Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped Trophy Guide & Roadmap

First you need a colored gem (there are 5 colors: blue, red, yellow, green, purple). For example, get the yellow gem. This unlocks a new gem path in Level 11: Dino Might!. There’s a yellow platform near the start of the level (before the dinosaur egg) that you can step on. It brings you to an optional area that is inaccessible without the yellow gem and unlocks the trophy.

This is how you obtain the colored gems:

• Blue: Tomb Wader – found on the death route (must get there without losing a life)
• Red: Deep Trouble – hit the “!” exclamation point box at the end of the level. This spawns a dynamite box a little earlier in the level (requires backtracking). Now you can touch the dynamite box to blast away the metal boxes blocking the path. This reveals a secret route. Pick up the red gem at the end of this secret route.
• Green: Flaming Passion – found on death route
• Yellow: Hang’em High – on the main path at the end of Level 27: Hang’ Em High. To access the level you must earn 10 relics by doing speedruns (after beating a level once you can pick up a stopwatch at the start. Get a best time to earn a relic). Once you have 10 relics step on the orange dot in the middle of the central warp room (where you select levels). It leads to a secret 6th warp room in the basement. From here you can start level 27. You’ll walk into the gem at the end of this level, it’s practically in your way and hard to miss.
• Purple: High Time – found on death route

• Level 13: High Time
• Level 20: Tomb Wader
• Level 23: Flaming Passion

To access them you must reach a platform with a skull & bones signal without dying in these levels! If you die the platform goes away. Death Routes are harder than the normal routes. Once you step on the death route platform the trophy pops immediately. You don’t have to complete it.

Road Crash is the 14th level in the game, in Warp Room 3. You’ll be driving a motorcycle in this level. At the start of the level drive slowly and stick to the left side of the road. On the left side there’s a yellow road sign with a black alien head on it. Knock over the sign with your motorcycle to trigger the secret exit.

To reach the secret exit in Dino Might! (Level 11, Warp Room 3) several steps are required.

Step 1: Earn 10 Relics (any value, doesn’t matter if Sapphire, Gold or Platinum). Relics are rewards for beating best times in speedruns. After beating a level for the first time you can pick up a stopwatch at the start of the level and do the speedrun. Getting 10 Relics unlocks Level 27 in the secret warp room. While in the center of the Warp Area (from where you select levels) stand on the orange button in the middle. It will bring you to the basement where level 27 can be started.

Step 2: Play Level 27 “Hang’ Em High” and pick up the Yellow Colored Gem at the end. You’ll walk right into it, would be hard to miss. Complete the level afterwards to make it count.

Step 3: Start Level 11 “Dino Might!” (Warp Room 3). About one minute into the level before the dinosaur egg you can activate the yellow gem path. This is why we needed the yellow gem, because without it you only see the outlines of the platform and cannot activate it.

Step 4: The secret exit is found on this yellow gem path. Keep playing until the big dinosaur chases after you. At the start of the dinosaur chase there are two pterodactyls (flying dinosaurs) sitting on tree trunks. Jump onto the second one to trigger the secret exit — trophy unlocked!

There are a total of 45 Gems in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. For this trophy you only need 42/45, however to get the trophy “Accept No Substitutes” you will need all 45!

The game has two types of Gems:

Colored Gems (5 total)

Obtained by doing certain actions in the following missions:

• Blue: Tomb Wader – found on the death route (must get there without losing a life)
• Red: Deep Trouble – hit the “!” exclamation point box at the end of the level. This spawns a dynamite box a little earlier in the level (requires backtracking). Now you can touch the dynamite box to blast away the metal boxes blocking the path. This reveals a secret route. Pick up the red gem at the end of this secret route.
• Green: Flaming Passion – found on death route
• Yellow: Hang’em High – on the main path at the end of Level 27: Hang’ Em High. To access the level you must earn 10 relics by doing speedruns (after beating a level once you can pick up a stopwatch at the start. Get a best time to earn a relic). Once you have 10 relics step on the orange dot in the middle of the central warp room (where you select levels). It leads to a secret 6th warp room in the basement. From here you can start level 27. You’ll walk into the gem at the end of this level, it’s practically in your way and hard to miss.
• Purple: High Time – found on death route

Clear Gems (37 total)

One clear gem per level is obtained by destroying all boxes. In several levels you need colored gems, they open up new paths to boxes that are otherwise inaccessible!

Some levels contain more than one clear gem. If it has 2 gems that means there’s one from destroying all boxes + one from a death route or gem route. If a mission has only 1 gem it will be from destroying all boxes only.

Death Routes are triggered by special platforms with a skull & bones sign on them. They can only be activated if you haven’t lost a life during the level! Get to the platform without dying and step on it.

Here’s a list of missions that have two clear gems (including the location of their second gem):

• Level 4: Bone Yard (on Red Gem Path)
• Level 9: Tomb Time (on Death Route)
• Level 11: Dino Might! (on Yellow Gem Path)
• Level 16: Sphynxinator (on Blue Gem Path)
• Level 19: Future Frenzy (Go through second level entrance. It’s found in warp room 6, in the basement. Step on orange platform in the central warp room from where you select levels to get to the basement. You must earn 20 relics to unlock this alternate level entrance)
• Level 21: Gone Tomorrow (on Green Gem Path)
• Level 25: Bug Lite (on Multicolored Gem Path, requires all 5 colored gems)
• Level 28: Area 51? (for winning the race)
• Level 30: Rings of Power (for winning the race)

Also keep in mind that the two hidden bonus levels contain gems. See trophy “Giving 102%!”.

It’s important that you get all the colored gems first. Without them you can’t get some of the boxes. Gems are level rewards rather than collectibles. To see how many boxes you’ve destroyed during an active mission press the Triangle-Button.

For the specific locations and requirements see Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped Gem Locations Guide

• Eggipus Rex: see trophy “Getting Carried Away”. At the end of this bonus level there’s a clear gem on the main path. You’ll walk straight into it. So just beat this bonus level and you’ll get it.
• Hot Coco: see trophy “UFO Xing”. Destroy all boxes in the Hot Coco bonus level and you’ll unlock this gem.

There are a total of 30 Relics in the game. Relics are rewards from doing speedruns / time trials. When you finish a mission in record time you earn a relic. There are 3 possible ratings depending on how fast you are: sapphire (slow), gold (good), platinum (best).

Before you attempt this it is highly recommended that you beat all bosses first. The bosses drop various helpful abilities, including double jump, continuous spinning (lets you fly through the air to get over long gaps and fly over rows of enemies unharmed), a bazooka (can trigger the timer from afar to get a headstart), sprint boost (lets you run very fast).
Also keep the slide jump in mind (slide with circle, then press X to jump). The slide jump lets you jump much higher than normal jump. When combined with continuous air spin or double jump it can create some interesting shortcuts. Most important is the sprint ability that you earn from the endboss.

Luckily, you only need all gold relics and not the platinum ones. It’s still going to be the hardest trophy in the game. To beat the required times you must finish the mission as quickly as possible without dying and must get time crates along the way (there are no checkpoints). The time crates will freeze the clock for a few seconds.

Please note that the time trials only unlock after beating a level for the first time. You will then find a stopwatch at the start of the level. Pick it up (or shoot it with bazooka) to start the timer.

Also see List of Target Times for Gold Relics

This trophy can be done in Level 9: Tomb Time (Warp Room 2).

But first you must get the Fruit Bazooka by defeating the Dr. N. Gin boss at the end of Warp Room 4. He will automatically drop the bazooka and it cannot be missed.

Once you have unlocked the bazooka, replay level 9. At the very start of the level you see the a sphynx in front of you. Shoot the side of the sphynx (left or right, when the aim marker turns red). This gives you an extra life and the trophy.

First you need 104% game completion.

To get 104% you need all crystals, all gems and all gold relics (don’t forget about the relics & gems in the two bonus levels, see trophy “Giving 102%!”).
So basically, do all other trophies and you’ll automatically reach 104%.

When you are at 104% defeat the final boss again to unlock a secret game ending. Now a fake Crash Bandicoot will spawn in three levels. For example, he spawns in Level 1: Toad Village. Roughly halfway through the level he can be seen dancing on the right side (outside the map, in front of a house). Shoot him with the Bazooka and the trophy is yours.

Once you have the move, play as Coco and press Square very quickly to do the Hurriance Spin attack. Kill 5 enemies in one level and the trophy will pop. You can farm kills by letting yourself die and spinning into the same enemy each time.

Lives can be found from many boxes. They will drop a crash bandicoot icon that you can pick up for an extra life. These boxes show up in many places throughout the levels so you’ll run into them very frequently. You must have 99 lives at the same time. In the bottom right it says how many lives you have. So basically: keep going for a long time without dying too often.

You also earn a life when 100 apples have been collected. Destroy all boxes you come across and pick up the apples.

It’s possible to farm lives by repeating the same level over and over again and collecting all apples & extra lives in it. A great place to farm is Level 3: Orient Express. You can get 5 lives per playthrough and it only takes 1 minute (pressing R2 makes you go faster). To make the lives respawn finish the level, create a manual save game (press L2 and Square to save), then press X to reload the manual save immediately. Now replay the level and repeat the manual save & reload trick.

First you need the Fruit Bazooka. It is unlocked by defeating Dr. N. Gin in Warp Room 4 (he’s the 4th boss). He drops it automatically, it cannot be missed.

Once you have the bazooka, replay Level 1: Toad Village.

At the very start of the level there’s a white chicken. Shoot it with the bazooka. Let the nearby goat kill you to respawn the chicken. Kill the chicken again and let the goat kill you. Repeat this procedure to farm 5 kills on the same chicken.
Other enemies don’t count for it. You must shoot the chicken.

The earliest opportunity for this is in Level 9: Tomb Time.
Early in the level you’ll come to 4 jars with a monkey sticking his head out and throwing balls at you.

Evade everything he’s throwing at you. After 1 minute he’ll stop throwing. Now destroy the 4 jars and you’ll see the ghost of the monkey flying away. This unlocks the trophy.
Do not destroy the jars before the monkey stops throwing at you.