_____ _ _ / | | | | / ____| | _ _____ ____ _____| |___ _____ ( (____| || \| _ |/ ___) _ | __ \ _ | \ | | | | (_) ( (___| (_) | | _) )(_) | \_____|_| |_|\____|\____)\____|_||__/\____| ______ _ (_____ \ (_) _____) ) ____ ____ _ ____ ____ | ___ ( / _ |/ ___) | _ \ / _ | | | | ( ( | ( (___| | | | ( ( | | |_| |_|\_||_|\____)_|_| |_|\_|| | __| | (____) _______________________________________________________________________ UNOFFICIAL CHOCOBO RACING FAQ For SONY PlayStation Only Version 1.2 By Beno Jange Email: beno_jange@hotmail.com ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ _______________________________________________________________________ I. Disclaimer: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ This FAQ is intended for personal use only. This FAQ can't be used for any profitable purpose nor it can be published in any forms. No one are allowed to do anything with this FAQ without the author's permission. If you like to add this FAQ on your site, you're free to do it as long as the FAQ keep unaltered and up to date by checking the newest revision of this FAQ on GameFAQs once a month. It would be nice if you notify me first. If you want to take some parts of this FAQ, give me a credit. Any offenders will severely dealt with. If you feel that, reading the FAQ like this is a bit tedious, especially when you have to look at the computer and play your game, you are allowed to print the part or whole of this document out, but the printed copies can only be for personal use. Chocobo Racing logo, characters (C) 1999 SquareSoft. SquareSoft is a registered trademark of Square Co. Ltd. PlayStation is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Unofficial Chocobo Racing FAQ, logo (C) 2000 Beno Jange. All copyrights and trademarks (if any) are acknowledged. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ II. Table of Contents: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ I. Disclaimer II. Table of Contents III. Revision History IV. Author's Note V. Introduction VI. Menu & Control VII. Characters VIII. Special Ability IX. Magic Spell X. Story Mode Walkthrough XI. Edit Parameters XII. Race Track XIII. Secrets XIV. GameShark XV. Credits _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ III. Revision History: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ v1.0 - 07/31/2000 - First Release. v1.1 - 09/30/2000 - Added GameShark section. - Reformated Author's Note section. - Updated Credits section. v1.2 - 12/15/2000 - Removed plan for future update. - Removed Email Policy section. - Corrected some grammar errors. - Corrected some spelling errors. - Edited Author's Note section. - Edited Disclaimer section. - Edited Credits section. - The FAQ is officially finished now. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ IV. Author's Note: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Well, the first time I saw this game on the store I thought that this game isn't interesting at all. It looks more childish and may be it is for kid. But after I bought and played it, I really impressed about the game. It will be the most enjoyable racing game beside Crash Team Racing. So that's why I wrote this FAQ. This FAQ is based on Joe Van Pelt's FAQ so I give half of the credit inside here to him. My thx goes to him. Well done Joe, keep on making another FAQ. This FAQ is best viewed on 800x600 resolution with WordPad and "Wrap to Window" option. This FAQ based on the US version of Chocobo Racing since I don't have the Japanese version. This FAQ is written as short as I can just to keep the FAQ in small size. The newest revision of this FAQ can always be found at: - GameFAQs http://www.gamefaqs.com - Video Game Strategies http://vgstrategies.about.com - Games Domain http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk - Fresh Baked Games http://www.fbgames.com * Currently I post this FAQ only on GameFAQs Now, this FAQ is officially finished now. I'm not going to update this FAQ anymore unless there is such a keen need for me to do so (which probably won't happen). Questions, critizims, contributions, anything are welcome as long as you state "CR" or "Chocobo Racing" as a subject of your letter. But pls write it politely. Note: I am not hiding secrets or any other information, i.e. everything I know about Chocobo Racing is in this guide. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ V. Introduction: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ At last, the King of RPG (Square) has released a racing game which is called "Chocobo Racing". This game looks like "Mario Kart" and "Crash Team Racing". Btw, the famous Chocobo has started to make another surprise for us. This game in my opinion has many interesting features including secret characters, mirror mode, etc. Well, the graphic isn't nicely rendered. But the music is good. Completing the game and unlocking the secrets is rather easy compared to other racing game such as Gran Tourismo and Crash Team Racing. This makes this game has a "BOOM". This is also one of my reason to write this FAQ. And guess what? As I said that it's easy to unlock the secrets so you won't need GameShark for this game. If you do then you are really ... This game also support dual shock controller. Well, here's my rating for this game: - Graphic : 7.5/10 - The graphic in this game is not as good as "Crash Team Racing" especially when you read a book in Story Mode. You can even see the "screwed" white polygon in Floating Garden track :(. But the FMV is great! - Music : 8.0/10 - Originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu which is make this game has an added value. Btw, I like "Diamonds in My Hearts" sang by Vicki Bell in the end of the game. - Sound : 8.0/10 - Well, actually I think that the sound effect in this game is well done. - Game Play : 8.5/10 - Well, of course playing this game is very fun. Once you've played it, you'll want to play it over and over again. - Innovation : 8.0/10 - Well, innovation in this game is great since it has movie rooms, hidden characters, etc. - Overall : 8.0/10 - It really deserved it. - Difficulty : Easy - Once you've completed the Story Mode, you can play it very well. The enemy in this game isn't so hard to beat. - Buy/Rent : Buy - If you've more money, you should buy this game. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ VI. Menu & Control: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ________ Menu: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Well, the menu looks like this: _______ Grand Prix _______ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ _______ Time VS Attack Mode ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ _______ Chocobo' _______ Story Face Relay Mode Race ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ _______ _______ Options Memory Card ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Now, I'm gonna explain all of this mode briefly. ----------- Options ----------- You can change the game settings here. The list of options are: View Course Records, Controller Set-Up, Sound Room, Movie, Sound: Mono or Stereo, and Handicap P1/P2. ----------- Story Mode ----------- Well, Square didn't want to miss their skill (RPG) on this game too so they add this mode. You start with just Chocobo. You go all the way to collect eight magicite crystal. Btw, you have to win the race in order to collect the crystal. You get Edit Parameters each time you beat Story Mode. Edit Parameters allow you to customize your own character and build them to become a best racer. You also get hidden characters each time you beat the game. ----------- Time Attack ----------- Much like Time Trial in Crash Time Racing. You have to race as fast as you can in order to beat the record. Each time you beat the record you can enter your name on the top ten list. ----------- Grand Prix ----------- Well, I'd love this mode. You race against the computer in four tracks. Each time you enter the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place you'll get the points. The character with the highest point will win. You can even see a short clip on the character each time you beat the game with the character. You can view their clips on Movie in Options. ----------- VS Mode ----------- One on one racing each other. You can choose to race against player 2, computer or let computer 1 vs computer 2. Btw, in my opinion Grand Prix and Relay Race are more fun... ----------- Relay Race ----------- Much like Grand Prix and VS Mode. The different is in this mode you choose the team which is consist of three racers. You can choose how many laps. The 1st racer will race in certain number of laps for eg. 2 and pass the race to the 2nd racer. The 2nd racer will race in the next two laps and pass the race to the 3rd racer and so on. ----------- Memory Card ----------- Save and Load game data. Well, in this mode you can save and load how far you go with the game. You can save and load your hidden character. You can even load your customized racer. ________ Control: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Well, the control here is really pretty basic stuff: ------------- While racing: ------------- Square - accelerate. X - brakes. Square + X - skids. Triangle - reverse. L1 - use special ability. R1 - cast magic. Start - pause. ------------- Main menu: ------------- X - confirm. O - cancel. Start - skip FMV. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ VII. Characters: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ -------------- Chocobo -------------- Ability : DASH Bike : Jet-Blades CR You know he is the star of this game. Fearless and innocent makes him an adorable characters. Good acceleration, good speed, but not too easy to control. Btw, Chocobo is one of the best characters once you learn how to control him. -------------- Mog -------------- Ability : FLAP Bike : Mog-Mobile R2 A friend of Chocobo but with a bad attitude i.e. "Greedy" and selfish. His "Greedy" and selfish makes him don't have anything. Good acceleration, and seems to have the highest top speed of everyone, but he's difficult to control. -------------- Golem -------------- Ability : GRIP-UP Bike : Rockin Roller V8 The gatekeeper of village gate. He used to be body guard because of his big body. Slow acceleration, average speed, but very easy to control. -------------- Goblin -------------- Ability : MUG Bike : Gob-Cart H4 The thief known as "Gobin Hood" who steal from rich and give it to the poor. Best acceleration in the game, but the control on him is terrible. -------------- Black Magician -------------- Ability : MAGIC PLUS Bike : MagiCloud MK-1 A silent magician which has a castle in "Cursed Forest" which is called "Black Manor". His racing skill are average better than White Mage. He can fly over ice sheet. -------------- White Mage -------------- Ability : BARRIER Bike : Cosmic Carpet A beautiful mage from Mysidia. She was the person who revealed the secrets about magicite crystal for the first time. His racing skill are average. She can fly over ice sheet. -------------- Chubby Chocobo -------------- Ability : RECEIVE Bike : Phat-Burner Plus A fat Chocobo who his job is only eat, eat and eat. All of in his head are only donuts, peppermint, etc. He even ate magicite crystal. (Greedy isn't it?) He has a good grip, great acceleration but low speed. -------------- Behemoth -------------- Ability : CHARGE Bike : Behemoth-Buggy 99 A magical monster who was lived in volcano. He used to be a guard of magicite crystal. His racing skill is the same as Golem but his acceleration a bit faster. -------------- Bahamut -------------- Ability : MEGAFLARE Bike : Dragon Wings A king of Espers lived in Fantasia world. Slow acceleration, but high top speed and pretty good control once you get him moving. Can fly over obstacles like ice. To use Bahamut, you must beat Story Mode first. -------------- Squall -------------- Ability : GUNBLADE Bike : "The Tempest" Our hero from Final Fantasy VIII also takes the challenge of the race. Good acceleration, good turning, good everything except for his tires. He slips and slides on turns a lot. This can be used to your advantage. To use Squall, you must beat Story Mode a second time. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ VIII. Special Ability: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ---------- DASH ---------- It speeds you up for a short time. Well, this ability actually very useful on easy track with a little turn. But it'll become a nightmare on hard track with many hard turn since it cause you bump out of control. ---------- FLAP ---------- It lets you fly over bad terrain. This ability is useless for mages. It'll only speed you up a little. Btw, for those who always stuck because of ice sheet can try this ability. But I prefer to choose Mages in order to avoid ice sheet. ---------- MUG ---------- It steal a rival's magic stone. Want to steal your opponents magic stone use this ability. This ability is useful in order to collect the magic stone and miss your opponents chance to use the magic stones. ---------- BARRIER ---------- It protect you from attacks. You get a shield that lasts until you are attacked. This ability especially useful in Grand Prix, where you get attacked almost all the time by other opponents. ---------- MAGIC PLUS ---------- It increases your magic stone's power. This ability is recommended to use better than MEGAFLARE ability. If you get Ultima, you can level it up and use on your opponents which is the damage the same as MEGAFLARE. This ability is need shorter time than MEGAFLARE to charge. ---------- GRIP-UP ---------- It makes your vehicle handle better. If you tired of bumping on the wall. I recommend you to use this ability. This ability is very useful on track with many hard turns. Once you use this ability, you don't get to worry on loosing your speed when you bump on the wall. ---------- CHARGE ---------- It accelerates to attack opponents. Short burst of speed, you can wreck an opponent by hitting them while this is activated. It builds really fast, too. You get more overall speed with this than with the DASH ability. ---------- RECEIVE ---------- It gets any magic stones used on you ! When you get hit by any magic, then you gain one of the spell that you were hit by. Useful in GP races, since you'll be getting a powerful spell every few seconds because of the constant barrage of attacks in that mode. ---------- MEGAFLARE ---------- It rains fireball on all your foes. Builds very slowly. Then when it's full, it's a level 3 magic hit on every opponent. ---------- GUNBLADE ---------- It speeds you up until you take a lead! When you used it, you'll get a burst of speed (about 180 kph). Each time you pass your opponents, your gunblade will slash on them which makes them crash. There are some conditions in which this ability will disappear: - If someone has it and is hit by the Flare. - If you get hit while using it and someone passes you. - If you're in first place after 5 seconds. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ IX. Magic Spell: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Different magic stones have the different spells. Here are the lists: ------------ HASTE ------------ Haste1 - makes you go faster. Haste2, Haste3 - to do an even longer "DASH". ------------ FIRE ------------ Fire - shoot fire aim one in front of you to make go crash. Fira - auto aim one in front of you must go crash. Firaga - makes everyone in front of you go crash. ------------ ICE ------------ Blizzard - places a sheet of ice on the course that makes whoever runs over it spin out of control. Blizzara - makes lots and lots of ice for others to spin out on. Blizzaga - freezes all you foes in ice and makes them crash. ------------ THUNDERBOLTS ------------ Thunder - makes the chap in front of you and crash. Thundara - strike the chap in front of you with three lightning bolts and cause them to crash. Thundaga - causes averybody else to be zappped by lightning and crash. ------------ MINIMIZE ------------ Mini1 - makes your competitors shrink in size and slow down. Mini2, Mini3 - makes everyone become smaller and slower. -------------- REFLECT -------------- Reflect - reflect the spell which was release by enemy. -------------- DOOM -------------- Curse - makes curse on the foe in front of you which is have ten seconds delay that cursed one will crash. -------------- ULTIMA -------------- Ultima1 - causes all other competitors to spin out of control. Ultima2 - causes all of your opponents will be made to crash. Ultima3 - causes all of your competitors to have catasthropic crash. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ X. Story Mode Walkthrough: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ======================================================================= WARNING: This section contains many spoilers. Do not proceed if you don't want the game to be spoiled. ======================================================================= ------------------------------------- Chapter 1: Gadgets a-go-go! ------------------------------------- Chocobo visits his pal, Cid. Cid said that he's gonna give Chocobo something dandy - Jet Blades CR! Cid invites Chocobo to try his new bikes on Cid's race track. Suggested Player - Chocobo Suggested Ability - DASH Gained Player - none After testing his new bikes, Mog showed up and asked if the bikes have been finished or not. Cid said that it'll be finished tomorrow. Mog wants to change the title of the game to "Mog-oh-boy Racing". Cid actually haven't made a bike for Mog but he'll just have to make something by tomorrow. ------------------------------------- Chapter 2: Moogling Right Along! ------------------------------------- In the next day, Mog ask Cid about his new bikes. Cid have made the bike but Mog didn't sure about the bike performance. Mog said that he wants Square next title game to be changed to "Mog's better than Chocobo's Dungeon 2" if he win the race. Suggested Player - Chocobo Suggested Ability - DASH Gained Player - Mog Mog loose to Chocobo and said that it's unfair since his bike is slower than Chocobo's bike. Cid told him that it's because of the blue crystal in Chocobo's ring which has "DASH" ability. Cid found it when Chocobo was still a little chickadee. Then Chocobo and Mog start their journey to find out that secret. ------------------------------------- Chapter 3: A Life in Ruins! ------------------------------------- Chocobo and Mog reached the village gate. Suddenly Golem appears and said that he was a gatekeeper and told them that they have to beat him in order to leave the village. They saw blue crystal on Golem's hand and challenge him to get it. Suggested Player - Chocobo Suggested Ability - DASH Gained Player - Golem After beating Golem, Mog asked for the blue crystal. But Golem said that if they want the blue crystal, he have to go with them. Chocobo agree. ------------------------------------- Chapter 4: The Pleasure is Mine! ------------------------------------- They soon moseyed onto an old abandoned mine, it sure was one lonesome- looking place called "Mythrial Mountain". People used to mine along of metal called "Mythrial" but since the Mythrial supply ran out, they gave up digging. When they go through the mines to get to the other side of the mountain, Mog was captured by Goblin. Goblin asked for some pence. They saw the blue crystal on Goblin's earrings and they challenge Goblin to get it. Suggested Player - Golem Suggested Ability - DASH Gained Player - Goblin After beating Goblin, Mog found a letter which simply tell us that Goblin is a Gobin Hood who steal from the rich and give it to the poor. Goblin said that he have to come along with them in order to get his blue crystal. Chocobo agree. ------------------------------------- Chapter 5: Mind Your Manor! ------------------------------------- With Goblin as a guide, Chocobo and friends came to spooky - looking forest which was called "Cursed Forest". Goblin said that alot of people who came to this place has disappeared without trace. In this forest there is "Black Manor" castle. Goblin said that no one who enter there ever came back alive. Then they enter the castle. Suddenly the door opened. Chocobo was going to investigate it followed by Goblin and Golem. Mog was get scared too and followed them too. Suggested Player - Golem Suggested Ability - DASH Gained Player - Black Magician They captured Black Magician who can't speak. Black Magician also had blue crystal too. Chocobo said that he will take Black Magician with them. ------------------------------------- Chapter 6: Crystal Clear! ------------------------------------- Chocobo and friends were getting kinda tired from all the travelling they'd done so far. Their new buddy, Black Magician, silently led them to the village of mages and magicians - "Mysidia". As they entered the village, they saw White Mage and asked her to cast "Cure" to them. White Mage had blue crystal too and she called it "Magicite". White Mage said that she'll tell the story of magicite if they win the race. Suggested Player - Golem Suggested Ability - DASH Gained Player - White Mage Then White Mage revealed the story. There are magicite shards scattered all over the world. It used to be one large magicite crystal but people kept fighting each other over it. So the founder of Mysidia, the great magician Ming-Wu broke the crystal into eight pieces. He then scattered the shards to the four winds. White Mage said that she has to join them because she has to take responsibility for telling them the story. ------------------------------------- Chapter 7: Maybe it's something I ate ------------------------------------- Having know the secrets of magicite crystal, they continue their journey to collect the rest of them. Chocobo and friends are tired and hungry. Then their heard stomach grumbling. It's Chubby's stomach voice. Chubby asked for food but Chocobo and friends didn't have it. Chubby even ate magicite crystal which was now in his stomach. They challenge Chubby to get it if they win. If they loose, Chubby can eat all of them. (scary isn't it?) Suggested Player - Golem Suggested Ability - DASH Gained Player - Chubby Chocobo Chubby said that his stomach has been acting up a little so it won't come out for a while. Waiting for the magicite crystal to come out, Chocobo and friends decided to take Chubby with them. ------------------------------------- Chapter 8: Won't you be my lava! ------------------------------------- Accompanied by Chubby, our company came across a creepy, crawly cavern. On the other side was a desolate wasteland - the likes of which they'd never seen before. Chubby said that there was magicite crystal in this place - Vulcan-O Valley. There's also a mighty magical monster living here. Suddenly, they heard a voice. It's Behemoth. He's also had magicite crystal. They challenge him to get it. Suggested Player - Chubby Chocobo Suggested Ability - DASH Gained Player - Behemoth After beating Behemoth, all of the magicite crystal has been gathered together. The magicite crystal was starting to glow... ------------------------------------- Chapter 9: Final Fantasia ------------------------------------- Their crystals are starting to glow. Well, actually Mog had magicite crystal too and his crystal is starting to glow too. Black Magician suddenly can speak and said that the gate to "Fantasia" will open soon. Then you'll see a cool FMV which show you how Fantasia portal opened. Suddenly there's voice which said "Welcome to Fantasia - The realm of the Espers". Well, this was actually the voice of Bahamut, the King of Espers - the legendary "Beasts of Illusion". He said that he will give the final test (of course racing). Suggested Player - Chubby Chocobo Suggested Ability - MAGIC PLUS Gained Player - Bahamut After passing the final test, Bahamut told them that from now on their world and Final Fantasia world will be together so they can watch each other. After that Bahamut disappear. All of the character had happy ending. Btw, only Mog didn't get the happy ending since he think that he can sold the magicite crystal for some pence. Well, that's the end of Story Mode. ------------------------------------- Chapter 10: F.F.VIII Circuit ------------------------------------- As I said in above that "that's the end of Story Mode", well that's not actually end if you beat the game for the second time. After you customized your racer in Edit Parameters, the screen will display "WARNING" message with Squall is standing back. Suggested Player - Chubby Chocobo Suggested Ability - GRIP-UP Gained Player - Squall As a note, the racer which you customized has been chosen to race on this track so be careful on customizing the racer. Another note, don't return to Select Mode until you've beaten Squall. Because if you do, you have to beat the Story Mode once again just to defeat Squall. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ XI. Edit Parameters: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Edit Parameters is a very useful feature in Chocobo Racing. It lets you edit your character to build the best racer. Here I list for you what you have to do on Edit Parameters. 1. Cid and Chocobo will show your score, depending on how fast you complete the game. 2. Choose the racer and their color. 3. Well, Edit Parameters looks like this: |ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ| |ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ| |ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ| | Racer | | Racer | | Your | | Front | | Side | | Score | | Face | | Face | | | |_________| |_________| |________|PTs Max Speed |||||||||||||||||||| 20 PTs Accel. |||||||||||||||| 16 PTs Grip |||||||||||||||||||| 20 PTs Drift |||||||||||||||| 16 PTs A.G.S. ||||||||||||||||||| 18 PTs 4. Your score will be distributed into: * Max Speed - How many kph is your maximum speed. * Accel. - How fast your speed goes up. * Grip - How you go around the track without sliding. * Drift - How good you can slide with the brake button. * A.G.S - How fast your Ability Gauge's Speed goes up. 5. Choose Test Run to take your customized racer for a run on Cid's Test Track or Quit to name your character with maximal eight characters. 6. In any mode other than Story Mode, choose Slot1 or Slot2 to load your customized racer. You'll use him in the race. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ XII. Race Track: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ---------------- Cid's Test Track ---------------- This course is made by Cid. This course was created in order for test a run. This is a place where you can burst your speed in maximum easiliy. This course is the shortest of all the courses. Course Length - 0.77 mi Difficulty Level - 1/5 Suggested Player - SS Invincible, Bahamut Suggested Ability - DASH ---------------- Moogle Forest ---------------- This course takes place on a the Moogle's homeland. With easy turns makes it easy to reach your top speed. Btw, racing on the grass will make your bike slower. Course Length - 0.84 mi Difficulty Level - 2/5 Suggested Players - SS Invincible, Bahamut Suggested Ability - DASH ---------------- The Ancient Gate ---------------- This course takes place on the ruins of the roads on the old village gate. This is a place where the speed and grip takes an important role. There are several hard turns which can cause you bump into the walls. If you see two path, be sure to choose the right path. Course Length - 0.84 mi Difficulty Level - 2/5 Suggested Players - Bahamut, Squall Suggested Ability - DASH ---------------- Mythril Mines ---------------- This course takes place on the cart track which is used to carry the Mythril. When you're in subway, be prepare to bump. Btw, try to take the shortcut path which is can be seen on the map. Course Length - 1.03 mi Difficulty Level - 2/5 Suggested Players - Bahamut, Squall Suggested Ability - DASH ---------------- The Black Manor ---------------- This course takes place on the Black Magician castle. Be sure to have a character with a great speed and good grip. Be careful in the end of the path, if you aren't careful enough you can fall off. Course Length - 1.17 mi Difficulty Level - 3/5 Suggested Players - Chubby Chocobo Suggested Ability - DASH ---------------- Floating Gardens ---------------- This course takes place on the sky on which the ancestors of Mysidia built hanging garden. Just speed your bike up since bumping in this are won't make you fall off. Be sure to choose a character with a great speed and good grip. Course Length - 1.17 mi Difficulty Level - 3/5 Suggested Players - Chubby Chocobo Suggested Ability - DASH ---------------- Gingerbread Land ---------------- As we see the place, we can know who the hell the character behind it. The character must be really greedy. With many medium turns, you should prepare your character with a great grip. Gingerbread Land is one of the longest courses. Course Length - 1.55 mi Difficulty Level - 4/5 Suggested Player - Chubby Chocobo Suggested Ability - DASH ---------------- Vulcan-O Valley ---------------- This course takes place on the volcano area so there must be many lavas. You should have to watch carefully on the sign. If you see it just make a big skid. Grip takes a really important role here. Course Length - 1.46 mi Difficulty Level - 4/5 Suggested Players - Chubby Chocobo Suggested Ability - GRIP-UP ---------------- Fantasia ---------------- This is the course which is speed is less important. Grip is a must. Btw, I prefer to use my character without GRIP-UP ability since it always make me fall off. You have to master zig-zag in order to win this game. There's a shortcut here but I suggest that you're not going to take it. Course Length - 1.63 mi Difficulty Level - 5/5 Suggested Players - Chubby Chocobo Suggested Ability - MAGIC PLUS ---------------- F.F.VIII Circuit ---------------- This course has a long track with many hard turns. Pressing brake and a character with great grip is required in this course. Course Length - 1.46 mi Difficulty Level - 5/5 Suggested Players - Chubby Chocobo Suggested Ability - GRIP-UP _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ XIII. Secrets: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ----------------------------- Hidden Characters: ----------------------------- Each time you complete the Story Mode you've got new character. Btw, this character apply on all of mode except for Story Mode. Here are the list of the characters with how many times you've to complete story mode: Bahamut - one time. Squall - two times. Cid's Tank - three times. Highlight Squall, hold L1. Mumba - four times. Highlight Squall, hold L2. Cloud - five times. Highlight Squall, hold R1. Cactuar - six times. Highlight Squall, hold R2. Aya - seven times. Highlight Squall, hold L1+L2. Classic Chocobo - eight times. Highlight Squall, hold R1+R2. SS Invincible - nine times. Highlight Squall, hold L1+R1. Jack - ten times. Highlight Squall, hold L2+R2. ----------------------------- Grand Prix Secrets: ----------------------------- Complete Story Mode twice. Now, you should have "Fantasia" and "F.F.VIII Circuit" track along with Bahamut and Squall. You should have customized your racer in "Edit Parameters". Btw I suggest that you choose to customize Chubby Chocobo. Don't use the point too much in acceleration and drift if your point hasn't reached 100. Now, choose One Player and choose Slotx (x indicate 1 or 2). Select Chubby on the list. Now, select 4 tracks on your own. Each time you finish 1st on 8 tracks excluding F.F.VIII Circuit and Fantasia, you've got a new classes. Here they are: Chocobo Class - beginner difficulty. Behemoth Class - intermediate difficulty. Bahamut Class - advance difficulty. After you finish 1st on 8 tracks excluding F.F.VIII Circuit and Fantasia in Bahamut class, you've got Mirror Mode on Options. ----------------------------- Sound Room Secrets: ----------------------------- Each time you gained a new music or sound, you can hear it on Sound Room in the Options. The easiest way to collect the music or sound is on Story Mode. ----------------------------- Movie Secrets: ----------------------------- Each time you gained a new FMV or clip, you can see it on Movie in the Options. You have to collect FMV on Story Mode to get "Ending" and "Fantasia" FMV. Beat Grand Prix with every characters to get their winning clip except for hidden and customized racer. ----------------------------- Get 100 Points on Story Mode: ----------------------------- Well, at last I knew the way to get the points in Story Mode. That is on our time which we spend to complete the Story Mode. In order to get 100 points you should beat the time which is listed below: Cid's Test Track - 1:10 Moogle Forest - 1:15 The Ancient Gate - 1:20 Mythril Mines - 1:30 The Black Manor - 2:02 Floating Gardens - 2:07 Gingerbread Land - 2:45 Vulcan-O Valley - 2:40 Fantasia - 3:15 The above time is estimated. Btw, that's the time in which I get 100 points. For those who get 100 points with the time lower than the above, pls email me. I mean like this, if your time in Cid's Test Track is 1:15 (mine is 1:10) and you still get 100 points, pls email me. I'd like to make an exact time for it. ----------------------------- Extra Boost: ----------------------------- Before the start of the race hold up + square, you'll speed past the other racers. ----------------------------- Miscellanous Secrets: ----------------------------- a. In certain track there is a shortcut so be sure to use it in order to save your time. b. When you see something jump from the right to left of you that means that one of the racer is using their MUG ability so use your magic stone quickly before they get it. c. Every racer has their own advantage to use on different track so be sure to choose the right racer on the right track. d. Usually the computer won't let you to cast level 3 magic so be sure to use it on level 2 instead. e. If you get HASTE stone which cast Haste you should use it instead of waiting for levelling it up since the time of using Haste three times is better than level 3 Haste. f. Pressing brakes in this game is not prohibitable so be sure to use it on the track with many hard turns. g. To make somewhat sharp turns, hit the brake button once and turn while keeping the gas held down. For very sharp turns, tap the brake button two or three times and you'll turn very quickly. h. If you have a Dual Shock pad, use the analog controllers. They're really much better than the normal controller. i. In Story Mode, your object is to beat the "gained player". So eventhough you are on 3rd position but if the "gained player" position is below you (4th, 5th and so on), you'll win. Well, that's all folks ... _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ XIV. GameShark: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ All of these codes come from the Game Shark Code Creator's Club: http://www.cmgsccc.com/ These codes was made and tested on GameShark v3.2. 1J Joker Command D007B120 ???? 01 Max Stats in Edit Mode D007B120 0100 (Press Select) 8008D75A 6363 D007B120 0100 8008D75C 6363 D007B120 0100 3008D75E 6363 02 Have All Crowns and Classes 801E9290 FFFF 801E9292 FFFF 03 Enable All Music 801E9294 FFFF 801E9296 FFFF 04 Enable All Movies 801E9298 FFFF 05 Enable All Characters and Tracks 801E929C FFFF 300AF04F 0008 06 Time is 00:00:00 8008C028 2400 07 99 Points in Grand Prix Mode 8008C028 0063 08 Quick Finish in Story Mode D007B120 0100 (Press Select to Finish the race) 30105848 0004 D007B120 0100 30105378 0004 D007B120 0100 300FEAD8 0004 D007B120 0100 30OFBC68 0004 D007B120 0100 300FE560 0004 D007B120 0100 30OE3C80 0004 D007B120 0100 30ODF9C0 0004 D007B120 0100 30ODD028 0004 D007B120 0100 30OE5AB8 0004 D007B120 0100 30OE9DD8 0004 D007B120 0100 30OEA510 0004 D007B120 0100 30OE0568 0004 D007B120 0100 30OEB2F8 0004 D007B120 0100 30OE0470 0004 09 Character Modifier 300AF05E 00?? Quantity Digits to Accompany Character Modifier Code 00 - Slot 1 01 - Slot 2 02 - Bahamut (Hidden Character) 03 - Chubby Chocobo 04 - Behemoth 05 - Golem 06 - Squall (Hidden Character) 07 - White Mage 08 - Goblin 09 - Chocobo 0A - Mog 0B - Black Magician _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ XV. Credits: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Appears in alphabetical order: Agus Ngadiman - Thx for giving me "PSX CD" as a gift. - Thx for being a good friend of mine. Benny - Thx for introducing me GameFAQs. - Thx for accompanying me buy this game. - Thx for being a good friend of mine. - Thx alot pal for giving me a printed walkthrough. Benson - Thx for providing me a "transportation" to school. - Thx for being a good friend of mine. Brett "Nemesis" Franklin - Well, you see that my ASCII art logo used his Brave Fencer Musashi ASCII art logo. - Be sure to check his page at: http://faqdomain.cjb.net chocobo, CloudX K.G., Hadrian "Blues" Hawell, tharkun - Thx for contributing secrets and tips about Chocobo Racing on GameSages. - Sorry for grouping all of your name but that just to decrease my FAQ length. Dan Simpson - Thx for some parts of the email policy. Dingo Jellybean - Thx for some parts of the author's note. GameSages - For providing me some secrets and tips about Chocobo Racing. - Be sure to check their page at: http://www.gamesages.com Handhy Perayoga - Thx for being a good friend of mine. - Thx for helping me on my exams. Henry Julianto - Thx for being a good friend of mine. - Thx for lending me some of his "PSX CD". Jeff "CJayC" Veasey - The webmaster of www.gamefaqs.com. - For his dedication and hard work to www.gamefaqs.com. - Thanks for hosting all of my FAQs. Joe VanPelt - Thx a bunch for your "Chocobo Racing Guide" [J] FAQ. - Thx for some secrets about Chocobo Racing. - I considered him as a half author on this FAQ. Moises Baez - Thx a bunch for your "Crash Team Racing" FAQ. - Why haven't you updated your FAQ? My Brother - Thx for buying PlayStation for me. - Thx for donating me some money to buy "PSX CD". My Father and My Mother - Thx for their patience. - Thx for growing me up. Scott Ong - Thx for some parts of the disclaimer. - Thx for some parts of the email policy. - Be sure to check his page at: http://members.xoom.com/scottong SquareSoft - For making this incredible game. - Be sure to visit their page at: http://www.squaresoft.com Whoever on creating WordPad. Whoever on ISTP, you know me right? Whoever on reading this FAQ. Whoever on translating it into English. Yee Seng Fu - Thx for inspiring me on making this FAQ. - Thx for some parts of the disclaimer. - Be sure to check his page at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/7933/ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ --==END OF DOCUMENT==-- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ