Q2 2025 Update

Quick update on my projects.

1. New interactive map for San Andreas is now available at https://library.sannybuilder.com/#/sa/map It shows locations of various items, different areas, including hardcoded, e.g. weather regions, and also some paths, all based on the original unmodded game.

Special thanks to Miran who provided additional sets of tiles for the map.

I want to expand the map in the future with more info, and also thinking of displaying user data on the map, e.g. from a save file, or a compiled script.

2. I made a few contributions to the ongoing community effort of reverse engineering GTA San Andreas. The project had many names in the past, currently it can be found on GitHub under the gta-reversed organization.

I haven't done a large-scale reversing since 2006-2007, when it was just me and IDA. Nowadays, we have all sorts of information available, including mobile symbols, other RE projects, source codes, etc., making the reversing a very pleasant experience. But the governing model on that community project and excessive standards (yet not saving from the new bugs) make it difficult to contribute on a regular basis, especially for the first time. It'll probably take another decade to complete San Andreas with the current speed. I'm not sure how much else I would contribute, but we will see.

3. CLEO Redux got a new dev build (available on Discord), with several quality of life improvements and also support for the aforementioned gta-reversed project. When CLEO Redux runs in GTA San Andreas directory alongside gta-reversed.asi and gta_reversed.pdb it can execute JS scripts and also reference static game variables and functions by name using information stored in the PDB file (see https://re.cleo.li/docs/en/using-memory.html#finding-memory-addresses-in-re3-and-revc). The new build is still in testing, but I hope to make a stable release soon.

Last, but not least. Sanny Builder 4 turns 20 in August! Two decades ago I started this tool and keep improving it to this day. I have some fixes made since version 4.1 released in March, so I may package it as a new release aligned with the anniversary date. Stay tuned!

-Seemann