Riff Racer

Riff Racer

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TSOW's Achievement Guide
By Droptima
How to get the achievements in Riff Racer
   
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Intro
I'm going to put as many of the achievements and how to beat them as I can.
I will put songs that I got the achievement on if I know it, and If you have a song, in a different genre, post it in the comments and I will credit you with it, and include it. That way people can pick a genre to use to get their achievements.
If you know how to get an achievement I don't have, I will gladly take your help.
I will give credit to you, if you suggest useful help for an achievement or if you give me a song that fills one of my many blanks.
Back and Forth
"Drift more than 16 beats in one manoeuvre"

This one isn't difficult, just requires the right song. You need a song that has a high BPM, and a section with a long turn, you need to maintain that drift as long as possible. Remember you can correct your drift inwards, but if you correct outwards it will end the drift.

Heavy Rock: Demon Hunter - Beauty Through the Eyes of a Predator (got 21 early in the song)
Rock: Alkaline Trio - Armageddon (Muzyka)
Pop:
Classical:
Urban/Rap: Grillz-Nelly ft. Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp (ML0955)
Jazz:
Electronic: Hello by Porter Robinson (Ryze)
Bronze Rank/Silver Rank/Gold Rank/Platinum Rank
"Reach Driver Level 5"
"Reach Driver Level 10"
"Reach Driver Level 15"
"Reach Driver Level 20"

Unlocked through continuous play
Can't Touch This
"Beat a recommended ghost"

Pretty self explanatory. Find a song, that someone has played, then win against their ghost.
I haven't gotten this, because all of my music has been unplayed.
Dancing Machine
"Play a Dance song"

I am not sure exactly which song I used, I assume anything electronic is considered dance, if that's the case I used Not Enough by NYVES
Destructive
"Smash 30 boxes or more without missing one"

Use a song that is calm, and doesn't have much going on, that way you can focus, entirely on boxes.

Hard Rock:
Rock: Bosozoku Symphonic (Yingwu)
Pop:
Classical:
Urban/Rap:
Jazz: Frank Sinatra - Blue Moon (got the first 30 on my Jazz playthough)
Electronic: Aphex Twin - #19 aka Stone in Focus (CaptainKinkyCactusBikini)
Disc Jockey/Turntablist/Mixmaster/Grandmaster
"Drive 10 Songs"
"Drive 25 Songs"
"Drive 50 Songs"
"Drive 100 Songs"

Race any 10/25/50/100 tracks you want.
Discovery/Keep Digging/Lost and Found
"Author 1 Track"
"Author 5 Tracks"
"Author 10 Tracks"

Just be the first person to play that exact track, the set number of times. Look for songs most people aren't familiar with.
Extended Play
"Race on a song longer than 10 minutes in length"

Heavy Rock: Underoath - A Love So Pure
Rock: Area 11 - Bosozoku Symphonic (Yingwu)
Pop:
Classical:
Urban/Rap:
Jazz:
Electronic: Aphex Twin - #19 aka Stone in Focus (CaptainKinkyCactusBikini)
Express Yourself
"Play a Jazz/Funk/Soul song"

I used Blue Moon by Frank Sinatra
Fast Forward
"Enter the Super-Sync Zone 10 times in under 40 seconds"

This can be tricky. Basically you need to constantly boost into super sync then immediately hit a wall to bounce back, the boost won't stop, and you can get right back in. Also drifting can sometimes put you into super sync. I don't know of any particular songs that make this easy though.

Heavy Rock:
Rock:
Pop:
Classical:
Urban/Rap:
Jazz:
Electronic:
Flip the Record
"Roll more than 4 beats in one manoeuvre:"

Something with high BPM and has a spot with a good barrel roll ramp.

Heavy Rock: Demon Hunter - Life War (8 in one roll)
Rock: Queen - All I Want (Ryze)
Pop:
Classical:
Urban/Rap:
Jazz:
Electronic:
Friend or Foe
"Beat a friend's ghost"

Self explanatory, I just need friends who listen to my music, and play this game.
Jump the Needle
"Jump more than 8 beats in one manoeuvre"

High BPM with a huge jump.

Heavy Rock: Betraying the Martyrs - Martyrs (or just about any of their songs.)
Rock: I Want It All by Queen (Ryze)
Pop: War Of Hearts by Ruelle (cenilec)
Classical:
Urban/Rap:
Jazz:
Electronic:
Play Head
"Stay 100% In sync for a whole song"

Dont hit any barriers, or fall off the track and you should be good.

Heavy Rock: Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie (ӾӾ [ 88% ])
Rock:
Pop:
Classical:
Urban/Rap:
Jazz: Frank Sinatra - Blue Moon
Electronic:
Push the Tempo
"Stay in the Super-Sync for 25 consecutive seconds"

This is a tough one. Unfortunately the game does not notify you that you got it till you finsh the song. Basicall find an area in a song, that has lots of pick ups, and boost rings. Then use them one after the other, to try and keep the boost going till you get the next.

Heavy Rock: Underoath - A Love So Pure
Rock: 3 Doors Down - Here Without You (ML0955)
Pop:
Classical:
Urban/Rap:
Jazz:
Electronic:
Radio Friendly
"Play a Pop Song"

I believe I used Legacy by A Hundred Ghosts
Respray/Paint Job/Graffiti Artist/Wild Style
"Unlock 5 Packs"
"Unlock 10 packs"
"Unlock 20 Packs"
"Unlock ALL Packs"

Just keep collecting the coin collectibles, leveling up, and getting achievements, then buy every pack.
Remix
"Score more than 100,000 on a song under 3 minutes in length"

This one is going to be difficult. I was doing I'm sorry by Flyleaf. I got 99432 or similar, but i couldn't beat it. So I decided to, as the achievement suggests, remix the song. I opened up audacity, and added a section from the middle of the song, back on to the end, so that it was close to about 2:59 in length and got rid of the blank at the end. Changed the ID3 tags with mp3tag, so it didn't show as flyleaf, and got it relatively quickly. I won't list it on any genre though, as I created the song myself.

Heavy Rock:
Rock:
Pop: Eskimo Ride by Ima Ride (LeonRes [OC])
Classical:
Urban/Rap: Power by DJ Fresh feat. Dizzee Rascal (Ryze)
Jazz: Summer of 86 by Brock Berrigan (bitemeblinky)
Electronic: Evil World by Powerman 5000 (ML0955)
Rocking It
"Play a Rock/Metal song"

I believe I got this on Anchorlines. Fairly easy achievement.
Rolling and Scratching
"Play a Hip-Hop/Urban song"

I used either "When I'm Gone" or "Mockingbird" by Eminem.
RPM/Showroom/Wheels of Steel
"Drive 5 cars"
"Drive 10 cars"
"Drive ALL cars"

*REQUIRES ALL CARS*

Once you have all cars unlocked, just race in each one at least once, I do believe this includes easter egg cars.
Stuck In A Loop
"Play a single song 10 times"

Find a song you like, and replay it till you get the achievement.

Detective Fudge, Private Eye recommend's just finding one of a large number of joke songs that some bands will toss into an album that are only a few seconds long. Example. Rumpelkombo by Alestorm.
I would also recommend Crayons Can Melt For All I Care by Relient K. That song is only 12 seconds long.
Swift
"Boost 20 times or more in one song"

You want a song that allows you to get a lot of pick ups. Make sure to get every boost pick up, and as many of the boxes as you can. Also it helps if the song has a lot of boost rings in it.

Heavy Rock: Betraying the Martyrs (Just about anything of theirs)
Rock:
Pop:
Classical:
Urban/Rap:
Jazz:
Electronic:
True Classic
"Play a Classical song"

I used "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven
Unstoppable
"Drive a whole song without hitting a barricade"

Songs with low difficulty help. If you are really having trouble find a 1 star song.

Heavy Rock:
Rock:
Pop:
Classical:
Urban/Rap:
Jazz: Frank Sinatra - Blue Moon
Electronic:
95 Comments
Nico 9 Nov, 2022 @ 10:29am 
If you are missing only Wild Style, it's not healthy grinding over 400.000 coins, especially after threatening with shutting down servers (no idea if you need servers for it)
You can easily hack your number of coins (apparently it's just a local 4 bytes value)
Nico 9 Nov, 2022 @ 10:04am 
k after 19.5 hours in and rank 28, I got Grandmaster
Probably the counter resets if you change computer / delete AppData\Local\game.exe_Url?
The only way I found to keep count, is authoring songs and check the count in your profile
EdinhoN 12 Oct, 2022 @ 7:50am 
"Swift" is easy enough on "Fury Of The Storm" by "Dragonforce"
Janmeeba 28 May, 2022 @ 10:03am 
@Nico I think they should be unique tracks so no repeats? But then again there's the separate authoring achievements which at least do require unique tracks(which nobody has raced before in this game)... Well, i'd play unique tracks in any case until the achievements pop up. XD I hope any bugs haven't been introduced at any point which would make any achievements unachievable... Btw what do you mean with non-submittable songs? Like songs with no valid metadata or garbled metadata(like if the metadata uses Japanese, Korean or Chinese characters or symbols from other character sets which require proper Unicode support to be rendered correctly)? I hope you'll manage to get all those achievements(i'm still missing just Wild Style myself, it takes so much grinding but one day i'll get there ).
Nico 26 May, 2022 @ 2:12am 
i got the drive 50 tracks achievement, but never got the drive 100 grandmaster.
Does playing repeated songs count?
Does playing non submittable songs count?
RC-1138 Boss 28 Nov, 2021 @ 7:46am 
I used for Remix: Zanzlanz - A Feeling of Tread.
Grzelciu 16 Jul, 2021 @ 8:08pm 
Jump the Needle: Björk - Hidden Places (Evol Intent Remix)
Danizar 27 Oct, 2020 @ 12:50pm 
For Remix I used Stuzkova by Elan.
OMEGA EU 6 Jul, 2020 @ 11:01am 
some achievements does not work:cryingrandy:
Spazzy McDooley 1 Jun, 2020 @ 9:57am 
I recommend "Racecar" by Allister for the "Remix" achievement. I think it classifies as Rock.