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Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball FAQ
version 1.3
*Exclusive for Xbox*
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Author: Scott Ong
(vaynard_x11x@yahoo.com)
NOTE: I am no longer using my old e-mail account
kangning@singnet.com.sg.
Latest revisions of the FAQ can always be obtained at
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Disclaimer
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This FAQ is protected under the Copyright Law Act. No part of the
material should be copied without obtaining the author's consent.
Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball and Dead Alive are copyright of
Tecmo, LTD. 1996 - 2003. Tecmo and the Tecmo logo are registered of
trademarks of Tecmo LTD, Team Ninja and the Team Ninja logo are
trademarks of Tecmo LTD. Microsoft Xbox and the Xbox logos are either
registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or in
other countries.
This FAQ is copyright of Scott Ong 2003
Table of Contents
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1)  Author's Note
2)  Game Overview
3)  Zack's Island
4)  Characters
- Kasumi
- Hitomi
- Helena
- Leifang
- Christie
- Lisa
- Tina
- Ayane
5)  Exhibition Mode
6)  Bestiary
- Swimsuits
- Accessories
- Items
- Original Soundtrack
7)  Casino
- Roulette
- Blackjack
- Poker
- Slot Machine
8)  Secrets & Hints
9)  Credits and Acknowledgements
10) E-mail Policy / Q & A
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1.
Author's Note
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Prior to these update, I have receiving e-mails regarding the game's
topless code. For the full explanation about the code, please check
the Q & A section under the last section of the FAQ. The code DOES
NOT work as based on my testing. However, a trick posted by people at
the GameFAQs message boards does works.
Thanks to a few readers, I have managed to corrected and expanded some
of the minor facets that I have overlooked.
As I am currently serving the Army, I will not have much time in reply
e-mails. By the way, please do not sent e-mails to my old e-mail a/c
as I no longer read e-mails from there. Please wait for at least 3
days for my reply. If you need help urgently, consult other FAQ
writers for this game. The message boards at GameFAQs is also a ideal
source of help.
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2.
Game Overview
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This beach volleyball simulation game (I will not classified as a
sports game...) features those lovely chicks from Dead of Alive Series.
The game involves from Zack, the winner of the DOA 3 Tournament who
subsequently strikes lottery at the casino and bought over an island.
The name was named after him. Up to something mischief, he invites ONLY
female competitors from DOA series for the tournment, DOA 4. You will
be choosing to play as one of 8 gals for 14 day vacation in Zack's
Island.
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3.
Zack's Island
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Zack Island consists of several places of interest and they are:-
* JUNGLE
It's cool under the trees and it's green as far as the eye can see.
* HOTEL
It's a paradise! There's even a casino!
* ZACK'S STATUE
Hmm...
* RADIO STATION
The DJ has the place jumpin' Keep those request coming!
* BASS ISLAND
What a cool little island. Well they say: When in Rome...
* SPORTS SHOP
Buy swimsuits here. Check back daily!
* ACCESSORY SHOP
Some nice, small items. Lots of variety
* VACHT HARBOR
All those sails are quite a sight
* NIKI BEACH
A nice out-of-the-way spot. Wonder what's here
* PRIVATE BEACH
A quite beach for Zack's private use
* ZACK OF ALL TRADES
A stall that would opens on fourth day of a girl's vacation.
3.1 - Basis
The gameplay is relatively simple as you just need to your time on the
island by playing beach volleyball, practice your hopping at the
poolside, purchases accessories and stuff from shops and interact with
the girls that stays on the island.
3.2 - Options Menu
Before you start the game, you can go to the Options where you get to
switch your controls between digital and analog. Analog controls will
cause the power of the character's spike, serve or jump based on how
hard you have pressed the button. Digital allows you to have a 4-
buttons control with Attack (hard), Attack (soft) and Receive (hard)
or Receive (soft). In my opinion, digital controller is easier as you
can control the hard/soft of the controls that you want. You can view
the federal warning and age settings under the Options menu.
3.3 - Starting the Game
Every character has her own likes and dislikes. Winning games help to
build teamwork and the relationship between the two. Whoever you choose
as your character, they will meet up with Lisa on the poolside who
offers to take you on a tour around the island. Of course, you are
playing as Lisa, you will meet up with Tina instead. On the first play,
you will be guided along for the first day. However if you have
completed the 14-day vacation with at least 1 character, you will be
given the option to skip the tour. However, it will bring down your
affection with Lisa. You start the game with 10,000 Zack Dollars or
your previous remaining amount from the character's previous vacation.
The reason why it is Lisa inviting your character for the tourney is
because she is co-host of Zack's Island & Zack's sister!
3.4 - Replaying a vacation
If you are using the same saved file but using another character, you
will most likely find items that you have previously given the
character as gifts (provided that she did not discard them...).
Unfortunately, they cannot be re-sent as presents $_$:)
C O N T R O L S
(Configuration for analog controller - default settings)
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(A)  A button        #  black button    R/  right thumbstick
(B)  B button       ()  white button    L/  left thumbstick/ D-Pad
(X)  X button       [S] start button    [B] Back button
[L]  left trigger   [R] right trigger
(A)  Select or Advance command. Attack button for beach volleyball
(spiking, serving or blocking).
(B)  Cancel or Return command. Receive button for beach volleyball
(tossing and receiving).
(X)  Views items menu. You can choose to change your character's
attire, accessories, view items and mingle with them. You can
jump to the next page when viewing items.
R/   Moves the camera during gravure system mode and replay modes
L/   Moves the character and move cursors between menu options
[S]  Pause the game during volleyball. OK-Advances for screen commands
[B]  Cancels-returns to previous screen
#    Skip to the next song
()   Replay current song
[L]  Changes camera view during gravure system
[R]  Zoom in during gravure system and replay modes.
Digital Controls
- Generally the controls are the same except you can determine the
hardness and softness of attack and receive commands.
- Typically, it is easier than analog as you can determine the power
of the spikes/serves, which are crucial in winning beach volleyball
games.
- Digital controls will apply only to gameplay of the beach volleyball
& the hopping game.
The default settings for the digital controls are:
(A) Button - Attack Hard
(B) Button - Receive Hard
(Y) Button - Attack Soft
(X) Button - Receive Soft
Winning hopping game at the poolside or winning a beach volleyball
game nabs you Zack dollars, the currency used on the island. You can
also choose to gamble these money at Casino when your character gets
back to the casino at night.
D A Y    A C T I V I T I E S
A single day on Zack Island is practically divided into 4 "parts" -
morning, daytime, evening and night time. You can only doing the
following events during the day (morning, daytime & evening):-
A day at Zack Island can be divided into 4 "parts" as the following:
1) Morning - everything accessible* except for Bass Island & Casino
2) Daytime - everything accessible* except for Casino
3) Evening - everything accessible* except for Bass Island & Casino
4) Night time - you can only access the Casino.
* Jack of All Trades only opens from 4th day of your vacation.
P o o l s i d e
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Take a rest at the poolside and play the hopping mini-game. You can
also view your items and have a rest (gravure system mode) at the
pool. Note that when you are not moving D-Pad or left thumbstick, you
will enter into the gravure mode while your character is lying on the
bench chair.
Entering the poolside will give you the following options:
Leave the poolside : Leave the pool
Take a rest*       : Enter into pool gravure mode system
Play hopping game* : Play the mini game
View items         : View your items, accessories, items & presents
Quit the game      : Exit "Zack's Island Mode"
I supposed most of the options are straight forward except for the
options mark in asterisk. Select either one of these commands will
allows you to move past a "part" of a day. Gravure mode will differ
depends on the "part" of the day.
I have also discovered that the Gravure movie will change if you
change your character's costume or equipped the character's favorite
item. Please refer to gravure mode listing under each individual
character's profile. Gravure movie shown are also based on the days.
For example for Hitomi, there are 2 gravure movies for daytime. You
will get the gravure movie of her sitting by poolside on odd days
while a gravure movie of her lying on the poolside on even days.
------------      Note: The digital controls can be applied for this
Hopping Game            mini-game.
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The mini-game objective is relatively simply. You just need to move
your character from one side of the pool to other by jumping on the
floating boards. Once you fall into the pool, you will be given the
option to retry or quit the mini-game.
For analog controls,
Hopping is basically affected by pressure sensitivity of the (A)
button. Your character will hop further if you hit the (A) button
harder. You can calibrate the pressure before beginning of any hopping
mini-game game. Hit the start button to proceed. You can make use of
digital controls by hit (A) as hard button and (B) as soft button.
The faster you get to other side of the pool, the higher your score
will be. All points earned on Zack's Island will be converted to Zack
Dollars. In between, you will be gaining Nice points for making nifty
steps by chaining your jumps smoothly. Nice points will be accumulated
during hopping. However if you fall into the pool, the nice points
earned will be not be forfeited i.e. you will not receive any Zack
dollars. You can also zoom in while playing the mini-game.
The hopping game can generates a steady source of income and it also
allows you to be familiarised with the analog controls. It is ideal
for practicing with the analog controls.
S h o p s
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I supposed I don't need to explain too much as Lisa will explain for
you when you are playing the game for the first time. There are a
total of three shops - Sports Shop, Accessory Shop and Zack of All
Trades. The third shop will only open from the 4th day of the
character's vacation.
The items will be changed between days. So make sure you check them
out every time. However, there are a few points to take note of:
. Items such as food (milk, lobster, crabs, etc) & flowers (hibiscus,
roses, etc) will withered or go stale when you have keep them for
more than half a day. Once withered/spoilt, they will be discarded
automatically.
. Accessories are the only items that can be worn. Exceptions
includes the character's favorite item. For example, Kasumi's
favorite item allow you to change her hairstyle to braids or
ponytail.
. Swimsuits sold in the Sports Shops are ONLY specific to the
character's theme. For example, you will find flowers-theme
swimsuits when you are playing as Kasumi and birds-theme swimsuits
when you are playing as Leifang.
. In order to other theme swimsuits is by offering presents to the
other girls so that they will sent you a return gift when you
return back to the hotel at night. You can also play as the other
character and give gifts to your character, which is the faster
method.
. Zack will give you 3 swimsuits for the character when they return
to the hotel after winning beach volleyball. You can expect to
receive a gift from Zack every night. It seems that changing to new
swimsuits helps you to get new swimsuit earlier.
. Hit (X) button before attempting to purchase will allow you to
know whether the item is in your inventory. This hint is pretty
useful when you attempting to complete the swimsuit collection for
that particular character. You can also receive your character's
swimsuit from other characters as gift.
B e a c h e s  /  J u n g l e
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There are a lot of things while on the isolated regions of the island.
You can play beach volleyball when you have a partner and there are
2 characters within that area.
When there is nobody within that area, you will automatically proceed
to the gravure mode for your character. Hit Start or (A) button to
exit. The time will passes for a "part".
If you are alone, there are 1 or 2 companions on the area, you will
be given the option of:- 1) forming a partnership and 2) giving the
girl a present.
There is some art in forming partnerships and giving gifts. Before
forming a partnership, you must be on good terms with the character.
The relationship can be enhanced by giving likeable gifts to the
character. If you give a wrong item, it will bring down the mood
between the 2 characters. Winning volleyball games help to build
friendship. For the list of likeable objects, please refer to the
Characters Section for more details. Doing a gift presentation or
forming partnership (fail or succeed) will result you to spend a
"part" of the day.
If you have a partner and there are 2 characters found in that area,
you will be given an additional option of having a volleyball game.
You can pause the game by hit the Start button. If you choose to quit
the game, it will be counted as you lose the beach volleyball game.
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Beach Volleyball
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The volleyball game is relatively simple as it involves moving the
character around the field and using 2 buttons based on how hard you
hit the button. Good serves, blocks and spikes can earn you nice
points. The larger the point margins, the more points you will earn.
Basic Rules:
- Matches use the rally point system, where the serve goes to
whoever team has mostly recently scored. The character will take
turns in serving. The 1st player will have the chance to serve
first.
- The team that gets to 7 points first wins. Deuce may also be
called when the score is 6 to 6. If the score reaches 9 - 9, the
first team to reaches 10 points wins the game.
- There are no sidelines and endline on the court.
- Your team will always be on the left side of the court.
The volleyball game consists of 5 basic phrases:
Serving
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- Hit Down or Up on the D-Pad to change position before your
character begin to serve.
- To perform a serve, hit (A) to toss the ball up and hit (A) again
while the ball is in mid-air. You can make use of D-Pad to
determine the aim point of opposition's court.
Basically, there are 3 types of serves:-
1) Overhand Serve - the default serve technique.
View the instructions above. If you hit with good timing and a
strong force, you will be award 1000 nice points for the serve.
2) Underhand Serve
To execute the serve, hold left on D-Pad when your character is
facing right and hit (A) to toss and followed by (A) to hit.
This move does not possesses much power but it is very easy to
time.
3) Jump Serve
To execute the serve, hold right on D-Pad when your character is
facing right and hit (A) to toss. While the ball reaches the peak,
hit (A) to perform a Jump Serve. A great technique but hard to
time. If you hit with good time and strong force - you will be
awarded 2000 nice points for the serve.
Receiving
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- Move your character towards the ball and lightly tap (B) to hit
the incoming serve or spike.
- To perform Two Attack,
Hold down (B) firmly when your character are about to recieve
the ball. For your character to perform Two Attack, hold down (B)
when your partner receives the ball.
Tossing
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- Short Toss: Tap (B) as your teammate receives the ball
- Long Toss: Press (B) firmly as your teammate receives the ball.
- You can determine the direction by pressing Up or Down on the
D-Pad. If you lightly tap (B) when your teammate is at the
backcourt, you can give her a quick toss for a back attack.
Spiking
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- Position your character with D-Pad and while the ball is in
mid-air, hit (A) to jump and (A) again to perform a spike. The
power of spike depends on hard you tap (A).
- When an opponent attempts to block, tap (A) again to perform a
feint.
- You will be awarded 1000 points for perform a nice spike.
Blocking
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- Timing is important. Hit (A) when your character is at the net
to perform a block.
Controlling your teammate
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The computer will automatically control your partner, but you can
direct them with the right thumbsticks
Normal Shift         R/ Down from Above
Your teammate decides whether to block or receive based on the
position
Block Shift          R/ towards the net
Your teammate will try for a block near the net.
Receive Shift        R/ away from the net
Your teammate will try to receive the ball in the backcourt.
General Tips
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Generally, it is a game based on reflexes and you will need to a lot
of practcie. I myself spend approximate 3 hours to perfect my
volleyball skills. Remember: Practice makes perfect.
- Make your receiving acts timely. Otherwise your character will be
very vulnerable for incoming spike.
- Spikes are great tools for attack but do not use them too often.
Ocassionally, use (B) for a soft spike when your opponent is
attempting to block you.
- Toss the ball often and set up your teammate for a spike.
- Plays the backcourt while your teammate is in front court and vice
versa.
- Do not hit