Trophy Guide – Super Stardust HD
Hero of Lave (Bronze): Arcade – Complete planet Lave
- Build up your Rock Crusher (Green) by collecting the green colored tokens. This planet is all Rock Asteroids, so the Rock Crusher will take care of any asteroids and enemies that may pose a threat. Conserve your bombs and boost unless you get surrounded, then there’s no reason not to use one of the two escape options. To defeat the boss simply destroy its 4 propulsion systems.
Hero of Conventina (Bronze): Arcade – Complete planet Coventina
- Your main weapon here will be the Gold Melter (Red), so try to wait until the weapon powerups change Red before picking them up. You’ll encounter mostly Gold Asteroids here but on the last couple phases you’ll start to see a few Rock Asteroids fall in. The Boss is a robotic snake like creature that shoots from its body. Aim your weapon at the red piece in the center of its body. When it stops shooting run around to the other side of it and try to clear any asteroids in front of it then get in close and keep attacking. It’ll squeeze around you but you’ll still have plenty or room to maneuver. It’ll shoot some lasers while you’re in there but these are easy to avoid and do not kill you in a single shot.
Hero of Memain (Bronze): Arcade – Complete planet Nemain
- You main weapon here will be the Ice Splitter (Blue), so you know the drill. Most asteroids and enemies here can be taken down easily with the Ice Splitter, switch to whatever you need if any other types drop down or if an enemy is being hard to hit. Your boss fight here is two UFOs like the one you fought in Lave.
Hero of Taranis (Bronze): Arcade -Complete planet Taranis
- By this point you should know the drill and what weapons to use. Your boss fight will be two snake creatures like the one you fought in Conventina.
Hero of Segomo (Bronze): Arcade – Complete planet Segomo
- This is where it can get fun. You’ll now start to encounter a lot more enemies along with the asteroids, but nothing you shouldn’t be able to handle. Just to remember to keep moving and use the 360 fire spin to keep most things at bay if it gets crowded. The final phase here will pit you against the planet, sort of. You’ll see a tower of sorts drop down, attack the four sides of it (it rotates on its own) to damage them enough and they will point toward the planet. A bomb works wonders on these and will take all four pieces at once. If you don’t take the tower down quickly it will shoot missiles at you like the ones the snake did. Rinse and repeat with the tower.
The Tokenizer (Bronze): Arcade – Collect 5 tokens with a single boost
- Find a group of tokens that are together and boost your way through them. You’ll need a total of 5 in all. Bonus Asteroids help greatly with this.
Scrooge MacBoom (Bronze): Arcade – Get 10 bombs
- Just hold onto your bombs and you’ll get this one. You can get two additional bombs on the 2nd-4th phases of each planet by destroying the green crates the carrier holds.
Token Hoarder (Silver): Arcade – Collect 15 tokens with a single boost
- It is essential to do this to a Bonus Asteroid. Boost through the center of the asteroid and you should be able to get it, if not then try to get a couple tokens to trail you then boost through them and the asteroid.
Well Prepared (Silver): Arcade – Get 20 bombs
- Just keep your trigger finger off those bombs. If you don’t use any bombs and start from the beginning you should get this in 3-4 if you picked up every bomb available.
Shield Blaster (Silver): Arcade – Collect 5 shield tokens while already having a shield
- This one comes to a bit of luck and skill. You’ll first have to find a purple token which will give you a shield, then you have to avoid getting hit long enough to find another 5 shields. When you pick up a second shield it’ll act like a bomb destroying just about everything near you. If you encounter a yellow token for a ship you can let it degrade into a shield after ~10-15 seconds. If you lose your shield all is not lost, if you had set off two shield bombs you’ll start at two when you pick up another shield.
Scenic Route (Silver): Arcade – Complete a planet without using boost
- Simple, don’t use boost on a whole planet. Lave is the simplest to do so on.
Multiplier Hero (Gold): Arcade – Get 10x multiplyer
- This is a bit of an endurance challenge. Destroy everything. Enemies and asteroids count toward the multiplier, so no matter how small that asteroid is take it out. The higher the multiplier the longer it will take to get to the next multiplier. Try to get a shield if you can to keep from loosing your multiplier if you get hit. Use bombs and boost freely.
–Requires Solo Pack–
Extra Ships Optional (Bronze): Endless – Survive 7 minutes without dying
- Take it nice and easy. Take your time destroying things and avoid using the Nukes unless the planet is getting filled.
Close Encounters (Bronze): Survive 45 seconds without shooting or using bombs
- Evade, evade, evade! There’s not a while lot of tips I can give you here as its all about maneuvering. Picking up the Time tokens doesn’t count toward your 45 seconds so don’t risk it. You should be able to boost but there are conflicting reports about this. I personally ended a run with a boost and then destroyed at 45.65 seconds and did not get this, so its possible you actually need 46 seconds or not use boost.
Late Boomer (Silver): Bomber – Get 15 bombs
- “This is the hardest Trophy in the game. The point of this Trophy is not to collect 15 bombs, but to have 15 bombs total. There are many reasons why this is so difficult. Firstly, you must be frugal with your bombs. You can ONLY use them to get more bombs. You spend one bomb to earn two, which means you cannot use your bombs on enemies. The general strategy will be to trail bomb ships when you see them, and only explode them when you absolutely must. DO NOT use bombs against enemies and rocks. You will simply have to dodge them. You’ll want to follow bomb ships for as long as possible, because if you’re lucky, you’ll be fortunate enough to have another one spawn next to it. If you can destroy two ships with one bomb, you’ll be making this much easier on yourself. Just like in Close Encounters, you’ll want to make very small, deliberate movements.” – PS3Fanboy
Shock and Awe (Silver): Endless – Destroy 10 nukes
- It is vital to take out the Nukes as soon as they drop, and the easiest way to do this is either to boost through it (most preferred) or to use a bomb in it’s vicinity. The more time you spend the quicker the asteroids/enemies will become, so you really want to destroy as much as possible as fast as possible. I would suggest conserving your bombs if you can as you’ll definitely need them later. The first few nukes are pretty easy, but if you see a bunch of asteroids getting ready to land on top of you quickly boost away to prevent being destroyed. On the later levels you’ll be bombarded by relentless amounts of asteroids that’s impossible to keep up with destroying, this is when you should boost then bomb and then do a 360 flame wheel. Bomb again if you need to then boost again when you can. Boosting will destroy a few asteroids but the bombing will take out quite a few. As soon as you see the nuke make a dash for it. It’s likely you’ll have to repeat this process for at least 2 levels.
–Requires Team Pack–
Brothers In Arms (Gold): Split screen Co-Op – Segomo – Get 3 minutes of Continuous Co-Op weapon boost
This has to be the easiest one there is. Just sit near a friend on Segome for 3 straight minutes. You can actually accomplish this yourself if you have an extra controller and can handle moving two ships at once. Just overlap your ships and move them in conjunction avoiding the four large Ice Asteroids that appear in the 1st phase. You’ll know you’re getting the boost because you’ll se a line connecting your ships and your rate of fire will be increased significantly. Yes it really is that simple.
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July 4th, 2008 at 7:13 PM
no team add on yet =( i heard it was taken down
July 4th, 2008 at 7:54 PM
I’m making Trophy Walkthrough videos. The playlist can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4972ACF1CC74DFBA
It includes:
Hero of Nemain
Hero of Taranis
Hero of Segomo
Token Hoarder
Multiplier Hero
I will add more in the forseable future:p New videos will arrive there on sunday at the latest.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:17 PM
I just can’t do the Token Hoarder… I hit in the center of the bonus asteroid and all the green rocks explode but nothing…. and the last two yeah I can’t do it either.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:30 PM
I just managed to get the ‘Shock and Awe’ Trophy, so expect the thread to be updated later today with a bit of info there. I keep getting close on ‘Late Boomer’ and have a new strategy that working out some, but I still think I could be a while on that one.
Thanks you the post Sev, just happy to be of some help.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:33 PM
We appreciate it Phoenix, Keep up the good work!
PM me when you update the thread and I will update the article to reflect it.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Where do you get the Team Pack add on?
July 4th, 2008 at 9:10 PM
The Team Pack was breafly available through the in-game store, however it has been removed and is not available at this time.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:29 PM
Just bought the game but stuck at version 3.0 with no trophy support. If I buy the in game $4.99 add on will that upgrade it to 4.0?
Kinda feel like a waste of money just to see what trophies are like though =/
No online co-op sux…
July 4th, 2008 at 9:46 PM
If you haven’t updated your PS3 FW to 2.40 (which is no longer available ATM until a fix is found for its small issues) you won’t be able to update to 4.0. If you have updated to 2.40 they may have taken the 4.0 update down as to not let it interfere with the previous firmwares.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:57 PM
@SomeonePR: For the Toaken Horder, you have to hit it dead center. One thing to make this a lot easier is to wait till the bonusasteroid is close to huge rocks, and then boost through the bonus asteroid and the rock in the same boost. Look at how I did it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsVafk2jgEs&feature=PlayList&p=4972ACF1CC74DFBA&index=3
July 4th, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Anyone get all the trophies yet or has anyone reached a gamer level 2? The most I have seen is 11 trophies that one of my PSN friends has
July 4th, 2008 at 11:47 PM
I’ve gotten 16 thus far and made it to level 2. Still working on Late Boomer to finally get the Platinum.
July 5th, 2008 at 12:13 AM
I have 13 and level 2 now.
Still haven’t gotten Shock and Awe, Late Boomer, Extra Ships optional or brothers in arms (no Multi pack)
July 5th, 2008 at 12:25 AM
There is no Platinum in smallscale games.
July 5th, 2008 at 2:21 AM
@Pesico
Thats what I thought too, but apparently there is a Platinum trophy out there for SSHD.
July 5th, 2008 at 3:14 AM
@phoenix
pesico is right, there is no platinum in the smaller psn games, including sshd. my psn friend er777 has all 17 trophies and no platinum
July 5th, 2008 at 5:41 AM
Just knocked out Extra Ships optional, Was nowhere near getting Shock and Awe in that run though. I think I only had 4 nukes after all was said and done.
July 5th, 2008 at 5:48 AM
I don’t mean to troll but I just watched some video of the 360 Dashboard and all the community features the system has and it made me sick to my stomach.
I love that Sony is getting “some” Live-like features but they need to step it up and really dig into what MS is doing and just bite as hard as they can. There’s no shame in keeping up with the competition and copying the best they have.
It’s just sad how well the XBL is set up when you compare the community features of the PS3.
Like a distant uncle the gift of in-game XMB and trophies will have to hold us over for another 6 to 9 months until we’ll see game invites, cross game chat and the ability to see the friends list of a friend.
As for SSHD, I only have about 6 trophies so far.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:19 AM
“I don’t mean to troll but I just watched some video of the 360 Dashboard and all the community features the system has and it made me sick to my stomach.”
I have both consoles and I would never say the dashboard on 360 is that feature packed, you can’t even video chat while in game (coming to the ps3 though). They are adding 4 way video chat w/in the dash but the PS3 already supports 6 way video chat. Personally I have had more issues with live (primarily downtime which I encountered at least 4~5 days of this year alone). The only real benefit is cross talk and cross game invites, but if you are playing one game, for example Vegas 2, and your buddy invites you to a match of Cod4 you have to switch discs and get into the game which takes some time. I really don’t see what is so spectacular with Live, (I fortunately got 13 months of Live for $35) but all the ads really piss me off, especially when I pay for premium service (ahem, Qore take notice). Still the only great thing about live is the in-game messaging, Live servers seem to be laggy (during peak time) relative to PSN versions of the same game. Sure it’s nice when MS gives away free games to compensate for downtime, but give us something cooler than Undertow or a $15 credit to a credit card (you can’t charge $15 on a credit card on live only $6.50, 12.50, 22.50, 50, lame). Can some one explain why MS point cards at retail are $20 but you can’t buy $20 worth of points through the 360’s live interface.
Like I said I own both consoles and really don’t see what the whole Live argument is about in the first place. Just imagine if Sony used it’s hardware know how (Sony is a hardware company first) and Microsoft used their software know how (they are software oriented first) that would be one killer system. Of coarse the 360 has/had a better UI they make OS first and foremost and Sony makes hardware first and foremost.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:23 AM
Do we have some “trophy whores” in the building?
My buddy is an “achievement whore” he always says that he should be able to get free stuff from the Live market place with his gamer points. I always point at him and laugh and comment, you ever think Microsoft is going to give you something for free, I think not.
July 5th, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Im a trophy bitch myself, trophys own my ass
July 5th, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Who cares about Stardust HD, what about Battlefield BC, or COD4, or GTA IV… no Ranking till now, no update patches…. trophies are useless…
I actually trusted ps3 people. but they disappoint me :S
the only thing that works in FW2,40 is the messaging while playing games… other features are accessed even sound settings by quitting the game.
July 5th, 2008 at 5:06 PM
@psycho
cod4 will not be getting trophies
July 5th, 2008 at 7:37 PM
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July 5th, 2008 at 9:43 PM
I have proof that you can boost to get this trophy. It’s the time tokens that is the reason for the misunderstandings about this trophy.
Just look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO2bezKszf0
July 6th, 2008 at 4:48 AM
@DevonTheDude:
From the outside looking in the 360 community features just look better. From a performance standpoint, if Live suffers from slowdown or downtime then the bigger question is if the features the 360 has over the PSN are worth the downtime and the $50 annual fee?
To be honest, the biggest thing really grinding my gears is the notification pop-up for the PS3. It plain sucks!!! It’s big, gray, uninspiring and the profile card sucks too as it relates to design.
I’m a minimalist so the “less is more” position that the XMB takes is perfect for me but it’s just a little too plain.
Here’s hoping that PSN remains free but that they improve the look of things. Especially if this supposed new UI is coming to the 360. The XMB could look dated by comparison depending on how it turns out.
Guess we’ll all find out together.
July 6th, 2008 at 7:32 AM
@incredibilistic
That’s very true… I love the ingame xmb but why to look almost the same as the PSP? the xmb is cool and all but needs more
July 6th, 2008 at 8:46 AM
@Everyone who doesn’t like the XMB.
its proffesional to the extreme. unlike the x360 that clutters and poses alot as all microsoft products that has glitches that will never be fixed.
PS3 XMB is proffesional, but needs more functions in the in-game XMB. i.e voice messages, voice chat, the ability to setup the system without quiting the game, as the audio & internet connection.
kind regards to all ps3 fans.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Finally got the late boomer trophy. But no Platinum trophy to show for it.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:07 PM
i got alll but one trophy….the brothers in arm one….they say thats the easiest one….but me and my buddy killed every thing in the map except one last thing and sat as fas as possible from it and shot for about 5 min and didnt get the last trophy can ne body give me advice thanks
July 9th, 2008 at 3:38 AM
Hey this is for the trophy’s not for dashboard comparisons. When is the shock and awe tips coming as I can’t seem to get that one. For people trying to get 15 bombs goto youtube I watched the video started my thing the same way he did and got 14 trophies almost 5 times in a row and finally made it to 15.
otherwise thanks for the tips.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Shock and Awe and Late Boomer tips are now available in the original thread.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:04 AM
So – no platinum?? I finally finished all these sshd trophies expecting the platinum and nothing has happened. Bug or “as designed”?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:06 AM
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August 26th, 2008 at 12:13 PM
the 10 multiplier was a b!tch, had 9 so many times…. uncharted has a platinum trophy on of my players methas 62 on level 4 and uncharted at 100%
October 20th, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Ok… my trophies stopped working. I have the first two level trophies, and a couple others, but now I have beaten all of the planets and none of the other three trophies have unlocked… and I can’t get any of the other ones…. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!
March 9th, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Only problem with SSHD trophies is you have to smoke a pound of speed to get all of them , note I don’t have all of them or the money for a pound of speed
May 1st, 2009 at 8:39 PM
I got PSP version and I like it.