Trails in Vice City

This page shows various ways on how to enable the "trails" option in Vice City. This option is available to toggle in the console versions but is absent in the PC version. Trails is a visual effect that adds motion blur, enhances particle effects, and adds an orange glow to the atmosphere. There are multiple ways on how to enable this option.

Plugins

Plugins can enable this feature without the need to alter the executable file.

•  GTAGarage: Vice City Trails by Silent. It allows you to toggle the feature through the in-game menu.
•  GTAForums: Sharptrails by The Hero. It also allows you to toggle the feature through the in-game menu while removing the blurring effect.
• DexX's tool by DexX, retrieved from archive.org. It controls various hardcoded and extra graphical settings. Open the spec.ini file and set the "Trails" setting to 1. This tools disables the functionality of the trails menu option if added through the Menu Editor.

VC Menu Editor

This method involves directly editing the executable file using the Menu Editor by steve-m.

• Download the program. Extract the files, start the program, and read the accompanying ReadMe. When everything is set up correctly, the "Menu Screens" should show legible texts.
• Under "Menu Screens", select 04. FEH_DIS.
• Under "Menu Items", select FEDS_TB.
• Click the "Add" button, which duplicates the item.
• Select the duplicate FEDS_TB item and go to the "Associated Function" drop-down box and choose 009.
• In the "Target Menu" input box, set to 4.
• Set the "X-position" to 40 and the "Y-position" to 153.
• In the "Alignment" drop-down box, select "Left".
• In the "Menu Item Text" drop-down box, choose FED_TRA.
• Click "Up" until FED_TRA is between FEM_FRM and FED_SUB.
• Click "Apply".

• Set the "Y-position" of FED_SUB to 178 and click "Apply".
• Set the "Y-position" of FED_WIS to 202 and click "Apply".
• Set the "Y-position" of MAP_LEG to 228 and click "Apply".
• Set the "Y-position" of FED_RDR to 253 and click "Apply".
• Set the "Y-position" of FED_HUD to 278 and click "Apply".
• Set the "Y-position" of FED_RES to 303 and click "Apply".
• Set the "Y-position" of FET_DEF to 328 and click "Apply".
• Set the "Y-position" of FEDS_TB to 353 and click "Apply".
• Finally, click "Save Menu" button.
• Close the program and start the game. If everything is done correctly, you should see this:

Note: If you use the original protected gta-vc.exe, you must start a new game. This is necessary, because the protected exe have trigger that disables all traffic and pedestrians after you load save file; this happens if any byte of exe file was changed. Use a cracked exe instead.

See also:

• Tutorial on GTAForums – by Pagnell, retrieved from archive.org
• German tutorial – @GTAInside.com.

Memory editing

These are addresses that you need to edit if you want to insert the trails option into the menu similar to above by yourself. They are for US v1.0.

Address	Type	Value
0x6D8F38	word	9
0x6D8F3A	char[8]	"FED_TRA"
0x6D8F4A	word	10
0x6D8F4C	char[8]	"FED_SUB"
0x6D8F5C	word	11
0x6D8F5E	char[8]	"FED_WIS"
0x6D8F6E	word	31
0x6D8F70	char[8]	"MAP_LEG"
0x6D8F80	word	32
0x6D8F82	char[8]	"FED_RDR"
0x6D8F92	word	33
0x6D8F94	char[8]	"FED_HUD"
0x6D8FA4	word	43
0x6D8FA6	char[8]	"FED_RES"
0x6D8FB0	word	40
0x6D8FB4	word	1
0x6D8FB6	word	47
0x6D8FB8	char[8]	"FET_DEF"
0x6D8FC1	byte	4
0x6D8FC8	word	34
0x6D8FCA	char[8]	"FEDS_TB"
0x6D8FD2	byte	0
0x6D8FD3	byte	33
0x6D8FD4	word	320
0x6D8FD6	word	353
0x6D8FD8	word	3