really selfish question but how do i cheat driving school

[Krinkle]

i got all golds back in 2005 or whatever i don't want to do this again. i very specifically remember how impossible getting the gold on burn and lap was. Let me drive zz top's eliminator or whatever the hotknife is.
i looked but i can't find like a cheat engine hack or something to let me just have this one thing.

[Captain Morgan]

You do not need all gold medals, in order to grab a Hotknife. The hotknife, other than all gold medals in driving school, can appear also at:

1 Very rare, occasional and situational spawn at The Strip Area, las venturas (the big double road from woozie's casino upwards).

2 During the 1st or 2nd only levels of Vigilante mission. Grab a police bike, start vigilante, if the vehicle isn't hotrod cancel the mission, rinse and repeat until you find it.

Driving school hotrod may have unique numberplate, but it is only one of the two possible models. The other model, with more parts of the machinery exposed, can be found only in those 2 ways.

The police cars driving lesson, the two wheels stunt and the flying rotation last test, are the hardest ones to get. Almost impossible. Both times i managed to get all gold, i was struggling for hours and it was only due to sheer luck. All silver is okay, in the old days i wouldn't bother past that.

[Krinkle]

thanks for letting me know. i just want to get flames on the hot knife and make the custom channel play sharp dressed man

[Krinkle]

actually i gotta be honest i don't think it's possible. i chased down like 200 level 1 vigilantes and its never been the hotknife. and i think when people say they saw it on the strip they were thinking of the rumbler which kind of looks the same. i remember doing this then too.

[Krinkle]

i just went and did the damn challenges. took me all day. you can't even spraypaint it a different color! dang it!!!!!

[Captain Morgan]

It is a very rare spawn. Only once i saw it in person at the strip and that was few years back. During vigilante, i encountered it like 2 times, but only when i started it in San Fierro region (and it caught fire, unfortunately). But that time, i clearly remember it was its alternate model, with more parts of the engine exposed, than the one at driving school.

No, you cannot change its color. It's always pink with white stripes.

[RandomTurtle]

If I recall correctly the trick with Burn and Lap is to not use the handbrake, I might be wrong though.

[Krinkle]

yeah i ended up rebinding the handbrake button to the regular button and then doing it like how i thought it should work.

The real problem though was city slicking. it's so random. there's 300 things where if a single one goes wrong you can't get gold.

cutting the corner at the first turn: is there a truck spawned right there about to hit you or not? any bike on the way to or from could decide to jump out of their lane and ding you for -1%
any car can at any point decide to turn left infinitely fast and whoops there's your 1%. you can be riding straight up through a line of cars coming and going and it's perfect, you're like a ghost knife through conceptual butter, and then it spawns the trolly and whoops that's the game.

If the game decides to spawn the black suited vietnamese mafia at the top of the hill standing exactly where i like to take the cut across the grass then now my wheels are slick with blood and i'm spinning out into the lampposts.

at the bottom by the checkpoint someone can just block that corner cutting or linger there and move strangely and just the fear of what they might do makes me hit a wall or lamppost.

the secret is to just do a little loop and go right back up the way you came and not try to go down the docks way but even that puts you at the whim of anyone on a sanchez and a suicide wish.