Saints Row IV

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Fourth and Forty

Fourth and Forty

Played Saints Row IV for 40+ hours. Pour one out for your homies!

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How to unlock the Fourth and Forty achievement in Saints Row IV - Definitive Guide

For this achievement you need to spend 40 hours in the simulation. All you need to do is load up the game, use a plug and play cable with your controller and let it run over night. No need to rubber band the controller. I used this method to get Switch Hitter and Back in the Day also. After finishing all other achievements I still only had 37 hours on the clock. And as others have stated you need to be in the simulation, not on the ship.

Other players have confirmed that multiple playthroughs will count towards the 40 hours. Just needs to be 40 hours in the simulation.
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24 Aug 2013 21:45

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It definitely doesn't always count properly even if you just stand still in the simulation (no pause screen or map or anything, just standing on a roof). First time I had it on for about 8 hours it counted all of it and went from 22 to 30 hours in stats, then the next time it went to 40 hours on the save, but still only 30 in the stats. Then to 47 hours on save file and 37 hours in stats, then 54 hours on save and still only 37 hours on stats..

For me it only works half the time doing the same thing. What's worth noting though, is that when I checked the last time, I was disconnected from xbox live (which might have happened early). So I have a theory that maybe it doesn't count if you get DC'ed from live, but not sure if i was the other times.
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By Nirumano on 24 Jul 2014 17:05
By any chance, can this be done across multiple playthoughs?
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By Level 75 Noob on 25 Aug 2013 18:17
I don't know for sure, I only used one play-through.
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By Baron164 on 25 Aug 2013 18:55
Can you explain what I'm doing wrong? Last night my gameplay time in stats was roughly 27 hours. I plugged in a play and charge kit and left him standing on a rooftop in the simulation. It is now 15 hours later and my time played is at 30 hours. What the hell is going on?
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By Deadpool 1194 on 26 Aug 2013 12:26
You need to spend 40 hours in the simulation, not 30. This achievement was 30 hours in SR3 and 20 hours in SR2.
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By Baron164 on 26 Aug 2013 14:48
I know that, what I'm saying is I left my game on for 15 hours and it only counted 3 of them despite the fact it was on play and charge in the same place the whole time. :S
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By Deadpool 1194 on 27 Aug 2013 01:48
My first time I left my character standing on a building for 9 hours and the game counted the whole time. The second time I left my character in a vehicle for 6 hours and it also counted all the time and the achievement popped without issue. I know that if the game is paused it doesn't seem to count time and if you are in the menu with the map and phone it might also not count that time.
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By Baron164 on 27 Aug 2013 05:31
I am currently boosting this and the distance in an alien vehicle at the same time. Got on the XOR and then rubber banded the thumb stick to just keep me turning in a circle. I tried it with the Void but crashed to often. The XOR hardly ever crashes.
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By FatGuyGamin on 05 Sep 2013 15:07
I just found out that being in the ship DOES count. You can also run around in the ship if you want to for the "And I ran" achievement.
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By Ducc Feet on 25 Jul 2018 03:44
Ugh just 100%ed the game and finished all other achievement and I'm at 28 hours. If they're gonna make an achievement like this at least make it about the time it should take to 100%.
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By TheNutman69321 on 01 Oct 2013 19:40
Well I'm not really sure if it really is 40 hours in the simulation rather than total playtime.
I went back to the ship when my stats said "Time played: 39:55:xx", moved around and talked to people and while I was on the ship, the achievement popped...
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By SirLugash on 29 Oct 2013 16:15
Does anyone know if the playing the DLC adds to this or not?
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By Papa El Loro on 11 Jan 2014 18:38
That's what I was wondering, Papa El Loro.
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By Zymotic on 29 Jan 2014 23:08
yes playing the DLC does count towards this cuz a tracker showed up while playing the DLC
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By Dark Assasin732 on 18 Mar 2014 23:43
So I'm at 35 hours and I've done every other achievement including dlc. So if I start a new game will the time carry on from 35 hours when I get into the simulation? Thanks.
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By Sayoricidal on 27 Apr 2014 16:25
I got all the other achievements in 25 hours. I wish that they would have made the game take at least nearly 40 hours.
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By Caleb the Ewok on 13 Jun 2014 17:29
I've just tried standing on a roof all night and the save game time increased but not the stats time. When I came back to it I had been disconnected from live so the theory that being disconnected stops time being added to the counter could be a legitimate one.
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By KingyOwl on 03 Feb 2015 06:24
Imagine Fifth and 50. Oh, man. Really hoping that isn't one if they end up making another...
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By MikeTheGamePro on 29 Dec 2015 11:15
^ Did you not play Saints Row 2? That had an achievement for playing 50 hours :)
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By White Wyvern on 29 Feb 2016 18:52
Finally was able to connect and get Saintified last night, then left the controller rubber-banded until this evening, hoping to get around 18 hours. Got about 30 minutes, because a popup saying it lost connection to the community site apparently lets the game keep running without increasing simulation time until you hit the button to continue.

Also, as others have mentioned, losing the connection to Live might stop it from adding up, too. Left it on for 36 hours the other day, save time was at 40:25, spinning in the plastic surgery office in the simulation. Actual time in the stats stopped at 12 hours, which was 8 hours after I left it spinning, and coincidentally, matched my last-seen time on xbox.com.
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By Bonus Eruptus on 06 May 2016 01:44
I was standing still and connected to xbox live the whole time so as long as you stay connected there shouldn't be a need to rubber band your controller. Super annoying achievement only because it took me like 23-24 hours to get all the other ones...
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By iTz Canada Ehh on 02 Jul 2016 18:28
I too noticed that when my internet connection was disconnected, the AFK'ing hours weren't counted. I didn't even notice the connection being gone since my PC had no troubles (must have been a small hickup), but I wasted 8 hours of afk'ing because of that. Re-connected and let it on again, and this time every minute was counted (connection to the internet didn't fail during this time).

Unfortunately, after doing all things ingame and all other achievements, i had only done 25 hours. So I had to AFK the other big bunch of hours. Glad to have this game done.
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By Kennyannydenny on 26 Nov 2016 18:50
With the latest Xbox One update this achievement is annoying as hell to get. If you drop XBL connection it doesn't count ANY of the time you were AFK. I've tried to boost this 3 nights in a row and I've only gotten 3 minutes counted, essentially the time spent setting up my character in a safe location.

Really annoying because I rarely make it through 10+ hours without at least one XBL disconnect. The Xbox One dashboard never loses connection, but the 360 emulator seems to disconnect randomly every 4-5 hours.
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By Vok 250 on 13 Nov 2017 20:03
Took my time, played some co-op, even idled for a bit, and after getting all the other achievements I was still only at 33 hours. So pretty much everyone will need to leave the game idling to get this achievement.

If you are playing on the Xbox One, make sure you go into Settings -> Preferences -> Idle options -> and disable Show me things when idle. Also go into Settings -> Power & startup -> Power mode & startup -> Turn off after -> and select Do not turn off automatically.
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By HolyHalfDead on 21 Jan 2018 18:16
Having the same problem as most others here with idle time not adding up and what I found was that if you disconnected from Xbox Live it would reset your time to what I believe what was your last save point. Sadly I don't know a way to fix this making this achievement annoying. I got within 2hrs only for me to reset and need to do another 8hrs!
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By TheRunningKiwi on 23 Jan 2018 11:10
I was with 36 hours of playthrough, the remain 4 hours I made idle.
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By netstryker on 09 Mar 2018 02:21
do dlcs count?
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By Ducc Feet on 01 Jul 2018 23:35
DLCs count.
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By JedEgan on 07 Jul 2018 15:17
I left my game on for 18 hours on a 360 in the simulation and didn't crash at all. Maybe because I had it installed.
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By Maughty Bear on 11 May 2023 23:47
i can confirm this adds up for different characters, though it has to be SIMULATION play time, being on the ship does not count, i spent 31hr on my first character in the simulation (had the lil side tracker pop up here and there) and now im at 35 hr just by playing on my 2nd char in the simiulation, been running around collecting data clusters for 4 hrs and the tracker should up
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By N0Way07 on 09 Sep 2013 01:52
Two things - if you utilize backwards compatibility to play an already created save, it resets your time played stat, even if you go back and play on a 360. I had roughly 28 hours played on the 360, shelved the game for years, transferred my save to the cloud, fired it up on an Xbox One 0 hours played showing in the stats page.

Second thing, time spent on the ship does progress the time played in the stat page, can confirm. The game also had a bad habit of crashing if you leave it on overnight inside the simulation. Leaving the game on while not playing is best done in the ship, to avoid crashes.
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By Blue Radium on 04 Jun 2021 11:36
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just one thing i want to add to the above great solutions is if you press the back button go to extras and then stats at the very top first stat it says total time played. this is how long you have been in the simulation and i can confirm this as i just unlocked this achievement and my total play time reads 40:00:09
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12 Sep 2013 23:22

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You can also just manually save the game and it will tell you how long you have been playing
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By Oceanhips on 24 May 2014 15:26
Nevermind, this is not always true depending on how long you spend on your ship and missions outside the simulation
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By Oceanhips on 24 May 2014 17:19
Thumbs up from me.
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By Dan vasNormandy on 28 Jan 2018 19:57
FYI this appears to reset on reinstallation (on Xbox One at least). I earned the achievement for 2 hours as each gender a year or so ago. When I went to check this stat after reinstalling recently I had 1.5 hours of time played.
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By rholliday on 20 Oct 2020 10:37
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This achievement is earned when spending 40 hours in the Simulation, and not in the real world (including the ship and real world missions). I thought my game was glitched when I saw that my save stated I spend 32 hours, but in my stats it said 27 hours.

So if you want to boost this, make sure to boost in the simulation, and not on the ship or any real world environment
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25 Aug 2013 07:19

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i have 42 hrs but mine hasn't popped yet do i have to beat the game 1st?
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By TheAZNmike on 27 Aug 2013 04:47
Are you sure those are hours spend in the simulation? You can check these in the Stats menu, under Extra when pressing Select. For me it popped exactly at 40 hours simulation gameplay, while my overall time spend (which you can see when you save your game) was 51 hours
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By k0ngzor on 27 Aug 2013 07:35
If you are leaving the game on and walking away to rack up time in the simulation it can be done with a wireless controller that doesn't have a play and charge cord. What I did to get around the auto shut off was to hold down both RT and LT with rubber bands.

This will cause your character to simultaneously aim and shoot his/her weapon. I did mine by standing away from people and shooting into the ocean with SMGs (infinite ammo).

**If holding both triggers down doesn't work by itself, you can try to also have the controller resting on the camera thumbstick to keep it in rotation.** Thanks to Proscaline for this tip.

Wireless controllers seem to turn off either due to inactivity or lack of change in an input for a prolonged period of time. This is why they will shut off when a thumb stick input is constantly held. Since you are aiming and shooting with this method, I think it satisfies the controllers input change parameters and overrides the automatic shut off.
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06 Oct 2014 02:45

If you're like me and breezed through everything except challenges within a 24 hour span you still have 16 hours left to go. I am still working on challenges, but that'd still leave me with probably 14 or 13 hours left. The best way to do this is to either just have fun blowing everything up and going crazy, or just leave your system running and make sure your controller doesn't shut off. Not much else can really be done.
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16 Jun 2014 18:38