This article has a talk page!This page details bugs of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
PlayStation 2#
The original PlayStation 2 version (v1.40) contains a few bugs that were fixed in later revisions.
Detonator Glitch#
If you have unlimited ammo for your weapons (obtained by completing the game 100%) and use either a car bomb or remote grenades, you will be stuck with "unlimited ammo" for the detonator and not able to switch back to other weapons. A partial fix without losing your weapons by getting wasted or busted is to use the metal detectors at the airport or golf club, although this method will replace the remote grenades with regular ones.
Cherry Poppers Save Glitch#
Saving at the Cherry Poppers Ice Cream factory can corrupt your save file. Easily avoided by saving elsewhere.
"Trial By Dirt" Stat Glitch#
The stats for the "Trial By Dirt" side mission would not show up until you beat the "Test Drive" side mission with the same time as "Trial By Dirt". A minor problem, since it doesn't affect getting a 100% status.
This was fixed in v2.01, but broken again in v3.00.
Windows#
"Love Juice" Bug#
Attempting to pick up Mercedes with a single-seat vehicle in the mission Love Juice causes the game to softlock in the cutscene.
This was fixed in the Japanese release and the German "Green Pepper" release, which was based on the former, by checking if the player is maneouvering a Pizzaboy, Baggage Handler, an aircraft, or a boat; prompting the RBM1_14 text ("You need a car or a motorcycle!") upon trying to pick Mercedes up with either.
Single-frame Animations#
When Tommy is carrying a large weapon such as the M4, chainsaw, or minigun his animation consists only of a single, static frame when they were properly animated on PlayStation 2.
Custom Skins Corrupt CPlane Function#
Also present in Grand Theft Auto III, giving your player a custom skin with the letter e as the 21st character in the file name will cause the game to read it as an exponential function, and corrupt the CPlane function; in this game, this not only corrupts aircraft (causing them to fly in or below the ground), but also the Colonel's Yacht (which also makes the mission impossible to complete).
Similarly, having a number in the 22nd character will cause further corruptions; note that the Colonel's Yacht is only affected when starting a new game.
Pole Position Club's private lap dance Bug#
The cutscene of the Pole Position stripper in a cowgirl attire in the private lap dance area already started dancing before Tommy sits down, which causes the stripper to finish dancing early before the music stops. This does not happen in all versions where the stripper started dancing once Tommy sits down.