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|  _ --------o-------\                       Big Smoke                       |
\_/      (00011)     \------------------------------------------------------o

After a couple of scenes in this mission you'll find yourself forced to flee
on bicycle.  There's some gang members in a car chasing you.  Your goal is
simply to follow the lead biker with the marker over his head, but your safety
comes first so if the car is approaching speed up or slow down to avoid
becoming a drive-by victim.  Eventually they split up and you have a new
person to follow.  Remember that just because you lose sight of them it
doesn't mean you've lost track of them, the blue icon always remains on your
radar so follow that and make your way back to your house.  Get on the red
marker to end the mission and get some respect.  Now you can go into your
house to save your game, as well as use your garage to store a car which will
remain there even when you turn off the game.  To start the next mission first
go into your house and save the game using the diskette icon.  Now as you
leave the house you'll get a phone call.  Answer it by pressing the L1 button,
now head next door and step on the marker to trigger the next mission.

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|  _ --------o-------\                         Ryder                         |
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Get into Ryder's car and head to the yellow icon.  This is the barber shop,
you can get your hair done how you like it (or more appropriately, how you can
afford it) here.  You can select any hairstyle to preview it and then, press
the X button again to confirm it.  Following this head into the pizza shop to
get yourself a nice meal.  When you exit you need to get into the car quickly
to avoid being shot.  Now drive back to Ryder's house and stop on the red icon
to get some more respect.  Your next mission is found two doors down.


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|                              Sweet's Missions                      (00020) |
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|  _ --------o-------\                   Tagging up Turf                     |
\_/      (00021)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Get into the car and a yellow icon will appear on the map.  Drive there and
get out of your car.  You'll have to do some tagging of your own here.  Each
tag is marked on your map as a dark green square.  There's one on the house
behind you and another o nthe wall of the alley nearby.  The tags primarily
serve as the game's equivalent of hidden packages.  Get all of them for a
reward.  Return to Sweet's car and drive to the next marker.  There are a
couple of tags here.  Get the first one on the wall and then go down the alley
toward the marker.  A couple of gang members are here, run up to them and
distract them with a little paint to the face and then tag the nearby wall. 
Now make your way to the marker and hop over the two fences.  You need to get
up onto the building and tag the wall on your right.  Now jump down and hop
into Sweet's car.  Now just get back to your neighborhood, no problem.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Cleaning the Hood                   |
\_/      (00022)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Hop into a car and Ryder will get in with you.  When you get to the red marker
watch the scene then go across the street and beat up the guy located at the
red marker.  Ryder will follow you and help, but all you really need to do is
target him with R1 and just attack with circle, he won't even have a chance to
retaliate.  Pick up the baseball bat after the job is done and get to the red
marker.  Enter the house and use your bat to start beating up all the guys in
here.  Now all you have to do is hop in a car and drive back to your house.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Drive-Thru                       |
\_/      (00023)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Start the mission by getting into the car and driving to the restaurant marked
on your map.  Something comes up and your new mission becaomes capping those
guys before they cap your homies.  Start driving after them, keeping up as
much as possible so that the people in your car climb out the window and start
to fire.  Don't worry about trying to smash the car, damage done from the guns
is more than enough to take them out.  Once the car catches on fire the gang
members hop out, this becomes an easy task.  Stay in your car and simply run
them down, the only thing you have to avoid is their car because once it's
been on fire for more than a few seconds it'll explode.  When the gang members
are dead drive back to the house, and then take Sweet home from there.  After
this mission and answering your cell phone you can access the gym, working out
allows you to build up some muscle and tone up your body.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Nines and AKs                      |
\_/      (00024)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Your first task is to get into the car and drive to Emmet's house.  When you
arrive a scene occurs and you have to complete a little tutorial.  It's quite
easy, now that you're equipped with a gun you can target objects using the R1
button and then fire with the circle button, it pretty much guarantees a hit. 
For the next part you can press R2 while holding R1 to cycle between targets. 
Also note that if you want, you can move the right analog stick to fire
manually (though there will be a tutorial for this in just a moment.) 
Pressthe L3 button to crouch and fire for better accuracy.  Now for the final
test use the right analog stick and aim your gun at the gas tank of the car,
it's located right above the rear wheel.  Get into your car and drive Sweet
home, but that's still not the end of the mission.  Before it's over you've
got to get yourself some new threads.  Drive over to the local Binco, marked
on your map as always, and step inside.  Remember that anything you buy here
can be accessed later at your house, so don't hesitate to pick up more than
one outfit.  Simply leaving the store triggers the end of the mission.

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|  _ --------o-------\                       Drive-By                        |
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Hop into the car and drive to the red marker.  All you have to do is drive
here, the guys in the back will be the ones doing the shooting.  As the game
mentions looking left and right with the L2 and R2 buttons can be quite
beneficial.  Just because they're the ones with the gun however doesn't mean
there's nothing for you to do, why not start running them down with your car
to speed things up?  Drive from gang group to gang group, each one is marked
separately on your map.  The last group can be found down in the park area,
once you've taken care of them you'll have a two star wanted level.  This
means the cops will be after you, and they're mad enough not to give up no
matter where you hide.  This means of course you need to find some way to get
rid of the tail, do this by getting your car painted.  The paint shop is the
spray can on your map, located due South from here.  It doesn't matter how
close the cops are when you drive in, doing so will make them forget all about
you.  Now you've got two flashing stars, this means that if you do absolutely
anything wrong for the next couple minutes or so, both stars will come back
and you'll have to get the car sprayed again.  Avoid this by driving carefully
back to your home turf for a nice five-hundred dollar reward.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Sweet's Girl                     |
\_/      (00026)     \------------------------------------------------------o

If you've got a car in your garage then now's the time to pull it out, you
have to get to Sweet and save his ass as fast as you possibly can, his health
meter is viewable at the upper right corner, if it drains then that's game
over.  Find a car and gun it to the location of the red triangle on your map. 
You can get out of your car and shoot them down if you want but it's far
easier and elss dangerous simply to run them over.  If your car sets on fire
try to position it near a bunch of them and bail out so your car becomes a
fiery explosive weapon of death.  Once they're taken care of Sweet and his
girl hop in the car, but you'll have to be careful a the gang members are
following you all the way back.  Don't bother trying to take them out just get
back home and park on the red marker to end the mission and gain more respect.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Cesar Vialpando                    |
\_/      (00027)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Snag yourself a set of wheels and get to the marker on the map.  You'll need
to get yourself a car that bounces, and that's just what you're going to get. 
You can control the hydraulics with the right analog stick.  Drive the car
into the garage and you can customize it the way you want.  When you're nice
and happy with it, drive the thing out and get to the lowerider meeting. 
After the scene you have to participate in a little minigame.  Bet something
and make yourself some money.  Using the right analog stick you need to bounce
your hydraulics in time with the music in order to complete the mission.  Some
people have a lot of trouble with this kind of thing, obviously trying to
explain that it's easy isn't going to help anyone.  All I can tell you is to
keep an eye on what you're doing, don't focus on the rating at the top, you
don't have to be anywhere near perfect to complete this.  When the little
arrow moves through the circle press that particular direction right about
when it's in the middle and you're home free.  It's all you need to do to end
the mission.  Now you can do some racing and take part in Cesar's missions. 

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|  _ --------o-------\                       Doberman                        |
\_/      (00028)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This mission begins at the local Ammunation which is marked by the large S on
the map.  It seems your job is to take out some opposing gang members, and
what better place to begin that task than at a gun shop.  Pick yourself up
some weaponry and drive to the green icon and purple grid on the map.  Get out
of the car and equip your new firearm.  Run around in this area and start
shooting Ballas (guys with dark jackets and red/white headbands, or the guys
in the purple jackets.)  When you've killed three it provokes a gang war and
you have to defend yourself by any means necessary.  There's three main waves
of attacks, the first of gang members with baseball bats, the second with
handguns and the third with submachine guns.  They all appear on your map so
you should be able to locate and defeat them easily.  Use the walls and
terrain to your advantage, and also make sure you pick up the health items and
body armour as those submachine guns can really hurt.  After killing all of
them the turf is yours and the leader is flushed out, simply shoot him down to
end the mission and gain more respect.  Coloured territories now appear on
your map, note that you can turn them off in the map menu by holding R1.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     Los Sepulcros                     |
\_/      (00029)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Start by recruiting some gang members for this mission, to do that hold the R1
button (not with a gun equipped) and target some of your buddies, press either
up or down on the D-pad.  When you get into the car they'll get in along with
you.  Quickly drive to the destination marker before the time runs out, the
game gives you more than you need.  Jump over the wall and approach sweet. 
You can give commands to the gang by tapping either up or down o nthe D-pad,
holding either of these will disband the gang completely.  Now run into the
cemetery with guns blazing, be careful of Ballas equipped with body armour. 
Killing enough of them nets you a couple of stars cop wanted level, and puts a
blue dot on your radar showing the car you need to get into.  Drive Sweet and
whatever gang members you have back to the home to finish the mission.

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|  _ --------o-------\                Reuniting the Families                 |
\_/      (0002A)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Take the gang car with all your buddies and drive it to the motel.  Right
after the scene you're throwing into a rather dangerous situation, there are
S.W.A.T. teams all over the place, don't try and do anything here quickly run
through the door beside you with the yellow arrow.  Kill the first couple of
guys you see in here and pay special attention to the vending machine, for a
mere $1 you can replenish half your health as often as you like.  Start making
your way down the hall using your Shotgun to take out all the cops in your
way.  Each time you come to a corner be sure to be careful of guys hiding
behind objects and even coming down from the roof.  If you need to be able to
move while firing then the submachine gun is your weapon of choice.  Never
ever hesitate to go back and replenish your health again, it's always better
to be safe than sorry.  When you get far enough into the motel you'll find
Sweet in one of the rooms.  Af you're trying to escape a helicopter appears
and attacks, you should be able to take care of it with little effort, simply
equip the SMG and fire upon the guys hanging off the side.  When they drop you
can safely knock the chopper out of the sky and follow sweet down the stairs.

At the bottom it's not over yet, you're picked up in the car and the police
begin to give chase.  You're hanging out of the car with an AK-47 in your
hands and its you job to destroy all the cop cars behind you.  This is
actually the most dangerous part of the mission, you can see your car health
on the right and the cop's guns deal quite a bit of damage.  Be sure to fire
non-step at the police cars behind you, don't bother focusing on the
helicopter unless there aren't any cars around.  When a cop car sets on fire
you don't have to worry about damage or anything, the explosion won't have any
effect on your car.  When the other cops start to attacks on bikes take them
out quickly or else they can hop onto your car and attack you directly, if
this happens simply take aim and knock them off.  Repeat this whole thing for
as long as you can, when the gun jams you know you're home free.  Enjoy the
scene that follows and the mission is over, giving you well earned respect.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    The Green Sabre                    |
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As this mission starts you get a phone call from someone telling you to meet
him, so take the car and drive to the yellow marker on the minimap.  When you
arrive step out of the car and get into the one waiting in the alley.  Watch
the scene and get ready to find yourself a vehicle.  You need to get to the
destination marker before the time limit runs out, time of course being
represented by Sweet's health.  When you arrive you'll find a war going on
with numerous Ballas, before stopping on the marker run over as many of them
as you can to save yourself some trouble later.  Once you've stopped on the
marker the real war begins.  Use whatever arsenal you've got to fight off the
Ballas, but it's not going to be so easy.  Many more start driving up in their
cars.  I find that one effective way to take them out with minimal risk to you
is to get in a car and drive up beside them, they'll shoot your vehicle enough
to set it on fire.  You'll have enough time to escape but they'll remain there
like idiots and be blown up in the process.  When all the Ballas are dead a
scene occurs and this marks the transition to the next area of town.  The
first mission in this section can be found in Tenpenny's section. 


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|                             Big Smoke's Missions                   (00030) |
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|  _ --------o-------\                        OG Loc                         |
\_/      (00031)     \------------------------------------------------------o

It's time to go and pick up OG Loc.  Get into the car and drive to the marker
on your map.  Now take him to the other marker and go up to the house and ring
the doorbell.  Look out, he's getting away!  Hop onto the motorcycle and chase
him down.  You'll have to navigate between alleys, roads, and highways.  He
tends to make some pretty sharp turns at the last second so try to keep up,
but avoiding just flying down the road at top speed.  When you fall off the
bike he'll give you a chance to get back on by stopping at a certain point,
but make sure you're quick.  It's very hard to avoid crashing while you're
constantly trying to look at your map so it might take a couple tries just for
you to get used to the route.  When you reach the end a bunch of gangsters
ambush you, jump off the bike then find cover.  Duck down with the L3 button
and fire whatever gun you have to clean them up.  Now all you have to do is
take OG to the dot on the map and the mission is complete.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Running Dog                      |
\_/      (00032)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Take Big Smoke's car and drive to the red marker.  After a scene it becomes
your job to take out this guy by any means necessary.  Lucky for you he's just
running around on foot, chase him down yourself (using a car doesn't work to
well since he has a habit of just hopping back alley fences) and when you
catch up just whip out the submachine gun and cap his ass.

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|  _ --------o-------\                Wrong Side of the Tracks               |
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This is what I would consider to be the first somewhat difficult mission in
the game, and while it isn't particuarly hard by any means, it definitely has
the potential to be frustration.  Drive Smoke's car to Unity Station for your
next set of instructions.  After the scene hop onto the dirt bike with Smoke. 
What you need to do is keep up with the train and take out the four guys on
top.  Now you have to not only adjust your speed so you stay right beside
them, but you also have to adjust your distance so that you aren't too close
to the train.  Being right beside the train the whole time will just lead Big
Smoke to hit the train itself with every shot, the best location is on the
right side of the train, and on the right side of the outer tracks.  As you
keep going you'll see a car in the distance, don't be too close to the front
of the train when you approach it because it explodes when the train hits it. 
Next danger is when you approach the tunnel, watch out for the oncoming train,
you should be safe if you're sticking with the right side of the tracks. 

In the next area you need to ride up the dirt path on the side and stay close
to the edge of the cliff while Smoke fires upon the gangsters.  Cross the
bridge to the other side and drive down the hill in front of the train so you
have the chance to get back on the right side.  Now at this point the train
speeds up, and around the next bend is the last chance you have to finish them
off otherwise it disappears forever, so do what you can.  When they're dead
just drive Big Smoke back to his house to get some well earned respect.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     Just Business                     |
\_/      (00034)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The mission starts like any other, driving to a single destination, but things
quickly escalate.  You're automatically given and gun and have to fire on
every single person you see in this room.  Remain crouched the entire time, in
fact you're in a really good position so all you have to do is keep holding R1
and the circle button to fire, changing targets periodically each time you
make a kill.  Stay crouched and make your way to the back door.  Outside you
start in the open so find somewhere to hide quickly and fire on all the guys
out here.  Once they're dead, the mission has only just begun.

Now with you on the back of Sweet's bike you can aim your gun and fire
backward, which is good, because you're about to be chased by countless
police.  When the guys on motorcycles come up quickly pick off the guys
standing up on the back so they can't fire at you anymore, then aim more
carefully to eliminate the driver.  A huge truck comes out of nowehere, you
can fire on it since you're given infinite ammo but you won't be destroying
it.  When you come to a roadblock don't bother trying to aim at the people,
simply fire on the cars beside them and create a fiery explosion.  The chase
continues down into a waterway with motorcycles and FBI cars coming from all
directions.  You can take out the drivers by aiming through the windshield. 
Smoke will take care of dodging all the dangers, you don't need to worry about
that, the only thing you need to worry about near the end is shooting the
sewer gate for him so you can drive through.  It doesn't take long to lose the
tail when you're out, and you get a bit more respect for doing it.


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|                               Ryder's Missions                     (00040) |
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|  _ --------o-------\                     Home Invasion                     |
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Head to Ryder's house beside yours in between 12:00 and 20:00 to begin the
mission.  Remember if you need to do a little time traveling, saving the game
makes time jump forward by six hours.  Get into Ryder's truck and start
driving.  You'll notice that you have a time limit, eight minutes, it's more
than enough to complete the mission.  Drive to the destination which is just
on the outer road near the edge of town and get out of the car.  Once you're
inside the house you'll have to remain completely silent, you can judge this
easily by the little noise meter you have at the side.  Avoid letting it fill
all the way up.  The first weapon crate is in the room on the right, pick it
up using the circle button.  The second crate can be found at the top of the
stairs, and the last one at the end of the upstairs hall.  Remember to be very
quiet, the gameonly really gives you a time limit to scare you into thinking
you need to move fast, but really all it's going to do is scare you into
accidentally being caught.  Ignore the time limit unless you REALLY screwed up
the drive over here, drop off three crates in the truck and drive it to the
lockup.  The garage opens and you can park it to end the mission.

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|  _ --------o-------\                        Catalyst                       |
\_/      (00042)     \------------------------------------------------------o

For this mission you need to get to the train first, when you arrive there are
a number of gangsters to take out.  Running them over is a safe and easy way
to do it, but note a couple of things.  First you're going to have to use this
car again and the end of the mission, so try not to smash it up, and second
only run over the gang members with the arrows over their heads, some people
from Grove Street are fighting here too in green.  Once the gang members are
dead some new ones appears, once they're dead hop onto the back of the train
by stepping onto the red marker.  While the train is moving you've got to
throw the crates down to Ryder, do this by holding L1 and aiming just above
his head, now release and you should be able to throw it to him no problem. 
When enough crates have been caught it switches to you driving and Ryder on
the back.  All you have to do is get to the nearby Pay 'n Spray, then from
there just drive back home and park on the red marker to end the mission.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Robbing Uncle Sam                  |
\_/      (00043)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Take the truck to your destination.  When you arrive hop out of the van (be
sure you havea  gun) and climb over the wall.  Kill the guard near the gate
and shoot the switch he's standing beside to open it.  Keep firing on any
other personnel here until the truck stops in front of the large door.  Shoot
the switch on the side of that too and take care of the people you find
inside.  You you need to use the forklift to get six boxes out of here and
load them into Ryder's truck.  There's four boxes in the storehouse and two
more outside just beside Ryder's truck.  When all the boxes are in get into
the van and start driving.  Two army vehicles will be coming up behind you to
chase you down, weave in and out of traffic to distract them, or try to aim
your back end in their direction and press L3 to have Ryder throw an explosive
crate at them.  Get to the back lot of the building located at the yellow dot
on your map to trigger a scene and bring an end to this mission.


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|                                 OG's Missions                      (00050) |
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|  _ --------o-------\                    Life's a Beach                     |
\_/      (00051)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This mission must be done at night, so head there anytime between 22:00 and
06:00.  Find yourself a car and drive to the beach party.  There's an open van
there with a red marker behind it, stand on the marker and respond positively. 
After being asked to dance respond positively again.  I really don't know what
to say here, from expierience and playing this game I know that a lot of
people have trouble with this mission, so much trouble in fact that some get
to the point where they can progress no further in the game.  I know for a
fact you will be reading this and thinking either how you absolutely cannot do
it, or think that sounds completely ridiculous because the mission is so easy. 
Well I fall into the latter category to be honest, you have to get over 4000
points here and it really wasn't that hard to get over 7000 on the first try. 
If you don't know the buttons, if you can't get the timing or you just don't
have the endurance to go through the whole thing which actually goes on for
quite awhile then you're going to have a problem.  All I can offer are some
tips, but to be honest most of it is in your hands.

First of all practice enough to learn the exact timing.  A perfect press is
one pressed just as the button icon passes through and touches the left edge
of the timing circle, pretty much meaning you press it exactly when he button
is dead centre in the middle.  If you're off by a little bit your timing goes
from "perfect" to "good" which is just fine, you can pass this mission with
nothing but good scores, you don't need a single perfect.  Once you've got the
timing down pretty well, DO NOT listen to the girl when she speaks, if she
says you need practice or something that it doesn't necessarily mean you're
doing bad at all, maybe you were off on one button.  The problem is that
something like that breaks your concentration, again do not listen to her,
mute the volume if you have to.  That last tip does conflict a bit with the
next one though, the timing on the music along with the buttons is quite good
so don't hesitate to have the beats in the music help you with your timing, if
you react better to audio cues than visual ones go for it.

When you manage to complete it and successfully earn 4000 points, respond to
her question positively and then get into the van after her.  Now all you need
to do is drive it to the lockup to earn yourself some respect.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Madd Dogg's Rhymes                  |
\_/      (00052)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Find a car and get yourself to Madd Dogg's house, he lives in a mansion up on
a hill outside in the outskirts of town.  The main entrance to the house is
around the back, find the yellow icon in front of the door.  When you get
inside you're given a knife and a tutorial on how to do a stealth kill. 
Crouch down and approach the guard slowly, pressing circle when you're right
behind him and you should be able to make the kill quietly.  In the next room
a guard is patrolling around in circles, follow him and go through the door at
the upper corner.  A guard starts to approach here, crouch down and hide in
the shadows of one of the rooms on the left.  Now continue down the hall.

In the next room you need to crouch and walk past the bar, staying as close to
it as you can and past the couches as well.  When you come to a darkened room
on your left go into it and get the body armour then out the other door, you
should be able to sneak up on a guard that way but keep an eye on your
minimap.  Grab the Rhyme Book out of the recording studio and get the hell out
of there.  You should find a BMX bicycle outside the backdoor now which will
provide more than adequate transportation back to the Burger Shot.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Management Issues                   |
\_/      (00053)     \------------------------------------------------------o

There's a few parts to this mission, first you have to get over to the Burger
Shot and steal the guy's car.  When you arrive it seems he has already left,
so smash into the side of the car to force him out and steal it yourself. 
Since you already damaged the car when you crashed into it, you'll need to get
it repaired.  A Pay 'n Spray is highlighted on your minimap, head there now
and get the car looked at.  Now from this point you must avoid crashes at all
costs otherwise you'll have to drive all the way back here and get it painted
again.  Your destination is quite far away and you need to be there before 10
p.m., or 22:00.  When you arrive parallel park the car between the other two
and wait to leave.  Tap the drive button to keep your speed controlled so that
you neither crash into the car ahead of you, nor let the car behind you hit
you from the back.  You don't have to drive very far like this.  When the
people are in the car, everyone comes after you.  Make your way to the docks,
somewhere along the way you'll lose them.  Now what you have to do is drive
really fast toward the end of the dock and hold the triangle button to bail
out, don't worry, the game will give you a message when the time is right. 
Send the car over the edge to complete the mission and get some more respect.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      House Party                      |
\_/      (00054)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Well you've got to change your clothes and get a haircut.  The barber shop is
directly across the street from the Burger Shot so you've got no problem
there, just head over on foot and choose a hair style you like.  Now make your
way to the OG icon again on your map which just happens to be across the
street from your house, making it the perfect opportunity to save your game. 
Head across the street to the house party, suddenly the Ballas are attacking
your home turf.  Fend them off with whatever weaponry you have and then pick
up the submachine guns they drop so you can really stock up on ammo.  After
the first wave of them come another group appears on top of the bridge.  Use
manual targeting to pick them off one by one and make them fall.  Now another
group attacks from the alley beside your house, and when you aren't expecting
it yet another from behind you.  Your gang can take care of the ones in the
alley, get yourself some cover and face behind them so you can protect your
buddies here.  When all the Ballas are dead the mission is complete.


O============================================================================O
|                              C.R.A.S.H. Missions                   (00060) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Burning Desire                    |
\_/      (00061)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Find the officers in the donut shop and start the mission.  You get a free cop
car for this one which isn't so bad.  First you've got to find the molotov
cocktails so head to the destination marker on your map.  When you arrive
you'll find a building with five windows, you need to throw five molotov
cocktails through it.  Every time you throw a molotov cocktail through the
window some more gang members will show up, so make sure you either have a gun
or quick access to a car so you can run 'em down.  To get a molotov cocktail
through the window stand about six of seven steps back and hold the circle
button fro just under a second, there are numerous different distances and
strengths at which to throw, just pick one that works for you.

When the house starts burning down CJ notices that a girl is trapped inside. 
Quick, run into the building and go upstairs to find her.  It seems the door
is blocked by fire, but you can find an extinguisher in the kitchen.  Equip it
once you have it and used it to put out the flames at the door.  Now navigate
back to the front door with her in tow, putting out the fires as you come to
them.  Make sure she's close by when you exit the house and then drive her
home when you get outside.  Her name is Denise and she becomes your first
girlfriend in the game.  Go hang out with her sometimes, otherwise you might
find she loses interest.  This also opens up Sweet's last mission.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Gray Imports                      |
\_/      (00062)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Get down to the warehouse and see what is afoot.  Arriving you'll be attacked
by all sorts of people, use your car to make sure work of them.  You can also
take advantage of some of the conveniently placed explosive barrels and such
with your gun.  Don't forget to hop up onto the crates beside the door and
grab the body armour.  Now shoot the button beside the door to open up the
warehouse, get ready to shoot all the people who are waiting on the other
side.  As the game mentions you can hold the R1 button and move with the left
analog stick to strafe and see around corners before actually proceeding. 
When you notice red barrels around a corner and enemies nearby, be sure to
shoot at the barrels rather than the enemies themselves.  After going around
the first couple of turns you'll find a full health item where the two walls
meet at the corner.  On the next corner you'll find some Body Armor.

Make your way around to the large open area, there are plenty of explosive
drums there to take advantage of.  At the top of the stairs in the room are a
couple of gang members and the Russian Arms Dealer you you absolutely must
kill.  He does however have an incredible amount of armour and life, so rather
than trying to shoot him now, save your ammo and just follow him.  As he runs
back to where you first entered the warehouse area, run in front of him, get
on the motorcycle and start causing as much damage to the car in front of your
as possible.  When he gets on continue to shoot and it shouldn't be long at
all before the thing is ablaze, the guy is dead, and the mission is passed.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Badlands                        |
\_/      (00063)     \------------------------------------------------------o

With the camera in hand you've got a little snooping to do.  Find yourself a
vehicle, preferably some kind of cycle and start peddling up that huge
mountain to the North.  You can't miss it.  The path is long and winding but
very serene, it takes quite a long time to actually make it to the top of the
mountain, but fortunately this mission only requires you to scale only a mere
fraction of it.  You'll come to a cabin being guarded by some police officers,
quietly sneak into the cabin without the FBI guys noticing you.  You won't
even need a weapon here, it's painfully easy just to punch him to death right
there.  Pull out the camera and snap a quick shot of the corpse, this alerts
the cops and in order to avoid being shot to death run out the front door and
jump onto the nearby dirt bike.  Ride it down the mountain and back to where
you first started the mission in order to satisfy the cops.  Soon after the
mission is over you'll get a cell phone call about your next mission.  Head to
the question mark on the radar, and the Catalina's Missions section.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Snail Trail                      |
\_/      (00064)     \------------------------------------------------------o

There's a couple of men that need assassinating and you're the one who can get
the job done.  It takes place all the way back in Los Santos though so it's
going to be a bit of a drive, do NOT use a car for this mission, it will make
things much much harder.  Basically what you need to do is go up to the
construction site and grab the sniper rifle, after that head down to the train
station where you'll find the train is just leaving.  Follow it along the very
long trip back to Los Santos, numerous times you'll find yourself in a tunnel
with a train coming in the opposite direction which is why I recommended using
a motorcycle for this mission, speed being the other reason.  Arriving at the
Los Santos train station the man gets off the train.  Keep your distance, a
little meter at the side shows how suspicious he is of being followed and if
it starts to go up you need to turn around immediately.  He'll call for a cab
at the top and now you need to follow this cab around town still keeping your
distance as much as possible.  Eventually it leads to the docks, exit your
vehicle and pull out the sniper rifle.  When the two men are conversing fire
off one shot to kill one of them, and pick off the other while he panics.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                   Misappropriation                    |
\_/      (00065)     \------------------------------------------------------o

There's a long trip ahead of your here, find yourself a fast motorcycle to at
least make it enjoyable.  When you eventually get across the bridge climb up
the hill on the opposite side of the road.  If you have a sniper rifle this
will be perfect, stay low in the bushes and aim toward the guy with the arrow
over his head.  A single head shot will bring him down and he'll drop the
evidence case.  Unfortunately one of the guards will likely pick it up
quickly, but at that point you can just equip a different gun (or stick with
the sniper rifle if you want) and take them all out as they run toward you.

The other contingency is if you were unable to kill the guy and he makes it to
the helicopter.  Now you need to get into a helicopter yourself.  Before doing
so make sure to kill all the guards who are shooting at you because in the
time it takes off they are more than capable of shooting down the helicopter
you're in.  Don't bother trying to attack the other chopper just follow it
until it sets down, that's your chance to kill the guy and get the dossier. 
Whichever way you do it the mission is complete and you get no reward.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       High Noon                       |
\_/      (00066)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This mission starts in that little hamlet out in the middle of nowhere.  Find
some vehicle and drive there for a scene.  After the scene your mission
becomes clear.  Get in whatever vehicle you can, even if it means that un-
steerable thing down near the graveyard.  Chase him around and stay behind
him, you can work on trying to shoot him as you go but your primary focus
should be on keeping up.  Eventually he'll reach a small suburb and just drive
in circles forever, now's your chance to simply chase him around this area
doing drive-bys or whatever it takes to destroy his car.  The mission is
complete after the final cutscene, no reward (besides your life of course.)


O============================================================================O
|                           Cesar Vialpando's Missions               (00070) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                 High Stakes, Low-Rider                |
\_/      (00071)     \------------------------------------------------------o

In order to begin this mission first you must find yourself a lowrider car
which just happen to drive around quite frequently around the red marker where
Cesar Vialpando is waiting (CV on your minimap.)  In fact you'll likely find
one in his driveway is you look.  The first thing you do in the mission is
follow him to the lowrider race, just keep up and you'll be fine.  Position
yourself at the starting line and get ready to race.  The race is difficult
because low-riders are notorious for sliding, if you come into contact with
any cars or try to make turns while skidding at top speed you're just going to
spin out.  The key is to get ahead at the beginning of the race since the
other drivers will be aggressive and try to spin you out, drive on the
sidewalk if you have to in order to get out front at the start.  Now your
destinations are the red light pillars you see, they're both in front of your
face and on the minimap.  The most important feature however is that within
them is a blue arrow that shows the direction you're going to have to turn
since most of the time you can't divert your eye from the screen.  When
approaching a turn break hard BEFORE you actually get there so you skid while
moving forward and don't spin, the take the turn at a reduced speed.  This
should keep you in control and far enough ahead to win the race with little
difficulty, it's not too long and your reward is a nice $1000.00.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     King in Exile                     |
\_/      (00072)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This mission isn't so much of a mission as it is a cutscene when you arrive,
and since this is a spoiler free guide there's nothing really to say.  Once
the scene is over a familiar icon appears and it's time to head back there.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                        Wu Zi Mu                       |
\_/      (00073)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Wu Zi Mu is another street race type of mission that takes place out in the
country.  The difficulty of this mission in comparison with the last one is
substantial.  The race will take more than twice as long, but more difficult
than the time is the terrain.  In fact I would barely consider this a race,
because even going at a very safe and slow speed I was never able to even see
the other cars behind me, the challenge comes from two places.  First you need
to watch out for the very hilly terrain and avoid flipping your car, second
since the race is so long and bogged with nature's obstacles, you also have to
avoid destroying your car.  These two things can be rather difficult.

Get into the front of the pack when the race begins and stay there. 
Understand that there are going to be large red light pillars everywhere, and
while it may seem easiest at times to drive directly toward them, the dirt
path you are on will always curve toward them, and driving on the path is far
safer than trying to shortcut your way over a bumpy field or hill.  There race
takes you through numerous locations like small towns but it will mostly keep
you out in the woodland area.  Drive extremely carefully, especially around
some of those sharp turns and bumpy roads which are really likely to flip you
depending on what car you're using.  I used the car just beside Catalina's
cabin as it was pretty fast and easy to handle.  You should do the same.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  Farewell, My Love...                 |
\_/      (00074)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This is another racing mission however you step into the red marker as a
person and the car is automatically assigned to you, don't worry, it's a nice
one.  Again similar to the last mission it's good to get into first place
eariler on since it's far easier to stay in first place than fight your way
there.  Once you've established yourself you'll need to focus on the course. 
There are a number of shortcuts you can take, most of them involve bumpier
terrain but the payoff is worth it, take the S shaped winding road in the
beginning, you can just cut across the grass and save a lot of time.  A few
other things to keep in mind, after you pass through the little shed area with
the piled logs you'll soon be approaching a bridge, be sure to stay on the
path here since any shortcuts you try to take will likely lead to a dead drop. 
This race isn't much different or longer than the previous one, the most
difficult part about it I find is the dirt flying up into the screen as you
zoom down the path.  Complete the mission to get a deed for a San Fierro
garage.  Now get out of your car and answer you cell phone.


O============================================================================O
|                              Catalina's Missions                   (00080) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      First Date                       |
\_/      (00081)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This is going to be quite a trip assuming you're coming here right after
Badlands.  It's North of Los Santos and you're nowhere near it, be sure to
check your main map for the destination as the minimap can sometimes be
misleading when destinations are so far away.  When you arrive there's a scene
and the first mission is initiated.  This isn't so much a mission as a lead in
to other missions.  Start by heading to the nearest icon, the gas station.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Tanker Commander                   |
\_/      (00082)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Arriving at the gas station hop into the tanker truck.  First you have to
actually get the tanker part attached, to do that simply drive in front of the
nearby tanker which is marked on your map, hold L2 and R2 to look behind you
then press square to slowly reverse into place.  When the tanker is attached
the car starts to give chase, you need to get to your destination before the
tanker is destroyed.  In terms of the gunfire you're going to take this will
be quite easy, just make sure the tanker section doesn't get slammed hard by
anything on the road and be sure not to go around a corner too fast. 
Following these basic specs should get you to your destination before too
long, you need to go around a little bit but just look at you map to get an
idea where you're going.  It's the little fenced lot just past the gas
station, park your red on the red spot to net yourself a cool five grand. 
Following this you get a phone call and a symbol for your next mission.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      First Base                       |
\_/      (00083)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This mission too is just a scene, an introduction to your next set of
robberies.  Drive West to the single lone dollar sign icon and park on top of
the red marker to initiate the next mission at the liquor store.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  Local Liquor Store                   |
\_/      (00084)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You'll automatically be given a quadbike at the beginning of this mission to
chase down the other robbers.  Catalina takes care of all the shooting so all
you need to do is drive, which isn't exactly easy because this quadbike thing
reacts crazily to just about every bump.  You'll have your hands full just
trying to stay upright.  Fortunately this chase goes on for an extremely long
time, you can fall off over and over and still catch up to finish them off. 
The important thing to note is that two of them carry briefcases, you'll need
to get both in order to finish the mission so if Catalina kills someone and
the game tells you to pick up the briefcase, make sure you hop off and do it. 
As you head from little town to town they'll split up and just cruise the
streets here and there.  Make Catalina's job easier by ramming them as you
chase them down.  Once the three robbers are eliminated and the two briefcases
are retrieved, get yourself a more stable ride and drive back to Catalina's
cabin for a nice 1000$ reward and a couple a nice new work prospect.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Gone Courting                     |
\_/      (00085)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Watch the scene here and then drive to the firthest East robbery icon.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Small Town Bank                    |
\_/      (00086)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Arriving at the bank you're put into a position where you have to
continusuosly point your gun at all the people here in order to keep them from
setting off the alarm.  You can hold R1 to target and keep switching between
them with the L2 and R2 buttons but eventually someone's going to press the
alarm anyway.  When this occurs shoot anyone who attacks you and make
yourrounds of the bank, destroying all three ATM machines.  Follow Catalina
out into the back alley and shoot your way through all the cops in this area,
use the R1 auto-target to find them as quick as possible and make your way to
the top where you'll find two police motorcycles.  Now you have to follow
Catalina out through the country and into the next little town where she is
unfortunately knocked from her bike and put into a rather dangerous situation. 
Drive up beside her and she'll get on the back, now all you have to do is
return her to your house for a huge bonus of $10,000.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Made in Heaven                    |
\_/      (00087)     \------------------------------------------------------o

There's a scene here triggering your final robbery mission.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Against all Odds                   |
\_/      (00088)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Drive to the closest and final robbery location.  Here you'll be given a
number of satchel charges you need to place on the door beside the counter to
blow it open.  Once the door is blasted throw another satchel charge into the
room and use the special detonator to set it off and open the safe.  This
triggers a scene which eventually leads you outside and sets you up with a
four star wanted level, quite possibly the most dangerous you'vee seen so far,
so jump into the car you brought here and take off down the road.  You
destination is the Pay 'n Spray in a small nearby town, just follow the icon
on your minimap that sticks out.  Be very careful, while it isn't a long trip
a four star wanted elevl will have cop cars appearing everywhere doing their
absolute best to take you off the road, so drive carefully and watch out for
all oncoming traffic.  Arriving at the Pay 'n Spray all you need to do is
drive your car in, wait a minute or so for the flashing wanted level to
disappear and then drive Catalina back to her house to complete the mission.


O============================================================================O
|                              The Truth's Missions                  (00090) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Body Harvest                     |
\_/      (00091)     \------------------------------------------------------o

After arriving and watching the scene get a vehicle and make your way toward
the farm to see if you can find the combine harvester.  When you arrive you'll
be greeted by countless farm folk all equipped with rifles taking aim to take
you down.  Remain in your vehicle and drive to the back of the farm where
you'll find a large field with the combine harvester going around.  Make sure
you understand that all these people carry very powerful rifles, each shot
takes off more than a quarter of your health so four shots and you're dead. 
Move quickly and jump into the combine harvester.  Now you'll find an exit you
can use at the lower corner, drive around and/or through the people here and
make your way to the destination.  The easiest and safest way to get there is
to make a left out of the farm and then a right onto the first dirt path. 
Carefully slide down the steep hill here.  You run very little risk of
exploding due to gunfire, the main risk once you have the harvester is
flipping over, but taking your chances on this hill is better than a cliff
since once the thing flips it's almost impossible to flip back.  Drive it into
the barn to finish the mission and earn some respect.  Head to the new icon.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\              Are You Going to San Fierro?             |
\_/      (00092)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Head up to The Truth's farm and step onto the marker.  What you need to do is
within the time limit, burn all the weed before the cops show up, your given
about five or six minutes to do this which is plenty of time.  There's a whole
lot of the stuff so keep the following tips in mind.  First each time you burn
a row, give it a once over look before moving on to the next one.  This will
save you some frustration later when you finish but you still can't continue
the mission because you missed one little bit.  Secondly avoid burning The
Truth to death, but I guess that's a given.  Lastly there are a couple
effective ways to get everything real fast.  First what you can do is go to
one end of a patch, aim your flamethrower down at the base and hold R1 and
circle.  Just keep burning as you strafe either left or right across the
field.  Another effective way is to stand in the middle of a row between two
patches of the stuff, hold circle and spin around to burn it on all sides. 
Whatever you do, it'll tell you to go and meet The Truth when finished.

Now he gives you a rocket launcher and your new task becomes to shoot the
helicopter out of the sky.  You've got one chance at an easy shot quickly
before the car drives off and the helicopter chases it.  No big deal if you
miss, simply de-equip the launcher and run to the other fence where the car
stopped.  You should be able to safely shoot down the helicopter now, just
make sure you do it from a distance because there's a good chance it'll fall
on your head.  The final task is to get into the van and drive to your new
garage in San Fierro.  There's no cops or anything after you but it's a long
trip in a not-so-sturdy car so take your sweet time getting there, you don't
want to flip over and do the entire mission again.  Respect is your reward.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Don Peyote                       |
\_/      (00093)     \------------------------------------------------------o

When the mission begins it's your job to go and find the two English guys who
are far far away and lost in the desert.  Grab yourself a motorcycle or
something so you can cut across the desert and make the trip significantly
shorter.  As you approach the mountain don't start driving up with the
motorcycle, there are two guys up there who need a lift and the cycle only
seats one.  Unfortunately there aren't any four door sedans that drive around
here either so your best bet is one of those box shaped trucks, people are
perfectly jumping into the back of those.  It's a bit of an ordeal going up
the path leading to the top of the mountain but it's doable.  When you arrive
watch the scene and get the guys in the truck.  Now you have to drive over to
the snake farm nearby, do so, watch the scene, and get ready to start
blasting.  There's only four enemies who don't put up much of a fight at all,
in fact you really don't even need to kill them.  Find yourself a nice four
door car that moves a little bit faster than a stupid trucks and drive back to
the casino on the map to trigger a brand new set of mission, and some respect.


O============================================================================O
|                                 CJ's Missions                      (000A0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                Wear Flowers in Your Hair              |
\_/      (000A1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Timeto make your first rounds of San Fierro.  Get in the car and drive over to
the East side where you'll find a gas station and the red marker to park on. 
Press the L3 button once you're on it to alert the guy working there.  Your
next destination is the hospital on the opposite side of town.  Next place you
want to check is just up the street from here, same deal with the car horn as
the garage.  From here it's down to check out the police station, and then
over to the electronics shop to pick up ZERO.  Now that you've seen the sights
and taken in the fresh air, return home to complete the mission.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       555 We Tip                      |
\_/      (000A2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Find yourself a car and get over to the Vank Hoff Hotel.  It's not too far
from here, on the Northeast side of town.  When you arrive you need to follow
the valet who will be driving the car to the parking garage.  Follow him down
there and fun him over a few times until he no longer draws breath.  Now you
can grab his uniform (and his money!)  Return to the area where the valets are
standing and wait for the D.A. to arrive.  He's driving a dark blue Merit car,
the game will give your a quick view of it before it arrives.  You job is to
identify the car and get to it before the other valet guys do.  It gives you
three minutes to drive your car to the garage and then back again, it's not a
lot but as long as you drive in the middle of the road, preferably on the
street car track (watch out for streetcars) then you should be able to do it
with even a minute remaining.  Don't let the car get smashed up or you're
screwed though.  When you arrive back again park the car down in the
underground parking lot and return to where the valets are standing.  There
you'll find a red marker, simply step into it to complete the mission.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Deconstruction                    |
\_/      (000A3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The construction site is right next door, run up the hill and grab yourself a
bulldozer.  You will find one parked beside a portable, but don't get that
one.  Soon after arriving a construction worker will appear in a bulldozer to
chase you down and he'll become really obnoxious while you're trying to do
your thing so jack his bulldozer instead, he won't bother jumping into the
other one.  There are six portables scattered around this area, many of them
have red barrels next to them.  Avoid hitting these barrels as they will
indeed explode in your face.  Use your minimap to located the six portables
and break them by crashing the bulldozer, you really don't have to be going
very fast.  Once all the portables are destroyed you can drive over to the
porta potty marked on and with an arrow on the screen, and push it into the
large hole ahead.  Now all you need to do is grab one of the cement trucks and
park it right on the red marker with the back facing the hole to trigger a
scene and end the mission.  Answer you cell phone to unlock Driving School.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                   Photo Opportunity                   |
\_/      (000A4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Your first destination here is quite far away.  Get yourself a fast vehicle
like a motorcycle and drive all the way around to reach the blue marker where
Cesar is waiting for you beside his car.  Hop in and begin the drive down to
Angel Pine, another very long trip and you must avoid destroying the car. 
Don't worry too much if you happen to screw up, while the trip reamins long
this mission does feature the trip skip option if you've already done it. 
Well anyway you'll eventually end up at the location in angel pine.  Ascend
the stairs and stop on the red marker on the roof.  Now with the camera in
your inventory you need to wait and take pictures of the faces of all the
people who appear here, there are going to be four in total.  The first two
appear one after another in the little alley direction in front of you.  Once
you've got them move your focus to in front of the restaurant on your right
where two more people will appear.  It's not very hard to do at all if you
know where they're going to be, just make sure you know to zoom in and out
using the L2 and R2 buttons.  Completing this mission will net you three
things, respect, a camera, and a rather long journey back to the garage.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Ice Cold Killa                     |
\_/      (000A5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Start by driving over to Jizzy's club, but when you try to visit him the
bouncers won't let you through the door.  No problem, just start making your
way up the nearby scaffold up to the top of the building.  From here you can
jump down and land beside the skylight, use this to get inside the club.  Head
across the upper area and down all the staircases until you reach the bottom,
don't worry about conflicts you shouldn't have any trouble here.  There's a
scene when you reach the main room and then Jizzy tries to escape.  Get out of
the club and find a car to start chasing him down.  You can try and blow him
up drive-by style is you've got the weapon but I find it much easier to corner
his car and just drag him out of the driver's seat.  Killing him is very easy
at this point and you can pick up the phone right away.  Make the call once
you've got the phone and a nice $12,000 and some additional respect are yours.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                        Pier 69                        |
\_/      (000A6)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Start by climbing up onto the roof of this building, there's an opening on the
side leading to a staircase, it's not hard to find.  On top you'll find Cesar,
your mission is to use your sniper rifle to pick off the six guys on the roof
with the arrows above their heads.  You'll find three of them on the right
side and three of them on the left side.  When they're capped drop down to the
road (use the staircase) and start sniping the gang members who run out of
there.  When you think you've taken out enough of them go up and collect their
weapons, you're going to need as much uzi ammo as possible, try to to waste it
when fighting other enemies here.  Keep killing the gang members as you make
your way to the back where you'll be able to find an kill your target.  It's
easy to snipe him from the upper walkway on the left side.  After killing him
you get one new final target who jumps over the edge.  Jump over as well and
swim toward the boat.  Now the chase begins, you won't be in any danger
yourself, the only real danger is running out of ammo.  Drive up beside him
and use drive-by techniques to blast his boat.  You'll get a cool $15,000
dollars for this and a not-so-cool five star wanted level back on land.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  Toreno's Last Flight                 |
\_/      (000A7)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Grab yourself a vehicle and head over to the mark on your map.  There's you'll
find a little fight going on, try to run over as many gang members as you can
before getting out of your car to minimize damage.  Climb up the stairs on the
right side and watch the scene.  Now you need to go up onto the roof and get
the rocket launcher however doing so is very dangerous.  Stand on the stairs
and take out the two guys on top before grabbing the launcher.  Drop down and
climb onto the motorcycle conveniently waiting for you on the road.  Now you
need to follow the chopper over the highway.  The chopper will fly low the
whole time, drive your motorcycle a fair distance ahead of it and get off. 
Equip the rocket launcher and take aim.  It's difficult to hit the chopper but
you should be able to get off a few good shots before it passes overhead, just
resist the temptation to fire upon it when it's directly above you.  Continue
to try and try again to hit the chopper with the launcher until you finally
manage to do so and net yourself $18,000 and some more respect.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Yay Ka-Boom-Boom                   |
\_/      (000A8)     \------------------------------------------------------o

First off get yourself to the bomb shop North of here.  You'll automatically
be given a car equipped with a bomb.  From here you need to make your way down
to the factory building.  There's two guys standing out front you need to
kill, simply run over them.  When the gates open and you're attacked get out
of the car and fight, you don't want to risk destroying the bomb car.  Now
drive it to the marker on the map and ride up the ramp into the building. 
Drive it around the corner and get out again, there are quite a few enemies in
here too.  Once you've finally taken out everyone in the area park the car on
the red marker and press the circle button to activate the bomb.  A few guys
ambush the building, you're given lots of time and can get out easily even
without sprinting so make sure you don't just mad dash, you're likely going to
get yourself killed that way.  Instead pick off the guys as you escape.  Run
to the main gate, killing everyone as you go, but you'll find it closes on
you.  Your final challenge is to drive the car they brought in around to the
back and up the giant ramp.  You don't need too much speed, just a reasonable
amount and the cutscene will do the rest.  Simply drive the car back to your
garage to complete the mission and get a nice $25,000 and respect.  You've
also finally opened up the bridge leading over to the final continent.  Get
out of your car and answer your cell phone to bring it all together.



O============================================================================O
|                               Jizzy's Missions                     (000B0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                         Jizzy                         |
\_/      (000B1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You need to head to the club which is located under the bridge.  It's marked
as sort of a light blue face icon on your minimap.  When you arrive you'll
find a red marker at the front door, step on it to go inside.  Your first
mission is to drive the fine young woman in your passenger seat over to the
hotel.  There you will get your next set of instructions.  It's time to drive
down to Hashbury and get your hands a little dirty.  There's a guy you'll find
with an arrow above his head, simply park your car on top of him to finish
that up.  The next call sends you halfway across town to a couple of thugs
under the highway who are beating up on one of his hos.  Run them down as well
and be sure to take their guns before anything else happens.  Your final job
and most difficult on takes you back to the hotel where you started out. 
Arriving there you'll find two cars, a large SUV and a limo.  You need to
destroy both of these in order to complete the mission, fortunately you should
have picked up the uzi from the two guys so you'll have a means of shooting
while driving beside them.  Destroy the black escort vehicle first then pull
up beside the limo and shoot it or drive it off the road or do whatever you
feel like doing.  Accomplishing this completes the mission for you.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     T-Bone Mendez                     |
\_/      (000B2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Find yourself a car and drive to the location marked on the minimap.  Here you
will find a bunch of guys on motorcycles jacking the goods from the truck,
you're automatically assigned a motorcycle and it becomes your job to get the
four packages back.  The four motorcyclist thieves will split up and drive
around the city, focus on them one at a time and chase them down.  You can use
an uzi to shoot them from their bikes and grab the package if you want, but if
you don't have one it doesn't matter because it's just as easy to drive up
behind them and press the L1 button to steal it from them.  Chase down all
four of them and use L1 to steal the package back.  If you don't kill them
they will chase after you but considering the speed you'll probably be going
they'll have quite a hard time keeping up.  After collecting the final package
return to the club under the bridge for a nice $5000 and some respect.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Mike Toreno                      |
\_/      (000B3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You've got six minutes to find this guy before it's too late, and only a small
description of what to go on.  After the conversation is over they decide that
the best chance they have is the construction site, you should know where that
is since it's right next to Carl's garage so drive there now.  When you arrive
new information comes up and your next destination is the dock.  Upon arrival
there things change once again, your third (and final) try leads you to the
airport.  Drive there and stop when you reach the large wide open air field.

There's a special signal device used to locate the van, it's in a random
location each time so I can't tell you exactly where it is, but using the
signal device it should not take you more than thirty seconds to locate.  When
you do drive up beside it so the people in your car can get a good shot, this
makes everyone jump out of the van and run after you.  Just squish them with
your car and be ABSOLUTELY sure to take a second to hop out and grab a gun if
you don't have one already.  The reason for this becomes clear in a moment,
you need to destroy the van and while the other two guys will shoot at it they
deal zero damage.  You need to destroy it yourself, since you can get into it
you'll need a gun.  Shoot it in the gas tank just above the rear tire to blow
it up, then get into the limo.  When leaving the airport you're stuck with a
three star wanted level, get to the Pay 'n Spray near your garage and then
from there return to the club for a well earned $7000 and some respect.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Outrider                        |
\_/      (000B4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

In order to begin this mission you have to return to CJ's garage and step on
the red marker.  Find yourself a vehicle and take it down to the gas station
near the docks.  After the scene drive up to where you'll find a dirt bike
along with a rocket launcher and a sniper rifle.  Grab everything and jump
onto the bike.  Your task is to take out the four roadblocks before the van
reaches them, you'll find them at the red marker.  Arriving there pull out
your rocket launcher and aim it toward the cars, blowing them up should take
care of most of the people around them as well.  try to pick up the uzis that
they drop too since you may need them.  For the next couple roadblocks you
will not only have to destroy everything on the ground, but use either the uzi
or that sniper rifle you picked up in order to eliminate the people in the
windows.  Doing this a total of four times is all you need to do, drive along
with the van for the rest of the trip but there shouldn't be any
complications, a three start wanted level is tacked on along with the $9000
dollars you get for beating this mission, but just go find a Pay 'n Spray.


O============================================================================O
|                               Woozie's Missions                    (000C0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  Mountain Cloud Boys                  |
\_/      (000C1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Drive over to Woozie's place and get him to come with you.  Your destination
is just around the block.  Arriving there stay close to Woozie as you both
make your way down the alley.  Once you reach the end a scene will occur and
you'll be attacked by a bunch of gang members.  Hopefully you've got some
weapons in your inventory otherwise you'll have to rely on picking up theirs
after they die.  The first four shouldn't be a problem, just make sure you
don't accidentally blow up their vehicle when either you or Woozie is near it. 
The next group comes in on bikes, take them out and then fight all the others
off around the corner.  If you still have the sniper rifle from previous
missions it works great to take out the sniper on the roof as well as any gang
members at a significant distance.  Hop into the car and now fight your way
past the two gang cars here.  Woozie will be able to take them out fine but
you may want to help anyway if you've got some extra uzi ammo.  They're rather
persistent so even when on fire they'll still be chasing after you, this is
the most dangerous part.  Make sure you get away as quickly as possible once
they are ablaze.  Set off back to Woozie's place for $5000 and respect.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Ran Fa Li                       |
\_/      (000C2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Your job is to head on down to the airport and make a pick-up.  You can't get
into the actual main airport part anymore but if you go around the side you
will be able to get access to the parking garage.  Someone in this humongous
area there's a car waiting to be picked up.  Step into it and get ready for an
ambush.  Most of the exits are blocked off when you try and drive up to them,
the best escape is just down the main centre path driving out the entrance
road, a couple of guys will attack but no cars will block your path.  Outside
it's quite easy to get past the cars blocking the road.  The most dangerous
part comes right when you escape, two motorcycles will appear and start firing
on your, do whatever you can to get them off your tail otherwise you'll start
taking some serious damage, drive them off the road, shoot them through the
window, anything.  The rest of the trip is pretty uneventful with the
exception of a couple cars that don't move too quickly anyway, just avoid
crashing too much and they shouldn't be able to catch up. 

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                         Lure                          |
\_/      (000C3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This is just a simple driving mission, but that's simple in terms of "it's all
you have to do" and certainly not in terms of being easy, because despite that
fact this mission is rather difficult.  The first part isn't bad but it's
quite a trip, get into the large vehicle and drive it down to the Southern tip
in Angel Pine.  Upon arriving there you'll find a red marker and a couple of
dirt bikes will start to chase after you.  At this point it becomes similar to
one of the street races except you've got people trying to kill you.  Not only
do you have to avoid flipping the vehicle over on this rough terrain but you
must also avoid being damaged too much.  If you doors are damaged it becomes
possible for the pursuers to realize you're just a decoy and in such a case
you fail.  It's hard to get ahead at the start but gradually as long as you
aren't going at a snail's pace you should find it easier and easier to stay
ahead of the bikes.  There's aren't as many checkpoints here but they are much
further apart so the actual distance you need to travel resembles that of a
race, just avoid doing anything dangerous.  Stay on the path as much as
possible, and don't hesitate to slow down if it means remaining upright.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  Amphibious Assault                   |
\_/      (000C4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Before you start this mission you must get your lung capacity up, not too
high, but about a quarter of the way or so in order to actually be allowed to
begin.  When you've managed to accomplish this simply by spending as much time
as possible swimming underwater, return to Woozie's and begin the mission.  It
has you driving up to the docks and getting into the water.  What you need to
do is get to the large boat without being taken down by the many patrol ships. 
The beginning is just sort of a familiarization with swimming, it will have
you going under and through a couple of tunnels and equipping you with a
knife/  Once you reach the open water start swimming toward the boat.  If you
are spotted immediately dive underwater and keep swimming like that to force
them to forget about you.  At that point you can surface again and remain
stationary for some time while catching your breath.  Afterward it's time to
get moving again.  Access to the boat is found around the back, jump up and
climb the stairs.  Using your knife approach the men on the boat from behind
and perform a stealth kill.  Your destination is located down the stairs at
the front of the ship.  You will find a red marker, stand on it and press
triangle.  Now all you need to do is jump off the boat and swim back to the
red marker on the shore to collect your $11,000 and some respect.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  The Da Nang Thang                    |
\_/      (000C5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You'll automatically be put in the position of gunner for a helicopter trip to
the boat.  Your job is to take out as many people as you can from the boat
while airborne, this is extremely difficult because the people are just so
small and so far away.  There's no set goal you have to reach, anyone you are
able to take out now will just simplify things later.  Eventually it comes to
the point where you must board the boat manually.  Get on and sneak up behind
the nearest guy, stealth kill him and take his shotgun.  Now you can get the
next person up top, pick up the uzi and use this as your primary weapon.

Make your way from crate to crate as you progress along the ship.  There are
numerous little nooks, make sure you check out all of them.  When you hop up
onto the second large area of crates you can find a full health item near the
start.  Eventually you'll come to a point with a large opening in the floor,
drop down and watch the scene.  Take out anyone you find at the bottom. 
Before proceeding down jump up onto the crate on the right side and you will
find a secret stash including uzi ammo and the very important body armour. 
With this you can blast your way along to the end where you'll find your
target, a man who does not hesitate to throw a grenade at you.  When you hear
him yell out turn around and run in the other direction.  After his grenade
explodes he'll charge at you and will be very easy to kill.

There's a large crate holding the refugees at the back, shoot the lock to open
it up.  Your job however is not done yet, you still need to clear out the
bridge.  Make your way there firing upon any enemies that block your path
until you eventually square off against their leader.  He throws you a sword
and you can initiate a very violent sword fight to the death, or you can
quickly whip out that shotgun you picked up and end the battle in a single
hit, your choice.  Now all you need to do is go out and meet the refugees at
the mark on your minimap, this ends the mission and rewards you $15,000.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Fender Ketchup                     |
\_/      (000C6)     \------------------------------------------------------o

It's another of the classic "scare the crap out of the guy by driving like a
maniac" missions.  Your goal is to get his sacre-o-meter up to max so that he
talks and there's a few good ways of doing it.  There's no time limit in this
mission, you fail by crashing into something at high speed and accidentally
killing the guy.  Ironic and not-coincedental that in order to scare him you
must travel at high speeds.  The game gives you a number of tips on how to
scare him, drive really fast, drive against traffic, do handbrake turns and do
insane stunts.  Insane stunts are dangerous and likely to flip your car,
despite how adamant the game is about you performing them you don't need to in
order to complete this mission.  Simply work on the bar gradually by driving
down the opposite lane of traffic at high speeds, under no circumstance should
your find yourself hitting a car head on, do whatever you can to avoid that
whether it be handbrake turns or whatever.  Eventually you'll manage to fill
the bar up and the guy starts talking.  Take him back to the casino.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  Explosive Situation                  |
\_/      (000C7)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Find yourself a vehicle and drive down to the quarry.  There you'll find some
dynamite but unfortunately it's rigged to blow already, you've got two and a
half minutes to get down there and steal it.  But first you will need a heavy
object.  That heavy object comes in the form of the dump truck you can find
down at the bottom, get on whatever ehicle you used to get in here and drive
it over the edge so you can fall to the bottom quickly without taking a lot of
damage.  Get into the truck and use it to run over the crates, then get out
and grab the dynamite you find inside.  Do this in a counterclockwise fashion,
the last one you come to is actually on a moving forklift but just crash into
it to reveal the dynamite.  Now once this is completed the quarry is
surrounded by security.  Your only escape is a nearby dirt bike marked on your
map.  You'll have to complete a set of challenging maneuvers to get out of
here though.  Follow the markers on your map to get up the ramps and jump from
place to place.  Eventually they'll get you out of the quarry and you can
quickly ride to the nearby drop point to end the mission and get your money.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                 You've Had Your Chips                 |
\_/      (000C8)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This is an extremely frustrating mission, bring body armour if you can find
some because it will really help.  Drive down to the location marker.  It says
to try and get in silently, you'll find a large opening on the side wall but
instead of approaching the entrance to the factory from the front instead
sneak around behind the large coloured crates.  You'll find a chainsaw on the
other side.  Now before going into the building take aim with any gun and fire
at the gas tank of the car out front, it'll save you having to kill a ocuple
guys later.  Now approach the factory and watch the scene when you enter.

Immediately run left and kill the guy in front of you, then the one standing
on top of the shelf.  You'll find a guy on your right as well when you pass
all the shelves.  Now get yourself into a safe position.  If you have a sni[er
rifle make good use of it here, pick off all the guys on the upper catwalk as
well as everyone standing on the other side of the building.  If not you'll
still have to do all these things, but with an uzi instead.  Now (at least to
me) here's why this is one of the most frustrating missions ever.  You could
have some guy sneak up on you from out of nowhere, when you turn and press R1
to target him suddenly like an idiot you'll target one of those plastics
machines instead and find yourself shot to death.  Try to avoid this two ways,
one is not to have someone sneak up on you, and the other is to use a weapon
with no auto target like the sniper rifle or use any other weapon and aim with
the right analog stick.  When all the bad guys are taken care of pull out some
weapon (shotgun works great) and destroy all ten plastics machines.  This
triggers another attack so find a corner and take out all the guys here. 
Slowly make your way toward the door via the back wall of the factory (this is
very important, you don't want to expose yourself at the door, go to the back
where you can see through it but still be at a distance.)  There's a very
dangerous man on the crates outside, it's very easy to snipe him from the back
without even being noticed but you'll have to put yourself in a bit more
danger with another gun.  Remember that even if you're too far away to auto
target with the uzi or something you can still hit those enemies from a
distance you just need to aim manually.  After clearing everyone out get into
the car they drove into here and return to the casino with a two start wanted
level.  Park the car to end the mission and get $10,000 and some respect.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                   Fish in a Barrel                    |
\_/      (000C9)     \------------------------------------------------------o

All you need to do is sit back and watch the signing of the papers.


O============================================================================O
|                                ???'s Missions                      (000D0) |
O============================================================================O
  __
/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                        Monster                        |
\_/      (000D1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Yet another familiarization mission, this will send you all around the area
and get you used to the terrain, but it won't make it a simple sightseeing
trip.  You need to drive a huge monster truck through a total of thirty-five
checkpoints, you can keep track of your progress using the little icon at the
bottom.  Since the monster truck has such bouncy shocks you'll find it isn't
exactly the most stable of vehicles so the entire time you're going to have to
resist the urge to blaze through it and just take it slow.  Never let yourself
get up to top speed, be patient, and you'll probably be able to do it on your
first try.  Your reward depends on your time but don't let that rush you at
all, for information's sake the top time is four minutes and twenty seconds.

  __
/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Highjack                        |
\_/      (000D2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Cesar comes up to help you with this mission, you're given a motorcycle and
the task to get a truck that's headed along the highway toward San Fierro. 
Get up on the railway bridge which is close by and take that along until you
reach San Fierro, from there drive up onto the highway and chase down the
truck.  In order to successfully take it you need to drive your motorcycle up
on the left of the driver's side door so that Cesar can jump onto it.  Hold
yourself in this position without going too far forward or backward for a few
seconds and Cesar will jump.  After another few seconds the truck stops and
that's your chance to get inside,  Drive it back to your garage in the other
direction and park it to net yourself a nice $7000 reward.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Interdiction                      |
\_/      (000D3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Get yourself a vehicle and drive out into the desert where you'll find a small
gathering of houses at your destination.  Here you're given the choice of
three vehicles and a rocket launcher to pick up.  The dirt bike will be the
easiest of all the vehicles for this, simply because of its maneuverability. 
Take it and drive up to the top of the mountain.  When you park it on the red
marker a scene occurs and you'll need to make use of that rocket launcher. 
Protect the chopper at all costs.  At first there will only be two choppers to
deal with but by the end you will have downed about six.  Take a many shots as
you need, you're given plenty of ammo.  The important thing is to run like
hell in the event you ever shoot down a chopper right overhead.  You can find
both a parachute and a full life item here as well.  After the choppers have
been taken care of drive your vehicle to the drop point, pick up the package
and return it to the house in the small group to complete the mission.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                   Verdant Meadows                     |
\_/      (000D4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This mission consists only really of driving to the abandoned air strip on
your map and using your hard earned $80,000 to buy the thing.


O============================================================================O
|                               Flight Missions                      (000E0) |
O============================================================================O
  __
/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                   Learning to Fly                     |
\_/      (000E1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Your first test is taking off.  This is quite simple, all you have to do is
hold the X button to accelerate along the runway.  When the tail of the plane
starts to lift up a little pull back on the left analog stick to take off. 
When you're airborne press R3 to bring in the landing gear.  Now you'll need
to go through three coronas to show you can at least control the plane a
little.  They're pretty much in a straight line.  Any turning you do should be
done with only the lightest of movement on the analog stick, you don't want to
find yourself out of control and constantly correcting your direction.

In the second mission you need to learn how to land the plane.  Aim yourself
down toward the first corona, this will approximate the angle you should be
looking to use when landing.  Extent your landing gear with R3 and start to
pull up a little while holding square.  Continue to pull back so that you land
as straight as possible and adjust your speed so that you come to a stop as
close to the centre of the red marker as you can to pass the test.

Your next challenge is circling the airstrip.  Select whichever course you
feel more comfortable with, it doesn't make much difference.  This one is much
more difficult than the last one, it puts an emphasis on turning which in
planes can be quite hard.  It introduces you to the rudder turn using the L2
and R2 buttons, never underestimate the power of this turn, it's far easier to
turn like this and remain in control.  You still need to turn with a
combination of these buttons and the analog stick for a couple of the turns
but for the majority you can just stick with the L2 and R2 buttons.

Well now take what you did on the previous test and make it more difficult. 
You need to fly around the airstrip and land the plane after doing so.  The
same idea applies to making it through all the coronas on the way but you also
need to straighten yourself out at the end.  Make sure to start descending and
slowing down early, you get bonus points if you stop inside the red marker
(it's quite difficult to beat without doing this) so slow down early, it's
easier to adjust your speed to that you go forward a bit further, but not so
that you slow down if you're coming in to land when it's too late.

Now we change vehicles to the helicopter which will feel significantly easier
to fly to people who have played Vice City.  This one is actually quite easy. 
The instructions you are given are to fly straight upward, to do this all you
have to do is hold the X button.  When you reach the top let go of the X
button when it tells you to level off, but press it periodically to maintain
your height.  Hold either L2 or R2 to do a 180 degree turn and then when it
tells you to hold up on the analog stick to bank forward.  From here you'll be
moving directly toward a corona, pass through it to complete the test.

Since you've taken off with the helicopter now it only makes sense to land. 
The game actually needlessly complicates this one, despite everything it tells
you all you have to do is hold forward and X to fly toward the end of the
runway, when you reach it position yourself over the red marker (press L3 if
you are still banking to level off) and descend using the square button.  If
you find you are falling too fast let go or press the lift button to slow.

Bring on the destruction.  Your goal is to fly forward as you normally would
and destroy the three stationary trucks at the end of the runway.  Your
helicopter is equipped with machine guns on the L1 button and a rocket
launcher on the circle button, you won't be needing the machine guns.  As you
approach the three trucks slow down and fire the rocket launcher at each of
them to make sure they are destroyed, then turn around and fly toward your new
target: two moving cars.  These can be a bit difficult to hit, but as long as
you are facing and angled directly toward them, they are going slow enough so
that you won't miss.  One thing I find that helps is keeping control of where
you're looking by moving the camera with the R3 stick.  As a final test you
need to fly to the red marker on the strip and land your helicopter.

This is just a quick one, in a new plane you haven't used yet you need to
perform a fancy loop-the-loop.  Fly toward the first corona and immediately
once you pass through jam back on the left analog stick to do a loop, no
matter what the camera does just hold back on the left analog stick.  As long
as you weren't pressing in any other direction you'll find yourself in a
perfect position to pass through the second corona when you complete it.

Another in the session of fancy moves is the classic barrel roll.  This is
much more difficult than the last one because despite doing exactly what the
game tells you to do, you're inevitably going to lose control afterwards.  You
can only hope to salvage what little control you have left and make it through
the corona.  Okay, maybe it's just me.  But still after passing through the
first one hold left, now the important thing is not too hold it for too long
because that's instinctively what you're going to do, let go just as you're
about to straighten out and you'll have a better chance of gradually
straightening and making it through that second corona to complete the test.

The last test really isn't about flying at all, well if it is then the only
vehicle flying is you because the test starts with you far above the clouds
and only a parachute on your back.  Your goal is to aim toward a small target
on the ground which looks physically impossible from this height but becomes
perfectly plausible once you get down there.  The game teaches you numerous
tricks about falling and chuting but in order to do well on this mission
simply hold up on the analog stick to dive the whole time.  Do not listen when
the game tells you to open your chute, instead continue to dive past the
clouds and open it up only once you're through the clouds.  Now you can slow
your descent and move forward by holding down on the left analog stick but
avoid doing this as you're more likely to just over shoot the target.  Instead
simply let yourself fall normally and use the right analog stick to look
around and gauge how well you're doing.  As you get closer to the ground judge
whether or not you need to drift forward and adjust it so that you do.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                         N.O.E.                        |
\_/      (000E2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Welcome to your first real flying mission, and flying is definitely what
you're going to be doing.  Hop into the plane, drive it out (steering with the
L2 and R2 buttons) then take off down the runway.  Your destination is the
Angel Pine area at about the polar opposite end of the world, but you can
manage.  To make it more difficult you have a specified height limit and if
you fly too high the game warns you and your visibility meter starts going up. 
It goes up slowly so you've got a good warning and opportunity to get lower. 
Don't take it as a super emergency and slam your plane into the ground. 
Remember that the height is relative to the ground below you so you can fly
over a mountain without worry since the height is measures from the ground to
the plane.  Things you have to look out for are mostly near the destination
area, things like large telephone poles and especially trees in the woods. 
Don't hesitate to fly high for a moment if it means avoiding flying through a
forest or something.  The only other thing you need to look out for is the
restricted air space a little South of the airport.  You'll get a hefty
warning if you go that way, just steer clear if it happens.  Stick to the same
formula on the return trip and land the plane to get $15,000.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Stowaway                        |
\_/      (000E3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

At the beginning of this mission you're given a motorcycle and told to ride up
the ramp on the airplane.  Not too hard except for the fact that the airplane
is moving and not only that, dropping obstacles as it goes.  The best way to
do this is to drive along on either side of the plane until you get close so
you don't even have to worry about dodging at all.  When you start to get
close to the ramp wait for the next set of crates to fall out the back and
turn toward the ramp, with any luck you'll have made it aboard.  Once aboard
however there's still more to do.  The first order of business is to get the
parachute which is on the back of the government guy at the top of the plane. 
There's tons of explosives on here so using guns will only blow the thing to
bits, run up to him and take the old fashioned route of punching him to death. 
Grab the parachute and then switch to the explosive item and throw it.  Now
all you need to do is jump out of the plane and watch the scene in order to
complete the mission, whether you hit the ground and splat or not is
irrelevant to the mission requirements, the $20,000 is yours as you plummet.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Black Project                     |
\_/      (000E4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The goal in this mission is to infiltrate area 69 and bring back evidence of
the Black Project.  You're equipped with a sniper rifle and thermal goggles
which will be invaluable for this task.  Step into the base and make good use
of that sniper rifle you were given.  Despite the loud noise it makes it will
only disturb personnel who are relatively nearby.  Make sure to snipe all the
guys in the tower as well not just the ones running around on the ground. 
You'll find the blast door opening device at the upper right side of the
compound from the perspective of coming in through where you started, however
don't worry about being seen because it's quite easy to drop through the
vents.  Once you've been sighted the icon on the minimap points to a vent
opening, shoot it and drop to find a health item then enter the installation.

Head through the nearby door and go further into the facility.  There are many
military personnel in here, shoot them with whatever weapon you have, the
assault rifle that they carry works great.  If you go right you'll find some
body armour and a minigun in the small room.  One trick I recommend is to not
actually pick up this body armour while you still have some left.  There's a
lot more guys and you'll probably get shot more than a couple times, wait
until your current armour is depleted and then come back for this.  Climb down
to the lower area and  get into the small little car.  Drive it down the
spiral ramp and run over any people you come across before they shoot it to
the point where you need to jump out.  Clear the room and run down the East
path where you'll find two sets of stairs.  Ascend one of them and be careful
around these corners, usually there's more than one enemy hiding behind them. 
You can find and disable the nearby SAM if you want, but it's not necessary.

Keep going until you reach a room where a keycard is needed.  The scientist in
the next area will drop it, make sure to let him live, because he's a
scientist, and probably a nice guy.  Step on the red marker to open to open up
the path to the stairs.  Be careful here there are tons of military personnel
on the stairs.  Shoot them from far above using the sniper rifle to avoid the
most potential damage.  If need be you can go back and grab that body armour
on the table near the scientist if you didn't already.  At the bottom you'll
find a handy little item, a jet pack.  Equip the thing and jet out of this
huge tower.  When you shoot out the top they'll fire at you but you can just
boost so high there's nothing they can do.  Now all that's left is a relaxing
trip back to get your well earned reward of no jet pack, no money, no respect
and being abandoned at the top of a mountain.  Be sure to answer your cell.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Green Goo                       |
\_/      (000E5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

What you'll probably need to accomplish this mission is a heck of a lot of uzi
ammo and a nice piece of body armour.  Neither is required but it'll help out. 
Use the jetpack and fly to the location of the train.  You'll find it moving
along nicely covered with military personnel and a number of crates.  Fly
beside it using R1 to target and kill anyone shooting back at you, then to
target the blue boxes found on each flatbed car.  Eventually one of them will
reveal the green goo you are looking for.  This is your only goal, once you
have dropped down to pick up the green goo all you need to do is fly back and
return it to The Truth to get your reward.  Your reward is $20,000 along with
the asset property of the airstrip.  This will now generate up to $10,000 at a
time for you to come and collect every now and then.  As if that wasn't enough
the awesome jetpack now spawns just outside the door.  Pretty darn spiffy.


O============================================================================O
|                               Rosie's Missions                     (000F0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Intensive Care                     |
\_/      (000F1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Start by finding yourself a vehicle and heading over to the local hospital. 
When you arrive it turns out the guy was already discharged and is being taken
away by ambulance.  The problem is that there are three ambulances and you
have no idea which one he is in.  Since he's in a random one of the three it's
up to you to go and examine them all yourself.  There's one to the North and
two to the South so you've got a better chance of finding it if you go South
first.  Use the minimap to locate the first ambulance and bump into it with
your car, this bump will determine whether it is the correct ambulance or not. 
In the event that it is not you have to go up to the next one and try the same
thing, but hitting the first one alerts the mafia so you need to act quicker
before they escape.  Don't worry, there's plenty of time to try all three in
the event that you need to.  Eventually you'll find one that has Johnny
inside, in order to get the driver out of the car you need to start ramming
the ambulance as hard and as often as possible in every direction.  Avoid
doing drive-by shooting as you don't actually want to destroy the vehicle. 
When the driver jumps out run him down and switch over to the ambulance.  You
need to drive it over to the meat factory o nthe West side of town while being
pusued by mafia cars the whole time, make it in one piece to get your reward.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                   The Meat Business                   |
\_/      (000F2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You need to get into a car and take Rosie back over to the meat factory.  When
you arrive go inside and watch the scene.  You will be in a little bit of
trouble, pull out your best gun and protect Rosie at all costs.  Make your way
from room to room, start at the entrances and pick off the guys in there.  Use
an automatic weapon and take advantage of the quick targeting of the L2 and R2
buttons, but be careful as many of these people are wearing body armour.  A
more powerful weapon like the M4 is preferable but not required.  Now if your
health starts to drip note a couple of things.  In the meat freezer o nthe
right with all the hanging carcasses you will find some body armour, and back
in the main office you will find a heart to restore you to full health. 
Playing it safe and taking advantage of these items should allow you to
complete the mission without too much trouble.  Watch out in the final box
room for the guys who are hiding on top of the boxes.  Surprise them by
strafing around the corners and firing before they can.  Once you get outside
it's a simple matter of driving Rosie back to the casino.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Freefall                        |
\_/      (000F3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Hop into a vehicle and drive it down to the airport.  There you will need to
requisition yourself a plane.  Take off with the one at the blue marker and
start flying it out over the ocean.  You have to fly out quite a fair ways
before you actually see anything, far beyond what the actual normal map in the
pause screen shows when on land.  Eventually you'll find the plane you've been
looking for.  Pass it and then quickly turn around, there's a corona that
follows behind the plane here.  Put your training to good use and fly into it
(you're faster than the other plane, don't worry.)  At the point there's a
quick scene and you're on board.  Here you've got the ability to press L2 and
R2 in order to hide behind the walls.  Shoot with the circle button.  There's
four guys in there each with armour, you're best bet is to wait until you
don't hear gunfire then pop around, make a few head shots if possible and
repeat the process.  Soon enough you need to do the same thing for the
captain, however just standing there and firing works fine.  Fly the plane
back to the airport and land it on the runway, the second the plane comes to a
stop a nice fifteen grand is yours as well as some well earned respect.
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  Saint Mark's Bistro                  |
\_/      (000F4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Get yourself a nice gun and some body armour before starting this mission. 
Your first task is to head to the airport, which is easy enough.  Board the
jet that you find at the marker and take off, you need to fly to Liberty City
which is located to the East.  Simply fly off the edge of the large map in
order to be taken to the Bistro automatically.  Here you'll find yourself
immediately in a shoot out.  Press L3 to duck down and get a good weapon.  Now
pop up and start capping the guys quickly, there's quite a lot of them.  By
far the most dangerous part of this mission is the two guys with shotguns who
are down the stairs behind the counter.  DO not let them shoot you, even with
body armour it doesn't take more than a couple good hits for you to die.  Your
best bet is some kind of grenade or something where you can kill them without
exposing yourself.  If not don't waste any time with the stairs.  Jump down
the stairs, quickly turn around and blast the guys as fast as possible. 
You'll probably take damage but live.  Now make your way down the stairs,
taking out the guys as you go.  Most can be shot from a corner before they
even realize you are there.  Past the main kitchen area is an outdoor part. 
Your main target is here, if you have a sniper rifle this is cake, if not
simply let the auto-target take care of everything from the top of the stairs. 
Once everyone is dead you will find yourself automatically on your way back to
San Andreas.  Land the plane at the airport to complete the mission.


O============================================================================O
|                             Madd Dogg's Missions                   (000G0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Madd Dogg                       |
\_/      (000G1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Head over to the Royal Casino to find Madd Dogg a little out of his mind and
threatening to jump.  What you need to do first is quickly run over and grab
the pick up truck with all the boxes in it and park it under Madd Dogg.  Now
for the next part it's kind of a ltitle minigame in which you need to
accelerate and decelerate (turning is not necessary) to stay as close as
possible to Madd Dogg's position.  Eventually after he's stumbled around for
awhile he will indeed jump.  You don't need to be 100% accurate but you do
need to be close.  When done correctly he lands on the back of your truck with
about half his health, do the right thing and rush him to the hospital as fast
as possible.  It's similar to the paramedic missions in that you need to avoid
bumping too much so that he survives the trip.  With no time limit simply take
it easy and drive carefully to ensure Madd Dogg gets to the hospital okay.


O============================================================================O
|                                 Heist Missions                     (000H0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                 Architectual Espionage                |
\_/      (000H1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Head u pthe road to find a bunch of tourists in front of the casino.  The guy
taking the pictures of the group is obviously the one with the camera, it's
your unfortunate job to end his life solely for his camera.  Now drive down to
city hall which is marked on your map.  Make sure you set your weapon to fists
before going inside.  Speak to the receptionist at the desk and respond
positively to both her questions, this will give you access to the stairs
beside the front entrance.  Ascend the stairs until the marker on your minimap
changes to a square, now go in and watch the quick scene.  Run down to the
floor below and go into the room at the end.  There's an object in here you
need to destroy, simply blast it with some gun but do it from a distance
because it explodes into flames and you would probably want to avoid burning
to death.  Make sure to unequip your gun afterward.  On the top floor you can
now safely go into the room and photograph the casino plans.  This however
will raise your wanted level anyway, you need to escape from the building
blasting all the cops as you go down.  By the time you're out of the building
you'll likely have a four start wanted level, this will make things difficult
but all you need to do is get back to Woozie's (and your) casino, when the
mission ends your wanted level disappears and you become more respectable.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                   Key to Her Heart                    |
\_/      (000H2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Take a car to the casino and wait for the person to leave.  You need to follow
behind their car but stay at a good enough distance so that the spook meter
stays low.  Don't get too far back however or else you risk losing the car. 
Follow it until it stops at a store, go inside after the person and step on
the red marker.  Go into the change room and get a new outfit, now follow the
person home.  Stop out front and wait for the gimp.  You can recognize him as
the guy walking on the sidewalk toward her front door with a large rubber
object in his hand.  Kill the guy and then step up to her front door to end
the mission.  She becomes one of your girlfriends so in order to get the card
you need to either get her relationship meter to 40%... or kill her.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Dam and Blast                     |
\_/      (000H3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Make your way to the airport and get a plane there.  As you approach the dot
on your minimap make sure you spend the trip getting as high as you possibly
can, there's a corona floating in the air above the clouds and you must pass
through this in order to be able to jump.  When this occurs hit triangle to
drop out of the plane and fall until you feel it is the right time to open
your parachute.  Glide toward the red light pillar, if you don't make it from
the drop get there by any means necessary.  Now this entire next section is
based around stealth.  Approach the door with the knife equipped and take out
the guards.  Be sure to pick up the knife there even if you already have one
or else you won't be able to proceed through the door.  Inside the dam and up
the stairs there are five generators.  Move from generator to generator using
the triangle button to plant the explosives and using your knife to take care
of the people there without alerting any of them.  After all the charges are
planted go through the door and watch the scene.  Grab the skimmer plane
floating on the water nearby and use that to get wherever you're going.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Cop Wheels                       |
\_/      (000H4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This is one of the more difficult missions you will face, but like most
there's a right and a wrong way to do it.  A moving truck is going along the
highway and you have twelve minutes to load four cop bikes onto it, but they
have to be the four specific bikes located on your map.  To start you're going
to want to go for the closest one and that's the West one.  Grab it and then
ride it all the way along the highway until you reach the truck, drive it up
the back and the game will park it for you automatically.  Now jump off, grab
a car and continue.  Each time you need to get another bike the best choice is
always the closest which will change each time since the truck is moving.  As
long as you minimize each trip you should be able to do this with a good few
minutes still remaining on the timer.  Your reward is of course more respect.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Up, Up and Away!                   |
\_/      (000H5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

First things first, you'll need to get an assault rifle and some body armour,
this is going to be rather dangerous.  Now find a car and drive it up to the
military base.  Wait outside until the gates open for another vehicle and then
shoot the guard working the door.  Find yourself some cover and blast everyone
you see.  Now make your way into the warehouse on the left.  There's tons of
guys in here all over the place, stay at a distance and pick them off before
they are able to see you.  You'll find extra health and body armour in here as
well but don't pick them up until you need them.  Beyond the warehouse is a
horseshoe (more info on those in another section) and then some more guys
outside.  Before going up the stairs be sure to pick up the flamethrower down
the path beyond the stairs.  At the top two helicopters suddenly appear,
they're easy to take down however.  Get to the gun turret at the marker and
start blasting with either the L1 or circle button.  You should be able to
eliminate them with little to no damage to yourself.  Climb up the next set of
stairs and get into the helicopter with the gigantic magnet attached to it.

The second part of this mission consists of your flying this beast over to
where there's an armoured car parked indicated on the minimap and using the
giant magnet to snatch it.  You don't need to press any buttons to actually
snag the car, but keep in mind the magnet wire can be extended and retracted
using the right analog stick.  Grab the truck and fly it all the way over the
city to your airstrip.  Set it down with the wheels on the ground on the red
marker and then land your helicopter as well to end the mission and get some
more respect.  You can't start the next mission without the key card. 
Remember, get her affection up to 40% (she loves big muscle guys with lots of
sex appeal... yum) or just kill her and she'll automatically drop the card.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\             Breaking the Bank at Caligua's            |
\_/      (000H6)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Make your way to the casino and go inside, the four minute timer starts
immediately.  The first thing to do is get to the door and use the key card
with the triangle button.  Once inside head down to the generator room, you'll
find a ventilation shaft at the back.  Switch to the gas canister and drop it
down, you'll know you did it right is it triggers a scene (sometimes you drop
it, but the game doesn't register it.)  Next leave the room and head down to
the next section.  Grab the nearby forklift and use it to pry open the door,
the forklift is operated using the right analog stick.  This should get your
gang into the casino, now the next phase of the heist is about to begin.

If you don't already, equip the night vision goggles you have in your
inventory, they help a lot.  Take point for the group and eliminate all the
guards, there are countless numbers of them but fortunately they only wield
weak weapons and you can find some body armour in the room right before the
forklift.  When you reach the vault pick up the charges nearby and run back up
to the generator room.  Throw one of the charges, get out of there, then
switch to the detonator and use it.  Return to your group and get ready to
fend off more guards when you've got the money.  Return to the vehicles and
let them escape, now it's your job to act as the decoy however.

Make your way up the stairs and get to the elevator.  It will take you to the
upper section of the casino where you can easily get access to the roof.  Jump
from roof to roof avoiding fire from the helicopter and grab the parachute. 
Jump off the roof toward the helicopter on the adjacent building and press
circle to open it as soon as possible, hold down on the analog to glide over
there and kill the cops on the roof when you land.  Make sure they're all
taken care of before you get in.  From here it should be a simple task flying
it back to your air strip and netting yourself a cool $100,000.


O============================================================================O
|                              CJ's Final Missions                   (000I0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  A Home in the Hills                  |
\_/      (000I1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You're automatically thrust into this mission without having to lift a finger. 
Drop out of the airplane and parachute onto the roof of the house.  Be sure to
open your parachute rather early because you are dropped somewhat far away
from the house.  When you land on the roof pull out a gun for which you have
lots of ammo, preferably something like the M4 and start unloading like mad at
all the guys climbing up onto the roof.  After taking out what seems like an
endless amount move your focus to the ramp on all sides of the house because a
bunch more will come from there.  When you've finally taken them all out be
sure to refresh your body armour with the one found on the roof and then go
down the ramp and through the main entrance of the mansion.

Inside you will need to fight off just as many, if not more guys than you did
before.  There's a ton of guys in all the rooms leading off the hall in the
next area, carefully scope out each room eliminating the guys inside before
the can see you, don't forget to check your back now and then because the
enemies aren't afraid of coming in from behind.  One of the rooms here
contains a body armour, and if you drop down in the next area you'll find a
full health refill in the kitchen.  Now as you continue on you'll get a
message about some guy who is trying to escape.  Chase him down but don't risk
your life trying to kill him.  Be sure to pick off the other guys on the way
just to be safe.  If you don't kill him in the house a car chase ensues when
you get outside, unfortunately you're assigned one of the poorest handling
cars ever.  Be sure to switch if you need to.  All that uzi ammo you picked up
will come in handy here as you drive up beside the guy and drive-by him to
death, his car explodes, the mission is complete and the mansion is yours.

  __
/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Vertical Bird                     |
\_/      (000I2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Get onto the boat right beside you where you start and drive it to the large
ship located at the position marked on your minimap.  Rather than driving the
boat into the back of the large ship, jump off and swim in using stealth.  Now
you can fight with your silenced pistol in order to maintain your cover.  Up
the first set of stairs and in the door you will find a drink machine you can
use to refill your health, and considering the power of the firearms these
military guys are using it should come in handy.  Head through the door
opposite the machines and step onto the red marker to deactivate the SAM.  Run
in the opposite direction all the way down to the end of the hall, there you
will find a number of military jets.  Get into the one which is already
outside and hold X to ascend as you would a helicopter.  Once you're in the
air press R3 to retract the landing gear and hold up on the right analog stick
in order to point the jets forward.  Now a battle commences between you and
three other military jets.  Manoeuvre around in the sky and use R1 to target
with L1 to fire upon the other three jets, just watch you don't crash in mid
air.  They don't take many hits to go down.  When this is accomplished you
need to head North to take care of some boats.  Arriving there move your jets
back to the original position so you can hover and fire on the four of them. 
All you need to do after that is fly to your airstrip and park the ship in the
hanger, now $50,000 is yours along with use of the Hydra whenever you want.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Home Coming                      |
\_/      (000I3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Hop into a vehicle and drive down to the precinct.  On your way you're going
to want to stop at Ammunation and pick up some M4 ammo with some body armour
if you already aren't stocked in either category.  Now pick up Sweet and
return to Grove street.  You've got two jobs to do here, one is to clear out
the drug dealers and the second is to take back your hood.  Start by killing
all the drug dealers, each is marked on your map.  Once this is complete shoot
three Ballas to trigger the gang war.  Now you can survive this easily without
even being hit once, just do the following.  Equip the M4 and stand at the tip
of the circle right out front of Sweet's house.  All the Ballas in the three
waves will be coming from the street in the direction of the bridge, and since
the M4 has such incredible range, especially when you're proficient with it,
you can just hold the fire button while tapping L2 and R2 to switch from
target to target.  There's a heath item that appears near them but assuming
you use this tactic you won't need it at all.  Kill all three waves of Ballas
to take back the hood and end the mission, getting you a bit more respect.

  __
/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  Cut Throat Business                  |
\_/      (000I4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Drive the car down to the location where they're shooting OG Loc's video, when
you arrive he'll try to escape on hovercraft and you need to chase him down. 
The most important thing to note for this section is that he's constantly
going to try and swerve in all directions just to screw you up, ignore his
back and forth movements and just stay in a straight line.  When he goes over
the jump at the lighthouse DO NOT follow him over it, instead go around
otherwise you risk getting stuck up there.  When he goes up on the beach
follow him in the water as he's going to go off another dangerous jump and
land in the water again anyway.  Follow him up the next time he goes on land,
there's a scene and the chase continues on go karts.  It's not your
responsibility to kill him or anything, in fact quite the opposite, he must
live.  But it's not like you'd be able to anyway, every time you're about to
catch up he just goes faster.  Focus on staying behind him and don't worry
about doing anything dangerous.  in fact following a a bit of a distance
allows you more prep time if he turns at the last minute, just remember not to
follow too far behind.  Watch the scene at the end and the mission is over.

  __
/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                         Riot                          |
\_/      (000I5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Drive Sweet's car back to Grove Street through the town of crazy rioting
people who will not hesitate to attack, shoot or explode whatever car it is
your driving.  The idea of the entire city going crazy sounds a lot more
dangerous than it actually is though, simply drive from CJ's mansion back
again without encountering any trouble to automatically pass the mission.


O============================================================================O
|                             Sweet's Final Missions                 (000J0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                   Beat Down on B Dup                  |
\_/      (000J1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Take Sweet's car and drive over to B Dup's house, it's not very far away at
all.  Watch the scene when you arrive here and then whip over to Glem Park. 
Similar to what you did in the last mission kill three Ballas here to provoke
a gang war.  It's another three waves of guys that will attack you, eliminate
them with the help of the full health and body amrour items you can find on
the road.  After they're all dead you still haven't got B DUp so you'll have
to get into the house.  The guys guarding the house are equipped with much
more dangerous guns so it's best just to take them out using the M4 from a
distance, because you seriously risk losing your life if you get anywhere near
them regardless of how much armour you have.  After taking out the front
defenses go into the house and watch the scene to end the mission.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Grove 4 Life                     |
\_/      (000J2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Well if you've done gang war missions before you'll know how this works,
although that's not to downplay how potentially dangerous these can be.  It's
good to prepare yourself by getting a good gun however armour and such isn't
as important as it always continues to spawn on the streets during gang wars. 
Make your way to the marker and provoke a war, as usual you (and Sweet) just
need to survive the first three waves.  You can always recruit some more guys
into your gang by R1 targeting them and pressing either up or down on the D-
pad but to be honest I find the AI on the gang members to be extremely
frustrating as you try to find a good position and all they do is walk in
front of your gun.  After taking back the first turrf you've got your choice
of the next one, find somewhere nearby that's still inhabited by Ballas and
win a second gang war.  Afterward return to your hood to get your reward.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Los Desperados                    |
\_/      (000J3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This will be the most violent mission you've undertaken so far, so if you know
what's good for you, you'll be bring a hell of a lot of M4 ammo.  When it
begins gather up a couple of gang members (you're forced to) and drive Cesar
West down the tracks to Union Station.  You need to infiltrate the area and
take out all the gang members, crouch down and move in.  Try aiming manually
for some of these and picking off as many gang members as you can around
corners rather than putting yourself at risk.  Don't move into an open area
with houses on either side, stay near the fence so you can focus your attacks
in one direction without worrying about your back, and make use of your map. 
When you've cleared out all the guys in the residential area you can find a
full health restore item in front of one of the houses, then you need to move
to the red marker across the street.  In this area fight your way down the
alley, do your best to keep your people away from cars because they will
inevitably explode and end up killing a teammate, failing the mission.  Shoot
all gang members on either side, be sure to pick up the full health item in
the garage when a bunch of gang members rush out of there.  The final area is
an attack on the house, your primary target should be the guy with the
flamethrower but there's not nearly as much resistance here as there was in
the previous two areas.  Kill them all to complete the mission.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    End of the Line                    |
\_/      (000J4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Before taking part in this mission you must go out and battle the Ballas and
other gangs to win at least 35% of the territory in Los Santos, so get moving. 
You'd be surprised how many you actually need to take in order to get that
number, if you haven't been working on it previously you're looking at between
fifteen and twenty territories.  Sweet will give you a call when you've got
enough so don't bother going back and checking each time.

When the mission begins hop on the bicycle and ride down to the S.W.A.T. van. 
You can try to shoot your way to it or you can just make a mad dash.  Either
way once you get inside drive it back to the crack house and smash right
through the front.  There's no reason to get out right away, use it to cream
all the Ballas inside before you're forced to disembark and head through the
door.  You need to start making your way up floor by floor.  On the first
floor there's a few guys in the hall and some body armour at the end.  Get
ready for a huge firefight when you go through the nearby door.  Crouch down
and fire from behind a set of boxes.  Run through into the small adjacent room
and eliminate the two guys in there before ascending the stairs.

On the second level before going through the door you can find a full health
item in the room that overlooks the one you just fought in.  Watch out for
exploding barrels in the large drug lab on the second floor, use them to your
advantage don't find yourself next to one that's being targeted.  A full
health item awaits at the top of the stairs (you have to run around the upper
walkway) and the next set of stairs leading to the third floor.  You'll find
the same piece of armour you've come to expect.  You need to watch your back
in the lounge, not only should you check both left and right when going
through the door, make sure the first guy you target is the one with the
shotgun.  In the hallway that follows the room with two couches, make sure to
check both rooms that the guys in suits jump out of for a body armour and
health refill.  After this floor, it's time to go up and get Big Smoke.

Big Smoke has some powerful body armour so you're going to need to aim for his
head if you want to do serious damage.  It's not really necessary if you're
using something like an assault rifle, just blast away but make sure you take
out his lackeys first.  When the lights go out run to the corner and grab the
thermal goggles, you'll also find a drink machine over there if you get
thirsty during the battle.  Eventually Smoke will go down and a scene begins,
but it's not over, no sir.  A countdown begins and the building is burning, no
here's the classic predicament.  You're given a time limit but enemies still
populate the building.  I'll tell you now that being careful and making sure
it's safe before proceeding will still leave you with two minutes or so when
you get out of the building, so don't go nuts and make a mad dash.  Make sure
you clean out each room before going any further and note that the body armour
at the top of each set of stairs has respawned.  When extinsguishing flames
remember to aim at the base of the flame and don't swing it around, be
consistent.  If there are two sets of flames blocking a door you should only
need to douse one of them to get through, exit the building for a scene.

The final task is a chase, you'll automatically start in the car so chase
after the firetruck.  You don't need to attack it, in fact it's strongly
advised not to, you'll have your hands full keeping up anyway.  People around
the city are throwing molotov cocktails like crazy but it's more of a light
show than anything dangerous, you'll probably have driven through a hundred
fiery explosions before the chase is up and your car will still be just as
shiny.  At some point you'll get a message at the bottom of the screen. 
Before the bar runs out you need to drive forward and get under the ladder so
Sweet can drop into your car.  Now it's a little change up and the very last
thing you need to do is a little shooting on the back.  Fire upon any cop cars
that are chasing you, any bikes and such.  Make sure to take out the two cops
on the fire truck, when the one of them dangles from the ladder he's dead, you
don't need to keep firing.  After quite a chase assuming you've kept the cops
at bay you'll be treated to a couple final scenes and then the credits roll.

You beat the game.  Good job! 

                            
                                 d--(o_O)--b


But it's still not over.  After the credits roll you're placed right back on
Grove Street with some newfound respect.  For many this will just be the
beginning (okay, maybe not quite) but still there are oodles and oodles of
things to do in this game, don't miss out.  Be sure to check out all the other
sections of the walkthrough the milk the game for all that it's worth!


O============================================================================O
|                                ZERO's Missions                     (000K0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Air Raid                        |
\_/      (000K1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

To get these missions simply purchase ZERO's shop in San Fierro then step on
the red marker.  For this mission you have to be the guy operating the gun
shooting down the planes that fly overhead, the catch is that they're only toy
planes, but the bombs they drop are real and are trying to destroy the
transmitters.  There's a little bar indicating the transmitter health and you
have to destroy the planes quick enough so that they are unable to deplete the
bar.  This is actually a difficult mission, you need to be very accurate
because there are dozens of planes that come, it actually takes quite a long
time before the onslaught ends.  Some of them come three to four at a time as
well.  I find the easiest thing to do is not be shooting all the time since it
makes your crosshairs constantly move.  What you want to do is position your
crosshairs right over the plane, or where it's going to be in just a second
and then start shooting like mad.  This should work quite well.  Remember you
need to destroy the planes as fast as possible, focus on the ones you can hit
if there are more than one coming at a time.  You don't need to have the
transmitters survive with full health, but you do need to have them survive.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Supply Lines...                    |
\_/      (000K2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This is one of the more difficult missions in the game surprisingly, but
hopefully with these tips you should be able to complete it in no more than a
couple of tries.  I can give you the best directions to take but I can'tteach
you to fly the little plane well.  Practice a bit and don't underestimate the
usefulness of the L2 and R2 button turns.  Now here's how it works, you've got
a certain amount of fuel to not only go out and kill the five couriers but
also to get back to the shop again.  The most effective way to complete this
is as follows:  First you're going to want to turn left and take out the van
that is moving away from you.  It's close and easy to shoot, pop the driver as
well when he bails out and then do a U turn.  Nearby there should be another
marker representing a guy on a bicycle, he's your next target.  The difficult
decision comes here, there's guys far in both directions and you have to
choose one.  Choose to go North and target the two people who are in close
proximity, there's no way you will be able to succeed if you go for the other
target.  After eliminating these two you should have half your fuel left. 
Turn aorund and head toward the marker, it should also be moving toward you
and you'll meet it just a couple blocks away from where you started.  Destroy
the van and quickly turn around.  Return to the rooftop to complete the task.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    New Model Army                     |
\_/      (000K3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

In this mission you have control of the toy helicopter and must make sure that
the little toy car is able to get to the end.  There are three different types
of obstructions you'll have to deal with, barrels, bridges and tanks.  To deal
with barrels fly down to the barrel and your chopper and press the circle
button to pick it up, then just dispose of it somewhere nearby.  To create a
bridge you need to pick up one of the planks back at your base and set it
down, don't worry, you don't need to be too accurate.  The game will take care
of setting it straight.  Finally you have tanks which will damage the car,
these should be dealt with before anything else, if there's a barrel in the
way before a tank just leave it there since it's actually acting to protect
the car until you can destroy the tank.  Head back to base and pick up a bomb. 
Fly right down beside the tank so that you are practically touching it (this
assures you won't miss.)  Now start flying straight up and drop the bomb
somewhere along the way.  This is the easiest and most reliable way to destroy
the tanks.  Helping the car get to the end of the course nets you $7000 and
ZERO's shop starts generating $5000 regularly if you come back to get it.

O============================================================================O
|                               Wang Cars Missions                   (000Q0) |
O============================================================================O

Wang Cars is a property that you can buy in San Fierro just North of your
garage near the Pay 'n Spray.  Some missions are available once you buy it. 
You will not find these missions at Wang Cars however, but at your garage.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Zeroing In                       |
\_/      (000Q1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

For this mission you are automatically assigned a car and told to track down
another car to steal and return to your garage.  You're equipped with a
tracking signal that helps you locate the car at specific intervals, an icon
will appear on your minimap and you must drive to the icon like a checkpoint
before the trail on the car goes cold.  Each time you approach the checkpoint
a more updated location appears and as you get from one to the other you'll
slowly approach the car until eventually you can see it in the distance.  At
this point ignore the map and chase the car down, when you reach it perform
the P.i.t. manoeuvre that you learned in driving school in order to spin the
car around and scare the woman out.  Now all you need to do is get into the
car yourself and drive it back to the garage for respect and $5000.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Test Drive                       |
\_/      (000Q2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Start off this mission by running into the middle of the road and
commandeering yourself a vehicle.  Take Cesar to the showroom located at the
point on your map, when you arrive there watch the scene and get ready to
drive.  Cesar isn't exactly interested in getting back to the garage anytime
soon, he'd rather drive around the city and you need to keep up with him in
order to avoid failing the mission.  Drive around cars, obstacles and
basically anything in your way.  This includes cops as you will automatically
be given a two star wanted level.  At some point Cesar will ignite his nitro
boosters, you've got them on your car too and you can use them with the L1
button to keep up.  After a while of driving around the city he eventually
agrees to head back, you'll end up driving through a bunch of obstacles, make
sure to go around rather than following him over the jump and risking flipping
your car.  From here the garage isn't too far away, just drive back and park.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                  Customs Fast Track                   |
\_/      (000Q3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Hop into Cesar's car and drive down to the docks, they aren't too far away. 
When you arrive at the icon on your minimap there's a red marker for you to
step into underneath the crane.  Press the triangle button to get on.  There's
three crates here and one of them holds the car you are looking for.  What you
need to do is use the X and square buttons to raise and lower the magnet. 
Grab one of the crates and move the crane over to drop the crate on the red
marker.  You can move the crane arm with left and right and you can move the
crane on its tracks with the other directions.  Press the circle button to
drop it (do not drop it from very high or it will explode) and Cesar will tell
you whether it's the right car or not.  Eventually when you find the correct
on you're suddenly attacked by a bunch of law enforcement officials.  Whip out
whatever kind of weaponry you have and start firing to help Cesar.  When
they're all taken care of drive the car back to your garage very carefully.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Puncture Wounds                    |
\_/      (000Q4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

For this mission you are assigned a car with a special ability, this car is
capable of dropping stingers which are specially designed spike strips that
magically drop out of the back of your car.  You're only given three of these
so you need to make them count.  The crazy lady can be found South of San
Fierro on the freeway, start driving in that direction in order to catch up to
her.  She drives at ridiculous speeds, it would seem the best choice of means
to accomplish your goal is to just get ahead of her and drop a strip but that
proves really difficult.  Instead what I like to do is use the P.i.t.
manoeuvre to spin her car out, then just drop a spike strip right in front of
the car where she's going to drive in order to get back on the road, it works
wonders.  After doing this all it takes is a nice relaxing trip back to the
garage, and your reward is the Wang Cars becoming an asset property.


O============================================================================O
|                               Stadium Missions                     (000V0) |
O============================================================================O
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       8-Track                         |
\_/      (000V1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You'll find this event available at the stadium in Los Santos.  It's a pretty
classic racing event and nothing much unexpected, you're given a car and a
nice 8 shaped track, then you've got twelve laps to try and get yourself into
first place and finish the race.  With all the other competitors isn't going
to get pretty dangerous out there and they won't hesitate to try and knock you
out of the way so try to keep your distance in a large pack and only try to
get ahead when you think you've got a good opening.  The most dangerous part
of the race is obviously going to be the turns, the car you're in is perfectly
happy to spin out if you try to oversteer around a corner, make sure to brake
before you actually go into the turn and maintain control rather than trying
to skid around all of them, it will pay off in the long run when you win. 
Your reward for winning is $10,000 and a Hotring Racer outside the stadium.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Blood Bowl                       |
\_/      (000V2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This event can be found in the Stadium in San Fierro on any day of the week. 
The Blood Bowl is a crazy violent smash-tacular car event.  Everyone is given
uzis and sent after each other, but the primary goal isn't violent at all. 
When driving around you will notice a number of large red light pillars,
driving through these adds a total of fifteen seconds to your time.  Your goal
(along with everyone else's) is to collect as many of these as possible so
that your total time goes above one minutes.  In order words since you start
with 30 seconds on the clock, if it wasn'tgoing down at all you would need to
drive through two of the red markers in order to win.  The clock is going down
however so you'll need to be fast.  If your car gets damaged you can pick up
one of those wrench icons that's lying around to fix it up.  Your reward for
this is a nice $10,000 and the Bloodring Banger car outside the stadium.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Dirt Track                       |
\_/      (000V3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Dirt track is the first of the two Las Venturas special stadium missions. 
Head to the stadium on either Monday or Wednesday.  This is a six lap race
using the dirt bike.  The race itself is actually quite challenging,
fortunately you are given an edge in order to help you win.  A few turns into
each lap the computer players will always have a huge piled wipeout, it's
inevitable.  This will be you main chance to get ahead because while good
driving is sufficient to keep up, even with a high bike skill it makes it very
difficult to actually CATCH up.  Try to get yourself in first place early
because if you let one person get away all by themselves they'll be less
likely to crash with all the others.  Your reward for completing this mission
is a BF Injection parked out front on Mondays and Wednesdays.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Kickstart                       |
\_/      (000V4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You'll find this mission available in the Las Venturas stadium on any day
besides Monday or Wednesday.  Kickstart is the kind of mission where you need
to drive your dirt bike all around trying to manoeuvre it up onto various
obstacles in order to collect different corona items.  The green coronas are
worth one point while the amber coronas are worth two and the red coronas are
worth three.  Like many similar types of things in similar games people often
spend the whole time trying to pick up a single super difficult item worth the
most points when driving around to get all the other smaller ones will end up
with a bigger payoff in the end anyway.  You only need to collect twenty-six
points worth of coronas anyway in order to pass the missions and that's far
from all of them so if there's a particular one you just can't get to don't
worry about it.  For your trouble you are awarded a Dune truck outside which
similar to this mission, is available any day besides Monday and Wednesday.


O============================================================================O
|                                Los Santos Races                    (000U0) |
O============================================================================O

The races are triggered by completing driving school, you'll get a phone call
about races and from that point there are checkered flag icons on the map.
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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                     Lowrider Race                     |
\_/      (000U1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Blade.  I'm sure you have
already accomplished this mission with the storyline anyway, but regardless
you may wish to improve your time.  The race is difficult because low-riders
are notorious for sliding, if you come into contact with any cars or try to
make turns while skidding at top speed you're just going to spin out.  The key
is to get ahead at the beginning of the race since the other drivers will be
aggressive and try to spin you out, drive on the sidewalk if you have to in
order to get out front at the start.  Now your destinations are the red light
pillars you see, they're both in front of your face and on the minimap.  The
most important feature however is that within them is a blue arrow that shows
the direction you're going to have to turn since most of the time you can't
divert your eye from the screen.  When approaching a turn break hard BEFORE
you actually get there so you skid while moving forward and don't spin, the
take the turn at a reduced speed.  This should keep you in control and far
enough ahead to win the race with little difficulty.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      Little Loop                      |
\_/      (000U2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is an NRG 500.  As the title
suggest it's just a small (but dangerous) loop around the city.  It will be a
bit tough at the beginning, but the place that you'll be able to pass everyone
is that straightaway as you're going down the huge hill, remember that they
always stay on the road so you can get ahead cutting corners on the sidewalk
and watch out for the Z shaped turn at the end, you need to go left to hit the
marker and then immediately back right again to continue the race.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Backroad Wanderer                  |
\_/      (000U3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is an FCR 900.  Much of this
mission takes place on the main road with you driving at high speeds against
traffic so do your best to stay in the right lane and avoid any cars.  The
beginning of this race is the more difficult part, when you come to a marker
that points left make sure you slow down a lot otherwise you risk flying over
the cliff.  There's some dangerous hills coming up but the main thing you need
to watch for are the final couple of checkpoints, you need to make turns
without actually having checkpoints telling you to make them.  Either keep a
close eye on your map or memorize exactly where you need to turn beforehand.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                      City Circuit                     |
\_/      (000U4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is an FCR 900.  The whole race
basically takes place on large highways so you don't really have to worry
about rough terrain or anything like that but you do need to worry about
traffic.  Fortunately for most races it's the straight sections that allow you
to get ahead and this whole race is just one big straight section so you
hsouldn't have too much trouble staying ahead.  There's a couple of places
where the red marker appears to make it look like you actually have to go out
of your way, or you missed a turn but keep in mind the way the highway system
works and just follow the logical path, it will always lead you well.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Vinewood                        |
\_/      (000U5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Sunrise.  The actual race part
of this mission can be difficult, the cars move quick and like to aggressively
knock you out of the way so keep your distance... preferably a good distance
AHEAD of them.  There's a few things you need to worry about on this otherwise
predictable (yet long) course.  First of all there's a huge hill where you can
get some crazy speed, but the catch is that it curves a little and not only
will you be going to fast to turn, your wheels probably won't even be on the
ground so do yourself a favour and slow down a bit.  Soon after that there's a
bridge and a sharp turn you can follow if you want, persoanlly I prefer to
just launch over the edge and hit the checkpoint in midair.  Finally right
after this checkpoint there's a corner, on your map it looks like you'll find
the next checkpoint if you take the diagonal road but in fact you must turn a
direct right, the diagonal road is just a crescent that leads back again.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                        Freeway                        |
\_/      (000U6)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Super GT.  I absolutely hate
this car with a passion, it's like the wheels where specifically designed to
screw you over.  I cannot stress this enough, when coming up to a turn brake
before you reach the turn!  Once you've slowed down enough you can turn with
minimal risk to sliding all over the place.  This is your basic course with a
a few good turns here and there, the one advantage you have however is some
nice straightaways that allow you to catch up as best you can, which is good
because if you're actually interested in keeping control of your car you'll be
spending a lot of this race going at some rather slow speeds.  This is just
coming out of a personal incident, but if you find yourself chasing the guy in
first place down the freeway, try to take advantage of that P.i.t. manoeuvre
you learned in driving school to take him out of comission, otherwise he'll
probably just end up passing you on the next corner anyway.  Good luck.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                    Into the Country                   |
\_/      (000U7)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Bullet.  This car is fast, and
I mean REALLY fast.  Sometimes at top speeds down the highway you'll find
yourself wanting to stop to see if you're actually driving through an
earthquake, now this can make things quite frustrating for a couple of
reasons.  First of all it doesn't matter how careful you are, if something
goes in front of your path you are GOING to hit it, cars in front of you love
changing lanes when they see you coming, it's crazy, and this car doesn't
exactly have "Bullet"proof armour.  Ha.  Anyway the race is incredibly long so
what you need to do is take it easy a little, the race part shouldn't be too
difficult considering it's not a crazy winding course so even if you aren't in
first place there's no reason to just slam the gas and hope for the best. 
Take your time and when you find less populated areas to really open up, do so
if you have to.  The highway near the start of the race however is not one of
those places, it will probably work best out in the country expecially during
the return trip to Los Santos, that road is pretty straight the entire way.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Badlands A                      |
\_/      (000U8)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Sabre.  I'm sure you have
already accomplished this mission with the storyline anyway, but regardless
you may wish to improve your time.  There's a couple of things that make this
race difficult, first you need to watch out for the very hilly terrain and
avoid flipping your car, second since the race is so long and bogged with
nature's obstacles, you also have to avoid destroying your car.  Get into the
front of the pack when the race begins and stay there.  Understand that there
are going to be large red light pillars everywhere, and while it may seem
easiest at times to drive directly toward them, the dirt path you are on will
always curve toward them, and driving on the path is far safer than trying to
shortcut your way over a bumpy field or hill.  There race takes you through
numerous locations like small towns but it will mostly keep you out in the
woodland area.  Drive extremely carefully, especially around some of those
sharp turns and bumpy roads which are likely to end up flipping your car.

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/   TA: San Andreas /-------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ --------o-------\                       Badlands B                      |
\_/      (000U9)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a ZR 350.  I'm sure you have
already accomplished this mission with the storyline anyway, but regardless
you may wish to improve your time.  Once you've established yourself in first
place you'll need to focus on the course.  There are a number of shortcuts you
can take, most of them involve bumpier terrain but the payoff is worth it,
take the S shaped winding road in the beginning, you can just cut across the
grass and save a lot of time.  A few other things to keep in mind, after you
pass through the little shed area with the piled logs you'll soon be
approaching a bridge, be sure to stay on the path here since any shortcuts you
try to take will likely lead to a dead drop.  This race isn't much different
or longer than the previous one, the most difficult part about it I find is
the dirt flying up into the screen as you fly down the country path.


O============================================================================O
|                                San Fierro Races                    (000T0) |
O============================================================================O

The races are triggered by completing driving school, you'll get a phone call
about races and from that point there are checkered flag icons on the map.
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|  _ --------o-------\                    Dirtbike Danger                    |
\_/      (000T1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Sanchez.  As an introductory
mission to the San Fierro races it's not too difficult, since it takes place
out in the country there are a lot of chances to cut corners and take
shortcuts, not to mention the fact that you're given a very capable offroad
vehicle.  Forget the linear path the computer players take, if you see a
chance to save even a bit off time go for it, as the race goes further and
further assuming you haven't fallen off you should find your opponents beyond
the scope of your vision when looking behind you.  There are no surprises here
except for a couple of sharp turns, but you shouldn't lose too much time even
if you miss them just cutting across the grass.  Eventually the race comes to
an end when you reach the builds across the main highway.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Bandito County                     |
\_/      (000T2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Bandito.  These things are
rather nasty in terms of how much dirt they throw up from the ground, but
after you get past the initial shoulder to shoulder bumping it should be okay. 
There are a couple of good places in this race for you to cut between the
trees and save time, keep an eye out for them on your map.  The dangers come
in two similar areas, the first is when crossing the area of water with the
cop bribe, when coming out of there make sure you stick left otherwise you
risk completely flipping yourself out.  That part however is nothing compared
to what comes quite awhile later.  You'll find yourself going down the path to
a point where you must cross the water, DO NOT STRAY FROM THE PATH at this
point, you must absolutely 100% remain where the map leads you on the path,
even the slightest offset will have you in water to the point where you
vehicle cannot be recovered and the race is over, not pleasant at all.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     GO-GO Karting                     |
\_/      (000T3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Go Kart.  You'll need to drive
around the city in your funny little vehicle making sure to stay ahead of the
competition.  One thing to keep in mind for the entire race is the size of
your wheels, with little things like that even the curb can make for a bumpy
ride so your best bet is to remain on the road at all times (except when the
choice is between the curb and an oncoming car of course.)  After the first
coupleof hill up don't be confused the the marker with the left arrow, it
means the next road coming up not the alley beside it, I made that mistake I'm
sad to admit.  Fortunately the Go Karts have incredible turning abilities
because there are a couple of times when some surprise turns come up, even if
you are keeping up with the arrows in the checkpoints, you'll need to keep a
close eye on your map as well to know exactly where to head next.

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|  _ --------o-------\                  San Fierro Fastlane                  |
\_/      (000T4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is an Alpha.  The hilly terrain and
relatively short distance make for a quick but dangerous race.  It's nothing
but hills out there, the course was designed to take you through the biggest
ones around which means you need to keep your eyes open in terms of traffic,
when flying over the top of the hill there's no way to tell what's ahead of
you so try to stick with the right lane and avoid launching yourself wherever
possible.  There's no shortcuts to take so the best way to maintain your speed
and get ahead is to reduce the number of crashes, avoid traffic at all costs
and avoid being pushed around by the enemy AI, if you're feeling a bit violent
it may actually benefit you to get aggressive and push back a little.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   San Fierro Hills                    |
\_/      (000T5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Phoenix.  I find this to be a
rather pleasant race, although there are a couple of hitches near the start
the majority of the race is pretty reasonable.  The hitches at the start are
pretty much the same hitches you dealth with in the last race, jus the luck
involved in hoping no one comes up from the hills at the same time that you
do, but from the time you get onto the main highway seems will just click from
that point on.  The main thing you need to watch out for in this race comes
after you've been driving out in the country for awhile, there comes a part
where the road just swings back and forth from side to side, it's not hard to
drive assuming you take the necessary precautions and slow down before these
turns, because if you go over the edge you're absolutely screwed.  It's not
uncommon to see a couple of cars ahead of you at the bottom even if you are in
first place, don't worry, they just fell over the edge and have absolutely no
chance of winning.  When you get back on the highway you must make absolutely
sure you get into the right lane, with all that traffic coming at you there's
very little way to avoid it all, and the centre divider is solid almost the
entire way.  The race finally ends just North of the docks.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Country Endurance                  |
\_/      (000T6)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Bullet.  Get ready for the
longest race in the entire game, the Bullet is made for speed and not
endurance so what you need to do is focus more on accident avoidance that
actually staying at top speed (which is a recipe for disaster by the way.) 
Basically they're taunting you with this fast car saying to put the pedal to
the metal and I'm telling you to hold back, I may seem like the bad guy but
seriously if you actually enjoy not being a flaming heap you're going to have
to reduce the speed a lot.  This cannot be stressed enough.  To be honest I
don't think there's anything in the world I could have read that would allow
me to go into this race and just win my first try, those with patience will be
the ones who benefit here because your most powerful tool is practice, get
used to the roads out there and know when to turn.  NEVER try to cut across a
section of grass, the only thing out there that isn't bumpy is the road so
stay on it.  A flat car like the bullet, combined with incredible speed
combined with even the tiniest bump, you'll think the flying car cheat is on.


O============================================================================O
|                           Las Venturas Races (Land)                (000S0) |
O============================================================================O

The races are triggered by completing driving school, you'll get a phone call
about races and from that point there are checkered flag icons on the map.
This particular one is the one further South of the two in Las Venturas. 
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|  _ --------o-------\                       SF to LV                        |
\_/      (000S1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Banshee.  This mission starts
you off in San Fierro and has you driving back to Las Venturas, so you'll have
a bit of city driving, and a lot of country/desert driving, though the race
goes along the land border so you'll actually be avoiding the desert for the
most part.  Anyway it's just a straight course once it gets out there so
you've got one enemy, traffic.  The Banshee, like the bullet, is just
painfully fast.  It's not even a race, I'll tell you that now, you can
obliterate those other cars out there so under no circumstances should you
risk your own safety while still near the beginning in order to get ahead.  On
the long stretch position yourself so that you're in the right lane for the
most part, and use the sides when necessary just... DON'T hit anything.

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|  _ --------o-------\                       Dam Rider                       |
\_/      (000S2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is an NRG 500.  Back to the
motorcycle races once again this one is actually quite fun, there are a few
turns where you can just jump forward so much it's almost unfair.  At about
three points during this course you will be coming up to a check point and
after that a V shaped turn, well you can simply drop over the edge and hit the
marker on the other side of the V while doing a 180 degree drift turn, it
works wonders especially at the turn near the end right before the final
crossing of the dam.  Shouldn't take more than a couple of tries to win.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     Desert Tricks                     |
\_/      (000S3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is an FCR 900.  Take away the
shortcuts from the previous race and add little stupid corners that constantly
throw me from my bike and you have this race.  While indeed more difficult
than the last it's not the difference between night and day, the main things
you need to watch out for are slowing down on some of the more sharp corners
(slowing down on a motorcycle?) yeah, also near the end of the race after you
cross the dam you don't actually continue on the road but rather down a little
dirt path on your left that leads to the finish line among the village.

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|  _ --------o-------\                  Las Venturas Ringroad                |
\_/      (000S4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Turismo.This isn't even a
race, at least not to anyone who knows the location of the X button and is
capable of exerting any pressure at all with their thumb.  No, instead what
this is, is an exercise in profanity control as you try to avoid screaming at
the digital car image that just cut in front of you for no reason at all.  But
seriously, you could probably stop for a picnic half way through the raceand
still not be passed by any of the others cars, it's nothing but four big
straightaways and four big turns.  If you've played Burnout 3 you know what
this is like, huge amounts of speed and weaving between traffic, you primary
goal is to survive to the end without being cut off so many times that your
car just gets to the point where it's ready to set fire and explode. 


O============================================================================O
|                            Las Venturas Races (Air)                (000R0) |
O============================================================================O

The races are triggered by completing driving school, you'll get a phone call
about races and from that point there are checkered flag icons on the map. 
This particular one is located just inside the Las Venturas airport. 

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|  _ --------o-------\                     World War Ace                     |
\_/      (000R1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Rustler.  This is a nice
relaxing trip around the city that gives you a nice chance to take in some of
the sights.  none of the coronas are designed so that they positioned in
difficult areas so as long as you stick to common sense and make good use of
your map you should be able to get all of them.  Make sure you work on
climbing up at the beginning because they get steadily higher as you go and
sometimes it's hard to keep up, the Rustler isn't always happy going higher.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Barnstorming                     |
\_/      (000R2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Stuntplane.  What you have
here is about the polar opposite of the one you just did, if you were unhappy
with the lack of control you had with that thing you'll love launching
yourself in pretty much any direction you press with this thing, and it has
absolutely no problem climbing higher.  Honestly you need to be gentle with it
because once you start going a little out of control, trying to jam it back
and forth to compensate is only going to make things worse.  The first part of
the course is pretty simple but it does eventually get to the point where
you're avoiding treetops and flying under things... like bridges so use the
nice relaxing trip at the start to get used to the transition from that plane
to this plane, there's a steep learning curve here but I'm sure you'll manage.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Military Service                   |
\_/      (000R3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Hydra.  Fly this Military Jet
all over the freakin' world.  Start by pointing your boosters backward and
take off like a normal plane.  In theory I guess you could set the boosters to
point down and have a nice relaxing ten mile flight that won't be over for
another decade, but where's the fun in that.  Don't go crazy however, hit each
corona straight on so that you're best prepared for the next one.  Avoiding
flying over military bases which is actually a common problem with this
missions, there's one just next to your airstrip so be sure to avoid that area
at all costs.  Other than that, it's just a long long flight that will
actually seem to go by quicker than you expect... considering the speed.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Chopper Checkpoint                  |
\_/      (000R4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Maverick.  We've switched from
planes to helicopters now, and this acts as the introductory checkpoint
mission.  Remember that the helicopter can manoeuvre much easier than the
plane can so in many circumstances it's just easier to go around than through,
take the bridge for example.  Basically you've just got a bunch of checkpoints
spread around and there really aren't a lot of ways to fail this mission. 
Watch out for the military base as usual, but there's no reason for you to be
that far out of your way anyway, follow the checkpoints and you'll avoid it.

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|  _ --------o-------\                  Whirly Bird Waypoint                 |
\_/      (000R5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Maverick.  Basically take what
you just did and put it in a suburban setting, where they don't hesitate to
set the coronas in claustrophobic places like between two buildings on a
crowded city street.  Despite the short distance it's going to take you a long
time.  Just be very careful and remember that your helicopter blades and
rather fragile, keep them away from solid objects at all times and utilize the
X and square buttons to rise and descend quickly.  Fortunately after getting
those rather difficult markers early on the last third of the mission of so
actually takes place on the outskirts where hitting each corona is extremely
easy, the other nice thing is that flying the helicopter down the streets
between the buildings give you quite a spectacular view of the city.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Heli Hell                        |
\_/      (000R6)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Hunter.  This military
helicopter will give you the advantage you'll need in order to get to some of
the tight spots scattered around the city.  You'll find it very similar to the
last mission except that it asks you to go into a few tight squeezes that you
probably would never have willingly gone yourself otherwise.  Oh well, the
helicopter can take a LOT of punishment which is quite fortunate, don't be
surprised if you find those blades scraping a lot of highway overpasses.


O============================================================================O
|                                Driving School                      (000Z0) |
O============================================================================O

Back to School - A series of twelve tests designed in order to test your skill
and prowess behind the wheel of a car.  Driving School is located South of
your garage in San Fierro, at the red S on your map.  Head inside and step
onto the red marker for a scene, then the other marker in front of the T.V.  A
bronze medal in driving school puts a Super Gt outside, while a silver gives a
Bullet car and finally a gold medal puts a Hotknife in the parking lot.

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|  _ --------o-------\                        The 360                        |
\_/      (000Z1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

For the first test you need to perform a 360 degree spin.  Simply hold the X
and square buttons, then hold left or right on the analog stick to start
spinning.  Slow and stop your car when you are at about the same position as
when you started, don't stop too early or go for too long either.

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|  _ --------o-------\                        The 180                        |
\_/      (000Z2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The second test has you doing a 180 degree turn through the pylons, each one
that you hit will deduct a certain amount of points from your score eventually
to the point where the race will just end if you screw up too bad.  Accelerate
and stay left if possible, then jam on both the normal bake and handbrake
buttons to drift around the corner, it may take a couple of tries but
eventually you should be able to do it without hitting the sides.  From here
drive back and try and park yourself as best you can where you started.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Whip and Terminate                  |
\_/      (000Z3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Whip and terminate allows you to select a direction of the turn you wish to
do, your goal is to drive forward, skid around the corner using like before a
combination of the square and R1 buttons, then continue to drive before
braking hard at the end to avoid hitting the final pylons.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Pop and Control                    |
\_/      (000Z4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Pop and Control gives you one severe disadvantage, which is the lack of air in
your tires.  They will promptly pop as you drive over the spike strip so you
need to manoeuvre around the small curve and park near the end.  You aren't
given much time so you can't do this slowly.  Accelerate hard at the beginning
and let go of the gas just before you hit the spike strips to retain maximum
control.  Now tap X to keep yourself going at a reasonable speed and turn ever
so slightly to avoid the pylons.  When you stop make sure you get as close as
you can to the end because you lose a LOT of points for stopping too early.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Burn and Lap                     |
\_/      (000Z5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You're given a Banshee and told to do five laps of the track.  You're not
going to need the square button at all for this one, you're given plenty of
room to drift around with the R1 button here.  In fact you probably won't have
too much trouble with the turn as long as you point yourself toward the turn a
little before you start and hit the brake right as the centre cones end, the
real difficulty comes in the camera after the turn.  You can't really see too
well which direction you're pointing so as long as it doesn't disorient you
too much I recommend tapping either L2 or R2 after a turn so you can see
straight ahead of you, either that or pressing select and driving the entire
course under a different perspective, but it's hard if you're not used to it.

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|  _ --------o-------\                       Cone Coil                       |
\_/      (000Z6)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The next test sets you up on kind of a slalom course, you need to drive back
and forth between the pylons here, loop around the end and do the same course
driving back and parking on the red marker.  You won't need to use any brakes
or anything for the slalom part but you will need to skid around that pylons
at the end.  Make sure to park as close as you can to the red marker at the
end, and remember you aren't given a lot of time for this one so be quick.

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|  _ --------o-------\                        The '90'                       |
\_/      (000Z7)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This one is sort of a test of your ability to parallel park, but instead of
being given time to check and readjust, you need to skid into position.  The
easiest way to do this is drive a little to the right and aim toward the hood
of the car on the right.  As you approach the two jam left on the analog stick
while holding R1 and square, as you slide into position use the analog stick
to modulate your direction and try to be as straight as you possibly can.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Wheelie Weave                    |
\_/      (000Z8)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Wheelie Wave will probably require more trial and error than any other you've
done so far.  Your goal is to stay on two wheels (or the side of you car)
until you reach the red marker, it's easier said than done.  Use the small
ramp on the left to get on two wheels.  Now while like this the harder you
press the analog stick left the more you're going to stay on two wheels, the
problem is that it's going to point you in the wrong direction to you have to
hope that when you come off the ramp you're actually pointed a little to the
right (practice will get it so you can most of the time.)  You don't need to
stop exactly on the red marker for the bronze but you need to get pretty darn
close.  Remember to break as you approach it, that should set you back down.

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|  _ --------o-------\                       Spin and Go                     |
\_/      (000Z9)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Compared to previous ones this is rather easy, just do it carefully and you
should be fine.  Start off by holding L2 and R2 to look behind you and then
reverse until you are almost at the turn.  Hold whichever direction so that
you turn toward the curve, make sure you've gone far enough back so you have
room to move without hitting any pylons.  After turning just drive forward and
park yourself as close to the end as you can without knocking anything over.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     P.i.t. Maneuver                   |
\_/      (000ZA)     \------------------------------------------------------o

No pylons in this one, what you need to do is drive up beside the police car
so that your front half is about equal to his back half and just move right a
little bit.  When doing this you want to be as close as you physically
possibly can when coming up beside him, the harder you hit not only the harder
it will be to perform the action as shown in the demo, but you will also have
points docked for damage.  Just come up beside and push his back end a little.

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|  _ --------o-------\                       Alley Oop                       |
\_/      (000ZB)     \------------------------------------------------------o

For this test you need to use the jump in order to do a barrel roll with your
car, so in reality you'll only need the left few inches of the jump.  The
barrel roll must be executed perfectly in order to get any points at all,
landing on any part of your car other than the tires will result in an
automatic 0%.  Accelerate forward and aim it so your right tires are the only
part of the car that touch the ramp, cut it as close as possible in order to
get the maximum amount of rolling momentum.  When in the air you can let go of
X and control your car a tiny bit with the analog stick but the bulk of the
jump comes from the actual take off itself, a bit of practice and you're fine.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     City Slicking                     |
\_/      (000ZC)     \------------------------------------------------------o

City Slicking sets you loose on San Fierro and has you driving to a marker on
the other side of the city and back again without actually taking any damage. 
In reality you can take damage it's just deducted from you total score but
don't worry.  One important thing to remember however is that if you stop
under any circumstances, even for a second you will end the test, so DON'T. 
What you want to do at the beginning is make a right and follow the road North
along the streetcar tracks, this should put you almost completely out of the
way of any danger.  Eventually you'll have to make a couple of turns near the
end which is rather annoying because you're given a car that slides. 
Regardless when you reach the red marker perform a U turn and go back the way
you came despite the direction of the arrow, that steetcar path is the safest
and fastest way of getting from one end of town back to the other safely.


O============================================================================O
|                                Boating School                      (000Y0) |
O============================================================================O

Boating School can be found at the red S marker at the Northwestern corner of
the world.  Here you will be challenged to complete five boating tasks in
order to increase your boating abilities.  Getting a bronze will unlock the
Marquis while silver gets a Squallo and gold gets you a Jetmax.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Basic Seamanship                    |
\_/      (000Y1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

For the first mission you need to accelerate the boat forward and then stop it
in the region between the parallel buoys.  This is quite a simple task, all
you need to do is hold X at the start to move forward.  At some point you will
get a message on the screen telling you to hit square to use the reverse
throttle, when you see this message count two seconds and then immediately
hold the square button, you'll definitely pass and probably get a gold.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     Plot a Course                     |
\_/      (000Y2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Plot a Course sets you on a course between a number of buoys that you must
complete in less than forty seconds which can be done easily assuming you
don't make any critical errors which is where the time will add up.  The
course it pretty straightforward and you can see each marker on your map, a
couple of times you'll need to utilize the R1 button to do a sharper turn or
correct yourself if you end up facing a different direction.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     Fresh Slalom                      |
\_/      (000Y3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Similar to the last test you must navigate between a bunch of buoys, however
the Dinghy turns much shaper than the previous boat did and in fact you won't
need to use the R1 button for any of the turns at all.  Try to avoid hitting
the buoys themselves as it will net you a damage penalty in the end if you do,
but the full two minutes still gives you lots of room to make errors.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Flying Fish                      |
\_/      (000Y4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The goal of this mission is to jump more than 55 meters.  If you just drive
straight for the jump not only will you be on an angle but you also won't have
enough speed.  You're given plenty of time so when the mission starts turn
right and start driving toward the bridge.  When you time is somewhere in the
high twenty seconds turn around and aim yourself directly toward the jump.  No
matter how you manoeuvre in the air you should be able to land get this one.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Land, Sea and Air                   |
\_/      (000Y5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The final test gives you three minutes to again navigate through a whole bunch
of parallel buoys that will lead you all around the water and even over a
couple of jumps.  There's plenty of time to accomplish it, where you'll get
screwed are on the damage penalties so take the extra couple seconds to line
up each one, it's better than the five second penalty you get for each nudge.


O============================================================================O
|                                 Flight School                      (000X0) |
O============================================================================O

FLight school is located at your airstrip, you'll need to go through it anyway
during the story mission once you've bought the place for $80,000 so if you're
too early in the game and haven't got here yet, don't worry, just wait.  It's
just Northwest of Las Venturas.  A bronze medal will get you the Rustler, a
silver the Stuntplane and a gold medal will get you the Hunter.
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|  _ --------o-------\                        Takeoff                        |
\_/      (000X1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Your first test is taking off.  This is quite simple, all you have to do is
hold the X button to accelerate along the runway.  When the tail of the plane
starts to lift up a little pull back on the left analog stick to take off. 
When you're airborne press R3 to bring in the landing gear.  Now you'll need
to go through three coronas to show you can at least control the plane a
little.  They're pretty much in a straight line.  Any turning you do should be
done with only the lightest of movement on the analog stick, you don't want to
find yourself out of control and constantly correcting your direction.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Land Plane                       |
\_/      (000X2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

In the second mission you need to learn how to land the plane.  Aim yourself
down toward the first corona, this will approximate the angle you should be
looking to use when landing.  Extent your landing gear with R3 and start to
pull up a little while holding square.  Continue to pull back so that you land
as straight as possible and adjust your speed so that you come to a stop as
close to the centre of the red marker as you can to pass the test.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Circle Airstrip                     |
\_/      (000X3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Your next challenge is circling the airstrip.  Select whichever course you
feel more comfortable with, it doesn't make much difference.  This one is much
more difficult than the last one, it puts an emphasis on turning which in
planes can be quite hard.  It introduces you to the rudder turn using the L2
and R2 buttons, never underestimate the power of this turn, it's far easier to
turn like this and remain in control.  You still need to turn with a
combination of these buttons and the analog stick for a couple of the turns
but for the majority you can just stick with the L2 and R2 buttons.

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|  _ --------o-------\                Circle Airstrip and Land               |
\_/      (000X4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Well now take what you did on the previous test and make it more difficult. 
You need to fly around the airstrip and land the plane after doing so.  The
same idea applies to making it through all the coronas on the way but you also
need to straighten yourself out at the end.  Make sure to start descending and
slowing down early, you get bonus points if you stop inside the red marker
(it's quite difficult to beat without doing this) so slow down early, it's
easier to adjust your speed to that you go forward a bit further, but not so
that you slow down if you're coming in to land when it's too late.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Helicopter Takeoff                  |
\_/      (000X5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Now we change vehicles to the helicopter which will feel significantly easier
to fly to people who have played Vice City.  This one is actually quite easy. 
The instructions you are given are to fly straight upward, to do this all you
have to do is hold the X button.  When you reach the top let go of the X
button when it tells you to level off, but press it periodically to maintain
your height.  Hold either L2 or R2 to do a 180 degree turn and then when it
tells you to hold up on the analog stick to bank forward.  From here you'll be
moving directly toward a corona, pass through it to complete the test.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Land Helicopter                    |
\_/      (000X6)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Since you've taken off with the helicopter now it only makes sense to land. 
The game actually needlessly complicates this one, despite everything it tells
you all you have to do is hold forward and X to fly toward the end of the
runway, when you reach it position yourself over the red marker (press L3 if
you are still banking to level off) and descend using the square button.  If
you find you are falling too fast let go or press the lift button to slow.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Destroy Targets                    |
\_/      (000X7)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Bring on the destruction.  Your goal is to fly forward as you normally would
and destroy the three stationary trucks at the end of the runway.  Your
helicopter is equipped with machine guns on the L1 button and a rocket
launcher on the circle button, you won't be needing the machine guns.  As you
approach the three trucks slow down and fire the rocket launcher at each of
them to make sure they are destroyed, then turn around and fly toward your new
target: two moving cars.  These can be a bit difficult to hit, but as long as
you are facing and angled directly toward them, they are going slow enough so
that you won't miss.  One thing I find that helps is keeping control of where
you're looking by moving the camera with the R3 stick.  As a final test you
need to fly to the red marker on the strip and land your helicopter.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     Loop-the-Loop                     |
\_/      (000X8)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This is just a quick one, in a new plane you haven't used yet you need to
perform a fancy loop-the-loop.  Fly toward the first corona and immediately
once you pass through jam back on the left analog stick to do a loop, no
matter what the camera does just hold back on the left analog stick.  As long
as you weren't pressing in any other direction you'll find yourself in a
perfect position to pass through the second corona when you complete it.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Barrel Roll                      |
\_/      (000X9)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Another in the session of fancy moves is the classic barrel roll.  This is
much more difficult than the last one because despite doing exactly what the
game tells you to do, you're inevitably going to lose control afterwards.  You
can only hope to salvage what little control you have left and make it through
the corona.  Okay, maybe it's just me.  But still after passing through the
first one hold left, now the important thing is not too hold it for too long
because that's instinctively what you're going to do, let go just as you're
about to straighten out and you'll have a better chance of gradually
straightening and making it through that second corona to complete the test.

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|  _ --------o-------\                 Parachute onto Target                 |
\_/      (000XA)     \------------------------------------------------------o

The last test really isn't about flying at all, well if it is then the only
vehicle flying is you because the test starts with you far above the clouds
and only a parachute on your back.  Your goal is to aim toward a small target
on the ground which looks physically impossible from this height but becomes
perfectly plausible once you get down there.  The game teaches you numerous
tricks about falling and chuting but in order to do well on this mission
simply hold up on the analog stick to dive the whole time.  Do not listen when
the game tells you to open your chute, instead continue to dive past the
clouds and open it up only once you're through the clouds.  Now you can slow
your descent and move forward by holding down on the left analog stick but
avoid doing this as you're more likely to just over shoot the target.  Instead
simply let yourself fall normally and use the right analog stick to look
around and gauge how well you're doing.  As you get closer to the ground judge
whether or not you need to drift forward and adjust it so that you do.


O============================================================================O
|                               Motorcycle School                    (000W0) |
O============================================================================O

You can fin motorcycle school on the West outskirts of Las Venturas just South
of the dirt ring.  A bronze medal in the motorcycle school will get you the
Freeway, while a silver medal the FCR 900 and a gold the NRG 500.
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|  _ --------o-------\                        The 360                        |
\_/      (000W1)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Just like you did at driving school (assuming you did that before this) all
you need to do is hold the square and circle buttons along with either left or
right on the analog stick in order to spin around and stop where you started.

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|  _ --------o-------\                        The 180                        |
\_/      (000W2)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Another test that works the same way as the driving school.  Accelerate on
your motorcycle and use the R1 button to drift around the pylons at the end
without knocking any over.  After that you need to get back to where you
started and park as straight and as close as possible to the centre.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      The Wheelie                      |
\_/      (000W3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Drive your bike forward and when you come to the first couple of parallel
cones on either side pull back on the left analog stick slightly.  Enough so
that you get your wheels in the air but not so far so that the back of your
motorcycle scrapes against the pavement.  After passing the cones you can set
your front down and jam the square and R1 buttons to stop yourself at the end.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Jump & Stop                      |
\_/      (000W4)     \------------------------------------------------------o

We may have a new record for the easiest test ever, but I know you probably
don't want a lecture on how easy it is so here's how it's done.  Simply
accelerate straight and hit the jump.  While in mid air tilt the left analog
stick so that you land nice and flat on your wheels then as you approach the
finish use the square button solely to bring yourself to a nice steady stop.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      The Stoppie                      |
\_/      (000W5)     \------------------------------------------------------o

This test is a little bit more difficult, not that a stoppie is hard to do but
losing control near the end is almost inevitable.  Drive forward and as you
come right up to the coned section hold up on the left analog stick and tap
the square button, hold it for less than a second then let go and continue to
tap it lightly to keep yourself up.  If all goes well you should be able to
stay in the stoppie until near the end when you might tilt a little but you
can use the analog stick to correct yourself.  Now park in the final coned
area around the centre before the time runs out and a gold medal is yours.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     Jump & Stoppie                    |
\_/      (000W6)     \------------------------------------------------------o

For this mission what you need to do is drive forward, fly off the jump and
angle your bike forward so that you land on your front tire and do a stoppie
into the final area.  This is extremely difficult for a number of reasons, the
first being you can't angle too much or you'll fall off, the second being the
seemingly random chance the bike will either just not slide far enough or
angle itself in whatever fashion it chooses.  Good luck with gold on this one.


O============================================================================O
|                              Vehicle Challenges                    (00900) |
O============================================================================O
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|  _ --------o-------\                         BMX                           |
\_/      (00901)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You will find the BMX challenge West of the hospital in Los Santos in the
skate park area.  There is a bicycle sitting by itself there, all you have to
do is get onto the bike and the challenge will automatically begin.  Your goal
is to collect all nineteen markers before the time is up, many of them are
floating in the air and require the ability to bunny hop high enough to reach
them so if you find the challenge too difficult try increasing your cycling
skill before trying again.  Each ring you grab adds another ten seconds to
your time, collect all the rings before you time reaches zero.

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|  _ --------o-------\                 The Chiliad Challenge                 |
\_/      (00902)     \------------------------------------------------------o

As the name suggest you can find the Chiliad Challenge on top of mount Chiliad
which is located South of San Fierro and is pretty much unmissable.  You
started to climb it during the first mission out in the badlands after
completing Los Santos.  Climb to the very top of the mountain and get on the
mountain bike any time between 0700 and 1800.  The race is a checkpoint race
down the mountain, your goal is to hit all the checkpoints and win the race in
first place.  This isn't the only race however, after completing the first
race a new one opens up on the same bike and yet another one after that.  If
you're looking to get full completing of the game, you must win all three.

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|  _ --------o-------\                        NRG 500                        |
\_/      (00903)     \------------------------------------------------------o

You will find this bike on the docks near the crane that you operated for the
Wang Cars mission.  If you haven't done that yet then it's in San Fierro in
the docks area East of your main garage.  Beside one of the large yellow
cranes is an enclosed area with a huge pool shaped area devoid of water.  This
is for storing ships in but it's currently empty.  Anyway not down in the pool
area but along the side you will find a motorcycle, get onto it to start the
challenge.  You need to collect all the coronas before your time runs out, use
the pool as if it were a half pipe in order to propel yourself up into the air
with enough speed and height to collect all the rings, it's not easy.

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|  _ --------o-------\                       Lowrider                        |
\_/      (00904)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Head Back to where you first met Cesar near Union Station in Los Santos. 
There will be a guy standing out front with a red marker beside him, you need
to complete this challenge in order to get full 100% completion of the game.

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