FINAL FANTASY XIII-2

I had a little luck at the beginning with the slots, but it was taking way too long, so I found this alternative method for chocobo racing by Mazrim at x360a.org. It is near flawless. Took less time, and I actually enjoyed doing some of the item grinding (while leveling my characters a bit).

1. Get your Silver Chocobo...he is located in Academia 4xx in the room with Hope & Alyssa. Throw your mog towards the green cocoon projection to get it. (May take a few times.)

2. You want to level your silver chocobo up to his max, 45. So let's farm some materials to do so. You may already have some materials to do this, but if not, here's what you do:

Go to Archlyte Steppe and make it rain. Go to the marshes to the west and run around the small island in the center.

In total you need about 40 potent orbs, 50 potent essences, and 25-30 potent crystals.

Buccaboo and Buccaboo Aces drop the potent orbs.
Hedge Frogs, Mud Frongs, Swampmonks, and Caterchipillar drop the potent essences.
Mirochu's drop the Potent Crystals.

It may take a little while to farm, but it's better than playing slots for 10 hours and still possibly not getting it.

3. Level your silver chocobo to 45.

4. Catch the following two monsters:

Pulse Gladiator (Archlyte Steppe-Cloudy-Spawns new the gate in the south)
Cactuar (Archlyte Steppe-Sunny-Spawns in the plains right outside the settlement)

After you catch these two do the following:

5. Infuse Level 1 Pulse Gladiator to your Silver Chocobo to get 'Second Wind'.
Infuse your Level 1 Cactuar to your Silver Chocobo to get 'Sprinter'.

6. Go to the chocobo racing in Serendipity and start racing! I personally only do 600m races as its fast and always win. You will almost always win 1200m as well, though 1800m might be tougher.

Put the strategy on the last one (stay in the back) and do not use your boost until Blue Streak appears (will do it near the end of every race).

I've heard you can also level a Microchu to level 5 and infuse it to your chocobo to get marathoner.

Another thing you can do to speed this up, if you have the fragment skill, is make time faster. You can get this done in a matter of like 30 minutes if you do that. Simply climb to Fal'cie class, do the races that pay 320 or 480 for 1st place, and bet 100 on your chocobo every time. You will get it in no time. If you run out of RP just retire him, then readd him and climb to Fal'cie class and repeat.

If you win a 320 race, you will get a profit of 440 coins, and on the 480 races a profit of 600 coins. Once you total 10,000 coins profit you exit the chocobo race screen and you will get the trophy."

Everyone is all about the winning...win win win win!

Well, with chocobo racing you can lose every single race (I don't suggest it until you get up to Falcie races) and still get the 10,000 since the achievement is for winning the coins and not necessarily having your chocobo win them in races.

Simple enough. I do suggest getting a Silver Chocobo (or whichever Chocobo you want that can get that high) and maxing the level so you can get up to the Falcie series but instead of spending an excess amount of time searching for the infusions you can go straight to racing.

Check the odds and who is favored to win. Any chocobo with a * is favored and then it goes down from there to A, B, C, etc. Check the chocobo's odds. If it is 5 or better (I would see them at 5.7 to 6.4) you then bet 100 on them. I would generally put 100 bets on the top two ranked chocobo's cause the topped rank doesn't always win. Then with your chocobo come in second or third and get the second or third place prize. I would get 800 to 1000+ coins per race once I figured this out (since you need ~30k for the 4 things you need to buy).

Occasionally, it will throw a loop and have the favored with 1.5 odds. This only gives you 150 with a win. So there is the occasional loss from this one since you can't check the odds before you enter the race screen.

Reason I started doing this is the odds for your own chocobo is so low that with a win and betting on yourself you really don't get much more than 500 a race. The only advantage to actually winning is if you want the adamantite or something else.

I just picked this up today after taking a relatively long hiatus from this game (roughly 7 years) and I can confirm regarding the slot game that it is not banking 10k in one sitting,or even netting 10k above where you start.

All that needs to happen is you accumulate 10k overall.

For example, I started with 4k yesterday. Rubber banded my controller and after a few hours had 10k. Stopped the game, saved, and picked it up this morning and lost everything. Was back at zero and had to buy more.

Waited until the lady next to the machine said it was "on fire", jumped back in and rubber banded it again. Went from my new 3k to 8k, stopped and the achievement popped.

In short, this can be done over multiple attempts, and the coins do not need to be banked or netted all at once.

Questions, corrections or neg vote justifications below.