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Chocobos may consume loads of your time in ff7 but there worth it in the end because you can get the greatest summon in the whole game, Knights of the Round! You can also race these stupid birds and could end up with some handy items, GP or materia. The first time you ever come across Chocobos is when you need to cross the swamp with that evil snake in it, all you need to do is catch one and hears how:
All you need to catch a chocobo is chocobo lure which you buy from Choco Billy and you may need some greens for backup (you also buy these from Choco Billy). Once you've got these equip Chocobo lure and go out into the world map and find some Chocobo tracks, run up and down them until you battle with a chocobo and some enemies. If the enemies look tough then throw the chocobo a green. Kill the enemies without hurting the chocobo or things could get ugly (don't use "all" or summons) and.... bingo! you've got yourself a chocobo. You can now run around the world map with it at high speed or you can get off it and release it if you don't want it or send it to the stables (you have to buy them from Choco Bill after you've got the Highwind.
When you have bought some stables (10,000gil each) and you catch a chocobo you can send it to the stables, they will be sent to the pen outside the barn. You can have a maximum of 4 chocobos in the pen (if you catch any more the first one that you caught will be automatically released).
Go back to the barn and talk to Choco Billy, you can ask him to move one of your chocobo into the stables choco Billy will tell you what type of Chocobo they are and you will then get to name it.
When you've got the two chocobos you want to mate (male and female) talk to choco Billy and tell him to mate your two chocobos select the nut you want and make sure that you have a spare stable for the new born. It's is pretty much pointless mating chocobos unless your trying to get Knights of the Round (see Mountain&River chocobos)
Feeding you chocobos increases their speed, stamina and intelligence depending on what type of green you feed it. This only effects the chocobos when you race them in gold saucer. Talk to Choco Billy and buy some greens off him (the more expensive the green then the better it effects the chocobo... of course). talk to Billy again and tell him to feed you chocobos select the green and how many you want to give to the chocobo. The chocobo will make that annoying swarking sound and it will tell you how the green has effected the chocobo.
Here is a list of all the greens and what they do (if the greens do the same thing then the lower down in the list the better they are.
For those who have loads of gil then go and visit choco Siege in the north continent near that snowboarding village and buy some greens from him. Siege is a bit of a gimp who can't remember a thing and tells you some very useful information about chocobos, but only after you've done it! However he does sell you some good greens.
This is where chocobos start to get good and where they win you prizes. By now you should know how to race chocobos because you had to do it when you got out of the desert prison. To race them just go to chocobo square in gold saucer and talk to Easter (the freaky looking one in the pink, to the left of the screen). If you have at least one chocobo in your stables then you can register one to race. Your chocobo will start in class C with the other crap chocobos and if you win three races then you will move up to class B where you will move up to class A if you win 3 races in this class. If your chocobo is really good and you can win three races in A class then you will move up to class S. When you win a race you can either chose to get an item or GP, the higher the class that you are in then the better the item or more GP.
Tip/Cheat: hold L1+L2+R1+R2 this makes you stamina slowly rise
Tip/Cheat: hold L1+R1 for extra speed
This is where chocobos get very tedious and frustrating because you can get 5 main different types of chocobo and 7 other kinds. To get the chocobo that your after you have to find the right tracks on the world map, find a male and female of each and find the right nut from about 20. You also need to have at least one free stable for the new born. and to really piss you off sometimes even if you have the exact correct combination they won't even give birth to the chocobo that you want and you have to wait another hour or two for them to be able to mate again. But if you follow these guidelines then I reckon it will only be about another tree hours until you've got Knights of the Round and whippin some monsters ass. Before I go on all day lets get going.
Here's a list of all the locations of every chocobo track on the world and what type of chocobo you'll catch on them:
Mountain
and river chocoboMountain
River
To get one of these Chocobos you need to
find either two great chocobos or a great and good chocobo (see list above) of
opposite sex. You'll also need to find a carob nut which you can steal or get
from a red dragon when you have defeated it. You can find it on the grassy areas
of the north continent. Beware these dragons aren't as soft as they look, they
can take a fair beating before the decide to keel over and die, but the good
news is that their attacks are pretty crap and they're very slow. If your not
too sure on how to mate chocobos then see: mating
chocobos. You've probably already guessed that Mountain chocobos can run
over mountains and river chocobos can run over rivers (only the shallow bit.
Mountain-River
chocobo
Mountain-River
Yes you've guessed it, when you mate a mountain and river chocobo together you get a Mountain-River chocobo that can run over mountains and rivers! (uncanny name eh?). Well you get it from mating a mountain and a river chocobo when there both at A class with a carob nut.
Now for the final and ultimate in transport, the Golden chocobo (ocean chocobo). This beauty can go absolutely anywhere on the whole world map. To get this super chocobo you must mate a Mountain-River chocobo with a Wonderful chocobo (see chart above to find it) of the opposite sex. You also need to get these chocobos to, at least level A. Wonderful chocobos are very hard to get, you'll probably get 1 from 20 chocobo fights. You need to mate them with a zeio nut which you can steal from the goblins on goblin island, which is a long thin island to the far east of the map. so get mating and hope for the best. When you have a gold chocobo you can run over oceans which means you can now get knights of the round!, its a small island on the north east. You can't see it on the map so just wander around for a while. Now you've got the greatest materia ever you can take on Seperioth and defeat him in two moves.
Now that wasn't too hard was it!?
the Golden chocobo!
