Cassette Beasts

This achievement requires to remaster an astral bootleg of Traffikrab (this one being the same type as the Traffikrab that allows fast travel in-game).

edit: to those downvoting without stating why, I hope every game you play has one achievement that won't pop!


The first guide is working fine...if you have 10+ hours to throw at it. I tried, it's not fun at all.
Fortunately there is also a way to not rely on any RNG using the debug console.
Enabling the console will mark your save file as cheated, which is visible in the speedrun timer.
This won't prevent you from completing the game or getting achievements though.

The console can be enabled (and disabled) with the following cheat:

• On keyboard: hold Ctrl and type cheats

• On controller: hold + and press in sequence , , , , , , , (press the left stick in like a button)

Once enabled, you can show and hide the debug console by pressing F1 on a keyboard, or on a controller (press the right stick in like a button).


You can now open the console and type
which will - obviously - give you a tape of an astral bootleg of Traffikrab.

Level it up to 5 stars, remaster it at a campfire or at the bar and...achievement unlocked!
You can also speed up the leveling up part by giving yourself Upgrapes:

Evolve an Astral Traffikrab. This gives you a secret specie.

So, how do you hunt an Astral Traffikrab? The best option I know of make use of save scumming so you do not waste ritual candles:

Find a Rogue Fusion that contains a Traffikrab, flee from it (which will not reset the fusion, so it will still have the Traffikrab in it), burn a Ritual Candle(obtainable from the Ranger store for 50 fused materials after beating all captains if you've already used up your free one) and then recycle an Astral type monster cassette (not one used for recording). Go back into the Rogue Fusion fight. This will have made one of the monsters in the Rogue Fusion into an Astral type. If the wrong monster was made into an Astral type then reload.

Record an astral Traffikrab and remaster it into
Non-debug solution.
Strategy comes from Zealousideal-Try4666's bootleg hunting post on the Cassette Beasts subreddit. Posted with their permission.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cassettebeasts/comments/13tyaxv/qui...
May take ten minutes to several hours depending on RNG.

1. Obtain 50 fused materials. These can be obtained by defeating fusions, completing noticeboard quests, or fighting archangels.
2. Go to the fused materials store in the ranger HQ and purchase a ritual candle.
3. (OPTIONAL) Obtain 50 more fused materials and purchase an optical laser tape (guarantees catch).
4. Record a regular Traffikrab (with a regular tape, not the optical laser tape). Easily found on the beach just east of Harbourtown.
5. Turn off Autosave. After this, you should commit solely to recording the astral Traffikrab. I recommend not having any other priorities in the game until you catch it.
6. Go to the Gramophone Cafe and take a break at the table.
7. Go into your inventory and burn (use) the ritual candle.
8. Go into your tape storage and recycle the spare Traffikrab.
9. Manually save your game¹. Do not save again until you have recorded an astral traffikrab (or you are refreshing spawns, see note 5.)
10. Grind time: Get into a battle with a rogue fusion². If you find a fusion with an astral element, and you see part of Traffikrab's name in the fusion's name, bring the fusion's HP to 0 to break it apart³. If one of the separated monsters is an astral Traffikrab, record it (use your optical laser tape if you have it). Otherwise, flee the battle, go to the pause menu, quit to the game menu, and reload your save⁴. Repeat until successful⁵. Be careful when quitting, as the save choice is right above the quit choice, and the game does not ask to confirm when overwriting your save. If you accidentally save without recording an astral Traffikrab, you will have to get another 50 fused materials to get another ritual candle and start over.
11. Once you do record an astral Traffikrab, immediately save your game manually. Feel free to turn autosave back on, the worst part is over
12. Return to the cafe or any camping spot and take the astral Traffikrab out of tape storage and into your party.
13. Fight monsters/enemies/fusions/archangels until your astral Traffikrab hits 5 stars.
14. Return to the cafe or any camping spot and rest. When the option to remaster your astral Traffikrab appears, do so. The achievement should pop immediately after remastering.

¹ Saving your game after the ritual saves time by not having to do all the ritual steps every time you reload. The game will maintain that you burned a Traffikrab when you reload. The downside is you can't really do anything else until you finish it.

² The location of the rogue fusion doesn't matter, but I recommend specifically rogue fusions over monster swarms or unstable fusions. Rogue fusions effectively give you two chances of encountering a Traffikrab, whereas a monster swarm is always solely one type of monster, and an unstable fusion has two monsters, but one is always Anathema, effectively also giving only one chance of encountering a Traffikrab. Orb fusions reportedly have a higher chance of having a bootleg than all other fusions, but I had not unlocked them yet when writing this guide.
I assume you have the fusion meter from Ianthe when you attempt this, which tells the difference between the different types of fusions on the map. If not, you can get it by completing noticeboard level 1.

³ Use single-hit attacks (e.g. Smack, Spit, Wallop, Energy Shot) with elements that don't cause DoT (such as burn, poison, or conductive) to minimize the chance of accidentally killing an astral Traffikrab. Make sure to not have any passives equipped that could also accidentally kill your target.

⁴ Ritual candles only work for a single fusion encounter, which is why you need to reload after each attempt. If you can't flee, dashboard and restart.

⁵ I noticed that after a while, reloading my save would spawn the same fusions in the same locations on the map. If you notice this, reload your save, immediately rest twice at the cafe (to get to the next day), and save again. This should refresh the fusion spawns.

Record an astral Traffikrab and remaster it into
Non-debug solution.
Strategy comes from Zealousideal-Try4666's bootleg hunting post on the Cassette Beasts subreddit. Posted with their permission.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cassettebeasts/comments/13tyaxv/qui...
May take ten minutes to several hours depending on RNG.

1. Obtain 50 fused materials. These can be obtained by defeating fusions, completing noticeboard quests, or fighting archangels.
2. Go to the fused materials store in the ranger HQ and purchase a ritual candle.
3. (OPTIONAL) Obtain 50 more fused materials and purchase an optical laser tape (guarantees catch).
4. Record a regular Traffikrab (with a regular tape, not the optical laser tape). Easily found on the beach just east of Harbourtown.
5. Turn off Autosave. After this, you should commit solely to recording the astral Traffikrab. I recommend not having any other priorities in the game until you catch it.
6. Go to the Gramophone Cafe and take a break at the table.
7. Go into your inventory and burn (use) the ritual candle.
8. Go into your tape storage and recycle the spare Traffikrab.
9. Manually save your game¹. Do not save again until you have recorded an astral traffikrab (or you are refreshing spawns, see note 5.)
10. Grind time: Get into a battle with a rogue fusion². If you find a fusion with an astral element, and you see part of Traffikrab's name in the fusion's name, bring the fusion's HP to 0 to break it apart³. If one of the separated monsters is an astral Traffikrab, record it (use your optical laser tape if you have it). Otherwise, flee the battle, go to the pause menu, quit to the game menu, and reload your save⁴. Repeat until successful⁵. Be careful when quitting, as the save choice is right above the quit choice, and the game does not ask to confirm when overwriting your save. If you accidentally save without recording an astral Traffikrab, you will have to get another 50 fused materials to get another ritual candle and start over.
11. Once you do record an astral Traffikrab, immediately save your game manually. Feel free to turn autosave back on, the worst part is over
12. Return to the cafe or any camping spot and take the astral Traffikrab out of tape storage and into your party.
13. Fight monsters/enemies/fusions/archangels until your astral Traffikrab hits 5 stars.
14. Return to the cafe or any camping spot and rest. When the option to remaster your astral Traffikrab appears, do so. The achievement should pop immediately after remastering.

¹ Saving your game after the ritual saves time by not having to do all the ritual steps every time you reload. The game will maintain that you burned a Traffikrab when you reload. The downside is you can't really do anything else until you finish it.

² The location of the rogue fusion doesn't matter, but I recommend specifically rogue fusions over monster swarms or unstable fusions. Rogue fusions effectively give you two chances of encountering a Traffikrab, whereas a monster swarm is always solely one type of monster, and an unstable fusion has two monsters, but one is always Anathema, effectively also giving only one chance of encountering a Traffikrab. Orb fusions reportedly have a higher chance of having a bootleg than all other fusions, but I had not unlocked them yet when writing this guide.
I assume you have the fusion meter from Ianthe when you attempt this, which tells the difference between the different types of fusions on the map. If not, you can get it by completing noticeboard level 1.

³ Use single-hit attacks (e.g. Smack, Spit, Wallop, Energy Shot) with elements that don't cause DoT (such as burn, poison, or conductive) to minimize the chance of accidentally killing an astral Traffikrab. Make sure to not have any passives equipped that could also accidentally kill your target.

⁴ Ritual candles only work for a single fusion encounter, which is why you need to reload after each attempt. If you can't flee, dashboard and restart.

⁵ I noticed that after a while, reloading my save would spawn the same fusions in the same locations on the map. If you notice this, reload your save, immediately rest twice at the cafe (to get to the next day), and save again. This should refresh the fusion spawns.

There is a 100% way to do this, but you need to complete the game first.
In a new game it should take you about 45-60 minutes to get the Astral Traffikrab, and another 60-90 minutes to train it afterwards

Step 1, complete game, you get


Step 2
Start new game, but click first on the pick save slot screen to start a custom game. You probably don't want to overwrite your old one, so pick an empty one

Step 3
Write in 8206 in the Seed field. And start game.
If people know of more seeds that do the same as in step 8. Comment below.

Step 4
Play the tutorial
First time in your room use the letterbox and get the rewards, currently BARKLEY and UNDYINLOVE, so that you get a full party early

Step 5
Play the game as normal until you reach the Ranger house out in the field, to get a fast travel point.

Step 5
Go west from there. Your partner will tell you the monsters are stronger than yours, but you should manage. We aren't going far and you can jump over most of the trainers in the road. If you break a tape, just fast travel to the cafe and heal, and fast travel back to the ranger house and continue. You should have your starter, Kayleigh's starter. The two from the letterbox and a Dominoth from the tutorial right now. Diveal in next step should fill out your team, or Brushroom if you go the jumping route mentioned below.

(As a sidenote. If you got the speedrun strat jumping under control, you can just jump from one side of town to the next. So you wont need Diveal. But you might want to talk to Felix in that area anyway so he will get Brushroom and can start applying Resonance. But there are just minutes to spare by jumping at this moment)

Step 6
Record a Diveal, you probably remember where you could find it from the first time, but it is on an island in the top left corner of the lake, and there is a wooden bridge connecting to the path you're coming from.

Step 7
After that it's just a swim south to get to West Harbourtown. I managed to get there without a single fight.

Step 8
Enter the house in the north east corner of this part of town. He will tell you about bootlegs. And give you one for free. In this seed that happens to be an Astral Traffikrab.

Step 9
Lower the bridge in the middle of town, go to the cafe and swap it in (unless you already had room for it) and start levelling it up.

At this part of the game most monsters are low level so it will generally take a while. For me it took 140 minutes from New Game to levelling it up. Personally I went to Mournington after lv 15, to follow that storyline as the city has many cultist to battle and a close by Fast travel point. You have already played this part already so you know what monster levels you are comfortable with. And if you have control on the glass coating/resonance strategy, you could probably go to The Marshes and Graveyard and level up extremely fast.

The resonance strategy is a speedrun strat so you can see it with setup here:

There is a 100% way to do this, but you need to complete the game first.
In a new game it should take you about 45-60 minutes to get the Astral Traffikrab, and another 60-90 minutes to train it afterwards

Step 1, complete game, you get


Step 2
Start new game, but click first on the pick save slot screen to start a custom game. You probably don't want to overwrite your old one, so pick an empty one

Step 3
Write in 8206 in the Seed field. And start game.
If people know of more seeds that do the same as in step 8. Comment below.

Step 4
Play the tutorial
First time in your room use the letterbox and get the rewards, currently BARKLEY and UNDYINLOVE, so that you get a full party early

Step 5
Play the game as normal until you reach the Ranger house out in the field, to get a fast travel point.

Step 5
Go west from there. Your partner will tell you the monsters are stronger than yours, but you should manage. We aren't going far and you can jump over most of the trainers in the road. If you break a tape, just fast travel to the cafe and heal, and fast travel back to the ranger house and continue. You should have your starter, Kayleigh's starter. The two from the letterbox and a Dominoth from the tutorial right now. Diveal in next step should fill out your team, or Brushroom if you go the jumping route mentioned below.

(As a sidenote. If you got the speedrun strat jumping under control, you can just jump from one side of town to the next. So you wont need Diveal. But you might want to talk to Felix in that area anyway so he will get Brushroom and can start applying Resonance. But there are just minutes to spare by jumping at this moment)

Step 6
Record a Diveal, you probably remember where you could find it from the first time, but it is on an island in the top left corner of the lake, and there is a wooden bridge connecting to the path you're coming from.

Step 7
After that it's just a swim south to get to West Harbourtown. I managed to get there without a single fight.

Step 8
Enter the house in the north east corner of this part of town. He will tell you about bootlegs. And give you one for free. In this seed that happens to be an Astral Traffikrab.

Step 9
Lower the bridge in the middle of town, go to the cafe and swap it in (unless you already had room for it) and start levelling it up.

At this part of the game most monsters are low level so it will generally take a while. For me it took 140 minutes from New Game to levelling it up. Personally I went to Mournington after lv 15, to follow that storyline as the city has many cultist to battle and a close by Fast travel point. You have already played this part already so you know what monster levels you are comfortable with. And if you have control on the glass coating/resonance strategy, you could probably go to The Marshes and Graveyard and level up extremely fast.

The resonance strategy is a speedrun strat so you can see it with setup here: