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So since I just finished the "dance with 100 unique people" achievement in Zumba I thought I would quickly jot down my notes for anyone else interested in self-boosting this.

Step 1 - Create 100 (or however many you require) dummy email accounts. I have my own domain, so for me this took 15 minutes, your time my vary if you are using a free provider such as yahoo or gmail.

Step 2 - Create 100 profiles on the 360 you are going to use as your boosting partner, if using another one you will have to sign them in again. Take note that each hard drive will only hold 32 profiles and each USB only 8 profiles. This step took about 5 hours for me.

Step 3 - Wait for a free gold weekend in your region. These seem to occur every few months.

Step 4 - Have your two copies of the game and kinect setups ready to go. Do single routines with the song Don't Stop (thanks to Planting for this advice). You can host 10 with your boost tags then do the rest hosting yourself. I did private invite sessions.

Other Notes - I had the game installed to hard drive for all 4 hard drives. You don't have to go to dashboard between switching profiles. It was quickest for me to finish a song, go to main menu, hit guide, hit X to sign out, X to sign in and pick the next profile, B to go back to game. Then hit start and register your tag in game again, I did make saves but I'm not sure that step is necessary.

If someone is helping you can do about 12 a hour depending if there are no hiccups which of course there will be. Sometimes I would have the tag not register at the end, connection issues, general kinect issues... all in all the 100 plays was about 9-10 hours.

Thanks to Ryot for the great guide on x360a.
Posted by smrnov on 20 May 12 at 17:50
Mr Mascal 77 Dedication is too small a word!
Posted by Mr Mascal 77 on 20 May 12 17:59:20
Matt DB87 Utter ridiculousness!!! I wouldn't even of done this if it was 5 unique people lol.
Posted by Matt DB87 on 20 May 12 18:21:33
Infernal Demise I can't believe you did this haha. I would have gone crazy!
Posted by Infernal Demise on 20 May 12 19:07:31
phatal1ty I have been gifted someone elses 100 tags... and even then I don't think I have what it takes to not go batshit doing this :/
massive props to you... !!
.... perhaps if it was my last achievement I might but chances are slim to none
Posted by phatal1ty on 20 May 12 21:24:19
xDAx AWESOME No disrespect, but this is the saddest thing I have ever read. There is a difference between boosting, even with a couple accounts, and losing a full day of your life to create e-mails, profiles, and play a shitty game.

I'm honestly sorry... and I say that as somebody that has nothing but respect for people with high gamerscores/devotion for completion. There should be a line drawn, and you definitely crossed it. This is not devotion. It's a problem.
Posted by xDAx AWESOME on 22 May 12 04:52:26
xDAx AWESOME I wrote that half asleep and it sounds way more condescending than I anticipated. Sorry... still seems like a little much, though.
Posted by xDAx AWESOME on 22 May 12 16:40:33
smrnov No worries, I posted this as a "hey, if someone else wants to do this, here's what's involved", not a "hey, look what I did" type of thing. You're right, it pretty over the top. But, I'd still do it again, people boost the same game for 3 months sometimes (I have) so a couple days on a long week? Cake walk... and I don't think it's a shitty game either.
Posted by smrnov on 22 May 12 17:07:13
xDAx AWESOME fair enough!
Posted by xDAx AWESOME on 22 May 12 19:33:57
xDAx AWESOME Obviously if I'm reading I think most of what you're doing is awesome. IDK what my deal was last night haha.
Posted by xDAx AWESOME on 22 May 12 19:34:52
paddycfc22 xDAx AWESOME- LOL
Posted by paddycfc22 on 25 May 12 14:41:22
Zombified Wow seriously??? I can't even begin to fathom going to that length for 1 chievo. Hats off though. You keeping doing stuff like that and you won't catch Stallion ;+)
Posted by Zombified on 30 May 12 18:49:49
Saft Und Kraft nice job mate, that's a pretty inventive way of doing it....my mom has zumba fitness rush. I was considering doing that legit. what do you think? cheers!
Posted by Saft Und Kraft on 03 Jun 12 20:12:27
xXIzaHovaXx That is IN-fkn-SANE bro!!!! Bet it felt good to check that one off the list. Congratz!
Posted by xXIzaHovaXx on 04 Jun 12 16:11:34
ScottMacFreedom Its worth it,
Posted by ScottMacFreedom on 09 Jun 12 04:08:35
Diachron Haha-- brilliant! Good job.
Posted by Diachron on 13 Jun 12 00:57:25
The Globalizer Yeah, @xDAx AWESOME - not really crazier than a million TA score, you know?
Posted by The Globalizer on 13 Jun 12 19:19:04
Hanrec2 Brought a smile to my face, well done you crazy fool!
Posted by Hanrec2 on 21 Jun 12 20:09:06
Sgt Malarkey Br OMG insane !!!!
Posted by Sgt Malarkey Br on 30 Jun 12 14:55:31
gamerguy45 My complaint is... Your obviously not a completionist at 78% complete. Why spend so much time on a 50g achievement when your completion ratio isn't that important to you. You could've picked up 600g to even 1000g in another game... In the same amount of time. And yes, their are a couple of games out their you actually haven't played... I checked!
Posted by gamerguy45 on 02 Jul 12 22:13:54
BqCaduceusMD I have a much shorter, equally effective solution:

1. Venture to local pawnshop or gun broker
2. Purchase S&W .44 Magnum handgun
3. Load 1 .44 round into the chamber
4. Shoot self

:)
Posted by BqCaduceusMD on 20 Jul 12 04:25:28