Str8OuttaBermuda
Gaming Enthusiast
Finally, this is the day that many GTA San Andreas fans including me were waiting for. I've spent several months from March to October 2026 working on starter saves for different games but mainly Rockstar titles. I've done a starter save for GTA 3 and Vice City which are PS2 Classics, now here's the holy grail, a heavily modified quality of life starter save set for the PS2 version of GTA San Andreas on PS4!
There are a total of 5 save slots with the fifth being the main save that you will be using to replay the game as many times as you want. The first 4 slots are called 8-Track, main save number 5 is BMX which you'll automatically load into when you start up the game.
There's no save file for this game that you'll find online better than what I've got right here for you. So let me get into detail about everything that I've completed before the first mission (Big Smoke). Slot 5 is the most significant starter save of all, it has been completed 13.37% before introductory mission. Every save has CJ wearing his cop outfit which is a major bonus and a cool addition to the entire set instead of white tank top and jeans. You've got max money on all slots too! $999,999,999.
Slot 5: What's completed (required for 100%):
Firefighter
Paramedic
Vigilante
Taxi
BMX & NRG-500 Challenges
All Oysters
All Horseshoes
All Snapshots
All Tags Sprayed
All Courier Missions (Roboi's Food Mart, Hippy Shopper & Burger Shot)
All Properties Purchased in Los Santos
All 4 Stadium Events (8-Track, Bloodring, Dirt Track & Kickstart)
All Mt. Chiliad Challenges (Scotch Bonnet, Birdseye Winder & Cobra Run)
Pimping Level 10.
What else is completed (not required for 100%):
In a relationship with Barbara Schternvart (Cop Outfit unlocked)
All Unique Jumps.
Vehicles: Cars are another very important and beneficial part of this save set, every single car is rare, some are completely unobtainable through normal gameplay, some were completely cut from the game but still existed in the files from the beta version of the game. Here's a list of some extremely rare and impossible to obtain vehicles featured in this save set, every single one of them is Explosion Proof and Bulletproof. The unobtainable vehicles will be marked in green, vehicles that can be found through normal gameplay will be marked in red:
Cheetah
Banshee
Infernus
Turismo
Hustler
Pizza Boy
Comet
Phoenix
Hydra
Sea Sparrow
Huntley
Windsor
Bullet
Ambulance
Police (LSPD)
Police (LVPD)
Rhino
SWAT Tank
Feltzer
HotringA
HotringB
FBI Truck.
I might've forgotten to list at least one or two vehicles, but you will find whatever I possibly didn't mention once you explore each garage. Most of the cars have special colors which can't be obtained in Pay'N'Spray, mainly the cop cars. The vehicle you might have the most fun with is the Hydra, especially because it is EP and BP.
Slot 1: Progress is 13.90% on this save because Big Smoke mission is complete. CJ has max muscles and your first story mission is Ryder. Every save should have a Turismo in the Johnson House garage, I like to call it a "Rizzi" because its based on a Ferrari and the real life nickname is "Rarri". You can earn the Chick Magnet trophy easily if you just go outside and hop in the blue Rizzi, it should pop instantly.
Slot 2: This save starts with over 10% and it is mainly for you to earn either the trophy for Vigilante if it has the Rhino or the trophy for Paramedic if it has Ambulance. You should also be able to drop off one more passenger in Taxi. Check the garage outside.
Slot 3: Same situation as slot 2, go outside and look in El Corona garage to find an Ambulance or Rhino and do the mission without hassle or fear of vehicle being destroyed. Hop in a Taxi and drop off one more passenger, and go to the red mark on the map next to the hospital to do BMX for Bike or Biker trophy as every save has max skills for CJ.
Slot 4: Pretty much a copy of slot 1 with 13.90% but this is when I first added the Hydra which should be absent in the first slot and have a Feltzer instead. You will not be able to reach it without risking being shot to death by LSPD as the jet is stored in Doherty garage in San Fierro for both slot 4 and slot 5.
Weapons & Skills: Not all weapons skills are maxed but most of them are. Every save slot has max player skills including Flying, so CJ has instant access to Los Santos International Airport near El Corona garage. If you attempt to reach that Hydra in Fierro, you can be shot down to your death so it's better to wait until unlocking the area later in the game and then you can have fun with it. If you really want to try flying there early you will have a parachute but it won't work when deployed, I tried it. You just have to do your best to avoid military. You have most of the best weapons in the game including the M4 assault rifle.
Check my photos and the video down below so you can see what you get in slot 5 before you even enter the game or if you're outside your house at the moment. And I must inform you that I haven't made any starter saves for the EU/PAL version of the GTA Trilogy and I'm not sure if I ever will, since there's less hacks available for PAL than NTSC and also because I don't have a PSN account that purchased them in EU before they were delisted, only US.
Keep in mind that this is the Greatest Hits (red label) version of San Andreas for PS2, not the original black label. Version number is 3.00. Its also the same version as Special Edition. I made this save set with PCSX2 on my laptop before converting the save with Apollo on my jailbroken PS4.
Sit back, smoke a fat blunt and enjoy replaying GTA San Andreas as a cop
There are a total of 5 save slots with the fifth being the main save that you will be using to replay the game as many times as you want. The first 4 slots are called 8-Track, main save number 5 is BMX which you'll automatically load into when you start up the game.
There's no save file for this game that you'll find online better than what I've got right here for you. So let me get into detail about everything that I've completed before the first mission (Big Smoke). Slot 5 is the most significant starter save of all, it has been completed 13.37% before introductory mission. Every save has CJ wearing his cop outfit which is a major bonus and a cool addition to the entire set instead of white tank top and jeans. You've got max money on all slots too! $999,999,999.
Slot 5: What's completed (required for 100%):
Firefighter
Paramedic
Vigilante
Taxi
BMX & NRG-500 Challenges
All Oysters
All Horseshoes
All Snapshots
All Tags Sprayed
All Courier Missions (Roboi's Food Mart, Hippy Shopper & Burger Shot)
All Properties Purchased in Los Santos
All 4 Stadium Events (8-Track, Bloodring, Dirt Track & Kickstart)
All Mt. Chiliad Challenges (Scotch Bonnet, Birdseye Winder & Cobra Run)
Pimping Level 10.
What else is completed (not required for 100%):
In a relationship with Barbara Schternvart (Cop Outfit unlocked)
All Unique Jumps.
Vehicles: Cars are another very important and beneficial part of this save set, every single car is rare, some are completely unobtainable through normal gameplay, some were completely cut from the game but still existed in the files from the beta version of the game. Here's a list of some extremely rare and impossible to obtain vehicles featured in this save set, every single one of them is Explosion Proof and Bulletproof. The unobtainable vehicles will be marked in green, vehicles that can be found through normal gameplay will be marked in red:
Cheetah
Banshee
Infernus
Turismo
Hustler
Pizza Boy
Comet
Phoenix
Hydra
Sea Sparrow
Huntley
Windsor
Bullet
Ambulance
Police (LSPD)
Police (LVPD)
Rhino
SWAT Tank
Feltzer
HotringA
HotringB
FBI Truck.
I might've forgotten to list at least one or two vehicles, but you will find whatever I possibly didn't mention once you explore each garage. Most of the cars have special colors which can't be obtained in Pay'N'Spray, mainly the cop cars. The vehicle you might have the most fun with is the Hydra, especially because it is EP and BP.
Slot 1: Progress is 13.90% on this save because Big Smoke mission is complete. CJ has max muscles and your first story mission is Ryder. Every save should have a Turismo in the Johnson House garage, I like to call it a "Rizzi" because its based on a Ferrari and the real life nickname is "Rarri". You can earn the Chick Magnet trophy easily if you just go outside and hop in the blue Rizzi, it should pop instantly.
Slot 2: This save starts with over 10% and it is mainly for you to earn either the trophy for Vigilante if it has the Rhino or the trophy for Paramedic if it has Ambulance. You should also be able to drop off one more passenger in Taxi. Check the garage outside.
Slot 3: Same situation as slot 2, go outside and look in El Corona garage to find an Ambulance or Rhino and do the mission without hassle or fear of vehicle being destroyed. Hop in a Taxi and drop off one more passenger, and go to the red mark on the map next to the hospital to do BMX for Bike or Biker trophy as every save has max skills for CJ.
Slot 4: Pretty much a copy of slot 1 with 13.90% but this is when I first added the Hydra which should be absent in the first slot and have a Feltzer instead. You will not be able to reach it without risking being shot to death by LSPD as the jet is stored in Doherty garage in San Fierro for both slot 4 and slot 5.
Weapons & Skills: Not all weapons skills are maxed but most of them are. Every save slot has max player skills including Flying, so CJ has instant access to Los Santos International Airport near El Corona garage. If you attempt to reach that Hydra in Fierro, you can be shot down to your death so it's better to wait until unlocking the area later in the game and then you can have fun with it. If you really want to try flying there early you will have a parachute but it won't work when deployed, I tried it. You just have to do your best to avoid military. You have most of the best weapons in the game including the M4 assault rifle.
Check my photos and the video down below so you can see what you get in slot 5 before you even enter the game or if you're outside your house at the moment. And I must inform you that I haven't made any starter saves for the EU/PAL version of the GTA Trilogy and I'm not sure if I ever will, since there's less hacks available for PAL than NTSC and also because I don't have a PSN account that purchased them in EU before they were delisted, only US.
Keep in mind that this is the Greatest Hits (red label) version of San Andreas for PS2, not the original black label. Version number is 3.00. Its also the same version as Special Edition. I made this save set with PCSX2 on my laptop before converting the save with Apollo on my jailbroken PS4.
Sit back, smoke a fat blunt and enjoy replaying GTA San Andreas as a cop