Jak II

[MISSABLE] This trophy is by far the most difficult and time-consuming in the game if done legitimately. You must collect all 286 Precursor Orbs in Haven City. 94 of these can be found lying around the different areas where you carry out missions. Of these, 7 of are located in the Metal Head Nest which is only accessible at the end of the story and not afterwards, making this missable. The other 192 are from completing the various side-missions around the city. The Gun Courses and Jet Board Challenges are particularly brutal and frustrating, and will likely take hours of practice before you complete them.

It is for this reason that we strongly suggest you make use of the Orb Glitch to dramatically reduce the amount of time necessary to collect all the Orbs. This glitch can be utilised in any of the Orb Hunt side-missions where you are required to find a Precursor Orb within a certain time limit; usually 20 seconds. Once the mission starts, get to the Orb as fast as you can (the + roll jump works best for this). When you reach it, jump above it and pause the game. Select “Restart Mission” and Jak will fall onto the Orb when the game is loading and you will hear a noise to indicate that you’ve collected it. However, because you restarted the mission, you will get another chance to get the Orb. Every time you do this, three Orbs will be added to your total. It is important that you make 2 new saves every 3 or 4 times you use this glitch, as it is very easy to get your timing wrong and if you end up collecting the orb before you can pause and restart, the game will autosave and the mission will be unavailable to you. You must make 2 saves as if you collect the Orb by mistake, the game will autosave over your initial manual save.

The following is a video demonstrating this method, courtesy of STARKILLER1138THX:

You can get 6 Orbs per minute using this method, so it will take you no time at all to obtain 286, particularly if you collected any miscellaneous Orbs you came across during the main story.

You can of course earn the 286 Orbs legitimately. To help you, you can use SanderProElite’s Precursor Orb Guide & Checklist to help you find them all. The Precursor Orbs break down as follows:

• 94 - Found in mission areas
• 72 - Underground Missions (Orb Hunts/Ring Challenges/Special Missions)
• 54 - Stadium Races
• 36 - Gun Courses
• 18 - Street Races
• 9 - Jet Board Challenges
• 3 - Onin Mini-game

Beware though, that there is a particularly nasty glitch which can prevent you from obtaining all the Orbs. When the game autosaves after you finish a side-mission for an Orb, sometimes the game registers you as having completed the side mission, but not as obtaining the Orb reward once you load it back up again. If you quit out and load the game up from the autosave there's a good chance you will be unable to collect all the Orbs as the side-missions are not repeatable, so to make sure this doesn’t happen you should manually save every time you complete a side-mission. For more information, please see this thread: Orb registering glitch