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Welcome to the RetroAchievements guides wiki!

RAGuides have been around for a while as a separate place where people can create guides to help other people out. Is there a long RPG with a lot of missable achievements, or a platformer with tough achievements that have a consistent strategy to make them easier? Or maybe you just want to make a general guide to specific parts of a game? Then RAGuides may be a place to check out! At this point in time, we already have more than 150 guides, with many people having been helped out by them. And assuredly, there will be many more to come from members across the community. And best of all... anyone can contribute!

The RAGuide Wiki is managed by Nepiki. You can reach out for any further questions through a DM on site, as well as through Discord under the same name.

Take note!

Any user or developer can add or improve guides here! Regular back-ups are made to prevent malicious action, but be aware that non-malicious action can be made by anyone, such as grammar fixes and corrections to guides.

To prevent the amount of WIP guides, as well as helping people who are less experienced with the markdown language, it is highly recommended to check out an online markdown editor, such as StackEdit. These come with easier visualization of your end product, and will be very helpful to anyone looking to start writing guides. Your guides are stored as cookies in the browser, but you can also create an account for extra protection.

Low effort/low quality achievement guides, as well as "free points" achievement guides, will generally not be accepted here. However, do not be discouraged as we welcome all contributions, be it for the entire game or only a specific part of the set. If you feel you can point other achievers into the right direction, don't hesitate to contribute!

How to use the wiki

  1. Log into your GitHub account (or create an account if you don't have one).

[!WARNING] Be aware that if your account has been made recently and you receive an error upon trying to create or edit a page, you may be forced to activate two-factor authentication (2FA) to prevent triggering GitHub's security against potential malicious accounts/bots.

  1. Go to the Wiki section of this repository (you are already there).
  2. Click on the New page button (top right part of the page) or the Edit button (to the left of the New page button).
  3. Create or edit your guide by formatting it with Markdown. Alternatively, you can browse an existing guide by clicking edit in the top-right corner and then copying the contents to your own page, or use any of the following as base:
    • Complete Guide Template, used for writing complete guides covering every achievement of a game.
    • Simple Guide Template, best used for if you only want to describe parts of a game, like only the missables or a specific chapter or region of a game.
  4. For the achievements within your guide, you can use either of the following to make it convenient for yourself and just focus on writing:
    • Achievement Block Generator, to convert all of the achievements of a set into achievement code blocks that can easily be copied to your guide (requires using your Web API Key, which can be found in your settings). Made by WCopeland (Wes Copeland).
    • Achievement Block Templates, loose achievement block templates if you prefer to create your own.
  5. Save the page. Remember that you can also save it if it's not finished yet, but if you do, please put (WIP) before the title of the game to indicate so!
  6. When the achievement guide is complete, please go to the directory of the game and add it to the table in alphabetical order. In the "Guide" column, use either "Full", "[m]", or anything else that describes your guide in a few words.
  7. This point is for non-developers only. Reach out to Nepiki, or make a post in the #site-cleanup channel on Discord to get your guide linked to the game page, as well as in the Has RAGuide hub.

Directory

List of platforms with guides:

Nintendo

Atari

Sony

Sega

NEC

Other