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Spelunker HD - DLCs

Road Map & Trophy Guide

by MMDE

 

Road Map

 

Overview:

  • Estimated 100% difficulty: 6/10 (personal opinion)
  • Offline trophies: 27 (9(G), 18(S))
  • Online trophies: 0
  • Approximate amount of time to 100%: 25-80 hours (depending on skills)
  • Minimum number of playthroughs: 2
  • Number of missable trophies: 9 (all the completed mural trophies)
  • Glitched trophies: 0
  • Do trophies stack: yes (JP and everywhere else)
  • Does difficulty affect any trophies: no
  • Do cheat codes disable trophies: none
  • Additional accessories required: no

 

Introduction:

Spelunker HD is a remake of the old classic game with the same name. The main game consists of 10 areas and each area has 10 stages. You can play it alone or with someone else both offline and online. I suggest if you want to read more about the game you should check out the trophy guide for the main game.

 

Each DLC is a new championship mode area. Championship mode areas are very hard and heavily modified versions of the main game's areas. You can play them both in Solo Excursion mode and in Group Excursion mode. These areas are usually called EX. If you got the main game, then EX1 came with the game, and you can try it to see how hard these Championship mode areas are. EX1 is not the easiest one, nor the hardest so you will get a good idea of what to expect. I believe all the areas should be doable with this guide, but depending on your skills it might take you a while.

 

I've focused on helping you to be able to 100% the game. I will be giving general tips on how to beat all the areas in both Solo and Group mode and pointing out smart things to do in tricky and hard sections of the game.

 

Walkthrough:

 

Step 1 (main game):

You should beat main game before starting on these DLCs.

Reasons:

  • These DLCs are heavily modified versions of the original stages. The DLCs will become easier if you've experienced everything the game has to offer in the main game first.

 

  • You are more than likely to meet enough of a challenge in the main game and if you had problems with beating the main game, then the DLCs will not be any easier for you.

 

  • If you collect all 400 mural pieces you will get the secret ending at the end of EX10.

 

Step 2 (group excursion/solo excursion):

You have to beat each DLC stage twice, in Solo Excursion and Group Excursion. You also need to collect 1 mural piece in each stage, both in Solo Excursion and in Group Excursion. Which mode you decide to do first doesn't really matter but sometimes one of the two can be smarter to start with. Group Excursion let you have infinite lives if you do some small tricks and Solo Excursion let you save. Infinite lives means you get to instantly retry what you just failed, whilst saving obviously lets you save and retry if you mess up something and can't go back for some reason. You also got a bigger screen in Solo Excursion than Group Excursion offline.

 

In most cases I would say Group Excursion is the best way to go, because you don't have to load the game all the time while trying to beat it, but this is just a matter of opinion. Some of the areas have some tricky bits where I recommend doing one of the two first, and I suggest you follow this. To clear an area, as the trophies suggest, means getting to the end of all 10 stages of an area without running out of lives. Remember to collect a mural piece per stage in both modes.

 

I recommend to do in Group Excursion first:

  • Area EX7, because the phoenix birds can get messed up by saving, so you might want to get good and familiar with the stages first before doing them in Solo Excursion.

 

I recommend to do in Solo Excursion first:

  • Area EX5, simply because in Group Excursion mode all players will be hit with earthquakes, at least in offline mode, even if they aren't in a stage that normally has earthquakes. You will therefore want to get good at this area before attempting to do it in this mode and in Solo Excursion earthquakes is not very noticeable if you save a lot.

 

  • Area EX10, you should save before you get the mural piece in EX94 so you can practice this, because if you mess up that part in Group Excursion mode, you will have to redo the three first stages, and trust me they are some of the hardest in the game. You may want to keep the save at EX94 for practising more if you fail at it in Group Excursion.

Help:

  • You will find help for some of the stages under the cleared EX area in the Solo Excursion trophy for the DLC the stage belongs to. There might be something under the cleared EX area in Group Excursion trophy too.

 

  • See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Solo Excursion mode and how the saving system works.

 

  • See Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Group Excursion mode and how the infinite lives trick works.

 

Step 3 (solo excursion/group excursion):

You got to do what you didn't do in step 2, either Solo Excursion or Group Excursion and of course collect 10 mural pieces in this mode too.

 

Step 4 (mural pieces):

Collect all the mural pieces you've missed. Remember, you need to collect them all in both Solo Excursion mode and Group Excursion mode. There is one per stage. You don't really want to have to do this step, so make sure you do it along with step 2 and 3.

 

Credits:

Thanks to MasterTonberry (Rayaqaza) for helpful tips and LibertyGeis for some corrections!

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Guide revision by Terminator 23/09/2013.
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Cleared EX area 2 in the Solo Excursion.

 

To get this trophy you need to beat Championship Mode Area 2 in Solo Excursion.

 

  • Stage EX17:
    • Octopus:
      • You can make the octopus disappear by going back to the upper part of the stage but it will re-appear once you go down again, though you will get some free seconds where it doesn't try to hit you.
      • It's attacks aren't as random as they first may seem. It attacks certain places, and at those places it attacks first on one side then the other. This means you can get past it's attacks by moving to where it just attacked, for then to move to the next place it attacks after it attacks there and before it attacks where it attacked before you started moving, and then you get out of the way before it attacks at the second place again. If this doesn't make much sense, then watch it until you do because there is a definite pattern and you can get past it safely.
      • Watch out for the bird in the lower left part next to the octopus.

       

     

    [*]Near the end of the area there will be sections where you have to pass birds that are flying very low.

    • In most cases you can run under them but in some cases that is impossible.
    • In the cases where it's impossible, there is usually a way to use the flare to scare them away.
      • One such case is before one of the mural pieces where you can use the flare from a platform above the birds, next to the rope down.
      • Another such case is where there is a very low-flying bird and there's a hole above you in the middle where you can use the flare to scare it away.
      • The last such place is at the end of the entire area, right before the goal. Here you should try to attract the birds closer to where you can use the flare to scare them away. You may also get lucky and you make it to scare them all away.

       

      [*]There is one case where at least in my experience you have to jump over one, I usually jump over it when it was at it's left-most.

     

    [*]The last stage is probably the hardest due to some of it being very luck depending. You have to time the ghost, the platforms moving up and down, the snakes on the ropes and the circulating platforms correctly. I have no tips for this, except for making sure the first rope climbing snake is not in the way when you want to jump onto the next platform.

General tips for Solo Excursion:

  • You can save your progress in Solo Excursion so use this to your advantage, as it will make the Solo Excursion a lot easier.
    • To save your progress, just press :start: and then choose to Save & Quit. This will save your progress and take you back to the main menu.
    • You can continue off from where you left by choosing Continue instead of New Game when you want to load your game.
    • Loading your game won't delete the save, and you can quit the game without saving by pressing :start: then Back to Title.
    • Saving and loading makes ghosts disappear.
    • When you load a save, it will take you to the same place as you would have ended up if you died.
      • You respawn at the last item you picked up.
      • You don't respawn at keys and mural pieces.
      • You can abuse the fact that you don't respawn at keys and mural pieces by for example getting to a key or a mural piece that is hard to get, then to save and load to get back to the last item you picked up.

       

      [*]You may want to save at the beginning of each stage, then explore the stages and load back to the beginning of the stage afterwards.

      • This allows you to explore the stage freely without having to worry about dying.
      • You will know where to go and where to use your items.
      • It will let you get the hang of all the traps and challenging bits of the stage before finally trying to beat it, instead of having to reload all the time.

       

      [*]You start out with 50 lives and you will be gaining life as you progress through the stages. You may allow yourself to lose a couple of lives without having to reload, because reloading all the time is such a hassle.

     

    [*]Items don't respawn so make sure to use them sparingly. They are also your checkpoints so make sure you pick them up in a wise order and not all at once.

    [*]Remember flares can sometimes reveal hidden platforms.

 

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Cleared EX area 2 in the Group Excursion.

 

You must clear the entire EX area 2 in Group Excursion mode to get this trophy. It doesn't matter if you do it online or offline.

 

See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for tips on how to beat this area.

 

General tips for Group Excursion:

  • You can't save in Group Excursion mode.
  • I recommend playing offline, even though it's not as much fun.
    • In offline Group Excursion mode you potentially got infinite lives.
      • Just let a second offline player start and you will get 50 more lives.
        • Either use a second controller or press the :ps: button to change the controller port of your controller, so you can start the second player.
        • You can also start a third player.
        • You may want to place the first player where energy respawns to make sure to keep the first player alive while spawning the second.

         

        [*]Make sure the second player survives.

        • Take them to a place where there is energy so whenever the energy respawns, the player gets more lives.
        • You can fend off ghosts trying to attack the player so no real need to do so but it can be useful.

         

        [*]When you start running out of lives, you must start to get a bit more careful.

        • Take player 1 to a safe spot where there is energy and you can easily fend of ghosts that may come attack player 1.
        • Kill off player 2 until you run out of lives, and kill player 2 one more time for it to get the 30 seconds countdown.
        • Quickly change to an unused player, player 3 for example and start the game as this player.
        • When the third player joins the game, you will receive 50 more lives.
        • Let player 2's countdown run out so they get the game over screen, and take it's place so your new player can get the respawning energy.
        • When you start running out of lives again you can do the same all over again, only this time you might want to put player 2 back into the game.
        • Yes, potentially infinite lives as long as you watch out.

         

        [*]When you get to the area goal and the game doesn't end...

        • It doesn't end because some of the other players are still in the game.
        • Kill off the additional players until they run out of lives, and one more time so they get the 30 seconds countdown.
        • Once the countdown has reached 0 the additional players will receive a Game Over screen.
        • Press :cross: on the Game Over screen to take them out of the current game.
        • The game will now play the area finishing song, and you will get the trophy for finishing the stage.

         

       

      [*]In offline mode you can pause the game with the player 1.

      [*]There is a major disadvantage playing in offline Group Excursion, the screen is split in 4 and you therefore got a very small screen to play on.

      • You can zoom in and out using the right stick.
      • Make sure you look out for snakes on rope and spiders, as they can both be somewhat hard to see.

       

     

    [*]If you decide you want to do Group Excursion online.

    • You play with up to 5 other players online.
      • It's a lot of fun and a totally different experience.

       

      [*]You get 50 more lives per player.

      • When there's 6 players, you start out with 300 lives.
      • If everyone wants to finish the levels, and actually have fun with it, then everyone must be able to get through the levels, but not everyone needs to get all the keys.

       

      [*]Everyone shares the lives. This means you had better make sure everyone is somewhat skilled enough to be able to tackle the stages.

      [*]Non-host players can kill ghosts by getting close enough to them and then quickly moving away. Because of lag the host thinks the ghost hit the player and disappears, but the player never did get hit and therefore didn't die from it

     

    [*]Items respawn after 30 seconds in Group Excursion, and this you should use to your advantage.

    • Refill your energy. This is very useful to keep yourself alive, especially after fending off one or several ghosts.
    • Create checkpoints you can respawn back at when you die.
    • Use it to stock up on items.
    • You get a life every 30,000th point.
      • Mural pieces respawn too so you can get quite a lot of points.
      • When you can stock up on flares and bombs etc, you can use these against monsters, which rewards you with points.
      • Normal items gives you points.
      • Killing ghosts gives you points too.

       

     

    [*]Ghosts are bigger so make sure to keep your energy stage as high as possible at all times.

    • You can kill a "pregnant" ghost with a bomb. All you need to do is to place the bomb as close as you can get to the ghost without it killing you.

     

    [*]You start out with 50 lives if alone, and 100 lives if more than one player. All players share the amount of lives.

    [*]You may want to do the stages in Solo Excursion first, so you can learn the stages with the save feature but it's up to you.

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Completed EX area 2 mural.

 

You need to collect all 20 mural pieces from the area in this DLC to get this trophy. There are 10 in Solo Excursion and there are 10 in Group Excursion. One mural piece per stage. Some mural pieces are hidden, some not so hidden and some are rather hard to get to but none should be very hard to find in this DLC.

 

See Alone in the slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for tips on how to beat this area in Solo Excursion. Also see Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for tips on how to beat this area in Group Excursion.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/03B.jpg Alone among fairly fiendish Ancient Ruins (S) (H)

Cleared EX area 3 in the Solo Excursion.

 

To get this trophy you need to beat Championship Mode Area 3 in Solo Excursion.

  • Stage EX24:
    • At the beginning of stage there is a lot of ropes, three hot air eruptors, two balls, and a couple of statues. This can be a tricky section but the trick is to keep as high up on the rope as possible. The top point at any of the ropes is a safe place. Jump over the balls.

     

    [*]Stage EX28:

    • First there is two rope sections that will most likely drive you insane the first times you attempt them.
      • The first rope section is all about calculating the length to the next rope and how long the next rope is. Once you know where to jump from to get to the next, it's pretty easy but you still got to watch out for the flames.
      • The second rope section is all about jumping very fast and climbing a little bit too at the correct places. After the two first ropes, you have to climb a tiny bit up very fast on each rope before quickly jumping to the next. Do note that the last rope before the red rope is slightly shorter than the rest, meaning you have to climb a tiny bit higher for this last one.

       

      [*]Later there are sections with a lot of balls but while the first section shouldn't pose too much of a challenge, the second section will be a bit harder.

      1. Jump to the first platform where the spikes might appear, of course when the spikes aren't going to pop up any second.
      2. Wait for the spikes on the next platform to disappear and if the ball goes to the left as the spikes disappear, jump onto the platform.
      3. Quickly jump to the next under the ball and as you probably know, the spikes will appear on this one very soon so you gotta jump to the next. Jumping to it is pretty difficult while two balls are above you, but it's perfectly doable.
      4. Place yourself on the very right side of this platform.
      5. Wait for the spikes on the platform to the left to disappear and try to jump to it when the ball is going to the right but this is pretty tricky because if you miss the chance or you got bad luck, spikes will appear on the platform you are currently on before you are able to jump to the next.
      6. Of course now you should quickly jump to the red rope.

       

     

See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Solo Excursion mode and how the saving system works.

 

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Cleared EX area 3 in the Group Excursion.

 

You must clear the entire EX area 3 in Group Excursion mode to get this trophy. It doesn't matter if you do it online or offline.

 

See Alone among fairly fiendish Ancient Ruins for tips on how to beat this area. Also see Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Group Excursion mode and how the infinite lives trick works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/106.jpg Completed the fairly fiendish Ancient Ruins (G) (H)

Completed EX area 3 mural.

 

You need to collect all 20 mural pieces from the area in this DLC to get this trophy. There are 10 in Solo Excursion and there are 10 in Group Excursion. One mural piece per stage. Some mural pieces are hidden, some not so hidden and some are rather hard to get to.

 

  • Stage EX23:
    1. Use a bomb at the platform that is at about the same height as the mural piece, the one with all the spikes. This will remove all the snakes from the rope up to the mural piece.
    2. Hurry over to the mural piece. If done correctly the snakes on the rope will not have respawned and you will easily be able to get the mural piece safely.

     

    [*]Stage EX30:

    • Right before finishing the area, zoom out and you will see the piece. There is a hidden path over to it but you need to use a flare to be able to see it.

     

See Alone among fairly fiendish Ancient Ruins for tips on how to beat this area in Solo Excursion. Also see Buddies among fairly fiendish Ancient Ruins for tips on how to beat this area in Group Excursion.

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Cleared EX area 4 in the Solo Excursion.

 

To get this trophy you need to beat Championship Mode Area 4 in Solo Excursion.

  • The main focus and challenge in this area is the ice and you will want to know how to handle it.
    • You can jump upwards a hill.
    • When going downwards a hill or moving fast forward, you will notice you can't instantly stop and your character will be stumbling forward for a little while.
      • If you want to stop you can jump. When landing from a jump your character will stop so no more stumbling.
      • You may also take very small steps by barely tapping the direction button. This will allow you to avoid stumbling and moving too far in one direction you don't want to go.
      • You may also try to just avoid stopping and just keep running forward.
      • Sometimes you can simply jump ahead a step instead of walking slowly.
      • Sometimes you may just have to walk forward and stumble, but time it correctly so you don't go too far.

       

      [*]There are ice on ropes too, which means you will be taken downwards by them if you don't jump to the next quickly.

      • In some cases you will need to jump back and forth between two ropes that are placed closely next to each other. Each jump will get you higher on the rope thus allowing you to get to higher spots on the rope, which in turn allows you to jump on a platform that are placed higher too.
      • When you need to jump a lot between ropes, you may want to turn Rope Assist on. I at least highly recommend it in this area.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX38:

    • Where you have to jump on iced ropes covered with a giant ball swinging back and forth and the ceiling is covered with flames.
      1. Go to the rope at the very right that isn't full of ice.
      2. Place yourself so your feet are at about the same height as the next rope to the left end.
      3. The ball is going from it's upper left down to the middle and as it starts going upwards again against the right you will want to jump past it under it. Don't do it too early though.
        • Keep the left button pressed down and rapidly spam the :cross: button to jump.

       

      [*]This should allow you to get to the left-most rope, but watch out so you don't continue to jump off it.

      [*]You will now need to jump back and forth between this rope and the one to the right, but watch out for the ball.

     

    [*]There are some similar cases as described above later in the same stage though here you must jump above them but it should be much easier to do so there.

 

See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Solo Excursion mode and how the saving system works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/9E7.jpg Buddies within harsher Frigid Walls of the Icy Depths (S)(H)

Cleared EX area 4 in the Group Excursion.

 

You must clear the entire EX area 4 in Group Excursion mode. It doesn't matter if you do it online or offline.

 

See Alone within harsher Frigid Walls of the Icy Depths for tips on how to beat this area. Also see Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Group Excursion mode and how the infinite lives trick works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/C00.jpg Completed harsher Frigid Walls of the Icy Depths (G)(H)

Completed EX area 4 mural.

 

You need to collect all 20 mural pieces from the area in this DLC to get this trophy. There are 10 in Solo Excursion and there are 10 in Group Excursion. One mural piece per stage. Some mural pieces are hidden, some not so hidden and some are rather hard to get to.

  • Stage EX39:
    1. Get to the end of the stage.
    2. You will have spotted the mural piece by now so get up above it.
    3. You will see that to get to the mural piece, you will have to jump on the iced rope and glide down past the four hot air things
    4. If you look closely you will see that the ones on the right blow somewhat quickly after the ones at the left side, so you must try to time it so you can get past all four right after the ones on the right has blown out air.
    5. I believe if you jump higher up at the iced rope you will fall faster downwards when passing the hot air things.
    6. Once you eventually make it, jump to the left at the correct time to get the mural piece.
    7. In Solo Excursion mode you can simply suicide until you run out of lives to save you've got the mural piece, then load back to before it and continue on without having to re-take it.

     

    [*]Stage EX40 (Solo Excursion):

    • You may want to save before going after this mural piece, get it and just suicide until game over, then reload and finish the stage else you have to do the entire stage all over again.

     

See Alone within harsher Frigid Walls of the Icy Depths for tips on how to beat this area in Solo Excursion. Also see Buddies within harsher Frigid Walls of the Icy Depths for tips on how to beat this area in Group Excursion.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/C71.jpg Alone among the harmless twisted Fossils of Ancient Creatures (S)(H)

Cleared EX area 5 in the Solo Excursion.

 

To get this trophy you need to beat Championship Mode Area 5 in Solo Excursion.

  • The half-flying green dragons got a pattern. They fly 3 short flights then one long and high. You can of course also use a bomb to paralyse them for some seconds.
  • There are a lot of earthquakes in this area but if you save a lot, you might not even notice it more than a couple of times.
  • Stage EX49:
    1. At the bottom of the stage there is a big crocodile which is blocking your path.
    2. Climb the rope, jump onto the first platform to the left.
    3. Quickly jump to the next one to the left, then back to the one to the right.
    4. Watch the crocodile try to eat you and right after he has done that, quickly jump back to the platform he tries eating you for jumping at.
    5. Quickly jump up to the next platform to the left, and place yourself as much right on this platform as you can, this will allow you to avoid his tail and he will not be attacking you.
    6. Now you just need to time your next movements to get to the rope to the left, but that shouldn't be too hard.

     

See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Solo Excursion mode and how the saving system works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/56F.jpg Buddies among the harmless twisted Fossils of Ancient Creatures (S)(H)

Cleared EX area 5 in the Group Excursion.

 

You must clear the entire EX area 5 in Group Excursion mode. It doesn't matter if you do it online or offline.

  • This area is quite hard in Group Excursion, and you may want to practice it in Solo Excursion first.
    • There are so many earthquakes and they expect you to move far too much in very little time. Once you get to the other side there is always a stone you got to blow up. It's like they expect you to die when blowing up the stone and getting back to the same position the next time.
      • A small trick here is to jump to another screen exactly when the lethal shakes hits, because if done correctly you won't die from it then.

       

      [*]The extra player you create to get another 50 lives must also be hiding on a rope from the earthquakes, even if they are nowhere near a stage where there are earthquakes. It is very important you make the second player hide or you will be wasting far more lives way too quickly.

      [*]The trick to get another 50 lives is pretty risky, especially if you only got one controller. I would recommend instead starting up a third player and not run out of lives until you get to a stage where there are no earthquakes.

     

See Alone among the harmless twisted Fossils of Ancient Creatures for tips on how to beat this area. Also see Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Group Excursion mode and how the infinite lives trick works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/A4F.jpg Completed the harmless twisted Fossils of Ancient Creatures (G)(H)

Completed EX area 5 mural.

 

You need to collect all 20 mural pieces from the area in this DLC to get this trophy. There are 10 in Solo Excursion and there are 10 in Group Excursion. One mural piece per stage. Some mural pieces are hidden, some not so hidden and some are rather hard to get to.

  • Stage EX42:
    1. It's in the bottom left corner of the stage.
    2. Climb up past the two hot air things and jump to the right side.
    3. Move yourself as left as you can without falling off the edge.
    4. Watch the green dragon fly up and down. Every 4th flight will be higher so wait until he has done 3 small and place a bomb.
    5. Quickly jump under it and get as far right as you can.
    6. The blast from the bomb should have taken out the green dragon for a little while. Now is your time to simply jump past the other dragon whenever you see fit.

     

See Alone among the harmless twisted Fossils of Ancient Creatures for tips on how to beat this area in Solo Excursion. Also see Buddies among the harmless twisted Fossils of Ancient Creatures for tips on how to beat this area in Group Excursion.

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Cleared EX area 6 in the Solo Excursion.

 

To get this trophy you need to beat Championship Mode Area 6 in Solo Excursion.

  • There are some of those green animals in this area that crawl along the ceiling and jump down at you.
    • They tend to want to keep close to you if you are nearby them, so use this to your advantage rather than a disadvantage. Lure them to jump after you at one place while you safely go where you really want to go.
    • Keep away from them until they've gone away from the place you want to go.
    • They seem to have a hit target that extends much lower than the actual animation does and will easily hit you if are too close under them.

     

    [*]There will also be a lot of fish.

    • Most of these fish will not harm you if you follow a certain pattern.
    • It takes a little while before their attacks are shot at you, and you can usually stay still for a second or so before having to move away to not get hit.
    • As I mentioned earlier, the fish aren't supposed to hit you if you follow a certain pattern. At least that's how I imagine the people who designed the stages intended it to be and most of the time this is true.
    • While I said you can take your time earlier, you should not stay around on one place for too long and always keep up a certain tempo to make them not hit you. Don't try to avoid them, it just doesn't pay off 90% of the time.

     

    [*]Stage EX51:

    • Running away from all the rocks are simple if you care to waste a life per rock. Simply activate the rolling rock and quickly die, you will respawn and if you are quick enough. You can get past the point where you activate the rolling rock and so it won't activate again. This means you can walk slowly and take your time with the rest of the path you else would have had to run through with a rock on your tail.
    • Running away from the third rock.
      1. Go down the rope and a little to the left, just so you can see the hot air thing.
      2. You must time it so you jump over the hot air eruptor about a half to three quarters of a second or so after it is possible to do so.
      3. At the very end of the run, there will be a rope you must climb. Quickly climb it up and jump up to the next platform with the energy on it as soon as you possibly can.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX53:

    • The first thing you will want to do in this stage is to get the red key. If missed, which happens very easily, then it's very hard to get back to, especially in Solo Excursion.
      • The key is located to the left of the first rope. Jump to the left from the at a high enough position so you land on the very left edge of the platform.
      • The screen will move to the left and you will see the red key, go get it.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX56:

    • There is a little section where you got to jump onto ropes above water eruptions and fish shooting at you.
      • This section isn't as hard as it at first might seem, but I feel it's a little too luck dependent.
      • What you got to do is to keep yourself as far behind as you can, keep yourself on the ropes and only jump when there will be another water eruption under you.
      • Stay as little at the lowest point of the section as you possibly can.
      • When you finally cross the middle point, you will want to keep yourself at the first rope until he coast is clear to get all the way to the end.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX57:

    • In the lower right corner of the stage, there is a section with a lot of giant balls.
      • The problem here is getting on to the rope at the right side.
      • The way this is done is to fit in between the second lowest and third lowest giant ball while on the long rope in the middle.
      • First avoid the highest of the two balls so it goes above you, then quickly move upwards a little bit to avoid the lower one. This is quite difficult in offline Group Excursion mode because the screen is so small.
      • After this is done you need to quickly jump down on the platform below, run and drop down to the next, quickly jump onto the rope and then finally slide down on the rope but not too much so you fall off.

       

      [*]Near the end of the stage there is a section with two giant balls and some tower of platforms you got to climb while avoiding the giant balls to get to the other side.

      • Stand near the edge, not at the very edge just pretty close to it, just so that the giant ball doesn't hit you.
      • Right after the giant ball has passed above you, you quickly have to jump to the the first platform.
      • From here quickly jump your way to the very middle at the top.
      • If you place yourself correctly, none of the giant balls should be able to hit you.
      • Follow the right ball as it goes right, and do pretty much exactly the reverse of what you did to get to the top, just this time on the left side.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX58:

    • The highest platform row is probably the hardest part of this stage. The hard part is the green animal jumping down on you as you make your way with the ropes. The trick is to make it shoot after you at a high point, but quickly before it jumps at you go far down on the rope so it misses you.
    • The lowest platform row is very easy, simply because the timed disappearing platforms allow you to walk over on to the solid platforms with hot air things (which doesn't really blow up any hot air). On those you can wait and don't have to worry about if the platform you are standing on will disappear.

     

    [*]Stage EX59:

    • This stage has a lot of moving platforms. The trick is to jump around on the platforms, either to stay at them as short time as possible or to avoid something.
    • To get all keys in stage EX59 you have to get to the upper left/middle part of the stage, but it's not very easy getting down from there due to the two birds.
      1. You are in the upper right part of the left screen of the stage.
      2. Jump to the moving platforms on the left.
      3. When you get to the next moving platforms to the left, jump over to it.
      4. The bird will be circulating the middle part of these moving platforms. You need to make sure you are moving down exactly as the bird is leaving. This is easily done by just jumping right whenever you see it's not timed well enough.
      5. As you go around with the platform, the bird will try to attack you and miss.
      6. Next you will need to jump to the moving platforms on the right.
      7. From these moving platforms, you will want to jump left to the next section of moving platforms.
      8. Here there's another bird but this one is flying much lower and so you can't get under it like last time. Instead you will try to jump to the moving platforms on the left.
      9. Do as you did last time to time the platforms going down perfectly to avoid the bird.
      10. Jump to the platforms on the left, and from there make your way to the little edge, where there used to be or still is a flare.
      11. From here it's not very hard to get down towards the goal section.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX60:

    • The upper right corner section.
      • Don't just follow the moving platforms around in a circle, just to get hit by hot air.
      • Keep yourself at the lower part of the moving platforms and you should be able to jump over to the blue key in two jumps.

       

     

See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Solo Excursion mode and how the saving system works.

 

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Cleared EX area 6 in the Group Excursion.

 

You must clear the entire EX area 6 in Group Excursion mode. It doesn't matter if you do it online or offline.

 

See Alone in an awfully tough Cave of Glowing Moss for tips on how to beat this area. Also see Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Group Excursion mode and how the infinite lives trick works.

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Completed EX area 6 mural.

 

You need to collect all 20 mural pieces from the area in this DLC to get this trophy. There are 10 in Solo Excursion and there are 10 in Group Excursion. There is one mural piece per stage. Some mural pieces are hidden, some not so hidden and some are rather hard to get to.

  • Stage EX51:
    • While the Mural Piece technically is in stage EX51, then you can't access it before you get to stage EX52.
    • It's located in the very upper right corner of stage EX52. If you use a flare here, you will see the path up to it.

     

    [*]Stage EX57:

    • Once you get to the lower right part of the stage, you must make your way to the left side by running after and under the giant ball.
    • From here you must make your way to the top of these platforms, which is much easier than you'd think.
    • Take your time and jump when it's safe to jump upwards.
    • The giant balls are easy to avoid by just placing yourself at the edge of the platform at the opposite side of it.

     

    [*]Stage EX58:

    • You will probably see this one, but how to get to it might be a mystery to you.
    • There is a hidden path just left of it, which is accessed from the platform path under it. I think under it is the only place you will actually the only place I think you will see it naturally from too.

     

    [*]Stage EX59:

    • It's in the upper left corner.
    • I recommend getting to the key on the right side before attempting to get it.
    • Make your way over to upper left moving platforms and if you timed it right.
    • If you timed it right you will be able to get high enough on the circulating moving platforms so you can jump to the next circulating moving platform to the left, whilst on the top without getting hit by the hot air.
    • If this is done right, you should be able to get a free jump over to the mural piece. The key to success is to jump left onto the next platform while you are at the highest point, to avoid the hot air at the right side.

     

See Alone in an awfully tough Cave of Glowing Moss for tips on how to beat this area in Solo Excursion. Also see Buddies in an awfully tough Cave of Glowing Moss for tips on how to beat this area in Group Excursion.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/C6D.jpg Alone in a somewhat Scorching Cave Overflowing with Lava (S)(H)

Cleared EX area 7 in the Solo Excursion.

 

To get this trophy you need to beat Championship Mode Area 7 in Solo Excursion.

  • There are several dangers in this area that will pose a challenge.
    • Quicksand.
      • Jump as far as you can from solid ground to get faster over them.
      • Hold the walk button for the opposite direction of where the quicksand takes you to stand still.
      • Spam jump and the direction to get over the quicksand faster.

       

      [*]Snakes and lack of bombs.

      • Most of the time you can get past them by just timing the jumping over them part correctly.
      • If there are some you find difficult or annoying, just use a bomb.
      • If you got no bombs, just suicide once to get one. You can't suicide twice for two, so make sure to only use it where you absolutely have to.

       

      [*]Phoenix birds.

      • If you are in Solo Excursion mode, you can Save & Quit the game for them to reset to their original position, which can be very useful in certain situations, not all.
      • If you Save & Quit at the correct places, they won't awaken. This is a serious problem if they block your path at some point, more specifically stage EX67 and especially stage EX70. You will have to backtrack to the point of where they respawn, usually at the beginning of the stage, which can be very hard.
      • Make sure to always move a lot.
      • You can use flare to immobilize them for a short period of time.
      • It is safe to touch a phoenix bird when it's immobilized, but make sure you are not touching it when it goes back to not being immobilized.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX62:

    • There is a section where you got to get past 4 bats, divided into 3 parts.
      • When the bats stop dropping, make sure you jump as far as you can from solid ground. This will get you about half of the way in a very short period of time.
      • Spam the jump and left until you get to the other side.
      • Once on the other side and you've got the key, you also got another flare. You may use the flare to make it easier for you to get back or save it for later.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX65:

    • There are two phoenix bird sections of this stage. A left and a right. The right one can safely be made harmless in Solo Excursion by getting to the lowest and rightmost of the keys, and save there. When reloaded you will start out at the same location and the bird won't be waking up, so feel free to get the rest of the keys in peace.

     

    [*]Stage EX67:

    • There are 4 giant birds in this stage. They only get activated at a certain point on the first rope you go down with. This means, once you get to the first place you can save and respawn from, you may think you can do the rest of the stage without having to worry about the birds. This is almost correct but there is one big flaw to this plan. At the lower section of the stage, two birds will be sleeping on your path, and you must awaken them to get past them. You can simply get to this point and save, backtrack to awaken them then suicide to get back to where you was near the end. You can then get past the ones that were blocking your path. It might be you can get stuck here if you miss any of the keys in the upper parts of the stage and you save near the bottom.

     

    [*]Stage EX68:

    • This entire stage is dedicated to giant rolling balls. The trick here is to first activate them, then go back into safety and quickly once they've passed try to run the path you want to go. They will still be coming after you, but if you've done it fast enough, they will have a small delay, just enough for you to make it.

     

See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Solo Excursion mode and how the saving system works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/3DC.jpg Buddies in a somewhat Scorching Cave Overflowing with Lava (S)(H)

Cleared EX area 7 in the Group Excursion.

 

You must clear the entire EX area 7 in Group Excursion mode. It doesn't matter if you do it online or offline.

 

See Alone in a somewhat Scorching Cave Overflowing with Lava for tips on how to beat this area. Also see Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Group Excursion mode and how the infinite lives trick works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/12F.jpg Completed a somewhat Scorching Cave Overflowing with Lava (G)(H)

Completed EX area 7 mural.

 

You need to collect all 20 mural pieces from the area in this DLC to get this trophy. There are 10 in Solo Excursion and there are 10 in Group Excursion. One mural piece per stage. Some mural pieces are hidden, some not so hidden, some rather hard to get to.

  • Stage EX67:
    1. Go down the leftmost rope to the first big bird and it will awake.
    2. Quickly go a little upwards the second rope, and make sure the bird follows you there.
    3. When it is trying to attack you, make sure it misses you by going down.
    4. Jump onto the platform the bird originally slept at.
    5. Use the flare, and you will immobilize the bird and see a secret path to the right. Jump on these platforms to the right.
    6. Next screen you will see the other bird, and under it the mural piece. Use a flare to immobilize it and let you see the next platforms.
    7. Quickly while it is still paralysed, jump up to it's platform and take the mural piece.

     

    [*]Stage EX70:

    • This one can be very tricky, especially in Solo Excursion, and I highly recommend you save up as many flares for this stage as you possibly can.
    • Without Save & Quitting anywhere in the stage, you must make your way to the row where the mural piece is. This is because else the bird blocking the way to the mural piece won't awaken, and trust me, it's not easy getting to the top again without any checkpoints. If you do get into the situation where you got a save very late in the stage, do know that it's possible to make your way to the very top. I've done so and if you step into the elevator from the last stage, that's a checkpoint so you can save there. You still have to make your way down from there and get all the way to the mural piece without dying. It's tricky, but not impossible.
    • You will start out at the right side here and you have to make your way to the left side.
    • Use flare to immobilize the giant bird so you can get all the way to the mural piece.

     

See Alone in a somewhat Scorching Cave Overflowing with Lava for tips on how to beat this area in Solo Excursion. Also see Buddies in a somewhat Scorching Cave Overflowing with Lava for tips on how to beat this area in Group Excursion.

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Cleared EX area 8 in the Solo Excursion.

 

To get this trophy you need to beat Championship Mode Area 8 in Solo Excursion.

  • The carts that moves all by themselves moves every 8-9 second. At some points you will need to time them. I usually use a stopwatch on my phone for this. You should figure out something that works for you.
  • The half-flying green dragons got a pattern. They fly 3 short flights then one long and high. You can of course also use a bomb to paralyse them for some seconds.
  • Stage EX78:
    • You got to get to the upper right side of the stage to pick up a white key.
      • There are two paths to the right side the one that looks the easiest, the lower one, is pretty much impossible to use get to the right side.
      • I believe you must use the upper one, even if it is tricky to use because of the elevating platforms.
      • The lower path is for getting back to the left side.

       

     

See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Solo Excursion mode and how the saving system works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/3D4.jpg Buddies in quite an atrocious Mysterious Mining Facility (S)(H)

Cleared EX area 8 in the Group Excursion.

 

You must clear the entire EX area 8 in Group Excursion mode. It doesn't matter if you do it online or offline.

 

See Alone in quite an atrocious Mysterious Mining Facility for tips on how to beat this area. Also see Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Group Excursion mode and how the infinite lives trick works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/823.jpg Completed quite an atrocious Mysterious Mining Facility (G) (H)

Completed EX area 8 mural.

 

You need to collect all 20 mural pieces from the area in this DLC to get this trophy. There are 10 in Solo Excursion and there are 10 in Group Excursion. One mural piece per stage. Some mural pieces are hidden, some not so hidden and some are rather hard to get to.

  • Stage EX80:
    • This mural piece is located off the screen in the bottom right corner.
    • The path to it is blocked, so you need to use a bomb to blow up the path to it.

     

See Alone in quite an atrocious Mysterious Mining Facility for tips on how to beat this area in Solo Excursion. Also see Buddies in quite an atrocious Mysterious Mining Facility for tips on how to beat this area in Group Excursion.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/B85.jpg Alone in a pretty unforgiving Chamber with a Mysterious Pyramid (S) (H)

Cleared EX area 9 in the Solo Excursion.

 

To get this trophy you need to beat Championship Mode Area 9 in Solo Excursion.

  • There are mainly two types of challenges in this area, and they are often combined.
    • Buttons you have to push.
      • They remove a beam somewhere blocking your path.
      • Don't touch the beam blocking your path as it will only result in death, and so you must get past them before they re-appear after pushing a button.
      • Usually you have to get to another place very fast with some kind of hinder or trap in your way. Learn some pattern or trick to get past them.
      • Sometimes you can also take an item next to the beam blocking your path, then go press the button for quickly to die afterwards. You will then spawn next to where the beam was and you can get past it.

       

      [*]The bird men that keeps jumping up and down.

      • Sometimes they can be pretty hard to get past if there are many of them or you got limited space to place yourself in.
      • If they are too hard to avoid, you can then use a flare to knock them out for a little while but do notice they will drop down to their next position and stay there.
      • You can also knock out some few at a time with a bomb, to create a disorder in their pattern.
      • Even if they are knocked out you will die if you touch them.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX86:

    • Giant balls. To get past them on your way down, you may have to jump to the side before the one on the other side hits you.
    • Under all the giant balls on the right side, there will be a place where you got to hit a button to open a path. The problem is just that it's hard to press down the button when the ceiling is falling down on you. You can run all the way to the left, then run back to the right and stand under it and jump for it to open but there is a much easier way. If you place yourself in the middle under the two ceilings coming down on you, neither will move. Then take a step to the right and jump on the button, for then to run left and get the key.
    • Right after the first key doors you will find a section with a lot of buttons. There are two challenges.
      • The one on the left side is all about jumping on the buttons in the correct order. You must re-press most of the buttons, and remember to press the buttons for the beams that is closest first, then the further away later.
      • The one on the right side is all about figuring out how to solve the problem. You want to press the button so you can exactly get to the rope before the two spikes appear.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX90:

    • You don't really need to collect any of the keys in this stage.
    • Get to the place where it requires you to have all the keys to get past.
    • Go right and back to the previous screen. Here is a rope.
    • Climb up this rope and you will see that if you jump correctly, you can make it over to a platform you are not supposed to be able to get to on your left. It's the platform where the next rope to the left is on.
    • From this platform you can climb up a rope to the platform above, then go right for another rope that takes you to the area goal.
    • Do not forget to take the mural piece.

     

See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Solo Excursion mode and how the saving system works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/D67.jpg Buddies in a pretty unforgiving Chamber with a Mysterious Pyramid (S)(H)

Cleared EX area 9 in the Group Excursion.

 

You must clear the entire EX area 9 in Group Excursion mode. It doesn't matter if you do it online or offline.

 

See Alone in a pretty unforgiving Chamber with a Mysterious Pyramid for tips on how to beat this area. Also see Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Group Excursion mode and how the infinite lives trick works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/F11.jpg Completed a pretty unforgiving Chamber with a Mysterious Pyramid (G)(H)

Completed EX area 9 mural.

 

You need to collect all 20 mural pieces from the area in this DLC to get this trophy. There are 10 in Solo Excursion and there are 10 in Group Excursion. One mural piece per stage. Some mural pieces are hidden, some not so hidden and some rather hard to get to.

  • Stage EX84:
    • You got to blow up the wall behind the stage goal.

     

    [*]Stage EX87:

    • This one is not obtainable until you activate the goal at the end of the stage.
    • Once it's activated, don't use it to get down to the next stage, instead use a flare and zoom out with the right stick, and you will see far above you a path over to the mural piece.
    • You need to backtrack the stage a little bit, and get up to where the platform that will take you to the gold piece is.
    • Here you will need to use the elevator thing that was activated when you activated the goal in the stage. It will take you down to the mural piece safely.

     

    [*]Stage EX88:

    • You may want to abuse the fact that you respawn pretty quickly and at the last item you took.
    • If you don't want to die then I recommend attracting it at the left side, for then to run over to the right and take the mural piece there. I'm pretty sure you will die after taking it too.

     

See Alone in a pretty unforgiving Chamber with a Mysterious Pyramid for tips on how to beat this area in Solo Excursion. Also see Buddies in a pretty unforgiving Chamber with a Mysterious Pyramid for tips on how to beat this area in Group Excursion.

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Cleared EX area 10 in the Solo Excursion.

 

To get this trophy you need to beat Championship Mode Area 10 in Solo Excursion.

  • Common dangers:
    • Bouncepads.
      • Where you jump at them and from what height can affect the result.
      • You can also try to hold down a directional button to affect the result, though very hard and usually extremely little result.

       

      [*]Hot air eruptors.

      • Use their property of moving you to an exact position once bounced into. Way more precise than any normal jumping.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX92:

    • At some point near the right bottom side, there will be a rope you need to climb down and there's a long streak of hot air eruptors. The trick here is to jump quickly after the hot air has disappeared and jump from a bit of a distance from the rope, so you will be landing at a lower point of the rope.

     

    [*]Stage EX94:

    • You should save before getting the mural piece in this stage.
      • You should practice getting the mural piece in this stage in Solo Excursion first. This way you can do it on your first attempt in Group Excursion.

       

      [*]In the upper left corner of the stage there is a section where you got to jump over one of those machines using two circulating platforms.

      1. Jump from the rope when it's going away from you.
      2. Walk left until you get to the a point where the platform drops a bit. Stand before the drop.
      3. Wait for the machine to turn around.
      4. When you are spotted it will start moving against you.
      5. There are two drops in this platform and a middle point between the two drops. When the machine has gotten up on this mid-point, drop down to the little drop in front of you to the left.
      6. If the machine stopped at the very middle of the the middle point between the two drops, you can now use one of the circulating platforms to get above it and jump onto the next circulating platforms and the rest should be easy.
      7. You should jump on a circulating platform that is pretty far away from the machine, exactly when you get above it it starts moving right. Remember to keep on the right side of the circulating platform so you don't touch the machine as you go up above it.

       

     

    [*]Stage EX96:

    • Third row from the top on the right side is somewhat tricky. If you've used flares on this stage earlier you might have made the three synced jumping birds out of sync or the one under, so make sure they are the way you want them to be.
    • You can try to use the flare to make one of the three out of sync with the other ones for a pretty easy time.
    • You can use the flare in the row above to make the three synced jumping birds become synced with the one under or out of sync.
    • You can also use bombs to make the jumping birds jump out of sync, especially the triple.

     

    [*]Stage EX100:

    • This is the second easiest stage in this area but it will try to trick you into doing something impossible.
      • You can't get to the area goal you so easily will spot when you explore the stage.
      • The real area goal you are supposed to get to is located at the bottom of the stage, right under the two headed dog.
      • You will need to blow up the path to it with several bombs.

       

     

See Alone in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Solo Excursion mode and how the saving system works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/477.jpg Buddies in the truly heinous Lair of a Mysterious Creature (S)(H)

Cleared EX area 10 in the Group Excursion.

 

You must clear the entire EX area 10 in Group Excursion mode. It doesn't matter if you do it online or offline.

  • I highly recommend you practice getting the mural piece in stage EX94 in Solo Excursion, before attempting to do this area in Group Excursion mode.

See Alone in the truly heinous Lair of a Mysterious Creature for tips on how to beat this area. Also see Buddies in a slightly nasty Cave with a Stream for general tips about Group Excursion mode and how the infinite lives trick works.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/828/D82.jpg Completed the truly heinous Lair of a Mysterious Creature (G)(H)

Completed EX area 10 mural.

 

You need to collect all 20 mural pieces from the area in this DLC to get this trophy. There are 10 in Solo Excursion and there are 10 in Group Excursion. One mural piece per stage. Some mural pieces are hidden, some not so hidden and some are rather hard to get to.

  • Stage EX91:
    • It's on the platform to the right, the one with all the bumpers on. You got to jump exactly on the middle of the second one, while timing it so you don't get hit by the giant ball. Place a bomb, escape, then go and fetch the mural piece.

     

    [*]Stage EX93:

    • It's in the upper left corner, hard to miss and somewhat hard to guess what to do to get it. The challenge here is to get up the rope before the giant rolling rock hits you. It's easily done by going right after jumping over the two first hot air eruptors then quickly jumping over the two next and climbing up the rope. The trick is with other word going right, so you let the leftmost of the two first hot air eruptors hit bump you up to the next ledge.

     

    [*]Stage EX94:

    • This is by far the most annoying mural piece in the entire game.
    • You need to blow up the wall to the right of the stage goal.
    • There you will find a speed medicine that makes you able to run and jump many times normal speed and length.
    • This item is of course what you need to use to get to the mural piece.
    • You must place yourself pretty close to the two hot air eruptors. Try making it so the line with the crack in the platform design is in line with the back of his legs, not the shoes but the back of his legs. When the time is right to jump over the double hot air eruptors you must press left extremely quickly followed by jump. If done right you should make a jump from the position you are currently standing in and make it over safely.
    • There are a total of three speed medicines if you keep blowing up the wall to the right of the stage goal.
    • I highly recommend practising this one in Solo Excursion before attempting it in Group Excursion.

     

    [*]Stage EX95:

    • You need to blow up the wall in almost bottom but very right corner.

     

    [*]Stage EX96:

    • It's located under the second row of platforms on the left side.
    • You need to go to the bottom of the rope in the middle and just drop down. From there you will want to use the flare. Now your path is easy to see.
    • Just use flare often enough to make the enemies pretty harmless, just know that they will jump once in between two flares.

     

    [*]Stage EX97:

    • It's pretty hard to miss if you zoom out in the right section of this stage. You will see it's located mid-right.
    • To get to it, you need to jump your way over to it, but there will be some jumping birds around you. To avoid these jumping birds just swap between going up and down on the elevators while they are jumping above you, but also so high that the ones under can't hit you.
    • You may want to rush a little. To get over to the other side faster, just wait for the solid platforms to get "extended" by the elevator and jump from the elevator.

     

    [*]Stage EX98:

    • This one is hidden behind the purple crystal. In the section on the left side with all the bats and one of those jumping birds there is a wall on the left side you can blow up.

     

    [*]Stage EX99:

    • You can suicide to make this one a whole lot easier.
    • It's kind of hard to miss it but it's located around mid-right section. You will need to jump down some crumbling platforms with spikes coming down on you and a giant ball trying to hit you from the side.
    • When the giant ball is going away from you and is getting near its rightmost point, you will want to jump down to the 4th of the crumbling platforms.
    • Quickly jump right and you should be able to go under the giant ball while it's over your head to the left.
    • Run over to the platforms, and drop down to the items under. You will die, but also obtain the items thus respawn from down there. Now the piece should be easy to get.

     

See Alone in the truly heinous Lair of a Mysterious Creature for tips on how to beat this area in Solo Excursion. Also see Buddies in the truly heinous Lair of a Mysterious Creature for tips on how to beat this area in Group Excursion.

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You're such a posting whore. :p Good luck on the guide man. I'll use this when I eventually decide to play that damn game again.

 

Yeah, I just need to put it together, I already know the text is some thousand lines so I need the posts. The similar names and trophies etc it just gets so messy in my text document. >_< It's all 98% written, I'm mostly doing copy/pasting around in the various documents. :p

 

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Turns out I was right, I needed the extra posts, and actually even more space. xD

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Nice description about the DLC trophies MME:)

 

But why are you recommand playing co op offline?

 

People forgot the fun about the game. Playing it offline is way too boring compared to play the co op online with friends. It's called co op for a reason (Co operate with friends) It's sad that people mostly use the online server just to boost MVP, race win and 30 co ops :( Wish there was no infinite lives abuse in co op offline.

 

If you got around 2-3 partners and yourself you got 150-200 lifes which is more then enough to beat any of the DLC packs. And if all of your guests know the "Ghost touch kill glitch" Every guest can kill all ghosts withou using there's fan, the only thing to do is to walk very close to the ghost and then walk away from it and the ghost will disappear (only works online) it's even more easier and more fun to do it online :p

 

You can also kill the pregnant ghosts (the ghosts who has little ghosts inside) with a bomb. Just wait for the ghost (facing it) and put the bomb very close to it and walk away from it (if you do it right the ghost will disappear) This works both online (even for the host) and offline and also on solomode.

 

Killing ghosts this way will save a lot of air instead for blowing at them:applause:

 

There is also a trick at the earthquake area (5) there you can survive the earthquake without hanging on a rope. You must stand at the middle of the stage (chaning screen sequence) and just before the biggest shake occur you have to jump to change screen so it delay your spelunker and whoops you survive it. If you scroll up with R3 and jump while you still hold R3 up you you delay your spelunker in the air even more longer.

 

So if you want to enjoy this game and play it online with friends take thiese advices and your game experience will be so much funnier I can almost promise that :D

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Wow, excellent job! I can see you spent a lot of time working on this. Everything I would have thought to comment on seems to have been covered.

 

There is one thing I want to cover, and I've already written about it in my text document, but I just can't remember the exact stage. It's the octopus. Do you remember what EX stage you meet it at?

 

Nice description about the DLC trophies MME:)

 

But why are you recommand playing co op offline?

 

People forgot the fun about the game. Playing it offline is way too boring compared to play the co op online with friends. It's called co op for a reason (Co operate with friends) It's sad that people mostly use the online server just to boost MVP, race win and 30 co ops :( Wish there was no infinite lives abuse in co op offline.

 

If you got around 2-3 partners and yourself you got 150-200 lifes which is more then enough to beat any of the DLC packs. And if all of your guests know the "Ghost touch kill glitch" Every guest can kill all ghosts withou using there's fan, the only thing to do is to walk very close to the ghost and then walk away from it and the ghost will disappear (only works online) it's even more easier and more fun to do it online :p

 

You can also kill the pregnant ghosts (the ghosts who has little ghosts inside) with a bomb. Just wait for the ghost (facing it) and put the bomb very close to it and walk away from it (if you do it right the ghost will disappear) This works both online (even for the host) and offline and also on solomode.

 

Killing ghosts this way will save a lot of air instead for blowing at them:applause:

 

There is also a trick at the earthquake area (5) there you can survive the earthquake without hanging on a rope. You must stand at the middle of the stage (chaning screen sequence) and just before the biggest shake occur you have to jump to change screen so it delay your spelunker and whoops you survive it. If you scroll up with R3 and jump while you still hold R3 up you you delay your spelunker in the air even more longer.

 

So if you want to enjoy this game and play it online with friends take thiese advices and your game experience will be so much funnier I can almost promise that :D

 

I too love playing this game online with others, it truly is a lot of fun. I totally recommend playing the main game online, but the DLCs are much harder than the main game. I can easily get through the main game areas with 4-6 times as many lives as I started out with. The DLC areas I can barely get through a couple of them when I start out with 50. I know you got a lot more lives with more players, but each player need to be good enough to make it through all the areas, even though often the hardest part is getting some of the keys which only one player needs to do.

 

The reason I recommend playing offline is simple, it's the same reason as why there is trophy guides. I'm supposed to tell you how to get through the game the easiest way. You know why I recommend playing offline, it's because of the infinite lives trick. These DLCs are better played offline if you want a chance at 100%-ing the game in a reasonable amount of time.

 

I can add a note about it being more fun to play online, because it truly is, but I can't recommend to play it online to get the trophies, because it simply is so much harder. It easily gets up to a 10/10 difficulty instead of 6/10.

 

I forgot about the ghost touch kill, but it's only for online, which is probably why I haven't added it. I didn't know you could blow up the "pregnant" ghosts. :p That's a good tip, but not really needed in Solo Excursion if you save a lot, or in Group Excursion. In solo it's actually a pretty bad thing, because you are wasting bombs, which you should be saving in most cases. In Group Excursion it's rarely useful, and you got infinite lives, but I could add a note about it. :)

 

I believe I can add a section about if you decide to do it online.

 

The tip I find the most useful is the changing screen while jumping, which would be very useful for Group Excursion of area EX5. So that I will add, because there is one section where it's just painfully annoying and somewhat luck based if you make it to the other side before the next earthquake. I think it's middle of area EX5, and you got to run past a lot of green half-flying dragons.

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Stage EX94:

 

You should save before getting the mural piece in this stage.

You should pracice getting the mural piece in this stage in Solo Excursion so you can do it on first attempt in Group Excursion.

In the upper left corner of the stage there is a section where you got to jump over one of those machines using two circulating platforms.

Jump from the rope when it's going away from you.

Walk left until you get to the a point where the platform drops a bit. Stand before the drop.

Wait for the machine to turn around.

When you are spotted it will start moving against you.

There are two drops in this platform, and a middle point between the two drops. When the machine has gotten up on this mid-point, drop down to the little drop infront of you.

If the machine stopped at the very middle of the the middle point between the two drops, you can now use one of the circulating platforms to get above it and jump onto the next circulating platforms, and the rest should be easy.

 

 

 

This section can be annoying but if you play it online with at least one more player you can stand on the wheel on top and jump and the other guy lures the machine to the right and you can easily get the key in the upper left corner :)

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Stage EX94:

 

You should save before getting the mural piece in this stage.

You should pracice getting the mural piece in this stage in Solo Excursion so you can do it on first attempt in Group Excursion.

In the upper left corner of the stage there is a section where you got to jump over one of those machines using two circulating platforms.

Jump from the rope when it's going away from you.

Walk left until you get to the a point where the platform drops a bit. Stand before the drop.

Wait for the machine to turn around.

When you are spotted it will start moving against you.

There are two drops in this platform, and a middle point between the two drops. When the machine has gotten up on this mid-point, drop down to the little drop infront of you.

If the machine stopped at the very middle of the the middle point between the two drops, you can now use one of the circulating platforms to get above it and jump onto the next circulating platforms, and the rest should be easy.

 

 

 

This section can be annoying but if you play it online with at least one more player you can stand on the wheel on top and jump and the other guy lures the machine to the right and you can easily get the key in the upper left corner :)

Using the technique I pointed out there, I usually make it in 1 or 2 lives. I should point out that it should start moving right before you jump. So you need to make sure you don't take one of the earliest ones that goes above it.

 

Did you know there is a way to die, it plays the song that usually plays when you die, and still be alive? =P

 

What you got to do is to jump from a ladder or something onto bounce pads. If the height is correct, you will technically die from the height, but then not really die because of the bounce pads. :p Kinda funny how the song is activated without you losing a life or respawning. You can test this at the beginning of stage 91 in the main game.

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Using the technique I pointed out there, I usually make it in 1 or 2 lives. I should point out that it should start moving right before you jump. So you need to make sure you don't take one of the earliest ones that goes above it.

 

Did you know there is a way to die, it plays the song that usually plays when you die, and still be alive? =P

 

What you got to do is to jump from a ladder or something onto bounce pads. If the height is correct, you will technically die from the height, but then not really die because of the bounce pads. :p Kinda funny how the song is activated without you losing a life or respawning. You can test this at the beginning of stage 91 in the main game.

 

Yes I know that :) In the regular game you can do a thing on the bouncepat jumping at the roof then down on a bouncepad, your spelunker will then bounce all the time up and down at the same bouncepad. You can also jump through the first red door at stage 92 without the red key (regular game) try it :) There is also still some warps available in the game (was more warps before they patched away it with the newest update) For example: You can still warp through an entire stage in EX5 using the elevator at the end of stage 51 you can warp direct to the end of stage 52. I got some screenshots before the update there you could warp through almost every wall.

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Last such place is at the end of the entire area, right before the goal. Here you should try to attract the birds closer to where you can use the flare to scare them away. You may also get lucky and you make it to scare them all away.

 

 

 

There is actually able to scroll past the changing sequence with R3 and when you still scrolls with R3 put a flare in the air and then went safely to the marker and end the area, (when I said scroll means that you have to pull R3 upp or down all the time, do not hold it up or down all the time) This part is the only part in the area 2 you need to use weapons on.

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Last such place is at the end of the entire area, right before the goal. Here you should try to attract the birds closer to where you can use the flare to scare them away. You may also get lucky and you make it to scare them all away.

 

 

 

There is actually able to scroll past the changing sequence with R3 and when you still scrolls with R3 put a flare in the air and then went safely to the marker and end the area, (when I said scroll means that you have to pull R3 upp or down all the time, do not hold it up or down all the time) This part is the only part in the area 2 you need to use weapons on.

 

I know the guide isn't the best English I've ever written, as most of it is written late at night while playing the game, but I honestly have a hard time reading what you mean in this case.

 

Are you saying that if you zoom out and use the flare, all the bats will get paralyzed? And if you continue to keep the screen zoomed out they will keep being paralyzed? I've seen similar things happen with flares and those jumping bird people. :o

 

While yes, it might be the only place you need to use a "weapon" in area 2, I think it can be very useful to use "weapons" at other parts of the area to make the game easier. For example the first bird I thought I had to jump over, middle right side of the stage where there is a lot of low flying birds, there is actually carved out a hole above you to use the flare. This is the only place, and it's obvious they mean for us to use a flare there. It's quite difficult to jump over it. The other bird will you have to jump over, at least one way unless in Group Excursion. It is also a tad bit easier to jump over.

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I know the guide isn't the best English I've ever written, as most of it is written late at night while playing the game, but I honestly have a hard time reading what you mean in this case.

 

Are you saying that if you zoom out and use the flare, all the bats will get paralyzed? And if you continue to keep the screen zoomed out they will keep being paralyzed? I've seen similar things happen with flares and those jumping bird people. :o

 

While yes, it might be the only place you need to use a "weapon" in area 2, I think it can be very useful to use "weapons" at other parts of the area to make the game easier. For example the first bird I thought I had to jump over, middle right side of the stage where there is a lot of low flying birds, there is actually carved out a hole above you to use the flare. This is the only place, and it's obvious they mean for us to use a flare there. It's quite difficult to jump over it. The other bird will you have to jump over, at least one way unless in Group Excursion. It is also a tad bit easier to jump over.

 

Yeah of course it's easier to use weapons, but I said "that part is the only part you MUST need a flare to get through. You can't traverse it without a flare :) In the japanese version some ppl set up a special rule in the room: Weapon Ban to make it more harder :p

 

The scroll thing it's hard to explain, if you scroll R3 up/release/up release in right timing past the changing sequence you will carry the sequence with you and at the same time as you scroll with R3 you can put a flare and went back continue scrolling with R3. I can maybe show you it on some basic area.

 

If you decide you want to do Group Excursion online.

 

You play with up to 5 other players online.

It's a lot of fun, and a totally different experience.

You get 50 more lives per player.

So when there's 6 players, you start out with 300 lives.

Everyone must get through the levels, but not everyone needs to get all the keys.

Everyone shares the lives, so you better make sure everyone is somewhat skilled enough to be able to tackle the stages.

 

 

This is actually a little wrong. Everyone must not get through the stages, theoretically 5 players can just stand and chill at the first airtank at the first stage of the area and just 1 player can do the area alone and when the playing player hits the marker at stage (10) the game will end in a few seconds. Everyone gets trophies for clearing the area :p

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Yeah of course it's easier to use weapons, but I said "that part is the only part you MUST need a flare to get through. You can't traverse it without a flare :) In the japanese version some ppl set up a special rule in the room: Weapon Ban to make it more harder :p

 

The scroll thing it's hard to explain, if you scroll R3 up/release/up release in right timing past the changing sequence you will carry the sequence with you and at the same time as you scroll with R3 you can put a flare and went back continue scrolling with R3. I can maybe show you it on some basic area.

 

If you decide you want to do Group Excursion online.

 

You play with up to 5 other players online.

It's a lot of fun, and a totally different experience.

You get 50 more lives per player.

So when there's 6 players, you start out with 300 lives.

Everyone must get through the levels, but not everyone needs to get all the keys.

Everyone shares the lives, so you better make sure everyone is somewhat skilled enough to be able to tackle the stages.

 

 

This is actually a little wrong. Everyone must not get through the stages, theoretically 5 players can just stand and chill at the first airtank at the first stage of the area and just 1 player can do the area alone and when the playing player hits the marker at stage (10) the game will end in a few seconds. Everyone gets trophies for clearing the area :p

 

Right you are, but that's kind of twisting my words, but I guess I can update the guide to be more precise, as this can be abused to get 300 lives to beat the level with, though it requires 5 other players and everyone must stay around and waste at least a hour waiting for each player to finish the area. Not very ideal.

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Right you are, but that's kind of twisting my words, but I guess I can update the guide to be more precise, as this can be abused to get 300 lives to beat the level with, though it requires 5 other players and everyone must stay around and waste at least a hour waiting for each player to finish the area. Not very ideal.

 

Twisting your words??:confused: I just told you that is wrong in the guide :) It does not require 5 other players, same thing with 4,3 or 2 but you get lesser lifes. And this is not abuse if you play it online!!

 

Let say I help some friend with a hard area. My friend has all muralpieces and he only need to clear the co op area. he can just place his spelunker on an airtank and by the time he can do something else and I can do the work by myself.

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Twisting your words??:confused: I just told you that is wrong in the guide :) It does not require 5 other players, same thing with 4,3 or 2 but you get lesser lifes. And this is not abuse if you play it online!!

 

Let say I help some friend with a hard area. My friend has all muralpieces and he only need to clear the co op area. he can just place his spelunker on an airtank and by the time he can do something else and I can do the work by myself.

 

That seems a bit silly. The guide is purely for the easiest way to get the trophies. It is not for the best way to have fun with the game.

 

Getting all the trophies is 100x easier if you do group excursion solo. If you play solo, you have infinite lives.

 

If you play online, then you only have 50 lives per player. Sure you can say you now have 300 lives, but you have six times as many people playing and dying six times as often. Getting six experienced players together takes a miracle, not to mention probably hours waiting in the lobby.

 

And having the other players standing around at the first air tank still doesn't help them get the mural trophies, not to mention it's no different than doing the infinite lives trick in offline.

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Twisting your words??:confused: I just told you that is wrong in the guide :) It does not require 5 other players, same thing with 4,3 or 2 but you get lesser lifes. And this is not abuse if you play it online!!

 

Let say I help some friend with a hard area. My friend has all muralpieces and he only need to clear the co op area. he can just place his spelunker on an airtank and by the time he can do something else and I can do the work by myself.

 

That seems a bit silly. The guide is purely for the easiest way to get the trophies. It is not for the best way to have fun with the game.

 

Getting all the trophies is 100x easier if you do group excursion solo. If you play solo, you have infinite lives.

 

If you play online, then you only have 50 lives per player. Sure you can say you now have 300 lives, but you have six times as many people playing and dying six times as often. Getting six experienced players together takes a miracle, not to mention probably hours waiting in the lobby.

 

And having the other players standing around at the first air tank still doesn't help them get the mural trophies, not to mention it's no different than doing the infinite lives trick in offline.

 

I marked out what I think it's the best option in the post above, as this was exactly what I was going to say.

 

Online options:

  1. Everyone has to run through the levels together.
    • Positive:
      • This is a lot of fun.
      • Everyone will complete everything in the same run, takes a hour and a half at max.

[*]Negative:

  • Everyone needs to be pretty good at the game.
  • It's very hard getting that many people together, especially if they all need to be good.

[*]Most people have to wait while the most skilled are able to get through in those 300 lives.

  • Positive:
    • You got 300 lives... o.O

    [*]Negative:

    • Everyone still need to get through every level and get all mural pieces at some point.
    • You have to be able to get together that many people.
    • It takes a very long time if everyone is going to do it.
    • You are basically doing the same as doing it offline alone, just you waste a lot of people's time and you have limited amount of lives.

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That seems a bit silly. The guide is purely for the easiest way to get the trophies. It is not for the best way to have fun with the game.

 

Getting all the trophies is 100x easier if you do group excursion solo. If you play solo, you have infinite lives.

 

If you play online, then you only have 50 lives per player. Sure you can say you now have 300 lives, but you have six times as many people playing and dying six times as often. Getting six experienced players together takes a miracle, not to mention probably hours waiting in the lobby.

 

And having the other players standing around at the first air tank still doesn't help them get the mural trophies, not to mention it's no different than doing the infinite lives trick in offline.

 

I know it's mostly pure, I just mention some error LOL

 

I told you that this could help if my friend already has all mural pieces for the area and not the trophy for clearing the area. Please read the whole post :)Infinite lives in offline co op must be very boring. Well the most ppl in US and EU just play the games for only trophies and forget the fun and enjoying with the games, it's said. Of course it's more fun if everyone try there best to tackle all stages and co operate with each other. I just mention the wrong in the guide.

 

And mr beens what is group excursion solo??

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I marked out what I think it's the best option in the post above, as this was exactly what I was going to say.

 

Online options:

  1. Everyone has to run through the levels together.
    • Positive:
      • This is a lot of fun.
      • Everyone will complete everything in the same run, takes a hour and a half at max.

[*]Negative:

  • Everyone needs to be pretty good at the game.
  • It's very hard getting that many people together, especially if they all need to be good.

[*]Most people have to wait while the most skilled are able to get through in those 300 lives.

  • Positive:
    • You got 300 lives... o.O

    [*]Negative:

    • Everyone still need to get through every level and get all mural pieces at some point.
    • You have to be able to get together that many people.
    • It takes a very long time if everyone is going to do it.
    • You are basically doing the same as doing it offline alone, just you waste a lot of people's time and you have limited amount of lives.

 

Yea that's true if ppl got hurry and just care for trophies. For me every EX area is pretty easy. I tested to play the areas offline, I did EX areas co op with just 50 lifes on each pack, I didn't save once in the game in solo. Maybe that reason I prefer to play and help people online with hard obstacles. I like hard challenges (to challenge myself), as weapon ban room, another fun and hard rule can be weapon ban room and every stage you finnish you must went back to the start once and then to the elevator again. Me and some japanese friends did EX3 without weapons (except for blowing away some rocks) It was not easy!!! :p

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And mr beens what is group excursion solo??

 

group excursion solo means you do group excursion alone. I know he is making it hard for you to read by using the words already used to define something else, probably because that's the first word that came to his mind, but he is still correct.

 

definition of solo (google):

so·lo/ˈsōlō/

Noun:

A thing done by one person unaccompanied, in particular.

Adjective:

For or done by one person alone; unaccompanied: "a solo album".

Verb:

Perform something unaccompanied, in particular.

Synonyms:

single - solitary - sole

 

I know it's mostly pure, I just mention some error LOL

 

I know you were, and for all theoretical reasons it was an error, but for all practical purposes it wasn't. I have fixed it in any case. That is also why I said you were twisting my words, because with a little bit of logic what I wrote is for all practical purposes correct, and the little exception to what I said, which you pointed out, is pretty pointless.

 

Yea that's true if ppl got hurry and just care for trophies. For me every EX area is pretty easy. I tested to play the areas offline, I did EX areas co op with just 50 lifes on each pack, I didn't save once in the game in solo. Maybe that reason I prefer to play and help people online with hard obstacles. I like hard challenges (to challenge myself), as weapon ban room, another fun and hard rule can be weapon ban room and every stage you finnish you must went back to the start once and then to the elevator again. Me and some japanese friends did EX3 without weapons (except for blowing away some rocks) It was not easy!!! :p

 

You might like it, I might like it, and many people who play these kind of games might do so as well, but this is a trophy guide so the focus is getting all the trophies. ;)

 

I believe this guide makes it possible for most people to get all the trophies in the game. They still need patience and determination to do so though.

 

I'm kind of wondering what you think about the estimated time to 100%? =P

 

I also still need to know what EX stage the octopus is in?

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