As I mentioned at the end of the video, I'll be running a 'Find the Rhino' competition where I'll hide six tanks around Liberty City for you guys to find! And there will be a prize for the winner. More details coming in the next video. :)
I knew there was something very off when i was young playing GTA 3, spawning Rhinos and they just never despawned. They always stayed no matter how many times i reloaded my save.
That's a myth. Two cars last used always stay in memory unless they're left within the mission cleanup script area. Keeping the doors open is irrelevant.
My friend and I spawned a bunch of 'em outside of the hospital back in the days, like 15 or almost 20 i think. The "big" OG PS2 lagged a bit, but did not crash! And then we discovered the "ghost town cheat" for the first time. We was thrilled! I tried it again on my friends PS2 slim from '05 last week. I spawned at least 20, if not more! The framerate dropped, but no crash! (I wanted to show my sister how to make a ghost town, haha) Edit: Swinging the cannon backwards, spamshooting the cannon like a thruster, made the tank reach insane speeds!! Fond memories!
They weren't originally supposed to be tanks. If you look at their concept art they were originally APCs like the one in Gay Tony... still would have used a roof hatch though. The final tank in the game is just a really bizarre creation.
I'd believe the cause of the Rhino remaining in memory through cheats is a bug between data within the save file and a singular Rhino being loaded in to the system's memory upon start. This Rhino in question is at the little National Guard base you help Phil fend off from the cartel, with the rhino there being unlocked after game completion, or just pushing it to the garage on Stauntion Island. The game always warned us not too save with cheats on and we didn't care much back then lol.
If you expect any modern company to have any sort of decency now days man, you will be in for bad surprise. Always expect the worse, that is all they deserve after all based on their actions. I love gta, but after the hot garbage that was gta v compared to GTA IV, I will never buy anything from them again as I already have most of their games in physical copies.
I love this, I use to screw around in GTA for countless hours back in the day Something you may appreciate, GTA vice city has a cheat code to increase the tire size of vehicles, it seems like a pretty pointless cheat..but..if you enter the cheat, then save, then load, then enter the cheat again you can stack the effect You can repeat this over and over and over to get crazy results Careful of going to crazy with it though as tires will literally fill the screen and crash the game At a certain point vehicles are too high up to enter and the driving physics gets all messed up as cars just tumble around and bounce away I've only messed with this once waaaaay back in the day but I would love to see you do a deep dive into how you can screw with missions using this
some speedrun routes use phil's rhino for evidence dash, but the twist is that one doesn't have the proofs so blowing up cars next to yourself is very dangerous.
@@kaiserruhsam Yeah that's something I want to try -stealing the Rhino from that mission. If you garage it, it gains its additional proofings if I remember right.
Wow I had no idea that the rhino tank stayed in memory like that! That explains why there was always a random tank in the tunnels leading to shoreside vale, my uncle used to messed with cheats in gta 3 and created a save for me when I was younger because I could never unlock all the islands, I still have the save to this day, R.I.P to him and thank you for making this video. ❤
Brings back so many memories of playing my older brothers ps2 when I was like 4 and he had a save where I’d find tanks in random places from where he’d used cheats to spawn them or he left them in them places. I’m 25 now, time flies. Used to prefer GTA 3 when I was a kid as well to Vice City or San Andreas, love this game.
Thank you for making this video! I had NO idea about this because I don't use cheats all too often in GTA III but I'm working on a massive video about the game and a huge segment will be based on the game's isolated feeling. I will absolutely be using these tanks to decrease traffic for the esthetic section. Thanks so much!
Man I loved this video and honestly everything else you do. These are the games of my generation, so many memories and then you come along and show me things I never knew about games I spent hundreds of hours on. Brilliant.
17:23 you say it like it's an easy task lol. I remember trying to fly it up there as a kid so many times and it was always so hard to get the Rhino up to the Love Media rooftop!
One thing you didn’t mention Matt is that if you save the game with a spawned tank it will persist in your game even if you power off the console. Also driving them into water does not kill these. I got one stuck in the water on my PS2 save as a kid and there was no way to destroy it. It was there forever. Strangely, I had this same thing happen recently with a PCJ-600 in Vice City DE on PS4. Not a cheat vehicle either, it was one from a mission. I was able to drive it around and park anywhere and it would stay there even after closing the game. I saved videos of it.
Gta 3 had some of the most hilarious effects on missions when using cheats I remember you could make 8 ball’s head float away from the body during bomb da base cutscene when using speed cheat
I recall back in the PS2 days I could glitch the tank through the closed subway gate on portland by going up the ramp, dropping into the stairwell and sliding upside down, where it would clip through the gate entirely. To this day, I've never been able to replicate this or seen anyone talk about it
I used to spawn these tanks in a certain way to build a fortress, spawning a tank on top of another and so on. - In the end, I was left with a fortress like thing that blocked the road, saved me from the police etc. Allowing me to rampage and use the tanks as barriers etc. Fun times, many MANY years ago.
I remember the keeps two cars in memory...the one you're using and the last one you used I remember whenever I find a unique car, I'd take it to my garage and run back to the other car so it doesn't disappear.
on the mission "Decoy" you can actually see some of the police vans hiding behind billboards and stuff, and you can destroy them before getting inside the securivan. However, during the actual chase, the destroyed vans cause more Rhinos to appear....
Matt before I even watch the video, I just wanted to let you know that I feel like there are a lot of similarities between your channel and Kaze Emanuar's work. I just feel like you are the kind of person who might be interested in studying computer science and how code optimisation works. You always look for intricacies and peculiarities in games and these kind of correspond with exploring the inner workings of an executable file for example. Please take a look at Kaze's videos to see what I'm talking about.
If the 'linerunner' truck is used in van heist, you beat it very easily like you did with the ambulance. Just park the thing parallel Infront of the oncoming van.
The behavior of Rhino (spawned by cheat code) staying on map and being persisted in your save file is actually a bug. In fact, it was even fixed in the popular Silent Patch so PC players who use it won't experience this issue.
You could probably do something similar in Vice City with marked/glitched cars on PC, not as easy as using the cheat though. Like keeping the garage doors open in Sir, Yes Sir or at the final destination of the plates in Hit the Courier.
Back in the day, I think it might even have been on the PS2 version too, I spawned one and drove it into the sea. Except it was on top of the tunnel that connects the first and second islands, so it just stayed there forever, INSIDE the tunnel, and you couldn't get in, it hovered a bit over the road.
Hey, can you do a next episode of placing rhino in storyline missions? For example place it before mission "Mike lips last lunch" at place where his idaho stays, or maybe spawn it on bridge to shoreside vale, and check if it will levitate when bridge goes top or down.
First i was thinking so much efford for the video. After I saw all you must had the time of your life. So this works just for the beta early game version?
I never beat Bomb Da Base part 2. I tried dropping multiple Rhinos in front of the ramp to the boat to give me more time to suck at sniping but 8-Ball always managed to push through and get himself killed
When I was a kid on ps2 I would always spawn rhinos in front of the portland hospital until the frame rate hit 5 or 10. I would normally have around 20 or 30
i always wonder what if gta3 was made in this era how would it have looked like. i am not talking about the graphics, but it would be closer to how the devs have actually imagined it. with all the ideas they had, and others they had to remove or weren't able to implement.
My favourite cheat after spawing a ton of Rhino's was to Enter the explosion cheat over and over and over ... Would send them flying up in the air. Easier on Keyboard.
I remember playing gta 3 on my cousin's pc, i remember trying to spawn the rhino cheat however it wouldn't spawn in front of me right away, sometimes it would spawn on top of me, im not sure if it was a bug but i thought it's pretty hilarious
Hi. I found out something else weird about the rhino in gta 3, if you try to shoot a police chopper down with it, it is not possible, it will only shake when you shoot at it, but will never crash
I wonder why it's like that?? maybe it doesn't despawn because if you were to trying to get a bunch of Rhino Tanks without cheats that would make it a lot harder to get multiple of them?? This is very interesting
Not the PC version. Omg many years later I was racing through the tunnel. tank from who knows the last time I played, slammed into it. The tank on the PS2 version if you drive ito it you blow up regardless
I remember getting into a rino and crashing it into another rino would generate money for some reason. Does the game give you money regardless of what vehicle the rino hits?
Wait.. so you can spawn one then save the game then load game an itl still be there?????? I ask coz im assuming thats how the "rhino hunt" is going to work??
hi please can you help me : i remember having a glitch on ps2 where the more i would advance in mission , the easier i would be to glitch through the tunnel wall . like i remember having traffic spawning near the tunnel and some of them managing to go through
I havent watched the vid yet, but I remember using the cheat and I could be remembering wrong, but I spawned a lot of them, the traffic disappeared and I opened another save and there were tanks in other save slots as well. I got pretty scared that I ruined my game lmao.
As I mentioned at the end of the video, I'll be running a 'Find the Rhino' competition where I'll hide six tanks around Liberty City for you guys to find! And there will be a prize for the winner. More details coming in the next video. :)
I knew there was something very off when i was young playing GTA 3, spawning Rhinos and they just never despawned. They always stayed no matter how many times i reloaded my save.
I remember that also. I eventually would just dump them in the water lol
GTA III Also has a related bug where if you leave a car door open after exiting, it will stay in memory like the Rhino.
Yes, I'm aware of that. :) However, they'll still get despawned in missions, if they're in the way of a car spawning or something like that.
That's a myth. Two cars last used always stay in memory unless they're left within the mission cleanup script area. Keeping the doors open is irrelevant.
My friend and I spawned a bunch of 'em outside of the hospital back in the days, like 15 or almost 20 i think. The "big" OG PS2 lagged a bit, but did not crash! And then we discovered the "ghost town cheat" for the first time. We was thrilled! I tried it again on my friends PS2 slim from '05 last week. I spawned at least 20, if not more! The framerate dropped, but no crash! (I wanted to show my sister how to make a ghost town, haha) Edit: Swinging the cannon backwards, spamshooting the cannon like a thruster, made the tank reach insane speeds!! Fond memories!
Thought for sure this was going to be about how weird it is that III/VC tanks have doors lol
Have you seen an IFV? Those have doors
Imagine a nearly 20-minute video about that lol.
@@MattJ155 Well... I still clicked on it lol
@@DinosaurBytes Haha I appreciate it!
They weren't originally supposed to be tanks. If you look at their concept art they were originally APCs like the one in Gay Tony... still would have used a roof hatch though. The final tank in the game is just a really bizarre creation.
I'd believe the cause of the Rhino remaining in memory through cheats is a bug between data within the save file and a singular Rhino being loaded in to the system's memory upon start. This Rhino in question is at the little National Guard base you help Phil fend off from the cartel, with the rhino there being unlocked after game completion, or just pushing it to the garage on Stauntion Island. The game always warned us not too save with cheats on and we didn't care much back then lol.
Unfortunately, the "Defective Edition" removed the ability to spawn multiple tanks. The first vehicle explodes when the new one spawns.
You're lucky in the Definitive Edition if you can manage to enter any codes without the game crashing 10 seconds later.
The kids can't live without crying
If you expect any modern company to have any sort of decency now days man, you will be in for bad surprise. Always expect the worse, that is all they deserve after all based on their actions. I love gta, but after the hot garbage that was gta v compared to GTA IV, I will never buy anything from them again as I already have most of their games in physical copies.
@@NikkiWrightVGM*Defective Edition
I love this, I use to screw around in GTA for countless hours back in the day
Something you may appreciate, GTA vice city has a cheat code to increase the tire size of vehicles, it seems like a pretty pointless cheat..but..if you enter the cheat, then save, then load, then enter the cheat again you can stack the effect
You can repeat this over and over and over to get crazy results
Careful of going to crazy with it though as tires will literally fill the screen and crash the game
At a certain point vehicles are too high up to enter and the driving physics gets all messed up as cars just tumble around and bounce away
I've only messed with this once waaaaay back in the day but I would love to see you do a deep dive into how you can screw with missions using this
I'm just glad you're still around, and to think I used to watch your Tekken secret characters stuff over 10 years ago
Thanks for coming back! Yeah, I'll probably always be around, making videos on the games I played when I was younger. :)
Amazing, it's interesting to think that I care way more about these quirks than about any game released post-ViceCity
some speedrun routes use phil's rhino for evidence dash, but the twist is that one doesn't have the proofs so blowing up cars next to yourself is very dangerous.
@@kaiserruhsam Yeah that's something I want to try -stealing the Rhino from that mission. If you garage it, it gains its additional proofings if I remember right.
Wow I had no idea that the rhino tank stayed in memory like that! That explains why there was always a random tank in the tunnels leading to shoreside vale, my uncle used to messed with cheats in gta 3 and created a save for me when I was younger because I could never unlock all the islands, I still have the save to this day, R.I.P to him and thank you for making this video. ❤
Brings back so many memories of playing my older brothers ps2 when I was like 4 and he had a save where I’d find tanks in random places from where he’d used cheats to spawn them or he left them in them places. I’m 25 now, time flies. Used to prefer GTA 3 when I was a kid as well to Vice City or San Andreas, love this game.
Fascinating!
Ooh, you could spawn 20 rhinos to make the ambulance missions that much easier!
Seeing Sal reverse the tank into the ocean at full speed, only to drown, absolutely sent me 😅😅😅
Thank you for making this video! I had NO idea about this because I don't use cheats all too often in GTA III but I'm working on a massive video about the game and a huge segment will be based on the game's isolated feeling. I will absolutely be using these tanks to decrease traffic for the esthetic section.
Thanks so much!
To my recollection, the same applies to LCS on the PSP unless you spawn another tank.
But I may be misremembering.
I also used the rhino during evidence dash
Man I loved this video and honestly everything else you do. These are the games of my generation, so many memories and then you come along and show me things I never knew about games I spent hundreds of hours on. Brilliant.
Lowkey one of the best channels on UA-cam love your content keep it up
@@JadieI Thank you so much!
NPC: -Manages to get inside the most powerful vehicle in game.-
His enemy appears: -Gets out, thinks he will fight better on foot.-
😂😂
"And there's a random rhino chilling in the background."
Hey, dude's gotta ea- oh right that's the name of the tank.
Thanks for the awesome videos Matt!! Gta3 and gran turismo 2/3/4 are my favorite games ever. Always love to see them still being played
Combining gran turismo with gta 3, the best of both worlds! I freaking love it!🎉
MattJ155 & GTA 3 = Awesomeness !🤩😎!
7:20 omg I have tried this before! you unlocked a memory I thought I have lost forever!
finna be playing pal 1.40 cuz of u now, been here since 2016, PLEASE KEEP GOING
17:23 you say it like it's an easy task lol. I remember trying to fly it up there as a kid so many times and it was always so hard to get the Rhino up to the Love Media rooftop!
This is so fun! I love that after all these years, there's still so many ways to have a creatively fun time in this game.
This is how to fully extract a game, nice job
One thing you didn’t mention Matt is that if you save the game with a spawned tank it will persist in your game even if you power off the console.
Also driving them into water does not kill these. I got one stuck in the water on my PS2 save as a kid and there was no way to destroy it. It was there forever.
Strangely, I had this same thing happen recently with a PCJ-600 in Vice City DE on PS4. Not a cheat vehicle either, it was one from a mission. I was able to drive it around and park anywhere and it would stay there even after closing the game. I saved videos of it.
Rhino of the Vice.
Gta 3 had some of the most hilarious effects on missions when using cheats I remember you could make 8 ball’s head float away from the body during bomb da base cutscene when using speed cheat
I recall back in the PS2 days I could glitch the tank through the closed subway gate on portland by going up the ramp, dropping into the stairwell and sliding upside down, where it would clip through the gate entirely.
To this day, I've never been able to replicate this or seen anyone talk about it
I used to spawn these tanks in a certain way to build a fortress, spawning a tank on top of another and so on.
- In the end, I was left with a fortress like thing that blocked the road, saved me from the police etc. Allowing me to rampage and use the tanks as barriers etc.
Fun times, many MANY years ago.
I remember the keeps two cars in memory...the one you're using and the last one you used
I remember whenever I find a unique car, I'd take it to my garage and run back to the other car so it doesn't disappear.
"Hot in these Rhinos" -Ace Ventura
I thoroughly enjoyed this mate!
on the mission "Decoy" you can actually see some of the police vans hiding behind billboards and stuff, and you can destroy them before getting inside the securivan. However, during the actual chase, the destroyed vans cause more Rhinos to appear....
Timmy vercimelli I also used tanks during rays mission
hahahaha that salvatore kill was so unique
Matt before I even watch the video, I just wanted to let you know that I feel like there are a lot of similarities between your channel and Kaze Emanuar's work. I just feel like you are the kind of person who might be interested in studying computer science and how code optimisation works. You always look for intricacies and peculiarities in games and these kind of correspond with exploring the inner workings of an executable file for example. Please take a look at Kaze's videos to see what I'm talking about.
@@YszapHun Thanks for letting me know! I haven't heard of that UA-camr before, so it'll be a brand new channel for me. :)
Wake up babe new gt…a lore just dropped
First mission you checked out is "Turismo", I love that
With that intro theme, Claude about to rob a military base
If the 'linerunner' truck is used in van heist, you beat it very easily like you did with the ambulance. Just park the thing parallel Infront of the oncoming van.
It still stays in the water I remember as a child
The behavior of Rhino (spawned by cheat code) staying on map and being persisted in your save file is actually a bug. In fact, it was even fixed in the popular Silent Patch so PC players who use it won't experience this issue.
In Vice City Stories you can park cars on one side of the map and leave, come back and it will still be there. This is atleast on PS2.
8:50 if it's destroyed a new one will spawn and it'll reset the cutscene again.
I also noticed that for some reason, the 'patriot' is practically an immovable object up against most GTA 3 vehicles.
You could probably do something similar in Vice City with marked/glitched cars on PC, not as easy as using the cheat though. Like keeping the garage doors open in Sir, Yes Sir or at the final destination of the plates in Hit the Courier.
11:27 been over 20 years and i bet this is the first time it ever happened
Back in the day, I think it might even have been on the PS2 version too, I spawned one and drove it into the sea. Except it was on top of the tunnel that connects the first and second islands, so it just stayed there forever, INSIDE the tunnel, and you couldn't get in, it hovered a bit over the road.
6:00 Toni is clearly using some have artillery 😂😂😂
Finally another good UA-cam video was getting sick of twitch
ONE weird thing about Rhino tank: 20 minute video
SALVATORE IN THE RHINO oh shit that's badass !! lol
Hey Matt! Any videos coming up for the recently dumped Gran Turismo Subaru Simulator & Lupo Cup Training versions?
Hey, can you do a next episode of placing rhino in storyline missions? For example place it before mission "Mike lips last lunch" at place where his idaho stays, or maybe spawn it on bridge to shoreside vale, and check if it will levitate when bridge goes top or down.
GTA 3 was my favorite version of the game
You can fly them with the flying cars cheat and firing the canon backwards.
The same trick can be used in Vice City
Great video as always 🔥
1:33 Yeah I notice the tank spawn by cheat code in my copy of gta 3 always stay there I thought something wrong with my copy of gta 3
First i was thinking so much efford for the video. After I saw all you must had the time of your life.
So this works just for the beta early game version?
Its an amazing day when matt uplods a new vid
I never beat Bomb Da Base part 2. I tried dropping multiple Rhinos in front of the ramp to the boat to give me more time to suck at sniping but 8-Ball always managed to push through and get himself killed
O O L1 O O O L1 L2 R1 Δ O Δ
When I was a kid on ps2 I would always spawn rhinos in front of the portland hospital until the frame rate hit 5 or 10. I would normally have around 20 or 30
i always wonder what if gta3 was made in this era how would it have looked like. i am not talking about the graphics, but it would be closer to how the devs have actually imagined it. with all the ideas they had, and others they had to remove or weren't able to implement.
Any plans on ever sharing the beta discs for midnight club or smugglers run? Please share them to preserve history
Speedruners are going to start spawning 22 rhinos now
17:28 perfect place for the Rhino xD
My favourite cheat after spawing a ton of Rhino's was to Enter the explosion cheat over and over and over ... Would send them flying up in the air. Easier on Keyboard.
Bang bang bang and it would only need 1 further bang each time to cause the explosion
If only you could spawn Rhinos in a speed run - you could just spawn say 10-15 at the start of the game and go as normal and have no traffic.
I remember playing gta 3 on my cousin's pc, i remember trying to spawn the rhino cheat however it wouldn't spawn in front of me right away, sometimes it would spawn on top of me, im not sure if it was a bug but i thought it's pretty hilarious
Very cool video dude! 💪
Matt finally fixed his mic, AYE. Instant like for that
@@OhneHoffnung Haha I did! I fixed it in time for the last video too. :)
@@MattJ155 Glad to have you back at the best quality. Cheers!
Hi.
I found out something else weird about the rhino in gta 3, if you try to shoot a police chopper down with it, it is not possible, it will only shake when you shoot at it, but will never crash
If I recall correctly, on the PC version the spawned tank will never despawn (unless destroyed)... Even if you exit the game and re-enter it.
12:03 its Driver 2 Animation Reference 😂
That means R* Roasts Tanner
I wonder why it's like that?? maybe it doesn't despawn because if you were to trying to get a bunch of Rhino Tanks without cheats that would make it a lot harder to get multiple of them?? This is very interesting
I once tried to build a bridge to the next island. All by tanks in the water. I was like 12. I'm going on 34 now
I hope all of y'all folks are playing Liberty Unleashed. Shoutout to UnknownPlayer, man is a legend.
Another way to delete the Rhino is to deliver it to the emergency vehicle crane. But you can only do it once lmao
Not the PC version. Omg many years later I was racing through the tunnel. tank from who knows the last time I played, slammed into it. The tank on the PS2 version if you drive ito it you blow up regardless
I remember getting into a rino and crashing it into another rino would generate money for some reason. Does the game give you money regardless of what vehicle the rino hits?
I think you get money in GTA 3 for most property damage related to cars, with larger amounts given for car destruction.
I can not believe I just realized Sex Club 7 is a joke on the band S Club 7 🤪🤪
Wait.. so you can spawn one then save the game then load game an itl still be there?????? I ask coz im assuming thats how the "rhino hunt" is going to work??
cool vid subbed
hi please can you help me : i remember having a glitch on ps2 where the more i would advance in mission , the easier i would be to glitch through the tunnel wall . like i remember having traffic spawning near the tunnel and some of them managing to go through
i am obviously talking about the tunnel that goes from portland to stautont or shoreside
When I got gta 3 I couldn't do cheat codes fast enough. I had my uncle do the codes and park them on the street.
I havent watched the vid yet, but I remember using the cheat and I could be remembering wrong, but I spawned a lot of them, the traffic disappeared and I opened another save and there were tanks in other save slots as well. I got pretty scared that I ruined my game lmao.
what do you mean "one"
I knew this already. but i always did wonder why?
I once corrupted the save when spawning rhinos they also disable traffic which corrupts the game
It doesn't crash in emulators because it has more RAM to work with than a console
More GTA viseos please :))
Love the ghost town exploit, just spawn a bunch and do whatever you want. Just too bad on console that’ll prevent you from getting achievements.
bruh a lot of tanks, claude had a pact with stalin or what?
I always thought it was intentional by design I mean why would any civilian steal a tank and why would the police tow a military vehicle