Viva Piñata

As said before this game requires 50 of play time.
This is equal to 250 days in game time.
To do this simply attach a USB charging cable so that the controller doesn't power down. Then you can either:
1 Go to Costolot and buy something but don't place it.
Or
2 Hit X and go to the Tower of Sour
This keeps you from being interrupted by things like a pinata request. Now you can walk away and let the garden handle itself.

If your worried about your garden being ruined or loosing pinatas you can start a new garden because play time is counted from all gardens together.

To find you play time go to your journal and find the Player Status tab.
Every day is 12 minutes

This achievements is for playing 50 hours, real time.

How to get: Go to costolot, buy anything, then place it but don't buy it (Y). Then, just leave the screen like that, go to work/sleep. :D

Another way to do this is to go to your tower of sour, then let the game run.

Yupp as the others said, 50 hours is 250 in game days so quite a lot, I was only at 125 days when I had my 980G on this game so I had more than half of the time left! Quite a bit of time, so I just plugged my play and charge kit it and sat on the tower of sour menu, here there are no interruptions or effect to your garden,

I personally left my game on to do this around 3-4 hours every night for a week until I got my achievement because I would be awake all night doing random crap on my laptop but of course you can try this method any time you have for this lengthy achievement.

Good luck!

If you are playing on xbox one like me and the play time in the journal isn't going up as ironinfidel47 said....

Here's what worked for me:
I did the same as the xbox 360 owners. (costalots shop method, picking a seed and not planting or in my case it worked with placing a fruit some where.)

What I do to prevent the clock from freezing:

Tie with a rubberband or hair tie on both of your analog sticks so they are both moving.... Also I plugged in my controller the the top (front single port) usb port closest to the disc drive... Don't know why but i was having problems plugging it in to the rear of the console (2 ports).

Let it sit and check up on it so it is constantly moving and the clock in the top right is moving. Also the screen is still bright and not graying out (another frozen/paused game/clock indicator).

This is what worked for me. Hope it works for you as well.

This solution pertains to anyone having problems with their game freezing on the One. Hopefully there are few people with this issue.



So obviously you need to play for 50 hours.

The problem is, once you finish the other 49 achievements, you definitely shouldn't be at 50 hours. I finished at 19.2 hours. Leaving the game on the garden with a wired controller leaves you subject to Langston asking for a challenge, pausing the time. And for me, playing on the XBox One, the game froze every time I kept it idle on the Tower of Sour. I think the solution for this is to (unfortunately) delete your saves off the cloud and start a new garden to the point where Costalot's store opens. Do not plant any grass or fix up any hard soil you don't have to. Whirlims and Sparrowmints will become residents, and Whirlims will have an egg as part of the tutorial, but after that, there will be no more interruptions, such as Langston's challenges, because you're too low of a level.

The reason for using this method is that the Tower of Sour method does not autosave. I left my console on for an entire day just to find out it froze sometime between and no time was saved. The only problem is to find a different place to store your saves so you don't deal with Langston's challenges, as you retain your level when making a new garden.