Crash Bandicoot - The Wrath of Cortex - Platform: Gamecube Alternate ending sequence: -------------------------- Collect all 46 gems. Avalanche: Getting all the boxes: --------------------------------- While riding the snowboard and the avalanche is chasing you, do not try to get the boxes. The alvalanche destroys them for you. Just keep boarding. Arctic Antics: Extra lives: --------------------------- After you have defeated the Boss in level 4 and earned the bazooka, return to level 1, Arctic Antics. Shoot the three woolly mammoths to get extra lives. Once you defeat the second Boss and have the "Double Jump", jump on the heads of the woolly mammoths (you do not have to wait for the bazooka). You will get an extra life for each woolly mammoth you jump on. Note: For the one at the end, you can get up the glaciers if you keep trying. Go to the bonus platform and go through the bonus level. When you get back, jump to the right. You should hit a woolly mammoth and get one extra life if you jumped on it. You have to jump back quickly because the woolly mammoth vanishes. Bamboozled: Shortcut: --------------------- Start a time trial on the Bamboozled level. When you get to the parts where the track twists like a slide, turn right sharply and land on the tracks below .If done correctly, you can take six to ten seconds off your time. Bonzat Bonsat: Super belly flop power: -------------------------------------- After acquiring the Red Gem, go to the Bonzat Bonsat level. Jump onto the Red Gem, then make your way to the end to find a gem and the super belly flop power. Crash And Burn: Red Gem ----------------------- Do not try to jump the big gap. The warp zone at the end is an illusion, and you cannot get there. Instead, use the bazooka and shoot it. Do not worry if you die, because you will retain the gem. When going for the Red Gem, you actually can jump the big gap. It is a long distance, but it can be done by double jumping and doing a good Death Tornado Spin. Crunch Time: Safe locations --------------------------- When Crunch releases the elementals, sometimes there are safe locations you can use. When he releases Wa Wa, stay at the bottom of the screen. The water balls cannot get you there. When Crunch releases Lo-Lo, stay on the metal part where the lasers are at the top to avoid getting hit. Crunch Time: Fire Elemental Pyro -------------------------------- When Crunch releases the fire elemental Pyrom hop onto the pipe behind you to avoid getting burned. You can do this by jumping to another platform, but its much easier to use the tactic that avoids the steam coming out of the grounds H2 Oh No: Bonus area -------------------- There is a chain of Nitro Boxes surrounded by TNT Boxes in the bonus area of this level. Do not worry about detonating the TNT on the left. Instead "sneak shoe" across the Nitro Boxes, and on the right side, get ready to jump up and collect the top Box. Get out of the way after detonating the TNT Box. If done correctly, you will cause a chain reaction that destroys all the boxes in the chain. Wizards And Lizards: Green Gem ------------------------------ Find the green outlined platform. Jump down the hole and you will not die. Sea Shell Shenanigans: Box warning ---------------------------------- In the level, you will see a lot of boxes hidden by plants. Before you smash them, make sure that they are not TNT crates. Defeating Crunch Time --------------------- Every time freezeballs, beams, or fire comes out, jump over the fence into the inside platform. They cannot touch you there, but fireballs will land everywhere -- just watch for their shadows. There is a series of elements you have to avoid. Then shoot Crunch with the bazooka and spin Cortex. The series is: fireballs, shoot Crunch, spin Cortex, freezeballs, fireballs, shoot Crunch, spin Cortex, fire, fireballs, freezeballs, fire, shoot Crunch, spin Cortex, beams, fireballs, fire, beams, freezballs, fireballs, beams, shoot Crunch, spin Cortex. If you win, you will unlock five secret levels for which you must collect a certain amount of relics in order to open the doors. Defeating Lo-Lo --------------- Watch where the mask floats and shoot there. Defeating Py-Ro --------------- Go near Crunch to hurt him. Defeating: Ro-Ko ---------------- Roll around the side of the area without going in the center. Every rock will come near you, and Crunch will mostly miss you. When fighting Ro-Ko, aim for the N on Crush's back. Do this three times. Defeating Wa Wa --------------- When you are facing Wa Wa, crunch will shoot things at you. He will fire blue beams that you should jump over. When he fires green things, duck. Hop from one panel to another. When you reach Crunch quickly spin. Watch out -- the panels will sink. Try to get a head start on each run. Once Crunch jumps back at the beginning, run. When you spin him the next two times, do not stop running. Gem locations ------------- To get the following Gems, jump onto the Skull And Crossbones and find your way to the end. Red Gem: Crash And Burn. Green Gem: Wizards And Lizards Blue Gem: Arctic Antics Yellow Gem: Gold Rush Purple Gem: The Gauntlet Earning gems ------------ In any level, to earn a gem get all of the boxes. This also boosts your lives and apples. Easy Gems, Relics, and Crystals ------------------------------- Do not collect everything at once in a level so you can get 100% game completion faster. Instead, use the following little trick to get all powers from the guardians. This is the order you should do it. First, do not get all Boxes and avoid Bonus Platforms to get 25 Crystals to defeat the Masks. Then, if you have defeated Cortex, return for the Gems and collect them before Uka Uka and Cortex. Next, this is the hardest challenge. Use all your effort and special powers and be as a quick as possible. Make sure you use the Freeze Timer Boxes to avoid getting a longer time in time trial mode. Remember all of them in each section of the warp room. You will get a secret warp room and extra levels to find the hidden treasures. Avoid losing lives ------------------ When you die, quickly pause game play before the screen turns black then select "Warp Room". You will return to the warp room without losing any lives. How to beat Crush the second time: ---------------------------------- Submitted by: 1ofakind On the first round Crush will throw lines of water. Jump to dodge these. The second round he will through a line of water, than a line of energy from above. Jump than duck etc to dodge these. The third round he will through a line of water, then a line of energy, than he will do a wave of bubbles. Jump, duck, jump etc to dodge these. (Jump to dodge the bubble wave when it comes to you). The fourth and last round, he will do the line of water, then the bubble wave, than the line of energy. Jump, jump, and then duck etc to dodge this wave. I hope this helps. 1ofakind