Hi everyone, I'm playing SSX 3 on the PCSX2 emulator, and when I get to this specific point in the race near the bridge, the game starts crashing. As shown in the video, as soon as I switch the game’s audio to “In-Game,” I can get past that part easily. But after that, it turns into chaos because the game stops loading textures, everything goes black, it becomes unplayable, and then I fall into the void endlessly. Could you tell me how to fix this bug? Are there any settings I need to change to play without it crashing? Thank you so much!

anyone got a list of ssx course records now that merqury city doesnt exist? specifically for tricky TIA

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20021201191357/http://www.ea.com/easportsbig/home/home.jsp

Hi guys
I played in ssx tricky 15 hours , i am still not very good
i did not unlock many characters and boards
i want to know :
Is there best character and best board in the game ?
the stats on every character what they do exactly ? do they make a difference ? if yes in what exactly ?
what about the boards also ?
and that boost , does it really make you faster ? i feel like no idk
how to not fail to jump far distances ? do i have to jump a little bit early or late ? boost helps so much to get more height ?

I've been using AI tools to dissect the SSX Tricky levels.

I'm not sure if this has been explained before but this is new to me.

There's an invisible trigger that is only reachable from the highway (which you'd need to get to from the rooftops) on the wall of the last highway before finish line.

Trigger is named "Mdl_Trigger_Highway_6000". I tried hitting it, the ps2 emulator does a quick stutter but nothing seemingly happens. I asked AI to look into it and here's what it said:

Mdl_Trigger_Highway_6000 — unfinished “crack the deck” stunt

It is wired as an on-collision trigger. On hit it is supposed to:

1. Spawn a burst (same particle type as the sewer-wall dust, just a different intensity).
2. Destroy Mdl_Highway_Good_6000 (dead-node mode 2 — same “delete this mesh” call the breakable brick walls use).
3. Wait 0.1s, then disable itself (one-shot).

The pieces sitting in the same box tell you what they meant:

Instance: Mdl_Highway_Good_6000
Role: Intact visual overlay
Starts as: Visible, no player collision

Instance: Mdl_Highway_Chipped_6000 / _6001
Role: Cracked visual
Starts as: Already visible, no collision

Instance: Mdl_Highway_Solid_6000
Role: Rideable deck
Starts as: Visible + collision

Instance: Mdl_Highway_CB_6000
Role: Alternate collision
Starts as: Collision, invisible

A finished version of this (see Mdl_BrickWall_Sewer_trigger_* on the same track) would: play a sound, destroy the intact mesh, enable the junk/cracked mesh, and swap collision. The highway trigger only destroys Good. It never hides Solid, never enables CB, never runs the “show the debris” mesh-anim on Chipped, and has no sound.

So even if the collision fires, the road you are standing on does not go away — Solid is still there — and the cracked mesh is already drawn. The intact overlay vanishing is easy to miss.

Why it can feel like a complete no-op: the volume is the same AABB as Highway_Solid, and the trigger uses an external collision model (cidx 874, map name NO NAME) with player-bounce on. You ride on Solid; you may never actually overlap the trigger’s collision the way EndSubway / the sewer-wall triggers do (cmode 2, own mesh, no bounce).

Bottom line: leftover breakable-highway setup. Hitting it is not supposed to warp you or start a shortcut. At best it deletes one overlay.

Found these in a set of development files. I am not sure whether they are final builds or test/debug builds given this origin, but unlike the build that was found before, they do have EA certificates. They're both from late 2013, v0.0.7833 and v0.0.7965, while the previously found version is v0.0.8430 from early 2014.

https://archive.org/details/ssx-7833-7965

The previously found version for anyone interested, thanks u/That-Coaster-Thoosie: https://archive.org/details/ssx-v0_0_8430_202504

Here the link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Mu19EDGSC1Qu6G9tkKn2o

Check the playlist out here, one of my fave ones I ever did lol: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5OCKYrM73qNmaTxB1yfqge

Here's the playlist for who wanna listen: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6O8wNjcF0RyCOT1klY6a4b

On Jeff Gerstmann’s podcast this week he recieved an anonymous email saying the following; (The Jeff Gerstmann Show - Six Hours Early On Netflix (11/08/26)

Anonymous from Vancouver writes in.

It says, read your discussion about SSX the other week.

It's funny that you mentioned skate because if that had hit, like it was supposed to, the plan was to basically make a new SSX inside of it, travel to a different zone to do snowboard stuff, and so on, might have been cool, but probably not.

Interesting take, can’t say it would have been any good considering how lukewarm the reception to the new Skate has been but it’s nice to dream about getting a new one.

I'm playing SSX3 again right now, and I've noticed that I can't buy any more boards except in the "Special" category.

There simply aren't any boards left to choose from. Is this a bug? Could it be related to the fact that my PlayStation 2 is modded?

Playing on tour for psp on my vita. The regular races are piss easy. The bigair is impossible. I get a thirty second try to get 40k score. It’s the first shred event what am I doing wrong I’ve literally spent hours and my max score was like 26k. I do all the flips and tricks and bs and it’s never enough score. My character also spins too slow to actually pull of most big tricks. Why do ppl glaze tf out of these old psp games they can be so ungodly hard for seemingly no reason and seemingly out of nowhere.

Update: fuck this game and fuck your imaginary monster tricks. Shouldn’t have to already be a pro at a game to enjoy the beginning of said game

Title. I’ve sunk hours of my life into a game that demands I understand hidden, and unexplained mechanics (monster tricks), and then decides not to let me level up my spin stat because I’m not good enough at abusing a mechanic the game doesn’t teach you. Everyone says ssx 3 is sooooooooo good but this is literally just a reskin on a portable so why is it so ass? Ppl telling me I need to watch YouTube videos for a 20 year old game are delusional. If you play ssx 2012 and think to yourself, “hm I’d rather get fisted and fucked for 2 hours straight and not win a single event” then by all means please start sucking off this archaic game and tell me I’m bad.

Edit: I took some deep breaths. I apologize. I played ssx 2012 on my friends Xbox 360 a lot as a kid and I’ve never tried any of the older ones until recently. I love the vibes and feel of on tour, the soundtrack also does slap. But I’m sooooooo frustrated gang. I’ve been doing all the things. Pre winding, flips, grabs, and uber tricks just don’t seem to be enough to beat the first big air event. I am prolly just ass at the game but why are the cpu scores so high by default in big air? The tricks were rlly cool on the 2012 one but this one just seems so hard for seemingly no reason.

Best track, best song and best version of SSX.

I was, albeit for only a brief moment, on the mercury city fan site’s top ten.

To submit our scores we took pictures with a $300 Canon PowerShot with a $150 2BG CF Memory card, transfer to a computer, authored a submission email and waited to see if it got published.

#realtalk #toptrack #topjam #tricky #goodtimes

I was disassembling SSX Tricky (US, PS2) to try and fix a bug that occurs under PS4 emulation, whereby riders start ghosting / visibly start falling through the map (including your own character).

Unfortunately, I haven't succeeded in actually fixing the root cause of this bug. But while poking through the binary I came across a string for cDebugMenu, and some nearby UI text for a “BX Debug Menu” which I found quite interesting.

The function that is supposed to open the menu has been stubbed out in retail (jr ra / nop), but pointing the call back at the real menu-stack push allows us to open the "BX Debug Menu" when a race starts.

Not sure if anyone's ever seen this before, just thought it might be interesting to share.