Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas/any%

Route

This is just a quick overview, with notes that are relevant to the overall route (e.g. "Pick up X for use in mission Y") that might not be obvious. How to do stuff in detail is probably best learned from recent runs. Notes on individual missions can be found when clicking on the mission name (read that for some of the stuff not so obvious from watching runs).

Missions that can only be started at certain times are indicated by e.g. @20-6, which means the mission can only be started between 8pm and 6am.

Duping is indicated by (2x) behind the mission name, which you can also click to get more information on that specific dupe.

Los Santos

A big problem with routing in Los Santos are the missions you can only start at a certain time. Especially OG Loc's missions, that are far away from CJ's house (so you can't save to correct the time).

1. Big Smoke
   • Get a handgun for use in Cleaning The Hood
   • Get a Police Bike for RTLS if possible
2. Ryder
3. Tagging up the Turf
4. Cleaning The Hood
   • Use the gun picked up during Big Smoke to kill the Drugdealers.
   • Get a Police Bike for RTLS if possible
5. Drive-Thru
6. Nines And AK's
7. OG Loc
8. Life's a Beach @22-6
9. Running Dog
10. Drive-by
11. Sweet's Girl
    • Pick up the MicroSMG ammo so you have enough for Wrong Side of the Tracks
12. Cesar Vialpando
13. High Stakes Low-Rider
14. Madd Dogg's Ryhmes
15. Management Issues
16. House Party (Cutscene)
17. Burning Desire
    • At the start of the mission, enter the police car to get a Shotgun for sliding in Home Invasion
18. Wrong Side of the Tracks
    • You need at least 50 SMG ammo, more is safer (Backup Strat: There is an SMG at the train station behind some walls to the right of the marker)
19. Just Business
    • After the mission go north to the carpark and get the NRG on the 2nd floor as well as the grenades on the 3rd floor
20. Doberman
21. Gray Imports
    • After the mission, park the NRG (or other bike if tire was popped) in the garage
22. Home Invasion @12-20
23. House Party @20-6
24. Catalyst
25. Robbing Uncle Sam
    • After the mission, get the spraycan if you want to use it for Reuniting the Families
26. Los Sepulcros @9-17
27. Reuniting the Families
    • During the autoscroller get your AK skill to Hitman level (for use in Black Project/Stowaway)
28. The Green Sabre

Badlands

• Badlands
• Bustedwarp to Dillimore
• Tanker Commander
  • If you did the Bustedwarp, you won't have any weapons to kill yourself for the Deathwarp after this mission. While you wait for Catalina to finish talking, you can look out for a cop to run over or if there is none quickly get the gun from the Police Station.
• Deathwarp to Angel Pine
• Body Harvest
  • If you did the Deathwarp, you won't have any weapons to kill yourself for the Deathwarp after this mission, so get a rifle from the farm you steal the Combine Harvester from.
• Deathwarp to Angel Pine
• King in Exile (Cutscene)
• Bustedwarp to Dillimore
• Small Town Bank
  • Go to Ammunation to buy Rifle-Ammo to be used in Local Liquor Store (Micro-SMG ammo might be useful as backup, and maybe Armor)
• Local Liquor Store
• Against all Odds
  • Pick up the 15 additional Satchel charges in the alley to the right of the entrance of the Betting Shop. Can be used for Are You Going To San Fierro? and for stuff until LV when duping
• Wu Zi Mu
• Farewell My Love...
• Are You Going To San Fierro?
  • Use the Satchel Charges picked up during Against All Odds to burn the weed.

San Fierro

1. Wear Flowers in Your Hair
2. 555-We-Tip
3. Deconstruction
4. Photo Opportunity
5. Duping Setup (Blood Bowl) [T-Bone Mendez Dupe Route A]
6. Jizzy (Cutscene)
7. Jizzy
8. Duping Setup (Blood Bowl) [T-Bone Mendez Dupe Route B]
9. T-Bone Mendez (2x) → skips Mike Toreno
10. Mountain Cloud Boys
11. Outrider
12. Snail Trail
13. Duping Setup (Trucking) (on the route back from Snail Trail)
14. Ran Fa Li (2x) → skips Lure
15. Ice Cold Killa @20-6
    • Required for Pier 69, which is right next to Amphibious Assault
    • If later than 02:00, save to get to 20:00, so AA can still be started after the mission and duping setup
16. Amphibious Assault @20-6 (2x) → skips The Da Nang Thang
17. Pier 69
18. Toreno's Last Flight
    • Requires at least one rocket left from Outrider
    • Pick up 60 rockets/AK from the helipad after the mission (for use in Las Venturas)
19. Yay Ka-Boom-Boom
20. Monster
21. Duping Setup (Bike School) (start&fail Highjack to get bike for drive)
22. Highjack (2x) → skips Interdiction
23. Duping Setup (Blood Bowl) (from the garage after Highjack)
24. Verdant Meadows (2x) → skips N.O.E.

Las Venturas

1. Learning To Fly
   • N.O.E. skipped by duping Verdant Meadows
2. Rustler to Maverick [only if duping Black Project, otherwise Stowaway]
   • Jumping out at the Helipad should give you parachute for Stowaway later
3. Fender Ketchup
4. Explosive Situation
5. You've Had Your Chips
6. Don Peyote
7. Intensive Care
8. The Meat Business
9. Duping Setup Quarry or Bike School
10. Fish in a Barrel (2x) → skips Freefall
11. Madd Dogg
12. Misappropriation
13. Stowaway [only if duping Black Project, otherwise directly after Learning To Fly]
14. Duping Setup (Quarry)
15. Black Project @20-6 (2x) → skips Green Goo
16. Saint Mark's Bistro
17. A Home in the Hills

Return to Los Santos

1. Vertical Bird
2. Get Minigun ammo
3. Home Coming
4. Beat Down on BDup
   • Should ideally have a Police Bike in the garage from Los Santos
5. Gang Territories Part 1 towards Grove Street
6. Grove4Life
7. Gang Territories Part 2 towards the Mansion
   • Need to have 35% of territories at the end
8. Cut Throat Business
9. Riot
10. Los Desperados
11. End of the Line

Details

Badlands Bustedwarp

On the route from Angel Pine to Catalina, which you have to do twice in Badlands, there is a chance for a Bustedwarp. It is possible because you don't have any weapons that you definately want to keep (since you loose all your weapons when being busted).

You drive from Angel Pine to the small street that runs along the highway and get busted there, so you teleport to Dillimore.