SSX Tricky Cheats and Hints for PlayStation 2

Hints

Multiple code entry
It is possible to enable the "Mix Master Mike" and "Mallora board" codes at the title screen and have both activated at the same time. For example, enter both codes then select Elise. You will play as Mix Master Mike with a blue outfit and a Mallora board.

Pipedream course
Win a medal on all Showoff courses.

Untracked course
Win a medal on all Race courses.

Uberboards
Unlock all of the tricks for a character to get their uberboard, which is their best board.

Alternate costumes
To earn more costumes, complete all chapters in your trick book.

To unlock the final chrome costume, complete world circuit mode with a "Master" rank.

Play as Brodi
Win a gold medal in world circuit mode.

Play as Zoe
Win two gold medals in world circuit mode.

Play as JP
Win three gold medals in world circuit mode.

Play as Kaori
Win four gold medals in world circuit mode.

Play as Marisol
Win five gold medals in world circuit mode.

Play as Psymon
Win six gold medals in world circuit mode.

Play as Seeiah
Win seven gold medals in world circuit mode.

Play as Luther
Win eight gold medals in world circuit mode.

Super boost
Do Uber Tricks until the letters on top of your adrenaline bar (T-R-I-C-K-Y) are filled in red. Your meter will stay full, give you unlimited boost, and enable you to do Uber Tricks without a time limit.

Faster flips
Start your flips with the D-Pad, finish them off with the Left Analog-stick.

Balance on rails
Move the Right Analog-stick to the [Left] and [Right] to balance on rails.

More points off rails
To get more points after you get off a rail, do a Misty, Rodeo, or something along those lines. Most of the rails are high enough to do this from, but for the ones that are not, do a 180 or more.

Easy Tricky book completion
There is a huge cliff on the first jump of Garibaldi. Do all your tricks here.

To complete your Tricky book easier, unlock the Pipedream stage (by medaling in all Showoff venues) and stay to the left. You will find a halfpipe. Use your boost to get air, then complete the Tricky book.

Uber Tricks in Tricky book
Some Characters can only complete the Uber tricks with the long board. They are Marisol and Brodi. However, you can still complete up to Chapter 5 with the short boards.

Easy speed boost
On the side of the screen, there is a bar. When you have any number of rings around that bar, hold [Square] and you will go faster. However, the speed will decrease the number of rings until you are out unless you release [Square]. When you are out of rings you will hear a noise.

Better flips and spins
Hold the direction you are going to spin or flip before you get off the jump to spin or flip faster. It is possible to get four flips in the Pipedream course in the very big halfpipe.

Easy "???" trick
Go to any of the tracks that have either a big jump or a "trick boost." Hit one of these and do either a Misty, Rodeo, Front Flip, or Back Flip. If you do four or more of the same trick, you will land it as a "???" trick. The point value depends on the kind of grab or flip that was done.

If you go over 1800 by spinning, you will also get a "???". Note: This is best done with a freestyle boarder with full stats.

More air in halfpipes
To get more air in the halfpipes, hold the boost until you go of the edge. To get more air hold [Jump] at the same time and release it before you go off. This is especially useful in the Pipedream level, where you need to get those high bonuses in Showoff mode. You can also pull off better tricks in other courses that have pipes.

Ubertricks
Hold [R1], [R2], [L1], or [L2] and press [Square]. Hold that combination and you will do a Uber Trick, but only when your Tricky meter is full.

When you have a full Tricky meter, hold [R1] + [R2] and press [Square] to do a super tricky move. Note: This only works for certain characters.

You can hold [L1] + [L2] and press [Square] for the other characters that do not have the [R1] + [R2] moves to do other Uber Tricks. If you are unsure which character can do which trick, look at their sixth trick chapter.

More points for Uber Tricks
When you have "TRICKY" and are about to go off a jump, do a Misty, Rodeo, Back or Front Flip, or a Spin. While in the air, do an Uber Trick as soon as possible. Keep rotating and the score will go higher. Note: Do not do this if you are going off a small jump.

To get more points with an Uber trick without falling, find the fastest Uber trick for your character. With this, you can get a double Uber trick in places where you can only pull one with longer Uber tricks.

Extra points
Doing tricks in a switch stance are worth more points.

Restore Tricky meter
If you are running out of Tricky boost (for Uber Tricks), do a 180 while riding to get it full.

Master ranking
Go to world circuit with any character and win all gold medals.

Unlocking all characters easily
Get the gold medal on Garabaldi with all the characters you have. Then, get gold with the next character you earn. Keep doing this until you unlock all the characters.

Psymon recommendation
Psymon is the most advanced character in the game in terms of his trick ability. Get his "TRICKY" meter full, and he can perform tricks at the same rate or better as any other character with the trick boost active. He does not even need all "TRICKY" letters filled for infinite Uberboost to perform better than most.

Signs
You will occasionally see red and blue SSX Tricky signs that lead to secrets and shortcuts. The blue signs are for showoff, and the red signs are for racing. Sometimes the blue signs are also faster.

Alaska: Shortcut
At the end, where the big fan makes you go faster, if you are not in first place do a half-flip and fall. The fan will blow you on the ground. Then, at the end of the ramp, you will go downwards, which a faster way.

Alaska: Easy Uber tricks
You will see a large U-turn. Use some boost and try to shoot off. If done correctly, you can do at least two Uber tricks.

In Alaska Showoff, at the big fan, jump slightly before you reach the end. By doing this, you will be able to get three Uber tricks, and if done correctly you will hit the x2, x3, and x5 bonuses. To maximize the number of points you get, do a Misty or a Rodeo with you Ubers. If done perfectly, you can go from Silver (300,000 points) to gold (500,000 points).

Alaska: Easy points
There are not many places to get points in the beginning if you miss the rails. Use your boost to get air off the hips. You can almost trick off every hip there. Also, you will get to a place that is like an icy halfpipe with a hump in tha middle. If you reach it fast enough, you will have enough time to fill your boost meter and fill "TRICKY". This is very useful, as you will make the points easier to come by. After leaving that place, you will reach to a U-turn on a wall. Boost all the way up with a Misty Uber trick, and you will hit either the x5 or x3 bonus and get some needed points.

Garibaldi: Shortcut
At blue and red arrow signs, go the path with the red sign. Near the first turn, you will see a blue SSX Tricky sign. Crash into it. It will lead you to a huge shortcut with lots of cliffs. Note: In the shortcut there is another SSX Tricky sign. Do not crash into it or the shortcut will end.

Garibaldi: Secret rail
In the beginning of the course, hit the caution blocks on the right and aim for the rail. If done correctly, you should be grinding a secret rail.

Garibaldi: Easy Tricky
On the fifth or sixth turn there is a sharp turn. Keep going straight and jump off the edge. Get a lot of air and this may bring you up so much on the turbo you will be "Tricky".

When you come out of the starting gates at Garibaldi, turn left and jump up onto the fence. Do a few flip/spin/grab combos, landing back on the fence every time. After two or three, you should have you "Tricky" before getting to the first jump. Note: Do not fall off to the left or it will be very difficult to get back over without losing your boost/"Tricky".

At the start of a race knock down someone and you should get "Tricky". When you jump off the ramp, you should be able to do two Uber Tricks. After that, go to the left at the fork before the ice. There should be two cliffs that you can do an Uber Trick on, but on your second one, go to the right so you do not hit the fence. You should now be at the two ice jumps. Jump off either one and do a tricky. Then, go to the ramp. Get some air and pull off a tricky. You now have unlimited Uber Trick time and boost. Note: If you miss the turn on the fork of ice, you can use your "Tricky boost" and get to the ramp past the ice; then pull off a tricky and go to the rest of the way for easy tricky.

Garibaldi: Easy win
Go into race mode. When the race, starts keep going until after where there are three jumps and a blue sign in the middle. After that, turn and you will see a U-turn. Do not take it. Instead, just boost over the ledge. All the other riders will now be stuck behind you.

Garibaldi: Untracked preview
At Garibaldi, you can go to part of the Untracked level before it has been unlocked. When you reach a fork on part of the track, turn right. You will find a blue shortcut sign. Go in it. You will be on the Untracked level. Do not turn into the next shortcut sign. It will put you back on the regular track.

Merqury City Meltdown: Shortcut
Make sure that you come out of every intersection on the left side. At one of the intersections there is ice starting just before a wall at the edge of an intersection. You will see it if you come out on the left side. Go up it and follow it along the fans. You will then reach a part where there will be snow with a lot of things that look somewhat resemble moguls. Take this all the way down and you will come out on the river that has the bridge with two jumps on it. Go straight into the water and you will be on the bridge, hopefully in first place.

After you go through the park, you will reach the suspended bridge. You must fall below the bridge. Travel this path until the last glass ramp to the top. Do not go up the ramp. Instead, get under it. There is a pipe entrance that is covered located there. Run directly through it to reach the subway, and the finish line. This can be done in showoff and race modes.

When you start, slow down or stop then start off slowly again and break through the red glass. If you go directly through the middle, you will hit a rail. You can pull a massive trick off the jump.

When you are at the section where you go off a few jumps and then through the tunnel before the halfpipe area, get a lot of air off of the second or third jump. You will land in a building and be in an office. Go through the building and at the end where there is more glass, go directly through the middle. You will hit another rail that will take you into another building. After the second building, you will go off a drop, get a lot of air, and can pull a good trick.

Merqury City Meltdown: UFO
Ride normally through all the intersections and wait until you see a red SSX Tricky sign in front of a multi-level parking lot. Go through the signs and you should see several cars around. Look for the exit downward ramp to the parking lot that should not be too far away. Go down the ramp and jump onto the building directly in front of you. Next, jump onto the building located to your left. You should have seen the UFO by now. The UFO is green-black and shoots a ray down by a nearby building. For a closer look, grind on the rail at the edge of the building you are on that should be facing the UFO.

Note: You can also jump onto the grind rail (use boosts) and jump into the beam off the UFO. Doing this will warp you to the near end of the level. The warp will place you under another spacecraft.

Merqury City Meltdown: Helicopter
Ride normally through the course until close to the end. You will see an opening in the gates with two orange dumpsters behind it. Keep jumping around on the buildings until you see a helicopter. It will be white with a search light, searching the building tops.

Merqury City Meltdown: Subway station
Ride normally through until you see three glass ramps (on the track). Go to the right or left and follow that track. Once you see a large glass ramp, turn to the right or left and you will see a cement ramp. Go around and go through the brick wall. You will be in a tunnel that has a lot of tight turns. At the end will be two subway trains rushing by. If you get hit, you will restart back on the normal course. After the subways, you will see a short tunnel, like the one before, with automatic gates at the end.

Merqury City: More Ubers at beginning
You can go straight into the red SSX Tricky sign. But in the beginning, try to get a knockdown or do some tricks to fill up the adrenaline line. Then near or at the middle, there is a rail. You can go on it straight without turning your board. At the end, you will land on top of a building and can do an Uber trick, but without turning. Then, go straight to find another rail. When you get on it, hold [X] then press [Up] to get into position. Then, jump very high and hopefully land on a yellow skylight. When you go in, you see a wall. Crash into it and you can fall to the ground while doing an Uber trick, or fly over to the next building and jump to do an Uber trick there.

Merqury City Meltdown: Uber tricks
When you get to the suspension bridge, use your boost to get on one of the two rails on the side of the bridge that go up. When you get to the top, your character will fly into the air. You will have enough time to do at least one Uber trick. You will then fall back onto the rail. If you keep boosting, you will fly up into the air again and have enough time to do at least one Uber trick before you hit the ground.

Mesablanca: Secret jump
When you first start Mesablanca, there is a little ice patch. Do a 360 on the ice patch. When you come up to the first two jumps, get to second one. Speed up with the boost that you got from the 360 and jump off the second ramp. If it was good, you can land on the upper platform of the area slightly ahead of you. Quickly look to your right to see a ramp. Try to go up it. If you cannot, restart and try to aim to the right just before you are about to jump. Once you get up the ramp, go through the blue screen to get ahead of the pack. This requires a lot of practice.

Pipe Dream: Easy points
Starting off, you do not really need to bother with most of the jumps. You can pass those and jump on a few if desired, but you will need the boost later. However, what you really need to do is get to the pipe at the end. To do so, you pick up one of the rails that has an SSX Tricky character over it. Try to go as slowly as possible, but make sure you can still keep your balance by tapping "Boost" whenever you are about to fall off and you cannot move to keep your balance. The slower you are, the longer you will be on the rail. The longer you are on the rail, the more points you will get. At the end of the rail should be an "X5" snowflake. Get it and you should have at least 75,000 points. Then, just lose it in the pipe and go into as many score multipliers as possible, doing as many Ubers as possible. Try not to repeat yourself too many times or you will lose out on a lot of points.

Snowdream: Shortcut
When you reach the place where the track splits into two sections with curves, you will see an SSX Tricky sign. Go towards the sign. You will reach a straight path without curves. This will make it easier to pass.

Tokyo Megaplx: Hidden speed boost
Off to the left side at the start of the level (just before the blue and yellow striped barrier) is a small boost spot.

Tokyo Megaplex: Shortcut
Just before you go into the air tube that blasts you up, hit the button that raises the jump in front of the air tube. Go off it and make sure you end up going into the air tube. You will probably be blasted higher than normal. Land on top of the platform with the flashing arrow signs. Grind down the grinding rail there. If you grind all the way, and make it every time, you have to switch to another rail. You will eventually run out of rails to ride and drop off onto one of the pipes that are suspended above the course. By now you should be in first place and very far into the course. If you do this every lap on the course, you will win. Be careful however, as you need lots of speed to follow the rails all the way.

Tokyo Megaplex: Easy points
To get the most points in Tokyo Megaplex in Showoff mode, fill up your "TRICKY" meter on the moguls early in the level. Go into the air tube. You should have enough time to do two of your shortest Uber tricks (some characters can do three, such as Kaori's Body Board). Up the air tube is a huge network of criss-crossing grind rails, only in showoff mode. Grind them until you fall off. Note: There are many gaps in the grind rails. Make sure you know where they are, and do 180s when you jump to the next rail.

In Tokyo, there are rails above the arena. Do not take them in Showoff, as you will not get as many points as you think you should. Instead, take the lower part. You can fill Tricky up faster and get more points. However, when in Tokyo and Racing, it is faster to take the rails; if taken all the way you will remain in first place during the entire race.

Glitch: Aloha Ice Jam: Fast finish
Grind the first rail when you go down in Showoff. Keep grinding but do not turn. You eventually will fall off for not turning. Before falling, jump off. You will fly over a sign, narrowly missing it, then fall over the cliff in front. You will fall for 20 to 35 seconds before returning to the track, at the very end.

Glitch: Tokyo Megaplex: Fast finish
When the level starts and you go through the giant air tunnel for the first time, press [Select] as soon as you leave the tunnel. The game will drop you back down in front of the finish line, and the race will be over.

Glitch: Toyko Megaplex: Endless pit
After you first go up the tubes the lead you to the metal pipes, land and immediately make a sharp right turn so that you are headed towards the tall steel beam. Once you are there, jump off and go through the middle of the steel beam. You should fall on some brown snow in front of an open space in the wall. Jump off here, and you should start falling. You will eventually fall past the finish line, and the game will tell that you have finished. You will keep falling, and never stop. You will have to restart the race. You can do as many tricks as desired, and your score will keep rising.

Glitch: First place status
Do a flip in air when you land (no matter what position you are in). The game will state that you are in first place for a few seconds. This is useful for the last ramp in Garibaldi. Note: This may take a few attempts.

Glitch: Show-off mode: Grind on head
Go to any track in show-off mode, single event or championship, and jump off a ramp towards a rail. Do a frontflip, backflip, misty, rodeo, etc., but fly upside down toward a rail. If done correctly, you should land on a rail with your head and keep grinding.

SSX Tricky Cheats - PlayStation 2