
"If your copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PC has been altered by the unauthorised Hot Coffee download circulating on the internet, or you wish to prevent your version from being so altered, download and install the patch for your version of the game."īefore the ESRB's investigation, the game had an M for mature rating that meant it could be sold to those aged 17 and above. "The Hot Coffee scenes were not intended to be part of the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas experience," read a statement from the Rockstar, the game's developer. In Australia, the game was stripped of its official classification, meaning that shops could no longer sell the title. The change meant, however, that many shops were forced to stop stocking it as they have a policy of not selling adult-rated content. Installing Hot Coffee allowed people to play an explicit "mini game".Īs a result, the US Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) changed the rating to Adults Only. The scenes in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the best-selling game of 2004, were unlocked by a fan who created software called Hot Coffee.
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Rockstar, maker of a video game which caused controversy after secret sex scenes were found in it, has issued a fix to disable access to the scenes. It’s unclear how long this process is going to take, but players are growing irate they physically do not have access to a game they paid for and likely planned to play over a weekend.The GTA series is one of the world's most popular games If, by some miracle, modders figured out a way to reactive this music or boot up the Hot Coffee mod, that would be a nightmare for Rockstar to deal with, so they’re not risking it at all, hence why people who bought GTA cannot even play the trilogy right now until they can scrub it clean. They’re in the game, but due to licensing issues, the game simply avoids playing them. Dataminers also appear to have uncovered every single song that was left out of the re-released trilogy.

The Hot Coffee mod isn’t even the only unintentional collection of files from the original games left over. GTA: San Andreas has sold millions worldwide Initially the games publisher, Take Two, said the explicit scenes were the result of modifications made to the game by Hot Coffee. But the code from the original version describing it, and deactivating it, appears to have been left in. As in, there was no way for players to actually play the Hot Coffee mod, which landed the game an AO rating back in the day and caused it to be banned from sale many places. To be clear, this does not appear to be accessible in the game.
