How to use the New San Andreas DowngraderThanks to this set of new downgrader tools by Sam Lake from the GTA Forums, downgrading San Andreas, whether it's the retail Second Edition or the digital re-releases on Steam and RGL, has become much easier and efficient to get the game moddable and install fixes afterwards!

Mediocre controller support for XInput-based controllers was added for the Steam and RGL versions while non-existent in the retail releases.

Widescreen support, as with III and Vice City, is implemented very poorly, all while still missing 5:4 resolutions in the Steam and RGL versions.

Save game incompatibilities with previous releases and caused by later updates in the Steam version for certain regions (e.g.

broken Armor bonus for completing the Vigilante mission that doesn't work, which is also present in the Second Edition release)

The Steam and RGL versions are outright ignores many major bugfixes from previous retail releases in place of a whooping two minor fixes while introducing other bugs (e.g.

The Steam and RGL versions are missing 1/10 of the game's licensed soundtrack thanks to expired licenses and Rockstar not willing to get them renewed.

The retail Second Edition and Rockstar Games Launcher versions CANNOT BE MODDED, and if you try to do mod it, it will purposefully crash in the former's case or will actively prevent/undo modifications thanks to the DRM of the latter, most likely as Rockstar's way of getting back at modders for the 'Hot Coffee' fiasco.

The problem with SE, Steam, and RGL versions: the short version

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