Chocobo is the ostrich –like bird that helps you along your quest in Final Fantasy
9.It can dig the ground to find treasure. In disc 1,when you are on your way to
Gizamaluke’s Grotto, head to right of the gate to find to bridge. Cross over the
bridge and you will find a dome-like forest. It is not exactly a forest that you can
go through it. It is a Chocobo Forest.Go near it and enter. Inside you will find
Mene the moogle and a chocobo. Mene will call the chocobo to come near you but the
stubborn chocobo run away. Mene will then ask you to go outside of the forest to
search for the chocobo footprints. Stand on the footprints and use a Gysahl
Green.The chocobo will come to you and press X to ride it. Now go back to the
forest. Mene will then tell you the big secret about chocobo is that it can dig
treasure. After that you can start a game called Chocobo Hot And Cold.Mene will let
you dig around (press [] to dig) the Chocobo Forest to find treasure and you can
keep the treasure but you will have to pay Mene 60gil to play the game. In your
first 2 or 3 games, you might come to an item that is stone with pattern. Seeing
this,Mene will name this stone Chocograph that is a graph that shows you where about
the treasure is. There are also Chocograph Pieces that if you manage to collect 6 of
them it will become a full chgocograph.


NOTE
In Chocobo Hot and Cold game, chocobo will let out a sound that tells you wether the
treasure is near to you or not.
Kweh means it is far away
Kweh!? means it is quite far away
Kwehhh!? means it is very near to you
K-Kwehhh!!! means you have found the treasure!!!

If you manage to dig some item when playing the game, you can get points. The deeper
the treasure is, the more points you will get. You can take the points you inherited
to exchange with some cool items with Mene.Be sure to use your point carefully!

Item points
Robe of Lords 10,000
Protect Ring 8,500
Wing Edge 3,500
Viltgance Card 1,800
Ether 450
Ore 250
Phoenix Down 150
Gysahl Green 10

Chocobo Lagoon

Dig, dig, dig in the forest until Mene says that there is no more chocograph. It
will then ask you to to Chocobo Lagoon.However, only the chosen chocobo can enter
the lagoon. After you find all the chocographs, start your searching for the
treasures when you are in the world map for it have a lot of good item and of course
by using chocobo. Search all the treasures until your chocobo becomes the Reef
Chocobo.Go to the southwest of the world map. One of the island there is the Chocobo
Lagoon.You can enter it through the hole. By the time you are there Mene will there
too, letting you play the Chocobo Hot And Cold game. However, since your chocobo is
just the Reef Chocobo that can walk in the shallow water only, Mene will cut the
price half because you can only dig the shallow part. Start digging all the
chocographs again until Mene says that there is no more chocographs left anymore.
Start finding all the treasures and if you couldn’t find the chocograph that evolves
chocobo into Deep Sea Chocobo, go back to Chocobo Foerst and try your luck there.
After you found the treasure that evolve chocobo, go back to Chocobo Lagoon and dig
again. Now you can dig the deeper part making the price 60gil again. Even if Mene
says that there is no more chocograph left, keep digging for the chocograph piece.
After you manage to dig up all 6 chocograph pieces, find the treasure and you will
eventually get the Gold Chocobo.