To everyone saying you can just beat Ruby Weapon and get a Gold Chocobo that way...You can't do that until the END of disc 2. By doing this method you're getting it at the BEGINNING of disc 2 which means you can get KotR a lot sooner.

@Carlmdb

5 жыл бұрын

Have you tried the new threat mod? Highly recommend if you want a tougher play through its a lot more than just hp, mp changes.

@agnastthrower5212

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this. How exactly did you discover this method?

@HungryGuyStories

5 жыл бұрын

I hope the same game mechanics apply to the remake coming out later this year!

@laneface

5 жыл бұрын

@Andrew Daigle I don't. But I have it equipped so I can level it up. Much faster mastering it that way rather than starting on disc 3. The only time I really use it is against Emerald Weapon.

@laneface

5 жыл бұрын

@@Carlmdb I haven't. I actually have never played this game on PC.

I needed this video 21 years ago.

@crossfitnerd1085

6 жыл бұрын

IKR!!!

@brazywest2898

6 жыл бұрын

lmao, that's what I said

@danteluckett3461

6 жыл бұрын

Word

@chriswalls5648

5 жыл бұрын

Jesus. You just made me feel my age.

@homerguy4444

5 жыл бұрын

I bought the strategy guide

Choco Bill: "They key is inbreeding" Red XII: "Go on...." Barrett: " DO NOT GO ON!"

@schmelzwah

6 жыл бұрын

I honestly want to try to do this without the inbreeding. it is technically possible just a lot more work because you have to catch a total of 3 wonderfuls and a total of 2 Greats. So one wonderful and one great makes the river, then you let those 2 go, you dont need them any more. Then the next wonderful and the next great makes the mountain, you let them go you dont need them any more. You mate the now NON-brother and sister Mountain and River to get the Black chocobo, and then you breed the black chocobo with the only remaining Wonderful. And boom no cross breeding...... but a lot of extra work.

@kelvinkegel2304

6 жыл бұрын

We are animals too, why do we bother?

@cc_tw

6 жыл бұрын

Use dem krakka greens!

@NikkiMKarLen

6 жыл бұрын

Habsburg chocobos.

@TheShardFenix

6 жыл бұрын

because they are fucking polygons in a game

This is like those “personal trainers hate him” ads except it actually works.

TO PEOPLE GETTING A BLACK CHOCOBO ON YOUR FINAL MATING SESSION: Change the amount of Krakka Greens you give if you are consistently getting a Black Chocobo instead of Gold. The guide says to use 6, but I had to use 5 to get it. The Krakka Greens advance the RNG so adjusting this value is what gives you the Gold Chocobo. I kept getting Black and I gave 5 greens instead to get Gold.

@reckufrehtom5999

9 ай бұрын

Thank you this saved me a lot of frustration!

@StillBillyD92

7 ай бұрын

Okay this bit of advice is something I found out experimenting on my last mating session on my own, but wish I found this beforehand..

@kviaak7979

7 ай бұрын

The thing is, that you reset the global timer (for RNG manipulation) when you restart your game, which this video didn't explain at all. If you're too slow going in to the stables you need to change the amounts or try to be faster.

@crash1108

6 ай бұрын

Saved me on the mountain-river step no matter what i was getting a river male

@AcquiredCents

5 ай бұрын

I got black then reloaded. Got it 2nd try.

Twenty years, and still learning new things about FF7. Thanks for the video.

@Wardell43

5 жыл бұрын

Thank God for KZread!!

Just the tip alone at looking at the monsters with the chocobo to determine it's rank has helped a ton. Thank you.

@aelechko

5 жыл бұрын

just the tip

@aelechko

5 жыл бұрын

Ravn Rike I think I remember where you mean, thanks!

@sigurdtheblue

5 жыл бұрын

This is the oldest tip on raising the chocobos...

@Pintkonan

5 жыл бұрын

exactly. this is what im gonna take from this video. KotR have to be earned, is what i think - so i will stick to the races and torture myself. this makes KotR even more valuable in my eyes (o:

@strider6336

5 жыл бұрын

Adam Elechko Surprised it took 6 months for this comment.

I can confirm this works on the Nintendo Switch version. This is fantastic! Well done!

@MrStarwindk

3 жыл бұрын

I got as far as the last part but I keep getting the bulk I'm not sure where I messed up

@number1enemyoftheuseless985

3 жыл бұрын

Ty

@MrStarwindk

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry got it also great info thanks so much

@teresarisso9670

3 жыл бұрын

Just to know at what point did you do the process? I'm on my way to beat sephirot after destroying the first weapon in midgar. I ve try this but I already had my chocobo stables

@axjustusmaxximus

3 жыл бұрын

@@teresarisso9670 I did it as soon as Tifa is the party leader and Cloud is lost in the lifestream. That's one of the requirements for the trick to work.

Amazing video man, I was so anxious at each step that I would mess it up but I got it in one run through! Made my life so much easier and it was a fun tutorial to follow

This for those playing ff7 in 2020

@johnosnapped725

4 жыл бұрын

Just bought it like a week or 2 ago, still a great game

@chorizobear8447

4 жыл бұрын

Just bought it Last week for the switch! Disc 2, 26 hours in perfect game just like before.

@anjingbabi4468

4 жыл бұрын

yep. bought this 2 weeks ago. I'm hyping myself for FF7 Remake

@yukanguis

4 жыл бұрын

me

@marvelgirlxvii

4 жыл бұрын

If the gold Chocobo remains in the remake we will need a new strategy like this

I'm going to be hearing this music in my sleep.

Determining the type of Chocobo based on the enemies that accompany it takes the line “You are the average of 5 people you hang out with” to a whole new level

FF7 is one of my favorites as well, lots of memories with this one. Thank you for this guide, I've never gotten Goldie so quick before!!

"Mountain climbing, river crossing...hell, sometimes both! The key is inbreeding!"

@bungiecoocoo

4 жыл бұрын

Gyarren I just came here from there! Nice

@RCDeschene

4 жыл бұрын

Red XIII: Go oooooooon~

@JosheVelox

4 жыл бұрын

Kentucky is doing something right after all!

@Shmey

3 жыл бұрын

I actually go through the effort of breeding a gold chocobo without inbreeding them. Oh, and there was the one time I raced the gold chocobo I won from Ruby Weapon. I don't remember how long it took, but it was waaaaay too long.

@oragnutanggang3921

3 жыл бұрын

Who could have guessed the key to getting some of the best materia in the game is bird incest?

Amazing, after all these years this dude basically proved that racing is an inconsequential waste of time...I loosely followed this guide (male great, female wonderful, didn’t do the save immediately outside of chocobo farm, different food numbers, etc) and I still ended up with a gold chocobo with zero racing in an hour-ish time....incredible

@thomaskaaz1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this. I got opposite genders than what he said and don't feel like doing it again

@swamplord85

4 жыл бұрын

J Brown yeah man, I had to do a little bit of trial and error for sure, my genders never matched this guide, there were times when I had to breed, reset, breed, reset, etc in order to get the right color/gender combos that I needed, I was feeding random numbers of greens, and I would have to battle a bunch more than stated in this guide to get the chocobos ready to breed again, but I inevitably still ended up with a gold much faster than I ever have before by just loosely following this dude’s guide, pretty awesome

@TheGhostofMrArthurs

3 жыл бұрын

@@swamplord85 shit doesnt work for me, period. same genders as his, and even tried opposit genders and various greens. Shit didnt work, I'm not gonna eat hours trying a glitch when i would just do the hours of racing. This fucknugget doesnt have a "real" way to get it that doesnt involve RNG from hell

@aktivwurm

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGhostofMrArthurs it works, I did this in 1998 dude...

@volvo145

3 жыл бұрын

This stuff was common knowledge in at least Swedish gaming magazines back in 1998 and no savings etc. around on bathrooms required

I've never seen any videos more helpful than this, time is priceless and you gave everyone a handful of it!!!!

when something says "easy" and "fast" it expect to take a long time and fail but this was perfect thank you from the bottom of my cold black heart

@mynameisfart7707

3 жыл бұрын

Update My heart is no longer as cold and black 👍

@Emirrpapir

3 ай бұрын

How is it doing now? @@mynameisfart7707

This is incredible. Like many, I'm playing through FF7 again before the release of the remake. As soon as I got the HIghwind I followed your guide to the T and got my gold chocobo with ZERO issues. I remember as a kid this would take me DAYS. I did it in under a half hour, got all the powerful materia, completed the Ancient Forest, and now back on the main story, overpowerd AF. I appreciate you making this video!

@royaalewcheese

4 жыл бұрын

Me too thank you so much @Laneface

@rjalcatraz

2 жыл бұрын

I have followed this to a t and it doesn’t work for me at I end up needing to do extra fights and shit

This is absolutely the most pain free way I've ever used to breed chocobo! Thank you sooooo much!

I keep coming back to this video every ff7 run I do, always appreciate it!!!

This was my first time playing through FFVII and you have no idea how much I was dreading doing the breeding.... thank you SO much for saving me time, gil, and sanity. Much love!

this guide was perfect, got it to work on my first try! thanks for uploading!!

Thanks so much for this guide. Worked perfectly in the end. The only times I encountered any issues were because I missed one of the prompts to save/restart, in particular after catching the chocobos/before moving them into the stables. Thanks again!

Thank you for making this super simple! I am LOVING playing this game again after all these years!

That was pretty easy and cheap to do and amazingly well explained. Thanks a lot for the video!

My favorite game of all time!!! I played WAAAAAY back in the nineties and beat the game when my son was a baby he loved to watch his mama play!! He is 22 now and still a fan, its our thing 😁

@Nosretep

4 жыл бұрын

So he was born in 97 and his Birthday has already passed.

@ThePerpetualStudent

4 жыл бұрын

that is awesome!! I am 41 and i don't play the game anymore, I still have fond memories of it.

I did every step of this as accurately as I could and IT WORKED. YOU SAVED ME HOURS AND HOURS OF EFFORT MAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Awesome! Followed the instructions to the letter and worked great on PS4! First time I've EVER managed to get a gold chocobo, thank you! Hardest bit was getting the right monster combinations near Bone Village... all in all it took about 2hrs, but well worth it 👍

Needed this video them many years back :( Great explanation!

@PoloBoyPrince

5 жыл бұрын

Shouldnt you be playing Tekken somewhere? Lol

Definitely the best guide out there for getting a gold chocobo.Took me 40 mins from buying the stables to visiting all the materia caves. 20 years ago this would have taken a day at least with all the grinding

Thanks, it worked perfectly! Amazing to see how the chocobo breeding science has progressed in the past twenty years!

Thanks so much for this guide! So much simpler than the way i've done it in the past! Cheers

I didn't know the type of enemy the chocobos are with determine its type. That would have helped so much!

Just found your channel. FF7 is one of my fav childhood games, along with Earthbound. Subscribed.

Thanks a bunch for this, I cannot express how grateful I am for you making this vid

This video was a life saver. Was hard telling difference between chocobos but it worked! Thanks!

Quick simple and works on the switch! Thank you sir for doing Gods work!

Someone give this man a medal, I remember getting the gold chocobo through racing and just trial and error as a kid, that took me several days, this took an hour.

This is the best chocobo breeding guide I've found. It helped me out a ton broski. Hands down best one I've found so thanks.

I love this so damn much. This proves that humanity has a chance. Seriously though this is probably the most useful ff7 guide I've ever seen. Thank you

@humicroav215

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I felt my fears of human-caused climate change, wars, and nuclear holocaust melt away after watching this video about a 27 year old video game.

Thank you so much! In case anyone is wondering: NO you do not have to have Tifa as your team leader. I just did it on disc three. Easy peazy.

@auserwithnoname7074

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I just defeated hojo which felt impossible and now I want to make sure I’m ready

@nathanallen9068

3 жыл бұрын

This was the comment I was looking for.

@devinschwartz7596

3 жыл бұрын

The point of the vid is to get it early tho, beginning of disc 2

@They_are_Arthur

2 жыл бұрын

@@devinschwartz7596 It's still useful that this method still works later on disc 3.

@Kaboomboo

2 жыл бұрын

@@devinschwartz7596 Bruh getting a Gold Choco without racing at all is 100% with me lol

this worked. this actually fucking worked lol i chuckled as each step worked like you said. after all the insanity of trying to breed this thing, you give me one in a matter of 20 minutes. bravo to you sir

Thank you so much for this guide, named my gold chocobo Bingus, dont think I could have accomplished this without you! :)

I was skeptical, but after reading the reviews, I gave it a shot. Excellent!!! Followed your directions and it worked!!! Thank you

@laneface

3 жыл бұрын

The dislikes are from people who can't follow directions

Dude, you made the RNG manipulation so simple with this explanation. You explained the solution perfectly, good job man! Gonna start a game on it right now- thanks!

This saved me hours. I rarely comment but I just had to let you know how good of a tutorial this is.

Thank you so much for your amazing video and you simplified the video so much, for years and years with no luck on the gold

This is amazing! The first time trying for the River it didn't work, but just reloaded and everything else worked perfectly! Thanks, man!

Who else, besides me, is still playing FF7 in 2019?

@ElDredlord

5 жыл бұрын

I just put it on to see the intro and I got sucked in, Theres so many things that I didn't see (or forgot) when I played it the first time, It's like playing it for the first time for me

@BaristaKofiMensah

5 жыл бұрын

I am playing currently. At disc 2 in Junon

@dd8586

5 жыл бұрын

Me

@Maxim.Nazarenko

5 жыл бұрын

Nobody.

@finalcam1740

5 жыл бұрын

Fired up another playthrough recently. I cant play the standard game though it's far too easy. Gotta play on gjoerulv's hardcore mod.

I honestly can't believe this worked. Through each step I was dead on and was thinking "this shit's gonna crunk out for me in the last step I just know it" but it didn't and I can't honestly fathom how you figured it out. Liked and subbed my dude. 👍

@BryanM86

4 жыл бұрын

Me while watching any videos about game manipulation

I watched my son follow this video last night and then go crazy on the golden chocobo. Thanks for the incredibly detailed and accurate info.

Awesome, I’m playing through now for fun having bought the official guide book, and I’m discovering new people new items that I didn’t even know about years ago. Thanks for this

Now if I could only get that year of Chocobo racing/breeding back... You've done God's work good sir, thank you for this video!

@crossfitnerd1085

6 жыл бұрын

OMG. I did this...years ago. Well over a decade ago. And now im like FML. I wasted all my time on something that could take me an hour.

It's been maybe 2 months since I finished my FF7 playthrough and used this video, but still every now and again the image of Tifa's overworld sprite running to this song pops in my head

Tysm for making this video! I love the way you explain the process and how simple and quick it actually is, idk how you were able to discover this method but thank you for sharing it, also thx for showing me the location of the Knights of Round Materia lol

I was skeptical about this but it really worked! Thanks so much man this is was really useful.

Absolutly fantastic! I thought I would have to make all the effort again to get a golden chocobo on my actual playthrough, but you saved so much time and frustation! Thank you very much!

Perfect video. In 50 minutes went from 0 chocobos to 2 normal chocobos, 1 forest, 1 river, 1 black and 1 gold chocobo Overall 10/10

Worked first time! Easy to follow thanks Lanceface!

Thank you, this video was so helpful, i was finally able to finish FFVII tonight and it was all thanks to this!!

Videos of this game are still being made... I love it

I'm playing the Switch version and this technique worked like a charm. I was surprised how easy it was to do. The most difficult part was just catching the excellent and great chocobos at the beginning. Thank you!

THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUUUUCH !!!!! IT WORKED !!! I did the same steps as in your video and everything went according to what you said was gonna happen. You're great. I would hug you so hard.

Wow, thanks for this... been playing since ‘97 and this is a drastic improvement!

I too played the game over 20 years ago. Lots of things I remembered, but also a lott I forgot. So also I forgot how to exactly bread a gold Chocobo. Never new I could get a gold one without racing. The playthrough book didnt told me that. Your vid made it look easy, It wasn't realy. But after using nine different saveslots and over 3 hrs of trying to get it right, I finaly did it. Great man and thnx.

I’ve seen it, I’ve done it, And I still don’t believe it. Hats off to you good sir!

Awesome...just did this step by step. You are the man. I remember doing hrs of races before...was not looking forward to that again...it is nicer on the ps4 version.. loving it. Thanks again.

Simply amazing!! Worked first time. You are a genius!

Holy shit. I have to thank u. I can’t believe that actually worked for my original copy of ff7. Gold in a day without racing. My mind is blown. I’m gonna get it to S rank just out of respect.

@whatisthis-uw9ok

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't work for me

This was great! Got it on the first run! Now I can use my Gold Chocobo to race easily and collect the items only at the Gold Saucer.

This is probably the coolest thing I've done in my gaming Life! Thank you for the time in research it took to put this together. Worked perfectly on a Samsung Galaxy S10+

What a time saver! Thank you so much I accidentally got my main file deleted and I did NOT want to have to grind this again!! Bless your soul!

This was fantastic, thanks so much. Just a few things i'd add playing on Playstation 1 with original PAL discs: 1) You need to hard reset to achieve the desired effect ie. turn the console off (soft reset doesn't seem to achieve the desired effect) 2) Chocobo sex doesn't seem to be determined until after you enter the farm (or talk to billy) so if you don't get the wonderful / great sexes you want, don't go through the laborious task of catching them again, just get in some random battles to try and change up the RNG before you enter the farm 3) how fast you go or how close to the farm you save (as long as you don't get into another random battle) seems to have no effect.

Just did this on Xbox One Release. Works perfectly. Thank you so much Lane! Phenomenal!!!

Replaying this on Steam with Echo-S mods and I never knew you could do this, and I can confirm still works like a dream. I have KOTR way earlier then I should and it's awesome. Thanks for this.

Saved so much time by following this video! Thank You so much!!!!

Thanks dude. Works for Nintendo Switch even after saving Cloud

Still works on Ps4 Dec 28th 2019! Thx man! Great time saver. One thing I'd like to add is ONLY feed the 1st Female Great one Not any of the offspring!

Very helpful and straight to the point guide!

I always come to this video and this method has never ever failed me. Thank you so much and God bless you tremendously man

Amazing stuff man, Worked on the Switch, Much love dude

@krishop1802

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for saving me wondering if I was wasting my time. Good lookin out

@AverageJoeGamer22

5 жыл бұрын

@@krishop1802 this tip let me enjoy ff7 more than I ever have. Def works!

@samuricexful

5 жыл бұрын

AverageJoeGamer22 I find it more fun to mess around with a bunch of materia combos instead of just spamming KotR.

@AverageJoeGamer22

5 жыл бұрын

@@samuricexful lol ok thanks for telling us

@vandriver101

5 жыл бұрын

nice!

this is so cool to see, back in ,97 this is what we did to get a golden chocobo, but much later in the game tho... ohh the memories :)

Your video saved my ass. You did a good job explaining step-by-step. Thank you!

This is the first time I've ever commented on KZread bc this is ridiculously amazing, thanks man.

Hell yea, I couldn't do it when I was 17,, but I did it now at 37 lol.. good shit bro..

@luttenio

4 жыл бұрын

i will second this couldn't do it when i was 13 but did it when i was 33 first time, great video @Laneface, now to continue your 100% walkthrough in anticipation on the re-make ^.^

@user-bd1yv8gd5x

4 жыл бұрын

Juan Diaz I did it at 14/15 I did have the strategy guide after all. But I did it the hard way the tedious racing. No KZread back then lol.

@tinormous-road2gains13

4 жыл бұрын

Juan Diaz try to do it now at 34 does this actually work

@user-bd1yv8gd5x

4 жыл бұрын

Tinormous -road2gains Yes it actually works. It works on all versions of the game. It’s nice to get Knights of the round as soon as possible. That is a beast to master.

@tinormous-road2gains13

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers man started last managed to get the first one but after the 6 battles the second one isn’t coming so must of done something wrong feed it 50

Nintendo Switch Confirmed - Works flawlessly. I had originally tired this video with Cloud after rescuing him from Mideel, but it didn't work. I couldn't even breed the River/Mountain chocobo. So... I played through the game again to try immediately after getting the Highwind, and with Tifa as the main. Success. I was able to breed a gold Chocobo following the video exactly. It may be you can only do this method with Tifa immediately after getting the Highwind.

@scotius

5 жыл бұрын

I did it after rescuing Cloud. I had to battle 9 times prior to breeding the mtn and river, but maybe I miscounted.

@matthewculbertson9649

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I had a problem at this spot too on the Switch. Pretty sure I just did 7 instead of 8 battles. The game told me the Chocobos were not ready to breed yet, so I tried one more battle. Then the breeding result was not correct. So all I did, having already saved and quit accidentally with battles, was to reload and fight 8 more. The breeding then worked exactly as it should. This method saved a massive amount of time, thanks! And I did keep 3x speed mode on the whole time too... @@scotius

@goodjobusa

5 жыл бұрын

I keep getting great males...about to give up on breeding...

@YourDevastator

5 жыл бұрын

Followed the video to the T on Xbox One, worked perfectly as well.

@nickieellis7902

5 жыл бұрын

@@YourDevastator ty I was wondering

Literally the easiest tutorial to follow ever. Thank you for posting!!!

Looks like your video's helping people for almost 3 years now.... THANKS FOR SAVING ME HOURS OF WORK, and giving me hours to play! ;)

Just did it on switch version works perfectly thanks a bunch! 🙌

Great video, works flawlessly on the Switch.

Thanks bro. This video really helped me get the gold chocobo. I followed this step by step and it really works 100%

Excellent tutorial! Very clear and well explained! Also works for N-Switch.

Holy Shit, it WORKED!! Had to try it just to test it. Gold in half an hour.

This works!!🥳🤩🥳I thought I stuffed it up because when I started I only had 1 stable 😂 I went to stable the wonderful Male and it said I needed to buy more stables😱.. but it still worked.., thanks bro just Sub and thumbs up

So thankful dude after over 25 years it worked the first time trying! THX

I can't believe this worked, I was sure I'd screw up somewhere but this guide was very easy to follow and now I've achieved a 20-year dream of finally getting KOTR. Thank you so much for this

Thank you so much! Just got the golden Chocobo within 40 minutes on PS 4.

I can confirm that this works with Cloud in your party. I so wish I had this 20 years ago! Thank you!

@zerocool6257

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't work ps4 version.

@brettcastle5419

4 жыл бұрын

@@zerocool6257 yes it does. I just did it lol

@eirinimargarita

4 жыл бұрын

Nope! I had only Tifa and the others and worked for me !

@AraiaHikari

4 жыл бұрын

I've tried it twice now and it's not working for me for some reason...

@GruppeSechs2004

4 жыл бұрын

Brian Leissner I have the PS4 version and it worked the first time...with Tifa!

Thank you so much! This was so fast and easy to follow.

This video is timeless, thank you man!