To gain respect, stay in your neighborhood and get a wanted star, then kill all the police
that arrives. Once you reach a four star wanted level (and if you killed enough police),
you will gain some respect. Additionally, completing missions is not the only way to earn
respect. By spraying other gang's tags, you will also earn a bit, and by taking over
another gang's area you will earn a lot. Note: You must have completed some
missions before you can take over areas. You can see on the radar witch areas you have
taken over, and which areas the enemy gangs own. Your own territory is marked with green,
and your enemies are yellow or purple.

Use the Rhino to complete the vigilante missions easier. Additionally, start the
mission, put the vehicle in your garage, and exit so that the door closes. Enable the
"Destroy all cars" code. The criminals will be killed. Run back to the garage, hop in the
car, and repeat. This is also a good way to quickly gain more money and status points.

Steal any law enforcement vehicle and enable the "Deadly vehicle" code. If you enter
the cheat code in the vehicle, you must get out of the car then get back in or the car
will not resist damage, but will blow up anything it touches, and result in your car
eventually exploding. After this, click Right Analog-stick and go at a slow speed (about 5
to 15 mph) and enable the "Destroy all cars" code. Note: If you go too slow or too
fast, CJ will exit the car, making your vehicle blow up as well when you complete code
entry. The enemy should blow up no matter where he is and result in a "Threat Eliminated"
message and give you the reward money. Note: After level 26 is reached, your car
becomes more explosion prone, as the "Deadly vehicle" code eventually wears off.

Get an FBI Rancher and drive onto the Julius Thruway in Las Venturas. Start Vigilante
mode and begin driving around the highway. Just stay on the highway, and you will notice
that the criminals start dying for no apparent reason. Just drive for about twenty minutes
to get the 150 armor award easily.

If you get stuck in the water, enable the "Spawn Hotring Racer" then "Spawn Jetpack"
codes. It will not appear until you are on a non watery surface. Quickly jump on the car.
It may be a far ride, but it is better than swimming.

While playing a game, press White, Right, L, Up, A, L, White, Black, R, L(3). If you
entered the code correctly, a message will appear. Repeat this code to disable its effect.

This trick requires a controller in port two. To get an easy Hitman rating for either
the 9 mm pistol or shotgun, go to the Los Santos Police Department. Note the two player
icon across the street. Quickly enter the Police Department. Run and ignore any cops
shooting at you and get the armor in the locker room. It is the first room on your right.
There is an available pistol in the room on the right, at the far end of the hall. Proceed
to dispose of the police using your pistol. If you need ammunition, the cops will drop a
gun after you kill them. Your weapon skill will quickly raise as you kill the swarms of
police that come after you. Continue shooting until your armor level becomes low or is
gone. Then, run to the far end of the police station hall, down the stairs, and into the
holding cells. In the middle cell is more armor. Use it and continue your massacre until
your armor is once again depleted. Next, quickly run out of the door and across the street
to the two player icon. Click Right Analog-stick on controller two to enter two player
mode. Simply kill the second player and your wanted level will be gone and your health
will be refilled. Repeat this to gain Hitman status or simply gain ammunition.
Note: Hitman status with the pistols will allow duel wielding, faster firing,
improved accuracy, lock-on range increased and faster strafing. There is also a shotgun
hidden in the police station in the room on your left as you enter, then to the room at
the right at the end of that one. The shotgun may not respawn as soon as you enter, but in
at least 60 seconds one should appear. You can use this available shotgun to reach Hitman
status with. Note: Hitman status with the shotgun only gives you improved accuracy,
move while firing, faster firing rate and lock-on range increased -- not duel wielding.
Duel wielding can only be achieved with the sawed-off shotgun.

To raise your weapon skills quickly, enter a dance club, such as the "Alhambra" in the
Idlewood area. Begin shooting people with the weapon of your choice. Doing so during the
afternoon or night hours (12:00 to 04:00) greatly increases the amount of people that
respawn in the club. Since so many people spawn, you have a virtually limitless amount of
people to "train" with. Doing so however, raises your wanted level greatly. Enable the
"Lower wanted level" code or know where the police bribes are, as you will need them.

Go to the actual beach part of the Verona Beach area. Start shooting with the desired
gun. The cops will arrive after awhile, but you can make them go away or just kill them
for more. Keep doing this until the desired gun is at Hitman level. It is possible to get
four weapons up to Hitman level in about an hour.

Walk out from CJ's house and make sure there a car in his garage. Use any weapon to
shoot the car in the garage until it catches on fire. Walk away and let the garage close
Then, open it and repeat the steps. You can do this with any weapon to get an easy Hitman
level.

Go into the bar near CJ's house in the Ganton area. Kill everyone there and try to get
a two or three star wanted level. Start killing the police that come through the door.
When no one remains, turn around and look. They should be there.

Go to your house in Grove Street. Start randomly killing people until you have two star
wanted level. Kill all the cops with any desired weapon. Make sure you have armor on. When
you have low health, save the game, then repeat.

Drive to the Burger restaurant where OG Loc is working. Mark the location of the Pay
'N' Spray near the beach closest to this spot on your map. Go into the restaurant with a
two or three star wanted level. Order food if needed, then hold the place up. Everyone
will crouch down into a fetal position. You may kill them if desired, as they have some
money. The police will morph into the building but they will be in the same position as
the customers. They will not shoot you, never stop coming in (usually seven at a time).
You have all the time needed to reach Hitman status on any gun. Make sure you have at
least 400 bullets or more. You may also go back out and immediately return if you get
hungry, but you must hurry to the counter. Sometimes the police will be eating there and
they will shoot at you immediately. However, as soon as you aim your gun, they will stop,
but the food will not be available if this is done. When you are finished, make sure all
seven officers are alive in the building (this seems to cause less police shooting at you
on the outside), then hold A + Left Analog-stick Right to run around to the back of the
building. There are always two vehicles parked here. Take one and make two rights then a
left to the Pay 'N' Spray. Wait inside until the flashing stars disappear. Do this for two
weapons and you will have over half your reputation easily.

When you are swimming and are about to run out of breath, return to the surface. Keep
jumping up and down with X. Your breath meter will refill faster.

When playing pool you can get a free shot by pressing Y as you take your shot and hit the
ball. If done correctly, you should hit the ball and your cue should follow your white
ball like if you had never taken your shot. If you pot the white ball by doing this, it
freezes your game. Simply press Y as you press the Right Analog-stick Forward and you will
get an extra shot every time.

Go to the General Store in Dilmore. There is a two player icon there. The second player
will be able to change their character.

Successfully complete all missions assigned by Mike Toreno to get a flamethrower, minigun,
rocket launcher, and homing rocket launcher to appear at his cabin in Tierra Robada.

While playing a game, press White, Down(2), Left, X, Left, Black, X, A, R, L(2). If you
entered the code correctly, a message will appear. Repeat this code to disable its effect.

While playing a game, press Down, Black, Down, R, White, Left, R, L, Left, Right. If you
entered the code correctly, a message will appear.

While playing a game, press B, White, Up, R, Left, A, R, L, Left, B. If you entered the
code correctly, a message will appear. Repeat this code to disable its effect.

When fighting someone (not with gun), press R to lock on to them.

While playing a game, press Black, B, R, White, Left, R, L, Black, White. If you entered
the code correctly, a message will appear. Additionally, this code will also increase
police activity. Repeat this code to disable its effect.

While playing a game, press Left(2), White, R, Right, X(2), L, White, A. If you entered
the code correctly, a message will appear. Game time will remain at 21:00, with an orange
sunset sky. Repeat this code to disable its effect.

While playing a game, press R(2), B, Black, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right. If you
entered the code correctly, a message will appear.

Dive underwater, and once your breath is out, you will start losing health. If you want to
stay underwater, keep enabling the "Armor, health, money, and street creds" code when your
health is low. You will be able to remain underwater, and max your Lung Capacity attribute
easily.

It is recommended that you spray all 100 tags, as it is easier for ammunition and early on
missions. Get a cop car (preferably a car, OT truck, rancher, etc.). Save it in the
Johnson family garage; save the game if desired. Get a large amount of sawn-off shotgun
ammunition. If all 100 tags were sprayed, it is available in Johnson kitchen. Go to the
garage. Get as far away from the car as possible without letting the garage door close.
Then crouch, aim for the grill of the police car, and shoot. Every few shots (or every
time the car catches fire), you should have more weapon skill. It will eventually upgrade
about every minute. When it catches on fire, let the garage repair the car and come back.
This does not work as well at getting Hitman on the other weapons.

Steal any policy vehicle and click Right Analog-stick. Successfully complete level 12 of
the vigilante missions to get an armor limit of 150.

If you want to lose weight quickly, enable the "Speed up time" code.