When entering codes, begin playing, then pause the game. Some codes will only work in Career Mode. Hold L1 while entering the following codes.

Complete career mode to unlock the following. Beating career (3x) means you have to beat it with three different people to get that bonus.

At the main menu press and hold L1, then press Up, Square, Square, Triangle, Right, Up, Circle, Triangle. The wheel will spin if you entered it in correctly. Now choose: create skater. put any of the following names as the skaters name and the skater will become that person:

AARON CAMMARATA
CHRIS RAUSCH
DARREN THORNE
GARY JESDANUN
JASON UYEDA
JOEL JEWETT
JOHNNY OW
JUNKI SAITA
MICK WEST
NOEL HINES
NOLAN NELSON
RALPH D' AMATO
RYAN MCHMAHON
SCOTT PEASE

At the main menu hold L1 and press Up, Square, Square, Triangle, Right, Up, Circle, Triangle. If the code was entered correctly the wheel will so a 360 spin.
Then enter the Create Skater menu and type in one of the following names as the skater's name to get that person.

Connor Jewett
Edwin Fong
Jeremy Andersen
Silvio
Aaron Skillman
Hudson
Kage
Nggdynln
Robert Earl
The Pouncer

At the Main Menu hold L1 and press Up, Up, Up, Up, X, Square, Up, Up, Up, Up, X, Square, Up, Up, Up, Up. The wheel that the options are set on will turn. Now begin a game in any mode. (This is a good way to get those hard to reach cash icons and near-impossible high scores in Career Mode.) Whenever you are skating. Ollie by pressing X, and then press X once more while you are in mid-air. This will cause your skater to rise into the air. If you hold Triangle you will hover. Use the DIGITAL PAD to move your skater in the directions. You can do tricks in the air while you are floating as well. When you land, the game will add up your points.

Bring up an unbought board for the skater you're playing as. Press Up and X or Down and X together to get board designs for the skater next on the list, or previous on the list, respectively. The game will ask if you want to spend a certain amount of money to buy the board. Choose yes and no money will be deducted, but you will now have the board design available. To choose which board you get, simply bring up the skater's whose board you are trying to access board selection, and bring up the board you want. This trick does not increase your board stats.

The gym is a hidden area in the School II Southern CA level. To open the door which leads there you must do the Roll Call! Opunsezmee Rail gap 20 seconds after you've started the level. The only to achieve this is by taking a right turn when you start the level and going down the hallway. When you come out of the hallway take a hard left turn and head to where you enter the entire stage area. There you will find a rail between some stairs and a slope. You need to grind this rail at about 1:40 minutes and do the gap in order to open the gym doors.
Inside the gym you will find a pool and a bascketball court and a few other gaps.

All the codes below should be done when the game is paused, unless otherwise noted.

Enter the following names as Created Skaters to unlock the hidden skater...

To open up an area that goes outside the main part of the hangar simply grind across on of the Helicopter's blades.

To open up the gym, a secret area that has a pool with diving boards and a basketball court with ramps, you need to grind the Opensezmee Rail before the bell stops ringing at about 1:45 or so. Grind the rail as the bell starts ringing, though, and not before it begins. The gym entrance is underneath the overhang looking straight ahead from the start.

Use a password that has less than $20,000 on it, but instead entering the fourth character, either go up one or down three and enter that value. This will give you an extra $40,000

Pause your game, hold down the L trigger, and then press the following buttons.

Here are methods on how to unlock secret and special characters.

Special codes and cheats that unlock only once you beat the game meeting certain criteria.

Beat the game 100% with every character, including custom skaters and hidden skaters, and you will unlock the secret course skater heaven. If you beat the game with three gold medals, including custom and hidden skaters, you will unlock a course from a BMX biking game.

To get to a secret area with tons of cash, skate around the grassy area until you hit a piece of glass. Then a hole will open in a wall.

Simply grind the propeller above the Half-pipe to get to a wind tunnel area in the hangar .

Pause the game, and enter the following cheats:

Beat the game 100% with Bob to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Steve to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Kareem to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Officer Dick to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Rune to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Tony to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with McSqueeb to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Eric to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Bucky to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Rodney to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Chad to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Andrew to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Geoff to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Spiderman to get his hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Elissa to get her hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with Jamie to get his hidden video.

Get 3 Gold Medals with every pro skater and you should have Chopper Drop.

Beat the game 100% with every pro skater and you should have Skate Heaven.

Beat the game 100% with one pro skater.

Beat the game 100% with Tony Hawk.

Beat the game 100% with a Created Skater.

Get every gap in the game to get Private Carerra.

Beat the game 100% percent with 2 pro skaters.

Beat the game 100% percent with 3 pro skaters.

Beat the game 100% with 4 Pro Skaters.

Beat the game 100% with 5 Pro Skaters.

Beat the game 100% with 6 Pro Skaters.

Beat the game 100% with 7 Pro Skaters.

Beat the game 100% with 8 Pro Skaters.

Beat the game 100% with 9 Pro Skaters.

Beat the game 100% with 10 Pro Skaters

Beat the game 100% with 11 Pro Skaters.

Beat the game 100% with 12 Pro Skaters.

Beat the game 100% with Officer Dick.

Beat the game 100% with Private Carerra.

Beat the game 100% with Spiderman.

Jump over the helicopter in the left room and then the door should open up allowing you to go outside.

Grind the rail above the halfpipe to open up the wind tunnel area.

In Single Session, grind the ''Opensezme'' rail before the clock hits 1:41 and the gym should open.

In the locker area, jump off of the planter in the back of the area to get on the roof. Then jump over to the next roof and drop off of that. You should be in a secret area.

In the back of the level, run into the board leaning on the lightpost, this should open up the secret area.

Get all 5 Subway tokens, then get up onto the subway rails. Follow them to their end, then you should be in the Brooklyn Banks area.

Get onto the roof that is in front of you, then jump to the one to the left of that one. From there, jump off of the back and with any luck, you should be in the hidden area.

Turn around at the start of the level, to your right is a half pipe with a rail that connects each side of it, grind around it and you will get the ''Van Secret Area Key'' gap, this will open up the fence that is along the same wall as the bowl and half pipe.

Skate forward to the giant quarter pipe that has the wave on it. Start to grind on it from the right side going to the left, get the gap ''Surfin' USA'' continue to grind until you get to the end of the grind, and jump off and land in a grind on the rail that is hanging to get the gap ''Wave Wall Mini-Gap'' and ''Rail Secret Area Key'' gaps this will open the fence that is to the right of where you are.

Grind the telephone wire that comes off of the visitors center. After a few seconds, the skate perk area should open up.

Grind the ''Time to Feed the Volcano!!!'' gap, then while the screen in shaking, jump into the volcano.

Beat the game 100% with any skater to get this hidden video.

Beat the game 100% with a created skater to get their hidden video.