Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex
Alternate ending sequence
Collect all 46 gems to view an alternate ending sequence.
Avoid losing lives
When you die, quickly pause the game before the screen turns black, then select “Warp Room”. You will return to the warp room without losing any lives.
Earning gems
In any level, to earn a gem get all of the boxes. This also boosts your lives and apples.
Easy Gems, Relics, and Crystals
Do not collect everything at once in a level so you can get 100% game completion faster. Instead, use the following little trick to get all powers from the guardians. This is the order you should do it. First, do not get all Boxes and avoid Bonus Platforms to get 25 Crystals to defeat the Masks. Then, if you have defeated Cortex, return for the Gems and collect them before Uka Uka and Cortex. Next, this is the hardest challenge. Use all your effort and special powers and be as a quick as possible. Make sure you use the Freeze Timer Boxes to avoid getting a longer time in time trial mode. Remember all of them in each section of the warp room. You will get a secret warp room and extra levels to find the hidden treasures.
Defeating Crunch Time
Every time freezeballs, beams, or fire comes out, jump over the fence into the inside platform. They cannot touch you there, but fireballs will land everywhere — just watch for their shadows. There is a series of elements you have to avoid. Then shoot Crunch with the bazooka and spin Cortex. The series is: fireballs, shoot Crunch, spin Cortex, freezeballs, fireballs, shoot Crunch, spin Cortex, fire, fireballs, freezeballs, fire, shoot Crunch, spin Cortex, beams, fireballs, fire, beams, freezballs, fireballs, beams, shoot Crunch, spin Cortex. If you win, you will unlock five secret levels for which you must collect a certain amount of relics in order to open the doors.
Defeating Lo-Lo
Watch where the mask floats and shoot there.
Defeating Py-Ro
Hold B to charge the water cannon or you will never hit.
Defeating: Ro-Ko
Roll around the side of the area without going in the center. Every rock will come near you, and Crunch will mostly miss you.
Defeating Wa Wa
When you are facing Wa Wa, crunch will shoot things at you. He will fire blue beams that you should jump over. When he fires green things, duck. Hop from one panel to another. When you reach Crunch quickly spin. Watch out — the panels will sink. Try to get a head start on each run. Once Crunch jumps back at the beginning, run. When you spin him the next two times, do not stop running.
Gem locations
To get the following Gems, jump onto the Skull And Crossbones and find your way to the end:
- Red Gem: Crash And Burn.
- Green Gem: Wizards And Lizards
- Blue Gem: Arctic Antics
- Yellow Gem: Gold Rush
- Purple Gem: The Gauntlet
| Master Code (Must Be On) | EC8B0AE8 1438F9CC |
| Infinite Lives | 3CF30E58 1456E788 |
| Invincible (Hold Select to Disable) | DC988022 03094967 4CD02E82 1456E724 |
| Have All Powers | 3CCDF2A2 1456E70C |
| Unlock Secret Levels | 3CCDEEC4 1456E70C |
| Low Time For All Trials | 1CCD5FE4 1456E781 |
| All Levels Unlocked & Completed | 4CCDEEB4 1456E70C 4CCDEEB8 1456E70C 4CCDEEBC 1456E70C 4CCDEEC0 1456E70C |
| All Secret Items | 3CCDF1C4 1456E7CF 3CCDF3BC 1456E7CF 3CCDF3D8 1456E7CF 3CCDF3F4 1456E7CF 3CCDF248 1456E7CF |
| All Items For All Levels | 7CCDEEC8 144DE7A8 3C97835E 1456E7A5 7CCDF1E0 144BE7A8 3C97835E 1456E7A5 3CCDF3A0 1456E7CF 3CCDF310 1456E7CF 3CCDF22C 1456E7CF 3CCDF264 1456E7CF 3CCDF280 1456E7CF |