PalmRide

PalmRide

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PalmRide - All Achievements
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A short work-in-progress guide to all the achievements in the game.
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Preface
This guide is a work in progress. If you know how to achieve some of the unsolved achievements here or just have some tips/feedback to achieve things easier, please post a comment and I'll add the info and credit you!

This guide's formatting:
  • Achievement Name - Achievement description My notes
Driving Achievements
The most basic achievements in the game are the achievements that just require you to play the game; they're self explanatory. This includes:

  • One cup of tea, please! - Drive 1000km while the "LEFT HAND TRAFFIC" option is enabled. You'll want to set this as soon as you start playing the game. Just go into the options and change "LEFT HAND TRAFFIC" to on so you get the achievement while you're playing normally.
  • To the mountains! - Drive 30km in SHINJITSU game mode.
  • To the beach! - Drive 30km in VECTER game mode. (VECTER mode unlocked after driving 30km in SHINJITSU)
  • Here we are... - Drive 30km in OCEAN DRIVE game mode. (OCEAN DRIVE mode unlocked after driving 30km in VECTER)
  • I'm the rad guy! duh. - Play a game in the RAD GUY game mode. (RAD GUY mode unlocked after driving 50km in CASUAL)
  • I traveled the world and the seven seas. - Drive a total distance of over a total distance of over 40,075km.
  • To the moon! 🚀 - Drive a total distance of over a total distance of over 384,400km
  • And back! - Drive a total distance of over a total distance of over 768,800km.
  • Wait, this ain't a shooter? - Shoot at least 5000 bullets in total.
  • One hundred days! - Fire up the game 100 times.
  • What is sleep? - Spend 24h in the game. There are reports of players getting this immediately after starting the game; if this happened to you, please post in the comments.
Leaderboard Achievements
After you unlock RAD GUY mode, you get access to the online leaderboards. You just need to beat everyone on the leaderboard to get these achievements. I had a pretty easy time since I was one of three people on the leaderboard at the time, so I would recommend waiting until right after the leaderboards reset (12am GMT daily).

Note that for the achievements that ask you to place in a certain spot on the leaderboard, you must place in that exact spot. That means if you place first, you only unlock the achievement for first and not for fifth through second. This makes things a little more difficult; if you're attempting things right after leaderboards reset, try placing first and doing a little worse each time.

  • It's called skill! - Finish on 10th place or better on the RAD GUY leaderboard.
  • Not bad. - Finish in 5th place on the RAD GUY leaderboard.
  • 2 plus 2 is 4. - Finish in 4th place on the RAD GUY leaderboard.
  • Look mom, I'm on podium! - Finish in 3rd place on the RAD GUY leaderboard.
  • Soooo close! - Finish in 2nd place on the RAD GUY leaderboard.
  • I'm the BEST! - Finish in first place on the RAD GUY leaderboard.
Challenge/Misc. Achievements
There are some achievements in the game that require you to complete an objective. Some require you to play on a specific level or on CASUAL/RAD GUY mode.

  • Beep Boop - Destroy an arcade machine robot. To complete this, play on SHINJITSU and shoot one of the robots with your gun.
  • Golden bullet - Shoot a motorcycle with yellow wheels. Play the game until you find a motorcycle with yellow wheels, then destroy it. You'll probably get this while playing normally.
  • I'm a professional! - Jump over the ocean in the OCEAN DRIVE game mode. Just play OCEAN DRIVE until you jump the ocean!
  • Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee - Shoot at least 200 bullets in one game. Go slow, collect a lot of bullets, and shoot all of them in one game.
  • I am speed! - Have a speed of at least 380km/h. To get this, get a flying powerup and use nitro immediately after landing.
  • MY EYES! - Drive though 100 tunnels. Play either RAD GUY, CASUAL, or SHINJITSU until you get this one.
  • Here for the long run! - Drive for over 100km in one run.
  • Maniac! - Drive for at least 50km on the opposite side of the road in one run.
  • Slow but steady! - Have a speed of at most 100km/h in the first 100km of a run. This achievement will take you at least an hour to complete. Go slow and make sure you don't crash!
  • ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ) - Play a game in RAD GUY using the name SILVIUSHADER. To get this, just rename yourself in the "play" menu as SILVIUSHADER and play RAD GUY once.
  • F - You paid respects. Die in any mode and press F before respawning.
  • Following the rules! - Wait for the traffic lights to turn green. Find a crosswalk in SHINJITSU mode and wait at it until you get the achievement. Thanks to Red for finding this!
  • Insert coin! - Wait for 30 seconds in a menu while not playing the game, and see how the computer plays the game.
  • Got style. - Select BLOOMRIDE in the options and have the ROAD REFLECTION level set to maximum.
  • So here's how it started... - Play the prototype of PalmRide. From the main menu, click credits, then click prototype.
  • Options menu is booooring! - Toggle FULLSCREEN using ALT+ENTER.



There's also one achievement that requires you to do something specific with the game's resolution:
    Tiny crash. - Crash at a resolution of 400x262.
For this one, go into the settings, go to graphics and make sure your game is in windowed mode and pixel-perfect scaling is on. Then resize your game window to be as small as possible without having the game disappear. After that, just go crash your car in any level and you'll get this achievement.



The achievement Musique :) involves adding a 10 custom music tracks to the game:
    Musique :) - Play a game with over 10 custom music tracks imported into the game, and the USE PLAYER MUSIC option turned on.
This one isn't hard, but might be a little confusing for players that don't have music files on their PC. I would recommend using an online youtube-to-MP3 converter and downloading a royalty-free song or video (Mods, I don't condone piracy!). After that, open PalmRide, go into the options menu, click music, click "USE PLAYER MUSIC," and then click "MUSIC FOLDER." Now, paste 10 copies of the MP3 in the folder.

After this, you can start playing any mode and it should pop the achievement immediately. In my case, that didn't happen - the game was unable to play some of my music files. If that happens, try using different MP3 files until it works.



The achievement Hackerman! requires you to edit the game's config:
    Hackerman! - Change the configuration of the file so that it contains a field called "Hacker".
The file the description is referring to is the SETTINGS.json file located in the AppData folder. To get there, just press Windows+R, then type in
%appdata%\Pizza Fest\PalmRide
then press enter and you'll be in the correct folder. Then open the SETTINGS.json file with Notepad or your favorite text editor and add
"Hacker":true
somewhere between the brackets. See an example below.



Finally, the achievement 404 unlocks when the game can't connect to the servers:
    404 - The game could not connect to the servers.
This is more difficult than it sounds. Some people have started the game while offline and got the achievement to appear. This didn't work for me, so I tried this:
  1. Start the game while online
  2. Start playing Rad Guy mode
  3. Disable networking via control panel (effectively the same as unplugging the ethernet cable or turning off WiFi)
  4. Crash the car
  5. Quit to the main menu and wait ~30 seconds
If this doesn't work for you, try disconnecting from the internet at different points in the process, or wait longer at the main menu.
Date Achievements
For these achievements, you'll have to change your system time and start up the game, or just wait until the day in question.

  • Merry Christmas! - Play in RAD GUY game mode on December 25th.
  • Happy new year! - Play in RAD GUY game mode on January 1st.
Unsolved Achievements
I haven't figured out how to complete these achievements yet. If you know how, let me know in the comments!

  • This is unachievable! - Make no attempt to achieve this. Possibly like the Stanley Parable achievement requiring you to put in a console command?
Credits
Special thanks to:
  • Red for finding how to do the "Following the rules" achievement
  • Surobyk for reminding me to add the "Musique :)" achievement
  • killua holding two guns for reminding me to add the "So here's how it started..." achievement
  • Red Shift for reminding me to add the "Insert Coin" and "Got Style" achievements
  • Several people including Red Shift and Stratovera for finding out how to get the 404 achievement
  • DVR for reminding me to add the boring achievement
17 Comments
foxtrot 31 Oct, 2023 @ 4:20am 
also to get the "this is unachievable" achievement. launch the game and type "this is unachievable" with spaces when you boot the game up
foxtrot 31 Oct, 2023 @ 4:13am 
idk if you care about this guide anymore, but with the leader board achievements, you can just change your name every run and it counts as a new person on the leader board. So it is achievable just by yourself
Surobyk 5 Jun, 2023 @ 1:55pm 
for hackerman, it has to be in the pixelbois folder, not pizza one
HappyLarry 29 Nov, 2022 @ 11:29pm 
"shut up, I know what I'm doing!" is done by going into the Misc setting and turning the tutorial off
Getty Images  [author] 11 Jul, 2022 @ 6:48am 
Thanks @DVR, added
Xegethra 10 Jul, 2022 @ 8:47pm 
Some of these achievements are more annoying than they are worth. Like the drive in oncoming traffic for 50km. The road keeps going into with the traffic....so you drive 50km and about only a fraction of that is on coming so you have to keep on driving...but by that time I'm bored...and tired. It's a drag and not worth it. Same goes for the drive slowly one when cars keep rear ending you.

There's just too much traffic
DVR 20 Mar, 2022 @ 9:05pm 
There's an achievement not on here: Option menu is Booooring!" which is achieved by pressing ALT+Enter
Getty Images  [author] 26 Nov, 2021 @ 6:20pm 
@Surobyk @killua holding two guns @Red Shift @Stratovera Thank all! I've updated the guide with your info and credited all of you.
B3B3DAWL 26 Nov, 2021 @ 3:25pm 
Thank you for the guide, man! It's been incredibly helpful! :Qpiddy:
That being said, I managed to get the 404 Achievement by starting the game offline entirely, then literally crashing my car into a wall in any mode. Once exited the game and opened Steam online again, the achievement was in my completed list.

Cheers!
Red Shift 18 Nov, 2021 @ 4:30pm 
Insert Coin - Wait for 30 seconds in a menu.