GTA Vice City Cheats: The Complete PC Cheat Code List
Every classic GTA Vice City cheat code in one place, grouped by what you actually want to do - survive, arm up, spawn a tank, fly a car, or start a full-scale riot. Includes how to enter cheats and which ones behave differently in the browser version.
- How to enter cheat codes
- Quick reference: the 10 cheats you actually need
- Player and survival cheats
- Weapon cheats
- Vehicle cheats
- Traffic and driving cheats
- Weather cheats
- Character skin cheats
- Pedestrian and chaos cheats
- Miscellaneous cheats
- Cheats to use with care
- Cheats and the browser version
- Cheats by situation: what to use when
- How cheats affect saves and missions
- Typing cheats with a controller or on mobile
- Why some cheat codes look misspelled
- Frequently asked questions
There are around 60 documented cheat codes in GTA Vice City, and they are all typed rather than entered through a menu. That is the single most important thing to know: cheats in Vice City are activated by typing a word on your keyboard while you are actually playing the game - not from a pause menu, not from a settings screen, and not from a phone in the later games' style.
Below is the full list, organised by category, followed by an explanation of how to enter them and which ones behave differently when you are playing the browser version on this site.
How to enter cheat codes in GTA Vice City
The process is the same on every platform, but the keyboard version is what matters for browser play:
- Start the game and load into the world. Cheats only register once you are actually in gameplay - not while the game is loading, and not on the main menu.
- Type the code letter by letter on your keyboard. Do not hold Shift, do not press Enter afterwards, and do not type into any in-game text field. Just type the letters while you play.
- Watch for the on-screen confirmation. When a code is accepted the game shows a short message in the top-left corner confirming the effect. If nothing appears, the code was mistyped or you were not in gameplay yet.
- Codes are case-insensitive.
aspirineandASPIRINEboth work. - You can keep typing while moving or driving. The game does not pause, so be ready for whatever the cheat spawns.
Quick reference: the 10 cheats you actually need
If you only remember ten codes, remember these. They cover survival, firepower, transport and getting the police off your back.
| Cheat code | What it does |
|---|---|
aspirine | Restores full health |
preciousprotection | Gives full armor |
nuttertools | Tier 3 weapon set - the heavy loadout |
panzer | Spawns a Rhino tank next to you |
leavemealone | Drops your wanted level to zero |
comeflywithme | Makes cars fly |
seaways | Lets cars drive on water |
bigbang | Destroys every nearby vehicle |
gettherefast | Makes all cars much faster |
chickswithguns | Arms female pedestrians |
Player and survival cheats
These are the codes you will use most often. Health, armor, weapon tiers and wanted-level control are what keep a mission attempt alive long enough to finish it.
| Cheat code | What it does |
|---|---|
aspirine | Restores full health |
preciousprotection | Gives full armor |
thugstools | Weapon set, tier 1 - pistols and melee |
professionaltools | Weapon set, tier 2 - mid-tier guns |
nuttertools | Weapon set, tier 3 - heavy weapons |
youwonttakemealive | Raises your wanted level |
leavemealone | Lowers your wanted level to zero |
lifeispassingmeby | Speeds up the in-game clock |
onspeed | Speeds up overall gameplay |
booooooring | Slows gameplay down |
gripiseverything | Improves driving skills and grip |
icanttakeitanymore | Suicide - instantly kills Tommy |
chasestat | Shows the media attention stat |
onspeed and booooooring are worth experimenting with on a slow device. They change the internal game speed, which is not the same thing as your frame rate, but the effect on how fast everything feels is immediate.
Weapon cheats
There are only three weapon codes, and they replace your entire arsenal rather than adding to it. Choosing the right tier matters more than it sounds.
| Cheat code | Loadout | Best used for |
|---|---|---|
thugstools | Tier 1 - basic pistols and melee weapons | Early missions, when you want firepower without the chaos |
professionaltools | Tier 2 - mid-tier automatic weapons | General missions and surviving shootouts |
nuttertools | Tier 3 - rocket launcher, minigun and heavy weapons | Hard missions, rampages and blowing things up for fun |
nuttertools hands you explosives. Rocket launchers and grenades will destroy mission vehicles, kill mission targets you were supposed to protect, and rack up a wanted level fast. On escort and chase missions, tier 2 is usually the safer pick.
Vehicle cheats
Vehicle codes spawn a specific car next to you or change how every car in the game behaves. The spawn codes only work if there is enough clear space beside you - stand in the middle of a road, not against a wall.
| Cheat code | What it does |
|---|---|
panzer | Spawns a Rhino tank |
thelastride | Spawns Romero's Hearse |
rockandrollcar | Spawns a Bloodring Banger |
travelinstyle | Spawns the second Bloodring Banger variant |
rubbishcar | Spawns a Trashmaster |
betterthanwalking | Spawns a Caddy golf cart |
bigbang | Destroys all cars around you |
wheelsareallineed | Only the wheels of cars remain visible |
comeflywithme | Makes cars fly like the Dodo |
airship | Lets boats fly |
seaways | Cars can float and drive on water |
The two cheats that change the whole game
comeflywithme and seaways are the ones people come looking for. Both break the game's normal rules in a way that is genuinely useful rather than just silly:
seawayslets any car drive across water. That means you can cross between the islands before the bridges open, and reach boats and hidden packages without hunting for a boat spawn.comeflywithmemakes cars airborne when you pull back. It is the fastest way to cross the map, and it is also the fastest way to destroy the car you are in.
Combine either of them with panzer if you want the most absurd result - a tank that flies or floats is remarkably hard to stop.
Traffic and driving cheats
These change the behaviour of every other car on the road, and they are the codes behind most of the "why is the traffic doing that" moments in the game.
| Cheat code | What it does |
|---|---|
greenlight | All traffic lights turn green |
miamitraffic | Heavy traffic - far more cars on the road |
iwantitpaintedblack | All traffic becomes black |
ahairdresserscar | All cars turn pink |
gettherequickly | Engines are faster |
getthereveryfastindeed | Engines are faster again |
getthereamazinglyfast | Engines are faster still |
gettherefast | All cars are faster |
loadsoflittlethings | Gives cars oversized wheels |
The speed codes stack with each other in the sense that each one pushes the engine values further, which is why the "get there" family has three near-identical entries. If you find a car undriveable after using them, restart the game - the change persists for the session.
Weather cheats
Weather in Vice City is not just cosmetic. Rain and fog reduce visibility, which makes fast driving genuinely harder, and the storm setting is the one the game uses during its own story moments.
| Cheat code | What it does |
|---|---|
apleasantday | Good weather |
alovelyday | Great weather - clear and bright |
abitdrieg | Sunny weather |
catsanddogs | Stormy weather with heavy rain |
cantseeathing | Thick fog |
Turning on alovelyday before a long driving mission is a small but real quality-of-life win, especially on a phone screen where contrast is already tight.
Character skin cheats
Skin codes swap Tommy's model for another character from the game. They are cosmetic, but a few of them change the size of your hitbox slightly, which is why some players use the smaller models for tight missions.
| Cheat code | Costume |
|---|---|
stilllikedressingup | Random pedestrian costume |
looklikelance | Lance Vance costume |
mysonisalawyer | Ken Rosenberg costume |
ilooklikehilary | Hilary King costume |
rockandrollman | Love Fist musician costume |
onearmedbandit | Phil Cassidy costume |
idonthavethemoneysonny | Sonny Forelli costume |
weloveourdick | Scottish soccer player costume |
foxylittlething | Mercedes costume |
cheatshavebeencracked | Ricardo Diaz costume |
Pedestrian and chaos cheats
This is the group that turns Vice City into a completely different game. Pedestrian codes change how every NPC on the street behaves, and they stack with each other.
| Cheat code | What it does |
|---|---|
chickswithguns | Female pedestrians carry weapons |
fightfightfight | Pedestrians riot and attack each other |
nobodylikesme | Pedestrians attack you on sight |
ourgodgivenrighttobeararms | All pedestrians are armed |
hopingirl | Pedestrians get into your car |
fightfightfight, nobodylikesme and ourgodgivenrighttobeararms unless you mean it. Together they produce a city where every pedestrian is armed and hostile, which is entertaining for about ninety seconds and then makes normal play impossible. Save your game before you try it.
Miscellaneous cheats
The leftovers - small cosmetic and joke codes that do not fit anywhere else.
| Cheat code | What it does |
|---|---|
certaindeath | Tommy smokes a cigarette |
fannymagnet | Tommy attracts pedestrians |
deepfriedmarsbars | Makes Tommy fatter |
programmer | Gives Tommy exaggerated girly legs and arms |
Cheats to use with care
Three things about cheats are worth knowing before you lean on them:
- Cheats can break mission scripts. If you spawn a tank on top of a mission vehicle, or destroy a car you were supposed to steal, the mission can become unfinishable until you restart it. The game does not always detect this for you.
- Saving with cheats active is discouraged. The classic advice, repeated by every guide since 2002, is not to save your game while cheats are running. Some effects persist in the save file and can leave your game in a strange state.
- They do not block completion. Using cheats does not stop you finishing the story or reaching 100 percent completion, but the game does track how much you used them, and some players consider a cheated save as separate from a clean one.
Cheats and the browser version
Because the browser edition on this site runs the original game logic through a WebAssembly build, the cheat system is the same one the PC release used - you type the words on your keyboard while playing. A few practical notes for browser play specifically:
- Click the game first. Browser games do not always take keyboard input until you click inside the game area once. If a code does nothing, this is almost always why.
- Use a real keyboard. On a phone or tablet there is no keyboard to type on, so cheat codes are effectively a desktop and laptop feature. The on-screen touch controls cover movement and actions, not typed words.
- Watch for the browser swallowing shortcuts. Some key combinations are reserved by the browser itself. If a code is not registering, try a different window size or exit fullscreen and try again.
- Cheats reset when you reload the page. A browser refresh restarts the game session, so any active cheat effects are lost. This is also the quickest way to undo a cheat you regret.
Cheats by situation: what to use when
Knowing the full list is less useful than knowing which two or three codes solve the problem in front of you. This table maps the situations players actually get stuck in to the codes that fix them.
| Situation | Use these | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You keep dying on a mission | aspirine + preciousprotection | Instant full health and armor without leaving the area or losing progress |
| You need firepower immediately | professionaltools or nuttertools | Replaces your entire loadout in one code, mid-fight |
| You are stuck on three or more stars | leavemealone | Drops the wanted level straight to zero |
| You cannot reach a location in time | seaways or comeflywithme | Cross water or fly directly instead of driving the long way |
| You need a specific vehicle now | panzer, thelastride, rockandrollcar | Spawns the vehicle beside you wherever you are standing |
| Driving missions are too hard | gripiseverything + gettherefast | Better grip and faster cars make chase missions far more forgiving |
| You want to explore early | seaways + panzer | Reach the second island before the bridges officially open |
| You want to clear traffic fast | bigbang | Destroys every vehicle around you in one go |
| You want the city to go insane | fightfightfight + chickswithguns | Turns pedestrians hostile and armed |
| You are taking screenshots | alovelyday + stilllikedressingup | Clean bright weather and a different character model |
How cheats affect saves, missions and completion
Cheats in Vice City are more forgiving than in some later games in the series, but there are still three things worth understanding before you lean on them heavily.
They can break mission scripts
Mission logic in Vice City assumes the world is in a particular state. If you spawn a tank on top of the car you were sent to steal, or destroy a vehicle the mission needed to exist, the mission can become impossible to finish. The game will not always detect this and restart for you - you may have to fail the mission deliberately or reload a save.
They persist in the session, not permanently
Most cheats stay active until you reload. That is convenient, but it also means an accidental miamitraffic or getthereamazinglyfast will keep affecting your driving until you restart. If the game suddenly feels wrong, that is usually why.
They do not block completion, but they are tracked
Using cheats does not stop you finishing the story or reaching 100 percent completion. However, saving your game while cheats are active is discouraged for a simple reason: some effects are written into the save file and can leave your game in an odd state when you load it back up. The safest habit is to save first, experiment second, and reload if you do not like the result.
Typing cheats with a controller or on mobile
Cheat codes in the browser version need a physical keyboard, because they work by typing letters while the game is running. That has two practical consequences:
- On a phone or tablet, cheats are effectively unavailable. The on-screen touch controls cover movement, actions and driving, but there is nothing to type words on. A Bluetooth keyboard paired to the device will work, since the game receives it as normal keyboard input.
- A controller will not help either. Gamepads work for movement and combat, but cheat codes are keyboard-only in this build. You can play with a pad and still type codes on the keyboard at the same time - the game reads both.
Why some cheat codes look misspelled
Several codes are not real words, and some look like mistakes. That is intentional - they are documented exactly as the game accepts them, and correcting the spelling will stop the code from working. The ones people most often get wrong:
| Code | Common wrong version | Note |
|---|---|---|
aspirine | aspirin | Missing the final E |
abitdrieg | abitdry | Deliberately misspelled in the original code |
cantseeathing | cantseeanything | Shortened |
booooooring | boring | Four extra Os - the exact count matters |
idonthavethemoneysonny | idonthavethemoney | Full phrase including Sonny |
wheelsareallineed | wheelsareallineedit | No trailing word |
ourgodgivenrighttobeararms | ourgodgivenright | The whole phrase is required |
Frequently asked questions
How do you enter cheat codes in GTA Vice City?
Type the code letter by letter on your keyboard while you are actually playing the game, not from a menu. The game confirms each accepted cheat with a short message in the corner of the screen.
Do GTA Vice City cheats work in the browser version?
Yes. The browser edition runs the original game logic, so the same typed codes work. You need a physical keyboard, so cheats are effectively a desktop and laptop feature rather than a mobile one.
What is the cheat for full health in GTA Vice City?
Type aspirine while playing to restore full health. Type preciousprotection to restore full armor.
What is the cheat for the tank in GTA Vice City?
Type panzer to spawn a Rhino tank beside you. You need clear space next to Tommy or the vehicle will not appear.
How do I make cars fly in GTA Vice City?
Type comeflywithme to make cars fly like the Dodo. Type seaways to let cars drive on water instead.
How do I lower my wanted level in GTA Vice City?
Type leavemealone to drop your wanted level straight to zero. Type youwonttakemealive to raise it if you want the opposite.
Why are my cheat codes not working?
The three usual causes are that you are not in active gameplay yet, that the game window does not have keyboard focus, or that you mistyped the code. Click inside the game first, then type the code again slowly.
Does using cheats stop you getting 100 percent completion?
No. Cheats do not block story progress or 100 percent completion, but saving your game with cheats active is discouraged because some effects persist in the save file.
Can you use cheat codes on a phone?
Not with the on-screen controls, because cheats are typed on a keyboard. A Bluetooth keyboard paired to the phone or tablet will work, since the game receives it as normal keyboard input.
Can you use a controller to enter cheats?
No. Gamepads work for movement and combat, but cheat codes in this build are keyboard-only. You can use a pad and type codes on the keyboard at the same time.
Why is my cheat code not registering even though it looks right?
Codes are matched as exact letter sequences, so a single wrong character stops them working. Common mistakes include typing aspirin instead of aspirine, or boring instead of booooooring with four Os.
Do cheats stay on after you reload the page?
No. Reloading the page restarts the game session and clears any active cheats. That is also the fastest way to undo a cheat you regret.
Is it safe to save the game with cheats active?
It is discouraged. Some cheat effects are written into the save file and can leave your game in a strange state when you load it again. Save before you experiment, not after.