Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

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C3 | A Stitch in Time Saves 99

C3 | A Stitch in Time Saves 99

Earn 99 Lives.

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How to unlock the C3 | A Stitch in Time Saves 99 achievement in Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy - Definitive Guide

Unfortunately there isn't a 5 minute way to do this like the other 2 games.

Here's what I did:

Load level 16, SPHYNXINATOR. At the start, go backwards and grab the life then continue onwards to the fork in the road, and go left. You'll come to a long chasm. To get across slide and double jump then do the rapid spin (B, A, A, tap X). Hug the wall to the left to avoid the arrows. Run past Mr Mummy and Mr Monkey. Hit the switch, jump across and grab the 4 lives.

Once you've done that, exit the level, reload your save and rinse and repeat. If you get into the swing of things fast, this shouldn't take you more than 30 mins.
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06 Jul 2018 07:20

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You actually need to go left to get to the lives. The right side is the normal path
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By HarrySon9 on 07 Jul 2018 17:57
Fixed. Cheers for the neg for a small mistake.
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By Muttley n0w on 08 Jul 2018 06:55
Another method to do early on is to do Orient Express and get the lives there and reload the save. If you do it right you should get 6 lives each run. There are 5 lives in the level and you will get a bonus life for getting 100 wumpa fruit equaling 6 lives. You can access the level from the start of the game.
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By ecinrun on 09 Jul 2018 13:35
Future Tense is also a good level for lives. The level is not to difficult to learn and you can average 13ish lives per run pretty quickly.
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By Tucky90 on 10 Jul 2018 20:32
They may give more lives per run, but I can assure you they aren't as quick and easy.
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By Muttley n0w on 18 Jul 2018 01:11
I don't get the reload the save. Doesn't the level reset when you quit it? Do you save after you exit the level and then reload it?
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By FrustratedNerd on 19 Nov 2018 12:18
If you don't reload the save, then the boxes with the lives won't reappear. It will autosave when you exit and keep the lives you earned, but when you reload the save it resets the level to be able to earn the lives again
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By BloodKrait on 21 Nov 2018 20:38
Small Tip - for mine at least - If you're doing the SPHYNXINATOR way, at the start turn around and head backwards and spin the 4 boxes, there's a life in there too so you get 5 a run!
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By PezzaLezza on 10 Jan 2019 19:59
^ my guide includes it mate. :D
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By Muttley n0w on 12 Feb 2019 00:09
Ace guide! +1
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By A Big Radroach on 13 Apr 2019 17:09
Awesome guide; by far the quickest way to farm lives. Just for reference, after my second run, I was getting each load to load point in just under 1 minute, like 58 seconds. You need to do this a maximum of 20 times if you don't slip up, so shouldn't take longer than 20 mins really.
Thanks for this!
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By Liam Neil on 18 Jul 2020 15:27
I discovered that if you are doing 'The Riddle of the Sphynx' achievement for the first time, you can do the same trick of quitting and reloading your save file as well. I don't know how fast that is but since loading times are fast in this game you get at least 2 lives every 25 seconds ish, if you are fast enough maybe 20 seconds, so up to 6 lives a minute. Also you don't need to do any platforming to do it that way.
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By Ruler Michael92 on 04 Aug 2022 20:19
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There is achievement for collecting 99 lives, and the fastest and easiest way to do it, is by simply beating stages one by one (and do not die). There is no special stage that will give you like 20 lives.

So for a quick pick and speed 99 lives - pick Stage3: Orient Express
This stage has like 5 lives to collect. If you will collect apples, and boxes you can get 6 lives in 1 try.

The trick now:
- Load the game, go to stage 3, beat it,
- Learn the pattern where are the lives to get, do not die,
- Get out of the stage (by portal as normal), the game will save,
- On pad, hit that LT, choose the slot, and hit LOAD GAME. YES! LOAD THE GAME!

Repeat the Stage3 (it will again have restore all the lives).
Do it untill you will hit 99.

In the video I start with 85 lives (although I had less, like 30?)
So it is like I receive 15 lives in 5 minutes.

So yes, hope this trick will get the job done.
Happy leveling and achievement hunting! :D
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06 Jul 2020 10:26

There isn't a method as simple as the first game for grinding out lives, but there is still a relatively quick and reliable method. It requires you to at least progress and complete the third warp zone, both to access the level and to have both the double jump and spin upgrades. Then, load up Level 16, Sphinxanator. Right at the start, head down toward the camera to find four boxes, one of which is an extra life. Then, head forward and take the left path. It's a giant gap you can cross by doing a slide jump, double jump, and then aerial spins to get across. Continue on this short path to reach four extra lives at the end. 

Once you collect all five lives, pause and quit out, back to the hub. In the hub, press lt.png and choose your save, to load it. Choose OK and your game will reload. This resets all extra lives in all levels. Now go back into the level and repeat what you just did. This will get you five lives in under a minute, and is the fastest way I know of to grind out lives. 

Here's a clip of me doing the quick run for five lives.

https://www.xbox.com/play/media/3K2UQTSCKC 
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