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Overview

+ Estimated trophy difficulty: 8.1/10 (If you use my file for "Hard Carbon", it is a 3/10)

+ Offline: 47 (2(G) + 10(S) + 35(B))

+ Online: 3 (B)

+ Trophy Total: 51 (1(P) + 2(G) + 10(S) + 38(B))

+ Approximate time: 30 hours if you are a Karaoke Veteran (can be a LOT more depending on skill)

+ Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 (every gig is re-playable till you pass)

+ Missable trophies: Maybe "Face the Music" (based on description, see that trophy for info)

+ Glitched trophies: 0

+ Cheats: 0

+ Does difficulty affect trophies: Yes (Only Lightning, Face the Music and Hard Carbon need be done in Expert)

 

 

About the game

The game now includes music videos, supports two microphones (including SingStar mics), and has more character/venue customizations than previous releases. If you are looking for a quick platinum, this isn't the game for you; but then again neither does any other Karaoke title at this moment fit that category. If you enjoy Karaoke, this game is very good.

 

The N. America disc has 50 tracks included and you can go to a store in game and buy a few additional tracks ($1.99/ea) as well as tracks from American Idol 1 ($1.49/ea) and American Idol Encore 2 ($1.49/ea). Note that the AI tracks are cheaper and also COVER versions. Rumor has it that they decided to stop adding additional DLC tracks. In EU, the disc is now available with 75 tracks included and some in the store as well. Be aware that many of the DLC Tracks are covers (from American Idol).

 

NOTE: NO DLC Tracks are needed for the (P), however maybe you will find a track that suits you better for "Hard Carbon".

 

 

Road Map

Step one: Customize

Make a new character and venue from scratch. Then use the new character in the new venue to unlock "A New Voice" and "Stage Designer".

 

Step two: Online

Invite a friend (or click here to find one on the boosting thread) to a tournament match for "World, Shut Your Mouth". Have a friend invite you to play a head-to-head match in their custom arena for "Mic's at fifteen paces". Now follow the instruction for the "Musical Espionage" trophy (in the post below). Now return the favor by inviting your partner to a head-to-head match at your custom venue. If you only have one mic, you must also get "Didn't They Duet Well?" online.

 

Step three: Local Multi-player

From the Main Menu select "Sing", "Party Mode", create a new party with 4 players (or more), in "team" choose "Everyone Together", I also chose a 3 round match. After you SKIP the performances (one at a time), you will unlock "Host with the most", "Co-operative Commune" and "Nothing but a good time" without singing a single note.

If you haven't gotten "Challengers", sing the rest of the ten total head-to-head matches needed (both local MP and on-line matches add together)

 

Step four: Career Mode

I strongly suggest you run thru career mode in disc order. You will need to get decent during this run, which will have you sing some songs you don't like and perhaps even obtain 60% in it. If you get a bum song on a Mystery gig, just redo the gig for another random song. When you get to disc three, try doing some that are NOT ! Harsh in expert mode to see how you do. Each jump in difficulty is a shock, no doubt, but keep at it and you will feel OK in the new setting before you know it. When you are good, do the three that require expert difficulty: "Face the Music", "Hard Carbon" and "Lightning" trophies. Once you are done with those three, you can do the rest of the game in easy.

 

Step five: Cleanup

When you are done with career mode, chances are you sang most songs (whether you wanted to or not). To get the final tracks out of the way: From the main menu, select "Sing", "Custom Play", setup a 5 song medley with the tracks you don't care for (or if you can't sing en espanol, like me) with the Arena set to a custom venue with space cruiser in it to earn you the set pieces for that trophy at the same time (and you are also working your medley and performance counter).

 

To wrap up 90 platinums and 200 sensationals, sing your best song in short in easy difficulty and they will rack up fast!

 

To finish up the 300 performances, from the Main Menu select "Sing", "Party Mode", create a new party with only two players (smallest allowed), with teams set to "Everyone vs". Now start the party, hit :cross: till you can hit :square: Skip Performance. If you have a ten round party of skipped performances, your performance counter just increased by ten...

 

 

Tips

  • This section lists various tips to be a good Karaoke singer in general, which is what you will need to become in order to get the (S) "Hard Carbon" and (P) trophy. Also some game specific tips of course.
  • Don't be bash-full, have fun. If someone is judging, it is their problem.
  • Try to sing while standing, with your feet shoulder distance (as if you have a mic stand).
  • You will score better sober, although it might not be as much fun.
  • Learning to inhale to the pit of your stomach (your naval area) will greatly increase your vocal depth. Most good singers, sing from the pit of their stomach.
  • Learn how to breath in the little gaps of the song. Breath and stay clam, always.
  • You will sing better on an empty stomach.
  • Drink lots of water and/or tea to keep your throat from drying out.
  • STOP SINGING if your voice begins to crack. There are nasty rumors that you can permanently damage your vocals if you persist. When your throat recovers, feel free to jump back in. Listen to your body, it is wise beyond words.
  • The game only senses your pitch, so you can hum the song (with enough vocal strength) and you will match the lyrics if you match the pitch. This will be the deciding factor in whether you make it thru career mode, and the hardest trophy "Hard Carbon"
  • In middle of 3/5 song set lists, the wireless controller will disconnect (often mid song), and the game will ask you to reconnect the controller and then hit start. You can change the PS3 controller settings in your XMB, under "Settings", "Power Save Settings", where the current options are limited to either a) turn off the controller after ten minutes or b) stay on until the battery dies...
  • For all trophies in this game, except "Face the Music", "Lightning" and "Hard Carbon" you can obtain the trophies on any difficulty, including easy. On Easy, even if your pitch is quite off, the game will pretend you matched up to the song. Each higher difficulty will require you to match the song's pitch closer. On Expert difficulty, you will have to be dead-on (not as dead-on as SingStar thou).
  • You will notice your pitch is often way off after a long lyric gap. To acclimate quicker/better, you can start humming/talking/singing before the actual lyrics to ease back in to the song.
  • The "Mystery" gigs are actually Random songs, and each time you visit that gig you will get another random song, so if you got a song you don't like, just do the gig again!
  • As a last resort, you can go to sound setting, turn off all sounds except for the artist singing at max vol. Now turn up your speakers/headset volume so it is high enough pitch and put your mic right at the sound source. There is a split second delay, but you should get over 60% on most songs in Easy difficulty.

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Trophy Guide

 

* Customize *

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/24.jpg A New Voice (B)

Perform as a new character created from scratch

 

  • From the main menu, select "Create", then "Edit Character", and "Create New Singer".
  • Customize if you'd like, then back out using :circle: and be sure to select "Save&Exit".
  • From the main menu, select "Sing", "Custom Play" and sing any song with the new character.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/26.jpg Stage Designer (B)

Perform in a venue created from scratch

 

  • From the main menu, select "Venue", then "Edit Venue", and "Create New Venue".
  • Customize if you'd like, then back out using :circle: and be sure to select "Save&Exit".
  • From the main menu, select "Sing", "Custom Play" and sing any song in the new venue.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/27.jpg BRAINS! (B)

Create and sing in a venue with a Zombie center piece and backdrop

 

See "Area 51"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/17.jpg Area 51 (B)

Unlock the Area 51 Venue Items and Perform in front of them

 

  • Once you complete 40 gigs in career mode, you will earn the zombie items.
  • Once you complete 55 gigs in career mode, you will earn the Area 51 items.
  • From the main menu, select "Venue", then "Edit Venue", choose new or edit.
  • In "Stage Props", choose "Backdrop" and pick the zombie/area51 item.
  • In "Stage Props", choose "Stage Center" and pick the zombie/area51 item.
  • Now sing a song in each custom venue.

Note: You also may unlock these while doing career mode, which uses random set pieces, even unlocked ones! I personally got the Area 51 trophy BEFORE unlocking the venue items (I had 53 gig wins).

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/49.jpg Ground Control (B)

Perform Space Oddity in Space

 

  • Once you complete 20 gigs in career mode, you will earn the Stage Prop "Space Cruiser Arena".
  • Create a New Venue with ONLY the Space Cruiser Arena (set all other “Stage Props” to “None”)
  • Sing songs in that Space venue to unlock more Space stage pieces. The Game will NOT tell you these Space stage pieces have unlocked, you need to look at your venue edit options manually after a few songs in this venue and see if you have them all yet.
  • Edit your Space venue to have only set pieces that begin with the word “Space”. You will need a Space piece for all these prop options: Arena, Backdrop, Stage Arch, Stage Floor, Band Podiums, Stage Left and Stage Right (you will NOT get a Space prop for Stage Center).
  • Go to Custom Play and sing Space Oddity (by David Bowie) in the Space venue you just created.

Note: If your boosting partner for "Musical Espionage" uses his custom venue of the complete Space set, you will NOT see the set properly on your end. So, you need to do this properly.

 

 

* Online * (click here for boosting thread)

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/35.jpg Mic's at fifteen paces (B)

Play a Head-to-Head match on-line

 

Just play any on-line Head-to-Head match, you can even lose and get this.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/37.jpg World, Shut Your Mouth (B)

Play a Tournament Online

 

Simply play a tournament match on-line, you can even lose and get this.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/36.jpg Musical Espionage (B)

Perform in a venue created by another On-Line player – check your Venue Presets!

 

First you need to play a head-to-head match on-line with a host who has their custom venue selected. Right after this match, from the main menu select "Venue", then "Edit Venue", "New Venue", go to “Presets” and pick “Head to Head”, then save&exit the venue. Sing any song on this new venue to unlock the trophy.

 

 

* Local Multi-player *

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/12.jpg Host with the most (B)

Sing your first song in Party Mode

 

See "Nothing but a good time"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/13.jpg Co-operative Commune (B)

Complete a Party list with all players on a single team

 

See "Nothing but a good time"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/14.jpg Nothing but a good time (B)

Complete a Party list with 4+ players

 

From the Main Menu select "Sing", "Party Mode", create a new party with 4 players (or more), in "team" choose "Everyone Together", I also chose a 3 round match. After you SKIP the performances (one at a time), you will unlock "Host with the most", "Co-operative Commune" and "Nothing but a good time" without singing a single note.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/29.jpg Challengers (B)

Play ten Head-to-Head rounds

 

The game counts both offline and on-line rounds for this trophy. If you only have one mic, you will need to do it on-line. If you have two Mic's, you can do it offline. From the Main Menu select "Sing", "Duets", "Head To Head" for offline play.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/28.jpg Didn't They Duet Well? (B)

Get a Sensational score rating on a Duet

 

The game counts both offline and on-line duets for this trophy. If you only have one mic, you will need to do it on-line. If you have two Mic's, you can do it offline. From the Main Menu select "Sing", "Duets", "Duet" for offline play.

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* Career Mode *

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/02.jpg Expanding Horizons (B)

Unlock second career Disc

 

See "World Tour"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/03.jpg Great Things Ahead (B)

Unlock third career Disc

 

See "World Tour"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/04.jpg Debut Album (B)

Complete every gig on the first disc

 

See "World Tour"

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/05.jpg Special Edition (B)

Complete every gig on the second disc

 

See "World Tour"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/06.jpg Greatest Hits (B)

Complete every gig on the third disc

 

See "World Tour"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/07.jpg World Tour (S)

Complete all three disc's

 

First, for anyone without the game, it is not three physical disc's, the game is one blu-ray. In career you need to complete three record "disc's" of gigs. As you complete a gig, it will fill/color in, and reveal more of the record/disc/gigs. If you want to reveal the entire disc quick, you can do gigs directly in a straight line to the outer rim, then circle the outer rim (which causes most portions to fill in beside the gig you complete, and any toward the center as well) leaving you with most (if not all) of the disc revealed. Of course thou, the outer rim has the hardest gigs on that disc.

 

  • Disc 1 has 30 gigs, of which a few require silver (60%) and a few have medium risk.
  • Disc 2 unlocks with around 25 gigs complete. Disc 2 has 65 gigs, of which around half have medium risk, some medleys, some 3 song sets and even one 5 full song set, a few golds (80%) and mystery (random) tracks.
  • Disc 3 unlocks with 35 gigs completed. Disc 3 has 35 gigs, of which 5 are Harsh risk, a few mystery (random) tracks and several golds (80%).
  • For information about what risky gigs are about, see "Face the Music".

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/51.jpg Out of the Flames (B)

Unlock every venue item in Career Mode

 

To get this, complete 90 (out of 130) gigs in career mode. From the Main Menu select "Options", "Extras", "Statistics" to see your unlock count on the bottom.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/08.jpg Big Noise at Home (B)

Earned the Career rating (Lounge Act)

 

See "Lifetime Achievement"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/09.jpg Star Quality (B)

Earn the Career rating (National Celebrity)

 

See "Lifetime Achievement"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/25.jpg Phenomenal (B)

Earn the Career rating (Phenomenon)

 

See "Lifetime Achievement"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/10.jpg Lifetime Achievement (S)

Earn the Career rating (Legend)

 

  • Lounge Act: unlocked when I got over 5 million career points (around 20 gigs in)
  • Star Quality: unlocked when I got over 40 million career points (was 35 gigs in;same time as unlocking 3rd disc)
  • Star Quality: unlocked when I got over 100 million career points (was 74 gigs in)
  • Lifetime Achievement: unlocked when I got over 140 million career points (was 94 gigs in)

There are 130 gigs total across all three disc's. Assuming it is points to unlock Career ratings, if you are done with all Career gigs, and still don't have this, look at your early gigs in Disc 1 and see what you can now sing with a much higher score. You can also keep redoing the "Mystery" gigs till you get a Random song you can rock on.

 

See "Live and Screaming" for scoring information.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/11.jpg Face the Music (B)

Pass a High Risk gig without ever entering Boot state on Expert Full song.

 

Essentially what happens is if you are off tune for segments of the song on a risky gig, the crowd gets angry and the camera begins to get blurry. If you are off tune for several segments of the song, eventually you are booted. If you sing a segment fairly well, you will "recover" back to a happy crowd.

 

On Disc 3, there are exactly five gigs that are listed as the highest risk: Harsh. One is a short track, three require full songs, and one requires a full 3-song-set-list. You will need to do this on one of the three FULL song !Harsh gigs.

 

Well, by this time you should be decent at singing. First exit the career mode, and sing whatever full length track you are best at in non-career mode on Expert difficulty (or you can practice on other gigs that aren't !Harsh risk). When you can get gold (80%) on expert, you should go for this trophy.

 

If you are not sure if you will be able to pull it off, you can do this to make sure you can try again: Quit the game, copy the KR save file, load the game back up, and do the gig for the trophy. If you fail (which wouldn't happen if you can get gold), then just quit the game and restore the save file back into your profile and try again.

 

When you complete this, it is the perfect time to perfect the short track you are best at and get "Hard Carbon".

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* Any Mode ~ Cleanup *

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/15.jpg Minor Sensation (B)

Earn 100 Sensational Score Prizes

 

See "Complete Sensation"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/16.jpg Complete Sensation (S)

Earn 200 Sensational Score Prizes

 

Sensational Score Prizes are awarded for maximizing the SCORE on the track. To get the maximum score, you should start singing exactly on queue, and obviously match the pitch often. Most of the time you get 80% (gold) or above, you will get this (thou it is not always true, it is a good rule of thumb).

 

From the Main Menu select "Options", "Extras", "Statistics" to see your progress. If you finish career and all other trophies and don't have this yet, keep singing your best % song on Easy difficulty in short mode.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/33.jpg Identity Crisis (B)

Perform a 5 song set of all different genres

 

From the Main Menu select "Sing", "Custom Play", any character/avatar, "Set List", "5 Song". See Eclectic Dreams for details on different genres. You can score 0 points and still unlock the trophy!

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/31.jpg Eclectic Dreams (B)

Perform a 5 song Medley of all different genres and score a Platinum rating

 

Pick five songs from distinct genres and get over 90% to obtain platinum. You will have to play some 5 song medley's in Career, so you can do this at the same time if you'd like. Or you can go to "Sing", "Custom Play", any character/avatar, "Medley", "5 Song" to do it manually.

 

Look on the right side under the album cover to see the genre the song is in. I suggest going into your high scores and looking at your highest % (NOT SCORE) for the hardest difficulty you are comfortable with.

  • For example, I found these on my scoreboard (ignoring any ratings that had Short):
  • 94% Man on the Moon (Rock)
  • 87% Love Hurts (Another Rock Song - not used)
  • 87% The Logical Song (Classics)
  • 87% Beautiful (R&B)
  • 85% Wicked Game (Ballad)
  • 83% I kissed a girl (Pop)
  • Noticing my top two % wise both are Rock songs, I crossed off the lower % one. You need 90% avg for this trophy, the above five tracks are 87% avg. on Medium, but when I did this medley on Easy the very first (and only) time I got 97% Easy.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/32.jpg Vocal Stamina (B)

Perform a 5 song Set for the first time

 

See "Live and Screaming"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/34.jpg Live and Screaming (B)

Score at least 5 million points in a single Set

 

In order to obtain this trophy, you need to sing a 5 song set with an average of 1 million points per song. You earn more points for harder difficulty levels, and the score is a combination of the vocals you are on cue with, you get bonuses for singing power phrases (the vocal cue bars are normally blue aside from the few orange power phrases), multipliers (which increases as you hit notes), star boost (by hitting the notes for a long period without missing any), hitting notes on cue (if you start to sing at the tiny white portion that begin the vocal cue) and perhaps other things.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/40.jpg Seven Figure Superstar (B)

Score over a million points on a single song

 

See "Live and Screaming" to understand points. You will certainly get this while running thru career mode.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/41.jpg Halfway to Paradise (S)

Get 50 million points cumulative on all game modes

 

See "The Road is Long"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/42.jpg The Road is Long (G)

Get 100 million points cumulative across all game modes

 

I got this after 70 (out of 130) career gigs. If you are somehow done with career and all the other trophies, look at your top point scores, and sing those tracks a few more times.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/50.jpg The Platinum 5 (B)

Earn a platinum skill rating for a 5 song Jackson Medley

 

From the Main Menu select "Sing", "Custom Play", any character/avatar, "Medley", "5 Song". There are four songs by Jackson 5 and one song by Michael Jackson. Select these five songs and get over 90% avg to obtain platinum rating and unlock this trophy. This can thankfully be done on easy.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/30.jpg Rapid Fire (B)

Perform ten Medleys

 

From the Main Menu select "Options", "Extras", "Statistics" to see your progress.

You will have to perform several medley's while doing Career Mode, plus to obtain the "Eclectic Dreams" and "The Platinum 5" trophies. If that was not enough to unlock this, or you are impatient, then sing a few medley's in Quick/Custom Play.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/45.jpg Record Collector (B)

Sing every song on the disc at least once

 

You will likely do this while running thru career mode. If not, just play medley's including any track that doesn't have a Play Count yet (you can score 0 points and it is still considered finished).

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/38.jpg Spartan (S)

Complete 300 performances

 

This includes performances from all game types. If you are done with career and all the other trophies, and still don't have this: From the Main Menu select "Sing", "Party Mode", create a new party with only two players (smallest allowed), with teams set to "Everyone vs". Now start the party, hit :cross: till you can hit :square: Skip Performance. If you have a ten round party of skipped performances, your performance counter just increased by ten...

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/43.jpg Double Album (B)

Earn 45 'Platinum' Skill Prizes

 

See "Hall of Fame"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/44.jpg Hall of Fame (G)

Earn 90 'Platinum' Skill Prizes

 

You need 90% matched pitch to get the Platinum Skill Prize, and you need to do that 90 times total. If you haven't obtained enough platinums skill prizes between career mode, "Eclectic Dreams", "The Platinum 5" and all your attempts at "Hard Carbon", you will need to get a few more now.

 

From the Main Menu select "Options", "Extras", "High Scores" to see the highest scores. Look to see what song you have been scoring the highest % on (NOT SCORE). You should be able to keep singing that one song over and over, and you can even do it on Easy difficulty in 'short' mode.

 

From the Main Menu select "Options", "Extras", "Statistics" to see your current progress. NOTE: Singing a full 5 song set will only count as ONE skill prize, not five.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/39.jpg Star Booster (S)

Activate Star Boost 100 times

 

From the Main Menu select "Options", "Extras", "Statistics" to see your progress. Also, see "Bigtime Booster" for more info.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/20.jpg Galaxy Class (B)

Activate Star Boost 4 times in a single song

 

See "Bigtime Booster"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/21.jpg Bigtime Booster (B)

Earn 6x Multiplier from a single Star Boost

 

You earn a Star Boost by getting the notes/pitch dead-on for a long period without missing any.

Do this continuously for a bit to get a 6x multiplier from a single star boost. Once you are around a third to halfway thru career you will certainly have this.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/22.jpg Multiplier Mayhem (B)

Achieve a 20x multiplier

 

See "Multiplier Madness"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/23.jpg Multiplier Madness (S)

Earn a 30x Multiplier

 

You earn a multiplier by getting the notes/pitch right. Once you are around a third thru career you will certainly have this.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/18.jpg Big Streaker (B)

Sing a 10 phrase 'Excellent' streak

 

See "Hard Carbon"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/19.jpg Lightning (S)

Sing a 10 phrase 'Excellent' streak on Expert

 

See "Hard Carbon"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/46.jpg Went Platinum (B)

Finish a song with over 90% accuracy

 

See "Hard Carbon"

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/47.jpg Perfection (S)

Finish a song with 100% accuracy

 

See "Hard Carbon"

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http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/48.jpg Hard Carbon (S)

Earn a Perfect rating on Expert

 

Without a doubt this is the hardest trophy in the game.

I strongly suggest you run thru career mode first, and follow the guide for "Face the Music" trophy first to get your feet wet.

 

You need to get the 100% accuracy award while singing on the hardest difficulty setting, Expert.

 

Pay VERY close attention to the bar on the bottom quarter of the game screen. As bars scroll from right to left, you need to match the pitch precisely, so that each and every bar has a green arrow for the entire song. The way the arrow works is:

> = Perfect pitch, this is what you need

> = Close, you need to marginally shift the pitch to be precise.

> = Off, you need to adjust your pitch somewhat.

> = Way off, you will need to adjust your pitch dramatically.

> = No lyrics, doesn't matter; feel free to test your pitch during the gaps.

If the arrow is anything but green, it will also show the way you need to adjust; if the arrow is below the bar tilted up then you are singing low and need to sing at a higher pitch, while if the arrow is above the bar tilted south then you are singing at a higher pitch and should reduce your pitch to match the note.

Every nanosecond with the bar yellow, orange or red, reduces your %. You will need to have the bar green for 99.6% (or more) of the track's bars to round off to 100%

 

Each track is obviously very different, and while you have certain songs you prefer, they might not be the best choice for this particular trophy. For this trophy, the better ones have mostly straight pitch/bars. To make sure this is understood, "Just Dance" has the pitch jumping up and down consistently, while "I Melt With You" has most of the song in a straight pitch with only a few tricky parts. While I never sang "I Melt With You" before this game, I strongly suggest it for this trophy. The pattern for this song is rather quick to catch, finding where to shift your pitch slightly up or down for a single word. The trickiest part is matching the bar for the word "Melt" (which you hit twice during the short version of the song). It is still tough as nails, but simpler than any other track for us. (Also note that if you are playing the EU disc, there might be an easier track we don't have.) It takes VETERAN singers over 50 tries to hit 100%, and if you currently aren't able to match the pitch exactly, you will need to bring up your singing skills to expert levels.

 

Keep practicing the track you are best at in Short mode till you get this. While repeating over and over you will begin to pick up the pattern where you tend to be off, fix that and you will see the difference and it's getting better all the time.

 

NOTE: When you complete this, you will also for sure unlock all the trophies referencing this. You will also unlock a bunch of other trophies, in addition to racking up many platinum and sensational scores.

 

To Download a track and cheat this trophy, click here!

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/293/01.jpg Platinum (P)

Collect all the games Trophies

 

For all trophies in the game, except "Lightning", "Face the Music" and "Hard Carbon" you can obtain the trophy on Easy difficulty. NO DLC required.

 

 

Credits:

Thanks to JBP1973 for information on "Ground Control". Thanks to Vyrastas for lots of formatting.

 

 

Closing Notes:

Trophy Guide and Road Map are complete! Open to suggestions, feedback, comments, etc. Thank you for reading and I hope you have fun getting your (P)

 

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I get the game tomorrow (12th Feb) - can't wait! Thanks for the roadmap & guide, which I'll be sure to follow, especially that potential missable trophy.

 

I'm not too bad at singing games (although I've only managed to get 9,000+ on 3 songs in hard on SingStar), and singing is how I got my Platinum Artist trophy in Rock Band 2.

 

I'll vote on your poll once I've invested a week in the game.

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I'm not too bad at singing games (although I've only managed to get 9,000+ on 3 songs in hard on SingStar), and singing is how I got my Platinum Artist trophy in Rock Band 2.

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Nice that it is available finally in the UK. I know you were pissed about the delayed release there ~ which I know too well because the reverse is true for SingStar.

 

MOST of the game will be a breeze for you. In fact, I would give the game a 3 if not for "Hard Carbon". Comparing to Singstar, "Beat Bravo" required you to beat 9,340 (if I recall correctly) on Hard ~ well "Hard Carbon" is asking you to get 10,000 on Expert (only you can get it 100% perfect on short instead of full length). This final trophy takes veteran Karaoke singers approx 50 tries.

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Nice that it is available finally in the UK. I know you were pissed about the delayed release there ~ which I know too well because the reverse is true for SingStar.

 

MOST of the game will be a breeze for you. In fact, I would give the game a 3 if not for "Hard Carbon". Comparing to Singstar, "Beat Bravo" required you to beat 9,340 (if I recall correctly) on Hard ~ well "Hard Carbon" is asking you to get 10,000 on Expert (only you can get it 100% perfect on short instead of full length). This final trophy takes veteran Karaoke singers approx 50 tries.

Beat Bravo: get more than 9344. I've managed something like 9250 on one song "Blue Monday" by New Order, so I consider myself a 'decent' gamer in these song games.

 

Yeah, I'm still curious why games come out several months later in different territories. It just doesn't make sense, and in some cases can have a profound effect on trophy situations (like the Top 50 trophy for UNO).

 

I'll let you know some time next week what I think of the game, and also how I get on with it. Would you say the vocal engine is as brutal as the Rock Band one? RB2 has a more lenient vocal engine, and Guitar Hero's is a joke.

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Beat Bravo was insane, I somehow got 9,444 on Black Sabbath Paranoid (after many tries), but Hard Carbon looks like it will be harder. Closest I got so far is 95% singing Short Man on the Moon.

 

Would you say the vocal engine is as brutal as the Rock Band one? RB2 has a more lenient vocal engine, and Guitar Hero's is a joke.

Now that you have been cranking out the trophies, including 100%, maybe you can tell us! I have only played Singstar and KR as I am into singing, not really looking to have a digital band. If any of those others (RB, GH, Band Hero, etc) can be done with just a pair of mics, would def. be interested in checking them out. The track selection on KR is quite lacking.

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Beat Bravo was insane, I somehow got 9,444 on Black Sabbath Paranoid (after many tries), but Hard Carbon looks like it will be harder. Closest I got so far is 95% singing Short Man on the Moon.

 

 

Now that you have been cranking out the trophies, including 100%, maybe you can tell us! I have only played Singstar and KR as I am into singing, not really looking to have a digital band. If any of those others (RB, GH, Band Hero, etc) can be done with just a pair of mics, would def. be interested in checking them out. The track selection on KR is quite lacking.

Thanks for letting me know which track you sang to Beat Bravo - I happen to love Black Sabbath, so I'll probably buy that track for SingStar now. Considering the max score you can get in a song is 10,000 (theoretically), then getting at least 9,345 is only 93%. In that respect, Hard Carbon might be harder since you need 100%.

 

All the Rock Band and Guitar Hero games require at least one local plastic instrument to get Plat, so I wouldn't recommend them to you. But Band Hero, from the top of my head, can be platted with just one local mic. You can get the other trophies with online boosting (plenty of partners need boosting).

 

To be honest, SingStar and KR are far more polished in terms of the singing - and you also can't "cheat" in them as you can in RB/GH/BH (since you can stick the mic in front of an electric fan, and play on beginner/easy).

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Considering the max score you can get in a song is 10,000 (theoretically)

Check my Singstar online profile, and look at my high scores. I have 10,000 on easy [and 9,940 on Medium], so I can say without hesistation that it is not just theoretical. :)

FYI: Sabbath Paranoid is also on PS2 Legends disc. Grew up with that song, but it was still brutal. Good luck!

 

Thanks for the info about Band Hero, will look at that.

 

I should mention that you COULD cheat on KR too! Say you need to sing Jackson tracks at 60% and don't have the voice of a four year old girl? So you go to sound setting, turn off all sounds except for the artist singing at max volume. Now turn up your speakers volume so it is high enough pitch (if you care for your housemates and/or neighbors, use earphones) and put your mic right at the sound source. Obviously there is a split second delay, but you should get over 60% on most song on Easy difficulty... I will have to add that to the guide.

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Check my Singstar online profile, and look at my high scores. I have 10,000 on easy [and 9,940 on Medium], so I can say without hesistation that it is not just theoretical. :)

FYI: Sabbath Paranoid is also on PS2 Legends disc. Grew up with that song, but it was still brutal. Good luck!

 

Thanks for the info about Band Hero, will look at that.

 

I should mention that you COULD cheat on KR too! Say you need to sing Jackson tracks at 60% and don't have the voice of a four year old girl? So you go to sound setting, turn off all sounds except for the artist singing at max volume. Now turn up your speakers volume so it is high enough pitch (if you care for your housemates and/or neighbors, use earphones) and put your mic right at the sound source. Obviously there is a split second delay, but you should get over 60% on most song on Easy difficulty... I will have to add that to the guide.

I did try to sing a 5-song medley today with all the Jackson songs, and I got 89% grrrr. Missed out on the trophy by 1%... I'll do it another time when I can stand to sing stupid songs like those. They're great songs to listen to, but awful songs to sing.

 

Never heard of SingStar Legends... will check it out on eBay and Amazon in a moment. I onlly came across SingStar on the PS3, as I only ever own a PS2 for a few months - then sold it when I heard wipEout HD was coming out on the PS3.

 

I've now completed discs 1&2 of the career mode, and will need to take a break as my voice is getting grainy now. I can only get 90% on Expert, so I've a long way to go to get that 100%. They certainly don't make it easy!!

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Do the Jackson medley while it is still fresh in your head... Always noticed when I walk away for a day, I am down a few % next try while I acclimate back into it.

 

PS: You can earn SingStar trophies with a PS2 disc if it is in the same region as your PS3 disc (such as both EU). Load your PS3 disc, get to the point where you pick a track, and hit :select: and the game will tell you how to do the rest! The Legends disc only has a few good tracks (simply put no Black Sabbath songs are purchaseable from US Store). There are 0 tracks available to buy in Asian SingStore.

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ARGH! I can't stand to listen to those Jackson songs to be honest. Even singing 'Ben' makes me cringe - is he singing about a misfit friend or a dog?!?! I feel so gay when I sing that song lol.

 

I'm just a bit peeved that they didn't include any metal or hard rocks songs, especially since they've included plenty of slushy ballads that make me want to puke. In that respect, I'd say Rock Band has a far better catalogue for singing (as there are hundreds of metal and hard rock songs).

 

I've put an Ebay bid on Legends... hope I win it! It's got some decent songs on it, at least for karaoke fun.

 

By the way, I got the Lighting trophy without any problems, as well as the Face the Music (I went for it without backing up data, just figured it wasn't too hard to beat a familiar song on Expert without screwing up - I sang "Freed from Desire").

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I also didn't backup before going for the trophy, but we both have enough singing experience to know we can get thru the track no problem. "Freed from Desire" is one of the tracks that only EU got (EU has 75 tracks, NA has 50). Completely agree that the songs selected sucked, and I will get rid of this disc as soon as finish Hard Carbon. The only PS3 discs I didn't trade/sell away are SingStar Queen and PS2 Amped (one of the only discs where NA has better tracks than EU).

 

I had assumed Ben is a dog, but you have point it being MJ and all...

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I got the Jackson medley trophy in the end with 93%. I decided to sing the full versions of the unfamiliar songs in some of the career gigs that only required completion, and this helped in the end. "ABC" is such a hard song to sing (I got 72% in that song on easy lol).

 

You're missing out with the NA release - "Freed from Desire" is such an excellent track. I had fun (and excruciating pain) with the song "La Voix", which I'd never heard before. If you don't know it, check out the song on Youtube - the chorus is insanely hard for a bloke (are you a bloke or a chick?)

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lmao too clear something up Ben is a rat.. if you ever heard of the old movie Ben.. this is the theme song for it. ... its almost the same as Willard again old movie.. made remake...

 

 

Im trying to finish up my trophies for this game... le sigh on the 5 song medley for jackson o.o ....

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Well, I think it has to do with your mood. Many people tend to have a deep internal mindset ("archetype") that they lean towards. For example, some people tend to see the negative and dark end of things with anger/hostility and therefore enjoy Metal. Some people look at the dark side and cry about it instead, which is what Blues and Country tends to be about, thou in the "oh poor me" Kanye attitude. I think the same is usually true for other groups. Of course, this is MAJOR generalization, but I think there is a lot of truth to it. Personally, as I evolved, I began to find myself drawn to certian kinds of music I used to despise. There have been days where I found myself moody and switched between Techno and Metal. Those groups tend to hate each other, and both sort of scratch thier heads how I listen to both, and that's fine, but I do. I also like some classical Vivaldi (Patrick Rondat's amazing tribute song is to blame).

 

What I can say for certian thou, is I think the tracks on this disc sucked.

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Sadly I'm inclined to agree that the tracks on the disc suck. As much as I dislike cheesy songs, it wouldn't have been so bad if they included classics like YMCA, Dancing Queen, and that kind of stuff. Instead, we get horrible Jackson-5 rubbish (like I said, they're great to listen to, just awful to sing).

 

I find that as I get older, my taste in music gets heavier. In my early teens, I was listening to stuff like Madonna and Michael Jackson. In my late teens, it was Skid Row and Def Leppard. In my 20's, I kind of went a bit weird and picked up the Beatles on the way. And now in my 30's, it's stuff like Metallica, Megadeth, System of a Down.

 

I think you're right, it's probably most likely a mood thing. Even though I've gotten happier as I've gotten older, I feel the world is slowly because even more dystopian than ever. I have a "fear the worst, hope for the best" attitude, and that's probably reflected in my taste in music. I've all but given up on listening to classical music (started when I was in mid-teens, then stopped in my early 20's).

 

Anyway, back on topic... I think I'll end up with all the trophies minus Hard Carbon quite soon. I might even have to resort to drastic measures to beat it (electric piano or music sequencer).

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