BioShock Remastered

65 Achievements

20-25h

GOG

Historian

Find every audio diary.

Epic

0.8%

How to unlock the Historian achievement in BioShock Remastered - Definitive Guide

cooper101183

TrueAchievements

26 Oct 2016 16:39

There are 5 Missable audio Diaries, 2 of these are in the first area Welcome to Rapture and the other 3 are in Ryans's Control Room. I have marked the missable ones in Bold.

Here is a full list of ALL audio diaries and there locations.

Welcome to Rapture - 2
1. New Year's Eve Alone
2. Hole In The Bathroom Wall

Medical Pavilion - 17
3. ADAM's Changes
4. Released Today
5. Higher Standards
6. Love For Science
7. Parasite Expectations
8. Limits of Imagination
9. Vandalism
10. Freezing Pipes
11. Surgery's Picasso
12. Enrage Trial
13. Useless Experiments
14. Testing Telekinesis
15. Plasmids Are The Paint
16. Symmetry
17. Aphrodite Walking
18. Not What She Wanted
19. Gatherer Vulnerability

Neptune's Bounty - 19
20. Bathysphere Keys
21. Timmothy H. Interrogation
22. Fontaine Must Go
23. Finding The Sea Slug
24. Picked Up Timmy H.
25. Masha Come Home
26. Watch Fontaine
27. Have My Badge
28. Adam Discovery
29. Eden Leaking
30. Fontaine's Smugglers
31. Death Penalty In Rapture
32. Meeting Ryan
33. Rapture Changing
34. Working Late Again
35. Smuggling Ring
36. Saw Masha Today
37. Arresting Fontaine
38. Putting The Screws On

Smuggler's Hideout - 3
39. Meeting with Fontaine
40. Kraut Scientist
41. Offered a Deal

Arcadia - 17
42. Seeing Ghosts
43. Big Night Out
44. Mass Producing Adam
45. Arcadia Closed
46. Shouldn't Have Come
47. The Market Is Patient
48. Offer A Better Product
49. Early Tests Promising
50. Heroes And Criminals
51. What Won't They Steal?
52. Teaching An Old Hound
53. The Lazarus Vector
54. Lazarus Vector Formula
55. The Saturnine
56. Arcadia And Oxygen
57. Maternal Instinct
58. The Great Chain

Farmer's Market - 8
59. Bee Enzyme
60. First Encounter ( "First Encounter" while found in
Farmer's Market is added to the list for Neptune's Bounty - Smuggler's
Hideout. In game Bug)
61. Hatred
62. Desperate Times
63. Pulling Together
64. Water in Wine
65. Adam Explained
66. Functional Children

Fort Frolic - 15
67. Come To The Record Store
68. The Wild Bunny
69. Artists' Feud
70. Fancy Cigarettes
71. Stood Up Again
72. Musical Insult
73. The Doubters
74. The Iceman Cometh
75. Fontaine's Army
76. Bump Culpepper?
77. Guns Blazing
78. Pregnancy
79. It's A Gift
80. Ryan's Stableboy
81. Requiem For Andrew Ryan

Hephaestus - 17
82. Ryan Takes F Futuristics
83. Scoping The Gate
84. Going To Heat Loss
85. Stopping Ryan
86. A Man Or A Parasite
87. Fontaine's Legacy
88. Running Short On R-34s
89. Assassin
90. Kyburz Door Code
91. Genetics Arms Race
92. Getting A Break
93. Market Maintenance Code
94. Device Almost Finished
95. The Dream
96. Assembling The Bomb
97. A Great Chain Moves Slowly
98. Impossible Anywhere Else

Rapture Central Control - 3
99. The Vita Chamber
100. Baby Status
101. Mind Control Test

Olympus Heights - 6
102. Mozart Of Genetics
103. Fontaine's Human Jukebox
104. Mind Control Antidote
105. Fontaine's Breakup
106. Artist Woman
107. Sad Saps

Apollo Square - 6
108. What's Happening Here?
109. Atlas Lives
110. Protection Bond
111. Meeting Atlas
112. The Longest Con
113. Today's Raid

Point Prometheus - 9
114. Why Just Girls?
115. Changing Employers
116. Extra Munitions
117. Marketing Gold
118. Cheap Son Of A Bitch
119. Missing Boots
120. Protector Smell
121. Mistakes
122. Protecting Little Ones

26 Oct 2016 16:39

52 Comments

I've played the entire game twice, grabbing every diary both times. And I am still stuck at 99%. Only now my game won't allow me to make more than 1 save file most of the time. Sometimes, it says I don't have room for even that single save. This version of this game is one of the buggiest ports I've ever played.

Edit: Here's how I got it to unlock. Though it likely just unlocked randomly on it's own, it did so after doing this so that's evidence enough for me.

Go into offline mode. Delete all save data for the game. Collect all diaries again. Save only when finding all diaries in an area to avoid consequences from inevitable crashes and corrupt saves. After getting the last diary in Point Prometheus, save and quit. Go online and start up the game, selecting the sync option for console data. Go to every diary entry in the menu and select to play it (this step is probably optional, but I did it anyway). Finally, view the achievement directly from your profile page.

By Level 75 Noob on 03 Oct 2022 15:45

First encounter is in Neptunes bounty not farmers market. Just spent an hour looking for something I already had.

By jordaOwO on 09 Mar 2017 12:56

It's probably worth mentioning that "First Encounter" while found in Farmer's Market is added to the list for Neptune's Bounty - Smuggler's Hideout. So if you are using this list to check what you have missed and find them you will check your list for Farmer's Market see you are missing "First Encounter" and go to the spot and find it not there thinking your list is wrong like the guy above, when it's just a bug and added to the wrong list in game and you probably would have picked it up already. Nice work though I always prefer a text guide I can use after I have looked myself!

By JayD101 on 06 Apr 2017 03:49

Anyone had an issue with this not unlocking?? If so, how did you fix it?

By Cheshir3xSmilez on 29 Aug 2019 05:47

UPDATE: It popped like 12 hours later? Lol

I guess if it happens to you, just give it time

By Cheshir3xSmilez on 29 Aug 2019 20:49

Mine still hasn't popped 2 years after the fact...

By Algur on 30 Dec 2019 01:29

Guys, my cheevo also glitched on 99%, I had 122 diaries collected, even xbox.com displayed it as 100% complete, but it was still locked. What I did I started New Game Plus and began to collect diaries once again. Achievement popped on "McDonagh – Arresting Fontaine" diary (Neptune's Bounty level). So if for some reason in-game tracker messed up just don't give up and start all over in NG+

By Nickandroff on 29 Mar 2020 10:31

Yeah, stuck for me too. I replayed on NG+ and went through collecting the diaries again. Eventually popped for me in Fort Frolic with "The Iceman Cometh". Bit annoying to go through it again but if you're getting the same issue you may want to try that for the achievement.

By bennjjee on 14 Apr 2020 12:56

Mine was stuck on 98% after my first play through even though I collected them all. I started a NG+ and rushed through the game. I finally unlocked it on the 4th last audio diary in Point Prometheus, Protector Smell. Didn’t think it was going to unlock after a second play through. Glad it has now!

By Slabba on 05 Jun 2020 01:13

Ran into a ton of glitchy achievements in this game, and this one was no exception. Collected all the audio logs in the first playthrough and of course the tracker was stuck at 99%. Had to go through the game again picking up all the audio logs again until Arcadia where it finally unlocked for me when I got the Lazarus Vector Formula which is inside the safe in Langford's office.

By Death Metal Jim on 05 Sep 2020 22:17

Had to do new game plus for this one due it glitching on me luckily it was only the Bathysphere Keys audio diary in Neptune's bounty which glitched on me

By Bk LuCKY ChaRMS on 07 Sep 2020 05:46

Mine unlocked after a couple of days in the middle of the night. So if it doesn't unlock immediately then give it a couple of days.

By ShadowninjazzDK on 04 Nov 2020 05:56

Glitched on my first play through then the audio log on the body in Neptune's Bounty didn't spawn. So frustrating.

By Algur on 31 Jan 2021 20:28

Unlocked this today on my first playthrough, BUT noticed something odd while doing so. I play on two different consoles--an original One and a newer One X. When I was done with all the audiotapes except the last, the original XB tracker showed 99% and the XBX tracker showed 98%. I picked up the last tape on the original XB. I wonder what would have happened on the XBX?

By GordonDogKing on 02 Apr 2021 03:27

ANYONE STUCK ON 99%: I was there too, checked the Audio logs 3 times before starting a New Game Plus on EASY and started re-grabbing the audio logs with little hope, BUT I only had to get to [Yi Suchong - Enrage Trial - Kure-All, corner of the main room.] Audio Log in Medical Pavilion (12 Audio Logs into the game). I hope this info can help others stuck at 99%, this cheev is buggy af. Good luck :)

By BradLeafsFan9 on 05 Aug 2021 00:05

How late is too late to backtrack? I'm a big daddy doing the proving grounds when i learned i missed an audio diary. One in the Olympus Heights.
Can I backtrack before the final boss?
If i dont, since i have hte rest if i get the missing one will it still pop or do i have to have all of them in one save file?

By count023 on 15 Nov 2021 04:46

Would like to know also count023

By Jocher on 15 Nov 2021 06:53

For future reading: I was stuck on 99% and got to the stage where I was about to head to the Proving Grounds. I went through the diary list and saw I had missed one in Fort Frolic. Fortunately I was able to go back to the area and get it (FYI it was The Wild Bunny). Not to say it is a point of no return but if you are at this point with 99% for Historian, DON'T go into the Proving Grounds, check the list and see if you have missed one.

By Ian 1485 on 26 Mar 2022 19:05

I missed ‘The Vita Chamber’ and I’m already at Point Prometheus. Feels bad.

By noblecyberman95 on 11 Jun 2022 15:43

For the record I had done half a play through on NG+ and had a checklist and interactive map both at 100% and still only showed 99%, trust me just start a new game!

By retep221981 on 02 Jul 2022 05:10

I had the bug and started a new game, but percentage did not go up while playing. I was trying to collect them all again and got pretty far in the game.
However when I was playing another game the achievement suddenly appeared. I don't think it was because of the new game, the achievement just popped out of nowhere.

By IX Ulquiorra on 17 Jul 2022 22:11

For reference I was also stuck at 99% after my 1st playthrough but on New Game + it popped on the 2nd diary Hole in the Bathroom Wall

By Pmalone6 on 06 Aug 2022 04:09

*79. It's All Grift

Excellent list, cheers!

By SciKo on 09 Jun 2023 21:06

Had to run through this game 3 times for this achievement to unlock. Such a dope game but so damn buggy

By Blue on 12 Nov 2022 08:55

I have just finished this off following 3 runs of the campaign due to the tracking bug.

I can see 2 main issues that seem to affect the tracking:

1. Picking up audio recordings whilst dialogue of other recordings are playing.

2. Launching the game via Quick Resume following another game having been played.

To make this achievement as bug-free as possible on your first run, I would recommend making a save before each audio tape and using the achievement overlay to monitor whether the tracker goes up at all. If not, reload the save and try again, making sure both points above that can affect the tracker are taken into account.

Good luck!!

By The Time Tycoon on 04 Dec 2022 22:39

I am also stuck at 99%. There have to be bugs that prevent tracking if something else is happening. It is annoying. Thanks 2K!

By CarlosYabrudy on 28 Dec 2022 10:57

Stuck at 99% after collecting every audio diary twice. Nothing says "quality developer" like unpatched bugs in a 6 year old port of a 15 year old game. Thanks for nothing 2K.

By CamReyn7 on 29 Dec 2022 13:13

This glitched for me. I didn't see the problem with it not tracking until well into the game seeing the percentage was still low. I got all of them in one play-through. Only got to 95%. Achievement glitches are inexcusable and lame. FANTASTIC GAME. Played it when it first come out on the Xbox 360. Still awesome all these years later. (Update: During my second playthrough using NG+ it finally popped at "Marketing Gold" at Point Prometheus.)

By MisterWinkyFace on 12 Jan 2023 07:16

Just gonna share my experience here.

I ended up doing two and a bit playthroughs. First time was on 96% by the end, second time on New Game + was on 99%. On second playthrough I was mindful of The Time Tycoon's comments around other factors which appear to prevent tracking.

I reached out to 2K support at this point as like most of you I was pretty frustrated. They gave advice on clearing the cache (hard reset on xbox) and checking Internet connection to see if this resolved the issue. Neither of which worked for me.

They then noted that New Game + is known to have issues with incremental achievements (though it seems to work fine for others above) and so they suggested a new game without NG+. Fast forward to Neptune's Bounty, Sullivan - Have My Badge, and it has finally unlocked!

So if any of you are in the same boat as me, I suggest give it a go on a new game without NG+. It could just be coincidence and it may have worked on another NG+ save but who knows!

Edit: typos

By XK I Ghost on 30 Jan 2023 12:07

The first time I ended up with 96% even though I found everything. I had to start over and play until Hephaestus to get 100%. No other trick worked for me. Still a great game

By AcaElic OK on 09 Feb 2023 15:57

This glitched on me. Starting a "regular" new game fixed it when I found the glitched log... I didn't need New Game Plus. In my case it was Audio Diary #87/122: Fontaine's Legacy in Hephaestus. It was present in my log from the first run, but...

By A1exRD on 12 Feb 2023 23:32

I've done 2 runs (not with Ng+)
Stuck at 99%....
I give up, bored to do the game again :(

By Aknathos on 11 Mar 2023 21:52

Is anyone playing multiple games?

I found that it stopped tracking at the end of my 2nd playthrough. Everything in 3rd playthrough didnt count.

Going to play another New Game plus but this time choose the file that ended the first playthrough and see if that works.

By V Pustote on 19 Mar 2023 05:40

I have all 122. Stuck at 95%

By L Coil 1 on 09 Apr 2023 04:01

Counted and have all 122. Stuck at 85%

By BlitzGreg89 on 25 Apr 2023 21:59

Did another playthrough. Got all 122 but this time I'm stuck at 99%
What this means is out of the 122 only 1 or 2 didn't count somehow despite my picking them up.

Tomorrow I will start my third playthrough and I will make a manual save at every single collectible before I pick it up.

By BlitzGreg89 on 27 Apr 2023 05:28

Got my achievement on my 3rd playthrough. The one I was "missing" was on Fort Frolic. Provided the one(s) you are missing are located earlier in the game you don't have to do a full playthrough to get the achievement to unlock.

By BlitzGreg89 on 27 Apr 2023 22:22

Hm i'm hoping i have the same luck with it as Blitz above, done 2 playthroughs and got all diaries and little sisters both times and i'm stuck at 98% diaries and 95% for sisters. Might have to try a 3rd playthrough to see what happens i guess.

By JmCally on 13 May 2023 13:50

So I don’t know if this helps anyone. But I played through on easy and collected all 122. At the end of the game I was at 86%. I started up a second play through on NG+ and got to collectible 121/122 and the achievement popped. I got worried towards the end thinking I was going to have to do a third run. But my percent slowly went up to 100% from 86% in my second run.

By BigBubbaD on 03 Jun 2023 23:57

Similar to BigBubbaD above, I also got it on NG+ with collectible number 120/122 called Mistakes (which I definitely got in the first playthrough). The achievement showed 95% after the first playthrough and only jumped to 96% throughout NG+. From 96% it seemed to just unlock, so just hang in there if you are nearing the end of NG+ and it still hasn't changed!

By Daniel NZ on 04 Jun 2023 22:34

I had somewhat of a similar experience. First playthrough, I got to 95%. NG+ playthrough got me to 99%. I then started a fresh game and got to the midst of Hephaestus before this finally popped.

By McFuzzyBoots on 07 Jul 2023 03:36

Have done two play throughs now, got every single audio diary both times, still stuck at 99% :( Holding off starting a third in case it decides to pop randomly, please don't make me do it again

By FRED FTW on 10 Jul 2023 09:54

It took three playthroughs, all NG+ (all collected each time)
1st run ended on 93%, 2nd run 98% and on the third run i had the tracker on screen, the first one i was missing was one of the first and it didnt unlock until about 118th. The last run i followed the advice of not having any other messages playing and then when i picked one up I held A to play it and waited for it to finish before continuing
Hopefully this helps someone with this pos ( July 23)

By SuperPed13 on 15 Jul 2023 17:10

I picked up every audio diary on my first run but still ended with 87%, got the rest on NG+ using a method I came up with.

By VesperNumber93 on 07 Aug 2023 04:15

After my first playtrough i ended up with 89% despite picking up all. After my second playtrough and collecting all 122 again im at 98% now🫥

By Darkpro on 19 Aug 2023 21:02

had the same issue as everyone else, ended my first playthrough with 91% despite having all diaries :’)

fortunately got to 100% by apollo square in second playthrough - was careful to not pick any up whilst dialogue was playing as recommended

By Starieena on 15 Sep 2023 10:08

anybody stuck at 99%, your probably missing the *Requiem for Andrew Ryan Audio Diary. it can be found at Fort Forlic, in the Projection Booth of the Fleet Hall Theater (second floor). its easily missed because its locked when you first arrive.

By HeNDRY 1985 on 23 Mar 2024 12:16

I finished the game at 97%, missing: Welcome to Rapture / 1. New Year's Eve Alone; Medical Pavilion / 6. Love For Science; Rapture Central Control / 99. The Vita Chamber.

I started a NG+ on easy (which is almost god mode), grabbed "New Year's Eve Alone" and "Love For Science" after only a few minutes of running and gunning. After those two the xbox tracker said I was at 99%.

Here's the fun part: while in my NG+ easy game, I loaded a save at Hephaestus from my first play-through on normal difficulty. When the old save loaded, I ran into Ryan's office and picked up "The Vita Chamber" and the achievement popped. So I didn't have to replay all the way to Rapture Central Control. Hope that helps save someone time!

By Jacket Pants on 07 Apr 2024 15:13

It's also worth mentioning, in this xbox one version of bioshock, you do not need to get all of the diaries in one game.

I missed one in welcome to rapture, and I was able to start a new game, and just grab that diary, and get the progress toward the achievement. I went back to the save where I didn't grab that diary, and grabbed all the rest, and I got the achievement.

By sinembarg0 on 01 Feb 2019 00:17

Alright, after struggling with this for about a week, trying the new game +, trying to go back from a save and collect whats been missed, I had my tracker at 96% when I back tracked. I knew I missed "new years eve" so I collected all others. I even started a new game and got it only to see the tracker count up. MY ADVISE TO ANYONE THATS HAVING A PROBLEM WITH THIS ACHIEVEMENT IS TO START A NEW GAME. I started a new game on easy (so I could run and gun) didn't create any save only let the autosave save for me. Had to replay Arcadia that was it. Trust me don't get aggravated just start a new game if this is the only achievement your looking for! Good luck! Just wanted to share my experience.

By retep221981 on 02 Jul 2022 05:09

I unlocked the achivement right now. Was the same for me. When I finished the first playthough, I got all 122 audios, but no cheevo. My percentage for this cheevo stucked in 91%. I had to start a second playthrough through New Game Plus. The difficulty seems don't matter. I had to play the entire game again, collecting all audios again. This time, fortunatelly the cheevo unlocked with 116/122 during Point Prometheus level. This could be suck if the game wasn't good.

By netstryker on 15 Jun 2023 22:57

Ended my first playthrough with 91% and my second one (New Game +) with 99%. Tried reloading saves, restarting the xbox, deleting cache, opening achievement hub after picking up the last diary etc. Nothing has worked so far...

I am starting a fresh new game now and hopefully it will pop. If anyone has tips on how to unlock this glitched achievement, I would appreciate it.

Edit: It unlocked without any notification a few hours after posting this. I played up until "Smuggler's Hideout" on a new save before I turned off. I noticed the day after that it unlocked.

By Buff McRough on 01 Oct 2023 14:25

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Phule

TrueAchievements

17 Sep 2016 03:32

For this achievement I just used the guide on the wiki found here:

http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/BioShock_Audio_Diaries

The only thing I've noticed that is odd is when you're checking which diaries you've already grabbed, the "First Encounter" audio diary from Andrew Ryan is incorrectly listed in the Neptune's Bounty/Smuggler's Hideout tab instead of the Arcadia/Farmer's Market tab.

17 Sep 2016 03:32

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I was having the 96% glitch as well, I went back through while going for Brass Balls following the wiki guide and making sure I had all the audio diaries before I left each area. When I got to Point Prometheus I collected the last one I need for the achievement and the tracker went from 99% to 96%. I quit out of the game and shut it down and all that and went out for awhile and when I came back I was hoping it would turn on and pop, but it didn't. What fixed the glitch though was pressing a to look at the achievement where it said 100%, then I went to the game hub and it popped. Hope this helps everybody with the 96% problem.

By WLC93 on 24 Sep 2016 10:57

I thought I'd messed this up as I only missed the very first one, "New Years alone" and my achievement was at 99%. So I started a new game before even finishing the game, did the beginning and got the first one which gave me the achievement. Phew! I don't know if I had to collect the one that was missed or if the achievement tracker counts them as you get them but it's good to know missing one doesn't mean having to get them ALL again.

By mkdfan on 18 Sep 2016 23:42

I have 122. I compared my list to the wikia list and I have all the same ones. But my tracker is only at 96%. Did they reintroduce the diaries they took out or do the directors commentary now count. Or am I glitched?

By Kanchanaburi on 19 Sep 2016 05:57

96% was on my newer tracker. Went to my older tracker and it too says 99% and I have checked 122 all accounted for. And I collected another commentary that I didn't get before and it didn't increase either tracker. I can only summarize that this is glitched and that the person before me was glitched but that starting a new game allows you to add to the previous games count. I will confirm when I restart after I have completed.

By Kanchanaburi on 19 Sep 2016 06:15

i got all 122 too and mine is also stuck at 96% ...

By LucasPara96 on 19 Sep 2016 17:27

Did you check your other tracker (the older app), i'd bet it is at 99%. There MUST be one more, that didn't count in the original game, but does now.

By Kanchanaburi on 20 Sep 2016 05:06

I am unsure what your problem is. I followed the guide on the wiki and just double-checked to make sure I had all audio diaries in each area before progressing. I realized I missed one in apollo square while checking at the exit. maybe try that

By Phule on 20 Sep 2016 22:29

Mine is stuck at 96% as well. Looked thoroughly through each wiki guide and it appears I've got them all, even First Encounter. Really annoying as I don't want to have to collect them all again.

By tough c on 21 Sep 2016 15:22

I got stuck at 98%, went back and picked up the one I was missing and nothing happened.
Anyone had any luck with sorting this problem?

By United10717 on 21 Sep 2016 17:55

Yeah I'm stuck at 99% and have tried multiple things and it still won't pop.

By Wittsend01 on 21 Sep 2016 19:41

There are a few diaries you can collect off corpses, remember that.

By Phule on 23 Sep 2016 17:08

Counted all my diaries, am stuck at 99%. Eugh. Why is this achievement buggy?

Hopefully a new game plus save will pop this achievement.

By Cone Zone09 on 24 Sep 2016 06:30

That fixed it for me, thank you!

By ChaosSlayerX187 on 25 Sep 2016 13:03

I believe the achievement counter doesn't register sometimes. My "Research PhD" was glitched until I maxed out the Sentry Bots a 2nd time, so maybe the game registered that you picked it up but didn't send the data to the achievement. Now, I just need mine to unglitch..

By PangoBara on 26 Sep 2016 23:06

Finally got it after playing through new game plus to fort frolic. I picked up audio diary "fancy cigarettes" in the smoke shop. After that it popped. I went back and looked at my audio diaries in my other save, and I had picked that one up. Incredibly random.

By Cone Zone09 on 27 Sep 2016 20:17

after being at 99% with ALL 122 audio diaries collected, checked and triple checked, I started a new game plus, and when I picked up TIMOTHY Interrogation (after inputing the code this time and NOT hacking it), I got the achievement. I check my first save file and I DID already have this audio diary. The code is 5380.

By Kanchanaburi on 04 Oct 2016 22:33

I had the 99% problem as well, I went back through and turns out it was the "pulling together" diary that was bugged as the achievement popped on new game plus after collecting it. Im guessing whats going in is one diary is getting bugged for people with the 99% problem and not registering it to xbox. Just replay until it pops getting them 1 by 1.

By LuckyLegion N7 on 03 Jan 2017 19:06

Does this have to be done in a single playthrough? In other words, if I write down the diaries I missed and just go for those ones in a second playthrough, will this pop?

By thepack1221 on 04 Jan 2017 03:05

Does this have to be done in a single playthrough? In other words, if I write down the diaries I missed and just go for those ones in a second playthrough, will this pop?

By thepack1221 on 04 Jan 2017 17:50

"Does this have to be done in a single playthrough?"
No.

By FireRaiser1985 on 04 Jan 2017 21:24

Thank you! Sorry, I accidentally submitted a second comment when I was exiting the window the next day lol.

By thepack1221 on 06 Jan 2017 02:50

Mine never popped either. Found what one's I was missing and after picking up the last one... nothing. I saved, exited, and went to the game hub and as soon as i tabbed over to achievements, it popped. Now if only I could get the research achievements to pop...

By Signal24Code20 on 14 Jan 2017 03:04

For those who might still hem all but still having a stuck achievement counter. What I did was go back and open each and every one of them in the menu, it my stuck status at 99% for 2 weeks pop and I got my Gs.

By sti marcus on 10 Jan 2018 14:05

I'm currently collecting all the audio diaries but I've noticed the achievement tracker is counting them wrong. The percentage is currently lower than it should be for how many diaries I have. With all these people complaining about the achievement being stuck at 99% should I be worried or will this eventually correct itself?

By PopindaChopz on 27 Jun 2018 21:33

I can confirm as of June 2020 if it doesn't pop on your last audio diary then shutting the game down completely, then restarting your xbox and rebooting the game, then looking at your achievement list from the guide and selecting this achievement, and then finally going to the game hub does infact unlock it. It never popped onscreen but my gamerscore and achievement list were credited.

By ResDogsMrPink on 03 Jun 2020 23:47

I couldn't get this to unlock even after weeks. Tried everything and stuck at 99%

By JackBlaise on 19 Jun 2020 07:51

My game got stuck at 99% yesterday. I double checked I had all 122 diaries, and I did. With other non-popping achievements I had been able to get them by visiting the “all achievements” page on the dash, as has been widely discussed. Not so for this one. I went and did another few achievements today and this evening started BioShock 2 Remastered. Then, bam! This achievement popped about 1 hour into BioShock 2. Weird, or what? I’m very happy that I don’t have to restart BS1. Thought I would just post for benefit of anyone else in this situation.

By egparadigm on 27 Oct 2023 21:02

I was also stuck at 99% but finally I figured out which diary I was missing.
Remember that you can check which diaries you have picked up. Press the back button and then RB twice.
I checked one by one using this guide: http://www.visualwalkthroughs.com/bioshock/maps/maps.htm
The one i was missing was on a f...cking corpse in the Hephaestus level.
Don't give up! Check again! :) And hopefully you have a save on each level like I had. :)

By FireRaiser1985 on 23 Sep 2016 00:34

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OldManSolus

TrueAchievements

30 Sep 2016 19:40

Video guide for all Diaries and all Weapon upgrades.

30 Sep 2016 19:40

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this vid was very helpful thx

By Ashs2Dust on 08 Dec 2018 09:36

Auresil

TrueAchievements

19 Sep 2016 13:47

Here is a Map Guide from VisualWalkthroughs.

https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/BioShock_Maps

In two Area's you can't go back!
- Welcome to Rapture
- Rapture Central Control

You can revisit all other's befor take the elevator, but you shoud do that bevore you become a

19 Sep 2016 13:47

Ac1dDrinks

TrueAchievements

05 Oct 2016 17:00

Hey guys for those who need a visual guide with some commentary i made a guide! (It also has all the Power To The People upgrades with it)

05 Oct 2016 17:00

ZigsterLV

TrueAchievements

24 Dec 2021 20:44

Above mentioned guides āre good. Just wanted to add even if you collect all audio logs in the game, xbox wount reģistrē it in the system. For me and many other player it seams to stop ON 96% or 99%. A had 99%(excluding director cuts film wheels) and achievment wount pop. In that case what you have to do.
Finish your first playtrou ON any dificulity, and then start New game plus(alows you to cary your progress and unlockable weopons, abilities, thonicks from get go). And again pick up audio logs from start. Myne achievment unlocked by collection audio log in mision FISH MARKET, the first one next to the turēt at mision start. Būt it May be random for every one what it seams from coments.
Good luck

24 Dec 2021 20:44

IFreeMz

TrueSteamAchievements

11 Jan 2020 00:00

Here's a guide for all of the collectibles in Bioshock Remastered including all of the audio diaries. Hopefully it helps some of you out.

11 Jan 2020 00:00

rune13

stratege.ru

07 Dec 2016 17:16

This guide was translated automatically.

Video guide .

07 Dec 2016 17:16

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Here is a list of all diaries and their locations - https://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/BioShock_Audio_Diaries
In the menu (where the map is) there is a list of all the diaries you have collected. Just check the list in front of the main boss and look for the missing ones.
Don't worry, the game allows you to return to completed stages through the submersible.

By Svoloch_Abramov on 19 Jun 2017 17:26

Audio diary of Andrew Ryan - First Encounter is displayed in Neptune's Bounty although taken in Arcadia.

By RAVER on 05 Jul 2019 00:24

There are 5 skippable diaries in the game.

By zerozeroufo on 29 Aug 2017 19:14

The trophy is cumulative! Missed audio recordings can be collected in the second playthrough. Got it after skipping an audio file in Rapture Central Control.

By indieboy15 on 10 Feb 2020 11:49

Here are the diaries you need to collect:

Welcome to Rapture

Diane McClintock - New Year's Eve Alone - On a table in the flooded area of the Kashmir restaurant.
Steve Barker - Hole in Bathroom Wall - On the far wall in Kashmir's bathroom.

Rapture Central Control (Ryan's office)

Yi Suchong - The Vita Chamber - Control room, table next to the Vita-Chamber.
Yi Suchong - Mind Control Test - Control room with photos of Fontaine, Suchong, Tennebaum
Yi Suchong - Baby Status - Ibid.

All the rest can be collected before entering the test site.

By redSnake on 11 Feb 2020 11:03

If anyone missed the diaries from the first location, collect all the others that you can return to through the bathyscaphe, then go to the last boss, kill, and start NG+ and select the last save, finish off these diaries and that’s all, verified personally 02/25/2020

By Clu on 25 Feb 2020 16:32

The trophy is not cumulative. I had to go through the game again, I couldn’t collect the first 2, NG+ wouldn’t let me continue. Be sure to collect the first 2.

By devilsar on 09 Feb 2020 00:22

Video guide on collecting audio diaries, plasmids, tonics, and improving weapons.

By Otacon1326 on 20 Feb 2020 13:29

Video guide (en) with all segments purely from diaries.

By Hempakobec on 25 Jun 2022 13:05

During the last chapters the game crashed and after restarting it said that the save was damaged, it loaded from the beginning of the current chapter and after that trophies for cumulative items (diaries, plasmids, tonics, sisters, weapon upgrades) stopped appearing, even after restarting from earlier saves. On NG+, after receiving the inventory from the previous playthrough, I clicked the trophy for weapon upgrades, the rest were not counted. Looks like you'll have to go through it again.

By Loredan_sergey on 28 Aug 2017 01:05

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