[Deji]

Thanks to DeeZire and Seemann and of course Rockstar...

Although Rockstar are mean for not telling us about this

I figured out how to get it working well and wanted to make a simpler and easier to access version of how to get mission packs for San Andreas. Read the original posts here.

If you do this then you can be able to choose between multiple main.scm's, script.img's and gxt's via the game itself... Meaning there is no more need to backup, replace files ect. This will NOT let you have save games that work with all scms though... But you can save with a certain mission pack so that you can have a save for nearly each mission pack you have

The game allows 24 mission packs but only 9 will work properly as the rest will be cut-off the screen... Which is a bummer but really, why would you need 24 mission packs when there are a maximum of about 8 saves!?

Okay, enough talk. Now let's get onto how to actually use them!


You will need Seemann's 'SAMP' Fix which is San Andreas Mission Pack not San Andreas Multiplayer (Some anti-viruses will detect this as a threat as it 'Hacks' your game. But this is completely safe. If you're using AVG 8.0 you may need to turn it off during the patch)

Just run the patch and then continue with the instructions below. The patch will automatically backup your old gtasa.exe as gtasa.exe.bak and it will not overwrite your current exe.. It'll just alter it. Meaning that if you have any exe's that had been downgraded, or are 2.0 versions or w/e... It will still work fine


Now... It's time to add some files to the GTASA User Files directory.

Create a folder in GTASA User Files called 'MPACK' and enter the folder.

Now... Create another folder inside MPACK called 'MPACK1' and enter the folder.

Create a file called 'MPACK.DAT' and open it with notepad or w/e you use to edit .txt files ect.

Now. To create your first mission pack. Enter this into your MPACK.DAT...

CODE

1 #My Mission Pack#

1 is the number of your mission pack. The text between the # symbols is your mission packs name. So, this will show up in game as "My Mission Pack" when you are choosing which mission pack you want.

Now save the file.


Now... You have to put your .scm file into the 'MPACK1' folder and rename the scm to 'SCR' and put your american.gxt file into the same folder and name the file 'TEXT'


So now you have...

CODE

GTA San Andreas User Files\mpack\mpack1\scr.scm
GTA San Andreas User Files\mpack\mpack1\text.gxt
GTA San Andreas User Files\mpack\mpack1\mpack.dat

Right? If so... You're ready to launch San Andreas! Click 'New Game' and select the mission pack you want! Loading games does not give you this option BUT if you save a game with your custom mission pack, it will load with your custom mission pack. Clever, eh?

Oh, one last thing. If you want a custom script.img to be used... You will have to place a file inside your GTASA\Data\Script folder and rename it to 'script1.img' - And that's it!


All future mods I release will have a mission pack friendly version. I'll try and make a Youtube Video for this too.

[Yoda2604]

Deji, i know it's an old post... but to make it clear for everybody...

This is wrong - 'GTA San Andreas User Files\mpack\mpack1\text.scm'
Should be as follows - 'GTA San Andreas User Files\mpack\mpack1\text.GXT'
so a user must change just the name and not the extension

[uokka]

Yep. The text in the code box isnt right.
american.gxt needs to be renamed to text.gxt. Not text.scm.
Good find!

By the way, I think SALA prevents this fix from working correctly..

[Arijit Sen]

I used MPACK but the text isn't coming ..I have kept the american.GXT at the

CODE

GTA San Andreas User Files\mpack\mpack1\text.gxt

But still nothing is showing up..

[badboy]

Don't store your regular american.gxt there (renamed). You are supposed to create a new text.gxt there, there is no use in keeping old entries. And remember that the game only loads everything from the MAIN table.

I thought I read somewhere that the game also loads the regular american.gxt, but I'm not sure about that.

[Arijit Sen]

I haven't stored my regular american.gxt ..I have stored the modded text.gxt..
Anyways I somewhere found that many modified gxt entries are not read by MPACKS..So any possible way to make them read monolingual texts ??

[Emadison]

Cool man!!! Will be trying this now. Hope it works well.