Chao Basics
To gain access to your Chao, tu must venture into Chao World. To go to Chao World, tu must find a 'Chao Box' in one of the levels. When tu break open the Chao Box, tu will find a key inside. When tu collect this key, tu will be warped to Chao World at the end of the level.
There are three Chao Boxes in each level. The first one will contain the key to Chao World. In the segundo box will be four misceláneo animales from that stage. In the third (final) box will be the "special" animal in that stage. See the animal sections for más information on this.
Once tu are in Chao World, tu will gain access to the Chao Gardens. Time only passes while tu are inside the Chao Garden. So if tu are in the Chao Lobby, playing a stage, o in a different Chao Garden to the one your Chao is in, it will not change/age/etc. At first there is only one Chao Garden, and if tu look inside, tu will see two Chao Eggs. These eggs contain your Chao.
These two Chao will be the regular normal Chao. These Chao are "two tone" Chao, which are light blue with yellow highights.
Hatching Chao
There are three ways of hatching the eggs, each way having different effects on your Chao.
Shaking:
Shaking the egg is the most common way of hatching an egg. Pick up the egg using the 'B' button, and while still holding it, mover the analogue stick to shake it. After about 5-10 segundos of shaking the egg, place it back down. The egg will start to bobble, then hatch giving tu your Chao.
Throwing:
tu can also throw the Chao egg to hatch it. To do this, pick up the egg por pressing the 'B' button, then while moving, press 'B' again. This will not make your Chao very happy at first. But there have been no negative effects that have been noticed por hatching this way. All that seems to happen is that the Chao will have an "angry/upset" tornado swirl expression above it's head (see the expressions page). But the Chao does not actually seem in any way harmed o upset afterwards.
Many people just use this way simply because it is quicker to hatch the egg this way. However, it has been dicho in a few guides/manuals/magazines that this method produces a más active, lively Chao.
Leaving:
Your Chao egg will hatch naturally after a while. If tu leave your Chao egg alone and it will hatch por itself. Hatching this way has also been dicho to produce a normal, but maybe timid Chao. There has been nothing to confirmar this however, so for now it seems to be just idle speculation.
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To find out más basic information about Chao, see the Chao Principal in the Chao Kindergarten. This is a great fuente of learning the very basics of what Chao are, and how to care for them.
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Chao First Evolution
Ok, so your Chao is evolving? In depth - it doesn't just evolve into Hero, Dark o Neutral - it evolves into different types of each. The type it evolves into depends on what attribute your Chao is best at.
To make a certain type, choose whether tu want your Chao to be Hero, Dark o Neutral, and give it a certain colour/class of of drives/animals to make sure it is best at that stat. This way, when it evolves, it will look like the desired Chao.
Yellow = Swimming
Purple = Flying
Green = Running
Red = Power
None = Nothing, o very little animals/drives
Neutral Chao
Neutral/Swim
Yellow and green, with dark green highlights.
Neutral/Fly
Common name: "(Basic) NiGHTS Chao"
Pinkish purple with two jesters. Nice wings. Resembles the Sega character NiGHTS.
Neutral/Run
Common name: "(Basic) Sonic Chao"
A green coloured Chao resembling Sonic. Big feet and three spikes on the back of its head.
Neutral/Power
Red with naranja highlights. Has three spikes and a darker belly.
Neutral
Looks like a normal newborn Chao, except has green highlights instead of yellow.
Hero Chao
Hero/Swim
Greenish blue markings with two flat leaf type things on the parte superior, arriba of its head.
Hero/Fly
Purple markings with two smaller leaf type things coming up from its head.
Hero/Run
Blueish markings with a small spike on its head.
Hero/Power
Red/orange markings with three small rounded spikes on its head.
Hero
Blue and yellow markings with two very small leaf type things coming from the back of its head.
Dark Chao
Dark/Swim
Common name: "Ninja Chao"
This Chao has aqua markings and has one small spike coming up from the back of its head.
Dark/Fly
Common name: "(Basic) Reala Chao"
Has two jesters and is a dark purple colour. Resembles the Sega character Reala. (From the game NiGHTS into dreams)
Dark/Run
Resembles Shadow in shape but has bright green markings. Has three spikes at the back of its head.
Dark/Power
Has a cone shaped head with a red stripy top, and stripy hands.
Dark
Black with some red markings.
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Once your Chao has reached its first evolution - it will still undergo another evoluti
Chao Actions
Chao do a lot of things which I havn't actually covered before, so i thought i might as well record the ones i know of. If there is an action tu do not see here it may be an animal trait.
Positive Actions
If your Chao likes your character and is near it, it may bow and say something that sounds like "hiiiiii".
Your Chao may start bouncing towards you, and when it reaches the character it will start to 'rub' against them (similar to a cat in real life). The Chao will contnue to do this until tu pet/pick/feed/hit it. If tu do not do anything, after a while it will stop and start to excitedly grin and hop from foot to foot giggling, and waving its arms.
If tu whistle, Chao that like the character alot will run towards it with an exclamation mark sign above them. Once they reach the character, they will do as above.
When being held, the Chao will enjoy it and have a ^_^ face.
It may also mover its arm out like it is giving a thumbs up.
Negative Actions
If your Chao severly dislikes your character and is near it, it may hiss and stick its tongue out at the player with a "baaahh" sound.
When being held the Chao will struggle and try to break free.
If the Chao has been attacked o thrown it may stand and shiver to mostrar it has been abused (it will make a "brr" shiver sound as if it is cold).
It may also become dizzy and sway with spiral eyes.
If tu take comida away from a Chao while it is eating it may start to cry.
Group Actions
If a Chao does something it has learned from the kindergarten, such as sing o play an instrument, other Chao can registrarse the activity. To make other Chao registrarse the activity, pick them up and place them near the Chao performing.
If the other Chao can sing o play their own instrument, they will registrarse in and form a band. Chao that do not know how to do anything will simply sit back and watch and enjoy the show. After the band finish playing the sitting Chao will stand up and applaud them.
Chao will registrarse in with these activities if placed siguiente to a Chao already doing it: watching TV, playing with the ball, listening to the radio, playing with the rocking horse (other Chao will watch).
Other Actions
Sometimes the Chao will hug a árbol that has been planted and make a sound, sounding something like "ah!". I think the Chao is just mostrando the árbol amor so it stays alive for a little longer =)
Chao will also water the trees randomly also extending the tree's life.
If a Chao owns crayons won from the Onyx race they will (usually) draw a picture of their favourite character. However they may also randomly draw some other pictures. (more on this in the race toys section)
A very hungry Chao will walk over to comida that is on the ground already and start to eat it (even if it is another Chao's leftovers.
animales
There are seven groups of animals, and each group has three animals.
tu can give animales to your Chao to make it stronger and give it different personalities and looks. When tu give a Chao an animal, it will hug it, and attain its looks and skills. The animal will disappear after tu give it to a Chao.
animales are found hidden in the levels, usually in locked cages that tu have to destroy o in pipes scattered around the stage (that tu have to whistle at). tu can also find them in robots created por Dr. Eggman such as the bomb throwing monkeys, o the robots that look like E-102 Gamma.
When tu give your Chao an animal, it will not only gain its looks and skills, but also an action. These are the animales that are in each group and what action it gives your Chao.
Yellow Group: Swimming
pingüino, pingüino de - Slides About on Belly
sello - Rolls Around
nutria - Does the Backstroke when Swimming
Purple Group: Flying
loro - Sings
Peacock - Struts About
cóndor, condor - Flaps About
Green Group: Running
Warthog - Dashes
Rabbit - Hops About
Cheetah - Licks its Face
Red Group: Power
Tiger - Sharpens its Nails
oso, oso de - Roars
Gorilla - Beats its Chest
Blue Group: Random
Racoon - Spins Around
Skunk - Farts
oveja - Does adelante, hacia adelante Somersaults
oro Group: Mythical
Unicorn - Bucks its Feet
Dragon - Breathes Fire
Phoenix - Wags its Tail
Black Group: Ghost
Bat - Makes your Chao's legs dissapear
Skeleton Dog - Removes Animal Features from Chao, Allows Hats to be Worn
Half pescado - Turns the Chao Ball into a Flame
Chao Stats
As tu give your Chao más animales and Chaos Drives, its stats will increase. This is very important if tu want your Chao to do well in the races. In the Dreamcast Game the maximum stats can go up to is 999. On the Gamecube, the maximum stats can be is 3266 (Explained más in the SA2:B Section). I will lista the stats below and their attributes:
Swimming
Swimming is needed when your Chao must swim. It is important to raise swimming o tu will lose your position in the races to the better swimmers. An extremely bad swimming stat will also mean that they won't be able to swim in the Chao Gardens! Raise swimming por giving your Chao yellow class animales and drives.
For Dreamcast, your Chao learns to swim when its Swim stat reaches 100.
Flying
Flying can be very useful when tu have to jump into a pool o fly over a ledge, because tu can get ahead easily if your flying stat is high. tu can raise the flying stat por giving your Chao purple class animales and drives.
Running
Running is probably the skill needed most when racing. Nearly all races have a huge emphasis on running and if your Chao has a good running stat, it will be at a big advantage. Running can be improved por giving your Chao green class animales and drives.
For Dreamcast, your Chao learns to walk when its Run stat reaches 20, and speed of walk increases at 100.
Power
Power is needed mostly when climbing cliffs. Some races with cliffs also have trees at the parte superior, arriba that also require power from your Chao to shake a nut down. tu can increase your Chao's power stat por giving it red class animales and drives.
Luck
On the Dreamcast, Luck is raised por choosing the correct treasure chest in the Chao Adventure 2 mini game. On the Gamecube version, it can be raised por giving your Chao oro class animales (this is NOT true for the Dreamcast game). Luck is needed on some of the courses where at the end; your Chao must choose a lane to run down. If your Chao picks the wrong one, it will fall down a hole and probably lose its position.
Intelligence
Again, on the Dreamcast version, Intelligence can be raised in the Chao Adventure 2 mini game, this time por eating Smart Fruits collected there. The Gamecube version lets tu raise intelligence por giving your Chao blue class animales (but NOT in the Dreamcast version). tu should raise intelligence as it will help your Chao solve the different puzzles in the course such as the shape game, and how quickly it solves the jack in the box puzzle.
Stamina
Stamina is one of the most essential parts o racing. If your Chao has a low amount of stamina, it will run out easily and your Chao's running speed will drop greatly. Stamina can be raised por eating nuts from the trees.
tu can also cheer for your Chao por using the trigger buttons. This will shortly give your Chao an extra boost of speed. However, be careful, as doing this takes away más stamina than usual so tu should try to pace yourself.
To gain access to your Chao, tu must venture into Chao World. To go to Chao World, tu must find a 'Chao Box' in one of the levels. When tu break open the Chao Box, tu will find a key inside. When tu collect this key, tu will be warped to Chao World at the end of the level.
There are three Chao Boxes in each level. The first one will contain the key to Chao World. In the segundo box will be four misceláneo animales from that stage. In the third (final) box will be the "special" animal in that stage. See the animal sections for más information on this.
Once tu are in Chao World, tu will gain access to the Chao Gardens. Time only passes while tu are inside the Chao Garden. So if tu are in the Chao Lobby, playing a stage, o in a different Chao Garden to the one your Chao is in, it will not change/age/etc. At first there is only one Chao Garden, and if tu look inside, tu will see two Chao Eggs. These eggs contain your Chao.
These two Chao will be the regular normal Chao. These Chao are "two tone" Chao, which are light blue with yellow highights.
Hatching Chao
There are three ways of hatching the eggs, each way having different effects on your Chao.
Shaking:
Shaking the egg is the most common way of hatching an egg. Pick up the egg using the 'B' button, and while still holding it, mover the analogue stick to shake it. After about 5-10 segundos of shaking the egg, place it back down. The egg will start to bobble, then hatch giving tu your Chao.
Throwing:
tu can also throw the Chao egg to hatch it. To do this, pick up the egg por pressing the 'B' button, then while moving, press 'B' again. This will not make your Chao very happy at first. But there have been no negative effects that have been noticed por hatching this way. All that seems to happen is that the Chao will have an "angry/upset" tornado swirl expression above it's head (see the expressions page). But the Chao does not actually seem in any way harmed o upset afterwards.
Many people just use this way simply because it is quicker to hatch the egg this way. However, it has been dicho in a few guides/manuals/magazines that this method produces a más active, lively Chao.
Leaving:
Your Chao egg will hatch naturally after a while. If tu leave your Chao egg alone and it will hatch por itself. Hatching this way has also been dicho to produce a normal, but maybe timid Chao. There has been nothing to confirmar this however, so for now it seems to be just idle speculation.
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To find out más basic information about Chao, see the Chao Principal in the Chao Kindergarten. This is a great fuente of learning the very basics of what Chao are, and how to care for them.
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Chao First Evolution
Ok, so your Chao is evolving? In depth - it doesn't just evolve into Hero, Dark o Neutral - it evolves into different types of each. The type it evolves into depends on what attribute your Chao is best at.
To make a certain type, choose whether tu want your Chao to be Hero, Dark o Neutral, and give it a certain colour/class of of drives/animals to make sure it is best at that stat. This way, when it evolves, it will look like the desired Chao.
Yellow = Swimming
Purple = Flying
Green = Running
Red = Power
None = Nothing, o very little animals/drives
Neutral Chao
Neutral/Swim
Yellow and green, with dark green highlights.
Neutral/Fly
Common name: "(Basic) NiGHTS Chao"
Pinkish purple with two jesters. Nice wings. Resembles the Sega character NiGHTS.
Neutral/Run
Common name: "(Basic) Sonic Chao"
A green coloured Chao resembling Sonic. Big feet and three spikes on the back of its head.
Neutral/Power
Red with naranja highlights. Has three spikes and a darker belly.
Neutral
Looks like a normal newborn Chao, except has green highlights instead of yellow.
Hero Chao
Hero/Swim
Greenish blue markings with two flat leaf type things on the parte superior, arriba of its head.
Hero/Fly
Purple markings with two smaller leaf type things coming up from its head.
Hero/Run
Blueish markings with a small spike on its head.
Hero/Power
Red/orange markings with three small rounded spikes on its head.
Hero
Blue and yellow markings with two very small leaf type things coming from the back of its head.
Dark Chao
Dark/Swim
Common name: "Ninja Chao"
This Chao has aqua markings and has one small spike coming up from the back of its head.
Dark/Fly
Common name: "(Basic) Reala Chao"
Has two jesters and is a dark purple colour. Resembles the Sega character Reala. (From the game NiGHTS into dreams)
Dark/Run
Resembles Shadow in shape but has bright green markings. Has three spikes at the back of its head.
Dark/Power
Has a cone shaped head with a red stripy top, and stripy hands.
Dark
Black with some red markings.
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Once your Chao has reached its first evolution - it will still undergo another evoluti
Chao Actions
Chao do a lot of things which I havn't actually covered before, so i thought i might as well record the ones i know of. If there is an action tu do not see here it may be an animal trait.
Positive Actions
If your Chao likes your character and is near it, it may bow and say something that sounds like "hiiiiii".
Your Chao may start bouncing towards you, and when it reaches the character it will start to 'rub' against them (similar to a cat in real life). The Chao will contnue to do this until tu pet/pick/feed/hit it. If tu do not do anything, after a while it will stop and start to excitedly grin and hop from foot to foot giggling, and waving its arms.
If tu whistle, Chao that like the character alot will run towards it with an exclamation mark sign above them. Once they reach the character, they will do as above.
When being held, the Chao will enjoy it and have a ^_^ face.
It may also mover its arm out like it is giving a thumbs up.
Negative Actions
If your Chao severly dislikes your character and is near it, it may hiss and stick its tongue out at the player with a "baaahh" sound.
When being held the Chao will struggle and try to break free.
If the Chao has been attacked o thrown it may stand and shiver to mostrar it has been abused (it will make a "brr" shiver sound as if it is cold).
It may also become dizzy and sway with spiral eyes.
If tu take comida away from a Chao while it is eating it may start to cry.
Group Actions
If a Chao does something it has learned from the kindergarten, such as sing o play an instrument, other Chao can registrarse the activity. To make other Chao registrarse the activity, pick them up and place them near the Chao performing.
If the other Chao can sing o play their own instrument, they will registrarse in and form a band. Chao that do not know how to do anything will simply sit back and watch and enjoy the show. After the band finish playing the sitting Chao will stand up and applaud them.
Chao will registrarse in with these activities if placed siguiente to a Chao already doing it: watching TV, playing with the ball, listening to the radio, playing with the rocking horse (other Chao will watch).
Other Actions
Sometimes the Chao will hug a árbol that has been planted and make a sound, sounding something like "ah!". I think the Chao is just mostrando the árbol amor so it stays alive for a little longer =)
Chao will also water the trees randomly also extending the tree's life.
If a Chao owns crayons won from the Onyx race they will (usually) draw a picture of their favourite character. However they may also randomly draw some other pictures. (more on this in the race toys section)
A very hungry Chao will walk over to comida that is on the ground already and start to eat it (even if it is another Chao's leftovers.
animales
There are seven groups of animals, and each group has three animals.
tu can give animales to your Chao to make it stronger and give it different personalities and looks. When tu give a Chao an animal, it will hug it, and attain its looks and skills. The animal will disappear after tu give it to a Chao.
animales are found hidden in the levels, usually in locked cages that tu have to destroy o in pipes scattered around the stage (that tu have to whistle at). tu can also find them in robots created por Dr. Eggman such as the bomb throwing monkeys, o the robots that look like E-102 Gamma.
When tu give your Chao an animal, it will not only gain its looks and skills, but also an action. These are the animales that are in each group and what action it gives your Chao.
Yellow Group: Swimming
pingüino, pingüino de - Slides About on Belly
sello - Rolls Around
nutria - Does the Backstroke when Swimming
Purple Group: Flying
loro - Sings
Peacock - Struts About
cóndor, condor - Flaps About
Green Group: Running
Warthog - Dashes
Rabbit - Hops About
Cheetah - Licks its Face
Red Group: Power
Tiger - Sharpens its Nails
oso, oso de - Roars
Gorilla - Beats its Chest
Blue Group: Random
Racoon - Spins Around
Skunk - Farts
oveja - Does adelante, hacia adelante Somersaults
oro Group: Mythical
Unicorn - Bucks its Feet
Dragon - Breathes Fire
Phoenix - Wags its Tail
Black Group: Ghost
Bat - Makes your Chao's legs dissapear
Skeleton Dog - Removes Animal Features from Chao, Allows Hats to be Worn
Half pescado - Turns the Chao Ball into a Flame
Chao Stats
As tu give your Chao más animales and Chaos Drives, its stats will increase. This is very important if tu want your Chao to do well in the races. In the Dreamcast Game the maximum stats can go up to is 999. On the Gamecube, the maximum stats can be is 3266 (Explained más in the SA2:B Section). I will lista the stats below and their attributes:
Swimming
Swimming is needed when your Chao must swim. It is important to raise swimming o tu will lose your position in the races to the better swimmers. An extremely bad swimming stat will also mean that they won't be able to swim in the Chao Gardens! Raise swimming por giving your Chao yellow class animales and drives.
For Dreamcast, your Chao learns to swim when its Swim stat reaches 100.
Flying
Flying can be very useful when tu have to jump into a pool o fly over a ledge, because tu can get ahead easily if your flying stat is high. tu can raise the flying stat por giving your Chao purple class animales and drives.
Running
Running is probably the skill needed most when racing. Nearly all races have a huge emphasis on running and if your Chao has a good running stat, it will be at a big advantage. Running can be improved por giving your Chao green class animales and drives.
For Dreamcast, your Chao learns to walk when its Run stat reaches 20, and speed of walk increases at 100.
Power
Power is needed mostly when climbing cliffs. Some races with cliffs also have trees at the parte superior, arriba that also require power from your Chao to shake a nut down. tu can increase your Chao's power stat por giving it red class animales and drives.
Luck
On the Dreamcast, Luck is raised por choosing the correct treasure chest in the Chao Adventure 2 mini game. On the Gamecube version, it can be raised por giving your Chao oro class animales (this is NOT true for the Dreamcast game). Luck is needed on some of the courses where at the end; your Chao must choose a lane to run down. If your Chao picks the wrong one, it will fall down a hole and probably lose its position.
Intelligence
Again, on the Dreamcast version, Intelligence can be raised in the Chao Adventure 2 mini game, this time por eating Smart Fruits collected there. The Gamecube version lets tu raise intelligence por giving your Chao blue class animales (but NOT in the Dreamcast version). tu should raise intelligence as it will help your Chao solve the different puzzles in the course such as the shape game, and how quickly it solves the jack in the box puzzle.
Stamina
Stamina is one of the most essential parts o racing. If your Chao has a low amount of stamina, it will run out easily and your Chao's running speed will drop greatly. Stamina can be raised por eating nuts from the trees.
tu can also cheer for your Chao por using the trigger buttons. This will shortly give your Chao an extra boost of speed. However, be careful, as doing this takes away más stamina than usual so tu should try to pace yourself.
