GTA: San Andreas speedrunners find roughly 30-step PC skip; any% run now 53:46

This week a roughly 30-step skip was discovered in the original PC port of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, more than 21 years after the game’s release, and it cuts the any% speedrun to under an hour.

The trick is an AJS skip, and when applied by speedrunner creezyful the any% run was trimmed to 53 minutes and 46 seconds, GamesRadar reports (the run was also flagged by IGN).

San Andreas has produced countless glitches, tricks and convoluted skips over the decades since its release, and this 30‑ish step maneuver is the latest major find in that long tradition of discoveries.

GamesRadar’s write-up notes the new skip’s effect on the any% category and says it’s likely that runners will shave the time further as they refine the technique.

What remains unclear is how much faster the record can become and what additional optimizations speedrunners will find; GamesRadar suggests the time will probably be reduced in the weeks to come.

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