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Impress Your Friends With Vice City Online Stats

Posted by simoniker on from the 500-miles-by-golf-cart? dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the unofficial Grand Theft Auto:Vice City PHP Stats page. This clever utility takes your stats.txt file from the PC version of Vice City, and arranges it in a smart-looking webpage for all your fellow gangsters to see, even adding detail and interpretation to a bunch of the info. Here's an example stats page generated by the site.

12 comments

  1. Sweet by djcapelis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So now I can look like a god in the game without playing it from the comfort of vi and a nice little php script. Thanks! Does anyone see a point in this? Kinda cool... but uh... easily changed?

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    1. Re:Sweet by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "So now I can look like a god in the game without playing it from the comfort of vi and a nice little php script. Thanks! Does anyone see a point in this? Kinda cool... but uh... easily changed?"

      Troll? He's got a good point! Once I saw it was a .TXT file, I wanted to find it and fiddle with it in Notepad just to do it. I seriously doubt I'm the first who thought of that. (well obviously I'm not, parent poster beat me to it...)

      In any case, Troll is not how I'd moderate this post.

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    2. Re:Sweet by Jimmy_Chi · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The stats.txt file can only be exported, not imported for use in game, so there's no point in changing it to cheat.

      It's simply a much nicer format showing what you've done in the game then the plain old traditional scrolling stats you see in the game, so...there's a point.

  2. how to get the stats.txt file by illuvata · · Score: 2, Informative

    incase anybody was looking for the file and couldn't find it, you have to load a game, view your stats, and press s to save them. that creates a stats.txt and a (horribly pink) stats.html in the folder your save games are in

  3. Title changed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hmm. The title began as "Impress Girls With Vice City Online Stats" and has now changed to "Impress Your Friends With Vice City Online Stats".

    How about we change it again to "Impress everyone by getting a life".

    1. Re:Title changed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, you could start by not heckling the posters on a geeky website.

    2. Re:Title changed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If your life doesn't fall within certain predefined areas, then you don't have a life and should therefore be heckled into suicide for the purity of the rest of the nation. So get that football game on, crack open an ice cold beer, smack your significant other a couple of times to get them in line, and sit back comforted by the knowledge that someone else will always be there to tell you what you think.

  4. Let me just ask... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one that reset every time I got busted or killed? Why would I want to refind all my weapons?

    1. Re:Let me just ask... by anon*127.0.0.1 · · Score: 1

      Depends on what I've accomplished since my last save. I've had times when I've died at the end of a particularly bloody rampage. In that case, it's easier to go and buy new weapons then to try and redo the rampage.

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    2. Re:Let me just ask... by NanoGator · · Score: 1

      "m I the only one that reset every time I got busted or killed? Why would I want to refind all my weapons? "

      Actually, I'd reset it too. GTA 3 and the earlier versions of GTA taught me that you had to have a huge stash of money in order to win. Vice City was no exception. Though I want to play it again now without resetting. Should be interesting. ;)

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  5. pretty cool by Dreadlord · · Score: 1

    but I wish if he could add some graphics to the page, lets say pics of houses owned and the like

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