Channel update - February 2018 [Next video, Analysing GTA SA files, Exclusive finds] (Patreon)

Greetings! As always, here is an update for you.

~I wasted this month analyzing SA files

Starting from the first quarter of the month I was mainly looking through GTA SA files to find something unique and I did it.

But before going deep, here is a brief story. 

The game has "american.gxt" file which stores all in-game strings. Every single string has a tag. For instance, here is a random string:

BCE4@07 ~z~Hey, CJ, look...

"BCE4@07" is a tag and " ~z~Hey, CJ, look... " is a text linked with this tag.

If the string is used, for instance, in the mission scripts, it will have "BCE4@07" tag listed somewhere in the files.

That's right, if the string is not used, you won't find its tag in the files.

So.. I had an idea to extract all strings from american.gxt and search every single tag in the files and see if it is used.

Sounds hard? Yeah... But... I found a dude, who made me a simple tool, which scans extracted american.gxt and searches its tags in the game files. If the tool sees that the tag is unused, it copies this line in another file.

The results are insane! Just think about it, american.gxt stores 16588 strings and..... 3805 or 23% of them are unused!

But that's not the end. A lot of unused strings are related to in-game missions.

What you see here is an example of my work. I used yellow colour to highlight unused text by comparing original american.gxt with its counterpart made by tool. What is more interesting, a lot of unused strings have voice lines!

I don't want to spoil these find, but here are some of them

In Reuniting the Family shortly after this moment

CJ, Smoke and Ryder would say this

I guess, it was cut, because there is no time to say this, because they bail out from car. Fan fact, these lines are voice.

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There are tons of unused lines in Nines and AK's, which were meant to be used during the pistol scene. 

If you were bad during this scene, Smoke and Emmet would taunt us. If you were good, they would be amazed. If you shoot Emmet or Smoke, they would say extra funny lines.  Yet again, these lines are fully voiced. 

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A few missions have lines indicating that if CJ died, his teammates would ask him if he was bluffing or not. Voiced.

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Looks like the developers wanted to make a lot of variations for "Yes" or "No" sequences. For instance, here is Life's a Beach mission. Some of these strings are used, but CJ's answers not.

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What I like the most are these small details. In the first seconds of "Ryder" cutscene, CJ would whisper extra lines about Ryder.

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In Burning Desire, Vagos would identify Carl as Grove Street gang member.

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At the end of Green Sabre mission, Sweet would say this

These are strong quotes, honestly. Not sure why they were cut. Voiced.

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As you can see, there are tons of interesting stuff left and I am not finished yet. Who knows, maybe I will make mini series showing these facts. I should really think about it. 

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The future video

I finally decided what I want to make next. It will be "3 amazing cut features from GTA San Andreas", the script is almost finished and I hope, I will be able to say more about it in the near future.

The script will voice "MrMario2008". If I recall correctly I said a few words about hi a few posts ago.

That's all for now.  I will continue to look through these files, because it will give me a huge chunk of information for the future videos. 

Cheers!