Gta san andreas pc Archives

Rockstar Games are known for putting out quality AAA titles that have expansive game worlds that demand exploration, most exemplified by the GTA franchise.

What began as a simple 'cops & robbers' styled video game with basic racing mechanics eventually evolved into the GTA franchise.

A bug that made the cops more aggressive in the game, and attacked the players gave the developers the idea to make it a more action-oriented game.

That one fateful bug led to the creation of perhaps one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time. The GTA franchise is now a permanent fixture of pop culture, with multiple entries selling extremely well.

One of the many joys of playing the GTA games is the vast open world, which demands exploration. There are tonnes of collectibles and activities in the games to keep the player engaged for hours even after the story missions end.

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How to download GTA San Andreas saved files

GTA San Andreas is a pretty large game, and can take up to 85 hours to complete percent. A large section of players may not have the kind of time or patience to sink in nearly 85 hours into the game.

However, this does not mean they will never get to experience all the end-game content and the game state when the game has been completed percent.

There are saved files uploaded by other players on the internet who have percent completed the game. This gives the player instant access to all the endgame content and essentially is a cheat that allows players to experience the game when it is percent completed.

You can download a save file from this link, here.

To use the save files, follow these instructions

• Download the saved Files
• Install the game save files to Documents > GTA San Andreas > User Files
• Start the Game
• Select "Load Game"
• Select the new Save File

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Grand Theft Auto's most commonly used archive files are cd images, known by the extension . They have a very simple format and currently exist in multiple versions.

Structure

The format reflects sectors of CD-ROMs, improving I/O speed on the storage media. Every file contained in the img archive must be sector aligned, where the size of each sector is bytes. Thus values for offset and size have to be multiplied by . This means that even a file with only byte content will take up 2 KiB in the archive.

The format is divided between directory entries, which contains information about the actual files in the img archive, and the actual files, which are stored (usually) unsorted, uncompressed and linear (no directory tree).

Directory entries should be in the same order as the files are stored, and there should not be any empty block between files. This is because the game might read more than one file with a single system call. By not following this rule, the game might get unstable.

Version 1 - GTA III & VC

In this version, the directory and the raw files are stored in separate files, the directory entries are stored in a and the content pointed by the directory in the itself.

The directory archive () must have the same name as the archive, except for the extension. The directory archive is pretty simple, it contains no header, just the following structure repeated until the end of the file.

Directory Entry

Size of 32 bytes

The total number of entries can be found by dividing the size of the file by

The file itself has no special structure or header, just all the files pointed by the directory.

This format was also used in the PC version of Bully: Scholarship Edition.

Compression

The XBOX versions of GTA III and GTA Vice City use lzo1x compression on TXD and DFF files.

TXD Archive Compression

The lzo compression stream uses a similar format as was used in the lzo library examples. It consists of a master header that is followed by a number of compression blocks. Each compression block can have an arbitrary size, but all of them together have to match the compression data size that is provided in the master header.

Master header:

To detect whether a stream is lzo compressed, it is recommended to check if the magic number as well as its structure make sense. Just checking the magic number can be sufficient for RenderWare streams and other Rockstar related formats but is ill-advised in general practice.

Once detected you have to read the compressed data stream. This is done by first reading a per-block header.

Per-block header + compression data:

This header represents a compression unit. This means that the data that follows this block has to be (de-)compressed using the lzo1x_decompress_safe routine of the lzo library. The resulting decompressed data is arbitarily bigger than its compressed counter-part, so please do not use a fixed-size output buffer.

For compressing data, you have to split the input data stream into chunks and compress each one individually. The Rockstar games compressor divided the data into a continuous row of 0x () byte chunks. Doing that is recommended since working on smaller temporary memory buffers is memory friendly. It also means that, practically, each compression unit can only decompress to bytes in memory, allowing for architecture specific optimizations.

Checksum calculation is currently undocumented (not required for decompression).

Version 2 - GTA SA

Introduced with GTA San Andreas, combines the directory entries () and raw files () into one file. The directory has the same format as in version 1, but is located at the beginning of the archive. File offsets are relative to the start of the whole archive, not to the end of the file list.

Header

Size of 8 bytes

Followed by the header, there are the directory entries, containing information about the files in the archive.

Directory Entry

Size of 32 bytes

The streaming size is how many actual sectors the file takes in memory. If streaming size is 0, size will be used as streaming size. The stock img files never used streaming size (thus always 0), it's believed that this mechanism would be used for compression of files, but it never made it's way into production.

A major drawback of this format is the complicated extendability. If you have to add many files, it might happen that you run out of space for the directory, and have to move the first file(s) to the end.

Version 3 - GTA IV

GTA IV introduced yet another file format. Not only the format is new, also there can be encrypted archive headers (see below). The internal IMG parser of the game works with 2 kb buffers, which means that the 2 kb bounds from earlier versions (sectors) are still present, yet optional.

IMG Header

The header of an unencrypted file always has a size of 20 bytes.

IMG Table

The table holds information about the items. Each item header has a size of 16 bytes .

Item Names' length will be calculate as&#;:

Next that string will be split by '\x0'

A resource type is identified by the 4b DWORD value:

• 0x Generic
• 0x Texture archive
• 0x Bounds
• 0x6E: Model file
• 0x xpfl

Encryption

The header and directory (table) of IMG archives can be encrypted. This is usually the case if the 4 byte identifier at the start of the file seems invalid. Decryption is done via 16 repetitions of AES in ECB mode.

Additional archives

It is possible to add additional IMG archives to the current default ones. The following examples are lines that can be added anywhere in either the www.spearpointsecuritygroup.com or gta*.dat files.

Where FOO can be any name. The www.spearpointsecuritygroup.com (and www.spearpointsecuritygroup.com for GTA III and Vice City) must be created and placed within the folder in these examples. This method is primarily used for modifying version 2 of San Andreas, as well as for storing assets (models/textures/etc.) used in total conversions.

By default GTA San Andreas is able to load max of 8 archives (3 standard archives www.spearpointsecuritygroup.com, gta_www.spearpointsecuritygroup.com, www.spearpointsecuritygroup.com and 5 archives defined within www.spearpointsecuritygroup.com or www.spearpointsecuritygroup.com). GTA VC is able to load max of 8 archives (one archive is hard-coded to be loaded - www.spearpointsecuritygroup.com) too. Using more than 8 archives crashes the game, although this can be fixed with fastman92's IMG Limit Adjuster.

Coding example

IMG v2 C++ library

Usage

Tools

	ImgEd, by Dan Strandberg
&#;&#;	IMG Manager, by xmen
	Spark, by aru
&#;&#;	IMG Tool, by Spooky
&#;&#;	G-IMG, by REspawn
	fastman92 IMG Console, by fastman92
	IMG & Stream Limit Adjuster, by fastman92
	GTA Stories IMG Tool, by HackMan
	SparkIV, by aru
	OpenIV, by GooD-NTS
	Shadow-Mapper, by Prince-Link

Libraries

Version 2 only

Version 3 only