Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but fuck it. I worked on the original GTA trilogy as a mission designer (Although they credited us as "Level Designers" because it was easier to categorize) I'm keeping private because I don't want the cunts at rockstar to get pissy at me, they already fucked over obbe.

TRIANGLE, TRIANGLE, SQUARE, CIRCLE, X, L1, L1, DOWN, UP

Guys, can anyone help me a little with GTA:SA? I'm playing the PS2 ver., no cheats
>early game
>beat all missions close to my house—Ryder, Big Smoke, etc.
>now only have Cesar and OG Loc missions available
>they are super far away from the only save point I have, if i get killed/fail I will waste a ton of time
>only have $2k, cheapest safe house is $10k
Am I doing something wrong? I didn't explore much, just did missions. Tried doing taxi missions, the pay is too low.

I tried to play this on my pc (og 1.0 version, patched with mods), but it still is crashy (got a ctd basically every 30 minuted, stutters like crazy even with fps limiter turned on) and is basically unplayable. I've tweaked with Vice City before and it worked great with 5 mins of tweaks, even finished it with no problems yet SA is just a mess on modern systems.
Im thinking of using my steamdeck for once and emulating the ps2 version on it.
Anyone tried it? Is it stable and does it look good?

There is only one good GTA and there is only going to be one