GTA San Andreas - Any% speedrun in [

UPDATE: In March 2021, a new strategy was discovered. That strategy was then used to beat this run on June 24th, 2021.

Record held:
(June 15th, 2020 - June 24th, 2021)
GTA: SA Any% https://www.speedrun.com/gtasa_remast...

This video is a speedrun of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Any%, where the goal is to reach and complete the final mission as quickly as possible. Timing starts when the splash screen after load disappears and ends just as the cutscene with Tenpenny driving a firetruck off the bridge begins.

By using a glitch that only works in the remastered version, you are able to warp to any mission. Speedrunners of course want to get to the last one! This is very hard to do, because you have to get a particular variable in the game to the exact right value by precise timing. The skip takes us from Ryder to End of the Line Part3 (final part of the final mission of the game).

For those that are interested on how this works, here's a quick summary:
Requirement: Microsoft Store version of GTA: San Andreas

--Start a new game, get a cop bike, begin Vigilante and cancel it within the range of 82061, 82063, 82070, 82071, 82073, 82077 or 82093ms (happens around 7:46 internal game clock). Park the cop bike inside the Johnson House garage.

--Do Big Smoke and take detours to avoid vending machines. This is because many things in the game update the $CURRENT_TIME_IN_MS2 value and vending machines are one of them. They update the variable that has been set earlier by cancelling vigilante, which makes the skip obsolete.

(But, when a new game is started, the first vending machine you encounter does not update the value. So we get one free pass, which is crucial for the next step)

--Next, make sure you have some grenades and drive to Ten Green Bottles. Do not pick up Sweet's phone call, but instead cancel it and enter the bar.

--Start Go Go Space Monkey, cancel it and very quickly start it again to break the game and get yourself stuck in white screen. You have control of CJ, so use grenades to kill him.

--Once CJ respawns, he will pick up the hospital discharge icon and a cutscene will begin. You should get a phone call shortly.

--Pick up the call, press Esc but keep holding the ANSWER PHONE key. Do not let it go. Make your way back to Grove Street. If you enter a vehicle, you must also hold the VIEW STATS key in this version (you can let go of it when you are not in a vehicle though).

--Begin Ryder, but just as the screen fades to black, let go of ANSWER PHONE key. When you press F in-game the ''show me how they drive on the East Coast'' dialogue will break and the variable $ONMISSION will be set to $OM=0

--Make your way to Reece's, but before you enter, Sweet will call again. Hold ANSWER PHONE key and enter the shop. Make sure to get a SPECIFIC haircut for Ryder to say a specific line.

--When CJ leaves the shop, let go of ANSWER PHONE key and hold F to cancel it. Afterwards, re-enter the barbers to regain camera control. The goal now is to start Vigilante during a specific time of the cutscene you're in. Ryder must keep repeating his ''You know something? I take it back. Old Reece still got it cracking.'' dialogue. Pausing the game will restart his line, which can be used to extend the cutscene indefinitely.

--Run back to Grove Street and begin mission ''Ryder'' again. Drive to CJ's garage, throw a grenade at Ryder's car, enter the cop bike. Ryder's car will be destroyed and the the camera will change back to where the cutscene is. You have a 1000 millisecond window to do the glitch, so start getting off the bike and then start Vigilante before CJ gets fully off of it (you can't see what's happening, so you need to memorize how long will it take him to get off).

--If the $CURRENT_TIME_IN_MS2 variable is the correct value, EOTL 3 will begin. Finish the game.

For more info, check out Powdinet's reddit post or Joshimuz's FAQ:
Reddit:   / grand_theft_auto_san_andreas_skip_that_sav...  
FAQ: https://gist.github.com/Joshimuz/f271...

Big credits to Powdinet for discovering and perfecting this skip!
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an action-adventure video game published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh title in the GTA series. The core gameplay consists of elements of third-person shooter and driving games, affording the player a open-world environment. It's set within the fictional U.S. state of San Andreas, heavily based on California/Nevada. Los Santos, based on Los Angeles; San Fierro, based on San Francisco; and Las Venturas, based on Las Vegas.