Grand Theft Auto 1 & Grand Theft Auto London
Technical Analysis and Patches by Daniel Marschall

Contents

• Overview about PC editions
  
  
• Patches by Daniel Marschall
  
  
  • Windows patch bundle by Daniel Marschall
    Fixes for the Windows version: Widescreen, Cop Environment Sound Fix, Player A Corruption Fix and Automatic Converter, No CD Patch
    
    
  • Language patch bundle by Daniel Marschall
    Fixes: German Reform, French oe-Ligature, London 1961 not working on Non-English settings
    
    
• Tools by Daniel Marschall
  
  
  • FXT↔TXT converter that fixes a lot of things other converters do wrong!
    
    
• Problems, bugs and incompatibilities
  
  
• Cheats (and their encoding in the EXE)
  
  
• Analysis of all files
  
  
• File Format analysis:
  
  
  • FON (used for fonts and cutscene sprites)
    
    
  • SDT + (Audio) RAW (audio files for menu and gameplay)
    
    
  • WAV (audio files for cutscenes)
    
    
  • Savegame files player_a.dat and player_e.dat (for settings, savestates and highscores)
    
    
  • FXT Format (for Language/Texts)
    
    
  • (Graphics) RAW/RAT Format (single graphics)
    
    
  • Mission INI Format
    
    
  • City formats:  CMP, MAP, GRY, G24
    
    
  • REP Format (Replay, possible only for development)
    
    
  • SMK Format (Intro movie)
    
    
• Misc
  

Author: Daniel Marschall ( info at daniel-marschall.de )