Final Fantasy 7 - ultra fast 176 speed gold chocobo (pt 3/3)

This is, by far, my fastest chocobo, and upon seeing the 176 km speed (that's 109 mph), I was stunned. The video covers moving from rank C to rank S and is split into 3 segments. With a chocobo this fast, S rank looks like a walk in the park. Even Teioh is not much of a challenge. You can actually tell what it's speed and stamina are going to be. This chocobo's top speed is 10% above that of the player's chocobo and its stamina is 25% above. Both are rounded down to the preceeding integer. 176 Km/h for the speed means 176+17 or 193 for his chocobo's top speed. If I can get a chocobo whose top speed is 233 or higher, and if the speed is an 8-bit unsigned variable, then Teioh's top speed would be 233+23, 256, or 0. Why 0? Variable overflow. 256 is 0x0100 (as a 16-bit value) and as 8-bit, the "01" is left out giving just 0x00, zero. A top speed of 0... now that's racing material!

To boost odds of winning, switch to manual control right away (press select), press and hold the R1 and R2 buttons, and when the chocobos take off, press [] to speed up. Avoid sprinting. If you're familiar with the "tortoise and the hare" story, pacing will allow for greater success. The difference in speed, strangely, is very miniscule. Holding the R1 and R2 buttons together allows the stamina meter to be recharged further enhancing success. Since 99% of the items given are useless junk to me, even elixirs and turbo ethers (thanks to W-item and enemies that knowingly give these), I almost always get GP instead of the item. Also, note the gil. This is my new current record (as of May 30, 2008).

The first segment covers getting to the chocobo racing area and the first four races. Take note of how far the others are left behind. I'm just crossing the finish line while the others are still going through the spiraling climb. I have to wait a minute for the short course and 1 1/3 minutes for the long course for the others to catch up. I've deleted this boring part out. The entire C class is covered with one of B. Even with B, the others are still in that spiral climb! I could almost do 3 full laps of the C class before the others do just one.

The second segment covers the rest of B and all of A. In A rank, I still leave them far behind though I could almost lap them if it was a 2-lap race.

The third segment contains five S-rank races. Even these chocobos are often left behind quite far. If you win 10 or so S-rank races, you get 5 bonus items.

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[NFITC1]

Sometimes the S class Chocobos will have speeds close to 200 and will actually beat Teioh themselves! It's really fun to come in first and Teioh in last. :D

[ulillillia]

S class doesn't get much above 140 and I've never seen such chocobos reaching 150, let alone 200.

[NFITC1]

@ulillillia Huh. I may be thinking about a lower speed chocobo that I had. I do remember the S class racers being about 20 faster and teioh being slower than the rest and me winning and him losing. It's been a while and I'm a lttle fuzzy on the details.

[ulillillia]

I've won S-class races with a regular yellow chocobo with a speed of only 97. You'd think such a chocobo can't win against those with 130, but you'd be surprised. And yes, Teioh coming in last is quite interesting to watch. It's actually easier to beat Teioh in the long course than the short one and the R1+R2 button combo is not required either.

[Hambugenable]

How do I get more speed?

I have used 30 Greens it cost 5000 gil per.

I only get stamina now :(

[ulillillia]

Sylkis greens don't affect every stat. The reagen greens don't either. I usually give 49 reagen and 30 sylkis greens, selling mastered all materia for fast gil (using the forest around Mideel and double- and triple-growth items for fast AP).

[sickspastic]

wrong. chickens look like chocobos :P

[ulillillia]

It's likely the difference between your TV's settings (brightness, contrast, etc.) and your computer monitor's settings.

[lead2head]

@ulillillia if you go to the chocobo sage and by silkhas greens you can. mine is 193 kph with 999 stamina. teioh nothing compared to me.

[MrPsycadellica]

wow



[ulillillia]

Even regular yellow chocobos can easily have 999 stamina. I get it all the time.

[ironmaidenforlife123]

Both my current Black and Gold Chocobos have 999 stamina. Is that common for those chocobos, or are they just genetically superior haha.