Template:Pictures Although absent from Dead Rising, money makes an appearance in every other entry in the series.
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop
Money was first used in Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop as a means of getting new weapons and ammunition from Cletus. Money would be rewarded by killing zombies or saving survivors or completing certain tasks.
Dead Rising 2
In Dead Rising 2, you can collect money in a variety of ways.
- A very good way to get a lot of money is defeating Jessica, Nevada and Jacob in a game of poker. If you beat them all, Chuck receives $1,000,000.
- By contesting in Terror is Reality (An online 4-player mini-game mode that will bring your money over to your single-player file).
- By destroying ATMs (Each ATM will give $2,500).
- By using the Hacker on ATMs (Each hacked ATM will give $10,000).
- By destroying Slot Machines (Roughly 1 in 5 chance of money, $100-$300 per machine when it does).
- By playing single-player mini-games like the slots ($100 to spin, varying rewards), Money-Grab ($100 to enter, about $103 for moderate button mashing), and more.
- By heavily damaging Cash Registers (a weapon, as soon as it enters red from melee use or is thrown once it will give between $300 and $500 cash)
- There is a large slot game next to the entrance of the Food Court in the Slot Ranch Casino, get all the gambling magazines, make sure you have $25,000-$50,000, and bet on the $1,000 button. It won't always give you the big cash prizes immediatly, but with patience you can win up to $100,000. It is a really easy way to make tons of money.
- If you see money in front of a slot machine, pick it up and play that exact machine 5-6 times. This is a good way to make easy money.
Money is primarily used in Pawn Shops to buy Zombrex, Combo Weapons, and unlockables (Such as car keys or the boots for the Knight Armor).
Glitches
There is a glitch than can be exploited via co-op which enables players to recieve money at pawn shops rather than spending it.
It involves the duplication of the Bargaining magazines until there are at least eleven of them in one game (as such, if the player wishes to gain money, they must first level up enough to have at least eleven inventory slots available).
To duplicate, one player must gather both Bargaining magazines and bring them into a hosting player's game. This is best done with someone you know who is willing to cooperate. It's also advisable for the joining player to save after gathering the magazines, otherwise they'll have to be got again.
Once the joining player has joined the host's game, the joining player must then drop the magazines for the host to pick up. The joining player must then leave the game without saving, and instead reload the previous save where they also have the magazines. Then they must join the host again to drop the magazines. Just repeat the process of bringing them through to the host's game.
One magazine will reduce the prices in pawn shops by 10%, thus eleven of them will reduce the price by 110%, and twelve of them by 120%.
For example, with twelve magazines in one's inventory, 120% will be deducted from the price of any item. The SUV key (the most expensive item) for instance has a standing cost of $2,000,000. With ten magazines, 100% of the price is reduced, making the item free. But above 100% will cause the reverse effect and money will be gained.
With the maximum twelve magazines the SUV key can net the player $400,000 when "bought". This is because one magazine reduces its price by $200,000, an eleventh will instead plus $200,000 because it excedes 100%, while the highest twelfth will plus $400,000, which is a 20% increase of the original price.
If the player continuously buys the SUV key over and over, recieving $400,000 profit each time, it's possible to amass millions in minutes.