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.

Weapons, Health, Armor & Money

Police, Stats & Gangs

Spawning Objects

Vehicles

Gameplay

Weather & Time

* Cheats 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 unknown. Perhaps we shall find out the combinations in the future, but for now these cheats can only be triggered with cheat devices. The unknown cheats include (but are not limited to):

• all cars with nitrous
• all cars with hydraulics
• infinite health
• infinite ammo
• infinite oxygen
• never wanted
• anyone can be recruited to your gang
• spawn Hunter
• spawn Dozer
• all streetlights "strobe" streetlights
• all 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.