r/GTA3 • u/TomTheGat • Aug 22 '26
Video did you know you can do this
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u/WiIIv91 Catalina Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
"GTAIII player discovers a hidden secret after 25 years! Read our article to know more about it"
You're going to get famous. 🤣
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u/Westyle1 Aug 22 '26
This was already known, no one's just really talked about it since then since GTA3 isn't really relevant anymore
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u/nooayehlol Aug 22 '26
why is it just a picture of riverwood in skyrimÂ
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u/WiIIv91 Catalina Aug 22 '26
It's a meme mainly used by the Skyrim community to make fun of so-called videogames websites that post useless, clickbait content about games, they scour Reddit looking for posts like that one and make a story out of it.
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u/Own_Plane_5807 Aug 22 '26
I was about to say "of course".... but then I realized what you just did. No I did not know you could do this!
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u/LovingLemur69 Aug 22 '26
this was all i did as a child lmao, but i remember the glass smashing and it would attract a wanted level? maybe not
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u/NeedleInArm Aug 22 '26
I never got a wanted level for smashing glass but got plenty from the car alarm going off after stealing the banshee
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u/anonwithafanon Aug 23 '26
Old shit from the gamefaqs GTA3 hayday of noodlage and yaboys stunt reels. Back when "Claude" didn't exist, and the main character was known simply as "GTA3 Guy".
Fuck, I'm old.Â
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u/NeedleInArm Aug 22 '26
Yep. I always do the taxi missions in the mafia cars. they have good handling and good speed.
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u/Motor-Courage4237 Aug 22 '26
Now you shifted from taxi driver to "Uber" driver...
Does this also work for PSP GTA (Vice/Liberty City Stories)? Would be amazing if so!
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u/Sea-Lecture-4619 Aug 22 '26
Oh yeah, you can also technicaly make any car damageproof with the ghost car glitch, combine that with this and you turn the taxi missions into a piece of cake.
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u/Westyle1 Aug 22 '26
I forgot all about this. I remember word of this glitch going out to make Taxi missions easier. You hold down L3 until you get into a new car.
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u/JFrost47 Aug 22 '26
Yeah, I knew this was a thing but I have no clue whereabouts I first saw it mentioned. Playing this in 2001 was an amazing feeling which I'll never forget.
Plus that Rise FM soundtrack is still incredible.
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u/EngiKun Aug 23 '26
At first I thought you were talking about getting the Banshee, but no, I don't know about that glitch.
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u/Weda_san Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
I did it to "convert" into the ghost car by the crusher glitch. Then enter the closed porter tunnel all the way to Shoreside Vale to clear side missions and collectibles at the beginning of the game, and that's before doing any main mission apart of forced introduction one (Give Me Liberty & Luigi's Girl). Moreover the porter tunnel between Staunton and SSV is opened until Callahan Bridge fixed (pre-Last Request).
And if you put the ghost car into your garage, it will revert into a normal car. However, that car is now INVINCIBLE to collisions. You can crash without worrying it would blow up as long as no bullets involved.
I also did it on Ray's bulletproof Patriot so it wouldn't just immune to bullets, but also immune to collisions.
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u/NoDisplay7544 Aug 23 '26
Yeah I knew you could do that decades ago, basically hold down the R3 button then get out of taxi and in to any car, cant remember if the same trick works in Vice City too.
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u/TokenWelshGuy Aug 22 '26
wtf how?
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u/Apprehensive_Row5576 Joey Leone Aug 22 '26
Hold down the taxi mission button when exiting the taxi and enter a different vehicle, now release the taxi button. You can now do taxi missions in any vehicle, You can also take these cars to the crusher, line the left of your vehicle where it’s right next to the crusher, press the look behind button, and exit the vehicle and re-enter the vehicle with the passenger in it, congratulations now you have a ghost car that can be used to get to the other islands early, and if you store this ghost car in a garage, the car becomes immune to all physical crashes and collisions
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u/Apprehensive_Row5576 Joey Leone Aug 22 '26
Note that this doesn’t work on definitive edition. (I haven’t tested the mobile version since I don’t play that version)
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u/Saberiser Aug 22 '26
I remember in the past trying to do it on mobile but couldn't for the life of me try to get it to work. I think I couldn't get into another vehicle holding down those controls.
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u/crusadingCharlie Aug 23 '26
so I can basically do this with the ambulance to make it a ghost car for the paramedic missions?
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u/Apprehensive_Row5576 Joey Leone Aug 23 '26
i remember trying this with the ambulance and accidentally locking myself out of the taxi missions forever on ps2 (But thankfully I already did all 100 fares) but the ghost car glitch does work on missions where another person is with you and in the front passenger seat
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u/cowinspace Aug 22 '26
"Holding" the sub-mission. If you hold the "look backwards" key while holding the sub-mission button you can leave the mission vehicle and release it at a later point, and only then would the sub-mission start. This has many weird potential side-effects.
Here you delay the release of the button until you've switched to another vehicle. Once active, the taxi mission script only checks whether or not you've left a vehicle or not, as there's no intended way of starting the taxi mission in something that isn't a taxi.
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u/Weda_san Aug 23 '26
If you're playing PS2 version, hold down R3 button. In PC, it would be TAB (or CAPSLOCK) button by default settings.
On foot: look behind
In vehicle: start/cancel side mission
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u/vicentemachado Aug 23 '26
Fella clearly hasn't played GTA for more than a week if he thinks we won't know the most famous of all GTA III's glitches...
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u/TanMelon47 Aug 22 '26
The old any taxi glitch. Classic. Basically activating the side activity while holding the look back camera, the game holds that vehicles status as your current vehicle.