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Watched all the way to the end. Gonna see if a Twitch streamer I watch will make it a stretch goal since her mod loves Sonic, and she did do a 8 hour long Eve Online documentary once.

watched this in two parts, amazing video ngl. the fact that you did all of this yourself with no monetary gain/motivation is insane to me honestly. this sorta feels like a sequel to cybershells chao video, going into even more detail on specific features all of this effort just for the optimal chao is certainly something, to say the least

It took me the second viewer discretion advisory for me to realize what you were talking about the first time and yeah...

forget the shrouded ghost, how to you get that cyan glowing set that you had on your hurdy gurdy

This was some top notch stuff dude, I'd love to see more chao research, hopefully it can help bring more attention to the CG again cuz I'd love for the community to grow more. Also the section talking about the "inconvenient" TCG in Advance 2 was so relatable cuz I just went through that process this week for the first time and no game has ever made me seethe so badly before 😭

this was nice

9:50, lol you said "Final Egg"

Dude, the amount of effort put into this video, unbelievable ! I tip my hat for you my brother, for your efforts shall not be wasted but accumulate to the collective education and understanding of the world of chao garden, and may your name shall not be forgotten, but be engraved on the stone pillars that hold this community together among other great heroes. 🙏🏻💙

What mod did you use to see the Chao Data?

48:00 Never heard of this shiny tails chao before, I'm sort of a chao professor myself, I wrote a Wii app that reads the GC savefiles to manage chao without the GBA linking step. When the time came to make a "blackmarket" built into the app, I had to document as much of the chao format as possible because buying eggs for SADX doesn't work unless you manually create the stats, unlike SA2B that has an inventory and lets the game take care of designing the chao. The flag that makes chao shiny does not work on jewel/rare chao, so I'm very interested in knowing how this would work. There's a lot of chao info out there, but I don't think anyone has ever talked about some of the GBA exclusive features. There's a palette feature that lets you customize the appearance of a chao in the TCG. This data is reset when transferring via GBA linking.

Well faked bro

You have 1400h, i have 2400h... i don't have the shrouded ghost 💀

When I myself did a deep dive into Chao mechanics for my max Emblems playthrough earlier this year I learned a lot of this, but even with many hours of research and gameplay I still learned some stuff from this video. Excellent job! Instant sub.

At first I honestly thought this was a choa video and the I gained… INFINITE CHAO KNOWLEDGE

2kh still never even seen him

What clothes are you wearing? Looks good :)

this is rare propaganda, we all know the Shrouded Ghost does not exist!

As some one who doesn’t use mods, your research was so greatly appreciated. 🫡🫡

imagine a nother crew sinked you doing the meg

So, what I can take away from this is the Sonic Advance TCG is pretty much superior when it comes to preset stats for those hatched that game.

For character presets, are there anything unique for characters that can't normally access the chao garden?, like the multi-player characters? Or super sonic/shadow?

I made it all the way through and this kinda reminds me of pokemons evs and ivs

bro, cant tell you why it happened... but i literally tear up watching you get that fucking shark. a truly magical moment.

Absolute God tier content

I went through the whole video while working on my Omegamon X-Antibody Figure-rise Standard Amplified model kit. This kit could end up taking the longest amount of time of the 4 model kits I've purchased so far. I'll have to see once I get to the remaining two.

I was so bummed fishing in the newer sonic game, I miss and wish they would make a new choa world

I absolutely love videos that over analyze niche mechanics. i loved watching this

First off thank you for all of this info. I know this was a struggle and a time sink at times. It is very appreciated and I'm sure this will be referenced by many in the future. But there is more info that you will need to add if you want to complete this adventure... manly Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut AND possibly the gba games... let me explain. First off as a kid I found out that if you don't have sonic pinball or any of the gba games with chao gardens. when you connect the gba without a game in and transfer a chao into it your gba downloads a version of it. Meaning that sab2 could ether have a different version of the garden (like a beta version that may have somethings that are different). On top of that you can transfer chao from SADX the same way as above to SAB2( meaning possibly older version of the gba game is downloaded). booting up SADX transfer the chao onto the gba with no game also provides a different version than the SAB2, but it can be used to transfer to SAB2. (picture transferring pokemon from r/b/y to g/s/c) I bring this up because when I was a kid we transferred the black egg you get from SADX to SAB2. The Chao will always have all B ranks when hatched. The chao was hatched in SADX. This also includes all black eggs bought from the black market once its been transferred over to have this same result. (If you need proof I can boot up the old save file and provide you with screenshots etc) So all in all there is a lot to test, as follows: Is there a difference between SAB2 download gba when there is no game? Is there a difference between SADX download gba when there is no game? Is SADX gardens affected by the same rules that you tested (gardens, characters etc) Eggs transferred from SADX to SAB2 hold their ranks? In addition I got my black choa to all s ranked by cloning it and breeding with it repeatedly. (clone the child and raise a different stat and then grow to an adult) All of the info I provided is for the GameCube versions of SAB2 and SADX. Ngl I hope you make a follow up video with this info. If you do I wish you the best of luck and sorry >.<

i subscribed a minuet and 25 seconds in just going off strength of character

Oh dang is this intentionally sleep content?

I actually did the same thing with my old Blue version. Backed everything up and got my original blastoise onto home. After hearing that the batteries on those usually don't last much longer than 20-25 years it felt like I accomplished a rescue mission.

Chao's are one of the best things to come out of the Sonic Franchise, it boggles my mind that Sega never does anything with them anymore. It would be cool if they brought them back and you could control them in minigames, or even help you out in the main game temporarily if you get a certain item. Like you get the item and it summons them, which would either be a computer controlled character or you'd temporarily be playing as them. Wouldn't exactly be helpful if they're a brand new low level chao since they basically just slowly crawl around, so it'd probably better to not have them summonable unless they're at a certain level. If you can make your chao super powerful and awesome it would help out a lot and be a fun gimmick I think.

1:00 mfw when I play the video at 1.5X speed

I've never made use of the Chao Gardens nor intend to but still watched this in full just because it's interesting to see how deep some people will go to figure this stuff out. Much respect for all the effort you put into this and for sharing it!

There is no way this dude's first instinct is to water his plants instead of jump in the water and look at the shrouded ghost.

Can't believe after all these years you still managed to teach me something new about my favorite childhood game. I listened to the whole thing, I wish they'd add more Chao stuff like a little mobile game that can connect to modern sonic games. But I don't know how they would implement a Chao garden in a modern sonic game.

Viewer reporting in. I did watch the whole video (actually paying attention to the screen as well) over the course of 2 days/meals. I think I've spent like 20 hours total messing with chao garden content over the years. Never enough to have made any legitimate progress (without cheats that is), but I always liked the content. This video having been my first exposure to what the breeding system is like and how obtuse the stats are, it's not surprising to me that I never invested days into it. Maybe sometime in the future I will look to emulating SA1 and SA2 (GBA) to get jewel chao. That's something for future me to look into. Overall, I liked your straightforward presentation of the content. I feel like the only improvement I could have asked for to the video would be a brief introduction to how breeding/reincarnation of chao works and maybe a reference/link to a video or webpage explaining it as well. I understand the system can be complex, but as someone who didn't know (explicitly know that is) how stat inheritance worked, this would have helped with understanding what was going on in the beginning of the discussion. I personally thought you spent even longer on the data collection, but when you mentioned how long you spent each day I knew it was a lot of effort. As someone who has had to do tedious work for upwards of 100 hours over 8-10 days, I can understand how tiring it can be. This specific research seems even more tedious than the things I have done in the past and I am uncertain if I would have been able to reproduce it with such specificity if I had to. Thank you for gathering and presenting this research. It motivates me to go back and play SA2B (either on my GCN/Jailbroken Wii or via Dolphin) and maybe try to raise a good chao sometime in the distant future. I would legitimately like to beat some of the more elite races that feature jewel and chaos chao. That's as far as I had ever gotten legitimately. Usually I would just beat the beginner races with the original egg chaos and unlocked the toys and shovel. I even played long enough to have them plant a couple trees (if I remember correctly that is possible). This video is only my introduction into chao breeding and I will definitely have to come back to it when I decide to pursue this goal. I appreciate the links to the community resources you were able to provide and will reference them when the time comes as well.

I love this kind of content. Edit: Noooooo, you only have 3 videos. 😢

But what about sonic adventures DX?

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Did no one tell him that the gold and ghost animals add INT and LUK?

It blew my mind that this side content from my childhood had such in depth mechanics, absolutely wild. Very good video Calmer! I had planned on just keeping it in the background as noise, but I got really interested and ended up paying attention through the whole thing. xD

I'm gonna be honest, I forgot I was watching a nearly hour-long video until you commented on it. I get too invested in videos to pay attention to the length

When I was a kid I had a special interest in Chao. I stumbled upon the Chao Island website back then, and decided that I would call myself "The Chaomaster" with all of my advanced Chao knowledge. I can safely say that beyond a shadow of a doubt, you are more deserving of that title than I ever was. Also: I really appreciate the attention to detail with the audio levels of your monogloging with parentheses and quotes, that in combination with the fantastic subtitles, made this one of the most understandable videos to date. Thank you. P.S. Real recognizes real, Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! was my favorite N64 game, and I played that game to death. I am still so upset my mom sold my copy.

ah finally some good fucking food

Missed 4 rings at the end