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On the latter half of the game (in Disc 2 and Disc 3), it's possible to rent chocobo stables, breed chocobos, and use your own chocobos in Golden Saucer Chocobo Square racing. | On the latter half of the game (in Disc 2 and Disc 3), it's possible to rent chocobo stables, breed chocobos, and use your own chocobos in Golden Saucer Chocobo Square racing. | ||
== Advantages == | |||
* | There are 4 special Chocobos: | ||
* | * Green Chocobos - able to cross mountains | ||
* Blue Chocobos - able to cross rivers | |||
* Black Chocobos - able to cross rivers and mountains | |||
* Gold Chocobos - able to cross rivers, mountains and sea | |||
The special abilites of these Chocobos allow to access Materia caves which is the only way to get some rare materia. You gain gain Mime from the cave south of Wutai, Quadra Magic near Mideel, HP<->MP switch near Coral and the most powerful materia on the game, Knights of the Round. This summon monster inflicts around 90 000 points of damage! | |||
A gold Chocobo will also allow you to get Vincent Valentine's Level 4 Limit Break before you get the submarine, and in turn see the secret 'Lucrecia' scene. As well as that, you can access the Ancient Forest near Cosmo Canyon before defeating Ultimate Weapon. This area is full of great weapons, as well as the Slice-All materia. | |||
You'll spend a lot of time racing Chocobos if you intend to get a Gold Chocobo. Luckily, this is not only enjoyable, but by the time you get to B/A class you're getting more GP a race than you could get in an hour in Wonder Square. This will allow you to get some of the rare items available from the women in Wonder Square. | |||
== Catching Chocobos == | == Catching Chocobos == | ||
Firstly, to catch Chocobos you will need to have the Chocobo Lure materia equipped. You can buy this from Choco Billy at the Chocobo ranch. To improve your chances, level up your Chocobo lure materia as much as possible, and try to get your luck stat as high as possible using Luck Plus materia and the Amulet accessory, which you can purchase at Mideel before it is devasted by lifestream. | Firstly, to catch Chocobos you will need to have the Chocobo Lure materia equipped. You can buy this from Choco Billy at the Chocobo ranch. To improve your chances, level up your Chocobo lure materia as much as possible, and try to get your luck stat as high as possible using Luck Plus materia and the Amulet accessory, which you can purchase at Mideel before it is devasted by lifestream. | ||
Most importantly, you'll need to rent some stables. If you can, get all 6, if not you'll need at least 4. Stables cost 10 000 gil (nothing compared to what you'll be spending on greens) and you can buy them from the ranch owner in the western building. You'll also need enough money to buy about 300 Sylkis Greens from the Chocobo Sage (visit his house located near the Icicle Inn). This will cost you about 1.6 million gil in total. | |||
Once you are set up, find some Chocobo tracks (see the table below). If you're luck is high enough, and you have a good Chocobo lure you should run into a Chocobo 95% of the time. After that, there are basically two methods of catching your Chocobo: | Once you are set up, find some Chocobo tracks (see the table below). If you're luck is high enough, and you have a good Chocobo lure you should run into a Chocobo 95% of the time. After that, there are basically two methods of catching your Chocobo: | ||
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== | == Racing tips == | ||
When racing simply hold down R1+R2+L1+L2 in order to regenerate your stamina quickly. You can then press Square until you're going as fast as possible and cruise past the rest. Even with the most weak of Chocobos you should be able to rise quickly to S class as the AI of your competitors is pathetic. Weaker Chocobos (eg any yellow one) will have trouble, however, beating Joe and his black Chocobo TEIOH. | |||
Every now and again, Tifa or Cid will ask to ride the Chocobo. This doesn't make a difference your game, you just get a change from Cloud's spikey head bobbing up and down. | |||
== Breeding a Golden Chocobo == | == Breeding a Golden Chocobo == | ||
