| Post 1 | New | Posted February 20th, 2003. Updated February 20th, 2003 |
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schu
| This thread is for MISCELLANEOUS VC TIPS & TRICKS ONLY! Please do not respond to other people's tips unless you want to expand upon them. Do not post questions or requests in this thread. I will attempt to moderate this thread to clean it up a bit. When possible put a short title for your tip at the top of your post in BOLD so it's easier to identify (see my first tip for an example). I created this thread to make finding miscellaneous VC tips easier. You don't have to post them here if you don't want to. Basically this is my copout way of making a VC Tips list. I will link to this thread in my Tips & Cheats section on GOURANGA! Once again, please only post MISCELLANEOUS VC TIPS here. That means anything from how to do a stunt, where to find a helicopter, item locations, or just random fun things to do in Vice City. Please post all questions in the VC Q&A Thread. This thread is NOT FOR QUESTIONS. -schu ------------------ GOURANGA! Serving Up GTA Goodness For Over Five Years -= GTA = GTAUK = GTA2 = GTA3 = GTA:VC = GTA:SA = GTA4 =- www.gouranga.com |
| Post 2 | New | Posted February 20th, 2003. Updated February 20th, 2003 |
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schu
| EJECT, EJECT, EJECT! While doing a unique stunt try getting out your car or off your motorcycle in mid-air, it makes for an interesting cinematic. Sick Carpool Tips If you steal a car with a passenger in it you should take advantage of that situation... Personally I like doing stunts with passengers in the car with me, even more fun if you bail out in mid-air. Or just drive your car toward the ocean and jump out before it hits. For a more subtle effect, just pull up next to some water then watch your passenger jump out for a swim Of course the best is getting into a police chase with someone along for the ride, then jump out of your car when it catches fire. Watching it slam into a police barricade and blow up with your passenger still inside is always entertaining. Change Your Damn Clothes! Changing your outfit will lower your wanted level by two stars, but only if you have two stars or less. If you have over two stars it has no effect. Burnouts Holding down the brake and accelerate buttons at the same time will perform a burnout... Special Vehicle Respawn Trick This is in part based on something lysergio said about respawning choppers. Mainly what I've found is that if you reload to a location that has a special vehicle (boat/helicopter) it sometimes isn't where it's supposed to be. When you reload to the dock for instance the boats never seem to be there. Well, if you run out of the area (basically across the street) and back they should spawn. This seems to work most of the time for any building that has a helicopter spawn on top of it as well... However, some helicopters only appear at certain times, but they don't seem to appear if your standing near them. You may have to leave the general area (drive a block away) and come back to refresh the building or something. ------------------ GOURANGA! Serving Up GTA Goodness For Over Five Years -= GTA = GTAUK = GTA2 = GTA3 = GTA:VC = GTA:SA = GTA4 =- www.gouranga.com |
| Post 3 | New | Posted February 23rd, 2003 |
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| Ameer SUPERCHARGED!!!! ![]()
| To see if your car is front wheel drive, rear wheel drive, or four wheel drive... Hold square and X to burn out. If your car can burn out, it is rear wheel drive. Now hold L1 and X. If your car moves forward it is front wheel drive. It it does both it is all wheel drive. ------------------ ![]() Touge on 2/19/05 at 12:57 pm Little AJ, little AJ On the tarmac road. Got a screaming underage girl Where the spare tyre is stowed. OH NOOOOES SUM1 HAKED MY SIG! |
| Post 4 | New | Posted February 27th, 2003 |
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| Deleted Member | Hello... n00bs first post here I dunno if anyones found this out yet, I haven't seen it posted, but... head on over to The Pole Position and spend some serious ca$h on a lap-dance. I think I musta spent around $3000. (Long enough to hear all of that "You are an obsession..." tune.) Then simply leave the booth and your Pole Position asset is complete, earning you $4000 a day... w00t-w00t!!! [icey] You only need to spend $600 on the dances to complete the asset. |
| Post 5 | New | Posted March 1st, 2003 |
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| Deleted Member | This is by far the glitchiest way of getting free money. If you've fallen off you're bike, Sanchez or PCJ 600 prefferably.. push it up against any nearby wall so that both wheels are touching the wall. (The bike is ment to be on it's side) Now, just press Triangle, to get on the bike. You'll see Tommy get on the bike, but he'll be sideways still, and the bike will wobble uncontrollably side to side until it gets upright. When it does, you'll get a double insane stunt bonus, compromising of a distance of 0.5 - 0.7 meters, a height of 0.0 - 0.2 meters and _AT LEAST_ 2 flips. Go figure, but atleast the money you pick up for just getting on your bike is enough to head to your local dispensory/hospital/ammunation to get patched up or buy new armour to recover the health you lost falling over in the first place! |
| Post 6 | New | Posted March 11th, 2003 |
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| Deleted Member | If u want any wicked police vehicles like the enforcer or barracks OL or fbi rancher or summat then just do the: raise wanted level cheat (R1,R1,O,R2,up,down,up,down,up) do it several times until you get 6 stars. then do the lower wanted level cheat (R1,R1,O,R2,L,R,L,R,L,R) and quickly get the vehicles before they drive off.The SWAT enforcer is best. I store them all in the hyman condo. Or, u can get a FBI Washington from the alleyway behind the Downtown Well-Stacked Pizza. |
| Post 7 | New | Posted March 15th, 2003 |
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| Deleted Member | Tip 1 There is a helicopter that you must shoot down during a mission with Cortez. Its called a 'hunter', unlike a tank its not indestructable, however it has rockets and a chain gun with unlimited rounds. It resembles an apache longbow attack helicopter. I have found the 'hunter' on the ground in the air force base, and successfully made off with it. I think its the best vehicle the game offers! Tip 2 If you fly a maverick helicopter into a chop shop without blowing it up youll get a unusual surprise when the door reopens... Tip 3 The thumbstick controls all sirens. This includes police vehicles, fire trucks, fbi vehicles, and ambulances. Traffic will get out of your way when your siren is blaring so it can be useful. [icey] To use sirens on the PC version tap the shift key lightly. Tip 4 I believe if you purposely fail the Gaurdian Angels mission and steal your principles vehicle, that it takes no damage. Either its armored heavily or they forgot to make damage for it. |
| Post 8 | New | Posted March 16th, 2003 |
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| YT drunken cow
| ever wanted to travel in your mansion with a car / bike and cried you can't? well, you really can't, sorry... JUST KIDDING!!! if you want to get in your mansion with a car / bike just do the following: get a fast car / bike (recommended PCJ600 or the white infernus you have in your mansion) and bring it right against the entrance to your mansion (but do not enter to it) drive back until you get as far as you can (means that you have to get down the stairs). now aim yourself to the entrance, and drive as fast as you can, riding up the staircase. when you are really close to the mansion entrance, eject yourself (using "▲" [Triangle]). The Car / Bike should now go into the mansion, and you stay outside, and see the car inside. now walk in, and WALLA! if you want to enjoy, go up with a bike, and get to the helipad, you can do alot of willies and stoppies up there! Enjoy! ------------------ ![]() y_tzur@hotmail.com |
| Post 9 | New | Posted April 3rd, 2003 | cool |
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| Deleted Member | if you hop in the back of a truck or on top of any car, and shoot the back of the car you'll go speeding around town. The good thing about this is that while the car is driving around you can do some drive bys. |
| Post 10 | New | Posted April 7th, 2003 |
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| sarah buu ShadowCat
| Firstly, get a DIRT BIKE. Secondly, ride it to the third island (the second BIG one) and lastly, ride to the VCN station and take it to the top. Now just ride off of the building and bail off so that ONLY the bike falls off. Why use a dirt bike? Cause the exploshion is bigger! If you know any other high-up places then please tell me. I am constantly looking for high places to commit suicide on cause its funny to see Tommy fall and fall and get faster and faster .ect ------------------ The world of GTA: Vice City is just like our own, its full of weird things that need to be discovered. - Topic #526 - ________________ Sarah Buu is currently: |
| Post 11 | New | Posted April 7th, 2003 |
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D-caf![]()
| lol. the condo that has the helie pad is perty hi too. but if you dont jump off it right you'll land on another building ------------------ every time i learn somthing new it pushes some old stuf out of my brain. |
| Post 12 | New | Posted April 8th, 2003 |
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| RyanL Master of Helicopters
| Or on top of the mansion. To get inside, grab a PCJ 600 and get to the edge of the cement (right by the grass). Drive full speed to the doors and jump off while going into the mansion. Then you'll have both in there (you and the PCJ 600) and you can drive around wherever. ------------------ ![]() [VC Helicopter Guide] |
| Post 13 | New | Posted April 9th, 2003 |
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| sarah buu ShadowCat
| Here is one of my all-time favourites! Go to Diaz's mantion and have LOTS of bombs, these will be usefull. Next, find a very large group of gang members and throw the bomb at them. After its exploded all the guys should die and there should be loads of ca$h for you to take! But beware, the cops will come... ------------------ The world of GTA: Vice City is just like our own, its full of weird things that need to be discovered. - Topic #526 - ________________ Sarah Buu is currently: |
| Post 14 | New | Posted April 9th, 2003 |
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| Theboygareth Best viewed w/ beer goggles
| You can use helicopters to fly round getting the police bribes without much hassle. The easiest ones to get in the helicopter are the ones floating in the air near jumps. I've got rid of a 6 star wanted level several times using this method. The tricky part is not getting busted whilst the helicopter is getting off the ground, once you are up you should be fine. |
| Post 15 | New | Posted April 9th, 2003 |
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Josephine
| my favourite thing to do in vice city is at my own El Swanko Casa, get on the veranda (i like the east one) and shoot things, launch rockets, launch grenades (be careful, these easily bounce back and blow YOU up) etc. its very easy to raise up the wanted level to 5 stars and just hold it there. the cops/fbi are too dumb to climb stairs and because you have a roof over your head the helicopters ignore you. you get to hear the cops say lots of fun things and Tommy says things back, lots of big explosions. its quite theraputic, even. i've also noticed that the FBI will frequently blow themselves up in their Broncos, in an effort to climb walls and other stupid stuff. |
| Post 16 | New | Posted April 10th, 2003 |
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| sarah buu ShadowCat
| Josephine On 09/04/2003 @ 16:53:01 wrote: my favourite thing to do in vice city is at my own El Swanko Casa, get on the veranda (i like the east one) and shoot things, launch rockets, launch grenades (be careful, these easily bounce back and blow YOU up) etc. its very easy to raise up the wanted level to 5 stars and just hold it there. the cops/fbi are too dumb to climb stairs and because you have a roof over your head the helicopters ignore you. you get to hear the cops say lots of fun things and Tommy says things back, lots of big explosions. its quite theraputic, even. i've also noticed that the FBI will frequently blow themselves up in their Broncos, in an effort to climb walls and other stupid stuff. Yes, I've done that method several times now and its very funny! But if the FBI manage to get up the stairs (which CAN happen cause they shot me several times!) I say you should be prepaired for anything they pull. Another bad thing that happens to me several times when I do this is that after a load of FBI and Cop cars explode the army comes, and Im trapped, oh boy...Im soo scared But if the army does manage to come just get the gun that kills in one shot, I did and I got loads of the army mens machien guns! But later they killed me by running me over with a tank!! ------------------ The world of GTA: Vice City is just like our own, its full of weird things that need to be discovered. - Topic #526 - ________________ Sarah Buu is currently: |
| Post 17 | New | Posted April 14th, 2003 |
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| Deleted Member | My favorite thing to do is get on top of the Airport terminal and snipe. Or go over to BJs, second floor and shoot out of there. |
| Post 18 | New | Posted April 15th, 2003 |
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D-caf![]()
| bj's is good, but you cant beet the top of the airport terminal. just stock up with thouse miniguns that you can aim, sum sniperrifles and a python then fly over in a sea spparow and land ontop of it. so many cars go by there that you can get international news in no time, and if you run out of bullets jump in the sparrow and fly away and use its gun to blow other things up. thats how i got to the international news on media coverage. ------------------ every time i learn somthing new it pushes some old stuf out of my brain. |
| Post 19 | New | Posted April 15th, 2003 |
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| Theboygareth Best viewed w/ beer goggles
| When you get 100% completion you get infinite ammo for any weapon you pick up so it's really easy to get the 'Stuff of Legends' media rating by choosing your favorite vantage point e.g. roof of airport, car showroom, top of north vice mall carpark and then hammering everything in sight with rockets. When the tanks arrive you can blow them up by pelting them with molotovs. Make sure your helicopter is on the roof with you so you can go to the Vercetti estate, top up on health, and then return to continue the mayhem. Then, when you think you've done enough, you can fly around picking up police bribes in the helicopter. I've also noticed that if you have infinite run (after completing level 12 ambulance mission) then you can get pretty much anywhere on foot no matter what your wanted level is (as long as you are careful near roads) since you can dodge, evade or outrun anything that is after you. Kinda takes the piss out of the law enforcers when you run rings around them! |
| Post 20 | New | Posted April 15th, 2003 |
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| RyanL Master of Helicopters
| Infinite Ammo Another way to get infinite ammo (besides the fact of getting 100% that Theboygareth kindly told us about), you can put in the weapon cheat over and over until the number of bullets/rounds disappear. This does take a while, but if you're like me and your disc is scratched or something, then that works also. ------------------ ![]() [VC Helicopter Guide] |


