{"id":3304,"date":"2014-10-22T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:03:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:03:03","slug":"claude-speed-worst-name-in-gaming-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=3304","title":{"rendered":"Claude Speed: Worst Name in Gaming History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve mentioned it a time or two already, but editing video game cutscenes together has been a hobby of mine for a long time now.\u00a0 Not only does it give me an opportunity to unwind after a long week at work (I don\u2019t know why it does, it just does), but it also gives me a chance to go through certain games as thoroughly as I possibly could.<\/p>\n<p>The completionist in me would never allow myself to make a video knowing there was some kind of hidden cutscene I missed along the way!<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I turned to one of my favourite games of all time \u2013 <em>Grand Theft Auto III<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gta3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gta3.png\" alt=\"gta3\" width=\"835\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gta3.png 835w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gta3-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve attempted to capture all the cutscenes from this game once already, but it didn\u2019t pan out.\u00a0 The reason?<\/p>\n<p>A bloody unfortunate glitch.<\/p>\n<p><em>GTA3<\/em> takes place over three islands and has you associating with plenty of shady characters throughout the course of the story.\u00a0 On the island of Shoreside Vale, a gang war is brewing between the Red Jacks and Purple Nines.\u00a0 D-Ice, leader of the Red Jacks, contacts Claude via payphone and gets him to run all sorts of fun little errands to eliminate every member of the Purple Nines.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where the glitch comes in; once you complete the D-Ice missions on the PlayStation 2 or Xbox versions of the game, the Purple Nines are permanently wiped off the face of Liberty City.\u00a0 If you start a new game, complete all the missions through to Shoreside Vale and finally attempt D-Ice\u2019s first mission (which has you doing drive-by shootings on dudes in purple), you will notice that there are only dudes in red that show up on the streets \u2013 the Red Jacks.<\/p>\n<p>You can drive around all you want, but the gang members you\u2019re looking to eliminate won\u2019t show up.\u00a0 Even if you delete your saved game file, there\u2019s enough data on your PS2 Memory Card\\Xbox Hard Drive to \u201cremember\u201d that time you completely wiped the other gang off the map.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, this glitch is a relatively minor inconvenience.\u00a0 The game\u2019s main story missions will be intact, and you\u2019ll still be able to finish the game\u2019s main story.<\/p>\n<p>Still, since I&#8217;m trying to achieve 100% completion, this glitch is tearing at the OCD part of my brain.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to be able to re-play those missions, and not just because they\u2019re among the best in the entire game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9u4b1ylmRjg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because I couldn\u2019t get all the cutscenes I wanted, that last playthrough I did went unfinished.\u00a0 I deleted everything I had recorded and put the game aside for another day.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when I got to tinkering\u2026 ugh, why do I always have to tinker?<\/p>\n<p>Y\u2019see, here\u2019s something the true gamer in me has a rough time admitting now. \u00a0These days, I\u2019m a bona-fide collector of NES, Super NES, Genesis and Game Boy games.\u00a0 About 10 years ago, even though I was deep into all kinds of retro gaming, I was not big into spending money to pad my game collection.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, I had more money to spend on that sort of thing then than I do now, living at home rent-free and all.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the idea of doing a soft-mod to my original Xbox to load a bunch of roms and emulators on it wasn\u2019t a big deal.\u00a0 I loaded a disc with hundreds of NES, Super NES and Game Boy roms and got my console loaded with 8-and-16-bit goodness.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s truly an amazing feeling to have all these games at my fingertips, ready to play at any moment.\u00a0 It changed my Xbox\u2019s dashboard completely, and it allowed me to access components of my console that I\u2019d never even seen before.\u00a0 It\u2019s basically a PC that also happens to play Xbox games!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3307\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/evox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3307\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3307\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/evox.jpg\" alt=\"Pretty much my Xbox's Main Menu since 2005.  There are some pretty cool skins available, however.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/evox.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/evox-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretty much my Xbox&#8217;s Main Menu since 2005. There are some pretty cool skins available, as well.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the awesomeness, however, comes a slight pang of guilt.\u00a0 Guilt from playing roms instead of the real deal.\u00a0 Guilt that my Xbox is a mere shell of its old, original self.\u00a0 Guilt about the fact that even though it\u2019s fun to play these old games, I can\u2019t do it with the controllers they were meant to be played with.<\/p>\n<p>And then\u2026\u00a0 I encountered the Purple Nines glitch.<\/p>\n<p>The collector in me isn\u2019t exactly proud of having done the mod all those years ago, and I fully intend to either un-mod my current Xbox or buy another used console for cheap.\u00a0 However, being able to fiddle around with the memory on the system is a benefit when dealing with a glitch like the one I\u2019m dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>It took some digging, but I managed to find where the save files were located so I could delete them.\u00a0 Doing so came at a cost, though.<\/p>\n<p>The save files that had been on my Xbox for more than a decade were all labeled as jumbled letters and numbers.\u00a0 I wanted to go in there and specifically delete the <em>GTA3<\/em> save file on my hard drive and nothing else, but there was nothing to differentiate the <em>GTA3<\/em> file from the ones for <em>Halo 2<\/em>, <em>NASCAR Thunder 2004<\/em>, <em> Knights of the Old Republic<\/em>, and other games I\u2019ve played through the years.<\/p>\n<p>Because I wanted to overcome the Purple Nines glitch in my own way, I went ahead and deleted them <em>all<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Career Mode progress in all my NASCAR games?\u00a0 Gone.<br \/>\nUnlocked levels and ships in various Star Wars games?\u00a0 Buh-bye.<br \/>\nProgress in \u201cLegendary\u201d mode in both Halo and Halo 2?\u00a0 See ya!<\/p>\n<p>That last one was very much a work in progress having not touched either game in about 9 years, but still\u2026\u00a0 it was hard for me to just delete everything and start from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>So with all that in mind, I\u2019m not quite done the Portland missions in <em>Grand Theft Auto III<\/em>.\u00a0 I still have a while to go before finding out if deleting everything off my Xbox actually fixed the dreaded Purple Nines glitch, and the suspense is killing me.<\/p>\n<p>If it ended up not fixing the glitch, my cutscene movie will just have to go on without that whole batch of clips, and my mass file-deletion will be all for naught.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3308\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/purple.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3308\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/purple.png\" alt=\"I better see these jerks.\" width=\"197\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/purple.png 197w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/purple-133x300.png 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I better see these jerks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be sure to post an update to this story once I get there\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve mentioned it a time or two already, but editing video game cutscenes together has been a hobby of mine for a long time now.\u00a0 Not only does it give me an opportunity to unwind after a long&#8230; 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