Here's a very comprehensive Excel spreadsheet I created that should help everyone finish the DOAX2 game.  I posted it at IGN.com

http://faqs.ign.com/articles/772/772401p1.html

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Awesome. Best one I have seen yet

Much appreciated my friend, thanks for sharing !

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C'Mon !!

The Usual Suspex

Hey Rapidson, did you ever get Lisa to take Helena's Knock Out suit?

Dolts007 - Always a pleasure to help out a fellow Dolfan!

 

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Hey, I just read your post at IGN.  Congrats!!!

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thank you. It was a struggle.  Question for you.  The secret achievement.....do you need to have complete collections with every girl or just one?  Now that I have Lisa finsihed, can I just complete her collection?

AWSOME JOB...

I wish more people did great work like you have on this checklist..

 

THANK YOU

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 Rapidson wrote:

thank you. It was a struggle.  Question for you.  The secret achievement.....do you need to have complete collections with every girl or just one?  Now that I have Lisa finsihed, can I just complete her collection?

I dont have the secret achievement but from what Ive read from other posts you have to have complete collections for all girls, not just one. Im sure someone will correct me if need be.

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C'Mon !!

The Usual Suspex

That's correct!  You need to complete each girl's swimsuit collection as well as all the girls' accessories and items to attain the secret achievement.  The secret achievement is a red heart icon.  This is explained in the spreadsheet.  The achievement board in the spreadsheet updates exactly the same way as the game, revealing each new game option, such as the Virtual Pictorials, etc. 

The Virtual Pictorials and the Jet Skis have nothing to do with gaining the Secret Achievement.  However, the spreadsheet breaks down the VP for each girl and shows you what scenes you need to acquire for each girl.  The same can be said for the Jet Ski page.

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Every item on every girl! OMG I'll never see that one LOL.

 

Edit: hey ALCAM, I sent you a friends request, but I am assumign that this name is not your main?

Hey Dolts and Rapidson, got your messages but I can't reply...Not a gold member.  Don't have internet service where I live in the Rockies...Ski a lot but don't have XBOX LIVE....yet.  Am only on-line when at work. 

Rapidson, whenever I do get hooked up I'll let you know.  For now I can't play on line...Sorry.  I'm not that good anyway.  My gamerscore is only nearing 4,000 which is not even half of your score. 

Dolts, you have to use the secret token to unlock the pole dance in the VP area.   What I did was take pictures of the pole dance when I used the token but I used the sign-out cheat to practice until I got used to the routine in order to get decent shots.  

 

 

 

 

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ALCAM - dont be impressed with my gamer score.  I have been playing since launch.  360 is pretty much my only hobby.  I am not that good at anything either.  but be sure to let me know if you ever get on Live.

Thanx for the awesome checklist!!! ^_^

This is the best DOAX2 Spreadsheet I've seen so far!  Very cool and easy to use!!!

And funny!!!

Are you going to add more pics in the future?

I've been toiling with an updated version which includes more pics of the dreaded animal suits for all nine girls as well as updated guide info.  I've been reading peoples' complaints here and there on different websites concerning the DOAX2 achievements.  So I also included a clear explanation of the achievements in the newer version as well as including a few new formulas here and there.  Once you close out a girl's virtual pictorial the Achievement Board page will now reflect that accomplishment.  The version out there now only shows when the Virtual Pictorial is "Opened." 

However, I haven't posted this newest version at IGN yet because I have a problem with the Excel program.  Seems I've maxed out on the cell formats.  Once a spreadsheet hits 4,000 different cell formats Excel gives you a warning message.  I have that message with the unreleased version.  So, until I can reformat some of the cells I'm going to leave the current available version at IGN alone. 

Besides, I don't think a lot of people are playing DOAX2 that much anymore.  If you have ideas, improvements, etc...let me know.

 

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Great checklist.

Thanks for posting it.

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Glad you all find it useful.  Let me know how I can improve it...

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 ALCAM USA wrote:

Glad you all find it useful.  Let me know how I can improve it...

In older versions of your spreadsheet, you had separate tabs for each of the girls listing their love/like/neutral/dislike/hate items grouped by category and then alphabetically by item within the category.  In the current versions of the sheet, you eliminated those tabs and just have the one colour-coded grid page.  That page completely fails from a usability standpoint; it is 100% useless.  The old tabs were far, far more effective.  Granted, it is a lot of tabs cluttering up the sheet view, so maybe condensing into one tab with a pickbox to select the girl and then have it display all the items in sorted order would be something to think about.

But as it is now, I still use your old sheet as my love/like reference because the current grid is just too tedious to search through when checking items for a girl I'm not familiar with.  Also, while I'm not personally colour blind, I imagine anyone that is will find the colour-coded grid even that much more useless.

The current grid is for historical purposes only .  If you go to the DOAX2 Tracker page and slide your mouse pointer over the girls' swimsuit cells in Column Y a pop-up window will appear containing that particular girl's love/like items.  These cells have a small red triangle in the upper right hand corner.  To gift swimsuits to the girls one only really needs to know their love/like items whereas knowing which items they hate/dislike is insignificant.  If someone wants to know otherwise then that's where the grid comes in.

I felt placing the girls' love/like items for all the girls on the DOAX2 Tracker alongside each of the 9 swimsuit collections was more beneficial because it contained all the info right there for the gamer.  I explained this in the spreadsheet on the INFO page.  Because there are nine swimsuit collections, each girl's love/like items appears nine times on the Tracker page.  This to me is more convienent and allows the gamer to stay within the swimsuit collection of the girl they are playing as instead of tabing over to other pages of the spreadsheet. 

Does this make sense?  If you still like the old style, let me know and I can place them in the newer version and email it to you so everything can be in one spreadsheet for you.

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I agree love/like items are the only ones that are important.

I hadn't noticed that you had converted these lists into pop-ups in the tracker grid.  I just looked at this, and while it's better than the love/hate grid, it's still harder to read because the items are in all caps and a big word-wrapped paragraph.  That makes searching for the items by name harder since you have to scan entire lines, rather than the start of each word as would be the case if they were in an ordered list.  If you can make the pop-ups ordered lists then that might work.  I dunno how the popups work, if you can make a "table" out of of the popup.  If so, a popup with column 1 being the ordered list of love items and column 2 being the ordered list of like items would probably be best.  But as it is now, it's still easier/faster to scan the individual tabs in your older sheet than it is the pop-ups.

Very nice work.  I'm still trying to figure a few things out.  So much info on there.  It's probably just me but the explanation for the virtual pictorials was a bit confusing. 

I just finished getting all the girls their respective suits.  WAHOO!  Man did that take forever.  But with the help of this spreadsheet it made the tracking so much easier.  Now onto making friends.  Just two away and I'll have one friend!  Kinda sad for the amount of time I've put into this game.

Keep up the excellent work.  It can't be easy but I for one appreciate it.

---yes I know my achievement lists don't match what I said but I've been offline for awhile now...since the new halo maps came out I've been forced to play offline while others use it for stupid Halo---

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CAW -

Well, whatever works for you.  I personally didn't like tabbing through the Girl's Reaction Pages while completing the game.  I found the pop-up windows much easier to use while playing the game because the info is right there in every girls' swimsuit collection and the Love/Like Items are grouped separately apart and listed in alphabetical order. 

But you are right, Two Single line tables would be a little easier to read but to me it's not a big improvement because the list of the girls' love/like items aren't very long.  So if using my old spreadsheet version for the girls' reactions alongside the macro stat sheet works for you, go for it.  Whatever helps you the best to complete all the achievements is what should count. 

Schmoikel -

I finished updating the spreadsheet as mentioned earlier in this thread.  I also rewrote some of the previous information found on the INFO and Trick or Cheat pages.  You are right about the original Virtual Pictorial explanation.  I rewrote that also.  The simpliest way to explain the VP page is that the color of the location cells for the Friendly and Imitate Partner sections MATCH the color of the DOA Girls' cells with whom your character must partner up with.

The new version also has Picture Galleries.  The pics are mostly the 3-D type.  I won't upload the new version at IGN until I can find some good 3-D pics of Kokoro.  As of this date I don't have any of her.  If anyone knows where I can find some, let me know (for any girl).   I'd also like the artists name so I can give them credit.   The pics don't have to be 3-D but I'd like pics that people actually created or modified.  I will keep these pages unprotected so you can copy/paste them elsewhere or add to them. 

 

 

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I am using the sheet that you posted on ign.com and I found it to be pretty flawless. Every piece of information that you listed on that sheet is useful. I even managed to get a few extra achievements thanks to your sheet.

Again, great work man.

 

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Glad you found it useful.  That's probably Version 8 which had TWO wrong prices for Hitomi's SS (Fox, Southern Cross).  I think I also messed up by giving all the girls the Blue Dolphin (I'm now not sure if that's correct for all the girls....had feedback on it). 

I came out with a Version 9 but before you decide to download it and use it make sure it's VERSION 9.2 (Look on INFO Page at the bottom).  I fixed the above mistakes and also added more info on the Trick or Cheat page (Explanation of the Girlie Icons with each set of three icons for all the girls, Tips, etc)  I cleaned up the INFO page and made a better outline of what is in the spreadsheet with better descriptions (I hope). 

Added a few more formulas while also adding over 350 pics in FIVE Pic Galleries that people can copy/cut/paste/delete or add to.  (DOAX Gallery 1, DOAX Gallery 2, Precious Memories Gallery, DOAX Fan Art, and DOA Gallery) Many pics are of the CG 3-D Type.  Some people may find the pics useful for sigs and avatars while many of the other pics are quite large.  I posted this version at deadoralivextreme2.net   I'll leave the link where you can go at the bottom of this blog.  There is also a link there to download just the 9.2 VERSION of the Spreadsheet WITHOUT pics (3 meg file).   So you have two choices.

HOWEVER, because I added so much stuff I maxed out the cell variations for Excell (4,000) which caused me to run into a few problems with Version 9.   Anyone who has a copy of Version 9.0 or 9.1 should delete it because it doesn't work properly.  The Achievement and Tracker page won't tally up your progress correctly.  Excel deleted some cells when I reached the max cell variations and I also somehow linked a few formulas to other versions of the spreadsheet making everyone's copy of the workbook useless.  The Items page also fouled up, Excel deleted my Validation table for all the cells.

VERSION 9.2 after heavy scrutiny by myself and a friend in NZ fixed all these problems.

If you like Version 8 with the minor flaws then stick to it, else take a look at Version 9.2.  People may want the 70 meg file just for the pics.  Here's the link:

http://www.deadoralivextreme2.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2880

 

 

 

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Wow... Great work man.

Kudos.

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You should get paid for this kind of work.

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Ok, you can make out your check to Al Buonanno.  Just kidding, thanks for the compliment.  I'm glad you like it. 

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Whoa, I know you have heard this alot now... but AWESOME JOB!

Now everything in the world(of DOAX2)makes sense!

Anyway, nice job!

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Well I know that this is not the place to be asking this question, but

I can't seem to open the file. I already unzipped(or whatever its called) and I can see the spreadsheet with the name "doax2v9_2sm", but thats as far as I can get. I can't open it, and I have no idea what to do now.

Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated!

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