The speedrun community is once again developing methods that few players can understand—let’s not even get started on how they got there.
Speedruns involve frame-accurate inputs, complicated exploits, and almost always perfect knowledge of a game. Older games in particular, such as GTA: San Andreas, are eventually analyzed so thoroughly and the runs optimized to such an extent that they are “finished.”
This happened six years ago when a technique called Arbitrary Jump in Script (AJS) made it possible to complete the Windows Store version of San Andreas in a matter of minutes. Eight months ago, this trick was also decoded for the Definitive Edition.
More complicated than nuclear physics
After a brief summary of the speedrun history of San Andreas, Reddit user Vitosi4k points out a new way to speedrun the original PC version of the game.
A “skip the whole game” strategy has been found in the OG release of GTA San Andreas… . and it’s somehow infinitely more insane than the other versions.
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“The sequence of actions required to do this is, frankly, the most thorough destruction of a video game I’ve ever seen. It’s a summary of almost all the glitches discovered by the SA community up to that point,“ explains the Redditor.
31 ”very simple” steps
In his post, Vitosi4k describes the steps in detail. While steps 1 and 2, earning $10,000 from horse betting and completing the first missions, sound fairly simple, things get crazier after that.
The glitches build on each other. For example, a special motorcycle is placed in a specific location in step 6, then moved to a new location in step 22 so that you have a set of wheels for step 28.
It’s best to just watch the run instead of reading about it. Here it is, completed by speedrunner creezyful in 53 minutes and 46 seconds:
Since this method is still quite new, speedrunners will continue to refine it over the coming weeks and months. Even creezyful already believes that this technique will definitely shave two to three minutes off the time. Until someone finds the next glitch and this version of San Andreas can also be completed in a few minutes.
