Save glitch possible usage for hundo/all missions etc
8 years ago
Latvia

So as you all know, save glitch breaks the game up pretty badly in Chinatown Wars. Today I messed around in CTW a bit with other missions after you do a save glitch (I dont have a video tho, will probably post it later)

It turns out that, not only after using a save glitch you open up a couple of missions up, but the mission start points change aswell. I had a nexperience when even the Rat Race started from Kenny's restaurant, even tho it has to be triggered on the other island. Basically as much as I understood, from Kenny's restaurant you can spawn and start any mission, that is given to you by Kenny, including Copter Carnage, Missed the Boat? etc.

I havent yet tested this out with Chan and other characters, but will do in the future.

Also, once you do a mission, you get around 45 new messages in your inbox (I did Natural Burn Killer as the first mission) and after opening up/reading the messages, they take off and spawn new missions, depending probably on what messages you read, but I did read all of them, so couldnt test out all of that completely.

Note: One glitch that happens with messages is, after you do Yu Jian (its usually after Natural Burn killer in the same marker if you do it as the next mission) is, if you open up for example a spam mail, for example, Welcome to Badger network or similar, early in the game, you get stuck in the message screen and can't quit, because the game thinks that you recieved one of the first mails from Kenny to go to him and aks you to use the GPS waypoint, but a Bager message doesnt have that option, so that can potentially stop a run. P.S. Hopefully i explained this okay-ishly

So from what I am understanding at the moment, you can change spawns of the missions by opening certain mails and doing missions in a certain order, so with a lot of grinding and experimenting, probably theres a way to line up all of the story missions to be close each other without the long drives or needs for a cab. Also the Yu Jian mission spawns, so 100% count can be achieved. This might make possible future hundo runs easier as you don't have to wait for mails and making a route even more optimal and gaining advantages in other missions.

I did think that this would be the case but never tested it. Are you planning on doing 100%?

Latvia

I am considering that, challenges that are included in 100% are really fun, but I dont really have time for 100% due to uni and other stuff, because as far as I know, hundo in this game might be pretty long, even using this as a time save.

as i said before, all missions (with or without the save glitch) should be a category instead of any% no save glitch also some mission order could result in a softlock (like doing a mission that requires to open the GPS but it's not working yet) or minor annoyance like taxi not working

routing either AM or 100% would be a mess but it should be a great run to watch, good luck with that

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Latvia

I will look into routing a possible AM run, but yeah, it is a long mess, because any opened mail or a change in mission order changes everything else further in the run.

I do agree it could be fun to watch, as the continuity of the story would also be messed up, as one moment you might be killing Zhou at one of the final missions, and on the next one you are stealing crates with him.

Latvia

So I started to route AM and 100% runs, it turns out, it wont be possible to do them on legit hardware, atleast for me, because the mission So Near, Yet Sonar is crashing the game every time I start it even in different parts of the game (early in the game, and close to the end part). It might be a fault in my hardware (I use psp-2000) but if someone wants to help me and test it out can try it, it is being unlocked by reading the mail "Idiots." by Chan.

R.I.P. save glitch usage in these cats for now.

can you upload a save ?

Latvia

Here it is, that mission spawns close to the safehouse after reading the mail and putting up a waypoint through the mail, as just reading it doesnt spawn it.

https://failiem.lv/u/2x8asy9x EU version save file

crashed on PSTV as well (error C1-2858-3)

Latvia

Thanks for testing it out, seems like So Near, Yet Sonar gets real messed up if it is done outside its regular mission path.

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