[Kyle17]

I'm also trying a 100% run of San An, & I just had the biggest "F*ck You" moment this game has ever thrown at me.

For two & a half hours I've been collecting the oysters. I go from 5 to 29 & I haven't saved. As I'm trying to leave the Easter Basin Navy Base, the game glitches & spawns a rancher infront of me & says "cheat activated". I never entered a damn code & as I said earlier, I didn't save & now I can't. Sitting there speechless I had no choice but to turn off my game & start over. F*CK. MY. LIFE.

The funny thing is, I was thinking of saving before I went to the Navy base but I thought to myself, "What's the worst that could happen?" Well now I know what it's like to be too confident. Let that be a lesson to all you out there, ALWAYS SAVE!

[shoumic]

Yes it is important that you should always save. But Im surprised how a random code just activated.

[AuSsIeThUnDeR36]

Maybe accidentally by pressing lots of buttons on ps2 controller but it would be by pure luck

[0909090]

QUOTE (AuSsIeThUnDeR36 @ Thursday, Aug 9 2012, 13:19)

Maybe accidentally by pressing lots of buttons on ps2 controller but it would be by pure luck

Highly unlikely...thats well known glitch happened to me couple of times..just remember to save more often and you will be fine

[JayCMMX]

Ouch... I feel your pain. I've been running down a 100% checklist in my spare time over the past week or so, and against my own preaching, trying to blaze through the collectibles and submissions on a one-shot attempt without saving... needless to say, the game never fails to be a relentless bitch when you are overconfident.

Save, archive and backup like it was your religion.

Applicable to anything, really.

[AuSsIeThUnDeR36]

I wonder if anyone has 100% it without getting killed or busted and not saving at all?
That would be an awesome achievement

[mr6plow9]

QUOTE (AuSsIeThUnDeR36 @ Thursday, Aug 9 2012, 19:06)

I wonder if anyone has 100% it without getting killed or busted and not saving at all? That would be an awesome achievement

Impossible. The game would find some way to screw the person over one way or another. Most likely, a random plane crash would take them out when they were in the countryside. Just my guess.

[OrionSR]

QUOTE (0909090 @ Thursday, Aug 9 2012, 08:16)

QUOTE (AuSsIeThUnDeR36 @ Thursday, Aug 9 2012, 13:19) Maybe accidentally by pressing lots of buttons on ps2 controller but it would be by pure luck Highly unlikely...thats well known glitch happened to me couple of times..just remember to save more often and you will be fine

I'm not sure how it works on PS2, but on PC, you don't need to randomly type one of the many known cheat codes. You just need to type in one of the many possible key combinations that produce a specific hash that triggers one of these cheats. When they discovered the PC cheats they found the hashes in game memory, and then ran programs that calculated the hashes from keystrokes. When they found a match it was recorded, and later they looked through the results hoping to find something that looked like "plain text" that describes what the cheat does; like ROCKETMAN for a jetpack. For each of the "random text" cheat codes they had pages of possible key combinations. Fortunately this glitch is fairly rare, but it's not as incredibly unlikely as you might think.

[typicalgamer]

QUOTE (Kyle17)

the game glitches & spawns a rancher infront of me & says "cheat activated". I never entered a damn code & as I said earlier, I didn't save & now I can't.

If you're on PC, you could have eliminated any risk by creating a new save file instead of overwriting an already existing one.
However, I've always saved with "Lock wanted level", "Infinite ammo", "Infinite oxygen", "Never hungry" and "Infinite health" cheats, overwriting the same file again and again and never had any problem. But I'm on PC, and I don't know anything about consoles, nor do I know on what you play the game. Saving after using cheats may be dangerous on consoles.
I've had similar occurrences: the "Cheat activated" sign appears out of nowhere and my armor disappears. This happens extremely rarely, though. It has happened only 2 or 3 times so far.
The certain cause: I accidentally triggered the suicide cheat . This removed my armor, but didn't kill Carl; that's because I had previously activated the "Infinite health" cheat intentionally.

This post has been edited by typicalgamer on Friday, Aug 31 2012, 16:48

[Chris CJ Jakobsson]

QUOTE (AuSsIeThUnDeR36 @ Thursday, Aug 9 2012, 19:06)

I wonder if anyone has 100% it without getting killed or busted and not saving at all? That would be an awesome achievement

I did make GTA III without saving, but only story missions and the packages, im kinda proud of that