Explanation of the Chocobos:
Blue Chocobo: This Chocobo has the ability to cross shallow waters and rivers (much like the Buggy)
Green Chocobo: This Chocobo can cross various mountains in the game.
Black Chocobo: This is a combination of the Blue and Green Chocobos. It can cross mountains aswell as rivers
Gold Chocobo: The ultimate Chocobo, it can cross rivers, mountains and oceans. This allows you to go anywhere with it.
Preparations:
At disk one after leaving Midgar and passing through Kalm you’ll get to the Chocobo Ranch, because you’ll need a Chocobo to cross the swamp (well it is actually possible to cross the swamp with out a Chocobo, I’ve done it before and it takes timing and luck), So go into the stable and talk to Chocobo Billy and buy the Chocobo Lure Materia for 2000 gil. Whatever you do DON’T SELL IT, and I suggest you try keep it equiped for quite a while to get a couple of extra stars, you’ll benefit of this later.
At disk 3 when you return to the Chocobo Ranch, you’ll notice that all the stables are empty, they are for hire.
So what do you need: A LOT of gil (if you want to make alot of gil fast I sugest selling a mastered All Materia, it gains you 1.400.000 gil), patience, good Chocobo racing skills and some luck.
Now head for the Chocobo Ranch, talk to the owner and buy all six stables for 10.000 gil each. After that head towards the Chocobo Sage, he leaves up the Northern continent somewhere North East of the Icicle Village. Land your Highwind and go inside. Talk to the Sage and buy off him. Now you’ll want 60 Sylkis Greens, which cost 10.000 per green.
Now head towards Bone Village on the Northen Continent, get out for a fight and find the Red Dragon like creature, it has quite alot of HP so if you want to get this over with fast, I sugest equiping Steal Materia. Now steal from it an you should get a Carob Nut, you’ll need 3 nuts in total.
Last but not least, head to Goblin Island, it’s somewhere on the top right of the map. Get in the forest and get into fights. You’ll fight some Goblins eventually and beat them. They should drop a Zeio Nut sooner or later.
Chocobo Capture guide:
For starters make sure you have your Chocobo Lure Materia equiped. Now I am sure you know what the Chocobo Footprints on the field are for. Now run around a bit and get into a fight, you’ll notice that when the music is different a Chocobo will apear. Now throw it some random greens (I used Mimmet Greens which can be bought at the Ranch for 2000 gil each). This is the first thing you want to do, if you don’t and attack an enemie the Chocobo will get scared and run off. So when it’s eating the greens attack your enemies and defeat them. Once the battle is won, get off your Chocobo and send it to the stables. Repeat this process four times and head back to the stables. After that you can let Chocobo Billy analize your Chocobos.
You can give your captured Chocobos names, while not nescecary it is more fun to ride your personalized Chocobo :).
Chocobo Locations
There are various standard Chocobos through out the game, varying from really bad to really good.
Chocobo Ranch: I don’t recommend getting Chocobos from this place because they are usually the worst in the game, unless you want to push your luck and spend hours of running around finding a decent Chocobo, avoid this location.
Gold Saucer Area: You’ll find Good Chocobos here, which are pretty decent racers and needed for getting a Green Chocobo. And later a Blue one.
Mideel Area: Here you’ll find better Chocobos, Great Chocobos. They are somewhat more rare then Good Chocobos, and it could take you a little while to get one. Also needed to get a Green Chocobo and later a Blue one.
Icicle Village Area: The best normal Chocobos in the game are found here: Wonderful Chocobos. And as you may have guessed, they are very rare. And this is where the luck factor jumps in. You’ll need one to get a Gold Chocobo, so you’ll guess it can take quite a while to find one.
Chocobo Racing Guide
A big part of breeding Chocobos is spend here. You’ll need to race your Chocobos to get them up in classes. The higher your class of the Chocobo, the better the breeding results.
There are 4 Classes: Class C, all your Chocobos start in this class, which is the easiest Class to win. After winning 3 times you’ll get promoted to the B class, this class will give you better items for winning and tougher opponents. After winning 3 times again you’ll get promoted to A. Here you’ll get even better items but heavier competition. You’ll have to win about 3-6 times to get promoted to the S class. Which can be quite difficult because the competition is tough. Now in the S class you’ll meet the most elite racers. If you win 6 times you’ll get a few very usefull items, but becomming the S class champion is very difficult. Mainly because there is a Black Chocobo with it’s jockey Taioh. He’s good, really good.
You can pick from two different tracks to race. It does not affect your winnings or statistics. If you pick the long strack you’ll still need to win just as much races when selecting the short track.
Winning various races will get you items, or if you choose to, you can trade your items for GP. Which might your better choise for more useless items.
Breeding Guide
Now that we have that straight, let’s get started. Go out and head for Mideel, go to the Chocobo footprints and capture some Chocobos. When you captured four Chocobos, head back for the Ranch and let Billy "scan" your Chocobos. If you have a Great Chocobo among your captured Chocobos, send it to the stables. And the others you’ll send free again.
Now go to the Gold Saucer area and repeat the same process, only this time you want a good Chocobo. After scanning your captured Chocobos and you have found a Good Chocobo there is one more thing. Make sure it is the opposite sex of your Great. If not, go hunt for some more Chocobos.
Now Breed your Good and Great Chocobos using the earlier aquired Carob Nut, this will give you a Green Chocobo. Now feed all your Chocobos 10 Sylkis Greens, this will boost all their statistics, and even if you have the gil to afford more Sylkis Greens, it doesn’t help feeding them more then 10.
Now go race your Good and Great Chocobos up to Class A. When both of them are Class A go back to the Ranch. Now before you let your Chocobos Breed again I STRONGLY suggest you save your game, this will save you alot of time and frustration. Now Breed your Good and Great Chocobos again with another Carob Nut. This time you’ll get a Blue Chocobo, hopefully the opposite sex of your Green. If not, reset the game and try again till you get one.
Feed your Blue Chocobo 10 Sylkis Greens and head to the Gold Saucer again. Now go race your Green and Blue Chocobos up to Class A and after that head to the Ranch again.
Breed your Green and Blue Chocobos with your last Carob Nut. This will result in a Black Chocobo. Now you are going to the Icicle Village. You are looking for a Wonderful Chocobo, and if you remember, this is the trickiest part of the game. Not only are Wonderfull Chocobos very rare, it also needs to be the opposite sex of your Black Chocobo.
When you finally find one, feed your Black and Wonderful Chocobos 10 Sylkis Greens, and take them racing at the Gold Saucer. Now both need to be S Class Chocobos, which doesnt mean you need to win the S Class, only the A Class.
When both Chocobos are S Class, breed them with your Zeio Nut and presto, your Gold Chocobo. You can buy it 10 Sylkis Greens and take it racing in the Gold Saucer to win the S Class, which I can recommend since the S Class holds some pretty neat items and Materia.
Rumors
I liked to include this part just for the fun of it.
First of all you need another Zeio Nut, now Breed your Wonderful and Black Chocobo again. This will result in another Gold Chocobo, hopefully the opposite sex of your other Gold Chocobo.
Feed them both 10 Sylkis Greens and take them racing in the Gold Saucer. They both need to win the S Class. Now Breed them both and you’ll get a White Chocobo, which has the same properties as the Gold one, except it can also go underwater.
Take your White Chocobo and go to the swamp near the Ranch, go underwater and you should meet with Onix Weapon.
You can try this if you like (I have) and I can asure you it’s nothing more then just a rumor.
Final words
This guide might be updated/edited later for the occasional spelling errors and mistakes. Updates will be added.
I hope you’ll find this guide usefull in getting your own Gold Chocobo, if you have any comments feel free to PM me.
Credits
Credits for this guide go to me :p Neo Xzhan (Sinistral or my real name Sander :)).
Now for a little bed-time reading…
*studies it*
so i dont really need this help but i still read it all and maybe i’ll go start up FF7 again
First off, if you want to save yourself some money, try using the W-Item Dupe Bug. Simply buy one Sylkis Green, equip someone with W-Item Materia and go into battle. Once in battle, use the W-Item ability, select the Sylkis Green, comfirm your target. Next, choose another item (making sure that that item needs you to confirm a target) then cancel, select that item again, hit cancel, select that item again, hit cancel… and on and on and on.
To easily explain this, go to W-Item, hit Circle twice on Sylkis Green, choose another item and hit O,X rapidly.
And if you’re too lazy to read all the text, buy TWO Sylkis Greens, go into battle, W-Item, hit O,O,O,X,O,X,O,X,O,X,O,X,O,X…
Also, when racing, hold L1, R1, L2, R2 to charge up your stamina meter… but I bet most of you knew that. o_O;
>.<
MK beat me… ;.;
the dupe bags a glitch and a cheat… although i admit to using it… i went back and replayed the game without the duper… so π
and same with the R1 R2 L1 L2 cheat.
good job with the guide neo x. i couldve used it a couple years back, but its good all the same… π
Very nice guide in general though. π
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I wos denzil_shinra but now i am Zephikast
also i did this yesterday, when i bred my 2 yellows together and got a green, (or blue not sure which i got first) my next step was to breed the great yellow with the new blue one and i got the green one straight away, or it could of been i got the green first bred it with the yellow and got the blue. Either way i got the opposite color by breeding my first special chocobo with my yellow one. Saved a lot of time π
I’ve always done it the same way. The first time I followed a guide and it talked about doing with the one way, but after countless attempts I decided to give it a whirl and try breeding a Great with a Blue (don’t remember the genders) and I got a Green on the first try. I was kinda mad at myself, but it was certainly quicker.
The guides good an all, but it’s not very hard to figure out on your own.
edit: btw… who thinks the stuff you get after beating a weapon is pointless… i mean, i had to get a gold chocobo and master materias just to beat em in the first place! big whoop to get em after i fight the hardest battle ever!!! now what’s this onix guy gonna give me, that lets me do something i couldn’t before??? c’mon
EDIT: By the way, I did that with a gold chocobo with stamina of 999 in Class S.
At disk 3 when you return to the Chocobo Ranch, you’ll notice that all the stables are empty, they are for hire.
You donοΏ½t have to wait till CD 3 to start with the breeding. You can finsish the whole breeding on CD 2!
You can actually start catching them when Cloud is gone. Go with Tifa to the Chocobo farm and the guy there will tell you about hard times and why not breeding own Chocobos. Rent the stables and go to the areas where youοΏ½ll find the named Chocobos.
You canοΏ½t do the breeding when Cloud is gone, because the Gold Saucer is closed at this time. There is no chance to raise your Chocobos.
But right after the lifestream thing (when you got Cloud back) you can do the Chocobo breeding, till the gold one. π
Well, if you first play it and you donοΏ½t know about it, you have to do it on CD 3, because you need the informations the Chocobo sage gives you. π
About the thing with the white Chocobo, I think this is a rumor….:(
The gold chocobo stats that are being talked about here are really pretty much the max, but like it’s been said, because the game lets you control the chocobo, you can always even beat Joe’s super-chocobo.
All of that should help.
EDIT: Never mind.
I’m sure I read somewhere that you are more likley to get a coloured chocobo if the great/good/wonderful are of certain genders, though I cannot remember which is which.
Also, I think that you can pick up a chocobo lure from somewhere else in the game (apart from the Ranch.) This is because I have two, neither mastered. (I think. And I can’t be bothered to check right now.) I may be wrong.
Colors – I usually use the same good and great to breed both. Once you’ve got one of a certain color and gender, it’s usually not too hard to use the reset trick to quickly produce one of the opposite trick and gender.
One other thing – the initial post recommends feeding them ten Sylkis each. I recommend going further – keep feeding them the Sylkis until you don’t hear the victory theme and the message says "No improvement…"
One final thing: according FFX and X-2: it’s "cho-co-bow."
I bred a Wonderful and a Good and got a blue.
Now I can’t get a green…keep getting yellows.
Wonderful = S
Blue, Good = A
10 Sylkis greens, the usual treatment.
Wonderful – S – That’s where it should be, but you’re only supposed to mate it with a River and Mountain (Black) chocobo.
Blue, Good – A – No, you should get the Blue up to Class S. It should definitely be able to make class S. If it can’t, feed it more Sylkis.
10 Sylkis greens, the usual treatment – I don’t recommend that. Keep feeding them all until it says "No improvement." Go buy more Sylkis if you have to.
Working on the "good" female…
When will I know when I become S class champion? I been first countless number of times now but my win-loss record against TEIOH is maybe 3-5…
Tip to beat TEIOH:
Get fraps 1.9 at www.fraps.com and set it to record a game video when you race (hotkey is F9 as default). This will really kill your fps during the race making it run slower and easier to block TEIOH.
I also have a query.
Does anybody know how long it takes to rebreed a chocobo? I’ve just started to breed a gold on my new game, and while I waited, I managed to get omnislash, W-Summon, and race my green chocobo up to bottom of S class. I checked after each of these, and I still couldn’t breed them until after my green chocobo races.
Second, something about the Reset hint (reset if you get the wrong bird.) It may have been a coincidence, but I got a green female 8 times in a row (resetting each time) when I wanted a blue male. The ninth time, before I bred the birds, I raced one of the chocobos in the Gold Saucer. I went back and got blue male first time.
So, if anyone has the same problem, just go and race once.
I did some searching around and found out that the second Chocobo Lure materia is laying around near the chocobo corral (the one that chocobos coming in from the World Map go to) on Disc 2 or 3.
Does anybody know how long it takes to rebreed a chocobo?
Sometimes the game can very cranky about the amount of time it makes you wait before it’ll let you breed.. I’m breeding chocobos on mine currently and it took many hours before it let me breed my just-born river chocobo. So I’m not sure of the exact time, but what you experienced isn’t abnormal.
So, if anyone has the same problem, just go and race once.
That’s good advice. The game can be weird like that, so sometimes you have to do something different to get the game to do something different.
One other thing: If you do like I recommend and always do the racing and max them on Sylkis, you can get a gold chocobo with a speed of 150. That’s what I have on my best two.
Note: Teioh will always be faster than your chocobo and you neer go over 999 stamina.
P.S.: Racing around with a chocobo like that is great. On a Class C race, the other chocobos are like still near the starting line and you’ve already crossed the finish.
but i think you should add that
great chocobos are found with spinners
good chocobos are found with spencers
wonderful chocobos are found with jumping rabbits
this way you know when you catch a wonderful chocobo and you can relase the chocobo when you dont get those enemies…it’s less of a hassle!
Waittt…i also have more!
okay, the best way to catch a chocobo, especially the wonderful chocobos is to use the spell ‘remove’!
it autommatically kills the enemies and the chocobo doesn’t run! No wasting greens, no using spells that only attack one enemy! it’s awesome. =]
okay i’m done
If you mean stats wise (for races that is) the better the parents, the better the offspring. And if you feed that Sylkiss greens it’s going to be a very good racing chocobo. But colored chocobos have naturally boost stats according to their colors.
Just save your game, beofre you go to Billy’s, and keep trying.
Geez, I remeber, when i got a Black Chocobo, because when you first see it, its on a Black background, the chcocob looked white, i was like wtf?!
on the third disk, go back to the ranch. in front of the fench, on the right hand side, should be another one. Or, on the first disk, talk to the chocobos in the fence.
Cause I don’t think I ever bought one, and I have two.
Great guild, and I know you can breed chocobos on the third disk.
I currently am! *huggs her chocobos*
I want to breed my green and blue, but Billy says I can’t breed newborns.
I raced them, one is S-class, one is A-class
Billy, what are you talking about!!!
And I beat Joe in a race, mwahahahaha!!!!!
*hugs her gold chocobo* good Cheezy, beat Joe, find me KOTR materia
yes, I named him Cheezy, cause he’s more orange (the color of chedder cheese)
thanks! I finally got one.
And I beat Joe in a race, mwahahahaha!!!!!
*hugs her gold chocobo* good Cheezy, beat Joe, find me KOTR materia
yes, I named him Cheezy, cause he’s more orange (the color of chedder cheese)
Well if Joe is TEIOH then I have never lost by him (cept for with one of my yellows in S class once)
Heres a trick btw- Whatever you meet him on, stay there for the next race. Then keep alternating between long and short. He alternates each round and you can work around it to stay the opposite of him. I think he only stays in Short in the S class though.
Just wanted to clear that up.
neo i noticed a mistake in your first post u say its 10,000gil per green its 5000gil just thought id tell you
For the breed (great/good) the "this one’s not bad" is a fair chocobo. You want him to say
"Mmm, this seems like a good Chocobo" (Good – male)
"This is a great Chocobo" (Great – Female)
"This…is a wonderful Chocobo" (Wonderful – male)
the male/female I said from memory, so I could be wrong.
Hey, dkhyrosha u recon u could make a banner for me, that 1 there looks kl
1st off the underwater weapon is emeral weapon, 2nd of all u dont need to beat him, u just need to beat ruby weapon and when u do u get the deset rose which u can trade with the man in kalm for the gold chocobo, the ruby weapon is easy to beat if u use the hades and bahamut zero stratagy
u hafta beat the ultimate waepon on disk 3 i beielve, maybe end of 2 i dont rememeber, to get him to come out
wait…never mind…i mated my green chocobo with a great yellow one,and out popped a blue! YAY!!!…..but…can my blue chocobo…mate with its mother green one….@[email protected] do i have to breed another green one?
Thanks for the guide.
Did you use a Zeio Nut to breed them?
If you can’t get your Chocobo into Class S… YOU SUCK!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Nah jus’ Kiddin’! Get a new Chocobo and try it on Class B-the other on Class A. That worked for me.
Otherwise just kill Ruby or Whichever Weapon gives you the right Item, and take it to Kalm town… Cause you SUCK! Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Joking i’m joking, settle down!
If you can’t get your Chocobo into Class S… YOU SUCK!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Nah jus’ Kiddin’! Get a new Chocobo and try it on Class B-the other on Class A. That worked for me.
Otherwise just kill Ruby or Whichever Weapon gives you the right Item, and take it to Kalm town… Cause you SUCK! Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Joking i’m joking, settle down!
This guide is based on Chocobo breeding not how to get one by defeating Ruby. And also, you suck.
I’m sure Neo doesnt want people like you spamming up his thread (and a bloody amazing Chocobo guide) with the same crap that has been originally answered.
Yeah, but it`s kinda obvious. Plus the "special kind" are used for something aren`t they??? Getting Chocobuckle i think.
Cool, meh, but i only ever got the Gold Chocobo once. Way too much hassle.
Um so far my chocobo’s speed is 171 so 146 is not a maxed stat!!
I don’t breed gold chocobos tho’. I use all the other ones and breeding them isn’t so tough.
i am the 100th person to post here!
No way!! Even after ten years people are still finding stuff. :0
…..
Second, something about the Reset hint (reset if you get the wrong bird.) It may have been a coincidence, but I got a green female 8 times in a row (resetting each time) when I wanted a blue male. The ninth time, before I bred the birds, I raced one of the chocobos in the Gold Saucer. I went back and got blue male first time.
So, if anyone has the same problem, just go and race once.
It takes me about half an hour to re-mate them andI never have had a problem with my chocobo’s and colors. I always seem to get the right ones right away and you can just mate a great and good together and get a blue or green.( As long as they are S class.)
Go to Gold Saucer and visit the Round Square, watching the Chocobos etc is an FMV. Usually works for me. π
Cool,thats wat I did.Did anyone notice that the gold chocobo you get from Ruby isnt as good as the one you breed yourself.Is it because of all the greens you fed the chocobos used to get the gold one?
Sorry wasnt thinkin.”You can get one from the item you get for defeating ruby if you give it to the old man in Kalm”.Thats what I should have said.
It wasn’t meant to be good. It is just there for you to be able to get a gold chocobo without to much hassle.
Btw one thing i figured out – to rebreed my chocobo, since nuttin else worked, i simply rode it for a while…the one that was just born that is. Maybe it works dunno altho a lotta time passed till i tried actually riding it…..watchin the chocobos in the Golden Saucer however did not work.
Every guide i have ever read tells you how to breed the Ocean Chocobo. Well that’s fine and dandy, but there isn’t any comprehensive breeding guide. Like If genders matter, or what nuts do what, etc. I mean I found something that isn’t in any guide anywhere and that was just from messing around.
Chocobo A: High Speed/High Stamina
Chocobo B: Medium Speed/Medium Stamina
Zeio Nut: Offspring = Chocobo B Type
Porov Nut: Offspring = Chocobo A Type
This has been tried with Mountain and Wonderful (wonderful being the better chocobo) River and Wonderful, Mountain and Great, River and Great. Each time, the Lesser chocobo "type" was produced with the Zeio nut, and the Greater Chocobo "type" was produced with the Porov nut.
The Question i have is this:
I have a Mountain Chocobo with 99 speed, and 999 stamina. I can’t get the speed any higher no matter what greens i feed it. (the same with my river chocobo who’s at 97/999). Now in my other game that i’ve already maxed things out with, I somehow dumbed my way into things and have a Mountain chocobo with a 132 speed, and an Ocean Chocobo with a 147. With my current game though, no matter what I breed and no matter what nut i use, i seem to always hover around 100 +/- 10, even after feeding ever chocobo 60 sylkies.
The joke is, that no matter what speed they max out to from greens, I can always boost their stamina to 999. So i don’t care about stamina, I can boost that at any time, i care about speed. I read all these forums saying "all my chocobos are 160+) etc. How did they do that? What breeding with what, with what nut will take a 99/999 Mountain and produce a 130 mountain, so that that 130 mountain can produce a 160 mountain, and the same with river, black, and ocean, etc..
Thanks
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al’Raec Ruiner
ps – i know about the male/female ocean breeding thing but that only produces more oceans, My End result is I want a Black, Gold, Green, Blue Chocobo each with speed > 170. (if that isn’t too much to ask. *cheezygrin*
i never knew that i was just lucky breading, them feed them lots of nuts and greens :smrt:
Unless, of course, the randomization is screwed up on your computer and you get a male green chocobo six times in a row. I had to get another set so I could mate one, get the green chocobo, and then mate the other to get a blue.
I had the rest written down, so when I dig through my records and stuff I’ll let you know what they are.
I had the rest written down, so when I dig through my records and stuff I’ll let you know what they are.
I’ve noticed that myself aswell, though I haven’t excatly taken the time to point out in which groups they are. This might be a possible future add and might save you some time.
Fact about the Gold Chocobo won from Ruby Weapon, this Chocobo is possibly worse then your first captured Good or Great Chocobo, it has the most horrible stats and is slow to the point of sluggish should you have ever tried to race with it. THe only purpose it serves is to get you some Materia.
Winning the S class is only achievable with your own breed of Chocobo.
i hear ya, me too. ima train my choc o bows lol
nevermind, ended up getting a blue chocobo by mating my female green (s rank) with a great male (a rank). my chocobo’s speed is amazing…the gold one i just bred has 174…
I used ur method, but I still keep getting only green chocobos.. can you tell me why, and what to do?