Here are some glitches that have been confirmed by Take2 support to myself (they stated that they are working on a solution to the problem).
I have the gym and basketball glitches and over the last week or so have been trying out things to solve these problems as have many others.
These are descriptions of the three problems, and I will update this post with solutions as they become available, so this is from a variety of sources so sorry if I don't give credit all the time.
Please note, although you may currently not have the glitch, they DO exist, and they tend to happen very LATE GAME, so you may too incur these problems, the Pool glitch though, is easier to avoid, just DO NOT attack people INSIDE buildings, just to be safe.Also note that currently the SUGGESTED solutions posted here are NOT 100% working solutions, they are just the most successful solutions out there at the the moment.The Pool GlitchThis glitch is when people can no longer play pool, due to people inside bars acting as if you are attacking the bar (the bartender for some reason will be loaded holding her hands in the air as if you are pointing a gun at her and the people in the bar will be in the foetal position). The guy you play pool with, will NOT respond to you pressing the

button.
Cause: attacking people in the bars many times
Suggest Solutions: to change appearence ENTIRELY or gamble at Four Dragon's Casino
Pool Glitch Solution: Changing Appearence EntirelyFirstly REMOVE ALL tattoos at a tattoo parlor.
Then change your hairstyle at a barber's.
Then Buy a WHOLE set of clothing in a shop, according to someone on these forums you HAVE to BUY the following (not change in your wardrobe, if you have bought all clothes, you can still buy them again):
A new torso clothing
A new leg clothing - you NEED to get a new set of BOXERS from BINCO as well
A new pair of shoes
A new hat
A new set of shades
A new chain
A new watch
Second Pool Glitch Solution: Gambling at Four Dragon's CasinoGo to the Four Dragon's Casino
Gamble on each game available, especially Blackjack
Save outside the Casino
Drive to a bar and the pool game should now work
This method has been suggested many times and Dead At 4pm gave a more detailed way of doing this so I posted it here.
The Basketball Glitch:A lot of people have discovered that basketballs NEVER appear on ANY courts in their game anymore.
Cause: Saving at Madd Dogg's Mansion
Solution:1. Go to the nearest Safe House and save the game 6 times (thus skipping some days)
2. Go to the nearest Fast Food Restaurant and eat as much as possible
- get CJ quite fat
3. Completely change CJ's appearance - clothes, haircut, and tattoos.
It has been suggest that driving certain vehicles near a basketball court can cause a problem, but in the case of this glitch, that is NOT the problem (I just spent a morning trying loads of different vehicles).
The Gym GlitchMany people have found that when going to visit a gym and trying to use equipment they constantly recieve this message:
"You have worked out enough for today, please come back tomorrow!"Cause: Unknown/first variant of the glitch thought to be caused by repeatedly attacking people in the gyms
Solution: See below for two suggested solutions
Now this isn't a case of people needing to come back the next day, because it STILL happens no matter what.Some people have different experiences for example some can workout at the following gyms still:Madd Dogg's mansion gym
Beach Gym (located on the East side of the Santa Maria beach)
But cannot workout at these gyms:Los Santos - Boxing gym
San Fierro - Marital Arts gym
Las Venturas - Below The Belt gym
Most people find that they STILL cannot use Madd Dogg's equipment or the Beach gym's equipmentPeople with the ability to still workout at the Madd Dogg and beach gyms should try
BOTH gym glitch solutions.
I will call this varaint of the glitch G1People who cannot use ANY gym equipment in the game
should only try the second gym glitch solution as these people tend to have not attacked people in the gyms, which the appearence change tends to solve.
I will call this variant of the glitch G2Some suggested solutions that DON'T work are:Geting Busted
Getting Wasted
Being Sick
(suggested by Take2 support)Getting beaten up frequently
(not killed but loosing a lot of health, again suggested by Take2)Increasing fat/Decreasing fat
Decreasing muscle
Completing the Triathlon - Beat The Cock
Dying in 2 player
Please note that having 100% stamina is NOT THE CAUSE, as I have found a save of mine where I have around 80% and I still have the glitch.Also completing the storyline missions is also NOT THE CAUSE, as I and a mate have saves just after End Of The Line (the final mission storyline mission) where we can still work out.Some people's problem (mainly the people with G1) may be due to constantly killing people in the gyms, this is not the DEFFINATE cause as quite a lot of people (like myself, who TEND to have G2) NEVER attacked people in the gyms.This glitch tends to happen late game.First Gym Glitch Solution: Changing Appearence Entirely (only for G1 people)Firstly REMOVE ALL tattoos at a tattoo parlor.
Then change your hairstyle at a barber's.
Then Buy a WHOLE set of clothing in a shop, according to someone on these forums you HAVE to BUY the following (not change in your wardrobe):
A new torso clothing
A new leg clothing - you NEED to get a new set of BOXERS from BINCO as well
A new pair of shoes
A new hat
A new set of shades
A new chain
A new watch
If that doesn't work the following
memory card method has been SUGGESTED
Second Gym Glitch Solution: Memory Card Methods (for both G1 and G2 people)Please note that for these methods, you will need a second memory card.
Method 1Firstly load the save that has the gym bug.
Now remove your OLD memory card from the slot
Put a NEW memory card into the slot
Save on the NEW memory card
Load this save from the NEW memory card
Go to the gym
Save on the NEW memory card
Now remove the NEW memory card and put in the OLD memory card
Save over the glitched save
This should work apparently, if it doesn't, try Method 2
Method 2Put the OLD memory card in slot 1 and the NEW memory card in slot 2.
In the Browser (available at the PS2's startup) go to the OLD memory card, select the GTA: San Andreas data, press

to enable the Copy To function and copy this data on to the NEW memory card.
You should no longer have the glitch any more (I cannot confirm this myself, but this is the current suggested solution).
Method 3Put the OLD memory card in slot 1 and the NEW memory card in slot 2
In the Browser (available at the PS2's startup) go to the OLD memory card, select the GTA: San Andreas data, press

to enable the Copy To function and copy this data on to the NEW memory card.
Now exit this and start the game, thus loading the game from the NEW memory card.
Now remove the NEW memory card and insert the OLD memory card.
Save the game over the OLD memory card.
You should now be able to use the gyms (as you can see, this method is a combination of 1 and 2).
Hope this helps people with the problem, please all these suggested solutions. And PLEASE post any suggestions so that we can get this done by trial and error.
Third Gym Glitch Solution: My Starvation/Beaten Up MethodJust to clear things up, when I say ALMOST DEAD in this solution I DO NOT MEAN SO THAT CJ's HEALTH IS FLASHING.When I say ALMOST DEAD, I mean that CJ has AROUND 1/4 OF HIS HEALTH LEFT OR LESS. It doesn't really matter how much health he has left, just get his health below 1/2. The solution I think works, because CJ is loosing health when he has no fat or muscle.Sorry to frustrate those who I am sure had problems getting away from nasty peds and making it to the gym.Also note when I say STARVE SO HE LOOSES HEATLH, it doesn't matter how much health CJ has left, the trick is to just starve CJ so he is starting to loose health.Got this method working for 4 different saves as well as 2 of a mate's saves and recently another mate's save. We tried this 3 times for each save to make sure it was this solution that was causing the gym to work.
Preparation:Get CJ to around 100% fat, this is so that CJ doesn’t die while you leave the game overnight.
YOU ONLY HAVE TO LEAVE THE GAME ONCE OVERNIGHT AS THE SECOND STARVATION IN THIS SOLUTION ONLY TAKES AROUND AN HOUR.Step 1:Go to the Johnson home preferably or ANY safe house.
Save here.
Now leave CJ standing
IN the safe house (starving when standing still
DOESN’T work outside).
Go to bed as starving a lot of fat and muscle takes
A LONG TIME.
Step 2:In the morning go see your game
CJ should be starved quite a lot. He should have around 0% fat and muscle.
IF CJ has lost health, save the game.
IF he hasn’t
WAIT until CJ has lost some health (doesn’t matter how much) and THEN save.
Step 3:Now you should have CJ with 0% fat and 0% muscle (and 100% health as you just saved).
Go OUTSIDE the safe house
Hit a PED THREE TIMES
Let the pedestrian hit you until you have
BELOW ½ HEALTH (you
DON’T need to have CJ’s health flash)
Go inside and save
If you die when getting beaten up by a pedestrian just load your last save (say from Step 2 or from when you last saved after getting beaten up, YOU DON'T HAVE TO START OVER)
Step 4:Repeat step 3, THREE OR FOUR times
Step 5:Go inside the safe house.
Save
Leave CJ INSIDE the safe house and let him STARVE (this doesn’t take much more than an hour now as CJ has no fat or muscle)
Starve CJ until he is LOOSING health, not so his health is flashing (that is never required), just so that he is loosing health.
Step 6:Whilst CJ is starving, get to a gym.
The equipment should now work.
Step 7:If the equipment doesn’t work, load your last save after getting beaten up (end of step 4) and start from Step 3 and follow on from there.
Notes on this method:Yes, this is
time consuming, but if you think about it,
you only need an hour or so as the
longest part of the solution is when you are in bed.Feel free to PM me your queries as I have performed this method many times.
I think the reason this solution works is because:
1) CJ looses health via starvation
2) CJ looses health by getting hit when he has NO fat or muscle
Gym Glitch PreventionNote: This PREVENTION (not SOLUTION) will only work if you have a save that doesn't have the glitch. If you only have saves with the glitch then you cannot use this prevention. If this is the case please try the above solutions and those suggested in this topic. For those who do have a recent save without the glitch, please try the prevention below, and post your findings.Recently Chang posted a method to PREVENT the gym glitch.
He feels that by saving with two saves slots that are within a SHORT TIME PERIOD of each other, you will incur the gym glitch.
For example you save at 10:42:23 in SLOT 1 and then again at 10:42:56 in a DIFFERENT slot (for example SLOT 2), your saves will look like this in the save menu:
(SAVE FILE 1)END OF THE LINE 17 NOV 2004 10:42:23
(SAVE FILE 2)END OF THE LINE 17 NOV 2004 10:42:56
He feels that saving like this causes the glitch and therefore SAVE FILE 2 is now glitched.
Please note that even by saving in Slot 1 then Slot 6 for example, the problem will STILL occurBy deleting SAVE FILE 2 you will remove the glitched save. You must now restart the PS2 and therefore automatically load the non-glitched SAVE FILE 1.
Therefore to prevent this problem after deleting the glitched save and restarting to load from the non-glitched save:
DO NOT save in a short time period, if you do, save on the SAME slot, otherwise the glitch will occur.EAT REGULARLYTake2 support told me that you should make CJ eat at least once every 2 days, preferably ONE MEAL A DAY.
I think that the glitch may occur due to players not getting CJ to eat but rather saving, as saving stops CJ starving.
Therefore the glitch is most likely to occur late game as people will most likely have 100% muscle and 100% stamina and therefore NO LONGER USE THE GYM AND THUS DON'T EAT ANYMORE AFTERWARDS BUT RATHER SAVE.
So the message is:
GET CJ TO EAT AT LEAST ONE MEAL A DAY OR ONE MEAL EVERY TWO DAYS
About this topic - When referring to it and current notes about itI have noticed that people are still posting topics in the forum on these bugs, WHY? This was posted so that we can keep all information in one place rather than people having to go through four or five topics.
Please, when referring to this post in gym bug topics, please LINK to this topic and also post CORRECT information, recently someone posted that this topic stated the solution was to workout at Madd Dogg's or the Beach gym. This is completely wrong, this post does NOT say that, it says that people with this problem EITHER can't workout at ANY gym or can workout at these two gyms only. The solutions are posted under LARGE text, so please, get it right when posting information.
Can I say this, these are currently the most successful SUGGESTED solutions, they are not 100% working solutions (we haven't found 100% working ones yet).When posting your own solution - test it firstIf you are going to post a solution, can you please do the following.
Keep a glitched save.
Do the actions that you said solved the glitch.
Load the glitched save, REPEAT your solution and see if it works at least THREE TIMES
Otherwise your solution is not tested multiple times, and therefore you cannot say "this solves the problem" as you don't know that it works more than once (and wether something by chance allowed you to workout at the gym again).
Also post details about CJ:
His level of fat, stamina and muscle
Did you finish a race or something just before your solution?
Progress with girlfriends, did it change just before you tried your solution?
Harass Take2 Support!!!!For those in the USA:Phone: 1-866-219-9839
Email: usa@take2support.com
For those in Cananda:Phone: 1-800-638-0127
Email: canada@take2support.com
For those in the UK:Phone: 0870 124 2222
Email: take2@europesupport.com
KEEP emailing them about these problems and calling them if you want.
We NEED to get a reissue with things as they are, so make them aware of how big the problem is!!!
CreditsFor the memory card solution:
SteveShady for initially bringing to light that copying the GTA: San Andreas save data to another card and back again (essentially the second part of the memory card solution) would work.
JPSurratt2005 for making the memory card solution clearer, and essentially providing the step by step first part to the solution - yes I gave you credit

lol
dannyh321 for combining both method 1 and 2 memory card solutions and thus creating method 3.
For the gym glitch prevention:
Chang - his original post can be found
hereFor the appearence solution:
I will search the forums for the first mention of this and give credit accordingly.
For the gambling solution to the pool glitch:
Again, mentioned many times, I will give credit to Dead At 4pm for suggesting a more detailed way of performing this solution
For the basketball glitch solution:
[-Vice-Andreas-] after recieving an email from Take2 he kindly informed me of this solution so that we can all give it a try, thanks VA

Thanks again for reading guys.
If you see topics on the gym bug, please post a link to this topic, the whole point is to keep information in one place so finding a solution will be easier, otherwise, like we had to before, we'd be going through multiple topics which usually just repeats things.
This post has been edited by SuGGaK on Sunday, Dec 19 2004, 11:33