New GTA San Andreas PC exploit revives Any% speedruns, could cut 3+ hours

A new, extremely complicated speedrunning strategy for the original PC release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has been shared on Reddit by user Vitosi4ek, reviving Any% speedruns for the first time in six years. Six years ago, an Arbitrary Jump in Skip (AJS) exploit on the Windows Store version let runners skip to any point in the game, including the final mission, and "ultimately kind of destroyed true Any% [runs]" according to Vitosi4ek.

A different method for the Definitive Edition was discovered about eight months ago; the newly posted OG PC method reportedly works very differently. Vitosi4ek says the new sequence is a 31-step process they call "the most thorough destruction of a videogame I've ever seen." It begins with placing bets on in-game horse races until the player has won $10,000 (but not too much), buying the Jefferson Safehouse, retrieving the NRG-500 superbike and doing stunt-jumps that — because of a prior glitch — drain money instead of earning it.

The exploit aims to push cash to a specific negative amount ("$-1,050 to be exact") to break the gambling game in step ten, and requires making "3 extremely specific bets at the specific spots on the table to set the variables in memory just right," with "a bunch of real-time math" to get amounts correct.

Vitosi4ek concludes: "Do the final mission as normal...

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