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The Final Fantasy Logo above was created by . Copyright Protected. All Rights Reserved. No part of the Logo can be modified, copied or reedited without the prior author's permission. _______________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================= FINAL FANTASY IX CHOCOBO HOT AND COLD GAME GUIDE ======================================================================= Final Fantasy IX Chocobo Hot And Cold Game Guide Version 9.5a For Sony PlayStation and PlayStation 2 Only By YEE SENG FU E-Mail : ysf@pacific.net.sg Date : 3th July 2001 ICQ : 25076522 HomePage: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/7933/ Country : Singapore Copyright Protected. 2000-2001. No part of the content is allowed to be reedited or published without the permission of the writer. It can only be used as a personal guide, but not for any commercial purposes. Anyone who has violated this agreement will be severely dealt with. 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This faqs | | |can ONLY be found in www.gamefaqs.com and NO OTHER PLACES. | | |Please do not e-mail me and ask for any permission to post | | |my faqs. I will NOT ENTERTAIN ANYMORE SUCH MAILS. However, | | |if you do spot this Final Fantasy IX Chocobo Hot and Cold | | |game guide faq in any other websites, please INFORM me | | |IMMEDIATELY so that I can DO something ABOUT IT!!! THANKS | | |for your COOPERATION!!! | |______|____________________________________________________________| Introduction ============ I know I am a 'talkactive' person, especially when it comes to talking about games. Well, since this is my first and most likely ONLY Final Fantasy IX faq, allow me to speak more and please endure my longwindedness. Thank you! Final Fantasy IX, the ninth installment, is SQUARESOFT's last Final Fantasy for the PlayStation. The Final Fantasy series once again unleashes an enthralling saga of epic proportions with Final Fantasy IX. It brings back the traditional RPG elements [like armours] and is directed more towards a magical tale and fantasy style unlike the previous two more serious type Final Fantasies. Graphically, Final Fantasy IX doesn't show a quantum leap over Final Fantasy VIII. It seems that the Final Fantasy series has reached its peak in terms of 32-bit graphics at VIII. Final Fantasy IX uses similar graphic engine, just like Final Fantasy VIII and demonstrates the PlayStation technology to the fullest. The only noticeable difference is the inproportionate character design style by Yoshitaka Amano. 'Old' diehard FFs fans will definitely welcome Yoshitaka Amano's artworks. Nevertheless, Final Fantasy IX manages to maintain the standard set by Final Fantasy VIII graphically. Well, we can't complain too much since the PlayStation is getting 'old'. Final Fantasy IX lacks the innovations when you talk about combat, when being compared to the last few Final Fantasies, particularly VI to VIII. Analyse the combat system carefully and you will find that a lot of concepts are recycled and modified ideas in Final Fantasy IX. Well, this isn't really bad since I find that the concept behind the combat system like Trance, learning abilities etc, are very easy to grasp. Despite all these, Final Fantasy IX is definitely a great RPG for everyone. One particular sidequest captures my attention fully. As you can guess, it's the chocobo digging game. The chocobo digging game, known as the 'Chocobo Hot and Cold' game, [Why is it 'Hot' and Cold'? There must be a reason!!!] is a complex and enjoyable game to play. In Final Fantasy VII, we spent time breeding gold chocobo, just to get Knight of the Rounds Materia. I complain that we should be given more treasures to find that requires chocobo. Square has granted my wish. With all these said, I shall proceed on to the faq. I hope that you will enjoy reading this faq and with this faq, you will have a more rewarding treasure hunting game experience with Choco. Feel free to give any comments. Update ====== Version 1.0 [29th November 2000] - Introduction section is done. - Content page is done. - 'What's Chocobo's Hot and Cold?' section is finished. - 'What's Chocographs?' section finished. - 'What's Chocograph Pieces?' section is nearly half done. - 'Chocobo-Related Locations' section is finished. - 'Chocobo's Abilities' section is almost done. - 'Dead Pepper Treasure Locations' section is half done. Now, left with the list of the treasure locations not covered yet. - 'Chocobo's Revitalising Ability' is almost done. - Created a frequently-asked-questions section but, currently, no question is posted yet. - 'Copyright Protected' section is finished. - Based on the US version. Version 2.0 [1st December 2000] - Added 'Treasure Hunting Ranking' section. - Added a section, 'Effect of Dead Pepper' in the 'Dead Pepper Treasure Locations' section. - Added the Dead Pepper Treasure Location List. - Based on the US version. Version 3.0 [3rd December 2000] - Added a diagram of the chocobo menu in the 'What's Chocograph?' section. - 'What's Chocograph Pieces' section is finished. This includes a detailed description of the five possible locations of the Chocobo's Air Garden. - 'Chocograph list' is finished. - Added a section, 'Strategy Guide' in the 'Treasure Hunting Ranking' section. - Change 'UNDER CONSTRUCTION' to 'COMING SOON'!!! It looks nicer this way. At least, that's what I feel. - Based on the US version. Version 4.0 [4th December 2000] - Added a new section 'Evolving Chocobo'. It is a quick summary for the steps needed to evolve your chocobo to gold. - Corrected an error. So, you need not complete the four shrines to reach Chocobo's Air Garden. Four people have e-mailed me and told me that this isn't true. So, I guess Shaun Minor was wrong. - Have done something to the 'Credit' section. At last, contributors get some recognition already. - Based on the US version. Version 5.0 [5th December 2000] - Corrected some error and added more details in the 'Chocograph List' section. - Added some more details in the 'Dead Pepper Treasure Location' section. - Found a reason why some people can't get the last two Chocograph pieces. See 'What's Chocograph Piece?' section for details. - Added a section called 'Item List'. It is the list of items which you can use the points you earned from Chocobo's Hot and Cold game to exchange for the items. - Added a section called 'Kalisto'. This is not related to any gameplay but I thought I let you know. - Added the song lyrics for Melodies Of Life. Nobuo fans will definitely love it. - Based on the US version. Version 6.0 [7th December 2000] - Corrected some minor errors and spelling mistakes. - Added in a new section called 'Chocobo Navigation'. - Added in a new section called 'Revival Of Mognet Central'. - Added in a new section called 'Feed The Moogle Family'. - Added in some new information in the 'Treasure Hunting Ranking' section. - Added in some new information about Kalisto. - Based on the US version. Version 7.0 [9th December 2000] - Corrected some minor errors and spelling mistakes. - Redo Song Lyrics- Melodies Of Life. Kaze Yagami translates the Japanese song lyrics. - 'Chocobo Hot and cold Game' section is covered. - Added some information about Chocobo's Revitalising Ability. - Added some questions in the 'Frequently-Asked-Questions' section. - Based on the US version. Version 8.0 [19th December 2000] - Corrected some minor mistakes and spelling mistakes. - Added my own Final Fantasy IX ASCII Logo. - Split a portion of 'Treasure Hunting Ranking' section and introduces a new section called 'Collector's Rank'. - Updated the 'Frequently-Asked-Questions' section. - Based on the US version. Version 9.0 [27th May 2001] - Corrected some minor mistakes and spelling mistakes. - Added some information on why the Chocobo mini-game is known as 'Hot' and 'Cold' game. Check out the section called 'What's Chocobo Hot and Cold game?' - Added bonus points in the 'Chocobo Hot and Cold Game' section. - Added some more details in the 'Dead Pepper Treasure Location' section. - Added detailed information about Chocobo's Revitalising Ability. - Added in a new section called 'Southern Tropical Outfits'. Ever wonder what's the use of Straw Hat, Pearl Armlet, Aloha T-shirt and Sandals? This section tells you everything. - Changed the name 'Treasure Hunting Ranking' section into the name 'Ranking In Daguerreo'. - Check out kalisto section for the URL to Kalisto homepage. - 'Square's Favourite Numbers' section is done. Remember to check out this interesting section. - Updated the 'Frequently-Asked-Questions' section. Check out Q22 for the mystery fountain in Lindblum Castle that quite a number of readers have been asking me about. - Based on the US version. Version 9.5a [3th July 2001] - Corrected some minor errors and spelling mistakes. - Added a list of items that can be found by digging in the 'Item List' section. - Added some details in the Collector's Rank section. - Added some details in the 'Square Favourite Numbers' section. - Updated the 'Frequently-Asked-Questions' section. The mystery to the fountain in Lindblum Castle has also been solved. Also, do check out Q11. There's something worth reading in this question. - Based on the US version. ____________ /Next update \ /______________\____________________________________________________ |Finally, after days of hard work, all the sections are completed!!! | |Don't worry! I won't add anymore new stuffs to this faqs, other | |than updating the existing information found in this faqs. I hope | |that this will be a comprehensive faq that can answer almost all | |of your questions regarding Chocobo. I hope that with this faq, you | |will have a more rewarding gameplay experience with Choco. Have a | |happy treasure hunting or treasure digging game!!! If there's any | |error or any suggestion you want to make, feel free to e-mail me at | |. Thanks for reading this faq and all the | |support you have given to me. One more thing. Be sure to check out | |the 'Frequently-Asked-Questions' section if you have any question | |to ask me. Due to busy school life and also the fact that the | |'Frequently-Asked-Questions' section is now ready, I will start to | |IGNORE mails if I find that the question you want to ask can be | |found there. I hope you can understand my difficulties for not | |being able to reply every single question I get. | |____________________________________________________________________| ____________ /NOTE \ /______________\____________________________________________________ |My Final Fantasy IX faqs, both my Secrets and Side Quest guide and | |Chocobo Hot and Cold guide will soon come to an end after about one | |or two more updates before I submit the 'final' version. Once the | |'final' version is submitted, I don't plan to update anymore. So, | |if you have any contributions or suggestions that you want to give | |me, please give me as soon as possible. Anyhow, a thanks to every- | |one, especially all the contributors who have made this guide to be | |what it is now. | |____________________________________________________________________| Content ============ i)Chocobo Navigation ii)What's Chocobo Hot and Cold Game? iii)What's Chocographs? iv)What's Chocograph Pieces? v)Chocobo-Related Locations -Chocobo's Forest -Chocobo's Lagoon -Chocobo's Air Garden -Chocobo's Paradise vi)Chocobo Hot and Cold Game -Tips & Points vii)Item List viii)Chocograph List ix)Chocobo's Abilitie -Chocobo's Dream World -Light Blue Chocobo -Red Chocobo -Dark Blue Chocobo -Gold Chocobo x)Evolving Chocobo xi)Dead Pepper Treasure Locations xii)Chocobo's Revitalising Ability xiii)Revival Of Mognet Central xiv)Feed The Moogle Family xv)Southern Tropical Outfits xvi)Ranking In Daguerreo xvii)Collector's Rank xviii)Kalisto xix)Square's Favourite Numbers xx)Song Lyrics: Melodies Of Life -English -Japanese -Translation xxi)Frequently-Asked-Questions xxii)Credits xxiii)Copyright Protected ======================================================================= I)Chocobo Navigation ======================================================================= Here's the control for controlling chocobo. Land Chocobo Navigation ----------------------- ________________________________________________ |Button(s) |Function(s) | |____________|___________________________________| |D-pad |Move Choco around. | |____________|___________________________________| |X |Enter Chocobo's Forest, Chocobo's | | |Lagoon, Chocobo's Paradise etc. | | |___________________________________| | |Fly [Only in normal forest!!!] | | |[Have gold Choco!!!] | |____________|___________________________________| |Triangle |Open menu. | Be aware that you |____________|___________________________________| cannot dismount |Square |Look for treasures. | when you are riding |____________|___________________________________| your Choco in |Circle |Dismount. | shallow waters or |____________|___________________________________| the ocean!!! |Select |Switch navigation map. | |____________|___________________________________| |Start |Pause the game. | |____________|___________________________________| |L1, R1 |Cameral control. | |____________|___________________________________| |L2 |Align camera. | |____________|___________________________________| |R2 |Switch perspective. | |____________|___________________________________| Table 1 Air Chocobo Navigation ---------------------- ________________________________________________ |Button(s) |Function(s) | |____________|___________________________________| |Up, Down |Adjust the altitude. | |____________|___________________________________| |Left, Right |Turn chocobo left or right, with- | | |out changing camera view. | |____________|___________________________________| |X |Forward. | |____________|___________________________________| |Triangle |Open menu. | |____________|___________________________________| |Square |Reverse. | Just like Final |____________|___________________________________| Fantasy V's flying |Circle |Land. [Only in normal forest!!!] | black chocobo, |____________|___________________________________| your chocobo can |Select |Switch navigation map. | only land or fly |____________|___________________________________| in a normal forest. |Start |Pause the game. | |____________|___________________________________| |L1, R1 |Camera control. | |____________|___________________________________| |L2 |Align camera. | |____________|___________________________________| Table 2 In case, you forget about the controls for the airship, autopilot or chocobo etc, press the SELECT button until the navigation map that covers the entire screen pops up. Then, press the TRIANGLE button and you will see something like this: __________________________ __________________________ |Select navigation method: | Click |Select navigation method: | | Normal Navigation | on |> Land Chocobo Navigation | | > Chocobo Navigation |----------> | Air Chocobo Navigation | | Airship Navigation | Chocobo's | Cancel | | Autopilot Navigation | Navigation |__________________________| | Cancel | |__________________________| While viewing the controls [after selecting your navigation method], press the X button to cancel viewing. At 'Select navigation method' menu, press the Circle button and the cursor will point at the 'Cancel' option. ======================================================================= II)What's Chocobo Hot and Cold Game? ======================================================================= In disc one, when you first set out from Lindblum's Dragon Gate, you can head east over land. You should see a 'round-shaped' forest. Yes, it is the Chocobo's Forest and where your first Chocobo's Hot and Cold game will begin. You meet Mene, a moogle. Mene will give you a Gysahl Green and tell you that this is the favourite food for chocobo. You need the Gysahl Green to summon a chocobo. Now, exit the forest and get ready to call your first chocobo. Steps ----- Here's the steps you need to know to call Choco: 1)Notice that there are tracks just outside the Chocobo's Forest. 2)Go to the tracks and go to the menu. Use a Gysahl Green. You will notice that a KWEH sound is heard. 3)Chocobo appears in the world map. 4)Ride the chocobo by pressing the X button. 5)Enter the Chocobo's Forest. The chocobo's default name is Choco. Mene said that a chocobo will never leave his master if he is being taken care of. Talk to Mene, the Moogle and ask him for the secret. Mene will tell you that chocobo is born with a special ability that allows it to detect treasures and dig treasures that are buried deep in the ground. Mene said that he can't ride the chocobo himself. By giving 60 gil to Mene, Mene will give you one minute [60 secs] to let you use Choco to dig up the treasures here in the Chocobo's Forest. Any treasure you find, will be BELONGED to YOU. You earn points for finding treasures. The better the treasures, the more points you will earn. You can accumulate your points and exchange points for some good items. After you have paid 60 gil to Mene to play the Chocobo's Hot and Cold Game, you will see a list of instructions of how you should play the game. To dig for treasures, press the Square button and you should see noises like: ________________________________________________________________ |Noise |What It Really Means |Advice | |____________|_______________________|___________________________| |Kweh |There's no treasure |Search other areas. Don't | | |nearby. |waste time in this area. | |____________|_______________________|___________________________| |Kweh!? |You are getting closer |Search within this area | | |to the treasure. |and hopefully, you can get | | | |a Kwehhh!? noise soon. | |____________|_______________________|___________________________| |Kwehhh!? |You are very close to |Narrow your search within | | |the treasure. |this area. Walk about 1~2 | | | |steps each time and then | | | |dig for treasure until you | | | |find it. | |____________|_______________________|___________________________| |K-KWEHHH!!! |You have found the |Not much advice to give, | | |treasure. |other than asking you to | | | |keep digging. | |____________|_______________________|___________________________| Table 3 When you get a "K-KWEHHH!!!" [All in caps] sound, it means you have struck the spot where item is buried. A depth level meter will appear, indicating how deep the treasure is being buried underground. The deeper the item is buried, there is a tendency that it will be a better item, but of course, more time is needed to dig out the buried treasure. For example, the initial depth meter is 70. Keep pressing the Square button and you will notice that the depth meter starts to decrease at a certain rate. When it reaches ZERO, you will receive the buried item. How fast the depth meter decreases will depend on Choco's beak level. The higher the beak level, the faster the depth meter decreases. As Choco keeps digging and gains points, Choco's beak level will increase. By now, these are the points that you should take note of: --------------------------------------------------------- 1)If you need more Gysahl Greens, you can purchase it from Mene for 80 gil each. You can also find Gysahl Greens sometimes when you are playing the Chocobo's Hot and Cold game. 2)You can call Choco on the world map, provided that you are STANDING on chocobo tracks by using the Gysahl Green. What makes it difference from Final Fantasy VII is that you do not need to enter a battle and defeat all the enemies to get a chocobo. 3)To ride Choco, press X button and to dismount, press the Circle button. What makes it difference from Final Fantasy VII is that Choco will never run away even if you get off Choco. 4)Choco will always stay in a FIXED location where you last leave him unless you use a Gysahl Green to call him from another location which has chocobo tracks. For example, you leave Choco just outside Alexandria. Then, you go to the tracks near Chocobo's Forest and use a Gysahl Green. You will notice that Choco will not be outside Alexandria anymore. Instead, Choco will be outside the Chocobo's Forest. 5)You can talk to Mene to see how many points you have accumulated. You can exchange points for items. Examples of great items that you can get by exchanging a certain points are Robe of Lords and Protect Ring. 6)The deeper the item is buried, there is a tendency that it will be a better item, but of course, more time is needed to dig out the buried treasure. 7)Choco's beak level increases as Choco keeps digging and gains points. Digging becomes easier if Choco's beak level is high. Certain treasures appear at certain beak level. 8)The noises, as listed in table 1, also applies when you ride Choco in the world map to dig for treasures, when a Chocograph is being equipped. [Please refer to 'What's Chocograph?' section for more details.] 9)At each time, there will only be ONE treasure. Once you have found it, another treasure will be SET IN PLACE. The MAXIMUM number of treasures you can find per game is EIGHT. [The ONLY EXCEPTION is digging in Chocobo's Lagoon before getting the Ocean Ability. In this case, the MAXIMUM number of treasures you can find per game is FOUR.] Why 'Hot' and 'Cold' game?: ========================== The information below are contributed by and . There is an old and popular game in the US and maybe in other parts of the world. The idea of the game is that someone hides an item and the other player attempts to find it. If the player gets closer to the item, the player who hides the item will say this to the player, "You are getting hotter." If the player gets further away from the item, the player who hides the item will say, "You are getting colder." And, if the player is very close to the item, the hider will then say, "You are very hot!". Similarly, the chocobo reacts in the same manner by making noises like Kweh, Kweh!? etc. ======================================================================= III)What's Chocographs? ======================================================================= There are special items buried deep beneath the ground that provides clues as to the whereabouts of buried treasure that Choco can dig up on the World Map, known as the Chocographs. Think of Chocographs as a treasure map and you are riding on Choco for a treasure hunting. Once you have found a Chocograph, go to the World Map and ride on Choco. Press the triangle button and then equip the Chocograph. Thus, your treasure hunting with Choco begins now. Note that if you have some Dead Pepper in your inventory, it becomes like this: _________________________________________ |> Open Chocograph menu | yeah, I have 12 | Feed him a Dead Pepper (Remaining:12) |<---Dead Pepper in my | Cancel | inventory. |_________________________________________| These are the points that you should take note of: ------------------------------------------------- 1)There are a total of 24 Chocographs scattered all over these three places. The three places are Chocobo's Forest, Chocobo's Lagoon and Chocobo's Air Garden. 13 Chocographs can be found in Chocobo's Forest, 7 in Chocobo's Lagoon and 3 in Chocobo's Air Garden. That adds up to 23 chocographs and one left. Chocograph #20 can be found in either Chocobo's Forest or Chocobo's Lagoon, provided that you have found all the six Chocograph Pieces. 2)Keep digging for Chocographs in a particular place until Choco senses that there is no more Chocographs buried here. Then, move on to other places to dig. Eg. After digging up all the Chocographs in Chocobo's Forest, you might consider visiting Chocobo's Lagoon to find the remaining Chocographs. 3)When playing the Chocobo's Hot and Cold game, it is not always so lucky that you will find a Chocograph. In this case, play the game several times until you find it. You might want to take note that chances of the buried treasure is Chocograph is higher if the treasure is buried deeper. 3)It is VERY IMPORTANT that you equip the Chocograph when finding the buried treasure in the World Map. Choco will not DIG in the world map if a Chocograph is not being equipped or the treasure has been found. 4)There are four Chocographs that lead to four special locations. Upon finding these four locations, Choco will fall asleep and be teleported to the Chocobo's Dream World. At Chocobo's Dream World, Fat Chocobo, the god of all Chocobos will bestow a special ability to Choco such as the REEF ability, Mt ability, SEA ability and SKY ability. [Please refer to 'Chocobo's Abilities' section for details.] 5)You NEED NOT find any TREASURE in ANY PARTICULAR ORDER. Certain treasures require certain abilities which you might have not learnt yet. It is advisable that you obtain these treasures later in the game when Choco has gained new abilities. 6)When looking at the Chocograph menu, there will be a treasure chest symbol next to each Chocograph. The closed treasure chest indicates that the treasure has not been found yet while the opened treasure chest indicates that the treasure has been found. __________________________________________________________________ |TIPS1 |It is best to concentrate on getting all the Chocographs | | |first, then the treasures after that. Evolve your chocobo | | |immediately when possible. When you have a gold Chocobo, | | |it makes finding treasures easier. In this way, it saves | | |time since reaching these locations are now much easier. | |______|___________________________________________________________| ======================================================================= IV)What's Chocograph Pieces? ======================================================================= While playing the Chocobo's Hot and Cold game in the Chocobo's Forest or Chocobo's Lagoon, you might dig up a treasure called Chocograph Pieces. There are a total of six Chocograph Pieces and each Chocograph Piece provides the whereabouts or information regarding Chocobo's Air Garden. It also tells you something that there is a secret in the Chocobo's Air Garden. [Did anyone mention Ozma?] You can also read the information regarding Chocograph Piece by going to the KEY ITEM in the menu. Note that you need all these six Chocograph Pieces to gain access to Chocobo's Air Garden. Do You Know???: -------------- The six Chocograph Pieces will form the Chocograph #20 that will lead you to the Sky Ability. If you press the Select button and check out the Chocograph Pieces in the key item menu, you will notice that these Chocograph Pieces are fragments of a Chocograph. ___________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to Kaze Yagami for telling | | |me that the six Chocograph Pieces will form Chocograph #20. | |______|____________________________________________________________| Here's the information extracted from each Chocograph piece. 1)"There... danger in the sky. If you dar... to face it, use this rec... to find your way." =Cid|= 2)"Tho... who do not fear death, find one... the islands in salvage... See what lies there." =Cid|= 3)"Courageous one, head southea... on the outer... to reach Kuentis Peninsular. See what lies there." =Cid|= 4)"Noble one, head northea... the Mist Continent... reach Alexandria Plains. See what lies there." =Cid|= 5)"Dreamer... Head to the ocean in the center... all continents. See what awaits you." =Cid|= 6)"Cautious one... head to the east of aways Canyon on the forgotten Continent... See what lies there." =Cid|= Okay, with the information above, can you figure out where's Chocobo's Sky Garden. Before I reveal the possible location(s), here are some points that you should take note: 1)As the name implies, Chocobo's Sky Garden is a floating island. That means that its location is not fixed. However, it will only be in either ONE of these FIVE locations. I am not sure what's the probability of Chocobo's Air Garden will be in these five locations. I suppose it is RANDOM. 2)If you look at the spot where Chocobo's Air Garden is, you will always see a small, black and round shadow. This shadow is being casted by the floating island itself. Simply position your gold chocobo hovering above the shadow and use the Dead Pepper. You will immediately be transported to Chocobo's Air Garden. 3)It is quite tricky to find Chocobo's Air Garden. It took me at least an hour to find. But, the thing is once you have found the place, Mene will add a dot to your World Map. This makes finding Chocobo's Air Garden easier. However, the location is still not FIXED. ___________________________________________________________________ |NOTE1 |Shaun Minor said that Chocobo's Air Garden will not appear | | |until you have completed the four shrines. However, four | | |people have e-mailed me and told me that this wasn't true. | | |One of them is Kaze Yagami. Matt Cook, Brett & Stacy and | | |Brian Carper also confirmed this by saying that they found | | |the Chocobo's Air Garden before completing the four shrines.| |______|____________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to Shaun Minor for telling me | | |that you can't gain access to Chocobo's Air Garden before | | |completing the four shrines even though it is wrong. | |______|____________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________ |Credit |Kaze Yagami | |________________________|Matt Cook | |Special thanks to these |Brett & Stacy | |four people as listed |Brian Carper | |to the right for tell- |__________________________________________| |ing me that you do not need to complete the four shrines to get a | |gold chocobo and to get into Chocobo's Air Garden. | |___________________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________ |NOTE2 |According to Timothy Leary, he said that you need to get an | | |airship [Hilda Garde 3 or later, Invincible] before you can | | |get the gold chocobo. He said that as soon as he got the | | |Hilda Garde 3, he headed to Chocobo's Lagoon and the final | | |two Chocograph Pieces immediately become available. The | | |reason is Square doesn't want you to have the gold chocobo | | |before getting the airship, if not, you will be able to go | | |to Forgotten Continent before the game actually wants you | | |to go. This reason sounds VERY LOGICAL. I actually over- | | |looked this point. But then, a few people have pointed out | | |to me that they have gotten their gold chocobo before they | | |have obtained their airship, thus proving this hypothesis | | |wrong. | |______|____________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to Timothy Leary for | | |telling me that you need the airship, Hilda Garde 3 before | | |you can get a gold chocobo. | |______|____________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________ |TIPS2 |When searching for Chocobo's Air Garden for the first time, | | |you need not waste time and search all the five possible | | |locations. Just concentrate on one location or perhaps two | | |that you are familiar. The northeast of the Mist Continent | | |and the ocean in the centre are two easiest locations to | | |find. Go there and if you don't see the shadow, RESET the | | |game and start all over until you see the shadow. | |______|____________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________ |TIPS3 |Once you have found the Chocobo's Air Garden, you may be | | |curious of where the other possible locations of Chocobo's | | |Air Garden will be. Very simple! Reset your game and look | | |for the dot which says 'Chocobo's Air Garden in the world | | |map. Another way is to enter and then leave a place in the | | |World Map. You notice that the location changes randomly | | |everytime when you reset your game or enter and leave a | | |place. Still, there remains a chance that the location will | | |remain the same after resetting your game or entering and | | |leaving a place. | |______|____________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to skip for telling me | | |that the location of Chocobo's Air Garden changes when you | | |enter and leave a place in the World Map. | |______|____________________________________________________________| Below is a spoiler!!! Try and decipher the Chocograph Pieces yourself. DO NOT LOOK at it unless you have PROBLEMS finding the Chocobo's Air Garden. Here's the interpretations of the six Chocograph Pieces. 1)Tells you that there is a 'danger' somewhere in the sky. What is it? I won't tell you. That 'somewhere' is the Chocobo's Air Garden. That 'danger' is a boss that starts with the letter 'O'. 2)This place is hard to find without giving any clue. Island in Salvage... It didn't tell much. It is in Salvage Archipelago. It's in a small isolated island in between Daguerreo and Chocobo's Lagoon. There's no beach in the island but there's only one small patch of forest. 3)In Kuentis Peninsula, southeast of Outer Continent. Head southeast from where the Earth Shrine is and you will pass by two forests. Continue on and reach the end. 4)In the northeast of the Mist Continent. On a mountainous region very NEAR to Alexandria Harbor. 5)Ocean in the centre of the world map. 6)It's in the EAST of Seaways Canyon in the Forgotten Continent. This place is hard to describe. From where the Water Shrine is, head directly east until you reach the end of the eastern side of the Forgotten Continent. ======================================================================= V)Chocobo-Related Locations ======================================================================= Here's the whereabouts: ___________________________________________________________________ | Name of Place | Location | Requirement(s) | |_______________|___________________________|_______________________| |Chocobo's |To the East of the Qu's | | |Forest |Marsh, passing a bridge in | -------- | | |the Mist Continent. | | |_______________|___________________________|_______________________| |Chocobo's |Southwestern part of the | | |Lagoon |map on an Island. It is in | REEF ABILITY | | |the Salvage Archipelago. | [Or More] | | |It is near to Daguerreo. | | |_______________|___________________________|_______________________| |Chocobo's Sky |Five possible locations. | SKY ABILITY | |Garden |[See 'What's Chocograph | SIX CHOCOGRAPH PIECES | | |Pieces?' section for | DEAD PEPPER | | |details.] | | |_______________|___________________________|_______________________| |Chocobo's |At the corner of the world | | |Paradise |map. The location is not | SKY ABILITY | | |visible in the world map. | DEAD PEPPER | |_______________|___________________________|_______________________| Table 4 Additional Points To Take Note: ------------------------------ 1)Chocobo's Lagoon is inside a cave on Palmnell island. To get to it, you need an airship [or ship] and Choco with a REEF ability [Sea Ability or Sky Ability is preferred.] Pilot your airship, Hilda Garde 3 or Invincible or ship [Blue Narciss] to the island north of Chocobo's Lagoon. You should see chocobo tracks on the island. Call a chocobo from there. If Choco has only the REEF ability, you have to ride Choco along the shallow waters to the cave entrance. Take a long and roundabout route towards the Forgotten Continent and then from there, turn south. You should see a '?' sign when you ride Choco on your first visit as you approach the cave. 2)To get to Chocobo's Paradise, just go to the CORNER of the world. But, if you CHECK out any Final Fantasy IX world map pictures, they will put Chocobo's Paradise in the TOP-LEFT corner of the world. The world is ROUND. You know this, RIGHT? On the island where Chocobo's Paradise is, you should see a crack on a mountain. Use a Dead Pepper after you have positioned Choco facing the crack. This will break the crack to reveal a cave. 3)There is also a Chocobo's Dream World which I did not mention in this section. [Please refer to 'Chocobo's Abilities' section for details.] ======================================================================= VI)Chocobo Hot and Cold Game ======================================================================= Finally, I have covered something to this section. More information will be added to this section in future. General Tips: ------------ 1)Be patient!!! If you can't find what you want, keep trying. 2)Practise!!! As a saying goes, practise makes perfect!!! 3)You will be in an advantage if you have an analog controller. Use the left stick to run. 4)If you keep getting 'Kweh', walk in straight lines and peck the floor after walking about one and a half to two lengths of the chocobo's body. 5)If you keep getting 'Kweh!?', just like point 4) but peck each time after walking about half to a length of the chocobo's body. 6)If you keep getting 'Kwehhh!?', take small steps and keep pecking in this area. If you can't find the treasure, try changing the angle which you peck. 7)After finding the treasure, the location of the treasure is being resetted. Search other areas and forget about the current area. Chocobo's Forest: ---------------- 1)After getting the Mt ability, you can climb onto the two rocky ledges to search for treasures. Walk near the ledges and a '!' will appear. 2)From my own experience, possibility of the treasure being on one of the ledges is very low. Always check the ground first before you consider searching the ledges. However, if you do suspect the treasure is on the ledge, quickly head onto the ledge and have a ONE quick peck. If it shows a 'Kweh', that means the treasure is not on the ledge. Then, quickly jump down the ledge and search other places. If it's a 'Kweh!?' or a 'Kwehhh!?', I suppose you know what to do. Search the ledge. Chocobo's Lagoon: ---------------- 1)Chocobo's Lagoon is a very good place to let Choco earn his beak level because the area is quite small compared to Chocobo's Forest and Chocobo's Air Garden, especially before letting the Choco gain the Ocean ability. You might want to spend some time to let Choco increase his beak level before letting Choco gain the Ocean ability. 2) __________________________________________ | |Before Getting |After Getting | Table 5 to the left |_________|________________|_______________| shows the difference |Time |30 seconds. |1 minute. | in the game before |_________|________________|_______________| and after getting the |Cost |30 gils. |60 gils. | Ocean Ability. |_________|________________|_______________| |Deeper |Cannot access. |Can access. | |Water | | | |_________|________________|_______________| |Maximum |4 treasures. |8 treasures. | |Treasure | | | |_________|________________|_______________| Table 5 Chocobo's Air Garden: -------------------- 1)There are two platforms where you can search your treasures. Make use of the ramps to move between two platforms. 2)No treasure is ON the CLOUDS. Obviously, right? 3)From my own experience, majority of the treasures come from the larger platform, that is where Mene is standing. Item Points: ----------- I do not have the list that shows how many points you will get for each different item dug in each place. When I was playing the Chocobo's Hot and Cold game, I forgot to record down the points. Sorry about this!!! But, you should take note of these things: 1)For the same item, the points you get is doubled in Chocobo's Lagoon, tripled in Chocobo's Air Garden when compared to Chocobo's Forest. Eg. You get one point for finding a potion in Chocobo's Forest, two points for finding a potion in Chocobo's Lagoon and three points for finding a potion in Chocobo's Air Garden. Bonus Points: ------------ Bonus points are essential if you want to receive a high point for each Chocobo Hot and Cold game. Here's the various methods to get the different bonus points: 1)Once you dig four items in a game, you will be given extra 10 seconds more to dig. Furthermore, all the items you get will now be doubled. 2)The 'five second bonus points' applies if you can dig up the next item within five seconds. For example, after finding a treasure, you must find the next treasure within the next five seconds. The 'five second bonus points' actually vary from location to location. You get five bonus points in Chocobo's Forest, ten points in Chocobo's Lagoon and fifteen points in Chocobo's Air Garden if you meet the 'five second bonus points' requirement. 3)If you successfully dig all the treasures, you will receive marvellous bonus points. How much you will get will depend on the TIME LEFT and where YOU DIG your treasures. [Obviously, digging in Chocobo's Air Garden gives you the most bonus points and if there is more time left, you receive more bonus points.] 4)The maximum number of treasures you can dig per game is EIGHT. The ONLY exception is in Chocobo's Lagoon before you get the Ocean Ability. In this case, the maximum number of treasures you can dig per game is FOUR. As mentioned in point no. 3, if you manage to dig up all the items, you will receive a lot of bonus points. Here's how you determine the bonus points: ___________________________________________________________________ | Location | Limit Bonus | Subsequent Second Bonus | |____________________|___________________|__________________________| | Chocobo's Forest | 80 Points. | + 16 Points. | |____________________|___________________|__________________________| | Chocobo's Lagoon | 40 Points. | + 08 Points. | |____________________|___________________|__________________________| | Chocobo's Air | 250 Points. | + 50 Points. | | Garden | | | |____________________|___________________|__________________________| Things To Take Note: ------------------- 1)Limit Bonus is the amount of bonus points you will get if you find all the treasures between 00 to 01 second left as shown in the clock. 2)For every subsequent second, from 2 seconds onwards, subsequent second bonus will be added. 3)This excludes all the other bonuses like the 'five second bonus points'. I'll give you two examples to illustrate. Assuming you are playing the game at the Chocobo's Air Garden. Case 1: ------ If 00 sec or 01 sec is left when you dig up all the items, you will receive 250 bonus points. Case 2: ------ If 02 sec is left, you will receive 250 points + 50 points = 300 points. / \ [Time Limit Bonus] [Subsequent Second Bonus] Case 03: ------- If 09 sec is left, you will receive 250 points + 8 x 50 points = 650 points. / \ [Time Limit Bonus] [Subsequent Second Bonus] Conclusion: ---------- The formula to calculate the bonus points is: Time Limit Bonus + Subsequent Time x Subsequent Second Bonus = Total \ Bonus [From 1 second onwards] I hope from the three cases above, you will have a better idea of how the bonus points are obtained. ___________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to Scott Hebert for telling | | |me how the bonus points are calculated in the Chocobo Hot | | |and Cold game. | |______|____________________________________________________________| ======================================================================= VII)Item List ======================================================================= While playing the Chocobo's Hot and Cold game, you gain certain points for finding treasures. The points you gained during each game can be accumulated and you can use your hard-earned points to exchange for items. Simply talk to Mene to see your current points and you should also see an option to ask you whether you want to use your points to exchange for items. ___________________________________________________________________ |Item(s) |Point(s) |Additional Note | |__________________|__________|_____________________________________| |Robe of Lords |10,000 |The greatest robe. Elem-Def: Wind | | | |damage reduced by 100%. | |__________________|__________|_____________________________________| |Protect Ring | 8,500 |Protects you from various attacks. | | | |Elem-Def: All elemental damage | | | |reduced by 50%. | |__________________|__________|_____________________________________| |Wing Edge | 3,500 |Throwing weapon more powerful than | | | |the Rising Sun. It is used with the | | | |command 'Throw' and cannot be equip- | | | |ped. | |__________________|__________|_____________________________________| |Viltgance Card | 1,800 |A card in column 9. | |__________________|__________|_____________________________________| |Ether | 450 |Restores 150 MP. Effect decreases | | | |in field. [100 MP when used in the | | | |field.] | |__________________|__________|_____________________________________| |Ore | 250 |Restores HP. Cannot be used in the | | | |field. It radiates a mysterious | | | |light. | |__________________|__________|_____________________________________| |Pheonix Down | 150 |Recovers a character from K.O. | | | |[Zero HP] | |__________________|__________|_____________________________________| |Gysahl Green | 10 |Cures berserk. Item has no effect if | | | |used in the field. Chocobo's favour- | | | |ite food. | |__________________|__________|_____________________________________| Table 6 While playing the Chocobo Hot and Cold game, you can find these items through digging. ___________________________________________________ |Items Found By Digging | |___________________________________________________| | 50 Gil | Elixir | Potion | | 200 Gil | Ether | Remedy | | 500 Gil | Extension | Rising Sun | | 5,000 Gil | Eye Drops | Soft | | Annoyntment | *Gysahl Greens | Tent | | Antidote | Hi-Potion | *Chocograph | | Cacusha | Ore | *Chocograph Piece | | Dead Pepper | Phoenix Down | | | Echo Screen | Phoenix Pinion | | |______________|________________|___________________| Table 7 Things To Take Note: ------------------- 1)For the same item you dig but in different locations, the points you get are different. Check out the 'Chocobo Hot and Cold Game' section for more details. 2)You can use Gysahl Greens to summon Choco from anywhere in the World Map. With Choco summoned, you can then have a ride with Choco. 3)There are 23 chocographs that you can dig. Check out the 'What's Chocograph?' section and 'Chocograph List' section for more details. 4)There are 6 Chocograph Pieces that you can dig. Check out the 'What's Chocograph Piece?' section for more details. ======================================================================= VIII)Chocograph List ======================================================================= Finally, the faq looks more like a Chocobo guide with the Chocograph list being added. I will only give you an approximate location and maybe, a few hints which I feel, is neccessary. This is because I strongly feel that the greatest joy in this mini-game is to search the treasures yourself. So, good luck! If you can't figure out where a particular treasure is and want a decent picture of the treasure location, visit this site as listed below: http://www.thegia.com/features/ff9guide-j/ff9cgraph.html I have also asked CjayC to post the English World Map that is sent to me by Ng Yeow Leong . [Yeah, it was I who sent that World Map to CjayC. Credit goes to Ng Yeow Leong or Andy Ng for sending the World Map to me.] It's 57 KB, I think and is in Jpeg format. Check out the in-depth faq which says World Map under the name 'Ng Yeow Leong'. The list took me a VERY LONG time to type. Please DO NOT use any portion of the list without my PERMISSION. [I almost fall asleep while typing out the list.] The Chocograph list is below: [In Order] ____________________________________________________________________ |1)Streamside | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Elixir(x2), Hi-Potion(x3), Ether(x4), Germinas | | |Boots(x2) | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |Go check where the river meets the ocean, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |You're hopeless if you can't find this, Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Cross the bridge near the Chocobo's Forest to | | |reach a bridge. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |2)Between Mountains | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability required |Field. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Potion(x5), Hi-Potion(x5), Tent(x2), Cotton | | |Robe(x2). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |Go look near the mountains facing the ocean on | | |the southwest side of the Mist Continent. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Try going somewhere you don't usually go, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Very near to the mountains in the Southwest of | | |the Mist Continent. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |3)Uncultivated Land | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Antidote(x10), Jade Armlet(x1), Wind Edge(x3), | | |Cargo Ship Card(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |The treasure is buried near a river, Kupo. I | | |don't think it'll be easy to find. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Maybe you should leave it alone for now, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |South of the Evil Forest, near the river. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |4)Healing Shore | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Evolve |Choco gains Reef Ability. [Light Blue] | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |I've seen a beach that looks like this near a | | |city with high winds, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Kupo! You already know how to call a chocobo, | | |right? | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Evidence |City with high winds => Cleyra | | |-Protected by whirling sandstorms. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Beach northwest of Cleyra. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |5)Abandoned Beach | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Phoenix Pinion(x9), Phoenix Down(x5), | | |Peridot(x12), Diamond Gloves(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |I think there's a beach near a huge dying forest. | | |That might be it, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |There are treasures on continents other than the | | |Mist Continent. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Evidence |Huge dying Forest => Large patch of forest around | | |Black Mage village => Outer Continent | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Beach around the Qu's Marsh in Outer Continent. | | |Walk a little bit south from Qu's Marsh to reach | | |the beach. Or northeast of Black Mage village. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |6)Cold Field | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Echo Screen(x5), Hi-Potion(x7), Tent(x3), Theater | | |Ship Card(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |Looks like a very cold place, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |There are other things you can ride besides Choco-| | |bo, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Evidence |Cold Place => Lost Continent [Icy Area] | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |At the beach in the southern part of the Lost | | |Continent, travel a little bit east. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |7)Forgotten Lagoon | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Lagoon. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Gysahl Greens(x8), Ether(x5), Hi-Potion(x7), | | |Dragon's Claws(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |Why not go play in icy-cold water? | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Some treasure is hidden in the shallows, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |In the shallow water near the island south of the | | |Lost Continent. Make use of the beach in the | | |southern part of the Lost Continent. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |8)Faraway Lagoon | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Potion(x37), Magic Tag(x6), Shield Armour(x1), | | |Gaia Gear(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |I heard there is a long stretch of reef... That | | |might be it, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |It feels really far away if your chocobo isn't | | |grown up, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |In the shallow water west of Forgotten Continent. | | |Somewhere in between the rocks as shown in the | | |Chocograph. There's a huge island northwest of | | |the southwest Qu's Marsh in the World Map or | | |directly west of Oeilvert. On that island, you | | |will see two beaches on each side. Use the beach | | |on the east side. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Credit |Thanks to Chris Lynn for | | |telling me first that this Chocograph above is | | |being dug in Chocobo's Forest and not Chocobo's | | |Lagoon. Sorry, it's my mistake. | | |__________________________________________________| | |Thanks to Kaze Yagami and | | |Oliver Surpless for con- | | |firming that this Chocograph is being dug in | | |Chocobo's Forest, not Chocobo's Lagoon. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |9)Abandoned Lagoon | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Soft(x6), Ether(x4), Feather Boots(x1), N-kai | | |Armlet(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Lagoon. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |I hear there's a sunken treasure near a peninsula | | |in the southern part of the Outer Continent, Kupo.| |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Start your search on a small beach, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Shallow water southwest of Black Mage village. | | |From beach south of Black Mage village, head west.| |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |10)Bird's Eye Lagoon | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Potion(x8), Phoenix Down(x4), Ether(x3), Magician | | |Robe(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |There are so many small islands surrounding the | | |Mist Continent, Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Try changing your point of view with R2, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Shallow water northwest of Lindblum Dragon's Gate.| | |A bit north of Lindblum Dragon's Gate is a U- | | |shaped beach. From the beach, head west. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |11)Small Beach | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Remedy(x4), Elixir(x2), Rising Sun(x8), Oak | | |Staff(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |It's a beach on a small island! A great place to | | |vacation, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |There's nothing there, but it's my favourite | | |place, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Shallow water in an island southeast of Chocobo's | | |Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |12)Dawn Lagoon | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Lagoon. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Evolve |Choco gains Mt Ability. [Red] | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |It's near a city where the night never ends. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Lots of rich people live there, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Evidence |City where night never ends => Treno | | |Lots of rich people => Nobles => Treno | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Southeast of Treno. Travel east from Chocobo's | | |Forest. The treasure is in the shallow waters. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Credit |Thanks to AdAm KuN for | | |informing me of this error. I type 'west' from | | |Chocobo's Forest. By right, it should be 'East' | | |from Chocobo's Forest. My apology to everyone. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |13)Forbidden Forest | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Ether(x7), Elixir(x2), Wing Edge(x10), High Mage | | |Staff(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |The forest lies where many mountain ranges merge, | | |Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |You need to go over a very high mountain. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |In the forest surrounded by mountain near Dali. | | |You should be able to spot the forest easily from | | |the crater of the mountain. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |14)Green Plains | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Evolve |Choco gains Ocean Ability. [Dark Blue] | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |There are treasures on the high plains too, Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |High plains are grass fields that are found at a | | |higher elevation. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |High plains northwest of Evil Forest. Pass the | | |mountain northwest of Evil Forest to reach the | | |high plains. Not ON the BEACH. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |15)Dusk Plains | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Lagoon. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Phoenix Down(x12), Ore(x14), Kaiser Knuckles(x1), | | |Iron Man Card(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |What a beautiful sunset, Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |At a certain location on the Forgotten Continent, | | |it is always dusk, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Northwest of the Wind Shrine. You should be able | | |to see the place as shown in the Chocograph. Look | | |from the top view. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |16)Forgotten Plains | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Ore(x17), Ether(x5), Opal(x14), Demon's Mail(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |The long peninsular sort of points to the | | |location of the treasures, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Look for the withered plateau, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |From where Ipsen's Castle is located, head south | | |a little and you should reach the plain. Near the | | |plain is a plateau. Search there. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |17)Sea At Dusk | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt, Sea. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Lagoon. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Phoenix Pinion(15x), White Robe(1x), Diamond(1x), | | |Masamune Card(1x). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |There must be more treasures deeper in the ocean. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Go dig in the ocean! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |In the ocean northeast of Wind Shrine. You should | | |see two protruding rocks almost parallel to each | | |other like a 'U' shape. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |18)Ocean | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt, Sea. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Lagoon. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Ore(27x), Light Robe(1x), Whale Whisker(1x), | | |Alexander Card(1x). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |Look carefully! There's a small reef, Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Call a chocobo near this place, Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Remember in Chocograph #8, I ask you to stop by | | |an island where there are two beaches on both | | |sides. That large piece of island is west of | | |Oeilvert or northwest of a Qu's Marsh in the | | |southwest part of the World Map. Now, you use the | | |beach on the west side. Search the ocean there. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |19)Cold Lagoon | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt, Sea. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Peridot(11x), Opal(9x), Sapphire(15), Topaz(19x). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |What a complicated cove. The water looks very | | |cold, Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Why would anyone hide treasure here, kupo? | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Ocean to the west of Fire Shrine. You should see | | |a mirror image of a 'C' mark if you travel north | | |from the western part of the Lost Continent. In | | |the top part of the mirror image of a 'C' mark. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |20)Mist Ocean | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability required |Field, Reef, Mt, Sea. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Forest or Chocobo's Lagoon. [Must have | | |all six Chocograph Pieces first.] | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Evolve |Choco gains Sky Ability. [Gold] | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |Look around the small islands located in the | | |northeastern shore of the Mist Continent. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Be patient and dig! Dig! Dig, Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |There's two small islands northeast of Alexandria | | |Harbor. Head further northeast from these two | | |islands. It lies along the line of the equator. | | |Search the ocean there. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |21)Outer Island | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt, Sea, Sky. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Garden. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Amethyst(x21), Garnet(x16), Genji Armour(x1), | | |Ragnarok(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |Kupo. It isn't a very big island. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |How scary! I hope you like heights... | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Island east of Desert Palace. You should be able | | |to see the island as shown in the chocograph. | | |Search the area at the left of the foreground of | | |the Chocograph. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |22)Outer Island 2 | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt, Sea, Sky. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Lagoon. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Sapphire(x11), Circlet(x1), Pumice Piece(x1), | | |Hilda Garde 3 Card(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |I think there's a desert nearby, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |I don't think you can get near it from the ocean, | | |Kupo... | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Island northwest of Desert Palace. You should be | | |be able to see the island as shown in the choco- | | |graph. The hint is search the edge of the forest | | |as shown in the Chocograph. [Looks very small...] | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |23)Fairy Island | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt, Sea, Sky. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Garden. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Potion(x33), Annoyntment(x15), Holy Miter(x1), | | |Dark Matter Card(x1). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |There's a mountain on the middle of the island. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |Try going to places you couldn't reach before, | | |Kupo! | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Southwest of the Iifa Tree on an island. Search | | |the base of the mountain towards the west. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |24)Forgotten Island | |____________________________________________________________________| |Ability Required |Field, Reef, Mt, Sea, Sky. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Treasures |Ribbon(1x), Rebirth Ring(1x), Amethyst(13x), Ark | | |Card(1x). | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Dug In |Chocobo's Garden. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Hint |What a strange shape for an island, Kupo. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Help |You've come this far! You can figure it out, Kupo!| |_________________|__________________________________________________| |Approx. Location |Remember Chocograph #7? The treasure is now not | | |in the shallow water anymore, but on the island | | |itself. It's also northeast of the Qu's Marsh, | | |located at the northermost part of the Forgotten | | |Continent. It's also south of the Lost Continent. | |_________________|__________________________________________________| ======================================================================= IX)Chocobo's Abilities ======================================================================= There are four Chocographs that lead to four special locations. Upon finding these four locations, Choco will fall asleep and be teleported to the Chocobo's Dream World. At Chocobo's Dream World, Fat Chocobo, the god of all Chocobos will bestow a special ability to Choco such as the REEF ability, Mt ability, SEA ability and SKY ability. ____________________________________________________________________ |Colour |Ability |What It Enables Choco... | |_____________|____________|_________________________________________| |Yellow |Field |Walk in flat lands. Normal Chocobo. | |_____________|____________|_________________________________________| |Light Blue |Reef |Enables Choco to cross shallow water. | | | |The shallow water is the light blue | | | |portion of the waters. | |_____________|____________|_________________________________________| |Red |Mt |Enables Choco to cross mountains, ridges | | | |or any other rugged terrains. | |_____________|____________|_________________________________________| |Dark Blue |Ocean |Enables Choco to cross the ocean. | |_____________|____________|_________________________________________| |Gold |Sky |Enables Choco to fly. | |_____________|____________|_________________________________________| Table 8 Points To Take Note ------------------- 1)The abilities are cumulative, so Choco will not lose a previously gained ability just because he has turned a new color. For example, when Choco evolves from a light blue chocobo to a red chocobo, Choco retains his ability to cross shallow water, but also gains another ability to cross mountains, ridges or any other rugged terrains. 2)You can only enter and exit water from a beach. The same goes to the Red Chocobo. You cannot go from land to water unless you go through a beach. Even if you have gained the Ocean ability or Sky ability, you still have to use the beach, no matter what. 3)The gold chocobo can ONLY land or fly in a FOREST. [When I said 'forest', it means any NORMAL forest in the world, NOT CHOCOBO's FOREST!!!] To fly, put Choco in the forest and press the X button. To land, press the circle button when Choco is hovering above the forest. [Please refer to the 'Chocobo Navigation' section for the controls.] Below is a table showing how to obtain each ability. ____________________________________________________________ |Ability | Colour | Chocograph | |________|____________|______________________________________| |Field | Yellow | Initial. | |Reef | Light Blue | Obtained from the 4th Chocograph. | |Mt | Red | Obtained from the 12th Chocograph. | |Ocean | Dark Blue | Obtained from the 14th Chocograph. | |Sky | Gold | Obtained from the 20th Chocograph. | |________|____________|______________________________________| Table 9 [Please refer to the 'Chocograph List' section for details.] I will add more information to this section in future if I feel that there's a need to. ======================================================================= X)Evolving Chocobo ======================================================================= This is a quick summary as to how to obtain a gold chocobo. When I say Chocograph #4, it means the fourth Chocograph in the Chocograph list. This section does not go to the details of playing the digging game but it does give you a general idea of the steps involved in obtaining a gold chocobo. I also assume that you already KNOW how to PLAY the CHOCOBO HOT AND COLD game. I will create the steps in the form of a flowchart. The left column will be the steps and the right column will contain some additional note. I hope this flowchart will be of some use to you. But, before that, there's an IMPORTANT NOTE below which I feel that you should read it. [If you want tips and strategies, please refer to 'Chocobo Hot and Cold Game' section.] [For more details on Chocobo's Dream World and the abilities Choco can gain, please refer to 'Chocobo's Abilities' section.] Important Note: -------------- Before you go on to read to know the various steps of obtaining a gold chocobo, there's something that I feel that I should let you readers know. I have heard from some people that they have gotten a gold chocobo before getting the Hilda Garde 3 when they only have the Blue Narciss. As a result of that, they found out that certain parts in disc three will be be skipped automatically. If you want to avoid this situation and are interested to know more, please refer to Question 11 in the frequently-asked-questions section. [Don't say I didn't tell you before it's too late!!!] ______________________________________________________________________ Steps For Obtaining Gold Chocobo |Additional Note | ______________________________________________|_______________________| Start out by playing your game in the |While playing the | Chocobo's Forest. |Chocobo's Hot and | | |Cold game, look | | |out for Chocograph | Keep digging until there's no more |Pieces. You should | Chocograph left. The last Chocograph |get some in Chocobo's | you will get is Chocograph #4, which |Forest before you get | will let Choco gain the Reef Ability. |the Reef Ability to go | | |get the Reef ability | | |to go to Chocobo's | Get your Reef Ability first. |Lagoon. | | | | | |Notice that you can | Go to Chocobo's Lagoon. keep digging until |now climb up the two | there's no more Chocograph left. The last |rocky ledges on each | Chocograph you will get is Chocograph #12, |side to search for | which will let Choco gain the Mt Ability. |treasures in Chocobo's | | |Forest when Choco has | | |the Mt Ability. When | Get your Mt Ability first. |you go near the ledge, | | |a ! sign will appear. | | | | Go to Chocobo's Forest. Keep digging until |With Ocean Ability, | there's no more Chocograph left. The last |Choco can now search | Chocograph you will get is Chocograph #14, |the deeper waters in | which will let Choco gain the Ocean Ability. |Chocobo's Lagoon. Mene | | |now charges you 60 gil | | |per game instead of 30 | Get your Ocean Ability first. |gil and the playing | | |time is now 1 minute | | |instead of 30 seconds. | Go to Chocobo's Lagoon. Keep digging for the | | remaining Chocographs and Chocograph pieces. |You should have all | Once you have all the six Chocograph pieces, |six Chocograph Pieces | Chocograph #20 will appear, which will let |and 21 Chocographs, | Choco gain the Sky Ability. |except Chocograph #21, | | |#23 and #24, which | | |could be found in | Get your Sky Ability first. |Chocobo's Air Garden. | | | | | |Can't find Chocobo's | Solve the 'mystery' of the six Chocograph |Air Garden? Please | pieces. Find Chocobo's Air Garden. |See 'What's Chocograph | | |Pieces?' section for | | |the details. | Dig in Chocobo's Air Garden to find the last | | three Chocographs. | | | |Congradulations!!! You | | |have found all the 24 | Maybe, it is the time to search for the Dead |Chocographs and got a | Pepper treasures. See below. Or you might |gold chocobo. Time to | also want to pay a visit to Fat Chocobo in |collect the treasures | Chocobo's Paradise. |you have missed. | | | | | | | ======================================================================= XI)Dead Pepper Treasure Locations ======================================================================= After finding all the 24 chocographs and their respective treasures, it is time that you should head to Chocobo's Paradise. [Please refer to 'Chocobo-Related Locations' section for details on how to get to Chocobo's Paradise.] If you have not collected all the treasures, one of the hints that Fat Chocobo will tell you is that there are treasures in the world map that requires the Dead Pepper. The location to these treasures are NOT found in the Chocographs. There are a total of eight locations in the World, where you can find treasures and you NEED a dead pepper to get each of these treasures. The treasures can be found in places like MOUNTAIN CRACKS and FOAMING WATER. ____________________________________________________________________ |TIPS4 |Talk to the chocobos in Chocobo's Paradise to find clues for | | |the eight Dead Pepper treasure locations. | |______|_____________________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________ |TIPS5 |Talk to the Chocobo sitting to the left of the Fat Chocobo | | |to maximise your Dead Pepper item to 99. However, you MUST | | |first FIND all the 24 Chocograph treasures before the Choco- | | |bo will give you Dead Pepper for free. | |______|_____________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to Tom Philbrick for telling | | |me that you need to find all the 24 Chocograph treasures | | |before the Chocobo sitting to the left of the Fat Chocobo | | |can give you Dead Pepper. | |______|___________________________________________________________| Introduction To Dead Pepper: --------------------------- Before I give you the list of Dead Pepper Treasure locations, I thought I will spend some time to discuss what are the effects of Dead Pepper on a chocobo. Besides Gysahl Greens, Dead Pepper is another favourite food for chocobos. It's called Dead Pepper because the type of plant that can bear this kind of pepper is extinct. [Still, I just don't like the name. Why choose 'dead' and not other words?] __________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to Vlad Tepish for telling me | | |the reason why the name, 'Dead Pepper' was used. | |______|___________________________________________________________| Here's some more stuffs about Dead Pepper: Several of the other FAQs I've read on the Japanese version of FFIX have called them 'Red Peppers'. This leads me to believe that they are, in fact, regular peppers and chocobos just freak out at the taste of very spicy foods. The name "Dead" is actually a translation error, made because a Japanese R sounds a bit like a cross between the sounds of L, R, and D. [Think Final Fantasy Tactics: translation errors abound, notably "Bracelet" instead of "Breath", because of wacky phonetics!!!]. Just be glad we didn't end up with Lead Peppers. __________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to Mr. Tuvai for telling me | | |the translation error about 'Dead Pepper'. | |______|___________________________________________________________| According to mike evans , he says that when you find your first 'Dead Pepper', Mene says that it's called this name because the plants that produce it have been all killed by the mist and there are no more being made. Effect Of Dead Pepper: --------------------- After you have evolve Chocobo to red, you should be able to find plentiful Dead Pepper by playing the Chocobo's Hot and Cold game at any of the three possible digging places. [Chocobo's Forest, Chocobo's Lagoon and Chocobo's Air Garden.] Besides digging, you can also get 99 Dead Pepper from the chocobo who is sitting to the left of the Fat Chocobo. [Please refer to the 'TIPS5' above.] When you give a Dead Pepper to a chocobo, it gives a chocobo a 'temporary magical ability' or 'excites' a chocobo to perform certain task like being able to break cracks, dive into water and so on. ____________________________________________________________________ |Point |When Choco is... |Ability gain in that instant [Dead Pepper] | |______|_________________|___________________________________________| | 1 |On land |Causes Choco to peck, breaking cracks. | |______|_________________|___________________________________________| | 2 |On water |Dive into water. | |______|_________________|___________________________________________| | 3 |On air |Jump higher into the air. | |______|_________________|___________________________________________| Table 10 Some points to take note: [With Reference to Table 10] ------------------------ 1)Use a Dead Pepper on Choco when he's on land to cause Choco to peck. The cracks break further to reveal a hole or cave. And, inside the hole or cave will most likely to contain some treasures or lead to a certain place. 2)Diving into water... Easily understand, right? Okay, you should dive into foaming waters. The type of water where you see bubbles coming out. Dive into these foaming water and Choco will return with treasures that are buried underwater. An example of an illustration is the foaming water in Quan's Dwelling. 3)The third point is quite easy to understand. You need to know this to reach Chocobo's Air Garden. When you see a shadow on the ground, hover the gold chocobo above it and use a Dead Pepper. This will bring Choco and you to the Chocobo's Air Garden. [Please refer to 'What's Chocograph Pieces?' section for details.] In my opinion, these treasures are VERY hard to find, in the sense that you don't have a Chocograph to look at. Not much clues are given as well. No picture to look at, meaning no Chocograph. As promised, these are the eight locations to the Dead Pepper Treasure. If you still need help finding the Dead Pepper treasures, visit gamefaqs and download the treasure World Map under the name 'Ng Yeow Leong'. The treasure world map is in jpeg format and is 57 KB, I think. Use this treasure World Map, together with the advice I have given to find your Dead Pepper treasure. I have also labelled the Dead Pepper treasures with respective to the ones shown in that treasure World Map. See the 'Legend' and you will know what I mean. _____________________________________________________________________ |1)Foaming Water Beneath Quan's Dwelling | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Treasures |Ore(x9), Topaz(x15), Tiger Racket(x1), Red Rose Card(x1). | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Legend |Bubble 4 [Access from Quan's Dwelling]. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Advice |First, return to Quan's Dwelling on the mist continent. | | |Enter the cave. Do you remember that there is an edge of | | |the patio overlooking the ocean, where you can see the | | |foaming water below. Search there and choose to use a | | |Dead Pepper. Zidane then reappears on the World Map, | | |riding Choco on the patio. Use the Dead Pepper and you | | |will see Choco swan-dive into the bubbling water, | | |retrieving the treasure. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |2)Foaming Water Directly North Of Iifa Tree | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Treasures |Potion(x50), Hi-Potion(x25), Ether(x9), Elixir(x7). | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Legend |Bubble 3. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Advice |There's a foaming water in the ocean at the extreme north | | |of Iifa tree. Search around that area carefully and you | | |should see it. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |3)Foaming Water Directly Between Mist Continent and Outer Continent | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Treasures |Straw Hat(x8), Pearl Armlet(x8), Aloha T-shirt(x7), | | |Sandals(x8). | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Legend |Bubble 2. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Advice |The foaming water is somewhere a little southwest of the | | |southeastern peninsula on the Outer Continent. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Credit |Thanks to Scott Hebert for giving | | |me a better description that tells where the Dead Pepper | | |treasure #3 is. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |4)Foaming Water At Southern Tip Of Forgotten Continent | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Treasures |Remedy(x10), Black Robe(x1), Genji Gloves(x1), Blue | | |Narciss Card(x1). | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Legend |Bubble 1. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Advice |The foaming water is somewhere in one of the lagoons in | | |the southern part of the Forgotten Continent. The foaming | | |water lies on the west side of the Forgotten Continent at | | |the southern tip. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Credit |Thanks to Scott Hebert for giving | | |me a better description that tells where the Dead Pepper | | |treasure #4 is. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |5)Mountain Crack On Eastern Part Of Lost Continent | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Treasures |Lapis Lazuli(x41), Rosetta Ring(x1), Protect Ring(x1), | | |Airship Card(x1). | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Legend |Crack 1. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Advice |The mountain crack is directly east to the Fire Shrine. | | |Examine the mountains to the east of the Fire Shrine and | | |you should find the crack quite easily. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |6)Mountain Crack On Northeastern Part Of Forgotten Continent | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Treasures |Eye Drops(x19), Madain's Ring(x1), Genji Helmet(x1), Hilda| | |Garde 1 Card(x1). | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Legend |Crack 2. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Advice |There's a forest nearby the crack in the mountain. The | | |crack is a little northeast from the mountain crack near | | |Oeilvert. The crack is on the mountain that faces south. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |7)Mountain Crack Near Oeilvert | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Treasures |Maiden Prayer(x1), Dragon's Hair(x1), Gauntlets(x1), Odin | | |Card(x1). | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Legend |Crack 3. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Advice |There's a forest nearby the crack in the mountain. The | | |crack is somewhere a little northwest of Oeilvert. The | | |crack is on the mountain that faces north. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |8)Exact Former Location Of Shimmering Island | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Treasures |Aquamarine(x10), Ultima Weapon(x1), Maximillian(x1), | | |Invincible Card(x1). | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Legend |Ultima Weapon. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |Advice |You can ONLY do this in disc FOUR, after World of Terra | | |has been DESTROYED. Use Choco's SEA ability and move | | |Choco to a position where the Shimmering Island ONCE | | |STOOD. You must position Choco EXACTLY on the dot where | | |"Shimmering Island" is shown on the World Map. Use a | | |Dead Pepper and Choco will retrieve the treasures. | | |Congradulations!!! You have obtained Zidane's strongest | | |weapon, Ultima Weapon. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________ |TIPS6 |While searching for these Dead Pepper Treasures, adjust the | | |camera to have a closer view so you can see the cracks or | | |foaming water better. | |______|____________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________ |TIPS7 |While searching for the treasures in the Shimmering Island, | | |press the SELECT button to make sure that Choco is position-| | |ed EXACTLY at the spot where Shimmering Island used to be. | | |Choco is indicated by a yellow dot while the island is a | | |white dot. | |______|____________________________________________________________| ======================================================================= XII)Chocobo's Revitalising Ability ======================================================================= As an added bonus for finding all the treasures, Choco can learn to restore your party's HP and MP completely, as well as remove any status abnormalities. All you need to do is visit a beach. What To Do???: ------------- First, you have to find all the Chocograph treasures, Dead Pepper treasures and at least, use a Dead Pepper ONCE to enter the Mognet Central. Completing the side quest, 'Revival Of Mognet Central' is optional. [Please refer to the 'Chocograph List', 'Dead Pepper Treasure Locations' and the 'Revival Of Mognet Central' sections for more details.] Then, go to Chocobo's Paradise. __________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to for telling me that you | | |need to find all the Chocograph treasures, Dead Pepper | | |treasures and also complete the Revival Of Mognet Central | | |side quest in order to receive the Fat Chocobo card. | |______|___________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to J.P. Arevalo for | | |telling me that completing the 'Revival Of Mognet Central' | | |is optional but you need to at least enter it once before | | |you can receive the Fat Chocobo card. | |______|___________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________________ |NOTE3 |Because of what have said, I decided | | |to go and try out the Chocobo's Revitalising Ability. The | | |reason why I can't receive the Fat Chocobo card is because | | |I haven't completed the Mognet Central, even though I have | | |found all the Chocograph treasures and the Dead Pepper | | |treasures in disc four. Later, in disc four, after I have | | |completed the Mognet Central, I got the Fat Chocobo card | | |after I returned to Chocobo's Paradise. However, I was too | | |lazy and did not visit ALL the beaches. | |______|___________________________________________________________| Talk to Fat Chocobo and a scene between Zidane, Mene, Choco and Fat Chocobo will occur. To prevent spoilers, I won't talk more about the scene. But, here's a question for readers to think: 1)Who needs each other more? Choco or Mene? Choco is a loyal friend. He won't abandon you. After the scene, you will end up riding Choco in the World Map. Now, return to Chocobo's Paradise again. Press the Square button, as if trying to challenge the Fat Chocobo to a card game. The Fat Chocobo will give you hints about Chocobo's Revitalising Ability by saying: "When you leave, try visiting all the world's beaches by yourself. Do not fear the monsters." "I'll grant you peace and restore you once you've visited them all." Then the usual message that asks you whether you want to play a card game will appear. Choose 'NO' if you do not want to play a card game with Fat Chocobo. Fat Chocobo's cards seem to be all the Chocobo card. Okay, back to the main topic. Exit Chocobo's Paradise and head back to the World Map. __________________________________________________________________ |NOTE4 |Do you know that you can also play Tetra Master card game | | |with all the chocobos in the Chocobo's Paradise? As usual, | | |just press the Square button to challenge the chocobos to | | |a card game. Try challenging the Dark Blue chocobo on the | | |ledge above the Fat Chocobo. Press the X button to go down | | |the long, steep slide to jump off to challenge him. When | | |you are done playing the game, the chocobo will say, 'a | | |guy named Ipsen taught us how to play.' | |______|___________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Thanks to Adam Wilkinson for | | |telling me about playing cards with chocobos. | |______|___________________________________________________________| Now, ride Choco to ANY beach. If you press the X button while riding Choco on a beach, Zidane will say like he should try walking. Now, dismount and then press the Circle button. You should hear a chime. Repeat this tedious process on every SINGLE beach in the World until a message which says, "relaxed and watch the beach waves!" After you have completed this tedious process, when you park your Choco on any beach in the world, your party's HP and MP will be completely healed and all status abnormalities will be removed. _________________ /Personal Opinion \ /___________________\_____________________________________________ |Actually, the reward for letting Choco learn the Revitalising | |Ability isn't that worthwhile. At most, you don't need to visit | |an inn and save some Gil. | |__________________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________________ |Credit|Brian Jakeman , Sue Lee | | | and www.playonline.com. | | |___________________________________________________________| | |Thanks to these people and PlayOnline also for providing | | |me information about Chocobo's Revitalising Ability. | |______|___________________________________________________________| Some Tips For You: ----------------- As you know, there are COUNTLESS beaches in the Final Fantasy IX world. If you don't visit the beaches in SYSTEMATIC order, you will definitely be confused and may end up wondering which beaches you have visited and which you have not, thus wasting many precious TIME. [This situation applies to me and that's one of the reason why I gave up visiting all the beaches.] Here are some tips for you. Hopefully, these tips will be of some use to you. a)Try visiting the beaches from ONE CONTINENT to another. I start off visiting the beaches in the Lost Continent because this seems to be the easiest to me. b)Walk one round along the edges of the continent, that faces the sea in order not to miss any beach. c)Have DETERMINATION and DON'T GIVE UP like me. Getting Back 'Discarded' Cards: ------------------------------ During any Chocograph treasure or any Dead Pepper treasure hunting, if there's 100 cards in your inventory, any card that you get during the treasure hunt will immediately be discarded. You might worried that there's no way to get back these 'discarded' cards. Actually, there's a way. First, you have to FIND ALL the Chocograph treasures, Dead Pepper treasures and also complete the 'Revival Of Mognet Central' side quest. Then, go to Chocobo's Paradise and talk to Fat Chocobo. The scene that involves Zidane, Mene, Choco and Fat Chocobo, which I have talked about earlier will occur. After the scene ends, you will be riding on Choco in the World Map. Now, return and talk to Fat Chocobo by pressing the usual X button. Fat Chocobo will say this if there is any 'discarded' card: "I have all the cards you've parted with during your journey." "You may take them back if you wish." You will then get all the 'discarded' cards back. Of course, you can choose whether to take back the cards or leave them under the care of Fat Chocobo. But, it would be rather stupid not to take these cards back since almost all the cards you find during your treasure hunt would be quite rare, unless you already have 100 cards in your inventory. This situation applies to me. I didn't check whether my card inventory is full or not and by the time I realised some cards were being dis- carded during my treasure hunt, it was too late!!! [Luckily, Fat Chocobo returns all these cards to me.] ======================================================================= XIII)Revival Of Mognet Central ======================================================================= Chocobo Hot and Cold game and treasure hunting with Choco is by far the most complex sidequest in Final Fantasy IX. Completing the sidequest and getting a gold Choco is essential as it not only lets you find many rare items and powerful equipments, it unlocks other sidequests like the 'Dead Pepper Treasures'. Another sidequest that depends on the gold Choco is the revival of Mognet. Because of this, I thought I will, as well, cover the Mognet Central side quest. On your way through Esto Gaza to Mount Gulug, while delivering a letter to Mogrika the moogle, you find out that the Mognet is shutting down because of an incident. From this point onwards, the Moogles will not ask you to deliver anymore letters. You can reach Mognet Central in disc three with a light-blue chocobo [with the Reef Ability]. If you manage to help ALL the moogles in the world to DELIVER ALL the LETTERS, without discarding any letter, you can do this sidequest from disc three onwards. But, don't worry if you have not not deliver all the letters. You will still be able to do this sidequest, but only from the disc four onwards. The only difference is the location of the moogle, Mois. __________________________ /Location Of Mognet Central\ /____________________________\____________________________________ |The Mognet Central is a rather big island located north of the | |Outer Continent. On the eastern side of the island, you should be | |able to find a crack in the mountain. What to do? Simply feed | |Choco with a Dead Pepper to make him break the cracks. Enter to | |find Mognet Central. Upon entering the Mognet Central, you will | |hear the familiar Moogle theme. [I haven't heard this tune for a | |very long time.] | |__________________________________________________________________| _________________ /Personal Opinion \ /___________________\_____________________________________________ |The 'Revival Of Mognet Central' side quest is a rather tedious | |side quest. In my opinion, it is not really rewarding. You ONLY | |get a Protect Ring in exchange for your efforts. Still, Moogle | |fans will definitely like this side quest. Besides, you need to | |complete this side quest if you want to obtain the Fat Chocobo | |card and let Choco learn the Revitalising Ability. | |__________________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________________ |NOTE5 |I'll try not to REVEAL any spoiler information about this | | |sidequest. To revive the Mognet, you have to deliver a | | |a CHAIN of LETTERS from MOOGLE to MOOGLE. The bad thing is | | |although the moogle tells you which moogle to deliver the | | |letter, they will not tell you where the moogle is. Never | | |mind, I'll help you. The details for the walkthrough will | | |be in the form of a flowchart. | |______|___________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________________ |NOTE6 |Everytime you help a Moogle to deliver a letter to another | | |Moogle, the Moogle that receives a letter will give you a | | |KUPO NUT. Remember the Moogle, Moguta in GIZAMALUKE'S | | |GROTTO who likes to eat Kupo Nut? Everytime you receive a | | |Kupo Nut, give to Moguta. He will GIVE YOU a RANDOM ITEM. | | |If you FORGET to give Moguta a Kupo Nut and deliver a new | | |letter to a new Moogle, the Moogle will not give you a | | |Kupo Nut because you can ONLY have ONE KUPO NUT in your | | |inventory. In short, everytime you deliver a successful | | |letter, receive a new letter, give the Kupo Nut to the | | |Moogle before you send the letter to the NEXT MOOGLE. | | |[Please refer to 'Feed The Moogle Family' section for more | | |details.] | |______|___________________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ Steps For Reviving Mognet Central |Additional Note | ___________________________________________|_________________________| Find