GTA San AnSkateas

GTA San AnSkateas

Skate 3 skating inside GTA San Andreas. Press J (or L3 + R3 on a controller) and CJ gets on a skateboard driven by the Skate 3 engine, riding San Andreas' own streets and collision, with Skate 3's camera, controls, tricks, grinds and bails.

No game files are included. The setup builds what the mod needs from your own copies of both games.

Download and install

1. Get GTA San Andreas ready (one time). The mod needs the classic PC game

   (not the Definitive Edition) at version 1.0 US with an ASI Loader. Download GTA SA Open Downgrader, place the exe in your game folder (the one with gta_sa.exe) and run it. Check all the tick boxes and click Downgrade. ASI Loader & ModLoader is the only mod the skating needs; the rest are optional. Do this yourself first: Setup doesn't run the downgrader, but it warns you if you skipped it.

2. Get your Skate 3 files (one time). Skate 3 for Xbox 360, extracted to a

   folder with default.xex and data in it: from your disc's ISO with extract-xiso (extract-xiso -x "Skate 3.iso"), or a Games on Demand copy with Velocity.

3. A controller. An Xbox controller, or a PlayStation one through DS4Windows.
4. Install. Download the zip from Releases, unzip it, double-click

   Setup.cmd, and pick your GTA folder and your default.xex.

5. Play. In game, when "Skate 3 is ready" shows, press J (or L3 + R3).

The zip's README.txt has the same steps in more detail, plus troubleshooting.

Skating stops by itself or acts strange? Press Ctrl + J to restart the Skate engine (about 10 seconds), no need to restart the game.

Black screen after Alt+Tab? Download DXVK 3.1.1, open its x32 folder and drop d3d9.dll into your game folder (next to gta_sa.exe).

Repository layout

Building from source

Just want to play? Skip this: use the zip from the Releases page. This is only for people who want to change the code and compile the mod themselves (Windows only).

1. Install two free tools (one time):
   • Visual Studio Build Tools 2022.

     In the installer, tick Desktop development with C++.

   • Rust (run rustup-init.exe and accept the defaults).
2. Download this project: the green Code button, then Download ZIP, and unzip it.
3. Double-click build.cmd. The first run downloads and builds

   plugin-sdk too, so it needs internet and takes a few minutes. It ends with the two finished files: sa-plugin\build\SanAnskateas.asi and skate-ffi\target\i686-pc-windows-msvc\release\skate_ffi.dll.

4. To test in game: sa-plugin\build.cmd install copies your build over an

   existing install (set GAME first if your game isn't in the Steam folder).

For maintainers: release\make-dist.ps1 packs the Releases zip. It needs the mashup's converter (iw4l-skate-convert.exe, from the mashup's own release), whose location is set at the top of the script.

Credits

Major credits to these projects and their creators:

• Skate engine: skate-3-rust-engine,

  as used in 2010 Rust Rewrite Mashup by chasmlol, a fork of IW4L by vladtrc (Apache-2.0, see mashup/).

• plugin-sdk by DK22Pac (MIT): the base of the game plugin.
• gta-reversed: reference for how San Andreas works.
• gtasa-open-downgrader: gets San Andreas to 1.0 US.

Unofficial fan project, not affiliated with EA or Rockstar Games. You need to own Skate 3 and GTA San Andreas.