When Grand Theft Auto 2 was released back in 1999, I was determined to create the first hacking tools for it. Instead of jumping in and playing, I (stupidly) sat with a hex editor and cobbled together two utilities - a complete save game editor and the “Power Manager”, a tool that unlocked massive amounts of game data editing functionality in the default GTA2 launcher. Both were originally posted to Gouranga!, they are mirrored here below for anyone playing the free version released by Rockstar.

The Save Game Editor can be downloaded here.

The Power Manager can be downloaded here. You will need GTA2 installed to use the PM, run the app in the same directory as the installed game.

I’m fairly sure I wrote a version 1.1C of the SGE, but can’t find it, nor the original source code. Not having the source any more is probably for the best, it wasn't very pretty.