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Beat Zico

Beat Zico

Equal or beat the lap time of 30.82 seconds on Anulpha Pass (Forward), Speed Lap, Venom using the Piranha.

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How to unlock the Beat Zico achievement in WipEout HD - Definitive Guide

This is without doubt, one of the hardest trophies on the game and maybe even the PS3. I highly recommend you listen to my advice in the Road Map to do with the control scheme as it will make things much easier for you. Firstly you need to go onto "Racebox" and set up a "Speed Lap" on venom speed and put 99 laps. You now have to pick the ship "Piranha", you can pick the Fury version and obtain the trophy with it but it doesn't help as it has only got increased stats on thrust. You should also go for the 100 barrel rolls trophy (if you haven't already got it and the 99 laps trophy while doing this. Follow my short guide below on how you go about doing your lap:
  1. Firstly do a lap without using your speed boost, then use it just before you finish the lap. This will give you a little boost when starting the next lap and shave time off.
  2. For the first left hand turn, hit all 3 speed pads, for the last one hit the one on the right. You will want to side shift around this corner to, that say you'll get a better exit and racing line.
  3. You will notice a bump in the track that is like an S. You will want to put the nose of the ship down when going down the little bump, then nose up as you come up and then use your boost. You will want to barrel roll in the air to, this is barrel roll #1.
  4. From the speed of the barrel roll you just did you can now barrel roll down the steep hill for barrel roll #2. You may even get a third in but I could never do that. Try and get close to the speed pad when doing the barrel roll to for extra boost.
  5. For the next few corners use the airbrakes and side shift, remember to hit all the speed pads.
  6. You will reach a sharp right and then 3 speed pads, you will want to go to the speed pad furthest left and while your on it sideshift right to get a little extra boost.
  7. Now the hard part, you need to barrel roll onto the overpass. This isn't easy but I will explain how I did it. You will want to go as far to the right of the ramp you can and nose up as you go over it, this way you get more air. As you're in the air down go straight over onto the overpass, go slightly right and then initiate a barrel roll and then quickly line back up with the overpass. This is barrel roll number #3 and is the hardest to pull off.
  8. Now your on the over pass, hit all the speed pads the Side Shift to the left off the ramp and initiate a barrel roll as you fall. This is barrel roll #4.
  9. Carrying on from step 8, you will want to try and land on the speed pad on the right as you land with the barrel roll. Now you've done that you are at the end and if you have done everything I said here perfectly, then you should have beaten or got very close to 30.82. When I first past it using this method I got 30.59.
Top Tip: If you mess the lap up you can always use the "Invalid Lap" button to get your boost back. Go into "Options" > "Controls" and set the EMP/Invalid lap button to (air brakes should be and as I said to do). This benefits you as you can always get your boost back if you much the lap up for use just before the finish line. You have to hold the button for about 3 seconds for it to invalidate the lap. Remember to have motion sensor turned off!!

Here is the discussion thread for this trophy:

'Beat Zico' Discussion Thread

Here is an excellent walkthrough video by HellfireWZ which explains everything, credit to him:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O877da7BrTs
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28 May 2010 15:18

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By the way, to clarify, it is NOT necessary to choose the Piranha ship from HD, if you have the Fury add-on, you can choose the Fury piranha, because it has additional characteristics, but you will still have to try.
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By axtox on 24 Jul 2011 14:56