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Unlocking All Characters

By Lunar

This is a guide on how to Unlock All Characters in Jet Set Radio. You will also find the stats of all the characters here.

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Created by

Lunar
In-Game
Peglin

Category: Characters, Secrets, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

Posted

Updated

8 Jul, 2014 @ 2:50am

12 Dec, 2020 @ 7:42pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Story Characters

Other Characters

Jet Rankings

Stats Table

Comments

Story Characters

These are the characters you will unlock as you play through the story.

Beat - Unlocked at the beginning of the game.
- Power - 68/100
- Technique - 55/100
- Graffiti - 63/100
- Can Capacity - 20
Gum - Finish all of her challenges. Unlocked at the beginning of the game.
- Power - 48/100
- Technique - 56/100
- Graffiti - 87/100
- Can Capacity - 15
Tab - Finish all of his challenges. Unlocked at the beginning of the game.
- Power - 67/100
- Technique - 74/100
- Graffiti - 46/100
- Can Capacity - 30
Garam - Complete the Monster of Kogane level and he will appear. Finish all of his challenges.
- Power - 73/100
- Technique - 56/100
- Graffiti - 46/100
- Can Capacity - 30
Mew - Complete the Benten Boogie level and she will appear. Finish all of her challenges.
- Power - 47/100
- Technique - 74/100
- Graffiti - 64/100
- Can Capacity - 20
Yo-Yo - Complete the Noise Reduction level and he will appear. Beat him in a race.
- Power - 44/100
- Technique - 73/100
- Graffiti - 86/100
- Can Capacity - 15
Cube - Finish all of Gum's challenges. Unlocked in Chapter 2.
- Power - 57/100
- Technique - 55/100
- Graffiti - 69/100
- Can Capacity - 25
Combo - Win the race against Beat. Unlocked in Chapter 2.
- Power - 92/100
- Technique - 42/100
- Graffiti - 64/100
- Can Capacity - 20
Slate - Complete the Fight or Flight level and he will appear. Beat him in a race.
- Power - 71/100
- Technique - 42/100
- Graffiti - 55/100
- Can Capacity - 40
Piranha - Complete the Explosion level and she will appear. Finish all of her challenges.
- Power - 68/100
- Technique - 41/100
- Graffiti - 87/100
- Can Capacity - 15

Other Characters

These are the characters that will take a little more work than the characters unlocked in story mode. Jet rankings achieved in a previous run will still count in a subsequent run.

Poison Jam* - Achieve a JET rating for every one of the story levels including the Golden Rhino levels in Kogane-Cho.
- Power - 85/100
- Technique - 35/100
- Graffiti - 64/100
- Can Capacity - 20
Noise Tanks* - Achieve a JET rating for every one of the story levels including the Golden Rhino levels in Benten-Cho.
- Power - 73/100
- Technique - 55/100
- Graffiti - 91/100
- Can Capacity - 50
Love Shockers* - Achieve a JET rating for every one of the story levels including the Golden Rhino levels in Shibuya-Cho.
- Power - 44/100
- Technique - 90/100
- Graffiti - 46/100
- Can Capacity - 30
Goji Rokkaku** - Achieve a JET rating for every one of the story levels in Grind City and complete the story once.
- Power - 91/100
- Technique - 35/100
- Graffiti - 100/100
- Can Capacity - 30
  *Takes triple damage
Potts - With Poison Jam, Noise Tanks, Love Shockers and Goji Rokkaku unlocked, complete the Monster of Kogane level before Benten Boogie. After this, a Noise Tank will appear in Chapter 3 or after doing a mission in Grind Square. Complete his challenges and Potts will be a playable character when you return to the garage.
- Power - 19/100
- Technique - 74/100
- Graffiti - 25/100
- Can Capacity - 7
  *Takes greatly reduced damage
Unmasked Poison Jam - Hold X when selecting Poison Jam in character select. (Holding the X key also works when using a keyboard)
- Power - 85/100
- Technique - 35/100
- Graffiti - 64/100
- Can Capacity - 20

*These characters will not appear in the garage and can be selected by the symbols that represent the gang.
**This character will not appear in the garage and can be selected by a barrel that is in the garage.

Jet Rankings

Thanks to a post from this user on the forum the points for attaining Jet ranking were found here[www.trueachievements.com]. The following is quoted from the forum post verbatim as I saw it fitting to keep here for those who wish to see it.

Target points to obtain "Jet" ranking:

Shibuya GG - 33000
Love Trap - 41000
The Monster of Kogane - 30000
No. 540 - 33000
Kogane Circus - 29000
Benten Boogie - 44000
Graffiti High - 32000
Noise Reduction - 29000
Love Attack - 29000
Tag or Die (Bantam Street) - 40000
Rock'n Roll Gridn (Grind Square) - 50000
Explosion - 70000
Fight or Flight - 62000
Benten Burning - 50000
Behind the Mask - 30000

It's important to realise that the rank is based entirely on score - the higher your score, the higher your rank. So everything you do should be focused on upping your score - that includes tricks and graffiti. In addition, it's worth remembering that you score additional points at the end of a level:

1. Remaining Life x 30
2. Remaining Time x 30
3. Remaining Spray Cans x 100
4. If Remaining Life is 100% = 3000

Stats Table

64 Comments

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gabilondoxdos2 21 Sep, 2024 @ 2:10pm

10/10

Glass of water™ 10 Aug, 2024 @ 9:02am

Gives you more points for grinding rails I believe.

Luvv, Lucy 9 Aug, 2024 @ 3:47pm

what does "Technique" stat do?

XxKATANALORDxX 12 Sep, 2023 @ 2:53pm

if you're struggling to get a high score, beat the game first, you'll be able to select any characters you unlocked for any mission on your second playthrough, so you're not stuck with Cube&Combo for their missions.

i prioritized the largest graffitti on the stage first, so i wouldn't be interrupted when the toughest enemies showed up, also don't bother with the soul graffitti as i don't think they add to your score.

i think the game tracks your progress from multiple playthroughs since i unlocked Goji and Potts before reaching the end,

good luck!

Dr_Gus 24 Jun, 2023 @ 8:07am

Corn type
Up (100 Points)
Down (100 Points)
Right curve up (200 Points)
Right circle down (400 Points)
Right curve down and right curve up (400 Points)
Left curve down and left circle up (600 Points)
Right circle up and right circle up (800 Points)
Large tags award 400 points.
Extra-large tags award 2600 points."

Dr_Gus 24 Jun, 2023 @ 8:07am

INPUTS AND POINTS

Beat type
Downwards (100 Points)
Right curve up (200 Points)
Right curve down and right curve up (400 Points)
Right circle down and left curve down (600 Points)
Left circle up and right curve up (600 Points)
Right circle down and right circle down (800 Points)
Left curve down, left circle up, and right curve up (800 Points)
Large tags award 700 points.
Extra-large tags award 3500 points.

Gum type
Left curve down and left curve up (400 Points)
Left circle down and right curve down (600 Points)
Right circle up and left curve up (600 Points)
Left curve down and left circle up (600 Points)
Right curve up, right curve down and right curve up (600 Points)
Right curve down, right circle up and left circle up, (1000 Points)
Right circle up, left circle up, right circle up (1200 Points)
Large tags award 1600 points.
Extra-large tags award 5000 points.

Dr_Gus 24 Jun, 2023 @ 8:07am

Well the graffiti score of Noise Tank is really misleading, he's just in the medium tier list in fact.

"In Jet Set Radio there are three types of graffiti commands: Beat type, Gum type, and Corn type. Six characters fall under the "Beat type", four characters fall under the "Gum type" and five characters fall under the "Corn type". Beat type characters are in the middle in terms of difficulty, while Gum type characters are the most complex, and Corn type characters are the easiest.

Beat type characters
Beat
Combo
Cube
Mew
Poison Jam
Noise Tanks

Gum type characters
Gum
Yo-Yo
Piranha
Goji

Corn type characters
Corn
Garam
Slate
Love Shockers
Pots

Dr_Gus 9 Jun, 2023 @ 10:47am

Noise tanks is clearly the winner here

Winkwing 6 Mar, 2023 @ 4:07pm

Why.
I shouldn't have to wonder why.
No one should have to wonder why.
But why in the ever loving hell does Cube have a higher can capacity than Combo when she has a higher Graffiti stat.

Lunar [author] 1 Oct, 2021 @ 12:44am

the story missions repeat, if you missed any levels rating youll need to play until they show up again

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