PS3 trophies now in Super Stardust HD

By Robert Purchese Published 2 July, 2008

Uncharted, Burnout Paradise to join in.

Super Stardust HD has been updated to support the fancy trophy system for PlayStation 3.

The game patch, weighing in at 255 MB, adds 17 trophies for you to collect. Bronze rewards are handed out for things such as completing campaigns, silver accolades awarded for achievements like collecting varying amounts of tokens, and gold cups given out for attaining the 10x score multiplier or surviving in co-op. PS3 Fanboy has a full list.

Burnout Paradise developer Criterion has also publicly offered its support of the trophy system, assuring us it will be added to its smashing racer "soon", although not in the "Cagney" update due on 10th July.

PlayStation Network boss Eric Lempel recently unveiled excellent action adventure outing Uncharted: Drake's Fortune as another that will hop on the trophy bandwagon at "some point in the foreseeable future", too.

Trophy and in-game XMB support go live in the 2.4 firmware update for PlayStation 3 today.

Developers are under no mandatory obligation to add trophies to their games, but those promised to feature them so far are Buzz! Quiz TV (out this Friday, 4th July), LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm Pacific Rift, NBA 09, PAIN, PixelJunk Eden, Resistance 2, SOCOM: Confrontation and Warhawk.

Firmware 2.4 will also up the friends list limit to 100 people and add a "mini-control panel that you can use while playing music" and a Google search option similar to the one recently added to PSP.

Sony attempted to sit down and answer some of your questions about the 2.4 update yesterday.

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Comments (49) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • oreillymj #1 4 years ago

    \o/ First.


    Got 2.4 & Stardust patch this morning, but still have no trophies. The game makes no mention of what's required to get each trophy, but I have since read the list online.

    Can't wait for wireless Buzz action this weekend.
    Edited by 1 at 02/07/08 @ 10:42

  • monkie_king #2 4 years ago

    Isn't there a way to see the list of trophies in the XMB, and descriptions of the ones you've yet to win? Otherwise how are you supposed to know what you're trying to do?

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #3 4 years ago

    To See how to obtain trophys its easy

    You just press the PS button then go to the Trophys menu and it will list all your trophy enabled games if you go into a game on that list it will list all the trophys there are available

    I currently have 1 Bronze one -^_^
    Edited by 1 at 02/07/08 @ 10:49

  • andijames #4 4 years ago

    @Nick_JC1

    Well done! Is your launch machine still going or are you on your second or third by now?

  • KayJay #5 4 years ago

    Well done Nick_JC1. Good for you. I wasn't.

    Looking forward to a 2nd play through of Uncharted. I thought that had a pretty good built in Reward System anyway with all the trinkets you could collect and unlocking of Behind the scenes videos. This should add a little more to the game though.

    EDIT: I snooze I lose... :-)
    Edited by 1 at 02/07/08 @ 10:56

  • Phily50 #6 4 years ago

    wasn't the friends list upped to 100 already?

  • KayJay #7 4 years ago

    Apparently it was, yes.
    I haven't got that many friends so I wouldn't know :-(

    /wanders of

  • Steroyd #8 4 years ago

    Uncharted better be retroactive, so i don't have to do a thing. :p

    Speaking of which even though I DID get 100% there were still some things that were locked... I better check gamefaqs or something about that.

  • Phily50 #9 4 years ago

    "I haven't got that many friends so I wouldn't know :-( "


    aaahhhhhhhh, i'll be your friend :D

    Also anyone noticed the store's quicker and theres a new list mode....makes looking at the store alot easier.

  • seasidebaz #10 4 years ago

    I was getting these trophies in 2005 on my Xbox 360

    No you weren't. You were getting gamerscore. Idiot.

  • CannonAnBall #11 4 years ago

    2005 on my Xbox 360

    ..never gets old does it?

    I like the way that it's laid out, the leveling up system is good I think.

    I've got one silver and a few bronze so far. Trying to last 45 seconds without boost or weapons in survival was a total stress. At 20 seconds hell is unleashed big time. I kept hitting 40 seconds and pushed 43 for a while but finally got to 47 secs.

  • SeesThroughAll #12 4 years ago

    Prepare for trophies to become the "Best thing ever" amongs Sony fans who previously said they were pointless/crap. The funnies thing about this whole thing is that all you've gotten is a stunted version of what MS have been providing for nearly 2 years now.

    Gonna be funny.


    PENIS ENVY

  • Phily50 #13 4 years ago

    "Prepare for trophies to become the "Best thing ever" amongs Sony fans who previously said they were pointless/crap. The funnies thing about this whole thing is that all you've gotten is a stunted version of what MS have been providing for nearly 2 years now.

    Gonna be funny. "

    What's funny is your poor attempt at trolling and your grammer in that post, despite the fact you actually went back and edited it.

  • CannonAnBall #14 4 years ago

    Welcome to the thread 360 owners!

    Jog on, hey!

  • oreillymj #15 4 years ago

    What sound does trophy unlocked make?

  • BadBoyBonner #16 4 years ago

    Surprised it has taken Sony over 3 years to copy what MS had been telling everyone they were going to do.

    It's a great little extra - and with the addition of in game XMB also ala 360 - makes me much more likely to purchase a PS3 - well done Sony for seeing sense and giving gamers what they want.

  • CannonAnBall #17 4 years ago

    I've not heard any sound on SSHD for the trophies!

  • Dizzy #18 4 years ago

    "What's funny is your poor attempt at trolling and your grammer in that post, despite the fact you actually went back and edited it. "

    Grammer?

    Ultimate sarcasm?????

  • Prodigy_BE #19 4 years ago

    Super Stardust HD trophies at 30% now.

    And by the way, that Retro sound option is bloody brilliant, init!

    SSHD, one of my all time fave's. Like it more that Bad Company and a ton of other "pretty good but not as good as it should be" releases.

  • SeesThroughAll #20 4 years ago

    No sound! No sound!

    ZOMG! TEH LIES!

    SONY LIED TO US AGAIN!! BURN THEM!!!!1!

  • seasidebaz #21 4 years ago

    Shame Resistance isn't getting a patch. Then we'd get a trophy for teabagging ;)

    I still find it funny how the Xbots keep saying it's the same. No it isn't. Trophies only come in 4 different denominations, Gamerscore much more. And Trophies have a persistent RPG-style levelling system. It may make achievements more fairly laid out, too, instead of getting lots of little 5-pointers for doing massive things (Forza2, anyone?)

    Both systems are good, and different. I for one am looking forward to trophywhoring.

  • Dizzy #22 4 years ago

    "No sound! No sound!

    ZOMG! TEH LIES!

    SONY LIED TO US AGAIN!! BURN THEM!!!!1! "

    They just couldn't fit it in memory.

  • SeesThroughAll #23 4 years ago

    @seasidebaz:

    Well I'm gonna find it even funnier when MS makes the official announcement of avatars in E3 and XBots begin wanking in anticipation, nevermind what's been said about Home ;)

  • muscleblade #24 4 years ago

    This was about time. Still its better later than never of course. Sounds cool with the leveling system and all.

  • Phily50 #25 4 years ago

    "Ultimate sarcasm?????"

    Stealth sarcasm! :D

  • Dizzy #26 4 years ago

    "when MS makes the official announcement of avatars in E3"

    Most reports suggest this has nothing to do with Home and will be more like Miis.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #27 4 years ago

    Miis are fecking useless why would they copy that system theres less than a handfull of games Miis are used in and theres absolutley no community system with them why would microsoft want that
    Edited by 1 at 02/07/08 @ 11:50

  • Beano #28 4 years ago

    The rumored GamerPad 3D world does sound like Home but with cartoonish Mii-avatars instead.

  • Darren #29 4 years ago

    The Cagney update for Burnout Paradise on the PS3 also adds Custom Soundtrack support as well as new Challenges and trophies.

  • CannonAnBall #30 4 years ago

    Wonder if M$ will have their own version of that Mii Parade bollocks?

  • Dizzy #31 4 years ago

    >Miis are fecking useless why would they copy that system

    I guess it is just a logical evolution from gamer pictures (or custom forum pictures like all the WoW character stats). people like to personalize their looks on their GTs. You will be able to buy costumes as well ofc.

    MS will probably include 360 SDK support for including these in your game. But yeah... the use is limited since you really cannot integrate this without breaking the "immersion" of games ;) I guess it will be limited to GT displays on web and on Live. It is a small effort to develop this for MS and it will probably be very popular.

    BTW Gamerpad 3D is also not Home.... it is more like housing in MMORPGs. No big MMO-like world (like Home)... just a "house" only that your friends can visit. No real use IMHO... but if people want it I have no probs with it.
    Edited by 3 at 02/07/08 @ 12:01

  • Steroyd #32 4 years ago

    "Prepare for trophies to become the "Best thing ever" amongs Sony fans who previously said they were pointless/crap. The funnies thing about this whole thing is that all you've gotten is a stunted version of what MS have been providing for nearly 2 years now.

    Well a certain trophy in SSHD is pissing me off because it's disrupting my concentration, half of me wants to beat my high score the other half wants to survive for 7 minutes. >:(

    I've never had beef with achievements, they've been prevelant in PS3 games, like Uncharted, Ratchet and Clank, Resistance and MGS4 (which I recently got the Big boss emblem), it's the overall gamerscore across the board (do any Xbox 360 achievements even award you with in-game stuff?) That makes me not understand the achievement whore culture of people playing games for the achievements rather than having fun with the game.

    For example someone won't even attempt the Big Boss emblem in MGS4 because it doesn't have a trophy attached to it, the unlockables you get for getting said emblem isn't motivation enough...wtf!?

  • Gaol #33 4 years ago

    Seesthroughall has set up a trphy whores group:

    http://ga mers.eurogamer.net/groups.php?g...

  • Loser #34 4 years ago

    @ GamesProgrammer

    There are a couple of keys to the right of your "M" key you might want to get acquainted with.

  • CARL05 #35 4 years ago

    I find it funny how all the Playstation fanboys are excited about the trophy system even though they have been saying how crap the gamerscore feature is on 360 for the past 2 years!

    The gamerscore system is much better than trophys and ranks imo - especially since it doesn't support every game, it doesn't make much sense!

  • Darren #36 4 years ago

    @CARL05 - So you've spoken to all 12 million PS3 owners have you? :p

  • Beano #37 4 years ago

    I find it funny how ALL the Xbox fanboys generalize about PS3 owners and their opinions reg. features!

    :)

  • Steroyd #38 4 years ago

    Because i'm a RPG nut i will have the natural urge to GET TO LEVEL 99.

    And eventually trophy's will be mandatory with all games, just teething problems because it wasn't introduced at the start.

  • Rash' #39 4 years ago

    Just been playing Stardust to see what all the fuss is about with the trophies and it hit me how technically amazing the game is. I remember reading some where that this game pushes The Cell like no other game on PS3.

  • Darren #40 4 years ago

    Regardless of its technical merits, Super Stardust HD is a bloody good, bloody addictive game, possibly the best sub-£10 downloaded game I've played on either PSN or XBLA. Not even Geometry Wars Evolved comes close, and certainly not visually or aurally either; in comparison the 360 game looks like a C64 download! LOL

  • Prodigy_BE #41 4 years ago

    @Rash'

    Not too sure about the "pushing the Cell" remark, but it is one of the best games ever. And one of the best games on PS3.
    I've played COD4 for more than 100 hours, but time-wise, SSHD takes second place with ease.

    For a downloadable game, that quite an achievement... euh... Trophy :D

  • spookyzombie #42 4 years ago

    No real surprise to see them patch up SSHD seeing as you have to pay to download it.

  • Steroyd #43 4 years ago

    I can see reward-less achievements being beneficial to "small" games like SSHD, the game is addictive on it's own merits and I've just spent alot of time getting the survive 7 minutes and nuke 10 times on endless mode.

    Don't think i'll try the easier ones on arcade though, Arcade mode seems...too slow compared to what is in the solo pack and to what i'm used to. :(

    Damn my s***ty cousin, i wanted to get the Co-op achievement lol.
    Edited by 1 at 02/07/08 @ 16:36

  • statusjones #44 4 years ago

    a 255MB patch just to add trophies? that's ridiculous!

  • CARL05 #45 4 years ago

    ok Darren and Beano, you aren't included!
    But no-one else has spoken out about how much they don't like the idea of having the "idiotic" achievements like the 360!

    oh well, Sony knows they can't win the console war so they try to make their console like a 360 with a bit of Wii included :)

    /Waits for more angry Sony fanboys
    Edited by 2 at 02/07/08 @ 17:00

  • Rash' #46 4 years ago

    Prodigy_BE. I think the article was discussing it with refernce to the new single player modes which frankly have an abundance of activity going on the screen.

  • Landmaster #47 4 years ago

    I love how all the games i have won't let me listen to my music from the XMB - Great job Sony!

  • ParanoidZombie #48 4 years ago

    steroyd wrote: do any Xbox 360 achievements even award you with in-game stuff?

    Yes: sometimes they award free gamerpics (lots of arcade games, and big games like gaiden or gears do), sometimes in-game stuff like the hayabusa armor in halo3, weapons in mass effect, or extra costumes in dead rising. it's up to the developpers, I guess...

  • belziah #49 4 years ago

    Landmaster

    +1