it during the mission.
The Hyman Condo and Cherry Popper glitches
Many people have reported that their save game was screwed up after saving
their game at Cherry Poppers, so never tried it. It seems safe to save your
game at the Hyman Condo (which makes sense, in a way). Saving vehicles in the
big garage there is another matter--it's been known to eat them. I wouldn't
save any special vehicles in it. The glitch has been reported as more likely if
the garage has a lot of vehicles in it or if the door is open when Tommy walks
into the save game cassette. I try to have him approach it from the W so he
doesn't trigger the door, or have him use the cassette just as the door closes.
Rampage 13 and Knocking Off Stores
R13, a Chainsaw rampage, sometimes reappears after you do a couple other ram-
pages (I.32). If you've done a couple after it and are one short, check R13.
When I've done it a 2nd time, it stayed in the count.
Sometimes the money doesn't appear when you knock off a store (I.24), and you
may find find that your count is one or two short. No big deal, just do it
again. The reason I give the particular method to hold up stores that I give at
I.24 is it helped me avoid the glitch.
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I.15 Radio
A rundown of the stations
How to have your own MP3 station
How to hear Lazlow's Chatterbox FM from "GTA III" in "Vice City"
Toll free phone numbers
The radio station DJ banter and talk shows were written by Dan Houser and Laz-
low Jones.
There's a lot of information about the songs and DJs of "Vice City" and "III"
at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City_soundtrack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_III_soundtrack
Pick your favorite shows and songs. It's subjective--there's no right or
wrong. I like the DJs and talk shows. Some of the tunes that have grown on me
include:
Wildstyle: "More Bounce to the Ounce," Zapp & Roger, "Pump Me Up," Trouble
Funk (with a riff a little like "Superstition," Stevie Wonder), and "Rockit,"
Herbie Hancock.
(For the next link, Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the Address
bar.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sNQxzabWpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfZRRRo_8A
Flash FM: "Billie Jean," Michael Jackson, "Owner of a Lonely Heart," Yes,
"Video Killed the Radio Star" (also heard in the Vice City intro), The Buggles,
"Stepping Out," Joe Jackson, "Call Me," Go West.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrWTIFcrJs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbj0w8iOeM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gW6WcwNirk
K-Chat: Radio talk show guest Claude Maginot (John Mauceri) sounds a little
like a character by the late Phil Hartman, once of the Saturday Night Live TV
show, to me. I'm not crazy about making fun of the afflicted, using mental ill-
ness as the target of humor, as is the case with the Mr. Zoo (Carl Dowling) seg-
ment, though. The sane people, when they're selfish, are more culpable. But I
like it generally otherwise.
Thanks to Turk_B and Vanilla Shake at GTA Forums for pointing out this Wikipe-
dia article that indicates Mr. Zoo is probably meant as a broad parody of Steve
Irwin, the Australian host of the wildlife documentary TV series "The Crocodile
Hunter" (and who's since passed on).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin
Jezz Torrent (Kevin McKidd), lead singer for Love Fist, is one of the guests
of cheerful, star-struck host Amy Sheckenhausen (Leyna Weber). In responding to
a caller who asks if Love Fist puts subliminal messages in their recordings,
Jezz asks if he wants him to say, "Congratulations, you have just discovered the
secret message...."
The rest of the original quote, a put-on of such backward messages and tagged
onto the end of "Goodbye Blue Sky," just before "Empty Spaces," on "The Wall" by
Pink Floyd, is "Send your answer to old Pink, care of the funny farm--Chal-
front." If you'd like to hear it and other examples of recordings that people
play backwards to find messages in them, you might try a web site by Jeff Mil-
ner. It has links you can click to hear them, and has written versions of the
actual lyrics and the alleged meanings the clips have when played backwards.
You can find it at:
http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm
Jeff seems reasonably dismissive of the nuttier theories that can accompany
such stuff. If you're interested, you can click "Related blog entries" at the
bottom of the page.
One of the similar sites is by David John Oates. I don't go for all of his
theories--he tries to rationalize that we all have a sense about the reverse-
play meanings when we hear the original lyrics or language (?!)--but you can
find more curious coincidences in recordings at:
http://www.reversespeech.com/music_reversals.htm
As best as I can remember the quote, George Carlin once said that if you play
the end of the last Beatles album backwards at 78 rpm, you can actually hear
John Lennon saying, "Moron, you're playing the end of the last Beatles album
backwards at 78 rpm."
The "Giggle Cream" commercial is a parody of Reddi-Wip, which uses nitrous
oxide as a propellant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddi-wip
Voice actress Lynn Lipton plays Gethsemanee, who's a member of the Vice City
renaissance committee, a witch, and a back to nature extremist--a little more
Woodstock Nationalist than Woodstock Nation. She quotes a couple of songs:
- "Change the world, rearrange the world--it's dying" is from "Chicago" by
Graham Nash, 1970, and recorded by him and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%281970_song%29
- "We are golden--we've got to get ourselves back to the garden" is from
"Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell, 1969, and recorded by her and Crosby, Stills,
Nash, and Young.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_%28song%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosby%2C_Stills_%26_Nash_%28and_Young%29
Fever 105: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," Michael Jackson, "Ghetto Life," Rick
James (with another riff a little like "Superstition," Stevie Wonder).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanna_Be_Startin'_Somethin'
VROCK: Lazlow hosts the talk radio station Chatterbox in 1990's Liberty City
in "GTA III." In "III," Donald Love (named like Donald Trump?) is a media mo-
gul who owns Chatterbox. A collection of CDs I haven't heard, which feature
the songs of "Vice City" and others that didn't get onto the game, includes one
that reveals how Lazlow (Lazlow Jones) got kicked off the rock station. You can
read the transcription of it in the "Radio Station Scripts" FAQ by Kintaro Oe
age 25 among the In-Depth FAQS for "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" at the Gamefaqs
web site.
"Turn Up the Radio," Autograph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmoAqvcYiTc
VCPR: host Maurice Chavez ("best voice!"--Phillip Anthony Rodriguez) may be
right about Jeremy Robard (Peter Silvestro) looking like he sells drugs: "Think,
Hold that thought, Complete" is THC, "Learn, Start, Do" is LSD, and "Motivate,
Demonstrate, then Motivate Again" is MDMA (Ecstasy). In his commercial on Wave
103, he also promises his "Crank it out" program will help you think really
fast; "crank" is slang for methamphetamine.
Barry Stark (Renaud Sebbane) is a nudist again who calls in to Chatterbox in
"GTA III." He also produced the pedestrian dialogue for both games.
Maurice calls Callum Crayshaw (Sean Modica) "wet," which is U.K. slang for
emotional, feeble, and effeminate.
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/w.htm
During Margaret Thatcher's reign "dries," believers in free-market capitalism,
used "wet" as a term for the One-Nation Tories. It was also a public school
nickname for someone who cared about other people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma#There_is_no_alternative
Part of the story of the 1984 movie "Red Dawn" is referred to by Pastor Rich-
ards: "Anyday now, you're sitting in school, passing notes, and talking about
the prom when suddenly you look out the window and there are Russian paratroop-
ers dropping in to take over. What can you do? Run into the woods with your
friends? Call yourselves The Wolverines? Put twigs in your hair and beat back
the Russkies?" I forget which radio station(s) it's on, but an Ammu-Nation com-
mercial calls "Red Dawn" a documentary, and that clip is also used in Ammu-Na-
tions in "San Andreas."
Ash_735, at GTA Forums, saw that when VCPR guest Jeremy Robard refers to
"Droning on and on for half an hour about how much it rains in Manchester," it's
a reference to the band The Smiths, who are from Manchester and are known for
Morrissey's "depressing lyrics."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiths
88survivor. also at GTA Forums, saw that Maurice Chavez, the host of VCPR,
parodies the Live Aid song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with his reference to
rock artists sending famine aid to Alaska with the song "Do They Know It's the
Fourth of July?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_They_Know_It's_Christmas%3F
Espantoso: I like everything on Espantoso, but esp. "Me and You, Baby" by Mon-
go Santamaria with a snazzy trumpet solo introduction, and a sleazy "con-do-min-
ium developments" ad by Burt Reynolds as Avery Carrington. See the "Radio Sta-
tion Scripts" FAQ by Kintaro Oe age 25 at Gamefaqs for Ortega's English trans-
lation of the things announcer Pepe (Tony Chilrodes) says in Spanish. He's not
just enthusiastic about the tunes he plays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo_Santamaria
Emotion 98.3: host Fernando Martinez (Frank Chavez) is a pimp Lazlow throws off
the air on Chatterbox, a talk radio station in 1990's Liberty City in "GTA III."
"Wow," my candidate for most intolerable song of the soundtrack, is by Kate
Bush; to me, it sounds like the Giggle Cream commercial slowed down and melodra-
matic. "Missing You" by John Waite is kind of funny to listen to while carrying
on.
Wave 103: "Cars" by Gary Numan is kind of funny to drive to. A radio station
in Dundee is called Wave 102.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_%28series%29
There's also a position with no radio station, if you just want to concentrate
on the other game sounds.
How to have your own MP3 station
MP3: If you put your MP3s or wav files, or shortcuts for them, in the MP3
folder, you get an MP3 station. Thanks to radioman and Demarest for this tip: a
fast way to change the radio station to MP3 is to press F9.
Putting fresh tunes on now and then helps keep the game fresh. My MP3 sta-
tion includes "My Kind of Town" and "The Lady is a Tramp," by Frank Sinatra,
"The Magnificent Seven" and "The Great Escape" by Elmer Bernstein, "Roll Over
Beethoven" by Leslie West and Mountain, "Jump" by Van Halen, "Before You Accuse
Me," "Got You On My Mind," and "Key to the Highway" by Eric Clapton, "Rockin'
Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" by Johnny Rivers, especially to hear John-
nie Johnson--once Chuck Berry's piano player, "The William Tell Overture" by
Rossini, "Traffic Jam" and "Oh! Lady Be Good" by Artie Shaw (with Buddy Rich),
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs and friends, "Sharp Dressed Man" and
"Tush" by ZZ Top, "Sunspot Baby" by Bob Segar, "Pink Cadillac" by Bruce Spring-
stein, "Walk This Way" and "Dulcimer Stomp/The Other Side" by Aerosmith, "The
Power of Love" and "The Heart of Rock and Roll" by Huey Lewis and the News,
"California Girls" by the Beach Boys, "I Want You to Want Me" and "Surrender" by
Cheap Trick, "Villanova Junction" and "Foxy Lady" by Jimi Hendrix, "Ain't Misbe-
havin'" (Fats Waller) and "The Sheik of Araby" played by Django Reinhardt &
Stéphane Grappelli, and "Hobo's Blues" by Paul Simon and Stéphane Grappelli.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onlukAhMsTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-EilP59o_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0xM8YRMmyA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sCOf6MsH0o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLA9mpuQNo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkqi7nfxqrE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDQ_m-CTtXw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Bernstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rivers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino_Rossini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Scruggs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZ_Top
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Segar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosmith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_boys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Trick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_hendrix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Waller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Grappelli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Simon
"No Matter What" Badfinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badfinger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ1DontrSi0
"The Lady is a Tramp" Frank Sinatra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YERXK0fdkso
"Peter Gunn" The Blues Brothers band
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blues_Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdsYQzQBC3M
"Let's Stay Together" Al Green
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_green
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOOFk549fw
"Take 5" (twice, 2nd w/Kurt Elling) and "Rainbow In Your Eyes" Al Jarreau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhq7fSrXn0c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsxLACwfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O34DJMZuB4
"You're Going to Make Me Lonesome When You Go" and
"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" Bob Dylan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wikgIWZdjZg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJBN_JEzso
"Don't Worry, Baby" and "Drive-in" Beach Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QCZ_bv9aLc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE5qes9wavo
"Casino Royale" and "So What's New?" Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Alpert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5aA83GfYc
"The Night Time is the Right Time" Tina Turner and Ray Charles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBU4pSUHCqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTruv-lVoLk
Dancing walrus ("Smooth Criminal" segment by Michael Jackson)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDg7kWgs5e0
For no particular musical reason: the "Frog and Peach" sketch by Peter Cook
and Dudley Moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fY-M41FGzI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Moore
How to hear Lazlow's Chatterbox FM from "GTA III" in "Vice City"
If you like Lazlow's Chatterbox radio show in "GTA III," it's easy to get it
into your MP3 station for "Vice City" or the "Liberty City" mod (I.100.D.g).
Put the Play disk of "GTA III" into your PC CD drive. Go to My Computer, the
drive the disk is in, and Open the disk. Go to Audio and make a copy of
CHAT.wav somewhere (My Music, My Documents, whatever). Right click the copy and
click Create Shortcut--one will appear beside it. Right click the shortcut,
click Copy, then go to C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto Vice
CityMP3--open MP3. Right click a bare space in it and click Paste--a copy of
the shortcut will appear there. Now Lazlow's Chatterbox will be on your MP3
station. If you do that, be aware that you may have to wait a long time before
Chatterbox plays to the end and you get to whatever tunes you put there.
Toll free phone numbers
The toll free phone numbers given on the radio stations work; after the re-
cording plays, you can leave a message after the beep. (I don't know who the
message is for--I just left my name and said I was a big fan of the game.)
1-866-PILLAGE 1-866-7455243 Thor's Premium Pillage Line
1-866-9-SAVE ME 1-866-9-7283-63 Pastor Richards' Salvation Statue Fund
1-866-9-BURY ME 1-866-9-2879-63 Farewell Ranch
1-866-434-SELF 1-866-434-7353 Jeremy Robard: Think Your Way to Success
1-866-9-SHADEE 1-866-9-742333 Delao (spelling?) and Thorax Law Firm
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
I.16 Codes
Some basic advice
Some favorite codes: aspirine, bigbang, chasestat, seaways,
comeflywithme, istilllikedressingup, chickswithguns, fannymagnet,
certaindeath, hopingirl, the weather codes, gripiseverything,
airship
HUD (heads up display) codes
Game speed codes
Lead player codes
Vehicle spawning codes
Traffic codes
Three codes that make you start a new game to get rid of them
if you save the game after using them
Some basic advice
If it were wrong to use cheats, Rockstar shouldn't have made the cheats to
use. To me, being unethical is to overindulge the self at another's unnecessary
hurt or expense, unfair regard or treatment, as by lying and cheating, stealing,
murdering or hurting somebody beyond justifiable defense as a last resort. In a
single player game of fiction, it doesn't even come up. So I wrote this and I
call the cheats "codes." Some call them cheats, but I figure if it's a single
player game and you're not cheating anyone, go easy on yourself and call them
codes. Leave me alone; I'm old, I've been through too much, and there isn't
enough game in the world....
Don't save the game after using the peds riot/hate you/carry guns codes or
you'll have to start a new game to turn them off.
The game warns you not to save your game if you used certain codes/cheats:
"Warning! One or more cheats have been activated. This may affect your save
game. It is recommended that you do not save this game." Then it lets you
choose whether to save it or not.
The use of a vehicle spawning code or "comeflywithme" causes 1,000 points to
be subtracted from your CRiminal Rating (which is why the lowest standings have
negative numbers), but I've seen this warning after playing around with both
"istilllikedressingup" and "hopingirl," too. I saved the game after the latter
example, anyway, to see what would happen, and didn't notice anything different.
But some say the use of them can corrupt your statistics and ability to get
100%--spaceeinstein says, "Noooooooo." I play it safe and just use "aspirin"
for a vehicle, or maybe "chasestat" or "bigbang" while going for a high CRiminal
Rating or Highest media attention level, or play with just "istilllikedressing-
up," in a game I save. Otherwise, I play with them without saving the game.
It's never kept me from getting 100% in the PC version.
So does the use of codes keep you from getting 100% completion of the game on
PC?
On PC, as best I can tell, using codes won't hurt your ability to get 100%.
Using certain vehicle codes will lower your score for CRiminal Rating in your
saved Stats, so "corrupt your save game" that way, and you'd have to start a new
game to get rid of any of the three violent peds codes, so don't save after
using those three for that reason, but none of them stop you from getting 100%
on PC. I haven't tried to save the game after using each one of them then
played the game all the way through without using any others to see whether or
not each one of them kept me from getting 100% on PC, but when I've saved the
game with some of them, it didn't keep me from getting 100%. I've used all of
them without saving the game and got 100%. spaceeinstein is a lot more familiar
with the modification of the PC files than me, and he says, "No," they won't
keep you from getting 100%. As best I can tell, I'd agree.
You can type in codes while the game is in progress or when you've paused it
by pressing Esc. That's all there is to entering these codes--just type them
in. I've read that you can disable them by typing them in a 2nd time, but it
isn't true for all of them. You have to load a saved game or start a new game
to disable some of them; you can also disable "onspeed" and "booooooring" by
doing a unique jump that causes a cinematic shot or having Tommy use an Adrena-
line pill.
Some favorite codes: aspirine, bigbang, chasestat, seaways, comeflywithme,
istilllikedressingup, chickswithguns, fannymagnet, certaindeath, hopingirl,
the weather codes, gripiseverything, airship
"aspirine" heals the damage of, and stops smoke from coming from, the body and
motor of any vehicle Tommy is using, except that the visible body damage re-
mains. It repairs punctured tires, too. (I guess "aspirine" is how they spell
it in Scotland, where Rockstar North is based). It won't cause the game to re-
commend you don't save the game, and it won't effect your CRiminal Rating.
For fast-working aspirine in a clinch, press Esc to pause the game, type "as-
pirine," then resume the game by pressing Esc.
A bonus to pressing Esc to pause the game while typing the code is that typing
the letter "R" in a code, like "aspirine," won't change the radio station, typ-
ing "F" won't cause Tommy to enter or exit a vehicle, etc.
"bigbang" blows up nearby vehicles, which is useful for the method given in
section I.7 of blowing up helicopters to go for Godfather in your CRiminal Rat-
ings.
"chasestat" shows Tommy's media attention level if he has at least two wanted
stars, then it goes up or down depending on the frequency of his destruction.
For example, if you keep blasting with the Rhino cannon or the Hunter rocket
launcher, it goes higher. On subsequent efforts, it appears and does the same
thing if Tommy beats his old record.
It appears in purple letters like news bulletins added to the heads up dis-
play. It's such a good supplement to any major destruction spree Tommy goes on,
it should have been a regular part of the game without needing to type in the
code.
You can save the game after using this code without any bad effect.
"seaways" makes land vehicles, even the Rhino, travel over water like hover-
crafts with their wheels folded sideways like the car in "Back to the Future,"
1985--a modified DeLorean DMC 12. (A "Vice City" Deluxo looks like a DeLorean
DMC 12.) The wheels instantly become vertical again if you drive onto land.
The horizontal wheels are shown as vertical during instant replays. The rela-
tive speed and handling of land vehicles on land stays true on water, where you
can also brake and hear squeals during sharp turns.
It makes it easier to use water jump ramps, too, but be careful not to flip
over; pressing F won't make him appear over a land vehicle if he's on water.
The boat gimmick of pressing F then Spacebar to jump off the water and bounce
ashore won't work with a "seaways" coded vehicle--if you hit F on water, Tommy
will just drown.
It lets all the helicopters, not just the Sea Sparrow, land on water, too. To
disable it, type it again.
"comeflywithme" doesn't effect motorcycles, and it makes propellers on heli-
copters turn slowly or not at all till you press W, then the copter jiggles
around and upside down, out of control, till it wrecks and Tommy can't bail so
he dies.
Get a Cheetah or Infernus or such, though, and take it to the airport for
practice before moving out into the more crowded surrounding area. The code
makes it go airborne for a bit with speed alone.
You can control it with Number Pad 6: Up, Number Pad 9: Down, Spacebar: Brake,
A: Left, and D: Right. Make the vehicle go a bit airborne, then use NP6 and
bursts of W to keep it level and airborne.
You get more mileage out of distance than height with jumps because once it
gets to a certain height it goes down to the ground. So moderate slopes tend to
help this more than steep ones. A good example is the hump of the bridge W of
the Washington Beach police station, which you can use to get on the roof of the
station.
It makes for a fancier version of the boost jump for taxis for getting any
land vehicles around, and over, town. It can work with the boost jump for taxis
or cabs, too, but it makes the boost jump to fail to work at times or just the
back end kick up.
It also enables you to fly the Rhino, which has the advantage of a cannon you
can fire backwards, then make swoops with NP6 and NP9, to keep it airborne (see
I.9.D). It can also send your pursuers airborne (check your rear view) during
an unofficial rampage for your CRiminal Rating and Highest media attention.
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It takes 1,000 points off your CRiminal Rating, so you might not save the game
if you're going for the "Godfather" level. To disable it, type it again.
"stilllikedressingup" lets you cycle through pedestrians to pick one to use as
the lead player if you use the code when Tommy is in his street outfit (blue
flowered shirt and blue jeans). The pedestrian will appear instead of Tommy in
some of the cutscenes ("Back Alley Brawl," "Treacherous Swine," "Guardian An-
gels," Assassination assignments at a pay phone, etc.), too. The ped looks un-
changed after using a clothes pickup, but Tommy will appear in the new outfit
when he appears in cutscenes.
A few of the black ladies look a bit like a friend of mine. It can also be
funny to pick a little old lady to watch her beat the crap out of armed thugs.
A gaming disadvantage to picking a skater is that they can't run on grass with-
out falling down now and then.
Random download authored a trainer for "Vice City" that I like because it lets
you assign this code to couple of hotkeys. This saves a lot of time when you
have to cycle through dozens of pedestrians to get to the one you want to use.
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=12
You can save the game after using this code without any bad effect.
"chickswithguns" replaces the Vercetti gang with women in bikinis carrying
guns. You may have to have Tommy walk around a bit before it kicks in.
"fannymagnet" makes some of the women hang around Tommy. They mainly shift
their weight from side to side and smile a lot.
"certaindeath" lets Tommy have a smoke (like Claude Speed did in "GTA 2" if
you didn't move him around for a while). To disable it, type it again.
"hopingirl" causes a nearby woman (sometimes a man, so use it when the one you
want is near) to get in or on any vehicle Tommy is using but the Hunter or Pizza
Boy, which just seat one, a Firetruck or Linerunner because the doors are too
high, a boat, or the Skimmer.
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It can also make the hooker trick work with any vehicle "hopingirl" works
with, overcoming the hookers's objections otherwise to Caddies, Police Cars,
etc.--even any helicopter but the Hunter.
At least some of the people that follow wherever Tommy goes, like Mercedes in
"The Party," whom the game causes to act like you've used the code on them, in
the little testing I did, don't show up on instant replay--F1.
If you type "hopingirl" and have Tommy give a seated woman a little bump with
his vehicle to get her to stand up and get into/onto the vehicle, you might end
up with something like this:
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She hangs on pretty good, but you have to go easy on the wheelies.
The various weather codes can be pretty. From sunniest to stormiest, they
are: "alovelyday" "apleasantday" "abitdrieg" and "catsanddogs"--and you can use
"cantseeathing" for some "GTA III" fog you don't otherwise see in the game (un-
less you beat your time several times for "Checkpoint Charlie").
"gripiseverything" makes four-wheeled vehicles handle so good it's abnormal
looking. It gives me the same kind of weird feeling I'd get if I played a re-
cord meant for 33 1/3 rpm at 78 rpm. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to effect
bikes--it could make a hog more like the kind you can jack from a biker during
"Alloy Wheels of Steel" if it did.
One side benefit: it gives four-wheel vehicles (but not, at least, the Rhino)
the boost jump, even at the start of the game, that normally only Taxis and cabs
have after dropping off 100 fares. To disable it, type it again.
"airship" makes speed boats at full speed fly a bit, which you can help with
Number Pad 6. Like "comeflywithme," it can be used in a chase during a wanted
rating and supplemented with jumps. To disable it, type it again.
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HUD (heads up display) codes
thugstools Brass Knuckles, Sniper Rifle, Flamethrower, Kruger, MP, Shotgun,
Pistol, Molotovs, and Bat.
professionaltools Rocket Launcher, M4, Mac, Shotgun, .357, Remote Grenades,
and Katana.
nuttertools .308, Minigun, M4, Tec-9, S.P.A.S. 12, Grenades, and Chainsaw.
preciousprotection Gives Tommy maximum armor.
youwonttakemealive Raises Tommy's wanted level two stars.
leavemealone Removes Tommy's wanted level; using it doesn't hurt your CRimi-
nal Rating, but you get however many stars you removed with it added to Wanted
Stars Attained and none added to Evaded.
Game speed codes
onspeed Speeds up the game. It's disabled if you do a unique jump and get a
cinematic shot or have Tommy use an Adrenaline pill.
booooooring Slows down the game. It's disabled if you do a unique jump and
get a cinematic shot or have Tommy use an Adrenaline pill.
lifeispassingmeby Speeds up the game clock, to about one hour per second, and
the weather. Typing it again disables it.
Lead player codes
deepfriedmarsbars Makes Tommy (or whoever you've chosen for a lead player
with the "stilllikedressingup" code) fat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
programmer Makes Tommy (or whoever you've chosen for a lead player with the
"stilllikedressingup" code) have thin arms and legs.
cheatshavebeencracked Play as Ricardo Diaz, organized crime leader and co-
caine dealer, who appears in various missions from I.17.C to I.53.
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looklikelance Play as Lance Vance, who goes from side kick to kick in the
side from the very beginning to the very end of the game.
mysonisalawyer Play as Lawyer Ken Rosenberg, Tommy's bad legal advisor
throughout the game.
ilooklikehilary Play as Hilary King of "The Driver," I.68, I.70, and "The
Job," I.75.
rockandrollman Play as Jezz Torrent, lead singer of Love Fist. The Love Fist
missions are I.56, I.57, and I.74.
weloveourdick Play as Dick of Love Fist.
onearmedbandit Play as Phil Cassidy, Tommy's buddy and arms supplier, I.65,
I.68, I.70, I.75--I.77.
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idonthavethemoneysonny Play as Sonny Forelli, organized crime leader, drug
dealer, and Tommy's boss and nemesis.
foxylittlething Play as Mercedes Cortez--Tommy's (and others') sexual inter-
est.
icanttakeitanymore Makes Tommy kill himself. I suppose this is if you prefer
Tommy being wasted to being busted, but I'd just reload the game.
Vehicle spawning codes
(Be aware that using one subtracts 1,000 points from your CRiminal Rating.)
panzer Rhino There's one at Fort Baxter after you get 100 hidden packages,
I.19.
betterthanwalking Caddy There's one in the 1st shrub on the left when you
send Tommy W on the path from the light house. You might find one at Leaf Links
Golf Course and Country Club.
gettherefast Sabre Turbo There's one at Sunshine Autos after you complete
the 2nd vehicle collection list, I.62.B.
travelinstyle Bloodring Banger A It's the Oceanic customized for demolition
derby use.
gettherequickly Bloodring Banger B It's the Glendale customized for demoli-
tion derby use.
Both Bloodring Banger A and B appear at the S side of the stadium after you
succeed at "Bloodring," I.31.
getthereveryfastindeed Hotring Racer A It's the one that looks like the
front end of a Chrysler Laser/Dodge Daytona '84-'86 or a Vauxhall Firenza '73-
'75 was grafted onto a Ford Thunderbird Aero Bird '87 modified for NASCAR rac-
ing. The engine hood always has decals advertising "THE BURGHER SHOT" and "Pets
over night."
getthereamazinglyfast Hotring Racer B It's the one that looks like a Chevro-
let Monte Carlo Aero Coupe '87. The body overall looks like a late-1980's NAS-
CAR racer--like something Dale Earnhardt would have known about. The engine
hood always has decals advertising "Drink Sprunk" and "SUMO." It's also one
that appears on the 2nd floor of Sunshine Autos after you complete the 4th vehi-
cle collection list--after I.63.
thelastride Romero's Hearse You can get one during "Two Bit Hit," I.83.
rockandrollcar Love Fist limo There's always one in front of the VROCK
building after the Love Fist missions--after I.74.
rubbishcar Trashmaster There's always one at the junkyard City Dump. You
might find one in Viceport.
Traffic codes
wheelsareallineed Makes only the wheels, and any front and back lights, of
four-wheel and RC vehicles visible. Helicopters are seen as four wheels--the
back ones spin while Tommy is in a helicopter. The Skimmer and boats are total-
ly invisible. To disable it, type it again.
(I also used "loadsoflittlethings" and the All In One Mod for the next three
screen shots.)
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ahairdresserscar Makes most land vehicles (except, at least, Cabs/Taxis, Hot-
ring/Bloodring cars, Lance's white Infernus, and Securicars), helicopters (ex-
cept the Hunter), the Skimmer, and speedboats and sail boat sails light purple.
iwantitpaintedblack Like "ahairdresserscar" except most vehicles, etc., are
black.
loadsoflittlethings Makes sports cars have chunky tires, and the Caddy and
Baggage Handler have a greater top speed. You can reload the game and type it
again to increase the effect.
greenlight Makes traffic lights stay green, then blink yellow, so traffic
doesn't stop at them. You probably need to make Tommy shoot a land vehicle be-
ing driven by someone else to jack it.
miamitraffic Like "greenlight" except the traffic lights are normal--just the
traffic isn't. The traffic doesn't stop if Tommy or anyone else gets in front
of it, either, and is a bit more reckless.
Three codes that make you start a new game to get rid of them
if you save the game after using them
Don't save the game if you use any of these three codes:
fightfightfight Makes most pedestrians (except, at least, cashiers, emergency
workers, etc., and the people in the Malibu and Pole Position Clubs) run to yank
each other from cars, punch, kick, threaten. and shoot each other (even another
member of the same gang). They also try to do all these things to Tommy. You
may hear some pedestrian dialogue about fighting, or being revived by a paramed-
ic, you don't normally hear, too.
nobodylikesme Like "fightfightfight" except the pedestrians who attack mainly
attack Tommy.
ourgodgivenrighttobeararms Makes most pedestrians (except, at least, hookers,
the two criminals in leather jackets, and people in the Malibu and Pole Position
Clubs) carry Golf Clubs, Nightsticks, Tec-9s, and Pistols. The gang members
carry the same weaponry as usual--Pistols, in most cases. No bigger percentage
of the pedestrians is more inclined to attack or fight back than usual, but if
they fight, they use their weapon. To disable it, type it again.
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I.17 The initial main story missions
The advantages of doing all the side missions you can do for now
that you need to do for 100% completion,
and of getting to the mainland/west island,
Starfish Island, and Leaf Links
earlier than normal people.
The initial main story missions get you started. (The rest of the main story
missions are continued at I.33.)
Getting 100% in "Vice City" isn't just a statistic. Among other things, Tommy
and any vehicle he's in get twice the damage resistance, and his maximum health
and armor increase to 200 points.
Doing the available side missions needed for 100% completion now will give
Tommy money, ability to buy property (including some with garages he can save
vehicles in) and buy or find more powerful weapons, the infinite run and fire-
proof abilities, and extra armor and health. You'll be more familiar with the
map and the rhythms of using the controls. Tommy will have a much greater range
of things he can do successfully about the main story missions.
And it will allow you to enjoy the rest of the main story missions, featuring
talented voice actors, in an uninterrupted sequence.
Some of these missions involve getting to areas that are normally blocked off
early in the main missions. Well, this land is your land, this land is my land,
Pete Seeger--we're going to them, anyway. There are a variety of ways to do it.
Before you can do anything to save, you ought to watch the opening scenes--
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I.17A "In the beginning."
The cut scenes of "Vice City" were written by Dan Houser and James Worrall.
The pedestrian dialogue was written by Dan Houser, Marc Fernandez, and Navid
Khonsari, with help from Lance Williams, Jeremy Pope, and Jenny Jameson.
In the beginning of the main story, we learn that Liberty City mob leader Son-
ny Forelli thinks it will be bad for his crime business if the people of Liberty
City see Tommy walking around there. It was common local knowledge that Sonny's
crime group would want Tommy dead. This confirms for us that Tommy is right
when he says later that Sonny set him up to be killed with an ambush 15 years
before.
We also learn that Sonny Forelli sends Tommy Vercetti, just released from a
prison stay, with two men (we soon learn are Harry and Lee) and Vice City lawyer
Ken Rosenberg, to do a Columbian cocaine deal for him in Vice City.
The pictures on the walls of Marco's Bistro can be found in modelsgta3.img
hot_mobint.txd, and I exported them to My Pictures with the Vice Txd tool for a
closer look. The photos and news stories come in two collections of four each
per .txd file under that file heading. I think I was mistaken, in earlier ver-
sions of this guide, about the group picture, in mob_picts1, including Al Ca-
pone, whom I doubt is the chubby guy on the left. I don't know whose front and
side mug shots are shown unless it's the same one referred to in the news story
below it in the .txd file, which is blurry but seems to say "Sam Stomey."
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In the four pictures of mob_picts2, one refers to Vera Stretz, who was acquit-
ted in the murder of her husband in 1936, and it and another seem to refer to
the execution of Bruno Hauptmann, for the Lindbergh kidnapping, the same year.
Another is of Frank Sinatra, who was a fan of Chicago Mafia leader Sam "Momo"
Giancana, etc., from around the same time. Of that same group of four is a
(fake?) front page that is headed "VERCETTI TO DIE." Considering the context, I
wonder if "Vercetti" is a variation of "Vanzetti," of the two men, Sacco and
Vanzetti, condemned to die after a very controversial and famous trial, in 1927.
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/lindbergh/theories_8.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Hauptmann
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/giancana/index_1.html
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/sacco/1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti
http://www.crimelibrary.com/index.html
The deal takes place by the docks in Viceport (used at I.96). The helicopter
they're met by is flown by Lance Vance, whom you'll meet at "Guardian Angels"--
I.42; we'll also later learn that Lance's brother is the man who leaves the
chopper with the two briefcases of cocaine. (The Rockstar Games web site, in
the "Vice City" section, has a bulletin board with a "Vice City Crime Tree" that
tells us Lance's brother is named Victor.) The deal is sabotaged, Lance's
brother is killed, Ken is panicked, and Tommy resolves to sort things out.
In the beginning
Sonny directed Vercetti to Lance
But he returned without substance and void
And darkness was expected upon the face of Forelli
So Tom roamed about over the face of the earth
And Rockstar said, "Let there be light," and there was light
It's a shaft of light in front of the Ocean View--
the pink blip on your radar screen; drive to it.
You might be a fast driver, but wait to get the weather bulletin on the radio
before having Tommy leave his vehicle. The bridges to the mainland (west is-
land) and Starfish Island have been closed due to the possible approach of Hur-
ricane Hermine.
(There was a hurricane in the N Atlantic named Hermine in 1986. It didn't
cause significant damage.)
The cast is all very good. Ray Liotta said he couldn't believe the things
they had him say: "When I was doing the lines, I couldn't believe some of the
s*** that was coming outta my mouth" ("Electronic Gaming Monthly," Feb., 2003).
I can believe it--it is on the wild side.
Tommy Vercetti is Henry Hill as Tony Montana. He's voice acted by the in-
imitable Ray Liotta (try to imitable him--you can't do it). Since Tommy is
still alive at the end of "Vice City," I hope they bring Ray Liotta back for a
sequel. Besides the movies mentioned at I.2, he also starred as Shoeless Joe
Jackson in "Field of Dreams," 1989, which starred Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella.
After you've been around town a while, you'll know why I keep saying, "Al-
ways a comment with that Ray Liotta."
The motion capture acting for Tommy is done by up and coming Jonathan Sale,
all the more an accomplishment since it's done in a Spandex-latex suit covered
with little balls (http://www.escmag.com/v5/features/feature.cfm?fv=5); and all
the rest of the balls are supplied by you.
Sonny Forelli is a Mafia boss on Salvatore Leone's stomping grounds. Sonny
Forelli-- the fearsome Tom Sizemore; I'm not sure if he dangled his balls or had
a stand-in. He also stars as Sgt. Michael Horvath in "Saving Private Ryan,"
1998.
Ken Rosenberg is Tommy's David Kleinfeld. Ken Rosenberg--the fearful but
ballsy Bill Fichtner. He also stars as Sfc. Jeff Sanderson, with Tom Sizemore
as Lt. Col. Danny McKnight, in the 2001 movie "Black Hawk Down."
Tips: when you repeat a mission that has an opening sequence and doesn't start
with Tommy in or on a vehicle, and you want to skip the opening scene, press En-
ter, Left Shift, or Right Shift. If it starts with Tommy in a vehicle, use W.
Unless it's noted as a timed mission, you can take as long as you like to get
anywhere. You can get another vehicle, weapon, more armor, etc.
You can do the next few main story things now or later. They're all basic
"drive here, walk there" things. I'll give them here so you can get the main
story going, meet some of the other main characters, and get a couple of clothes
pickups. You can use a clothes pickup to morph Tommy to a PCJ 600 to go for In-
sane Stunts (I.9.C).
You can save your progress in the game at the glowing pink cassette (both it
and the shafts of light are called "pickup"s in the game) in the lobby of the
Ocean View.
Walk Tommy to the shaft of light in the Ocean View. (If you run Tommy at
these lights followed by brief cutscenes, he'll run in the cutscene.) He goes
up the stairs to his apartment for a phone call from:
I.17B "An Old Friend"
Sonny calls Tommy from Marco's Bistro in Liberty City. Sonny hasn't talked to
Tommy in 15 years (1971-1986), the time Tommy served for "the family." When
Tommy tells him that the deal was ambushed, the money stolen, and Harry and Lee
were murdered, Sonny is furious. Sonny calls it grounds to kill, but tells Tom-
my to handle it. Tommy assures him he'll retrieve the cash, cocaine, and make
the attackers very unpopular for dates.
Tommy's apartment, on the 2nd floor of the Ocean View, is open from now on.
I don't know who's in the 3rd picture on Sonny's wall. In an almost commer-
cial plug in the show I've caught, cans of Crispo are on his shelves. I think
"Ardon Porn Farts" on some yellow boxes is meant as a play on words of "Argo
corn starch." (See the "Creative plugging" section of I.13.)
Interesting stuff will appear at Tommy's apartment as the game goes on. For
now, it has LAYTON booze, a couple vases of daffodils (and orchids?), and some
magazines: "Crime," featuring a picture of Man of the Year, Diaz, whom you'll
meet shortly; "Guide," featuring a "Confessions of a Network Programmer" cover
story and a picture of Lance Vance hugging a female twin of himself to his face;
"New Discoverer," which seems to have an article about Afghanistan (in 1986, a
time of Soviet intervention and war, backed by the U.S., U.K, and China; the
gta.img file "hotelroomint"/"hot_mags1" shows it's "After 17 years An Afghan
Refugee's Story"); and "Erse" (a variant of "arse"), which says "1986 sees best
ever graphics."
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Thanks to U.K. reader Colin Attle, who thinks "ERSE" may refer to a popular
U.K. videogame magazine: "This could be a take off a magazine called EDGE here
in the UK--check out this link":
http://www.edge-online.co.uk/
For some reason, "An Old Friend" isn't listed on the screen you use to load a
previously completed mission.
There's a bouncy pink tube of light at Lawyer Ken Rosenberg's front door.
I.17C "The Party" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg mission
Tommy tells frazzled lawyer Ken he plans to kill the ambushers so Sonny and
his men will lighten up. Ken tells Tommy to go in Ken's place to a party being
held on the yacht of Col. Juan Cortez, who'd organized the intended cocaine deal
with Ken. He has Tommy get some new clothes at Raphael's 1st (I.9.C--Outfits).
After going to Raphael's, you can have Tommy nab the Freeway--hog--across the
street from it, if you want.
(The voice that says, "Hmm, nice bike," sounds like someone other than Tommy/
Ray Liotta.)
As Rusk notes, park in the pink shaft of light at Pier 2 without getting off
the bike if you want it to appear there afterwards.
At the yacht, Tommy tells Col. Cortez Ken is suffering from agoraphobia (the
fear of being inescapably humiliated, mainly shown in avoiding public places).
Cortez says he's investigating the cause of the ambush, but, for the time being,
wants his daughter, Mercedes Cortez, to escort Tommy. (Cortez calls her "Cara-
mia." "Cara mia" is Italian for "my beloved.")
Guest information:
Col. Cortez is a gentlemanly-mannered crime boss, like Sosa in "Scarface,"
1983. Cortez--the cordial Robert Davi, who also stars as Frank Sanchez in the
James Bond movie "License to Kill," 1989.
Col. Cortez gives Tommy missions after "Riot": I.37, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.48,
and I.54.
Mercedes Cortez is a layabout Cortez' daughter. Her house is the avant-garde-
looking one with the ramps and red lights S of the Leaf Links Apartment and NE
of the E end of the little bridge from Leaf Links to the east island. Mer-
cedes--the "Almost Famous" famous Fairuza Balk, who plays Saphire Loveson in the
2000 movie.
Mercedes will appear in the "Love Juice," I.56, and "Recruitment Drive," I.78,
missions.
When Tommy asks, "Mercedes?" and she says, "You try living with it," it's
probably her reaction to the meaning of the name considering her personal hab-
its. It means "mercy" in Spanish, and is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary: "Maria de las Mercedes"--"Mary of Mercies." OOooh....
http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=mercedes
Mercedes gives Tommy a mini-biography of some of the other guests.
Alex Shrub is Ted Baxter with a mean streak for political celebrity. Alex
Shrub--Chris Lucas, who doesn't normally need to be locked up.
Congressman Alex Shrub shows up for "Martha's Mug Shot," I.80, and he's a
guest on VCPR radio.
Candy Suxxx is the cheerful exhibitionist for money. Candy Suxxx--talented
naturals (then with enhancement by special effects) actress Jenna Jameson.
Porno star Candy Suxxx and her great big ones will show up in missions I.78,
I.80, and I.81 for the Interglobal Film studio.
B.J. Smith is the great big S and M car thief/football player on the make.
(He's a comedic take on O.J. Simpson in '86, eight years before becoming a
deathly serious golfer. One excuse O.J. offered after that was that even if he
murdered Nicole, it was because he loved her a lot. I bet that excuse routinely
doesn't go over at abuse clinics.) B.J. Smith--champion Lawrence Taylor.
Ex-football player/used (stolen) car dealer B.J. Smith will show up when you
buy Sunshine Autos, I.62.A, is a guest on KCHAT radio, and has ads on VCPR,
Fever 105, and KCHAT radio.
Avery Carrington is a feisty Foghorn Leghorn (my Dad was a cartoonist),
unfortunately, he likes land more than people; it makes more money for him.
Avery Carrington--that handsome and funny and talented Burt Reynolds.
Avery Carrington shows up for "Riot," I.37, then gives Tommy missions, I.38,
I.39A, and I.83, and has an ad for Shady Acres on VCPR and Emotion 98.3 radio.
Jezz Torrent, lead singer for Love Fist, shows up for the Love Fist missions,
I.56, I.57, and I.74, and the group is featured on VROCK radio.
Jezz Torrent is the trendy hedonist and pretentious soul-barer who can't be
stopped by a career slag. Jezz Torrent--colorful Kevin McKidd.
Gonzales is a bad stock clerk on the organized crime ladder of success.
Gonzales is asleep, so he isn't voice-acted yet.
Gonzales is Col. Cortez' right hand man and shows up for "Treacherous Swine,"
I.40.
Pastor Richards has memorized the Bible, but just to scam people with it;
he'd be bucking for a job as a Jehovah's Witnesses writer if he wasn't so
independently successful. Pastor Richards--David Green, unstoppable,
especially if he's armed and pointing a gun at your pubic hair.
Pastor Richards is a guest on VCPR and has an ad on Emotion 98.3 radio.
He's a parody of a controversial 1980's TV evangelist. He's always smiling and
has brown hair on top (a toupee) and white hair below that. Some pedestrian
businessman in the game has a toupee, too, but it's not him.
Steve Scott is Ed Wood with undaunted Stephen Spielberg dreams instead of
Orson Welles ones. Stephen Scott--"Carried Away," 1996, actor Dennis Hopper.
Porno film director Steve Scott shows up for the Interglobal Film studio mis-
sions--I.78 to I.81.
Ricardo Diaz is Pablo Escobar with a thing for big c**ks, regardless of the
species. Ricardo Diaz--the gaming goodness of Luis Guzman.
Ricardo Diaz is the cocaine baron who chats up Cortez with talk about reward-
ing friends and killing enemies. He shows up soon for "Guardian Angels," I.42,
then gives Tommy missions, I.44, I.45, I.49, I.51. He's also in I.53.
Mercedes has Tommy drive her to the Pole Position Club. There is always a
Cheetah just S of Pier 2 and a PCJ 600 just S of Pier 1. If you use the hog or
PCJ 600 instead of a car, you don't get the extra exchange between them in which
Mercedes asks if Tommy minds her resting her hand in his lap.
(She's invisible during instant replay--F1. She usually sashays her hips
walking into the club.)
You get $100 and the Soiree and Street Outfits (I.9.C--Outfits) are available.
A clothing bag from Rafael's hangs on a dresser in the Ocean View apartment.
Again, the main story missions continue at I.33. But before the heat gets
turned up with them, doing the missions and activities given below will prepare
you with extra armor and health, wealth and weapons, the infinite run and the
fireproof feature, more vehicles and places to store most of them, and experi-
ence in driving, flying, and fighting.
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I.18 Getting past the barricades and locked gates and back
Going to the west island early
...by PCJ 600 and a Packer,
...by Coach/Enforcer/Firetruck/station wagon and a boat,
...by jumping off a bridge or through a gate and using a boat,
...by PCJ 600 alone,
...and by using a code, codes, or a mod.
Stealing money from parking meters, buying the Skumole Shack for $1,000,
and several ways to get back to the east island,
making a side trip to sneak aboard the yacht.
Jumping on a shrub to get to Starfish Island early
Four ways to jump into Leaf Links early
Getting to the west island early
...by PCJ 600 and a Packer
Rusk calls the PCJ 600 method "The Jump" and the Coach etc. method "The Bus."
"The Jump" is my favorite way to get over the bridge barricades.
Drive a PCJ 600 W over the North Bridge to Prawn Island. As soon as you're
off the bridge, stop at the right with the back of the bike to the wall.
Drive at the ramp ahead at the side of a building. Turn right going off of it
to aim for a ramp on the roof of a 2nd building, where you need to accelerate to
get onto the sloped upper part of the roof of a 3rd building. Have brake and
right turn ready for the landing. If Tommy has a spill, he can jump or drive
back over to the previous roof and return to the starting point.
Once on the upper part of the last roof, drive counter-clockwise around a
ledge to the SE end of the roof. You might use V to get a long distance back
view so he can back the bike to the edge without falling off. Then press V to
get the mid-distance back view again, and gun it for the ramp on the W end,
veering a bit right as he goes off and aiming for a spot just left of the heat-
ing vents of the 2nd landing roof. The jump involves landing on a roof then
quickly falling to a 2nd lower roof you brake on (use both brake and reverse)
(Jump 36).
If you manage that, you can get hidden package 42 up there. (If you're new to
this and fall off the roof, you can drive out on the stairs on the SE side and
try again. You can get H42 with this jump or a helicopter. You might also get
hidden package 43 in Studio C--mark down the numbers of the jumps you've done
and packages you've found to keep track of them.)
Once in Interglobal Film studios with the PCJ 600, turn the Packer (ramp
truck) around in the big clearing to the S and go back near the NW corner so
it's pointed NW. Line the left side of the Packer with the right side of the
right-most skyscraper on the horizon. Use Q to look to the left, which lets
you look at the right side of the Packer in the process. Align the front of the
rear wheel guard/blinker housing with the big fan in the distance. Look at the
radar and press and release Q to make sure all three things are co-ordinated.
Then get out and move so that the door stays open--this is an old "GTA III"
trick to make sure a vehicle doesn't disappear if abandoned for awhile. Unfor-
tunately, the bike occasionally disappears while doing this--I guess because the
Packer is a big vehicle and takes up more memory than usual. If it does, try
again, because it usually doesn't do it twice in a row and it's worth it.
Get the PCJ 600 to the stairs at the SE corner of the lot. (You can use these
stairs to get out of the studio if you want to pass on the jump.)
Turn the bike so the back is to the stairs and the clearing you want to drive
through is straight ahead. Gun it without let up; the left turn around the
glass curved corner of the building on the left won't throw you out of control.
Aim for the middle of the ramp. Once airborne, hold the front wheel in a left
turn, and have brake and reverse combined ready, so you don't smack into the
wall at the far side of the road you're landing on. You might even land so that
you can keep driving to the W over the bridge.
(Once Tommy landed on top of the invisible wall that goes up from the barri-
cade--the bike was back in the studio. I could see the wall goes up pretty high
to prevent jumps being made over it. After taking in the view, I had Tommy jump
down to the W and go over to the west island.)
...by Coach/Enforcer/Firetruck/station wagon and a boat
"The Bus"--Coach, Enforcer. Firetruck, or station wagon.
For a 2nd way Rusk has to get past the barricades, "The Bus," save a Coach
(passenger bus seen at bus stops) in the garage at Ocean Heights (on the S end
of the east island, the 2nd block from the E, on the NW corner), because this
one doesn't always go smoothly and Coaches sometimes take a while to find. The
end sticks out of the garage but it saves the Coach anyway, which is an old "GTA
III" gimmick that works in "Vice City," too. But leave room on the driver's
side for Tommy to get in and out. I've had this gimmick magically transport
Tommy out of the garage and not be able to get back in, which left the garage
useless until I reloaded the game, to get rid of the vehicle, and tried again.
Rusk adds that you can use an Enforcer instead, and you can always find one of
those at the Vice Point police station. You can use a Firetruck after using the
Flame Thrower to create fires to attract one. You could also use a station wag-
on.
Drive the Coach or whatever to Pier 2 at the SW edge of the east island. Just
drive it into the plant on the N side of the gate to destroy it--you don't need
to gun it. Drive the back wheels through the opening and over the low ledge,
then have Tommy get out and shove it through to align it with the pier. Have
Tommy jump on it, then jump from it onto the pier. The game may bounce him up
onto the pier if he lands on the water.
Then have him take a boat to the west island. You can ground it on the Boat-
yard dock that slants into the water on the SW shore, or on the grass that
slopes into the water on the N shore, or on the beach on the NW side, or on the
grass on the E or W side of Fort Baxter. You could have it pull alongside the
dock on the N side of the land that projects from the middle of the W side of
the west island and have Tommy jump up onto it.
...by jumping off a bridge or through a gate and using a boat
Rusk has a couple other ways to do it, too:
Jumping off a bridge
A 3rd way past the barricades is to jump from the ledge on the N side of the
North Bridge onto one of the bigger, slower boats. I didn't always have Tommy
hit the boat, and he even bounced off a couple, but I usually had him make it.
It was easier than I thought it would be. I had the best luck triggering the
appearance of boats by having Tommy go to the W pillar that rises from the ledge
and then go back E. If you do see two or more, the ones that follow the 1st one
go slower.
If you try this one, save the game at 3321 Vice Point, the place N of North
Point Mall, so you can be close by if you need to load your previously saved
game and try again.
Jumping through a gate
A 4th way past the barricades is to back an Ambulance to the gate of Pier 1,
then jump from atop the Ambulance at the gate. The easiest spot for me to get
Tommy over the collison file was just N of the S thick vertical bar of the
gate.
Ed McMahon is going to have to introduce Rusk pretty soon. EVerything you
could POSsibly want to know about getting past the barricades early is in his
guide, except:
...by PCJ 600 alone
Spuds725, at the GTA Forums web site (Vice City > Cheats and Tricks), has a
way to get past the barricade on the South Bridge with a PCJ 600. Have Tommy
get a good runway, speed the PCJ 600 toward the South Bridge, and have his path
go near the right curb as he approaches the bridge. Aim for the right end of
the barricade segment that's left of the gap that's left of the right-most bar-
ricade segment, and Tommy can speed right through it.
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...and by using a code, codes, or a mod
Using a code or codes
A 5th way I know to get around the barriers to the west island involves us-
ing one code. Get a vehicle, type "seaways," I.16, and drive into the sea.
This is also just fun to do for its own sake. The wheels fold up sideways like
the car in "Back to the Future" does when it flies, and it drives over the water
like a hover craft.
At the west island, you can drive ashore (the wheels automatically right them-
selves) onto the Boatyard dock that slants into the water on the SW shore, onto
the grass that slopes into the water on the N shore, onto the beach on the NW
side, or onto the grass at the E or W of Fort Baxter. If you use the BF Injec-
tion dune buggy and take advantage of a high wave, you could even get up onto
the dock on the N side of the land that projects from the middle of the W side
of the west island, the SW tip of the airport, or onto the pier on the SE side
(behind the mansion) of Starfish Island.
If you use the method, given below, of jumping on a shrub to get into Starfish
Island, you could use "seaways" instead of the Sea Sparrow to get to the west
island afterward.
I wouldn't save the game afterward, though.
A 6th way involves using two codes: "panzer," to spawn a Rhino, and "comefly-
withme," to fly it using the method to fly a tank I described in section I.9.D.
I'd use the E side of Washington Beach for a runway to leave and to use a runway
at the airport to get back.
I wouldn't save the game afterward, though.
Using a mod
A 7th way, if your computer doesn't mind mods, would be to change a few lines
in some files, as explained in I.100.D.f, to create DiCanio's RC mod and fly to
the west island on an RC plane or RC helicopter.
Radioman has an 8th way to get to the W island early in the game if you have a
save game for the W island, have missions left to do there, and don't mind hav-
ing Tommy get busted or wasted (I don't save the game if either of those things
happen). Load a save from the west island, activate a mission, and when con-
trol returns to you, pause and start a new game. After the opening movie (Son-
ny at Marco's Bistro, etc.) and control returns to you, have Tommy die or get
busted. When he appears at a hospital or police station, have Tommy enter the
taxi with an arrow over it that appears nearby--it takes him to the last mis-
sion point, which is on the west island. (This also works for "Vice City Stor-
ies.")
Stealing money from parking meters
One easy way to make thousands of dollars on the west island with a four-wheel
vehicle is to run over the parking meters on the S side of the long E and W
stretch of road just E of the Hyman Condo alley. The meters have small red
heads on top of slender silver poles, and knocking them down can cause a lot of
money pickups to appear above them. By the time you're through at one end of
them, they've spawned again at the other. Make it easier on yourself and use
any heavier vehicle to do it.
This allows Tommy to go to the west island to buy a place to save the game be-
fore he's made any money on the east island. You can buy property if you're not
on a mission at the time. The easiest way to buy a place on the west island is
by:
Buying the Skumole Shack for $1,000
To get to the Skumole Shack, go N on the main N and S road of the west island
to where it divides in the S Downtown area, and take the road of it that turns
NE. Where it turns more to the N, the stairs up to the Skumole Shack are on
your left.
This is the 1st save place to buy when you jump or whatever to get to the west
island early. (Wait till you have 70 hidden packages before buying the Hyman
Condo so all your weapon pickups spawn there.) It's very close to the PCJ 600
at Howlin' Petes Biker Emporium on the S side of the block, and across the
street from that to the SW is a body armor pickup in a white roofless garage at
a bend in the road. There's an Uz-I pickup beneath the steps to the shack, so
stock up on ammo for it; it's the best submachine gun to have till the MP be-
comes available. The shack is about a block SE of the police station with a
VCPD helicopter on the helipad on the roof (I.9.D), and not far N of a Pay 'n'
Spray, which is a bit S of Links Bridge on the main N and S road. You can't use
the shack as a garage to save a bike in between games, though, as has been writ-
ten.
You can try to save your games on the west island until the west island offi-
cially opens--after I.45--because it's easier to take a chopper E than to use a
jump or whatever to go W. Your helicopter will probably disappear from the east
island at times before then, though, from using other vehicles or exiting the
game while there.
Several ways to get back to the east island
While you're on the west island and the road blocks are up, there are a varie-
ty of ways to get to the east island or anywhere in Vice City you want to go.
VCPD Maverick or VCN Maverick helicopter (I.9.D): available from the start of
the game on top of the Downtown Police Dept. and VCN building, respectively.
Maverick helicopter: on top of the Hyman Condo from the start of the game, but
you'd need another helicopter to reach it now. (This guide suggests you wait
until you've found 70 hidden packages to buy the Hyman Condo--I.19.)
Coast Guard boat: available from the start of the game by a pier just N of the
big ship at the S end of the E side of the west island.
You could use the "comeflywithme" code to fly the Rhino (I.9.D), which is at
Fort Baxter after you've found 90 hidden packages, and take off from a long run-
way at the airport.
You could use the "seaways" code (I.16) and travel over water in a four-
wheeled vehicle (even the Rhino).
I wouldn't save the game after either of those last two, though.
You could use DiCanio's RC mod (I.100.D.f).
Making a side trip to sneak aboard the yacht
Another thing you can do if you get early access to a helicopter is land one
on the back of the top level of Cortez' yacht, which is at Pier 2 at the SW of
the east island. You can look around the three levels of it once you land.
Don't bother trying to get Tommy aboard the Speeder speed boat hanging off the
back of the yacht. It's not solid, and is partly covered by something invisible
that bounces him off, and Tommy will drown.
Jumping on a shrub to get to Starfish Island early
There is an 8th way to get around the barricades, and it gets around the ones
on the E side of Starfish Island.
I learned of this from a message posted by Demarest on the GTA Forums web site
message boards.
Drive an ambulance to the blocked entrance of the bridge to Starfish Island.
Drive into the gap on the left with a left turn E, and keep going at it till the
Ambulance wiggles through. Position the ambulance with the passenger side
against the railing, and back it to the near edge of the gap you went through.
Get Tommy on the roof and have him make a running jump for the shrub at the left
of the black fence on the left of the pink-beige arch. Unlike the standard Vice
City ghost shrub, this one is solid up to six feet or so.
If you just want to go back to the east island, get a tall vehicle like a
Rancher or a Landstalker. There's always a Landstalker on a driveway where it
curves behind a shrub by the house that's pink with a gray roof on the NW side
of Starfish Island. Park it by the shrub you jumped on to get in and jump on
it. Then make a running jump for the road just past the end of the black fence.
This doesn't work to get around the gate at the W end, though. To get past
that from Starfish Island, you could wait until you've found 80 hidden packages,
so the Sea Sparrow helicopter is in the back yard of the mansion (which means
you'd have been to the west island, with its choppers, already, but want to try
something different), be willing to use the "seaways" code on a Starfish Island
land vehicle, or use the RC mod.
Four ways to jump into Leaf Links early
You can use a PCJ 600 to jump into Leaf Links before it's unlocked by doing
"Four Iron" (I.38).
1. Go to the E end of the bridge from the east island to Starfish Island.
Turn off the road to the N and gun it to the NW corner of the grass and jump to
Leaf Links. This works for slower vehicles, too, except a scooter, according to
Rusk reader WizO Randal.
2. Use the slope (sometimes invisible, but solid) up to the low wall at the
N side of the loop at the end of a road near the middle of the W side of the
east island. Start your run to the SE of it, going beyond the intersection and
across the yard to the low wall by the water. Wait for a break in traffic and
gun it for the slope. I don't think Rusk has noted the next two yet, though.
3. Start across the street to the E from the N side of the Vice Point Pay 'n'
Spray (which is across the street to the N of the Links View Apartment). Gun
it W past the N side of the Pay 'n' Spray and aim for the corner of the pave-
ment ahead and to the right, and give it a little wheelie once airborne to en-
sure you clear the ledge for your landing.
4. Drive a PCJ 600 up the steep grass slope at the NW corner of the little
wooden bridge that goes over the road near the E end of Links Bridge and try to
jump or bump the wooden bridge so that Tommy, and maybe the PCJ 600, land or
topple onto the bridge.
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I.19 Finding Hidden Packages
A mod that can help if you lose count,
how to find the secret chocolate Easter egg by H61
and printing press by H66,
and buying all the other non-moneymaking properties.
You have to find 100 green and yellow-green glowing hidden packages, which
look to me like tiki statues archaeologists inform us are stylized renderings of
pelicans in ancient Oriental potentates outfits that somebody smashed in the
beak with a shovel. And that's another "Scarface," 1983, reference. (Remember
him calling the flamingos on TV "pelicans"? It was a phrase Al Pacino used to
practice his Cuban accent and was left in the film.)
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And it's a 2nd "Scarface" reference because the packages are used to smuggle
cocaine into Vice City; one will appear after "Rub Out" on the counter just in-
side the entrance to Tommy's Ocean View apartment with a few piles of white pow-
der around it. (PS: this is a work of fiction--don't ever do anything to help
finance organized crime.) You can see some of them from afar, but the glow ap-
pears as you get close to them.
You get $100 per package ($10,000 total), and a $100,000 bonus after getting
the 100th. You also get an icon at the Ocean View, the mansion (after "Rub
Out") and the Hyman Condo (wait till you have 70 hidden packages to buy it so
your weapon pickups all appear there) for each ten you find up to 70:
10 Armor
20 Chainsaw
30 .357
40 Flame Thrower (and cans of HOT 'N' STICKY appear at the mansion when Tommy
owns it; thanks to Konstantinos for the tip)
50 .308 Sniper
60 Minigun
70 Rocket Launcher
then
80 the Sea Sparrow, available from then on behind the Starfish Island mansion,
even before doing "Rub Out"--I.53--and taking the mansion; no one there will
mind. Just don't mess around with Diaz' gang--they're one of the meanest.
90 the Rhino at Fort Baxter, across the lot from the entrance gate. The sol-
diers will shoot.
100 the Hunter at Fort Baxter, in the middle of the N end. (Otherwise, it
won't appear there till after "Keep Your Friends Close.") If Tommy jacks this
right, he has at least a 50% chance of living. If you both collect 100 packages
and complete "Keep Your Friends Close," the Hunter also appears on a helipad on
the S side of the E island.
As Rusk explains, if you get 40 packages then buy the Condo, the 1st four
pickups will appear there, but the pickups for collecting 50 to 70 won't appear
there until you open the west island by doing "Phnom Penh '86" (I.45). But if
you collect 70 1st, so the 1st seven pickups appear at the Ocean View, then buy
the condo, all seven pickups will appear on the roof of the condo before the
west island is officially open.
To put it simply, get at least 70 packages before buying the condo if you're
buying it before the west island is officially open.
A mod that can help if you lose count
This is easy, like an Easter egg hunt. But make sure you write down the num-
bers of the ones you've found to keep track of them, because 100 is a lot to go
back over if you miss one. But if worse comes to worse, you can install a mod
(ification of the game) that causes balls of light to hover over all hidden
packages left to find, and rampages left to do, with an unlit segment that keeps
moving down through the balls like something out of Las Vegas. See The Rampage
and Package Finder Mod (aka "The Northern Lights Mod") under Mods-- Miscella-
neous (100.D.f).
The numbers for the packages come from the BradyGames Official Strategy
Guide.
I'd search while using the PCJ 600, generally--there are some jumps you can
try along the way.
The ones you can get right away with a VCPD helicopter, including some you
might also use a boat for, are also ones you can wait to use a Sea Sparrow to
get if the pontoons make you feel safer about getting a few of them. Since the
Sea Sparrow is unlocked after getting 80 hidden packages, you'd have to wait
till then to do those. I'd use the VCPD helicopter (see I.9.D for the location)
to get them right away.
Those hidden packages are: 1, 2, 13, 22, 24, 51-55, 84, and 87 (you might get
89, 90, and 91 while you're at it).
If you're new to the game, you might want to do H15 (in the Washington Beach
police station) and H100 (behind the sign in front of Fort Baxter) after you get
the police outfit, available after "Cop Land" (I.61). Without the outfit,
you'll be getting shot at while getting H15 and possibly H100.
I wouldn't wait.
Ocean Beach (the several blocks on the S end of the E island)
H1 is on the roofless wooden platform in the ocean at the middle of the S end
of the Vice City map, S of Cortez' yacht and W of the light house. You might
try for this in a boat or later with a Sea Sparrow helicopter. I'd use the VCPD
Maverick (I.9.D) now. Approach from the S and land on the part of the platform
with the pickup for rampage 1.
H2 is on one of the big pile of the rocks W of the three wooden platforms and
a bit more N than the most N of them. Again, you might try for this in a boat
or later with the Sea Sparrow, but I'd use the VCPD Maverick now. Land on the
slightly sloped rock that slopes down to the most N rock with the right side of
the chopper towards the most N rock to help ensure it doesn't slide off. The
package is on the other side of the big rock beside you to the S.
H3 is by the back door of the house with a helipad that looks like a trampo-
line at the SW end of the island.
H4 is at the top of the outdoor steps to the light house at the SE side of
the island.
H5 is at the NW corner of the indoor parking garage by the piers on the SW
edge of the island.
H6 is behind the Ocean View Medical Foundation N of H5; if you approach from
the front steps, use the bike to jump onto then up onto the grass.
H7 is on the walk beneath the E end of the S bridge.
H8 Either: drive up the circular ramp to the roof of the Washington Mall
parking garage (3rd block from the E, 4th from the S), make a W to E run along
the S side and over the middle of the ramp to the roof across the street (Jump
29), then position the bike and run N to S over a ramp to the next roof over,
where the package is,
Or: get it with a helicopter later.
I'd jump with the cycle.
Washington Beach (the several blocks from Ocean Beach up to just N of the
Washington Beach police station; it's also the name of the entire N to S length
of the beach to the E of it),
H9 is behind a large pink building, S area of the east island, 2nd block from
the E, 4th block from the S. Enter the area by going up the steps in the middle
of the S side of the block.
H10 is on a roof, S side E island, NW side of block 4 blocks up on the E.
Either: use the stairs in the alley across from the middle of the N end of the
block to jump S and onto the roof (Jump 26),
Or: get it with a helicopter later.
H11 is on the back porch of a save place you can buy, 1102 Washington St.,
3rd block from the E, 4th block from the S, on the W panhandle of the block.
H12 Go N on the same street to the SE end of a little bridge.
H13 I'd get this in the VCPD Maverick. It's on the roof of the seven story
white building with horizontal blue stripes, E island, N side of the block, 2nd
block from the E and 4th block from the S--it's on the block S of the Washington
Beach police station.
H14 is over the top of the steps of a little wooden hut on the beach E of the
Washington Beach police station (which is on the block that comes to a point at
the top, 2nd block from the E, 5th block from the S).
H15 You may want to do this one separately. Have Tommy go through the en-
trance on the N side of the Washington Beach police station (see H14) and all
the way to the back--he now has a two star wanted level and the police will
shoot at him. Have him go up the stairs on the right and into a little office
at the far end of the room: the package is on the far right. Have him run out
the way he went in (across the room, down the stairs, left, and straight out).
Send him E to the alley that runs N to S through the middle of the blocks along
the E side of the island to run (pulse Jump if you don't have the infinite run)
S through the police bribe, then have him run the other star off.
This is easier with the infinite run (I.22). It's even easier if Tommy wears
the police uniform available after "Cop Land" (I.61), because that way he
doesn't get a wanted level for walking beyond the entrance room inside the po-
lice station. I've done it without having the infinite run or the outfit for
him, though, so most anyone could.
H16 Go N from H12 across the little bridge, and, just a bit ahead, go left
off of the road and up the steps, then go left to the pink house; H16 is on the
S side of it.
H17 is on the N end of the multi-colored outdoor shower stalls at the S side
of the E end of the Starfish Island bridge.
H18 is revolving while partly submerged in the ground beneath the same end of
the same bridge.
Vice Point (the island W of Washington Beach and all the neighborhoods on the
same land N of the Washington Beach neighborhoods)
H19 Go E on the road from the E end of the bridge to Starfish Island and make
the 1st left, which is N. Turn right off the road into the entrance of the con-
struction area of a building with red girders. Have Tommy go up the wooden
plank to the 2nd floor, turn right, and jump onto the scaffolding that extends
from the side at the corner, then jump from it into the Spand Express building
lot to get H19. Have him use the boxes by the gate to get over the fence to get
out. (Thanks to David Hawkins, whose method is given by Rusk.)
H20 Go back up a plank of the red girder building, and continue up planks to
the 4th floor. The package is at the end of a girder sticking out from the
building. It's about a foot wide, so it's not hard to do.
H21 Leave the construction site and turn right to continue N on the road.
Ahead at the 1st left is a short road that ends in a circle. Just before you
get to the beginning of that road is a house on your left. H21 is on a dock be-
hind that building.
H22 Use the VCPD Maverick for this. You're to land in a swimming pool on a
roof, but the Sea Sparrow doesn't provide any advantage because the water is on-
ly about 1 1/2' deep, and the Sea Sparrow sinks to the bottom of the pool, too.
The package is on the roof of the building across the street to the S of the
Malibu Club. Get the chopper positioned to go to the pool, including by using
nudges from side to side with A and D, and take it in slowly.
H23 At the same place, just before the start of the little road, go right in-
stead and across the bridge. At the end of that road, go right, which is S. On
your right side you'll see a parking lot, then a smaller lot, and then the Mali-
bu Club. H23 is in the near S corner of the smaller lot.
H24 Use the VCPD Maverick for this. As with H22, you're to land in a swim-
ming pool on a roof, but, again, the Sea Sparrow doesn't provide any advantage
because the water is only about 1 1/2' deep, and the Sea Sparrow sinks to the
bottom of the pool, too. The package is on the roof of the building across the
street to the N of the Malibu Club parking lot. Land the chopper as with H22.
(While there, you may see if you get the glitch I've had where the leaves of
the four biggest palm trees there disappear.)
H25 In the NW corner of the area behind the hotel E of the Malibu Club park-
ing lot. For some reason, the PC version has it called "ST HOTEL" along the top
and "WK CHARIOT HOTEL" over the front doors instead of "Vice Point Langer,"
which the PS2 version names it. (See I.13 for more about it.)
H26 From the base of the road that ends in a circle, go NE over the little
bridge and into the pizza store on the far corner at the 1st left. H26 is in
the NE corner of the table area. (You can have Tommy run over each row of ta-
bles and benches without falling in between them.)
(The cashiers at the pizza stores, and North Point Mall fast food places, all
look the same and only talk if Tommy buys something.
Otherwise, they're one of the several groups of pedestrians that won't say or
do anything if you have Tommy hit them to find out more about them, except that
these ones make a brief fighting stance--compare I.9.A: Punching your neighbors
to get to know them.
Tommy may need a night stick in order to hit the ones in the inaccessible
booths at North Point Mall. They crouch a bit behind their cash register if
shooting gets near. If Tommy keeps hitting one of them, they'll make a brave,
pacifistic sacrifice of themselves in the name of bad food, though you'd never
imagine such conviction from how unenthusiastic they are about selling it. If
you persist at having Tommy try to get a reaction from one till he kills them,
the store won't sell pizza or whatever there for awhile.
The Ammu-Nation clerks all look the same and never talk, even if Tommy buys
something from them; if he hits them, they shoot at him.
You'll meet one of another group of pedestrians like that at H28.)
H27 Continue NE on the same road as the pizza store, cross the street, and
continue to the stairway of the apartment building on the left. H27 is under
the stairs.
(There's one of the trees Tommy can climb S of the stairs. Have him climb
just higher than roof level and he can jump to the roof, then make a running
jump to another roof to the N.)
H28 Go back to the street you crossed from the pizza store--the one along the
E side of the pizza store. Go NW on it to the nameless jewelry store on the 2nd
block on your left. H28 is at the cashier's left side.
(This is one of the stores Tommy will knock off later--he can't buy anything
in them. All the cashiers for stores he knocks off look the same--they have
beards and glasses--and they never talk, they just look askance at him. They
duck if he holds them up. This is another group of pedestrians that won't talk
if he hits them to learn more about them. If Tommy hits them, these ones will
duck and set off the alarm, considering him as having held up the store.)
H29 Continue N on the same road as the jewelry store to the T intersection.
Go W past the road on the right and turn right to go up the driveway of Merce-
des Cortez' house with flashing red lights. At the top, go right down a ramp,
then go left around the house to H29, which is by a door.
H30 Go back down to the street in front of Mercedes' house. Go E, cross the
street, and go up either stairway of the apartment building on the left (you can
see in the window at the 2nd floor, which you'll have Tommy do for "The Chase").
Go up more stairs to the 4th floor, go left on the balcony, right on the roof-
top, then down a small ramp and have Tommy drop onto the lower roof. H30 is on
the W side of the ramp. Have Tommy drop back down to the street from the W side
of the roof, E of, and across the street from, Mercedes' house, to continue.
H31 Go N on the road at the E of Mercedes' house past two lefts and a tan Pay
'n' Spray on the left and make the 1st right. Then go right into the alley, and
ahead into the entrance between two old wooden fences. H31 is to your right in
a corner of the fence by a palm tree.
H32 Go back out from between the fences and go N to the street. Go left to
the T intersection, then go N to a T intersection. Go W and continue as the
road curves to the NE--you're on the block that, to me, looks like a cartoon
nose that's pointing W. You're on the bridge of the "nose" with a hotel en-
trance to the E of you. Go in the entrance and get H32 in the tip of the
"nose."
H33 is on the high dive board behind the same hotel. The diving boards plat-
form has a sign on it that says, "DON'T PEE IN OUR POOL!"
(The other platform that has that sign is in back of the Standing Vice Hotel,
across the street to the S of the Malibu Club.)
H34 Get back on the same road (the bridge of the "nose") and go N. A bit
ahead of you, on the left side of the street, H32 is by the S side of the base
of the bridge to Prawn Island.
N end of the E island
H35 is behind the Jocksport sign at the RC Bandit Top Fun van dirt track,
which is on the E island beach E of the big nose of H32 (wasn't Bob Hope good in
that? No, no no....)
H36 behind the apartment building that's across the street to the E and a bit
N of the entrance in the middle of the E side of North Point Mall.
H37 is in the recessed part of the exterior of the middle of the N side of
North Point Mall.
H38 At the doors of a store in the middle of the E side, 2nd floor, of the
North Point Mall; the store window signs have "SALE" written on them.
H39 Go into the 2nd floor of the GASH store, which is in the middle of the
S end of the mall. (You can use the elevator inside the store, if you want.)
Have Tommy jump over some tables in the SW section to get to the package in the
back. (The 1st floor section is one of the stores you'll knock off.)
H40 There are two ways to enter the North Point Mall parking garage (a pale
blue horizontal building with horizontal blue stripes):
through a door on the NW side of the 2nd floor of the mall, or
from the street to the W of it.
Go to the 1st floor of the garage. H33 is S of the S entrance.
(You might do a jump with the PCJ 600 to leave. Go to the top floor and make
a NE to SW run to the board propped up in the corner, angling left with left and
reverse/brake ready.
You might as well learn another jump while you're in the area. Continue S on
the road on the W side of the mall, and go left, just before the bridge over-
pass, onto the lower walkway. Go past the police bribe pickup to the end of the
walkway, then make a 180 degree turn onto the nearest, and lower, walkway to
your right. Go to the end of it and over the small steps onto the bridge which
goes to Prawn Island--watch for traffic when you jump.)
Prawn Island (the most N of the little islands between the two big ones)
H41 When you get off the bridge from the E island to Prawn Island, take the
1st left road. Look for a little alley not far along it on the right--H41 is at
the back of it.
H42 Go back onto the road near the W end of the bridge. Drive your PCJ 600
onto the N sidewalk with the rear wheel to the wall.
You need to make the few jumps you did to get into the film studio if you did
"The Jump" (I.18).
Drive up the gray ramp across the street at the side of a building and turn
right to jump to a raised ramp on the roof of the next building, where you'll
need to accelerate and go a bit right to jump onto the sloped raised part of a
3rd building.
Once you've managed that, drive to the end of the SE section facing W at a
ramp across the roof. (Look to the S from the SE corner to see a set of stairs
you can use if you need to get out, too.) Have Tommy walk onto the W ramp to
see the following before you jump. You'll need to go a bit right from the ramp
the ramp, over the street and the yellow wall, and onto the white building with
a blue stripe along the top, then let yourself roll to fall onto the slightly
lower roof of the blue building with rounded sides, where you'll stop with brake
and reverse combined (doing J36 in the process). (Don't worry--the two build-
ings you're jumping to are so close you could do a running jump from one to the
other.) This could take a few tries.
You could use a helicopter for this, but you need to do the jump, anyway, and
the sooner you learn it, the sooner it's easier to have fun doing it.
H42 is between the two vent boxes on the roof you stop on.
H43 is in Studio C. If you're still on the roof where H42 was, drive from
the SE corner to go off the NE corner aiming for the door across the lot
straight ahead--Studio C. H43 is at the SW corner.
You'll probably want to look around the studio lot. A few highlights: you can
get an M4, one of the better weapons, behind the lunar landing capsule in Studio
B. If you shoot the gas meter by the middle of the W wall, it blows up. There
are (out of focus) cheesecake pictures inside the guard booth by the front gate
on the E side. The outdoor studio at the S end looks like a little of Bedford
Point in "GTA III." The ramp truck used for the PCJ 600 jump to get to the
mainland is at the NW side. The blue wire gate behind it will open for "Dildo
Dodo" (I.79) and remain open afterward so you can fly the Skimmer, a Dodo with
pontoons, that will appear at the pier.
To leave, gun it over the stairs at the SE corner and level the wheels for
landing with NP9.
H44 Go to the fountain, commemorating four fish locked at the hindquarters
and spitting, in the middle of Prawn Island. Go W to the green house that isn't
trashed with spray paint and up the steps to the W patio for H36.
H45 From the nauseous aqua coitus fountain, go E to the yellow house trashed
with spray paint. Go up the steps and inside. Ahead and to your right you can
see a chunk of the corner of a wall is broken off and there's a room behind it
you need to get into for H45. Have Tommy go up the stairs to the 2nd floor and
jump into it from the left or drop into it from the right.
(If you want to explore, you can walk around the outdoor 2nd floor balcony or
go up another floor to the roof you'll go to at the end of "Phnom Penh '86"--
I.45.)
Leaf Links Golf Club (on three islands close together S of Prawn Island and
close to the E island)
Use one of the ways given at I.18 to get into Leaf Links, which opens up after
"Four Iron" (I.38).
However you do it, watch your radar to avoid having Tommy walk-through a shrub
and over a ledge into deep water.
H46 is under the bridge SW of the club house.
H47 From the clubhouse, go N, cross a little bridge, and continue N to the
bottom W side of the driving platform.
H48 is above a sand trap NW of the end of the curvy road W of the clubhouse.
H49 from H48, go S, cross a little bridge, and continue S to H49, which is
over a little island in the middle of a shallow pond.
H50 from H49, continue S. H50 is over the middle of another little bridge.
Starfish Island (the island between Washington Beach and Little Havana)
Use one of the ways to get to the west island early given at I.18, get a VCPD
helicopter, and go to Starfish Island. I'd use a helicopter because I'm not
sure if the boat would drift away if left alone a long time, and you might want
to look around. You could also see I.18 for the way to have Tommy jump on a
shrub to get there.
H51 is on the lower sidewalk E of the pool E of the mansion, which is the
only house in the SE area of Starfish Island.
H52 is at the end of the S to N sidewalk at the W edge of the mansion lot.
Be careful not to have Tommy hurry through the shrub and land in the ocean--
there's no guard wall at the end of the walk.
H53 is on the 2nd floor balcony of the house with a swimming pool shaped like
the Rockstar logo. The house is a bit W of center in the W of the two areas en-
circled by road.
(In "Vice City," the type of picnic tables on the balcony are like the ones in
"GTA III"--hit them with a vehicle, and they assume a damaged shape. The tables
in the yard of the Keepie Uppie Beach Ball in a pool filled with water on the NE
side of the island are much more accessible. Trounce one with the bottom of a
Sea Sparrow to see the effect.)
H54 is in the Jacuzzi by the pool of the house which is a bit E of center in
the E of the two areas encircled by road.
(The water in the Jacuzzi doesn't make any noise when Tommy moves in it, but
there are splashing sounds if Tommy moves around in the empty pool around the
gazebo with African decorations, which is on the 2nd block S of the end of the
road that extends S from the E end of the bridge from Prawn Island to the E is-
land. Also, if you have Tommy crouch in the pool beside the Jacuzzi of H54, you
can see that it's one of the pools where the water goes over his head but he
doesn't drown.)
H55 From the E end of the main E to W road through Starfish Island, take the
1st right turn and turn right into the driveway of the 2nd house on the right.
H55 is at the front door. (There's always a Comet--a Porsche--in the garage.
It's between two houses that each have a swimming pool with a Keepie Uppie Beach
Ball in it.)
The mainland (W island)
Use one of the ways to get there given at I.18.
Downtown (the N area of the W island down to the S side of the Moist Palms Ho-
tel)
H56 As you get off the W end of the N bridge to the W island, the VCN build-
ing is on your right. From it, go E, across the street that passes under the
bridge, and go around to the back of the building on your left. Go N to an in-
dented section of the back of that big building to find H56.
H57 Go N around the W side of the VCN building (see H56). Go to the modern
art sculpture for the tomb of the unknown bowling octopus in the middle of the
big white building with blue windows--the V.A.J. Finance building. Be careful
going over all the curbs. H57 is in the middle of the sculpture.
H58 Go to the Hyman Condo alley, which has a police bribe pickup and runs
diagonally SW to NE between the two roads that extend S from the most N blocks
of the W island. Go W to E in the alley and turn S into the clearing between
buildings. H58 is in that lot.
H59 Go clockwise around Hyman Memorial Stadium, which is on the big area that
projects from the NW end of the W island. H59 is in a corner of the NW side of
the stadium.
H60 Go to the Schuman Health Care Center, which is on the left at the W end
of the road that extends W from the bridge from Prawn Island to the W island.
Go over the gray driveway beside it on the E side and down into a lower room (an
ambulance is always parked on the upper section nearby). H60 is in it.
H61 If you cross the N bridge into the Downtown area, go in the door of the
1st building on the right, the VCN (Vice City News) building. Tommy will be el-
evated to the roof. Have him go on top of the helipad and look back and down to
his left to see H61 and jump to it.
The hidden Easter egg
(Have Tommy go from the top of the ramp to the helipad to the red light on the
far right corner of the helipad. Look at the window at about the height of Tom-
my's head to the left. Have Tommy get a running start and jump at it. He'll go
through the window to a room that's empty except for a podium with a chocolate
Easter egg on it. In the Rockstar tradition of creating an absurdist world that
makes tongue-in-cheek fun of gaming traditions--one of which being to put the
programmer's personal messages, called Easter eggs, in the game--it says, "Happy
Easter." Have him run and jump to get back on the helipad.)
H62 Go N from the Skumole Shack (see the end of I.18 if you haven't already
bought it) and turn left into the lot. Go up the stairs and across the roof to
the far left, where you turn left and then left into the office. (The elevator
in there will be unlocked from "G Spotlight"--I.87-- on.) The hidden package is
on the right by the desks.
H63 Go S from where the two roads come together to form the main N-S route of
the west island. Shortly, you'll see the Moist Palms Hotel on the W side (the
several driveways that join together in front of the hotel are shown on your in-
game map and radar). Take the driveway through the hotel and go to the SW cor-
ner of the lawn behind it. H63 is behind the concrete ramp there.
Little Haiti (the neighborhood of blocks from the S side of the Moist Palms Ho-
tel down to the S side of the block the Pay 'n' Spray is on)
H64 Jump your PCJ 600 over the ramp of H63 (or go W through the alley at the
S side of the Moist Palms Hotel) and go W over concrete then cobblestone to the
NW corner of the cobblestone area. H64 is at the corner of it.
H65 Either: go S from H64, then left into the back entrance (a space between
two big walls) of Phil's Place; go left, right at the corner, past a big pile of
junk and ahead into an alley, right at the corner and over a mound of dirt
sloped against a wall; immediately, turn right and into Phil's Place;
or: go S from the Moist Palms Hotel (H63) on the main N-S route of the W
island and make the 1st right; continue straight, and just as it starts to curve
left you'll see an entrance with a big sign over it that says, "Phil's Place"
ahead of you--drive in.
Either way, H65 is in the shack on the right.
H66 Looking E from the entrance to Phil's Place, go across the street into
the alley on the S side of EL NUEVO SIGLO SUPERMARKET (tan with red horizontal
stripes at the top and bottom). Turn right at the corner at the end of the al-
ley, and go to the bottom of the sunken stairs for H66.
The hidden printing press
(If you equip the Rocket Launcher scope with Tommy's right side to the door at
the bottom of the sunken stairs, and turn Tommy to the right--the look through
walls gimmick--you can see a light green printing press in an otherwise empty
little room. It's where the courier tries to deliver the counterfeit money
plates in "Hit the Courier"--I.96. The WK Chariot section of I.9.G explains how
to get into the room.)
H67 There aren't any stairs to either of the rooftops you use for this so
you'll have to jump with your PCJ 600 or use a helicopter.
Go S on the main road from the Downtown section, make the 1st right turn, and
look along the right to turn in to a little square lot of a pale yellow build-
ing. Looking S from it, you'll see a ramp with a police bribe over it across
the street that's beyond an opening. Drive across the street toward the ramp
and stop, then drive up the ramp and hit brake and reverse simultaneously when
you land on the roof. Hidden Package 67 is in the indented area of the roof to
the E of the landing roof. There's only a foot or so space between the two
roofs--Tommy can jump it on foot or even get a PCJ 600 across the space with on-
ly a little speed.
H68 Looking from the entrance of Phil's Place, go right--S--to the SE side of
the yellow Kaufman Cabs building. Go around the junked car into the alley be-
tween Kaufman Cabs and a little old house. H68 is on top of the back steps of
the house.
H69 Go back out to the front of the yellow Kaufman Cabs building, which has
closed gray doors. Go S and turn left off of the road at the S side of the piz-
za store on the left. Go ahead and right onto the walk between Funeraria Romero
and the low-walled grass and trees planter or terrace thing. Look carefully for
a narrow alley on the left, S of Funeraria Romero. Go through the alley then
left to find H69 over an open shallow grave of a human skeleton that's missing
part of the left arm.
H70 From the pizza store, go S, take the 2nd right, go left off the road
into an alley at the W side of the 1st building on your left, then left into a
little alley. At the end of it, look right to see the stairs. Take several
sets of stairs to the roof. H70 is in the middle of several air conditioning
vent boxes ahead and to the right. Then go back down the stairs, turn 180
degrees, go ahead in the little alley and go right at the alley. At the street,
go right to another street and face S so you're ready to look for H71.
H71 Either: go S from where you were at the end of the note for H70--the cor-
ner of the 2nd right S of the pizza store--and follow the road as it curves E to
a T intersection; go S to a billboard--"LITTLE HAITI LIFE'S A BEACH" with
"BI**H" painted over "BEACH"--on the right side;
or: go S on the main N-S road past the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, then turn
right; at the next right, the billboard is on the far corner.
H71 is in the inside corner of the gray wooden fence at the base of the bill-
board.
Little Havana (about the width and length of Little Haiti, S of Little Haiti)
H72 On the main N-S road, go S past the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, then turn
right. Continue on the road that curves S to a T intersection, then go W. At
the next right, the laundromat is on the far corner lot. H72 is inside. If you
want to have Tommy avoid the track suit pickup, have him go right once inside
and jump over the counter between the cashier and the front window.
(The laundromat is one of the stores you'll knock off.)
H73 From the laundromat front lot, look E at the pale greenish-blue house.
H73 is over the ramp in front of it.
(I've also gone E to W and used the ramp for a minor jump onto a neighbor's
roof, but I was VERY lucky.)
H74 On the main N-S road, go S past Cherry Poppers, then go right. Continue
on the road which turns N, and you'll see Cafe Robina on the corner on the right
where it curves E. Go across the street from Cafe Robina and into the alley,
and turn right to find H74.
(Cafe Robina is one of the stores you'll knock off.)
H75 Either: go E from Cafe Robina and turn right into the dirt lot;
or: go S on the main N-S road past the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, then take
the 2nd right to a T intersection; go left then take the 1st right, and turn
left off of the road into a dirt lot after the 2nd Mean Street Taxis bench on
the left.
Either way, continue through the opening in the white wall ahead to the right.
Go up the stairs. At the top, have Tommy jump through the space between the
guard rail and the low wall to a lower roof. Have him climb the stairs to the
roof, and go to the NE corner. (The .308 Sniper Rifle there is a good weapon.)
Have him jump strongly enough (I once got Tommy stuck for awhile in the gap) to
land on the walkway at the base of the Kaufman Cabs billboard. H74 is around
the corner at the other end of it. (Remember to have Tommy jump over the gap
going back, too.)
H76 Go S on the main N-S road past Cherry Poppers, and go into Callegg's Del-
icatessen at the 1st corner on the right. H76 is behind the counter. (This
deli is going to be used for "Sir, Yes Sir"--I.48--and is one of the stores
you'll knock off.)
H77 From Callegg's Delicatessen on the main N-S road, take the road W and
make the 1st left. After the 1st building, turn right off the road and into a
dirt lot. Go up the stairs to the roof. H77 is on the SW corner of the roof.
Go back down the stairs and across the lot to the road.
H78 From H77, continue S down the road to Sunshine Autos on the left and en-
ter the S end of the building. H78 is upstairs.
(The Ghost Plants, I.9.G, are up there. Except for some glass at the S cor-
ner, the panes of glass there are among the examples of glass you can have Tommy
shoot through with a sniper rifle without breaking them, if you have Tommy stand
far enough away from them.)
Viceport (the S end of the W island, E of the dead end road that goes down the
middle of the island except for the Hooker Inn and a bit of the coast)
H79 Go S on the main N-S road past Cherry Poppers, and turn right/E. Contin-
ue through the intersection; after the road makes a 90 degree curve N, turn
right off the road to the gates with blue and red banded bars across them.
Squeeze the PCJ 600 through the S end of the S bar, turning right through it.
(Note: there's armor to your left inside.) Jump the ramp on the E side. H79 is
in the curve of the pale green-blue pipe in the middle of the four big "AVIATION
JET 'A' FUEL" tanks.
To get back out, go over the ramp at the SW corner. Nearly straight ahead is
H80 between two unhitched truck trailers. You can go out past the S end of the
red and blue bar again or jump out using one of the two ramps on the W side of
the lot.
H80 If you didn't get this when you got H79, go in the lot past the S end of
the same blue and red banded bar mentioned for H79. Go right to find H80 be-
tween two unhitched truck trailers.
H81 Go S on the main N-S road past the S bridge; just past the 1st right turn
is a series of connected apartment buildings that make a series of identical
projections toward the street. Going S, H81 is between projections seven and
eight behind a covered entrance to the eighth one.
H82 Go up the S ramp of the two boarding ramps of the big ship docked at the
S end of the E side of the W island. Once aboard, go to the pile of crates on
your left and go clockwise around them to H82.
H83 Go to the S section of the main N-S road of the W island; where it di-
vides, go right to a T intersection. H83 is in the inside corner of the low
concrete wall around the two "1986 VCPA Vice City Port Authority Main Building"
signs on the corner to your right.
H84 Use the VCPD helicopter. Land on a big open area toward the W end of the
W ship of the two docked at the S end of the W island.
H85 go S on the forked dead end road that goes down the middle of the S end
of the west island. Where the road forks, go left/SE. The hanger is near the
end on the left. Go in the door on the N side and into the little office on
the left for H85.
H86 If you go S onto the dead end forked road down the middle of the S end
of the W island, make the 1st right into a lot--there's always a Benson (a
truck that looks like a U-Haul truck you don't need a special license to
drive) parked about 20 feet into it. Continue straight through the gateway and
to the end of the lot. The package is by a pair of gray doors on the right.
(At the far SW on the lot is 8 Ball's bomb shop.)
Escobar International Airport (W of Little Havana and Vice Port and S of Fort
Baxter)
To get there by PCJ 600, go S from Cherry Poppers on the main N-S road of the
W island, make the 1st right, and continue W through an intersection and follow
the road as it curves 90 degrees N then 90 degrees W. You can go through the
gates on the left to the S tarmac or ahead then to the left to the main terminal
building.
H87 is on the upper roof of the Freight and Cargo terminal, which is the
place with all the colored crates and wooden planks at the SE corner of the S
tarmac of the airport (just NW of the end of the dead end road that goes down
the middle of the S end of the W island).
Rusk has got to be kidding about using that series of motorcycle jumps over
planks and crates on the SW side of the building. I've done it, but the open-
ing jump is tricky. You have to jump from a wooden plank to the narrow part of
the rectangular top of a red crate and stop on it.
If you want to make that 1st jump a lot easier, use the ramp truck S of the SE
corner of the main terminal building to make the 1st jump. Drive it S to the
Freight and Cargo terminal. Park it with the top of the ramp S of the yellow
crate that's S of the two red crates in a row (the most W of the red crates at
the SW side of the building), and with the ramp in alignment with the two red
crates. Get out of the Packer, leaving the door open by moving quickly once you
exit so the Packer will stay in the memory of the game. Jump the PCJ 600 up the
ramp onto the red crates. Then get the long distance back view with V and back
the PCJ 600 to the S edge of the red crates. Press V again to get the mid-dis-
tance back view, then gun it across the crates and up two wooden plank jumps to
the lower roof of the building. Go up the slope on the NE side of it to the up-
per roof. H87 is near the middle of the S end of the roof.
Use the VCPD Maverick if you're not in a very patient mood. Land on the S ar-
ea of the upper roof of the Freight and Cargo terminal for H87.
H88 is on the concrete heliport with pale yellow diagonal stripes in the mid-
dle of the S end of the S tarmac of the airport. The steps of it are about a
four second run W from the two red crates of H87.
H89 From the two red crates of H87, go N to the three concrete ramps with di-
agonal yellow stripes, which are just S of the McAdam Airways hanger. From the
base of one of them, back the PCJ 600 about 20-25 steps of the right foot, then
gun it over the tarmacadam to the roof of McAdam, and use reverse with brake to
stop. H89 is over the apex of the roof on the S side.
You might get this with the VCPD Maverick, too.
H90 is over the S end of the loading platform (the big white octopus of hall-
ways propped overhead) that runs SE from the main terminal building.
On the PCJ 600, go N from the entrance of the S tarmac, past the "Vice Surf"
billboard, across the street, through the entrance to the N tarmac (there's a
green booth there; if you look in the window on the E side, you can see through
the S wall of it), and over to the low wall with a fence over it. Turn 180 de-
grees, and position the bike so the wooden plank at the base of the near side of
the billboard is ahead. Drive S at the middle of the wooden plank, up through
the ramp in the billboard, use NP6 and NP9 to get the front wheel a bit higher
than the rear wheel, and land with some acceleration on the airport terminal
roof--Unique Jump 10.
(If you screw up and lose the bike somehow, you can do the jump with a sports
car. You might also see what half-pipe mileage you can manage to wring out of
the terminal roof with a PCJ 600.)
Go to the S end of the E valley of the roof. Get on foot and look down from
the edge--pull on the mouse till you get an overhead view--to see where you need
to position the bike to land on the loading platform. Drive onto the loading
platform and press brake and reverse combined. Push the PCJ 600 to the ground
without falling yourself--once you run S on the loading platform, you won't be
able to jump high enough to get over one ledge to get back. Go to the S end of
the platform for H90. Then drop to the ground and get the bike.
You can also get this by landing a VCPD Maverick near the S end of the plat-
form.
H91 Do the jump through the "Vice Surf" billboard onto the terminal roof
again. But then go to the W valley of the roof. Get H96 while you're there.
Test your sense of spacial relationships again by looking down from the edge to
judge how to aim the bike and drive the bike onto the loading platform. Push
the bike off onto the ground. Go S over the platform to the S jet on the W
side. Go over the extension and make the one foot or so jump onto the jet. Get
H91 over the back of the jet. Drop onto the wing then the ground, and get the
bike.
You can also get this by landing a VCPD helicopter near the S end of the plat-
form.
H92 is under the same jet that H91 was over, by the inside of the rear right
wheels.
H93 Just S of the middle of the W side of the entire airport (not just the S
tarmac) are open hangers. H93 is under the left wing of the big jet sticking
out from one. It's a Rockstar jet, like all the jets by the loading platforms.
H94 The gray brick VCFD (Vice City Fire Department) building, with a red and
white communications tower on top of it, and a little VCPD sign high on the
front of it, is in the middle of the W side of the entire airport (not just the
S tarmac). H94 is behind it.
H95 Go through one of the two entrances in the front of the main terminal
building. Send Tommy through a metal detector, so his weapons will remain out-
side along the front window till he goes back out for them. (You can have him
jump from a vehicle over the metal detector, but it's liable to cause Security
Guards to shoot at him.) Go behind the divider wall at the SW side of the 1st
floor for H95. You can get H97 while you're in the building.
H96 is in the W valley of the main terminal roof. Do the "Vice Surf" bill-
board jump for it.
H97 is inside the terminal building (Brady Games: who numbered this stuff?)
on the 2nd floor. Go through the hall by the "Gate 1--8" sign. H97 is in the
room at the end, just inside the entrance and on the right.
H98 Go N from the "Vice Surf" sign onto the N tarmac again, except go N on
the runway (it looks like an asphalt two lane highway) at the left of the wall/
fence (don't let Tommy fall in the gap to the road below), then go E to the near
edge of the pale yellow wall. Go N on the E side of the wall till you can go E
over the gray tarmac that goes over the road below, and get onto the grass be-
hind the billboards. Go S to the inside corner of them to H98.
To return, go N, go W after the billboards, go to the pale yellow wall and go
S along it (don't let Tommy fall into the gap just beyond it to the road below),
then go W to the runway and S to the "Vice Surf" sign.
H99 Go N from the "Vice Surf" sign onto the N tarmac and get on the runway
again. Follow the runway, which goes N then curves W, to the 2nd Rockstar jet.
H99 is beneath it between the rear wheels. To return, follow the runway E then
S, then continue off of the N tarmac and back to the street.
Fort Baxter (N of the airport)
H100 Behind the "VICE CITY AIR RESERVE Fort Baxter" sign at the W side of the
entrance to Fort Baxter.
From the "Vice Surf" billboard, go E to the N-S road by the grass lot the
billboard is on. Go N on it, and continue around the 90 degree curve W. Take
the 1st right, and follow it N and around a 90 degree curve W. As you go W, the
only place on the right is Fort Baxter.
You can stop on the big walkway along the left to use your sniper rifle scope
to look at the sign by the entrance from afar. This way, you can plan your
moves and be quick in having Tommy get the package since the soldiers may shoot
at him when he goes there. Scroll to Fist/Brass Knuckles so he'll be able to
move faster when he gets off the bike behind the sign.
Have Tommy speed to the sign, but slow down just before it so he doesn't smack
into anything and waste time while he gets himself back up. Have him stop be-
hind the sign, get H100, and get outta there before somebody kills him. Contin-
ue W on the road and around the bend to the S with a wall, which also has barbed
wire along the top, on your left. Once you've gotten that wall between Tommy
and Fort Baxter, he should be in the clear.
You now have $100 per package--$10,000, plus a $100,000 bonus for getting them
all, the armor and six weapon pickups at the Ocean View, the Sea Sparrow is now
available any time behind the Starfish Island mansion, and the Rhino and the
Hunter are now available and ready to be jacked any time from Fort Baxter.
Buying all the other non-moneymaking properties
This could be a good time to go N on the main N-S road of the W island; where
it divides at the S end of Downtown, take the W road; continue N to a T inter-
section; go W to a T intersection; go N then into an alley on the right with two
pickups in it; one is a police bribe, and the other has a symbol of a house.
If you walk Tommy into the pickup of a house, you'll be asked if you want to
press Tab to buy the Hyman Condo for $14,000. It features a three car garage
and a pair of two car garages to save vehicles in, a door to the roof where
you'll have your own helipad with a Maverick helicopter on it, a satellite dish,
all of your 1st seven hidden package pickups and a street clothes pickup, and
the house pickup Tommy is standing in will become another pink cassette you can
use to save games with.
I'd press Tab, but that's just me.
If you already own the Skumole Shack and buy the Hyman Condo, there are five
other non-asset properties left to buy where you can then save your games. You
need to buy all of the non-asset properties to get 100% for the game.
The non-asset properties have pickups of green houses on pink disks.
(You can't have asset properties that earn money for you till after "Shake-
down"--I.58. For now, those places have pickups with blue houses on pink disks.
The Phil's Place asset will provide a place to buy some weapons after you do his
missions, which are available after the Malibu Club missions.)
All of these are on the east island:
El Swanko Casa costs $8,000 and has a garage. Go E on the North Bridge from
Prawn Island to the east island and continue on the road as it curves S and you
come to a T intersection. El Swanko Casa is the fancy looking stucco place with
a pool across the street in front of you. You can go to the W side of the high-
est balcony in the front and jump to the roof and go around to the other side to
get a Kruger if you don't have an M4, which is better.
Links View Apartment costs $6,000 and has a garage. Go W on the street in
front of El Swanko Casa and turn left at the end of the block it's on. Go S
past a right turn and the Links View Apartment is on your right. It's a yellow-
tan and light gray splotched building with an orange roof, and has a road around
the back of it for no apparent reason. Thanks to HandsomeRockus for pointing
out that "Apartment" is singular. (One apartment suits the price better than
the entire apartment building would, too, which I guess would be Links View
"Apartments." But I think it and the next one listed each ought to have "The"
in front of the name, especially since the picture you see after you buy each of
them makes it look like you're buying the whole building.)
Ocean Heights Apartment costs $7,000 and has a garage. It's in the S area of
the east island. It's on the NW corner of the 2nd block from the E and the 1st
block along the S. It's gray with red stripes and has ivy hanging from the roof
of the garage.
1102 Washington Street costs $3,000. It's on the west side of the panhandle
of the block Washington Mall is on. (Washington Mall looks like a gray cartoon
face looking W on the radar and in-game map.) It's a mostly blue-purple build-
ing. (Okay, this and the next one are pretty big buildings but are even cheaper
than the last two places, which were each a single "apartment." These two
buildings are each designated by one street number for the one door of the
place, so I guess they're just really crummy inside.)
3321 Vice Point costs $2,500. It's the light green building in the NE corner
of Vice Point across the street from the NE corner of North Point Mall.
I.20 Taxi mission (a Sub-mission)
Get a Taxi or Cab from the street and press Caps Lock.
When I 1st played this game, the easiest vehicle to learn to drive fast enough
with was the Taxi--yellow with a horizontal black stripe along the bottom of the
sides, black spots around the outer hubcaps, and a Taxi sign on top that's posi-
tioned lengthwise. Press Caps Lock, and the screen and radar will show you
fares to pick up and where to take them. You can gun it as soon as they grab
the door and you'll carry them along while they get in. Each fare has a time
limit that depends on how far away their destination is.
You're given an amount of time to deliver a fare once they get in the vehicle.
The faster you deliver them, the more money you make and the more time you have
left on the clock. Once they're delivered, ten seconds is added to the time
left on the clock for you to pick up another fare. The "speed bonus"es just
seem to refer to having delivered a fare quickly for more money since no money
or time is awarded beyond that.
You need to drop off 100 fares for 100% completion of the game. You don't
have to deliver any number of them in a row--the number you get in multiple ef-
forts can accumulate to 100. But, besides various payments per fare, you get
bonus money for every five done in a row--$100 times the number of fares done in
a row--and your time allowed per fare accumulates with successive quick deliver-
ies till you can have a lot of time to spare per fare.
If you run over a potential fare, or cause a fare to leave the vehicle in ter-
ror, there's always another one close by. It doesn't end the mission. If you
trash the vehicle, potential fares won't enter it till you either take it into a
Pay 'n' Spray or use the "aspirine" code.
There's no ceiling to the number of people you can drop off.
If you leave the vehicle, fail to beat the clock, or press Caps Lock again,
the mission is over and you're credited with the number of people you dropped
off and cash made in a taxi.
If you do this on the west island, get familiar with using the grass to the E
of the main N and S road as a shortcut, avoiding traffic by using the median
strip, and going between the random vehicle that always appears backing into
traffic S of the Downtown "Y" division in the main road and the telephone pole
across from the vehicle. On the east island, remember that, while the shortest
distance between two points is a straight line, the vehicle goes slower (about
15-20 mph slower, I think) over sand.
How to jump over anything that gets in your way
Once you drop off 100 passengers, pressing Left Shift in any taxi or cab won't
sound the horn, it will cause the boost jump when the vehicle is moving fast
enough. (If you don't watch for it, you can easily miss seeing the little mes-
sage about it that appears in the upper left corner of the screen when your
100th fare is delivered.) It lets you jump over traffic and sometimes creates
an Insane Jump award. (If you want a preview, the "gripiseverything" code
gives you the boost jump for all four-wheel vehicles, even if you haven't done
the taxi missions.) You might want to check the section on the Cabbie Climb at
I.9.B, too, to see how to do stunts with it.
After the Kaufman Cabs missions (after I.92), a separate set of missions,
you'll get a Zebra Cab at the Kaufman Cab building. I don't wait to get the Ze-
bra Cab to do the Taxi Missions in this guide.
1. If you're new to town, the taxi missions will help you learn the layout of
it.
2. The Taxi may be a bit slower than the Zebra Cab, but it handles better and
is still plenty fast.
3. Because getting the boost jump before doing the Kaufman Cabs missions can
help you do one of the Kaufman Cabs missions: "Cabmageddon" (I.92).
You get various amounts per fare depending on how far you went and how fast.
Again, you get more pay for faster deliveries and bonus money for doing multi-
ples of five in a row. For dropping off 100 fares, you get the boost jump. You
don't have to deliver the fares consecutively.
Taxi: Ford LTD '83-'85
Zebra Cab (available from "Cabmageddon," I.92, on)/Kaufman Cab/Cabbie:
Checker Taxicab '56-'82
Again, typing the code "aspirine" can let Tommy do such missions uninterrupt-
ed--here, by visits to "Pay 'n' Spray"s to repair damage.
One gimmick has it that if you drop off a passenger when the timer is at zero,
you get infinite time to make your runs. I haven't gotten it to work for the PC
version--it may just be another PS2/PC difference.
I.21 Pizza Delivery Mission (a Sub-mission)
and how to make things easier
for the Pizza Delivery, Paramedic, and Firetruck missions.
Sometimes '60's Mods must deliver the cheese.
To trigger the mission, get on a Pizza Boy scooter at any Well Stacked Pizza
store. You don't press Caps Lock, the Sub-mission key, to activate it, but you
can press it to cancel the mission, which is why it's categorized as a Sub-mis-
sion.
There are three Well Stacked Pizza stores to pick from:
1. Vice Point in the middle of the E island. To get there, go NE from the
base of the road that ends in a circle. Go over the little bridge, and the
store is on the far corner of the 1st left turn.
2. Downtown. To get there, go W from the W end of the bridge from Prawn Is-
land to the west island to a T intersection. Go S and the pizza store will be
on your right before the road curves 90 degrees to the E.
3. Little Haiti. To get there, go S from Downtown on the main N-S road of the
W island. Take the 1st right to a T intersection, then go right. After the
road curves S, the pizza store will be on your left.
You need to get to level ten to have your maximum health increase to 150
points (175 with a prostitute).
You can miss with a pizza box and throw the customer another one, or even run
over a customer, but it cuts away from your time to do so.
You have to get to level ten in one effort--it can't be done two here and
three there, like the Taxi mission. You deliver a pizza box to one customer in
the 1st level, two customers in the 2nd, etc., culminating with ten in the 10th.
You have five minutes per level, which would mean that at level ten you'd have
30 seconds per delivery, except that you can only carry six pizza boxes at the
most at one time then need to return to the shop for more.
On the plus side, you can pause the game by pressing Esc and look at your in-
game map. It shows where all the customers are so you can plan your route. If
Tommy gets off the scooter and doesn't get back on in time, fails to beat the
clock, or you press Caps Lock before succeeding at level ten, the mission is
over and Tommy is credited with the pizzas he delivered.
To make the scooter go faster, press NP9 repeatedly.
In contrast to I.22 and I.23, the screen doesn't show what level you're on,
aside from the number of blips shown on the map and radar at the start of each
level. And the Stats don't indicate the level you attained, even if you com-
plete level ten, for some reason. You're just told that the mission is com-
pleted after level ten.
There's a ceiling of ten levels.
To deliver a pizza, stop with the customer off to one side of you, press Q or
E to look at them, then press Left Mouse Button to throw a pizza box at or near
them. (You'll probably waste pizza boxes and time trying to get fancy and do an
in-motion pizza drive-by. You could get away with a stoppie on an early level,
though.)
Try to avoid throwing pizza boxes by light posts, which they can get stuck on.
If that happens, try nudging the pizza box toward the customer with the bike.
You get $10 per pizza pie delivered, and $5,000 for delivering all 55 pizzas
through level ten.
Two pizza boxes can appear on the low table in the TV room of the mansion once
Tommy owns it.
I think the Pizza Boy is a customized Faggio, which is a Piaggio Vespa, a fa-
vorite scooter of '60's Mods in the UK, in case you were wondering about my
opening line.
How to make things easier
for the Pizza Delivery, Paramedic, and Firetruck missions
If you want to stop the mission timer, which appears below the regular clock
in the upper right corner of the screen, for the Pizza Delivery, Paramedic, or
Firetruck missions, you can download a trainer at lots of "GTA Vice City" web
sites. Put "Vice City trainer" or such in a search engine. As of this writing,
there was one by hyunicz at:
http://www.gamewinners.com/DOSWIN/blgrandtheftautovicecity.htm
Another choice, and one that carries less of a risk of causing the glitches or
freezes I've had with some trainers, is to modify the files for the mission ve-
hicle with Notepad as explained in I.100.D.e Cars and bikes: How to change
their mass, ability to stay upright and hug the driving surface, ability to sur-
vive in water, cornering and braking, top speed, acceleration, suspension, dura-
bility, and miscellaneous jazz.
If you do, you might leave the Pizza Boy that way to use it for a few of the
drive-by rampages that come up later: R12, R17, and R22.
I.22 Paramedic Mission (a Sub-mission)
Some of those people that got run over (crunch) managed to live. Why can't
everybody drive like me?--always courteous, always considerate. Try not to run
a lot more down while you go pick them up and take them to the hospital.
To trigger the mission, get into an ECNALUBMA and press Caps Lock. No Ecna-
lubma gang members will attack you.
There are four hospitals to choose from where you'll always find an Ambulance:
Shady Palms Hospital--it's on the W side of the block which is E of the block
that looks like a cartoon nose sticking out to the W beneath North Point Mall.
Ocean View Hospital--W of Washington Mall, which is on the S side of the east
island, three blocks from the E and four blocks from the S.
Schuman Health Care--go W to a T intersection from the W side of the bridge
from Prawn Island to the west island; it's on your left.
WestHaven Community Healthcare Centre--go N from the Starfish Island Bridge on
the main N and S road of the west island; it's on your left.
(You could also jack one that may come by with paramedics who heal the
wounded, but you're going to have to take your patients to one of the hospi-
tals.)
It's the easiest to use Shady Palms Hospital. My 2nd choice would be Ocean
View Hospital. The patients often appear on the beach for those. Since we're
doing this before the west island is officially open, no patients would appear
over there now, anyway.
You need to go to level twelve to get the infinite run--it can make life in
Vice City MUCH easier. There's one patient for level one, two for level two,
etc. Like the pizza mission, you have to get to the top level in one effort--it
can't be done in segments.
The Ambulance can only carry three patients at a time. That's 26 runs at
three patients each for a total of 78 patients.
As with the pizza mission, you can press Esc to look at your in-game map and
plan your route. You can decide to plan it for patients who are closer or far-
ther away based on how much time you have.
You can get extra time bonuses for fast deliveries.
Your time isn't penalized for hitting bumps and making the patients groan and
causing a blood trail to be left behind the Ambulance--you are one ambitious hu-
manitarian.
If you press Caps Lock again, get out of the vehicle, fail to beat the clock,
or kill a patient before succeeding with level twelve, the mission is over, and
you're credited with the level you attained and the number of people you saved
in an Ambulance.
There's a ceiling of twelve levels.
Stop with the patient safely away and to the right of the ambulance, since
it's very easy to hit and kill them with the slightest bump in their weakened,
bleeding condition as they run to get in the front passenger seat or the back.
Give the patients an extra wide berth on sand, which is slipperier than grass
for the heavy ambulance to stop on. If they fall, you might move away from them
a bit. Sometimes they stay down a long while because they're weak, but they may
need more room to get up in, just like pedestrians might need otherwise.
As with the Taxi mission, you can gun it as soon as they grab the door (or get
in, if you lost your door). See the 1st few paragraphs of I.9.F and use your
vehicle handling skills for this. A special note to add to the Space Bar/S
braking combination for this: release S 1st so you don't fatally tap a patient
with the rear end of your Ambulance.
If you press Left Shift several times, you activate the flashing red and blue
lights on the roof and the siren; some will pull their vehicles over and get out
of your way, but some may get in your way, too.
The paramedics in the game rub fallen people around the groin to revive them;
you don't have to make Tommy do that.
Colin Attle wrote to me (thank you!) that the pay for the Paramedic Sub-mis-
sion, and the 1st twelve levels of the Firetruck and Vigilante Sub-missions, is
$50 x (the number of the level) x (the number of the level), which is $50 times
the number of the level squared: $50, $200, $450, $800, $1,250, etc.
Completing level twelve of the Paramedic Sub-mission pays $7,200.
If you finish level twelve, the screen says, "You will never get tired!" I
think that's a nice message for the end of a Paramedic Mission.
Ambulance: Ford E350 Diesel (cube or box type) Ambulance '86
You can type "aspirine" to repair the vehicle. As Rusk says, the Ambulance
does a little self-healing with successful deliveries (from level four onward,
for any but the last trip of each level, from black smoke to white smoke or from
white smoke to no smoke). But "aspirine" does it 100% right away. Sometimes,
you want to get a little fast and messy.
See my closing note for the Pizza Delivery Mission, I.21, if you want to stop
the mission timer. And, as with the Pizza Boy, you could modify the files for
the Ambulance with Notepad as explained in I.100.D.e Cars and bikes: 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.
I.23 Firetruck Mission (a Sub-mission)
To trigger the mission get into a Firetruck and press Caps Lock.
You have one fire department where you'll always find a Firetruck, but we're
not using it. (If you needed it, you could go W from the W end of the bridge
from Prawn Island to the west island, make the 1st left, and find it in the
fenced in lot of the fire department on your right. The fence has an opening at
the N and S ends of that part of the fence.) But since we're doing this before
the west island is officially opened, no targets will appear there.
You never have to go to or from the fire department to do this mission,
though. So snag a Firetruck after doing rampage 2, with Molotovs, W of the
light house, by starting fires on the east island with the Flame Thrower you got
for finding 20 hidden packages (I.19), or by starting fires on the east island
with the Molotovs you can find at Tacopalypse (I.10--4. Weapons you throw).
Do this to level twelve for the fireproof feature (good for using Molotovs
nearby).
The number of burning vehicles and victims to extinguish grow in cycles of
four levels:
1st level: one empty vehicle,
2nd level: one vehicle with one passenger who gets out and runs,
3rd level: one vehicle with two passengers who get out and run,
4th level: one vehicle with three passengers who get out and run.
On the 5th level there's a vehicle with three passengers who get out and run
and an empty vehicle, etc.
On the 9th level there are two vehicles with three passengers each and an emp-
ty vehicle, etc.
The maximum number of targets is reached at the 12th level. For it and subse-
quent levels there are three vehicles which each have three passengers for a to-
tal of nine passengers who get out and run.
As HandsomeRockus points out, the 4th level is the only one in which you have
to chase a burning vehicle to put it out.
You only have so much time per level, and you have to get to level twelve in
one effort.
If you fail to beat the clock before succeeding with level twelve, press Caps
Lock again, exit the Firetruck, let a vehicle explode (the flaming people last
longer than the vehicles and any other flaming people in the game, for some rea-
son), or run over one of the flaming people, the mission is over, and you're
credited with the level you attained and total fires extinguished.
There's no ceiling on the number of levels you can attain.
Firetruck water cannon:
Number Pad 9....Up
Number Pad 6....Down
Number Pad 4....Right
Number Pad 5....Left
Left Mouse Button....shoot water
If you press Left Shift several times, it activates the flashing lights on the
roof and the siren; some will get out of your way, but some may get in your way,
too.
I mainly get the water cannon shooting ahead then aim the water by positioning
the truck. Persist at the target doggedly. Get the vehicles 1st, which also
helps you get those people who get out and run against a vehicle or in the path
of the water. Shoot the water at or over the vehicle/person on fire till it
hisses/they hiss and you see white steam/smoke arise from it/them, then hold
that till you hear a "blink" and the white stuff disappears and they stop siz-
zling.
I know the Firetruck looks like a big happy St. Bernard puppy running across
the linoleum knocking things over to put out fires. But it isn't damage-proof,
so you can type "aspirine" now and then. For all the water it carries, it isn't
able to put itself out if it catches on fire.
As mentioned above, thanks to Colin Attle for writing to me that the pay for
the 12 levels of the Paramedic Sub-mission, and the 1st twelve levels of the
Firetruck and Vigilante Sub-missions, is $50 x (the number of the level) x (the
number of the level), which is $50 times the number of the level squared: $50,
$200, $450, $800, $1,250. Completing level twelve pays $7,200.
He adds that in the Fireruck and Vigilante missions, beyond level 12, the for-
mula is the amount for the previous level plus (the previous level number times
100) plus 50. So for level 13, the formula is: 7,200 + (12 x 100) + 50 =
$8,450.
Firetruck: 1987 and 1988 Peterbilt Thibault firetrucks were the closest I
found for the 1986 time frame.
The water can also be used, as in "GTA III," to wash the pedestrians down the
road. It's not a real important weapon, but it is something to see.
Once Tommy has the fireproof feature, he can then use Molotovs on targets be-
side him--he'll be on fire yet not burn, like Moses' bush or something out of
"The Exorcist." Type in "aspirine," and he can heal a Plymouth. There's an un-
usually bright star in the E (at the bottom right of the R* constellation). If
he's killed, he resurrects. I wonder what a game based on the life of Apostle
Paul would be like? "Get Paul through his torments and shipwrecks--he has to
write the book of Ephesians"; "When Paul learns what Peter is teaching in Jeru-
salem, should he use his Rocket Launcher or ram those Sons of Belial with the
Rhino?"; "Bless you"--pa-HOOM; no, no, no....
If you want to stop the mission timer, see my closing note for the Pizza De-
livery mission, I.21. And, as with the Ambulance, you could modify the files
for the Firetruck with Notepad as explained in I.100.D.e Cars and bikes: 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. As a nice variation on Rusk's "Grand Theft
Auto III" "Turismo" Firetruck idea, you might leave it that way to store an all-
purpose, hot rod bulldozer Firetruck in a garage for certain missions that come
up later, like "The Driver," I.70, the Sunshine Autos Street Races, I.71, "Gun
Runner," I.76, "Naval Engagement," I.86, or "Juju Scramble," I.87. (Tommy can
still get knocked off of the modified Pizza Boy.)
I.24 Knocking Off Stores
All you need to do is have Tommy threaten the cashier. (Once Tommy robbed a
store just by belting one of them. And I think I had him trigger one once just
by having him drive a PCJ 600 fast into a store.)
GTA_Loc's way to get $1,000 per store and not confront the police:
You can use GTA_Loco's Never Wanted/Felony Allowed gimmick to have Tommy rob
all the stores, letting the money max at $1,000 at each, without any police
around. See I.53 "Rub Out" and I.61 "Cop Land."
In earlier versions of this walk-through, I'd recommended you keep Tommy armed
with one of the handguns throughout a sequence of store robberies because it
lets you have Tommy run from one store to another without having to scroll be-
tween weapon slots. That's true, but I'm going to recommend a variation on that
this time, because it let me have Tommy knock off all the stores without the
glitch that causes one or two of the robberies not to register in the Stats.
I've had a problem (glitch?) whereby the money kept appearing but the alarm
bell didn't go off till Tommy ran through the money. By then he had a three
star wanted rating--the maximum for this. I've also had a problem (glitch?)
whereby the alarm bell went off but the money didn't appear. Sometimes I had
Tommy stand so close to the counter that the money appeared then disappeared in-
to him in a moment, creating the sound that means he got it. And for one reason
or another, the game didn't register one or two of the store robberies after-
wards.
Send Tommy into the store using Fist/Brass Knuckles. Have him stand a bit
back from the counter facing the clerk--far enough back so that when the money
appears over the counter, it won't immediately disappear into Tommy. Scroll up
a couple of weapon slots to the handgun so the aiming reticle is on the clerk.
The cashier turns with a start and/or ducks, and the money appears over the
counter.
Then scroll back down to Fist/Brass Knuckles, which sets off the alarm.
Have Tommy jump on the counter to get the money a moment later to keep his
wanted rating at two stars--the minimum for this.
You might make a note of any store that reacts differently so you know which
store(s) to try again if you don't get credit for a robbery or two.
You should be able to have Tommy go through a whole series of stores this way
with only a two star wanted level.
I still had the glitch of a clerk not appearing at one of the stores, but when
I had Tommy go back later, the clerk was there. When I had Tommy knock it off
the way I recommend, it registered in the Stats.
Have Tommy do the Paramedic mission to level twelve for the infinite run 1st.
Then just have him run through all of the stores for a whole island--seven
stores on the west island and eight stores on the east island. (Thanks again to
proven Rusk strategies.) Drive around and memorize a route 1st; get a print out
of a map and make notes.
The time it takes for Tommy to go through his motions of getting into or onto
a vehicle, and get it going fast enough not to be pulled or knocked off of it,
leaves him vulnerable to getting busted.
Running is easier than you might think from the hectic way the police may
chase and ram Tommy's vehicle and try to pull him out and bust him with two
wanted stars. They don't block him from leaving the store--he can run right
past them if he has to. They don't shoot constantly, and they miss most of the
time when they shoot. When they chase and shoot, have Tommy do a lot of weaving
around corners, trees, and posts to avoid bullets and lure their cars to get
stuck against things or to drive into the pool at the Moist Palms Hotel. Have
Tommy pause to cause their car to stop then have him run away from it.
In the W, you can use the bribe NW of Screw This from either end of the alley,
the bribe in the alley N of the N end of the road W of, and parallel to, the
big concrete drainage ditch,
and the bribe in the Hyman Condo alley--and you can use the clothes pickup on
the roof.
In the E, you can use the bribe behind the house SE of the road that ends in a
loop,
the bribe on the corner by the building that's N of the Malibu Club,
the bribe in the alley E of the Links View apartment,
and the bribe in the low walk S of North Point Mall.
You won't need all the armor and bribes I've given directions for, except for
the bribe at the end of each run. But if you're new, who knows what trouble
you're going to get into?
You can only rob the stores listed below.
As noted before, for H28, the cashiers all have beards and glasses and they
won't talk no matter what you do. If you try to have Tommy hold up a fast food
place, they'll just ignore Tommy, but at least they'll say something if Tommy
buys something. And if you try it at an Ammu-Nation, they'll shoot Tommy, and
they still never talk to him, but at least Tommy can buy something there, too.
Tommy can't even buy anything in these stores--no wonder the clerk doesn't have
to know how to talk. I guess that's why these are the store clerks Tommy robs--
it's the only way to get something from them, and he hopes they won't talk to
the police, either.
In British slang, to "knock off" a store is to steal from it (it can also re-
fer to sex in another context). "Tool up" is to become armed, usually with a
gun. "Tool" is a penis or an idiot.
East Island
Before you start Tommy's run, you can have him leave a vehicle in the Vice
Point Pay 'n' Spray N of the Links View apartment. If you do, you can have him
get in or on it to trigger the Pay 'n' Spray to remove his wanted rating. Don't
have him use any other vehicle while you want the rigged Pay 'n' Spray to be
available to better ensure that the vehicle inside it stays in the memory of the
game.
Bunch of Tools: go S from the E end of the bridge from Starfish Island to the
E island; it's on your left.
Knock it off, then go N on the road at the W side of the store. Go past the
construction site and cross the little bridge; go N on the road on the E side of
the pizza store. (There's a bribe on a corner E of the pizza store.) On the
2nd block on your left is the:
Jewelry Store. Knock it off, then go N to the T intersection, go left/W, then
go right/N. (There's a bribe in the 2nd alley on your right. The Pay 'n' Spray
is further N on the left.) Continue N to a T intersection, where you make a
quick left/W then right/N. On the right side of the street is the:
Dispensary. Knock it off. Go N to the T intersection, go E to the T inter-
section, then go S. On the next corner on your left is the:
Corner Store. Knock it off. Go N. (After you pass the 1st left, there's a
blue/gray and white building you can enter on the left side of the road; inside,
atop the 2nd ramp, is armor.) Continue N through the break in the low guard
wall where the road curves W, then go left to get to the base of the stairs of
the North Point Mall. Go up them and go inside the mall. Go up an escalator
and go to the middle of the W side of the mall, where you'll see:
Vinyl Countdown. Knock it off. Go down to the 1st floor (you can even jump
over the banister if you're in a hurry) and go to the N area of the E side of
the mall, where you'll see the:
Jewelry Store. Knock it off. Go across to the S area of the W side of the
mall, where you'll see:
Tooled Up. Knock it off. Go to the middle of the S section of the store
where you'll plunge right into a:
Gash. Knock it off. Hold up the store. Then go out one of the S exits and
jump over the banister and run through the police bribe. I know you're still
wanted, and you're pretty excited about it, but run it off.
West Island
Before you start Tommy's run, you can have him leave a vehicle in the Pay 'n'
Spray just S of Ryton Aide. If you do, you can have Tommy get in or on it to
trigger the Pay 'n' Spray to remove his wanted rating. Don't have him use any
other vehicle while you want the rigged Pay 'n' Spray to be available to better
ensure that the vehicle inside it stays in the game.
Deli: go S from the Starfish Island Bridge on the main N-S road of the W is-
land: it's at the 1st right on the near corner.
Knock it off. Go W, and on the left side of the road you'll be tempted to:
Screw This. Knock it off. (You pick a strange time for these things.) Hold
up the store. Continue W on the road, and follow it as it curves 90 degrees N.
On the inside of the curve where it curves 90 degrees W, you'll enter:
Cafe Robina. You'll disappear momentarily, reappear, then knock it off. Go
outside, disappearing and reappearing, and go E. Take the 1st left and go N (or
go straight then off road right into an alley for a bribe, then go back to the
same corner and go N). Follow it as it curves 90 degrees to the W. Just before
it curves 90 degrees to the S, go right across the lot to the:
Laundromat. Knock it off. Go E and take the 2nd left N. (Ahead and to the
left, beyond the bend in the road, you'll see the concrete and yellow Print
Works building. Go past the several loading bays and go left into a covered al-
ley that runs through it; go up the stairs on the left if you want the armor on
the roof.) Follow the 90 degree bend in the road and go E to the main N-S road.
Go left/N to the place at the bend in the road with the name of the store in red
letters:
Ryton Aide. Knock it off. (The Pay 'n' Spray is beside it to the S.) Con-
tinue N past three lefts and the Moist Palms Hotel, then go left/W. On your
left, before you get to the bend in the road, is the gray:
Dispensary. Knock it off. Go N around the bend, and 4th door on the right is
the gray:
Jewelry Store. Knock it off. Then continue N past the 1st right, and turn
right off the road into the Hyman Condo alley.
There's a bribe in the Hyman Condo alley for one wanted star, and you can run
the other one off or go to the roof of the condo for a clothes pickup.
Check your Stats and any notes you've kept of odd store behavior to see if you
have to do any again. But at least now you know how easy it is.
You get $50 to $1,000 per store, depending on how long you threaten the ca-
shier (I'd go for the bigger money somewhere else and keep the wanted level down
to two stars for this).
I.25 Vigilante Mission (a Sub-mission)--Brown Thunder, if using the Hunter
Do the Vigilante Mission to level twelve for 150 maximum armor.
To trigger the mission, have Tommy get into a police car (go to any police
station or jack one), Enforcer (at the Vice Point police station), Vice Cheetah
(behind the Little Havana police station), FBI Washington (in an alcove in the S
segment of the alley S of the Downtown pizza store), FBI Rancher (jack it off an
FBI agent), Rhino (at Fort Baxter after collecting 90 Hidden Packages) or Hunter
(at Fort Baxter after either collecting 100 Hidden Packages or completing the
story missions, and on the helipad at the S end of the east island after both
collecting all the packages and completing the story missions), and press Caps
Lock.
(Maybe it's because some PC component of mine is fast, but "Brown Thunder,"
the name given to the mission if you use the Hunter, flashes on and off the
screen in a blink.)
If you press Left Shift, normally for horn, several times, it activates both a
siren on all but the Hunter and Rhino, and a flashing red dashboard light in the
Cheetah, flashing blue dashboard light in the FBI Rancher, flashing red and blue
lights on the roof of a police car, and flashing red and blue lights over the
windshield of the Enforcer. This causes some drivers to get out of your way,
although some get in your way, too.
The timer gives various times permitted for the initial level--1:15, 3:51,
etc. I suppose it depends on how far away the 1st target is.
As HandsomeRockus explains in his walk-through at Gamefaqs, there are the same
number of criminals as there are levels. Since only four can fit in a four-
wheel vehicle, you get two vehicles from level five on and three from level nine
on. For level twelve and subsequent levels you'll get three vehicles of four
criminals each per level.
The pairs or trios of vehicles travel together till after level twelve. Then
you always get a pair of them together and a 3rd one traveling separately.
Sometimes the criminals exit their vehicle and shoot at Tommy; if so, and he
destroys their vehicle but doesn't kill them, they may jack another vehicle and
continue in it.
You have to get to level twelve in one effort. If you fail to beat the clock,
press Caps Lock again, or exit the vehicle and fail to get back into any vigi-
lante vehicle in less than one minute, you end the mission and you're credited
with the level you attained and number of Criminals killed.
The time per level and financial reward increases with successive levels, ex-
cept that the timer rolls over to whatever small amount of a 1st level after
99:59. Be sure to be quick about getting more criminals then and not be off
looking for a bribe.
There's no ceiling on the number of levels you can attain.
You might want to use the ability for Tommy to be outside of a vigilante vehi-
cle for a minute to collect money and weapons the criminals leave behind. But I
don't have him leave the Hunter for them ever since I had him get out around a
bunch of blown up cars and it disappeared.
I would use the Hunter for this as Rusk recommends. (See "How to Hijack the
Hunter" near the end of I.9.D.) The Hunter machine gun has more auto-aim than
usual during "Brown Thunder." When using the Hunter, keep in mind that the
rockets are more liable to draw police attention than the machine gun, and
shooting innocent people is harder to avoid with rockets and more likely to at-
tract the police as well.
The Hunter is said to get more durable as the mission goes along. But some-
times the criminals get out of their vehicles to shoot at the Hunter and can set
the Hunter on fire, the easiest with the shotguns they may have, so be ready to
fly off and type "aspirine" now and then.
For some variety, you might try the vigilante mission with the Rhino or Vice
Squad Cheetah.
The main strength of the Rhino is its hit and explode ability. If you turn
the cannon backwards and fire to give it an acceleration and maneuverability
boost, the Rhino is the 2nd easiest to do this with. The one drawback to it is
that Tommy is bound to shoot a number of pedestrians and their vehicles that way
and increase his wanted level, so you might have him leave a vehicle in a Pay
'n' Spay beforehand.
If you have Tommy use the Cheetah, have him get out to Minigun the criminals.
He has a greater chance of getting busted down on the ground, though, so try to
keep him moving.
As noted in I.8, I haven't gotten the PS2 gimmick of having Tommy run from an
FBI Rancher and turn to find the FBI Rancher abandoned to work on PC. When I've
tried it, the FBI Rancher disappears but the agents are still there shooting.
You might have Tommy try a minor rampage in the alley of the Hyman Condo and use
a Molotov (the neutron bomb of the game--you can kill the people and leave the
vehicle intact) to get an FBI Rancher. It's an SUV that handles like a BF In-
jection or a Patriot. I got one that way without much trouble but didn't find a
lot of use for it: the Hunter is the best for vigilante missions, and I general-
ly favor the PCJ 600 for routine driving.
I haven't gotten the same gimmick to work for a "Vice" Cheetah yet, either,
but there's no big call for it. There's always a "Vice" Cheetah behind the Lit-
tle Havana police station on PC.
It is possible to jack one or the other by moving Tommy at the front or side
to make it come to a stop and pressing F before it stops. More often than not,
Tommy gets busted.
It's got the best chance of working if it looks like a vehicle jacking does
otherwise, with Tommy yanking out the driver and the other(s) getting out. He
may still get busted, but he may be able to speed away, possibly with a flat
tire.
I'd stick with the Molotovs and the back of the Little Havana police station
if I had to get one of them. It would probably just end up taking up room as a
garage trophy, though.
An FBI Rancher is the easiest to take and save by a Hyman Condo garage, since
the condo alley affords some protection from helicopters, there's armor on the
roof and Molotovs across the street, and going to the roof provides a quick
change of pace if you're in a tight spot. I once got an FBI Rancher when the
FBI agents drove it into the big garage there; Tommy was near it so the door was
open--I just had him walk away. There was no exchange of shots--the Little Shop
of Hyman ate them. You can play with this lure and trap gimmick (a variation on
a scene from "Cop Land") with other law enforcement vehicles or policemen, too.
Whichever you prefer, the airport, with its wide open spaces, is the easiest
place to do it. But get familiar with how high up the Hunter can be from the
lamp posts and all in other areas and get the targets with the auto aim machine
gun, too. You may start the mission in one place and get sent to another.
As Rusk explains, you might want to do the vigilante mission to level twelve
on the east island to get 150 armor, then, when the west island opens up so tar-
gets can be generated on it, do it at the airport. You can easily go to as high
a level as you want and to make a lot of money (I once maxed my cash out at
$999,999,999 when I got to level 400) and kill a small town's worth of crimi-
nals. When trios of criminal's vehicles appear, using the airport area often
makes one of the three appear over water, which destroys those criminals for
you.
You might remap the Sub-mission key from Caps Lock to something over in the
number pad section for the occasion so you don't accidentally press it after
getting a high level (I've done that).
And a bonus gimmick of using the airport area is that the mission timer, and
the creation of targets, stops if you get your most recent target(s) while hov-
ering over the water W of Fort Baxter. This lets you go back down over the wa-
ter to the airport to go over land, which reactivates the timer and the spawning
of criminals again, to help you keep the mission happening at the airport.
Another gimmick is to watch your radar for the criminals spawn point. If you
watch Tommy's wanted level, too, you can have him hover or park the Hunter near-
by, aim at the spawn point, and blow up a whole string of the criminals in a row
without moving or moving much. The hovering ability of the Hunter, keeping him
safer from getting busted while doing that, is another advantage it has for this
mission.
I've had Tommy use the rockets to kill targets generated inside a building as
Rusk describes, and it works. Look for a pink glow created by the big direc-
tional arrows used to point down at them. Owing to a glitch, you may even see
parts of the criminals stick out through the wall.
I've had the criminal's vehicles show up in all sorts of other odd places,
too, like inside a basketball court or driving endlessly at a corner, which the
rockets helped Tommy with. The concussive effect of the blast of the rockets
can get targets on the other side of walls or anywhere close to the blast.
I've also had the added distraction of criminals seeming to appear in a build-
ing then being transported in an instant to a nearby road. You may even see
some in a non-dirt track vehicle going for a World's Most Stupid Criminals Award
trying to race around the path programmed for the three Haitians at the Downtown
dirt track.
Airborne police bribes:
* One is over the fence at the back of the yard behind Sunshine Autos.
* The 2nd is over the big concrete drainage ditch W of the Pay 'n' Spray in
Little Haiti.
* The 3rd is in N Little Haiti by some crates and just N of the N billboard
of the two that say, "Little Haiti"--"Life's a Beach" with "Beach" crossed out
and "Bi**h" written on it.
Again, since the timer rolls over to a small 1st level amount of time again
at 99:59, make sure you have enough time before going for police bribes.
As mentioned before, thanks to reader Colin Attle for writing to me that the
pay for the Paramedic Sub-mission, and the 1st twelve levels of the Firetruck
and Vigilante Sub-missions, is $50 x (the number of the level) x (the number of
the level), which is $50 times the number of the level squared: $50, $200, $450,
$800, $1,250. Completing level twelve pays $7,200.
He adds that in the Fireruck and Vigilante missions, beyond level 12, the for-
mula is the amount for the previous level plus (the previous level number times
100) plus 50. So for level 13, the formula is: 7,200 + (12 x 100) + 50 =
$8,450.
There's no ceiling to the number of levels for this, and you can easily do
this with the Hunter till Tommy's a millionaire--even max out his cash, if you
want to.
I.26 Unique Jumps
Get a PCJ 600 (I.9.C). Know where the armor is (I.11). If you're getting
killed doing this stuff, you're trying to make the jumps without using one of
the two.
If the bike starts smoking, type "aspirine"--let people who bind themselves to
some wholly arbitrary allergy to good medicine search for another bike. We've
got jumps to do, and we don't want to interrupt the tunes on the radio.
There are 36 Unique Jumps in the game, and we're going to do all of them the
game will let us for now.
When you make your approaches to the jumps, get to know the limits of acceler-
ating out of controlled skids, and of accelerating with turns to tighten them,
and just ease up on the acceleration to navigate through some turning hazards.
Gunning it is never the answer to everything. And remember that grass is slip-
perier than pavement, especially when it's wet.
Remember to use NP9--lean forward, and NP6--pull back, to try to land on two
wheels to give Tommy a better chance of staying on the bike. Using a little ac-
celeration when landing can help with that, too.
Having the front wheel turned with A or D changes how the bike leans, and can
prevent a sideways spill.
You can combine brake with reverse when he has a small landing space, and re-
lease them if it looks like he's about to spin out and wreck.
If you do these things, the game can be generous about letting Tommy make some
spectacular sideways landings and such.
When are you going to be able to drive so good you never wreck? Given the un-
predictability factors involved in driving at all adventurously, when you stop
driving. Unless you're driving with no armor and very low health, he'll get
right back up. With full armor and health, the bike is liable to be destroyed a
lot sooner than he is. Know where the armor is and type "aspirine" for the bike
now and then, and crank up the tunes.
You can also do many of these with a sports car (the Cheetah is light and fast
for that).
The Uniquecall mod by Demarest
If you can't figure out which jump you missed, even more informative than "The
Rampage and Package Finder Mod (the Northern Lights Mod)" for finding Hidden
Packages and Rampages is the "Uniquecall" mod by Demarest. It has the game show
you onscreen where to start and end jumps, which jumps you have left to do, etc.
See VC Code Tools under I.100.D.f. (And thanks to TownRanger at the Gamefaqs
message board for the helpful tip about Demarest's uniquely helpful work in
creating these tools.)
Downtown
J1 not available till "G-Spotlight" (I.81).
J2 from a big set of stairs onto the roof of the Downtown Ammu-Nation.
To get to the stairs, go W from the W end of the bridge from Prawn Island to
the W island and make the 1st left--they're on your left.
Go S from them down past a slight bend in the road, turn around, and gun it N
and go onto the sidewalk to go up the middle of the stairs. Use NP6 and NP9 to
prepare for landing, and use brake/reverse with a turn.
(While you're there, you might as well learn to go down the steps at the W
side of the roof to a lower roof, continue off the far end of it avoiding the
raised parts, turn right before the far wall, and go moderately over the steps
with a left turn to go to the Hyman Condo alley. It can become a regular way to
go from the lower W island to the Hyman Condo. I don't know if it's faster, but
it sure is scenic.)
J3 not available till "G-Spotlight" (I.81).
J4 not available till "G-Spotlight" (I.81).
Little Haiti
J5 going S on the main N-S road from the Downtown section, make the 1st right
turn and look along the right to turn in to a little square lot of a pale yellow
building. Looking S from it, you'll see a ramp across the street that's beyond
a clearing. (You don't need to pass through the bribe hovering over the ramp.
That's one of the three airborne bribes to use in a helicopter to get rid of a
wanted rating.)
Try to jump a bit to the right to avoid smacking into the back of a "Move Over
Miami" billboard up there and continue beyond it, or don't gun it so much and
land with brake/reverse.
(While you're in the area, there are another couple of jumps (not Unique
Jumps) you can do. There's a big pile of black stuff by the S wall in Phil's
Place you can jump the wall with, and you can continue S to go over a pile of
dirt against a wall--aim to avoid the poles beyond it--and land on the street in
the direction of traffic.)
J6 go S from Downtown on the main N-S road and make the 3rd right--it's just
after you pass under the Links Bridge. After you make a 90 degree curve to the
S, make the 1st right turn. You'll see an abandoned school bus on your left and
a clearing with a propped up wooden ramp on your right. Go N around the ramp
and over the grass along the wall. At the least, I'd go about halfway toward
the corner of the wall before I turned S to begin my run to the ramp. In fact,
I've had more success in landing safely that way.
In your run S, before you get to the change in the lawn color, ease up on ac-
celeration to make a left turn to go over the ramp. You want to go over the bus
and the little house beside it to the S. The game doesn't require you to land
safely to give you credit for the jump, but this isn't my favorite jump. I've
had less luck starting back at the N corner because the increased speed gives
you less time to make the sharp left turn on the slippery grass, and the landing
area is riddled with trees, rooftops, fences, etc. I nearly always wreck among
the houses in the landing area doing it that way, often getting the bike stuck
on a roof. If that happens, have Tommy get a van or such going by and jump on
it and onto the roof to get his bike.
(Just to play with the jump, I've started my runway back at the wall of the
Kaufman Cab building and just veered a bit left going off the ramp and made it
all the way over the houses--but wrecked more often than not.)
J7 go S from Downtown on the main N-S road and make the 3rd right; after the
90 degree curve S, make the 2nd right turn. Go to where it curves N but turn
left off the road there into the lot. Turn E and back the bike to the wall.
When there's a break in the traffic at the T intersection ahead, gun it E down
the street, across the intersection, and hit the wood ramp with a bribe over it.
(Again, you don't have to pass through the bribe--that's for getting rid of a
wanted star when you're flying a helicopter.) You can try to land on the roof
of the Pay 'n' Spray by going off the left side of the ramp, but you'll need to
do it just right with a full throttle and full motorcycle health or you'll prob-
ably just smack into the wall of it. The game should still give you credit if
you wreck.
(Otherwise, just driving through, I try to jump to the right to avoid the Pay
'n' Spray and land in the clearing that leads to a road. In between the right
and left jumps you'll emulate a "George of the Jungle" cartoon.)
Little Havana
J8 Go N from the Starfish Island bridge on the main N-S road of the W island,
make the 1st left and go to a T intersection, and Little Havana Streetwear is
across the street to your right. It's a one story yellow and black building set
in from the road a bit. Go into the alley on the N side of it and position your
bike for a run at the slope to a roof you'll see to the S.
You don't have to go full throttle for this series of jumps--easing up on ac-
celeration once you land can help you steer to the ramp up ahead. Go up the
slope and you'll jump to a place farther S on the roof. Drive off the edge of
it onto a roof vent ramp just past it--aim for the space between the backs of
the two billboards up ahead and you can continue down to the street beyond them.
If you want to stop before hitting a billboard, don't gun it so much and have
brake/reverse with a turn ready.
(If you want to try to go over the ramp on the left and get over the bill-
board behind it, good luck.)
Escobar International Airport
Go S past the S-most bridge on the main N-S road of the W island and turn
right; go through the intersection and follow the road as it curves 90 degrees N
then 90 degrees W; turn left off the road through one of the entrances by the
pale green booth onto the tarmac.
The easiest way for a beginner to get some of these airport jumps is to aim
your bike from the thing you jump from toward the target you want to hit (or ob-
struction you want to avoid) beyond it, back the bike straight back from it,
then accelerate.
J9 Near the NE corner of the tarmac, close to the E fence, is a metal set of
steps on wheels. You need to use it for a jump ramp to land on the lower roof
of the Vice city Transport building across the street to the NE.
J10 The 3D "Vice Surf" billboard across the street to the N of the airport
terminal has a board propped up against the N end. You can drive up through the
middle of it and use it as a jump ramp to the terminal roof. If you didn't use
it to get Hidden Packages before, you need to use it at least for J10. Go N
from it, cross the street, and go over the N tarmac to the low wall with a fence
along the top of it. (The more adventurous can try going farther N.) Turn S
and gun it for the middle of the ramp.
(Once on the roof, you might see what half pipe mileage you can get out of it.
You can also practice landing after a long fall by driving off the S end of it:
correcting your level with NP6 or NP9 and acceleration can help, but I won't
make any promises.)
(With a Cheetah, you may turn left to go up the sign's curl of a wave a bit to
try to get a flying corkscrew jump out of it--this is harder to do and not a
Unique Jump, but you might get some Insane Jump statistics.)
(See I.100.D.f for DiCanio's way to put six more of these 3D "Vice Surf"
billboard jumps around Vice City.)
J11 Go back to the S tarmac where you did J9. There are two runways on the
tarmac that each have a pair of ramps at the N end--one ramp is steep and the
other is not so steep. Use the SW to NE runway and use the steep ramp. (If you
use the steep ramp of the other runway, you'll do a header with the ramp.) Get
ready to land with a left turn and you might land safely in the street.
(For a little variety, you can try this jump sometime with the Rhino. Turn
the turret backwards and fire constantly while you accelerate. It will rumble
with speed and you'll see it fly higher than you can fly it any other way with-
out using the "comeflywithme" code for it. I read where one fellow cranked up
the top speed in datahandling.cfg and flew to Sunshine Autos. Another said
they flew to the E island, but I can't remember if they said what they changed
the top speed to.)
J12 There are two white octopus-looking structures--the loading bridges--held
aloft on the tarmac. Use the metal steps on wheels on the E side of the E one
to jump E to W over it. Go right off the ramp to avoid the jet on the other
side.
J13 Use the metal steps on wheels on the E side of the W loading bridge to
jump E to W over it.
J14 Use the metal steps on wheels on the W side of the W loading bridge to
jump W to E over it. Start by the wall S of the hanger with a little jet stick-
ing out of it and turn right going off the ramp. If you don't land in the
clearing between several things beyond it, you may get past them.
J15 Go as far back on the tarmac as you can to begin your NE to SW run at the
middle of the yellow marker NE of the little building with a red radar spinning
on top of it, which is S of the W loading bridge. Hit the yellow marker diago-
nally, not straight on, and aim for the area over the middle of the lower roof
of the radar building.
J16 Just get as long a runway as you can and gun it SW to NE to the metal
steps on wheels SW of the radar building for a long jump over the tarmac.
(While you're at the S tarmac of the airport, you can use one of the set of
three concrete ramps by a hanger to jump the hanger and fence to the street to
the w, and use a similar set up to jump the E side of the N fence, and get a
long runway to use a set of metal steps on wheels to make a jump over the W side
of the N fence.)
Starfish Island
J17 not available till after "Guardian Angels" (I.42).
Vice Point
J18 Use the concrete HI-PRESS GAS ramp just SW of the SW corner of the Malibu
Club, about halfway up the E island along the longest N-S road of the E island.
Start your runway NE of it at the back of the light gray asphalt lot across the
S bend in the road. Aim for a place near the fat palm tree on the right.
J19 Speed S over the grass from the ramp of J18 to an identical ramp. Veer
just left of the palm tree trunks and aim for the street in the distance. Be-
fore you adjust the level for landing, you have time to try a flip gimmick
(I.9.C), too, if you want.
How to use J19 to give Tommy a car that's suspended in midair to stand on:
Have Tommy get a fast car; I had some luck when I tried this with a Banshee.
Have him drive at the ramp used for J19 so the right two wheels don't go over
it. As the car begins to fly over the bridge, with the driver's door upwards,
press F. If all goes well, the slow motion mode abruptly ends and the game re-
verts to regular game speed, and the car freezes in midair with Tommy standing
on it. The rest of Vice City will carry on as usual and you'll have full con-
trol of Tommy, but you'll have a unique place to have him look around from.
Tommy can jump off and do other things and the car will probably stay there
till he drives one or two other vehicles. Shoot one of the tires to make it
fall to the ground.
I'd give credit and thanks to the originator of the gimmick, but this idea has
been around so long I can't possibly remember. Thank you, whoever you are.
J20 From the E end of the Starfish Island bridge, go N and turn right off the
road into a construction site of a building with red girders. Go up the ramps
to the 4th, top, floor. Take a while to position your PCJ 600 in alignment with
the girder sticking out to the N. It's about a foot wide but plenty long, and
you might fall off if you try to correct your steering while speeding along it.
Gun it and give it a right turn at the end of the beam so Tommy won't smack into
the building below and ahead.
J21 From the E end of the E to W street S of the Washington Beach police sta-
tion, go W to another concrete ramp. Veer right going off the ramp, and have
brake/reverse ready to avoid the low white wall beyond.
J22 From the big peachy arch at the E end of the Starfish Island bridge, go
E. You might ease up to go right around the curb at the intersection; that curb
has thrown my bike sometimes. Go into the lot with a pile of dirt sloped up
against the low wall where there's an opening in the fence. Aim for the middle
of the street beyond.
Washington Beach
J23 Go N of the 6th block from the S along the E side. Start your run W of
the hill in the grass across the street to the N. Go S across the street and
hit the wooden ramp at least hard enough to clear the 2nd one and land on the
roof. (This is the 1st jump of PCJ Playground, I.27, too.)
J24 Go to the N end of the N-S alley of the 6th block from the S along the E
side. Go S and go up the stairs to jump over the street to a rooftop.
(This is also done during PCJ Playground, I.27, except then you only need to
drop off the end of the stairs and turn into the alley to the S of it. You'll
use these stairs later for "Guardian Angels," I.42, too.)
J25 The jump is done with the E-W stairs by the street that goes E-W across
the N end of the 5th block from the S along the E side. Go W from the stairs to
the low wall E of the lamp post which is N of the bench on the grass to position
your bike for the run.
Go E and over the stairs--veer left at the top to aim for the middle of the
clearing between two trees on the lawn of the police station. You need to land
on the lawn. Watch out during your run to the stairs for the invisible but sol-
id stuff sticking out from the S side of the last tree you pass (ghost coco-
nuts?). Have brake/reverse and a turn ready so you don't smack into the sta-
tion. You have to be going fast enough to reach the landing area, but the land-
ing area is small.
(Lance Vance will climb the N-S stairs that share the same top landing as
these stairs for "Guardian Angels.")
J26 Start at the N end of the N-S alley of the 5th block from the S along the
E side. Go S to the N-S stairs on your right and jump to the roof across the
street.
(You may have used this jump to get H10. This jump is also done during "PCJ
Playground," I.27.)
J27 Start your run most of the way N in the N-S alley of the 4th block from
the S along the E side. Go S and go over the propped up wooden pallet on the
right side of the alley. Go over it doing a left turn to aim for the clearing
in the alley beyond. If you don't turn left enough, you may foster untoward
feelings about the corner of a wall with a telephone pole by it up ahead.
(This jump is also done during "PCJ Playground.")
Ocean Beach
J28 Use a PCJ 600 for this, after you've gotten credit for J29 with a Chee-
tah, because it's easier. (Who's numbering these things at the BradyGames
place?) Do J29 with a PCJ 600 this time to get on the roof of the Beach Scooter
store. Go up the stairs and turn left at the top to get onto the higher roof
beside it. You'll only need about half of the W-E distance of that roof to make
a straight run for the vent on the NE corner of the lower roof beyond it, and
you don't have to gun it the whole way, to jump over the street to get onto the
roof of the peach building with brown and pale blue markings. Land with brake/
reverse and a turn.
Another way to do it is to back the PCJ 600 to the W edge of the Beach Scooter
store roof (use V for the distant back view to back up, then go back to the mid-
distance back view) to get a runway to jump the stairs with. Go only moderately
fast straight over the stairs, so you've added a little to the speed you can
create on the 2nd roof, and land on it sooner to use more of the 2nd roof for
acceleration. Gun it for the vent in the NE corner and jump to the roof of the
building across the street to the E. Land with brake/reverse and a turn.)
The jump from the vent to the peach building is J28.
Then drive off the S end to the lower roof, then down to the street or alley.
If you choose the longer drop from the landing roof to the street, level the
wheels and use some acceleration as you land.
J29 Using a Cheetah for this is easier because you may need to do this jump a
number of times before it's counted when you use a PCJ 600. Enter the Washing-
ton Mall parking garage on the E side of the block, 3rd block from the E and 4th
block from the S. It has a spiral ramp to the roof. Go from the SW corner of
the roof to the middle of the slope at the SE corner and jump to the roof of the
Beach Scooter store across the street--that's J29.
(This jump is part of one of the ways given to get hidden package 8--I.19.)
(If you want to try doing J29 and J28 in a row with a PCJ 600 after getting
credit for both jumps, aim for the right side of the head of the arrow up ahead
when you drive at the slope of the parking garage roof. Have brake/reverse
ready to not smack the wall on the Beach Scooter store roof beyond, but you can
probably continue on over the stairs there to try J28. If you gun it, this usu-
ally involves a right turn to the stairs and a left turn going up and off the
stairs, then a corrective right turn on the roof beyond that to aim for the vent
in the NE corner of that roof, which takes too much steam out of your forward
momentum to make it worth it. Ease up on acceleration at moments to straighten
that out so you have more speed to hit the NE vent with and gun it for that.
See the 2nd way to do J28. You can do it and land on the roof beyond, but it
can take a number of tries.)
J30 Start your run at the S end of the alley that runs N-S through the 2nd
block from the S along the E side. Go N and hit the propped up wooden pallet.
You can try for the roof on the left--have brake/reverse ready for the landing--
or gun it right and go for the distance into the clearing of the alley beyond.
I usually go for the distance to the right. (And remember not to make the un-
pleasant mistake of trying to do this going N-S as you do with the two wooden
pallet jumps to the N.)
J31 Enter either end of the E-W alley (gray on your in-game map with a stub
on the N side) of the 2nd block from the S and the 2nd block from the E. Go N
into the parking garage, and go up the ramps to the roof. Go right to the NW
corner of the roof to start a run to the concrete ramp at the SW corner of the
roof and jump to the next roof to the S.
You might look S from atop the J31 ramp to aim 1st, and see that you can veer
a bit to the right going off it to try to get to the W end of the S side of the
roof you land on. From that part of the roof you land on, you can continue S to
land on another roof then drop beyond it to a lower roof, then drive off the
right side onto the street and keep going. Dazzle and amaze your friends.
J32 The jump ramp is the stairway in the "stilt" building, which is entered
on the N side of the block, 2nd block from the E and 3rd block from the S.
(You use this jump in "PCJ Playground," too--I.27.) Since this is the 1st
Unique Jump of two in a row, start your run all the way back in the alley across
the street to the N. Gun it N-S and go for the left of the middle of the
stairs.
J33 The vent on the pink roof you land on for J32. Keep going and gun it
with a right turn over the vent. The game is usually generous about counting
the jump even if you just smack into the indented area of the front of the
building which has the roof you want to land on.
J34 not available till after "Phnom Penh '86" (I.45).
J35 not available till after "Phnom Penh '86" (I.45).
Prawn Island
J36 Drive a PCJ 600 over the bridge from the E island to Prawn Island. As
soon as you're off the bridge, stop at the right with the back of the bike to
the wall. Drive at the ramp ahead at the side of a building. Turn right going
off of it to aim for a ramp on the roof of a 2nd building, where you need to ac-
celerate to get onto the sloped upper part of the roof of a 3rd building.
Have brake and right turn ready for the landing. If Tommy has a spill up
there, he can jump or drive back over to the previous roof and return to the
starting point.
Once on the upper part of the last roof, drive around to the E end of it, and
use V to get a long distance back view so he can back the bike to the edge with-
out falling off. Then press V to get the mid-distance back view again, and gun
it for the ramp on the W end, veering a bit right as he goes off. The jump in-
volves flying over the street, landing on a roof, then quickly falling to a 2nd
lower roof you brake on (try brake and reverse at once). (It's the roof H42 was
on, and was used before doing "The Jump" at I.18.) If you're new to this and
fall off the roof, you can drive out on the stairs on the SE side and try again.
I.27 PCJ Playground
To get to the bike used for this mission, go N from the N-S alley of the 6th
block from the S along the E side of the E island. Go across the street and up
the small hill in the grass to find a PCJ 600 parked in a corner of the S side
of the Standing Vice Hotel. It's always there, and getting aboard always trig-
gers "PCJ Playground."
The timer doesn't start till Tommy passes through the 1st glowing disk, howev-
er, so you can send Tommy around before that and survey the locations of the
jumps needed to get the 24 disks as long as you want. Once you trigger the tim-
er, you have two minutes to get the disks.
The 1st jump is Unique Jump 24 (I.26). Go moderately fast up the two ramps
(passing over the 2nd ramp) to the 1st marker, remembering that this time you
need control on the roof to hit another disk and come down left in the direction
of the alley. Take it easy over the stairway used for Unique Jump 25 ahead--you
just need to fall off the other side of the stairs and turn left then right into
the next alley. You need more speed for the next stairway to get over onto a
roof, the way you did it for Unique Jump 26, but you need to hit another disk up
there and fall off the roof to the left in the direction of the alley again, so
be careful not to overdo it.
Go moderately, turning left as you hit the propped up wooden pallet you used
for Unique Jump 27, aiming for the alley ahead to the left (do it the same way
as for J27 and you'll go over the passing truck). Be ready in case you need to
brake a bit--a 2nd truck sometimes passes across the next intersection ahead.
There's a long straightaway ahead, but touch brake/reverse a bit midway so at
the end you control the sharp left then right into the next alley, and then go
along behind the pillars on the right and make the right turn through an E-W al-
ley of the SE block just after that.
The game can be generous about counting the disks of the sunken shopping cen-
ter if Tommy is close enough to them--notice how you can aim the bike in midair
by turning, and think in three dimensions. Go moderately, turning right, up the
stairs and through a disk, get one on the left sidewalk, then skid left around
the corner to the one on the left, going through it with a right skid that aims
for the alley on the right side of the road.
Go about midway back into the alley and turn around to start your runway at
the 2nd (middle) telephone pole. You're going to gun it all the way for a spot
about 2/3rds to the right on the stairway ahead in the "stilt" building--Unique
Jump 32, but you're not shooting for Unique Jump 33 this time. The game will
count you as having hit the marker at the top of the stairs on the right. Give
it a touch of left turn at the top. Level the wheels once airborne. Have
brake, reverse, and left pressed to prepare for the landing on a roof. You're
hoping to be close enough to the last marker to turn left and run into it.
Take it easy to get the feel of the course so you learn where you feel confi-
dent about laying on a little more speed as you get used to it. It might help
to plot the course on a print out of a map and use it to rehearse without the
timer running.
You get $1,000 for success and each time you beat your previous time.
I.28 Test Track and Trial by Dirt
Trial By Dirt (Sanchez dirt bike) and Test Track (Landstalker SUV)
Go to the dirt track at the NE end of Downtown. From the E end of the Hyman
Condo alley, go E. Just after you pass the VAJ Finance building on the right,
turn left off the road and go over an asphalt driveway between two buildings.
The start of the track is where the Sanchez and Landstalker are always parked.
Entering/boarding one triggers the mission designed for it.
With the Sanchez, go clockwise around the track through the glowing disks
twice.
With the Landstalker, go counter-clockwise through the glowing disks twice.
The dirt track has lots of twists and some bumps and a series of four humps in
a row (wow--how 'bout it?). You might luck out driving fast over the humps, but
you might luck out better if you pulse W instead. With the bike, do a lot of
controlled turning skids, and don't try to gun it too much or the turns will be
wider. With the Landstalker, which tips over easily if you turn over a bump or
such, go slowly and carefully. Use A and D to try to keep the Landstalker from
ending up upside down.
(You might also see I.100.D.e: "How to change their mass, ability to stay up-
right and hug the driving surface, ability to survive in water, cornering and
braking, top speed, acceleration, suspension, durability, and miscellaneous
jazz" and consider trying -0.9 in column H in handling.cfg to make the Land-
stalker less liable to tip over.)
The way it's supposed to work:
If you succeed at Trial by Dirt, the next time you try it there will be four
red ("explosive," but they don't explode if you run into them) barrels on the
track to avoid. If you succeed again, the next time there will also be rain for
the 2nd half or so of the run--the track becomes very slippery. If you succeed
again, the next time there will be barrels, rain, and three Haitian gangsters
with machetes on black Sanchez bikes (the only black Sanchez bikes in the game)
that chase Tommy for most of the run. Actually, they just follow, but they will
knock him off his bike and cut him with their machetes if he dawdles. If Tommy
gets off the bike for whatever reason, he has 14 seconds to get onto a Sanchez
and resume the course.
Test Track is supposed to be the same except it replaces the three gangsters
on bikes with a Security Guard in a black Rancher that will try to ram Tommy's
Landstalker and yank him out of it. If Tommy leaves the Landstalker for whatev-
er reason, he fails the mission.
You get $100 the 1st time you pass the mission by getting all the glowing
checkpoints in whatever race time, and the reward goes up by $100 to $200, $300,
etc., each time you beat your old score with the same vehicle.
The game doesn't require you to stay on the track or avoid the red barrels or
go around them any special way--as long as you hit all the glowing disks (or
even go near them), you'll pass the mission.
The Dirt Track Stats glitch for Trial by Dirt:
You can always get the Stats to record your proper best time for Test Track--
the SUV test.
But if you do Trial by Dirt 1st and succeed with it quickly, you get paid $100
but your time won't show up in the Stats. (It appears in the Brief section--
write it down.) It's remembered somehow by the game, though, because if you
then do Test Track and succeed with it taking, for example, a minute longer, you
can then do Trial by Dirt again but you have to beat your previous unrecorded
time for it to pass the mission--and just to end up with the Stats giving it the
long time score you got for Test Track!
Likewise, if you do Trial by Dirt 1st and take a real long time to do it,
you'll get paid $100 but your time won't show up in your Stats. (Check the
Brief section for it and write it down.) If you then do Test Track and take,
for example, a minute less time for it, the Test Track score will appear in the
Stats. If you do Trial by Dirt again, you only need to beat your long unrecord-
ed time for it by a second or more for the Stats to award you with the one min-
ute faster Test Track time!
How to adjust to the statistics glitch for Trial by Dirt
How to see the Security Guard and Haitian gangsters:
Since Trial By Dirt scores won't register in your Stats unless you do it after
Test Track (a programming glitch), do Test Track 1st. Do Test Track REAL
slowly--have a snack or smoke a cigarette--before finishing two laps. Then do
Trial By Dirt even more SLOWLY.
There are two guiding points here: one, you only get paid subsequently if you
beat your previous score, so get a real long time score for Test Track you'll
be able to beat easily a few times; take even longer for Trial by Dirt so you
know you just have to beat the Test Track score the Stats give it (and not some
faster score the game will hold you to but not show and which you might
forget).
And two, we want to make the red barrels, rain, and, finally, three Haitian
gangsters on black Sanchez bikes, and Security Guard in a black Rancher, appear
on your subsequent efforts as you beat your previous scores, to get the most
mileage out of what the game can do.
No matter what you do, your Trial By Dirt score won't register as any better
than your last Test Track score, which won't be great because the Landstalker
tips over so easily, so you're screwed for Trial By Dirt, anyway.
To plan a dragged-out time, remember that the last two disks for Test Track
are the one half buried in a valley and the one above a hump. The last two for
Trial by Dirt are the two at the end of the short non-solid flag posts on your
right--later, after the red barrels.
I got to see all the bonus events if I did Test Track slowly and next did
Trial by Dirt even more slowly. I then had the Test Track score for both
events. Then I beat that time by just a bit with both vehicles, then beat that
Test Track time by just a bit with both vehicles, etc. Eventually, the Security
Guard and Haitian meanies appeared. Again, don't worry--the Haitian gangsters
follow more than they chase if you drive all right.
Now go ahead and tear up the track with the Sanchez as best you can, consider-
ing that the rain will screw up the track.
If you want a black Sanchez for one of your garages, have Tommy use the Mini-
gun with a bit of distance so he doesn't get surrounded and attacked.
You can lure an Haitian gangster away from the track, but you have to drive
very slowly and check behind you now and then to make sure he's still there.
You get $100 the 1st time you pass the mission by getting all the glowing
checkpoints in whatever time, and the reward goes up by $100 to $200, $300,
etc., each time you beat your old score with the same vehicle.
Landstalker: Ford Explorer '91 to '94
Sanchez: Yamaha DT dirt bike (a Kawasaki KX is similar)
How to get the cab driver to run the course
Another thing you can do is have a race on the track.
Go SW from the starting area and out between the buildings to the street.
Have Tommy jack a vehicle that's driven by someone who tries to jack it back,
such as a Taxi, Cabbie, or Kaufman Cab, or anything driven by the paunchy white
street lady or the guy in a light jersey with dark hair and sunglasses.
If you use the Taxi, Cabbie, or Kaufman Cab, use the driver who saunters over
slowly to get it back--the driver who runs won't take back the cab, he'll just
pick a fight with Tommy. Lure the slow-walking driver by driving slowly over to
the track, then let him jack it back. He'll start driving around the track.
(The technical explanation is that pedestrians walk where they walk, and driv-
ers drive where they drive, guided by the computer paths programmed for them.
The dirt track has one meant for the three Haitian gangsters.)
He drives as fast as if he were on the street, which is reckless on the dirt
track. He may flip on his side and keep accelerating till he falls back onto
four wheels and keep going. You can get on a Sanchez and race him if you want.
But he drives dangerously from side to side, so you may just want to have Tommy
run around so you can watch him flailing around the course.
(Thanks to spaceeinstein's web site for the idea about races on the track.)
The same gimmick works at the RC Bandit dirt track on Washington Beach, except
the driver doesn't go dangerously from side to side there. It's easier to drive
beside the Taxi there, or to have Tommy take a ride on the roof of it there.
I've also had criminals show up driving around one of the dirt tracks, espe-
cially badly on the Downtown course, for the vigilante mission with the Hunter,
and law enforcement vehicles driving around one during one of Tommy's high
wanted ratings.
The other off-road programmed paths for vehicles I know are the ones for the
several vehicles that drive in a procession, and for the security guard in a
Baggage Handler, on the S tarmac of the airport. If you can get a Viceport
Packer--ramp truck--driver, like the construction worker in a yellow hard hat,
to go there, the Packer could be a moving jump for your PCJ 600. You can speed
up luring him to the tarmac a little bit by occasionally stopping it with the
ramp in front of him; he'll walk up the ramp about halfway and drop off the
side, during which time you can use a little more gas. Once there, let him jack
it back somewhere away from the loading platforms; the baggage handler scoots
under a jet, but a Packer won't. Have the PCJ 600 by that spot beforehand, and
try to stay near the Packer so it doesn't disappear.
I've seen a variation of the normal use of programmed paths at Leaf Links golf
course, too. There's a loop of road behind the club house that you might find a
Caddy driving on. If you follow it, it may drive on the various roads there
then over the grass of the golf course. But sometimes, you see some other vehi-
cle appear there, like a Banshee, which does the same thing.
I've also had criminals show up driving around one of the dirt tracks, usually
badly, for the vigilante mission with the Hunter, and law enforcement vehicles
driving around it during one of Tommy's high wanted ratings.
I.29 Cone Crazy
To get to the Ocean Beach parking garage, go to the 2nd block from the S and
the 2nd block from the E of the E island. A gray mark on your radar indicates
an E-W alley there, with a stub sticking up N from the middle of it. Enter ei-
ther end of the alley and drive up the stub to enter the garage, then go to the
roof. There's always a Stallion parked there. It's a two-door with dual ex-
hausts, a split front grill, and may be a convertible or a hardtop, parked just
W of middle of the N area of the lot. Have Tommy enter it to trigger the mis-
sion.
You can skip the intro by pressing W.
You have to drive the Stallion through five glowing disks and not hit any of
the traffic cones (red with a white band). Your effort is timed, starting when
the Stallion passes through one of the five disks. Each disk adds twelve
seconds to the timer.
A map to help you plan your course
As with PCJ Playground, you can survey the situation 1st. It looks a little
like this (the asterisks represent the cones, and the numbers are the order Rusk
went through the disks in, which works for me; my best time so far is 20
seconds):
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/500/002020conecrazybl1.jpg
As the Brady guide explains, you get the most time quickly by going through 2
and 3. Rusk's idea to clip 1 with the left front corner of the car lets you re-
verse and shoot for 2 and 3 quickly. Just go fast enough to get up the ramp,
then ease it around and down; remember, it's a 90 degree turn. This gives you
plenty of time to get 4 and 5.
One time I surveyed the situation, before starting the timer, and I knocked
over a cone but it wasn't counted against me during the mission. It's probably
just a glitch, because another time I did the same thing and failed the mission
before the timer started.
If you want to retry the mission, park the Stallion where you found it, then
exit and enter it.
(The glitch of the original PS2 version, whereby after each success at the
mission the game says the time per cone has been reduced but it isn't actually
reduced, isn't found on other versions.)
You get $200 the 1st time you succeed, which doubles each time you succeed af-
ter that.
Stallion: Pontiac Firebird '67-'69 except with two head lights, not four, and
vertical rear lights instead of horizontal ones. (It's fast with bad road grip
and cornering ability.)
I.30 Top Fun van: RC Bandit, RC Baron, and RC Copter
Top Fun van: a dirty gray van; on either side are three red stars above which
are two horizontal red lines, between which is a horizontal blue rectangle with
"top fun" printed on it in white letters. (It's also used in "Demolition Man,"
I.39A, and "Bombs Away!" I.88.)
Entering one of the three Top Fun vans triggers an RC--radio controlled--ve-
hicle mission. Tommy stays in the van and controls the other vehicle with a ra-
dio frequency device. (So "aspirine" won't work on the RC vehicle--Tommy's not
in it.)
You can skip the intro by pressing W. You can exit the mission by pressing
the LMB to blow up the vehicle. You can try again by re-entering the van.
(Sometimes, you need to move it a bit forward or backward, exit and re-enter it,
for it to kick in.) You might not take any vehicle you value to the mission.
Sometimes they've disappeared when I've gone for them afterward.
Top Fun van: GMC Vandura '86
RC Bandit
Enter the Top Fun van on the N area of the E island beach and to the E of the
block that looks like a cartoon nose pointed W.
This two lap race with an RC car against three others is miserable. If I had
to pick a couple of the most dislikable parts of the game, this would be one of
them. The packed sand course is slippery, has bumps and some sharp turns, and
the collision factor of the surrounding walls causes the RC Bandit to get stuck
on them unless you're driving fast enough to overcome it or carefully enough to
avoid them. It always took me a lot of tedious trial and error to beat this.
There's no timer to stop because you have to beat the other cars regardless of
the time it takes.
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/9755/guide1005rcbandit1ka8.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/7066/guide1005rcbandit2xn2.jpg
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5186/guide1005rcbandit3zu0.jpg
The "EDDIE'S USED BOILER...." sign at the W side of the track is the sign
found over Claude's Portland garage in GTA "III." (Thanks to ThaddeusMcKlown at
the GTA Forums web site.) The phone # on the sign, "555-8383," was also used by
Jerry Seinfeld's character "Jerry Seinfeld" as his car and home phone # in the
1989-1998 TV series "Seinfeld." (Thanks to Michael Hunt at GTA Forums.)
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=205000&st=40
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=205000&st=60
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_telephone_number
Demarest's way to alter the handling.cfg code for RC Bandit (THANK you)
An advantage of the PC version is the ability to modify the files for the
game.
I tried adjusting the top speed, acceleration, and traction in sand, and it
only made things worse. I gave up on it, and figured this was the best Rockstar
could do. I thought they should have dumped the idea and put something else
there.
Demarest, of the GTA Forums web site message boards and Liberty City mod team,
had a very helpful idea for me. If you change the Bandit's handling, you change
it for the three competing Bandits as well. So you have to come up with some-
thing that's to your advantage, given your driving ability compared to how the
competitors are programmed to drive. He wrote that you could make it easier
with a file change.
(If you do that, 1st go to C/Program Files/Rockstar, right click it, click
"Properties," uncheck the green dot to make it a writable file, and click "OK" a
couple of times so the subfiles and folders are writable, too.)
Go to the data/handling.cfg file. Copy the line after RC Bandit somewhere,
like Notepad, as a backup, then change the original to this (making four of the
numbers different):
2000.0 0.8 1.5 1.0 0.0 0.05 -0.1 70 1.60 0.75 0.49 1 75.0 80.0 4 E 5.5 0.50 0
25.0 1.8 0.1 0.2 0.05 500 0.28 -0.08 0.5 0.0 0 0 1
In other words, change B from 100.0 to 2,000.0, change J from 1.10 to 160.0,
change O from 35.0 to 80.0, and change V from 1.6 to 0.8. This increases the
mass, acceleration, and cornering traction, decreases the spring force of the
suspension.
If, like me, you'd rather win this in a handful of efforts instead of hours, I
can happily recommend it.
You get $100 for coming in 1st. And, thanks to Demarest, you can take the
sign off RC Bandit that says, "Not for human beings."
RC Baron
Enter the Top Fun van on the NW corner of the top floor of the North Point
Mall parking garage, which is on the NW side of the mall.
This is a one run course race with an RC biplane against three competitors.
Go through disks down the W side of the E island, around the S end, and a bit up
the E. You fly over the roads just over lamp post height most of the time.
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Remember to fly past the end of the "cartoon nose pointed W" block and cut
across the water to make a right turn that goes between palm trees to get anoth-
er disk over the road.
Remember to turn right over the pizza shop roof to fly over the channel to
resume following another road from above.
Remember to make a hard left at the S end of the island and go up for a disk
then right back down so you don't smack into the back of a billboard.
Remember that the horizontal white traffic posts over the road are non-solid.
If you're new to the course, look at your radar for the dim red dot beyond
your next one, which is bright, and do the same with the disks on your screen,
to help you plot the course.
Ironically, though Rusk makes the PS2 RC Bandit sound easy and it isn't on PC,
this one isn't so bad on PC as Rusk makes it sound for PS2. Remember to keep W,
acceleration, going the whole time. Use A for left, D for right, Number Pad 6
for up, and Number Pad 9 for down. Once it gets going, W is enough to keep it
aloft, and you'll usually just need to push the plane down with NP9 now and
then. A sharp turn makes it dip, but you can compensate for that with NP6. If
the plane hits the ground, turn it to an open area and get it flying on course
again. I hit the ground with it twice and won, anyway. I've played the game a
number of times, so I'm used to the course and the game physics for the plane,
and I usually get this my 1st time now.
Press the LMB to make it blow up and end the effort.
Rusk notes that if you switch the "camera" view (with V) to 1st person or
cinematic in a vehicle before having Tommy enter the Top Fun van, it changes the
"camera" view for the RC Baron from above and behind to behind it.
If you try to send it into the mall, it blows up. If you try the Washington
Beach police station, the doors are closed. The only ulterior use I found for
it was to use it with the various land and sea vehicles to practice for "Bombs
Away!" (I.88).
You get $100 for coming in 1st.
RC Raider Pickup (using the RC Copter, the file name for the helicopter in
handling.cfg.)
Enter the Top Fun van in the S parking lot of the airport. To get to it, go
down the road that goes down the middle of the S end of the W island. Where the
road divides, go right, then through the entrance on your right--it's on your
left. Leave your vehicle about half past the white building to the N of it so
it doesn't disappear.
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You fly the wobbly RC Copter through 20 disks placed one at a time around the
S tarmac and structures of the airport and the "Vice Surf" billboard. As it
goes through one, check the radar and screen to find out where the next one is.
It's timed, but it's not a race and there's no time limit, and you don't have to
try to best your previous time unless you want to for your Stats, so the pres-
sure is off. (I let the timer run to see if there's a time limit, and gave up
after 50 minutes.)
The easiest way to control the RC Copter is to use nudges of A or D to point
the teardrop-shaped icon on the radar at the red blip you're aiming for, then
use little nudges of NP9 to go forward. Use turns with Q or E sparingly be-
cause they have a tendency to oversteer, making you repeatedly press one then
the other if you press one of them. If you use them, wait for the "camera" to
swerve behind the helicopter before you go forward. It's slow, so be patient,
or you'll waste time making it swerve and wobble and getting reoriented. Try
patiently making smaller presses of the buttons to get the RC Copter to mimic
the behavior shown with a bigger helicopter as best you can.
The last disk is between the blue crate, at the S end of the crates under the
shelter, and the red crate S of that.
I think the wobbliness of the RC Copter is due to certain normal game physics
for an average sized helicopter being applied to a tiny (3'?) one. Held too
long, A. D. NP6, and NP9 make it do a loop de loop, and Q and E make it swirl in
circles. The "camera" only uses the speed to get behind the subject it usually
uses. So the "camera" is usually busy trying to swirl to stay behind something
that makes a big degree of arc if you turn with any more than the least move-
ment. (Try a mid-distant back view for the Hunter to see the other extreme.)
See "I.100.D.eee Helicopters--How to make the RC Copter easier to fly" if
you'd like to change the datahandling.cfg file and make it easier to fly the
helicopter that's the hardest to control.
Be careful to avoid banging into things because the RC Raider will burn and
explode--again, "aspirine" won't work because it's not a vehicle Tommy's inside
of.
You get $100 for doing it.
I.31 Hyman Memorial Arena: Hotring, Bloodring, and Dirt Ring
The Hyman Memorial Stadium is the most NW structure on your in-game map and
radar. Have Tommy enter it on the E side between 20:00 (8 pm) and midnight,
when the door in the middle of the upper landing is open, to cue the mission.
Check the billboard and the moving message in lights in front of the stadium
to see which of the three events are available that night. One of the three
events are advertised on them for 24 hours beginning every midnight. You can
read the billboard from the roof of the Hyman Condo.
Entering the stadium triggers the advertised mission. You can exit the mis-
sion by having Tommy enter a shaft of light in the location shown in the intro.
(If you exit the mission, the screen says you "bottled it," which is U.K. slang
meaning you lost your courage.)
You can advance the game clock six hours by saving the game, and set it so
Tommy has plenty of time to get to the stadium while the entrance is open, such
as by setting a game to start at around 20:00 with Tommy at the Hyman Condo. If
you fail the mission, you can then erase the effort by starting a new game and
load your earlier save game to get Tommy back to a convenient time and place to
try again.
And a couple missions have some off-the-wall unofficial side thing or two you
can do with them.
Hotring
12 laps around an oval track with aggressive drivers that crash, burn, and ex-
plode a lot.
You can skip the intro by pressing W.
Your effort is rewarded if you come in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, which, along with
your best overall time and best time for one lap, is recorded in your Stats.
Thanks to spaceeinstein for the tip that you need to come in 1st for 100% com-
pletion of the game.
Sometimes speeding carefully (be ready to slow down and brake since you can't
drive through metal) through the opening onslaught can work. Touch the brake to
help turn to the inside without hitting the wall. Use your handling skills, be-
cause that floor can get slippery when you're trying to press your limits of
control and speed. Using "aspirine" is faster than going to the pit stop and
waiting for it to repair your car.
How to be the only one in the Hotring
A variation you can try is to drive into the blackened alcove along the out-
side wall. Back into the back wall with the passenger side against the side
wall. Have Tommy get out, equip him with the Minigun, and have him blow up the
other contestants. One choice then is to drive the race uncontested--you won't
have as fast a time as the regular way, but you'll come in 1st.
Another choice is to go back into the alcove and you'll see a car flashing on
and off. This represents your replacement contestants you've blocked off trying
to get out to the track. (When you drive the race normally, you can get smacked
by them flying out of this alcove.) If you have Tommy shoot the Minigun at it
you can get hundreds of Tires Popped with Gunfire in your Stats in a minute.
(Thanks to spaceeinstein's web site for these Hotring variations.)
You get $5,000 for 1st place, $1,500 for 2nd, and $500 for 3rd.
A trophy will appear on the TV at the mansion.
Hotring Racers:
Hotring Racer is the one that looks like a Ford Mustang LX '83-'86 with some
Ford Mustang GT '87-'88 hatchback features. In the unmodified game, you only
see it in Hyman Stadium. You can get it for Tommy by using the Car Spawner by
Demarest utilized in spaceeinstein's "All In One Mod" for "Vice City" (see
I.100.D.f "Miscellaneous mods").
Hotring Racer A has a front end that looks like a Chrysler Laser/Dodge Daytona
'84-'86 or a Vauxhall Firenza '73-'75--a "Droopsnoot"--was grafted onto a Ford
Thunderbird Aero Bird '87 modified for NASCAR racing. The engine hood always
has decals advertising "THE BURGHER SHOT" and "Pets over night." You can make
it appear with the "getthereveryfastindeed" code.
Hotring Racer B The body overall looks like a 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Aero
Coupe except with the grill made a bit narrower horizontally--like something
Dale Earnhardt would have known about. The engine hood always has decals adver-
tising "Drink Sprunk" and "SUMO."
You get Hotring Racer B at Sunshine Autos after you complete the 4th vehicle
list there--after I.63. The "getthereamazinglyfast" code can make it appear,
too.
Bloodring
A demolition derby on a slippery dirt oval with high sloped sides
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You can skip the intro by pressing W.
You have a short time each time to drive through one glowing yellow disk worth
ten seconds in a succession of such disks, and thereby add to your time score,
which is measured in 60 second increments. Another car may get to the disk 1st,
so you have to try for the one that appears afterward in another location.
You have to get that up to 60 seconds to pass the mission the 1st time, 120
seconds the 2nd time, etc. You fail if it goes down to zero.
The Stats also count the number of other motorists you killed. One unusual
car damage rule is used for this: if you hit another car, you only damage it,
and if they hit your car, they only damage your car. After you get the time up
to 120 seconds, you might want to just play at seeing how many cars you can blow
up.
This is another one you might want to use "aspirine" for. The game sets your
car upright if it flips over, but not always fast enough to keep it from blow-
ing up, or the time from running out, while the other cars are banging into it.
Use A and D to try to set it upright. I reload the game if Tommy gets wasted.
Just go forward, brake, go backward, go around the sides instead of through
the chaos in the middle if you have to, so you go through the yellow disks.
This becomes easier after you get 100% completion for the game, because any
vehicle Tommy is in will be able to take twice the damage.
You get $1,000 for each success and $100 for each car destroyed by you or any-
one else.
A trophy will appear on the TV at the mansion.
If you succeed in getting 60 seconds worth of yellow disks, a couple of Blood-
ring Bangers will always be at the SE side of Hyman Memorial Stadium.
Bloodring Bangers: as I wrote in I.9.B, I don't think these look exactly like
any real cars but each looks like hybrid of two real cars--a '57 Chevrolet Bel
Air and a '61 Dodge Dart (Bloodring B also has the brake lights of a Dodge Dart
Phoenix '60). Bloodring A looks like a "Vice City" Oceanic and Bloodring B
looks like a "Vice City" Glendale, each customized for use in a demolition der-
by. (Both of them make it seem like the nice small car manufacturers described
in that section said, "You know what? I don't think people go for traction at
all." If you want an actual '57 Chevy Bel Air, and all in one piece, go to
I.100.D.e for DiCanio's or Klarnetist's mods.)
Dirt Ring
A stunt course in an oval county fair carnival-like setting
You can't skip the intro by pressing W for this one.
Drive through the glowing disks amidst loop de loops, a short dirt track which
includes one disk you need to pop a wheelie to hit, flaming hoops to jump
through, and acts of driving legerdemain over junked cars (pop a wheelie to get
onto one), boards, and jagged pieces of white wall turned narrow side up. If
Tommy falls off the bike and doesn't get back on in 30 seconds, you fail the
mission.
How to pick your time for the dirt bike event
There is a gimmick you can use to fool the mission clock, if you want to. Get
a Sanchez and drive it into the entrance to the end of the room. Back up till
the camera angle changes, then hit F twice to have Tommy get off and back on.
This can take some trial and error and repositioning of the Sanchez to make it
work. When it works, the interior of the stadium loads--the cutscenes of the
carnival-like setting are shown--while Tommy boards the bike.
Then you're back in control of Tommy, who's sitting on the Sanchez he drove in
with. A pink arrow points down at the Sanchez intended for the mission--the
timer won't start till he gets on that one. You can have Tommy drive through
the glowing disks with the Sanchez he went in with, but leave one disk for a
real easy stunt. Then have Tommy get on the other Sanchez, starting the timer,
and drive through the remaining easy stunt creating whatever time you like.
You can even drive through all the disks before getting on the intended San-
chez, at which time the timer starts and stops in the same instant, creating a
time of zero seconds, although that looks a little absurd in your Stats. Rusk
adds that a time of 0:00 will show up on your Stats, but won't count toward 100%
completion of the game. So I'd use the gimmick for a small time, but not zero
seconds (unless you already got, or plan to later get, credit for the mission
with some other time).
You get $5,000 for over 10 min., $10,000 for under 10 min., and $50,000 for
under 5 min..
A trophy will appear on the TV at the mansion.
Sanchez: Yamaha DT dirt bike (a Kawasaki KX is similar)
A billboard outside the oval says "VICE STREETRACER EARN CASH NOT KUDOS."
The same message is over the map at Sunshine Autos for the street races (I.71).
This may be a rib of games like "Stunt man" and "Need for Speed Underground,"
etc., where you earn cash, kudos--points, and vehicles.
I.32 Rampages
There are 35 Rampages, each triggered by sending Tommy on foot into a pickup
with a skull on it. Tommy has two minutes to kill some number of a gang or de-
stroy so many vehicles with the weapon provided (you can't scroll to a different
one). The gang at each Rampage pickup is chosen randomly with each attempt.
Have full health and armor for Tommy 1st. Rusk's latest update notes this
idea from Monkey Man: before the Rampage, switch to the same weapon slot as the
weapon provided by the Rampage or the weapon you had in that slot will be gone
afterwards. If you fail, the skull pickup appears again, but I would save near-
by so I could reload the game and be conveniently nearby rather than save a mis-
sion failure. You'll probably be able to do most of them the 1st time, though.
You might wait to do certain Rampages after getting the Fast Load feature from
"Rifle Range." It especially speeds up the shooting speed of the Rocket Launch-
er and either sniper rifle.
When shooting at groups that run to Tommy to retaliate, have him get some dis-
tance so he can shoot them in the order of their proximity to himself before
they can get close. If any get closer, have him back away and shoot. If worse
comes to worse, have him run away a bit then turn and continue. A weapon can be
useless when the target is right beside Tommy, and you can't scroll to Fist/
Brass Knuckles to have Tommy punch his way out. If Tommy doesn't get a retali-
ator before going to next nearest target(s), the ignored retaliator may shoot
away Tommy's armor and health.
When doing a forward drive-by on a PCJ 600 or Sanchez, do something similar,
using some slow to moderate forward movement so you can control the bike while
you waggle side to side to aim your shots. Only go faster to get to the next
spot or elude any close gang members or police, who will knock Tommy off the
bike. On a bike, I'd plow through a number of clusters trying to get most or
all of them without worrying about any strays that were missed, then return over
the area to get the new batches that appear.
Otherwise, go after the targets doggedly, since some rampages are more gener-
ous about providing targets than others. You can listen for the gang's typical
chatter as well as look to figure out the whereabouts of the targets.
Rhino cannon shots count for certain ones, as was true in "GTA III." (See the
"Rhino Tank FAQ" by Azraelot, aka Mathew Rorie, in the "Grand Theft Auto III"
section of the Gamefaqs web site.) Unfortunately for drive-bys, the "Vice City"
Rhino tends to shoot over the target's heads. You get the most targets with it
by shooting at walls targets are by to get them with the concussive effect of
the blast, and that doesn't come up often enough with some of them. I wouldn't
use it for R20, for example, for that reason. It makes any vehicle destruction
rampage easy, for example, which especially stands out as a help for one like
R1, which doesn't create enough targets for the originally intended method.
The recent updates by Rusk include the use of the Rhino with most of the ram-
pages. I won't guarantee the same results for all of them on PC. For example,
the Minigun, Chainsaw, M4, and Katana originally intended for some are already
very easy to use on PC. A few that are a bit harder as originally intended,
like R20 or the two Little Haiti rampages, were a bit harder with the Rhino,
too, but so were a few that are easy the original way. And the Rhino disap-
peared for some, like R4 and R5, if Tommy just went into a building or yard and
came back out. Have Tommy exit with the door open to try to keep the Rhino in
the game--I never realized how prone it is to disappearing. The ones that were
the easiest for me with the Rhino as an fun alternative, besides the vehicle
destruction rampages, included rampages 3, 6, 7, 22, 23, 26, 27, and 30.
Drive-bys count for vehicle destruction rampages. The PCJ-600 and an MP might
work, and the "EP" Admiral and an MP might be even easier, if you try that, but
I'd rather use the Rhino for them.
Hunter and Sea Sparrow machine gun bullets count for certain ones, and Hunter
rockets count for certain others. If you use the Hunter rockets, which don't
have auto-aim, you might want to use "aspirine" to heal the Hunter if you bang
it into lamp posts, and don't have Tommy shoot anything close by or he'll be
wasted in a moment.
You get $50 for the 1st success, and the reward goes up another $50 each time.
After the rampage, you can also gather any money and weapons the targets left
behind.
Any wanted wanted level created by a Rampage disappears after the Rampage. It
isn't great for Wanted Stars Attained/Evaded, but what can you do?
Rampage pickup reached by helicopter or boat: R1. (I recommend the Hunter
helicopter.)
Rampage pickup reached by helicopter only: R28.
Rampage drive-bys: R12, R17, R22. (I recommend the PCJ 600. If you modified
the Pizza Boy for I.21 and didn't change it back, you might use it.)
Rampages to destroy vehicles: 1, 31, 33, 34. (I recommend the Rhino tank.)
Rampages with a Chainsaw (see I.10 Weapons for the segment about fast Chain-
saw attacks): R6, R13.
Southern Ocean
R1 On the wooden platform with no roof (where H1 was) W of the light house
and in the sea in the middle of the S area of your in-game map.
Destroy ten vehicles with a Rocket Launcher.
The game normally doesn't produce enough targets in this location. You can
have Tommy fly to the street by the light house on the E island with the Rocket
launcher and find targets more often, or you can have him use the Hunter and
hunt for boats with the auto-aim machine gun, which counts for this. You could
also fly Tommy over to a Rhino, stored at Sunshine Autos, to do this.
Rusk has advice which works for PC: do this in the day and have Tommy get a
three star wanted level before flying to the platform so he has police boats to
shoot. (I'd just add that you should have Tommy shoot from the stairs or where
there's no railing or he'll be damaged or killed by the blast. Completing the
rampage removes the wanted level, but adds that many stars to Attained and not
Evaded in your Stats.)
Ocean Beach
R2 On the gravel path. not on the map or radar, that winds SE from the S end
of the E-most road.
Ply 30 gang members with Molotov Cocktails.
Save at the Ocean View in case you want to redo this. This one is very easy,
so you might plan to do this one when you're ready to try the Firetruck mission.
It's an easy way to get a Firetruck on the east island. The truck usually shows
up, and you can redo it if it doesn't. Just make sure Tommy is far from the
targets he throws Molotovs at, and doesn't go near any fires he starts, because
he can lose a lot of armor and health if he catches on fire for a bit. He can
tolerate it once, maybe twice, with full armor and health.
The game creates more than enough groups of targets, and there's a lot of mon-
ey to pick up afterward.
Washington Beach
R3 On the little section of beach at the S end of Washington Beach.
Show 30 gang members how they do it at Big Bill's Bowls with a vehicle.
Take a fast car to get the pickup. Then just run over targets convenient to
get on your way to the sidewalk by the street or you'll waste time sliding
around missing targets on the slippery sand. Drive up and down the sidewalk and
over groups of gangsters. The Rhino works for this, too, but it's slow, so use
the gimmick of firing the cannon backwards to speed it up if you do that.
Ocean Beach
R4 On the SW corner of the 1st floor roof of the Ocean Beach parking garage.
Go inside to the 2nd floor and jump out onto the roof. The garage can be en-
tered by either the E or W end of the E-W alley of the 2nd block from the S and
E. (It's the same garage used for J31 and "Guardian Angels.")
Zoom in insightfully on 25 gang members with the .308 Sniper Rifle.
Equip the scope with the RMB and zoom with Z and X. If you don't see targets,
look away, equip the scope, and look back so the game generates them.
R5 From the entrance to the stilt building (the N side of the 3rd block from
the S and E), cross the street to the farthest left opening between hedges. Go
through it, continue between some buildings, then go right; the pickup is behind
a tree.
Impale or behead or leave the mark of Zorro on 10 gangsters with a Katana.
You can't just cut the targets with the sword, you have to push it through
their bodies or cut off their heads. The LMB fast attack gimmick doesn't help
with this.
If you want to try a Rhino drive-by, though you usually only get targets that
are killed by walls you shoot the cannon at, this is a good choice because you
only need to get ten targets.
R6 It's past the opened door of a pink wall, which is S of the gas station
and on the E side of the block, 3rd block from the S and E. (A plaque by the
door can be read with the Sniper Rifle scope: "Cochrane Heights Condominium";
"GTA III" had the Cochrane Dam.)
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Gang dismember 20 gang members with a Chainsaw.
Have Tommy jump towards targets, then walk him at them, then hold down the
LMB, too, to have him hold the Chainsaw before him, and steer with the Mouse, to
speed him up a lot for this. He's liable to attract police attention, so, when
you're done, have him run to the bribe in the sunken shopping center in the mid-
dle of the 2nd block from the E and 2nd block from the S.
R7 On the lawn by the SE corner of the W of the two Ocean View Medical Foun-
dation buildings N of the NW curve of the 2nd block from the S and 4th block
from the E. You can have Tommy jump from atop a vehicle, even a bike, to get
from the entrance area to the raised lawn beside it to the E.
Rifle down any objections created by 25 gang members with an M4.
Go back and forth on the raised area to keep retaliators and policemen at a
distance.
R8 On the lower SW section of the top floor of the Washington Mall parking
garage (also used for J29). To get there, go up the spiral ramp on the E side
of the block, 4th block from the S and 3rd block from the E.
Aerate 25 gangsters with your Shotgun, Junior Walker.
Have Tommy get the rampage pickup, go to the middle of the roof, and jump down
onto the upper walk of the mall. Have him go at the gang clusters with some
speed because this one doesn't always create enough targets. If the look around
then look back gimmick, and looking around, doesn't create enough targets on one
floor quickly, try the other one.
Rusk's recent idea for the Hunter, firing the rockets from over the water at
the gangsters near the wall along the sidewalk by the medical building, is a
good alternative.
Washington Beach
R9 Go E from the E end of the Starfish Island bridge, go right, and turn off
the road to the right to go up the steps with potted palms at the top. Then go
left to R9, which is between the E end of the pink and dark peach house and the
dark peach wall.
Demonstrate martial law to 25 gang members with an MP.
Run around the patio getting groups of gangsters. The MP lets you move and
take down targets quickly.
Vice Point
R10 At the E side of the Standing Vice Point Hotel just S of the opening be-
tween the hotel and the wall around the back pool area. The hotel is N of the
6th block from the S and 1st block along the E, and S and across the street from
the Malibu Club.
Gently but firmly put your foot down to 30 misunderstood miscreants with
a S.P.A.S. 12.
Have Tommy run around another patio getting groups of gangsters. Chose a dis-
tance you can pick off the retaliators of a gang with considering you can't move
quickly with a shotgun.
R11 At the end of the high dive board behind the Standing Vice Hotel.
Be-still 30 restless gang members with a .308 Sniper Rifle.
Use the look away, re-equip the scope, and look back gimmick to create
targets. The game should produce enough of them to get this the 1st time.
R12 It's at the end of the road that ends in a loop W of the Malibu Club.
Drive-by to soften the hard outlooks of 35 rebels till they feel all Uz-I
inside. (Normally, I'd recommend that you use a PCJ-600. But if you modified a
Pizza Boy for I.21 and left it that way, use it.)
The easiest way for me to do this was as a PCJ 600 drive-by shooting. Use the
usual concern to have Tommy start shooting when you feel you can pick off all
the retaliators that may rush to him, with the added concern to move forward
just fast enough to waggle your aim side to side, and with the added benefit of
being able to speed off if they get close.
Rhino cannon shots count but, unfortunately, it tends to shoot over the tar-
get's heads. You get the most targets with it by shooting at walls targets are
by and killing them with the concussive effect of the blast, and that doesn't
come up often enough. R20 is a bit easier with the Rhino.
Hunter and Sea Sparrow machine gun bullets don't count, but Hunter rockets
count. If you use the Hunter, you might want to use "aspirine" to heal it if
you bang it into the lamp posts, because the PC Hunter rockets don't have auto-
aim, and don't shoot anything close by or Tommy will be wasted in a moment.
R13 Go E from Leaf Links club house, over the hump in the road which is a
little bridge, then go N off the road through an opening between the concrete
wall and the beige wall of Mercedes' house. Go left to R13 on the S end of the
pier.
Break down 20 gangsters walls of alienation with a Chainsaw.
As mentioned in I.9.A, Left Mouse Button Attacking, it can help speed Tommy up
for this to pulse jump, Space Bar, till he's near a target. Then walk him, W,
toward it and add the LMB, and keep holding down both so he keeps the Chainsaw
pointed forward while you walk him into targets. He's liable to attract the po-
lice; there's a bribe behind the building across the street SW of the base of
the road that ends in a circle.
I've had a glitch a couple of times that caused this pickup to reappear after
I did it and the next several rampages. It stayed done after I did it again.
So if you do a few more and find you're one short, try looking here.
R14 Go to the N end of the E side of the beige wall around the back of the
building with several big horizontal bands of different hues of beige, which is
across the street to the E of the N end of the E side of North Point Mall. You
can also approach R14 from the NW side of the beach.
See how lucky 25 punks feel about your .357.
It's true, as Rusk suggests, you might send Tommy into the Mall to reduce po-
lice attacks, but I got more targets more often on PC doing this with Tommy on
the nearby sidewalks or by staying on the beach where the pickup is; you can
send him to the E shore, where peds and police don't spawn, if you want him to
evade the police.
R15 Just S of the E entrance of North Point Mall.
Make the area around the mall more spacious to the tune of 35 less loi-
terers with your M4.
You can have Tommy get targets quickly at some distance with an M4. Do this
on the sidewalk and street or the beach nearby like R14.
R16 Over the raised planter in the middle of the W side of the 2nd floor of
North Point Mall.
Chaperone 30 gang members to another level of being with a Rocket Launch-
er.
Have Tommy keep moving, and look and listen for targets. One bazooka blast
can kill a bunch, so don't get Tommy too close to them or anything else when he
fires or you'll hurt or kill him.
R17 Along an E-W stretch of the road at the N end of the E island, on the W
section of that stretch, on the N side of the road, is an apartment building
with a sloped driveway at the E side of it. Go up the driveway and you'll see
R17 behind the building.
Drive-by 30 social aberrations and playfully call out, "I see you--Uz-I?"
(I recommend taking the PCJ 600 to this function. Again, if you modified the
Pizza Boy for I.21 and left it that way, you could use it instead.)
As with R12, use the drive-by advice given at the start of this section. For
a little variety, you might want to use the Hunter rockets. This one was easier
for me with the Hunter than R12 was, and which I didn't recommend it for.
Downtown
R18 Go E from the E end of the Hyman Condo alley. The V.A.J Finance building
is the 2nd from the end on the right before the road curves S. The pickup is S
of the huge statue of a bowling octopus on the patio that runs through the
building.
Brink the chasm of misunderstanding for 30 sorely misunderstood misan-
thropes with a Minigun.
Are you kidding? You've got a Minigun. It would be harder to screw this one
up. Try to focus your wanton destruction just where you need it to be to mini-
mize police attention.
("VAJ," pronounced "vadge," is U.K. slang for "vagina." Likewise, "vagetar-
ian" is U.K. slang for "lesbian." Thanks again to:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/)
What that has to do with the bowling and the octopus, I'm not sure, but I do
know this: this is one strange woman. And that's how we like 'em--strange but
fun.
R19 Go W from the W end of the bridge from Prawn Island to the W island.
It's atop the winding stairway on the W side of the 2nd building on your right.
Brighten the neighborhood with 40 Molotov-moistened malcontents.
Keep a good distance between Tommy and targets unless you got the fireproof
feature from succeeding with the Fire Truck mission.
R20 At the top of the long set of stairs S of the Downtown Ammu-Nation. To
get to the stairs, go W from the W end of the bridge from Prawn Island to the W
island and make the 1st left--the stairs are on your left. (The stairs are also
used for J2 and "Hogtied.")
Clarify some fine points of the handgun laws to 25 lawbreakers with a
.357.
As usual in such things, have Tommy start shooting at a group with enough dis-
tance so he can pick them all off as they run at him to retaliate.
You might try the Rhino for this, though you mainly kill targets who are near
walls you shoot at, because there are a lot of walls around the area. If you
do, just stay in the area and give yourself enough room to turn around in away
from attackers.
Hunter rockets count--again, you mainly get targets by shooting at walls
they're close to. If you use the Hunter, you might want to use "aspirine" to
heal it if you bang it into the lamp posts because the Hunter rockets don't have
auto-aim, and don't shoot anything close by or Tommy will be wasted in a moment.
R21 By the walkway to the floating helipad at the Hyman Memorial Arena.
Diminish the attendance at the Hyman Memorial Stadium by 30 gang members
with a Flame Thrower.
Have Tommy keep moving, including back and forth on the upper walk of the
stadium, to generate targets, which you can often hear. If you have the fire-
proof feature, just go nuts.
The Hunter rockets work for this. There are enough stairs and walls around to
get targets with the concussive effect of the blasts.
R22 In the alley on the W side of the building S of the Well Stacked Pizza
store at the SW corner of the Downtown roads.
Subjugate a subdivision of 35 subversives with your submachine gun till
they're subdued. (Use a PCJ 600 with the Uz-I provided.)
Have Tommy shoot forward on his PCJ 600, and waggle the aim a bit to get the
cluster. As in all these things, go at it like a hungry dog after some meat,
but with enough bike and stealth sense to keep control of the bike and avoid
having Tommy get knocked off of it by the gang members or police. If Tommy gets
knocked off and you can't have him shoot the gang members near the bike, or run
to lure the police from it, then run back to it, just reload the game--it hap-
pens.
As with R12 and R17, you could try the Hunter rockets for this, but this was
the hardest of the three for me to do that way, so I don't recommend it. The
PCJ 600 drive-by is much easier.
R23 At the NE corner of the Moist Palms Hotel, which is on the W side of the
main N-S road at the S end of Downtown. Your in-game map and radar show the
several driveways that converge into one in front of it.
Put on a performance for 30 amateur reviewers with divine miss M60.
Use the usual shooting strategy, except you have an M60, which is like the
Minigun, and you usually get biker gang members, who are among the easiest to
shoot down. This is a relatively easy one--have at 'em.
Little Haiti
Haitian gang members can run fast, carry strong weapons, and can take a little
more effort to kill. You're more likely to get Haitian gang members as targets
here.
R24 Over the cobblestones at the W side of the small one story building near
the "Welcome to Hell" ("Haiti" painted over) billboard at the outside of the NW
curve of the big SW-most block of Little Haiti. It's the S of the two blocks
there that look like a face looking E, except the face is smashed flat, cartoon-
style, on this one.
Find 35 a 12 gauge Sporting Purpose for American Sociopaths with a
S.P.A.S. 12.
Use your general shooting strategy. While you can't run fast with a shotgun,
it has a powerful spread at a medium distance.
R25 Behind the little pale green house with a dirty concrete roof on the same
"cartoon with a smashed face"-block mentioned for R24 (the big block in SW Lit-
tle Haiti), except it's the 2nd house from the N on the W side of the N-S street
on the E side of the block.
Hip 30 to take five with a Tec-9.
Have Tommy get back from a cluster and start shooting so they run into his
line of fire. Have him back up shooting, and, when need be, run away to keep
his distance. Don't try to make anything of him being surrounded--just try to
have him evade it, then continue.
Little Havana
R26 In the middle court of three basketball courts in the middle of the Lit-
tle Havana block that's green with white dots on your in-game map and radar.
Enter the area from the middle of the N, S, or E side of the block.
Insist that 25 with terrible judgement in picking a priority group ride
Shotgun while you drive.
The Shotgun is a little slower than the S.P.A.S. 12 of R24, but the Cuban gang
members you're liable to get are a little less aggressive, too. It's a milder
version of R24.
R27 On the loading bay area at the SW corner of El Banco Corrupto Grande. To
get to the bank, go N from the Starfish Island bridge on the main N-S road of
the W island. Past the 1st left, it's the place on the left with a Gruppe Sechs
Securicar parked in front of it.
Infuse Oriental culture into 10 ethnocentric eccentrics with a Katana
Sword.
As before, sword killings only count favorably with insertion or making them
lose their heads, not if Tommy cuts or beats them to death. (It's like the OJ
trial again. Duck under your seats till that joke goes by, too.)
Hunter rocket blasts count, and there are only ten targets this time, if you
want to try it for all or part of this rampage.
R28 Take a helicopter--it's on the roof of the building N of Cherry Poppers.
From the W end of the Starfish Island bridge, Cherry Poppers is across the
street and to the S.
Make sniping comments to 20 anti-social types with a Sniper Rifle.
Use the look away, re-equip your scope, and look back gimmick to keep targets
spawning.
Rusk's recent idea to use the Hunter and search for targets while flying down
to Viceport is a good alternative.
R29 On the NW corner of the roof of the building with a red and white awning.
To get there, go S from the Starfish Island bridge on the main N-S road of the
W island and turn right; where the road makes a 90 degree curve to the N, it's
on your left. (This roof is also where H77 was.)
Beat some German chocolate out of 20 ne'er-do-wells with a Kruger.
Use the turn away and look back gimmick from the roof to keep targets appear-
ing below, and have Tommy jump down to the ground to get some that may go out of
view below, next to the building, near the end of it if you have to.
Viceport
R30 By a real big shrub at the SE corner of the Hooker Inn. To get to the
Hooker Inn, go S from the Starfish Island bridge on the main N-S road of the W
island. Go right, go through the intersection, and it's on your left.
Promenade 35 gangster blades to the nether shades with some hand gre-
nades.
The grenades will take out whole clusters, best thrown at from at least the
width of the street away from them. You just have to keep Tommy running and
tossing, and it should be easy.
R31 On the E side of a post on the S end of the big ship at the S end of the
E coast of the W island. Use the ramp at the S end of the ship to get there.
Lift 15 vehicles to a state of transport with a Rocket Launcher.
Use the Rhino instead.
Typically, this doesn't create enough targets for the Rocket Launcher in the
PC version, even if you block the road with a vehicle and get the van (at the
far left) and the Linerunner (at the far back) in the dirt lot across the
street. If that happens, the gimmick of trying to raise Tommy's wanted level to
get police vehicles doesn't help with this one. But if you try it, you may want
to have Tommy avail himself to the health pickup under the N ramp of the ship
between efforts when he can run.
I don't recommend the Hunter machine gun: the auto-aim didn't go for vehicles
but went for gangsters unless it killed all the gangsters and you pointed the
gun at a vehicle right ahead, and then it still might shoot to the side and not
at the vehicle! There weren't enough boats, etc. It's possible, but you better
move that Hunter like a Cheetah, and it doesn't have that kind of maneuverabili-
ty.
The easiest way by far was with the Rhino.
Escobar International Airport
R32 In the main airport terminal behind a divider wall on the SW side of the
1st floor.
See 25 gang members to their seats with a S.P.A.S. 12.
Again, pick a distance for Tommy to shoot at a group with that allows him
the time to get them as they rush to retaliate, keeping in mind, as with R24,
that Run, Left Shift, doesn't work with a shotgun equipped.
R33 On the N end of the W valley in the roof of the main airport terminal.
Get there by PCJ 600. If you use the Rhino, have Tommy jack a passing sports
car to do the billboard jump to the pickup. (This roof is also used for J10 and
H96.)
Change the handling files of 12 vehicles, without unchecking the "read
only" box, with the Rocket Launcher.
If you have Tommy use the Rocket Launcher, have him use the PCJ 600 to get the
pickup, drive NW to get the vehicles in the parking lot with a low wall around
it, then drive E to the grass across the street from the E end of the terminal
and have him shoot mainly E at oncoming traffic and away from gang members, who
will attack if he hurts any of them.
I don't recommend the Hunter for the same reasons given for not wanting it for
R31, except that this one was even worse.
You can have Tommy leave the Rhino, with the door open to try to keep it in
the game memory, on the tarmac to the N of the terminal, and jack a passing
sports car to use the billboard jump to get to the pickup on the roof and drive
to the tank. It's easy once you get the Rhino for it, except you better have
Tommy get into it fast, because the game spawns soldiers that shoot at him, on
top of the regular gang members created for the rampage that just attack if at-
tacked, for some reason. Once he's in the Rhino, the shooting doesn't create
any difficulty for the rampage, though.
Fort Baxter
R34 By the bushes E of Fort Baxter Air Base.
Remodel 15 vehicles with the Minigun.
It's safer to have Tommy go E and away from Fort Baxter a bit because the sol-
diers may attack him. The last time I tried this and they started shooting, I
just had him drive W on a bike for a moment and they stopped, so I got him off
of it and continued from there. Even if you get one of the more aggressive
gangs nearby, the Minigun makes that easy to handle.
This is easy with the Rhino, too. It's also easy to shoot boats with the
Hunter machine gun.
Starfish Island
R35 By the E side of the most W house on Starfish Island.
Form a fast bonding experience between 35 gang members and the Admiral
next to the pickup.
If you have Tommy drive there, make the W-most N turn from the main E-W
Starfish Island road; the house is the 1st on the left. Have him jump off the
roof of his vehicle to get over the gate, or jump off the black Dumpster by the
hedge in the yard to the N to get in the yard where the pickup is.
I tend to favor going back and forth over the road that forms an arc over the
N section, changing sidewalks if I think I'll get more that way. Try not to
wreck--it slows you down, and sometimes I just make it in time.
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I.33 The Rest of the Main Story Missions (continued from I.17.)
Learning that being a celebrity
gives you access to other celebrities that most people never have,
especially if you're ethically impaired in how you go about it--
and polishing off the side missions.
If you haven't already bought the non-money making properties, I recommend you
do it now. (See the ends of I.18 and I.19.) It makes certain missions easier
when you can prepare for them by saving the vehicles that help the most for them
in nearby garages. It's especially helpful to have a place to save the "Every-
thing-Proof" Admiral, and you'll soon have just one early mission to get it
from.
It should be easier for you to do these missions now that you have lots of
money, weapons and ammo, extra armor and health, the infinite run, the fireproof
feature, and experience in driving, flying, and fighting.
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There's a mission available from Lawyer Ken Rosenberg ("L" on the radar).
I.34 "Back Alley Brawl" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
Voice actors:
Kent Paul: the stylings of Danny Dyer, creating nostalgia for the future. He
played Moff in the movie "Human Traffic," 1999.
Lance Vance: the intense action-adventure of Phillip Michael Thomas. He
played Det. Ricardo Tubbs in the 1984-1989 TV series "Miami Vice,"
Ken tells Tommy to see Kent Paul, a British music industry guy familiar with
the local cocaine dealers, at the Malibu. He may know something to help Tommy
hunt down whoever created the ambush of the cocaine deal at the start of the
show.
Note: after the cutscene, Tommy faces out from door, but you press S to have
him turn to it and back away from it, then control him as as normally.
Kent tells Tommy drugs are a "mug's" game--a "mug" is a stupid, gullible per-
son.
By twisting his arm behind his back, Tommy gets Kent to tell him to check out
a chef who may be a lead.
(Kent refers to the chef as a "trumpetshifter." The best I've found so far
for that is that "trump" is slang for "fart" in the U.K., and "bugle" is co-
caine. "Cum" is used instead of a hyphen. To "shift" is to move, which I'm
guessing in context means to move drugs--to sell them. If I'm right, "Chef cum
trumpetshifter" would be a chef-cocaine dealer. Thanks to the Carnegie Library
of Pittsburgh for help with that.)
(U.K. reader Colin Attle adds that it might also refer to the fact that some-
one like that may well "talk out of their butt.")
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/t.htm
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/ZT.HTM
When you have Tommy confront the chef in the alley, whatever weapon you have
Tommy use will appear in the cutscene.
You could just run the chef down from the N (as Rusk notes, if you try to run
the juror down from the S, you have to bail 1st or the game shows a cutscene
with the car stopped and Tommy walking toward him), but you'll miss a bit of the
dialogue of the game. While walking Tommy to the chef, use the "walk and hold
LMB to prepare to punch, then release LMB to punch" gimmick, back up and repeat,
and kick, till he stays down, and get his cell phone.
Tommy meets Lance Vance, who flew the helicopter at the intended drug deal.
He says Tommy just silenced the lead he had a mutual interest in. Tommy tries
to ditch him, but three chefs appear with knives, and Lance throws Tommy a Pis-
tol and says to follow him.
The easiest thing to do is just have Tommy run (jump if he doesn't have the
infinite run yet) to stay right by Lance and get in the white Infernus (the blip
on your radar) and gun it.
If you have him stay and fight 1st, have him run away from the chefs a bit,
then turn and use something stronger than a knife. Pretend it's a mini-rampage
at the school of culinary arts. A Minigun will take each of them down if the
torrent of bullets crosses any part of them; a Chainsaw does a quick job, too.
If he gets a one star wanted rating, have him use the bribe in the alley to the
S. If he gets two stars, have him get that then run the other one off--also
easy to do.
The Infernus is very responsive and fast. Don't gun it the whole way or
you'll have to learn about using "aspirine" again, too. Just get it to Ammu-Na-
tion and try not to try to drive through metal.
At Ammu-Nation, you'll learn how to buy weapons there. You walk Tommy into
the light, use A and D to admire their selection, press Left Shift to buy, and
press F to exit the deal. Since I have my weapons at my save places, and all
the free weapons scattered around the landscape of all the islands, to pick from
by now, I usually don't use it. Only the Pistol and Mac are available here now.
If you want to skip this part, press W.
Drive Lance to the Ocean View.
(My unedited PC version doesn't have the extra dialogue by Lance about the
Pole Position Club reported by eL dudE's Game Script FAQ, even if you have Tommy
park in front of it; it's on the SE corner of the 2nd block from the S and E.
Lance: "Tommy, every man needs a little R and R once in a while. This here's
the Pole Position strip club. You might want to drop in some time."
(The recordings of Lance saying those lines are files lanstp1 and lanstp2 in
the Grand Theft Auto Vice CityAudio folder. Rusk tells me he hasn't heard them
in the game, though, either. They may just be heard in a certain version of the
game or....?)
(Just when I was so glad the radar let me stop doing that W on the main N-S
road stuff.)
You get $200.
Tommy gets a cell phone call intended for the chef, Leo, on the phone he took
from him--hit Tab to answer the phone. The caller says, "Hey, Leo, I think we
got a buyer for Diaz' merchandise...." Since Kent Paul thinks the chef-cocaine
dealer was a lead in finding out who caused the ambush and took the money and
cocaine, and the chef got a call about Diaz, known from "The Party" as a cocaine
dealer, having merchandise to sell now, Diaz is a suspect.
Tommy will follow the lead when he gets five Assassination missions meant for
Mr. Teal over the phone--Leo was also an assassin named Leo Teal.
The Rockstar Games web site has a "Vice City" section with a bulletin board
that has a "Vice City Crime Tree" section. It indicates that the chef's super-
ior is named Mr. Black, suspected of being involved in running a hitman busi-
ness, so I guess that's Mr. Black who will give the assassination missions.
I think the voice actor for the man on the phone with assassination missions
is Navid Khonsari (Dwayne of the Boathouse) because the voice sounds like the
man who called Lazlow about killer bees in "III," and Navid did the voice acting
for that.
I.35 "Jury Fury" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
Ken tells Tommy he's worried those "Guidos" are coming from up N (Liberty
City). ("Guido" is derogatory slang for a NYC Italian-American tacky womanizer
that may also try to portray a Mafia outlook.) As a favor to them, Tommy needs
to intimidate, not kill, a couple of jurors Ken failed to persuade, or Sonny's
cousin Giorgio (like Moroder, who did the five "Scarface," 1983, tunes used for
"GTA III"?) will get five years for fraud.
When Tommy leaves Ken's office, he witnesses a hit and run homicide by a golf-
er that provides a hammer.
The juror to the S is talking to a lady by his Admiral. (The arrangement of
cars is a little different than Rusk reports for the PS2 version. On PC, the
Admiral is the only car around the juror to the S.)
You just need to bash up or blow up the Sentinel of the juror to the N.
The game wants you to learn that you can destroy a car with a melee weapon.
If you're impatient about that, Rusk's idea to blow up the cars with Grenades
works for PC (I'd add that various weapons could do the job--notably, the
Minigun).
If you hit the guy to the S instead, he gets in the Admiral and rams into a
Spand Express truck, which knocks a couple of Hammers from it. You can't kill
the juror, just intimidate him, so wreck his car with a melee weapon or ram his
car with the truck till he runs away. You can get a wanted star as you do, so
watch out for police and be ready to run.
You might try to park in front of his car and punch him till he runs, but your
car may disappear if you let him get in his car.
I tried to do something different and have Tommy jack each car before the ju-
ror ran away, but both cars are locked at 1st, and a Hammer wouldn't knock the
doors off. The N one only unlocks after the juror runs away, but the S one un-
locks if you have Tommy punch the juror and jack it when the juror tries to get
into it. But then the juror just runs away without the scene with the Spand Ex-
press truck.
Tommy has at least five different things he calls out to the fleeing jurists
you can hear if you replay the game, like, "Giorgio sends his regards."
You get $400, and two cell phone calls.
Sonny calls. Sonny somehow had the number to the cell phone taken from the
chef-cocaine dealer-assassin Kent suspected as knowing about the ambush, and the
call on it for Leo seemed to indicate that Diaz was behind the ambush of the
deal Tommy was to make for Sonny. In "Keep Your Friends Close" (I.99), we'll
learn Tommy has long suspected that Sonny was behind the ambush Tommy ran into
15 years ago. So while it may be that Tommy simply called Sonny earlier and
gave him his new cell phone number, it may be that Sonny has looked into new co-
caine selling plans with Diaz, tried, with Diaz, and failed to have Tommy killed
with an ambush again, and may try to have him killed once he gets his money back
from him.
Sonny makes his position clear at the start of the game--it's a liability for
his business for people to think he'd even let Tommy walk the streets. So Tommy
might have that extra reason to want to create his own empire, and play along
with Diaz and Sonny but secretly try to figure out how to dispose of them.
Meanwhile, we do know that as Tommy tries to make money to pay back Sonny and
figure out what led to the ambush, he uses the occasion to make his own powerful
connections in Vice City.
The other call is the 1st Assassination mission.
I.36 "Road Kill" Phone: Assassination mission 1
Tommy also gets another cell phone call meant for the chef, and we learn his
whole name was Leo Teal, and he was an assassin who killed "out-of-towners."
(The chef doesn't look like any of the guys we see shoot Lances' brother and two
of Sonny's henchmen at the start of the game, but he might have set it up.)
The Rockstar web site indicates that the chef worked for Mr. Black, so I guess
that's who's calling.
The caller (I can't place his accent) gives Tommy the 1st of five assassina-
tion missions. In each one, Tommy goes to a ringing pay telephone where he gets
a call on his cell phone!--we don't know why, other than that the caller seems
to prefer to tape his instructions onto public pay phones (shouldn't he try to
be more discreet?).
For the 1st assassination mission, Tommy has to kill a pizza delivery guy be-
fore the guy delivers 50 pizzas.
A forward drive-by shooting with a PCJ 600 or Sanchez and a submachine gun is
the easiest. Get a lot of Uz-I ammo (the MP isn't available till after "Rub
Out"--I.53).
If you use a fast car you handle well, try to 2nd guess which street he'll
drive on (a direct chase can be frantic, but go for it if he's right in front of
you). Meet him head on to ram him off his scooter. He can show a remarkable
resiliency about getting back on and speeding off, so park on the scooter or him
if you can, and use the Minigun to shoot him or blow up the vehicle. Running
him over while he's on foot works but has to be done repeatedly.
Once I shot forward on a bike till his scooter was a flaming fireball hurtling
down the street, and then it exploded. He tried to run, but (weakened by the
explosion?) Tommy killed him with one punch.
You get $500.
I.37 "Riot" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
Avery Carrington is voice acted by that sexual Burt Reynolds, who was nominat-
ed for an Oscar for his portrayal of Lewis in "Deliverance," 1972, was ranked
among the top ten box office stars in the world for an unparalleled thirteen
years in a row, was awarded the Children at Heart Award in June, 2000, for his
efforts to aid the children who suffered from the Chernobyl disaster, received
the 1991 Emmy Award for "Best Performance in a Comedy" for his role as Wood New-
ton in the TV series "Evening Shade," etc.
Tommy meets Lawyer Ken's friend Avery Carrington, the criminal big time real-
tor. Avery promises to kill to protect Tommy if Tommy helps him by starting a
riot at the SpandEx building and putting the owners out of business so the own-
ers will be more willing to sell it. Ken tells him to go to Raphael's for
clothes 1st.
Go to Raphael's for overalls so Tommy looks like Elwood P. Suggins. When he
gets to SpandEx, the workers are already near rioting against the security
guards. The game says to start a fight with four of the workers, then tells you
to destroy the three trucks behind the wire fence in front of the building.
As Rusk notes, you can bypass the part about starting a fight with the workers
and just go past them to the fence to blow up the three trucks (Minigun, Gre-
nades, etc.). He also notes you can come around from the other direction, from
the 2nd floor of the building under construction with red girders, as for H19,
except jumping onto the roof of the SpandEx building instead of into the lot
around it, and destroy the trucks from up there. Shoot the red explosive barrel
by two of the trucks to take care of them, and shoot at the 3rd till it blows
up. The workers all walk out quietly afterwards if you do it this way.
I like to see and hear more of what the game does, so I go for hitting the
workers. Have full armor and health 1st. Use a Hammer or Bat or Brass Knuck-
les. You can have Tommy run into the crowd and mix it up, and use the Minigun
as a back up if it gets to be too much.
An easy way to have Tommy get into the fist fights, if you're new to such
things, is to have Tommy hit one in the back of the crowd and run outside the
compound so the worker follows and can be dealt with singularly. Have Tommy
beat him up, lather, rinse, and repeat, until the game prompts the next part.
Then have him shoot any guards that attack and have him blow up the trucks.
You can also blow up the two trucks that are parked together with a Minigun
from anywhere you can see them and knock everyone down with a baseball bat.
Then destroy the 3rd truck at your leisure.
You get $1,000. The coveralls pickup is now available at Tooled Up in North
Point Mall.
Avery Carrington now has missions available at the entrance to the building
under construction with red girders ("A" on the radar).
Colonel Cortez calls and makes missions available at Pier 2 ("C" on the ra-
dar).
I.38 "Four Iron" Avery Carrington
Avery wants Tommy to go to the golf course and "beat eight tons of crap" out
of someone holding onto land he wants to buy. He gives Tommy a membership to
Leaf Links and sends him to get golf clothes 1st.
Get Tommy the gawky plaid clothes then go to the club house. Have him enter
the shaft of light at the entrance to see the cutscene of the target, a golfer,
surrounded by henchmen, making practice shots from on top of a driving structure
on the N side of the course.
If you have Tommy go through the metal detector at the entrance, his weapons
will remain as pickups outside except for Brass Knuckles and any melee weapon.
(The metal detector also takes those weapons if he exits through it, for some
reason.)
But you can have Tommy use any vehicle he can jump on, then from, to jump over
the lawn roller, at the W side of the entrance into Leaf Links, with all of his
weapons. (You can use the ramp on the other side of it to drive out.) He can
also drive through the metal detector on a PCJ 600 with his Brass Knuckles and a
melee weapon (like the Chainsaw). The security guards give chase for a bit,
then wait, but can be lured further if you don't keep Tommy going.
(I think there must be another PS2/PC difference in that Rusk likes Tommy to
get a tall vehicle to use as a step to jump over the lawn roller, but you could
use any vehicle to do it on PC.)
The hardest part of this is if you try to directly chase the golf cart the
golfer uses to get away once rousted.
Once Tommy gets in with his weapons, he can use his sniper rifle or Minigun,
whatever, on the target at a safe distance before the target can get to a cart.
He can use the Minigun on all the carts and henchmen then deal with the golf-
er, who's a lot easier to chase when he's on foot.
Since the golfer always ends up going to the clubhouse to escape in a car out-
side, Tommy can go S, straight to the clubhouse, and wait for him as soon as
he's rousted. To make it even easier, as soon as Tommy gets into the course, he
could use the golf cart supplied for him there and plug the metal detector with
it. Then he could roust him, run back, and punch him to hear the different
things he says.
If you let the target run through the metal detector, he tries to get into a
car and drive away. If Tommy punches him and jacks the car, the target makes an
aimless effort to run away and is easy for Tommy to attack.
One walk-through I read had a strategy that reminds me of the popular 8 Ball's
Bomb shop way of handling "Farewell, Chunky Lee Chong" in "GTA III." The gamer
had Tommy drive and bail (I'd have Tommy use brief running shoves) from each
Caddy to send it into the nearby water. When Tommy approached the golfer, he
ran to get into one of them, but, like everyone else in the game, he couldn't
swim. While I haven't gotten the whole plan to work for PC, dunking the Caddys
in the drink does slow down the target's getaway.
You get $500.
Leaf Links is now open.
The Golf Outfit is available at the entrance to Leaf Links.
The golf club pickup will remain available behind the club house. If you have
Tommy walk into it, the golf club will replace any melee weapon Tommy has with-
out the game asking if you want to press Tab to have it done.
Having Tommy enter a Caddy will cause him to get a golf club if he doesn't al-
ready have a melee weapon.
(Note: you don't need to use this opportunity to get a Caddy to save for the
Sunshine Autos vehicle list--there's always one hidden in the 1st shrub on the
left of the path that goes W from the light house. Avoid the sea--use the ra-
dar--and police when you get it.)
I.39A "Demolition Man" Avery Carrington
Avery is so hale and hardy, he bailed from the limo while it was still mov-
ing--a long black limo with nobody inside it bangs into the construction site.
Avery wants Tommy to destroy an office development so he can get the land.
Send Tommy from Avery into the Top Fun van in a lot to the S. From the van,
Tommy needs to guide the RC Goblin, the file name for the little copter in han-
dling.cfg., to pick up and place four bombs in the unfinished building with blue
windows in seven minutes.
http://media.gta-series.com/images/vicecity/vehicles/rcgoblin.jpg
The copter picks up each bomb by passing closely over it, and it can scoop it
up with a swoop. Nudges from side to side with A and D aim the swoops. You
have Tommy drop a bomb by passing it over the pink shaft of light above a can
and pressing the LMB.
The security guards will shoot it and the construction workers will hit it, so
Tommy needs to kill them with the blades before they destroy it. It doesn't
take much damage from them, or from banging into things, to blow it up. To save
time killing the workers, you might fly over them till you've lured a group of
them to a lower floor and get them then. Since the timer doesn't start till you
pick up the 1st bomb, you could fly around getting the attackers before you pick
up the 1st bomb.
Almost the same as with the three Top Fun van missions, you can just send Tom-
my up the block to the shaft of light, etc., and back if you need to try again.
A good gimmick, and a big difference between this RC helicopter and the one
used for RC Raider Pickup, is that you can speed things up by holding NP9 while
using W and S for stretches at a time, notably between the bombs and the build-
ing.
Notice not only that each stairway is beside the last one, but you can go
straight up through the opening over both the E 2nd and 3rd floor stairs to go
from the 2nd to the 4th and the 2nd to the 3rd and back down again.
As suggested by Cic the poet in Rusk's latest update, save the top floor for
last. The logic is that you don't have to fly back to the van area after the
last bomb is planted, so make your several fly-back times the three shorter
ones.
A map to help you beat the clock with the RC Goblin helicopter
Here's a rough idea of the layout. Each floor has a central stairway, a dif-
ferent placement of wood divider walls, and each asterisk represents a big can
with a pink shaft of light over it. Only the stairs that are flown over from
the floor below are shown. In the case of the 4th floor, it's the same set of
stairs flown over to get to the 3rd floor. North is at the top.
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/5872/002020demolitionmapef2.jpg
As you can see, when you go to drop the 4th floor bomb, just go straight up
from the S end of the 2nd floor stairs and don't bother flying around any wooden
divider walls.
When the 4th bomb is dropped, the building blows up.
You get $1,000.
The ACTION HELI RC helicopter box can appear at the mansion once Tommy owns
it.
When Avery's next and last mission comes up, at the end of "Phnom Penh '86"--
I.45, it will be "Two Bit Hit," which I've delayed until I.83 to avoid the Ha-
vana Outfit glitch. But see the next section to decide which way you want to
handle it.
I.39B A multiple choice of things you can do about the Havana Outfit glitch
1. You can avoid the glitch that causes the Havana Outfit (awarded for com-
pleting the 3rd mission for Avery, "Two Bit Hit") to be blocked by a solid in-
visible wall to the left of the entrance to Little Havana Streetwear by doing
"Two Bit Hit" after "Cop Land" and "The Job." (Thanks to Rusk for pointing out
it had to be done after "Cop Land" and to spaceeinstein for pointing out it had
to be done after "The Job.") Then the pickup appears freely available in the
entrance area of the store.
There are a couple other ways around it, too, if you want to do "Two Bit Hit"
as soon as it's available:
2. Park a PCJ 600 in the doorway of Little Havana Streetwear with the back
half sticking out. Have Tommy jump on the back, jump towards the door till in,
then at the outfit. It can take some doing. With success, he goes through the
wall and changes into the outfit while falling through Ghost World, and ends up
dressed in it on the street nearby.
3. You can use a mod(ification of the game) so you can always do "Two Bit
Hit" as soon as it's available and have easy access to the Havana Outfit. See
The Havana Outfit Bug Fix under Mods--Miscellaneous (100.D.f).
And there's still a "C" at Pier 2. As with the hog in "The Party," leave your
PCJ 600 or whatever in the shafts of light, used to initiate missions with Cor-
tez, at Pier 2 if you want it to be handy when the cutscenes are over.
I.40 "Treacherous Swine" Col. Cortez
Col. Cortez is voice acted by gentleman's gentleman Robert Davi, soon to be
seen in "Gilgamesh," starring "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962, actors Peter O'Toole
and Omar Sharif.
Gonzales has now awoken and is voice acted by the palpably more peppy Jorge
Pupo. Jorge also did the motion capture performance for Diaz and Old Man Kelly.
Cortez tells Tommy that his right hand man Gonzales leaked information which
led to the ambush. He tells Tommy if he kills Gonzales he'll help Tommy look
for the money. He wants Tommy to use a Chainsaw.
Gonzales' place is the one just N of the Malibu Club. It has a police bribe
on the corner just N of it.
This is the only main mission (not counting rampages) that prompts you to use
the Chainsaw. Unlike the rampages, you could use something else for this. But
with the fast Chainsaw attack described in I.9.A overcoming any objections to
it, I'd rather use the Chainsaw.
You might prepare by leaving a PCJ 600 by the bribe on the corner N of the
Malibu Club.
(Don't bother trying to prepare Tommy by having him go behind Gonzales' place
for the Adrenaline Pill--it becomes ineffectual after the cutscene.)
Send Tommy into the shaft of light at the entrance to Gonzales' place.
There's a cutscene of Tommy coming from behind the railing of an upper walkway
on the roof threatening to shut Gonzales' big mouth. Then have Tommy jump over
the railing and toward Gonzales and give Gonzales and his two henchmen a fast
Chainsaw attack. (Have Tommy walk, then hold the LMB and steer with the mouse.)
The door Gonzales wants is right behind the area Tommy lands on, so you don't
have to chase him around. An alternate easy choice would be to give Gonzales a
generous lathering of Minigun bullets.
Killing Gonzales gives Tommy a two star wanted level. You can use the shaft
of light by the door Gonzales wanted to use to go downstairs.
The game wants to show you how to use a Pay 'n' Spray, and Knocking Off Stores
showed you it's easy for Tommy to run through a two star wanted level, and
there's a bribe right around the corner. So have Tommy drive or run through the
bribe and use the Pay 'n' Spray just N of your Links View place or run the other
star off. I'd be inclined to use the Pay 'n' Spray just because I like to see
all the things the game has to show.
When you lose the wanted level, you complete the mission.
You get $250.
The Casual outfit is available at the 2nd floor entrance to Gash at North
Point Mall. (Note: there are now two clothes pickups at North Point Mall, with
one at Tools Up, if you're having trouble getting the hang of morphing.)
I.41 "Mall Shootout" Col. Cortez
Cortez tells Tommy he'll continue his investigation into the cause of the am-
bush. Meanwhile, he has Tommy go to the 2nd floor of Washington Mall to meet a
French courier to get some technology--chips--for him. (The Rockstar Games web
site "Vice City" section "Vice City Crime Tree" indicates he's French Secret
Service Agent Pierre La Ponce.) When Tommy does, some French agents ambush them
and demand the chips for the French government. (Note: the one that calls out,
"Freeze, imperialist American pig...." is one of the ambushers, though he sounds
just like the agent Tommy meets there.) The courier panics and runs out the N
exit to his bike while the agents start shooting.
Once the cut scene ends, turn Tommy and have him jump over the right side of
the escalator to avoid the French attackers. Have him run out the N exit after
the courier, who drives a PCJ 600 on the road that goes NE from the mall then
curves N.
If you use a Cheetah taken from the pier, have Tommy run the courier over or
knock him off the bike and shoot at him.
If you use the PCJ 600 that the game provides at the N exit lane to the road
after the cut scene, have Tommy shoot forward at him, "Road Kill"/Rampage-style.
Get a lot of Uz-I ammo before the mission.
Either way, have Tommy get the chips and either go back to Pier 2 to make the
two star wanted level disappear, or use the Pay 'n' Spray that's a few blocks S
of the W side of the mall to keep his stars Attained from getting much bigger
than his stars Evaded.
The Brady guide says you can block the N entrance of the mall, by parking
across the inside of it, before you send Tommy in to meet the courier. If you
use this plug the hole method, put the vehicle at the N end of the entrance so
it doesn't disappear.
You get $500.
You also get a cell phone call for Assassination Mission 2. Since the easiest
way to do it is with the Rhino, I'll give that after the west island is offi-
cially open. But see I.47 for a couple other ways you might want to try before
that.
I.42 "Guardian Angels" Col. Cortez
Ricardo Diaz is voice acted by the engagingly expansive Luis Guzman.
See my note below about getting the "EP" Admiral, and make sure you get it
from this mission and put it in one of your garages and save the game. Get a
lot of Minigun (Ocean View, Hyman Condo) and Uz-I ammo. If you get a lot of
Uz-I ammo beforehand, you'll get more by running through the Uz-I pickup during
the mission. Otherwise, you'll be told you can press Tab to have the Uz-I re-
place whatever is in that slot of your weaponry.
The Colonel says Diaz told him to watch over a business deal Diaz is going to.
He tells Tommy to do it and sends him to get some protection 1st.
Using your radar, get to the entrance of the Ocean Beach parking garage by
going into either end of an E-W alley with a stub pointing N from the middle of
it--it's just a bit S of your radar blip. The Kruger is on the 2nd floor.
(This is the building used for J31.) Lance arrives in his Infernus and you
drive him to the deal. (The alley of the 6th block from the S along the E.)
Diaz and his men pull up in Diaz' white Admiral.
The following is a good strategy from Rusk. I substituted the Minigun for
this version.
After you send Tommy to the shaft of light at the top of the stairs, there's a
cutscene of Diaz and the Cuban gangsters.
The Cuban gangsters wear white t-shirts with a red and black splotch on the
front and red headbands, or light yellow jerseys with gray sleeves and black fe-
doras with red hat bands.
Send Tommy down to street level at the corner right below--the end of the al-
ley. Equip the Minigun.
Have Tommy shoot the Haitian gangster's vehicles as soon as they appear, and
they'll probably blow up before the Haitian gangsters can drive them into the
alley and get out of them.
The Haitian gangsters are in dark blue jerseys that have "RELAX" in white let-
ters on the front with white baseball cap-type caps with dark blue brims, or
light purple sleeveless t-shirts with a purple and white splotch on the front
with blue headbands.
A Haitian gangster vehicle appears from the E, then one from the W, then one
from the E. Have Tommy go a bit N in the alley to blow up a van that enters
from the N. Send him S, back to the street, and look W to blow up another Voo-
doo that tries to get to the alley. If you have time to spare, have him shoot
any other stray Haitian gangsters that may be there, but keep Tommy at the S end
of the alley.
Between Rusk and the Minigun, I can't make that any easier.
In a cutscene, two Haitian gangsters drive through going S on Sanchez bikes.
One is shot, but the one who grabs Diaz' money speeds S through the alleys (used
for "PCJ Playground") that go through the blocks along the E.
Switch from the Minigun to Fist/Brass Knuckles, have Tommy run to get onto the
abandoned Sanchez, which automatically equips his Uz-I, and have him chase the
Haitian gangster S through the winding alleys with a forward drive-by shooting.
Don't floor it the whole way, but gun it when you can to stay on his tail. You
might even collide with him to knock him off and have Tommy shoot him.
When he's down, get the briefcase. I like to wheelie to show off going back
N.
To get Diaz' "Everything Proof" Admiral in the PC version, you have to have
Tommy return the briefcase to Diaz from the N facing S, the same direction Diaz'
Admiral is pointed in, when you have Tommy step into the pink shaft of light.
During the ensuing cut scene with Tommy and Diaz, have W and Left Shift pressed
so Tommy is ready to run S as soon as the game gives you control over him again.
Then have him run S and around the corner to his left, and the Admiral will be
sitting there, without occupants, waiting for him at the T intersection. Save
it in a garage then save the game.
You could just have Tommy kill Diaz and his two henchmen the 1st chance you
get, failing the mission (the screen will say something like,"Hey, you're sup-
posed to be guarding Diaz and his men, not killing them!"), take the car to a
garage, save the game, then load the game again and try to pass the mission.
Either way, I strongly recommend that you get the "EP" Admiral for one of your
garages (except the big garage at the condo). When others shoot or ram your
car, you're in a MUCH better position. After you save it in a garage, it's like
any other car except you can bang it into stuff (except a Rhino) and it can be
shot at (except for the tires and by Haitian gangsters during "Cannon Fodder")
without damage.
I like to take it to a Pay 'n' Spray, which won't hurt the "EP" quality, and
get it a dark cranberry red color to hide the dingy gray marks and make it look
newer.
(As an alternative, you could modify the game to make an Admiral or Cheetah,
etc., invulnerable. If you want to do that, put 0.00 in column Y, the column
for the collision damage multiplier, for the vehicle--I.100.D.e)
You get $1,000. Diaz calls to offer work (the "D" on your radar).
You can now get a five star wanted level.
And Starfish Island is now open.
I.43 Unique Jump 17
Go to the apex of the big curved road in Starfish Island. Go into the alley
on the N side just E of the apex. At the end of it, go right and through the
gate, clockwise around the garage, through the gate, and across the yard to the
hedge. Start the jump with the back of the PCJ 600 against the hedge and aim E
for a straight run to the steps at the back of the house in the previous yard,
gunning it the whole way. Correct the level of the bike once airborne, as al-
ways. Try to go across that yard and over a hedge to the next yard.
I.44 "The Chase" Diaz
You'll see the "Scarface," 1983, monitors described in I.2 for the 1st time
here during the cutscene in the office of Diaz' mansion.
Diaz tells Tommy that one of his men has withheld some of Diaz' profit for
himself. He tells Tommy to follow him to see where he goes, and they'll kill
him later.
Have Tommy go to the guy's apartment (it's the same place he climbed to the
roof of to get to the roof where H30 was) and enter the shaft of light. Then
send him up the stairs to another shaft of light. There's a cutscene: the thief
sees Tommy looking in his window and panics and runs. (If you press the Run
keys again, the game skips the cutscene, if you're in a hurry to have Tommy
run.) Have Tommy run up the stairs to the balcony, go left to the section of
roof that extends right, and go right. Have Tommy chase the man, but you can't
have Tommy kill him in this mission--just tail him. (You might have Tommy belt
him once if he catches up with him.) Either watch your step aiming Tommy over
the wooden planks connecting two gaps in the rooftops or have him jump the gaps,
which is faster. The thief sets off some explosive barrels at the last rooftop,
but just keep focused on having Tommy chase him.
The thief runs off the roof and tries to get away shooting a Kruger from the
back of a BF Injection. Have Tommy drop from the roof and use the Faggio nearby
to tail him. Keep a fairly steady distance and do a lot of weaving side to side
to make it hard for his bullets to connect. He goes to the E road, up around
the N side of North Point Mall, down the W side, goes left then left to go over
the bridge to Prawn Island, where he makes the 1st right and goes to the 1st
house on the right. If the mission lingers here, get a bit closer to the vehi-
cle to end it.
The mission is completed, but, if you're fast, you might want to have Tommy
catch up with their vehicle, shoot it to stop it, and jack it as a bonus thing
to do. If it gets out of view, it disappears.
You get $1,000.
The Corby vacuum cleaner a henchman of Diaz mentions as part of the non-mis-
sion ped chatter is a U.K. brand. (Rusk says it's Kirby, a U.S. brand. Wager-
ing will be held in the back room, and fist fights will have to be held out-
doors.)
The next set of gimmicks work for PC, but they can be tricky to set up.
Have Tommy use the infinite sprint to run ahead of the gangster across the
roof (not too far ahead or the gangster will stand still; if that happens, have
Tommy go toward him to activate the cutscene of the gangster blowing up the ex-
plosive barrels and continuing). Have Tommy and jump off before him. A cut
scene shows the gangster jump off. Have Tommy jack the BF Injection, and a few
different things can happen:
- Tommy can drive a bit, let the gangster with the gun shoot out the rear
tires, then let the gangsters take the vehicle back. Tommy will have an easy
time following it as it slides out side to side for the rest of the run.
- Tommy can kill the gangster who has a gun and jack the BF Injection. The
gangster Tommy has to follow (the one with a pink arrow pointing down at his
head) stands in one spot until he can drive the BF Injection. Until the gang-
ster drives the vehicle, it passes through his body.
If you have Tommy accelerate and the gangster's body passes through the pas-
senger side of the BF Injection, and the gangster leans to his left to jack the
vehicle from Tommy as the vehicle is moving, Tommy disappears into the gang-
ster's body. You won't have to help Tommy drive--you can sit back and watch the
rest of the scene. The "camera" follows the gangster driving the BF Injection
as it would if Tommy drove it. At the end of the run, the cut scene shows the
gangster run into the Prawn Island house, then you see a BF Injection with an
invisible Tommy--mission passed. You can't control him until you have him exit
the vehicle, which makes Tommy, the supernatural sleuth, reappear.
I.45 "Phnom Penh '86" Diaz
Diaz tells Tommy the place he discovered in the last mission is a fortress at
ground level, so wants "Quentin"--Lance Vance working under an alias for Diaz--
to fly Tommy there to kill the thief and his gang.
(Note: There aren't any paintings on the wall by the door to the office man-
sion yet.)
Lance tells Tommy he knows Diaz caused the ambush and killed his brother--the
one carrying the cocaine--at the start of the show. He wants to kill Diaz, but
Tommy tells him to let him do it.
Lance flies the helicopter while Tommy mans the M60 (like a Minigun) in 1st
person shooter mode. Going with Tommy's prompt to "get a bit of practice" on
the way up to Prawn Island, see if you can blow up a boat and one of the heli-
copters by shooting ahead to it and continuing after you pass it. Use both
hands on the mouse to steady your aim. (Note: if you look back at the bridge
Lance flies under, you can briefly see a guy in dark blue overalls--a SpandEx
worker?--fall from the bridge into the water.)
At Prawn Island, you fly near rooftops, a back patio area, the upper and lower
porches at the front of a house, etc., each with a handful or so of men shooting
at the copter. When you get all the targets in one section, Lance flies to the
next. If the helicopter health bar on the screen reaches zero, you fail the
mission.
Since the M60 is like the Minigun, don't feel obliged to try to focus your aim
on any one target while the helicopter ride keeps bouncing your aim around--you
can't do it that way. Instead, try to keep the aim waggling across your tar-
gets, remembering to blow up a vehicle or explosive red barrel near one if it's
convenient. If you repeat this and get the hang of it, you can even point the
gun where you know the targets will be and let the helicopter move it across
some of them.
Afterwards, Lance flies near the ground so Tommy can go into the 1st place to
finish the gang off. Tommy is standing on a rail of the copter--have him look
to the copter to be released from it or jump off. Lance goes to hover over the
porn studio.
On land, he can get four or five with the M60 before he goes inside--then
there are just one or two in the main room and one at the top of the stairs to
the roof. Then have him get the briefcase of Diaz' money on the roof and Lance
will fly back to pick him up.
You get $2,000.
Your Minigun ammo has been ripped off and replaced by the M60 you had to use
for this. Go get Minigun ammo.
The west island--the mainland--and Piers 1 and 2 are now open.
Cortez calls Tommy on the cell phone to offer more work (I.48).
Another Avery mission icon appears. I.39B explains why the Havana Outfit
glitch has caused me to delay this last mission for Avery to I.83 and several
ways you can handle it.
I.46 Unique Jumps 34 and 35 (the mainland--west island--and piers 1 and 2 are
now open)
Take a PCJ 600 onto Pier 1, the N pier of the two at the S end of the W side
of the east island. If you don't have a PCJ 600, there's always one by Pier 1.
Back the bike to the N curb and gun it S. The two jumps in a row, 34 then 35,
are in a straight line--have brake/reverse ready to stop you after the 2nd one.
You'll have time to turn and aim yourself for the jump ashore, which isn't a
Unique Jump.
I.47 "Waste The Wife" Phone: Assassination Mission 2
(get out the Rhino: "Gangway, coming through.")
Tommy has to kill Mrs. Dawson with a vehicle while she's in a car--you can't
have him use a drive-by or get out and shoot her car. She always stops at a
light around the corner from where you start the chase. After you hit her car,
she takes off in a panic. When the damage meter for her car is empty, you pass
the mission while her car blows up.
So: like Rusk says, get a Rhino (see I.9.B). Everyone's garage should have
one. This mission is a fast chase without one, but as easy as running into a
parked car with one. The game represents the ability of a tank to flatten vehi-
cles by having vehicles it bumps blow up. So drive carefully otherwise if you
want to avoid police attention. You can get away with blowing up a vehicle oc-
casionally, but you never know when a policeman may be out of your view nearby
and you won't.
I've done this with the "EP" Admiral as well. Just ram her car, shove it
around, etc., for a few blocks or more with it and her car catches on fire and
blows up.
Either way, when you're done, save your vehicle in a garage.
If you use another, and fragile, vehicle, you might want to use "aspirine" so
Tommy doesn't blow up before she does.
You get $2,000.
I.48 "Sir, Yes, Sir!" Col. Cortez
Cortez tells Tommy he thinks Diaz was responsible for the ambush of the drug
deal at the start of the game--a loss he shares with Tommy. Cortez is looking
into it. Meanwhile, he wants Tommy to jack a tank, being given a military es-
cort through town, and bring it to him.
The convoy makes a run S on the main road of the west island that starts some-
where in or around Little Haiti, I think, and ends up in Viceport in a garage
across the street to the S of the corner with two Port Authority signs where
hidden package 83 was.
The easiest way to do this is given in the Brady guide--jack it when the con-
voy stops for doughnuts.
Get a nice fast vehicle, like the PCJ 600 or Cheetah always parked by the
piers, and drive to Callegg's Deli. From Cortez, drive to the street and go N
on a road that curves E to a T intersection, go left to a T intersection, go
left and across the South Bridge, go right, and you'll see Callegg's Deli on the
far corner of the 1st left. It has one of the ads for an actual product I've
identified so far in the game over the door: Squirt, the grapefruit soda pop
(see I.13). (Rusk writes you can even park in front of the door to block the
soldier that will try to enter.)
Have Tommy stand on the corner on the E side of Callegg's facing N, which is
where the tank, two Barracks OLs of soldiers, Patriot, and foot soldiers will
come from. Have him take on the army unarmed. The procession will stop right
in front of him and the tank driver will be ordered to get out to go into Cal-
legg's for some doughnuts ("Sir, yes, sir"). Have Tommy go to the tank, press
F, and gun it.
The basic directions are: right around the corner you start from, right, left,
right, and look for the open garage to the right to drive the tank into. A
timed detonator--security protocol Delta India Echo--is activated when he jacks
the tank, so there isn't much time for an unofficial rampage. At the least,
you'll probably blow up one or two Barracks OLs and police cars on the way.
There should be plenty of time to get to the garage, but you might turn the tur-
ret backwards to give the cannon a blast to propel Tommy through any obstacle
that you might encounter.
Get Tommy out of the tank and garage when the screen tells you to and you pass
the mission.
If you're feeling adventurous, you might also try the advice of the Brady
guide to have Tommy block the road, take cover from a distance, and snipe the
guy on top of the tank and the rest before beating on the door of the tank with
a melee weapon to scare the driver out.
I had Tommy use a Minigun, from the sidewalk a safe distance S of them, on all
the vehicles and soldiers, and the tank driver ran away scared before Tommy
could get close to the tank.
The Brady guide also explains that the closed tank door is unlocked sometimes,
so says to have Tommy try it before beating on it. This jibed with a message
board post I read that said you could even send Tommy N and see if he could jack
the tank like any vehicle before it gets to the Deli and he won't get shot. It
sounds to me like that could work. But when I've tried it, a soldier told Tommy
to get away from the tank, the door was locked, the hammer just bent the door,
and the screen prompted me to find a way to lure the occupants out of the tank.
So while a soldier told the "Civilian" to "move away from the tank" a couple
more times, I sent Tommy back to the Deli.
HandsomeRockus has the answer: park the Cheetah directly in front of the Rhino
and get Tommy out of it. When a soldier goes to remove the Cheetah, the tank
door is unlocked and Tommy can jack the tank. Thanks again, HandsomeRockus.
(You can learn some good stuff from this guy.)
You get $2,000. You get another call from Cortez.
You can go ahead and do "All Hands On Deck," the last mission for Cortez, now,
if you want. There's no important strategic reason to wait. I just like to
save it up for after the "Rub Out" of Diaz as a nice capper to the Diaz episodes
because Cortez was a lot of help in figuring out that Diaz caused the ambush at
the start of the game. Just be sure to have a lot of ammo for your Minigun
whenever you do it.
I.49 "The Fastest Boat" Diaz
Diaz wants Tommy to jack him a new boat--a smuggler's dream, the fastest
boat--just created at the boat house.
To get to the Boatyard, go S past the South Bridge on the main N-S road of the
W island--where the road divides, take the E road past the big ship on the left;
look for a building with a crummy black fence and a glowing blue house pickup in
front of it (you buy it later) on your left.
The easiest way, by IncredibleHoke as noted in Rusk's latest update, is to
drive to the overturned boat on the S side of the fence on the S side of the
Boatyard, then have Tommy get out and run to the far corner of the fence, across
from the fastest boat--a red and white Squalo II speed boat which is suspended
from a crane by dark ropes or chains--and press F (Enter). Tommy is then trans-
ported in an instant through the fence and behind the wheel of the boat--basi-
cally, the way he can enter a boat otherwise. It drops into the water without
needing to have him pull the switch in the boathouse. Tommy gets a three star
wanted rating. Then it's just a straight drive N to the mansion, and it's not
hard to have Tommy steer clear of the police boats that fire at him.
If you're as big a fan as me of how funny it looks for a guy to handle some-
thing in town by going for his tank, you might like Rusk's variation whereby you
blast the henchmen at the Boatyard with the cannon from the Rhino 1st. It tends
to shoot over people's heads, though.
If you use the Sea Sparrow, fly S to the rocks hidden package 2 was on, then
go W toward the Boatyard. Starting in a spot a safe distance away, fire and
pivot this way and that, then move a bit closer and do it again, etc. This also
lures the targets out into your line of fire. As you get closer, you'll see at
least one in the boathouse as well--get them, too. You can circle the boathouse
and get any others you find, if you want. When it's clear, have Tommy land by
the entrance to the boat house and run into the shaft of light inside it,
prompting the cutscene of him pulling the switch to make the boat drop into the
water. Have him run through some shooting to get into the boat--press F--and
drive N to the mansion.
You could try Rusk's method of landing the Sea Sparrow on the suspended boat
and getting Tommy out onto it. If successful, the chopper falls away, the boat
drops in the water, and he avoids the shooting. If you cleared the area 1st but
you don't manage to get Tommy in the boat that way, he's still safe for the run
to the switch. There's always shooting for his quick run from the switch to the
boat, so just ignore the shooters and have him run straight for the boat and
press F.
I've also had Tommy drive there and cautiously shoot whoever showed up on the
way to the boat. I mostly had Tommy snipe them but had him get one with the
Minigun.
If you do it that way, just be sure he gets the ten guys that show up. He can
get three guys in red jerseys and black jackets and pants before he enters the
grounds. There are another four of them behind the place, and three in light
brown coveralls inside in the back of the building.
I'd edge Tommy along sideways so they can't get behind him and I can see a
target the moment they appear. It's not so tough a shoot-em-out.
After the cutscene at the switch, more guys in black jackets appear to shoot
while he runs to the boat, anyway. If you don't have Tommy bother with them and
just have him run, he'll make it. But the last time I did this mission, I had
Tommy use the Minigun on them--they stopped appearing after he got six of them.
(As Rusk used to note, if you fly straight to the Boatyard, you can see the
fastest boat fly up from the water onto whatever that is it hangs from.)
You get $4,000. You get a cell phone call to go to the phone by Washington
Mall.
I.50 "Autocide" Phone: Assassination Mission 3
Tommy is told to take out the members of a European gang that plan to hold up
a bank. They're working under cover, or are on vacation, in various locations
around the east island.
The Sea Sparrow is easier to get, but the better auto-aim ability of the Hunt-
er machine gun makes it easier to use. The Hunter rockets don't have auto-aim
and draw more unwanted police attention than the machine gun.
You can find a silver PCJ 600 by the weapons Tommy is given at the start of
the mission.
(When it comes to vehicles with special colors found only in a certain mis-
sion, I wouldn't worry about that aspect too much. See I.100.D.e for how to go
to datacarcols and change the color of vehicles. You can make one silver or
whatever color anytime you want. This PCJ 600 is a medium-light silver--about
the same silver as on a silver Freeway. I especially like the PCJ 600, and like
the look of this one, so I'd probably save it.)
If you use a chopper, land in the lot of the gas station across the street
from the pay phone, or land in the parking lot beside the pay phone.
If you use the PCJ 600, take a Minigun and an Uz-I with lots of ammo.
Mike Griffin
He's on the walk of a military recruitment parody billboard NE of Washington
Mall.
Chopper: shoot him with the machine gun.
Bike: you can have Tommy get him with the Minigun at least as fast as by aim-
ing and scrolling with the .308 sniper rifle.
Dick Tanner
He's in a Securicar in a lot on the N side of DPB Security: it's on the NW
side of the block along the E side of the E island four blocks from the S.
Chopper: carefully lower the chopper near the street without banging into too
much and shoot the Securicar with the machine gun.
Bike: have Tommy go to the corner across from him to the NW and blow up his
Securicar with the Minigun.
Marcus Hammond and Franco Carter
They're In a pickup truck on the E side of the N end of the middle road that
goes S from the road that goes E from the Leaf Links bridge.
Chopper: shoot the truck with the machine gun, fly off a bit, then go back for
the one that gets out of the truck to shoot at you.
Bike: have Tommy use the Minigun to blow up the truck, and, if he got out of
the truck before the explosion, shoot the guy that gets out to shoot Tommy.
Nick Kong
Chopper: use the machine gun to shoot the boat till it blows up.
Bike: go W into the E side of the lot of a house that's on the land S of the E
end of the bridge from the east island to Starfish Island. Go W along the low S
wall to a place where the grass that slopes up to the far side of the wall
slopes higher on it so you can have Tommy jump over it and get back to his bike
faster. Send Tommy over the low wall to shoot him.
Charlie Dilson
He's driving around the S area of the E island on a PCJ 600.
Chopper: cut over blocks to get at him with the machine gun.
Bike: do a forward drive-by shooting. One advantage to using the bike for
this: Chuck's quick, but, if Tommy keeps shooting, Chuck wrecks at some point.
If Tommy's on a bike, have him persist with a forward drive-by, and he can be
right there to get Chuck when he falls off the bike.
You get $4,000.
I.51 "Supply & Demand" Diaz
Diaz wants Tommy to use the fastest boat to beat the other boats to the yacht
of a freelancer who comes by once a month and sells on a "1st come, 1st served"
basis.
Lance, working for Diaz under the alias Quentin, joins Tommy. Lance asks Tom-
my why they're still doing jobs for the man they now know set up the ambush.
Tommy says they can learn more about the town they plan to take over that way.
Note: this is the mission where Diaz says he's a follower of "El burro" movies
(I.3).
This is also the mission that starts with a cutscene of Diaz as the invisible
man (I.9.G).
In the 1st of the two parts, you drive the boat and Lance shoots at the compe-
tition.
Have acceleration (W) pressed during the cut scene to be moving the boat right
away.
The routes the competition uses are both E of the mansion at the S side of
Starfish Island and, of those who go left, up the W coast of the east island,
including the W coast of Vice Point, to a boat between it and the N end of Leaf
Links. Of those who go right instead, it's the same route except they go count-
er-clockwise around the island chunk of Vice Point along the way.
If you take one of those routes, Rusk prefers going left, which is easier, but
I'm used to going right and get it in one or a few tries--then again, I've
played the game through that way a number of times.
But, without a doubt, going left is the easiest if you forget both of those
routes and blast up the W coast of Leaf Links in a gentle arc and turn E before
the N island chunk of it. Being able to jump the skinny area of the chunk is a
little risky and seems to depend on whether or not the boat gets the swell of a
wave just before the jump.
If you drive through the channels, drive fast when you can, but let up on ac-
celeration and play with acceleration/turn combos as needed to make the turns
without getting caught up somewhere or banging the boat against things so much
it catches on fire and blows up. Try to speed past the competitors without hit-
ting them, with enough speed to keep going forward if you do brush against
them--they can hit Tommy's boat and make it point the wrong way. Remember to
avoid a docked boat on the right after a sharp right turn.
Basically, and most importantly, use the radar to help you make the turns you
plan for up ahead.
On the way back, the reverse of the route used above for the right turn, Lance
drives, so you can use both hands on the Mouse to aim and shoot the M4 in 1st
person shooter mode.
Two boats chase you. Shoot the driver and shooter on the front boat, or at
least make the front boat catch on fire so it will blow up. This may block the
2nd boat; do the same to it if you need to.
I have horrible luck doing much about the shooters up ahead to your right on a
dock you whiz by, but, fortunately, that doesn't seem to matter.
Shoot the guy shooting from the side (your left) of the helicopter that comes
from behind if you want to test your marksmanship, but you really only need to
shoot at any part of the helicopter and make it burn so it explodes. If you get
the initial boats fast enough, you can concentrate on the helicopter as soon as
it appears in the sky to your right. Once, when I had it catch on fire, the pi-
lot bailed into the channel.
Then you just have to shoot the driver and shooter of the boat ahead of you
that you'll pass--or, again, just blow up the boat.
Lance takes Tommy to the mansion.
You get $10,000.
The Tracksuit outfit is now available at the Downtown Jocksport, S of the W
end of the Hyman Condo alley.
Lance calls to tell Tommy, "We can do it" (kill Diaz).
But later, Kent calls Tommy. He has something important to tell him at the
Malibu.
I.52 "Death Row" Kent Paul
Send Tommy to the "K" on your radar--at the Malibu Club--to meet Kent Paul.
Sea Sparrow: take a lot of Minigun ammo and land in the club parking lot on
the N side of the club, or, better, right in front of the club, pointed W.
"EP" Admiral: have lots of ammo for your Minigun and Uz-I and park pointing NE
in front of the club.
This is a timed mission, so I'd recommend the Sea Sparrow as providing a fast-
er way to get to the battle.
Have Tommy go in to talk to Kent.
(Thanks again to the "A Dictionary of Slang" web site for some of the U.K.
slang definitions.)
Kent Paul gets Tommy's attention with "mush," an address to get the attention
of a stranger, derived from the Romany for "man."
He tells Tommy he's going to save his "vera." Chris, of the gta place web
site, and who lives in England, tells me "vera" is short for "Vera Lynn," which
is rhyming slang for "skin"--a cigarette paper. So it's a variant of "save your
skin."
Kent says, "that 'wanker'--"contemptible person" (or "masturbator")--"Diaz,
the 'bugle master'"--"bugle" is cocaine--has got Lance, who failed in an attempt
to jump Diaz.
When Tommy grabs Kent to ask where Lance is, Kent tells him to "keep your bar-
net on": "barnet" means "hair"--Cockney rhyming slang for "barnet fair"--which,
in context, means the same as the British slang "keep your hair on" (as in
"don't lose you head")meaning "don't get upset."
Kent says they're holding Lance at the junkyard.
Tommy needs to get to the junkyard fast, before a bar on the screen shows
Lance's health has run out. The Sea Sparrow is faster.
Either way, thanks again to Rusk for most of the strategies.
You can check out the layout of City Scrap/Junkyard beforehand. It's the most
W section of Little Haiti, and W of the Links Bridge. In the big domed building
with a dirty orange front in the NW corner, the chair Lance will be tied to is
already bloody--apparently, this is a regular thing there.
(Note: from inside the building, there's a window at the back on the left you
can see through. When you look for it outside, it's not there.)
Sea Sparrow: make a bee line for the junkyard.
Sea Sparrow, front gate approach:
Fly only as close as you need to for the machine gun to clear out the en-
trance. Fly a bit closer and shoot some more till it looks clear. Fly to the
left/S side of the wall around the yard, turn in towards the junk yard, and
thoroughly clear out whatever you can from there so you can land just inside
safely. Type "aspirine"; you want to be able to fly back out.
Equip Tommy with the Minigun (scroll to Brass Knuckles to run a bit if it's
clear at 1st) and go N shooting everyone (some guy appears from the left, a cou-
ple from in front, some guy is firing from atop the building in the back, a few
are in front of or in the building, etc.). Have him shoot attackers immediately
as he moves past the big pile of black junk on the left, then moves N along the
dirty orange wall to his right, using it to protect his back. Look in the open-
ing in it on the right, and make sure it's clear to the right and ahead at the
end of it. Then the big domed building with a dirty orange front, and a big
yellow crane, should be ahead to the left.
Compared to landing the Sea Sparrow in the NE corner, this has the benefit of
quickly clearing the place to make it safer to get Lance out afterward.
Have Tommy go to Lance, who's tied to a bloody chair.
Sea Sparrow, NE corner landing: when Rusk lands in the N, he likes to land by
the building Lance is in at the NW corner. When I do something similar, I land
in a clearing in the NE of the yard away from the attackers.
If you land in a NE clearing to start the attack: go S doing the reverse of
the S to N advice given above, shooting anything that moves--shoot the guy on
the roof of the building Lance is in, the guys in front of it or in it, and any
guys that your movement of Tommy can motivate to show themselves. Clear the ar-
ea out going S as best you can and still have time to run N to Lance before
Lance's health gets too low.
Remember, as many "Vice City" gamers know, he's vulnerable to attack when weak
yet likes to help out if there's shooting--sometimes running right in front of
Tommy's line of fire (like in the next mission, "Rub Out"--it's like the same
programmer did Paulie for "Mafia"). So try to clear out the area from Lance on
down so Lance can follow Tommy into the helicopter later without anyone getting
close enough with an attack to trigger Lance to pull one of those moves.
Have Tommy go to Lance, who's tied to a bloody chair.
"EP" Admiral: Go N, take the 2nd left, go W and over the Links Bridge to the
west island, go straight to cut over the grass divider at the left side of the
road and continue W on the road beside it, follow it as it curves 90 degrees to
the left/S, turn right and go to a T intersection, go right, then turn left into
the road that leads to the junkyard.
Drive over and drive-by all of Diaz' henchmen you can. The car is BP--bullet-
proof--but not JP--jack-proof--so keep moving with room to make turns in, espe-
cially when you're going to drive forwards while looking sideways. Do a drive-
by shooting at the ones by Lance with enough distance to draw them into your
fire with a little forward and back car movement. Have Tommy get out and Mini-
gun the guy on the building Lance is in and the guy on the crane. When he gets
to the building where Lance is, have him use the Minigun on Lance's captors.
Have Tommy go to Lance, who's tied to a bloody chair.
There's a cutscene of Tommy being upset that Lance messed up his plan, and
Lance countering that Diaz killed his brother--what did Tommy expect him to do?
Tommy says they're going to have to take out Diaz now, and gets Lance to use a
gun.
There's a lot of cash left by Diaz' thugs, if you want some.
when you want someone to follow Tommy, try to go straight for awhile without
going around anything, then look to see that they've followed you. (Before get-
ting the hang of that, I had occasion to find the one meant to follow running
persistently into the side of a wall and such--you don't want to see that at a
hectic time like this. As the name of the show referred to on KCHAT says: in
the future, there will be robots.)
Sea Sparrow: lead Lance to the Sea Sparrow. If you landed in the NE, you may
need to have Tommy shoot some henchmen that approach from the S. Have Tommy
shoot them before they shoot the weakened Lance, who will probably charge them
to help, and try to avoid having Tommy hit Lance. (Afterward, as Rusk notes, as
a side feature, you can fly S briefly to shoot the three Comets beyond the en-
trance that chase and shoot when you leave that way.) Fly N over water, then
fly E to the Downtown hospital using the radar. Take care to land in the pink
shaft of light, or have Tommy get out and run into it.
"EP" Admiral: lead Lance to the "EP" Admiral. when Tommy exits the Junk Yard,
three Comets of Diaz's lowlifes will soon chase him and shoot. You can have him
stop and do a drive-by shooting till they explode from the bullets or from ram-
ming the "EP" Admiral; explosions won't hurt it, either. Drive N and E to the
main N and S road and go N to a T intersection, then go left and drive into the
shaft of light in front of the hospital on the left.
If you haven't gotten the Sea Sparrow or "EP" Admiral, finish the task at the
junkyard then send Tommy a few feet beyond the entrance with a Rocket Launcher.
The attackers in Comets will appear at the E end of the long straight E-W road,
and Tommy can shoot them as they approach. Having him get the nearet one 1st
can deter the other ones.
For some people, this is one of the most difficult missions. This way, if
you're new to it, you may only need to repeat it to get the idea of where the
targets tend to be. Don't be shy with Sea Sparrow or Minigun bullets. You
don't have to be pixel-perfect with your aim--just waggle it around over the
targets. And when you get the idea of where some targets are, you can have Tom-
my emerge from behind things, used as shields, to get them before they get him
much.
I've done this by flying there in the Hunter and blowing up the blockade at
the gate with rockets. After that, it was the same as when using the Sea Spar-
row, except I used the car by the building Lance was in to get Lance to the hos-
pital. Shortly after leaving the scrap yard, the three Comets sped around and
shot and tried to knock Tommy's car around. After extracting the car from them
to get back on course, like in Bloodring, I just had Tommy speed to the hospi-
tal, but I was probably lucky.
Tommy tells Lance to get patched up and meet him on the bridge to Starfish Is-
land.
You get no pay, since Tommy worked off a tip and not in a mission for someone.
Tommy gets to know Lance is safe and take whatever he wants to grab of the money
left behind by Diaz' henchmen.
Again, I'm waiting to end the dealings with Diaz before I do the last mission
for Cortez.
There's a "D" on the radar.
I.53 "Rub Out" Diaz
Go to the shaft of light on the part of the sidewalk to the E in front of the
mansion. Lance drives up in a Stallion (where's the white Infernus?) with weap-
onry in the trunk. Tommy likes the M60, which is like a weaker Minigun. In
fact, I don't care how much Tommy admires Lances' arsenal, I'd take a Minigun
with lots of ammo. Scroll to Brass Knuckles to have Tommy run a bit at times
because it's better to have him stay ahead of Lance and take care of everything
himself.
Send Tommy to the E side of the yard enough to pick off all the henchmen he
can from there. (Don't try having Tommy enter the front door--the graphics for
the interior of the mansion won't load, the screen will say the door is locked,
and Diaz' men will fire at Tommy while he wastes time with it.)
(The twelve monitors Diaz looks at in his room on the 2nd floor of the mansion
are six copies each of two of the six ones Tony Montana/Al Pacino looks at when
he realizes his mansion is being invaded near the end of "Scarface.")
Send Tommy up the steps and forward along the wall, getting the guy between
the hedges on the left and another at the far left side. As soon as Tommy gets
to the back yard, there's one henchman ahead. Once down on the lower walk, have
Tommy turn right to get the guy on the far side of it. Get Tommy into the Sea
Sparrow, fly up and turn 180 degrees, land it on the E roof of the mansion, and
run inside and down a flight of stairs.
Get the Minigun ready again, and have Tommy turn into the hall. Have him
shoot any henchmen you see as he enters the main area; there's probably one
ahead of him on the balcony around the 2nd floor, and two at his left on the
lower back part of the same balcony, with Diaz emerging from the door to his of-
fice in the middle.
If you send Tommy inside the mansion directly without using the Sea Sparrow,
scroll to Fist/Brass Knuckles at times to try to keep him ahead of Lance and
kill a few henchmen to clear the way for him. If you go into the 1st floor of
the main room, clear the way and go up the stairs.
After the cutscene of Diaz emerging in protest, have Tommy aim one volley of
Minigun bullets at him to end your task. (The cutscene does the rest.)
If you use a lesser weapon, there's a cutscene of Diaz running into his office
saying he's going to kill Tommy real soon, etc. Then have Tommy go finish him
off.
In the final cutscene, Diaz crawls out protesting to Tommy and Lance, who draw
over him with guns.
"Say 'Goodnight,' Mr. Diaz."
I've done this before doing the side missions, too. I put the VCPD chopper in
the Sea Sparrow's place ahead of time and used the M60 provided--it worked the
same way as in the case in which Diaz gets back into his office and Tommy has to
shoot him again.
****
GTA_Loc's "Felony Allowed" gimmick: wanted stars flicker and disappear; no
soldiers appear at Fort Baxter.
After Tommy and Lance kill Diaz' outdoor bodyguards, and Tommy gets into the
interior, the kind the graphics load for, of the mansion, the Felony Allowed
status begins. You can have Tommy take Lance along to rob all 15 stores, let-
ting the money max out over four payments to $1,000 at each. Have Tommy put
Lance somewhere safe outside if you want Tommy to create destruction for his
CRiminal Rating (I.7), etc. (Another mission you can do this with, except with
a Never Wanted status, is "Cop Land"--see I.61.)
****
You get $50,000.
You own the mansion--now called the Vercetti Estate. You'll have armor and
weapon pickups by the wall at the back of the E side of the front yard; a two
car garage with Lance's white Infernus parked nearby (if it's not white yet, go
away and go back and it will be); an Admiral or a Stretch on the other side of
the front stairs (ditch the Admiral down the road if you want the Stretch to re-
place it); a Maverick on the roof; a Sea Sparrow in the back yard; health, ar-
mor, an M4, and a Shotgun in a bottom floor room; a health pickup in the TV
room; and a street outfit in the office. The PC version lets Tommy drive a ve-
hicle in the mansion, so he can drive a PCJ 600 inside if you want him to morph.
I'd move the "EP" Admiral to the mansion garage.
You have an open safe overflowing with banded stacks of paper money. If
you've collected 40 Hidden Packages and the Flame Thrower appears among Tommy's
weapon pickups, two gasoline can-like cans of "Hot 'n' Sticky" appear in the of-
fice. Your TV room on the 1st floor has an unplugged TV, and (if you've done
"Demolition Man") an open "ACTION HELI" box.
The "V" will appear at the mansion on the radar and map whether there's a mis-
sion there or not. A 2nd "V" will appear if there's a mission there.
The paintings on the 2nd floor become defaced soon. The mansion has a little
junk in the TV room; it and the main entrance room are going to become a mess of
more and more empty pizza boxes, empty bottles, GASH bags, etc., as the game
goes on.
The chair/desk/monitors arrangement in the office, and the emphasis of red in
the main entrance room, are some more of the things modeled after things in
"Scarface," 1983. Go to the door of the main office, face the stairway, equip
the rocket launcher, and give it a "Say hello to my little friend"--pa-HOOM!--
for me.
For a little variety, you might type the code "chickswithguns" to have the
Vercetti gang, who will appear at your asset-making properties once you own
them, become women in bikinis with guns. You may need to go around and in and
out of the mansion a bit before they appear.
You can now get a six star wanted rating.
The .357, MP, and M4 are available to buy from the Downtown Ammu-Nation.
They're each the best for their category. The MP is the best submachine gun
for drive-by shootings, so I'd stock up on ammo for it.
A broken hidden package, with several piles of white powder around it, shows
up on the counter of Tommy's Ocean View apartment. It reveals the cocaine-smug-
gling purpose of the hidden packages in Vice City.
You get a cell phone call from Kent Paul at the Malibu. The Love Fist mis-
sions are available (I.56).
Please remember: I strongly recommend you see the alternative order of mis-
sions I suggest in the mission list near the start of this guide if you want to
use the Angel with special handling abilities for "The Driver" and the Sunshine
Auto races. If you want to do that, which I recommend, just use the order of
missions I'll be using in this walk-through. You could also just make your own
Angel with those special handling abilities as explained in I.100.D.e Cars and
bikes, Gameplay advantages: How to create your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" An-
gel.
Sonny calls--he's heard Tommy has been taking over Vice City and he hasn't
forgotten about him (especially that he owes Sonny money).
You can do three of the four Chopper Checkpoint missions (I.55).
Stock up on Minigun ammo, save the game, and take the Sea Sparrow S to Pier 2
to do:
I.54 "All Hands On Deck!" Col. Cortez
Have five or six rounds of Minigun ammo so you'll have some when this is done.
Cortez wants Tommy to protect him as he tries to sail from Vice City on his
yacht. As it pulls away, two FBI Washingtons with eight armed French agents
drive onto Pier 1 and board boats. (The PS2 gimmick of blocking the entrance
beforehand with a Coach won't work on PC--the Coach disappears if you try it.)
The game gives Tommy a Katana--sword--to use in joining Cortez and his hench-
men in defending against the attackers. Nuh-uh. Scroll to Minigun and send
Tommy to the SE side of the yacht. Those boats are gonna blow before anyone
sets foot on that yacht to sishkebab.
For the 2nd part, send Tommy to the N end of the boat. The French agents have
formed a blockade of boats and Dinghies. Have Tommy blow them up real good.
Have him get another boat that pulls up on the E side.
The Minigun makes such short work of everything you apply it to, the game
doesn't seem to be prepared for someone to handle things so quickly. After
blowing up the French agent's boats with it, so no agents got anywhere near
close enough to board Cortez' yacht, the game showed a cut scene of Cortez kill-
ing a French agent that got aboard, anyway. (I was looking around: "Where the
hell did he come from?") Throughout the mission otherwise, Cortez and his men
generally just stood around with nothing to do. No agents could get aboard for
them to fight. If you hear fighting on board, you can let them handle it and
ignore it or have Tommy shoot the French agents, but tend to these other things
1st.
Send Tommy to the E side of the boat to shoot down two Mavericks. Then have
him get the Hunter that comes from the SW. I let it go overhead 1st ever since
Tommy's Minigun made such short work of it once that it landed on the yacht to
blow up.
You get $5,000.
You get a speed boat, a Speeder, from the Colonel.
You can try out the boat ramp jumps: there's one at the S end of the N island
of Leaf Links, there are a few by piers 1 and 2, one at the S end of the east
island, and one S of the wooden shack without a roof in the S central waters.
In a Gamefaqs message board post, someone wondered if you could have Tommy
push the boat to a garage (you might have him hop in and type "aspirine" if you
need to) and save it; spaceeinstein wrote you could. But it would be so much
trouble, and you can just pirate one from the high seas, or, sometimes, from
Pier 2. And you're going to get a couple of speed boats, including the Squalo
II--the fastest in the game, when you buy the Boatyard.
Kent Paul calls--someone (probably Sonny or one of his henchmen) is offended
that Tommy is taking over and is out to take a crack at Tommy.
I.55 Checkpoint Chopper missions 1 to 3 (the 4th is available at I.88, after
"G-Spotlight").
Have Tommy enter a Sparrow (a Sea Sparrow with rails instead of pontoons and
no machine gun) to initiate a timed test to fly through glowing disks (as usual,
they're pink-violet except the last one is red). As he passes through one and
it disappears, the next one glows brightly. You only need to complete a course
to succeed with it, and you can also try to beat your previous time.
Vice Point. Go E on the road that extends E from the E end of the little
bridge from Leaf Links club house and make the 1st left. Go right off the road
onto a little blacktop lane that goes under an arch, then go left into an open-
ing in the wooden fence. The helicopter is in the yard. 17 disks.
Ocean Beach. The helicopter is on the roof of the building you jump to from
the stairs of the "stilt" building (J32) then jump from (J33). 17 disks.
Little Haiti. It's on the landing roof of J5. Jump with the PCJ 600 or take
a helicopter there. 22 disks.
You get $100 for each success.
I.56 "Love Juice" Love Fist The skull icon on your in-game map and radar.
Jezz Torrent is voice acted by Kevin McKidd, who stars as Tommy in the 1996
movie "Trainspotting" (which, like "Vice City," features the Blondie song "Atom-
ic").
Thanks again to "A Dictionary of Slang" for some U.K. slang definitions.
While Kent Paul introduces Tommy to Love Fist, he says, "Willy's in the kaze"
(also "khazi" and "karzy": lavatory). He wants Tommy to get them the ingredi-
ents for Love Juice because Love Fist "...ain't too connected here--they don't
have the old, 'How's your father?'" (sexual intercourse). Love Juice is two
parts boomshine (fictionalized name for moonshine whiskey), one part trumpet
(the closest I found was "trump": fart, "crumpet": sexually desirable person,
and "Bugle": cocaine), five fizz bombs, and a liter of petrol.
Thanks to Colin Attle, a friendly UK reader who's offered several useful tips
found elsewhere in this guide, for the tip that "Fizz Bombs" (I thought they
might be drinks with seltzer) are little fruit flavored balls of candy with a
sour coating in the UK:
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/mtype2/whatever/archives/fizz_bombs/
http://www.sweetsncandy.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=FIZBOM020
"Willy" and "Percy" are U.K. pet names for penis. "Jezz" sounds like "jizz,"
which is a variation of "jism," and "torrent" means a great outpouring or strong
stream. The 4th member of the band is Dick on either side of the Atlantic.
Either: use whatever fast car you handle the best and a Minigun,
or: use a PCJ 600, and an MP from the Downtown Ammu-Nation, for a forward
drive-by shooting, which is easy.
Park in the shaft of light, facing the street, and honk the horn. There's a
cutscene of a dealer in a Gilligan sailor hat who takes Tommy's money and
speeds off on a PCJ 600.
Have Tommy ram him off the bike with the car, then shoot him, or do a forward
drive-by shooting with the PCJ 600.
Then Kent calls: Lovefist wants some company, and Tommy knows just the right
woman.
Tommy has to pick up Mercedes at her house, then has 90 seconds to get her to
the studio at VROCK.
The fastest way is to go N on the road beside the E side of her house to a T
intersection, go right then quickly left onto the road that takes you to the
North Bridge from the east island to Prawn Island, cross the bridge, cross Prawn
Island, cross the next bridge, than go straight to the T intersection: VROCK is
across the street to the left.
You get $2,000.
Kent calls. He wants Tommy to get Mitch Baker's biker gang for security at
the next Love Fist concert. His icon is the playing card-type spade at the
Greasy Chopper on your in-game map and radar.
There's a shaft of light in front of the VROCK building (Love Fist) and anoth-
er in front of the Greasy Chopper (Mitch Baker).
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
Mitch Baker's 1st mission is "Alloy Wheels of Steel." Again, please consider
the alternative order of missions that follows in this guide if you want to use
the "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel with special handling abilities for "The Driv-
er" and the Sunshine Auto races. Once a garage door falls in front of that An-
gel, it's just another hog.
Alternatively, you could make your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel as de-
scribed in I.100.D.e Cars and bikes under Gameplay advantages: How to create
your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel.
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I.57 "Psycho Killer" Love Fist
Kent tells Tommy a stalker has been violating the privacy of the group, and
now he wants to kill them. (Sounds like some of the neighbors I've had in some
of the places I've lived.) Kent thinks he may try something at the upcoming au-
tograph signing appearance by Lovefist.
Again, thanks to Rusk for the Coach idea. (If he's reading, I hope I get an
"A.")
Save a PCJ 600, Coach, Firetruck, Flatbed, Linerunner, Rhino, or Packer at a
Hyman Condo garage beforehand.
Have a Minigun and an MP with lots of ammo (good general advice, too).
1. PCJ 600:
Have Tommy drive to the VROCK building on a PCJ 600. Have him enter the
shaft of light.
There's a cutscene (described above) of Tommy with Kent and Love Fist.
Have Tommy drive the PCJ 600 S to the corner of the sidewalk that's just E of
the shaft of light in the street and park with the motorcycle pointing SE.
There are cheering fans in front of the Rock City record store. You can't miss
the psycho--he's the cross dresser with five o'clock shadow--but you fail the
mission if you have Tommy attack him now.
Then have Tommy run back up to get the limo and drive it down into the light.
There's a cutscene of the psycho blaming Love Fist for making him such a head
case, then he gets into his Sentinel and speeds off to the E.
Immediately have Tommy get out of the limo and onto the PCJ 600 to do a for-
ward drive-by shooting on the psycho's Sentinel. It won't be on the radar, so
try to keep it in view enough that you don't lose it and fail the mission.
He'll drive E then turn N to the T intersection by Ammu-Nation. Beware of the
Trashmaster that pulls all the way out and straight across the street from the
right when Tommy is most of the way N toward Ammu-Nation. Slow down, let it
cross, and pass it on the left; the disoriented psycho dawdles up at the T in-
tersection for a bit to compensate.
Or,
2. Coach, Bus, Firetruck, Flatbed, Linerunner, Rhino, or Packer:
After the cutscene in the recording studio, have Tommy drive the Love Fist
limo S, stop short of the shaft of light in the street by the crowd at the music
store, and get out.
Have him run back to the condo garages and get...
...a Coach (commercial passenger bus). Take it to the alley on the E side of
the record store and line up the right side of the Coach with the E wall.
Reverse with the right side of the Coach in alignment with the wall. Use Q to
see that you stop with the vertical seam in the middle of the Coach over the
yellow line in the road. Rusk's method is very handy here if you don't want
to chase the psycho. You need something to keep him in the area, and the
Coach is just the thing.
I tried taking the Coach to 8 Ball's Bomb Shop at the S of the west island
1st for a little variety. The detonator won't work if you take the Coach there
before the mission, so take it there during the mission if you try this. And
have Tommy exit the limo and detonate the bomb immediately when it's time to
kill the psycho, or the psycho may back away from the Coach and get away before
you can get Tommy back into the limo to catch him.
Or, after Tommy parks the limo short of the shaft of light, you can send him
back to the condo for...
...a Firetruck, Rhino, Linerunner, Flatbed, or Bus. It's the same deal as
with the Coach, but a Coach isn't always handy. There's always a Firetruck at
the fire department lot on the E side of the block that's across the street from
the music store, so you might just get it from the fire department lot. You can
always find the Rhino at Fort Baxter and often find the other three vehicles in
Viceport.
Block at least the S lane with whatever that's not long enough to reach across
the street.
After putting the Coach, or whatever, in place, have Tommy drive the limo into
the light. There's a cutscene of the mixed-up kid blaming Love Fist for ruining
his life, then he gets in a Sentinel and drives into the side of the vehicle you
left to block him. Have Tommy get out and end this mini-drama with his Minigun.
Or,
3. Packer:
As a variation of 2, you can put a Packer in the path of the psycho to try to
get the psycho to shoot over the ramp and into--you pick. When I tried it, he
drove over the ramp and his car flipped over and started to burn. Then he and
it disappeared and the screen said the mission was failed--I let him get away.
What a rip.
As Rusk notes, if the psycho tries to reverse, you might be fast enough to
have Tommy jack the psycho's Sentinel and do a left--Q--drive-by on him before
he leaves the side of the car. If not, have Tommy get out and shoot him.
With the PC Lovefist limo, you might want to do what I like to do with the
Police car in "GTA III" for the Vigilante mission: give the Lovefist limo a lot
of weight, durability, speed, etc. (see I.100.D.e), and use it to bang the he**
out of the target.
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You get $4,000.
You have to do the Mitch Baker missions before you can do any more for Love
Fist. But following my plan to make the eight races coming up as easy as possi-
ble, I'm scheduling the Vercetti missions next.
There are a couple of overlapping V's at the mansion on the radar.
I.58 "Shakedown" Vercetti
In the mansion, Lance tells Tommy that local businesses know Diaz is dead and
refuse to pay protection money. Tommy sets out to scare them into paying him,
and says he'll be back in five minutes.
Get lots of ammo for your Minigun then scroll to Fist/Brass Knuckles so Tommy
can start out running.
Tommy has to get to North Point Mall fast. Besides the usual Infernus, a
Stinger and an Uz-I are provided on the driveway. You can also have a Sea Spar-
row parked there beforehand to get to the mall faster still.
Note: in the several protection money missions for Vercetti, any vehicles that
are normally white or silver are tinted with gold during the mission and revert
to their normal colors when it's completed. (I guess this symbolizes how ambi-
tious Tommy's eyes are "seeing gold.")
Have Tommy get to North Point Mall quickly.
The radar shows the targets on your floor as red squares, and gives higher or
lower ones as triangles pointed either up or down. Get them in order of proxim-
ity on one floor then the other. Tommy gets a five star wanted level which goes
away when all the windows are destroyed.
As you can see from this rough diagram of the layout, you can save time on the
1st floor by having Tommy shooting from between the two S stores and between the
two N stores. Tommy can get most of the three sides of GASH from one spot, any-
way. Have Tommy shoot from a spot a bit towards the center of the mall rather
than directly between stores.
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The fastest way to do it would be to have Tommy enter the door to the E of of
the two doors along the S end of the mall, get the 1st floor GASH and Tarbrush
Cafe, go up the escalator in GASH to get the 2nd floor GASH, get Vinyl Count-
down, then jump the banister to get the Book and Jewelry stores.
You get $2,000.
You can now buy property that makes money. The pink disks in front of them
now have house pickups that are green instead of blue.
Avery calls to tell Tommy to watch for business opportunities.
The .308 sniper rifle is available at the Downtown Ammu-Nation, and your
paintings are messed up at the mansion.
Tommy gets a call for Mr. Teal go to the pay phone at the airport terminal.
There's a pink shaft of light at the entrance to the mansion TV room and
another by a pay phone in the airport terminal.
I.59 "Check In At The Check Out" Phone: Assassination Mission 4
Have Tommy get into the light at the pay phone in the main terminal building
at the airport. The caller says to get the sniper rifle by a planter to the
right. A lady will take the escalator down from the balcony and ask a busi-
nessman for the time. Tommy has to shoot him, get his briefcase, and take it to
the location which is written on something taped under the phone (the Downtown
Ammu-Nation).
You could have Tommy use a vehicle to jump the rail by the metal detector to
get him in with his weapons, but it's not worth it. The businessman and his
bodyguard go down with one shot each using the sniper rifle provided. Besides,
sneaking in weapons makes the security guards attack. Going through the metal
detector will cause the weapon pickups to hover outside till Tommy returns for
them, even through saved games.
In the PC version, a vehicle will disappear if left on the plot of grass just
N of the terminal doors for a getaway.
You can leave a car inside the entrance to the S tarmac a bit E of the en-
trance (you don't want to lure the police right through the entrance to it) and
it will remain there for your getaway. (Besides that, the chopper takes a few
moments for lift off, during which time Tommy is vulnerable to being busted and
having his chopper destroyed.) I recommend the "EP" Admiral for that spot.
However, I did have good luck with the Sea Sparrow if I left it in the grassy
area N of the "Vice Surf" sign. Another time, I didn't want to take any
chances--I put it even further N, using the N tarmac a good ways to the E of the
entrance. It remained there till I needed it and the police didn't crowd Tommy
as he ran to it.
When Tommy gets the rifle, he has to approach the target while the lady comes
downstairs. A Distance Meter indicates if he's gone too close and been spot-
ted, which would mean you fail the mission. Letting the meter get 2/3rds to
3/4ths full lets Tommy get close enough.
After the lady walks from the businessman, have Tommy shoot him and his body-
guard. Equip the scope with the RMB and zoom in with Z or the Mouse Scroller.
Make sure Tommy runs through the briefcase pickup and not just a weapon pickup
or you can't complete the mission.
The shooting creates a two star wanted rating.
Have Tommy dash outside to get the weapon pickups floating among the shooting
policemen. You can always have Tommy get a weapon later, if a police car or
such is in the way, but I'd like him to have the heavier ones in case he needs
to shoot one of the black cars or some other obstruction.
The police, and guys who shoot from the sun roofs of black cars to get the
briefcase, will chase Tommy on his way to Ammu-Nation. The police show up out-
side the terminal, one of the two black cars shows up at the Vice City Transport
building you jumped onto for J9, and the other shows up at the top of the dead
end road that goes S through the bottom center of the west island. They all go
N on the main N and S road.
If you use the Sea Sparrow, you can take out the two black cars with the ma-
chine gun as an option, fly through the airborne bribes, then fly to the Down-
town Ammu-Nation.
If the Sea Sparrow is destroyed, I use a variation of a shortcut Rusk uses to
avoid the two black cars. It begins like the way I gave to get H98. Jack a ve-
hicle when handy through this: go N through the N tarmac, N past the W side of
the wall/fence, go E to the yellow wall then go N along the E side of the yellow
wall, then go E across the tarmac that goes over the road below. Go over the
lawn to Little Havana, and N through it and Little Haiti before getting on the
main N and S road to continue on the W lane of the "Y" division in the road to
Ammu-Nation. On the way, there's a bribe in Little Haiti in the alley past the
N end of the road that runs N and S on the W side of the big drainage ditch.
You can also use the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray. Getting rid of Tommy's wanted
rating wouldn't deter the black cars, but I don't run into them when I try this.
I think Tommy has to go by them to lure them to chase him.
I did this mission with an Infernus, parked N of the "Vice Surf" billboard,
took the shortcut and used the bribe, and never saw the black cars on the rest
of the way up to Ammu-Nation. I've also sent Tommy up the W coast to get the
Trashmaster from the City Scrap yard, and not only didn't see the two black
cars, but the Trashmaster made little concern of the police cars.
You can take the detour with the "EP" Admiral, but it might be more fun to
tempt fate and let the others shoot and ram the car in vain on the main road.
Drive fast, avoiding the police and enemy cars, and swirling back on track if
knocked off course. You're in the "EP" Admiral, so you're sitting pretty--just
don't let yourself get cornered or flipped on your back. You might take the
shortcut over the grass on the E side of the main road N. You can stop at the
Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray along the way, but it won't stop the black cars, so
you might destroy them 1st. Then cut W across the median strip before the road
makes a "Y" division, and continue N straight to the shaft of light outside of
the Ammu-Nation.
And be sure to save that "EP" Admiral in one of your garages (but not the big
one at the condo--let it eat an old Rhino). If you lose it, reload the game be-
cause it's too important to lose for any one mission.
You get $8,000.
There's a pink shaft of light at the entrance to the TV room of the mansion.
I.60 "Bar Brawl" Vercetti
Lance, drinking at the bar in the TV room of the mansion, tells Tommy a local
bar won't pay protection money because they're protected by local thugs. Tommy
reprimands Lance for drinking when there's work to be done and takes a couple
other henchmen to handle it. He's getting madder--he doesn't want to just smash
windows this time.
You can use the Sea Sparrow and a lot of Molotovs (from Tacopalypse, E of the
condo alley)
or a PCJ 600 and a lot of Minigun ammo, MP ammo (from the Downtown Ammu-Na-
tion), and Molotovs.
Either way, take a henchman if you want, not that the henchman is a lot of
help. Tommy seems to know this: "Get in the car, useless."
A Sentinel is provided on the driveway.
The Front Page Bar is at the N side of the Ocean View apartment building.
Shoot or run over the two security guards on the sidewalk in front of it. You
could land on the roof of the bar and have Tommy toss Molotovs down at them,
too.
If in the air, you can fly until the one star rating goes away. If on land,
the rating may last very briefly; you can use the bribe to the SW in the sunken
shopping center one block over.
Send Tommy to the shaft of light looking shaky on the floor of the outdoor
bar.
The bar owner says the idiots he's been using for protection work out of DPB
Security.
After the scene, you have five minutes to complete the mission.
DPB Security is on the NW corner of the 2nd block N. The security guards will
be in a lot on the N side of DPB Security.
If in the air, I like Rusk's idea to land on the roof of the building across
the street from that to the N, avoiding any fire that could come up from the lot
as much as possible, and throw Molotovs (Rusk likes Grenades) at the lot. If
you have Tommy shoot, focus the shots before the entrance to the lot so they
can't run toward the building Tommy is on and out of view below. A cutscene,
described below, precedes the next section. Rusk explains that, on PS2, Tommy
is placed on the ground after the cutscene, and that building has stairs you can
use to get back to the helicopter. In the PC version, the game may put Tommy on
the ground, but it usually lets him continue from up on the roof.
If you have Tommy begin this battle on the ground, you can have him use Molo-
tovs or shoot the guards in the lot. If you have him shoot, the Minigun is the
quickest. There's a car in the lot he can blow up to take one or two of them
out.
There's a cutscene of an explosion on the lot and two of the thugs speeding to
the E-most road then going S on it.
Destroying the Securicar that comes from the S on that road during this last
part gives you a $1,000 bonus.
Have Tommy shoot the Securicar with the Sea Sparrow machine gun or with the MP
from the PCJ 600; the Minigun makes short work of it, as usual, if it's handy to
have him get off the bike for a few moments. The security guards on bikes will
remain in the light house area if they reach it while he does.
Shoot the bikers with the Sea Sparrow or do a forward drive-by shooting with
the PCJ 600. Once at the light house area, the bikers tend to stay there or
just try to get away on foot, so I'd have Tommy get off the PCJ 600 and give him
a Minigun to shoot with once he's there.
One drawback of using the Sea Sparrow: the Securicar can have a tendency to be
lured to drive in circles directly beneath the Sea Sparrow where you can't see
it.
Rusk likes the "EP" Admiral for this mission, too--run over the 1st two and
drive-by the rest. For a sideways drive-by of the cyclists, he suggests passing
them and shooting while you let them slowly try to pass you. (Ramming them off
their bikes works if you don't get them that way.)
Using the Sentinel to go S on the N and S road along the E coast, I saw the
Securicar whiz past going N. When I turned the car around, it was going S. I
had Tommy blow it up with the Minigun.
Once the cyclists are shot, the mission is completed.
You get $4,000.
The S.P.A.S 12 shotgun is available at the Downtown Ammu-Nation.
Lance calls. He's upset, feeling that Tommy is belittling him unfairly. Tom-
my tries to reassure him he isn't and that this is no time for this, but Lance
doesn't seem reconciled. Tommy tells him to take a few days off.
There's a pink shaft of light at home on the E end of the front porch of the
mansion.
I.61 "Cop Land" Vercetti
Lance bawls out Mike for botching a job to wire a store to blow up at the
(North Point) mall, leaving evidence behind that could incriminate them. Mike
says the timer must have screwed up, but someone tipped off the police. Lance
says they have to remove the evidence. Tommy says the police will be all over
the place, so they have to go there disguised as police men with a squad car.
Lance says they should use a brusque gesture to lure the police to a lock-up
where they can confine them and jump them.
The hardest part about this mission is the last part--transporting Lance from
the North Point Mall to the mansion porch through a five star wanted rating.
The easiest way is with the Sea Sparrow, the "EP" Admiral, or the Rhino.
The Sea Sparrow has the advantage of getting to the three airborne bribes,
then the Hyman Condo roof for a brief run downstairs to use the alley bribe,
then can fly the last star off.
The "EP" Admiral has the advantage over the Rhino of being able to be used in
the Pay 'n' Spray. If it gets rammed upside-down and destroyed, reload the
game.
The Rhino can be used after leaving another vehicle in the Pay 'n' Spray 1st,
or driven to various bribes, but it can take a number of efforts to get Lance
to follow Tommy from the condo alley bribe to the roof to use the Maverick for
airborne bribes.
If you don't care if your Wanted Stars Attained gets bigger than Evaded, pick
whatever of them you like. The immediate wanted rating disappears when you have
Tommy get into the shaft of light on the mansion porch.
A black Sentinel is provided on the mansion driveway. It might not survive
the run back to the mansion. When I tried it, I managed to transfer Lance into
one of the attacking Enforcers for a hectic ride to the mansion.
Get Lance into the vehicle you chose and drive to the lockup, an open garage
with a police car parked nearby. Park in the lawn across the street and down
the road a bit from it. Have Tommy shoot at locals and their vehicles till he
gets a two star wanted level. Lance follows Tommy around, so, as usual, don't
shoot Lance or lead him near fire. Have Tommy wait across the street or some-
where away from the garage for the arrival of the police car. If it parks in
front of the garage and you lure two police men and Lance into the back of it,
you'll get a message that the game can't proceed because the garage door is
blocked. Have Tommy make a running shove at the front or back of it, or drive
it away a bit, if that happens.
Once you get the two police men and Lance in the garage, the door closes and
there's a cutscene. Tommy and Lance come out in police uniforms.
Have Tommy take Lance to the alcove between two entrances at the S end of the
North Point Mall. You'll see police men everywhere, and may see a couple of po-
lice cars blocking the road, on the way ("Cop Land"). If you hit something, you
may hear Lance say, "Easy, brother--no cop drives this bad."
Lead Lance into the S entrance to the E. Go into the shaft of light in the
Tarbrush Cafe to your right. A cutscene shows Tommy fixing the bomb. Have him
ready to run to the S exit to the W, leading Lance in long straight segments,
because, after the cutscene, Lance says the bomb is set to go off in five sec-
onds, and Tommy gets a five star wanted level.
Have Tommy lead Lance outside and into his vehicle. Get rid of his wanted
level the best way for it, and get Tommy into the shaft of light on the porch of
the mansion.
****
GTA_Loc's "Cop Land" Never Wanted gimmick: no wanted stars; no soldiers appear
at Fort Baxter.
After Tommy and Lance get their police uniforms, the Never Wanted staus be-
gins. You can have Tommy take Lance along in a vehicle to rob all 15 stores,
letting the money max out over four payments to $1,000 at each. Have Tommy put
Lance somewhere safe if you want to have Tommy create destruction for his CRim-
inal Rating (I.7), etc. Don't let Lance or the two soldiers by the door of the
Tarbrush Cafe die. (Another mission you can do this with, except with a Felony
Allowed status--the wanted stars flicker and disappear, is "Rub Out"--see I.53.)
****
You get $10,000. The mansion will make $5,000 a day in protection money.
Lance calls. He's upset and even more convinced that Tommy belittles him. He
won't let Tommy respond.
The police uniform outfit is available in a room to the left of the entrance
room of the Washington Beach police station.
Dressed in it, Tommy can explore the police station and Fort Baxter, and get
the Rhino, the Hunter, and the M60, without getting shot at.
Again, the "V" will appear at the mansion on the radar and map whether there's
a mission there or not. There are two more missions for Vercetti after "Hit The
Courier" (I.96), the last Print Works asset.
I.62.A Buy Sunshine Autos (car showroom asset)
for $50,000. Go S from the W end of the South Bridge, make two right turns,
and it's on the right side of the road.
You'll get a sunshine icon on your map and radar and your own Pay 'n' Spray
called a "spray 'n' go."
It's good to keep a fast car in a garage across from the spray 'n' go. If
Tommy gets a high wanted rating, you can have him land a helicopter, or park the
Rhino, near the garage door, then drive the fast car into the spray 'n' go.
B.J. Smith is voice acted by the Most Valuable Player in the NFL in 1986, the
year "Vice City" takes place in: Lawrence Taylor.
He's also a guest on KCHAT talk radio, and does radio commercials on VCPR, Fe-
ver 105, and KCHAT radio for his fitness program and hot--as in "stolen"--used
car dealership.
As he explains in his interview on KCHAT, he wants to come out of retirement
and play football for the Vice City Mambas again.
I don't know if it's meant to explain his initials, but I've had Tommy jack an
Infernus from a businessman who said, "I just got a BJ in this puppy." (There
are also a couple of Uncle BJ's Deli and Groceries stores in Belleville Park in
Staunton in "GTA III.")
B.J. bears a resemblance to Lance's brother Victor Vance, who's the star of
the upcoming game "Vice City Stories" and is seen in the opening scenes of the
game.
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In a cutscene, he explains to Tommy that he wants to sell the car dealership
to him and return to football with the Mambas. He admits the business was wind-
ing down, but Tommy thinks it's perfect, and they have a deal.
I.62.B Sunshine Autos Vehicle Collection (car showroom asset) (to have it
make money for you, get bonus vehicles, and to carry on the traditions of B.J.
Smith and "GTA III").
If you have Tommy go down the S sloping driveway to the back of Sunshine Au-
tos then turn to the wall at his immediate right, there's a list of vehicles on
the wall by a garage door. The task is to have him steal those vehicles, which
are crossed off the list as he puts them into the garage. There are six vehi-
cles per list and four lists. With the completion of the 1st list, Sunshine Au-
tos makes money daily, and it makes more per day each time you complete a list.
Each completion also adds a vehicle you won't find on the streets otherwise to
the showroom.
It can help to know that driving a vehicle causes the game to spawn not only
others of the same model but of the same basic class. For example, if you're
looking for Banshee you'll probably have an easier time searching in a Cheetah
or such. This might help you when you look for vehicles that don't have a spot
you always find them in.
It's also kind of funny, in the absurdist world GTA creates, that you no soon-
er pull out in a vehicle than it looks like a whole bunch of other people de-
cided it would be fun to drive one of those, too.
If you find one out front that's good for a later list, store it in one of the
four two vehicle garages below.
I usually have Tommy find a bunch of the vehicles of the 1st few lists just
running back and forth in the area and just use the locations given below if it
takes a while for one to show up.
1st vehicle list
Esperanto Cadillac Eldorado '80-'85. It's a long two-door car. It has a
boxy grille of vertical bars in the center of the front end, diamond-shaped hood
and trunk ornaments, and long thin vertical back up lights. It's a prestige car
that doesn't perform that great in any category--practically an "all show--no go
showboat." It's okay if you minimize how often it goes out of control in that
side to side way the police cars have. Rusk quotes a source that says it can be
found near the Ocean View hospital, but I hung around it a long time to find
one. It might help to search for it in a similar land roving boat from this or
the next list.
Rancher See I.9.B. It's a big SUV. It might help make it appear to look for
it in the Landstalker--see below.
Idaho Buick Riviera '74. It has a horizontal grille and two horizontal back
up lights with a silver diamond logo between them. It's a two-door boat with a
dirty white hood with two small rear side windows that manages to distinguish
itself--it handles worse than the Esperanto.
Stallion A hybrid of a variety of cars--see the description under "Others" in
the run down of all four-wheel vehicles at I.9.B. It's a muscle car you won't
need the muscle of because it doesn't handle that great. It may have the top up
or down and has a small vent hood. You can have Tommy take the one used for
"Cone Crazy" after doing the mission for it, take it right away and not care
that you'll fail the mission for it, or look around the area for another one to
spawn by it.
Landstalker Ford Explorer '91-'94. It's an SUV that carries on the "GTA III"
tradition of SUVs you don't want to drive. Go W from the W end of Starfish Is-
land and take the 1st left--it's on the driveway and behind a big shrub of the
2nd house on the left--a dirty pink-beige house.
Blista Compact Honda CR-X '83-'87. A compact car with good handling (as long
as you don't plan on driving near traffic). How did it get on this list?
Sunshine Autos makes $1,500 a day.
The Deluxo (DeLorean DMC-12 '81 to '83) is in Sunshine Autos. It can be driv-
en out through the window. It's a high performance car with good speed, but it
has a high center of gravity and spins out easily on turns. I think the idea of
it as a reward is to make you feel better about the Blista. Put on some Huey
Lewis tunes, though, use the "seaways" code, and drive it out over water to re-
create the ending of "Back to the Future," 1985, Marty. "Where we're going, we
don't use...roads.")
2nd vehicle list
Virgo Mercury Cougar XR7 '77-'79. It's a long two-door with small rear side
windows. It has a chrome bar that runs side to side across the roof and contin-
ues down in back of the front windows, and a horizontal chrome bar low on each
side. It has vertical and horizontal back up lights and a horizontal diamond
ornament on the back of the trunk. It has four headlights and a vertical dia-
mond engine hood ornament. It's one of the least durable vehicles in the game,
so I'd normally recommend you respectfully allow it to remain a Virgo.
Sentinel BMW E28 M5 '84-'86 four door sedan without the little rear side win-
dow dividers, and with the grill and headlights made rectangular. It has the
rounder cab, and parking and brake lights, of a BMW M635CSi, aka M6, coupe '83-
'89. It has noticeably less speed than the Sentinel XS, but it's sturdier.
It's a four-door midsize car with horizontal back up lights, two dual exhausts,
black bumpers, and a vertical diamond trunk ornament. Just when you thought a
car couldn't seem more ordinary, you have to get a:
Washington Basically, it looks like a Lincoln Continental '84-'87--see the
listing for "FBI Washington" in the "Good/distinctive four-door cars" section
above. Compared to an FBI Washington, it has a higher center of gravity,doesn't
handle as good, isn't as fast or able to accelerate as fast, and is less dura-
ble; it does weigh more, though. I'd put the Washington in this garage and the
FBI Washington in my garage. There's always an FBI Washington parked in an al-
cove of the S stretch of alley that goes around a building S of the Downtown
Well Stacked Pizza, if you want to see the black FBI version of what you're
looking for. You can't use the FBI version for the list, though. A Washington
is a bland-looking four-door with a horizontal diamond-shaped ornament on the
back of the trunk.
Stretch Cadillac DeVille limousine '86. It's a long limo with a sunroof and
a wing-shaped antenna on the trunk. Get the Admiral for the list, then the
Stretch that takes the place of it, from the W side of the stairs to the man-
sion.
Sabre Chevrolet Chevelle '70 with the headlights and sides of the bumper of a
Buick GSX '70 and the back end of an Oldsmobile 442 '70. The back window of the
hard top cab is about the size of the back window of a convertible Chevelle,
442, or Buick GS. It doesn't have the speed of the Sabre Turbo. (In the terms
of the Buick GSX, you could think of the Sabre Turbo as a '70 model and the Sa-
bre as a '71-'72 model.) It has a wide horizontal grille, four headlights, ver-
tical back up lights, a slope-backed roof, a horizontal chrome bar low on each
side, and horizontal diamond-shaped door handles.
Admiral Mercedes Benz E Class (W123) '76-'85. One of the better four-door
sedans somehow got on this list. Look at your "EP" Admiral to see what one
looks like. it's a midsize car with two horizontal chrome bars on each side--
one high and one low, thin black bumpers, and two big headlights. It's often at
the W side of the stairs to the mansion. If so, get it for the list, then get
the Stretch that replaces it there.
Sunshine Autos makes $4,000 a day.
There's a Sabre Turbo in Sunshine Autos. It can be driven out through the
window, which isn't the worst thing you could do to it. It's faster than the
Sabre, but it's definitely not among the best at handling. Unlike the Sabre,
which comes in various colors, the Sabre Turbo is always orange-copper with an
off-white stripe in the middle from back to front. The Sabre Turbo is the car
you see on the Links Bridge then making a jump from the "stilt" building at the
start of the game.
3rd vehicle list
Comet A Porsche 911 Targa '78-'83 with the roof removed and the roll bar made
vertical, the back of the cab covered like a Porsche 911 Turbo except without
side windows, the top of the front of the body flattened and slanted from behind
the headlights down to the front bumper, with the uncovered recessed headlights
of a Jaguar E-type '69-'71, and bumpers like those on a Jaguar XJ-S '85-'90.
It's less liable to get banged and spun around than a Deluxo. From the E side
of Starfish Island, make the 1st right. It's in a garage of the 2nd house on
your right.
Banshee Chevrolet Corvette '83 to '86 except with low set round headlights.
A high performance/muscle car. It's at the house with a pool shaped like the
Rockstar logo in the W section of the two sections encircled by road on Star-
fish Island. There's also a Banshee in the "stilt" building, where a PCJ 600
can be found, on the N side of the block two blocks S of Washington Mall.
Stinger Ferrari Daytona Spyder '71-'73. A high performance sports car con-
vertible with the top down. If you could put the roof up for hookers, it would
be perfect. It's at the Starfish Island house E of the one given above.
Phoenix Pontiac Firebird Trans Am '79-'81 with the rear lights of a 1980
Chevrolet Corvette. It has a wide body stripe that runs from the center of the
front of the engine hood, over the roof, and to the bottom of the trunk. To
find one, go into the alley found just E of the apex of the big curved road on
Starfish Island. At the end of the alley, turn right and go through the gate--
inside the garage on your right is a Phoenix. Look at it from the front, Q and
E, and press acceleration to see the three red round do-frappies in the hood
vent flip up.
Cheetah Ferrari Testarossa '86. A high performance car with a rectangular
indented area over the trunk and six round back up lights. I think it's the
best all-rounder of the high performance cars, especially since it's great for
jumps. Either go W from the E end of Starfish Island, make the 1st right, and
find it by the 1st house on your right (the house with a beach ball in an empty
pool), or find one just S of Pier 2 on the SW edge of the east island.
Infernus Lamborghini Countach QV '78-'86. It's a high performance car with
an air foil over the back of the trunk and four back up lights. It's the high
performance car with poor durability that most makes you back off from its top
speed. Get the feel of it, though, and you're flying. It's always parked at
the E side of the stairs to the mansion.
Sunshine Autos car showroom now makes $6,500 a day.
The Sandking (see I.9.B), an SUV with good handling (where was this in "GTA
III"?), is in Sunshine Autos. It can be driven through the 2nd story window in
front of it.
4th vehicle list
Caddy A golf cart/car/buggy '86. Go W on the path from the light house into
the 1st shrub on your left and press F. The secret Caddy is in there. Use the
radar to drive out so you don't land in the water. You might find one at Leaf
Links, too.
Voodoo A maroon Chevrolet Bel Air '60 Lowrider. It has tail fins. There's
always one of these good performers parked across from Auntie Poulet's shack.
Go W from the W end of the Leaf Links bridge; at the W side of the semi-circle
the road makes, the Voodoo is to the W. It's the Haitian gang car, so you're
liable to see one in Little Haiti. Use left shift (remapped to be Run) for a
higher or lower ride, and bounce it around with NP4, NP5, NP9, and NP6.
Pizza Boy A Piaggio Vespa '86 modified to advertise the Well Stacked Pizza
Co. on the box over the rear wheels, and with the store logo on the body over
the rear wheels. It's found by any of the three Well Stacked Pizza stores.
From the E and W street N of the one the Voodoo is parked on, go W and follow
the road as it curves S--a Well Stacked Pizza place is on your left.
Cuban Hermes Mercury two-door '49 with uncovered rear wheel wells and twice
as many brake lights It's a black car with flames painted on the sides. When
you drive it, it blats flames from the exhausts. I don't know a lot about cars,
but I don't think that's a good sign. It's the Cuban gang car, so you'll proba-
bly see one in Little Havana pretty quickly. One thing seems true: foreign
gangsters waste too much time customizing old cars. It doesn't handle that
great, but it's fast, and it makes a lot of good fire effects during instant re-
plays, so it can snazz up your replays of jumps.
Baggage Handler ? airport baggage tug (an Equitech M40 '85 is close). It's
at four places on the S tarmac of the airport: one is at the NW corner of the
terminal by a fence, one is by some luggage S of the SW side of the terminal,
one is between the 3rd and 4th hangers from the S along the W side of the tar-
mac, and one is just S of the heliport by a McAdams Airways hanger.
Mr. Whoopee GMC Grumman Step van or Chevrolet Step Van P-10 '86 with Chloe
Vevrier laying on her back on the roof. An ice cream truck topped by a facsim-
ile of two big scoops of ice cream with a cherry on top of each. It's at Cherry
Poppers after you buy it. Bring it to the garage after you do "Distribution,"
the next mission. After you do and complete the vehicle list, the 2nd portion
of the Sunshine Autos missions is at I.83.
Buy Cherry Poppers for $20,000. Looking W from the W end of the Starfish Is-
land bridge, it's across the street to your left.
You have an icon of a pair of cherries on the map and radar.
I.63 "Distribution" Cherry Poppers (ice cream factory asset)
Maude the ice cream lady is voice acted like a bad-tempered Margaret Hamilton
with strep throat by "Max Payne" voice actress Jane Gennaro.
Tommy buys the Cherry Popper ice cream factory to sell ice cream, but finds
out it's a front for selling drugs run by an old woman who hates kids.
You need to make at least 50 sales in one run to complete this mission.
Have Tommy enter the ice cream truck to start the mission and exit to end it.
Press Left Shift, horn, several times to start the jingle, and park to attract
customers.
Sometimes, when the people nearby stop buying, you can give a little press to
W or S to activate them again. You know one, or the one beside them, may be
about to come by if they start shaking and turning back and forth like a robot
with a short circuit. It's not a good determinant when the screen says there
aren't any customers, "try another area"--use your own judgement.
You can also attract both the police and angry gang members. Use Q, E, and Q
and E to keep a look-out, and press Left Shift to stop the jingle. One star
usually lasts briefly if you drive around a bit. Use a Pay 'n' Spray for two
stars.
You can get an interesting close-up look at the other citizens of Vice City by
pressing V to get the 1st person view from the truck then looking side to side
with Q and E. It's not the best way to watch for the police, so pick a safe
spot and take off if a wanted star lights up.
Here are several safe sales spots:
The Moist Palms Hotel. It's in the S Downtown area along the main N and S
road of the west island. Drive into the back and back out E to the curb on the
S side of the lane. Stop a couple car lengths before the lane widens and di-
vides to make pedestrians spawn there.
Say, "Forget it," back up, and drive out to the spot again if you see a po-
liceman. Watch ahead and to the left, Q, particularly, for police men (they
won't spawn behind the ice cream truck there). Often, with one wanted star,
you'll see no police action, or a police car that just circles in the road ahead
till the star disappears. If a policeman approaches so you go S to the Pay 'n'
Spray on the same road, one star will disappear before you can get there, so you
might as well just make a loop on a stretch of the road ahead of you.
No gang members will attack Tommy.
I've gotten 20, then 90, in a row there before I got two stars and went to the
Pay 'n' Spray each time. I ended up with over 100 sales after I used the Pay
'n' Spray the 2nd time and quit.
As Rusk notes, Viceport, the SE section of the west island, is an easy sales
spot. The police are just on foot, a Pay 'n' Spray is close by, and there
aren't any gang members to attack Tommy.
The beach on the E side of the E island is good; you can face W from the edge
of the N-S pedestrian spawn line and the police can't appear behind you, and
there aren't any gangs there. It's not that close to a Pay 'n' Spray, so if you
get one star, go back E into the no-ped strip along the shore till it disap-
pears.
Each of those places makes $10 a sale. The lowest priced sales are in Little
Haiti and Little Havana--$8 a sale, and the highest priced ones are in Starfish
Island--$18 a sale, and Prawn Island--$14 a sale. All of them have gangs that
attack Tommy, but you might make a few sales in each for the variety.
When you're done, turn off the jingle by pressing Left Shift few times and
have Tommy get out of the vehicle to end the mission.
Cherry Poppers makes $3,000 a day.
Take it to the vehicle collection garage at Sunshine Autos to complete that
mission. (One minor inconvenience: if you take a vehicle near that garage door
after collecting all the vehicles, the screen will still say, "We're not inter-
ested in that model.")
Sunshine Autos makes $9,000 a day.
Hotring Racer B (one of the ones used in Hotring at the Hyman Memorial Stadi-
um) is in Sunshine Autos. It can be driven out the 2nd story window. It's very
fast with quick acceleration. If you want Hotring Racer A, you'll have to use
the "getthereveryfastindeed" code.
For my plan to use an Angel with special handling from "Wheels of Steel" to
make the eight races coming up easier, I've scheduled the Sunshine Auto street
races at I.71. Again, see I.100.D.e if you'd rather make your own "Wheels of
Steel" Angel.
Buy the Malibu Club for $120,000. It's in the middle of the longest N and S
road of the east island.
You'll get a palm tree icon on your in-game map and radar and your own room
upstairs.
There's a pink shaft of light at the left side of the bar in the Malibu Club.
(Apparently, enlightened outlooks have led to the rarity of black lawn jockeys
and cigar store wooden "Indians," but there isn't a problem with having a mummy
woman outside of places where people go to get liquored up. Maybe that's what
they mummified them with where she came from.)
I.64 "No Escape?" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
Cam Jones is voice acted by fatherly Greg Sims.
Tommy needs a safe cracker. Lawyer Ken Rosenberg tells him a great one is in
a police cell awaiting transfer. Tommy goes to break him out of jail.
Take a fast and durable car--OK, a fast one you can type "aspirine" for--or
the "EP" Admiral to the Washington Beach police station--the one S of the Mali-
bu. Park the fast one by the road pointed N or the Admiral N or S. Have Tommy
go into the station and into the shaft of light in the 1st room on the left.
As Rusk notes, this mission requires Tommy to change into a police uniform, so
if he already had one from the last mission, it changes him into his street
clothes so you can have him put the police uniform on again.
GTW note: I sent an e-mail to Mr. Rusk asking him what that weird sound is in
the locker room. He sent this reply:
Dear Glen:
The sound you hear is the sound of a snoring cop. The cops here are lazy and
bored and one of them has fallen asleep near the counter and dreaming of glazed
doughnuts :)
--Robert Allen Rusk.
I think I saw that in the Nutcracker Suite. I like the early '50's Ormandy
version the best.
After you get Tommy the police uniform, he can walk around the station freely.
If you send him straight back from the front door, you'll see a blackened door
he can disappear into but be unable to move around in much. This causes a bit
of Ghost World sky to appear over it. It's where policemen will spawn from to
replace the ones you have Tommy shoot later. (It's like the similar blackened
alcove where replacements to cars that are destroyed in "Hotring" spawn from,
the ones bikers come from in the biker compound in "Hog Tied," and the one on
the Chartered Libertine Lines ship for "Spill the Beans.")
Send Tommy upstairs, across the room, and into an office to get the key card.
The twirling card pickup has "Chuff Security" and "Officer P Rowe" written on
it, with a picture of a guy with a big grin who has dirty blonde bowl cut bangs
that look like they were scratched onto the photo. He doesn't look at all like
Cam.
Send Tommy back downstairs and continue down to the cell where Cam is kept.
Have Tommy equip the Minigun and step into the light.
A cutscene shows Tommy using the card to open Cam's cell.
Tommy has a four star wanted rating. Careful to lead Cam upstairs and not
kill him or let him get killed, have Tommy shoot the policemen: there's one at a
desk in the next room, a few to clear beyond the exit to the hall, and, in the
main entrance room, three behind the counter, one in the middle of the room, and
any you see that are beyond the door to the outside.
Have Tommy lead Cam outside if you can, but don't make that your top priority.
Cam can show a damnable tendency to go off in the wrong direction and do the
bent-over-heaving-puke-with-his-head-in-the-wall animation while Tommy loses a
lot of armor and health and Cam possibly loses his life--mission failed, trying
to get Cam to follow him outside to a vehicle.
As Rusk says, the police are gunning and car-ramming to get Tommy, so the
quickest and safest thing to do with Cam is leave him there, even if he doesn't
go outside, and get Tommy into his car. Once Tommy takes care of the wanted
rating, it's easy to get Cam into a vehicle.
If it's a regular high performance car, go N to the Pay 'n' Spray N of your
Links View place, because, as Rusk contributor Bragon points out, the police are
geared for an attack of a trip to the Pay 'n' Spray S of the "stilt" building.
On the way, I'd try for the bribe on the corner N of the place N of the Malibu,
then take the 2nd left N of that for the bribe in the alley, if you're not
banged off course too much.
If it's the "EP" Admiral, do the same thing, or go the S Pay 'n' Spray for
more demolition derby fun. Again, while you're there, you can pick out a color
for it you like. I still prefer the dark cranberry red--it covers up the gray
shading tones and makes it look sharp.
Then go back and pick up Cam and drive him home.
You get $1,000.
There's another pink shaft of light spending too much time at the bar in the
Malibu Club.
I.65 "The Shootist" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
Phil Cassidy is voice acted by "The Buddy Holly Story" star Gary Busey.
Tommy need a stick-up man to go with his safecracker. Cam tells him the best
shooter, who can also supply guns and delusions of military grandeur, is Cassi-
dy, who's at the shooting range.
Have Tommy drive up to the Downtown Ammu-Nation, a good place for that, go
through the front room, and into the shaft of light.
A cutscene shows Tommy meeting Phil Cassidy at a shooting range in a back
room, and telling him he's looking for someone who's good with a gun. He kids
Phil a bit, and Phil challenges Tommy to a shooting contest.
Neither one wears earplugs because they have much more manly eardrums than us
regular people. You, use both hands to steady your mouse. And go easy on your
LMB "trigger" because anything more than a light press of it will cause the gun
to make multiple shots, wasting bullets and lowering your percentage. You can
always raise your percentage later with "Rifle Range," so try to rack up the
points for this one.
A cutscene introduces each of the three parts of the contest, and you get a
different shaft of light in a different area for each. You're supplied with a
Pistol and a 1st person shooter perspective. You need at least 60 points total
from the three events.
If you reload the game to do this over and over to try for your best score,
you may want to skip the intro by pressing Left Shift.
1. This prepares you in the event of an attack from a clever ambush at the
dry cleaners. There are three rectangular metal frames, and each contains a
yellow five piece representation of a male head and torso--one for head, four
for torso--that probably looks good to people who make signs for Oriental men's
room doors (I hope I'm not in trouble). Each is repeatedly mechanically slid
from a slot in the right wall, across the room to a slot in the left wall, and
back. If you shoot all five pieces from the nearest frame, it's worth one
point, from the 2nd, two points, and from the 3rd, three points (despite the
fact that, from your perspective, the nearest one is moving faster and harder
to hit). If you shoot out all five pieces, the frame goes back into the slot
for it on the right.
From this we can deduce that we want to keep knocking out the yellow pieces of
the far frame as fast as we can send it back into the slot on the right to bring
out five more. Shoot out the body pieces of the front two as they get in the
way of that, then let those two frames go back and forth with the heads so
they're not in the road.
The 1st shoot is over when two minutes are up or you run out of ammunition.
Don't shoot recklessly between the two front frames at the back one--your bul-
lets can ricochet off them. Try to only shoot between them when you know you've
got a clear shot at the back one. Moreover, the collision programming can be
weird: you'll get a shot just past the edge of a frame here, and have a bullet
ricochet off nothing when you get a clear shot through one (or even when there's
no frame in front of it--who programmed this thing?) there. Try to have targets
move into the aim of the mouse more than have it chase after targets, too. If
you go for a target that just emerged from the right wall, wait a couple moments
for it to come from behind some invisible collision file jazz. Again, try for a
high score more than worry about percentage for now.
2. This prepares you in the event that you need to deploy firearms against a
clever attempt at misdirection at Stephen Bliss' house (he did the cover art for
"III" and "Vice City"). In this hypothetical combat case, Stephen is trying to
lure your shots with the countless cardboard representations of his "GTA III"
cartoons of Luigi Goterellio, Misty, Asuka Kasen, and Toni Cipriani he keeps
around the house.
The cartoons slide from and back into doors, and slide up and down or side to
side across windows from behind them.
As Rusk instructs, for this and the next round, shoot at the windows of one
section. If you try chasing the targets all over the screen, your score will be
low. I try to shoot at the four windows on the left side of the farthest sec-
tion.
3. This prepares you in the event you need to deploy firearms against the ef-
forts of one of Stephen's neighbors, who also has a huge supply of Stephen's
cartoons and has stolen Steven's misdirection idea since it worked so well.
It's basically the same as the last one, but you've moved in closer. They
can't believe you're still falling for this. I prefer going side to side be-
tween the lower middle section and Misty off to the right side of that, with
special attention to that little Luigi in the middle since he's harder to hit.
If you score 60 points or more, Phil joins Tommy's team.
You get $2,000.
A "SHOOTER OF THE MONTH" trophy, with a sculpture of a human head with a bul-
let hole in the forehead, will appear on the TV in the Ocean View apartment.
While you're there, or any time later, you can do I.66, an important "side"
mission needed for 100% completion.
I.66 "Rifle Range"
Send Tommy to the shaft of light by the counter in the shooting range room be-
yond the sales room of the Downtown Ammu-Nation.
For "Rifle Range," do the same as in the 1st shoot for "The Shootist." The
test is over after two minutes or Tommy runs out of ammo (which you'd have to
shoot like a berserk nut to do). He can leave the room and reenter the shaft of
light over and over to try again. The game will even let Tommy come back to the
Downtown Ammu-Nation any time after this mission to see if he can improve his
score.
You can skip the intro by pressing Left Shift.
You only need to get 30 points or more to earn $500.
But you need to score 45 points or more for 100% completion of the game. If
you score 45 points or more, you also get the Fast Load feature for your weap-
ons, so there will be no waiting between shots or clips. This makes the most
drastic improvement for the Rocket Launcher and Sniper Rifle.
If you beat your previous percentage for "The Shootist" or for "Rifle Range"
while scoring 45 points or more, your new best percentage will be shown in your
Stats as "Best Percentage of hits for Shooter."
Getting enough points for the last mission and this one is easy. Going for a
higher percentage at 45 points can be maddening with the collision files or
whatever. It's like the game is programmed to have ricochets no matter what you
do. Once you're in the high 90's, those ricochets are not very user-friendly.
If he didn't get it after "The Shootist," Tommy gets a call for the 5th and
final Assassination Mission.
There's a pink shaft of light by the Malibu bar again, but I'm going to the
one on the other side of the block that Cherry Poppers is on.
I.67 "Loose Ends" Phone: Assassination Mission 5
Send Tommy to the shaft of light by the pay phone on the opposite side of the
block that Cherry Popper is on.
Tommy has to take a briefcase from between two big roof vents on the roof of
the Bakery and Cafeteria, which is just N of the Cherry Popper building, to the
heliport at the airport. Armed thugs by the briefcase, on surrounding roofs and
stairs and a billboard to the S and SW, and in the lot behind it, will shoot at
him if he tries. Tommy is told to kill all of them, and that the entrance to
the back of the factory is to his left.
Use a Minigun with lots of ammo, a couple handfuls of Molotovs, and possibly
the machine gun of the Sea Sparrow.
Have the Firetruck mission completed to have the fireproof feature so you can
have Tommy use Molotov Cocktails nearby without getting hurt.
If you want to have Tommy slug it out, have him take a Minigun with lots of
ammo, Molotovs, and you won't have to have him grab the weapons dropped by the
agents he shot because he ran out of ammo.
Proceed carefully with what Hitman gamers call "stealth." Have Tommy walk up
on edges of things they could be behind--if you just hit part of an agent with
the Minigun bullets, they go down.
There's a guy just past the entrance.
Once inside, shoot the vehicles to take out anyone in or near them. Check the
distant surroundings for agents for Tommy to shoot--on stairs, by boxes, one is
on a billboard--as you have him make his way along the W wall and S toward the
1st roof. Sometimes, he's not even close enough to them to trigger their re-
sponses and can shoot them easily. I have my resolution cranked up to 1280 x
1024 on a 19" screen, so I can see guys so far in the distance the game won't
let my Minigun register as being able to shoot that far.
There's armor on the SE corner of the lot.
Have Tommy use stealth and survey the scenery for more targets on the 1st
roof. Check the ground as part of that to make sure he didn't miss someone as
he goes to the 2nd roof. The reliance shifts more towards Molotovs here, but
have Tommy get any far-off targets with the Minigun.
When Tommy gets near the 2nd roof, have him clear the way before himself with
Molotovs, and do the same once atop it since there are agents hiding behind
things, like between the mock ice cream scoops. Have him throw a Molotov by a
corner of something and let the spread of the ignited fuel proceed him around
it.
When you have him climb the stairs to the roof with two big vents, have him
throw some Molotovs up there 1st then climb up onto it. Have him throw some
Molotovs to create a spread of flames around the far side of both big vents.
The game may prompt you to have him grab the briefcase between the two big vents
before the guys behind them are all dead, so make sure they are before he grabs
it.
There's a Maverick on the NE corner of the roof. There should be no more in-
terference on the trip to the shaft of light on the heliport with the briefcase.
Fly through any airborne bribes 1st, if you need to.
If you're in a hurry, and don't care about the instruction to kill everyone
involved there, use the Rusk version of the Brady Advanced method for a veloce
Vercetti ("Volace" is Italian for "fast"): use the Sea Sparrow machine gun to
clear out the guys on a roof or two, starting with the guys by the two big vents
on the N end of the Bakery and Cafeteria just N of Cherry Poppers. Land by the
two big vents, have Tommy get the briefcase that's between them, then avoid
shots from the others by flying E till he's over the water, S to the South
Bridge, then W to the shaft of light on the heliport.
A variation I like to use: you can land a helicopter on the taller of the
roofs of the WestHaven Community Healthcare Centre, which is just N of the Bak-
ery and Cafeteria--the one with the briefcase by two big vents--and have Tommy
shoot the Minigun from there. He can clear off the roof the briefcase is on and
a lot of the surrounding yard, too. Then give Tommy a full N to S runway on the
lower roof, and he can make a running jump to the roof with the two big vents.
Have him get the briefcase and fly straight to the heliport.
You get $16,000.
The black gate at the W side of the lot will remain open now.
There's a shaft of light by the bar at the Malibu.
I.68 "The Driver" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
How to jack Hilary's Sabre Turbo--not bullet-proof for PC, so this is even
more optional for me:
The more complete coverage of the proper mission is at I.70. You might say
I.68 isn't strictly by the book. I'd say I read the title on the cover: "Grand
Theft Auto...." I'd get those lenses checked.
If you have PS2, you can do this because you want a bullet-proof car. If you
have a PC, you can do this for something different to do, and to avenge Hilary
for making the regular mission so difficult. It's not at all needed to complete
the game, so you can skip it if you want to.
Hilary's car can't be destroyed or you fail the mission. He needs to live to
get killed later. (For PS2, his car is bullet- and rocket-proof during the mis-
sion, but you could destroy it with the Rhino, and his windshield is normal.)
Oh, where--oh, where will you find anyone who turns to such devious and dis-
reputable methods of gameplay? For shame on them...if they were playing a
multi-player game as a nobleman with too much clerical work to do in Neverelder-
wind or whatever it is.
(P.S.: I make fun of Morrowind. But since I've tweaked it to run smoothly--
and not crash routinely--and got all the Wizard abilities and can run and fly
and swim and throw fireballs, it's better than I 1st thought...even if practi-
cally all the animals, of all varieties, sound like barking dogs, and the pedes-
trians aren't as funny as in "Vice City," and a big percentage of the hundreds
of guys in Vvardenfell all sound like Froggy from the "Our Gang" comedies.)
Before beating Hilary at I.70, have Tommy jack his Sabre Turbo for one of his
garages. Poor Hilary, but we won't really kill him--he comes back for I.70.
When the race starts, turn around and go N. Tommy has a two star wanted level
for street racing, so make the 2nd left, go through the bribe, then go left to
the base of the little bridge--the other star should go away around then. Have
Tommy block the two lanes with his car and another. (If you try a 3rd, one of
the 1st two will disappear).
Have him wait by the adrenaline pill in the back yard to the S. At about five
seconds past two minutes on the mission timer, have Tommy run through the adren-
aline pill, to slow things down, and go to the street E of his barricade. Equip
Tommy with the Minigun or the .308 sniper rifle. When Hilary comes over the
bridge, make sure he has enough .308 or Minigun minerals in his diet. On PC,
try to shoot him and not blow up the car; for PS2, the only way to shoot him is
through his windshield, anyway.
He'll slump out the door and let the car roll a bit--"Mission Failed."
Take his car to a garage. (Make sure you don't let the door close while Tom-
my's outside the car before you save it: at least on PS2, he'll be locked out
and you'll have to reload the game to try again.)
Once it's in the garage, save the game. Later, you can tell people you not
only beat Hilary but jacked his car.
How to get a BP/FP/EP Sabre Turbo from Hilary on PC
Poomor got the Bullet/Fire/Explosion-Proof Sabre on PC by either spawning a
Rhino (PANZER code or trainer, I.100.D.ff) or getting one from the Vercetti man-
sion garage, bumping Hilary's Sabre at the pizza store side of the little bridge
so the Sabre blew up, then using the Rhino to push the Sabre to the El Swanko
Casa garage to save and heal it. He used the furthest "camera" angle from be-
hind the Rhino to keep the Sabre in view throughout the shove to the garage so
the Sabre didn't disappear.
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=355094
There's a shaft of light in front of the Greasy Chopper biker bar--where the
skull icon is on your in-game map and radar. (What's this thing this shaft of
light has for bars lately?)
I.69 "Alloy Wheels Of Steel" Big Mitch Baker
Big Mitch Baker is voice acted by that handsome leading man Lee Majors, who
also starred as Blue in "Will Penny," 1968, as Andy Crocker in "The Ballad of
Andy Crocker," a TV movie of 1969, and in the 1973-1978 TV series "The Six Mil-
lion Dollar Man."
http://www.leemajors.co.uk/
Tommy asks Mitch to have his gang do the security for a concert Kent set up.
Mitch tells Tommy his group just helps itself. Mitch wants to see how Tommy
rides a bike before he'll consider letting him join the gang.
Since I organized the missions to do eight races in a row, just pretend Tommy
is giving Mitch plenty of chances to see that he can do it.
(If you created your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel as explained in
I.100.D.e Cars and bikes, Gameplay advantages: How to create your own "Alloy
Wheels of Steel" Angel, remember to have Tommy jack one of the regular Angels by
the bar and not jack one from one of the contestants. An Angel from a contes-
tant would be twice as souped up and so weird to drive you'd probably lose the
race.)
Tommy has to use an Angel or a Freeway. The game programs the bikes of the
three bikers competing in the race to be souped up Angels to enable them to make
high speed spin-outs.
So you have a choice--one of the two worst bikes at handling and cornering, or
an Angel with the best combination of speed and cornering of any bike in the
game--better than a PCJ 600. It's heavier, but that helps it hold the road bet-
ter, which is good for racing.
The easiest way is to use the best. (Thanks to the Brady guide for the tip.)
Have Tommy go in front of the three bikers lined up on Angels with great han-
dling to start the race. Don't have Tommy hit them or get into the pink shaft
of light, but send him in front of the one by the shaft of light and just press
F. Tommy will jack one of their bikes, which starts the race.
It almost handles like what you'd have if "gripiseverything" improved those
things for bikes. The other two remaining racers spin out early on, and it's
easy to win the race around the Downtown area. I pass them early on, but, if
you do, you're safer to give them some room and pass quickly and cautiously be-
cause they're reckless and can knock Tommy from his bike when they wreck, such
as when nearing the Hyman Condo. You're usually in the clear if you can pass
them along the side of the road early on, but one might whiz past and knock Tom-
my off the bike on the stretch toward the condo or if Tommy has a spill after
that.
Aside from the usual handling skills, I get the sharpest turns by letting go
of acceleration just before a turn.
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You get $1,000.
DO NOT SAVE THE GAME TILL AFTER I.71. Sorry for yelling. I hope I didn't
scare anybody. During the next seven races, if you screw up anything, or the
Angel disappears for whatever reason, or you get Tommy busted or wasted and
don't want to save it, you'll be able to reload "Alloy Wheels of Steel" and try
again with a fresh Angel.
If you took my advice about using this alternate order of the missions, you
can now use the Angel for "The Driver" and the six Sunshine Autos races. Park
the Angel off the road by the 4th palm tree S of the 1st right turn of the
course for "The Driver," which is the 2nd right S of the Malibu Club (the 1st is
a 90 degree turn--the one you want veers to the right). I've had the Angel
disappear afterwards when I parked it farther N. Once it stays in the game for
"The Driver," it stays for all the Sunshine Auto races, too.
If you used some order for the missions that won't let you do that, but you
like the PCJ 600 and jumps as much as I do, take it around afterwards and have
some fun. It's too heavy for some of the jumps, but the special abilities are
lost after you put it into one of your garages and let the door close, and it
just looks like one of the red, white, and blue Angels that are always in front
of the bar. You can have Tommy morph with it--as when he morphs with any hog,
the ends of his legs will disappear into the ground.
I.70 "The Driver" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset) Wow--deja vu.
Tommy needs a driver to go with his safecracker and shootist. Phil recommends
Hilary and calls him. Phil tells Tommy that Hilary will do it, but he has aban-
donment issues--he'll only do it if Tommy can beat him in a race.
Tommy meets Hilary, who reaffirms that, adding that if Tommy ignores him in-
stead, he'll never forgive him.
(There are various kinds of "abandonment issues." I think Hilary's kind is
basically the fear of being left alone, causing the person to manipulate the
other to prove their commitment to the relationship by example--in this case, by
racing him. He's also possibly over-playing the victim role sometimes associ-
ated with it by making it a condition that he needs to get beaten in the race.)
Tommy gets a regular Sentinel (not a Sentinel XS) and Hilary gets a Sabre Tur-
bo. Normally, a Sabre Turbo has better speed and acceleration but a higher cen-
ter of gravity, so less grip. But just like the competing vehicles in the other
races in this section, Hilary's Sabre Turbo is programmed to drive fast and
wild. It can seem hard to beat until you figure out how to get ahead of the
competition, and if you make a mistake while trying to maintain your lead the
competition can seem to come out of nowhere and take it back.
Just after Tommy gets past the 1st right turn of the race, trailing Hilary,
Tommy has a two star wanted level for illegal street racing.
I don't think the police are just interested in ramming into Tommy and not
Hilary. I think they're more interested in whoever is behind in the race. Usu-
ally, if I get Tommy a clear lead, the police cars are just there to pass by on
one side of the road or another.
You might want to practice the course beforehand. From the Malibu, the course
goes S through the middle of the island on the 3rd road from the E, goes clock-
wise around the 2nd block from the S and E till it returns to the 3rd road from
the E, continues S to the S end, then comes back up along the W side to the
bridge NW of the Malibu and ends back at the Malibu.
If you have an Angel jacked from one of the contestants in "Alloy Wheels of
Steel":
This is my favorite way to do this mission.
As Rusk explains, when he does this with a PS2 Hotring Racer, he can't park it
too close to the starting line before the race or it will disappear during the
race. With the Angel on PC, I've had bad luck reliably keeping the Angel in the
game memory at the spot that works for Rusk's PS2 Hotring Racer (just after the
1st right turn of the race course). I've had good luck putting it a bit farther
S. So prepare for this mission by taking the Angel S from the Malibu Club,
through the intersection, turn right, and put it off the road by the 4th palm
tree that's close to the sidewalk.
Have Tommy go on foot to the shaft of light in the Malibu to start the mis-
sion. Drive the Sentinel to the Angel and use brake/reverse to stop with the
driver's door close to it, and transfer Tommy to it fast.
Drive like you did for "Alloy Wheels of Steel" and you can wrap this one up
quickly. Even if you don't get it the 1st time, there's a klieg light at the
end of the tunnel.
DO NOT SAVE THE GAME TILL AFTER I.71.
To modify the Sentinel:
You could also see I.100.D.e to see how to change the 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
of a Sentinel. If you modified the Firetruck for I.23 and left it that way, you
could it instead and leave it at the same place you'd leave the Angel in the
method given above. Try not to knock Hilary into the ocean with it.
To improve the odds of Hilary spinning out (don't do this if you use the Angel
or it might disappear):
A method that can let you win in an early effort combines my idea to see if
Hilary spins out early on, Rusk's idea to leave a fast vehicle around the 1st
right turn of the course (the veering right turn past the 90 degree right turn),
and an idea I got from a post by yunagunsling at the message boards at Gamefaqs.
He'd put a Packer (ramp truck) just beyond Hilary's starting place before the
race--then again, his Packer wouldn't disappear for some reason. What I did was
put a Packer from the airport (I haven't bought Interglobal Studios yet, al-
though you could just to get the Packer inside) sideways at the intersection S
of the palm tree I recommended for the Angel. Drive the right side of the Pack-
er along the near side of the wall on the right. Drive out beyond the wall,
leaving a few feet of the back of the ramp against the wall to keep Hilary from
being able to push the Packer out of his way during the race. Leave the side-
walk clear on the left.
The Sentinel flew through the gap while Hilary didn't; he tried to regain his
lead, but the police rammed him, and it was a quick and quiet ride to the finish
line.
If you try it this way, you can store a Packer in the Ocean Drive garage be-
fore the race. The end sticks out, but it disappears when the door comes down.
There's always a Packer on the S tarmac of the airport and in the W side of the
lot of the Vice City Port Authority in SW Viceport (you can't use the one in the
film studio until you buy it to open the gates).
If you need to beat Hilary without any gimmickry:
Drive within the modest limits of the car because Hilary won't give you much
of a chance to screw up, if you manage to pass him at all.
Drive like it's a fast but careful taxi mission. Drive fast with control, cut
corners on the wrong side, and go over lawns and sidewalks--wherever you see a
break up ahead, go for it--but don't over-accelerate or you'll have too many ac-
cidents.
Maneuver to avoid the police that tend to spawn in certain places (like one
from either side as you approach the T intersection by the Washington Mall--go
through the poles on the right instead).
Better, I noticed that if Hilary got spun out near the start of the race, and
if I drove like it was a fast but careful taxi mission, I never saw Hilary
again, and the police were usually just there on either side of the road to
drive by or go around, for the rest of the race. I haven't had the luck some
claim in ramming Hilary--it's like his car is heavier, not just faster, and
makes Tommy spin himself out if he tries it. So I determined that unless I saw
Hilary get spun out near the beginning of the race, I'd just reload the game and
try again. The last time I tried this, I managed to get it in five tries and
saved a lot of wasted time.
You get $3,000.
If you have the Angel, DO NOT SAVE THE GAME TILL AFTER I.71.
Go to Sunshine Autos for more record-beating racing times, Paul Newman.
I.71 Sunshine Autos Street Races
Send Tommy to the shaft of light at the SE end of the back lot of Sunshine Au-
tos. You can highlight one of the six different race courses, shown on the map,
by pressing A or D. Pick one by pressing Left Shift. Then the screen tells you
to get a fast vehicle and get to the starting grid. You can enter any of them
as often as you want.
1 Terminal Velocity
The entrance fee is $100.
You get $400.
2 Ocean Drive
The entrance fee is $500.
You get $2,000.
3 Border Run
The entrance fee is $1,000.
You get $4,000.
4 Capital Cruise
The entrance fee is $2,000.
You get $8,000.
5 Tour!
The entrance fee is $5,000.
You get $20,000.
6 V.C. Endurance
The entrance fee is $10,000.
You get $40,000.
My favorite way is to use the Angel jacked from a biker from "Alloy Wheels of
Steel" or an Angel I modified as explained in I.100.D.e Cars and bikes, Game-
play advantages: How to create your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel.
You race it about the same way, right down to trying to avoid getting knocked
off course by one of the reckless racers. Try to pass them quickly but careful-
ly early on at the side of the road. It's risky, but once you get the lead, you
probably won't see them again. I can't promise you won't have a spill or two,
but I've won it even when that happened. If you slow down just a bit to drive
carefully and minimize the risk of spills, you're probably in the clear for the
rest of the race.
After these races, if you used a contestant's Angel and you're through with
it, save the game. If you want to try it for anything else, you might save the
game at the condo alley with the Angel a couple car lengths away--not in a ga-
rage--so it won't disappear, and use the Angel before you exit the game. If you
don't want to risk it for a hazardous mission, it might work to put it out of
harm's way on the roof the Skumole Shack is on and just use one other vehicle
for the mission.
When you don't have the Angel anymore, there's another easy way to try the
races--it's given in the Brady guide. Get in front of the other racers before
the race and blow them up with a Rocket Launcher, which is easier if you have
the Rapid Load feature by now. Besides the possibility of missing one of them
and falling way behind them, a drawback to that is it's very easy to create a
distracting wanted level and the need to make a detour to take care of it. I'd
reload the game if that happened. When it pays off, race with anything you
want. The little Caddy is cute.
You might try the "GTA III" "Turismo" Rhino trick: race at the three cars to
blow them up and start the race. In fact, it's even easier for "Vice City," but
you have to approach the race cars from the front. If you try it from behind
them, they blow up but the disks disappear without any explanation from the
screen other than it's obvious the race was canceled.
Another approach is to just race in whatever you handle the best--I'd use a
PCJ 600 for that. I hope you like watching Tommy fly after wrecks.
Since the riskiest part is getting the lead in the beginning, you might want
to use an idea from Rusk's latest update. You can still use the "GTA III" "Tur-
ismo" trick, recommended by Jason Corns, of banging through the race cars to
start the race with a lead.
If you modified the Firetruck for I.23, you should have a real easy time of it
if you use that.
You might see this as a convenience or an inconvenience, but any wanted rating
you get during the race disappears when you cross the red glowing finish disk.
(For the sake of Wanted Stars Attained/Evaded, it would be more convenient if
they didn't disappear.)
This is the mission you can use the "Hook the Hooker" gimmick of Restick's
that Rusk writes about (I.9.F). You can't get too much mileage out of those
hookers. They give Tommy extra health for dangerous missions, and can prove to
be among the most loyal companions, or at least patrons, Tommy has. Remember,
he is a criminal.
The fast hooker with a hot engine for rent is the dirty blonde with the black
top and shorts.
Follow the hooker's car closely during the race, then do a quick and brief
drive-by shooting at her car to get her to get out close to yours. The easiest
way is to do the shortest race, the one by the airport, and, as Rusk says, don't
go through any glowing disks so the other cars slow down and drive single file.
Not only will she follow Tommy around and get into any vehicle he gets into
(like when using the "hopingirl" code), but she'll do it vehicle after vehicle,
even a helicopter. You can use a four-door vehicle and pick up a total of
three, Frankie baby.
There's a pink shaft of light in front of the Greasy Chopper.
I.72 "Messing With The Man" Big Mitch Baker
Mitch says he knows Tommy was betrayed and spent 15 years in jail, and some of
the bikers in his gang were betrayed by their country, so challenges Tommy to
show how PO'ed he is and "mess with the man." (Wouldn't that mean mess with
Sonny? I don't always follow these things.)
Tommy has to wreak destruction to fill out the chaos meter on the screen in
two minutes. Getting a three or four star wanted level in the process speeds
that up.
By far, the easiest way to do this is with the Hunter. Once you get your
wanted level up fast with the machine gun, shooting the rockets at anything--
even into thin air--makes the meter fill up quickly. It also has the advantage
of letting you fly right to the bribes when it's over.
The Brady guide for PC suggests you shoot from the roof the Skumole Shack is
on at police cars and helicopters. I had Tommy start on the stairs to the shack
with the Minigun, and it got his wanted level up quickly. When this works, hav-
ing him shoot down the police helicopter alone fills up most of the meter. I'd
prepare by putting another helicopter on the W side of the roof for his getaway,
because his wanted level doesn't go away when the mission is completed. Get the
airborne bribes, the condo alley bribe, etc. (I.11) if needed.
I don't know how anyone manages to miss an opportunity to have some fun with
the Rhino. So if you'd like another easy way to do this, just drive it around,
blasting and running into things that explode, safe in the Rhino, and fill the
chaos meter in no time. When you're done, drive into the bribe in the condo al-
ley then send Tommy upstairs to use the helicopter for airborne bribes.
Before you get the bribes, you might even use this mission as a way to start
an effort to raise your CRiminal Rating or Highest media attention level (I.7).
You get $2,000.
There's a shaft of light in front of the Greasy Chopper.
I.73 "Hogtied" Big Mitch Baker
Mitch wants Tommy to retrieve his hog from a rival biker gang that stole it.
If Tommy does, Mitch will have his gang do the security job for Kent.
Use a PCJ 600 and lots of Molotovs and Minigun ammo.
Tommy can get a PCJ 600 from Howlin' Petes Biker Emporium across the street
from the bar. He can get four Molotovs at a time from Tacopalypse, across the
street from the E end of the Hyman Condo alley. Have a space reserved for use
in the mission at one of the condo garages. Having the fireproof feature for
Tommy will make it easy for him to use Molotovs nearby.
A cutscene shows you need to use a fast motorcycle for a stairway jump onto
the roof of Ammu-Nation--Unique Jump 2 again--to get into the compound where the
bike is held. This mission also uses a variation of the route taken to drive
from the landing roof, down the stairs and over a roof to the ground, over a
small set of stairs, and to the Hyman Condo (I.26). The compound of the rival
biker gang is the area Tommy drops down to after J2. It can't hurt to try it
out before this mission and inspect the compound so you know where you're going
when you need to move fast.
Practice the route with a PCJ 600 1st. To get to Unique Jump 2 from the Hyman
Condo, go left/S from the W side of the alley, go left/E, then go right/S--the
stairway is on your left.
Once you jump onto the roof of Ammu-Nation, the stairs to go down are on your
left. At the base of them, make a 180 degree turn to the right while dropping
to the ground.
Go ahead, turn left, and stop: one door the bikers will emerge from is
straight ahead and the other is at the near corner of the 3rd building to your
left. You can tell which ones they'll be during this practice run because they
each have a non-solid black rectangle that slopes toward you from the ground up
in the doorway. (This is similar to the door straight back from the entrance to
the Washington Beach police station, the blackened alcove of "Hotring," and the
blackened door on the S side of the multilevel structure on the N side of the
ship used in "Spill the Beans.") Mitch's hog will be in the alcove at the left
of the blackened door straight ahead.
You could also try the "plug the hole" method. Prepare for the mission by do-
ing the jump with a police car, driving it down to the compound (give it some
gas going off the lower roof so it lands upright), then driving it into the
blackened door beside the alcove Mitch's hog will be in. It makes a pretty snug
fit. Then don't use another vehicle except the PCJ 600 you do the mission with.
(I tried it with a 2nd police car during the mission for the other hole, but it
made the 1st police car disappear.)
If you feel like a fast fighting approach to the gangsters in the compound,
have Tommy get off the PCJ 600 partway toward the door ahead of him so he can
shoot around at any bikers who attack him, but keep him pressing toward the al-
cove with the hog, ahead and to the left, because the bikers will just keep
spawning. When you've had him clear enough of an area around it so he can get
it going fast enough to knock down any bikers he passes without getting knocked
down himself, have him jump on it and get going. This is a hog, not a PCJ 600,
so don't get so worked up you press it more than it can handle.
The next assault will come from two Streetwannabes in each of four Gang Burri-
to vans who appear quickly once Tommy gets back on the streets. The gangsters
will try to ram Tommy off the Angel then get on foot to start shooting at him
before he can get up.
One strategy for the Streetwannabes is to have Tommy drive back to where he
dropped in, turn right, drive to the far side of the lot, turn right, go moder-
ately over the stairs to your left with a left turn to go to the Hyman Condo al-
ley, and put the hog in a garage. Keep a safe distance from the Streetwannabes
in the Gang Burritos--they're pretty aggressive--as you have Tommy throw Molo-
tovs or shoot Minigun bullets at them or their vans from the alley. They often
wreck trying to get into the alley, which makes it easy for Tommy to start get-
ting them, even get all of them, from there.
When done with them, Tommy can use the bribe in the alley, then the clothes
pickup on the roof.
One of Rusk's updates introduced a couple of safer strategies suggested by one
of his readers--Adam Lilley. Have Tommy kill two gangsters on the roof of the
Ammu-Nation, then move N enough on the roof to shoot the remaining 28 gangsters
who emerge from either blackened door. (When I tried that, the gangsters came
out of both doors, then ended up just coming out of the W door. I didn't count
them, but it was getting monotonous, so I sent Tommy down and, luckily, no more
appeared.)
Using Adam's finale, Tommy then takes the bike from the niche in the compound
below and drives it up the stairs to the Ammu-Nation roof. He makes a W to E
run across the roof to the S rectangular low raised thing of the four such
things on the E side of the roof. Have him have the hog make a little wheelie
effort just before impact and go off to the right where the street is. He can
drive through the opening at the W end of the North Bridge and go S to complete
the mission at the biker bar without ever seeing the gangsters in the vans.
(Before I tried this, I practiced the jump from the roof a few times. After
the screen said the mission was accomplished, one of the vans made a late arri-
val and some gangsters came out of it to shoot at Tommy. They didn't make it
far from the van--Tommy was on foot now and armed with his Minigun, and one ex-
ploding van took care of the lot of them.)
More recently, I've given Tommy enough room to attack the Streetwannabes by
using the gimmick that uses the programmed path of the Sanchez/Landstalker dirt
track to let you see the taxi/cab driver try to drive on the track. To use it,
send Tommy over the stairs on the NW side of the gangster compound then E to the
middle of the Downtown dirt track. When you see which side the Gang Burritos
enter from, you can send Tommy to the opposite side. At the dirt track, the
gangsters drive on the course till they get to a section by Tommy to depart from
it. This gives Tommy a lot more time to destroy the vans, and you get a little
more for your entertainment dollar watching the vans flop around trying to drive
on the track.
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You get $4,000.
Mitch Baker calls: he's grateful, and says to tell Kent he'll have his gang
do the security job for the gig.
There's a shaft of light in front of the VROCK building--a little S of the W
end of the condo alley.
I.74 "Publicity Tour" Love Fist
The psycho lived through the last mission, so the band wants Tommy to drive
them in their limo to their next venue.
Percy says, "I'm sh**in' masel's, man" ("sh***ing myself"--scared).
Dick says, "We're all brickin' ourselves, man" (from "sh***ing bricks" or
"bricking it"--very scared).
In the limo, they play a cassette that looks unfamiliar. The psycho has left
a message on it: if the car slows down, it will explode. Tommy has to drive
fast enough so it doesn't while the band tries to figure out how to diffuse the
bomb--which wire to pull out from the boomshine bottle the bomb has been built
into.
Save at the Hyman Condo so it's easy to reload the game and try again if you
don't make it.
Get up to a speed fast enough to keep the "Detonator" meter low, then see how
fast you need to repeatedly and lightly tap Acceleration, W, to keep the meter
from filling up towards explosion. It will usually be empty without going very
fast. Despite the bomb threat, normal car damage/explosion rules apply--bumping
something won't set off the bomb unless it slows down the limo for too long.
Gun it to get it up to speed 1st, then tap W. Use your handling skills to
avoid any situation that would make the car stop. If you stop, you can try to
extract the car fast to lower the meter, but the limo will probably blow up.
A gimmick that made it even easier for me was to use the speedometer by Spook-
ie I used to determine the top speed of the boats at I.9.E. The bomb meter will
be kept low or empty if you keep the limo going at least about 60 mph. 60 mph
isn't especially fast in "Vice City" terms--it's about the speed of a Caddy.
Use the shortcut over the sidewalk across from the pizza place. If the next
right turn is too congested, which is entirely possible, use the next right and
make a gentle arc over to the main N and S road.
Drive S on the long N and S main road to the spacious area you find before it
divides at the S end. Use a quick turning skid and point it N, and try to avoid
the grass, which is slipperier to turn on and accelerate from, as much as possi-
ble. If you end up on the grass, accelerate off it without any sharp turns. If
you manage to turn the limo around and drive N, the worst is over.
In the final stretch, I've only needed to go N to the S Downtown area at most
and around Cherry Poppers at the least before the bomb was diffused.
Thanks to Ring_of_Fire, who, in 2007, is adding his name to the memorable
glitch finders, for this gimmick that makes the mission easier: during the ef-
fort to diffuse the bomb, keep pressing F1 for instant replays. Some of the
dialogue plays during each instant replay, advancing the mission that much far-
ther.
(During the panic, a member of the band calls arrogant Jezz a "muppit": an id-
iot.)
Then have Tommy drive the band to the concert hall with the big Love Fist ad
over the door S of the VROCK building, and a cutscene shows the band showing
Tommy their concert stage. One tells Tommy the fans like them "half cut and
tone deaf" ("Half cut" means drunk but not unconscious).
You get $8,000.
Mitch Baker calls on behalf of his biker gang: Tommy has their respect.
There's a shaft of light by the bar inside the Malibu Club.
I.75 "The Job" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
Tommy now has Cam the jailbird safecracker, Phil the expert delusional gunman,
and Hilary the cling-fast driver. Tommy makes clear what he plans to do with
his ensemble: rob a bank. This is a brave man...or foolhardy...or both.
Have Tommy lead them into a taxi outside.
Colin Attle noticed that Cal complains about Hilary taking up too much room in
the Taxi though Hilary sits in the front beside Tommy. (If Hilary gets in the
back, he's teleported to the front. I'll guess that the original idea might
have been that if Hilary got in the back, Cal would complain, and Hilary would
move to the front, but the idea was left in the abbreviated version we have so
the player could have Tommy start driving and get on with the game faster.)
Have Tommy drive them to the shaft of light across from El Banco Currupto
Grande while Phil waves his gun around and Hilary takes up too much room. (If
you bump the taxi too much, one of them warns Tommy to watch their ride. Like
Lance in "Cop Land," he figures you need the vehicle later when the heat is
turned up.)
There's a cutscene of Tommy telling Hilary to drive around the block and Tommy
popping open the trunk.
Then have Tommy carefully lead Cam and Phil across the street--check for traf-
fic 1st--and into the shaft of light in front of the bank.
There's a cutscene of the three disguised in masks (used for protection in
fencing?) and gray-blue coveralls.
Then walk Tommy, who has a .357, to the shaft of light at the door of the
bank. (You can scroll to Minigun now, but he'll have the .357 again in the next
cutscene.)
There's a cutscene in the bank of Tommy and Phil shouting that it's a raid and
ordering everyone to not move and get up against the wall. Tommy has Phil stand
guard over them and tells Cam the safe is upstairs.
Now switch to the Minigun.
Lead Cam upstairs. Have Tommy walk out into the room to lure out two guards
that each enter and shoot from a different part of the far end of the room.
Send Tommy up the steps behind him before Cam gets hurt back there. As Tommy
goes out onto the balcony floor, have him shoot at the guard behind the far left
corner of the banister ahead, then keep moving forward on the left side of
the same balcony till you can see to have him shoot part of the security guard
just inside the doorway on the far right. Send Tommy through it and have him
lead Cam into the elevator. Once upstairs, bring Tommy out of the elevator and
toward you, then send him slowly right till you can see to have him shoot part
of a security guard that is just inside the doorway to your right.
Have Tommy lead Cam into the doorway and send Tommy into the big pink Chinese
finger puzzle by the safe.
You can switch to something that lets Tommy move faster for the next segment.
In a cutscene, Cam admits it could take hours to crack open the safe unless
Tommy gets the manager to help.
Send Tommy back to the elevator and across the 2nd floor to the manager's of-
fice, where the manager is hiding behind his desk.
(If you plan to replay the game: absolutely any weapon you have him draw on
the manager will cause the manager to plea, "Just don't shoot," even if it isn't
a gun. Each type of weapon causes Tommy to strike a different threatening
pose.)
Have Tommy lead him away and get the armor in the adjoining room.
For a bonus while there, you can walk Tommy to the security monitors, which
have a different arrangement of the same pictures shown on the monitors in the
mansion, to trigger a sequence of green colored views of the various rooms of
the bank--Left Shift turns it off.
Have Tommy lead the manager up to Cam and submerge himself in the translucent
tower of pink (should he be doing that when he's trying to seem tough?).
(The gimmick with the poses applies here, too.)
In a cutscene, Cam says he just needs the managers key code, and Tommy says
he'll check on Phil.
Send Tommy back out and along the balcony toward the doorway on the far left.
As you do, an alarm starts ringing and Phil calls for Tommy to help him--the
SWAT team is coming. Tommy has a four star wanted level and the authorities are
on their way, so send him through the doorway and down to ground level.
Scroll back to the Minigun then have Tommy enter the shaft of light by the
counter.
In a cutscene, they hear a SWAT team member warning them through a bullhorn
that they're surrounded. Cam calls down that the safe is open. Tommy says they
have the money so it's time to leave. The SWAT team member calls out that
they've had their last chance, and Phil calls out that the SWAT team is storming
the place.
When the SWAT team descends on ropes from the heating vents, it's usually
enough to shoot the nearest one who drops to the back of the 1st floor and one
in the front on the 2nd floor balcony to prompt Phil to say, "That's the last of
them--go go go!" When you hear that, you know you can have Tommy run to the
shaft of light by the front door.
If Tommy didn't need the armor by the 2nd floor monitors before, check to see
if he needs the protection as a precaution before sending him into the pink tube
by the front door.
There's a cutscene. Hilary pulls up by the door in the taxi and runs into the
clearing at the SWAT team, shooting to provide cover. (Don't try this at home.)
Hilary goes down.
Send Tommy out from behind the shrubs and immediately shoot any SWAT men
around the Taxi and two SWAT vans enough to clear the area to lead the others,
especially Phil. into the taxi. (If Cam dies, there's a different ending, but
if Phil dies, you fail the mission--he has to live to give Tommy missions and go
on to create some more in Liberty City in "III.") Try not to blow up either of
the SWAT Enforcer vans--the explosion might ignite the Taxi.
Make sure the other are nearby, and have Tommy lead them into the Taxi. Speed
N and into the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray on the left side of the road. Then
drive W of the main road to go S, avoiding the SWAT team attacks on the
main road, till you have to get on the main road to go a bit further S to Cam's
place.
(As Rusk says, you can stop somewhere out of the way W of the main road before
you get to Cam's place and have Tommy get out and shoot him if you're curious
about the alternate ending. Be careful to be quick if you do this. One time
when I tried it, FBI Ranchers tried to move in on Tommy a couple of times. Af-
ter driving to Cam's place, the alternate ending has Phil and Tommy agree that
it's too bad about Cam, but that it meant there was more money for each of
them.)
You get $50,000.
The Malibu Club makes $10,000 a day.
The Bank Job Outfit is available on the 2nd floor in the Malibu Club. A Ma-
chete is now across the room, too, in case you want to give Tommy the look of
Jason Voorhees in the "Friday the 13th" movies.
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Tommy can enter El Banco Currupto anytime after this. If Tommy gets on the
stairs to get the $1,000 in the manager's office on the 2nd floor, he gets a
four star wanted level.
The mask Tommy used appears on the low table in the Ocean View apartment, and
manuals and ads and used paper target practice targets for guns appear in the
office in the mansion. (I think the latter things should have appeared after
"The Shootist.")
Phil Cassidy calls to offer any help Tommy needs.
There's a pink shaft of light at the front door of Phil's house--where there's
a P icon on your in-game map and radar.
I.76 "Gun Runner" Phil Cassidy asset
Tommy follows up on a claim Phil had made to provide Tommy with firepower.
Phil agrees to, but adds that he wants a favor. A Mexican gun runner has been
taking away his business lately, so Phil wants Tommy to ram the gun supplies off
his truck and finish him off. (The Rockstar Games web site, "Vice City" sec-
tion, "Vice City Crime Tree" indicates Phil's rival is a violent gun runner
named Pedro Garcia.)
Tommy needs to kill the drivers of four trucks--two pairs of them. The pair
in the S have a S.P.A.S. 12 and a .357, and are in Little Havana going N on the
main N and S road. The pair in the N have an M60 and a Mac, and are going N on
the branch of the same road that goes straight N through Downtown. If you ram
or drive-by a truck, one gun appears on the road for Tommy to take (press Tab if
you have to). You'd do better to blow up the trucks with a drive-by, though,
since a driver will come out of each one to attack.
Once you take a pair of guns, four leather jacket guys on Sanchez bikes will
chase and shoot at Tommy. Tommy can kill them for a $100 apiece, but they'll
keep being replaced till all four weapons are gathered.
When all four weapons are gathered, the mission is completed, the wanted rat-
ing disappears, and the bikers turn peaceful.
The game provides you with a Patriot (AM General Hummer) and remote grenades
for some reason. The Patriot is pretty sturdy, but I usually pass on the remote
grenades. You can try leaving them on the N and S road in the path of the
trucks if you want.
As Rusk writes, if you want to use an alternate vehicle, leave it on the medi-
an strip of the main N and S road E of Phil's Place before the mission so it
doesn't disappear.
I favor the "EP" Admiral and an MP for this:
Ram and drive-by the trucks, use the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray (it won't hurt
the "EP" quality of the car and you can pick a color you like--I like dark cran-
berry red the best), then get the guns. After Tommy gets a pair of guns, he can
have some fun swatting and doing drive-bys on the cyclists. The Admiral is the
easiest to swiftly maneuver of the three alternate vehicles listed here.
Rhino
Destroy the trucks 1st, go to the Hyman Condo to use the bribe and put the
Rhino in the big garage, and use the Maverick to get the airborne bribes. Then
get the weapons. Remember that the Rhino is slow to accelerate, though, so be
careful to give it a clear path to move in if you fiddle with the bikers.
Hunter
Destroy the trucks, get the airborne bribes, then get the weapons.
You get $2,000.
Gun manuals, catalogues, and used paper targets appear on the desk of the of-
fice in the mansion.
Pressing Tab to get the M60 and the Mac depleted you of Minigun and MP ammo,
so it's time to stock up on it again. You'll need MP ammo for "Recruitment
Drive," I.78.
There's a pink shaft of light at Phil's door again. Now it's going for pure
alcohol.
I.77 "Boomshine Saigon" Phil Cassidy asset
At Phil's Place, Phil wants to show Tommy a remote bomb he's made, but the
Boomshine he's been drinking is so strong that he detonates it while standing
right beside it and blows his own arm off, and Tommy gets drunk from the fumes.
Now we know how Phil lost his arm for "GTA III," and what Auntie Poulet has been
spiking the gumbo with--or is it why Phil lives in Little Haiti to get the in-
gredients for his Boomshine? This isn't made clear.
Drunken Tommy has to drive Phil in the Patriot to get help. It has to be done
before the bar representing Phil's health runs out--about 90 seconds.
Go S to the hospital on the main N and S road in Little Havana. Delusional
Phil talks about being in Vietnam, about seeing a giant fish, and about seeing
black bird wings all around. At the hospital, Phil tells Tommy to take him to
an ex-army surgeon buddy instead. If you hear Phil say it's beautiful, but it's
so cold, time is running out, so hurry up. Continue S, make the 1st right turn,
and follow the road W and around a 90 degree curve N to get there, save Phil,
and finish the mission.
Basically, it's as much a different visual experience as it is a "drive there
then there" mission, with the view and car physics the way Tommy experiences
them in the drunken haze he's in from Phil's Boomshine fumes. The view is blur-
ry and wavering but less so as the mission goes on, and it makes it seem like
the Patriot over-steers at the slightest touch like a big four-wheel RC Copter.
Similar to driving that copter, you can alternate between bursts of acceleration
and steering. It can help to pretend you're driving it normally, as you would
if the view wasn't screwy, as best you can.
Don't try to nurse the Patriot too delicately. Just plow on, anyway--the Pa-
triot can stand some damage but Phil can't die.
(At the friend's place, it turns out Phil's right arm has been miraculously
reattached, but now he's lost his left arm. This guy just has bad luck with
arms. Legs, he's good--arms, not so good. Why don't they use the same stuff to
reattach his left arm?--ran out of it, I guess. He seems happy, though.)
You get $4,000.
The Rocket Launcher, Minigun, Remote Grenades, and M60 are for sale at Phil's
Place.
(I don't have much use for this. You can get the 1st two for free at several
save places, and I favor the Minigun over the M60, which is available for free
in the W tower at Fort Baxter. The Remote Grenades are something different to
try if you haven't gotten them before for free from behind the building across
the street and a couple doors N of the Malibu Club, but they take up Molotov
space. They should have been something different, like poison blow darts or
poisonous lion-fishes for the pools or a harpoon for the shark or the use of the
submarine and torpedoes or the use of the crane to drop the cars of pursuers in-
to the car crusher or a catapult for junk or police bribes for boats or some
such thing.)
There are three barrels of Boomshine in the Ocean View apartment.
There's an A on your in-game map and radar. Avery wants to launch Tommy into
the Cuban-Haitian gang fracas.
Instead,
Buy Interglobal Films studio for $60,000.
You have a clapper board ("Action--roll 'em"--whap) on your in-game map and
radar.
There's a pink shaft of light by the door to porn studio D. This shaft of
light goes for anything.
The gates are open; you no longer have to jump or fly in.
Pretty soon, you'll have your own little Dodo. Awwww!
That's nicer.
I.78 "Recruitment Drive" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
Voice actors:
Steve Scott: "Hoosiers" star Dennis Hopper.
Candy Suxxx: Hosers star (no, no, no)...adult stuff star, and the voice ac-
tress for Daisy, the premier skater to unlock in the game "Tony Hawk's Pro Skat-
er 4," Jenna Jameson.
Get a lot of MP ammo at the Downtown Ammu-Nation and a PCJ 600.
Tommy meets director Steve Scott. Tommy tells Steve that Tommy runs things
now. Basically, he tells Steve that Steve has been too concerned with ambitions
to emulate Steven Spielberg. (The "Aliens" and "big" "shark" Tommy notices show
Steve has been influenced by "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind" and "Jaws.")
Tommy orders him to concentrate more on filming porno.
Tommy goes to recruit Congressman Alex Shrub's hooker Candy Suxxx and Cortez'
daughter Mercedes.
Drive to the shaft of light at the front of the V.A.J Finance building (go E
from the E end of the condo alley--it's on the S side of the street before it
curves S).
In a cutscene, Candy is dropped off by Shrub in a gold limo. Tommy asks if
she'd work in a movie. She says she would, but 1st he has to talk to her
"agent." Her pimp, in red and black, drives up, gets out of his car, gets Tommy
PO'ed, gets back in, and three of his henchmen--three of the criminals in white
jerseys, blue jeans, and black leather jackets--get out of it. The pimp drives
away to the E and S and the three tough guys try to give Tommy a drubbing.
Forget the three hard guys. Candy's agent has shown very unprofessional busi-
ness manners and must be stopped before his capaciousness vitiates Tommy's in-
tended actress. (That last line is better with a Sheldon Leonard voice--a gang-
ster trying to sound well-bred and all.) The games always positions the bike to
make a getaway to the E. Have Tommy get away and do a forward drive-by shooting
at the pimp's car. Be ready to brake in case the car brakes, at which time
three tough guys may get out and go after Tommy. As Rusk notes, if you manage
to stop far enough back from the car, the three guys may not get out. If three
tough guys get out, forget them and chase after the pimp. When the car has had
it, he'll get out and run. If he isn't done in by the car exploding, see how
good he can exploit the act of being schlommed up the butt with a PCJ 600, or
just have Tommy shoot him.
Have Tommy take care of any wanted rating, then go to the shaft of light by
Candy.
Candy gets on the bike. Have Tommy drive her to the Downtown Well Stacked
Pizza place. Send Tommy inside to the shaft of light by Mercedes.
(Before you get to Mercedes, you can get a sustained wheelie on the PCJ 600,
if you keep trying at it, easier than usual because Candy's sitting on the back
of the seat. A couple of times, when I had Tommy take a detour and try bike
stunts, I found that after a Unique Jump you might hear Candy say, "Tommy, be
careful--my implants aren't insured yet" or "I can't do porno after this!" If
you're reckless, you might hear, "You call that driving?" and "What? Are you
trying to kill me? I thought I was the star!")
In a cutscene, Tommy asks Mercedes if she'd work in a movie--she says sure, if
it's "cheap and sleazy."
Have Tommy lead the women into the four-door Sentinel across the street and
drive them to the studio.
You get $1,000.
You get a call from Sonny. He's tired of waiting for his money, so he's back
to being furious again.
There's an undulating shaft of light waiting to be entered in the door to porn
studio D again.
I.79 "Dildo Dodo" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
Steve thinks nobody will distribute the flyers for the new movie because
they're unimaginative. Tommy says he has his own ideas about that.
The screen says there is a seaplane that was used as a prop in an old indie
film round the back of the studios. (An "indie" film is an independent film,
but, in context, this reminds me of Indiana Jones of the Spielberg movies, too.)
The blue back gate of the studio is now open, and there's a Skimmer--a little
Dodo with pontoons--at the little pier just beyond it. As with a boat, have
Tommy go near it and press F to have him appear behind the wheel.
Controls for The Skimmer
W....Forward
S....Backward (in water; in air, it decreases speed faster than by releas-
ing W alone)
A....Left
D....Right
Number Pad 6....Up
Number Pad 9....Down
Q....Look Left
E....Look Right
Q+E or Middle Mouse Button....Look Behind
F....(Enter or) Exit
R or Mouse Wheel Up....Change radio station
The plane is very easy to fly (up, down, left, right--what's complicated?),
but the game gives you a sort of amusement park ride introduction to it full of
swoops and close calls. Tommy has to fly through one of the six blue disks hov-
ering over the west island. When he does, the flyers start pouring out of the
plane and a red disk appears. He has to fly through the red disk to make the
flyers stop pouring out and the remaining blue disks appear, etc., until either
the twelve disks are all gone or he runs out of gas. A bar on the screen shows
the gas supply.
As the Brady guide recommends, go from the one at the N end of the island down
the W to the one over the airport terminal, then SE to the one over the Boat-
yard, and up the E to the last one, over the bridge from Prawn Island to Down-
town. Make one long circle of it, shaving off time. Midway up the E, for the
4th disk up from the SE--the 2nd red one from the SE--go way out E over the
water to turn W to aim for one disk between buildings. The two buildings are on
either side of the 1st W turn from the main road S of Downtown. Check the radar
at times for the location of the next disk, and when it comes into view on the
screen, make sure you're aiming for it without smacking into a building or such.
The Brady Guide, recommended near the beginning of this guide, has a map of
the disks, making it even easier to plan a course.
In the PC version, you don't find porno video flyers for "Bite" on the ground
afterward. The papers that fly out of the Skimmer look like the "Liberty C**k"
newspapers you see blown around town by the wind.
You get $2,000.
Best of all, now you can fly the little Dodo with pontoons (I.9.D) anytime you
want. The Skimmer will be available at the pier behind the studio from now on.
Your flight hours, and pilot ratings based on them, will be shown in your Stats
(I.7).
Sonny calls again. Something needs to be done soon. No one shall be allowed
to come between a man and his Dodo.
There's a shaft of light getting worked up at the door to porn studio D again.
I.80 "Martha's Mug Shot" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
Stephen's film idea--"...close encounter...unable to think of anything but
this huge phallic mountain...vat of mashed potatoes"--refers to Steven Spiel-
berg's "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind," notably the tower of rock, and that
alien ESP-influenced people were strongly drawn to it and made all kinds of rep-
resentations of it to show others their visions of it.
Steve tells Tommy that Congressman Alex Shrub is running for office with the
promise to restrict the porno industry. Tommy asks Shrub's hooker Candy, who's
in the middle of a scene, if Shrub likes anything kinky. She seems to say,
"Yeah," so Steve tells Tommy to follow her to her next rendezvous with Shrub.
Tommy has Steve get him a camera.
Use the "EP" Admiral or the Sparrow the game provides.
Have Tommy get the Sparrow in the air while Candy slowly sashays out the front
gate to her gold limo.
(The PS2 glitch where you have Tommy snipe the driver and get in, Candy gets
in, and the car drives itself to the rendezvous destination won't work for PC--
she'll just disappear. You can get Candy's gold limo by having Tommy shoot the
driver, failing the mission, but it's not a very shiny attractive gold. It's
more of a moldy gold, and it has no special abilities or handling advantages.)
Follow the limo to the Shrub-Suxxx hideaway, which is N of the Malibu Club--
it's the building with a pool on top where H24 was and the setting where Tommy
confronted Gonzales for "Treacherous Swine."
(You can have Tommy jump onto the Stretch and ride it instead of following it
in another vehicle, but he'll end up without an escape vehicle when he needs
one.)
(You can have Tommy and his vehicle precede the limo to the entrance of the
building, and Tommy and his vehicle will be seen motionless or landing behind
Candy in the next cutscene, which is kind of funny since he's supposed to be
trying to be sneaky. Don't have him precede the limo by more than a block or so
or the game will say he went out of range and you fail the mission.)
There's a cutscene of Candy entering the building then approaching Shrub on
the roof. Tommy overhears that Shrub has a kinky side--he likes her to call him
"Martha" (where did Candy hide the listening device? No, no, no--never mind).
The game will then give you a screen message that the door just opened on the N
side of the WK Chariot Hotel leads to a good spot for shooting the pictures--you
need three good blackmail photos.
If you use the "EP" Admiral, park by the open blue door on the N side of the
WK Chariot hotel. Have Tommy go in the door, up eight flights of stairs, and to
the window at the end of the hall. (If you want to use the hallway but don't
have the "EP" Admiral, land the Sea Sparrow on a desolate area of the E coast of
Washington Beach, or the Skimmer on the water just beyond that. I didn't see
anyone there during Tommy's run to it for a getaway.)
If you use the Sea Sparrow, you might have Tommy land on the roof of the front
porch of the WK Chariot Hotel, as the Brady Games advanced strategy advises, and
get out of the chopper.
(If you have Tommy land on the tall structure at the back of the roof Candy is
on, his camera won't snap a photo. If his helicopter falls onto one of the FBI
agents there or such, the screen tells you Candy and the Senator were alerted to
Tommy's presence and got away.)
You need to have him take at least three pictures. Press RMB to bring up the
aiming lens for this 1st person shooter, zoom with Z and X or the mouse scroll
wheel--and see that Alex likes to wear a bad combo of men's and women's depart-
ment store underwear, too--and snap the shutter with LMB. After three pictures,
Tommy has a five star wanted level.
You can keep taking pictures for a bit if you want, since the number is given
in your statistics. The limit is twelve. The pictures aren't saved anywhere by
the game, although you could make a screen shot.
Tommy has to get back to the studio with the pictures.
If you used the "EP" Admiral (or left the Sea Sparrow or Skimmer across the
beach), have Tommy run down a handful of floors. He'll have a pair of guys
shoot at him from the N end of each of the three lowest floors of the staircase.
Have him ease them into the aim of his Minigun and sweep the shots across them.
Get into the "EP" Admiral and take a knockabout ride to a Pay 'n' Spray (or
fly the Sea Sparrow or Skimmer though the airborne bribes, etc.), then go to the
studio.
If you used the Sparrow to land on the porch roof, fly through the three air-
borne bribes of the west island, land on the condo roof and go down to the alley
for a 4th bribe, then get back up to the helicopter and fly to the studio. (You
might try flying up into the porch ceiling of the WK Chariot, as described in
I.9.G, and get away through Ghost World, but it's risky at this wanted level.
You could also uncheck the green dot, as described in I.100.D.a, and use Notepad
to change the Y column for the Sea Sparrow to 0.0 in datahandling.cfg to make
the Sea Sparrow explosion-proof--I.100.D.e.)
(If you had Tommy ride on the roof of Candy's limo to get there, you might
have Tommy run behind the building and S to the BF Injection, drive it S on the
beach till about E of the Pay 'n' Spray, then go to the Pay 'n' Spray.)
There's a regular Rancher SUV with two FBI guys at the NE gate, with a 3rd FBI
guy just inside the gate. There are two Ranchers and two FBI guys at the SE
gate.
If you used the Admiral, have Tommy take them out from a distance with the
.308 sniper rifle or move in and blow up their Ranchers, and them, with the
Minigun.
If you used the Sparrow, Rusk recommends that you fly E over the bridge to
Prawn Island and turn S when you see the shaft of light (in front of Studio D).
Land in it to complete the mission. (As an option, he recommends that you can
land by the fountain and have Tommy take out the bodyguards 1st.)
You get $4,000.
The blue door on the N side of the WK Chariot hotel will remain open thereaf-
ter if you want to have Tommy go inside and check it out. For the meaning of
the message by the upstairs hall window--"The Samartians; DON'T JUST JUMP; HY-
PER-JUMP; call 555-7000," see I.13.
Tommy gets another angry call from Sonny.
Candy Suxxx photos will appear on the low tables, and an enlargement of one
will appear on the E wall, in the mansion office.
There's a shaft of light throbbing skyward in the door to porn studio D again.
I.81 "G-Spotlight" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
Tommy tells Steve that they need a big promotional gimmick to launch the sale
of the four new naked people videos. Steve gives a series of ideas, and the one
about searchlights gives Tommy an idea.
You do acts of stratustrophic derring-do that defy all physical and physiolog-
ical explanation, soaring over the crowd below. ("How does he hang in the air
like that?" "How can any man manipulate a machine like that?" "How does his
kneecap stand it when he smacks the wall like that?")
Tommy has to hurl himself and his PCJ 600 through 19 shafts and over a series
of jumps to make a searchlight, near the S side of the bridge to Downtown, show
a slide of Candy's big mama vazooms on the side of a building.
You start in the evening and have till seven in the morning. I don't think
anyone in the world expects you to do all the jumps in one continuous flow with-
out braking, especially since the landing areas for a few are so short and for a
few require you to drive around to another area to begin another runway. And
don't worry if you don't accomplish Unique Jumps 1, 3, or 4 along the way this
time, especially if you're new. The game will let you come back anytime after
this mission to play with all the jumps. Right now, Tommy just has to live to
get the ti**ies on the wall.
Use "aspirine" if Tommy's machine starts to smolder like it's going to blow
up.
As Rusk reports, there's a gimmick that lets you get all the jump disks with a
helicopter if you can't get them with a PCJ 600. That's true, but I don't rec-
ommend it. You're not getting anything done flying a helicopter over these
roofs--you should learn how to have fun doing them with a PCJ 600. Even the
best stunt jumpers of video games have Tommy get in wrecks now and then, but
just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again if you're go-
ing to learn to get better at it and do those things, too.
Guided by the kindly instructional throbbing shafts, have Tommy take the PCJ
600 from near the guard booth of the lot to the E side of the block across the
street to the N of the one the Skumole Shack is on, go in the lot, up the
stairs, across the roof, and into the office (like he did for H62). There's a
cutscene of a security cam shot of Tommy taking the PCJ 600 up in the elevator.
Gun it to just left of the poor fellow standing by the window. If you get a
cinematic shot of Tommy crashing through the glass and landing in the big hole
that's laid horizontally to receive him in the next office building over, you
just did Unique Jump 4.
(This hole returns for I.82 so you can fly a Checkpoint Chopper Sparrow
through it. It's SE of the Maverick on the condo roof, in case you want to make
it part of your morning ablutions. It's a little snazzier to do it with the
Skimmer.)
Keep going moderately fast, not full throttle, and give it a left turn going
out the end of the hole.
Give your landing the left needed to continue in a left turn through the gap
in the low wall. (If you have to use brake/reverse, get a full runway to con-
tinue.)
Land, turn a bit left, and go over the big section of the roof that slants up
away from you.
Land on the roof with a low wall of pale red-violet and blue baby colors and
go over the left ramp with a bit of right turn, or straight over the right ramp.
(If you braked, get a full runway 1st.)
Land with brake/reverse on a short area with obstacles around it on the roof
of the Schuman Health Center. There's a heart pickup there I never used. Go
clockwise around to the curved area. To do J1, position the bike with the back
wheel ready for the start of a clockwise arc around the curve, which adds a bit
of speed. Go easy around the curve then gun it for the ramp. (This often makes
for a safe landing. If you just use a straight runway, you usually wreck on the
awning across the street and watch Tommy spill onto the roof, and maybe even get
credit for J1, anyway. Don't worry. Tommy just keeps getting back on. He's a
mighty, mighty man. He must have a jockstrap made of cadmium steel and the bot-
tom of Buster Keaton.)
Land--I hope you got J1 and didn't wreck. Go up two sets of steps on the
right, then up the very low slanted block to get onto the slightly higher roof
to the right. Position the bike to go moderately fast over the ramp with brake/
reverse ready.
Land on the small area using brake/reverse/left, go left and turn around to
position the bike for a full runway, and go over the ramp a bit left of the mid-
dle. You may need NP9 to level the wheels.
Land, go to the end of the area on the right to start a full runway, position
the bike, and jump the ramp.
Land on the black top roof, go right around the corner, and stop at the near
side of the gray rectangular marking ahead. Then jump the ramp--aim for the
stairs you can see to your right.
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Land going up the stairs. A cutscene shows the bottom length of a stairway
being lowered to connect the lower roof to the SW area of the grass lot the
Downtown dirt track is on. You can use the armor by the top of those stairs or
just continue up the stairs you landed on to the upper roof. Look from the top
of the ramp at how you might aim this and the next three ramp jumps to try for
up to four in a row. Position the bike for a full runway and turn a bit left
going over the ramp.
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Land and go a bit left over the ramp.
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Land, possibly with a left then right turn, and go left over the ramp, or
brake and position the bike for a full runway.
Land, possibly with a left then right turn, and go easy to the left going off
the ramp for a short jump. Have brake/reverse/right turn ready.
Brake and turn right; position the bike to go over the ramp.
Land; don't gun it over the ramp, and have brake/reverse/left turn ready.
Land with brake/left turn and continue left up the stairs to an upper roof.
Position the bike and drive over the ramp.
Land and veer a bit right to go over the ramp. At the most, only about 2/3rds
of the runway are needed to gun it from a complete stop for the jump, which is
J3.
Land on the last roof.
Have Tommy drive over the two foot or so high wall at the base of the raised
section and up into the shaft of light by the searchlight.
A cutscene shows him insert a slide into it so a black and white depiction of
Candy's big fat fraps are plastered across the side of a building.
Mission completed. A cutscene shows that the bottom length of a long set of
stairs are lowered to get from the roof to the ground. They'll be available
from now on. (The screen says you can use them for access to the rooftops, but
if you want to practice the jumps of this mission, use the building of the 1st
jump of this mission. To practice some of them, use jump 11 of "Some favorite
spots for big Insane Jump statistics" in I.9.C Motorcycles, or the 1st set of
stairs made to reach the ground in this mission.)
You get $8,000. Interglobal Films will make $7,000 a day.
Kent Paul calls. He jokes about being a good prospect for starring roles in
porno, then adds he doesn't want Tommy to forget about him after all he's done
for him.
"Que pasa?" means "What's happening?" When Tommy says he doesn't want any
fake tag clothes, Kent says Tommy knows he doesn't touch "bent gear." "Bent" is
U.K slang for corrupt (early 1900's), and "gear," which refers to the clothes,
can also mean illicit drugs.
You can use the elevator to the office of the 1st jump, all the jumps, either
of the stairs that became available in this mission, and look at a black and
white depiction of Candy's several story-high flesh-colored volleyballs, from
now on.
Two Candy Suxxx posters, for "Bite" and "Closer Encounters," will appear at
the Ocean View. (As Rusk notes, "Bite" is French for "D**k.")
The last time I did this, the mansion now had pizza, cigarettes, cigars, and
empty cans and bottles by the front door, the door to the TV room, and on and by
the main staircase, and had GASH bags in the TV room. A couple of garbage bags
of junk showed up by the front door.
The 4th Chopper Checkpoint mission (I.82) is available.
I.82 Checkpoint Chopper 4
The same basic deal as for the 1st three at I.55.
Downtown. From the Skumole Shack, go N to the next block and turn left into
the lot. Go up the stairs and the chopper is on the far side of the roof.
(Around the corner to the left is the office with the elevator to the 1st of the
jumps used in I.81.) 28 disks.
This Chopper is the most convenient to use in the Hyman Condo garage for rais-
ing your CRiminal Rating, too (see I.7).
There's an A that's been waiting a long time on your in-game map and radar.
I.83 "Two Bit Hit" Avery Carrington
Avery tells Tommy that the Cubans are suspected for being behind the death of
a Haitian gang lord. He wants Tommy to go to the funeral and stir up trouble,
disguised as a Cuban, to start a gang war and bring prices down in the area,
then get out of there.
Tommy has to get the Cuban outfit at Little Havana Streetwear then kill the
Haitian gang leader. The gang leader is surrounded by gang members at Funeraria
Romero, which is at the S side of the pizza place in Little Haiti. They made
him their leader because he has a big supernatural pink arrow pointing down at
his head. I guess you can't blame them--it would be a novelty.
You can't have Tommy snipe the gang leader from beyond the barricade of Voo-
doos in the street, before the gang notices him, because a Cuban has to be wit-
nessed killing the gang leader.
If Tommy ends up chasing the gang leader, who tries to escape in a hearse, and
follows him closely, a gang member drops coffins from the back door. They're
kind of pretty and made of polished light-colored wood with rose bouquets on
them.
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They also explode and leave a Molotov-type fire if anyone drives into them.
Fortunately, there isn't much traffic out, including police cars, during this,
so you can avoid having Tommy get directly behind the hearse while he chases and
rams it.
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After he kills the leader and is outside of Little Haiti, the mission is com-
pleted and his wanted rating disappears. But if you don't want Wanted Stars At-
tained to get much bigger than Evaded, have him use the bribe in the alley N of
the N end of the street that's W of, and parallel to, the big concrete drainage
ditch, and drive the other star off, before leaving Little Haiti. You can also
have him use the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, unless you have him jack a black
Voodoo and want it to stay black, or use a Rhino to kill the gang leader, in
which case you can have him leave another vehicle in it beforehand.
This is the mission in which Avery uses a line that Donald Love uses a slight-
ly different version of for "GTA III" (I.3).
If all you want to do is have Tommy kill the gang leader and not get a special
vehicle:
You might have Tommy do a ramming drive-by shooting with the "EP" Admiral and
an MP, use the Rhino, or snipe or Minigun the leader from atop a car on the W
side of the wall behind the pizza store.
Rhino: prepare for the mission by having Tommy leave the Rhino across the
street from Little Havana Streetwear, jack any land vehicle to leave with the
door open in the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, then have him get the Cuban outfit
and the Rhino on foot. Have him drive N and S and through the area before Ro-
mero's Funeral Parlor and blow things up till he kills the Haitian gang lord--
the yellow dot on the radar. Then have him use the Pay 'n' Spray and drive out
of Little Haiti.
"EP" Admiral: have Tommy get the Cuban outfit with the "EP" Admiral parked
across the street to make sure it doesn't disappear. Have him ram and drive-by
anything at the Romero's Funeral Parlor area till he kills the Haitian gang
lord. If the gang leader makes his escape in a hearse, you can bang into the
coffins dropped from the back of the hearse to watch them explode since they
won't hurt the "EP" Admiral. Use the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, then blow up
the hearse. Reload the game if you lose the "EP" Admiral.
Rusk credits Cic the Poet for giving him the idea of shooting from behind the
wall behind the pizza store . It's quick and makes getting the hearse and/or
the black Voodoo easier. Get any vehicle Tommy can climb on top of. Have him
drive W to the E side of the wall that's to the E of the Little Haiti Well
Stacked Pizza store. Position the tear drop-shaped icon that represents Tommy
on the radar so it's as close as possible to the dot that represents the gang
leader. Get Tommy on his vehicle, which alerts the Haitian gangsters to attack,
and have him snipe (I'd say Minigun) the gang leader. Rusk adds that if you
want the hearse, have Tommy clear out the area around it 1st, jump the wall with
a weapon he can run with, like a .347 (I'd stick with the Minigun), then drive
it out of Little Haiti.
Romero's Hearse and the black Voodoo:
There are two Romero's Hearses and a black Voodoo at the gang member gathering
by Romero's funeral parlor. This is the only mission you can find these vehi-
cles in.
Romero's Hearse, when there's a coffin in the back, is the "Vice City" version
of the "GTA III" "Dead Skunk in the Trunk" Manana with a dead body in the trunk.
Unlike the more ornamental coffins that are pushed from the back of it during a
chase of the gang leader, the coffin you may find inside it otherwise is a plain
brown or blue one.
If you want a version of Romero's Hearse that has a coffin in the back, don't
worry if you don't see a coffin in the back of the hearse. Pressing F1, for in-
stant replay, twice changes a Romero's Hearse to a version with a brown or blue
coffin, or no coffin, inside.
It's fairly fast, corners okay, but tips over (and burns and blows up) easily
at higher speeds.
If you have Tommy jack the black Voodoo, don't have him use it in a Pay 'n'
Spray or spray 'n' go or it reverts to the standard maroon color. If you need
to heal it, type "aspirine" or have him use one of his garages instead. Don't
use a Pay 'n' Spray to get rid of the wanted rating before leaving Little Haiti,
either--use the bribe in the alley N of the road that's W of, and parallel to,
the big concrete drainage ditch, then drive the other one off instead.
If you just want one special vehicle to save:
Have Tommy clear the area of shooting gangsters from on top of a vehicle be-
hind the wall in back of the pizza place 1st. Have Tommy shoot the henchman who
runs toward him, the gang leader and a couple others by the gang leader, one you
can see on the roof to the left, and one or two if they run in from the back.
Then you can go look over the vehicles while the drivers of the two hearses and
black Voodoo just sit behind their steering wheels. Have Tommy jack the vehicle
you want. Tommy probably has a two star wanted level--have him take care of
that, then leave Little Haiti.
If the leader and a henchman get away in a hearse, the two maroon Voodoos, the
black Voodoo, and the other hearse will go nuts trying to drive back to where
Tommy is. The drivers usually wait to get close to get out to shoot at him.
There's a henchman on the roof Tommy has to move in front of the funeral parlor
to see and shoot. He can still jack the black Voodoo or a Romero's Hearse, but
it's safer to take care of all the henchmen 1st. Tommy probably has a two star
wanted level, so have him take care of that, then leave Little Haiti.
If the parked hearse is destroyed, have Tommy chase the hearse the gang leader
got away in. Use a vehicle with some heft--the gang leader's hearse doesn't go
very fast--and try to ram into the front side of the hearse to drive him into
something, even Tommy's vehicle, so he's just spinning his wheels. Don't get
too rambunctious because it tips over easily and you don't want it to burn and
blow up. Have Tommy jack the hearse and shoot the leader then or later.
If you want to get both special vehicles to save:
For both, have Tommy clear the area except for the gang leader--the guy with
the big pink arrow pointing down at him. Have Tommy shoot the henchman who runs
toward Tommy, the two by the gang leader, and one you can see on the roof to
your left. Let the gang leader drive away in one of the hearses. The other ve-
hicles will go nuts, driving very badly in an attempt to get into the alley and
over to Tommy. The drivers usually wait till they can get close before getting
out to shoot at Tommy. Have Tommy shoot them when they get out--you might be
able to have him snipe one through a windshield if they sit still long enough.
Have Tommy jump over the wall and clear the area. Send him in front of the fu-
neral parlor to be able to see and shoot the other henchman on the roof. Tommy
probably has a two star wanted level.
Have him jack the black Voodoo and use the bribe in the alley N of the N end
of the road W of, and parallel to, the big concrete drainage ditch, or use the
condo alley bribe and the clothes pickup on the condo roof, and save the car in
a garage.
You might use the Love Fist limo by VROCK for the next part since it has a
good speed and heft for it. Have Tommy go back and see if the other hearse sur-
vived the car-ramming and shooting--if so, have him save it, too, then kill the
gang leader. If not, or it disappeared or drove away, have him chase the hearse
the gang leader and a henchman are trying to escape with and have Tommy try to
ram the hearse from alongside it and cut it off with his vehicle and a wall so
it spins its wheels in place. Be careful since it can easily tip over and blow
up. Have Tommy jack it and kill the Haitian gang leader then or later.
You get $2,500. Umberto Robina, the Cuban gang leader, calls to offer work.
A shovel appears by the inside of the front door of the Vercetti Estate.
There's a pink shaft of light at the front door of Robina's Cafe Cubano in
Little Havana--where the psychiatrist's ink blot test gang logo (I say it looks
like a black upside-down octopus missing a tentacle...a sundew plant getting
something to eat?) is on the in-game map and radar.
The Havana Outfit appears in the entrance to Little Havana Streetwear.
I.84 "Stunt Boat Challenge" Umberto Robina
Umberto Robina is voice acted by man's man Danny Trejo.
Umberto, the Cuban gang leader, has Tommy meet Rico and drive him on a Speeder
speed boat through glowing disks and jumps to prove he's got big cajones (I
guess he wouldn't accept a receipt from the music store).
The three minute course goes from the W side of Leaf Links, clockwise around
the NE island of it, down the W coast of the east island, around a bridge abut-
ment for the South Bridge, and back the same way except cutting between the main
island and the NE one of Leaf Links.
Use the radar a lot. Aim for the middle of the jump ramps and you'll get the
disks by them. If you get stuck and stopped, use a little turning reverse, then
hold the opposite turn and press acceleration, to extract yourself fast.
In a cutscene, Rico proudly tells Tommy that he has big cajones. (He probably
turns the bass up too loud in his Cuban Hermes, too, so it's a big cajone on
wheels.)
If you turn Tommy left toward Rico's Speeder afterwards, it stops a little
ways away. If Tommy takes the Predator and jacks the Speeder, Rico says, "Hey,
man," and dives overboard. You don't get anything like an "EP" Admiral out of
it.
Robina's Cafe has a jukebox with a couple fuzzy pictures of Elvis on it. It's
the same jukebox that's by Sonny Forelli in Marco's Bistro at the start of the
game (but not the one in The Greasy Chopper where Tommy has his meetings with
Mitch Baker). "GTA 2" players will remember the little Elvis gang in that game
going around saying "Thank you very much" and "a hunk a hunk of burnin' love"
and all. If you ran over a little line of them at once, you were rewarded by
the screen saying "Elvis has left the building!"
You get $1,000.
Auntie Poulet calls: she's been communing with the dead people, and she hears
Tommy feels bad. I guess dead people aren't the best ones to get good news
from. She invites Tommy to come by for stew.
There's a shaft of light at the door of her shack--where the voodoo doll icon
is on your in-game map and radar, and another for the disoriented octopus from
the rehab.
I.85 "Cannon Fodder" Umberto Robina
Umberto is upset after losing a few of his Cuban gang members to the Haitian
gang members. He wants Tommy to drive three Cuban gang members to the battle
some of the Cuban and Haitian gang members are having and take the Haitian gang-
sters down.
Once he's done that, Tommy has to get a van from the lot of the main battle
and drive it back to Robina's Cafe.
The Haitian gangsters have pants and jerseys in shades of blue and white--one
t-shirt has "RELAX" on the front, some with white baseball cap-type caps with
blue hat bands and some with blue head bands. The Cubans have white t-shirts
with a red splotch on the front and red head bands or yellow jerseys with gray
sleeves and black fedoras with red hat bands.
Get any four-door vehicle--the driving part isn't timed or a drive-by. A
Minigun with lots of ammo will do.
As Rusk explains, the Haitian gangsters have the only weapons in the game that
can quickly destroy a Rhino or the "EP" Admiral. I don't know why, either, but,
fortunately, it's not that big a stealth and shooter ordeal to handle on foot.
To be extra prepared:
If you want to get past the closed gate and see inside the place before you
try to fight in it, and if you'd like another jump for your PCJ 600, you can get
there before doing this mission. Take a PCJ 600 S from the Downtown area to the
next cluster of blocks, which is Little Haiti. Go to the W side of the 2nd
block from the N side of it--the one that looks like a cartoon face looking E.
There's a small set of steps with an adrenaline pill over it on the N side of
Rough 'n' Ready Streetwear. Start your runway at the end of the alley E of
that--the alley on the N side of the pizza store. Have Tommy drive over the
steps and he'll clear the wall. (The three indoor places where he'll plant the
bombs in "Trojan Voodoo"--I.98--are the three blue-green boxes marked "explo-
sive.") There's a stairway on the S side of the grounds that lead to a roof
Tommy can leave on.
There's enough space to land a chopper on the grounds, too.
Have Tommy get the vehicle loaded up with young Cuban militants and book it to
the big do. Tommy is welcomed to the fray in a cutscene. The Cuban gang mem-
bers want him to help kill all the Haitian gang members at this battle.
Then the screen says something that created a bit of controversy: "KILL ALL
THE HAITIANS!"
(As I've written before, I think that Rockstar wants us to kill all Haitians,
which some politician I imagine was looking to make a name for themself alleged,
about as much as Alfred Hitchcock wanted us to slash women to death with knives
in shower stalls by filming "Psycho." Rockstar was considerate to those out-
spokenly sensitive about how it related to actual prejudice in the world, nota-
bly Miami, by deleting the line--and deleting or changing other lines about Hai-
tians and Cubans--from subsequent editions of a fictional, M rated game unique
in parodying about every human vice and selfishness, including that kind.
It's hard to imagine what argument makes sense that the line doesn't fit in
that context, though, or that it does, but the line needs to be removed from a
context it fits in because--what? You'd think they'd say "Vice City" is a good
context for it. In "Vice City," everyone is a terrible example of something to
give you an excuse to use that video game weaponry and drive so bad. It's no
more or less a satiric jab at the callousness some people in the world can show
than when the game refers to how people can consider old people as nothing more
than TV shows to switch the channel from and forget with the "Farewell Ranch"
radio commercial. I can see leaving kids out of the picture, because they're
too young to be culpable, but the problems of unfair regard and treatment some
Haitians have faced are due to people as grown up but childish as the ones that
cause the ones in "Vice City."
It's also hard to imagine such a topic being considered off-grounds for a fic-
tional movie, which "Vice City" resembles, and which might show an edgy treat-
ment of disturbing topic material. Cortez can hate the French and have Tommy
kill them, Diaz and Avery can hate any competition and want them killed, the
Golfers can be caricatures that might make some Jewish people cringe, Christians
get no better representation than Pastor Richards with selfish ideas of what the
collection plate is for and Mercedes wearing a cross as if just to deflect any
suspicion that she's off to another gang bang, the policemen are all brutal and
the military all incredibly hawkish, our lead player is a self-professed drug-
dealing, homicidal maniac, Poulet can hate Cubans and want them killed, but that
line is out of line? We ought to clean up the representation of criminals to
make sure they aren't shown to have any bad, selfish motives?
I don't always follow these things, as I told you before. Apparently, the
rest didn't bother them as much. Okay, they aren't REAL sensitive--maybe a LIT-
TLE bit sensitive...or erratically sensitive. At least Rockstar was even-handed
enough to delete any overt expression of prejudiced motive for why the thugs of
either ethnocentric ethnic group want to kill each other. Now, they just natur-
ally do--better?
For a brief introduction into the issues involved in the real life immigration
struggles of Haitians in Miami, see I.2--Little Havana, Little Haiti, and Liber-
ty City. I should be ashamed if I wanted to make fun of the real life problems
of the people involved in any way. Again, "Vice City" is more a comedic video
game take on the problems that arise from all kinds of human selfishness. It
reminds me of a point Mel Brooks once made, something about how comedy can be
more powerful when it's the rubber ball bounced off a hard wall of reality.
Richard Pryor's "white people this--black people that" material didn't represent
all people all the time, but I thought it was pretty funny stuff about some
things that really do happen. With these prejudiced characters in the game seen
in that light, which is, I think, the kind intended--that those waging these
gang wars generally aren't seeing the humanity of their targets, and not dumb
prejudice Rockstar North intends itself we need to protect people from, such
things do deserve a place, all the more if reflecting extreme real life examples
that need to be shown up as such and ridiculed.)
Have Tommy sensitively blow up the Voodoo and any Haitian gangsters--gangsters
only, "PC" PC gamers--around it at the far end of the entrance lane.
A cutscene shows several Cuban gang members charge the entrance and get shot
down by a sniper on the roof who gently squeezes out a few alternative philo-
sophical points about "political correctness" and correcting society's inequi-
ties. With temperance of spirit, have Tommy nurture him to the transcendent
realms with a poignant sermon of Minigun bullets.
All misty-eyed, the Cubans call for reinforcements to share in this heighten-
ing of awareness--they surge to become a part of the assembly.
Have Tommy, radiating a oneness of humanity that says far more than words ever
could, enter the complex by using the Minigun on all targets, careful to look
from side to side to make sure he hasn't left anyone near the van or that could
attack from behind. The Minigun shoots the Haitian gang members around the lot
easier than by using any other weapon he has. Have the propriety to know that
Tommy shan't tarry to get every Haitian gangster because he has other callings
and he's witnessing the miracle of the ever-replenishing supply of thugs.
When the area is cleared of gang members enough to make a go of driving the
van out, scroll to Fist/Brass Knuckles and have him jack the van and drive to
the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray to clear a two star wanted level. If you don't
care about his number of Wanted Stars Attained getting bigger than for Evaded,
you can just have him drive the van to the shaft of light at the cafe and get
him into it, because the immediate wanted level disappears when the mission is
completed.
You get $2,000 and feel enriched. Your newly raised consciousness will help
you more fully appreciate the rest of the game. Tommy will now be an older and
wiser, more thoroughly-informed carnage-wreaking sociopath.
Join the shaft of light finally trying to sober up with some food at Cafe Ro-
bina. Park your vehicle in the lot across the street from it if you want to be
sure it doesn't disappear.
I.86 "Naval Engagement" Umberto Robina
Umberto wants Tommy to ambush a deal of "really good stuff" the Haitian gang-
sters are importing and finish them. He tells Tommy he'll take care of him like
family if Tommy does it. Tommy makes it clear the money is more important to
him.
Tommy has to meet Rico, who will take him on his perforated Cuban Jetmax to a
deal some Haitian gangsters are conducting with some Streetwannabe's at the pier
of a house at the NW side of Starfish Island, where a boat of Haitian gangsters
flank either side of the transaction. Tommy has to destroy the two boats, kill
the gangsters, and collect three briefcases of stuff. One of the two Haitian
gangsters that appear on a 3rd Haitian gangster boat will blow up Rico and his
boat. Tommy will have to get the briefcases past the couple of attacking Hai-
tian gangsters, and through a four or five star wanted level, to Robina's Cafe.
Have a lot of Minigun ammo for the fight.
The getaway is harder.
At the end of the mission, you can have Tommy make his getaway with the Land-
stalker SUV parked in the driveway at the SE side of the house, or:
Get the mission, leave the "EP" Admiral on the W side of the lawn of the
fight, and have Tommy go on foot to meet Rico, which makes the getaway easier,
or:
Get the mission, leave a Sea Sparrow on the neighbor's lawn to the E (which is
used at I.88) of the one the battle takes place in, and send Tommy on foot to
meet Rico, which makes the getaway the easiest, or:
Prepare before the mission by leaving a Skimmer by the neighbor's pier to the
E of the yard of the battle, and have Tommy go on foot to get the mission from
Umberto then go on foot to meet Rico, which is the most novel.
Do one of those, then send Tommy to meet Rico at a dock by a strip of Little
Havana that extends down the E coast through Viceport. Equip the Minigun before
having Tommy enter the shaft of light by Rico, because after the cutscene of
Rico taking Tommy by boat to the deal on Starfish Island, Tommy has to shoot be-
fore being shot down as soon as you get control of him.
At the deal, there are three Haitian gangsters on each of two boats with three
Haitian gangsters and three Streetwannabes on the dock between them. Blow up
one boat, get all six in the middle (so there aren't any of them to get on foot
in the next segment), then blow up the other boat.
A cutscene shows Tommy going ashore on the pier at the back of the yard of a
house. Have him clear the area. If he got all six that were on the pier be-
fore, there are three Streetwannabes on the porch (one of which he has to move W
to see), one Streetwannabe on the roof, and one Streetwannabe on either side of
the house, all of which he can pick off from the pier. Have him get the brief-
case in the little covered portion of the dock then the two briefcases on the
porch.
A cutscene shows one of the two Haitian gangsters on a boat blowing up Rico
and his boat, Tommy has a four or five star wanted level, and the couple of Hai-
tian gangsters will shoot at him from the NE end of the yard.
Thanks to brandon6199 at GTA Forums for noticing that though Rico's boat is
blown up, he survives for "Trojan Voodoo." (In that mission, once you have Tom-
my get into a Voodoo with Pepe, the screen instructs Tommy to "Go meet up with
Rico and the other Cubans.")
If you don't care about wanted stars Attained getting bigger than Evaded, you
only need to drive, fly, or run to Robina's Cafe and the rating disappears with
the completion of the mission.
If you do care about erasing the wanted record, before going to Robina's:
My least favorite choice is to have Tommy run clockwise around the house to
the Landstalker SUV on the driveway. Be easy on turns--it isn't the greatest
getaway vehicle in the world. Have Tommy jack another vehicle or run if he has
to. Have him drive to the Pay 'n' Spray or the spray 'n' go and wish you'd giv-
en him the Admiral, Sea Sparrow, or the Skimmer instead, or:
Have Tommy drive the "EP" Admiral S to the Sunshine Autos spray 'n' go, or N
on the main road of the W island to the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, or:
Have Tommy shoot the two Haitian gangsters, fly the Sea Sparrow through the
airborne bribes, and go to the condo roof to use the bribe in the alley, or:
Use my favorite way. It may not be the easiest, but it's pretty easy, and I
wanted to think of a way to solve another mission with the little Dodo with pon-
toons. Fly the Skimmer through the airborne bribes over the drainage ditch and
the fence in back of Sunshine Autos (it's OK if you touch the fence a bit doing
it). Then crash land on the roof of the Hyman Condo--approach the E side from
the SE--the structure there will prevent you from going off the roof on the oth-
er side, and Tommy won't get hurt. Have him go downstairs for the bribe, come
back up (and possibly use the clothes pickup), and fly the Maverick to Robina's
Cafe (going through the bribe over the crates in Little Haiti if he needs it).
Send Tommy to Robina's Cafe Cubano to end the mission.
You get $4,000.
There's a shaft of light in front of Auntie Poulet's shack snorting illicit
gumbo dust,
but not Umberto's Cafe till after her missions. I don't care when he calls,
we're not making the Haitian gangsters go nuts till I.98.
Again, she has the voodoo doll icon on your map and radar.
I.87 "Juju Scramble" Auntie Poulet
Auntie Poulet is voice acted with the persuasive powers of Youree Cleomili
Harris.
You may wonder why Auntie Poulet, leader of the Haitian gang, has called Tommy
to help her considering how he's just helped her rival gang in bloody battles.
Tommy, for his part, is an immoral mercenary, but he seems hypnotized--stunned,
even--and shows a blithe disregard for the possibility of retribution from Um-
berto. For her part, I think Auntie Poulet has carelessly acquired some ingre-
dients for her potions from Jeremy Robard and has been spiking her stew with
them. One thing is for certain: violent foreign gang leaders always have bad
diet and exercise regimens.
Auntie Poulet, to hazard a translation, heard from her dead grandfather and
his friends that they'd rather be dead than in Tommy's position. She's heard
about Tommy needing to scramble, even illegally, to get Sonny off his back. If
he gets her the powders she stashed--powders some Cubans told the police about
and the police think are drugs--before the police get them (and find out they're
not drugs? she loses me there), she'll help Tommy ward off the law with "juju."
(According to the Merriam-Webster web site, "juju" is the magic associated with
a fetish, charm, or amulet of West African peoples. I think I'd ask for cash.)
(It makes some sense of it to figure they are drugs, since Tommy seems stoned by
something he took there and that would explain why she doesn't want the police
to find them.)
After Tommy gets the 1st of the three stashes, each in a briefcase, he has a
two star wanted level and about a minute to get the 2nd one. After he gets the
2nd, he has a four star wanted level and about a minute to get the 3rd. After
that, he has a five star wanted rating and there's no time limit on how long he
can take to get back to Auntie Poulet's shack.
You might practice this route 1st, so you can do it fast when you have to.
When you do the mission, use brake/reverse to try to stop with Tommy's door be-
side each briefcase pickup. I recommend using the Rhino or "EP" Admiral.
Thrill seekers can try something fast and sturdy--unfortunately, those aren't
two words that go together, so you might use "aspirine" with that effort. (You
could also modify the game--see I.100.D.e--and give a Cheetah the durability of
a tank.)
Have Tommy park pointing E just beyond the E end of the building by the dot on
the radar. Have him go up the stairs on the W side of the building and cross
the roof to get the 1st briefcase, ready to run N and drop down to his vehicle
after the cutscene. If you make Tommy run right away, the game skips the cut-
scene that shows that an armed SWAT agent wants to get the briefcase. Have Tom-
my run and drop right to his car and get in, because the SWAT guy will be right
behind him and try to bust him. Tommy has a two star wanted level, so the fir-
ing and police car ramming will begin.
Have Tommy drive E to the T intersection, go right, then go left to the far
corner on the left for the 2nd briefcase and a four star wanted level.
Then have him go N, and, at the right turn, continue ahead across the street
and to the right to enter the alley that goes N and contains a police bribe.
Have him go through it and continue N to the next block up, and go N through or
around it to the N side of it, then cross the street to get the 3rd briefcase
in the lot of the pale yellow building--it's the lot where you begin J5. Tommy
will have a five star wanted level.
The Rhino works fine for this. I'm just concerned that you might lose it in
all the five star vehicle mayhem and getting Tommy into and out of it. It's
easily replaced, though, and lets him ride through the police attacks in com-
fort. The "EP" Admiral works fine, too, but reload the game if you lose it.
At the end of the mission, you can drive either one to the Hyman Condo bribe,
put the vehicle in a garage, and have Tommy get the Maverick from the roof to
use the airborne bribes before flying peacefully back to Auntie Poulet to end
the mission.
If you don't care that much about Wanted Stars Attained getting bigger than
Evaded, send Tommy S across the street from the 3rd briefcase pickup to the jump
ramp with a bribe hovering over it in the alley--you might have him jump through
the bribe if he has a vehicle. If he has a vehicle or not, have him continue S
and W to Auntie Poulet's shack to end the mission.
HandsomeRockus likes to have Tommy run through the mission, like you can have
him run through a sequence of stores to knock off, and go to Auntie Poulet's
shack. Since there's no time limit after he gets the third briefcase, you might
have him jack a vehicle and use it in the Little Haiti Pay 'n' Spray, or even
use one he left in it before starting the mission, before sending him to Auntie
Poulet's shack.
You get $1,000.
The shaft of light is hooked on the gumbo at Auntie Poulet's shack. This is
looking like irreversible brain damage.
I.88 "Bombs Away!" Auntie Poulet
Auntie Poulet wants Tommy to use three RC Baron planes, each with an unlimited
number of bombs, to destroy the Cuban gangster's three speed boats used for drug
smuggling.
Have Tommy drive SE and enter the Top Fun Van that's along the E coast.
There are nine Cuban gangsters, a Cuban Hermes, and three boats (a Coast
Guard, a Cuban Jetmax, and a Speeder) on or by a pier on the W side of the N
coast of Starfish Island. Tommy has to blow up the gangsters, the boats, and
the car if one tries to drive away in it.
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(This is the pier I recommended for a Sea Sparrow or a Skimmer in I.86.)
The Brady guide advanced method, also Rusk's, to drive the planes like cars
works to make this easier. But the flying method isn't hard, once you get used
to it.
RC Baron controls:
W....Accelerate
S....Reverse
D....Right
A....Left
Number Pad 6....Up
Number Pad 9....Down
Space Bar....Brake
Left Mouse Button....drop little bomb, go boom.
Note: the bombs make the planes heavier and dip more easily. Whenever you get
enough altitude with NP6, though, W does a good enough job of it, so use NP9 to
swoop down very close to each target from behind or you'll rarely get one with a
bomb.
The flying method:
Fly over the Cuban gangsters and drop a bomb on them or one of their boats.
If you try for the gangsters, the idea is there won't be so many bullets flying
from the boats you need to destroy. I'd try for a boat while it's sitting
still--if you get it, there will not only be one less boat to get, but it tends
to leave one gangster standing on the pier, and anyone left standing on the pier
later is a sitting duck. Besides, the shooting from the boats usually doesn't
make an RC plane explode for a long time.
When you drop the 1st bomb, they send up a hail of bullets and most or all of
them take off in the boats. If any are left on the pier or by the car, they
won't leave while you get all the boats. The screen will warn you if you get
out of range of the boats, so I might just make a pass or two over anyone left
on the pier before I go after the boats.
Approach each of the three boats, which travel as a group, from behind, and
swoop down at each target like you almost want to collide with it to drop one
bomb on it. Move up and away to avoid the fire, fly back behind the boats, and
try again.
Afterwards, if you still have a Cuban gangster at the pier or the car, only
the one with the car will try to get away. The game doesn't seem fussy about
how close a bomb has to be to get the one standing. The car will drive to Lit-
tle Havana and drive around in it. You approach the car about the same way as
you would for one of the boats, except you have more obstacles to avoid. Remem-
ber that the horizontal traffic light posts are non-solid; it's the vertical
ones you need to avoid.
The driving method:
Have Tommy drive SE and enter the Top Fun Van that's along the E coast. Fly
the 1st plane to the yard by the pier where the boats are, and land in the yard
containing a Cuban gangster and a car.
The RC plane can now be driven like a car. If you're going fast enough, or do
it several times, you can use it to run down the gangsters. They won't react
until you drop the 1st bomb, so use the 1st plane to run over all of them before
you drop it.
Get the gangster by the car, the three at the top of the steps down to the
pier, the one between the crane and the boats, the one to the W of the crane--
you will need to reverse and go forward several times till he stays down, then
the other three on the pier.
Then drive the plane onto the middle boat and release the bomb, LMB, on it. I
try, not always successfully, to land the plane on the boat, but the plane can
land in the water beyond as long as the bomb lands on the boat to destroy it. I
haven't had any luck making the destruction of the middle boat cause the one to
the E of it to blow up, too, as Rusk describes. It may be another PS2/PC dif-
ference.
Fly the other two planes to the same yard and destroy the other two boats the
same way.
You get $2,000.
There's a shaft of light in front of Auntie Poulet's door. Still no sign of
Uncle Poulet.
I.89 "Dirty Lickin's" Auntie Poulet
Auntie Poulet tells Tommy there's a Cuban-Haitian gang battle. They're not
using guns, but she wants Tommy to take the Sniper Rifle she provides and kill
the Cuban gangsters from a hiding place. Then he won't be obliged to her any-
more. (Apparently, she only had a few temporary uses of Tommy in mind, and felt
she had to get him bombed to do them.)
This mission requires Tommy to use the Sniper Rifle (not a .308). If you have
a .308, it will replace it. As in a rampage, you can't scroll to another weapon
in the mission. As Rusk notes, if you buy Sniper Rifle ammo from the Ammu-Na-
tion in North Point Mall beforehand, this will just add to the ammo it has.
Having the Fast Load feature from succeeding at "Rifle Range" speeds up the
Sniper Rifle and helps a lot. If you didn't get it before, there's a standing
invitation at the Downtown Ammu-Nation to try for it again.
Have a car pointed E by Auntie Poulet's shack before taking the mission, or
use the Voodoo always parked there.
After the cutscene, scroll to Fist/Brass Knuckles, drive E, and go counter-
clockwise around the building across the street from the gang fight. Have Tommy
get the adrenaline pill, which slows everything down--targets aren't so hard to
hit--under the stairs behind the building. Have him climb the stairs to the
roof, and get him into the shaft of light. (Remember to reduce Tommy's run to a
trot about ten feet before he gets to the shaft of light at the edge of the
roof. Otherwise, since adrenaline pills make him overdo things with delayed re-
actions, he'll run off the roof.)
Press RMB to bring up the scope, zoom with Z and X, and use both hands on the
mouse to steady your aim. The Cuban gangsters have white jerseys with a red de-
sign on the front and red headbands, or yellow jerseys with gray sleeves and
black fedoras with red hat bands. The Haitian gangsters have pants and jerseys
in shades of blue and white--one shirt has "RELAX" on the front, with blue head-
bands or white baseball cap-type caps with blue hat bands. Shoot the Cuban
gangsters fighting the Haitian ones, then the Cuban gangsters who drive up be-
hind them to join the fight, then the ones who arrive running single file from
the lower left of the screen.
Thanks to Ring_of_Fire and smaisey for the tip that Tommy can use any weapon.
If he blows up the van when it arrives, then shoots the line of Cuban gangsters
that appear to his left, he won't have much else to do about the one on one
fighters. The Rocket Launcher (I like the Minigun) makes this real easy with-
out having Tommy use the Adrenaline Pill.
You get $5,000.
Stock up on .308 ammo again.
After doing this for Auntie Poulet, she calls Tommy and says she doesn't want
to see him around Little Haiti anymore. I don't know why. Maybe she heard
something about Tommy's affiliation with the Cubans. Tommy's duplicity in the
matter is the only thing the story gives you to understand it with. He just
needs to get the money for Sonny.
There's a shaft of light at Robina's Cafe so Tommy can do "Trojan Voodoo" for
Umberto Robina (I.98). Stay out of that light like it's poison. Once you do
that mission, the Haitian gangsters will go as nuts as Auntie Poulet and run and
shoot at Tommy when he goes near them. I've delayed that till near the end of
the game. (One alternative is to modify the files with Notepad as explained at
I.100.D.ee Weapons and Attackers--how to lessen the severity of attacks.)
Instead,
I.90A Buy Kaufman Cabs taxi company (taxi firm asset) for $40,000.
The Taxi Controller is voice acted by that famous and romantical Deborah Harry
("Blondie"). Besides "Cop Land," mentioned in I.2, she stars as Nicki Brand in
"Videodrome," 1983, and as Velma Von Tussle in "Hairspray," 1988. She also sang
"Rush Rush" heard on Flashback FM in "GTA III."
The Taxi Controller seems resigned to the fact that now and then a new gang
takes over the place, has changes made, and gets into battles with their rivals.
But she welcomes Tommy to take a cab out if he feels like it.
That's nicer.
You have a K icon on your in-game radar and map.
The doors to Kaufman Cabs are open. You no longer have to use a Rocket
Launcher to try to sneak a look at the interior that looks like the main set of
the TV show "Taxi."
There's another of those unexplainable throbbing pink shafts of light, this
time existing simultaneously with a Kaufman Cab.
I.90B "V.I.P." Kaufman Cabs (taxi firm asset)
Have plenty of MP ammo from the Downtown Ammu-Nation.
Have Tommy get into the cab with the shaft of light going through it to initi-
ate the mission.
The dispatcher (Deborah Harry) announces a fare waiting on Starfish Island.
Tommy takes it.
Tommy has one minute to get to the shaft of light on Starfish Island. Drive
like you did for the Taxi mission of I.20. Then honk the horn.
A Taxi from a competing firm steals the fare, a business man in a suit and
tie, and speeds W to the west island and S. Don't destroy it--just ram and do
a drive-by shooting on the Taxi so it gives up the business man. Make sure he
gets in Tommy's cab, then speed him to the entrance of the airport terminal a
step ahead of the attacking Taxi.
For all three Kaufman Cabs missions, you can press W to skip the intro.
You get $1,000.
There's a pink shaft of light waiting in a taxi cab for Tommy to sit on it.
I.91 "Friendly Rivalry" Kaufman Cabs (taxi firm asset)
The dispatcher announces that VC Cabs has so many cars, they're taking the
fares away from them. She asks Tommy to help before they're put out of busi-
ness.
Tommy has to destroy three VC cabs, shown on your radar. A VC Cab is a Cab-
bie; it looks like Tommy's cab except without the Kaufman Cabs logo on the side.
(In comparison, the Taxi light on top of a Taxi is positioned lengthwise and it
has a black stripe instead of gray arrows on the side.) You can't miss them
since their promotional gimmick that's caught on big is to drive about with huge
pink balloons pointing down at their roofs. There's no time limit.
This is like an untimed three cab vigilante mission. You're given a cab, but
destroy them any way you like: with a drive-by shooting with a car or PCJ 600,
the Hunter or Sea Sparrow machine gun, the Rhino, the "EP" Admiral and an MP,
the Minigun, etc. If you use the Minigun, you'll need to speed around and try
to anticipate where they'll be before you have Tommy get out to customize their
cabs.
You get $2,000.
There's a pink shaft of light waiting for Tommy to run up the meter on its
taxi cab again.
I.92 "Cabmageddon" Kaufman Cabs (taxi firm asset)
The dispatcher announces that Miss (Mercedes) Cortez asked for car 13 (Tommy)
to pick her up.
Have Tommy drive to the shaft of light. Go S from the South Bridge on the
main N and S road, go right, take the 1st left, then the 1st right into the lot
and through the gate to a bigger lot (where H86 was and 8 Ball's Bomb Shop is).
Before you drive into the shaft of light and honk the horn, know that a cut-
scene will show that Mercedes isn't going to show up--it's an ambush planned by
six Taxi drivers. Tommy will then have to survive with the entrance gate closed
while they try to ram Tommy's cab and run him down for one minute. Then it
opens long enough to let their leader in, who's in a Zebra Cab and tries to fin-
ish Tommy off. Which way you pick to handle it determines which way is best to
point the cab in the light--with just the back end sticking into it, as Rusk
recommends.
I'll give you several choices--one by one of Rusk's readers and adapted by
Rusk, another by one of Rusk's readers, and one by Brady games, and a Brady
Games variation by me:
1. Dexterx5 adapted by Rusk: park pointed to the SE. Be ready to gun it for
the wall in the SE corner and skid to a stop parallel to the crates. Have Tommy
jump on the low wall and run E to safety, then N to the middle of the closed
gate and equip the Minigun. The cutscene shows the arrival of the Zebra Cab,
but Tommy is blocking the entrance. When you regain control, you'll only have a
few moments, while it backs up to prepare to run him down, to blow it up with
the Minigun. (I substituted the PC Minigun for the PS2 Rocket Launcher).
In Dexterx5's original, he waited on the low wall for the Zebra Cab to enter
the big lot, jacked the cab, shot the driver, and drove the Zebra Cab to a ga-
rage.
GTW notes: whenever I've tried jacking the PC version of the Zebra Cab, the
doors were locked.
If you have Tommy stand to the side of the gate, the Zebra Cab will go into
the big lot and the gate will close behind it. Either sniper rifle can shoot
through the gate (like they can shoot through glass that doesn't break) if you
have Tommy stand a bit back from it. You can have him throw Molotovs over the
gate at it, possibly after jacking a van or whatever that's good to stand on
(not the Benson truck that's always nearby). You may have to wait a bit if the
Zebra Cab pointlessly drives into a wall out of sight around a corner for a
while.
2. Brian Prest, adapted by Rusk: park pointed N. Gun it for the entrance
gate and do the boost jump over it with Left Shift.
GTW notes: then, as described above, have Tommy wait in the middle of the en-
trance gate like Rusk recommends but with the Minigun, or stand to the side of
the gate with a sniper rifle or Molotovs, or, if you're a thrill seeker, you
could even send Tommy around to try to play "El Toro!" with the Zebra Cab, be-
fore demolishing it.
3. BradyGames: park pointed at 8 Ball's Bomb Shop in the SW corner. Get in
there 1st to lure the others there, let the door fall and rise to equip the cab
with a bomb, have Tommy jump over and behind the crowd a bit, and press LMB to
blow up his cab and the Taxis. If you go for having PS2 Tommy jack the Zebra
Cab, shoot the tires to slow it down and have Tommy jump on it if it tries to
run him down.
GTW notes: if Tommy lives, the 8 Ball's method blows up all or most of the
cabs. Have Tommy run onto the low wall and run E over it to get behind the
crates, where he can blow up any remaining Taxis with the Minigun from safety.
4. My variation of 3: you could equip the bomb 1st at 8 Ball's Bomb Shop, get
into the shaft of light, then speed to the SE corner and jump to safety before
you detonate the bomb and blow up the cab and the Taxis.
Again, the PC Zebra Cab doors are locked. To have Tommy jack it, send him to
the NW side of the yard to lure the Zebra Cab or it will obsess with running in-
to the gate at the NE end for some reason. As it approaches across that big
yard, have Tommy use the .308 or the Minigun to shoot the driver through the
windshield (like when having him shoot Hilary in "The Driver" at I.68 to get his
car and not blow it up) so he falls out and leaves the door open.
If the Zebra Cab is destroyed and the driver lives to attack Tommy on foot,
the driver is armed with a Katana.
You get $5,000.
Kaufman Cabs taxi company will make $5,000 per day.
The Zebra Cab (faster than a Taxi but doesn't handle as good) is available at
Kaufman Cabs.
If you jack a Kaufman Cab, it will have taxi radio messages between dispatcher
Deborah Harry and cab drivers instead of music and talk show stations on the ra-
dio.
I.93A Buy the Boatyard (boatyard asset) for $10,000.
Jethro (flowered shirt) is rendered in the vocal stylings of John Zurhellen.
Dwayne is voice acted Navid Khonsari, who makes the call about killer bees to
Lazlow in "III" and returns as Dwayne for "Vice City" and "San Andreas." I
think Navid does the voice of Mr. Black, who gives Tommy Assassination missions
in "Vice City," too, because Mr. Black sounds like the guy who called Lazlow
about killer bees. (See the "Game makers and voice actors" section of I.2 for
more.)
To get there, go S from the W end of the South Bridge, go past the big ship,
and it's on the left with a crummy black wire fence and a house pickup.
Tommy checks the place out and meets Jethro (flowered shirt) and Dwayne (yel-
low jersey), who've been cooked with herb. He asks which of the two speed boats
is the fastest, but they don't make that clear as much as praise the capacity of
the hull to carry shipments from Jamaica.
You have a ship anchor icon on your in-game map and radar at the Boatyard.
I.93B "Checkpoint Charlie" the Boatyard (boatyard asset)
Have Tommy get in one of the two speed boats to start the mission. You have
two and a half minutes to run the course. As Rusk notes, the game shaves five
seconds off the goal with each success (2:25, 2:20, etc.). The rewards go up
$1,000 each time, from $5,000 to $9,000, then passes by $10,000 to $14,000 for
some reason and becomes $15,000 each time.
The goal is to drive through glowing disks in the middle of which are the
rope-bound white packages used for hidden packages in "GTA III." Try for the
middle of the disks, or at least a good chunk of the sides--the game can be er-
ratic about counting the sides of them. You'll see what I mean.
It's also the only mission that lets you see Vice City through some Liberty
City-like fog. It appears if you try the mission after you beat the timer the
3rd time. It clears up in a little while after the mission. Then the fog
didn't appear again. Instead, when I beat the timer, I saw a thunderstorm and
higher waves each time till I beat it again, then rain, then clear weather three
times, and then another thunderstorm with higher waves.
There are also three Ocean Bay Marina jump ramps that only appear at the east
island piers during this mission, and you won't miss them later. You can prac-
tice for the 1st two, going S to N, by trying to send the Speeder over the two
wooden ramps that appear there otherwise.
Ease up on the throttle or steer to avoid boats which appear at random.
Squalo II and Cuban Jetmax controls
W....Forward
S....Reverse
A....Left
D....Right
Space Bar....Brake
Q....Look left
E....Look right
Q + E....Look back
R or Mouse Wheel up....change radio stations.
Save at the boathouse so you can reload and try again quickly, which you'll
probably do a lot if you try to beat your old time as often as you can. Use the
Squalo II (violet and white) and not the Cuban Jetmax (brown and brownish-yel-
low). The Cuban Jetmax corners easily, but the Squalo II is faster, although it
gets bounced around too easily like a Blista. If you've already seen the intro-
ductory information, hit W to interrupt the intro and get going.
Thanks to Orion_SR whose advice for boat school in "San Andreas" applies here.
A timer counts slower if you turn the frame limiter off. In this VC mission,
this can let you pause at the last glowing disk, shave a second or two off your
previous time, and beat it again the same way easily enough to let you enjoy all
the different weather conditions that come up with successive efforts.
Use the radar to see ahead better than by using the scenery alone. Remember
you can let go of acceleration, hold A or D, and add a press of acceleration for
a sharper turn. Add brake for turns almost as you would for a car. Once you
get to the eight and nine thousand prize levels, you'll especially need the ex-
tra acceleration of the Squalo II to overcome the drag caused by waves.
Go a touch right for the 1st disk, then a bit left and straight for a couple.
Turn strongly right to go around the 1st shack, with a roof, and get one, going
right some more to continue to one by a 2nd shack, without a roof. There, go
left strongly a moment then gradually left around and through the obstacles,
like a wooden jump ramp on a rock and one of the floating rocks of these waters,
and beyond the 3rd shack, which has a roof.
Veer a bit momentarily for another disk, keeping an eye on lining the boat up
with the 1st and 2nd of three jumps beyond it on the screen.
Don't try to go full throttle at all three jumps. The 2nd is a little to the
left of the 1st, and the 3rd is even farther to the left of the 2nd than the 2nd
was to the 1st. The unpredictability of the way the boat will bounce over them
and the waves means there's no guaranteed way to get them every time. Try eas-
ing up, aligning the boat to the ramp, then using a spurt of acceleration just
before the jump, and using your brake and turn handling abilities as you would
for a car to continue over the water for the next jump. You may get two in a
row, but you probably need to ease up and steer to get over the 3rd jump.
After that, it's easier. Use the radar and scenery--hit the disks. The
course goes up the inlet between Vice Point and Washington Beach, goes counter-
clockwise around the road that ends in a loop, goes clock-wise around Leaf Links
except for the S-most and N-most islands of it, and goes N to end under the
block that looks like a cartoon nose.
If you really want to apply yourself to this, I hope you're the patient type.
And yes, there is such a thing as jumping through part of a disk, or through one
sideways, and it not making the disk disappear--for the collision file of a wall
to cause your boat to cling to it long enough to miss a disk, and for a boat to
get right in your way (avoid it like when driving a car). It's understandable
to say, "What a rip!" Just reload the game.
The Boatyard makes $2,000 a day after the 1st success.
"Checkpoint Charlie" doesn't appear on your game loading screen, for some rea-
son.
The two speed boats, notably the Squalo II--the fastest in the game, are al-
ways available there. But having Tommy enter one always triggers this mission
for it. It's like having him get on the "PCJ Playground" bike--whether you pass
the mission or not, you can continue to play with the vehicle, and, in this
case, have a change of scenery.
The Squalo II is the best boat to use the "airship" code with. The last time
I used it, I didn't save the game. However, the next couple of times I tried to
save a game for which I hadn't used a code, I got the message: "Warning! One or
more cheats have been activated. This may affect your save game. It is recom-
mended that you do not save this game." I ignored it, since it wasn't true and
I didn't know what to do about it. I didn't notice anything go awry in my
Stats. Still, to be safe, you might want to wait till after you get 100% to
play with it, since we're nearly there.
If the broken package at the Ocean View indicates that the "Vice City" hidden
packages contain cocaine, I guess this mission indicates that the "GTA III" ones
have herb.
Buy the Pole Position Club for $30,000.
You have a pink "P" icon at the Pole Position Club on your in-game map and ra-
dar.
The bar/strip joint is now open. Tommy needs a drink and some relaxation af-
ter this.
I.94 The Pole Position Club ass and asset
Go into the hall in the back of the club and enter the 1st room on the left to
start the mission. You see a stripper dance while your money diminishes at
about $60 a minute. You need to spend $300 (about five minutes). Press Left
Shift to exit. You can leave and go back every $80 to $100 or so till the asset
mission is completed and see all three strippers available.
The Pole Position will make $4,000 a day.
The name of this doesn't appear on your game loading screen, for some reason.
The room you paid to watch a stripper in will remain open for watching stripb
(her file name), and she'll still charge for it.
The "....management only" door on the right at the back of the hall is now
open, and Tommy can go inside to see stripa (her file name) for free. I've no-
ticed that Tommy pays more attention to her. She'll double as the bartender at
the Malibu Club, which some reports call her twin due to the picture of two wom-
en who also look identical to each other, both of whom look similar to stripa
and are seen on either side of Diaz, on the back page of the "VICE CITY Tourist
Guide." Besides, stripa can't be at both places at once, although "Vice City"
becomes a genetic disaster area if we pursue this too seriously.
The Mr. Vercetti Outfit is available at the NE corner of Collars and Cuffs.
For some reason, the Pole Position isn't listed on the screen where you load a
previously saved game.
You might want to change the appearance of the strippers as described in
I.100.D.d (Oo-oo!).
Buy the Print Works for $70,000.
It's N of the E end of the skinny horizontal block of Little Havana.
You have a dollar sign icon at the Print Works on your radar and in-game map.
There's a big red tube at the Print Works sitting at the dock of the loading
bay, Otis.
I.95 "Spilling The Beans" the Print Works (print works asset)
Ernest Kelly is voice acted by "About Last Night," 1986, actor George Dicenzo.
Tommy tells print shop worker Ernest Kelly he's like to print a newspaper or
magazine, but Ernest suggests they print money. He's heard rumors of a counter-
feiting operation in Florida that would have good quality plates. Tommy goes to
someone on top of such local rumors (Kent Paul).
A cutscene explains that Tommy can take a Kaufman Cab to the next location for
$9.
Send Tommy to the cab and press F. In movie time-lapse style, here we are at
the Malibu Club, where Tommy gets out of the cab. Send Tommy to the throbbing
hose by the door.
Tommy pressures Kent Paul to tell him that the Triads supply the plates at a
shipping company by the Viceport docks, and their boss would know when the next
plates are expected to arrive.
(Kent calls Tommy "me old China": a friendly address, originally from Cockney
rhyming slang; "China plate"--"mate." "Dodgy readies": suspicious, dubious
cash.)
The screen says to go to the Chartered Libertine Lines boat at the docks. The
shipping officer, at the dot on your radar, will have the information.
The boat is covered with armed security guards, the kind you've come to know
and despise, and there's one of those blackened doors (like the two at the Biker
compound in "Hog Tied" and the one in the back of the Washington Beach police
station) they'll pour out of endlessly if Tommy has been spotted. It's on the
S side of the 1st deck of the multilevel structure on the N end of the ship.
Going into the shaft of light on the 5th deck causes a cut scene of Tommy
strolling into the shipping officer's room--he pleas with Tommy not to hit him
in the face and says he'll talk--and Tommy strolling out. The officer's cabin
door is at the end of a short hall on the next-to-the-top deck.
Then an alarm bell sounds and the guards pour out and go on the attack, if
they haven't already, and Tommy has a two star wanted level. Get rid of the
wanted level and send him into the shaft of light at the loading bay of the
Print Works to end the mission. This is one of those missions that gets rid of
Tommy's wanted rating when you finish the mission, but it looks bad for the "At-
tained/Evaded" stat and there's no time limit, so I'd get rid of them another
way.
You might want to look over the ship beforehand and get familiar with the
blackened door at the S side of the multilevel structure at the N side of the
ship, the multiple stairs at the N and NW ends of the structure, and the short
hall with a door at the end of it--for the officer's cabin--on the next-to-the-
top deck. Check out the top deck, too, if you want to try landing a helicopter
there with Rusk's method.
There are a few ways to do this.
There's the Brady Games guide approach: run on board, get spotted immediately,
and expect a hail of bullets. You might call this the kamikaze approach and
yell "Banzai!" as Tommy goes down in a flood of his own blood. You don't get
points for that, though--at least not any you'd want to remember.
There's the Rusk approach: after seeing Kent, have Tommy get the Sea Sparrow.
Have him get all the guards you can around the ship with the Sea Sparrow machine
gun, then approach the boat from the W to land carefully on the S end of the
small top deck (I'd add to be ready to type "aspirine"). Have him go down one
flight to the shaft of light, etc., equip the .357 just in case (for PC, use the
PC Minigun), then go back up and fly away in the helicopter. (I'd add you can
fly through an airborne bribe then fly till the other disappears. If the heli-
copter doesn't make it, see Minesweeper's good exit idea in the section below.)
Send Tommy into the shaft of light at the Print Works.
If you want Tommy to both slug it out with the initial bunch of guards and
live:
Have a lot of Minigun and .308 sniper rifle (the kind at several save places)
ammo. After meeting with Kent, get the "EP" Admiral.
Park the Admiral with the back at the wall at the coast, pointing toward the
street, by the two palm trees along the N side of the tall black bar fence,
which is to the W of the multilevel structure on the N end of the ship. Have
Tommy move after he exits so he leaves the door open.
Send Tommy to the grass or dock north of the ship to snipe the guard on the N
side of the 3rd deck of the multiple deck structure.
Send Tommy to the middle of the triangle of grass where the main toad divides
and snipe through a round hole on the side of the ship at a guard patrolling on
the N side of the 1st deck. If you can't see the guard, have Tommy get into the
Coast Guard boat along the coast to the N. Sail to the E of the N side of the
ship till you find a position that lets Tommy shoot through one of the holes at
him.
Send Tommy across the street to go N to S sniping any guards you can see on
the W side of the boat. There's another one on the W side of the ship on the
5th deck left of the shaft of light, and another on the 6th deck you'll have to
go S and look N to see. Two of them are patrolling the near side of the 1st
deck--one on the N side and another on the S side. You can have Tommy snipe
each one as they pass by an opening in the white guard rail or snipe the top of
each guard's head sticking up over the rail.
There's one on the W side in the middle on a gray concrete block.
You might see one on the S end of the 1st deck walk about halfway from the far
side toward the S ramp or go by; if you don't, go farther W from the S ramp till
you see him and have Tommy and shoot him.
Have Tommy go up the S ramp and go to the gray concrete block on the W side--
have him shoot through the clearing at a guard that goes by on the E side.
Send Tommy to the SE corner and shoot at a guard on an upper deck to the N.
Send Tommy E across the S end of the concrete block--try to look around the
corner with the "camera" (your point of view) 1st, and have Tommy shoot a guard
to the N on the 1st deck.
Have Tommy go up the stairs on the N and NW sides. You'll know at this point
if Tommy got all the guards on deck if he doesn't get spotted, which sets off an
alarm and causes guards to start coming out of the blackened door on the 1st
deck. Once I was sure I had Tommy get all of them when he found another on the
N side of the 3rd deck, anyway (didn't he just shoot him?). See if Tommy can
use stealth to get any guard he might run into.
Send Tommy into the shaft of light, etc. Even if it's been quiet so far, the
ringing alarm will sound and guards will begin multiplying on the 1st deck.
The often inventive FAQ by Minesweeper at Gamefaqs has my favorite way for
Tommy to avoid the security guards below: jump. You can have him run or jump
down just one flight of stairs from the shipping officer's door, go to the wall
under the stairs, and run at the guard rail, jumping when about 2/3rds there.
He'll land on the grass. Drive the Admiral SW to the Pay 'n' Spray, then to the
shaft of light at the Print Works.
If you must have Tommy face the gunners on the 1st deck as he leaves:
Park the Admiral at the bottom of the N ramp of the ship and have Tommy get
out with the door left open. After the cutscene with the officer, send him down
the stairs. The big trouble is going to be right in your lap in a minute, Son-
ny. Have Tommy approach the trouble, from the bottom of the stairs on the 1st
deck to the top of the N ramp from the ship, with some stealth and a Minigun--
shoot, waddle ahead a few steps, shoot, waddle ahead a few steps, etc. When you
think he can make a break for it, say, "The hell with it," scroll to Fist/Brass
Knuckles, and have him run down the ramp into the safety of the Admiral. If
Tommy is alive, you did good.
Drive to the Viceport Pay 'n' Spray a couple blocks to the SW. I still like
the dark red the best, although the dark gray would make a nice conservative
cover. Then go to the shaft of light bouncing on the bay at the Print Works.
For the least preparation, have Tommy use the .308 1st, use the Minigun as
need be while going to and from the officer, jump to shore from the 4th deck,
use the bribe NW of Screw This, and go to the Print Works.
You could try a variation of the plug-the-hole method possible for "Hotring"
(I.31) or "Hog Tied" (I.59):
Get a Caddy before starting the mission and plug the hole the security guards
come from with the front end. It doesn't fit in real snugly, but it will stay
there. (I shot out the back tires and had Tommy run at the back end to push it
in snugly, too, which might have helped.) Then have Tommy run around without
using a vehicle to try to keep the Caddy in the game memory, and use the slug it
out method with less to slug.
The last time I did this and Tommy made his getaway, he just had to shoot one
guard who stood on a higher deck and one or two on the 1st deck. Then I had
Tommy run through the bribe in the alley NW of Screw This and go to the shaft of
light at the Print Works.
You get $2,000.
There's a pink shaft of light where the Print Works gets loaded.
I.96 "Hit The Courier" the Print Works (print works asset)
Tommy tells Lance and Ernest that he'll swipe the counterfeit money plates
from the courier at the docks, shake the heat, and come back. And he wants the
printing with those plates to begin five minutes after he gets back.
Two women with the plates are going in a Maverick from the S end of the east
island to the clearing near the docks in Viceport, the 2nd one SW of the Boat-
house. (This area was used for the ambush at the start of the game.) One is
a haggard-looking lady with dark rings around her eyes, short black hair, and a
light pink top with a pale blue short skirt. The other is a lady with dark
brown hair pulled into a bun on the back of her head, black glasses, and a pur-
ple dress.
Waiting for them there are three cars--one is the black Sentinel they'll try
to transfer to, and the other two are red Sentinels some of their armed lady
gangsters will use.
The lady gangsters are about ten allied henchwomen with Shotguns and Tec-9s.
These gangsters are all seen as lady businesswomen in the rest of the game:
- more copies of the lady with dark brown hair pulled into a bun on the back
of her head, black glasses, and a purple dress,
- ladies that have dirty blonde hair and a white dress,
- and ladies that have dirty blonde hair, black sunglasses, a violet skirt,
and a purple jacket.
There are four black ladies in blue jeans with Sniper Rifles--
- one on the crane at the NE section of the lot,
- one on a one story entrance cubicle adjoining the middle of the building on
the S side,
- one on the S end of the rooftop of the building on the W side of the lot,
- and one on a one story cubicle adjoining the N side of the building on the W
side of the lot. This sniper is mainly a problem for Tommy if he tries to use
the area between the main lot and the nearby road.
Two ladies get out of the Maverick--the haggard-looking lady and the one in a
purple dress. When I've tried this, the one in the purple dress is the courier
as the pair go from the Maverick to the black Sentinel, and the haggard-looking
one is the courier that goes from the black Sentinel to the room with a print-
ing press.
The black Sentinel was locked throughout the mission when I've tried to have
Tommy jack it.
The courier will try to deliver the counterfeit money plates to a room with a
printing press. The room is at the base of a few steps in a lot in the middle
of the buildings of the block that's across the street E of Phil's Place. (It's
mentioned in my directions for how to find hidden package 66 and in the W.K.
Chariot section of I.9.G). The black Sentinel parks by the N-S alley of the
block, then the haggard-looking lady uses the alley to get to the lot by the
room with a printing press.
On the way there, the haggard-looking lady will stand through the roof of the
Sentinel, as if it had a moon roof, to shoot at Tommy or his vehicle if he gets
close to her. The gangsters in the red Sentinels will attack Tommy or his vehi-
cle if he's on or near the path the group uses.
The path the gangsters take goes N on the main N-S road of the west island,
then turns W at the WestHaven Community Healthcare Centre, N past the Little Ha-
vana Streetwear & Tattoo Parlour, N past the Brownstone Laundromat, N past the
Kaufman Cab building, and N to the N side of the alley to the lot with the room
of the printing press.
For some reason, you can her one of the lady gangsters call out to the others
to "Kill him" as the procession starts to go N no matter where Tommy is when it
happens.
One of the rules of this mission is you can't blow up the helicopter, or then
the black Sentinel, when the courier is in it or the plates are destroyed and
you fail the mission. You need to either kill her when she's between vehicles
or ram and drive-by shoot her black Sentinel till she gets out and the Sentinel
explosion kills her or Tommy does. If another gangster gets the plates before
Tommy does, he has to get the plates without destroying her vehicle, too.
Rusk's ideas for the Hunter (I'd add the Sea Sparrow) or "EP" Admiral, adapted
for PC Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering, work fine for this.
HandsomeRockus uses the Rhino effectively.
Park whichever one a few car lengths from the shaft of light at the loading
bay before the mission so it doesn't disappear.
Hunter or Sea Sparrow:
Fly S over the water and move in to hover at ground level by the SE coast of
the area the pair of couriers' copter will land in. Aim the Hunter/Sea Sparrow
toward the three cars and the group there to meet them, but stay a bit away and
out of sight. The area is filled with armed henchwomen. The one on the left
side of the far rooftop, on the entrance cubicle at the middle of the building
on the left, and the one on the crane on the right have Sniper Rifles, and the
ones on the ground have Shotguns and Tec-9s.
Wait for the couriers to land and for them to exit the chopper. Between the
time the one in a purple dress exits the chopper and enters the black Sentinel,
blow up the helicopter and the three cars, and clear the area, with the machine
gun. The rockets make you more liable to destroy the plates, or at least raise
Tommy's wanted level so he has aggressive police after him, too, where he needs
to land and get the plates. You might use just a Hunter rocket or two to hit
the crane at the right, the left side of the building at the far side of the
lot, and the middle of the building on the left, to get the snipers with the
vibration of the explosions.
Then have Tommy land by the plates. Have the Minigun equipped in case he runs
into an armed lady thug. Have him get the plates, fly away, use any airborne
bribes if need be, land a few car lengths away from the shaft of light at the
Print Works, and go into the shaft of light.
"EP" Admiral:
In one strategy of Rusk's, he has Tommy wait among the unhitched truck trail-
ers in the dirt lot across the street a bit to the N. When the cars go by and
Tommy is spotted, he attacks the black Sentinel the courier is in by ramming it,
and doing a drive-by shooting at it, till she exits. He has Tommy kill her if a
car explosion doesn't. (I'd add you can destroy the other two cars to clear the
area, use the Sunshine Autos spray 'n' go if need be, and put the Admiral in a
garage there.) Tommy then gets the plates then gets into the shaft of light at
the Print Works.
(GTW note: if you want to dare to see and hear more of what the game can do,
have Tommy drive the "EP" Admiral into the opening at the street in the crummy
fence by the Boatyard, make a nearly 180 degree turn to the right, press Q, and
have Tommy do a drive-by shooting of about ten henchwomen that come to attack.
Then have him drive into the meeting area by the three cars and keep moving so
he isn't yanked from the car. Have him run over or shoot any nearby until you
can try to get the courier--in a purple dress with an arrow pointing down at
her--in between the helicopter and the black Sentinel. If that fails, ram and
drive-by her black Sentinel, etc., as with Rusk.)
Rhino:
HandsomeRockus uses a variation of what I call the "plug the hole" method (for
example, using the police car in "Hog Tied" or the Caddy in "Spill the Beans" to
block the blackened door the attackers come out of).
He takes the Rhino N to Little Haiti and points it N in the N and S alley of
the lot of hidden package 66 (behind the supermarket across the street from
Phil's Place). He uses the cannon to blow up the 1st two cars, red Sentinels,
that come by, with Tommy protected from the attacks of the henchwomen in the lot
behind him.
(GTW note: when the courier gets about two blocks from the site of the room
with a printing press, the doors of the room open and four more black ladies in
blue jeans, armed with Shotguns, come out to protect it and will attack Tommy.
Tommy can attack all four as they come up the several steps from the door before
the courier arrives.)
When the courier comes by and gets out of her black Sentinel to run into the
alley, HandsomeRockus has Tommy drive forward and back a bit to run her over and
make the plates available. When another woman or two runs into the alley to get
the plates, he does the same. Then all he has to do is have Tommy get the
plates and drive back to the Print Works.
(GTW note: if you try this, make sure to have the right side of the Rhino
against the right wall of the alley when Tommy gets out to get the plates so he
can get back inside the tank.)
I tried it without the tank, arming Tommy only with the Minigun, and Rusk
tried it with the "EP" Admiral, and it worked those ways, too.
If you use one of the variations of the strategy that put the fight near the
site of the room with a printing press, you might have Tommy take a look inside
since this is the only time in the game the doors for it are open.
You get $5,000.
The Print Works will make $8,000 a day.
Lawyer Ken Rosenberg calls a couple of times--he's frazzled because Sonny has
threatened the life of his family. He also wants Tommy to check out something
at the Print Works.
There's an overflowing bag of banded stacks of money on the bed at the Ocean
View apartment.
There's a pink shaft of light...on Print Works bay...we could hear the voices
ringing....
I.97 "Cap The Collector" Tommy Vercetti
Tommy finds Ernest has been beaten to the ground and is being helped up. Er-
nest says Sonny Forelli's thugs came for their cut of the money. Tommy goes to
take care of them. He promises they'll have ample new ways to expel solid
waste, for some reason (I didn't know he had surgical training, too).
Tommy has to stop Sonny's Mafia henchmen from collecting money from his asset
properties. There is a sequence of three pairs of them with Shotguns on Sanchez
dirt bikes--when one pair is stopped, another takes over where they left off.
Their 1st stop is the Boatyard, the 2nd is Sunshine Autos, and the 3rd is the
Malibu Club.
As Rusk explains, the Hunter, and the "EP" Admiral with MP ammo (Downtown Am-
mu-Nation), are good choices for this. As he writes, leave the vehicle a few
car lengths from the shaft of light where you initiate the mission so the vehi-
cle doesn't disappear. Using the Hunter, think Vigilante mission, "Brown Thun-
der," and use the machine gun. If using the Admiral, ram them off their bikes
and run them down or do a drive-by shooting of them.
You could try a forward drive-by with the PCJ 600 and an MP, or drive a fast
car, like an Infernus, and knock them off their bikes and get out and shoot them
with the Minigun.
The plug-the-hole method by Monkey Man that Rusk relates works fine. Back an
"EP" Admiral into the door of Sunshine Autos so the money pickup is in the back
seat and you're positioned to do a drive-by shooting at the driveway entrance.
The bikers get off their bikes there and run to the now-inaccessible pickup--and
into your line of fire. You could also park a Rhino there sideways across the
door and ready to fire the cannon at the driveway entrance.
GTW note: to make that even easier, since we're using the PC Minigun with
Mouse Controlled Steering, have Tommy equipped with it at the money pickup at
Sunshine Autos. They'll never get past the outpouring of Tommy's objections.
I'd let each pair get one or two shots at Tommy just to hear the extra dialogue
(about Tommy being the Harwood butcher and Tommy saying the town is his now,
etc.) An alternative way to hear it is to use the S.P.A.S. 12 shotgun, which
takes more than one shot at a distance to kill the target. You don't need to
have Tommy put any vehicle over the money pickup, unless you want him to put a
car there, run into Sunshine Autos before the 3rd pair arrives, shoot them a
couple of times through the glass, listen to their dialogue, and have Tommy blow
up the car and the 3rd pair with it.
If you want to plug the 1st hole, have Tommy put a Firetruck over the money
pickup at the Boatyard before doing the mission and go everywhere on foot, or
just use one other vehicle.
You get $30,000.
Lance calls. He wants Tommy to come check on something right away.
There's a huge pink Slinky at the top of the stairs to the mansion office, and
a pair of overlapping V's there on your in-game radar and map.
But now we're going to fulfill a 100% obligation and go to the shaft of light
at Cafe Robina.
(Note: if you ever play this again and don't mind passing up the 100% bonuses,
you could do everything except "Trojan Voodoo" so you can go through Little Hai-
ti easier.)
I.98 "Trojan Voodoo" Umberto Robina
Umberto tells Tommy they're going to take out the Haitians (gangsters). He
tells Tommy to get a Haitian gang car (a Voodoo), pick up Pepe, and take him to
the Haitian gangster's processing plant and use their solvent to blow it up.
In the manner of the Trojan horse filled with Greek soldiers that infiltrated
Troy, several Haitian gang cars, Voodoos, of Cuban gangsters, and Tommy, are to
enter the Haitian gangster's processing plant. Then Tommy is to help clear the
area of Haitian gangsters, affix three bombs to the inside of the plant, and run
like billybejiggers (remember Ward Bond?).
After this, as certain gangs did after you finished with their neighborhoods
in "GTA III," the Haitian gang members will run to yank Tommy from his vehicle
and shoot at him if he just goes near them. If you have any jumps, etc., to do
in Little Haiti, or want to look inside the building Tommy blows up in this mis-
sion, it would be easier to do it before doing this mission.
To get past the closed gate and plan your strategy before you blow it up. and
if you'd like another jump for your PCJ 600, go S from the Downtown area to the
next cluster of blocks, Little Haiti, to the W side of the one of the 2nd block
down that looks like a cartoon face looking E. There's a small set of steps
with an adrenaline pill over it on the N side of Rough 'n' Ready Streetwear.
Start your runway at the end of the alley E of that, on the N side of the pizza
store. Go over the steps and you'll clear the wall.
The three places where you'll plant the bombs are the three blue-green boxes
marked "explosive" inside the plant.
There's a stairway on the S side of the grounds that lead to a roof you can
leave on. There's enough space to land a chopper on the grounds, too.
Use a Minigun with lots of ammo.
Have Tommy lead Pepe into a car or helicopter or onto a bike and take him N
to the Voodoo across from Auntie Poulet's shack (at the N side of the same "car-
toon face" block).
As Rusk notes, Pepe has some conversation to make about this being a nice part
of town (Little Havana), having had a beautiful woman who lived in this neigh-
borhood, this place being a dump (Little Haiti), Tommy driving like a crazy
bi**h, the good pizzas they sell at Well Stacked pizza, and asks if Tommy is
lost.
Lead Pepe into the Voodoo. Drive over to the shaft of light by the other Voo-
doos.
(One Cuban gangster says they're going to kill the Haitian "putas." In Span-
ish, a "puta" is a whore or bi**h, but "puta" is used in a variety of ways like
the English word "f**k.")
A cutscene will show the others going over to the plant. Drive ahead and turn
right into an alley, and drive into the shaft of light behind the other Voodoos.
Slowly follow them into the plant--the Haitian gangsters will briefly open the
black metal gate--and park in the shaft of light.
Have Tommy get out and get right to business clearing a number of Haitian gang
members from the entrance to, and the inside of, the building. Be thorough be-
cause the timer doesn't start till you set the 1st bomb. Among the five gang-
sters inside, one is always around the corner to the left, and another is on the
upper walkway to the left.
Send Tommy up to that walkway on the left to get into the 1st shaft of light.
He now has 45 seconds to set the other two bombs and get safely away before they
explode. The 2nd one is below it on ground level a little closer to the door
Tommy went in. The 3rd one is by the other side of that door. Each of the
three trigger a cutscene of Tommy affixing a few sticks of explosives above the
box to make it a bomb.
Have Tommy run all the way out to the area of the closed black metal gate, go
right, go up the stairs and across the roof to get away from the several big ex-
plosions in time. If you have the time, have Tommy lead the Cuban gang members
out as he goes.
The mission is completed, but you need to get Tommy out of Little Haiti and
away from any Haitian gangsters. They'll all attack him now.
You get $10,000.
Umberto calls: the Cafe is going great, and, to him and his gang, Tommy is Cu-
ban.
The Haitian gangsters, unfortunately, think so, too. They will run to shoot
Tommy and pull him from his vehicle if he goes near them from now on. I hope
you saved your "EP" Admiral. You could also make the Haitian gang members more
peaceful by changing the files with Notepad as explained at I.100.D.ee Weapons
and Attackers--how to lessen the severity of attacks.
You can have Tommy go back to see the wrecked building, even get a Minigun on
the 2nd floor, afterward if you want. But be ready for him to have a battle
with Haitian gang members who gather in and around it, and to draw police atten-
tion as a result. You might use a chopper so you can go to the airborne police
bribes or the Sunshine Autos spray 'n' go afterward. Use the Little Haiti Pay
'n' Spray if the chopper is destroyed.
The prodigal tube is at the mansion.
I.99 "Keep Your Friends Close..." Vercetti
Machiavelli was an Italian political philosopher who lived from 1469 to 1527
AD. One of his cynical philosophies was that you should keep your friends
close, and keep your enemies closer. This was, unsurprisingly, a well-known
saying in the Mafia.
Lawyer Ken Rosenberg and Lance Vance tell Tommy that Forelli's men are coming,
angry that Tommy killed their collector. Tommy wants to show Forelli's men that
this is his operation. He has Ken put $3,000,000 of counterfeit money in brief-
cases (note: Tommy says "Twenty" million but, if you have the subtitles on, the
screen says "Three," then a following scene has Tommy say "Three"), and has
Lance get his men together.
Sonny Forelli appears. Sonny remembers that Tommy killed eleven men before he
went to prison, which is how Tommy became known as the Harwood butcher. (Har-
wood is the neighborhood on the N end of Portland in "GTA III.") Tommy seems to
suspect Sonny for setting him up for his 15 year prison stay by having him am-
bushed, saying that he was sent to kill one man but they knew he was coming.
Then it comes out that Lance tipped Sonny off that the three million Tommy meant
to pay off Sonny with is counterfeit. Lance tells Sonny that the real money is
upstairs in the vault. Sonny asks if Tommy expected him to take it and go away
scared. Tommy says he just wanted to piss Sonny off before he kills him.
Tommy has to kill the Mafia henchmen who run up the stairs to rob the safe in
the office. The screen tells you to go to the office to protect the safe.
There's a cutscene. As Tommy watches from the entrance of his office, Lance
appears at the 2nd floor corridor entrance on the far right. Lance seems confi-
dent that Tommy is finished with no one to back him up, but Tommy vows to get
him for stabbing him in the back.
Tommy has to kill Lance as a couple of Mafia men run to the far balcony and
all three shoot at Tommy. If Tommy kills him there, he has to run from the room
and back to trigger the next cutscene because the game doesn't predict you'll
get him that quickly. If Lance lives, as the game predicts, he runs to the
roof, where several Mafia men will join him at shooting at Tommy from the E side
of the roof. Tommy has to kill Lance and go back to his office.
There's a cutscene. Tommy accuses Sonny of taking fifteen years away from
him; Sonny claims he owns Tommy and they were his fifteen years to spend. Sonny
may mean that, more than just asserting Tommy is someone he owns and rules, that
he chose to have Tommy spend those fifteen years in jail--that he set Tommy up
for it. Considering that Tommy voiced his suspicion about that earlier, this is
likely what Sonny is reaffirming. Sonny makes the 1st move--he tells his two
men to get Tommy.
Tommy has to kill Sonny.
To put it simply, you have to have Tommy kill the Mafia guys who come from the
main and E 1st floor doors to rob the safe in the office,
kill Lance, who appears at the 2nd floor door to the E, and run out of the
main entrance room and back toward the office, whether he needs to or not, to
trigger the cutscene with Sonny,
and kill Sonny, who appears by the main entrance of the 1st floor.
There are a variety of ways to do this.
In a variation of Rusk's Rocket Launcher plan, you can have Tommy go from be-
hind the office desk, leave the office, and go to the wall light over the steps
to the left. Equip him with the Minigun and have him fire it from the railing
at the men who run up the stairs to rob the office safe. Have him edge sideways
to the right, closer and closer to the office entrance, between shots. Some-
times, I've only had to have him shoot four or five that way.
The screen tells you to go to the office to protect the safe. Send Tommy to
the entrance while keeping anyone else from below from entering it.
There's a cutscene of Lance.
A couple of henchmen run from behind him onto the N balcony.
Have Tommy fire at Lance then them. Whenever Tommy gets Lance, he says some-
thing about this being the last dance for Lance Vance. Lance says he had enough
of that at school, and Tommy says, "You picked the wrong side, Lance."
The game needs Tommy to leave the room (supposedly, to kill Lance) before it
shows the cutscene with Sonny. Don't have Tommy linger or the henchmen will
just keep spawning and shooting away his armor and health. So use the opportu-
nity to send him through the corridor Lance was in front of, finish off Lance if
you see him at the other end, go down to the bottom floor (below the 1st floor)
weapon room to get the armor (and health, if he needs it), then return to the
2nd floor office, shooting any henchmen along the way. As you do this, you
might scroll to Fist/Brass Knuckles so Tommy can run a bit, but have him
equipped with the Minigun as he approaches the 2nd floor office.
There's a cutscene with Sonny.
Have Tommy fire the Minigun at the two henchmen then Sonny.
If you want to do this like the "Say 'Hello' to my little friend" scene from
"Scarface," 1983: Tony Montana 1st fires a grenade from the rocket launcher part
of his double duty disassembler to blow the doors off his office and kill a few
thugs. Then he mainly relies on the machine gun portion. Of Tommy's weapons,
the M4 looks the most like Tony's M16 with a grenade launcher attachment, but
you'll probably have an easier time with either the Rocket Launcher or the Mini-
gun. You can't equip both in the same weapon slot. (You could use up the ammo
of one then get the other on the lawn over the course of the mission, but you'd
have to time your ammo to run out at the right time and hope one round would get
you through the rest.)
I'd use the Minigun.
Some of the variations to try:
Initially, you can have Tommy shoot from the safe--there seem to be more to
shoot that way, though.
You can have Tommy chase Lance, without shooting him, to the roof (the intend-
ed shoot-out place), and either shoot from behind the crates or run past every-
one to the helipad (and the heart pickup, if he needs it), then go toward them
till you can see enough of them for him to shoot with the Minigun. You can then
send him to the front of the roof, blow up the three limos Sonny and his men ar-
rived in to take out a few Mafia men in or by them, and go down to the office to
start the cutscene with Sonny.
You can also have Tommy run out front instead of killing Lance, go around back
and take the Sea Sparrow up to kill Lance and the Mafia guys on the roof, then
go back to the office to trigger the cutscene with Sonny. (This is similar to
the Sea Sparrow strategy used for "Rub Out," I.53.)
A Gamefaqs message board post by JRGuitargeek says he had Tommy shoot Lance
then run out front to destroy the limos. Then he had Tommy take a tank from the
garage and drove up the front steps shooting at the door, killing Sonny in four
or five shots and winning the mission without the cutscene of Sonny. When I
tried it, the Rhino wouldn't go up the steps. I guess you have to go off a ways
and turn back to it to build up speed 1st.
I did use the (dark red) "EP" Admiral for a variation of that. After having
Tommy kill Lance on the roof, jump down to the armor, shoot a few of Sonny's Ma-
fia guys on the driveway and blow up the limos, I sent Tommy to get the "EP" Ad-
miral from the garage and drive in the front door and up the steps to the office
(not possible with the PS2 version). There was the cutscene with Sonny. Then
the game turned the Admiral, with Tommy in it, to be facing down from the top of
the indoor stairs! So I had him run Sonny down and keep going out the front
door. It appeared outside while the screen belatedly told me to kill Sonny.
The game showed the ending cutscene and credits. For a finale, it put the "EP"
Admiral, with Tommy in it, to be facing out from the top of the steps to the
mansion.
In the final cutscene, Lawyer Ken Rosenberg sucks up to Tommy about never hav-
ing trusted Lance. Tommy tells Ken the group from the N, the Forelli gang, is
over. They run their own operation. In a variation on the ending of "Casablan-
ca," 1942, starring Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains, Tommy says it could be the
beginning of a beautiful business relationship--after all, Ken's a lying little
thief and Tommy's a mentally ill homicidal drug dealer. Ken says, "Ain't it
just beautiful?"
The music that plays over the credits and some scenes of the city is kind of
ordinary. It's like the incidental synth music "Synth and Son" makes fun of. I
like the opening and mission success music better. If you've seen the ending
before and want to skip it, press Enter. I usually watch it.
When you get control of Tommy again, he looks out from the top of the stairs
to the mansion. If you haven't destroyed them, the three stretch limos Sonny
and his henchmen arrived in are in front of the mansion for a brief time.
You get $30,000.
A checklist for 100% completion can be found at:
http://www.g-unleashed.com/index.php?cat=15&pid=332&page=100%25_completion
A "Vice City" mission tree:
http://en.wikigta.org/wiki/Mission_Tree_(GTA_Vice_City)
If you didn't get 100%, but at least completed the main story missions, all of
the 1st group of Vercetti asset missions, the Print Works asset missions, five
of the remaining seven asset missions--the minimum required to get the last two
Vercetti missions (thanks to a post by Demarest at GTA Forums), and the last two
Vercetti missions, you have:
armor and .357 pickups in the TV room of the mansion,
the Hunter appearing on the helipad at the S end of the east island if you
both collected 100 Hidden Packages and completed "Keep Your Friends Close. It
appears at Fort Baxter if you either collect 100 Hidden Packages (so I've had
one there from early in the game) or complete "Keep Your Friends Close."
and the Vercetti Gang carrying Uz-Is.
After the credits roll, you get the phone calls. I usually wait to get all
the calls before I save the game.
The calls are from Kent Paul (wowed by Mercedes' sex, he tells Tommy to "Keep
your potatoes skinned for her" which probably means to wear a contraceptive),
Colonel Cortez (wanting Tommy to assure him Mercedes won't shame him by becom-
ing a lawyer),
Kent Paul again (drunk, he wants Tommy to recognize how important he's been to
Tommy but ends up begging; "div": an idiot; "treats": I think he means pretzels
or such),
Ernest Kelly (from the Print Works with a paternal message about healing up to
return to work, a call which you have to go that area of the west island to
trigger),
and Steve Scott from Interglobal Films (elated about their porn movie success,
a call which you need to go to the studio to trigger).
The 1st few calls can come without leaving the mansion. I've gotten the one
from Cortez 1st, like Rusk did, but more often the 1st was from Lawyer Ken.
If you have graduated to the ultra Mafia Mensa 100% class without all those
obscure words and all that math, you get the above plus:
You can have up to 200 armor and health.
Any vehicle Tommy is in has double health (I think this helps with "Blood-
ring"--after 100% completion, I've gotten to the three minute mark with dozens
of car kills and Tommy's car health meter stayed nearly full throughout it).
Tommy's weapons have limitless ammo (ignore the ammo number on screen). You
can get rid of a weapon, such as to change a weapon to a different one that has
limitless ammo, by sending Tommy through a metal detector.
The Frankie Outfit ("I completed Vice City and all I got was this lousy T-
shirt") is available in the office in the mansion.
Three bodyguards are in the TV room of the mansion. (If you don't see them
there, have Tommy go away and come back to make them appear.) They look identi-
cal to Tommy's henchmen that wear blue shirts and white pants, and they carry
Uz-Is. To activate a bodyguard, have Tommy step into the shaft of light in
front of one. (Hiring a bodyguard costs $2000--thanks to Siva for the tip.)
The main distinction bodyguards have from the henchmen they look like is that
they follow Tommy around, even into vehicles except boats and trucks with high
doors.
They're supposed to attack those he attacks, or who attack him, but they don't
always do it. For example, they won't attack law enforcers, which is the main
thing Tommy could use help with. They also won't attack if the intended victim
is behind the bodyguard. It's not uncommon for bodyguards to kill each other,
too. So they're not an enormous help. You have to lead them around so they
don't get stuck walking into trees and walls, etc., then might use them to kill
criminals or pimps by having Tommy belt one then get on the other side of them,
or try to use bodyguards with the other henchmen to fight one of the gangs.
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Save the game. Time to retire this save slot for flying the little Dodo with
pontoons and jumping the PCJ 600 and anything else you want to try again, now
that the pressure's off. But it isn't really over. There are other save slots
for starting again, and trying out new ways to do some of those things. And
every now and then I still notice something or hear a pedestrian say something
I don't remember from before. Putting some new tunes in the MP3 folder helps
keep things fresh. Someone else can say the world is their's with a blimp--
let's blame them. I want to try the last couple stunts I learned again. And
where's the little Dodo? Awwwwr!
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I.100 Basic skins, modding--use at your own risk, music, and screen shot
tutorial.
I.100.A Compressed File Utility
I.100.B Web sites for skins and mods
I.100.C Skins for Tommy
Gunslinger: Robert De Niro and Hot Shirts
Make your own skin
I.100.D Mods
I.100.D.a Un-check the green dot
I.100.D.b Make backups
I.100.D.c Tools:
The IMG Tool v.2
DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3
The Vice TXD Tool
The Rescaler and CFGStudio
The GXT Editor v.1.2
I.100.D.d Women
Gunslinger: "Prostitute Pack"s 1 and 2
Dr. Colossus: "Ultimate Nudes"
"GTA Vice City Nudes"
Naked Women: a variety of methods of insertion
Another Naked Woman
Russificator: black stripa
How to change the way they walk
I.100.D.e Cars and bikes:
Installing car and bike mods (Example: a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air)
How to change their colors
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
Gameplay advantages
Making vehicles weaker or stronger
How to create your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel
One possible 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air
How to change the traction of surfaces
Failure to lower the cannon shots of Rhinos
Grand Theft Auto: Vice Bedrock
The hot Cougar scandal
How to change their wheels
DMagic1's Wheel Mod
Xbox wheels
How to change their on-screen names
Spookie's Speedometer mod
The Pole Position bike
I.100.D.ee Weapons and Attackers
How to lessen the severity of attacks
The MP5 A2 ("Counter Strike") mod
The highly mysterious sexual Busker
I.100.D.eee Helicopters
How to make the RC Copter easier to fly
Low flying jets
I.100.D.f Miscellaneous mods:
The RC Mod
The Surf's Up Billboard Jump mod
The Havana Outfit Bug Fix
The Rampage and Package Finder Mod" ("The Northern Lights Mod")
The Hidden Interiors and Steed mods
The NOS mod
VC Code Tools
Spaceeinstein's All In One Mod
Timetwister
I.100.D.g Total conversion mods
The Liberty City mod
I.100.E Music
MP3s and wav files
How to save hard disk space with shortcuts
MP3 volume boost
Shareaza
I.100.F Screen shots
Fraps for videos
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I'm sorry if some of the web site addresses I offer have changed since I cop-
ied them, partly to give proper credit where it's due. If a web address I list
doesn't work any longer, try lopping the end of it off to get to the basic web
site then navigate around. If that doesn't work, you may just have to use a
search engine to find what you're looking for.
You can change things with mods (unless they indicate otherwise), skins, or
music anytime during your progress in the game. You can even create the Liberty
City mod, a total conversion mod, I recommend below while the game is in prog-
ress. You can do that because it uses a copy of "Vice City," which you put in
your Rockstar folder, but not a copy of the GTA Vice City User Files folder,
which records your progress in the game. It creates its own GTA LC User Files.
I.100.A Compressed File Utility
If you need a compressed file utility to make downloads with, you can get pick
from a variety of free or shareware versions, or buy one, at the PC World web
site. As of this writing, these utilities (including Power Archiver, the one I
have) can be found at:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128285/article.html
After you download files for mods, you extract them from it.
An easy way to extract more than one file is to click Edit > Select All, or
hold down Ctrl and click on all the files, to highlight all of them then extract
them all at once.
I.100.B Web sites for skins and mods
Some of the many sites you might try are:
http://planetgrandtheftauto.gamespy.com/
http://www.gtaforums.com/?showforum=90
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/index.php
GTA Action (German; bring GTA Action up on Google and click "Translate this
page" for a babelfish-like translation, which sometimes makes sense--it seems
like it's done by a computer which comes up with 1st definitions of words re-
gardless of context; try to read the English pages and download from the German
ones),
http://gta-action.planet-multiplayer.de/news/index.php
http://www.gtagaming.com/sanandreas/
http://gta-worldmods.planet-multiplayer.de/
http://www.thegtaplace.com/index.php
http://www.gta-downloads.com/index.php
Here's a list of them at GTA Forums:
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=113988&hl=demarest
Rockstar Games web site offers a skin for Tommy as well.
Gamefaqs, PC section, where I found Mr. Rusk's walk-through, occasionally has
a message board post with a list of dozens of web sites for GTA mods that's
bumped up to one of the 1st pages.
I.100.C Skins for Tommy
Gunslinger: Robert De Niro and Hot Shirts
Make your own skin
As with "GTA III," you can download all sorts of skins for Tommy and put them
in the "skins" folder--C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto Vice
Cityskins. The next time you play the game, you can go to Options, then Player
Skin Setup, and pick the look for Tommy you want to see.
Gunslinger: Robert De Niro and Hot Shirts
The best I've seen are by Gunslinger. I recommend his Hot Shirts Pack V1.0
and Robert De Niro (as he appeared in "Heat," 1995) v1.0 skins, which you can
download to your desktop from the 1st two links below:
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1915
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1133
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_%28film%29
Download the choices you like to your desktop. Right click on a blank space
of your desktop and click "New" then "Folder." Right click it and click "Re-
name," and call it "GTA De Niro" or whatever like that. Open your downloaded
file and extract the contents to the folder you created.
Open the folder and copy the .bmp files to C:Program FilesRockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto Vice Cityskins. The next time you play the game, you can go
into the Options for the Player Skin Setup and pick the skin you want to see.
You'll have a decision to make about how much you want to change the game to
show some of his skins off as he intended. Some are intended as mods that use a
different lead player model. Gunslinger likes to exchange the player.dff and
player.txd files of the default player (in street clothes--a blue flowered shirt
and jeans) with the player2, player3, etc., .dff and .txd files which are meant
to show Tommy dressed in the various ways the clothes pickups in the game make
him look (the Soiree Outfit, the Golf Club Outfit, etc.--I.9.C), then do his
artwork on .bmp files, skins, for them.
He wants you to do that for his De Niro skin to have the full suit used he de-
signed it for, but I don't go that far and disrupt everything over one skin.
Nearly all the skins, unless otherwise noted, you'll see for free at the many
GTA web sites are for the default player in street clothes, which is the look I
usually like best for Tommy, anyway. I just put the De Niro .bmp file in skins.
It's the same facial model, etc., except his forearms will have a little messed
up coloring on them because the default Tommy wears a short sleeve shirt. I
just pretend De Niro got his shirt sleeves messed up doing jumps on his bike.
(gtadude1 came up with a good mod of De Niro as Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driv-
er," 1976, that lets you use him as the lead player in "III," too.)
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=1932
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver
The Hot Shirts were designed for the default player.
"dff" files define the shapes of things, and "txd" files are the "texture dic-
tionary" files--the graphics for the .dff files and the radar. You find these
files in modelsgta3.img--"img" stands for "item group." Thanks to Ben Mil-
lard's, aka Cerbera's, web site:
http://projectcerbera.com/texts/vc_setup-importanteditors.html
Make your own skin
Another thing you might do is copy the picture of Tommy with outlines on it
from the Skin file to whatever painting software you might have and make your
own skin. I've never done this, but I know you're supposed to get rid of the
green outlines on it before you copy the finished artwork as a .bmp file back to
the Skin folder to use it in the game. It's referred to on page 17 of your Vice
City Tourist Guide in an ad for "Vice City Plastic Surgery" with abysmally tiny
letters.
I guess you could use Microsoft Paint to do it. I played at it a little, and
didn't figure out how to control it as good as I can draw or paint. You proba-
bly need to buy a better Paint software program from Adobe or such to do that.
I.100.D Mods (modifications of the game)
I think my computer is allergic to most mod(ification)s for some weird reason.
It might partly be because I like to enjoy the game with the resolution and all
cranked up as far as I can for the unmodified game. Otherwise, I think I'd have
used more of them than I have. Turning your computer off at the main power but-
ton is supposed to be bad for it, but sometimes the game freezes that can arise
give you no way out of the game with the keyboard. Thanks to gtavicer9 for rec-
ommending that you use the reset button, below the main power button on my PC,
instead at such times. Still, I'll offer a few of the basic things I know to
help you get started with that.
Different combinations of processors, RAM, hard drives, and types of graphics
and sound cards can have special problems, sometimes fixed by updates for your
cards. Sometimes downloads are corrupt. There's no one simple stance on the
safety of mods unless everyone used the same combination. Distrust the word of
anyone who gives an edited version of the truth that mischaracterizes it.
You've been warned.
Make backup copies of any files you change. If you forgot to do that and need
to switch back to your original files, reinstall the game--your progress in the
game has been preserved in My Documents in the GTA Vice City User Files, which
will serve the new installation.
For technical support, check the support section for the PC "Vice City" at the
Take-Two Games web site. They have a page devoted to solutions to common prob-
lems that different setups have with the game. They have a page that lets you
send them an E-mail, too, which connects you to some nice people who offer per-
sonal support.
http://www.take2games.com/
Then ask the modders or the GTA Forums web site. Some mods not only come with
clear read-me files but an e-mail address, even web sites, you can use if spe-
cial problems arise. And the message boards at GTA Forums cover a variety of
the concerns that come up with modding. Pick the right topic, and a message al-
ready posted might help you. Otherwise, just register and ask.
I.100.D.a Un-check the green dot 1st.
As always, except for adding to the MP3 or Skins folders, when you change a
file in the game, you need to make it writable and not "read only" 1st. Go to:
My ComputerC:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto Vice City
Right-click it, click "Properties," and click the little green dot so it dis-
appears. It's green for Windows XP Home and blue for Vista Home Premium.
Click "Apply" and a little menu will ask if you want that to apply to all
files and subfolders--click "OK" and it will disappear, then click "OK" on the
1st one and it will disappear.
I.100.D.b Make backups (and where to find other VC backup files)
Make backup copies of the original files you plan to change. Save them in a
folder in My Documents in case something goes wrong or you change your mind lat-
er. That way, if you need to change the file to what it was originally, you
won't have to reinstall the game. For a copy of the original file and a copy of
the file you can access and read with Notepad, I'd use My Documents to both Copy
and Paste a copy of the file and save it as a text file.
There are "Vice City" backup files at:
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=category&id=80
I.100.D.c Tools
The IMG Tool v.2
You'll also need the IMG Tool v.2 by Spookie to install most mods. It's a
standard for replacing the dff and txd files of modelsgta.img of of "III,"
"Vice City," and "San Andreas". You can find it at about any GTA site that of-
fers mods.
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=63
http://www.moddb.com/games/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/downloads/img-tool-20
DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3
You'll need to use DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3 if your vehicle mod comes with mod-
ded wheels.
http://www.3dactionplanet.com/gta/rlm/gtavc/modtools/
http://www.planetgrandtheftauto.com/gtavc/modtools/
The Vice TXD Tool
For Ultimate Nudes, you'll need the Vice TXD Tool by Spookie, which can be
found at:
http://www.thegtaplace.com/downloads/file.php?id=42
http://www.3dactionplanet.com/gta/rlm/gtavc/modtools/
It also allows you to view the .txd files.
The Rescaler and CFGStudio
The functions of Ben "Cerbera" Millard's Rescaler--to calculate how to adjust
the suspension of vehicles in the datahandling.cfg file of "III," "Vice City,"
and "San Andreas"--are now handled by his CFG Studio 2.
You can use his CFGStudio to make those or any other changes to datahan-
dling.cfg, and it makes it easy for anyone to understand how to change the flags
of "III," "Vice City," and "San Andreas."
http://projectcerbera.com/tools/cfgstudio2/
The GXT Editor v.1.2
The last time I checked, you could get CyQ's GXT Editor v.1.2, to change the
name of the vehicle as it appears on the lower right corner of the screen when
Tommy enters it during the game, from:
http://www.thegtaplace.com/downloads/file.php?id=566
I.100.D.d Women
Gunslinger: "Prostitute Pack"s 1 and 2
Dr. Colossus: "Ultimate Nudes"
"GTA Vice City Nudes"
Naked Women: a variety of methods of insertion
Another Naked Woman
Russificator: black stripa
How to change the way they walk
Don't worry if you think this is too much. The Vice City women's naked pixels
are only so sexy--curved instead of angular, etc. Like the rest of the game,
you have to help it with your imagination. (The Dodo disappeared: it went into
a cloud, etc.) Fortunately, I have one. MMmmm, yes.
Then again, I bet they look sexier than you might think.
Gunslinger: "Prostitute Pack"s 1 and 2
You can find some sexy woman mods by Gunslinger at:
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1912
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1913
http://xboxgamemods.invisionplus.net/index.php?mforum=xboxgamemods&s=
afaf1724df6c8cf825461d469da5e569&showtopic=20&st=0&#entry21
His "Prostitute Pack"s 1 and 2 come with "read me" instruction files and make
the strippers at the Pole Position club look a lot cuter to me. In fact, I also
exchanged some of the dancers in the front of the club, prostitutes, and some of
the lady pedestrians with Gunslinger's models. But certain ones, like BFYPR, I
found the replacements for in Grand Theft Auto Vice City Ultimate Nudes 1.0.
Dr. Colossus: "Ultimate Nudes"
You might find the Ultimate Nudes 1.0 by Dr_Colossus at:
http://clientes.netvisao.pt/gtas/gtavc/downloads/mods.htm
http://www.gtanetwork.it/zone/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1048
My best advice, if you don't find it, would be to put "Ultimate Nudes 1.0" or
"Dr_Colossus" in quotes in a search engine since it's not very commonplace and
the web site changed so quickly since the last time I checked.
"GTA Vice City Nudes"
I haven't tried it, but for the person who just can't have too many nudes (I
don't know about you, but, personally, I think I could), if you'd like a total
female nude conversion, a sort of Liberty Titty mod, you can try "GTA Vice City
Nudes":
http://files.filefront.com/GTA+Vice+City+Nudes/;3713482;;/fileinfo.html
Naked Women: a variety of methods of insertion
Note: you can end up with one of your alternative pedestrians as the lead
player by playing with the "stilllikedressingup" code. We'll show those "Blood-
rayne" people a thing or two (I know--I'm one of them). Can Bloodrayne play hit
tunes while flying off a ramp? Can she find a golf cart in a shrub? I don't
think so.
To make Vice City look a little more cheerful, and earn it's M rating, do the
bit un-checking the green dot (I.100.D.a) and downloading the files to the new
folder on the desktop again.
Open the IMG Tool, click "File," "Open," and find "gta3" (no, I don't know why
it's called that and not gtavicecity) via:
"My Computer," "Local Disk (C:)," "Program Files," "Rockstar Games," "Grand
Theft Auto Vice City," "models," and "gta3."
Select "gta3" and click "Open," and the window fills with all the file names
in it.
Scroll through the names to "stripa.txd," click on it to select it, and click
"Commands" then "Extract." Extract it to a place where you can save a backup
copy if you change your mind, or anything should go wrong, and you want to put
it back. I'd put it on the desktop temporarily or in a folder I'd make for it
in "My Documents."
Then click "Commands," "Delete," and delete the selected "stripa.txd."
Gunslinger uses the original "stripa.dff" file for this one lady, so we won't
mess with the .dff file this time.
Then click "Command," "Add," and find the "stripa.txd" file you want from the
desktop folder you made from the Gunslinger download of Prostitute Pack 2.
Click "Open" and the file is added.
Whenever you're through doing this stuff with however many files, click "Com-
mands" and "Rebuild Archive," wait for it to do it, close the IMG Tool by "x"ing
it out, and you're done.
To make other replacements, do the same thing except with both the .dff and
.txd files. Add the .dff files 1st of each pair of .dff and .txd files you add
due to some technical reason to prevent glitches or freezes. Always replace
.txd files with ones of the same resolution (128x256, 256x256, etc.).
Then rebuild the archive.
If you replace lady pedestrians, I also recommend the "Ultimate Nudes" for
bfybe, BFYPR, HFYBE, WFYBE, WFYLG, wfysk, and WFYST. It includes changes that
makes the black hooker, who's also a dancer in the front of the Pole Position
club, and ignored by Gunslinger, topless, and likewise includes changes to other
cute women he ignores.
It just changes txd files and it's done with the Vice TXD Tool (or the TXD
Tool, if you can get yours to work) which is like the IMG Tool except that it
just changes .txd files. It also shows you pictures of the files as you deal
with them, which can be helpful.
Un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a), etc.
Then, with the Vice TXD Tool, open the modelsgta3 file and select the .txd
you want to replace; click "Command," "Replace," and a menu appears with which
to find the file you want to replace it with--in this case, from the "Ultimate
Nudes" folder. Select the file you want on it and click "Open."
It's replaced by another menu called "Replacement Alpha" at the top--select
"Alpha" then click "Open" and it disappears.
Click on the name of the file in the "Dictionary" window and you can see the
change you made in the window on the right.
When you're through making changes, close the Vice TXD Tool and open the IMG
Tool and run the "Rebuild Archive" command, then close it.
The three strippers are stripa, stripb, and stripc. Stripa, stripb, and
stripc can be found in the 1st room on the left during the Pole Position mis-
sion (I.94); but only stripb is seen there afterwards. Stripa is the cute lady
in the cowboy hat also found in the "....management only" room in the club, and
as a bartender at the Malibu Club, after the mission.
The three hookers are BFYPR, HFYPR, and WFYPR.
The four dancers in the front of the Pole Position Club are BFYPR (the black
prostitute again), wfybe (dirty blonde, red sandals, dark red bikini bottom),
wfyg1 aka group (Lovefist groupie 1), and wfobe (the old fat lady in a bikini
who faces away from the middle of the room as she dances), who are part of the
peds beyond the club, too.
Notice that "B" stands for "black," "H" for "Hispanic," and "W" for "white."
The 2nd letter in each is "F" for "female." "Y" is "young" and "O" is "old."
And the last two letters are "PR" for "prostitute," "be" for "beach"--indicat-
ing that the pedestrian wears a swimming suit, and "g1" stands for "groupie 1."
If gunslinger has a pair of .dff and .txd files you like, and you want to re-
place whatever pedestrian in the game with them, just make sure to rename the
files you put in after whoever you're replacing. You may be putting in a woman
who's very shapely, but give her pair of files the big fat lady's name if that's
who you're replacing so the game will recognize the file.
After making the Ultimate Nudes changes I listed, I went for stripa: Pros Pack
2 .txd only; stripb: bfybe as altered by Ult. Nudes; stripc: Candy w/red hair,
HFYPR, of Pros. Pack 2; wfobe: wfypr--Candy w/black hair--of Pros Pack 2; wfyg1:
stripa w/white hair of Pros Pack 2; and HFYRI: HFYRI txd only of Pros Pack 2. I
left WFYPR alone for more variety.
Beyond that, I changed wfybu with Gunslinger's Annie Oakley (based on stripa);
HFYBU with Gunslinger's Samantha; and, the most complicated, wfyri with a combi-
nation of Gunslinger's Tiffani in bikini top .txd and an extracted copy of the
wfysk (Rockstar North's own blonde lady skater) .dff, both renamed wfyri and
given the "sexywoman" walk, all the more an accomplishment for her since she
does it on skates.
http://gtaplanet.gamigo.de/content/index.php?seite=filezone&ordner_id=60&sz=2
"RI" stands for "rich"; "bu" stands for "business," and "sk" stands for "skat-
er."
I also changed IGCandy (I think "IG" may mean "in game") and CSCandy ("CS"
means "cut scene") with Gunslinger files for Candy. I used replacements that
are the same size as the files I replaced--44kb instead of 22kb.
You might also play around with the "istilllikedressingup" code to see which
pedestrians are brought up by it to decide on your exchanges if you want the new
cast member to be able to appear as your lead player.
Another Naked Woman
Russificator: black stripa
Another modder with good work in this area is Russificator, who can be found
at:
http://www.freewebs.com/mymodelz/index.htm
You save his pictures into "My Pictures." Then you select one of the pictures
to "Open With" "Paint." You click "File," "Save As," and you select the "24-bit
Bitmap" option along the bottom, give it a name, and save it back in "My Pic-
tures." Similar to some of Gunslingers mod ideas, he suggests that you can
change the lead player's .dff and .txd files (saving backups 1st) with copies
from the game of that lady's .dff and .txd files, then put the 24-bit picture in
your "skins" folder and have that lady as the lead player.
Again, I usually use Tommy in his street clothes for the lead player, and oc-
casionally use a ped instead with the "istilllikedresssingup" code. I chose to
use a .txd file he sent me of his black stripa, with an extracted copy of the
stripa.dff file from the game, renamed each of them wfyg1, deleted the original
wfyg1 files, and put in the new ones.
He also has a "Little Annie Fanny"ed Lara Croft for a lead player at:
http://www.freewebs.com/mymodelz/laracroft.htm
How to change the way they walk
The way they walk is controlled in the Grand Theft Auto Vice Citydata
default.IDE file. (Thanks to a "read me" file in a mod by Gunslinger.) "IDE"
stands for "item definition." (Thanks again to Cerbera's web site.)
If you have Windows XP Home like me, you can find it with Notepad--when you
open "data," change the window at the bottom to show "all files" instead of just
"text files."
You'll see all the peds listed in default.ide, and each listing includes a
combination word like "busywoman" (a business woman, she walks with one hand on
her hips and a forearm in the air like something out of a 3 Stooges comedy),
"fatwoman" (she walks like a truck driver or a cowboy who's been riding horses
too often), and "sexywoman" (the sashaying hips walk you've no doubt already no-
ticed).
If you want to play with the choices, 1st uncheck the green dot (I.100.D.a),
etc.
You may want to remember this file if you replace the fat lady dancer from the
front of the club with someone more svelte and wonder why they're walking around
looking so butch. I've played with this a little, too, and once let one shapely
lady walk around looking butch with the fatwoman walk and gave the old black la-
dy in the gray clothes and yellow bandana the sexy walk, but I leave the choices
up to you.
I.100.D.e Cars and bikes
They're okay, too.
Installing car and bike mods (Example: a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air)
How to change their colors
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
Gameplay advantages
Making vehicles weaker or stronger
How to create your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel
One possible 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air
How to change the traction of surfaces
Failure to lower the cannon shots of Rhinos
Grand Theft Auto: Vice Bedrock
The hot Cougar scandal
How to change their wheels
DMagic1's Wheel Mod
Xbox wheels
How to change their on-screen names
Spookie's Speedometer mod
The Pole Position bike
Installing car and bike mods (Example: a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air)
There are some good car mods out there and a lot of crap. Look before you
leap--see if you can find a site with a picture of it 1st, or if it has a high
approval rating with the fans (not always a reliable method--it may reflect the
popularity of the car and not the quality of the mod).
Just as an example, let's say you wanted to replace a car with a quality con-
veyance, like a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air by Yoyo for "GTA III" and adapted for
"Vice City" by DiCanio. It's a convertible with the roof down:
http://www.gtanetwork.it/zone/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=2177
http://grandtheftauto.filefront.com/file/1957_Chevrolet_Bel_Air_Convertible;
63196
http://www.grandtheftauto.fr/downloads/c640/1511,1957-chevrolet-bel-air-cab
riolet.php
It's a manual installation version, which I prefer, and comes with a pretty
self-explanatory "read me" text file of instructions. Basically, you download
it etc., un-check the read-only green dot like you did in every example I gave,
and replace the Virgo .dff and .txd files with DiCanio's, then click "Commands"
and "Rebuild Archive."
I'd use Notepad to make the changes he recommends to some numbers in these da-
ta files: default.IDE and Handling.cfg.. (If you don't have Notepad, you could
use a car editor mod; I can't recommend one because I've always used Notepad,
but the ones I've seen look easy to use.)
I'd need to use DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3, as explained a few paragraphs below.
It has you change a number in datadefault.ide to 249, and the number after that
is the wheel size, which I changed to 0.85. For datacarcols.dat, I'd want to
pick my own colors.
I've also found several 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air hardtops, also based on Yoyo's
work, by a Russian named Klarnetist:
http://www.gta-classics.de/
http://gta.com.ua/klarny/
They come with English read me files. He has a two-door, a four-door, and a
four-door used for a Kaufman Cab! The detail work, right down to the little
Chevy logo on the center of the hubcaps, is quite something.
If you don't want to go to the extent of downloading a COL file (collision
file) editor and replacing the .col files of a different shape than the Chevy,
too, just replace the .dff and .txd files of a Virgo with those for a two-door
Chevy, etc., like I described above with DiCanio's Chevy. Likewise, I just re-
placed the .dff and .txd files with a Kaufman Cab for the '57 Chevy version.
If you do want to use a col editor, Klarnetist recommends that you use the
Collision File Editor 1.1 Beta:
http://www.steve-m.com/?lang=EN&page=2
If you do that, steve-m requires that you download his D3DX81ab.dll 1.0 file,
too, and put it in your WindowsSystem32 directory for the Editor to work.
Uncheck the green dot (I.100.D.a), etc., 1st. You then use the Collision File
Editor 1.1 Beta to open the /MODELS/COLL/vehicles.col file in your "Vice City"
folder. Find the name of the car you want to replace, such as KAUFMAN, in the
model list, select it, and click the Replace button. In the Open File dialog
box, point to the path of the kaufman.col file, and then Replace the model.
The two-door hardtop I switched with the Virgo may have a pair of red dice
hanging from the rear view mirror, a Well Stacked pizza box on the back seat, or
a green can of gasoline in the trunk. Press F1 (replay) a couple of times to
make it switch from one to another.
Likewise, pressing F1 shows that the four-door '57 Chevy Kaufman Cab has a
couple different collections of golf bags in the trunk. It has a meter and pho-
to of the driver--Ronald Reagan?!-- on the dash.
I changed datahandling.cfg to give it -.27 for H, a 1.00 and 0.96 for J and
K, a 260.0 and 27.0 for N and O, a .15 for Y, a 4000000 for ae to make it good
in sand, a 1 for af, and a 1 for ag. I used DMagic1's Wheel Mod then changed
the wheel size in datadefault.ide to 0.85. This Chevy's ready to be competi-
tive in Vice City and still has some of the real Chevy characteristics. I
changed the colors and gave it the "1957 Chevrolet Bel Air" onscreen name. See
below to see how to do all those things (and create a Chevy that's more of a su-
per car, too).
How to change their colors
The datacarcols.dat file uses pairs of numbers to assign a vehicle the vari-
ous colors it can have. The 1st of a pair represents the body color, and the
2nd is the interior or trim.
A color chart for the numbers is at the next link.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4347/00gta1screen992nn2.jpg
If you want to play with the choices, 1st un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a),
etc.
You can play with the colors in carcols to give your car the custom colors you
want (like the silver exterior and white roof--red interior for the converti-
ble--I gave the Chevy for one of the pairs of numbers to make it look like my
Dad's car of the late '50's to late '60's). Pink and gray seem to be some kind
of 1950's/"Vice City" colors, but I also noticed that dark colors often look
good on one of the original "Vice City" cars that look like it was 1st shaded
with gray and black before the color was added because it covers up the dingy
gray better.
And if you've already played past a section of the game then read about one of
the vehicles of a rare color, like the silver PCJ 600 of "Autocide," that grabs
your interest, you can just make one of the pairs of color for it silver your-
self.
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.
C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto Vice Citydatahandling.cfg
is interesting to look at all by itself--it gives a chart with the scads of pa-
rameters chosen for each vehicle and what each one means.
"cfg" stands for "configuration file." Thanks again to Cerbera's web site.
Mass is in kilograms. A kilogram is 2.20462 pounds.
Velocity is in kilometers per hour, which is 0.62137 miles per hour.
Acceleration, column O, is in ms-2 (m/s squared), which is meters per (second
x second), which is 3.281 feet per (second x second). For example, 9.8066 me-
ters per second squared is 32.174 feet per second squared.
Thanks to a post by spaceeinstein at Gamefaqs for the tip to check out this
web site, and to Ben "Cerbera" Millard, the author of the site:
http://projectcerbera.com/index.html
http://projectcerbera.com/texts/index.html
I recommend anyone interested to explore his studies. As big as this section
of my walk-through is, my biggest regret is how much information I left out.
If you want to play with the choices, 1st un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a),
etc.
Write down the original numbers in case you want to change them back. If you
plan to fiddle around with it a lot, I'd just make a copy of handling.cfg for My
Documents beforehand.
Mass
People like to play with handling.cfg and decrease the Mass, and raise the
MaxVelocity and EngineAcceleration, of a vehicle (columns B, N, and O respec-
tively) to make it more like the Cheetah, or with even larger numbers for top
speed and acceleration, to make it able to perform big jumps.
As explained in "Top Speed and Acceleration," raising the number for mass
alone doesn't bog the vehicle down as it would in real life physics. In the
game physics, mass and acceleration are multiplied to create speed, with top
speed setting a limit on it. Giving a car the weight of the road it's on can
create so much momentum that a vehicle can coast all the way across town.
(Some use that for "GTA III" to jump a bullet-proof Cheetah, or "EP" Mafia
Stretch, or Manana with a dead body in the trunk, over the gap in the Callahan
Bridge before it's fixed.)
To make your vehicle a bruiser that knocks other vehicles out of the way, you
can increase the mass, but see the notes for column Y, durability, too, if you
want to do that.
In real life you might increase the mass to help the vehicle adhere to the
traveling surface better, but see the notes for the ability to hug the driving
surface, cornering, braking, and suspension if you want better traction in Vice
City.
Column B: one source told me not to make the mass greater than 50,000.0.
Columns C, D, and E are the dimensions of the vehicle. C is x: width; D is y:
length; and E is z: height. They would seem to just give the size of the vehi-
cle but, like mass, they don't strictly refer to real life physics but are also
important in how they effect the game physics. As in real life, the dimensions
of a sports car, compared to a limo or truck, have a lot to do with how nimble
the handling is. The "dimensions" the game creates here may vary from the actu-
al size of the vehicle to give the other parameters something different to mul-
tiply with, effecting how the vehicle moves, speeds up, and handles jumps.
As Cerbera notes, giving a big vehicle bigger x and z values than the sight of
it would indicate it should have, and using a slightly smaller, fictional z di-
mension for a little light sports car, can help the sports car, one that doesn't
have a lot of mass to multiply with acceleration, have less surface friction and
develop a high speed quickly, anyway. It can also effect turning to change
these figures, with very small ones making the vehicle too prone to rotate
(think of the RC Bandit) and big figures for length and width making a vehicle
bad at cornering. I'd take Cerbera's advice and generally leave these figures
alone unless you intend to tweak other things in relationship to them. See the
dimensions handling.cfg gives to the sports cars that have the best handling to
see the figures that make a vehicle agile.
http://www.projectcerbera.com/texts/3vc_handling-dimensions.html
Another concern to have for C, D, and E, if you like to take screenshots or
videos of Tommy in the vehicle, is how they place Tommy in it. It looks better
if his hands look like they're on the steering wheel, so you might use the fig-
ures intended for them by Rockstar North or the modder and tweak the other fig-
ures for better handling. Column X, fSeatOffsetDistance, may change that more
easily--I haven't fiddled with it yet.
Ability to stay upright and hug the driving surface
A lower center of gravity can help the Ambulance, which tips over easily, es-
pecially if you tighten the suspension, too. It should also improve the han-
dling of a vehicle, since a low center of gravity will make the vehicle adhere
to the driving surface better--the cornering and braking ability of the vehicle
will get a better chance to be effective.
If you compare the figures in column H in handling.cfg, you'll notice that the
vehicles with worse handling tend to have a positive number (a realistic center
of gravity over the ground) and the ones with better handling tend to have nega-
tive numbers (a center of gravity below the ground). (I suppose 0.0 is ground
level.)
column H, CentreOfMass.z: -0.9 should help the Ambulance according to a tip by
esterxxxx in a post at GTA Forums, GTA3 and Vice City modding, Editing Discus-
sion, Tutorial Forum, "Scared Soldier Boys And Gangs." (Thanks as well for tips
on how to raise J and K and some tips used at I.100.D.ee Weapons.) You can look
around there for more such tips, too. I'd adjust the cornering, braking, and
suspension as well as described below.
When I tried -0.9 for the Pizza Boy (it and the Faggio are covered by MOPED in
handling.cfg), it waggled whenever Tommy meant to sit still on it like some
force was trying to pull it down into the ground, so I lessened the number to
-0.3 for it.
If you want to use the positive, realistic figures Cerbera may use, you might
want to go the whole way and use his handling overhaul for all the vehicles in
the game to give your vehicle a context it can better be competitive in. It
loosens up the give and play of the vehicle in reaction to movement changes, and
lessens wheel locking, etc. Such things can be eliminated with a super car to
the extent you may feel it's unrealistic and boring, so you might like to try it
his way.
Ability to survive in water
Column I, nPercentSubmerged, can be changed to -1 so your vehicle can survive
underwater. (Thanks to DiCanio's RC Mod--I learned about this from the instruc-
tions for it.) If you do that to a vehicle and drive it into water, it makes
some splashes in "gray hell" then appears nearby on land, sometimes with an In-
sane Stunt bonus.
It also let me drive the PCJ 600 N from near the light house and drive on the
underwater sand. When the bike went onto the gray stuff beyond that, the bike
made splashes and appeared nearby on land.
Cornering and braking
According to Cerbera, J, K, and L are absolutes--each one alone takes care of
an aspect of handling. This is what J, K, and L mean:
J fTractionMultiplier: the cornering grip of the vehicle as a multiplier of
the tire surface friction (given in datasurface.dat; see "How to change the
traction of surfaces" below).
K fTractionLoss: the accelerating/braking grip of the vehicle as a multiplier
of the tire surface friction (given in datasurface.dat). (GTW note: the numbers
tend to be between 0.7 and 0.9, with 1.3 an exceptionally high number that the
Cheetah has. The Faggio/Pizza Boy--"MOPED," PCJ 600--"BIKE," and Sanchez--
"DIRTBIKE," all have high scores with 0.9.)
L fTractionBias: the ratio of front axle grip to rear axle grip; higher value
shifts grip forwards. (GTW note: the median number seems to be 0.5.)
Column J: the Cheetah has an exceptionally high number for cornering grip with
1.3 (Cerbera says 1.0 creates the effect of racing slick tires).
For an extra-strong scooter, because Tommy kept getting thrown from the scoot-
er if I had him make a sharp turn, I only used 1.6, the BIKE (PCJ 600) number,
for J. But for a possible "Wheels of Steel" Angel, leaving mass and speed,
etc., alone, I used 3.0.
The turning degree of the vehicle is given in column U. All the bikes have 35
for that, so I wondered why Tommy was thrown from the scooter I modified. I
think it's because it's the bike I increased the mass with so much--he developed
so much forward momentum that his body was thrown forward when the bike turned
on a dime. The only other thing special about the scooter I've noticed so far
that might have contributed to it is that it has the smallest length, width, and
height, given in columns C, D, and E, of the bikes. Making the same degree of
turn as a larger bike on one with the tiny "dimensions" of the scooter would re-
sult in a turn made over a smaller area, which, combined with the cranked-up
cornering traction, J, and increased forward momentum, B, is, I think, why Tommy
was thrown from the bike on sharp turns as if he'd hit something. I tweaked the
figure for J, cornering traction, lower so he wouldn't.
Column K: you might raise the acceleration/braking grip to 0.95 or even 1.4.
For an extra-strong scooter, I used 1.5 for K.
Cerbera recommends making K (acceleration/braking grip) about .05 (sedan) to
.15 (high performance car) lower than J (cornering ability) in realistic appli-
cations.
I'd combine these ideas with a negative number for H (see "Ability to stay up-
right and hug the driving surface" given above) and tighten the suspension (see
below) to improve handling.
Since J and K are multipliers of tire surface friction, you can increase the
variety of surfaces you get better grip with by changing datasurface.dat (see
"Change the traction of surfaces" below) as recommended for beach jumps in the
"Surf's Up" mod by DiCanio. One limitation is that if you change it for one
surface you change that surface for all vehicles--you can't single out one vehi-
cle it applies to. I usually leave surface.dat alone for a more natural variety
of driving surfaces. But you can change the ability of a single vehicle to
drive on sand as described below in "Miscellaneous jazz."
Column R: brake deceleration--the speed the wheels stop with--goes from 0 (no
brake) to 20. An Esperanto has a low number for a car with 3.4 and a Cheetah
has a high number of 11.1. But the speed the wheels come to a stop with isn't
necessarily the speed the vehicle stops with. This has to be seen in relation-
ship to grip and suspension, because a Police Car has 11.1 and can act like a
feature of the Ice Capades on a dry surface. The bikes have the highest scores,
with the highest being 19.00 for the Sanchez, yet one of the important things to
know about handling them is how to make the most out of skidding turns you ac-
celerate out of.
Top speed and acceleration
Column N: several sources indicate the top speed is 300.0, but I haven't test-
ed it.
Column O: several sources indicate the top acceleration is 99.0, but I haven't
tested it. 50.0 seems to be a choice some make for a super car, but you have to
consider how easy it is for you to manipulate, and you can accelerate faster
than your pursuers without having to go that high. A Cheetah uses 32.
Cerbera has done some thoughtful, proper testing which indicates that mass has
an influence on top speed. If you take two "Vice City" vehicles with the same
top speed and acceleration, but give one a greater number for mass, the one with
a greater mass will develop a greater top speed as long as it doesn't exceed the
number you choose for top speed. The top speed number acts as a limiter to stop
your vehicle from going faster--it doesn't mean that raising that number alone
necessarily makes your vehicle go faster. You make it go faster with higher
numbers for mass, B, and/or acceleration, O, with the top speed number, N, set-
ting a ceiling on it.
http://projectcerbera.com/gta/3-vc/tutorials/acceleration
http://projectcerbera.com/gta/3-vc/tutorials/detailed-acceleration
One of the easy ways to see the speed limitation is by driving the Cheetah
along a runway at the airport with constant acceleration while using Spookie's
Speedometer mod. It will peak at 100 mph and stay there, even though the motor
sounds go higher in pitch.
Suspension
The suspension of the vehicle can be changed from something loose--with "wob-
ble," as I call it in this guide--to something as tight as that for a race car.
If you start changing vehicles into super race cars, you'll soon see why race
car drivers want that. Going 180 mph is no time for two of the wheels to start
wobbling off the driving surface.
The various figures for V, W, aa, and ab are inter-dependant upon each other.
V gives the spring force.
W gives the damper force.
aa gives the distance in meters the wheels will bounce up.
ab gives the height in meters of the normal riding level.
The easiest way to change the suspension is to plug those figures into Cer-
bera's CFG Studio 2:
http://projectcerbera.com/tools/cfgstudio2/
http://projectcerbera.com/gta/3-vc/tutorials/suspension
In CFG Tool 2, open handling.cfg, highlight the vehicle you want to change,
then click Tools > Suspension. Change the number for "Springs" under "Suspen-
sion Data" to change the value for "Springs" under "Effect in GTA." Do the same
wth "Dampers" under the two headings. There's a guide that lists the suspension
effects you can create, from "truck, old car, off road vehicle" to "exotic rac-
ing car," on the bottom of the screen.
Under "Effect in GTA," make the number for "Damper" 10-15 points bigger than
the one for "Springs." (Notice that the original numbers do that.)
I copy the numbers under "Suspension Data" I need to change for Springs (col-
umn V fSuspensionForceLevel) and Dampers (column W fSuspensionDampingLevel),
exit CFG Studio 2, then change handling.cfg with Notepad.
Cerbera cautions not to give the suspension an "effect" higher than 50 or your
car may bounce around a lot. An example of a car at the top of that scale is
the Cheetah, which has about 55.6 and 43.9 for the two "effect" numbers.
Column ad shows the suspension anti-dive multiplier, which gives the amount of
lean the vehicle has when cornering or braking. If your vehicle wobbles a lot,
try raising this from 0.10 to 0.30 higher and see what you feel the best about.
I usually adjust the suspension with the CFGStudio and don't bother with this.
(You might change ad for the Ambulance after using the CFGStudio, but tightening
the suspension of the Ambulance is enough for me.)
Durability
Some increase the mass, column B, to make a vehicle win the battles of the
body blows, even send their opponents flying. But when I raised mass to
20,000.0 for an Infernus, it just developed a tremendous momentum that made it
skid farther and it blew up just as easily, so it was prone to be an inferno.
So you have to change column Y, the collision damage multiplier, as well, if you
want to do that.
If you compare the numbers in column Y for the various vehicles, you'll see
that the lower numbers are for vehicles that are more durable. A Rhino is 0.09,
and an Infernus is the most volatile of high performance cars with its combina-
tion of speed and 0.72.
Column Y: set it at 0.0 to have a vehicle that isn't damaged by collisions
(except visually, but it takes longer to happen). Like the so-called "EP" Admi-
ral, it can still be destroyed by landing on the roof, etc.
Set it at 10.0 to make attacker's vehicles into tinder boxes that blow up very
easily. I've also noticed that you're less likely to get a wanted rating for
bumping a police car when it's set that high for one. (Be careful about a high
setting--remember that Tommy may be on foot around an attacker's vehicle some-
times.)
Miscellaneous jazz
You can change the ability to drive in sand, etc., with the numbers--flags--in
column ae. It looks to me like you use the code as shown (good in sand would be
0000004) then reverse the numbers (GOOD_INSAND would be written as 4000000).
But it also uses some things, like the letter "C," that aren't explained on the
chart, and some groups of only four numbers, etc.
I recommend you use Cerbera's CFGStudio to figure it out.
http://projectcerbera.com/tools/cfgstudio2/
Open the datahandling.cfg file with the CFGStudio.
The flags are the numbers of column ae.
Use the LMB and click to highlight the box of these numbers for a vehicle.
Use the RMB to click it to make a menu appear--left click "Edit Cell... F2" on
it to make a larger menu appear.
This larger menu has a collection of phrases that describe each of all the
possible functions for this flag. Each phrase is preceded by a check box. If
you left click a box to add or remove a check, the numbers in the highlighted
box change to the numbers that make up the flag that has the function(s) of the
checked boxes.
You can then use Notepad to copy that number in the corresponding column of
datahandling.cfg.
The 1 and 2 G Boosts help a vehicle at rest, or that has slowed down due to a
hill or from hitting something, respectively, by giving it an initial speed
boost. They also increase tire spin, if you like the peeling out effect, with-
out diminishing acceleration.
You might also try the code for "IS_BUS." I tried it once. Tommy boarded the
car like it was a Coach--he walked onto the hood and disappeared. I had an in-
visible driver for the car! I stopped it at a bus stop and others got in on the
right and left the same way. Then Tommy came back out portraying the animation
of someone getting off the bus and falling on their belly! I tried to have him
get back in, and I think that's when I had a game crash. I had a faulty mod at
the time, so it may not have been the fault of the bus gimmick.
You could make sure the law enforcement vehicles didn't have NONPLAYER_STABI-
LIZER turned on, which keeps a vehicle from rolling over when driven by someone
other than the lead player, or didn't have NEUTRALHANDLING turned on, which
makes them less likely to spin out when driven by someone other than the lead
player.
Columns af and ag determine the size of the lights.
Gameplay advantages
Making vehicles weaker or stronger
How to create your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel
One possible 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air
You can improve vehicles used for timed missions to get extra abilities for
Tommy. The Ambulance, Firetruck, Pizza Boy, the Taxi and any Cab, and any vigi-
lante vehicle can be made undamaged by collision, given better speed, and the
land vehicles given better road grip, etc. The same can be done for whatever
vehicle you like Tommy to drive around in generally.
The vehicles of attackers can be made less effective, too. The Police Car,
Enforcer, FBI Rancher, Cheetah (for Vice Cheetah), Barracks OL, and Rhino can be
given less road grip, speed, and made to explode with one collision.
Remember that if you change the handling for a vehicle you change it for all
examples of the vehicle in the game. This can make it hard to decide on what to
do about the listing for Cheetah, just for the sake of the "Vice" Cheetah, and
Rhino, which I'd rather leave the way they are.
Again, uncheck the green dot (I.100.D.a) and make backups. You could just
write down the original numbers of any you change, but if you're going to fool
around with these ideas much, I'd recommend you save a copy of the handling.cfg
file in My Documents as both a text document (Save as) and the file itself (Copy
and Paste) there. Pieces of paper with numbers on them can get lost, and if
that happened, you'd have the original numbers handy--you wouldn't have to rein-
stall the game.
Example--one possible customization for a strong Sentinel:
B H I J K N O V W Y
2400.0 -0.90 -1 1.2 1.15 300.0 50.0 1.9 0.19 0.00
Example--one possible customization for a strong Firetruck:
B H I J K N O V W Y ad
(left as is) -0.90 -1 1.50 1.00 300.0 40.0 2.7 0.32 0.00 0.20
Example--one possible customization for a strong Ambulance:
B H I J K N O V W Y ad
(left as is) -0.90 -1 1.50 1.00 300.0 40.0 2.4 0.28 0.00 0.20
Example--one possible customization for a strong Pizza Boy (MOPED):
B H I J K N O Y
50,000 -0.3 -1 3.0 2.2 300.0 50.0 0.00
A strong Firetruck or scooter, modified in some way like in the examples given
above, then accelerate to a great speed quickly, turn and stop on a dime, bang
things out of their way, and, if you raise the number for mass like I did for
the scooter, develop so much momentum and a higher top speed they can coast a
long distance. Since Tommy can still be thrown from the scooter, I'd prefer the
Firetruck over the Pizza Boy as the one to use for races or hazardous driving
missions.
Sentinel: 141 mph; Firetruck and Ambulance: 121 mph; "Wheels of Pepperoni"
Pizza Boy: I started on the N tarmac for a long run at the S tarmac runway--at
the end of the runway, it was going about 192 mph and still accelerating.
You can also change an Angel to drive like an "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel by
just changing two numbers--the ones for vertical center of gravity and cornering
traction.
Example--one possible customization for an Angel to make it an "Alloy Wheels
of Steel" Angel:
H J
-0.3 3.0
If you make an Angel perform that way generally, make sure during "Alloy
Wheels of Steel" you have Tommy jack one of the Angels by the biker bar and not
one of the ones the other contestants have. The game will boost those figures
for that mission on top of how you boosted them, and their Angels will have such
ridiculously strong cornering that it would be hard to drive one and you'd prob-
ably lose the race.
These are the original numbers to use if you want to change the Angel back to
the way it was originally:
H J
0.0 1.2
Nobody's coming to your house to stop you if you want to raise the speed or
whatever of the Angel like in the strong Pizza Boy example given just above, ei-
ther.
"Wheels of Steel" Angel: 103 mph
Example: a customized weak Police Car, FBI Rancher, Barracks OL, or Hilary's
Sabre Turbo for "The Driver," etc.
B H J K N O Y
1,400.0 0.25 0.85 0.70 180.0 25.0 10.00
This slows them down a little, and just a bump or two sets them on fire. I'd
leave Y alone for Hilary's Sabre Turbo--if he blows up, you fail the mission.
Example--one possible customization for a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air used to re-
place the Virgo (only the lines that are changed are shown):
H I J K N O R V W Y ae af ag
-0.8 -1 1.15 0.99 300.0 40.0 10.0 2.0 0.18 .00 4000003 1 1
I used DMagic1's Wheel Mod, described several paragraphs below, for it, too.
It has you change a number in datadefault.ide to 249, and the number after that
is the wheel size. For the Chevy, I changed the wheel size to 0.85. (The usual
size for the Virgo, 0.7, would look puny on the Chevy.)
This '57 Chevy is more of a super car than the one I gave figures for in "In-
stalling car and bike mods (Example: a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air)."
I left the mass alone. It will do jumps, hug the road (with practically none
of the old Chevy wobble left in for realism), and is durable (the visual ability
to be wrecked is maintained and enough for the variety). At R, I tried the de-
gree of braking wheel lock of a Hotring Racer. At V and W, I used Cerbera's
CFGStudio to figure out how to give it the riding suspension of a Ferrari. At
ae, it's good in sand due to the 1st number, and has an acceleration boost for
overcoming being at rest or slowed down, with both the 1 and 2 G Boosts acti-
vated, with the last one (I recommend Cerbera's CFGStudio to know how to change
ae as I did). At af and ag I just made the front and back lights the right
size. Then I added Sk8er's "Tyre Smoke Mod" that Cerbera offers for a little
tire smoke realism.
Cerbera's CFG Studio 2:
http://projectcerbera.com/tools/cfgstudio2/
Sk8er's Tyre Smoke Mod:
http://www.projectcerbera.com/gtavc/related.html
You could exaggerate some of the figures further if you want it to better com-
pete for the things cars are asked to do for Vice City.
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air: 119 mph.
This is not to be mistaken for the kind of changes Cerbera might make to cre-
ate all sorts of more realistic driving experiences. He might even raise the
center of gravity, etc., for various vehicles to do that and explore the ways to
play with the various handling changes that creates. In fact, like the "gripis-
everything" code, you may feel that some of the super strong car changes make
the handling of your vehicle so extreme it seems weird. It also screws up the
ability of the Pizza Boy and Faggio scooters to do stoppies. At the start of a
new game, you might use it to get the Sub-missions (Paramedic, Pizza Delivery,
etc.) over with faster, use Demarest's change for RC Bandit to win it faster,
then make a copy of your GTA Vice City User file so you can always play with
those things done and change all but the RC Bandit (and Chevy) handling figures
back to the original numbers.
You might use the Pizza Boy to jump from the airport to Sunshine Autos before
you change it back to normal.
One drawback to making this change for your Rhino is that you also create the
same change in the Rhinos that attack at the six star wanted level it creates so
easily. One advantage you have is that you can shoot your cannon and the at-
tackers never use their cannons.
To increase the ability to stay upright, I braked when a vehicle tried to ram
it, used A and D to tip it upright, and shot the other one away with the cannon,
if possible.
The trick at six stars was to go at the attacking tanks offensively, ramming
them back and shooting, and seeing how many I could plow into a wall or such
and flip over and cause to explode. It did turn the tables on them for a
change.
From aiming it up a ramp at the end of an airstrip at a hovering police heli-
copter and firing repeatedly, I don't think the game is programmed to let the
Rhino blow helicopters up. You would think it could, and I could be wrong--I
just tried it once.
How to change the traction of surfaces
Vehicles have less traction on grass and even less on sand, and all surfaces
are slipperier when it rains. This is programmed in datasurface.dat.
"dat" means it's a "data" file. Thanks again to Cerbera's web site.
DiCanio recommends improving the traction on sand for beach jumps in the
"Surf's Up Billboard Jump Mod." As originally written, the highest number in
surface.dat is 6, but the option changes all the numbers to 12's. For general
purposes, I leave this alone.
To change the grip in sand for one vehicle, see above for how to change column
ae in handling.cfg under "Miscellaneous jazz."
Failure to lower the cannon shots of Rhinos
In handling.cfg, the numbers below ac represent the suspension bias between
the front and rear of a vehicle. I think .5 for ac in handling.cfg means equal
distribution of suspension between the front and rear; the vehicles I checked
that have numbers lower than .5 have back ends higher than the fronts. So I
tried raising the back end of the Rhino by changing ac for it to 0.2, hoping it
would aim the cannon lower for rampages. Since this made the front end scrape
the road a bit, I made the wheels bigger in default.ide, giving the Rhino the
numbers for the wheels of a BF Injection--the last two in the row. But it be-
came too easy for attacking tanks and explosions to tip it over, and it didn't
seem to lower the aim of the cannon shots, which I thought might be programmed
separately from all that.
Cerbera confirmed that the trajectory of the cannon shots, like those of the
Hunter, Sea Sparrow, and Predator, the flames from a Cuban Hermes, the water
cannon of the Firetruck, and the hydraulics of the Voodoo are all hard coded:
"...it cannot be modified, it is part of the game engine itself and the code
involved is buried somewhere in the EXE."
However, he did offer that you could access the memory of the game to apply
these settings to other vehicles with the Developer Console:
http://www.gtatools.com/index.php?action=articles&site=devc
Grand Theft Auto: Vice Bedrock
I thought of a variation for bike stunts after seeing a good stunt video Tha-
Shoka89 posted a link to at Gamefaqs on March 29, 2005. It was done with a PCJ
600 and Mario, the popular video game hero, as the lead player. I imagine you
could give the Caddy totally fictional figures--the figures for a PCJ 600--in
handling.cfg and default.ide. It's the only vehicle other than a bike Tommy can
morph to, and when he does he looks like Fred Flintstone in his car, complete
with his feet running on the road. I've even seen mods to make it look even
more like it, but I haven't tried one yet. It would look a little different
than the usual PCJ 600 stunt videos if you did wheelies and stunts with it. (I
don't know if they have a mod to make one of the hookers look like Wilma.)
Update: Switch Designs created a mod to "change your Trash truck into a Flint-
stones car, your Python pistol into a Sling Shooter, and it also comes with a
new player skin that will give Tommy a new look with a Fred Flintstone shirt."
This contest-winning mod can be found at:
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=591
http://clientes.netvisao.pt/gtas/gtavc/downloads/mods.htm
You need to use DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3 (see below) to use the Flintstones
car.
Un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a), etc., 1st.
The hot Cougar scandal
DiCanio found a car called a Cougar which is in the game files but isn't used
in the game. A Cougar is like a Virgo. You can download it from one of the
next links and put it back in the game.
http://www.thegtaplace.com/downloads/file.php?id=183
http://www.gtagaming.com/downloads?p=file&id=521
How to change their wheels
Besides the handling parameters chosen for vehicles in handling.cfg, see
C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto Vice Citydatadefault.ide.
Besides determining how peds walk, mentioned before, it determines certain as-
pects of the behavior of vehicles as well. This comes up when using DiCanio's
RC Mod and making RC vehicles as ridable as scooters.
Since it determines the type and size of the wheels for vehicles, it also
comes up when installing DMagic1's Wheel Mod.
DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3
Since, like many mods, the Chevy comes with its own wheels, DiCanio also
provides DMagic1's Wheel Mod, but otherwise you're going to need to download
it.
I got DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3 at:
http://www.3dactionplanet.com/gta/rlm/gtavc/modtools/
It's also at Planet Grand Theft Auto under gta: vice city--Mod Tools.
Mine came without a "read me" file. Just in case that happens to you, here's
how to install it:
Un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a), etc. Go to datadefault.dat with Notepad.
Beneath
MODELFILE MODELSGENERICWHEELS.DFF
type
MODELFILE MODELSGENERICnowheel.DFF
Go to datadefault.ide. Change this line near the top of the page:
# wheels: 250-257
to
# wheels: 250-257, 249
Go to Start, My Computer, Local Disk (C:), Documents and Settings, etc., to
your Desktop, and the download you put there of DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3, then
the nowheel.dff file in it. Click it to highlight it, then click Copy this
file, and a menu appears to let you pick where to copy it. Copy it to models
generic.
Go to datadefault.ide again. Most of the way down the page, you'll see
256, wheel_smallcar, generic, 2, 20, 70, 0
Below it, type
249, wheel_lightmod, generic, 2, 20, 70, 0
Continuing with the example of replacing the Virgo with a Chevy, I'd go to da-
tadefault.ide and find the line for the Virgo:
221, virgo, virgo, car, VIRGO, VIRGO, null, normal, 10, 7, 0, 251, 0.7
and change it to
221, virgo, virgo, car, VIRGO, VIRGO, null, normal, 10, 7, 0, 249, 0.85
The next-to-the-last number, 251, should be changed to 249, so the game does-
n't use the wheels it usually uses for the vehicle but lets the wheels of the
mod be used.
That last number, 0.7, is the wheel size. Check the "Read me" file of your
mod to see what wheel size it should have and see if you need to change it. For
the Chevy, the wheel size should be 0.85.
Write down the numbers you're changing in case you want to change them back.
Xbox wheels
A mod by Delphi and Suction Testicle Man that improves the details of the
wheels of the vehicles, to make the wheels look more detailed like those in the
Xbox version of "Vice City," could be found, the last time I checked, at:
http://www.gtanetwork.it/zone/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=2240
http://www.gtatools.com/filedb/action.php?action=file&id=27
You change the wheels.dff and wheels.txd files in modelsgeneric. Uncheck the
green dot (I.100.D.a), etc., then go to modelsgeneric, copy the originals some-
where just in case, delete the originals from modelsgeneric, then copy and
paste the two new files into modelsgeneric.
How to change their on-screen names
The last time I checked, you could get CyQ's GXT Editor v.1.2, to change the
name of the vehicle as it appears on the lower right corner of the screen when
Tommy enters it during the game, from either of these two sites:
http://www.thegtaplace.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=566
Un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a).
Put
C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto Vice CityTEXTamerican.gxt
in the bar along the top and click "Load."
The two vertical panels below fill with names. Click "MAIN," the top entry in
the panel on the left, to highlight it if it isn't already highlighted. The
right panel fills with names, including those of vehicles. Click the name of
the vehicle you want to change the name of. It appears in the bottom panel.
Click "Clear" in the bottom left corner. The name disappears from the bottom
panel. Type in the name you want there.
Click "Apply" and "Save."
Spookie's Speedometer mod
The speedometer I used throughout this guide, and which I recommend, is the
one by Spookie, available at:
http://www.thegtaplace.com/downloads/file.php?id=456
You might like the version he adapted for "San Andreas," too:
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=73
The Pole Position bike
There's also a mod, the "Pole Position Bike," which I've tried as a novelty--
it makes the PCJ 600 a bed with stripa on it in doggie position. (If any chil-
dren are reading this, that means she's playing with her puppies.) Tommy drives
it just like the bike, but the movement during turns, and leaning back and for-
ward, takes on another meaning. I laughed the 1st time I saw it soar across the
city sky after the jump S of the Malibu Club.
Thanks to Joel Kroll at GTA Forums for letting me know a link for it--I hadn't
seen one for it in about 1 1/2 years! I finally learned who the author of it
is, too: exit UMD. It's really called "Sexycar" and it's at the GTA-Action
(German) web site:
http://gta-action.planet-multiplayer.de/dlm/download.php?id=1539
From the English translation home page, go to GTA VICE TOWN CENTER > Downloads
> Cars > Fantasy cars; the last time I looked, it was on p.6. While you're
there, you might want to look around--it's an interesting category.
It's also found as "Sex Bike" at:
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=6192
I.100.D.ee Weapons and Attackers
How to lessen the severity of attacks
The MP5 A2 ("Counter Strike") mod
The highly mysterious sexual Busker
How to lessen the severity of attacks
If you want to have less problems with law enforcement, or the Haitian gang-
sters after "Trojan Voodoo," there are a variety of things you can change in da-
taweapon.dat and pedstats.dat with Notepad.
Uncheck the green dot (I.100.D.a), etc., and make backup files, or at least
write down the original numbers if you just change a few or so, especially in
case you get a glitch.
In weapon.dat, you can change Colt45, the Pistol of the police and most of the
gangs, including the Haitian gang (not the .357, the hand gun at a few save
places and Ammu-Nation cashiers), to have 1 (meter, I guess) Range in column C,
1 for Amount of Ammunition in column F, and 1 Damage in column G. Give them
slightly bigger numbers if you want to give the attackers more of a sporting
chance.
(Warning: once I tried assigning a zero, which I'd recommended here earlier,
to columns F and G for a couple of weapons in the Liberty City mod. I don't
know how common a result this would be, but the weapons disappeared from
Claude's arsenal; when the attackers were killed, they left shining white silver
rockets hovering over them--?!; and the game froze a couple of times. These
things didn't happen when I used 1 in those columns instead.)
You could also change the Uz-I--the weapon the vice squad and SWAT agents use,
the MP--the weapon the soldiers who appear at six wanted stars and the FBI use,
and the M4--the weapon the soldiers at Fort Baxter use.
You could also improve the Range, Damage, etc., of whatever weapon you like,
too. It's enough for me to lessen it a bit, especially so it's easier to play
around in Little Haiti once the gang members go nuts.
In pedstats.dat, you can change STAT_COP and STAT_GANG2:
D Fear 100 (0 to 100: 100 is scared of everything)
E Temper 1 (0 to 100: 100 is bad tempered.)
H Attack strength 0.1 (multiplier of ability to damage by attacking)
I Defend weakness to 9.9 (multiplier of ability to be damaged by attacks)
You might also give STAT_PLAYER (Tommy) something higher for H and lower for
I.
(Thanks again to a post by esterxxx at GTA Forums. He cautions not to change
columns D and E for STAT_PLAYER.)
Note: the Cuban gang is gang 1, the Haitian gangsters are 2, the Street Wanna-
bes are 3, Diaz' gang is 4, the Security Guards are 5, the Bikers are 6, and the
Vercetti gang is 7.
STAT_COP refers to the police, SWAT members, FBI agents, and the army sol-
diers.
The MP5 A2 ("Counter Strike") mod
Silent Viper made a weapon mod I tried and can recommend. It replaces the MP
with an MP5 that has more realistic-looking textures: the MP5 used in the "Half
Life" game "Counter Strike." I found it on the gta-action.com web site under
"Vice City," "Mods," "Weapons" ("Waffen" in German). The last time I looked it
was on page eight, but the page number will go up as more mods are added. You
replace the .dff and .txd files as you would for a car.
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=5906
http://gta-action.planet-multiplayer.de/dlm/categ.php?cat=24&sort=added&order
=ASC&show=5&page=8
The highly mysterious sexual Busker
While you're in datapedstats.dat, you may notice that you can change the Sex-
iness factor, column G, too. Before you get too worked up imaging the sexy or
funny things you could do about that, I better add a couple of other things I
observed.
Besides the prostitutes, who rate 100, the only other type of ped with a Sexi-
ness level about that high, at 90, is STAT_BUSKER.
"Busker" is U.K. slang for someone who seeks to entertain by singing and danc-
ing in a public place. One popular example is the one Dick Van Dyke plays in
the movie "Mary Poppins," 1964--the kind who puts on a one man band show with a
variety of musical instruments. But they could put on a variety of kinds of en-
tertainment. In the U.S., they'd probably be called a street performer.
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/07/20.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busking
Not remembering anyone fitting that description in the game, I checked with
the default.ide file. The only ped with the STAT_BUSKER designation is BMYBB.
I looked up BMYBB with the TXD Tool, and found him.
He's a young black guy, no facial hair, in a red jersey with a little white
triangle on it, with white pants and sneakers, and a white sailor's cap with the
brim pulled down to his eyebrows. He often adds something like the vocal ver-
sion of a percussion bit off of a hip hop record to the things he says. He may
appear as one of the "Miami Vice"-like pair of guys who appear in a "Vice"
Cheetah, but his duplicity is shown by his appearing in "Love Juice" as a drug
dealing rip-off artist, too.
"Busker" is taken more broadly in Canada as someone who makes a loud appeal
for something, which is about as true for him as for a lot of the other pedes-
trians, but good luck if you want to remember anything sexy he does.
He's a young black guy, no facial hair, in a red jersey with a little white
triangle on it, with white pants and sneakers, and a white sailor's cap with the
brim pulled down to his eyebrows. He often adds something like the vocal ver-
sion of a percussion bit off of a hip hop record to the things he says. He may
appear as one of the "Miami Vice"-like pair of guys who appear in a "Vice"
Cheetah, but his duplicity is shown by his appearing in "Love Juice" as a drug
dealing rip-off artist, too.
I changed the STAT_BEACH_GIRL for column G to 100--the beach girls have a low-
er Lawfulness rating, column F, than the prostitutes, too--and haven't noticed
the beach girls wanting to get into Tommy's car or anything like that. STAT_-
FIREMAN and STAT_SKATER rate unusually high at 80, for some reason.
Looking at these things and the numbers assigned to column G for the other
peds, I'm not sure what this column does to any of the peds behavior at all.
And here I had high hopes for it....
I.100.D.eee Helicopters
How to make the RC Copter easier to fly
The only difference between the Goblin and the Copter I can find in their 1st
pair of listings in datahandling.cfg is the value. But there are a number of
differences in the pair of listings for them at the bottom of handling.cfg. You
might change the Copter figures to the Goblin figures to make the Copter easier
to fly. You could also see I.100.D.e, to see how to play with the C, D, and E
columns for cars, and see if giving the Copter a bit bigger size in those col-
umns makes the Copter any easier to fly. Remember to uncheck the green dot
(I.100.D.a), etc., and make a copy of your handling.cfg file 1st if you do.
I haven't experimented with it, but you may find a tip or two in looking at
Cerbera's tentative analysis of the handling file for "San Andreas," which cov-
ers a bit about the configurations it has for motorcycles, helicopters, and
boats.
http://www.projectcerbera.com/texts/sa_handling-definition.html
"San Andreas" adds some parameters to those used in "Vice City," but many of
them are the same.
Low flying jets
As esterxxxx noted in a post at GTA Forums, you can lower the altitude of the
jets in datapathsflight.dat, too, and have them go by just over the rooftops,
which is novel. As he says, you can use the Edit--Replace function at the top
left of your Notepad screen and change all the 345 (point whatever)'s in the 3rd
column, representing flight height, to 50, for example. This is one I'd espe-
cially make sure to have the original numbers written down for so I could change
it back after a look!
I.100.D.f Miscellaneous
The RC Mod
Some other mods I've seen that I liked include the "RC Mod" by DiCanio. You
can find it at:
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1650
http://www.gtagaming.com/downloads?p=file&id=535
It comes with a clear "Read Me" file. Un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a),
etc.
With just a few changes in the files, the RC Bandit, RC Baron, and RC Goblin
(the Handling.cfg file name for the "Demolition Man" RC chopper; the Top Fun van
one is RC Copter) are included in the vehicles the peds drive around in, and
Tommy can jack one and drive or fly it himself. They can take a lot of damage,
and are faster and more stable; Tommy can't be damaged at all on them.
He can get some wild stunt statistics with the Bandit without damage, and
drive or fly underwater with all three; he spawns on land again if any troubles
happen in the water. It's yet another way to get to the west island early, and
Tommy can fly the RC Baron higher than the blimp (not normally possible without
the flying Rhino gimmick or the PC super jump). I like to see the multi-view
mode any of those ways as well.
Be careful boarding the helicopter--the blades are as deadly as in the mis-
sion. To jack it, shoot the driver from behind and let the blades stop 1st.
Then walk Tommy into the side of it and press F--it could take a few tries.
If you can't find it on the Internet. just do this with Notepad after uncheck-
ing the green dot (I.100.D.a) and making backup files:
Change the Class type of each of the three vehicles in datadefault.ide from
IGNORE to MOPED.
Change the line (delete, then copy and paste, or hash it out numerically) in
the datahandling.cfg file for each of the three vehicles like this:
RCBANDIT 200.0 0.80 1.50 1.00 0.00 0.05 -0.10 -1
1.20 0.95 0.50 1 250.00 35.00 4 E 12.50 0.50
0 22.00 1.60 0.10 0.20 -0.10 500 0.28 -0.08 0.50
0.00 10 0 1
RCBARON 200.0 0.80 1.00 0.20 0.00 0.00 -0.10 -1
1.20 0.95 0.50 1 220.00 35.00 4 P 12.50 0.50
0 22.00 1.60 0.10 0.10 -0.10 300 0.28 -0.08 0.50
0.00 40010 0 1
RCGOBLIN 150.0 0.80 1.50 1.00 0.00 0.00 -0.10 -1
1.20 0.95 0.50 1 255.00 40.00 4 P 12.50 0.50
0 22.00 1.60 0.10 0.15 -0.10 800 0.28 -0.08 0.50
0.00 20010 0 1
That's it.
The Surf's Up Billboard Jump Mod
Another one by DiCanio, the "Surf's Up Billboard Jump Mod," puts six more cop-
ies of the 3D "Vice Surf" billboard jump, originally only found by the airport
terminal, around Vice City.
http://gta-action.planet-multiplayer.de/dlm/download.php?id=1432
The Havana Outfit Bug Fix (referred to at I.39.B)
Go to "Havana Outfit Bug Fix" at:
http://www.planetgrandtheftauto.com/gtavc/miscmods/
The Havana Outfit Bug Fix by Reverend Ted was there the last time I checked.
When you download it, choose to make it something you Save to your Desktop.
It's a compressed folder, so right click the desktop, click New and Folder--name
the new folder "gta vc havana" or such, and extract the download into it.
Hold down Ctrl while you highlight all the files, then extract them all at
once.
Un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a).
Start the IMG Tool. Click File, Open, and go to
C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto Vice Citymodelsgta3img
The main window fills up with a bunch of names.
Click Edit, Find, and type in "littleha.col" without the quotes. It shows up
highlighted in the main window. Click Commands, Extract, and extract it to My
Documents (or Desktop or such) for a backup copy in case something goes wrong
and you want to put back in.
Click Commands, Delete, and delete littleha.col.
Click Commands, Add, and find the downloaded littleha.col that's in your Desk-
topgta vc havana folder. Click Open, and it's added.
Click Commands, Rebuild Archive, and Yes, and wait for the archive to be 100%
rebuilt.
When it's over, go to Little Havana Streetwear store and get Tommy some new
clothes.
The Rampage and Package Finder Mod (aka the Northern Lights Mod) by illspirit
(referred to at I.19)
The last time I checked, it was at:
http://www.illspirit.com/index.php?page=vc_other
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=203550
Right click the desktop, click "New" and "Folder," and name the folder "gta
vc hidden packages mod" or such. Download the file (if you use the GTA Forums
link, click on "right here" to download it) so you Save it in your folder. Open
the download, a zip file, and press Ctrl while clicking each item to select them
all, then extract them all into "gta...." on your desktop.
Go to
My Computer > C:Program FilesRockstarGrand Theft Auto Vice City
and right click it, click Properties, and un-check the green dot from the box
so the folder is writable, etc. (I.100.D.a).
Then copy generic.ide from Grand Theft Auto Vice CityDataMaps to My Docu-
ments to create a backup copy, then delete it from DataMaps.
Copy the downloaded generic.ide to Maps. Done.
You can delete the original zip file to the recycle bin and move the folder
"gta...." from your desktop to My Documents, if you want to store it.
If anything goes wrong (it worked okay for me), take out the generic.ide and
put in the old one you saved.
PS: wolf68k has instructions for how to make the same mod for "GTA 3" at the
GTA Forums web site. The last time I checked, it was no longer at:
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=99665
You might try the GTA Forums message boards for "III" to see if you can find
out what happened to it. If you do, please let me know.
Spaceeinstein made a similar mod for the "Liberty City" mod, too (see below).
The Hidden Interiors and Steed mods
A mod that lets you see the interiors of the Greasy Chopper, Auntie Poulet's
shack, etc., can be found at the GTA Gaming web site:
http://www.gtagaming.com/vicecity/hiddenint.php
Make backup files 1st. I've had problems with freezes, but I don't know how
common that is. (Spaceeinstein's "All In One" mod, described a few paragraphs
below, lets Tommy enter the hidden interiors, too.)
You can also find Demarest's Steed mod, which keeps Tommy from falling off his
motorcycle, at the same web site:
http://www.gtagaming.com/downloads?p=file&id=610
http://hosted.filefront.com/ThunderPower/
The NOS mod
A mod that lets your car shoot flame from behind it and fly through the sky,
the NOS mod by brokenfish and Barton Waterduck, can be found at the GTA Place
web site:
http://www.thegtaplace.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=85
VC Code Tools
Demarest has a variety of tools, including "Ancestral Recall," that tells you
what missions you have left to do, and "Uniquecall," that guides you through the
Unique jumps onscreen by showing you where to start and end jumps, which jumps
you have left to do, etc.
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=208824
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=217245
http://tfads.com/vccode/tools/
For some reason, Dem's uniquely helpful site isn't up. His work can be found
at the next links--use the 1st one for the two mods listed above (thanks to
Spaceeinstein for giving me the 1st link):
http://hosted.filefront.com/ThunderPower/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070219182140rn_1/www.tfads.com/gta3code/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221164548/www.tfads.com/vccode/released.html
If his site goes back up, you might check out his helpful tools and mission
guides for "III" and "San Andreas," too. Among them, he has interactive maps
that can help you plan your route for "III" missions like "Patriot Playground,"
and others that help you get familiar with the "III" weapon, etc., locations. I
learned that, on PC, using Instant Replay a few times makes the Patriot become a
covered, four-wheel drive Patriot that's better for missions like "Gripped."
http://www.tfads.com/gta3/
And I don't remember hearing of anyone coming up with useful and entertain--
ing main.scm mods that don't require that you start a new game before.
"Darkpact," available in versions for "III," "Vice City," and "San Andreas,"
lets you make main.scm changes without having to start a new game.
http://hosted.filefront.com/ThunderPower/
http://www.tfads.com/gta3code/
Spaceeinstein's All In One Mod
This is mainly a main.scm (script) mod. It's a collection spaceeinstein com-
piled and edited of various script mods by himself, Demarest, Brokenfish, Mod-
star, Barton Waterduck, Patrick W, ODIE, Coby, Spinnie, Bhaal, TbM2k, !cMc! and
Jacob, Spinnie, Eclipse_nl, Ransom1, and Wombat. The Patriot Explosion Launcher
is by an unknown author.
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/3546/00gta1spaceeinstein1sd8.jpg
You can get the latest version at this GTA Garage:
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=1117
There's a message board for it at GTA Forums:
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=192624
(The last time I checked, there was an older version at his web address given
below--once there, you click on "GTA: Vice City" then "Downloads.")
http://www.freewebs.com/spaceeinstein/grandtheftauto.htm
Since I've had my computer updated recently, I've given it another try.
It's an extensive change, sometimes rearranging elements found in the original
game, which is fun to try.
You make backup copies of Grand Theft Auto Vice CitydataMAIN.SCM, TEXTamer-
ican.gxt, datahandling.cfg, and My DocumentsGTA Vice City User Filesre-
play.rep, then un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a) for Grand Theft Auto Vice City
and replace the files.
As an option, if you have one of the better computers, you can also use his
Draw Distance Mod:
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=876
Because of the main.scm change, don't use save games from any other main.scm
efforts. Make a folder to save the original main.scm, etc., files in to make it
easy to go back to the regular game and your save games that go with it.
You play it in the Standard mode, not Classic. And be careful not to activate
the special features of it during cut scenes. Check the Read Me file for ways
to avoid the glitches that are possible with it. I get crashes with it that
cause my PC to want me to end error reports to Microsoft after I run it. If you
need to end a freeze, don't use the main power button, use the reset button (on
my PC, it's the little button below the main power button).
Among the many features and options:
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Bikes have the "Wheels of Steel" jacked Angel degree of road grip and corner-
ing ability.
Tommy can't fall off his bike (it's like he's morphed but sitting normally)
(Steed mod by Demarest).
One of my favorite things about it is it has what I would call the all-time
cham-peen NOS Boost of any I've tried.
The NOS Boost mod by Brokenfish gives any vehicle a "Back to the Future"-type
ability to rocket along and even fly to the ceiling of the sky with colorful or-
ange then blue flames trailing behind it. While flying this way, helicopters
and the Skimmer let you steer them up and down and side to side, and motorcycles
can go up or down and be "steered" side to side by letting them flip over to
some new direction. Add the "comeflywithme" code for cars and they get the "San
Andreas" flying cars code ability; add "AIRSHIP" for boats for a similar change.
Type the code again to disable it. F1 replays are fun to watch.
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The Quadruple Insane Stunt Bonus is now possible.
(Look back over the last few options and imagine your Stunt Stats going
through the roof.)
It has a vehicle spawner that lets you give Tommy any vehicle of the game (in-
cluding any of the three Hotring Racers) (Car Spawn mod by Demarest). You can
also use a conversion of it by spaceeinstein that lets you spawn any pedestrian
of the game.
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You can do the Paramedic mission with the Ambulance Maverick (Ambulance Maver-
ick mod by Demarest). I had some trouble in earlier versions--around level six,
usually--with the chopper needing to get so close to a patient to trigger their
run to the chopper that it hits a phone pole and swerves around and kills them.
But the new version lets you complete the mission by completing level five.
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You can still use the regular Ambulance, now heavier and undamaged by colli-
sions, to get the infinite run. In that condition, it's easier to kill patients
by bumping them with it, though. To let them enter, hold down the Spacebar
(Brake) to keep the doors unlocked.
Tommy's vehicles flip upright if flipped over (Car Unflip mod by TbM2k), are
invulnerable, and appear nearby on land if they fall into the water.
Tommy is driven to a few missions in a taxi or helicopter, which I thought was
pretty funny (Taxi Service mod by Modstar).
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Tommy can enter the various "hidden interiors" (ones normally just seen in cut
scenes) such as Mitch Baker's biker bar The Greasy Chopper, Auntie Poulet's
shack, etc., after you pass certain corresponding missions, due to some editing
work by Spaceeinstein.
After Tommy buys the Malibu, he gets a couple of phone calls Rockstar created
but didn't activate for the game. Spaceeinstein re-activated them.
You can store a helicopter (I'd pick a Hunter) on the helipad on the roof of
the Hyman Condo (Hyman Heli Garage mod by Bhaal).
Right after Tommy enters a helicopter, you can press Sprint to have the blades
of the helicopter spin fast enough for it to fly (Fast Helicopter Take-off by
Brokenfish). This can make it easier to jack a Hunter from Fort Baxter and
avoid getting busted.
Phil's Patriot launches explosions like a tank (unknown), the Sparrow can drop
bombs that create a lot of fire (Napalm Bomb mod by Eclipse_nl), and your land
vehicle can drop spike strips (Stinger Drop by PatrickW). (This can add some
variety to your Rampages.)
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Tommy can get "Boomshine Saigon"-type drunk (Drunk mod by Coby) and dance
(Dancing mod by Odie) at the Malibu.
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The Tear Gas is back (and didn't bother my computer). Tommy can get a Camera
at the WK Chariot Hotel after "Martha's Mug Shot," too, and zoom closer to sub-
jects than with a sniper rifle scope.
Tommy can buy Apt. 3C, the airport, the lighthouse (Buy Properties mod by
Spinnie), and the Marina Carpark (Marina Carpark mod by PatrickW)--all mods ed-
ited by Spaceeinstein.
Tommy is invulnerable (Invincibility mod by Brokenfish and Demarest) and can
"swim" instead of drown (Swimming mod Barton Waterduck).
He can't climb like C.J. in "San Andreas," but you can use a gimmick that lets
Tommy scale any wall--even of a skyscraper (Wall Climbing mod by Barton Water-
duck).
(If you use the "FANNYMAGNET" code, you can create a bigger gang for Tommy
that you can for C.J. in "San Andreas." And if you have Tommy climb a building,
the gang appears up there with him. If you have him jump, they do that, too,
and you can create a DMA "Lemmings"-like scene that's more impressive than the
couple of glitches thought to look like that in "San Andreas." Isn't that ter-
rible? If you make too big a mess, wait for the paramedics to arrive.)
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Tommy can ride in a car (not a motorcycle) as a passenger (Passenger mod by
!cMc! and Jacob, edited by Spaceeinstein).
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You can have him do pretty much whatever you want regardless of other abili-
ties or weapons, but I'd at least get Tommy the infinite run for a new game so
he isn't as likely to get busted.
Since Tommy's health and armor stay at least 100 no matter what, you can have
him run down to Sonny in "Keep Your Friends Close" in a blaze of bullets and
give him a good swift belt right in the head.
It lets you decide if you want to use the gasoline meter or not (Gasometer mod
by neo449 and Ransom1, edited by spaceeinstein). There's a lightning bolt icon
at each of the two gas stations on the radar and in-game map. The pink shaft of
light you drive/fly a vehicle into to get gas disappears during a vehicle mis-
sion, but if you park where the light would be otherwise, the gas tank fills up.
If Tommy's vehicle runs out of gas otherwise, you can have him ditch it and
spawn another of a variety of vehicles.
Tommy may not need to use the helicopter for the Vigilante mission for extra
armor because he's invincible, but doing the Vigilante mission to level 30 puts
six police bribes at every save place that has weapons ("GTA III"-style). If
Tommy wears the Police uniform for the Vigilante mission, he won't get wanted
stars (Vigilante mod by Spinnie).
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You might have Tommy get the Hunter early in the game, save it on the helipad
of the Hyman Condo, and get the Vigilante targets of the E island. If you don't
disable the Gasometer for the mission, have Tommy use the Sunshine Autos gas
pump, which is a little easier to land on with the Hunter than the one across
from Washington Mall, when the Hunter gets low on gas.
The Taxi, Paramedic, Vigilante, and Firetruck Submissions are not required for
getting 100% completion of the game.
The gang members have stronger weapons, the main drawback being that the
blasts from them can knock Tommy down so often that R24 and R25 become more dif-
ficult. See I.100.D.ee if you want a way to tone down the weapons of the Hai-
tians (and of the law enforcement, too).
It also has a couple of new missions by Spinnie, and has Barton Waterduck's
Mission Chooser hidden in it somewhere.
TGIPC.
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(The above screen shot is censored. Those wishing to have an unedited ver-
sion of this original document, please send $100 to...oh, that's right--you can
get the mod for free. I almost had a way to make something off this thing.
Never mind.)
Timetwister
Demarest has a mod that let's you choose from any of the "Vice City" missions
from the start of the game. Instead of using a lot of save files, you replace
the datamain.scm and textamerican.gxt files. (You can use an IMG Tool to re-
place modelsgta3.imgplay12.txd, too, as an optional new change of clothes for
Tommy.)
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=203498
http://www.tfads.com/vccode/released.html
For some reason, Dem's site isn't up. "Timetwister" can be found at the next
links (thanks to Spaceeinstein for giving me the 1st link):
http://hosted.filefront.com/ThunderPower/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221164548/www.tfads.com/vccode/released.html
Because of the main.scm change, don't use save games from any other main.scm
efforts. Make a folder to save the original main.scm and american.gxt in to
make it easy to go back to the regular game.
Basically,it gives "Vice City" the feature some other games have of letting
you try out any of the missions with all the abilities, etc., that come from
completing the game, yet with no concern to have to progress toward 100% com-
pletion again.
It's played without a glitch for me, and it's makes it easy and quick to try
out new ideas for missions.
All the islands, save places, and vehicles are available from the start of the
game. Tommy has the infinite sprint, fireproof feature, fast reload, double
durability for vehicles, etc., from the beginning, and you can repeat the Jumps
(the "G-Spotlight" elevator works from the beginning of the game) and Rampages
as often as you want.
A number of briefcase pickups hover in front of each place of origins of mis-
sions, and the briefcases are used to activate missions. To activate the 3rd
mission for Diaz, for example, have Tommy walk into the 3rd briefcase pickup
from the left in front of the mansion. Demarest provides screenshots that show
you which briefcases activate which missions.
There's a Timetwister mod for "III," too. Besides being able to pick from any
of the missions right from the start, the bridges are fixed, there are vehicle
location changes that are an advantage for the vehicle collection missions, the
pipes that created a boat barrier have been removed from the water, and the
"Ghost" ("Ghost Missing" on PS2) boat ( a mostly black Predator without working
guns) has a permanent location, etc.
Carl Johnson in Vice City
GunMAN has a mod that that lets you play as C.J. in Vice City. (Thanks to The
Grove for tipping me to it.)
http://www.gtainside.com/en/download.php?do=comments&cat=24&start=0&id=
9450&orderBy=
ModelingMan's version is so good, you might use it and the previous version to
have one or another C.J. appear depending on which clothes pickup you use.
http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=5165
http://gtaplanet.gamigo.de/content/index.php?seite=filezone&file_id=2487
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I.100.D.ff Trainers
Pizzadox' +10 Trainer
Freeze the mission timer, etc.
http://www.gamershell.com/download_2184.shtml
http://www.gtasavegames.com/trainersf/13
Alper Saracoglu's GTA Vice City Administrative Console
Many of the same features as the San Andreas Control Center: EP Vehicles, un-
flip vehicle, teleporter, garage editor, one-click completion for Sub-missions
and some others, etc.
http://www.estetiksoft.de/gtavcconsole/
Lithjoe's Vice City Ultimate Trainer
Jetpack mode (no clip), freeze mission timer, unflip vehicle, garage editor,
teleporter, etc.
http://www.thegtaplace.com/downloads/file.php?id=38
I.100.D.g Total Conversion Mod
The Liberty City Mod
For a total conversion mod, I like the "Liberty City" mod. Demarest and
spaceeinstein, mentioned earlier, are among those who've worked on it.
Those who contributed to it:
PineCreek-Skidz, killer.ip, Demarest, Craig Kostelecky, ModelingMan, Knux,
Mark Pagliaro, Hammer83, spaceeinstein, [4D]Outback, PatrickW, CTM, Choofy, Ben,
kipo, ghost of delete key, Luke, jcab42, Diamond Joe Quimby, Gforce, KoLSPD2,
Aztlan, ghost_master2000, crazydude, DaEllum67, Y_Less, TwoZero, TbM2k,
sleeper777, Thesord, Samutz, silver007, Squiddy, Bebop, Ryan_, [DMA]Blunted,
Blunted1, wnuczek, Posty_2k3, Run Down That Guy, JernejL, Opius, mad*****,
Hollower, steve-m, roger1079, GT-1, VGF, Main_Salvadore, Knightriders, Wasyl-
Pasyl, SteaVor, MegaVovaN, Calzinger, Dominion Spy, Dalpura, Sputn1k, AK-73,
random_download, AdTec_224, T-V, Dygear, Lix, karlneil, TheAnswer, largopreda-
tor, freakin@, madguy, SteveM, GTA_Thomas, Konstantinos, Monitor57, MoeRonimoe,
dex909, simplyunkillable, nsane, and Serafim.
For those who'd like to try the latest version, you can find it, and installa-
tion instructions for it, at the GTA Forums web site. Under "GTA Modding,"
click "GTA: Liberty City" then "Pinned: DOWNLOAD GTA:LC," and the mod can be
downloaded from a link in the 1st post, which is by Ben.
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=268361
All you need is to make a copy of your "Grand Theft Auto Vice City" folder to
Program FilesRockstar Games, then rename it "Liberty City." If you have the
Play disk for "Grand Theft Auto: III," put it in your PC disk player so some au-
dio files can be copied from it. If you don't have "III," the installer will
use the minimal set of audio files it contains. Click the installer, then fol-
low the few simple instructions.
Remember that you can't use your old save games with a new or updated version
that changes the main.scm file.
To use a trainer with it, un-check the green dot (I.100.D.a), go to the Liber-
ty City folder, open gta-lc.ini with Notepad, and change:
ChangeTaskBar=1
to
ChangeTaskBar=0
Save and exit.
It's the "Vice City" engine, so "Vice City" trainers will work with it.
If you want to put car mods into it, use the same "Vice City" modding rules
given in I.100.D.e. It already has DMagic1's Wheel Mod.
Post a message in the HELP & QUESTIONS TOPIC section if you need help with
anything--look to see if it's already been covered in a post 1st.
It puts the setting, lead character, vehicles, missions, and, so far, some of
the pedestrians of "Grand Theft Auto III" on the engine of "Vice City." This
creates an improved frame rate and handling of vehicles, better lighting and re-
flections, and no more crummy fog. It adds the "Vice City" skies and clouds,
translucent water with aquatic life, motorcycles, helicopters, and Skimmer--some
of the "Vice City" pedestrians are mixed in wth the ones from "III." You can do
the Vigilante mission with the Hunter. And the Dodo is easier to fly.
(A few missions are glitchy. The GTA Forums message board for the mod recom-
mends that you have Claude fire a Flamethrower into the front of Luigi's to kill
Salvatore and his men in "Sayonara Salvatore.")
It's something being able to scoot around Liberty City on a PCJ 600 and make
full use of all the jumps. So far, I've made a four flip jump using the
"leaning back and forth while nearly vertical" flips gimmick. Weaving through
the traffic in the tunnels was never so easy, it's nice to be able to see the
city from the air, and I gave Rusk's "Turismo" Firetruck idea the I.100.D.e
souped up Firetruck treatment. (I don't know if the Caddy is in a shrub some-
where. If not, there's always the "betterthanwalking" code.)
It's basically like having an extra edition of "Vice City" that takes place
in NYC and gives you more missions, or like "III" was released after "Vice
City" instead of the other way around.
My computer has seemed like it was allergic to some of the mods and trainers
out there, but this one has played solidly without a hitch...except for a few
minor things currently in development. (The last time I got around the "Sayona-
ra Salvatore" problems, you could have Claude wait on the roof across the street
from the alley Salvatore will appear from as usual, and watch to the N for the
three Mafia Sentinels to appear. When they do, have Claude jump down, shoot
them with the Rocket Launcher, then run across from the opening of the alley and
keep sending rockets into it to kill Salvatore's guards then Salvatore.)
To let Claude Speed leave Portland the fastest, easiest way, un-check the
green dot (I.100.D.a), go into datahandling.cfg--where you might go, anyway, to
soup up the Submission vehicles or the Rumpo (to make "Big N' Veiny" easier)--
and give a vehicle a -1 in column I: percent submerged. Then, when Claude
drives it off one end of the destroyed Callahan bridge bridge and it falls into
the water, it will appear on the other end of the bridge. This works to get
across the lift bridge before it's working, too, to get to Shoreside Vale.
If you send Claude W along the N side of the destroyed Callahan Bridge, down
to about 5' (?) from the end of the 2nd straight length of a bent red girder
that projects beyond the end of Claude's side of the bridge, Claude can jump
over to the thick silver-gray pipe of the other side of the bridge. He can en-
ter the subway at the S end of Staunton and use it to get to Shoreside Vale.
If for some reason you don't have "GTA III" yet, this is the next best (and,
in some ways, better) thing--and it doesn't cost a thing.
The 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air seen in some of my screen shots is one of the mods
by Klarnetist (I.100.D.e) and which I added to my copy of the Liberty City mod.
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PS: Spaceeinstein has a hidden package and rampage finder mod for "Liberty
City." At the GTA Forums web site, go to "GTA modding" > "GTA: Liberty City" >
"Unofficial mods"--"page 1," then "Northern Lights mod." Check to see if it's
been updated to work with the latest version of the mod. (He also managed to
have his own store in "San Andreas"--it's on the W side of the S side of the
block N of "MARKET" in Los Santos. How'd he do that?)
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=172738
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I.100.E Music
MP3s and wav files
How to save hard disk space with shortcuts
MP3 volume boost
Shareaza
You can just copy your MP3s or .wav files to the Grand Theft Auto Vice City
MP3 folder. The next time you play the game, there will be a new radio station
called MP3 with your tunes in it.
But if you want to save hard disk space, save the MP3 or wav file in My Music
or My Documents or such. Right click the music file and click Create Shortcut--
a shortcut will appear beside it. Right click the shortcut and click Copy.
Then open the Grand Theft Auto Vice CityMP3 folder, right click a bare space in
it, and click Paste. A copy of the shortcut will appear there. This way, you
can save each song in just one place and use shortcuts from it in any Grand
Theft Auto game that lets you create your own MP3 station ("III," "Vice City,"
and probably the upcoming PC version of "San Andreas"). This works for the
"Liberty City" mod, described above in I.100.D.g, as well. You can right click
the original shortcut and click Delete when you're through making copies from
it.
There's an MP3 volume boost in the Audio options. This lets you adjust the
volume of your MP3 station so it matches that of the rest of your radio sta-
tions.
I.100.F Screen shots and videos
To make a screen shot, press Prt Scr during the game. If you don't want to
exit the game, go to the pause screen, highlight "RESUME," and Alt/Tab out of
the game. Open "Paint" and click "Edit" then "Paste."
If you like it, click "File," "Save as," choose "My Pictures" in the "Save
in:" bar along the top, and use the drop down menu along the bottom to save it
as a JPEG and not a Bitmap, aka a .bmp, file. JPEG files take up a lot less MBs
on your hard disk and, though it's a kind of compression that irreversibly sim-
plifies data, looks just as good to me for screenshots. Give it a name, and
click "Save." Click the "GTA Vice City" thing in the Task bar to go back into
the game.
Since "Vice City" is fussier than "San Andreas" about letting you Alt/Tab out
of the game, you might get FRAPS to make screenshots.
Fraps, the Easy Graphic Converter, and Virtual Dub
You can use Fraps to make screenshots and videos of your games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraps
http://www.fraps.com/
Fraps lets you use hotkeys. You can take any number of screen shots at a
time, but the free version doesn't let you make make .jpg files, only .bmp
files which are a lot bigger. To copy them as .jpg files, you can use the free
Easy Graphic Converter, then delete the .bmp files.
http://www.etrusoft.com/graphic-converter/
The free version of Fraps restricts videos to 30 sec. clips. Whether you use
the free version or not, the videos take up a lot of MBs which you can compress
to take up less hard disk space (and make them easier for your computer to use
with your editor later). The free processing tool I use is Virtual Dub. I
click Video > Compression > XviD MPEG-4 codec and save them as .avi files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Dub
http://www.virtualdub.org/
How I make videos
The stunt videos I've made are meant to encourage more people to play with the
basics.
I use the GTA Instant Replay feature for a variety of "camera" angles, which
include one that's adjustable with the Mouse. As described above, I capture the
scenes on my PC with Fraps. I use VitualDub, which is free, to compress the
video clips to .avi files.
Other free software I've used includes the AoA Audio extractor (to extract
the audio from a clip or convert MP3s to .wav files, which Windows Movie Maker
prefers), Super (to convert most any file type to another), and Wavepad (an au-
dio editor I haven't used much). I've also used the Keepvid web page to save
YouTube videos.
http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/masters.html
http://keepvid.com/
I edit the clips with Windows Movie Maker, which comes with Windows Home XP
and Vista Home Premium. I use Windows Movie Maker to publish each video to my
computer, which lets you compress the video to the size you want. See the Win-
dows Movie Maker forum for more, including many free user-made effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/Default.aspx
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=129645
If you're going to buy an editor, check the latest reviews. Sony Vegas and
Adobe Premier Pro usually get good reviews. Avidemux is free, but I just use
Windows Movie Maker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vegas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Premiere_Pro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux
http://www.avidemux.org/
I upload my videos to You Tube and filefront. A list of other web sites that
let you store your videos is at the last link.
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.filefront.com/
http://www.110mb.com/forum/general-chat/biggest-list-of-free-file-hosting-sites-updated-monthly-t1428.0.html
All done!
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