How to Breed a Golden Chocobo in Final Fantasy VII

Breeding a Golden Chocobo is a long and tedious task, but it is the only way to reach the remote areas of the world map that even your airship can't take you to. You will need to be on the second or third disc of this game to breed the Golden Chocobo. Good luck!

Things You'll Need

• PlayStation Final Fantasy VII
• PlayStation Controllers
• PlayStation Memory Cards
• PlayStation Multiplayer Adapters
• PlayStations

Instructions

1. Go to the Chocobo ranch south of Midgar and purchase at least four stables from Chocobo Bill.

2. Equip one of your party members with the Chocobo Lure materia Bill gives you.

3. Find some Chocobo tracks on the world map and walk over them until you get into a fight.

4. Enter battle and look for a strange-looking yellow bird among the enemies. If you see it, proceed to step 5. If not, get into another fight.

5. Kill the enemies as quickly as possible, making sure not to harm the Chocobo. If you kill them fast enough, you will win the Chocobo.

6. Return to the Chocobo ranch and place your new Chocobo in the stable.

7. Talk to Chocobo Bill. If he says, "Mmm, this one's not bad" or "This is a pretty average Chocobo," keep the Chocobo. If he says neither of these things, release it.

8. Repeat steps 3 to 7 until you have a breeding pair of Chocobos described by Chocobo Bill as "Mmm, this one's not bad" or "This is a pretty average Chocobo."

9. Fly to the Chocobo Sage's hut north of the Bone Village.

10. Buy as many Sylkis greens as you can from the Chocobo Sage.

11. Return to the farm and feed your Chocobos the Sylkis greens until their statistics are as high as they can go.

12. Fly to the Golden Saucer Casino and enter your Chocobos in the Chocobo races.

13. Race your Chocobos until they both become Class A Chocobos.

14. Fly to the small forested island due south of the Chocobo Ranch.

15. Equip one of your party members with the steal command materia.

16. Walk in the forest until you get into a fight with a band of Goblins.

17. Steal a Zeio nut from the Goblins.

18. Fly to the Chocobo farm.

19. Save your game.

20. Breed your two Chocobos, feeding them the Zeio nut. This should produce either a green or a blue Chocobo. If it doesn't, reload the game and try again.

21. Save your game.

22. Repeat steps 14 to 19 until you have two different Chocobos of different colors and sexes (a blue male and green female or vice versa).

23. Repeat steps 9 to 18 with your new green and blue Chocobos.

24. Breed the green and blue Chocobos, feeding them the Zeio nut. This should produce a black Chocobo. If it doesn't, reload the game and try again.

25. Repeat steps 9 to 12 with your new black Chocobo.

26. Race your black Chocobo until it becomes Class S.

27. Fly to the Bone Village.

28. Get in a fight in the plains outside the Bone Village with a monster called a Vlakorados.

29. Steal a Carob nut from the Vlakorados.

30. Return to the Chocobo ranch.

31. Save your game.

32. Breed the black Class S Chocobo with a yellow Class A Chocobo, using the Carob nut. This should finally produce the Golden Chocobo. If it doesn't, reload your game and try again.

Tips & Warnings

• Use the scan spell to determine the name of the monster you are facing.

• Save your game frequently.

• Give your PlayStation, as well as your eyes, a rest after about three consecutive hours of play.