200 Cards route for the Crash Runner

# Preliminaries

- To fully complete the game, you will need all 25 crystals, 25 gems, complete all the weightlift minigames, beat all bosses, and have all 200 cards on your save file. Anyway, all of the 25 main levels feature a crystal, some feature a gem. The remaining gems are to be obtained in the *Bonus* minigames (platforms with a yellow ? on them). Thus whenever this guide speaks about doing a level it is always implied to obtain the crystal as well as the gem, assuming the level in question features a gem.

- Because the shops in Crash Fusion are way more packed than in the Spyro game, it's advisable to use the spreadsheet ([click here](https://www.speedrun.com/crashfusion/thread/24xiq)) to keep track of what cards you already got. Note that you can ignore all Spyro cards in this sheet because your co-op partner will get those. Depending on what RNG your partner gets there might be one exception to this, but this is written up in more detail below.

- At the start the game gives you 8 cards, 4 of them being the first 4 red crash cards. The other 4 can be any blue and green crash cards, and we can manipulate which ones to get before starting the run. The current manip strat is to do the following before starting the run: 1. Empty all your save slots & restart the console. 2. Enter any save. 3. Exit the save & delete it. 4. Start another save. This should always give you the cards “Mystery crate” (obtained usually in Arctic Cliffs mystery shop or Dragon Castles crate shuffle shop) as well as “Steel crate”, “Freeze crate”, and “Crash crate” (all cards from the Tech Park spinning wheel shop). For more info on this refer to the section "Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto’s Rampage" > "Starting cards" in the [Sprash GBA knowledge base](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cxWRRJaXxzIIRltD109Q9QZt6wJ4uo8B5OXx-HhCqsA).

- For the world routes, unless specified further one gets from point A to B on the direct path (e.g., by just going right). The term "menu warp" simply refers to quitting the game to the main menu and going back in —  this will spawn you in at your last overworld checkpoint.

- This run —  or rather this game —  contains something called the "stack property" which applies to all Spinning Wheel shops and all overworld cards. This is best explained by an example: in the Arctic Spinning Wheel shop there are 4 green Crash cards to obtain, numbered internally by 1, 2, 3 and 4. If you win a green Crash card then the game will give you the card with the lowest number which you are still missing (e.g., if you have green cards 1 and 3 and you win another one, the game will award you card 2). The precise mechanic is not as important as the key message which is: if you get a card from a stack, you will never get a duplicate **unless** that stack is already completed. Note that some stacks are non-obvious, e.g., a set of 5 yellow cards might be subdivided into two stacks, one of 4 and one of 1 card.

# The Run I - Crash Fusion

After selecting "New Game", hold L+R in the main menu to enter cheats:

- CR4SH (100 Wumpa)
- G3CK0 (200 Wumpa)
- C0FF33 (500 Wumpa)

The following two cards can be (and, because they are not that rare, usually are) obtained in a normal run so it's not necessary to enter those cheats.

- WH1STL3 ("Mayan Jungle" card)
- PH0N3T4G ("Sewers" card) 

- Then select Trading > View Cards. Enter the 4 blue or green Crash cards into the spreadsheet.

- Finally, you may start the story mode.

## World 1 (first half)

- Up the first arrow crate and to the left you find *Bonus: Freefallin'*

- *Level: Grin and bear it*

- Top right to get to *Bonus: Crate Smash*

## World 1 (second half)

- Up the elevator, to the top left there is *Level: Sheep Stampede*

- After completing the level, hold right to get the Wumpa Jungle world card

- Go top right to do the first Crunch weightlift

- At the next arrow crate, go top left to get to *Level: Tanks for the Memories*

- *Level: Chopper Stopper*

- To the right of Chopper Stopper, fall into the hidden cave as seen here:

![](/static/blob/dz4jqmkz.png)

This gives you one of the green Crash cards obtainable in the Arctic Cliffs Spinning Wheel. Right after the textbox for the card vanishes, menu warp back up.

- Take the upper path to get to the shop and buy all cards. At most there are 10 of them, but you might have gotten 1 or 2 already from the start (cf. point 2 in the preliminaries)

- On the top floor you will find *Level: Crashin' down the river*

- *Boss Fight: Spyro*

## World 2 (first half)

- Go top left to get to *Level: Crash and Burn*

- *Shop: Arctic - Spinning Wheel*. Get all the Crash cards here. The relevant stacks here are: the 4 green crash cards, 4 yellow Crash cards (Running Crash, Polar Bear Crash, Wumpa Cannon Crash, Inner Tube Crash) and 1 yellow Crash card (Scuba Crash).

- *Bonus: Crate Step*

- Go to the right, unlock Polar Express but don't enter it! (this skips the 1 second delay between unlocking a level and being able to enter it, because you have to pass this point twice either way). Falling down after the three metal boxes lands you at

- *Bonus: Crate Smash*

- Going back, directly before the swinging axe you find the arctic world card. Go back up after the seal and enter

- *Level: Polar Express*. Then enter the second half of the arctic world. 

## World 2 (second half)

- Fall down to the left as seen here and collect the secret card:

![](/static/blob/wzxr34dz.png)

You will get an orange Crash card from the Fire Mountains Spinning Wheel. Menu warp back up and take the upper path to get to

- *Level: Sheep Patrol*. To the right is

- *Shop: Arctic - Crate Shuffle*.
Get all five crash cards as well as the spyro card "Firefly". This enables the spyro player to (possibly) cut short the expensive vase shuffle shop in tech park and thus reduce the possible RNG there. It also brings the card trade ratio to 105:95 and thus optimizes the final trading time.

- After completing the shop, fall down to the left (just hold left) and get to 

- *Level: Blizzard Ball*. Afterwards, go right until you get to the arctic riptoc. Jump on him and get back to the upper layer of this overworld. Progressing forwards you find

- *Level: Frigid Waters*. This concludes all the regular levels in World 2. However, we aren't quite done here yet. Following the upper path you get to 

- Crunch - Arctic Weightlift. *Note:* If "Sapphire Relic" was one of your starting cards (which can happen) you can skip this level. Similarly, this is to keep in mind for the weightlifts in World 3 & 4. 

- Fall all the way down and enter the hidden gap on the left as seen here:

![](/static/blob/rz24jyln.png)

At the back of the cave you will get a blue Crash card (Stack of coloured gems) from the Tech Park Spinning Wheel. Menu warp back up. To the very right on the top level is

- *Shop: Arctic - Mystery Crate*.
Here you just mash 'A' until you have the two green and three yellow crash cards. As a side note, there are also three blue crash cards to get here which otherwise are obtainable in the crate shuffle shop in world 4. It is advisable to get them here because (i) on average you stack up on wumpas in this shop and (ii) said shop in world 4 is really RNG heavy and can take a long time to complete (there you have to get **six** different blue crash cards without any stack property).

- *Boss: Tiny*

## World 3 (first half)

- Go top left and follow the path all the way to

- *Level: Tankin' over the World*

- *Level: In Hot Water*

- *Bonus: Crate Step*. Going bottom right you will get to

- *Shop: Fire - Spinning Wheel*. Get all the Crash cards here. The relevant stacks are the 3 blue Crash cards, the 4 orange Crash cards, one yellow card (Remote Copter Crash) and the other yellow card (Bat Attack Crash).

## World 3 (second half)

Fall down left at the first pit to end up at

- *Shop: Fire Mountains*. Buy **only** the four green crash cards. Then follow the bottom right path until

- *Level: Chop 'til you drop*

- *Level: Rocket Power*

- Take the arrow crate to the left to get to the upper layer of the level. Following the path to the left you will get a green Crash card from the Tech Park Spinning Wheel followed by the Fire Mountains world card. Menu warp back and go from the level to the right until the jump crate. Up left is

- *Level: Bat Attack*

- Top right you find *Crunch - Fire Mountains Weightlift*. Drop down and jump into the vortex to fight:

- *Boss: Nina*

## World 4 (first half)

- Arriving in Dragon Castles, go left and take the upper path (after the goat) to get to

- *Level: Sheep Shuttle*

- Fall down and hold left to collect the Dragon Castles world card. Then go to the right again.

- *Bonus: Freefallin'*

- In front of the portal to Fire Mountains, there is an elevator which takes you up to *Crunch - Dragon Castles Weightlift*. Following the upper path lets you arrive at

- *Level: Up, Up and Away*

- Before the wooden bridge which leads you to the second half of this world, there are arrow crates getting you up to the shop. Buy all cards (at most 5, but maybe less depending on what your initial cards were —  cf. Preliminaries). Fall down and go to the right.

## World 4 (second half)

- At the second stone-throwing riptoc go up and all the way to the left

- *Bonus: Crate Smash*. Fall back down and follow the path to get to

- *Level: Castle Chaos*

- Fall into the pit directly to the left and follow the path to get a red Crash card (Fake Crash). Menu warp back and follow the bottom right path to

- *Shop: Dragon - Crate Shuffle Shop*. Get all Crash cards. Keep in mind that —  depending on your route —  you might have 3 of the 6 blue Crash cards already from the Arctic Mystery shop.

- Leave the stone hallway and climb all the way up at the goat. To the right is

- *Level: Bats in the Belfry*

- Staying in the top lane, all the way to the right you will find

- *Shop: Dragon - Mystery Shop*. As always get all Crash cards. This shop is special because it suffices to get only two out of the three green crash cards. The missing one can be obtained after finishing the game as an overworld card in the Wumpa Jungle (cf. Section "Backtrack"). This is of great use because the Mystery Shop does not have the stack property whereas the overworld card does, thus —  from my experience —   considerably reducing the amount of RNG one can encounter here.

- Fall down to the left and at the end of the stone corridor enter

- *Level: Tanks 'R Us*

- *Boss: Ripto*

## World 5

- Take the elevator and go to the left (lower path)

- *Level: Crash at the Controls*. Further left is

- *Bonus: Freefallin'*

- Even further left is a yellow Crash card from the Tech Park Spinning Wheel shop. Take the arrow crate up and enter

- *Level: Bear with Me*. 

- Take the arrow crate up and go to the top left

- *Bonus: Crate Step*

- Stay on the top and go all the way to the right. On your way unlock (but don't enter yet) "Tech Deflect" and "Tank You Come Again". Right before the 25 crystal-gate fall down

- *Level: Bat to the Future*

- Go left and up at the elevator

- *Shop: Tech Park - Spinning Wheel*. Get all Crash cards. The stacks are: 6 blue Crash cards (Freeze Crate, Crash Crate, Steel Crate, ! Box, Slot Box, Outline Box), 5 blue Crash cards (Gem Red, Gem Purple, Gem Green, Gem Blue, Gem Yellow), the 4 green cards and then the 4 yellow cards.

- Follow the path to the left and play *Crunch - Tech Park Weightlift*. Go to the upper lane and play the levels you unlocked previously.

- *Level: Tech Deflect*

- *Level: Tank You Come Again*. At the top right you can now unlock

- *Boss: Space Chase*. As soon as the credits start soft reset the console (press Start + Select + A + B at the same time) and enter the story mode on your save. 

- Fall down to the right of the boss fight and collect the red Crash card (Tech Park World card).

## Backtrack

If there are any shops you couldn't complete due to lack of wumpas do them on your way back. Either way as mentioned before there is one more overworld stack card to take if necessary:

![](/static/blob/pzm74pwz.png)

*Stack:* Puffer Fish / Frog / Rat (Dragon Castles Mystery, Crash green)

This concludes the crash part of the run. Next up you have to get the first 3 world cards of Spyro Fusion. The route is based on [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN83Vy1dQLk).

# The Run II - (Part of) Spyro Fusion

Note that there is a new tech coming into play:

- "main menu warp": quit out to the save slot menu and going back in —  this will spawn you at the beginning of the respective overworld.

In the following, all levels mentioned only have to be completed once. Also you can skip all shops.

## World 1 (first half)

- *Level: Castle Cruisin'*

- *Level: Fall in, roll out*

## World 1 (second half)

- *Level: Rumble on the Ramparts*. Drop down to the right and go to

- *Level: Altitude Adjustment*. Drop down to collect the purple gem. Top right of the map then is

- *Level: Castle Chaos*. Use the elevator and go the top left path to collect the 3 green gems. Then main menu warp and go to 

- *Boss Fight: Crash*

## World 2 (first half)

- Go top left to get the blue gem. Here is a [setup video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCWf1_mjEOc) on how to do the jump to get there

- Go back to the elevator and follow the lower path. There are two green gems below breakable ice panels —  you get them by headbutting the panel, falling onto the gem and hold jump early enough to get out again (see [here](https://youtu.be/tHNzDTxvSIc?t=568) how to do this)

- At the stairs to the right you find a third green gem and two yellow gems. This gives you the world card

- Main menu warp to get back to World 1 (second half)

## Backtrack

- Go to the right until the Altitude Adjustment portal. Double-jump up the pillar and go to the left while collecting 3 green gems. To the top left is a blue gem and below it is another blue gem. 

- Main menu warp and go top right. Collect the purple gem and go top left to get 3 green gems.

- Then follow the top right path. Collecting the final blue gem gives you the world card.

- Main menu warp to get back to World 1 (first half)

- Go left and up the pillar (above the shop). One yellow gem is there, another yellow gem is on the pillar to the left.

- Then go the top right path and collect the three yellow gems there.

- Main menu warp to get back to the start of the overworld

- Get the two green gems above the first stone-throwing riptoc

- Next to Bianca do a double flame extended jump to get to the purple gem platform ([setup video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9pF9vWF62A))

- Get the lower gems to the right (green & purple)

- Go up the elevator, to the left and to the right is a blue gem, repsectively. These should give you the third and last world card you have to collect. Be careful up there because getting hit by either of the upper Riptocs will kick you back and make you fall down.

# The Run III - Linking and Trading

A general tip for trading: hold Start when you confirm your selection of cards to complete the trade faster (because the game allows the input to be buffered). Also you can trade up to 5 (but at least one) card per trade session.

- First link your main Crash to an empty Crash cart and your Spyro (the one you used until a minute ago) to an empty Spyro cart.

- Then you link your main Crash to your main Spyro cartrige. On the Crash side you select any of the blue Spyro cards (**except** Firefly so, e.g., Red Gem) and on the Spyro side you trade for it:
Castle Talisman (Green # 1)
Arctic Talisman (Green # 2)
! Sheep (Orange # 6)
Spit (Orange # 12)

- Now on your main Crash save you should have all 100 Crash cards and from the Spyro cards *at least*: 
Firefly (Blue # 21), Castle Talisman, Arctic Talisman (both green), ! Sheep, Spit (both orange)

- The final step is to trade these 105 cards (=21 trades) onto the cartridge of the Spyro player.

Language Textbox Differences

Since you cannot skip cutscenes in this game, you will have to mash through all the text instead. Unsurprisingly, different languages result in a different amount of textboxes throughout the game, making some languages *technically* faster than others. Here is an overview for the amount of textboxes per language:

![](/static/blob/kzwr9jre.png)

Naturally, Japanese is technically the fastest with 20+ textboxes less than any of the European languages. For an Any% run, Italian has a whopping 1(!) textbox less than English and is therefore the fastest. For completion categories that include the ending cutscene, English and Italian are tied. German has the most textboxes all around. Of course, realistically speaking, this will never really factor into the final time of a full run but it's nice to have this documented.



EDIT: Since you can just soft reset during the ending cutscene in completion categories in order to skip the credits, the Any% textbox totals apply to those as well.

Sprash GBA Knowledge Base: The "Crash Fusion" Section

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cxWRRJaXxzIIRltD109Q9QZt6wJ4uo8B5OXx-HhCqsA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.th3ttx1z5hr6

Starting card manipulation (for completion categories)

From booting up the game, doing the same actions results in the same starting cards on a given file. This will require you to soft-reset your game anytime you want to restart the game but makes some of the card collecting faster and more reliable. Some setups to get useful starting cards that re otherwise cumbersome to come by are the following:

1) Boot the game with 1 save slot occupied and 2 empty slots. Load the existing save once and quit straight back out. Start your run on one of the empty slots and you will start with 
**Mystery Crate**, **Freeze Crate**, **Crash Crate** and **Steel Crate**

2) Boot the game with 1 save slot occupied and 2 empty slots. Load the existing save once, quit straight back out, load the same save again and quit back out once again. Start your run on one of the empty slots and you will start with 
**Nitro Switch Box**, **Freeze Crate**, **!-Box** and **Gem Blue**

3) Boot the game with 3 empty slots. Start a new save, quit back out and delete the save you just made. Start your run and you will have 
**Mystery Crate**, **Freeze Crate**, **Crash Crate** and **Steel Crate**

There are more setups that could be considered useful but these three seem among the best as there are no overtly complicated setups involved.

Strat playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_7kNUIjkDcmz9onO543_Fs7BLUVuY_SI

Useful RAM values & percentage count

This guide details how/where key game items are stored in RAM and how to change them — at the time of writing this I am playing the PAL version of Crash Fusion on Bizhawk 2.8 (mGBA core). As a result of this RAM search I was also able to decipher this game's percentage system, cf. the end of this guide.

Also, abbreviations that will be used frequently throughout this guide are: HEX (a number in [hexadecimal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal)), DEC (a number in the standard decimal system), and BIN (a number in binary).

# RAM

First, to access and change the RAM values mentioned down below open the Bizhawk hex editor

![](/static/blob/yzrogq4z.png)

and change the memory domain to Combined WRAM:

![](/static/blob/5ngdqxjn.png)

Aside from the current RNG value which — [like in Spyro Fusion](https://www.speedrun.com/spyrofusion/guides/c7ceu) — is located at 0x000000 in Combined WRAM, all values mentioned down below can be found at 0x006··· or 0x00F···

# Findings

Everything I was able to identify in these memory regions is documented in this **[spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12OekB0g0XNAhbrEMPG7v_tvbMMhOPhWDMvVSjynd3gM/edit?usp=sharing)**. The rest of this section will contain explanations and further information complementing the spreadsheet in question.

## Wumpas & Aku Aku

The Wumpa count is a plain 4-bit value in RAM, located at 0x006F2C:

![](/static/blob/oeog25vn.png)

While this can be changed at will (and the game will display any value you enter), if you give yourself more than 9999 wumpa, changing the wumpa count in-game in any way will set it back to the game's maximum value 0F270000 (=9999 in DEC).

Also, your current amount of Aku Aku masks (0, 1, 2) is stored in 0x006F50, although manipulating it does not seem as straightforward because freezing the value does not keep your mask count stable throughout taking damage.

## Crystals, bosses, level completion

This is a bit more difficult since there is no single value corresponding to things like the overall crystal count. Instead, multiple addresses keep track of which levels the player got the crystal in already, which bonus levels have been completed etc. The corresponding region is 0x006ED8 to 0x006EE1 (change the Data Size in the options to 1 byte to see it like this):

![](/static/blob/wzxxwl5z.png)

The way this works is that every byte consists of 8 bits, and each bit tracks a different thing. With that in mind, this memory region keeps track of the following information (click on the image to enlarge it or look at it in the spreadsheet):

![](/static/blob/rz2512gz.png)

As you see there's not only the crystals, but also which bonus levels have been completed, which shops have been visited already, and which bosses have been defeated.

### Changing RAM: binary & hexadecimal

Let us take a quick detour to understand how we can change these RAM values to our liking by means of two examples.

1. Let's say we want our game to think that we just completed the world 1 bonus level Crate Smash as well as the crystal for the level "Sheep stampede". As per the spreadsheet, this corresponds to the byte 0x006ED8, more specifically the second and the sixth bit within that byte. Thus, the bitstring our request corresponds to is 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0. All we have to do now is to convert this to the corresponding HEX value, e.g., via [a binary-hex-conversion website](https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/binary-to-hex.html). Either way it turns out that 01000100 binary is 44 HEX, so changing byte 0x006ED8 (highlighted in light red in the picture above) to 44 will do the job; do this by clicking on the byte and entering the number on your keyboard. *NB:* We still have to make the game adopt this change to the save file; this will be detailed down below.
2. Now assume that you played the game for a while and byte 0x006ED8 already has the value 44, and we want the game to think that, additionally, we already got the crystal for the level "Tanks for the memories" (fifth bit as per the spreadsheet). From the first example we already know that 44 HEX is 01000100 in binary, so we could just flip the fifth bit to a 1 to get 01001100, and the HEX converter lets us know that this is 4C in HEX. Alternatively, if we don't want to deconstruct the HEX value in the RAM, we can use a [HEX calculator](https://www.calculator.net/hex-calculator.html): as per the first row in the spreadsheet, the fifth bit corresponds to the HEX value 8, so we have to add 44 + 8 (in HEX!) which comes out to 4C, as it should.

## Party tab

Note that the minigames unlocked in the party mode are separate from the RAM values for completed levels discussed previously. The reason for this is that a minigame is unlocked in party mode as soon as it is entered. This is kept track in the memory region right before the crystals, 0x006ECC through 0x006ED6:

![](/static/blob/4zjw3j2e.png)

## Gems

The gems are stored similarly to the crystals, in the memory region right after (0x006EE4 through 0x006EED). Another interesting thing that is stored here is whether the animation where you get the trading card after a boss fight has played already.

![](/static/blob/qzp7mqwz.png)

## Barriers, cutscenes, overworld cards

Then there's more game-internal events: the two bytes 0x006EF0 and 0x006EF1 store which of the wumpa barriers (between the first and second half of a world) and which of the barriers before each boss (crystals) and after the fourth Boss Ripto (20-gem barrier) have been deactivated yet. It is worth pointing out that the unlock condition of the crystal and gem barriers is that the player has *at least* as many crystals/gems as the barrier requires (that is, unlocking a 20-crystal barrier while having 22 crystals works). In casual play, of course, you can never have more crystals or gems than a certain barrier requires, but it some point this may become relevant knowledge, say, by means of some glitch we find in the future.

Then the next two bytes 0x006EF2 and 0x006EF3 keep track of which overworld cards (i.e., cards which can be found openly in the hub worlds) have been collected so far.

Finally, the bytes 0x006EF4 and 0x006EF5 track which cutscenes have played already.

![](/static/blob/5e14pq5e.png)

## Cards

Trading cards are being kept track of twice: once for whether the player currently owns this cards, and once for whether a card has been owned at some point and then, e.g., been traded away (in this case the card is greyed out). The corresponding memory regions are 0x00F0AC - 0x00F0C4 and 0x00F0D8 - 0x00F0F0, respectively:

![](/static/blob/dz48kkke.png)

The requirement to get the card animation in the main menu which signifies that you got all 200 cards is that none of these card bit has a 0 in *both* these memory regions at the same time. In other words, if you have or at some point had every card that's enough.

## Missing stuff

While this concludes everything I managed to find and identify, there are some things that have eluded my grasp:

- While the game obviously has to store Crash's current checkpoint somewhere, I wasn't able to find where and how that happens.
- I was able to find and manipulate Crash's current x- and y-coordinate; these are both 2-byte values ranging from 0 to a couple hundred thousand. The problem is that their location isn't static, as in, the responsible addresses seem to hop around in RAM. So while these values exist and are confirmed to be changeable, I haven't found a consistent way of doing so.
-  The memory region 0x006EF7 - 0x006F08 somehow keeps track of what world the player is currently in and where they came from, resp. which adjacent worlds/areas the player can go to. I was able to warp between non-adjacent worlds (e.g., from world 1 to world 5 through the W1 end portal and manipulating byte 0x006F08), but I couldn't figure out how this whole memory region works exactly.

![](/static/blob/wzxxwwdz.png)

Now there are two things we still have to address:

# How to make RAM changes permanent

If we change something in RAM, how do we force the game to make these changes permanent, i.e., transfer these changes to our save file? Luckily, this game saves quite often so all we have to do is force the game into this state, *without* it loading the current save into RAM before that. With this in mind, the game saves whenever you:

- *exit* (not enter!) a level, shop, or boss fight, either by completing it or simply by quitting out via the menu
- change the overworld you're currently in, either by changing which half of a world you're in, or which world you're in altogether
- collect an overworld card. **Beware** that picking up a card in [limbo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXeWU9k0meM) does only save *some* of the memory values, namely 0x006EF2 - 0x006EF7 (collected overworld cards & played cutscenes) as well as both card regions (0x00F0AC - and 0x00F0D80 - 0x00F0F0).

Also, the current save is loaded into RAM whenever you enter story mode or party mode in the main menu.

# Percentage count

Finally, throughout this little project I was able to figure out how percentage works in this game:

- Each crystal gives 2%, so 25 crystals amount to **50%** completion
- Each gem gives 1%, so 25 gems amount to an additional **25%** completion
- Defeating a boss gives 3%, that is, 5 bosses give **15%** combined.
- Completing a Crunch weightlift minigame gives 2% each, so the five of these that exist grant **10%** completion
- So far we tracked 100% of completion, so the final 5% have to come from trading cards. The way this works is that every *25* cards you get 1%. So 25 cards up the counter by 1%, 50 cards by 2%, and so on until you have 125 cards which gives you **5%**.

Adding all these numbers gives 104% for everything + 120 cards, and **105%** for everything + 200 cards (although 100, resp. 125 cards would be enough if we were to just go by the percentage count).

The last thing I want to share is a "minimal 100% RAM string", that is, the smallest possible string which, when inserted at 0x006ED8 — just copy-paste works in HEX editor — yields a save with 100% completion:

> BE023E03BE01BE01BE0480006A01E600760074027401

So if you start a new game, paste this string into RAM, exit out of a level to transfer this to the save file, you will have a 100% file where absolutely nothing else is done: nothing has been visited yet and the party tab is empty (aside from the level you used to save the RAM), no additional cards have been collected, and all barriers, cutscenes & overworld cards are where they're supposed to be.

PeteThePlayer

toca

Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage

Crate Smash (Dragon Castles)

Game Boy Advance

isaac_menay_T2K

USA / NTSC

Finish

Single Player

Co-op

Easy

Normal

Hard

Completion

Player

Level difficulty in Story Mode is set to 'Easy.' The difficulty settings 'Normal' and 'Hard' are only accessible via Party Mode.

Name	Autor
200 Cards route for the Crash Runner	toca 7 years ago
Language Textbox Differences	PeteThePlayer 2 years ago
Sprash GBA Knowledge Base: The "Crash Fusion" Section	toca 1 year ago
Starting card manipulation (for completion categories)	PeteThePlayer 1 year ago
Strat playlist	toca 1 year ago
Useful RAM values & percentage count	toca 1 year ago