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Friday / Saturday - June 23/24, 2000 <1:55 PM CST> <Top>
GTA2 Dreamcast Cheats <1:55 PM CST - schu>
I've put in some inquiries about GTA2 Dreamcast cheats but I haven't gotten any word back yet.  Until then you might want to check out a site Derrick McCurry brought to my attention.  He pointed me to Gamewinners.com, a site with a full listing of the Dreamcast cheats.  The only problem is that the cheats are more than likely untested.  Regardless you can get the full listing right here.  If anyone happens to test these out I'd really like to hear which ones actually work, so please email me with what you find out and I'll post it here in the next update with credit to any contributors.  Thanks to Derrick for the URL.

Out of Town <1:55 PM CST - schu>
I will be out of town most of next week on a pseudo vacation.  I'm helping a friend move and she just so happens to be moving near Chicago so I'll probably be checking into jobs and apartments all next week while helping her move.  I may be back by Thursday or Friday next week depending on how things go.  Please feel free to send in any news you want posted and I'll post it with the next update.

  

Thursday - June 22, 2000 <11:59 PM CST> <Top>
GTA 24/7 Under Fire <11:59 PM CST - schu>
Teknics wrote in soon after I posted yesterday's update in regards to GTA 24/7.  Apparently the webmaster over there, borrowed, ahem, Teknics entire file vault including all the links and just changed the font and the color.  To say the least Teknics was pretty offended by this and asked that I remove yesterday's link.  As you can see its no longer there.  I will contact that 24/7 webmaster about this and see if anything can be done.  Pity, I really liked the name too...

GTA2 Dreamcast Codes <11:59 PM CST - schu>
Just a repost of the GTA2 Dreamcast codes since there isn't shit else going on.  I'm currently checking into getting some more codes, I'll let you know what I find out...  I nabbed the Gameshark code from GameSages, probably one of the best code depositories in existence.

$500,000
Change your name to 'MUCHCASH' and you will start with $500,000.

All Weapons Cheat
Change your name to 'BIGGUNS' to start with all the weapons.

Gameshark Codes
Tons o' Cash DE90BFB400000010

  

Wednesday - June 21, 2000 <7:00 PM CST> <Top>
Finally <7:00 PM CST - schu>
Ok, back online for the most part anyway.  For some reason G! appeared to be off-line this morning and just a few hours later it was back online.  I haven't quite figured out if its the web provider or a DNS thing.  Anyway I'm checking into it.  The next most asked question appears to be why its taking so long to update.  Well primarily because I've been out of town a lot, had numerous FTP problems, and now I've got this wonderful fever/mystery sickness that has pretty much kept me in bed until now.  On with the updates.  I'm going to post everything that was in my inbox so some of it may be out of date, but what the hell, I'll post it anyway.

Next Gen GTA <7:00 PM CST - schu>
No Fear and Xenic sent word that screenshots of the next GTA have been posted on IGN.  You can check out the shots and short update at ps2.ign.com/news/20306.html.  I'll just be happy when they give it a name :).

Announcements <7:00 PM CST - schu>

  • <miracle maker> sent word that v1.12 of Miracle Maker 2 is now available.  MM2 is an mission editor for GTA2 and you can get if from www.miraclemaker.tsx.org.
  • Tiffany has updated her Unofficial GTA Shrine with new cars, new mugshots, and all of the broken car links have been fixed.  Check it all out at www.hippietiff.com.
  • The GTA Traffic Jam now features a message board, get over to www.gtaxtreme.net/trafficjam for details. 

  
GTA Hawaii Update
<7:00 PM CST - schu>
I've received a few new GTA Hawaii updates since the last update.  The updates are in the order they came in so the newest update is last and may adjust the earlier updates.  Check out the GTA World 2k or the GTA Hawaii site for more details.
 

"I would like to tell anyone that would like to do something for GTA Hawaii, but does not wanna make a big commitment. I am trying to tell you that I want some different weapons in the game.  I want to replace all the weapons in GTA with the new weapons that will hopefully be made. MAKE THE WEAPONS MORE POWERFUL AND MORE FUN TO KILL PEOPLE WITH."

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"I have received a large amount of responses for making buildings for GTA Hawaii. This confused me, the ferry is probably much more easier to make, yet no one wants to make it. And we still need textures makers. To me, this makes no sense.

THANK YOU TO THE People that did respond. We all appreciate it."

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"It took a long time, but our team is complete! We've found a texture maker!! His name is Christian Sorgatz. He'll do the textures for us. Now we can make some progress.  7Olik's cars are being sorted out at this very moment, so that they can be used for style003.g24

Also, contributions are going well.  I've received a playground and a gas station from Roland van Berkel, a '63 Chevrolet Corvette from Sam Swales, and some other good stuff that we can't use, because it's made for the wrong style file. Sorry guys, maybe you can sort them out, so we can use your stuff in the style003.g24 file.

If anyone else feels like making some prefabs, mail them to
uploads@gta-hawaii.f2s.com
. We can still use some prefabs like:

  • university and college (1 of each)
  • Gas station (We've got one, but we could use some more
  • Playgrounds
  • Bus Depots
  • Town Hall
  • Shopping center
  • Construction area (if possible?)

Oh, yeah, before I forget, screenshots have been added"

  
    

Tuesday - June 6, 2000 <10:50 PM CST> <Top>
Off-line Again? <10:50 PM CST - schu>
That is pretty much what I said and I would have thought by the time I was typing this that the site would have been online by now...  Unfortunately I'm posting this with that damn "Site Suspended" bullshit still up.  Anyway, I'm currently working out a new deal that will hopefully prevent this from happening in the future because its getting rather annoying.  I mainly want to use this space to apologize to Azz for the inconvenience this has caused but hopefully it won't happen again.

Azz, Illness & Exams <10:50 PM CST - schu>
Azz asked that I inform everyone that he is ill again with another kidney infection so he is not updating at the moment.  In addition to that Azz haz exams coming up in a week, this coupled with the JH4C's phone troubles means that "car updates could be a long time coming and any news posts may be few and far between for awhile."  In four weeks Azz will be home for the summer and that should allow for more time to attend to GTAzz assuming his health improves.  I wish Azz the best and hope his health improves in time for exams.  Please take it easy on him until he gets some free time to get everything in order.
 

GTA Hawaii's To Do List <10:50 PM CST - schu>
The guys working on the GTA Hawaii project are looking for a few buildings for their map, perhaps you can help them out:

  • university and college (1 of each)
  • Gas stations about 10
  • Playgrounds
  • Bus Depots
  • Town Hall
  • Shopping center
  • Construction area (if possible?)

If you think you can help out with any of these, send an email to Graham @ gta_hawaii@hotmail.com.

Site Updates <10:50 PM CST - schu>
The site will not be updated again until Monday or Tuesday of next week because I have some family business to attend to.  This sort of came up suddenly but I anticipate being back at my computer on Monday night or Tuesday morning depending on how things go.  Assuming the site is back up by then I'll resume updates as per usual.  Sorry for all the delays and problems lately but I just graduated and I have to find a job, an apartment, and furniture by August which means I'll probably be spending a lot of time driving back and forth on top of all that I have this family stuff I have to work out.  Anyway, keep on sending the updates and I'll keep posting them.  Hopefully you'll be able to read this by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.  Just an FYI, if I ever leave the GTA scene, which I currently have no plans on doing, you'll hear it from me and not a "Site Suspended" message.  Assuming I don't die or win the lottery I'll keep doing this as long as someone's interested in reading it.  One final nugget of information... I just received word that some new GTA information should be coming down the pipe shortly.  I'm not sure what it is in regards to because the message was rather vague, but anything new on GTA is better than nothing at all.

  

Thursday - June 1, 2000 <11:50 PM CST> <Top>
GTA Las Vegas <11:50 PM CST - schu>
Louis WTT sent word that he has begun work on GTA Las Vegas.  He currently plans to include six big casinos on the strip, two oil stations, a university, a few large parking lots, and whatever else he can come up with.  I'm not positive but I think its going to be for GTA not GTA2.

Grand Tuckman Association RIP <11:50 PM CST - schu>
TheTuckman is closing the Grand Tuckman Association, here is the announcement on its closure:

"The story in a nut shell; after my exams I didn't have any reason to return to my site, everything's been done and mine was 'just another GTA related site' There's one page up and I'll still hang around the GTA scene, it IS still my favorite game, but I won't host a site, not this site anyway.  Thanx to Azz, schu and everyone who's been supportive,

peace.

TheTuckman"

Site Updates <11:50 PM CST - schu>
More computer problems... The last install didn't hold like I had hoped but this round seems a little more stable.  I just hope it doesn't puke when I start working toward a quad boot system.  After I get around to installing Linux, BeOS, and Win2k.

   

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