Ok, i knew about modding unmodable cars but...

[pinky]

Here is my full FAQ on ARMax style modding.

Hope it clears somethings up.

 

 

Cheat Device Car Modifying Techniques Explained

Brought to you by pinky.In association with GTABoards

 

Warning Cheat Device Required

There is no point reading any further if you don’t have a cheat device of some sort, unless you are just curious to how all those crazy cars you see on your site are created or you are not doing anything else for a while.

 

Things like this modified Monster for example. Clover to Monster conversion.

 

Or perhaps more radical mods like this Rancher.

Taxi to Clover, to Elegy, to Rancher conversion.

Simple Chain

The simplest of techniques is the Two Stage Chain.

Activate the Garage Modifier Code for whatever car takes your fancy and load up SanAndreas.

Then take any car, my personal preference is the Clover because it will give you very wide rear rims, and modify it’s wheels at the Modshop that accepts it e.g. Transfender. Also fit Hydraulics, Nitro, Paint Scheme and Stereo Bass. All of these are transferable to almost any car, however the Monster does not accept Hydraulics and in the case of Bikes either petrol driven or pushbikes it is best only to change the paint colours.

Take this modified car, I will refer to this as the Donor car, to the Safehouse garage that your Garage Modifier Code operates on.

Place it in the garage and walk away until the door closes, return to the garage and when it opens your replacement vehicle will be inside.

If you stick to just modifying only the parts mentioned above you will almost receive 100% success.

Some of the cars with two tone paint schemes may come out with only one section painted in your choice colour, the answer to this is use a car with two tone paint as your Donor car.

 

Never save your game until you have made sure that your replacement vehicle will leave the garage.

I can never stress enough how important that this is, just don’t ignore it at any cost. Your creation may be a game crasher, open the garage and make sure the car will either come out or not crash the game completely. If so either don’t save or reset your console.

If you do accidentally save, you have to enter the Garage Modifier Code for the original Donor vehicle, as this one can handle the mods you have given it and re-load SanAndreas. You should now get access to your garage without a crash.

A couple of good Simple Chain examples.

The 1992 TypeR range from Blista.

 

The Euros GTR

Multiple Chain

You can create vehicles with a major amount of modifications and their parts can be scavenged from others vehicles.

The maximum amount of links to this kind of Chain is probably about five, more can be achievable but not really worthwhile, unless you are trying to create a motoring masterpiece. Good luck to you if you are.

The first step.

Nab a Taxi, if you haven’t completed 100 Taxi Fares skip this step, if you have this will give your creation unlimited shots of Nitro. Now take your first Donor car and put it in the garage that your Garage Modifier Codes work on, save your game and reset your console with your Cheat Device active.

The second step.

Enable the Garage Modifier Code for your second Donor car, in my case the Clover, because as stated before it gives you massive wide rims. Take this car to it’s respective Modshop and alter the Wheels, Hydraulics, Nitro if you skipped step one, and Stereo Bass. Return this car to your original safe house and again save. Reset your console with your Cheat Device enabled.

The third step

Enable the Garage Modifier Code for your third Donor car, in my case an Elegy. Take this car to it’s respective Modshop and alter the Wheel style (if you want too), Spoiler and Roof Scoops (only if your next car will already allow the fitting of these parts, see “Exceptions” later). Return this car to your original safe house and again save. Reset your console with your Cheat Device enabled.

The fourth step

Enable the Garage Modifier Code for your fourth Donor car, in my case a standard type Rancher. In the majority of cases this car will make a good second last step car, it can accept all parts except Sideskirts and allows the alteration of both paint colours. Take this car to it’s respective Modshop and alter the Bonnet Scoops, Exhaust, Fog lights (only if your next car will already allow the fitting of these parts, see “Exceptions” later) and Paint schemes . Return this car to your original safe house and again save. Reset your console with your Cheat Device enabled.

The fifth stage

This one is easy. Enable the Garage Modifier Code for your fifth and final car, in my case an FBI Rancher. Once your game loads, open the garage and there it is, the end result of all your hard work.

Enjoy it.

 

Again I will remind you.

Never save your game until you have made sure that your replacement vehicle will leave the garage.

I can never stress enough how important that this is, just don’t ignore it at any cost. Your creation may be a game crasher, open the garage and make sure the car will either come out or not crash the game completely. If so either don’t save or reset your console.

If you do accidentally save, you have to enter the Garage Modifier Code for the original Donor vehicle, as this one can handle the mods you have given it and re-load SanAndreas. You should now get access to your garage without a crash.

An example of a Multiple Chain vehicle.

 

Exceptions

When creating your vehicle remember that not all parts are interchangeable.

The FBI Rancher example given here does not accept the Fog Lights from its Donor cars, as a rule be careful with Law Enforcement vehicles in general, they can be tricky and you cannot put them in Modshops to test out what they will accept.

The best way to see what your replacement car will accept, do this for all steps to achieve more chance of success, is to take it to it’s respective Modshop and see what you can fit on it.

99% of the time, if a car will allow you to fit a spoiler then it will take one from any Modshop, they are interchangeable between Transfender and WheelArch Angels.

Now it’s time for the subject of Lowriders, these tend to be more tricky.

Try and limit yourself to only swapping parts between other Lowriders, even then check the replacement car can receive a part from it’s Donor e.g. a Slamvan’s bullbars seem to be exclusive of itself. Swapping bumpers between Lowriders tend to just look messy as well.

Some of these creations are just trial and error, have patience and keep trying different combinations to create a car that you can call your own.

You will have a few crashes on the road to perfection, just keep at it.

 

When mods go bad

Here are some of examples of the horrors created, and you will have to create some monsters before you will get a beauty.

 

 

 

Your Creation

Others may scorn you for these vehicles because they are born of Cheat Devices, but as you can see they are no easy creation, some will in fact take hours and thousands of your SanAndreas dollars to create, like the FBI Rancher. This is because all the re-loading and travelling between Modshops, not forgetting troubleshooting and testing.

You have made a rarity and have earned some respect, at least from me for doing so.

Enjoy driving it.

Then make some more.

pinky

 

Here is my favourite creation, it is only a Simple Chain conversion, I will have to redo it with a Taxi in there to get the unlimited shots of Nitro.

 

 

The Blista Compact TypeR

Edited April 5, 2005 by pinky

[playguy]

Nice one.But you forgot to put there that if you want to have Loco Low hidros (the highes ones) on your car, before you take the first car the clover or the taxi to the garage, just take a tahoma o some car that can go to the Loco Low garage and put hidros and put in the garage.If you got the cheat device to spawn a clover, it will have the loco low hidros.You can do this with any car.

[ummm]

I don't have AR, i have gameshark, and every time i open a garage with the mod code on it my game crashes. i think its the enabler code im using or something. does anyone have a code list for gameshark 2 v4?

[pinky]

Try these sites for codes.

The GFCC.

Codemasters Project.

 

You should be able to get a link to one of Skiller's sites from either of these, the only one I have is the ARMax site, no use to you whatsoever.

So far Skillers have been by far my favourite codes, I just wish there was more hours in the day so he could update the Pal site more often.

 

 

 

@playguy.

Thanks for the info, I never realised that the LocoLowCo hydraulics were higher than the rest. For you .

[Skiller]

Database thread

 

 

there is the database info.. your best bet is to Convert the Raw codes to armax ..

 

everyone should know how to do this .. its simple .. if not .. i realy think u should pick up a Codebreaker/Gameshark/Xploder on of them its much simpler ..

 

Use Maxconvert set input to raw output to Armax put one of the below game id and Regions in ( Make sure u are converting the right raw codes to the right region .. as in UK/French Raw to UK or French Armax and so on ..)

 

then press convert .. the top line is always diffrent if u have the right game ID and region the codes will work .. dont worry about the top line changeing this is normal..

 

Game ID 069C - Region USA = Ntsc

Game ID 06A3 - Region Pal = UK

Game ID 06A4 - Region Pal = French

Game ID 06B0 - Region Pal = DE/German

[pinky]

Thanks Skiller, I didn't realise that there were separate Raw codes for each region as well.

[self harm] Pinky bangs head off wall a couple of times[/self harm]

You really don't get much time to play the game, do you.

[Mr. Someguy]

I don't get it

My brain herts

[ummm]

hey thx guys, one complaint tho- skiller, u confused the hell outa me with your conversion stuff.

[muppetmaster]

Hey cool, this is just like when farmers do selective breeding to get the best qualities of each animal to get a hybrid, or in this case.. cars

[edsion 2]

mod the buffalo

[Timpo]

this stuff also works with ultimate cheats, it is COOL

thanx for that nice guide

[Pubicmonkey]

Ok i'm a little confused by what i'm supposed to put into that maxconverter program here.. I i wanted to turn car 1 at the verdant medows hangar into a firetruck would i put in this code?

 

XRG1-9NN5-WJ610

H6PN-6899-4AX71

QD60-EAUT-ZJ14K

 

Everytime i click encrypt the top line of the code changes.

[parry]

I think if the top line changes but none of the others then the code is right.

[Pubicmonkey]

Ok. I'm tryin it out now with a landstalker code. ARMax accepted the code so i've just gotta test whether it works or not.

 

The code hasn't changed any cars into a landstalker Don't i need a folder for all the car codes to go in?

Edited February 19, 2005 by Pubicmonkey

[ummm]

hey, i finally have a contribution to make. for those of you that are stupid ( like me ) or technically challenged, you can convert the color of cars and add hydraulics, wheels, etc. with a seperate code w/o goin through the "selective breeding". the codes are at http://www.codemasters-project.net/members...icle%20Mods.htm. yay for gameshark!!!

[Carbon_copy]

I know that Youve tried to put a body kit on the turismo from wheels Arch angels

but as anyone tried with any other car and come out Correct?

Becuase in some cases when i try to put mods on other cars when the

garage door is about to open my game crashes.

[Pubicmonkey]

I've neever seen anything other than spoilers from WAA work on other cars properly. Bumpers and sideskirts are always in the wrong position.

[pinky]

The roof scoops from WheelArchAngels transfer over no problem as well.

The Elegy rear spoilers tend to sit a little bit lower on other cars too, look close at the purple Rancher below. Apart from that, the body kits don't go on anything else that I know of yet.

The same goes for Bumpers from LocoLowCo some they fit, some they don't.

It is a shame about the roofs for the Savanna and the Blade as well, they are almost interchangable with each other but not quite. The Savanna would have looked nice with that sloped roof too.

 

 

 

Edited February 19, 2005 by pinky

[grovestreet123]

well wat i decided to do was do that little trick wat pinky suggested with the headlight off other cars and the colour off the traffic lights but i dident do traffic lights or the car headlights i used the green glow off the ten green bottles bar here are some pics of my remington

the 1st pic the remington has a rear bumper off a savanna

these pics are the remington parked near the ten green bottles pub

[Carbon_copy]

well wat i decided to do was do that little trick wat pinky suggested with the headlight off other cars and the colour off the traffic lights but i dident do traffic lights or the car headlights i used the green glow off the ten green bottles bar here are some pics of my remington

the 1st pic the remington has a rear bumper off a savanna

these pics are the remington parked near the ten green bottles pub

Your saying all these things about headlights and green lights and stuff

do these things have to do with the fact on how to put that back bumper

you put on that car? And have you tried any toehr loco low cars?

 

[grovestreet123]

i tried a slamvan but it was crazy and wouldent fit into place on teh front and here is something a little crazy but kool pic

[Burner]

Is there a way to get wheels that are not available at mod shops onto other cars? Ex: The mag wheels from the camper being put on something else.

[grovestreet123]

check this out wat i did with a rancher

[Carbon_copy]

check this out wat i did with a rancher

w00t! Nice car D00D

[Gatecrasher]

I tried that but my game crashed! Why?

[pinky]

It deosn't fit properly anyway, it's just a camera trick to make it look like it does. If he posted a side on veiw you would understand.

As for your crash, you are maybe trying to add too many parts that the vehicle won't take.

Try adding them one at a time.

[Sodisna]

A Tampa can have an Jester spoiler.

I may have a theroy as how card work.

 

 

[playguy]

BUMP it

[Cube623]

i'm confused to what the garage modifier code is?

 

is it the replace car 1 or car 2 in CJ garage to : #####

 

 

[pinky]

 

Cube623 Posted on Mar 3 2005, 07:01

  i'm confused to what the garage modifier code is?

 

is it the replace car 1 or car 2 in CJ garage to : #####

 

That is the one my friend, now go forth and modify.