Final Fantasy VII Walkthrough for PlayStation Game Name: Final Fantasy VII Format: PlayStation Submitted By: Poetic Tragedy Final Fantasy VII Chocobo Breeding Guide Created by Matt Burns Created on July 6th, 2003 Version: 1.0 Questions/Comments to matt16471111@hotmail.com. Please put the subject of the email as Final Fantasy, or Chocobo, or something like that. Legal / Copyright Information This guide / FAQ is solely for personal use, and must not be used to gain profit. You may not recreate anything in this FAQ without first getting my written permission. That includes reusing, reproducing, or re-editing all or part of it in any way, shape or form. You may not place it on any website other than those I put it on myself without my permission. You also may not link directly to this guide from your website. Final Fantasy VII is a trademark of Square, Inc, and all other trademarks are property of their respective owners. In this guide I will give you the background to Chocobos, a step-by-step method of obtaining the much sought after Gold Chocobo, as well as the secrets you can find using Chocobos. Contents: a) The history of Chocobos b) The purpose of Chocobos c) Chocobo Locations d) Preparations for Chocobo Breeding e) Breeding a Gold Chocobo f) Chocobo Secrets g) Thanks, Credits, etc a) The history of Chocobos Chocobos are the large bird-like animals that have been in the Final Fantasy series since I can remember. They made their debut in Final Fantasy II, and were then used as a form of transport. Their importance has varied throughout the games, sometimes being a necessity, and sometimes just being a side-quest to pass the time away. No matter how hard you try to ignore them though, they will always be there. The main attraction players have had to Chocobos is their cuteness, from their looks to their "kweh" sound, and this is what has made them so popular, even so far as to have established their own cult following (of which, I hasten to add, I am not a part of). b) The purpose of Chocobos The purpose of Chocobos in Final Fantasy VII is to provide you with a very entertaining side-quest for you to complete whilst you wait for the final battle in the Northern Crater with Sephiroth. The sense of fulfilment once you have successfully obtained the Gold Chocobo is great, and the prizes you can find for doing so are even greater, but more on those later. In Final Fantasy VII Chocobos come in five colours; yellow, green, blue, black, and gold, and each have their own special abilities. The yellow Chocobo can only cross land, the green Chocobo can cross land and mountains, the blue Chocobo can cross land and shallow water, the black Chocobo can cross land, mountains, and shallow water, but the gold chocobo can traverse any kind of terrain, and this is what makes it such a prestigious goal to aim for. c) Chocobo Locations There are many different Chocobo tracks where you can catch Chocobos throughout the world, but the quality of them varies greatly, depending on the location. Chocobo Ranch Area: There are two sets of tracks south of the ranch, and one to the north. Quality: Poor / Weak Junon Area: There are two sets of tracks on one of the peninsular south of Fort Condor. Quality: Poor / Fair Gold Saucer Area: There are three sets of tracks to the southeast of the Gold Saucer Desert. Quality: Average / Good Rocket Town Area: There are two sets of tracks quite a way northwest of Rocket Town. Quality: Good / Great Wutai Area: There are two sets of tracks south of Wutai. Quality: Average / Fair Mideel Area: There are two sets of tracks west of Mideel. Quality: Great / Fair Icicle Inn Area: There are two sets of tracks slightly southwest of the Icicle Inn. Quality: Weak / Wonderful d) Preparations for Chocobo Breeding In order to begin catching Chocobos so you can breed them, you will need the following things: 1) Chocobo Lure Materia: Purchased from Chocobo Billy on Disc 1 for 2,000 gil, or found on the Chocobo Ranch on Discs 2 and 3. 2) Six Stables: Purchased from Chocobo Bill for 10,000 gil each. 3) Two Carob Nuts: Can be stolen from Vladorakos (red dinosaur creature) near Bone Village, or choose the first ??????? prize (the one that costs 300 GP) at the Wonder Square in the Gold Saucer 4) One Zeio Nut: Can be stolen from a Goblin. These are found on Goblin Island, which is due east of Bone Village. 5) Five Mimmet Greens: Can be bought from Chocobo Billy for 1,500 gil. You need these to stop the Chocobo from running during battle. e) Breeding a Gold Chocobo For some people this can take weeks, but if you follow all these steps it should only take about 4 hours. 1) Capture one male and one female Great Chocobo from Mideel, and one male and one female Good Chocobo from the Gold Saucer Area. Place them in four of your 6 stables. Go to the Chocobo Sage (north of Bone Village) and buy 80 Sylkis Greens. Go back to the stables and feed each Chocobo 20 Sylkis Greens. Go to the Gold Saucer and go to the Chocobo Square. Talk to Ester and choose one of your Chocobos to race with. After 3 races it will move up to a B rank, and a further 5 races will move it up into A rank. Repeat this process with the other 3 Chocobos. If they are not performing too well then feed them more Sylkis Greens. Once all four Chocobos have an A rank, return to the stables and save your game. 2) Talk to Chocobo Billy and chose to mate the male Great with the female Good, and chose to give them a Carob Nut. They should produce a Blue Chocobo. Write down the sex of the new Blue Chocobo, and go out of the ranch and save again. Go back into the ranch and talk to Chocobo Billy again, but this time choose to mate the male Good with the female Great, and give them a Carob Nut. You should get a Green Chocobo. You need to make sure that the sex of the Green Chocobo is not the same as the Blue Chocobo. If it is, then reset the game and try again. After you have got both a Blue and a Green Chocobo of opposite sexes, you can release the four yellow Chocobos. Buy some more Sylkis Greens from the Chocobo Sage and feed them to your Green and Blue Chocobos. Return to the Gold Saucer and race the Blue and Green Chocobos up to an A rank. Once they are at an A rank, return to the stables and save your game. 3) Go inside, talk to Chocobo Billy, choose to mate the Blue and the Green Chocobos with a Carob Nut, and they should produce a Black Chocobo. If they do, then save your game. If they don't, then reset and try again. Once you have a Black Chocobo you need to catch a yellow Wonderful Chocobo of the opposite sex. Go to the Icicle Inn area and capture as many Chocobos as you can, as the Wonderful ones are quite rare. Once you have a Black and a Wonderful Chocobo feed them Sylkis Greens and raise them both to an A rank. Go back to the Chocobo Ranch and save your game. 4) Is this starting to look familiar? Go inside, talk to Chocobo Billy, chose to mate the Black Chocobo with the Wonderful Chocobo, but this time give them the Zeio Nut. They should produce a Gold Chocobo, and if all the parent Chocobos you've used so far have been fed with Sylkis Greens and raised to an A rank, it should have a speed of between 190 and 210 km/h, and should have over 1,500 stamina. I recommend now that you save your game again, just in case something happens. I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but you don't actually have to breed a Gold Chocobo. On Disc 3 you can defeat the Ruby WEAPON in the Gold Saucer Desert and receive the Desert Rose. You can then trade the Desert Rose with the traveller in Kalm for a Gold Chocobo. It doesn't have the amazing racing abilities of one that you bred yourself, but it can access all the secret areas listed below. f) Chocobo Secrets Once you have a Gold Chocobo you can ride it to many secret places and obtain some quite extraordinary Materia. Knights Of The Round: Found in a cavern on an uncharted island in the northeast corner of the map. This is the Ultimate Summon Materia, and can quite easily take off almost 130,000 HP from an enemy. It costs a hefty 250 MP to cast though. Mime: Found in a cavern on one of the peninsulas on the Wutai continent. This Command Materia allows you to mimic the action that was performed immediately before, and this includes Limit Breaks! Quadra Magic: Found in a cavern on one of the peninsulas on the Mideel continent. This Support Materia allows the paired Magic or Summon to be cast four times in a row, providing you have sufficient MP. HP <-> MP: Found in a cavern in a rock face near the entrance to the Corel Reactor. This Independent Materia switches the maximum HP and MP values. For example, 6,000 HP and 255 MP would go to 255 HP and 6,000 MP. Chocobo Racing at the Gold Saucer Some of the prizes at the Chocobo Square are very useful, especially some of the Materia. Once you reach A rank you can receive: Magic Counter: This Support Materia counters with the paired Materia if you suffer damage from a magic spell. Sneak Attack: This Support Materia automatically casts the paired Materia at the beginning of battle. Enemy Away: This Independent Materia reduces the number of random battles you encounter. Cat's Bell: This Accessory regenerates the wearer's HP as you walk. Choco Bracelet: This Armlet gives you four unlinked slots, and quite poor defences. Precious Watch: This Armlet gives you eight unlinked slots, but absolutely no defence at all. You will receive all of these items at once if you manage to win 10 races in S rank. This is much easier to do if you have a Gold Chocobo. g) Thanks, Credits, etc Firstly, I'd like to thank Square for making Final Fantasy VII. I want to thank Sony for making the PlayStation. I want to thank me for writing this guide, you for reading this guide, and I hope it has been of use to you. That's the end of this Chocobo guide, but if there are any questions /comments about this guide, Chocobos, or any other aspect of Final Fantasy VII then please email me at matt16471111@hotmail.com. Copyright Protected, 2003, by Matt Burns (matt16471111@hotmail.com) All rights reserved.