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Playboy: The Mansion Walkthrough for PS2 (ver 1.5)
By: neeker
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DISCLAIMER AND LEGAL STUFF
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Playboy: The Mansion is a game that contains nudity and sexual 
contents. You shouldn't be playing this game, or in fact, reading this 
walkthrough, if you are under 18, or are easily offended by such 
materials. 

This walkthrough can be posted on CheatCC.com and its associates only, 
unless authorized by me. You may contact me at lestor_wong@yahoo.com 
for this purpose.


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THE STUFF IN HERE
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1. First Things First
2. Mission 1: Launch the Playboy Empire 
3. Mission 2: A Great Start
4. Mission 3: Living the Life
5. Mission 4: When Everything's going Right
6. Mission 5: Feel the Love
7. Mission 6: Launch Playboy Foundation
8. Mission 7: When the going gets tough
9. Mission 8: Hurray for Hollywood
10. Mission 9: Launch Playboy TV
11. Mission 10: Playboy Jazz Festival
12. Mission 11: Launch Playboy.com
13. Mission 12: Playboy's 50th Anniversary
14. Bonus Mission 1: From Centrefold to Centrestage(PS2 Bonus)
15. Bonus Mission 2: What's Good for One... (PS2 Bonus)
16. Bonus Mission 3: Photo Finish (PS2 Bonus)
17. Last Words
Appendix 1: Contents Providers
Appendix 2: Version history

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1. FIRST THINGS FIRST
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Hi, I'm Lestor Wong. This is the first time I'm writing a walkthrough, 
so please pardon me if I make any mistakes. Feedback can be directed 
to lestor_wong@yahoo.com.

This guide consists of a complete walkthrough of all 15 missions for 
the Mission Mode of the PS2 game Playboy: The Mansion. These include 
the 12 main missions, and the 3 bonus missions that are only available 
in the PS2 version of the game. 

This guide does not include basic information like controls, furniture 
description, etc. In another words, you should already know these basic 
functions when using this guide. Additional tips, notes and 
recommendations will be included in the walkthrough itself. For example, 
if a mission requires you to sign a comedian, I'll include my a note of 
who would be a good choice.

This guide may also have some typographical errors. Please bear with
me because sometimes I'm writing it while playing the game at the 
same time.

With all things settled, let's go straight to the missions.


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2. MISSION 1: LAUNCH THE PLAYBOY EMPIRE
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This is basically a "Get to know the Game" mission. You start the game 
with $100,000, and you need to use the money to achieve some of the 
objectives. The objectives for this mission are:

a. Tour the game menus (Secret Objective)
b. Set up office upstairs
c. Hire staff
d. Do a centrefold photoshoot
e. Publish a magazine
f. Meet Jak

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a. Tour the game menus
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This is a secret objective that's not listed in the game's Goals
screen. You start the game outside the mansion, where you will find 
Julie McCollough, the first of many Playmates who will grace your
screens over the course of the game. She will explain the game's
various menus, including the Magazine, Hef, Roster and Mansion
menus. Try these menus out to complete this objective. A screen will 
pop up to confirm the completion.

To be specified for PS2 users, you need to use the following to 
complete this objective:

D-Pad Up (use L1/ R1 to scroll left and right for more)
D-Pad Left (use L1/ R1 to scroll left and right for more)
D-Pad Down (use L1/ R1 to scroll left and right for more)
D-Pad Right (use L1/ R1 to scroll left and right for more)
Triangle
Square

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b. Set up office upstairs
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While you're busy toggling the controls, your Star Bunny Victoria 
Fuller appears on screen. Talk to her so that she can explain the 
ideas of conversations and drives. Make sure you're very sure about
these as a large part of this game requires you to conduct
conversations and satisfy drives.

RECOMMENDATION: You may want to try out a conversation with Julie
to get a feel of talking to people. Also, while it's not compulsory,
try to convince Julie to have sex with you, just so that you can
check out the rather comical sex scene. As the game progresses, you 
will find yourself so engrossed in meeting objectives, you won't 
have much time for sex!

Chief of Staff Dick Rosenweig is the last person to appear on
screen at this point. He will ask you to go to the Upper Mansion. 
Do so after you settle your stuff (whatever they are) with Julie
and Victoria.

On the Upper Mansion, Dick will ask you to buy a Staff Desk. It's
a required item, so fork out the $14,000 for it by using the 
Mansion menu. You've full control of where you want to place your
desk.

As easy as it sounds, you complete this objective. 

RECOMMENDATION: You may want to use some money to improve your 
mansion's appearance and value, for example, buy a mirror for the 
Main Mansion. You may need these items to satisfy your guests' 
drives in future missions. This is entirely optional at this moment 
though, especially if you want to save some money. 

RECOMMENDATION: While shopping for the desk, buy a Back Drop if 
you've the spare cash. It makes your photographs better to look at. 
You can choose from a list of 3: Ocean, Sunset and Black.

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c. Hire staff
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Buying the desk paves the way for you to hire a journalist. 
Activate the Roster menu, and move to the Staff screen to view a
list of available staff, which should include some journalists
and photographers. Once you hire a staff, you complete this
objective.

TIP: When hiring a staff, choose one who has a high rating. At this
stage of the game, the staff available to you may not be the best, so
go for the best of the lot. You may also want to take note of their 
quirks, and avoid hiring people who are confrontational.

NOTE: A journalist needs a desk to work on, so if you want to hire 
one more journalist, you will need to buy another desk. 

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d. Do a Centrefold photoshoot
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Now that you've a photographer, you can do your first Centrefold
shoot. Approach Julie and use the Request Centrefold option. If she
agrees, you can choose to do the photoshoot at the Main or Upper 
Mansion. If you bought a Back Drop earlier at the Upper Mansion, 
choose that location. If not, anywhere will do. It doesn't really 
matter.

TIP: Before doing the photoshoot, you may want to introduce your 
photographer to Julie. Having the photographer and the model on good 
terms would ensure a better quality photoshoot. To do so, approach the 
photographer use the Follow Me command on him/ her. Then, approach 
Julie and use the Make Introductions option. Make them engage in Casual 
or Professional Conversations and watch them hit off. This process can 
be repeated in future photoshoot with other models.

Once you finished the photoshoot, the objective ends.

NOTE: You can get the model to go topless by using the Wardrobe option. 
It's essential for people who likes to look at titties. Like me.

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e. Publish a magazine
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You need six contents to publish an issue: 

- A Cover 
- An Article
- A Centrefold
- An Essay
- An Interview
- A Pictorial 

Use the Magazine menu to call up a screen that shows a magazine cover. 
Go to the Contents screen and you should find that you already have all 
of them, even though all you did so far was just a Centrefold shoot! 
The game is trying to go easy on you, for now, that's for sure. 

Choose one for each, and use the Go to Print option to complete this 
objective. Dick will tell you that he will inform you once the magazine 
ships. He will also come back to you almost immediately to tell you how 
much you've earned. You will also earn fame.

TIP: Take note of the contents and magazine quality by looking at how 
many Bunny Heads they have. As you progress, make sure your magazine's 
overall rating has 3 Bunny Heads or more. At this stage, however, that 
is not really possible.

To reward your first taste of success, a new item is also unlocked for 
you - the First Issue. Go to the Mansion screen to view this item under 
the Wall Art section. Buy it if you want.

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f. Meet Jak
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Your assistant Jenny will make her first appearance now. She will 
inform you that Jak Hammer, a rock musician, is coming over to see you. 
When he arrives, ignore his fugly face and build up a casual 
relationship with him. Use the Invite to Inner Circle option too. The 
objective will be met in no time.

NOTE: If you don't invite Jak to your Inner Circle, you will not 
unlock Jak's Pool Party, which is a secret objective in a future 
mission.


After the Jak objective is completed, the mission wraps up. The game 
will prompt you to save whenever a mission is completed, so save your 
game if you want.

You will also be notified that you've unlock the SWIMMING POOL. From 
now on, you've one more area to move around. 

NOTE: You can save as many times as you want during the game. Some 
missions are very long, and you may want to take a rest in between. 
Saving your game in Playboy: The Mansion allows you to start 
immediately from where you save, which is very welcomed. 


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3. MISSION 2: A GREAT START
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There are a lot of things to do in this mission, but they are still 
pretty straight forward. Now that you've earned fame, you will have
the first taste of hosting a party, which, if successful, will earn 
you more fame. You will also need to gather more contents for your
2nd issue. 

These are the objectives for Mission 2:

a. Throw a party
b. Complete new cover shoot
c. Secure new essay
d. Secure new interview
e. Get new article
f. Get new pictorial
g. Get Centerfold
h. Ship another issue
i. Jak's Pool Party (Secret objective)

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a. Throw Party
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As the objective implies, you need to throw a party to complete this 
portion of the mission. Use the Throw Party option to initiate a party. 
Choose whether you want a day or night party, and decide what attire 
should your guests come in. As for who to invite, you can choose 
yourself, or leave it to Jenny. Normally, she does a pretty good job. 
However, in the later part  the game, you may want to choose the 
guests yourself because Jenny may exclude some required personnel. So, 
you may want to choose your own guests for this first party too just 
to get used to it.

NOTE: The party will be held at the place where you initiated it, so
if you want a party at the pool, proceed to the pool before calling 
for the party.

When choosing guests, there are some points to note. Firstly, the 
higher the rating a guest has, the more it will cost you to get him/ 
her over. However, a higher rating guest is also likely to give you 
better contents. You need to decide whether it is worth the while.

Secondly, before throwing a party, view the Market screen in the 
Magazine menu to check what markets have more potential.The black bars 
denote the possible estimated sales per market. The yellow bars 
denote how much your issue is hitting these markets. If TV/ Movies is 
high on the list, you may want to invite some actors/ actresses over 
to get some contents out from them to satisfy that particular market.

Thirdly, it's entirely possible that a high rating guest will decline 
your invitation. If he/ she is not a required person to complete a 
certain objective, don't bother too much about it. 

Last but not least, always include at least one journalist and one 
photographer in your party. You need the journalist to conduct 
interviews and the photographer to take photoshoot with guests who 
agree to provide these contents.

TIP: You may want to save before throwing a party if you need a 
required person to attend your meeting. If he/ she declines the 
invitation, simply load the game again to avoid incurring 
unnecessary costs.

With all these established, go ahead and throw the party. During the 
party, fulfil the drives of your guests by monitoring their drives 
bars, which are depicted by the following:

- Wine Glass: Entertainment
- Graduation Hat: Intellectual Development
- Chair: Leisure
- Handshake: Casual Relationship
- Graph: Professional Relationship
- Heart: Romantic Relationship

To fulfil an Entertainment drive, use the Follow Me option to 
anything that provides food and drink, and then use the Tell to Use 
option. A Food Cart, for example, can raise an Entertainment drive.

To fulfil an Intellectual Development drive, ask the guest to view 
a Wall Art like a painting, or a furniture like a bookshelf.

To fulfil a Leisure drive, ask the guest to sit on a sofa or a chair.

NOTE: All the above examples given are already in your possession.
There's no need to buy them!

To fulfil Casual, Professional and Romantic Relationships, simply 
talk to them.

Try not to end a party too early. Your guests will give you some
clues to end it by either leaving on their own, or giving the 
"zzz" signal.

Some other party pointers:

- Be appropriately dressed (no swimming trunks if you call for a
formal party, for example!)
- Turn on some music (Concord Jazz is nice)

You will complete the objective when you use the End Party function. 
You get the Privacy Bush in your shopping catalogue. It costs you 
$40,000 to build, which is a complete waste of money considering 
its sole purpose is for you to have some, er, privacy at the 
pool area.

TIP: If you can't get all the contents you need in one party, throw
another one. You waste money though, so act fast!

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b. Complete new cover shoot
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Choose your victim, I mean, potential cover girl during the party.
Develop a relationship (up to you which relationship) with her. Once
the relationship reaches about 50%, use the Command option to check
whether the Request Cover Shoot is available. If yes, click it!

TIP: As mentioned earlier, you may also want to first introduce the
cover girl with your photographer before requesting for the cover 
shoot.

NOTE: A 50% relationship is merely a guide. Some people requires
a higher relationship to agree to your requests.

A cover shoot is almost the same as doing a Centrefold shoot, only 
you will see the word "PLAYBOY" on the screen to tell you where the
magazine titles will be placed. Snap a photo of the cover girl and 
use it for your next issue. 

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c. Secure new essay
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Find a celebrity in your party who has reasonable intellect. Talk
to him/ her to build a relationship. Use the Request Essay command,
pay the money and wait for your new essay.

NOTE: Even when the Request Essay command appears, the person may
decline your request. Build a higher relationship then and ask 
again.

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d. Secure new interview
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This game requires you to talk to a lot of people, and it's 
beginning to take its toll! Find a celebrity in your party, build
a relationship and then use the Request Interview command. Your
journalist will be notified and will start the interview
immediately.

TIP: As usual, you may introduce the celebrity to your journalist
for a better quality interview.

TIP: A person who has agree your request to either a photoshoot,
an essay or an interview can also provide other contents. For 
example, Julie can write an essay and do an interview for you, if
you want to save time. However, you can only hold one content from
one person at any one time. To get a new content from that person,
either publish it, or discard it.

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e. Get new article
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Once you get the cover shoot, essay and interview, you can end 
the party. Your next objective is to get your journalist to write
an article for the next issue.

Use the Market screen to find out which market has the most potential, 
and get the journalist to write an article about it. You may also 
ignore the market at this early stage of the game, and ask the
journalist to write an article which relates to his interests. Of 
course, it'd be great if the journalist happens to have an interest in 
a high market potential area.

You will be informed once the article is ready.

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f. Get new pictorial
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This is similar to the new article objective. Analyze the market, and
ask your photographer to shoot the pictorial. You will be asked to 
choose which area he/ she should concentrate on.

You will be informed once the pictorial is ready.

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g. Get Centrefold
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Use the Staff screen to search for an available Playmate. Cough up 
the money and wait for her to arrive at the Mansion. Build a
relationship with her and then Request Centrefold. You should know
how to do a photoshoot by now.

TIP: You may be given a few Playmates to choose from. Choose the 
one with the best physique and most charm. If one has a better 
physique while the other has the better charm, I'll recommend physique 
over charm any day.


NOTE: When getting the above contents, you may also note that you get 
bonus points for any content that gets the "one of the best ever" 
comment from Dick. So do your best to deliver quality stuff for your
readers.

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h. Ship another issue
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This is easy. Gather all the contents in the Contents screen, and send
the magazine to print. Hopefully you gain both money and fame from it!

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i. Jak's Pool Party
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If you didn't invite Jak to your Inner Circle earlier, you won't get 
this secret mission. Which means that, if you did, you get this secret
mission!

Anyway, this objectives requires you to throw a party at the pool for 
Jak and his friends Felix da House Cat and Uncle Kracker. Since you 
need a minimum of five people to form a party, invite a Playmate and 
a Bunny along to keep the guys occupied when you're talking to Felix 
da House Cat and Uncle Kracker. 

Develop a casual relationship with both and invite them to your Inner
Circle. You may need contents from them in future missions. 

When you're satsified with the outcome of Jak's Pool Party, end it to
complete the objective. Mission 2 ends and you will unlock the 
Character Editor in the Roster menu. It allows you to, well, edit 
some aspects of a character, duh!

NOTE: After this mission, you're pretty much on automatic gear when 
it comes to publishing magazine. Be sure to publish at least one issue
for every mission to keep the money rolling in. 

TIP: Some future missions require demographics-specific issues, and you 
may have a hard time getting them done. In such cases, ship a 
non-specific issue just to get money in, and then work on the objective
again.


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4. MISSION 3: LIVE THE LIFE
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In this mission, you're required to:

a. Have an intimate affair
b. Make girlfriends
c. Make friends
d. Make an associate
e. Get full staff
f. Use your Inner Circle
g. Release another issue

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a. Have an intimate affair
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Develop a high romantic relationship with any woman to complete this 
objective. Go ahead and have sex with her if you want to. You unlock
the Leg-O-Ramp once this objective is met.

RECOMMENDATION: The Playmate who did the Centrefold for your last
issue.

TIP: You may try to ask this person to be your girlfriend to help  
your next objective. 

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b. Make girlfriends
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You need to make 2 girlfriends in this objective, yeah! If you follow
my earlier tip, you only need to find one more girl to cheat on. 

TIP: Still have Julie in the Mansion? Use her! You've already 
have sex with her if you heed my earlier recommendation, so you may  
only need to talk to her for a while before she becomes your 
girlfriend, although this is not guaranteed.

TIP: Find girlfriends who are low on ratings to minimize your cost 
for Girlfriends' Allowance. You can always break up with them when 
you've more money in the bank.

If you successfully make two girlfriends, you unlock the 
Trampoline in the Pool area. This helps to improve one's physique.

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c. Make friends
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You need to invite two celebrities into your Inner Circle. Already
has Jak Hammer and his friends in from earlier missions? Then you 
don't even need to bother - the objective ends by itself!

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d. Make an associate
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Throw a party and develop a professional relationship with a guest. 
Once the relationship goes up to around 80%, you will get an option 
to Strike a Deal. Do it to complete this objective.

NOTE: The outcome of a deal is random. You win some, you lose some.
I'd recommend you to do it only if it's a required objective, like
this one. I once lost $210,000+ in deal, for your information!

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e. Get full staff
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Definition of a "full staff":

- 1 Journalist
- 1 Photographer
- 1 Playmate
- 1 Bunny

Victoria leaves you sometime during Mission 2. You already have 
the journalist and photographer, so just use the Staff screen to
hire a Bunny and a new Playmate to complete this objective.

TIP: When the new Playmate arrives, use her for a Centrefold
Shoot - don't waste the money!

TIP: Try to keep only 1 Journalist at this moment. You will know
why later.

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f. Use your Inner Circle
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This is very easy. Apart from Jak and friends, your girlfriends 
are also included in your Inner Circle. Ask anyone for a content 
to achieve this goal.You unlock the Color Splash Skirt Suit 
upon completing this objective.

RECOMMENDATION: Do an interview with Felix da House Cat. I just 
like the name.

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g. Release another issue
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You know what to do. Do it and end Mission 3. You will unlock 
the Back Bunny under the Wall Art catalogue.


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5. MISSION 4: WHEN EVERYTHING'S GOING RIGHT...
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... everything starts to go wrong. Honeymoon is over. You will begin 
a series of tough missions that promise to crack your skull, and maybe
some other parts of your body. Mission 4 requires a lot of patience. 
It also has two secret missions that are not listed on the Goals 
screen! In fact, there are so many things to do, I'll list them in 
order of my preference to give you a more organized way to complete 
this very tough mission.

a. Find out what happened
b. Patch up or fire staff
c. Get Melda on the cover (Secret objective)
d. Publish Playboy Philosophy
e. Convert chance encounters
f. Repair girlfriend relationships
g. Mend friendships
h. Do a covershoot for Petra Verkaik (Secret objective)
i. Publish a Sports issue
j. "There's a Hitch"

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a. Find out what happened
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The Mansion is plagued with relationships issues. You need to find
out why. 

The Official Strategy Guide wrote that: "Only one of your 
journalists knows the problem, but you won't know which one. 
Therefore, if you go into this mission with only one journalist, you 
can make things a little easier on yourself."

Now you know why I asked you to keep only 1 journalist at the moment?

Haul up this journalist and develop a casual relationship with him/ 
her. When the time comes, Jenny will tell you what happened.

NOTE: "What happened" is basically a fight betwen both your 
girlfriends. Apparently, they both have the same ex-boyfriend who 
two-timed them (soap opera stuff, if you ask me), and they are now 
blaming each other for causing that relationship to end. Damn it.

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b. Patch up or fire staff
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Two members of your staff are arguing about natural vs. implants. If 
I were you, I'll fire both of them. But since this is a game, I'll
advise you to patch them up. 

Use the Goals screen to determine who the two stupid people are, 
introduce them to one another, and let them have a go at mending their
professional relationship. 

During their discussion, use the Triangle button on the PS2 controller
to monitor the drives of both parties. Quickly use the Work it Out 
option to calm things down. You must ask them to work it out quickly, 
or their conversation may end and they will walk away from each other.

You may need to try a few times to make this work.

TIP: Do the introduction at an area with lesser people. People 
walking around distracts you, and could interrupt the conversation 
between the two staff.

NOTE: Firing a staff also completes this objective.

Completing this objective unlocks the Retro Zip-Front, a costume 
that your Playmates can wear.

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c. Put Melda on the cover
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Some time now, Jenny will inform you that a group of researchers 
are coming over to the Mansion for a tour. She tells you to ignore 
them. Stupid woman!

The leader of the group is a lady called Melda Carlton. Develop a 
relationship with her and request her for a cover shoot. You get bonus 
points for putting Melda on your cover in this secret objective. It 
also unlocks a hidden playmate, the voluptous Petra Verkaik!

Quickly assemble all your contents, including the Playboy Philosophy
essay by Hef, and ship the issue to complete this objective.

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d. Publish Playboy Philosophy
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Hef's Playboy Philosophy is a free essay given to you by... you!

If you've followed the earlier instructions to put Melda on the cover
together with the Hef essay, this objective automatically completes.
You also get Michaelangelo, a very big Wall Art.

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e. Convert chance encounters
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By now, sports stars Jose Canseco and Rob Dyrdek should have arrived
at the Mansion. Since publishing a sports issue is one of your goals,
develop relationships with both and get an interview and a sports
essay from either one of them. 

RECOMMENDATION: I used Dyrdek for the essay and Canseco for the 
interview. Both yielded 3.5 Bunny Heads and filled up a whole lot of 
sports demographics.

NOTE: DO NOT let any of these stars slip you by. They will not 
return after they leave if you don't talk to them.

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f. Repair girlfriend relationships
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Now that you get two good pieces of content for your sports issue, 
you can solve the problem between the two women. This could either
be a tough objective, or it could go really well for you. 

Anyway, you need to first get both girls to talk to each other. Monitor 
their moods and then use Work it Out to bring them back on good terms.
This needs to be done for both their casual and professional
relationships.

NOTE: If things go well, they will even start having a good romantic
relationship.

Next, throw a party for the two girls and Blaze Starr, the ex-boyfriend. 
Invite a female sports celebrity and your photographer for a cover shoot 
as well if you want. 

TIP: If you put Melda on the cover of your earlier issue, Jenny will
tell you thay Petra wants to be on the cover of Playboy too. She will
appear on the Celebrities list when you throw a party. Consider using
her instead for bonus points. It's not necessary to have a sports 
celebrity on the cover.

Since you've already get the girls on good terms, introduce them to 
Starr individually and start them on casual conversations. Again, monitor
reactions and work it out if necessary.

Once the relationships are mended, you get a pop up to inform you that
you've completed the objective.

NOTE: It's possible to introduce the girls to each other only during
the party. 

You get a Round Bed for you effort. You can purchase it for the
Upper Mansion and have sex on it.

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g. Mend friendships
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Two members of your Inner Circle have taken opposite sides with regards 
to your girlfriends' issue. Invite the two immature buggers over, 
introduce them to a casual conversation and use Work it Out if
required.

NOTE: You must do this only after you repair your girlfriends'
relationship.

TIP: There's no need to throw a party for the friends. Simply use the
Call Friends option.