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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.

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  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