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Arrrrrrr!

Arrrrrrr!

Sink 3 galleons in a single game of Pirate Wars

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How to unlock the Arrrrrrr! achievement in Virtua Tennis 2009 - Definitive Guide

Load up a game of Pirate Wars from the Play menu and sink 3 galleons. In this
mini-game you have 5 lives, each time you get hit by a cannonball you lose one.

There are 4 types of ships in this game who each shoot tennisballs and/or cannonballs at you. Each ship has a different size healthbar, either 1, 2, 3 or 4 hits with a tennisball are required to sink them. The galleons require 4 hits to sink, they start to appear once you have about 5.000 points.

At that time the cannonballs move so fast that you don't have time to line up a normal shot. What worked for me was to position yourself on the serviceline, and moving from left to right and vice versa. If you keep moving you won't get hit.

The trick is to wait till a ship fires 1 or 2 cannonballs and 1 or 2 tennisballs. Since the canonballs move faster you can avoid them and then quickly volley the ball. After the volley get ready to start moving again because chances are a cannonball will be shot towards you again. Using this method it's hard to aim your shots, but at least you stay alive. Keep this up long enough and you will eventually sink 3 galleons.

Before using this method I could barely sink 2 galleons, with this method I managed to get the 3rd all-time score in this mini-game. Practise makes perfect, you will have to learn to anticipate when the ships will fire at you. Ideally you don't want to be in a corner when they start firing since if they shoot right before you turn around you have a chance you will walk into a cannonball.
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04 Jun 2009 10:14

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If anyone's curious, the achievement's called "Arrrrrrr!" I had the easiest time getting it with Federer. Now I have the second place score on this game - right behind Van Uden!

Thanks again.
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By a tea tree on 06 Jun 2009 20:37
im probably gonna struggle on these mini games... jeez level 3 on block buster thats about it lol
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By k1ss0fd3af on 27 Jun 2009 00:30
Most of these mini games just require practise, I had the same problem but after enough tries managed to beat level 8 on each and every one of them
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By Van Uden on 27 Jun 2009 03:40
Good tips, but I couldn't quite get it without the running shot technique described by LanEvoIX. Thanks to you both.
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By drabik on 02 Nov 2012 07:54
good tip LanEvoIX but how do we do this running shot ? .
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By On Phone Em on 15 Apr 2017 01:20
Yeah i can’t seem to hit any running shots.. my player always stops up to make the shot..
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By on 06 Dec 2017 21:31
You've all moved on by now, probably, since it's been many years, but answering the question, to do a running/dive, position your player a little bit too far from the ball and press the button last minute (any button, slice, top spin, doesn't matter), as late as you can. It may sound complex, but in reality It is very easy once you get the hang of it and timing is not strict at all. In other words, you know when you are playing a game for real, and the opponnent hits a ball you can barely reach? You press the button, your player will lunge to reach the ball and shoot back a very feeble shot. That's what you are looking for.
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By LanEvoIX on 26 May 2020 21:36
Hey mate, thanks for the tips, but i found a rather easier method while trying yours. I wont post as a new solution, unless i manage to do a video of it. I`m currently number two with 17k or so, mostly because it gets very boring, but it`s quite possible to pass the number one, which i think has 32k.

All you have to do since you reach the 4k to 5k mark, when they start shooting very fast cannonball towards you, is always hit a running or dive shot. Never try to do a normal shot, cause the ships will aim right where you stand preparing your shot.

When you do this, you will 99.9% of the time be shot at without result, cause they aim where you was, and you are diving out of the way.

And as you say, don`t bother aiming your shots, It`s not easy and you will almost always hit something every time, since the water is filled with ships. The galleons being the bigger ones, most likely is the one that will get hit.

Hope it helps :P
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By LanEvoIX on 29 Oct 2009 23:33
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This can only be done in Play mode. The galleons come around 4000-5000 points in and can blast you with 3 balls at a time. Choose a fast runner like Nadal to help achieve this trophy.

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Play 'Pirate Wars' from Play Mode (can't be unlocked via World Tour). During the game, once you reach about 5000 points, galleons will start to appear. These are extremely difficult to sink and you need a good amount of skill to unlock this achievement.
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