Dead Or Alive Beach Volleyball
Running Log


Hours: 0

I just got my xbox a week ago.  This is the first time I am able to actually sit down
and play a game with it after getting it chipped up.
For course, it was all for the Volleyball game.  I started the game and began to play in exhibition mode.  I quickly found this game kinda difficult because I am not very good at these sports games.   
Of course, I couldn't get the hard and soft figured out.  I didn't spike well.


Hours: 1
Change that CRAP they call music!   God damn, today's music sucks.  I think the artists should stop complaining about people downloading mp3's, and start producing albums with songs that would be worth paying money for.  Sheesh...
So to my CD collection I went I started uploading songs.


Hours: 5
I put in about 160 songs split 90 daytime / 70 nighttime.  Ahh!  much better.   I put in mostly 1980's music since I would be able to use that for Grand Theft Auto when that came out.


Hours: 15

I got my fill of just playing random characters with the nude patch.  I decided to finish the game.   It would appear that getting all the suits for all the characters would take too much time for me so I decided to do one character.  I chose Hitomi.  I was about to choose Lisa but I think the hitting power made me pick Hitomi.


Hours: 50
I started collecting everything from everyone as fast as the zacks could come in.  But I started to feel there had to be easier ways to do things.  This is when I started to look for FAQs .  There was information out there but nothing concise.   Nothing that really talked about processes and things that worked.  Besides there was lots of information to sift through and over 40 pages of forum replies to read through.
It was around this point, I think my volleyball skills got ironed out.   I  can reasonably beat any team who was normally confident.   I would probably get my ass whooped if I tried to go against them if they were both confident.


Hours: 75
After getting though a good number of FAQs and reading on what people have done, I have started to implement some of the things.   

1)  set the calibration of the buttons.  Set A to register hard, and set B to register soft.  That way when I hit the ball over the net it will spike it, and when I receive the ball, it will go to my partner.   Simple enough.
2)  stop trying to jump up at the net and block the ball
3)  attack the net because it keeps the camera angle good so you can see yourself and it keeps your partner from going to the net to block the ball
4)  start learning how to spike serve instead of underhanding the ball


Hours: 100
My play skill has probably reached a level where I now have a chance to beat the other team when they are both confident.   I can now spike the ball over the net almost all the time, so my timing is getting better there.  Still need work on the spike serve.
At about this time, I decided to write a compiled version of all the FAQs I  have read on how to build your swimsuit collection.


Hours:  125
I have gotten most of the easy suits on to Hitomi and was about ready to start doing the disliked and hated suits for her.   Also at this point, I have not used Tina or Christie or Ayane too much, so I will have to learn their mannerisms.
I started to build a checklist of what I needed in suits, with their prices and who has to buy them.
Also I sorted them from most expensive to cheapest, since it seems the game gets harder as you get along so get the hard ones done first.  ie...  THE VENUS...


Hours:  150
I now can win most matches if I really concentrate and I don't have any weird handicaps.   Only problem is that the score is usually 7-5 or 8-6 or 9-7 or 10-8,   Ie.  low money values and a lot of wasted time in long rallys.
I also started to collect suits using the Fuzzy Super Method (Plan A and Plan B).   I quickly got the Venus on Hitomi.   I also started to video tape my matches in an attempt to capture video footage of the notes system.   Maybe I can figure out what this L2FRN looks like.


Hours: 200
I got better beating the confident teams.  I found the back spikers like Christie and Ayane and Kasumi very useful.   Now I was trying to solve the problem of trying to get the partner to go to the net to spike the ball.
This is when I realized I calibrated the B button wrong.  It should have been set to register very hard.  I also found that people were using the B button to tap the ball over the net instead of lightly tapping A.   Ahh..  that makes things so simple.


Hours: 250
I have accumulated a shelf of recorded games.  I even video captured a few into the computer.
I figured out a few different patterns but nothing that looks like a L2FRN like the FAQs describes.  But then  again,  I am at this point where I am able write down on one sheet of paper all the swimsuits I need to do.   Out of 41 hated suits, I am down to 28, and the venus is out of the way.   And out of 17 disliked suits, 5 of them were out of the way.   Using the method, I have only failed both Plan A and Plan B,  three times.   So, even if I did figure out what this L2FRN looks like,  it doesn't save me that much anyway.


Hours: 300
I have compiled and backup all the songs in the xbox.   I am now going to put a new set of songs into the box.  This compilation's theme is "Women That ROCK!"   a tribute to female artists, performers, lead vocals, and bands.


Hours: 350
I have now only 13 hard suits out of the 41 needed for Hitomi left to get.   I have 6 of 17 hated suits left to get.   I am still only at 3 total failures.    18 of the suits completed with using Plan A or part of another Plan A, thus only 10 of them were plan B's.
At this point, all the suits left to buy are from Tina, Lisa and Christie.   The hardest ones...   Tina is down to 2, Tayegeta (hated at 370,000) and Alycone (disliked at 370,000).     Christie is down to suits under 370,000 and Lisa still has the Gaia, Asarte, Ratri and Usas all at 600,000 to get...


Hours: 375
I am down to 2 disliked suits, Alcyone (which is Tina's) and Dike (which is Lisa's),
I am down to 12 hated suits.   I have added another failed attempt to bring to total to 4 fails
with a second failure to gift the Gaia on Hitomi.


Hours: 400
I have finished all of Tina's suits.  That just leaves Lisa's  five hated and one disliked suit and Chrisitie's four hated and one disliked suit left to do.


Hours: 425
I am now down to 2 hated Christie suits (Iolite and Viroline) and 1 disliked (Sapphire).   For Lisa, I am donw to 4 hated (Asarte, Cybele, Gaia and Victoria) and 1 disliked one (Dike).   
I wrote out a list of the Accessories and Items that are missing.   I started to use the stock pile of 5 million zacks to buy the items I was missing for Hitomi.
It hardly even made a dent in the 5 million zacks.   Anyway, I am down to 5 accessories (Blue wristwatch <I keep getting black ones>, plastic sunglasses blue, Red Sneakers <I keep getting the leather ones>, Rimless glasses, and white wristband.     Out of all the items, I was down 4 items,  3 of them are volleyballs.   I needed a tomato juice.  The three volleyballs I need are flourent orange, orange, and red.

Hours:  475
I have spent some time just playing 3,4,5 days of volleyball and then just leaving the vacation in order to stock pile zacks on both Christie and Lisa.   I managed to make enough money to buy 3 of each of the remaining hated and disliked suits.
At this time, I only have Christie's Viroline (hated) and Lisa's Astarte (hated) and Lisa's Dike (disliked) left to give but I already bought them and they are ready to give.
As for accessories,  I am down to 2,  Blue Wristwatch (which currentlly Christie has one gift wrapped ready to go), and Rimless sunglasses.   As for Items, I am down to 3, Flourscent Orange ball, Red volleyball, and tomato juice.