DJ Hero 2

This achievement is for 5-starring every regular mix in DJ Hero 2. The only song that I would consider "hard" for average DJ Heroes would be "Firestarter", as it's possibly the only song on DJ Hero 2 that actually has sped-up and somewhat tricky scratching patterns. All you really need to remember is to aim for rewinds. Once you have a rewind, wait until you see a bright glowing arrow on both sides of the track, and use it there to bring you back a full bar or two of the song. As for Euphoria, do what's expected to be done and try using it for spots with plenty of notes, but preferrably areas with plenty of crossfades that can possibly screw up your pattern. Maybe "The Day That Never Comes" could also be considered tricky, but I wouldn't know. After you 5* "Firestarter" , you're all set for this achievement! Good luck!

Make sure to choose a deck that compliments your play-style proper! :)

Edit - A neat little tip provided by Flopsy86! Though this doesn't solve the problem with not earning your achievement, even though you're certain that you've done every song, you can write down the songs you've completed just to keep track, or you can use that cute little "Like" feature that was also mentioned! :)

EDIT EDIT - More from Flopsy86! "Something to add to this, if you're playing Empire mode and happen to 5* Galvanize or Firestarter on Expert in the first Ibiza (encore) set, they won't count towards the achievement. This happens with any song where you start a particular location and it's in the first megamix setlist (where the score combines your total for all the songs and euphoria carries over between songs).

I played the whole of Empire mode on someone else's profile on Expert only, I 5*'d Galvanize and Firestarter in the Empire mode. I got the You're Golden achievement for 5*ing Galvanize but when you go to Quickplay, these songs won't have any stars next to them, there were about 20 songs this happened to and I believe they were the ones in the sets which you play as a Megamix (the first set that automatically starts when you select a new location).

There will be other songs which could be affected by this but I mention Galvanize and Firestarter because it can happen to those 2 songs and they are the hardest ones. Speed Rail/I Will Be Here falls prey to this also, that can be pretty bad to 5* also."

This info was completely sidestepped by me, and I'm glad you brought that up! I, too, am certain that songs in Megamixes don't do anything for your star count, so make sure you do them ALL in Quickplay. It never hurts to try them again and better yourself anyway! ;)

This solution helps you determine which tracks you still need to complete on Expert after all songs show five stars in the Quickplay list.

This achievement is hard because of two reasons:
1) On Expert some of the tracks are quite complex and fast. No real solution for this part, practice a lot;
2) There is no way to determine which tracks you completed with five stars on Expert difficulty, if you already completed them with five stars on a lower difficulty. I found a solution to find at least some of the tracks (in my case all tracks) that still need five stars on Expert, without playing all tracks again.

Previous solutions tell you to maintain a list of what you completed on Expert. This is still a smart thing to do, since checking the status of a song is quite slow and does not cover all cases.

Before you start checking, it is best to disconnect from Live, otherwise it also shows the scores of your friends, making it harder to read your own. Before you start playing again, make sure you reconnect to Live and restart DJ Hero, otherwise it will not sign you in on the DJ Hero servers (which can be a problem according to M I K 3 ID).

- Go to Quickplay;
- Select and start the track you want to check;
- Select ready;
- select the difficulty you want to check;
- Wait for the first few notes of the track to scroll by:

On the left side of the screen you see your star meter. In your star meter there should be a yellow line and on the bottom your XBL tag should be in the accompanying yellow square. The yellow line shows your current high score for this track on whichever difficulty level you got this high score.

If the yellow line is not in the top square (the one without a grey star in it), it means you never got a score high enough for five stars on Expert. So you definitly have to play this song again Find all these songs and you are a lot closer to the achievement.

However if the yellow line is already in the top square, this does not mean perse you got the five stars on Expert. If you got a score on Hard or Medium, higher than the score needed to five star the track on Expert, the yellow line will also be in the top square So it doesn't really work in these cases, on the other hand: if you were able to beat the Expert score on a lower level, the song was probably not that hard and you also got it on Expert or you should be able to beat Expert quite easily.

I found the last two tracks I missed using this method, which saved me tons of time and frustration

Video
The video bellow shows a track with five stars in the Quickplay list, but the star meter shows it got only four stars on Expert, so we have to replay this track to get five stars on Expert.

Track list
grandmaster flash & furious five / kool & the gang - the messgage / jungle boogie
snow / jackson 5 - informer / abc
iyaz / rihanna - replay / rude boy
soulja boy tell 'em / chamillionaire - crank that / ridin
kayne west / lady gaga - heartless / lovegame
2pac ft dr dree and roger troutman - california love remix
tweet ft missy elliot / snoop dog - oops / who am i
pussycat dolls ft busta rhymes / pitbull - dont cha / i know you want me
flo rida / david guetta vs the egg - low / love don't let me go
janet jackson / justice - nasty / dance
stevie wonder / edwin starr - superstution / war
nelly / warren g ft nate dogg - hot in here / regulate
estelle ft kayne west - american boy
lady gaga ft colby odonis / deadmaus - just dance / ghost n stuff
ll cool j / grandmasterflash - i can't live without my radio / the message
eminem / lil wayne - not afraid / lollipop
david guetta & chris willis / sam sparro - love is gone / black & gold
dizzee rascal & armand van helden / basement jaxx - bonkers / wheres your heart at
salt n pepa / afria bambaataa - push it / planet rock
damian marley / walter murphy - welcome to jamrock / a fifth of beethoven
timbaland ft drake/ young jeezy ft kayne west - say somthing / put on
deee-lite / chic - groove is in the heart / le freak
busta rhymes / MARRS - put your hands where my eyes can see / pump up the volume
salt n pepa / armand van helden - push it / i want your soul
timbaland ft keri hilson / tiga - the way i are / you gonna want me
2pac ft dr dre and roger troutman / bob ft bruno mars - california love remix / nothing on you
gorillaz ft mos def & bobby womack - stylo
david guetta ft kid cudi / pirate soundsystem - memories / bashy bashy
kayne west / dj shadow - heartless / midnight in a perfect world
pitbull / nightcrawlers - i know you want me / push the feelin on
kelis - acapella
missy elliot / dillinja and skibadee - get ur freak on / twist them out
sean paul / rihanna - get busy / pon de replay
house of pain / busta rhymes - jump around / put your hands where i can see them
newcleus / donna summer - jam on it / bad girls
kayne west / donna summer - love lockdown / bad girls
robin s / calvin haris - show me love / im not alone
wayne smith / mia - under mi sleng teng / galang
calvin harris / new order - im not alone / blue monday
sean paul / harold faltermeyer - get busy / axel f
deadmaus & kaskade - i remember
missy elliot / sean paul - get your freak on / infiltrate
kaskade & deadmaus - move for me
blakroc ft pharoahe monch & rza - dollaz & sense
flo rida ft william / clinton sparks, dj class - in the ayer / favorite dj
justice - dance
lil wayne ft static major / flo rida - lollipop / low
the chemical brothers ft qtip / the chemcal broters - galvanize / leave home
daft punk - human after all
major lazer ft vybx kartl / harol faltermeyer - pon de floor /axel f
basement jaxx / yeah yeah yeahs - where is your head at / heads will roll
kayne west / metallica - love lockdown / the day that never comes
afrika bambaata and the soul … / the crystal method - planet rock / busy child
young jeezy ft kayne wesr / dj shadow ft q-tip and lateef - put on / enuff
adamski - killer
nas ft keri hilson / talib kweli - hero / get by
mstrkft ft nore / a-trak - bouce / say whoa
lil jon & the east side boys / 50 cent - get low / in da club
dj shadow - midnight in a perfect world
lady gaga - bad romance
tiesto & sneaky sound system / tiesto - i will be there / speed rail
the notorious big ft mase & diddy - mo money mo problems
the prodigy - firestarter
damian marley / dillinja and skibadee - welcome to jamrocj / twist em out
the chemical brothers ft qtip - galvanize

For firestarter something that REALLY HELPED me was to try it a couple of times with the hyper deck, this improved my stars from just scrapping a 3 to a 4.. but i kept missing crucial euphoria sections. (speed too fast for me)

After doing this I immediatly swapped to the euphoria deck ,and 5 * it on my first try!! the speed of the track it seemed SOOOO much slower now that i wasnt using the hyper deck, and could hit the trickier parts much better and generally attaining high enough streaks to get a couple rewinds in there as and when possible.
Crucial for me was attaining 2 euphorias and using those on the fast cross fades/spikes. I found This is harder than galvanise which took me like 3 attempts to 5* (which surprised me)

ps just got a couple left to do saving this cheevo for the end :)

By the way if anyone is sure they 5 stared all the songs on Expert but didn't get the achievement , that will be because you need to be signed in to Xbox Live and play the songs because they have to be saved to the game leaderbourds , you'll know they are if you go to 'rep' in the main menu and go to leaderbourds , go to the song you wanna find out about e.g. Fire starter and check if it saids you have a ranking on the leaderbourds for it. I found this out because I completed all the songs 5 star Expert but no achievement pop?? Then I look and I have 3 songs I played offline because when I went to look at it I wasnt on any leaderboard for it , so I played the songs (On Xbox Live) and then I got the achievement! :D

This is for anyone having that problem , if it makes it easier to find the songs you need to do online , just play all of them and use the like button after playing each song until you see that achievement pop or just go on the leaderbourds looking at the songs one by one until you find the ones your missing :)

Might seem obvious, but I had all the songs unlocked, then had 5 stars in everything in quickplay, but it turned out I had one song [informer V. ABC] 5 starred on hard only. i have no idea why only that one song was done on hard and not expert, but hey, maybe there are some people out there that this random thing might happen to as well. I went through the list one song at a time to make sure every song was done on expert, and I found the sneaky little culprit. :D