Get the Venus on all the girls
Only one girl - Lisa - can buy the best suit in the game, but you can give it as a gift to the other girls. Start a new game with Lisa, and pick a teammate. Only send gifts to that girl. Send her less-expensive suits at first, and work your way up slowly to the Venus, or else she'll throw it away if you give it too soon. Give one suit in each price bracket, and try to give the ones that are that girl's favorite color, though they all do accept gifts of a similar color. As an example, Lisa's favorite color is stated as Crimson Red, but she's equally happy with Hot Pink. Neon Orange turns her off.
It's important to keep your teammate happy or she won't accept the more expensive suits, so toss in the smaller items (hats, shoes, volleyballs, foods, etc) to keep their levels up, even if you're on a winning streak...
You might have to play through the game with Lisa a couple or more times to get enough money to buy all the gifts, but only send gifts to that one girl until you can give her the Venus. Even if she throws it away, continue sending her smaller gifts until the end of the game.
Now start a new game and pick the girl you were just sending gifts to as Lisa, and pick Lisa as your partner. Whatever Lisa (you) sent that was thrown away in the previous game will be re-sent by Lisa (computer), and now you can manually choose to accept those gifts, including the Venus and other suits.
Do the same thing with all the other girls. The computer will send the other girls onto the courts wearing the Venus, but it might be a good idea to play at least one game with each girl to delete excess suits from their inventory, because the computer sends suits out to the other girls as well. Sadly, you can't delete all the suits and only leave them with the Venus, but you can certainly make their choices limited.
Another tip: Helena and Christie are both pains in the butt for this trick! You really have to shmooze these two because they are so fickle, and the computer doesn't help by not rotating the inventory to keep a plentiful stock of the colors you need (when trying to get Lisa to send Christie (me) the Venus, all I had for inventory was dark purple suits (Ayane), and Lisa split quickly because I couldn't send her anything she liked).
Helena is just too Goth for her own good - lose a few games and she scrams, and it takes 4 days to get her back if she even comes out in the day. She's also slow about sending good gifts even if you're winning with perfect games (hats, shoes, cheap suits, etc).
Better Exhibition Mode
In zack island mode,there are very nice costumes.To get other characters, such as Tina 2 try on the gaia or peridot, you will have to SHOWER HER WITH GIFTS! If this is unsuccessful,(if she throws it in the trash), YOU will still be able to wear the costume. If it IS successful, you will both be able to wear the costume.
Soundtrack change
You can change the music playing at anytime by pressing Black (advance to next track) or White (repeat current track).
Bonus music tracks
You can unlock two hidden music tracks in the game: "How Crazy Are You" (by Meja) and "Is This Love" (by Bob Marley). To obtain them, play through the game once. When you resume that saved game file, these two hidden songs will be available in the Radio Station.
Force replay
Hold L immediately after someone scores.
Moving your partner
If you do not like the position in which your partner is standing during a match, you can move them by using the Right Analog-stick.
Good serve
In order to receive 1000 points for each serve, make sure that your calibration is adjusted so that it is about 30% (one third of the way from the left of the bar), then press A firmly to throw the ball in the air. Press A firmly again just before the player is about to make contact with the ball. This is very helpful during game play, as you can still get some points even if you lose your match.
Selecting a partner
Choose your partners wisely. Try to partner up with girls that have a lot of power; for example, Tina or Hitomi. Then, when you are receiving the ball during game play, try to have them make the first hit upon return, in which case you set them up for a spike using B. Very often, the other players, even if they are blocking, will be knocked down by their enormous spikes.
Keeping on good terms with your partner
Give your partner their favorite gift in color, type, hobby, or their nationality (one or two gifts). When you wake up in the morning, check the music notes around their head. If only one music note floats up, you are not doing well with your partner. If it is two music notes, then their enthusiasm is pretty good. Three music notes indicates that both of you are getting along very well.
Disable commentary
Enter to the options menu, then change Zack's language to Japanese.
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