SSX Snowboard Express Walkthrough for PlayStation 2 Game Name: SSX Snowboard Express Format: PlayStation 2 Submitted By: Rocko Hello and welcome to my Walkthrough, which should make winning those tough races on SSX a little more easier. CHARACTERS: MAC: Height: 5'4" Weight: 120 lbs. Age: 15 Homeland: America Riding Style: Free Style Blood Type: O+ Edging: 10/21 Speed: 9/22 Stability: 14/28 Tricks: 16/32 * MOBY * Height: 5'10" Weight: 180 lbs. Age: 18 Homeland: Britain Riding Style: Boarder cross Blood Type: A- Edging 13/22 Speed 12/24 Stability 12/24 Tricks 9/29 * ELISE * Height: 5'11" Weight: 120 lbs. Age: 23 Homeland: Canada Riding Style: Boarder cross Blood Type: O- Edging 15/24 Speed 14/29 Stability 12/20 Tricks 10/24 * KAORI * Height: 5'0" Weight: 100 lbs. Age: 16 Homeland: Japan Riding Style: Free Style Blood Type: B+ Edging 9/23 Speed 9/24 Stability 13/21 Tricks 15/32 * JURGEN * Height: 6'5" Weight: 230 lbs. Age: 35 Homeland: Germany Riding Style: Boarder cross Blood Type: AB+ Edging 12/24 Speed 9/26 Stability 13/36 Tricks 8/16 * JP * Height: 5'10" Weight: 180 lbs. Age: 25 Homeland: France Riding Style: Free Style Blood Type: AB- Edging 7/24 Speed 12/23 Stability 14/25 Tricks 15/30 * ZOE * Height: 5'5" Weight: 130 lbs. Age: 19 Homeland: America Riding Style: Boarder cross Blood Type: B- Edging 12/27 Speed 11/26 Stability 13/25 * HIRO * Height: 5'5" Weight: 200 lbs. Age: 21 Homeland: Japan Riding Style: Alpine Blood Type: A+ Edging 14/29 Speed 16/32 Stability 8/20 Tricks 9/19 SHORTCUTS: Most Shortcuts are easily found because they are usually shown with a blue SSX sign, which you must break through but others are not so easy and take a bit of work to find. I hope the shortcuts I have found will help you all. Mesablanca: Bridge shortcut:- At the part where the track splits in two, take the path on the right. You will get to a ramp with red powder. Do not jump. Instead, brake and you should reach a hole covered in wood. Bust through it. In here, you can grind the rails if desired. Push Select at any time to drop outside, past the bridge. Pipe Dream: Shortcut:- Go to the right or left in the middle of the track and use the turbo. Ride on the rail and after that you get big air. Tokyo Megaplex: Shortcuts:- Jump down through the first SSX sign into the big fan area, then press Select as soon as you land on the snow underneath. You will be dropped to the beginning of the pop-up cylinders. Aloha Ice Jam: Shortcut:- When you are close to the final stretch there will be a jump over two candy cane-like pipes. All the way to the left is an "SSX" sign. Break through it, then go through the obstacles. When there is one all the way in front of you (blocking your way to the other section), do not jump over it. Instead, press Select to get to the "final" stretch to save a lot of time. In Merqury City Meltdown there are 2 unmarked shortcuts. 1. In the Park there is a frozen stream that leads to a pipe. 2. The area under the street that you can jump over. Where there is a Transparent jump, right behind it near the wall is a tunnel that leads to the Subway. Don't touch the subway cars because you get sent back to the regular Track. HINTS AND COOL STUFF: When you do more tricks, press Square to get a boost. Also, hold the D-pad in the direction you want to twist or flip before the trick -- after holding X, you will do the trick faster. Press Forward during the countdown at the start of a race. Note: This sometimes only works in the second and third round. Hold X and any direction on the D-pad on any jump in any course. Release X as you go off of it. If you turn right or left so many times, "???" will appear, symbolizing a spin greater than an 1800. When you go off a jump, do not do tricks. Doing tricks actually slows you down in the air. Also, press Jump before the edge of the jump. This way, you do not go as high, which helps you maintain more momentum. You will also go faster when you land. These tactics also decrease the chance of wiping out. The best all-around board for Mac is actually the Interrupting Pirate. It has the same statistics as the AniMac board, but the Interrupting Pirate has better handling. Easy Showoff mode medal:- If you are a few points short of a medal at the end of the course, hold left or right spin prewind and press Select. Every time you hit the ground you will receive 480 points. Repeat this until you have completed getting the required number of points. Glitch: Fall below the course:- Go through the Tokyo Megaplex level until you reach the fan with the two boosts on either side. Ride up on the side of the fan so your character is a straight line left to right (horizontal), then press Select. If done correctly, you will appear under the course in a bottomless pit. You can do tricks in midair, but you will fall back very far in the race. Press Select to get back out. You can get over 100,000 points by doing tricks in the glitch. Glitch: Strange view:- At the very start, go towards the glass just to the right of the fans. When you get close, attempt a front flip into the glass. If done correctly, the glass will not break but you should go through it. Proceed to the finish line. You will not win, but when you cross the finish line it will start showing you from a different angle. Merqury City Meltdown: Car wreck: - Go through the park to the big bridge. Just after the first jump on the big bridge, go in the middle tunnel and have a full booster ready. While moving, hit the boost and do a front flip onto a small bridge with the cars driving on it. You will cause a huge wreck and all the cars will stop. Merqury City Meltdown: Car alarm: - Run into a car and its alarm will go off. Elysium Alps: Death:- Fall onto the rocks to "die" and teleport to safety. Elysium Alps: Ride over barricades:- Near the end of Elysium Alps, when you have to shred the three panel glass barricades, get enough speed to go above the first barricade and ride along the top corner edge to ride over the top of all the barricades. Be careful and jump near the end. If you fall off and have to break through glass, or other objects in other courses, jump just before you hit and you will not fall -- just slow down. Elysium Alps: Loop:- On the Elysium Alps stage, press Select just into the Ice loop to come out at same speed on the other side. Aloha Ice Jam: Screams: - When on the course, you will see the audience a bit above you on some turns. Hold X + Right to get a boost. If done correctly, you will hit the spectators and you will hear screaming. Aloha Ice Jam: Extra spins:- Get a trick boost before the jump at the end of the tunnel. This will make it possible to do a spin with so many turns that "???" will appear as a trick description. Note: To get enough turns in, you need to have the wind up before you get the trick boost at the end of the tunnel. Look for wooden fences, you can break through them. Great shortcuts! One is in the beginning of Elysium Alps, after the first checkpoint look left. There are two in Mesablanca. Both in the beginning of the course. UNLOCKABLE TRACKS: Earn a medal on the Elysium Alps course to unlock the Merqury City Meltdown course. Earn a medal on the Mercury City Meltdown course to unlock the Mesablanca course. Earn a medal on the Mesablanca course to unlock the Tokyo Megaplex Course. Earn a medal on the Tokyo Megaplex course to unlock the Aloha Ice Jam Course. Earn a medal on the Tokyo Megaplex course to unlock the Pipe dream Course. Earn a medal on the Aloha Ice Jam course to unlock the Untracked Course. Earn one gold medal in any mode to unlock Jurgen. UNLOCKABLE CHARACTERS: Earn two gold medals in any mode to unlock JP. Earn three gold medals in any mode to unlock Zoe. Earn four gold medals in any mode to unlock Hiro. UNLOCKABLE COSTUMES: Successfully complete all green circle tricks to unlock the third Costume. Successfully complete all blue square tricks to unlock the fourth Costume. UNLOCKABLE BOARDS: Reach the rookie rank to unlock the third board. Reach the sensei rank to unlock the fourth board. Reach the contender rank to unlock the fifth board. Reach the natural rank to unlock the sixth board. Reach the star rank to unlock the seventh board. Reach the veteran rank to unlock the eighth board. Reach the champ rank to unlock the ninth board. Reach the superstar rank to unlock the tenth board. Reach the master rank to unlock the eleventh board. I hope that this walkthrough made the game just that little bit easier. The_Flying_Hawkstar