Category: GTA2

GTA2 Game Hunter

2010-11-16 v1.517

• Fixed a bug that displayed every map twice in the Create Game map list unless you clicked refresh
• Changed tabbing order on Create Game form

2010-11-16 v1.516

• “Find This Map” now correctly shows all the matching maps
• Added a drop-down list for filtering maps based on player count (defaults to only showing 2 player maps)
• Country is only redetected on startup if your IP has changed from last run
• Changed country detection site back to geoloc.daiguo.com/?self
• Fixed some display issues with the Create Game form

GTA2 Game Hunter

• Fixed bugs with alert sounds not playing
• If you try to run a second copy of GH then it shows the window of the existing GH and closes itself
• Status column shows x/y instead of x/6. x = number of players in your game and y = PlayerCount in MMP file.
• Fixed a rare bug with the find process function if the process path didn’t contain a backslash.
• Limited status messages to 12 characters
• Added /crc filename command

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Mike Dailly (one of the original coders that worked on Lemmings and GTA1/GTA2) posted that a museum now has a DMA Design display.

So a couple of years back the old museum in Dundee closed to get a well needed refurbishment, and while shut it got in touch with Realtime Worlds and asked for everything DMA that we could get our hands on. Now the museum is open again and it has a section based on local history, and a selection of the DMA stuff has been put on display. It’s very odd seeing something that I’ve been intimately involved with appear in a museum! Particularly as (last time I checked), I’m not dead yet!

GTA2 Game Hunter v1.0 was released on the 24th of January, 2005.

This is what it looked like 5 years ago:

The latest version can be downloaded here.

B-$hep managed to pass one of the hardest Kill Frenzies in GTA2 without using cheats. Destroy 20 cop cars in 60 seconds with rocket launcher. You can’t get that many cop cars to appear during battle, so it requires some setup before you start. Setting up 15 cop cars before starting is normally very difficult since some vanish when they go off screen. Fortunately, if you damage the cars, they will be less likely to vanish.

There has been a lot of GTA2 activity in the past few months.

B-$hep is creating a GTA2 map editor in Delphi.

Black Phoenix is reverse engineering GTA2 and creating OpenGBH/OpenGTA2 in C++.

T.M. is working on a map viewer and automated minimap generator in C++ and he might even make a PHP version. It can be used to create some really great images.

Vike the Hube has been patching GTA2.exe using his ASM coding magic.

Sektor and Ben Millard have been working on GTA2 Game Hunter.

None of these projects are really ready for the public yet. I plan to release a public beta of GTA2 Game Hunter v1.5 in the near future.

The petition to release GTA2 source code, now has over 2000 signatures.

GTA2’s 10th anniversary is this year!