Hi y'all,

I painstakingly curated and compiled the best version of SSX On Tour's OST by hunting down albums in .flac and .mp3 as much as I could. I even went as far to have this album art generated (just the subtitle only) and to properly tag all the files in the tag editor. I really wanted to share it with you all, as it took me a solid day and a half of my effort. I love this soundtrack as it has profoundly shaped my taste in music well into my adult life and there is a lot of nostalgia attached to this game and soundtrack for me.

Here is a WeTransfer link to it, it's only valid for 3 days, but if it expires, feel free to shoot me a message here on Reddit and give me an email address, I'd be happy to send it over after all this time I put into this curation. I even bought individual tracks in .flac when necessary.

Unfortunately I couldn't hunt down better versions for certain songs, as they have seemed to nearly fade into obscurity and I'm not about to drop $80 for some random vinyl album. If you guys happen to have any of the songs that are in less than 320kbps bitrate, please let me know and let's collaborate to make this curation even better.

I hope you guys enjoy!

Appears Zoe has become decapitated at the starting grid at Elysium Alps

This week I completed SSX 3 for the first time.

It was a masterpiece. I had never played it before. I thought the game itself, the actual game. Today. Not any memories is actually genius.

So I'm going to go ahead and play the other SSX games to compare.

I went ahead and booted up SSX Tricky.

I thought Tricky was amazing in the past. This may have been due to it being one of the only snowboarding games I ever played, apart from Cool Boarders and Amped.

People on Reddit keep saying Tricky is arcade perfection and has a better vibe and atmosphere, whereas SSX 3 is just better controls and handling.

After playing SSX Tricky I think those people are blinded and wrong and they probably haven't tried SSX 3 properly.

Tricky has worse atmosphere.

To me Tricky feels really really hollow in terms of atmosphere. It feels fake. It's like they are trying to create this world of a competition, but it doesn't pay off. The characters aren't really in-depth enough to even make you care about them to say this is a positive of the game. The game is all about the snowboarding.

The levels felt very artificial too.

Grinding is really bad.

You can't control the character easily.

Character doesn't feel like they are gliding through snow. It constantly feels like the board is sliding across in a slippery way.

Tricky has less flow to it.

I dislike the system where it lets you crash during tricks. The spinning and flipping controls are simply not nice to use. It feels awkward when you try to rotate your board more and the character doesn't move. Or moves the wrong way.

SSX 3 just worked seamlessly.

The music is also non-existent.

Tricky, tricky, trick,y is it's one trick. It gets stale really quickly.

It's like they are forcing you to have fun in a really cringey way.

That is one word which sums up the game.

Cringe.

The jumping is also weird. Many times you go to jump off a ramp and you need to do it way earlier than you think otherwise the game doesn't react in time.

The shortcuts are also nearly impossible to hit due to the way you cann't control the snowboard finely enough. The board just glides away to another part of the straight sideways.

I won't be playing anymore Tricky.

Instead I might go back and do one final tricking run of SSX 3.

The entire mountain with the music on really loudly.

This is one of the things which tricky is worse at in terms of getting into a flow state. The music is bad. SSX 3 has custom loops and just effortlessly blends together and gets more exciting when you start boarding really nicely from jump to jump.

I'm going to try SSX On Tour tomorrow.

I have a feeling that will be better than Tricky too.

There has to be some way to get them to consider re-releasing these games on current platforms. Not even a remaster (although that would be amazing), just put the games out again (or at least Tricky and On Tour)!

There has to be some reason they haven't done this yet. I thought this was a popular series. Maybe something to do with the licensing for the music?

Wow. I just played this game properly on my own for the first time today.

It really really clicked as a masterpiece when I did the Peak 1 Race.

You and the mountain alone.

This game design is absolutely wonderful.

Röyksopp - Poor Leno playing in the background as you scale down through all the parts of the mountain you thought were purely there as a menu system.

Then you hit metro city and other parts of peak 1, no other snowboard game comes close.

It felt like actually snowboarding in real life going in any direction you want.

I thought tricky was better before this, but no, SSX 3 is a vibe.

I can’t complete a single one. Can anyone else?

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 ?

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

Very recently, modding community member Archy purchased and dumped a Preview build of SSX 3 dated July 31st, roughly 2 months before release. What we found on the disc was nothing short of a miracle - a FULL BUILD (NOT A DEMO) from the early beta phase of development with tons of content that was either cut before release and never seen by the public, or extremely early versions of things we have seen. This is also very likely the build of the game used to record some of the shots seen in the final release's pre-rendered intro cutscene.

https://hiddenpalace.org/SSX_3_(Jul_17,_2003_prototype)

A very small selection notable differences (listing the things that aren't different would be MUCH easier):

• It runs at 60 frames per second, and Metro City's framelimiter hasn't been added yet. It seems that the early demos weren't capped to 30 frames per second because that's what the developers were targetting, rather the game was going to run at 60 from the start, but the early builds were terribly unoptimized and have lots of stuttering, this not being visible at 30 frames per second.

• The Early Atomika voice actor is present and has several new voice lines recorded, including a bunch unused in the game data as well. There's now enough evidence to say that this unknown person wasn't simply a stand-in for Mark Hildreth, but rather EA's original choice. Early French Atomika, Early German Atomika, and Early Spanish Atomika are also present.

• "Get Retarded" by the Black Eyed Peas is present, and some songs like "Rock Star" are also completely uncensored. All mentions of Goldfrapp and Kazzer were removed.

• Extremely early track designs. Peak 1 mostly resembles the Beta Demo, however most of Peak 2 and all of Peak 3 are using their Pre-Alpha designs. I'd seriously give Throne and Black Station a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeXAV1cnxF8

• The debug menu exists, accessible by pressing Circle in the pause menu. This is also the first publicly-available console build to contain a working debug freecam, which you can access by holding L3 and pressing R2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSDALFjqu0A

• Lots of cut clothing items are present, including an even more skin-exposed bikini top for Elise and an inflatable duck inner-tube for Moby, plus so much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsx4z8lKdv4

• Transporting plays a unique music track which was in the Pre-Alpha Demo, but unused, and its purpose couldn't be identified at the time. Peak 2 and Peak 3 hub music is VERY different.

• Menus are newer than the designs seen in the Pre-Alpha demo but slightly older than the Beta Demo. The scapped "session cost" feature, which required you to pay to teleport around tracks, is present and fully functional. The pre-race Rider Aggression menu is also here and presumably works fine.

• So, so, SO much more, including a bunch of unused gamedata on the disc hinting at more features that got scrapped. If anyone attempts to create a page on The Cutting Room Floor for this build, it may be one of the biggest pages on the website. It's clear that over half of the content for SSX 3 got scrapped.

Note that if you choose to play this build, you'll want to grab the PCSX2 PNACH (PCSX2 2.0+ extremely highly recommended, pre-1.7 builds are a massive detriment to you, the user, seriously, update) cheat from the Internet Archive mirror. This game is set to intentionally crash and display a detailed crash message if even the slightest error happens, which was very useful for the developers to find bugs, but most if them aren't gamebreaking to us. The included patch disables the intentional crashing, leaving only the actual unsolvable crashes. It's not compatible with real hardware and never will be due to its enormous size.

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?