Grand Theft Auto Vice City Extended Features

[Dimitry Rascalov]

I hope you add the russian mob to Vice City :D! Keep up the good work :), it would be a nice addition brought over from San Andreas.

[purplesteve5]

My windows defender keeps quarantining the file, flagging the detected threat:

Win32/wacapew.C!ml

 

Are you using PyInstaller to create the EXE installer file?

Apparently others have had this issue using PyInstaller to create exe files.

The most recent instance I can find is from Feb 2024 on stackoverflow.

 

Has anyone else run into this issue?

[bibidibabidibu]

1 hour ago, purplesteve5 said:

My windows defender keeps quarantining the file, flagging the detected threat:

Win32/wacapew.C!ml

 

Are you using PyInstaller to create the EXE installer file?

Apparently others have had this issue using PyInstaller to create exe files.

The most recent instance I can find is from Feb 2024 on stackoverflow.

 

Has anyone else run into this issue?

Hi my friend,

in extended features I used,

Maxos vehicle loader, mvl mod contains libraries that allow modding directly with python code.

There are some asi files that can cause false positive because listens mouse movements to set camera angle like Classic axis mod.

I created GTALauncher.exe to make manual garbage collection and exception handling for gta-vc.exe if it is active and runs. 
 

so these kind of things can cause false positive in Windows defender. But to trust is up to you. This mod downloaded more than 50K times from moddb  

Edited February 12 by bibidibabidibu

[bibidibabidibu]

On 1/30/2025 at 12:57 PM, Japorine said:

Hello dear mod creator, I love your EF mod but nowadays I can't play it because of an issue which is making impossible to enter the game. When I'm starting a new game it's great, I can play with no issues but then when I save the game and get out, I can't access anymore. Screen is staying in the enterence picture and that's it, then crash of course. in the other mod forum I saw someone asked this but I didn't get what to do in your reply. Can you explain it one more again? Otherwise I won't play Vice City again.

please install these two my friend
https://kutt.it/vcppredist
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

 

On 2/2/2025 at 1:27 PM, conah21 said:

When I hire bodyguards and enter a business, they stop following me. I wonder why?

can be a bug my friend I will test.

 

On 2/3/2025 at 12:55 AM, Barade said:

This is a great mod! I was blown away by the amount of new stuff like vehicles, map design, missions etc.

All the new interiors are so amazing.

Swimming and flying air planes is really great.

 

Some feedback:

- Game crashes after completing the VC News mission. Tommy was moved in front of the building, I saw Mission completed with 1000 $ and then it crashed.

- Game crashes after staring a Loan Shark mission.

- Game crashes often when buying a property and a cut scene starts.

- I cannot skip Mercedes' calls with the F key, nor use the tab key to recruit gang members or use my phone holding the key 3 seconds or skip Gang Wars which is really annoying. Do you know how to fix this?

- Taking over a Gang spot where you have to fight all spawning gang members coming out of the house takes too long. It seems a bit hard. I killed like 10 or 15 waves already and it did not end. It worked using a sniper or minigun though.

- The medkit model does not really fit VC. I prefer the old model or something else.

- Can I do more interesting stuff with Mercedes (really important)?

- I haven't checked it yet but I would really love to buy the Country Club as a property which generates money as well as the VC News.

- Some device like the mobile phone would be nice to allow saving anywhere on the map and to repeat any mission later in game including its video and reward.

- Becoming a woman since we live in 2025 now It would be fun to change the appearance completely not only the clothing.

- I have noticed that the cars do not burn automatically when turned upside down. Is there a way to turn them around?

- When I am thrown off a motor bike, Tommy could stand up much faster which is always annoying in the original game.

- I would love to travel to Liberty City or even San Andreas from the airport. It would be enough to have a small level like an interior or something which you can travel to.

- Allow selecting a specific color when entering a Pay & Spray.

- Allow tie up NPCs with some item and maybe carrying them.

- Let the player buy some package detector item for a lot of money.

- Ambulance missions with the Air Ambulance heli.

- Add a fire department heli which can drop water and be used for the fire department missions.

- Taxi heli for taxi missions on Kaufman's Taxis maybe after completing all missions.

 

I am playing V0.9.8.5 AUTOINSTALLER with GTA Vice City in Steam.

I have started the game with the Extended Features Launcher and turned of all 3D settings.

- Game crashes after completing the VC News mission. Tommy was moved in front of the building, I saw Mission completed with 1000 $ and then it crashed.

- Game crashes after staring a Loan Shark mission.

- Game crashes often when buying a property and a cut scene starts.

these crashes in previous versions that exists you can try to set 30 fps from GTALauncher.exe my friend can help.

 

 

- I cannot skip Mercedes' calls with the F key, nor use the tab key to recruit gang members or use my phone holding the key 3 seconds or skip Gang Wars which is really annoying. Do you know how to fix this?

I try to support gamepad so I am out of solution. there is some more gamepad buttons needed. but I will consider maybe I can set some keyboard buttons

 

- Taking over a Gang spot where you have to fight all spawning gang members coming out of the house takes too long. It seems a bit hard. I killed like 10 or 15 waves already and it did not end. It worked using a sniper or minigun though.

for big buildings there are 16 waves and for small ones there are 8

 

- The medkit model does not really fit VC. I prefer the old model or something else.

for next version health pickup will be reverted

 

- Can I do more interesting stuff with Mercedes (really important)?

Mercedes feature can be disabled from GTALauncher.exe settings form.

 

- Some device like the mobile phone would be nice to allow saving anywhere on the map and to repeat any mission later in game including its video and reward.

That feature is kinda risky because of newly added stuff. but have it in my todo list.

 

- Becoming a woman since we live in 2025 now It would be fun to change the appearance completely not only the clothing.

not matching with aim of the project so wont make smt like that.

 

- I have noticed that the cars do not burn automatically when turned upside down. Is there a way to turn them around?

no they stay like real life.

 

- When I am thrown off a motor bike, Tommy could stand up much faster which is always annoying in the original game.

I used VCS animations so yes some animations can be a bit slower I will think about it but not on top level of the todo list.

 

- I would love to travel to Liberty City or even San Andreas from the airport. It would be enough to have a small level like an interior or something which you can travel to.

I have some plans to fly Cuba but dont know when I can implement. Time is very valuable gem nowadays.

 

- Allow selecting a specific color when entering a Pay & Spray.

there is modification garage near the gun shop in first island. You can attach nitro in there. for future plans I want to add color selection painting feature in there. but dont know when  

 

 

for ideas below, can be cool but due to lack of time probably I cannot make  

- Allow tie up NPCs with some item and maybe carrying them.

 

- Let the player buy some package detector item for a lot of money.

 

- Ambulance missions with the Air Ambulance heli.

 

- Add a fire department heli which can drop water and be used for the fire department missions.

 

- Taxi heli for taxi missions on Kaufman's Taxis maybe after completing all missions.

 

On 2/9/2025 at 2:46 PM, TonyBonyMonyHony said:

When will version v0.9.9 be released? Will new missions be added?

it is ready but because of some health problems I couldnt finish its test phase. if I can find power I will finish its tests and release.

 

12 hours ago, Dimitry Rascalov said:

I hope you add the russian mob to Vice City :D! Keep up the good work :), it would be a nice addition brought over from San Andreas.

many thanks for your kind feedback bro. I have already readded cholos and trailer park mafia but not sure about Russians. I need to check 80s timeline at first are there an active Russian mafia in Miami then maybe can think on that.

 

6 hours ago, Scarface! said:

That sounds amazing! An extension mod that enhances the Vice City experience without disrupting the vanilla gameplay is a dream come true. I'm excited to learn more about the new features you've added. What kind of additions can we expect? New missions, characters, vehicles, or something entirely different?

for v0.9.9 there will be only additional 3 islands with traffic and pedestrian spawn mechanism. for v1.0 I will add missions and activities on these newly added places my friend  

Edited February 12 by bibidibabidibu

[Backyard Brawler]

2 hours ago, bibidibabidibu said:

please install these two my friend
https://kutt.it/vcppredist
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

 

can be a bug my friend I will test.

 

- Game crashes after completing the VC News mission. Tommy was moved in front of the building, I saw Mission completed with 1000 $ and then it crashed.

- Game crashes after staring a Loan Shark mission.

- Game crashes often when buying a property and a cut scene starts.

these crashes in previous versions that exists you can try to set 30 fps from GTALauncher.exe my friend can help.

 

 

- I cannot skip Mercedes' calls with the F key, nor use the tab key to recruit gang members or use my phone holding the key 3 seconds or skip Gang Wars which is really annoying. Do you know how to fix this?

I try to support gamepad so I am out of solution. there is some more gamepad buttons needed. but I will consider maybe I can set some keyboard buttons

 

- Taking over a Gang spot where you have to fight all spawning gang members coming out of the house takes too long. It seems a bit hard. I killed like 10 or 15 waves already and it did not end. It worked using a sniper or minigun though.

for big buildings there are 16 waves and for small ones there are 8

 

- The medkit model does not really fit VC. I prefer the old model or something else.

for next version health pickup will be reverted

 

- Can I do more interesting stuff with Mercedes (really important)?

Mercedes feature can be disabled from GTALauncher.exe settings form.

 

- Some device like the mobile phone would be nice to allow saving anywhere on the map and to repeat any mission later in game including its video and reward.

That feature is kinda risky because of newly added stuff. but have it in my todo list.

 

- Becoming a woman since we live in 2025 now It would be fun to change the appearance completely not only the clothing.

not matching with aim of the project so wont make smt like that.

 

- I have noticed that the cars do not burn automatically when turned upside down. Is there a way to turn them around?

no they stay like real life.

 

- When I am thrown off a motor bike, Tommy could stand up much faster which is always annoying in the original game.

I used VCS animations so yes some animations can be a bit slower I will think about it but not on top level of the todo list.

 

- I would love to travel to Liberty City or even San Andreas from the airport. It would be enough to have a small level like an interior or something which you can travel to.

I have some plans to fly Cuba but dont know when I can implement. Time is very valuable gem nowadays.

 

- Allow selecting a specific color when entering a Pay & Spray.

there is modification garage near the gun shop in first island. You can attach nitro in there. for future plans I want to add color selection painting feature in there. but dont know when  

 

 

for ideas below, can be cool but due to lack of time probably I cannot make  

- Allow tie up NPCs with some item and maybe carrying them.

 

- Let the player buy some package detector item for a lot of money.

 

- Ambulance missions with the Air Ambulance heli.

 

- Add a fire department heli which can drop water and be used for the fire department missions.

 

- Taxi heli for taxi missions on Kaufman's Taxis maybe after completing all missions.

 

it is ready but because of some health problems I couldnt finish its test phase. if I can find power I will finish its tests and release.

 

many thanks for your kind feedback bro. I have already readded cholos and trailer park mafia but not sure about Russians. I need to check 80s timeline at first are there an active Russian mafia in Miami then maybe can think on that.

 

for v0.9.9 there will be only additional 3 islands with traffic and pedestrian spawn mechanism. for v1.0 I will add missions and activities on these newly added places my friend  

I need a help here, for some reasons. The fares in the taxi side mission rarely spawned in this mod, is this a bug or something else?

[bibidibabidibu]

4 minutes ago, Backyard Brawler said:

I need a help here, for some reasons. The fares in the taxi side mission rarely spawned in this mod, is this a bug or something else?

hi my friend that can be related with bonghittraffic. open installation folder and under scripts folder you will see BongHitTraffic.asi, backup and remove it and try the taxi mission again. after passing that mission put the file back  

Edited February 12 by bibidibabidibu

[Dimitry Rascalov]

2 hours ago, bibidibabidibu said:

many thanks for your kind feedback bro. I have already readded cholos and trailer park mafia but not sure about Russians. I need to check 80s timeline at first are there an active Russian mafia in Miami then maybe can think on that.

 

Well according to my quick search this is the result; The Russian mafia in America refers to organized crime groups that have roots in Russia and other post-Soviet states, which have been involved in various criminal activities such as drug trafficking, extortion, and money laundering since the late 1980s. These groups often collaborate with other organized crime syndicates, including the Italian-American mafia, and have established networks across multiple U.S. cities.

 

So by a reality standpoint they were here during the 80s doing their criminal activities. However according to the search, they weren't really heavily documented for a long time even though a large portion of them immigrated here after WW2. So it's likely they were around prior to that as well. The game lore however doesn't really state when they came around.

[bibidibabidibu]

Hello everyone,
Vice City Extended Features v0.9.9 has been released,
DOWNLOAD
with v0.9.9,

now map looks like this

* cleo script improvements and crash fixes.

* Brooks town now available (many many many thanks to pumaZZ)

* Shady Acres now available (many many many thanks to SoV team for their permission and great work)

* Guncay Island now available (many many many thanks to Kov)

* Vehicle traffic and ped paths are added for all newly added islands

* In Guncay Island there is one secret interior

* Road between Sunshine Autos and Airport is added from VCS

* Texture and model fixes for Everglades and Oleta River

 

 

IMPORTANT!!!!! Mod requires fresh vice city installation. After you have fresh vice city installation just install extended feature v0.9.9 on it via its installer.

 

IMPORTANT!!!!! OLDER SAVES EXCEPT "v0.9.6 AND ABOVE" ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THIS VERSION PLEASE START NEW GAME OR USE ONE OF THE SHARED SAVES FILES.

 

Screenshots 

Spoiler

 

Edited February 16 by bibidibabidibu

[AraturkCJ]

I want to try this mod but is there any way to just copy paste the mod into my vanilla game without using the installer?

[bibidibabidibu]

54 minutes ago, AraturkCJ said:

I want to try this mod but is there any way to just copy paste the mod into my vanilla game without using the installer?

if you have Winrar in your pc just right click on the installer file and click Open with Winrar then you will see whole installer archive. you can select and paste them into your game directory.

[CXS]

Wow man you have really expanded Vice City map into an outstanding place with additional mix flora & fauna. Along with free roaming the whole map in both old & new vehicles, one can do custom missions you have added for an enhanced lovely gameplay experience eliminating monotonous vanilla Vice City experience which it would become for anyone who has played it for a couple of times.

 

Thanks for such great work. 

[Jena Cohn]

Can u add lance vance without kill and become good to betray sonny as optional on final mission of gta extended feature ? Cuz lance vance was good on vcs. If player dont kill lance vance can make lance vance/victor vance house unlock on final mission,and player can call lance vance as bodyguard.

 

Edit:u can kill or keep lance vance on timer of last mission .

Edited February 26 by Jena Cohn

[Dimitry Rascalov]

5 hours ago, Jena Cohn said:

Can u add lance vance without kill and become good to betray sonny as optional on final mission of gta extended feature ? Cuz lance vance was good on vcs. If player dont kill lance vance can make lance vance/victor vance house unlock on final mission,and player can call lance vance as bodyguard.

 

Edit:u can kill or keep lance vance on timer of last mission .

That kind of contradicts the main story lol, Lance is looking to take over Tommy's empire XD

[AffanDede]

Tremendous work, thanks! Is the Empire Building available as a standalone mod? Couldn't find it anywhere. Amazing if you cooked it yourself.

[RModder]

On 2/16/2025 at 2:46 PM, bibidibabidibu said:

Hello everyone,
Vice City Extended Features v0.9.9 has been released,
DOWNLOAD
with v0.9.9,

now map looks like this

* cleo script improvements and crash fixes.

* Brooks town now available (many many many thanks to pumaZZ)

* Shady Acres now available (many many many thanks to SoV team for their permission and great work)

* Guncay Island now available (many many many thanks to Kov)

* Vehicle traffic and ped paths are added for all newly added islands

* In Guncay Island there is one secret interior

* Road between Sunshine Autos and Airport is added from VCS

* Texture and model fixes for Everglades and Oleta River

 

 

IMPORTANT!!!!! Mod requires fresh vice city installation. After you have fresh vice city installation just install extended feature v0.9.9 on it via its installer.

 

IMPORTANT!!!!! OLDER SAVES EXCEPT "v0.9.6 AND ABOVE" ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THIS VERSION PLEASE START NEW GAME OR USE ONE OF THE SHARED SAVES FILES.

 

Screenshots 

  Hide contents

 

omg, its look very nice! Good job man, wish you luck with your project

[bibidibabidibu]

On 2/26/2025 at 3:31 PM, Jena Cohn said:

Can u add lance vance without kill and become good to betray sonny as optional on final mission of gta extended feature ? Cuz lance vance was good on vcs. If player dont kill lance vance can make lance vance/victor vance house unlock on final mission,and player can call lance vance as bodyguard.

 

Edit:u can kill or keep lance vance on timer of last mission .

Hi my friend, sorry but I'm not making any additions that would disrupt the main story. Even the canceled "Dating with Mercedes" in original game feature is optional. It can be enabled or disabled from the Settings section of the GTALauncher application.

 

 

 

On 2/23/2025 at 6:19 PM, CXS said:

Wow man you have really expanded Vice City map into an outstanding place with additional mix flora & fauna. Along with free roaming the whole map in both old & new vehicles, one can do custom missions you have added for an enhanced lovely gameplay experience eliminating monotonous vanilla Vice City experience which it would become for anyone who has played it for a couple of times.

 

Thanks for such great work. 

many thanks fro these great visuals my friend I will include them in moddb screenshots section with your nickname  

 

On 2/26/2025 at 8:59 PM, Dimitry Rascalov said:

That kind of contradicts the main story lol, Lance is looking to take over Tommy's empire XD

exactly

 

On 2/28/2025 at 4:23 PM, AffanDede said:

Tremendous work, thanks! Is the Empire Building available as a standalone mod? Couldn't find it anywhere. Amazing if you cooked it yourself.

I made it speacial for Extended Features my friend so there is no standalone version  

 

16 hours ago, RModder said:

omg, its look very nice! Good job man, wish you luck with your project

It's amazing to get such feedback from someone at an expert level in modding. Thank you so much, my friend!

[KLxueyuan]

The game crashed when I snatched the tractor.

Edited March 3 by KLxueyuan

[Tommy Bowington]

Dear develloper bibidibabidibu,

 

This mod is quietely non-responsive out of the box especially in the language and controls settings ( Many have hard time to get to the pause menu !!! ). I have also a misaligned radar map for some reason when testing.

But in fact this mod pack does not suit me as it is : Some features interest me and others don't.

I have in fact made my own personal remaster of my original game by merging multiple mods here and there to my own taste, what I like is vanilla HD ++ without altering too much core animation or graphic aspects, all I want is buffed out rendering and more in depth vanilla features. So I can still tell this is the Vice City I know since 2002 but restored.

 

So my question is do you plan to release standalones for each features of your modpack ? So everyone could pick up what they are interested in !

 

Thank you,

[bibidibabidibu]

1 hour ago, Tommy Bowington said:

Dear develloper bibidibabidibu,

 

This mod is quietely non-responsive out of the box especially in the language and controls settings ( Many have hard time to get to the pause menu !!! ). I have also a misaligned radar map for some reason when testing.

But in fact this mod pack does not suit me as it is : Some features interest me and others don't.

I have in fact made my own personal remaster of my original game by merging multiple mods here and there to my own taste, what I like is vanilla HD ++ without altering too much core animation or graphic aspects, all I want is buffed out rendering and more in depth vanilla features. So I can still tell this is the Vice City I know since 2002 but restored.

 

So my question is do you plan to release standalones for each features of your modpack ? So everyone could pick up what they are interested in !

 

Thank you,

Hi Tommy,
I don't have any plan to separate features. I don't have any time for that. if you want to disable autoload feature,  just remove III.VC.SA.Saveloader.asi from scripts folder in your game directory. to see full size radar in game just press and hold M.

 

3 hours ago, KLxueyuan said:

The game crashed when I snatched the tractor.

hi, never faced with that problem is it always happening? if yes did you add or remove any external mod?

[Tommy Bowington]

1 minute ago, bibidibabidibu said:

Hi Tommy,
I don't have any plan to separate features. I don't have any time for that. if you want to disable autoload feature,  just remove III.VC.SA.Saveloader.asi from scripts folder in your game directory. to see full size radar in game just press and hold M.

 

 Hi !

 

Or maybe could you release a list of all dependencies for each of your mods featured in this pack to help people for " stripping out " any features and implement them solely in their own copy ? Thanks.

[bibidibabidibu]

Just now, Tommy Bowington said:

 Hi !

 

Or maybe could you release a list of all dependencies for each of your mods featured in this pack to help people for " stripping out " any features and implement them solely in their own copy ? Thanks.

Honestly, this is not my problem. sorry, I don't have time to make such a list.

[Tommy Bowington]

35 minutes ago, bibidibabidibu said:

Honestly, this is not my problem. sorry, I don't have time to make such a list.

 

Too bad, thank you

[ninjasplitz]

On 3/3/2025 at 3:35 PM, Tommy Bowington said:

 

Too bad, thank you

i will look into creating a more user friendly way to do this