Breeding
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Starting
This is a process that will take a lot of money, and a lot of time. Expect to spend at least 2-3 hours before attaining the Gold Chocobo. However, the time is well worth it, becuse when you recieve a Gold Chocobo, you can attain the most powerful Summon Materia in the game, Knights of the Round. So if you've got Plenty of Gil and have a few hours to spend, let the breeding begin. To be successful please read this entire document before starting. You should also be atleast on the second disk.
Buying Stalls
The first thing you need to purchase stalls (where else are you Chocobos going to stay?). Go to the Chocobo Farm (the one near Midar) and talk to the man inside the house on the left. When you are presented with options, the top option will be to purchase a stall for 10,000 Gil. You need to buy six of them, so keep doing it until he doesn't let you buy anymore.
Capturing Chocobos
There are several places in the world where you can catch chocobos (everywhere you see tracks on the ground). However, each set of tracks has a certain type of chocobo associated with it, so only three of the locations are of any use. The chocobo Types will be covered in a moment. At each of these locations, while you are carrying the Attract Chocobo Purple Materia, you will have a chance of encountering a Chocobo During a random overworld battle. If you do encounter them,kill all of the enemies (make sure you dont hit the chocobo!) and then the battle will end and you will be riding. press X to dismount, and then it will ask you what to do with the Chocobo:
Choice
Question: send this Chocobo back to the Farm
#1: Yes
#2: No
You may capture up to four Chocobo's at a time before you must go back to the farm
and either keep them or get rid of them.
Chocobo Types
When you are selecting Chocobos back at the farm, the way they look determines how healthy and active they are. There are several different types, but only three are usful:
* Useless: Standing Chocobos (Standing & Swaying), Bad Chocobos
(Walking with head down)
* Walking: Head up, walking
* Running: Head up, running
* Dashing: Head down, running extremely fast
If they are standing still or not moving, Simply get rid of them
Selecting Chocobos and Gender
When you get a Chocobo of the type you want, choose the first choice to keep him. After you do this, the boy will tell you what his gender is. (We're breeding them, so gender is *very* important). After you select them,he will tell about the Chocobo - in the second line of Japanese characters, the first character is how you determine the gender, If the character is curvey and has a line through it, it is a girl. If the character is all straight lines, its a boy. After chossing them, you get the opportunity to name them - I also usually put a number on the ned of their name denoting what Chocobo they are, because you will need to know the level during the breeding process - ie: "Crow2" = Running Chocobo. Sarah3 = Dashing Chocobo.
Chocobo Tracks
The locations in which to find the good types of Chocobos are:
* Shoutheast of the Golden Saucer: walking chocobos
* The Island of Mideel: Running Chocobos
* Northern Continent: Dashing Chocobos
Chocobo Sage
On the northern continent - the one shaped like a Cocobo, oddly enough (: - there is a man who is the Chocobo Sage. He can sell you the best feed for your Chocobos (feed is covered below). His house id near the center of the continent, and you can find it if you fly directly northwest from the Bone Village - it is a house in the snow with a patch of green around it (so you can land).
Riding Your Chocobo
The second from the last option in the boy's menu is "Ride Chocobo out of Barn". When you do this, you are free to roam the entire world. You can also board your airship as you normally would, and when you get off the airship the Chocobo will still be with you. If you dismount from a Chocobo while you are riding it, it will stay in that place until you go back to its stall.
Racing Your Chocobo
Just Go to the Gold Saucer and enter the Chocobo Area and talk to the girl in the corner and follow her directions. Keep feeding your chocobos nuts and eventually you will have them from a "C" to a "B" to an "A" and finally to an "S" rank.
