Arcade Archives: Sunset Riders Trophy Guide & Road Map

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Overview:

Estimated trophy difficulty: 2/10 (Trophy Difficulty Thread)
Offline trophies: 4 (1, 2, 1)
Online trophies: 2 (1, 1)
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 1-2 Hours (Estimated Time to 100%)
Minimum number of playthroughs: 1+
Number of missable trophies: None
Glitched trophies: None
Does difficulty affect trophies?: ORIGINAL MODE you can change difficulty, HI SCORE MODE has no adjustable difficulty settings.

Introduction:
One of the greatest side scrolling arcade games (and grossly underrated one at that) is available as a part of the Arcade Archives series. Like many games in the series, the trophy list is unispired sadly. You will breeze through these trophies in about an hour or so with little difficulty. However, if you are looking for a really fun arcade title with gameplay that holds up today, Sunset Riders is an awesome arcade port for consoles.

Walkthrough:

Step 1: ORIGINAL MODE

In ORIGNAL MODE you can access the options and settings by pushing in on

. Feel free to increase your lives and adjust the difficulty if you want. Once your options are set, you can hit

repeatedly to give yourself as many credits as you need. Go wild! You should be able to beat every stage and amass over 400,000 points in your first run.

Score 50,000 points
Score 200,000 points
Score 400,000 points
Mark high score
Record score

Step 2: HI SCORE MODE

There's one last trophy exclusive to HI SCORE MODE. You'll just need to score 10,000 points in order to have enough to points to post a high score. You should have 10,000 points midway through the first boss fight.

HI SCORE Player

Record score

The score has been posted to the online rankings in the "ORIGINAL MODE".
In order to post an online score, you will need to score 10,000 points, which will happen naturally within the first level. After you've used all of your credits up, you'll be prompted to upload an online score.
Mark high score

High score has been updated.
This can be obtained in ORIGNAL MODE or HI SCORE MODE. If you score 10,000 points, you can update the local high score offline by entering your inititals.
Score 50,000 points

The score won 50,000 points.
See Score 400,000 points
Score 200,000 points

The score won 200,000 points.
See Score 400,000 points
Score 400,000 points

The score won 400,000 points.
IN ORIGNAL MODE, you can change the difficulty and lives settings by hititng and you can have practically unlimited credits by hitting at any time. The rewards for each of the bosses will total more than 400,000 by time you complete the game's 8 stages. While multiplayer is a blast in this game, only the player that did the most damage to the boss gets the reward and points for each of them.
HI SCORE Player

The score has been posted to the online rankings in the "HI SCORE MODE".
Unlike ORIGNAL MODE, you cannot change the difficulty or number of lives in this mode. In fact, if you even pause the game, you must start over. While this may sound difficult, you only need to score 10,000 points in order to post a score to the online rankings. The first boss gives a reward of 10,000 but you should actually have 10,000 before you even finish the first boss. For being an arcade coin-op, Sunset Riders is somewhat forgiving with its difficulty, particularly at the start.