GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has some of the cut songs already included with the final release on PC, but they are simply disabled.
This discovery has been made by users who are datamining the PC version of the GTA Trilogy. It is possible to see the list of songs that have been disabled and theoretically, it should also be possible to simply enable them by disabling or reversing the script on a PC.
GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition appears to have several issues since launching earlier on PC and Consoles. One of these issues has led to the game being unplayable on a PC due to the Rockstar Games Launcher only working in Maintenance mode. This means it is not possible to go online in the game.
So the audio format of choice for the Definitive Editions is OGG-VORBIS! More interesting however, San Andreas contains all the cut music! It's just disabled by script! pic.twitter.com/FBGJINdBYy
— Ash R. (@Ash_735) November 11, 2021
This issue can be quite serious if left untouched because Rockstar has to license these songs before they can use them in their games. Here, most of these songs are already available to view and can be enabled again easily, which means there is a potential lawsuit waiting to happen here.
I already freaking LOVE definitive edition. They included uncompiled main.scm with dev comments.đđđ
— Vadim M. (@NationalPepper) November 11, 2021
Another interesting discovering appears to be the main .scm file that is left untouched in the game’s directory. As a result, it is now possible to find out the behind-the-scenes development details like the comments in code made by the developers. Here is an example of such a comment that mentions how they have to fix some of the broken code left by a different developer.
I wonder, who are "they". đ pic.twitter.com/oeqKjFoDnk
— Vadim M. (@NationalPepper) November 11, 2021
GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is available for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, Nintendo Switch, and PC.