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Hint - Gift Exploit
You need to risk skipping out the evening time segment for this trick. When you go to the pool stage and select "Quit Game" you save the game and begin on the next time segment when you resume your vacation.
If you choose to quit the game at an evening time segment and receive an accessory or suit gift from a girl at the hotel, the gift changes each time you resume the vacation (and start back at the hotel).
You may be able to use this to your initial advantage by "re-loading" that particular point of the vacation until the gift is something you want to keep. Reset on the Xbox 360 by selecting the Guide button and going directly to the Xbox dashboard, then reboot the game from there. As long as you do not select "Quit Game" (or complete Day 14), your vacation data does not update and save.
Hint - Roulette and Gamertag Signout Exploit
Basically, you should start off with about 3 or 4 Million Zack dollars. then just bet it all on one
third of the betting area, like on all instances of 1 to 12. Once the bets are off, ready yourself to
sign out by using the GUIDE button and BLUE to get to the "Are You Sure You Want to Sign Out" screen.
If you lose, sign out immediately (Yes and GREEN button) to avoid having the loss count towards your
account. Be sure to sign out before the chips (if any) lands on the table.
The trick is to be in the Xbox 360 gamertag menu before Zack says that all bets are final. Then get
ready to log out. Then wait for the ball to land in place. It gets hard figuring out which hole the
ball falls into, but if you don't know for sure, just wait until you see the position of the camera
when the statue that falls.
If you stand to win, decline to sign out. If you lost, sign out immediately. Then log immediately into
your gamertag. You will then log back into your account. To speed things up, you can un-hook your
network cable. If you are XBOX LIVE registered, it will say unable to connect. Cancel out until you
get to the main screen. Start up the vacation, and you should have all the money back.
Once you do win at roulette, you may want to take a breather at a cheap slot machine (at the lowest
denomination) and bet one chit. Whether you win or lose, let the account update itself so you "reset" the Itagaki style hidden win/loss coutner for the roulette game. This way, you can stand to hit it big again if you try again (although you should just go to bed or quit the game after sending out gifts to save your progress). Since there's about a one-third chance you'll win on a 36
number (actually 38, including 0 and 00), this is a fantastic way to earn money quickly and collect
all suits easily.
Warning: When you make a large bet and spend your last chip, Zack stops the betting process and
earneslty rushes you to get to the gamertag sign out screen. To get around this, don't bet all of your
money. If you are using $1000 chips then you keep more than $1000 around. Also, there is a maximum
amount you can bet on any one spot -- if that spot is occupied by another girl, move onto the next
one.
Submitted by tijoh, matt3337777, Mr.PAF, tseltman, Shinobi558 (Xbox Forums)
Easter Egg - Pole Dance
Unverified. A 1000 Zack Dollar (x3) bet (and only that sort of bet) on Christie's "Poison Dancer" slot machine will unlock succesively longer segments of Christie's pole dance scene. You will require at least eight instances of such a jackpot (per girl -- the number of vacations you take to get the total is not relevant to the condition). A jackpot incidentally gives you a cool 3 million for each hit as well.
Although this is on Christie's slot machine, your girl can be any character.
Hint - "GO" Collect Zack Dollars
The pool hopping mini-game is now tougher, so you may despair at the high price tags in the Sports and Accessories shop. However, head for Nikki's Marina and participate in a jetski race (you get a free machine once you start a vacation).
It's not terribly hard and as long as you can finish first in two laps, you get a mild sum of Zack dollars per time segment.
Hint - Sure Fire Gift Giving Exploit
If you want to be sure a girl receives a swimsuit and wear it, you can use the sign-out trick (if you get rid of the latest patch). The latest patch that was released on December 14, 2006 fixes the sign-out trick. If you want to get rid of the patch, go to your memory in the system blade of the Dashboard, and press:
Y, X, X, Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X, X.
You should receive a message that says, "This will perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices. Do you want to continue?" If you click yes, your Xbox 360 will clear it's hard drive cache. If you click no, you'll be returned back to your dashboard menu. This will help your Xbox 360 run a tad faster and fix freezing issues. Note that this will delete all non-Arcade game downloaded content and updates, although your save games will remain.
To do the gift-giving sign-out trick, give a love gift to the girl on the first day, and play against her in Volleyball at least once. Next stay in the same hotel that she is in. That night give her a love gift. Then during each set, put on the suit you want to give her, then select the suit to give to her. During the "Now Loading" screen, press the Gamertag button and get ready to sign-out. If she accepts, she will spin into the suit. If not, sign-out. Then try again with the next suit you have in stock.
It does work. I played Kokoro and gave all of her suits to Ayane in about 4 hours time. This is partly due to the fact that Ayane, Helena, and Tina don't like to be gift given in the Morning set (so I had only Daytime and Evening sets to give suits to). But all the other girls you can gift give during the Morning, Daytime and Evening sets. Then every night, gift the girl a love item from Jack-Of-All-Trades.
Gravure Mode
Complete the collection for any girl (note - this only allows that girl to participate in the gravure mode). This means you have to place a swimsuit from each girl (including the one you are playing) into the collection.
You may only place items into the collection when you are in the hotel. This means you must have at least a duplicate of one suit (no nekkid girls in DOAX2). Once you have all the spots on the swimsuits, accessories, and items filled, you may select the 'Leave Island' option and there should be a new option called Virtual Pictorial.
Submitted by BboyDubC (doacentral), dissonance (doacentral)
Hint - Strip Ticket Saver
Just a thought on the pole dancing ticket and clip. The ticket is hard (or at least time consuming) to get, and you can only use it once before you have to start all over again.
So, for anyone that wants to show off the pole scene to their friends, (or just want to watch it over and over and over) you can use a a memory card and the Datel Transfer Kit, simply copy the game save from your hard drive to the memory card after you have the ticket once, then image that memory card to your computer's hard drive.
Then, you can load that image back onto the card at any time, plug and go! Just make sure you don't overwrite your most recent saved game with the older image. I just tried copying the game save from memory manager from the HDD to the memory card, seemed to work. I copied the general game save and the vacation game save.
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