Sonic Adventure 2: 180 Emblem NEW Chao Strategy

Sonic Adventure 2: 180 Emblem NEW Chao Strategy

The chao stats generated from the Black Market chao are based on a hidden RNG counter. When the chao garden is first entered after deleting the chao data, it is set at a specific value. By entering the main garden as Shadow, spawning the two chao eggs in the garden, and buying ONE egg in slot 1 with 4 fruit, the RNG value is set at a specific value, which generates the chao we use for the sun (C in Swim, D in Fly, S in Run, B in Power, C in Stamina).

We also generate two other chao from our second black market visit by buying Two eggs in slots 1 and 2 with 3 fruit, giving us two chao that eat faster than the two garden chao based on their characteristics (small eaters, less eating animations).

The plan is to raise 3 chao. 1 Child Chao to compete in all the races, 1 Hero Chao and 1 Dark chao. The Child Chao I plan to max/get close to max on all the stats. I do this by using the animal glitch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URM1l6wMnw) to re-use an animal as many times as I want to. I use tails as the character for this as he's the easiest to control within the garden.

The animals I use are Condors, followed by Skeleton dogs, followed by Half-Fishes. The combination of these 3 animals are both readily available in stages (Aquatic Mine, Pumpkin Hill and Green Forest respectively) and raise the stats to 99 with the least amount of animal uses. I use 129 condors, 269 Skeleton dogs and then 162 half fishes (560 total). Condors are first as it is the only one out of the 3 that reduces a stat (Run). Skeleton dogs are next as I can tell when I've given exactly 269 of them via the fly stat (as Half-Fishes don't give any fly). I don't raise any stamina levels for the Child Chao as it is not needed and is more beneficial to give to the other chao to make them evolve faster

Evolution is a hidden stat that varies from 0 to 1 and increases by 1/60th every 2:30 minutes. The only way to influence this stat is by feeding a Chao. Each bite that a Chao takes from a piece of fruit increases this stat by 1/200th. So the main aim is to feed the Hero and Dark Chao as much as possible while maxing out the Child Chao's stats. The fastest way to do this now is to buy a series of fruit from the Market and having big feeding sessions at the start till the chao are about 11.8 in stamina, followed by feeding all the Condors and Skeleton Dogs. We then do another feeding session of the 18 fruit that fall from the tree till about 15.4 stamina, then finishing off with the Half-Fish.

I also do something called "Fruit Regrowth" which allows me to regrow some fruit that only have one bite left into brand new fruit (Details here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mjE5Pp1I-lp7V-xSScoyhOEwnMdlHy1rsHZcvPITq10/edit#slide=id.p)

It is worth it to max the chao stats completely as the time you lose over the course of the races and Karate is not worth the time you save doing less animal glitches.

In order to make sure I get one Hero and one Dark Chao, I manipulate the alignment to Dark as Tails by repeatedly taking the fruit away from the chao. (;_;)

Chao take up about 3:25 hours of this run and start about 4:20 hours into it. I feel that this is as much a part of this speedrun as any other mission and although it's quite different from the rest of the run, it still requires me to focus and not make errors in movement or strategy. I don't want to run things like "All emblems w/o chao emblems" because I simply love doing the chao portion of this run! ^_^