Ghostbusters: The Video Game

51 Achievements

19-23h

PS3

No Job Too Big

Defeated all Most Wanted Ghosts

Bronze

Ultra Rare

1.3%

How to unlock the No Job Too Big achievement in Ghostbusters: The Video Game - Definitive Guide

Batman5273

TrueAchievements

21 Jun 2009 22:38

Most Wanted Ghost FaQ

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Setting: Library
Levels: Reading Room, Basement Stacks, Twisted Stacks
Ghosts: The Book of Pain, Captain of the Guard, Olga the Terrible, Dredge

The Book of Pain: complete any job in any of the library levels.

Captain of the Guard: Capture book of pain and kill 20 paper enemies.

Olga the Terrible: Capture the captain and complete 5 jobs in the library.

Dredge: Capture Olga and complete 10 library thief jobs.

Setting: Times Square
Levels: Streets, Office, Rooftops
Ghosts: Smelly Ned, Dolnasky the Foreman, Grimgreave, Binky

Smelly Ned: Complete 5 containments in time square maps.

Dolnasky: Capture Ned and collect 50 powerups.

Grimgreave: Capture Dolnasky and kill 20 gargolyes and/or cherubs using slams.

Binky: Capture Grimgreave and complete 10 survivals on timesquare maps.

Setting: Museum
Levels: Rotunda, Mayan, Egypt
Ghosts: Grundel, Sharpshooter Bailey, The Maestro, Grand Pappy Sargassi

Grundel: Complete 5 museum protections.

Sharpshooter Bailey: Capture Grundel and capture 15 civil war ghosts.

The Maestro: Capture Bailey and complete 10 museum survival jobs.

Grand Pappy Sargassi: Capture Maestro and complete 15 jobs on museum levels.

Setting: Cemetary
Levels: Graveyard, Altar, Lost Temple
Ghosts: Mad Mad Minimo, the Darkest, the Clawed Menace, The Uprising

Mad Mad Minimo: earn 50k in any cemetary job. (must be in a single match, survival recomended)

the Darkest: Capture Minimo and kill 15 black slime monsters.

the Clawed Menace: Capture Darkest and kill 50 cemetary crawlers (they are the spider like tombstone things.)

the Uprising: Capture menace and complete 10 survival jobs in the Cemetary.

Setting: Any
Levels: Any (except for slime dunk)
Ghosts: Rotten Slimer, Wee Slimer, Polar Slimer, Glutton Slimer.

Rotten Slimer: Capture 10 slimers.

Wee Slimer: Capture Rotten Slimer and win at least 3 slime dunks.

Polar Slimer: Capture Wee Slimer and achieve 20 slim dunks on each of the slime dunk maps.

Glutton Slimer: Capture Polar Slimer and complete 60 jobs.

Notes: I have never had a ghost appear on a slime dunk level.

I have seen the most ghosts show up on containment followed closely by survival.

You don't have to be the individual to capture it as long as someone does while you are in the game you get credit for it.

If somone triggers a higher ghost in the order while you are in the room you still get credit.

If someone else is in the room and they are on a lower ghost than the one you need the ghost they are on almost always shows up.

courtesy of xrouge 5x

21 Jun 2009 22:38

97 Comments

Boo on those of you who down voted this poor guy. The dude posted a solution, its not his fault the game is glitched, Thumbs up for effort, good try.

By Dimitri on 29 Dec 2009 01:55

For Polar Slimer do you need make the 20 dunks all in a single game, or can you get 10 in one game, then 10 later as long as its on the same map?

By v C R E E P v on 25 Jun 2009 22:45

Similar Q for the ones where you say capture x amount of ghost is this all on the one job or accumulative over many games??

By True Marvellous on 15 Jul 2009 11:43

Similar Q for the ones where you say capture x amount of ghost is this all on the one job or accumulative over many games??

By True Marvellous on 15 Jul 2009 16:37

Similar Q for the ones where you say capture x amount of ghost is this all on the one job or accumulative over many games??

By True Marvellous on 15 Jul 2009 18:06

why is this unobtainable?

By Sgt Doink on 12 Oct 2009 04:16

It is glitched. One of the ghosts never appears (or atleast that was the last I heard a couple of months ago)

By GremUK on 13 Oct 2009 14:45

He posted the guide with the complete listed and failed to mention it was glitched AND which ghosts you can't get.

Why post a guide to an unobtainable achievement?

By dropK1CK ninJA on 09 Jan 2010 17:23

did any of you knuckleheads noticed that I posted the FAQ way before any of us knew it was glitched? I posted how to get it, but the game is not registering that you did. And Atari never put out a patch. The FAQ came straight from the registered gamers guide. Everything up until Polar Slimer works. So screw you all that gave me negative votes. I gave proper info. Not my fault the game is glitched. I don't even have the achievement.

By Batman5273 on 22 Jun 2010 17:22

Whenever the guide says to "complete" a task that does not equate to a win. For example, the Uprising: Capture Clawed Menace and complete 10 survival jobs in the Cemetary. One does not have to win a survival round 10 times. Original Sassy and I did not win 10 cemetary rounds, however we got the Uprising by making it through at least wave 8 10 times.

By HappyCampersII on 09 Jul 2010 15:37

Isn't this a classic example of why you should only be able to post a guide for an achievement that you indeed have? Everything else is just hand waving speculation no matter how obvious the answer might seem, after all it *could* be glitched rendering your guide, all the time you spent on it, and all the time ppl spent following it... pointless.

By QuanticJustice on 12 Jul 2010 06:37

I really don't think anyone you get the point... I was really excited about the game and I really love this website. And I love to help out fellow gamers. No one at all knew that the achievement was glitched. No one until people started going for polar slimer. And when people wrote activision they said to do thr same thing that is in my guide. My guide is not al all flawed, the game is. And the guide will work once the game is patched in the fall.

By Batman5273 on 12 Jul 2010 09:44

So Batman5273, this will be fixed? They have stated that? Or is it merely hoping it gets patched in the fall?

By Mrxknown JG on 08 Sep 2010 04:55

Wee Slimer just got caught--think the patch is finally here!

By Kelvin Thorn on 15 Sep 2010 01:29

The patch isn't here yet. The problem is with Polar Slimer, not Wee Slimer.

By jigawatts121 on 18 Sep 2010 00:42

Great solution. My only question is what game type are the ghost most likely to appear after pre-requisits are met. ie.. I will assume for the slimers play slime slame, But does that mean for binky it has to be done in survival or will he appear in other gametypes.

Huge boo goes to those who voted negative, Not his fault for a glitched chievo. if I could I would vote positive for each negative vote recieved.

By Kol Kavs on 22 Nov 2010 19:36

The 6mb patch was released today. I downloaded and played no less than rounds of containment before both the Polar and Glutton slimers appeared. I captured both...no achievement. Thanks TR.

By EvH347 on 01 Dec 2010 21:36

I just captured the last one and the achievement didn't unlock for me. I played only after installing the 12/2010 update. This and Gozer are the last ones I need and I'm afraid they are not going to unlock...

(it seems that many ppl have problems opening "couple last" achievements. Usually Gozer and Payday!. I got payday before overachiever, don't know if that is related.

In a nutshell. It seems that even with the new patch, there is a *possibility* that you are able to unlock only 48/50 achievements. :/

By ugli on 09 Jan 2011 13:29

Never played before patch. Got all Most Wanted Ghosts. No achievement. FML.

By visheyry on 13 Jan 2011 02:53

I got this achievement last night...played pre-patch...but only got one most wanted ghost before the patch was released.

By MovieMan5021 on 21 Jan 2011 15:43

I NEVER TOUCHED THE ONLINE BACK IN 09 WHEN THE GAME CAME OUT. BUT THIS AND PAYDAY STILL GLITCHED! IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF GLITCHED ACHIEVEMENTS. WHAT ARE WE PAYING FOR IF YOU CANT FIX YOUR SERVERS AND HARDWARE!

By PhxSuns1Fan on 01 Dec 2011 19:59

Just got all the Most Wanted Ghost and nothing, not sure what to do at this point, since I got both Payday and Employee of the Month...

By on 10 Apr 2012 04:26

If anybody needs this i need people to play with, I just need glutten but im willing to help you get them all

By SegmentedMass73 on 23 Feb 2023 20:41

Does anyone else get the message "please select a storage device" each time they boot the game; then when you select your storage device it says your stats will be overwritten? Could it be that's why people are having trouble getting some of the glitched achievements? Because its overwriting your progress each time you start multiplayer?

By Robhill on 09 Dec 2012 23:49

Just tried this, had been sitting on my final two ghosts (the ones that were never added to the game in the first place) got the two ghosts to complete the most wanted collection and no achievement. Yay.

By Piemanns Bakery on 10 Dec 2012 05:38

Can anyone help me get Glutton Slimer?

By Chizzy on 11 Dec 2012 09:06

^ Same here, last one I need is Glutton and I'm pretty sure I've done well over 60 jobs. Completed 60 jobs that is.

By o0EviIToaster0o on 10 Feb 2013 09:48

After much confusion on this...for the final 4 ghosts, the first of the last 4 at least...the easiest way to get slimers to show is do Destruction on Office...destroy the relics quickly, and after 4 or 5 relics slimers will appear on both sides if looking out the whole in the building. Destroy the relic in the middle which spawns dogs, then leave the other two and rack up slimers. Slimers collected in Slime Dunk do not count.

By imaidiot19 on 14 Oct 2013 04:54

It seems that Glutton requires 60 jobs won than just completed. I can't confirm this, but I have completed over 60, and no achievement. Anyone out there that can confirm?

By imaidiot19 on 05 Nov 2013 03:40

Really good guide. I haven't got this yet but getting close and I apprciate your guidance :)
I do not know why anyone would down vote this. It has all the information you require.

By Blood DM on 09 Jan 2015 05:25

I am depressed its my last achievement and it will not unlock only played online with my xbox one. My best friend got it but i did not and we captured all of them together.

By sean2k5 on 21 Feb 2017 00:31

I really wish they would fix the servers.....

By UNeakOne on 07 Jun 2017 09:57

My last ghost is the rotten slimmer. Anyone know why it's not showing up?

By Unmet Player on 25 Jun 2017 02:30

Damn servers...

By WickedWitchWest on 01 Feb 2018 14:03

Server working ... i I picked this up in April / 2018.

By JeffGOMES on 17 Apr 2018 04:21

I'M A PRE-PATCH PLAYER AND I JUST UNLOCKED THIS ON SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2018!!!

By Crater Bob on 27 Sep 2018 02:17

Also, my post-patch friend just got his shortly after mine (he still needed Sharpshooter Bailey, The Maestro, and Grandpappy Sargassi), so I can confirm this works for pre- and post-patch, but I cannot say what bugs out this achievement in post-patch era.

And not to get anyone mad, but my post-patch friend got this achievement in just THREE NIGHTS with me. :P

By Crater Bob on 27 Sep 2018 05:47

Well, by how I understand it you can not get the achievement if you make multiplayer your last achievement of the game. That's my problem. I did all single player things first then multiplayer. Don't do that next you will get the achievement just fine.

By sean2k5 on 27 Sep 2018 09:53

I'm glad you're a positive person. So what is your suggestion for people like me. My most wanted list is full I've caught everything and it was my last achievement of the game. Should I just install it on my 360 then try it even if my list is all ready full ?

By sean2k5 on 28 Sep 2018 09:13

I need this, tell me if you're available, my GT is xHSx Tapia

By xHSx Tapia on 28 Feb 2023 18:46

I'm in the same situation as sean2k5. My most wanted list is full too. Do i need to find some one with an incomplete list?. Should i play randomly in order the achievement to appear?.

Thanks

By WickedWitchWest on 30 Sep 2018 07:46

No solution for people who began to play online before patch?. Thanks

By WickedWitchWest on 30 Sep 2018 08:58

WickedWitchWest - For me it was random ghosts.

By JeffGOMES on 30 Sep 2018 15:48

Thank you JeffGOMES. Have you got to play in any particular online mode/stage?. Thanks

By WickedWitchWest on 30 Sep 2018 17:51

Also which ghost and what stage did you get it on? Maybe we can find out what the problem ghost is and tell the world how to get this achievement.

By sean2k5 on 30 Sep 2018 21:23

WickedWitchWest / sean2k5 - The tip i can give you i remember is that i played a lot of campaign, i could not find through my searches on the internet never found a way to make the ghost appear first. I played a lot even for several hours the game has a failure to unlock achievement: the achievment PAYDAY does not unlock for me and I tried more than 20 times by various methods. Make sure you have PAYDAY because it may not be able to unlock. I chatted with several players with this problem the game unlocks one of the 2. (or PAYDAY or NO JOB TOO BIG).

By JeffGOMES on 01 Oct 2018 03:28

this still obtainable?

By no no yes sir s on 20 Dec 2018 14:27

Last in 2 years on July 16th, 2019 at 3:54 p.m. I did I got the last most wanted ghost already is Glutton Slimer and I got the achievement. But it did worked for me. So remember, just be careful to get those most wanted ghosts because it will cause glitched on you. Happy Hunting!

By Brett Evans15 on 14 Oct 2019 21:29

Hey, you’re probably right. I have a hard time believing that anything will come of that article that I linked but Vudix, who apparently works with Microsoft behind the scenes now, insists that people reporting broken achievements will result in things getting fixed. And he also said very specifically than anything that is still for sale on marketplace can be fixed.

I don’t doubt that this is extremely unlikely but it’s worth a shot.

Anyway, I’m a little unclear on what you mean in regards to the game going backwards compatible and that having a positive effect for people who started both pre-patch and post patch.
I started the game pre-patch on the 360 and Egon’s guinea pig and payday have both proven to be broken for me. I’ve tried playing the backwards compatible version, even buying it from the marketplace to do so, and I’ve definitely met the Egon’s guinea pig requirement playing via backwards compatibility on Xbox one and nothing. I hadn’t heard anywhere else that backwards compatibility fixed things for anybody.

As far as I understand it, backwards compatibility just emulates the 360 version so it’s literally no different than playing it on the 360. Like I’m pretty sure you can play multiplayer online on Xbox one backwards compatibility with people playing on the 360. It’s the same version of the game. Why would this fix anything that was broken initially?

By vSully on 05 Aug 2022 22:22

My understanding is that people who run into achievement problems with this game always have two out of four specific achievements glitch on them. That’s what happened to me. And looking at your progress, it appears that’s what happened to you. I don’t see that backwards compatibility did anything for you since it seems like you were destined to be able to reach 48 out of 50 even without backwards compatibility. I had never heard of somebody who played before backwards compatibility and wasn’t able to get to 48/50. And I have never heard of somebody who did play after backwards compatibility and was able to get the completion after being stuck at 48/50.

By vSully on 05 Aug 2022 23:59

I'm still stuck at 49/50. Last Achievement is No Job Too Big and I have all ghost showing as captured.

A friend of mine would come over and we would grind Multiplayer together to get all the ghost on an extra Xbox I have. When he would leave, I would do single player. I do know that back in the day I played this offline and did not play it again till backwards compatibility happened. The profile he was using got all the multiplayer achievements and it never touched single player. Also, the profile he was using was only on backwards compatibility.

I still do hope to one day get this achievement.

By sean2k5 on 06 Aug 2022 01:15

Stay hopeful Sean, you can do it, I've seen pre-patch/post-BC players getting No Job Too Big.

By Crater Bob on 06 Aug 2022 02:23

Honestly, to me a server reset would fix everything. I would be more than happy to recapture all the ghosts if it meant I get the achievement.

I am no professional but all multiplayer achievements seem to be unlocked serverside. If it was the client side I would think the game would produce a check to see if the action has been accomplished after every match or during the transfer to Xbox live from the single-player menu. The ghost being captured Is definitely being stored server-side because I tried deleting everything and my Xbox live stats still exist.

Reading through all the old comments. this could explain why the patch did nothing for post-patch people. The server still had its old leaderboard data and the company only fixed the initial check for the achievements.

By sean2k5 on 06 Aug 2022 11:30

Oh believe me Sean, we begged for a server reset back in the day too, yet another request/demand/threat ignored by Terminal Reality, that was literally the first thing we screamed for when the patch didn't work.

By Crater Bob on 06 Aug 2022 17:56

My Partner and I Kylo Ren, we are the most recent people to have finished the multiplayer
May 2022. We captured some most wanted Ghosts twice(Book Ghost and Graveyard Zombies) (We both had a theory for stats to count on achievements you had to win a level). We both had captured Most Wanted Ghosts before in 2009 before the patch.

By My Ringtones on 07 Aug 2022 01:26

My Ringtones, So what you are saying is, in 2009 you and Kylo Ren captured all ghosts before the patch and did not get the achievement but then recaptured the Book Ghost and Graveyard Zombies ghosts and won the levels you captured them on and got the achievement. I'm going to say "random most wanted ghost" with wins.

I can easily remember doing some levels capturing Most Wanted Ghosts and losing! What threw me off from this was that my friend got the achievement and I did not. We only played together. The game is fun so I'm going to go ahead and capture all of them again and keep track of wins.

It might take me a while but ill keep everyone updated.

By sean2k5 on 07 Aug 2022 03:17

I also told you Sean that I was pre-patch and got stuck without the Slimers and the ghost right before them, but when the game went BC, I was able to capture those ghosts and get my achievement for getting them all finally.

By Crater Bob on 07 Aug 2022 05:38

I guess it’s time to fire this game up again then. I played before the patch and I’ve been stuck with Egon’s most wanted and Payday! ever since. I am positive that I’ve completed the requirements for Egon’s’s most wanted on the backwards compatibility version. That’s it easier of the two, obviously. I guess I could try to meet the Payday! requirements and see what happens.

By vSully on 07 Aug 2022 07:55

Wouldn't hurt to try again now that BC has more or less fixed the problems of over a decade ago.

By Crater Bob on 07 Aug 2022 16:22

^ I just don’t see how this is possible. When you play the backwards compatibility version, it just emulates the Xbox 360 and you’re essentially playing an Xbox 360 game on Xbox one hardware. No change to the game code or anything along those lines was done so it doesn’t make any sense to me that achievements would start working just because you’re playing an emulated version on different generation hardware.

By vSully on 07 Aug 2022 16:47

Sean I'm saying that we both had captured a couple of Ghosts before the patch, not all of them. The ones that we did before respawned again.

Sully are you winning the map after you pick up the weapons? Are you using every fire mode and getting a kill (with ones that do damage) that makes you money? These achievements descriptions for this game are extremely vague, that achievement requires more than simply picking up the upgrades. I had to pickup the Shield upgrade and use it a couple of times before the achievement popped.

By My Ringtones on 07 Aug 2022 23:28

Because Sully, I've a) been busy with life and other games, b) boosting sessions don't come along very often, and c) what kind of smart-assed question is that? I'll get it done when I feel like it, I have seen progress since it went BC, I just haven't had a lot of time to put back into it in the past year.

By Crater Bob on 08 Aug 2022 05:42

1) BC changed everything! It fixed the problem with the Most Wanted Ghosts most obviously, so many pre-patch players like myself were able to get the achievement AFTER BC! Before and just after the patch, I participated in numerous TA boosting sessions to try to get the ghosts, but The Uprising would NEVER SHOW and I was stuck there, until BC somehow fixed it, then the first time I booted up to help a friend after BC, The Uprising popped up a minute into the first round, and then the Slimers started appearing for me and I got the achievement!

As for GMW, I was working on that a little this year (with a tracking sheet), but my boosting partner moved on to get some games done with closing servers, but I did make progress. Considering how hard some of the requirements are, especially Protection, there were a LOT of requirements I didn't get pre-BC, but now that I have a tracking sheet going and got some great work done with my last booting partner, I now know what I have left to do for GMW, as well as Payday (my other remaining achievement).

2) Again, read the previous statements of this comment, you've got me beating the dead horse here, BC FIXED THE BROKEN ACHIEVEMENTS.

For someone who's trying not to be argumentative, you sure are going out of your way to start a fight Sully, I have to keep saying the same things ten different ways just to get you to see that Backwards Compatibility actually somehow fixed what TRI (Terminal Reality) couldn't be bothered to fix a decade or so ago with their "patch". About the only possible explanation I can think of is that maybe the BC somehow registers the game as a new-start in post-patch for people since it's up on a different console through emulation, that's literally the only thing I can come up with at this point that might change your mind even in the slightest.

In any case Sully, just drop it at this point, I'm tired of arguing with you.

By Crater Bob on 08 Aug 2022 17:44

OK, well we just have to agree to disagree. I just played for 10 minutes on a new account and unlocked Egon's Guinea Pig as soon as I picked up the last needed pickup. I've gotten them all at least dozens of times on my main profile and that achievement is still broken for me, so clearly BC did not fix my problem. GL on the completion.

By vSully on 09 Aug 2022 00:18

As of 9/2/22 Online does work for this game. Based on other comments I have seen around the web achievements are working and the bugged ones may have been fixed with a patch. Some friends and I are going to work on these. Once we can confirm if everything works, I will update here.

As of now though the online portion of this game does work. There are almost no players online.

Also as a side note... if you have not played since Xbox360, this game is backwards compatible. If you start the game up on a newer console it will pull your cloud save if you have one there.

When you load the game up on a newer console it will tell you that it is going to overwrite your save data. THIS DOES NOT DELETE YOUR SAVE. It upgrades the save file for use on the newer consoles. If you still want to go back and play on the 360 then you will need to export the save (copy it) to a USB device from your 360.

Happy hunting!

By PowerThumbz on 03 Sep 2022 00:26

So, as with some other people, backwards compatibility sort of fixed these achievements for me. While on the 360 about four of the most wanted ghosts would never spawn for me, but they all did within a few hours of playing on Xbox One. The problem was after I got the last ghost I needed—the Uprising—the achievement simply didn't pop. I'm assuming I can now never get it since the ghosts don't reappear? Only thing I can think of is maybe playing with someone who is missing the cemetery set and hope that the fact I caught Uprising before will help spawn him for them.. but if I catch him a second time there's no telling if I'll get the achievement then, either.

By The Whombler on 05 Sep 2022 15:21

The Uprising is a gatekeeper ghost, you can't spawn the Slimers necessary for the achievement until after you capture/defeat The Uprising. Go back for the Slimers now and your achievement should pop normallly.

By Crater Bob on 05 Sep 2022 19:06

Yeah that's an idea he floated while we were playing. It's possible that some of the ghosts checked off my stats 13 years ago didn't actually unlock server-side and I just never knew, so we're working through the list again. But by that logic.. I can't be completely sure the ghosts I captured a few days ago were counted server-side this time, either..

By The Whombler on 07 Sep 2022 19:08

I think they only count if the game is using your unlock conditions, sounds like the game used your friend's unlock conditions. Either that or you need to go through the list again of all the MWG's and see if one didn't properly unlock before.

By Crater Bob on 07 Sep 2022 05:19

A completion is the game term for a victory, so yeah, 60 victories is still 60 completions, it's basically semantics at that point.

By Crater Bob on 10 Jun 2023 02:42

Yeah, I'm saying the guidewriters screwed up, not you, chill out.

By Crater Bob on 10 Jun 2023 06:42

@Crater Bob Then perhaps you should have said that to begin with -_- Your message sounded as if it was aimed at me and not the people who wrote/commented on the guides. I'm just defending my findings and trying to provide them to others to prevent some confusion if possible.

By atryeu1 on 10 Jun 2023 07:42

It was implied, I can't help what you read.

By Crater Bob on 10 Jun 2023 17:21

People on this site are always so rude... and some of my buddies wonder why I don't post often -_- Either way, to anybody looking at the info now it's most certainly Victories needed to spawn Glutton (and required for Overachiever), not minimal completions. Good luck to those still trying for completions.

By atryeu1 on 11 Jun 2023 20:03

@atryeu1, I see a running theme on the rude of this thread at least. It's why I stopped posting about this achievement.

I am just trying to confirm what you just wrote because of my situation in game (everything is showing as captured) I should try recapturing Glutton? Thank you for posting as well.

By sean2k5 on 12 Jun 2023 12:44

I was agreeing with atryeu, but he took offense to it, whatever.

By Crater Bob on 12 Jun 2023 18:32

For reference for anyone else trying to get Glutton Slimer, I was only able to get him to spawn once I had the following stats:
Survival: 61
Destruction: 36
Containment: 60
Protection: 14
Thief: 37
Slime Dunks: 60

By Steve50013 on 23 Nov 2023 18:19

Yes, they're still all unlockable, you just gotta find people to boost with.

By Crater Bob on 30 Mar 2024 07:35

Anyone want to do the online achievements for this game? call me

By SampleFN on 30 Mar 2024 18:03

Look, I have no idea how to explain it either, I'm just speaking from my personal experience going all the way back to the pre-patch days, you can believe it or not believe it, that's your choice, all I know is that when the game went BC a few years ago, it fixed the issues we all had before and achievements were unlockable again in the multiplayer that were unobtainable before, so take it or leave it, whatever Sully.

By Crater Bob on 07 Aug 2022 16:52

i just want to say is that how did that one person get this achievement because for all the unattainable ones it says 1 guy has it. Maybe this one guy knows how to get these achievements or he must of cheated because i heard of ways of gettin this achievement from cheating but im not sure its true.

By Asquared11 on 04 Jan 2010 04:52

^this^
while the information in the guide may be solid, its totally and completely pointless. Why post a solution to an unobtainable achievement? And in answer to the question about how someone has this if it is unobtainable, it's called profile editing and people use this method all the time to unlock achievements they are either to lazy or suck to bad to get. This IMO is the most reprehensible form of cheating and should be worthy of an instant ban.

By RedHoodedMenace on 22 Jun 2010 13:03

Got all Most Wanted Ghosts twice now & still no achievement. Terminal Reality owe me 10g!

By why2cj on 16 Apr 2012 10:16

Just a heads up, the PS3 servers for this game have been closed without warning. It's likely that it could happen to the 360 severs too so now would be the time to try again to get the final achievements you need.

By Disturbed XBA on 06 Dec 2012 13:17

The Rotten Slimer requirement CANNOT be done in Slime Dunk. In order to get this ghost you must capture 10 slimers with traps in other gamemodes.

I did this by repeating containment on office. The second ghost is always a slimer with two players, and the second and third ghosts are always slimers in three or four players.

Why might this be? In slime dunk, you are not using the typical trap you use to catch ghosts. In other gamemodes, the slimer has different animations, and it is the original color from the movies.

The ghost appeared and was captured in containment after 5 ghosts were captured, achievement unlocked as soon as ghost was trapped.

By Unmet Player on 26 Jun 2017 21:34

Install it on your XBox One, and try going through with someone who doesn't have all the ghosts, maybe you just need to re-trigger one or two. When I went through this week, The Uprising triggered for me, and then the previous Cemetery ghosts triggered for my friend from Mad Mad Minimo up to The Clawed Menace, and then we started triggering the Slimers together in succession from match to match, then my achievement popped, and we went back through the other levels to trigger the ghosts on earlier levels for my one friend 'til he popped his, and now we've gotten my other friend up to and including The Uprising, now he just needs the Slimers, and we'll be working on that for him this afternoon/evening.

By Crater Bob on 29 Sep 2018 08:38

It’s grasping at straws, but if everybody could take a few minutes to submit a report through the new report a problem app on Xbox one, it couldn’t hurt. Check this article:

Sick of broken achievements? Here's how to report them

Vudix claims that any game that is still being sold on the marketplace can be held to fix broken achievements. This game is still for sale. So I know it’s extremely unlikely, but apparently this reporting system is newly overhauled and has been set up for this exact reason – to get people to report broken achievements so that Microsoft can take action on them.

Everything is explained in the article that I linked. It couldn’t hurt. Thanks!

By vSully on 04 Aug 2022 14:15

I think Vudix was more referring to broken achievements in XBox One and XBox Series X/S games that are still in the Store, since support for the 360 is basically gone, and a lot of studios that worked on 360 games are either gone outright or got sold to other studios and don't exist in their previous form.

Basically back a decade ago we screamed until we were blue in the face and then some to Terminal Reality (who did the work on the multiplayer for Ghostbusters on 360 and PS3), they eventually patched, but it didn't help us pre-patch players, only the post-patch. But then when the game went BC on XBox One a few years ago, something in the coding for the BC program fixed the online achievements that were broken to us before. I play off the 360 disc on XBox One, and it helped me get two new achievements I didn't have before, and got progress on the other two achievements.

I don't know why it works better with BC, it just does and I don't question it.

By Crater Bob on 05 Aug 2022 23:21

The problem was that if you did the SP achievement for doing over a million dollars worth of damage in the campaign, it glitched the MP, and ended up capping you at either 46 of 50 achievements or 950GS for the game, whichever came first, usually the achievement count cap, and yeah, that's what happened to me was the 46/50 issue.

For me though, achievements 47 and 48 happened AFTER I started playing again when it went Backwards Compatible, and since then, I put in some work recently towards the other two achievements, but like I said, my guy had to go commit to other things, games with closing servers etc., but I have seen some other TA members including a guy I was almost always working with on Ghostbusters back over a decade ago before the patch got to within one achievement left after it went BC a few years ago and then put it on the backburner, so it is physically possible.

Here's the guy.
Hockey Ed's achievements in Ghostbusters: The Video Game

By Crater Bob on 06 Aug 2022 00:54

Well, I've been playing on two Xboxes for about three hours tonight. Here's my personal experience with the back compat version:

I've played ranked matches/campaign with my main account as host and joined with a 2nd profile on a 2nd xbox. On my main account, I've collected these pickups:

Meson Collider
Stasis Stream
Slime Blower
Proton Accelerator
Pink Slime Blower
Ghost Stunner
Ghost Shrinker
Ethereal Shield

I've used the meson collider and stasis stream to injure/kill enemies and the slime blower to both tether and dunk trap enemies. I used the pink slime blower to convert an enemy. This should count for all of the pickups towards Egon's Guinee Pig unless I need to somehow use something in an alternate way or something else I haven't thought of. I can't see actually trapping an enemy while the proton accelerator is active being important, but maybe it is?

Oh, and I went ahead and did this on three of the five playable characters. So I've collected/used everything at least three times tonight. Still nothing.

I'd have to enlist someone else to meet the requirements for Payday! since it's basically impossible solo. But this is firsthand experience showing that Egon's Guinea Pig is still broken for me, so there's no reason to believe Payday! would work, either.

If everything works for you, why haven't you completed the game yet?

By vSully on 07 Aug 2022 23:24

Really?? I'll have to try that next but here's the rest of the details, I'm wondering if they'll affect anything:

The ghosts I were missing were: Maestro, Pappy, Uprising, Polar, Glutton

First to pop up was Polar. This was the first time my friend and I had played since 2009 so we weren't thinking of previously glitched ghosts and were focusing on the campaign wins/earnings. We caught Polar and later that night Glutton appeared. After catching him we decided to check who else we were missing because we realized we were actually having good luck.

Maestro and Pappy appeared as expected once we fulfilled the conditions, as did the last one I needed, Uprising. This is where my above comment comes in. Friend got the achievement while I just got the names checked off on the stats page. I never thought to ask him who he was missing in the beginning because I assumed we had the same ones since we always played together in 2009.

Earlier tonight that same guy got on a different account and I led him through capturing all four of the cemetery set again, no problem.. but still no achievement for me. I'm guessing if we keep on like this and I run him through the rest of the list I'll just be getting his dummy account the achievement and get nothing in return lol.. but we'll try for the slimers soon and hopefully that triggers it for me.

By The Whombler on 07 Sep 2022 05:03

I'm certain it's 60 Victories for Glutton Slimer and not 60 "completions". Overachiever just popped today finally on what was either the 50th or 55th Victory (5 towards Gozer may not have counted it seems unless it was just being glitchy). Exactly 10 Victories later Glutton spawned in though. I've had far more minimal job completions so I'm certain it's Victories required to spawn him in. He was my last ghost so all other requirements (the other slimers) had already been met other than the rest of the jobs.

By atryeu1 on 09 Jun 2023 23:37

@ Crater Bob: And yet if you read through any of the guides on TA for these achievements a "completion" is not the same as a "Victory" :P The information is all over the place and beyond confusing and I'm just trying to clear it up. Pretty sure they mean full on Victory and not the minimal completion to "win" the match (for example catch 1 ghost in containment and wait out the timer... survive 1 wave in survival and die, etc). Most guides say otherwise, that the bare minimum "completion" is what is needed and that clearly wasn't the case... at least in my situation.

By atryeu1 on 10 Jun 2023 06:03

That ain't gonna work Sully, we did all the complaining we could back in the day to Terminal Reality to fix the broken online achievements, in the end we were just wasting oxygen yelling at the wall so to speak.

One big upside is that when the game went Backwards Compatible a few years ago, it did actually fix the game for 360 players, both pre- and post-patch players, and allowed for the broken achievements to be obtained, and for new players playing the 360 edition on XBox One ahead of the Remaster that came out a short time later to double-up and get all the 360 achievements no problem. Just after the 360 version went BC, I helped a TA member get all the Most Wanted Ghosts while myself being able to finally open the door to and clear the Slimers for completion of the achievement. He went on to finish the game in less than a month, and I got two online achievements I didn't have before BC. Earlier this summer, I was helping another guy with online and he was getting pretty consistent online progress and unlocks too, but he had to take a break to work on other stuff.

in any case Sully, like I said, reporting the achievements now to XBL won't do anything, they already know the achievements are broken, but it's a Terminal Reality problem that won't get fixed for people playing the 360 edition on 360, they're better off installing it on their XBox One and playing the fully-fixed BC edition like myself and others have in recent years after being stuck at 46/50 or 950GS because Terminal Reality couldn't get their head out of their backside if you catch my drift.

By Crater Bob on 05 Aug 2022 21:35

1) just got this. i got polar, etc. the day after the patch and today went for the other ones i was missing (library and museum) and the chievo popped right away

2) notes that might be interesting to be added to the orignal guide. little tips to make the hunt faster:
- when you need to complete a map, you can just follow what has to be done in this guide for each map:

The Employee of the Month achievement in Ghostbusters: The Video Game worth 53 pointsBe top earner in each Xbox LIVE job type.

- this means for example if you need to complete 10 survival jobs, just complete 1-2 waves and let youself get killed. no need to survive all waves. but don't kill yourself by overheat or crossing beams (dunno if this is important, but just in case) after you got your ghost
- requirements seem to be cumulative. for example in museum where u have to do 10 survival jobs and then 15 museum jobs, we did only a few survival jobs (as i had done some already) and then only 5 more to get the next ghost spawn

By Phoenix C64 on 12 Apr 2011 20:43

@sean2k5 - I started with SP too, and I've gotten TWO NEW MP ACHIEVEMENTS THIS WEEK, and that's after years of not getting any new MP achievements on the game, look in my card if you don't believe me, compare and see! I think it's something with if you play it on XBox One, it asks you for a save device every time you enter the XBox 360 emulator, I think it pings something on the TRI MP servers for Ghostbusters and gives you some kind of do-over. I got Overachiever the other night, and No Job Too Big last night, I've broken through the 950GS/46 Achievement cap-walls that hamstrung all us pre-patch players back nearly a decade ago, and my post-patch friends that I've been working with haven't been affected negatively, one of those two friends even got No Job Too Big in three nights worth of work with me, and he was starting the MP fresh the first night he worked with me, and the other guy's just missing Maestro and Sargassi in the Museum and the Cemetery and Slimer ghosts (he missed working with me and the first guy the night we unlocked No Job Too Big last night, but he's catching up fast as he meets the criteria in this guide!).

Anyway, stop losing hope and get back to work people, THIS CAN BE DONE!!!

By Crater Bob on 28 Sep 2018 07:28

I'm not sure why this became so adversarial.

There are two options here.

1) Backwards Compatibility changed nothing. I still believe this to be the case. It makes more sense to me that some people started playing with renewed interest once the game went BC and actually met requirements they hadn't met previously. This would explain how some people were able to get a few achievements yet still be stuck at 48/50. This would also explain why I still cannot get Egon's Guinea Pig to work, even through exhaustive attempts as I explained in my last reply. As for anyone that actually completed the game after BC, it would seem that they never previously hit the trigger to cause achievements to glitch on them and would have been able to complete it pre-BC.

Looking at your progress, it seems like you should be able to get Gozer's Most Wanted since that one hasn't been reported as buggy that I'm aware of. There are a lot of things required for that achievement and it would be very hard to know with certainty that you've met every requirement since there are so many. I'd be willing to wager that this will work for you and would have worked for you pre-BC had the game been satisfied that you met all the requirements.

2) Backwards compatibility fixed the broken achievements. I wish this were true and I'll be thrilled for you if you're able to get the completion. But my direct experience with BC and still broken achievements makes it hard to accept that this could be the case. Is it possible that BC fixed some things, just not my problems? Perhaps. But it's pretty clear to me that BC did not fix everything based on personal experience. But I promise you that nobody will be happier than me if I'm proven wrong about this and everything now somehow works.

Again, I'm not trying to be argumentative, so I apologize if that was the tone in my previous replies. I'm just trying to be logical and realistic. There was no change to the code that came along with BC so it's hard to understand why anything would be different. The simplest explanation to me is that renewed interest pushed people to meet requirements that they never met OR that were somehow not accepted initially. But I promise you that nobody will be happier than me if I'm proven wrong about all this and everything does indeed somehow work now.

By vSully on 08 Aug 2022 10:09

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TrueAchievements

29 Feb 2012 17:44

Here's some information I'd like to share with the TA community based on my experience with the multiplayer portion of this game.

A majority of the 'Most Wanted ghosts will appear when going for:

The Gozer's Most Wanted achievement in Ghostbusters: The Video Game worth 127 pointsSuccessfully complete each Xbox LIVE job in every location.

..so, I suggest making that achievement your priority, then circle back to this one and complete the requirements for the remaining ghosts.

Key Points
- Always play 'Ranked' matches.
- The difficulty scales based on the number of players you have in the match. Complete matches with a minimum of 2 players, you and one other person, to ensure easier victories.
- You need to see 'VICTORY' at the end of a match, for it to count towards your achievement progression.
- Each 'Most Wanted' ghost has specific requirements which need to be met in order for the ghost to appear.

Below is a link to a checklist I've created, to help you track your progression for 'No Job To Big'.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ids42s31wsxrcq8
^{Adobe PDF format}

If you have any questions, please leave a comment.

Good Luck.

29 Feb 2012 17:44

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"- 'Most Wanted' ghosts appear based on the host's progression. "

That's a little misleading. The host takes priority, ie, if you're working on museum ghosts and the host is ahead of the other player(s) and his criteria is met, his ghost will come up first. If your partner(s) criteria is met first, their most wanted (likely one you'd already have) WILL come up.

I had 4 more most wanted's than my friend last night and, with me hosting, we worked on catching him up and did it very easily. While catching him up we worked on criteria for both our next ghosts, which came up very quickly after his previous ones.

In any case, my friends connection really sucks for hosting, so I thought this may be relevant to some. You do NOT NEED to be hosting.

By wooberhead on 14 May 2012 17:22

I got The Uprising ghost before any of the ones before it, is that normal?

By EarthboundX on 06 Dec 2012 06:57

Agree with wooberhead. I've hosted and had ghosts reappear for me because someone else was in the room who didn't already have it. Also if you already have a ghost and your teammates do not have the requirements for it, it won't reappear until they have met the requirements.

By PrimeBigTime on 04 Jan 2013 06:00

At least that's what it seems like although I could be wrong...

By PrimeBigTime on 04 Jan 2013 06:01

At least that's what it seems like although I could be wrong...

By PrimeBigTime on 04 Jan 2013 08:02

just so you know you dont need to see victory for the ghost to count towards no job too big. i definitely failed a protection job when i caught one of the ghosts but when i got the last ghost i needed then it popped

By Doctor Lollypop on 23 Mar 2013 04:31

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Aligus

TrueAchievements

21 Oct 2013 05:16

This is a quick tip for the capture of Glutton Slimer. The criteria in order to draw the ghost out are as follows; that the player must "capture Polar Slimer and complete 60 jobs." There is a little bit of confusion as to whether "complete 60 games" means that these have to result in victories or not. I found that I was more comfortable in earning victories anyway just to be safe.

There is a rather easy way of accumulating victories. Victory can be achieved in the game type "Thief", where only one artifact has to be protected to achieve such. I have found that this is the easiest and quickest game type to achieve victory in. With a friend or a random, two players because the difficulty of the game is proportional to the amount of players in the game, do a game of thief on any map repeatedly until the ghost is drawn out and captured for the achievement. It will take a little time, and it might get a little repetitive. Just keep cycling maps to help with potential boredom and steadfast.

21 Oct 2013 05:16

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Here's a link to an Excel spreadsheet checklist I made for the Employee of the Month, Gozer's Most Wanted, No Job Too Big, and Overachiever achievements: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=51102B83C52024A9!1122

By HyruleBalverine on 18 Nov 2013 07:17