GTA: San Andreas

[Guest fultie]

what did she give you when you got to 100%?

and... i'll always be home for you...

[K]

Stolen from SuGGak of http://www.gtaforums.com

Fluties thread inspired me to steal this.

Here are some glitches that have been confirmed by Take2 support to myself (they stated that they are working on a solution to the problem).

I have the gym and basketball glitches and over the last week or so have been trying out things to solve these problems as have many others.

These are descriptions of the three problems, and I will update this post with solutions as they become available, so this is from a variety of sources so sorry if I don't give credit all the time.

Please note, although you may currently not have the glitch, they DO exist, and they tend to happen very LATE GAME, so you may too incur these problems, the Pool glitch though, is easier to avoid, just DO NOT attack people INSIDE buildings, just to be safe.

Also note that currently the SUGGESTED solutions posted here are NOT 100% working solutions, they are just the most successful solutions out there at the the moment.

The Pool Glitch

This glitch is when people can no longer play pool, due to people inside bars acting as if you are attacking the bar (the bartender for some reason will be loaded holding her hands in the air as if you are pointing a gun at her and the people in the bar will be in the foetal position). The guy you play pool with, will NOT respond to you pressing the triangle button.

Cause: attacking people in the bars many times

Suggest Solutions: to change appearence ENTIRELY or gamble at Four Dragon's Casino

Pool Glitch Solution: Changing Appearence Entirely

Firstly REMOVE ALL tattoos at a tattoo parlor.

Then change your hairstyle at a barber's.

Then Buy a WHOLE set of clothing in a shop, according to someone on these forums you HAVE to BUY the following (not change in your wardrobe, if you have bought all clothes, you can still buy them again):

A new torso clothing

A new leg clothing - you NEED to get a new set of BOXERS from BINCO as well

A new pair of shoes

A new hat

A new set of shades

A new chain

A new watch

Second Pool Glitch Solution: Gambling at Four Dragon's Casino

Go to the Four Dragon's Casino

Gamble on each game available, especially Blackjack

Save outside the Casino

Drive to a bar and the pool game should now work

This method has been suggested many times and Dead At 4pm gave a more detailed way of doing this so I posted it here.

The Basketball Glitch:

A lot of people have discovered that basketballs NEVER appear on ANY courts in their game anymore.

Cause: Unknown

Solution: Unknown

It has been suggest that driving certain vehicles near a basketball court can cause a problem, but in the case of this glitch, that is NOT the problem (I just spent a morning trying loads of different vehicles).

The Gym Glitch

Many people have found that when going to visit a gym and trying to use equipment they constantly recieve this message:

"You have worked out enough for today, please come back tomorrow!"

Cause: Unknown/first variant of the glitch thought to be caused by repeatedly attacking people in the gyms

Solution: See below for two suggested solutions

Now this isn't a case of people needing to come back the next day, because it STILL happens no matter what.

Some people have different experiences for example some can workout at the following gyms still:

Madd Dogg's mansion gym

Beach Gym (located on the East side of the Santa Maria beach)

But cannot workout at these gyms:

Los Santos - Boxing gym

San Fierro - Marital Arts gym

Las Venturas - Below The Belt gym

Most people find that they STILL cannot use Madd Dogg's equipment or the Beach gym's equipment

People with the ability to still workout at the Madd Dogg and beach gyms should try BOTH gym glitch solutions.

I will call this varaint of the glitch G1

People who cannot use ANY gym equipment in the game should only try the second gym glitch solution as these people tend to have not attacked people in the gyms, which the appearence change tends to solve.

I will call this variant of the glitch G2

Some suggested solutions that DON'T work are:

Geting Busted

Getting Wasted

Being Sick (suggested by Take2 support)

Getting beaten up frequently (not killed but loosing a lot of health, again suggested by Take2)

Increasing fat/Decreasing fat

Decreasing muscle

Completing the Triathlon - Beat The Cock

Dying in 2 player

Please note that having 100% stamina is NOT THE CAUSE, as I have found a save of mine where I have around 80% and I still have the glitch.

Also completing the storyline missions is also NOT THE CAUSE, as I and a mate have saves just after End Of The Line (the final mission storyline mission) where we can still work out.

Some people's problem (mainly the people with G1) may be due to constantly killing people in the gyms, this is not the DEFFINATE cause as quite a lot of people (like myself, who TEND to have G2) NEVER attacked people in the gyms.

This glitch tends to happen late game.

First Gym Glitch Solution: Changing Appearence Entirely (only for G1 people)

Firstly REMOVE ALL tattoos at a tattoo parlor.

Then change your hairstyle at a barber's.

Then Buy a WHOLE set of clothing in a shop, according to someone on these forums you HAVE to BUY the following (not change in your wardrobe):

A new torso clothing

A new leg clothing - you NEED to get a new set of BOXERS from BINCO as well

A new pair of shoes

A new hat

A new set of shades

A new chain

A new watch

If that doesn't work the following memory card method has been SUGGESTED

Second Gym Glitch Solution: Memory Card Methods (for both G1 and G2 people)

Please note that for these methods, you will need a second memory card.

Method 1

Firstly load the save that has the gym bug.

Now remove your OLD memory card from the slot

Put a NEW memory card into the slot

Save on the NEW memory card

Load this save from the NEW memory card

Go to the gym

Save on the NEW memory card

Now remove the NEW memory card and put in the OLD memory card

Save over the glitched save

This should work apparently, if it doesn't, try Method 2

Method 2

Put the OLD memory card in slot 1 and the NEW memory card in slot 2.

In the Browser (available at the PS2's startup) go to the OLD memory card, select the GTA: San Andreas data, press circle to enable the Copy To function and copy this data on to the NEW memory card.

You should no longer have the glitch any more (I cannot confirm this myself, but this is the current suggested solution).

Method 3

Put the OLD memory card in slot 1 and the NEW memory card in slot 2

In the Browser (available at the PS2's startup) go to the OLD memory card, select the GTA: San Andreas data, press circle to enable the Copy To function and copy this data on to the NEW memory card.

Now exit this and start the game, thus loading the game from the NEW memory card.

Now remove the NEW memory card and insert the OLD memory card.

Save the game over the OLD memory card.

You should now be able to use the gyms (as you can see, this method is a combination of 1 and 2).

Hope this helps people with the problem, please all these suggested solutions. And PLEASE post any suggestions so that we can get this done by trial and error.

Third Gym Glitch Solution: My Starvation/Beaten Up Method

Got this method working for 4 different saves as well as 2 of a mate's saves. We tried this 3 times for each save to make sure it was this solution that was causing the gym to work.

Step 1:

Get around 40% fat if you have 100% muscle (or 100% fat if you have low muscle).

Go to the Johnson's Home safehouse

Leave the game over night with CJ just standing in the safehouse (standing in the street DOESN'T WORK

The high fat level is to ensure you DON'T die from starvation.

Step 2:

You should now still be in the safehouse (DON'T let CJ die from starvation) probably with very little health

Go outside and pick a fight with someone who will only use fists to attack you

Let them hit you until you are almost dead.

Go back in the safehouse and save.

Go outside and pick a fight again, let them hit you until you are almost dead.

Now save and go out and get beaten up (NOT till you die) another 2 times.

Now save

Step 3:

Now go back inside the Johnson home and starve CJ until he is loosing health again (CJ won't have fat or muscle now so it won't take that long), DO NOT LET HIM DIE.

Step 4:

You should now be able to use the gym (DO NOT SAVE between starving CJ in step 3 and using the gym, save AFTER using the gym, NOT BEFORE)

Use the gym once

Go back to the safehouse and save

It is advisable to delete all other savegames and just keep one savegame (as suggested in the gym glitch prevention method listed below this solution).

It seems the combination of starving untill you have no fat or muscle AT ALL and almost die, then save, then get beaten up repeatedly when you don't have fat or muscle enables you to use the gym again. You need to repeat all steps again if it doesn't work as eventually CJ will be able to work out at the gym. DO NOT let CJ die from starvation as that didn't work all the time when he died.

Gym Glitch Prevention

Note: This PREVENTION (not SOLUTION) will only work if you have a save that doesn't have the glitch. If you only have saves with the glitch then you cannot use this prevention. If this is the case please try the above solutions and those suggested in this topic. For those who do have a recent save without the glitch, please try the prevention below, and post your findings.

Recently Chang posted a method to PREVENT the gym glitch.

He feels that by saving with two saves slots that are within a SHORT TIME PERIOD of each other, you will incur the gym glitch.

For example you save at 10:42:23 in SLOT 1 and then again at 10:42:56 in a DIFFERENT slot (for example SLOT 2), your saves will look like this in the save menu:

(SAVE FILE 1)END OF THE LINE 17 NOV 2004 10:42:23

(SAVE FILE 2)END OF THE LINE 17 NOV 2004 10:42:56

He feels that saving like this causes the glitch and therefore SAVE FILE 2 is now glitched. Please note that even by saving in Slot 1 then Slot 6 for example, the problem will STILL occur

By deleting SAVE FILE 2 you will remove the glitched save. You must now restart the PS2 and therefore automatically load the non-glitched SAVE FILE 1.

Therefore to prevent this problem after deleting the glitched save and restarting to load from the non-glitched save:

DO NOT save in a short time period, if you do, save on the SAME slot, otherwise the glitch will occur.

EAT REGULARLY

Take2 support told me that you should make CJ eat at least once every 2 days, preferably ONE MEAL A DAY.

I think that the glitch may occur due to players not getting CJ to eat but rather saving, as saving stops CJ starving.

Therefore the glitch is most likely to occur late game as people will most likely have 100% muscle and 100% stamina and therefore NO LONGER USE THE GYM AND THUS DON'T EAT ANYMORE AFTERWARDS BUT RATHER SAVE.

So the message is:

GET CJ TO EAT AT LEAST ONE MEAL A DAY OR ONE MEAL EVERY TWO DAYS

About this topic - When referring to it and current notes about it

I have noticed that people are still posting topics in the forum on these bugs, WHY? This was posted so that we can keep all information in one place rather than people having to go through four or five topics.

Please, when referring to this post in gym bug topics, please LINK to this topic and also post CORRECT information, recently someone posted that this topic stated the solution was to workout at Madd Dogg's or the Beach gym. This is completely wrong, this post does NOT say that, it says that people with this problem EITHER can't workout at ANY gym or can workout at these two gyms only. The solutions are posted under LARGE text, so please, get it right when posting information.

Can I say this, these are currently the most successful SUGGESTED solutions, they are not 100% working solutions (we haven't found 100% working ones yet).

When posting your own solution - test it first

If you are going to post a solution, can you please do the following.

Keep a glitched save.

Do the actions that you said solved the glitch.

Load the glitched save, REPEAT your solution and see if it works at least THREE TIMES

Otherwise your solution is not tested multiple times, and therefore you cannot say "this solves the problem" as you don't know that it works more than once (and wether something by chance allowed you to workout at the gym again).

Also post details about CJ:

His level of fat, stamina and muscle

Did you finish a race or something just before your solution?

Progress with girlfriends, did it change just before you tried your solution?

Harass Take2 Support!!!!

For those in the USA:

Phone: 1-866-219-9839

Email: usa@take2support.com

For those in Cananda:

Phone: 1-800-638-0127

Email: canada@take2support.com

For those in the UK:

Phone: 0870 124 2222

Email: take2@europesupport.com

KEEP emailing them about these problems and calling them if you want.

We NEED to get a reissue with things as they are, so make them aware of how big the problem is!!!

Credits

For the memory card solution:

SteveShady for initially bringing to light that copying the GTA: San Andreas save data to another card and back again (essentially the second part of the memory card solution) would work.

JPSurratt2005 for making the memory card solution clearer, and essentially providing the step by step first part to the solution - yes I gave you credit tounge.gif lol

dannyh321 for combining both method 1 and 2 memory card solutions and thus creating method 3.

For the gym glitch prevention:

Chang - his original post can be found here

For the appearence solution:

I will search the forums for the first mention of this and give credit accordingly.

For the gambling solution to the pool glitch:

Again, mentioned many times, I will give credit to Dead At 4pm for suggesting a more detailed way of performing this solution

Thanks again for reading guys.

If you see topics on the gym bug, please post a link to this topic, the whole point is to keep information in one place so finding a solution will be easier, otherwise, like we had to before, we'd be going through multiple topics which usually just repeats things.

This post has been edited by SuGGaK on Nov 25 2004, 11:31

[K]

Farmers outfit

[Guest fultie]

a farmer's outfit? damn glad i killed her

[Guest fultie]

that's flutie for ya.. always inspiring people

[K]

Make sure you bone the one at the driving school. Race car drivers outfit!

[Dingle]

Yes and SA is THAT scientific ¬_¬

It is prolly a shootin star.

[Dingle]

Go inspire guys like hugar, to be funny

thanks for this keef.

[Dingle]

Got 100 percent?

Its my goal right now to get 100 percent, so maybe need help ask here. Anyways...

To get 100 percent dya have to complete a mission the first time? or can you fail it a few times?

[K]

Kyky has 100%

And if this is the same as GTA3 and Vice City, you can fail as many times as you want.

[Guest fultie]

Henry Rollins couldn't do that

[Dingle]

Just restarted the game and have done cesars race, damn that was skabby.

They all got ahead, so nitros on the pier, i crash into a car, full flip, zoom on and win by like 2 seconds

Also, i have to mention, i'm terrible at races, but a steady pace wins, and speed on straights are good too.

Also... I have to make a mention to wrong side of the tracks for the sake of it, because damn im lucky on that, my bike landed on teh traina dn i killed them all like that, too bad i jumped off and then had to run after smoke, but i still did it

[K]

Fifty CONSECUTIVE taxi missions.

Swish'd.

[Dingle]

damn, aint even done 1 yet.

Do they ahve to be CONSECUTIVE to get nitro in cabs?

[K]

No, you can do them a few at a time.

Real men do them consecutively though!

[AJ]

I did 25 consecutive before my cab ploughed into some water that wasn't even on the map. That makes me semi-hardcore... right?

[K]

The same thing happened to me on level 12 ambulance.

[Guest fultie]

haha that's a bitch...

so you can do Taxi missions one at a time?

i know on Ambulance if you fail pass level 1 you have to start over at level 1...

[Dingle]

arent consecutive fares when you get bonuses each time?

[Guest fultie]

oh... i've never done a taxi mission

and i'm an idiot