GTA Vice City cheats are central to anyone playing the neon-tinged, ’80s-set crimeathon who wants to skip straight to the action, granting you the ability to do everything from spawning flying boats and tanks, to changing the weather and giving yourself invincibility.

GTA Vice City is available across most platforms - including the 2021 Definitive Edition which brings it to a Nintendo system for the first time. All versions of the game have cheats, so our GTA Vice City cheat code list below covers all platforms, including the PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and mobile.

We also explain how to enter cheats in Vice City - so you can wreak havoc in Rockstar’s version of Miami wherever you’re playing.

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If you’re looking for more explainers, we have pages on Vice City properties, opening up closed bridges in Vice City and helicopter locations.

  • How to enter cheats in GTA Vice City
  • GTA Vice City PC cheats
  • GTA Vice City PlayStation cheats
  • GTA Vice City Xbox cheats
  • GTA Vice City Switch cheats
  • Are there any GTA Vice City mobile cheats?

How to enter cheats in Vice City including Definitive Edition

While entering cheats is all pretty simple, there are a few things to bear in mind when you’re thinking of using them. Here’s a quick run down of what you should know.

  • Several cheat codes in the 2021 Definitive Edition have been disabled. Rockstar has confirmed it has removed some cheats for technical reasons, and we have verified which have worked for us on this page - and have kept the ones which have worked in previous re-releases below if you are playing those.

  • There are new cheat codes in the Definitive Edition. One is Big Head Mode, which is performed by entering the Konami code (UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT) then the right-most face button, then the down-most face button (so on PlayStation, would be CIRCLE then X). There is seemingly no PC-specific way to input this cheat by using a keyboard. Here’s the cheat in action via Dan Allen Gaming on YouTube:

  • Controller and keyboard inputs (mostly) work on all platforms in the Definitive Edition. This means on PC you can use controller input to activate cheats (useful for the new Big Head Mode in particular!) and on console, use the PC keyboard inputs to activate cheats. However, in our experience the ones which work and which don’t can vary - so if one code doesn’t work one way, try the ‘usual’ method for that platform to see if that works instead.

  • Using cheats can disable Trophies and Achievements. As such, use a separate save file for any cheat-filled sessions.

  • Save before you enter them. This is an obvious one, but make sure you always save before entering cheats, just in case something goes wrong and you cause a little too much havoc.

  • A lot of cheats can’t be deactivated. Whilst re-entering most “mode”-style cheats (ones that toggle something on or off, like slow motion for instance) will bring up a “Cheat Deactivated” notification, we often found when testing them out that this didn’t do anything and the cheat remained active until we quit the game or reloaded a save. This is another reason to save your game first!

GTA Vice City PC cheats

PC cheats for GTA Vice City are entered by simply typing in the below codes as they appear. They’re not case sensitive, so you can type them in lower case or capital letters, and you don’t need to bring UP a dialogue box or console commands or anything like that. Simply type the code correctly, and you’re sorted!

GTA Vice City PC cheats for Definitive Edition and previous PC releases:

GTA Vice City PC cheat codes disabled in the Definitive Edition:

GTA Vice City PlayStation cheats: PS5, PS4, PS3 and PS2

GTA Vice City cheats for the PlayStation (including the PS2, PS3, PS4 and PS5) are entered by simply pressing the buttons on the controller as they appear in the cheat codes list below.

GTA Vice City PlayStation Cheat Codes for Definitive Edition and previous PlayStation releases:

GTA Vice City PlayStation cheat codes disabled in the Definitive Edition:

GTA Vice City Xbox cheats: Xbox 360, One and X/S

GTA Vice City cheats for the Xbox (including the Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S) are entered in the same way as they are on PlayStation platforms: by simply pressing the controller buttons as they appear, in order, in the list of Xbox cheat codes below.

GTA Vice City Xbox Cheat Codes for Definitive Edition and previous Xbox releases:

GTA Vice City Xbox cheat codes disabled in the Definitive Edition:

GTA Vice City Switch cheats

As with other consoles, cheats for GTA Vice City are entered by simply pressing the below button codes as they appear at any point in the game.

As long as your button presses are being registered - as in, you’re not in the middle of a cutscene or something like that - then once you’ve completed them in order, it’ll work.

Are there any GTA Vice City mobile cheats?

The last thing you might still be wondering is about the mobile version of Vice City, where there’s no controller or keyboard that you can use to input the cheats listed above.

You can use cheats in GTA Vice City on mobile, but you’ll need to use a work around as there’s no keyboard or controller for you to use to input the codes.

In brief, you’ll need to download a third-party keyboard app or program that allows a keyboard to be used as a kind of overlay to any mobile games you’re playing. With that, you can then type in the letter-based cheats as listed in our PC Cheats section, and they’ll work as usual.

As always, we do recommend you exercise caution in downloading third-party software of course, so if you’re dead set on using cheats in the mobile version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, do your research first and be aware that you’re doing so at your own risk! Again, make sure you save your game first just in case, too.