How to leave Portland early and see Darkel cheats for Grand Theft Auto 3

How to leave Portland early and see Darkel

To let Claude Speed leave Portland the fastest, easiest way: right-click the game folder, click Properties, and un-check the "Read Only" green dot--click to OK that for sub-folders, etc. Make a back-up copy of data--handling.cfg in My Documents.

Go into data--handling.cfg--where you might go, anyway, to soup up the Submission vehicles or the Rumpo (to make "Big N' Veiny" easier)--and give a vehicle a -1 in column I: percent submerged. Then, when Claude drives the vehicle toward the far end of the Callahan or lift bridge and it falls into the water, he'll appear in it on the other side of the bridge.

Thanks to R.Rusk for the next two ways.

A 2nd way to get to Staunton early: have Claude back the Banshee W over the concrete roof of the tunnel in NW Portland toward the water from about where the middle of the road below is. After the back wheels go over and the car starts to tip, have Claude exit and fall onto the tunnel roof. Send him N, moving the mouse to keep the "camera" on the roof below the blue stuff. He has to jump over an obstruction then can go over the middle of the tunnel roof to Staunton, where some invisible solid stuff won't let him continue to Shoreside Vale unless he uses the ledge at the side of the roof. When you want Claude to appear in either town, have him jump from below the town into the blue stuff and he'll appear on the land above.

A 3rd way to get to Staunton early: have Claude go out on the red girder that extends from the right side of the Callahan Bridge to about 6 feet (?) from the end of the 2nd straight length of the girder. Have him jump onto the silver pipe to the right.

How to see Darkel in Liberty City

You can put Darkel into "III" with Notepad. Un-check the green dot 1st as described above. Make copies in My Documents of two data files: default.ide and pedgrp.dat. Then click > Edit > Replace, and replace "scum_man" with "darkel" in datadefault.ide and datapedgrp.dat. This replaces the male tramp with Darkel. You might try using him as your lead character a bit with the "ifeellikedressingup" code.

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