West Island earlier

[Ring_of_Fire]

Everybody knows that all you have to do is to do the Taxi glitch trick, but that'll be useless if you haven't even started playing Vice City as yet (especially on the console versions) and we all want to do it physically without cheating.

 

Here's another way I found out recently: Credit to ROF (me) & WILLY1 -> even though he stated the use of a "firetruck" (I used ambulance) which is just as big as a Trashmaster, Hunter, Rhino, and a Packer!

 

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1. Align the ambulance like this. If you keep pushing it, then it should fall into the water.

2. Now jump on the platform carefully and face the vehicle. Jump to land on it.

3. Once you have jumped, face to the narrow pathway and jump again by moving slightly backwards and charging forward.

4. You should land and be here.

5. You have gotten on the boats with success, and you are now on your way to the "2nd Island" early!

Note: The fastest way to get an ambulance as soon as you start a new game is to simply commit suicide, kill a few pedestrians, or by walking/driving it to the Ocean Beach hospital (it's not far). Now get inside the ambulance and your destination will be Colonel Cortez which is also not far. I wonder if this glitch can work for Vice City Stories? Although I am not aware of the actual scenery, pushing vehicles into the water and using it as a walkable surface should be helpful in most circumstances.

 

 

More ways to get to the West Island early:

• If you use the trick to go through the wall (input Faster Gameplay code, and run toward the sides of a vehicle), you'll be able to bypass the collision detection for any roadblock.

  [s00pcan & VCM80]

   

   

• Also, there is a way where you can use a PCJ-600 bike, and drive lightning-fast into the gaps of the roadblock (near to hospital), and then you literally go right through it!

  [spuds725 & Zone]

   

   

• Get an ambulance and go to Colonel Cortez' yacht (go around the other way instead of the narrow pathway). Once you past the first boat gate, head on over to another boat gate straight up that looks similar. Make the ambulance's back face the gate directly. Jump on top of it and do a long-jump towards the horizontal line that meets gate's vertical bars. You should roll through it eventually and have access to the boats.

  [Demarest & Fuzzy Juzzy & Glenster]

   

   

• "The Film Studio's Packer trick"

  [DexX]

   

   

• Near to some bridges - Prawn Island/Leaf Links/Starfish Island, there are at times when boats may spawn in the water and you can jump on them and then journey on to the West Island.

  [Charlie Lucky & WILLY1 & Glenster]

   

   

• Whilst on a mission on the West Island, start a new game immediately and commit suicide. A taxi should be located near to where you are standing with a pink arrow on top of it. Just go inside and you will be transported to the West Island instantly!

  [D0HC & radioman]

I'll add more to whomever contributes, but I am pretty sure the list will eventually run out of other possibilities. I think I got all of them now. Any further discussions can take place right here in this thread. Edited May 1, 2007 by Ring_of_Fire

[Justin]

Note: The fastest way to get an ambulance as soon as you start a new game is to simply commit suicide, or by walking it to the hospital (it's not far). Now get inside the ambulance and your destination will be Colonel Cortez which is also not far.

Personally, I bash a few peds to death until I hear the wail of approaching Ambulance sirens.

 

I use a similar trick whereby I back up the Ambulance into the locked gate preventing access to Cortez's yacht. Then, jump on to the bonnet, onto the roof and straight at the gate - you'll fall through eventually and can then access a boat.

 

The one depicted in Dem's Ultimate Start to VC is the most spectacular.

 

I'm sure there's more around, seeing as the VC forums escaped the great forum pruning. Pity search is disabled, though.

[Ring_of_Fire]

"Jump through bonnet" The height is too far up. I've looked at the scenery around the boat yacht, and I don't see any where to breach. Tell me again or give me a screenshot.

 

Which picture #1/2/3/4/5 ???

Edited April 21, 2007 by Ring_of_Fire

[Demarest]

 

Notice in the first pic that the gunshot travels THROUGH the barrier? You can use that to guage about where you'll want to jump. It's pretty much straight ahead. Just requires that you hit it with a running jump. Second image is you on the other side. Grab the boat just as in your example, but without the risk of drowning.

[Ring_of_Fire]

Ooo, that's what I did at first. I am trying it again. Also, I did it on the left side of the yacht so that might be the reason why it didn't work. Damn, who would have thought about that!

 

Heh, it worked. It requires precision though. I jumped onto the part and Tommy rolled and went right through it. So many glitches in this game -- I could imagine doing interior ghostworld glitches in Vice City Multiplayer! If that's not possible, there are other collision detection problems on the top of buildings where you can literally fall through them at the very edges. Anyway...

 

Demarest, I tried your method again and it got me killed. Tommy got stucked with him in a falling motion, and all of my life went down to zero! But it was strange as to how the other bonnet that I tried to the left had a collision detection while the other one to the right didn't. Guess both of our ways have risk factors.

 

I am adding the list ways of getting to the West Island now. Fuzzy Juzzy, so you are saying that your west island method was the same as Demarest's?

 

 

West Island madness

• Follow all the steps to get into the film studio. Then once you are in go to the southeast corner and there should be stairs. Park the bike on the ledge and then follow the ledge all the way around. When you get to the end of the ledge facing north, if you have enough speed you should be able to jump to the other side.

  [WILLY1]

   

   

• Have at least 2 stars and wait for a police boat to come! This works best near the lighthouse or near bridges. Just wait till the police boat moves up nearer (you just have to hope that one spawns a little close to you). Note that if you see the police boat stop, it actually is moving up closer because of the ocean current.

  [Ring_of_Fire]

   

   

• For PC version, download LithJoe's Ultimate Trainer v2 or other associated mods, and then go into Jetpack mode. I think it is possible to spawn a helicopter too. Teleportation works like a charm as well: just look it up in the [.ipl] files for any map location around Vice City, and then insert the XYZ coordinates.

  [LithJoe]

Optional methods: (most are pending)Input the cars drive on water SEAWAYS cheatcode and you can go to the West Island very easily! But this is of course cheating.

 

 

There seems to be weird collision detection glitches going on with the PCJ-600 bike. If you try to drive fast into objects that have Blue Hell located near to them or some form of texture indentation, it may either teleport you far away or allow you to go through it like what Spuds did before to the roadblock. One time I managed to walk on the sky at the height of the airplanes. This also happens when you try to come off your bike after squeezing through lack of space.

 

 

Do the glitch to fall through the ocean with a car (input "loadsoflittlethings" and get a certain car like a Stallion, I think). You may land far away -> hopefully on the West Island. Do this glitch near to bridges for maximum effectiveness.

 

 

For the console (PS2/Xbox) versions, use GameShark/Action Replay/CodeBreaker codes. Cheater.

 

 

I am not sure if this works, but try going as close to the West Island as possible (like when near bridges). Now try to either get busted or kill yourself. You might end up near to one of the police stations/hospitals on the West Island. However, I don't think the hospitals and the police stations over there would be opened though.

 

 

Do a glitch to get into a Ghostworld and chances are that there will be "no" roadblocks whatsoever.

 

 

Try to fail Bloodring by running out of time, and then start a New Game and commit suicide to see if you will spawn back to the stadium. But I think this glitch only works in the Downtown area.Note: If you go near to one of the bridges that leads to the West Island and have 2+ of Wanted Level stars, police will come at you behind the roadblock and can't come through. Now I think you may be able to glitch around when the tanks start showing up? Hmm... I had been wondering what would happen if the helicopters from the police force shows up, and you buy a property and push the already blown-up heli into the garage or into Pay 'n' Spray. Edited May 10, 2007 by Ring_of_Fire

[radioman]

Another way to get to the west island earlier, is to load a save from the west island, activate a mission on that island and when control returns to you, pause and start a new game. Now after the opening movie and control returns to you, die or get busted and when you respawn at either the hospital/police station-depending on the method you did, a taxi should spawn with an arrow over it, jump in and it takes you to the last mission point-which would be on the west island. This also works for VCS as well.

 

Another way, I think this was one of Demerst's but i'm not sure, anyway you get a PCJ 600 and go to prawn island. do the unique jump into the film studio, go to stairs in back of studio and drive up them, when you get to the top, do a 180 onto back wall of studio and drive along wall til you get to the end and jump left toward the bridge making sure to dodge the invisible barrier on bridge and you should be able to land on bridge and on the west island side. I tried both of these methods, and they both work excellent. Hope this helps.

[Justin]

Fuzzy Juzzy, so you are saying that your west island method was the same as Demarest's?

The same one Dem depicted in his reply in this topic, yes. Not the same as his Ultimate Start to VC.

[Demarest]

I've seen the video for the wall, but I find the Packer to be more reliable and therefore less frustrating.

 

The mission taxi seemed too good to be true, but I just tested it out and wow. Obviously works best if the job you took was for Mitch since he's very near a helicopter. Thanks for sharing. Honestly never heard that one before. Yours?

 

And the movie studio one wasn't mine. I published it visually, but I had read of it elsewhere.

[Ring_of_Fire]

Holy Crap!

 

Another way to the West Island.

 

 

Get a bike, preferably the PCJ-600 because you can lift it easily. Near to the big gate that leads to Starfish Island, there are two (2) small gates. Position your bike to the right one so that you can go directly into the parabola-looking slot, and then lean your bike up against the gate to do a loop around the parabola so that your body goes slightly through it, and then press Enter or Triangle when your wheels are at the vertex of the parabola! Tommy will be warped near to his Mansion. All you have to do now is to do the same "warping/teleporting" trick to the other big gate, but to the leftmost small gate (you now need to make another bike spawn first -> just keep driving around or stand in one place and look in different directions).

Pics coming soon:

 

 

1. After messing up. Notice how I went through the gate barrier a bit. You should look at the weird textures inside as well.

 

2. Committed suicide.

 

3. Success at last!

Depending on how properly you did it, you will do 1 of 3 things: Get off the bike without teleporting, get stuck inside the gate, or fall off the bike.

 

 

 

This is what I was talking about when a police boat spawns after you get only 2 Wanted Level stars. You need to be at the right time and the right place. If no police boat spawns just go back on the road, and then circle around to the same area. I think it seems as narrow seas are the best way to make a police boat spawn to where you want it...

 

 

Ways to get back on East Island

Glenster made me interested in this... there are several

• VCN Maverick news chopper on top of the VCN (Downtown) building.
• Police Maverick chopper on top of the Downtown Police department building.
• Commit suicide or get busted.
• "Drive on water" cheatcode.
• Boatyard coast guard boat in Viceport.

Note: Its useful to go buy Skumole Shack in the West Island since it's cheap for hidden package and unique jump collecting. Make sure you get a few property/safehouses in the East Island as well like the one in Ocean View hotel or one of the cheaper apartment complexes. Edited April 30, 2007 by Ring_of_Fire

[glenster]

Thanks to radioman and Ring_of_Fire (police boat), and Demarest's advice, for a few ways I didn't know before. At gamefaqs, Rusk's walk-through at II.16 has a way to do the Packer jump from the movie studio with a Cabbie jump, too (I haven't tried it; I like cycles).

 

PS: I tried the Pier 1 method again. The easiest place for me was just N of the S thick vertical

bar.

Edited May 4, 2007 by glenster

[Ring_of_Fire]

West Island video:

 

 

BTW, the original file was 1.71GBs (.avi) with perfect video quality. I compressed it to a [.wmv] 16MB file for 512 Kbps bitrate connections, and now the quality looks bad. I going to upload a 50MB file this time!

Edited May 16, 2007 by Ring_of_Fire

[Mars_Ryder]

i knew it a while ago.so i have more ideas for this glitch.u could modify data/handing.cfg and u will gonna west island.or u could modify weapons and get jetpack for that place

 

and u can use grav mod

[Ring_of_Fire]

 

i knew it a while ago.so i have more ideas for this glitch.u could modify  data/handing.cfg and u will gonna west island.or u could modify weapons and get jetpack for that place.

Cool... I am going to have to test this one out first. Might put it on the list!

[Demarest]

You understood what he said? Unless you make a car's buoyancy -1 and know of a place to drive off near the west island, handling won't help. And the game's weapons doesn't have a jetpack. That and the broken English and all I get from that post is use a trainer. Which I'm sure people already thought of.

[glenster]

I think Ring_of_Fire is going for the gimmick hall of fame. And a cycle trick, too. Cool.

[WillzyyyGTA]

Nice one mate. You can also try

- quite good.

[Ring_of_Fire]

...but had been posted on the list already by WILLY. A good video though for how it's to be done; much more efficient than the Packer trick.