i did this on ps3 like 4 days ago and know cause my brother bought me the ps4 version i have to do this for 3 or 4th time. Well in my last try in ps3 i was trying the last one 1 hour and 45 minutes i don't know how tries i did but... I even't mute my TV and XD i don't get tired of hearing the Chocobo Theme also i did 13 ballons 0 birds
1.use stick pad (up, down,left,right), it gives you more control and be aggresive with it 2. dont even worry about time, worry about balloons. 3. if your not having fun, take a break and enjoy your ff journey (this is the hard one)
The chocobo race is pure, 100% rng. The fact that the chocobo will turn any random direction at any random time regardless of any potential nearby bird or balloon negates all of the skill. Nevermind there are races where physically not enough balloons spawn. It can take anywhere from 6 minutes to 6 hours to 6 years to achieve 0.0 and get the Sigil. It's just a matter of if/when the game rolls the correct numbers. I'm honestly surprised this wasn't addressed in the Remaster along with making blitzball games way shorter. In fact, they do the complete opposite and give it a trophy. It'd be one thing if you could even train your chocobo to not be so twitchy and random, or to gain a dash to avoid birds, but no, it's a trophy tied to pure luck.
Blitzball games are already too short. The “5 minute” halves are actually played at double speed. I want more blitzball. I want an entire blitzball game. It is my favorite mini game in final fantasy.
Just looked this video up for the moment to look for tips and for the first time in my life I beat it and not only did I beat it, I did it on the first try.. tears. Greatest accomplishment of my life.
I just got really lucky and had a perfect balloon set up and beat it my second try with -0.0 time. Then I realized i didnt have the celestial mirror yet..
Balloons never line up, bird just appears in front of you with a split second to react. Nah fuck that, most irritating mini games ever. stuck on 3 seconds for the last hour
I'm down to 3.7 seconds, Jon. I've spent three days on this first celestial weapon.. believe me... if I could hack the game to spawn chocobos instead of fiends after I get this... I would... and I would aeon overdrive every single one of these no-direction having, God forsaken birds.
Some tips: use the d pad, know that the first two waves of birds will always have two come for you and two at the trainer each time. It’s also better to go for 14-15 balloons and a hit than 13 balloons and no birds
@@ThatRockstarJunkie Yes it is, the light dodgind is mostly exhausting and repetitive. If there were 30-40 lightning to dodge it would be a joke. In this one you need more skill and luck.
ive recently finished this task for the PC version and im not sure if anyone would find this helpful but i was able to grab 15 balloons and got 3 hits but ended the race at 34 secs and ended up with 000 time. i used the arrow buttons and NOT the analog stick. the chocobo can be turned into precise directions as it goes straight and the arrow keys provide the needed accuracy so that you can grab the balloons perfectly. hopefully that helps anyone looking to get out of this task.
When it came out on PS3, I did one playthrough and got the sigil after 4 hrs and constant Rage moments and yelling at the TV. When they announced it for ps4, I was like, nope. Not doing that again!
I never did it. I hated getting moste of the weapons. I'll do various side quests and long requests from game cpus and such but alot of these wer so hard I just quit. I'm playing games for fun but when it goes beyond chalenging and becomes a mental tormant to do I'm done. I got some of these Like Yuna's Aurons and Riku's but alot of the uthers wer not werth it to me. I would just grinde for dark matters and make my owne like excallibar for Tidus.
I got mad when I was a kid. I got to the end without hitting a bird til the last second. And my time was like .5 seconds or something. I raged quit and never tried again.
@@timotius And I just grand summoned My JimboPay and payed 50000 Gil and he FINALLY killed Dark Bahumut after 22 attempts and taking breaks and now I have the crest and fully powered Tidus’s Celestial weapon just a few moments ago
I remember back when I played this in 2002 I was hearing from friends and the internet on how excruciatingly hard the 0.0 time second was to obtain. Then when I tried it, on pure luck I managed to do the time in my 3rd try. I was prepared to spend all night trying to achieve it as I had my soda and snacks beside me. I was never able to achieve the time ever again lmao.
@@that_one_guy91 I beat it when I was the same age no problem at all then I try 10 years later and 2nd try I got 0.3 and I gave up decided to break the meta tidus is no longer part of the team 🙃 haha
I tried this many times, and literally, the trainer, got a perfect run before me. This minigame, in the remaster, sucks. No restart/skip/pause button, the birds come after you with impossible trajectories some times, often you are so stopped so long that other birds come hit you, the chochobo goes AFtER the birds very often, and when you are approaching a baloon, he says "Hell No" and goes another way. Did it happened he missed a baloon, to go after a bird? YES.
I have been trying to do this one since it first came out on the PS2. Now on the PS4 and I have tried it thousands of times and never been able to get it. Have tried it 10 to 12 hours at a time with no luck. Watched videos no help there. Have had several others try to get it for me also no go. All other mini games have been quite easy in FFX. I think this will give me a heart attach one day and it will be put on my tomb stone. He died playing FFX trying to get the Sun Sigil.
I remember back then I was down to 0:0.7 in a few tries so I thought it couldn't be too bad. Spent the next week rage quit. Finally got it randomly and I realized... it's 70% luck (if not more so).
Man after 5 hours of trying I eventually gave up. Came back 3 days later and got it in like 5 tries with 36 seconds, 14 balloons and 1 bird. I freaked tf out dude. AND I only got one balloon in the first section. RELIEF
I've finally done this after an hour of chocobo racing and man was it frustrating! What helped me was balloon patterns and using my keyboard instead of a controller. It's much harder to react using a controller, using both fingers ready to click left or right really helped with the accuracy of my turns... Except the parts where my chocobo suddenly turns by itself for no reason and rams itself into one of the birds. This can be frustrating but it helps if you're mindset is not actually racing against the chocobo trainer but rather getting as much balloons as you can and dodging as much birds as you can. And there are balloon patterns that are really not gonna work, as said in this video there are balloon patterns that are really in your favor, so if ever you get a bad pattern just use it to practice control over your chocobo instead of raging like my first 20 minutes XD It's not impossible you just need patience and practice in maneuvering the chocobo. And luck.
This is the hardest ultimate weapons to get in my opinion. I've only ever gotten it once, on my first play through with the PS2... Unfortunately, after getting it, with 750 hours played, the file literally corrupted the next time I tried to play... FFX is still the second best game, in my opinion, only to FFT (WOTL). Thank you for the guide! I wish I could get you as a part of the small community I've been able to build, of FFT (J7Jase) and FFX (Blitzball Mania) so far... You seem like an awesome person!
8 hours of chocobo race without any luck of perfect run... wife comes home, see's my agony… and starts looking up vids on TH-cam, give's me a massage, and peptalk; You Got This, c'mon 1 more try… and boooom sun sigils achieved! 35 secs run, 12 balloons and 0 birds. Damn i love her!!!!
thank you so much! i was spending two days on this chocobo run but after watching your video it was much easier and i finally won the prize after just 2 attempt!!!!!
Should mention if you use the airship to get to the calm lands and you talk to her for training while shes in the small shop area, you'll have to do it over again.. as it doesn't count, so save when you get to the calm lands from the airship and then go talk to her at the entrance of the calm lands.
In my 15 or so years of playing this game I have never been able to get the sun sigil. After watching this video I just did it in 2 tries. You are some kind of genie.
Only way to do the perfect time is if all the balloons line up on your side when you begin the race. So you'll have to keep trying till the game starts your race like that
I won the race and that guy still blocking the path I cant get in.. i went back to see at the entrance where you are showing so he gets out of the way but he is not there, i dont understand.. is this a bug??
I've obtained masamune, world champion, nirvana, spirit lance at max power and now the only missing thing for caladbolg is this, I've lasted more than 100 hours while completing 100% and getting the 10 aeons
I just finally got it after about 4 hours of trying. Somehow I got a high score of 0.4 two hours in and then just finally got it with 13 balloons, 1 bird and 35.9 seconds. I am so happy.
The Sun Sigil was much easier for me to get than the Chocobo Master achievement by winning the Remien Temple Race with 5 Chests. The Sun Sigil race is both skill and luck based rather than being almost entirely luck based. The lightning dodging minigame on the other hand is entirely skill based and probably the hardest one for me, I always end up putting it off.
That moment when you finally get the sun sigil after hours and hours of trying, only to realize you must beat Dark Bahamut to get the sun crest because you forgot to pick it up when you had the chance.
I actually made a macro to complete this on PC if anyone needs a link(its an AHK macro.) Need a certain pattern of balloons to spawn but it takes like a minute to get a right spawn and just press the macro key
It's the only celestial weapon that I'm missing because of this race. This is the toughest one to get. I went for Wakka's weapon first. Blitzball was extremely boring and I had to play around 60 games to get all of the components. Took me 3-4 days. I thought nothing would be worse than that. Then the lightning bolt challenge came. At first I was extremely frustrated, but I got it after a day and some tutorials online. Now this challenge... I'm on day 3 of trying to get it. I once got 0:1:0... This is the worst, because there's no method to getting it, it's mostly luck and if the balloons align in your favor. I usually get hit by 0-1 birds, but there aren't enough balloons to grab.
first time trying to get the sun sigil took me 6 hours second play trough took me only 4 tries. He is giving good tips always get the balloon at the start. If the opponent takes them at the start its an auto fail. Not your fault its just bad luck. Once you get the start balloon look at the bird where its coming try to dodge and earn more balloon on your middle stretch. Once you turn to the final stretch stay on the right side and don't worry about getting balloons. If you do however be sure not getting hit while being on the left side especially near the finish line.
The sidequest wouldve been fun if the controls are great. Collecting balloons in a race with birds coming at you is fine to me but the controls man.. the controls
Imagine me when I win this chocobo race then learn that the Crest was where Yunalesca was and now there's a dark Aeon there stopping me from getting it... >_
The dark aeons are actually easy to beat. Don't have Yuna in your starting group. Switch to Yuna asap and then summon Yojinbo and pay him loads of money so he casts Zanmatou. We payed him 333333 credits and he does this attack like 50 percent of the time. If he doesn't just reload the game. So its not too bad if you forgit grabbing the item after Yunalesca fight. Also he can droo really good equipment wich makes you immune to all status changes.
if anyone is still playing, just know you’re not alone in your frustration. i wasted an hour doing it and got to 1 second. yes the bird spawns are stupid, yes the birds follow you, yes the balloons favor the trainer. tbh it’s all luck. but if you can’t get it after a while, trust me take a break. i just got it and i’m so happy
@@samsghafoor8349 funny thing is that I didn't even know about the celestial weapons til I stumbled across the hidden path in the calm lands. I just googled how to get passed the guard and that's how I got here lol
StirrCrazy90 around about 8 years ago or so we found it out from ps2 and we brought it again so that we can play it again and yet till this day and back then I did the Chokabo races as they were terrible haha
Funny, I’m reading through the comments thinking I had more trouble getting Wakka’s sigil compared to Tidus. Hell, I would always avoid trying to get Lulu’s because I would miscount the dodges!
Finally got it. The real challenge is learning to compensate for the clunky chocobo controls and the movements forced by the terrible camera angle changes.
The race is the easy part. I did it in about 8 tries. 13 balloons 0 birds hit. Only problem is in the hD remastered all the dark aeons are automatically up and about after you leave Bevelle. So dark Bahamut is a pain in the buttocks, unless you hope that you use Yojimbo and Zanmato goes off.
Glad everyone here reached the part where they have to beat the chocobo race at 0:00 time. I'm still stuck at trying to kill dark bahamut while I'm way to under leveled for this. Was originally having a hard time killing off final boss jecht but dark bahamut is way tougher damnit
This is the only trophy that I’ll probably never get, and the only celestial that I don’t have. Maybe one day, but for now Im going to get all the other trophies and come back to this at the end. I’ll just use Wakka as my main damage dealer since his overdrives are good, and the Rikku and Auron or Yuna.
When I played this game I only obtained Yuna's, Auron's, and Rikku's celestial weapon and upgraded to full power. I tried the others and gave up after awhile and made my own weapons. I used Rikku to seal and mug like a madwoman till the end of the game; therefore, I had enough items to take a four slot weapon for the other characters and create a bad ass weapon. I also used the monster area and bribe to obtain lots more items. It worked out well. Rikku's weapon with counterattack, poisonstrike, and stonestrike is my favorite.
The thing about customizing your own is that unlike Celestial Weapons they don't ignore defenses. I'm currently working on getting the sigil for Wakka and then there's... Tidus. They're the only ones left for me. I've already tried this chocobo race and it's infuriating.
I finally did it for the first time being an adult. I did it so many times as a kid raging. I did it in like 10 tries. I definitely want to say that it could be what you're playing on system or tv. I struggled with it on ps3 and ps4 but I got it on ps5. I also did it on a neo qled samsung so not sure if that helped out any or what but wanted to give some kind of helpful information
Try too collect more balloons if possible and use the arrow pads and when you see some birds coming do not tap, hold and on that hard turn to the left hold as well instead of tap.because the chocobbo tend to move by itself sometimes.
This is my problem on PS4, for whatever reason it looks like they put balloons in places where you can't even reach them on the last turn, the chocobo just bounces off of an invisible wall and right into birds sometimes. The controls for the remaster are terrible. I did this on the old PS2 with less difficulty.
arrow pads was what made it worse for me tbh, managed to get 15 balloons and 0 hits with the analog stick, arrow pads was just plain awful to use, literally non reactive.
I was able to make the lightning dodging thing for Lulu's PRETTY easily in both PS2 and PS3. But I was never able to make the 0.0 at Catcher Chocobo. I have been trying literally for years and the closer I ever got was 4.something (12 balloons and one hit). I'm at the point where I would totally pay someone to make it for me.
I have a hard time beating the trainer and you must collect 13 balloons without getting hit its taken me hours and still I haven't beaten it yet (I raged when I had 13 balloons and a bird spawned in just as I hit the finish line)
It seem's like most of the mini games for the weapons can be extremely aggravating lol. Just gotta take a deep breath and try not to tilt. You'll get it. :) - Jon
It took me three days to get it two of the days it took me 2 hours each then I quit and the third day (today) I got it in like 20 mins I recommend at the last part start to zigzag try to get 14 birds if you get hit by one bird
I'm just getting to this part of collecting Tidus's celestial weapon, have been trying for 30 minutes and I got whooped so hard the npc got a 0:00 score on one of our runs. That has to be the biggest slap to the face.
My chocobo activly tries to hit birds, no matter how hard i hold right and there is a bird comming on my left the chocobo doesnt give a crap and just charges left >.
I got a perfect time on my race yesterday my xbox one said it was a 6.42 achievement rate right now about to fight yunalesca to receive Crest. I cant wait to see what the Weapons abilities are
I'm so glad this game came out when I was in High School still. I actually had the time to dedicate to playing this game all the way through. If it had come out any later, even in my 20's I don't think I would've beat it. At the point I reachd my 20's, I fell out of gaming almost completely. PS3 came out the year I turned 21, so that was the beginning of the end for me and gaming lol. Wii was the last system I bought and that's because my roommates and I would get smammered between alcohol and yay, and then we along with our girlfriends (because amazingly they were down to play VG's as long as it was Wii...and those 2 things). I can't even count the amount of amazing times we had between 2006-2008 just getting fucked up like no other to play some Wii until 4-5am haha. Oh man my 20's were awesome to say the least! I don't think I could've been born at a better time than '85. I got to experience the entire 90's growing up, and saw a lot of the 'last' great everything pretty much.
Seriously dude, 'cept for me I started this game a couple months ago, I'm 29, and there's no way in hell I can beat this whole game. I want to, trust me, but god damn there's so much to it! Getting drunk and snorting adderall/whatever and playing smash bros on the Gamecube was the shit, definitely am not above doing that again.
@@taelrmade I’m sure you’ll hold the record some day. (I was a first timer on Xbox in 2022 doing this in less than 27 minutes for the achievements like 0:0:0 or whatever).
I can get wakkas yunas rikus aurons sigils relatively quick enough but I'll be damned if I will ever get the ject shot or tidus's lulu's or kimari's sigil
To be technical you have to get LESS than 0. Getting 0 dead on is not good enough. For example getting a time of 39s and hitting 13 baloons with not get you the sigil. 38.9s and 13 baloons will.
@ DoubleBuff Production: may I asked you a question. I trying to get tidus Celestrial weapon. does the cloudy mirror active the calborg weapon for tidus?
10-15 tries? Ha ha hAAAA. Help me. I just muted the tv because the chocobo theme music is starting to sound like horror music. It's so CHEERFUL
Took me 2 hours 😵
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣dying here. No seriously the chocobo music starts to sound like a band of chocobos laughing in my face while playing instruments....😪🤪
لهل same
Go it after 4 tries but mannnn that behamuth bosss is unbeatable
i did this on ps3 like 4 days ago and know cause my brother bought me the ps4 version i have to do this for 3 or 4th time.
Well in my last try in ps3 i was trying the last one 1 hour and 45 minutes i don't know how tries i did but... I even't mute my TV and XD i don't get tired of hearing the Chocobo Theme also i did 13 ballons 0 birds
18 years of struggle and still haven’t done it. I’ll call it a win just for finally beating the initial blitz ball match.
I win the 1st tournament on principle because fuck the Luca Goers, and promptly never touch it again lmao. Fuck Wakkas celestial weapon
hello my friend!
David Powell I got the Sun Sigil on my switch after a few tries yesterday.
JVision1 no u didn’t
Did you have the Jecht Shot? I didn't find it too hard to win if I had it, but I usually only won by 1 score
1.use stick pad (up, down,left,right), it gives you more control and be aggresive with it
2. dont even worry about time, worry about balloons.
3. if your not having fun, take a break and enjoy your ff journey (this is the hard one)
The chocobo race is pure, 100% rng. The fact that the chocobo will turn any random direction at any random time regardless of any potential nearby bird or balloon negates all of the skill. Nevermind there are races where physically not enough balloons spawn. It can take anywhere from 6 minutes to 6 hours to 6 years to achieve 0.0 and get the Sigil. It's just a matter of if/when the game rolls the correct numbers. I'm honestly surprised this wasn't addressed in the Remaster along with making blitzball games way shorter.
In fact, they do the complete opposite and give it a trophy. It'd be one thing if you could even train your chocobo to not be so twitchy and random, or to gain a dash to avoid birds, but no, it's a trophy tied to pure luck.
Blitzball games are already too short. The “5 minute” halves are actually played at double speed. I want more blitzball. I want an entire blitzball game. It is my favorite mini game in final fantasy.
Getting Tidus’s celestial weapon= Destroying your sanity speed run
Just looked this video up for the moment to look for tips and for the first time in my life I beat it and not only did I beat it, I did it on the first try.. tears. Greatest accomplishment of my life.
I am still able to beat it T_T
Jeez spent about 6 hours in a row yestarday trying to do it and today I finally I did it. I feel SO RELIEVED
I'm with you mate. 5 hours and finally... I was just about to give up and I almost broke my controller. Lol
I just got really lucky and had a perfect balloon set up and beat it my second try with -0.0 time. Then I realized i didnt have the celestial mirror yet..
I just broke the DVD and ended playing.simple as that
8 hours I almost cried.
Balloons never line up, bird just appears in front of you with a split second to react. Nah fuck that, most irritating mini games ever. stuck on 3 seconds for the last hour
Yeah, I remember this... It's been 20 years but I still remember this... *sobs uncontrollably*
I'm down to 3.7 seconds, Jon. I've spent three days on this first celestial weapon.. believe me... if I could hack the game to spawn chocobos instead of fiends after I get this... I would... and I would aeon overdrive every single one of these no-direction having, God forsaken birds.
u know what's more infuriating? getting 0.0 the FIRST TIME...... and being forced to do it again! lol I've had that happen on 2 playthroughs
Some tips: use the d pad, know that the first two waves of birds will always have two come for you and two at the trainer each time. It’s also better to go for 14-15 balloons and a hit than 13 balloons and no birds
Did it today. Took around 3 hours for me.
Robert Laudun happened to me on my 3rd playthrough... omfg....
iLLBiLLsRoastBeats yup. Used the dpad. Don’t use the sticks. That helps a bunch.
Tip,
1. Pray that those balloon pop up in your favor.
2. Don't destroy your controller
This chocobo race is harder than dodging 500 lightning.
@Nick Brissette no its not
3. Destroy your controller
@@ThatRockstarJunkie Yes it is, the light dodgind is mostly exhausting and repetitive. If there were 30-40 lightning to dodge it would be a joke. In this one you need more skill and luck.
4. Pray that none of your loved ones are anywhere near you while attempting to get the sigil.
yup 10,000% totally agree!
ive recently finished this task for the PC version and im not sure if anyone would find this helpful but i was able to grab 15 balloons and got 3 hits but ended the race at 34 secs and ended up with 000 time. i used the arrow buttons and NOT the analog stick. the chocobo can be turned into precise directions as it goes straight and the arrow keys provide the needed accuracy so that you can grab the balloons perfectly. hopefully that helps anyone looking to get out of this task.
When it came out on PS3, I did one playthrough and got the sigil after 4 hrs and constant Rage moments and yelling at the TV. When they announced it for ps4, I was like, nope. Not doing that again!
I never got jt on the ps2 version but i got it on the ps4 version that and the lightning dodgeing and i agree with you never again.
I never did it. I hated getting moste of the weapons. I'll do various side quests and long requests from game cpus and such but alot of these wer so hard I just quit. I'm playing games for fun but when it goes beyond chalenging and becomes a mental tormant to do I'm done. I got some of these Like Yuna's Aurons and Riku's but alot of the uthers wer not werth it to me. I would just grinde for dark matters and make my owne like excallibar for Tidus.
I finally got the sigil... after a million tries. With only 12 birds. I've screamed, contemplated death and lost many tears but I did it.
I got mad when I was a kid. I got to the end without hitting a bird til the last second. And my time was like .5 seconds or something. I raged quit and never tried again.
Definitely one of the hardest sigil to get. Even harder than dodging 200 lightnings.
@@timotius Really? Took me 27 minutes on Xbox to grab this while having to be annoyed by DARK BAHUMUT!!! ⚠️
@@destroyermcw626 Wooow you're good.
@@timotius And I just grand summoned My JimboPay and payed 50000 Gil and he FINALLY killed Dark Bahumut after 22 attempts and taking breaks and now I have the crest and fully powered Tidus’s Celestial weapon just a few moments ago
I remember back when I played this in 2002 I was hearing from friends and the internet on how excruciatingly hard the 0.0 time second was to obtain. Then when I tried it, on pure luck I managed to do the time in my 3rd try. I was prepared to spend all night trying to achieve it as I had my soda and snacks beside me. I was never able to achieve the time ever again lmao.
Some divine intervention going on in here
You still went back to trace more?
So glad to find a final fantasy tip video that actually has someone explaining what they are doing.
I mean I get having a challenge to get these unlocks but seriously this is agony
@Kyo Svoboda you obviously haven’t fished for a feebas with a good rod in 6 of the 500 tiles in RSE.
Expect to break a lot of controllers when trying to get the Sun Sigil
Yep! I *HATE* that part. If the fricken chocobo was easier to control this wouldn't be something I would dread remotely as much as I do currently.
Adam Gray right??? The controls are so wack, they couldve at least updated it in the remastered version.
All that time training the chocobo to have not been able to even ride a trained chocobo.
I'm sitting here wondering how I beat it when I was 12. I'm 29 now and can't get under 10 seconds lmao
@@that_one_guy91 I beat it when I was the same age no problem at all then I try 10 years later and 2nd try I got 0.3 and I gave up decided to break the meta tidus is no longer part of the team 🙃 haha
I tried this many times, and literally, the trainer, got a perfect run before me.
This minigame, in the remaster, sucks.
No restart/skip/pause button, the birds come after you with impossible trajectories some times, often you are so stopped so long that other birds come hit you, the chochobo goes AFtER the birds very often, and when you are approaching a baloon, he says "Hell No" and goes another way.
Did it happened he missed a baloon, to go after a bird? YES.
I have been trying to do this one since it first came out on the PS2. Now on the PS4 and I have tried it thousands of times and never been able to get it. Have tried it 10 to 12 hours at a time with no luck. Watched videos no help there. Have had several others try to get it for me also no go. All other mini games have been quite easy in FFX. I think this will give me a heart attach one day and it will be put on my tomb stone. He died playing FFX trying to get the Sun Sigil.
same.
Nvm. I finally did it! yes! 17 years of wait has come to an end. I finally obtained and powered up a celestial weapon for the first time!
Congrats! 1 down, 6 to go!
Great video!! No guff or useless padding of the time. Just the facts. Thank you sir!
Bruh, playing this as a kid I don't remember this being so hard. Now, playing the remastered as an adult, it's kicking my as lol
I swear it’s harder on the remastered.
I remember back then I was down to 0:0.7 in a few tries so I thought it couldn't be too bad. Spent the next week rage quit. Finally got it randomly and I realized... it's 70% luck (if not more so).
Man after 5 hours of trying I eventually gave up. Came back 3 days later and got it in like 5 tries with 36 seconds, 14 balloons and 1 bird. I freaked tf out dude. AND I only got one balloon in the first section. RELIEF
I've finally done this after an hour of chocobo racing and man was it frustrating!
What helped me was balloon patterns and using my keyboard instead of a controller. It's much harder to react using a controller, using both fingers ready to click left or right really helped with the accuracy of my turns... Except the parts where my chocobo suddenly turns by itself for no reason and rams itself into one of the birds. This can be frustrating but it helps if you're mindset is not actually racing against the chocobo trainer but rather getting as much balloons as you can and dodging as much birds as you can. And there are balloon patterns that are really not gonna work, as said in this video there are balloon patterns that are really in your favor, so if ever you get a bad pattern just use it to practice control over your chocobo instead of raging like my first 20 minutes XD
It's not impossible you just need patience and practice in maneuvering the chocobo. And luck.
This is the hardest ultimate weapons to get in my opinion. I've only ever gotten it once, on my first play through with the PS2... Unfortunately, after getting it, with 750 hours played, the file literally corrupted the next time I tried to play... FFX is still the second best game, in my opinion, only to FFT (WOTL). Thank you for the guide! I wish I could get you as a part of the small community I've been able to build, of FFT (J7Jase) and FFX (Blitzball Mania) so far... You seem like an awesome person!
8 hours of chocobo race without any luck of perfect run... wife comes home, see's my agony… and starts looking up vids on TH-cam, give's me a massage, and peptalk; You Got This, c'mon 1 more try… and boooom sun sigils achieved! 35 secs run, 12 balloons and 0 birds. Damn i love her!!!!
Did this and defeat yunalesa. To get the chest to get got down the stair
Your wife is the sun sigil
Then they broke up
Yeah I love your wife too bro she gives good backrubs
What a cool wife lol
It's been 20 years and I never got better than 6 seconds
I'm 27 years of age and thought tantrums were behind me. I haven't been this upset with a game since my teens. Absolutely insane
thank you so much! i was spending two days on this chocobo run but after watching your video it was much easier and i finally won the prize after just 2 attempt!!!!!
Should mention if you use the airship to get to the calm lands and you talk to her for training while shes in the small shop area, you'll have to do it over again.. as it doesn't count, so save when you get to the calm lands from the airship and then go talk to her at the entrance of the calm lands.
In my 15 or so years of playing this game I have never been able to get the sun sigil. After watching this video I just did it in 2 tries. You are some kind of genie.
no you're lucky
@@nickb220 ah yes 15 years of failure but I did it after watching this video. Definitely luck. 🙄 I dont think you understand how probability works.
Only way to do the perfect time is if all the balloons line up on your side when you begin the race. So you'll have to keep trying till the game starts your race like that
I won the race and that guy still blocking the path I cant get in.. i went back to see at the entrance where you are showing so he gets out of the way but he is not there, i dont understand.. is this a bug??
I've obtained masamune, world champion, nirvana, spirit lance at max power and now the only missing thing for caladbolg is this, I've lasted more than 100 hours while completing 100% and getting the 10 aeons
I just finally got it after about 4 hours of trying. Somehow I got a high score of 0.4 two hours in and then just finally got it with 13 balloons, 1 bird and 35.9 seconds. I am so happy.
The Sun Sigil was much easier for me to get than the Chocobo Master achievement by winning the Remien Temple Race with 5 Chests. The Sun Sigil race is both skill and luck based rather than being almost entirely luck based. The lightning dodging minigame on the other hand is entirely skill based and probably the hardest one for me, I always end up putting it off.
Cory Washburn same
Agree!
That moment when you finally get the sun sigil after hours and hours of trying, only to realize you must beat Dark Bahamut to get the sun crest because you forgot to pick it up when you had the chance.
I started playing this again and I did forget to pick it up lol idk if I should restart or try to beat it with the aeons I have?
@@SignusSig You can always Zanmato him, but where’s the fun in that lol.
@@blindfollowerDark Aeons are a dumb pointless boss anyway. Zanmoto all the way.
I actually made a macro to complete this on PC if anyone needs a link(its an AHK macro.) Need a certain pattern of balloons to spawn but it takes like a minute to get a right spawn and just press the macro key
If you forgot to get the sun crest just get up jimbo overdrive up and get lucky with yanmato move instance death
It's the only celestial weapon that I'm missing because of this race. This is the toughest one to get. I went for Wakka's weapon first. Blitzball was extremely boring and I had to play around 60 games to get all of the components. Took me 3-4 days. I thought nothing would be worse than that. Then the lightning bolt challenge came. At first I was extremely frustrated, but I got it after a day and some tutorials online. Now this challenge... I'm on day 3 of trying to get it. I once got 0:1:0... This is the worst, because there's no method to getting it, it's mostly luck and if the balloons align in your favor. I usually get hit by 0-1 birds, but there aren't enough balloons to grab.
Wait you just get the 200 thunder one and don't win the race...? No fucking way that is way much easy!
first time trying to get the sun sigil took me 6 hours second play trough took me only 4 tries. He is giving good tips always get the balloon at the start. If the opponent takes them at the start its an auto fail. Not your fault its just bad luck. Once you get the start balloon look at the bird where its coming try to dodge and earn more balloon on your middle stretch. Once you turn to the final stretch stay on the right side and don't worry about getting balloons. If you do however be sure not getting hit while being on the left side especially near the finish line.
I miss gameshark! :(
The sidequest wouldve been fun if the controls are great. Collecting balloons in a race with birds coming at you is fine to me but the controls man.. the controls
About 10 attempts my arse.
its really not that hard bro lol
that chocobo racing took me 12 years to finish.
I think this weapon is easy to get (with all upgrades)
12 years a slave huh
Come on man, it's hard. But not THAT hard .
looking forward to the manga release of this epic tale 😃
Imagine me when I win this chocobo race then learn that the Crest was where Yunalesca was and now there's a dark Aeon there stopping me from getting it... >_
Pay yojimbo boi and he will take care of the rest.
The dark aeons are actually easy to beat. Don't have Yuna in your starting group. Switch to Yuna asap and then summon Yojinbo and pay him loads of money so he casts Zanmatou. We payed him 333333 credits and he does this attack like 50 percent of the time. If he doesn't just reload the game. So its not too bad if you forgit grabbing the item after Yunalesca fight. Also he can droo really good equipment wich makes you immune to all status changes.
A cheap way to finish the game
😂😂😂
I got the Onion Knight, I'm getting the goddamned salad bowl
Blitz all was amazing. Split my time between that and monster arena
4:46 thank you for saying Tidus correctly, legitimately have never heard anyone say it right on TH-cam except the actual voice actor lol
SOMEHOW I JUST ACHIEVED 17 BALLONS 1 BIRD, BUT BEFORE THAT Ive BROKEN TWO CONTROLLERS =D
I couldn't do it 18 years ago, and I'm even going to try now. No lightning either!
if anyone is still playing, just know you’re not alone in your frustration. i wasted an hour doing it and got to 1 second. yes the bird spawns are stupid, yes the birds follow you, yes the balloons favor the trainer. tbh it’s all luck. but if you can’t get it after a while, trust me take a break. i just got it and i’m so happy
40-50 tries this morning and I finally fucking got it. 20 mins later I'm still riding the high.
I just got this 5th try. Wish I was streaming or recorded it. So much pain saved
Fun fact. If you don’t get the weapon after you beat the record, he won’t let you pass
Well, ain't that a bitch...
StirrCrazy90 is that true???
StirrCrazy90 I just beat it for my brother lol
@@samsghafoor8349 funny thing is that I didn't even know about the celestial weapons til I stumbled across the hidden path in the calm lands.
I just googled how to get passed the guard and that's how I got here lol
StirrCrazy90 around about 8 years ago or so we found it out from ps2 and we brought it again so that we can play it again and yet till this day and back then I did the Chokabo races as they were terrible haha
Funny, I’m reading through the comments thinking I had more trouble getting Wakka’s sigil compared to Tidus. Hell, I would always avoid trying to get Lulu’s because I would miscount the dodges!
Finally got it. The real challenge is learning to compensate for the clunky chocobo controls and the movements forced by the terrible camera angle changes.
Bro I remember last year I was suffering I'm that damn chocobo race and now in my second playthrough I got it in my second try
Those birds are the stuff of nightmares. It took me 8 hours last time
Idk if your video was good luck but I literally just won it while watching this after trying for like 2 hours
The race is the easy part. I did it in about 8 tries. 13 balloons 0 birds hit. Only problem is in the hD remastered all the dark aeons are automatically up and about after you leave Bevelle. So dark Bahamut is a pain in the buttocks, unless you hope that you use Yojimbo and Zanmato goes off.
Glad everyone here reached the part where they have to beat the chocobo race at 0:00 time. I'm still stuck at trying to kill dark bahamut while I'm way to under leveled for this. Was originally having a hard time killing off final boss jecht but dark bahamut is way tougher damnit
This is the only trophy that I’ll probably never get, and the only celestial that I don’t have. Maybe one day, but for now Im going to get all the other trophies and come back to this at the end. I’ll just use Wakka as my main damage dealer since his overdrives are good, and the Rikku and Auron or Yuna.
When I played this game I only obtained Yuna's, Auron's, and Rikku's celestial weapon and upgraded to full power. I tried the others and gave up after awhile and made my own weapons. I used Rikku to seal and mug like a madwoman till the end of the game; therefore, I had enough items to take a four slot weapon for the other characters and create a bad ass weapon. I also used the monster area and bribe to obtain lots more items. It worked out well. Rikku's weapon with counterattack, poisonstrike, and stonestrike is my favorite.
The thing about customizing your own is that unlike Celestial Weapons they don't ignore defenses. I'm currently working on getting the sigil for Wakka and then there's... Tidus. They're the only ones left for me. I've already tried this chocobo race and it's infuriating.
First try. Holy crap. I am a god. THANK YOU FOR THIS!
It took me 5 hours of non stop playing and a lot of yelling until by some stroke of good luck i got the 0.0.0 run.
Same here lol
My first celestial weapon was nirvana
I finally did it for the first time being an adult. I did it so many times as a kid raging. I did it in like 10 tries. I definitely want to say that it could be what you're playing on system or tv. I struggled with it on ps3 and ps4 but I got it on ps5. I also did it on a neo qled samsung so not sure if that helped out any or what but wanted to give some kind of helpful information
2 years ago I completely failed getting that sun sigil. Just attempted the first time after 2 years and got it first try :)) Im beyond lucky
Try too collect more balloons if possible and use the arrow pads and when you see some birds coming do not tap, hold and on that hard turn to the left hold as well instead of tap.because the chocobbo tend to move by itself sometimes.
This is my problem on PS4, for whatever reason it looks like they put balloons in places where you can't even reach them on the last turn, the chocobo just bounces off of an invisible wall and right into birds sometimes. The controls for the remaster are terrible. I did this on the old PS2 with less difficulty.
arrow pads was what made it worse for me tbh, managed to get 15 balloons and 0 hits with the analog stick, arrow pads was just plain awful to use, literally non reactive.
Got the weapon thanks to your tutorial. THANKS!!!!
I did it before getting the weapon.
You must get the weapon first! If not you will endup like i was.
Doing this twice.
Tried for over 2 hours and still no sigil
I was able to make the lightning dodging thing for Lulu's PRETTY easily in both PS2 and PS3. But I was never able to make the 0.0 at Catcher Chocobo. I have been trying literally for years and the closer I ever got was 4.something (12 balloons and one hit). I'm at the point where I would totally pay someone to make it for me.
Mariana G I have the Sun Sigil on my PS2, steam and I just got it on Switch last night.
i was the opposite. got race, but not the lightning (only one i didnt get). tip for the race is use the stick direction u can control the bird easier
I have a hard time beating the trainer and you must collect 13 balloons without getting hit its taken me hours and still I haven't beaten it yet (I raged when I had 13 balloons and a bird spawned in just as I hit the finish line)
It seem's like most of the mini games for the weapons can be extremely aggravating lol. Just gotta take a deep breath and try not to tilt. You'll get it. :)
- Jon
DoubleBuff Productions I tried for 3 days (not straight) I think I had my share of trying XD
I could NEVER beat the chocobo race.
It took me three days to get it two of the days it took me 2 hours each then I quit and the third day (today) I got it in like 20 mins I recommend at the last part start to zigzag try to get 14 birds if you get hit by one bird
I think I haven’t stop swearing for the past half an hr
If you’re stuck at Dark Bahamut you can use yojimbo to one shot him
Were the flying birds really needed?! I mean seriously, it’s hard enough to control one of these chocobos to touch a balloon
I'm just getting to this part of collecting Tidus's celestial weapon, have been trying for 30 minutes and I got whooped so hard the npc got a 0:00 score on one of our runs. That has to be the biggest slap to the face.
Well there's nowhere to go but up now haha keep at it and you'll get there!
@@DoubleBuffTeam Just got a 0.9.....
My chocobo activly tries to hit birds, no matter how hard i hold right and there is a bird comming on my left the chocobo doesnt give a crap and just charges left >.
during the training or during the race?
During the race
No it doesn't.
A little late but there is a border that the chocobos cant pass thats why they move on there own
Fighting dark Tiababylo aka Bahamut going to be hard hymm zanmato for the win
I got a perfect time on my race yesterday my xbox one said it was a 6.42 achievement rate right now about to fight yunalesca to receive Crest. I cant wait to see what the Weapons abilities are
Finally did this on the third day of getting mad
I'm so glad this game came out when I was in High School still. I actually had the time to dedicate to playing this game all the way through. If it had come out any later, even in my 20's I don't think I would've beat it. At the point I reachd my 20's, I fell out of gaming almost completely. PS3 came out the year I turned 21, so that was the beginning of the end for me and gaming lol. Wii was the last system I bought and that's because my roommates and I would get smammered between alcohol and yay, and then we along with our girlfriends (because amazingly they were down to play VG's as long as it was Wii...and those 2 things). I can't even count the amount of amazing times we had between 2006-2008 just getting fucked up like no other to play some Wii until 4-5am haha. Oh man my 20's were awesome to say the least! I don't think I could've been born at a better time than '85. I got to experience the entire 90's growing up, and saw a lot of the 'last' great everything pretty much.
Seriously dude, 'cept for me I started this game a couple months ago, I'm 29, and there's no way in hell I can beat this whole game. I want to, trust me, but god damn there's so much to it! Getting drunk and snorting adderall/whatever and playing smash bros on the Gamecube was the shit, definitely am not above doing that again.
This is so painful I think I'll just do without. No idea how I got this on my first play through...
They need to make this much simpler I rather you fight a hard boss to get the sigil
The racing... lol I remember I had a hard time as a kid. I did it in two tries.... 11.4 sec.
Ok done and done. Tidus Celestial was the one of the easiest for me plus full power and the first.
i still can’t beat the chocobo race
@@taelrmade I’m sure you’ll hold the record some day. (I was a first timer on Xbox in 2022 doing this in less than 27 minutes for the achievements like 0:0:0 or whatever).
@@destroyermcw626 come over to my house and do it so i don’t have too lol
@@taelrmade lol I wish and I use the d-pad like the game said to😂
@@destroyermcw626 the switch d pad sucks
Did anyone else have really bad thoughts about their poor innocent controller during the chocobo race?
I can get wakkas yunas rikus aurons sigils relatively quick enough but I'll be damned if I will ever get the ject shot or tidus's lulu's or kimari's sigil
To be technical you have to get LESS than 0. Getting 0 dead on is not good enough. For example getting a time of 39s and hitting 13 baloons with not get you the sigil. 38.9s and 13 baloons will.
That moment when you realize that you forgot the sun crest first time around..... Damn it lol
First strike and Yojimbo my friend lol
I feel u on that now i got to find a way to defeat that dark aeon LMAO
Damn now I have to beat dark Bahamut to
Get it ripppp
@ DoubleBuff Production: may I asked you a question. I trying to get tidus Celestrial weapon. does the cloudy mirror active the calborg weapon for tidus?
wasted 3 hours with chocobo race yesterday after got 0.01 s in second try .
Managed to get the sigil in like 30 minutes, got lucky as fuck