*Needed Materia:
*Chocobo Hunting:
*Greens:
*Chocobo Racing:
It's not necessary to breed chocobos to win the game, but it's a cool
side-quest, plus each special type of chocobo (Green, Blue, Black, and
Gold) gives you access to a new cave with special materia, including the
ultimate Summon Materia. Green, Black, and Gold chocobos also enable you
to reach the Ancient Forest(near Cosmo Canyon) without defeat-
ing the Ultimate WEAPON.
First off, it's much easier to get a gold chocobo once you reach disk
3. Here's why: when you return to Midgar at the end of disk 2, once you
reach the tunnels that look like subway tunnels, go all the way down.
This will take a while, but it's worth it. At the end of the road you
will find the W-Item Materia, which will make your chocobo breeding much
easier. Trust me!
Also, it helps to have your Chocobo Lure Materia mastered. If you use
it to fill an extra space on your armor or weapon during the whole game,
this is no problem.
Before you start hunting, buy some stalls at the stable. I recommend
getting all six stalls (10,000 gil per). When you catch a chocobo it'll
be kept in the fenced area outside. You can keep up to four out here for
free, but you won't know what rating they have until you move them in-
side to the stalls.
Actually, the chocobo hunting part shouldn't take you very long.
You'll eventually need three different chocobos to achieve your goal.
You need to get the first two right away:
1) A Great Female chocobo from the tracks near Mideel.
2) A Good Male chocobo from the tracks SE of Gold Saucer. Be careful;
there are several types of chocobos here, but you MUST have a Good
chocobo.3) Eventually, you will also need a Wonderful Male chocobo from the
tracks on the North Continent.
**Once you catch these birds, be sure to give them names which clearly
indicate their rating and gender.
Next, go to the Chocobo Sage's house. It's a lone house in a small
valley on the North Continent. Talk to him and purchase two Sylkis
Greens, the best greens he has. If you're interrested in hearing all
that the sage has to say, leave and come back periodically. He'll remem-
ber everything bit-by-bit.
Now you should fly to anywhere with weak enemies. Make sure to remove
any Counter Attack materia your characters might be wearing, as you'll
want to leave one enemy alive.
Here's where the W-Item comes into play. Using W-Item, select the
Sylkis Greens and give them to an enemy. For the second item, also
select the Sylkis Greens, but instead of giving them to an enemy, hit X
to cancel. This will increase the number of greens you have by one! Con-
tinue to select them, then cancel (O,X,O,X,...) until you have 99 of
them, then kill the last enemy.
Get used to this procedure: it's a good idea to feed 90 Sylkis Greens
to each chocobo that you plan to breed. It might be overkill, but it
works. Your chocobos will now be maxed out in all areas: Speed, Endur-
ance, Intelligence, and Cooperation. This, coupled with racing parents
to S Class (explained below) phenomenally increases the chances of get-
ting the chocobo you want, as well as making the babies stronger andbetter.
**If you don't want to use the W-Item procedure because you consider it
cheating, that's your choice, but it takes a lot of money to buy 99
Sylkis Greens. A good way to get enough cash is to sell off a couple
of mastered All materia.
This part is time consuming, but it makes breeding so much easier! Go
to the stables and feed the soon-to-be-parent 90 Sylkis Greens. Next go
to the Chocobo Square at Gold Saucer. Talk to Ester (standing to the
left) and register the chocobo. You'll start off in C Class, but every
time you win three races (I recommend the short race), you'll go up a
class. After going through C, B, and A Classes, you'll reach S Class. I
HIGHLY recommend feeding all your parent chocobos 90 Sylkis Greens then
racing them up to S Class before using them for breeding.
**Racing is made MUCH easier if you hold down L1, L2, R1, and R2 the
whole time. This will keep your stamina meter from being drained so
quickly while dashing, and actually refill while running normally.