Hi there
I've recently started playing GTA SA again and I have a save with over 12hrs of gameplay that I am hoping to be able to use...
I'm new to modding GTA SA and I decided after playing it for a bit to go about finding all the real life counterparts of the cars in the game and replacing them so they look more like the real life ones, i.e. better as well as renaming the names ingame so they're the real ones, and I thought I'd add in a couple of novelty ones as well...
But I've run into a problem. I accidentally forgot to backup my gta3.img file and now it has a modded Los Santos police car, a 1989 Batmobile (which doesn't work btw so please don't ask me for it - I got it to spawn and drove away and then the game crashed to desktop on me...) replacing the Hotring Racer B and a 2005 Batman Begins Batmobile replacing the Rhino - the original models are not there anymore.
And now when I go to load up my save game or even start a new game the game won't get past loading the game, it just crashes to desktop as soon as it's about to give me control...
I've replaced the handling.cfg and vehicles.ide with the originals (I made a backup of those at least) but the problem is still there.
I've been using SAMI to install the cars I've installed, I've removed all the mods and none are showing in SAMI. The GGMM shows the models for the police car and the 2 batmobiles so that's how I know they've replaced the original models...
Is there anyway short of a clean install to solve this issue?
Anyway I would really appreciated any help/advice as I'm just starting to play GTA SA for a second time after getting bored with it on the PS2 - it's so much better having modded cars that look like the ones the game is supposed to have and I could really do with not losing the save I have.