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I’ve been told that I’ve played far too much GTA San Andreas this last week. Since I haven’t posted much real content lately, I thought I’d update you on our progress in the game. We are about halfway through the mission tree for San Fierro. Just after Scott left tonight, I found out how we are supposed to know to photograph something, and then I went searching for things to photograph. I came across a camera in some sort of atrium area between two buildings on the west side of San Fierro, south of the Paradiso safe house. Curious, I set the camera as my current weapon and started peering around through the zoom lens. I just randomly started taking pictures of things while standing in the middle of the four columns in the atrium’s center. As I was taking shots from the center, all of a sudden the game told me that I had taken shot 1 of 50. Just before taking that shot, I thought I saw a little twinkle in the middle of the screen disappear. Not having accomplished much since my last save, I reloaded that save and went back to the atrium area. As I looked around, I could not find that twinkling. Then I looked through the camera lens and all of a sudden, this little camera icon appeared in front of the building that I took a picture of when I was told it was one of the 50 special photos. Apparently these camera icons denote the 50 photographs you need to take. Some other photos I’ve taken include the clock tower in front of a building on the north or northeast part of San Fierro, a statue sitting on top of an obelisk, and a building with an oriental-style cascaded roof structure on top of it. I hesitate to search the internet for the location of the 43 remaining photos I need to take. I’d like to think that the 100% checklist from GTA-SanAndreas.com is all the help we need for this game. Only on missions so tough that we can’t beat them in fewer than a dozen attempts warrant us searching online for help. I’ve learned my lesson from GTA III: cheating doesn’t get you anywhere. And frankly, it felt damn good to have nearly achieved 100% on GTA Vice City without having needed to use any cheats (we did have an EGM guide to help us along a bit).