Ok a few more questions.

1. After I choose a girl, can I end her vacation whenever I want and start a new one (without deleting vacation time)?
2. Do the swimsuits and etc carry over from previous vacations?
3. Achievements ... I'm assuming for each girl I have to buy all swimsuits for her, do I also have to buy all the other crap like headbands and shoes?
4. Friend Achievements ... this one I don't understand.

e.g. let's say DOAX2 only has 3 girls, A B C and each girl only has 3 diff swimsuits. Let's say I'm playing girl A, what am I supposed to do? Give away all my girl A suits to girls B and C? Or give all suits to ONLY one of girl B or C?

1) Yes. If you end the vacation, you'll go back to Day 1. You'll lose your partner though.
2) Yes.
3) Just buy all the swimsuits is enough to get your 1st achievement.
4) To make friends, you need to get the girl to give you all her swimsuits. e.g. you need Lei Fang to give you all her swimsuits.

The basic premise of the game is like this:

1) Buy all your own swimsuits at the shop.
2) Build up your relationship with other girls (by beating them in volleyball, giving them gifts they like)
3) Give the girl your swimsuit, and *hope* that they like it
4) The girl will give you back one of her own swimsuits *hopefully*
5) Repeat ad nauseaum.

1) ... how do I quit a vacation? I can't find any menu or option anywhere that does it ...

3 & 4 ... By "you," do you mean "me, the player," or do you mean "the current girl I'm playing?"

As in ... let's say I'm targeting Helena to give me all her 20 suits. Must I get all the 20 suits while playing only ONE girl, or can I like, play Ayane and get 5 suits, then do a new vacation and use Tina to get another 5, etc etc?

quite hard to get the achievements for this game actually

What do you mean quit? As in quit the game? If you mean quitting the game, either go to Poolside and quit, or in the Hotel select "Quit Game". If you mean quit, by ending your vacation, you'll have to use the "Go Home Tomorrow" option in the Hotel, which is only accessible after one 14-day vacation with any girl.

For 3 & 4, you = current girl you're playing.

what is "sleep in tomorrow" means? everytime i select it my partner will split up with me

the "sleep in tomorrow" means you break up with your partner.

stupid itagaki making ppl bored of his game..
looks like cheating is the only way to play this game if u have a 'real life'..

btw, i already bought all the swimsuit for leifang.. but still not yet get achievement..
issit i have to keep them into collection first?

How the hell do you win more than like 50% of your volleyball games?

Everytime I go up to spike the ball, it seems that wherever I aim, my girl will MAYBE spike where I aim ... but most often spike somewhere else (normally straight to the opposing girl).

And then the camera angle, omg ... when opponents serve ... I have no idea whether the ball is coming to my girl or my partner girl ...

yes all put into collection and make sure u bought 1 more swimsuit for ur girl or she will be naked withou swimsuit

EDIT:
deodorant, spike u can choose Left for close smack (good for close to the net) and Right for far smack (best for smacking at middle for more chance to Rocket Shot.)

This post has been edited by tailgunner: Jan 29 2007, 11:23 PM

wth..i can believe this guy actually did it

Look

1000/1000 in doax2

A couple of tips for volleyball:

- If you're up to spike and you see one of the girls running really really close to the net but not jump to block, aim the ball close and close to that girl. 7_4_1A depending on where you are on the net and where she's running from; 90% chance the girl won't be able to catch your spike.

- The AI is much smarter this time 'round; they'll usually aim their spikes to the direction you were running from. Ex: you position to the right as the AI is about to spike, and the girl spikes to your character's left. To try and counter this run in one direction as the AI is about to spike but right before the slow-mo kicks in, run back to the original position. You should be able to receive properly.

- Also smarter in that they vary their spike timings between the 'nice' spike version and a the non-rocket spike. Receiving these 2 spikes have very different timings, mostly due to the slow-mo on rocket spikes. The rocket one needs to be pressed quite early after the slow-mo stops. Whereas the non-rocket needs to be pressed a bit later after the spike itself; I say the spike since there's usually no discernable slow-mo on the non-rocket spikes, also since the ball doesn't travel as fast as it would on the rocket spike, then if you press B ala a rocket spike, you'd whiff your receive.

- Anyway, there's no easy way to tell between the 2 spikes. Only way is to watch for slow-mo. If she slow-mos then plan to receive like a rocket spike; otherwise delay your receive.

- A really good way to bulldoze through the 2 spikes is to just block. Yes, block. Practice blocking and you'll get the hang of it. For insurance, use your partner to cover up anything should your block fail, as the 2 different spikes will get differing results versus a block, but generally it's in your favour if you block well especially if you position your partner properly.

- Best spike to block is the set spike (or whatever); the one where the partner will run up and set the ball when she's close to the net. This is a really good time to block because if you can block the ball, chances are the partner is still in recovery from her set so the ball should fly to your opponent's court uncontested, unless the ball bounces off one of the girls after the block which happened to me more than once.

- Don't spike normally if you see someone blocking your spike. Seriously. Just feint; time your feint and aim it away from the partner.

YAY! Wall of text. Now I feel like playing DoAX2. Too bad I think I got the first batch of discs, since it always has problems booting and gets itself scratched all the time. Seriously the scratches on it are hideous; it's the only game that's behaving like this too. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the 2nd batch of DoAX2? I wanna continue my swimsuit transfers.

Edit: Oh, one more thing: the AI is very good at picking holes in your formation, so be sure to cover all your bases as they are setting up their spike.

This post has been edited by stinkymonz: Feb 3 2007, 03:44 PM

How far ahead is everyone in DOAX2? So far only managed to get 5 achvs only... wanna try to unlocked the GRAVURE mode...

now wanna get ayane's 2 friends achv...

using the sign-out trick ...

This post has been edited by ferricide: Feb 12 2007, 10:58 AM

If you wanna unlock the Virtual Pictorial you have to get all swimsuits for any girl. Even then, you can only unlock the VP for that girl.

IINM, we need all the accy and items as well, including the strange volley ball, secret ticket and the character specifc items?

IINM? In any case, I'm fairly sure it only involves swimsuits; not items or accessories or jet-skis or the secret ticker or whatever.

IINM - if i am not mistaken

ok... thanks... I have a mission now during the CNY long break...

ha... h3be...
the person that you give us crazy..
i don even cen get gifts like wat you all have..
think of selling it off la.... damm....

come, sell to me cheapē + 12 month installment, bwahahah

This post has been edited by hikaru_x: Feb 12 2007, 03:15 PM

its doable... just pray we don't hit MALE menopause when that happens...

EDIT: yeah.... guys also get it

This post has been edited by ferricide: Feb 12 2007, 03:15 PM