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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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)