Pickup

Weapon pickup with a red halo in GTA III

A pickup is a spinning object (with a glowing halo in GTA III and Vice City) that can disappear when the player goes through it or interacts with it. If the model is a usable weapon, the player can "pick" it up and use it. Some pickups are created as collectibles. They are usually difficult to find but collecting them is required for a 100% completion of the game. Mines are classified as a type of pickup though their usage is limited to GTA III. Nearly all pickups are saved in block 7 of the save file in GTA III, block 8 in Vice City, and block 6 in San Andreas. Other than script-based creations listed below, the only other time a pickup is created in the game is when a character dies and drops money or weapons.

Mission script

0213		creates a pickup
0214		checks if the pickup has been collected
0215		removes the pickup
02E1		creates a money pickup
02EC		creates a hidden package
02F0		creates a mine
02F1		creates a nautical mine
032B		creates a pickup with ammo, equivalent to 0213 with an additional parameter to set a weapon's ammo
035B		creates a drop-off package, used in the Donald Love's mission "A Drop In The Ocean"
03DB		adds a blip with properties to the pickup
03DC		adds a blip to the pickup
03DD		adds a sprite blip to the pickup
048C		checks if there is any pickup at the coordinates point
04A6		creates a protection pickup
0517		creates a locked property pickup
0518		creates a for sale property pickup
055B		creates a clothes pickup
0958		creates a snapshot
0959		creates a horseshoe
095A		creates an oyster

Pac-Man pickups

Platinum pickups in GTA III

Pac-Man pickups are a collection of pickups unique to GTA III. The entire collection is interestingly named "Pac Man" and the pickups "Power Pills," references to the Pac-Man arcade game. They can only be collected while the player is in a vehicle and have a spinning halo that is unique from all other pickups in the game. There are two types of pickups: "race" used for donkey magazines during "Big'N'Veiny", and "scramble" used for platinums during "Bullion Run". These pickups are a separate class from the above so pickup opcodes do not work on them and they aren't saved into the save file.

02C3	Creates a collection of donkey magazine pickups
02C5	Gets the number of donkey magazine pickups collected
02C6	Removes all donkey magazine and platinum pickups
02C7	Creates a collection of platinum pickups
02C8	Gets the number of platinum pickups collected in a vehicle
02C9	Clears the number of platinum pickups collected in a vehicle
02D9	Clears the number of donkey magazine pickups collected
02DA	Creates a single donkey magazine pickup

See also

• Save pickup, a code snippet that allows the ability to save the game when a pickup is picked up.
• Buying property, a code snippet that allows to buy a property and view a cinematic scene.