In early 2025, reports began appearing online about a leak of the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas source code. At that time, researchers faced an issue: the archive was password-protected.
In February, Vadim M., a well-known user in the datamining and research community, shared:
“GTA San Andreas source code has finally ‘leaked’ without password protection. [The screenshots previously published online] were genuine, but had nothing to do with this password-protected archive. As far as I can tell, it is not complete and dates back to 2013. Damn, this is a very old leak.”
Users report that they are examining the code. Among the first discoveries are: traces of multiplayer; mention of mechanics: “The code mentions cut surfaces that affected vehicle handling — oil, snow, ice,” and the GTA SA Classic community also noted:
“The theory from an old Vadim M video about first-person view in GTA 3, where he suggested that the screen gets hazy in the bumper camera view when a car rolls over because a strange line on the horizon needs to be hidden, turned out to be true. In the source code, this detail is described in exactly that way.”
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