Enter the combinations for these cheats while playing, don't press pause. It is not advised to save your game with cheats enabled. From the following list, pick the type of cheat you are looking for, or just browse through the list and see what catches your eye.
For console specific cheats, check the San Andreas PC cheats, San Andreas XBOX cheats and San Andreas PS2 cheats pages.
- Weapons, Health, Armor & Money
- Police, Stats & Gangs
- Spawning Objects
- Vehicles
- Gameplay
- Weather & Time
- Additional Notes
 | Weapons, Health, Armor & Money |  |
Weapons Package #1
PS2: 
Brass Knuckles, Bat, 9mm, Shotgun, Micro MP5, AK-47, Rifle, Rocket Launcher, Molotovs, Spray Can.
Weapons Package #2
PS2:
Knife, Desert Eagle, Sawed-Off, Tec-9, M4, Sniper Rifle, Flame Thrower, Grenades, Fire Estinguisher.
Weapons Package #3
PS2:
Chainsaw, Silenced 9mm, Spaz, MP5, M4, Sniper Rifle, Heat Seaking Rocket Laucher, Remote Explosives.
$250,000 & Full Health & Armor
PS2: 
Infinite Health *
PS2: 
Makes you mostly bulletproof, and fire, punches and melee attacks don't hurt you anymore. You can still be hurt by explosions, falling, getting run over, and drowning.
Infinite Ammo
PS2: 
Infinite Oxygen (Lung Capacity) *
PS2: 
Swim underwater and never have to worry about drowning!
Commit Suicide
PS2:
Adrenaline Mode *
PS2:
Never Get Hungry *
PS2:
Hitman level in all weapons
PS2:
Automatically gives you the hitman level for all weapons.
| Police, Stats & Gangs | |
Never Wanted
PS2: 
Wanted level never increases. Doesn't erase stars you already have.
6 Star Wanted Level *
PS2:
Lower Wanted Level
PS2:
Decreases the wanted level by decrements of 2 each time the the code is used.
Recruit Anyone (9MM) *
PS2:
Recruit normal pedestrians into your gang. If they don't normally have a weapon, they'll carry a 9mm.
Recruit Anyone (Rocket Launcher) *
PS2:
Recruits get rocket launchers if they don't already have weapons.
Increase Wanted Level
PS2:
Increases the wanted level by increments of 2 each time the the code is used.
Maximum Vehicle Stats
PS2:
Maximum Respect
PS2:
Maximum Sex Appeal
PS2:
Really Fat CJ
PS2:
Fat level for CJ goes to maximum.
Really Skinny CJ
PS2:
Muscle and fat levels are dropped to zero.
Really Muscled CJ
PS2:
Muscle level for CJ goes to maximum.
Gangs Control the Streets *
PS2:
Streets deserted except for gunmen fighting in the streets. No cops or regular citizens. No traffic except in gang territories.
Gang Members Everywhere *
PS2:
Gangs will appear all over the state, even in areas where you wouldn't normally expect to find them (Ballas in Las Venturas, for example). Similar to the 'Gangs Rule the Streets' cheat, except pedestrians are basically "replaced" by gangsters, so they drive around etc aswell.
| Spawning Objects | |
Hunter
PS2:
Tanker
PS2:
Dozer *
PS2:
Jetpack
PS2:
Parachute
PS2:
Katana
PS2:
Rhino/Tank
PS2:
Ranger
PS2:
Caddy
PS2:
Hotring Racer 1
PS2:
Hotring Racer 2
PS2:
Bloodring Banger
PS2:
Stretch Limo
PS2:
Romero's Hearse
PS2:
Trashmaster
PS2:
Quad
PS2:
Hydra
PS2:
Vortex
PS2:
Monster Truck
PS2:
Stunt Plane
PS2:
| Vehicles | |
All Cars Have Nitrous
PS2:
Cars Float Away *
PS2:
Bump into another vehicle and it will rise into the air and float away. It will float in whichever direction you hit it from, and the angle at which it floats depends on the force you hit it at.
Traffic is Country Vehicles *
PS2:
All traffic is replaced with vehicles normally found in the countryside.
Traffic is Country Vehicles (minus hillbilly gear)
PS2:
This is the same as the other 'traffic is country vehicles' cheat, although you don't recieve the hillbilly gear.
Traffic is Crap Cars
PS2:
Invisible Cars
PS2:
All vehicles invisible except motorbikes (only the wheels are invisible).
Improved Handling (Hit R3 to jump)
PS2:
Faster Cars
PS2:
Aggressive Traffic
PS2:
Reduced Traffic *
PS2:
No peds and only an occasional car on the street. Parked cars still spawn. Great for cruising. Still enough cars that you're not totally stranded if you wreck your ride.
Drive on Water
PS2:
Destroy all vehicles
PS2:
Taxis have nitrous *
PS2:
Cannot be turned off. When code is typed in a second time, the "cheat activated" text is again displayed.
Fast/Rare cars appear regularly *
PS2:
Black Traffic
PS2:
Pink Traffic
PS2:
Traffic Lights Green
PS2:
Cars Fly *
PS2:
But not like they did in Vice City. The controls are more accurate, and the whole process is just like flying a normal plane.
Boats Fly
PS2:
Vehicle of Death
PS2:
Any vehicle the player is using becomes invincible and gains the ability to instantly destroy anything it touches.
Massive Bunny Hops
PS2:
CJ has the ability to bunny hop on the BMX over massive distances.
| Gameplay | |
Chaos Mode
PS2:
Pedestrians riot, just like they do in the final mission strand. Houses are on fire, people run down the streets carrying TV's and so on..
Elvis is Alive
PS2:
All pedestrians look like Elvis Presley,
Peds Attack (Guns)
PS2:
Ninja Theme *
PS2:
Peds are all Asian dudes with katanas. Traffic is black PCJ-600's, and BF-400's, and FCR-900's. Even cop cars are all black. Get katana.
Funhouse Theme *
PS2:
CJ's appearance changes - a clown nose appears, red hair etc. Pedestrians are replaced with cluckin' bell/well stacked pizza/burger shot workers, and so on. Ice cream vans are seen regularly, and more..
Slut Magnet *
PS2:
Attract sluts with sex toys & get gimp suit.
Full Weapon Aiming Whilst Driving *
PS2:
Aim and shoot at passing pedestrians/vehicles, just like your homies would during drive-by shootings.
Peds Come After You
PS2:
Pedestrians Riot
PS2:
Pedestrians Carry Weapons
PS2:
Move Fast
PS2:
Jump High
PS2:
CJ can now jump 10 times as high as before. Falling down will deduct from health.
Mega Punch *
PS2:
Punches send people flying into the next block. One hit kills. Watch out, peds have it too!
Beach Party
PS2:
Pedestrians turn into girls wearing swimsuits. Vehicles are also beach style and CJ will be dressed in shorts and sandals.
| Weather & Time | |
Orange Sky *
PS2:
This cheat makes the sky look just like in the early preview screenshots. Just like those early preview screens they released, like the one where Carl has a giant hand. This cheat locks the clock at 21:00.
Speed Up Clock
PS2:
Slow Down Clock
PS2:
Sunny
PS2:
Really Sunny
PS2:
Cloudy
PS2:
Foggy
PS2:
Stormy
PS2:
Sandstorm *
PS2:
Always Midnight *
PS2:
Clock stopped at 00:00. Weird sudden weather changes. If you kill yourself, the time stays at 12:00.
The PS2 combinations for cheats marked with an asterisk (*) were not officially released by Rockstar Games. They were discovered by edisoncarter from GTA Forums by wiring the PS2 controller up to the PC's parallel port and trying numerous combinations at high speed. Needless to say, this is not recommended for people to try at home, since it also requires special software to make this work.
Quests through the source code of the game also reveal various hidden button codes for special cheats, yet the button combinations are up to the point of writing . Perhaps we shall find out the combinations in the future, but for now these cheats can only be triggered with cheat devices. The cheats include (but are not limited to):
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all cars with nitrousall cars with hydraulicsinfinite healthinfinite ammoinfinite oxygennever wantedanyone can be recruited to your gangspawn Hunterspawn Dozerall streetlights "strobe" streetlightsall cars turn into bikes/countryside cars/sports cars/special vehicles- 'mission select' code (known to have been used in beta stages, possibly removed)
The rest of the cheat codes and more were finally found 6 months after release not through the brute force method, but by interpreting the hash values created by different combinations of button presses, and then comparing the resulting hashes with hashes for cheat codes programmed into the game. Due to the way the game's cheat codes are programmed (32-bit), it was discovered that every cheat had a huge number of different button combinations that triggered it. So far the list of codes ending with L1 has been extracted, and the estimated number of working combinations is over 200,000
