How to make cops have different weapons

[Gta Guy 108]

I have been wondering how I could make the cops spawn .357's and have the gangs still have the colt, is there a way to do this? I thought it would be more of a challenge, and it would be more realistic, because the 70's and mid to late 80's police carried .357's. If someone can help me out, thanks.

[Ryder 556]

I think it's like in SA were the cop guns are hard coded in the EXE file. But if the weapon.dat is the same there should be two pistol files. One for the player and the other for the cops. You could just change it so it's the same as the .357's. Other then that i don't think it's possible.

[DexX]

It's hardcoded, but you can change it if you know which memory addresses to change. Fortunately, it was discovered long ago..

 

Jernej's Developer Console (trainer) also allows the alteration of police weapons in VC, if i remember correctly.

[Gta Guy 108]

Thanks for the python mod, but is there any way I could have it for the police to ALWAYS have pythons? I have to use a no cd crack for Vice City because of my laptop, I don't know if it would affect it or not, but again, thanks a lot.

[DexX]

The memory addresses are taken from a non-cracked exe, but if the python mod works on your cracked exe, then you're good to go. If you know anything about coding, you could create a win32 dll file that would automatically change the memory addresses for the police weapons, then rename the dll file to .asi so the game automatically loads it. That's about as close as you can come to a permanent, non-trainer solution.