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A very warm welcome to all of you! This is the A-Life section where you can find many juicy info on A-Life (or known as Chao. I don't want to confuse you with Chaos and the Chao so I will use A-Life throughout my guide). This is copied straight from my Sonic Adventure Guide, version 4.2 so I don't sue myself over copyright matters ;) I will also alter the section names a bit and you can find too how to get the ultimate Light Chao! This Guide is Copyright Clement Chan Zhi Li 2000. Look below, now!
To understand about the A-Life, I have brought you this section. Also, some of this parts are copied from Mike White's A-Life FAQ but are arranged differently. Some parts are altered a bit. Remember, I had added some words to go for the pictures.
Please do note that if you want to download this guide (including the pictures), you'll need Internet Explorer 5 to save it in full. If not, just print this guide straight from the web. If you have any difficulties on this guide, send me an e-mail at clementchan@pd.jaring.my
1. (What is an A-Life?)
An A-Life (or known as Chao in
Sonic Adventure) is a virtual pet-like creature which can be
downloaded to the memory card and can be take care in the game.
More things about A-Life are written below. See the cute picture
of an A-Life?
2. (Where to find the A-Life?)
A-Life can be found in the Chao Gardens. To hatch the eggs, hold down the Y button to carry the egg. While holding Y, move the analog pad to shake the egg. Put it down and it should hatch.
You can also throw the egg to hatch but this can affect the A-Life like getting an evil-grinning A-Life or it can be happy too!
3. (Location of the Chao Garden)
Station Square - Go to the hotel in Station Square and go in the elevator at the left side.
Mystic Ruins - It is located below the ledge where you get the Emblem. To be more specific, from the train go down and head towards the stairs. Instead of going up the stairs, head to the left side. At the left side will be a cave, take the mine cart.
Egg Carrier - Inside the Egg Carrier. It is near the yellow pod. Press the button to spell Eggman's name. This should open the door. Then, enter it and jump onto the teleporter.
Remember, a Chao Garden can only hold 8 A-Life.
3A. (Putting A-Life in VMS)
To put your A-Life into your VMS, go to a Chao Garden and look around for a machine with a VMS model on top of it. An example below is from Station Square.
Press the red button on the machine to 'activate' it. A menu should appear and then, select your memory card.
If this is the first time you put your A-Life in the
VMS, the process will take longer than usual so please be
patient.
4. (A-Life's Action)
Inside the Chao Garden, your A-Life may have different actions. Try to react according different actions that the A-Life shows you.
An A-Life with its eyes wide open is not especially happy or sad. It's just content.
If an A-Life has X's in its eyes, it is very upset. Comfort this poor creature by feeding it coconuts. \par \par An A-Life with a thin horizontal line across its eyes is very happy, actually. Good job!
When an A-Life has its eyes half-closed and yawned, it is tired. Feed it coconuts to try and get it to sleep and regain energy. Tired A-Life tend to fall asleep more often during races. (Note some breeds of A-Life seem to be this way permanently) Also, after sleeping, the A-Life will yawn then do whatever it will do next.
An A-Life with a dot over its head isn't thinking anything in particular.
An A-Life with a question mark over its head is trying to decide how to act or react next. Just watch and wait till it decides.
If an A-Life has an exclamation mark over its head,
it's been surprised by something. It may react very positively,
or very negatively to this, or sometimes not at all.
If you see a heart over your A-Life's head, then it's quite happy with your most recent action. If you see it with a heart over its head for no apparent reason, it's very happy with you.
An A-Life with a funnel-like swirl over its head is very disgruntled about something. Perhaps you just walloped it over the head with Amy's mallet. I'd suggest a heaping helping of coconuts. See the picture to know the 'way' of their actions.
5. (Animals)
Different animals that you give to an A-Life give different abilities and different look. Here's how you can know. To know which coloured system is your Chao, look at the background colour when you rescued an animal.
Yellow system - Yellow system animals will affect an A-Life's swimming ability. Give 4 sea otters to plus 2 the swimming ability. Give 3 penguins to plus 1 to the swimming ability. Give 3 seals to plus 1 to the swimming ability.
Purple system- The purple system's animals will affect an A-Life's flying ability. Give 4 swallows to plus 2 to the flying ability. Give 2 parrots to plus 1 to the flying ability. Give 2 peacocks to plus 1 to the flying ability.
Green
system - Green
system's animals will affect an A-Life's running ability. Give 4
dears to plus 2 to the running ability. Give 2 rabbits to plus 1
to the running ability. Give 2 kangaroos to plus 1 to the running
ability. Here's an example of a rabbit.
Red system - The red system's animals will affect an A-Life's power ability. Give 4 gorillas to plus 2 to the power ability. Give 3 lions to plus 1 to the power ability. Give maybe 3 elephants to plus 1 to the power ability.
Blue system - The blue system will affect an A-Life's ability randomly. Give a few koalas to plus 10 to any abilities. Give a few moles to plus 10 to any abilities. Give a few skunks to plus 10 to any abilities.
5A. (Location and Actions of Animals)
In order to find them, below is the location of different animals. Also, the actions that the animals will give to an A-Life are written too.
Yellow system - The sea otter can be found in the Emerald Coast, IceCap and Hot Shelter. This animal can make an A-Life do a backstroke.
The penguin can be found in Emerald Coast, IceCap, Hot Shelter and Lost World. This animal can make an A-Life do the skating action.
The seal can be found in Emerald Coast, IceCap, Hot Shelter and Windy Valley. This animal can make an A-Life dance.
Purple system - The swallow can be found in Windy Valley, Casinopolis, SkyDeck and Speed Highway. It can make an A-Life dances in circles.
The parrot can be found in Windy Valley, Casinopolis, SkyDeck and Red Mountain. This bird can make an A-Life sings.
The peacock can be found in Windy Valley, Casinopolis and SkyDeck. It can make an A-Life lying on one side.
Green system - The deer can be found in Twinkle Park, Speed Highway, Final Egg and Hot Shelter. The action for this animal is to bow.
The rabbit can be found in Twinkle Park, Speed Highway, Final Egg, Emerald Coast and Casinopolis. This animal can make an A-Life do somersaults.
The kangaroo can be found in Twinkle Park, Speed Highway and Final Egg. It can make an A-Life do shadow boxing.
Red system - Gorillas can be found in Red Mountain, Lost World, IceCap and Final Egg. They can make an A-Life beats a drum.
The lion can be found in Red Mountain, Lost World and SkyDeck. It can make an A-Life washes its own face.
The elephant can be found in Red Mountain, Lost World and Twinkle Park. The action for this animal is acting like a sumo player.
Blue system - The koala can be found in the Emerald Coast, Casinopolis, Twinkle Park and Speed Highway. It can make an A-Life play a trumpet.
The mole can be found in the Windy Valley, IceCap, Red Mountain, Lost World and Final Egg. It can make an A-Life plays with a shovel.
The skunk can be found in the SkyDeck and Hot Shelter. It can make an A-Life draws certain characters on the ground. It depends whether who treated it the best and will draw that character.
5B. (Effected Appearance)
The animals that you give can also effect your A-Life's appearance. Below is a list of the animals.
Yellow system
Penguin - Hands and legs become fins and eyebrows grow. Seal - Fin-tail appears. Sea Otter - A bit brown colour on hands and legs.
Purple system
Parrot - Tail and wings become red in colour while the red thing grows on the head. Peacock - Green, peacock tail grows while the green thing grows on the head. Swallow - Tail and wings become blue in colour.
Green system
Deer - Horns and hooves grows. Kangaroo - Grows green hair and long tail. Rabbit - Grows rabbit ears and legs.
Red system
Elephant - Hands and legs become bigger and elephant ears grow. Gorilla - Become purple, long nails and grows gorilla's ears. Lion - Grows a lion's mane, nails and ears.
Blue system
Koala - Grows nails and white hair. Mole - Grows nails and pink tail. Skunk - Grows skunk tail and has black and white fur.
6. (Special coloured A-Life)
A special coloured A-Life can be obtained if you combine the normal, blue A-Life with certain animals. If you combine them with a special coloured A-Life (gold, silver or black), they will produce the A-Life that it should be with its original colour. Below will show how to get a special coloured A-Life.
Alien - To look like an alien, give an A-Life a lot of yellow system animals. It should have long head. Also, it is yellow and green mixed together.
NiGHTS- To look like him, give an A-Life a lot of purple system animals. It should look like an A-Life with purple in colour.
Sonic - To get an A-Life to look like him, give a lot of green system animals until it evolved. The A-Life should be dark blue in colour and have spikes behind.
Dragon - To look like a dragon, give a lot of red system animals. He should be bright red and have spikes behind him.
If you give a lot of blue system animals, it would turn randomly to one of the above.
7. (Special coloured eggs)
To get a special coloured egg, try and find in the Adventure Fields.
Gold Egg - At Station Square, head to the shop where Sonic comes out after getting the Light Speed Shoes located near the City Hall. It should have a gold egg. Go to the place where Sonic fought Chaos 0. There should be a rock with the shape of an egg. Take it to that shop.
Put it down. Take the gold egg and put it down. Now take the stone-egg and put it at the pedestal there. This should open the door. Then, take the gold egg to the Chao Garden.
Silver Egg - In the Mystic Ruins, head to the waterfall. There should be a rock-button somewhere. Press it and wait the egg to fall on the water. Wait it reaches the ground then take it.
Black Egg - Play as Amy, Big or E-102. Go to the cell area in the Egg Carrier. The second cell should be a black egg. Jump on the button to open the cell. Then, take it.
Take note that the eggs will appear again at the same place after playing Sonic Adventure for a long time.
8. (Chao Adventure)
If you put your A-Life in the memory card, select the second options by pressing mode. Wait the word 'SEGA' goes off then the title Chao Adventure should be shown. Press A and B button together.
The A-Life will walk by its own until it beeps. If it has a message question, it would beep and the letter-shaped icon should appear. To read faster, hold on the A button.
If your A-Life beeps and a '!?' appear on the screen, it's battle time. Try and press A at the white dot to hit the enemy. If you press on the black dot, your hit will miss. An extra white dot will appear every 200 power you have. If you win, you can get an item. To go to menu, press A. To exit the menu press B. For an example of Chao Adventure, see below.
8A. (Understanding the game)
To understand the game, I will list out each options in detail.
Status - Press A at the Status to see an A-Life's status. The first one is the name of an A-Life. The second is his mood while the third is his HP. The HP can be gained during Chao Race and take care of it in the Chao Garden.
Press A again to see the A-Life's status, Swim, Fly, Run and Power.
Items - Items can be obtained in the treasure chest, winning a battle and playing a game. Different food give different effects. The maximum food you can store is eight. Below is the list of items you can get in a treasure chest and non-perfect in the game. These items can only heal 2 HP.
| Lemon - Swimming + 4 | Grape - Running +4 | Plum - Fly +4 | Cherry - Power +4 |
Below is a list of items you can get in treasure chest and perfects in the game. \par \par LifeNut - \par This nut is to heal all of your A-Life's HP. Keep it for future.
LifeNut - This nut is to heal all of your A-Life's HP. Keep it for future.
StarNut - Increases punching strength during a battle. Only last for a stage.
HastNut - Increases speed of walking, swimming, climbing or flying in a stage. It last until the end of the Chao Adventure. Also, the name should be HasteNut only because there is no space to add 'e'.
ChaoNut - Behold the ultimate nut, the ChaoNut! This nut can heal all of your A-Life's HP and increase all status by +4.
Also, when you take out your A-Life from the VMS, the food that you keep in store will come out.
Game - This is the concentration game. You'll only have three chances to miss a guess. If you did not get a single mistake, you can a special nut. The others are normal which increases an A-Life ability.
Mating - Take out the cover on top of the VMS and select this option. When it writes 'Please Connect', connect with another VMS.
The VMS will put a message 'Keep Connect' and hearts will appear on the screen. You'll then see both the A-Life in your screen and an egg appear. Look at the Status screen to see the egg! Mating will mix the A-Life a bit.
Battle - Take out the cover on top of the VMS and select this option. When it writes 'Please Connect', connect with the other VMS.
Remember, the other person's VMS must have the word 'Please Connect' before connecting. If not, your VMS will freeze. So, before battling, 'save' first by selecting the Clock mode and then press the A button. Then, press the Mode button to select the game back.
After connecting, 'Do Not Disconnect' screen appear. When it says 'Please disconnect', disconnect and fight. \par \par The other person' A-Life seems to depend on its status. The more HP it has, the longer you need to fight with him. The more power it has, the more chances it has to hit you.
Owner - The owner's information. When you press A, a list of personal information will show up.
The first one is [Name], meaning name of the owner. [D.O.B.] is your date of birth. [Tel] is your telephone number. [U Like] is what you like. [Secret] is your secret. [Time] is the fastest time your A-Life can go through all stages in Chao Adventure. The name of that particular A-Life will appear here.
Friend - A friend's information. Press A at your friend's name to see his or her personal information. Obtained when battling or mating. This is the same as the above except that the personal information is your friend's. But, if you did not tell your A-Life your name, your A-Life will not get your friend's information and will start asking questions about your friend's information. Unfortunately, I can't get that to happen.
Map - The first one is the name of the place you're in. The meter shows how far you are. The further you are, the longer the black colour will fill. Below the meter is how far your A-Life have walked. Press A again to find a map. Below the map is when you can meet certain characters.
When you meet that characters, they will give you something to enhance your abilities though there are no fruits or nuts in your Items store.
When you meet Sonic, your A-Life will be added 10 to his running ability. When your A-Life meets Tails, he will be given 10 to his flying ability. \par \par When he meets Knuckles, your A-Life will be given 10 to his power ability. Meeting Amy will heal your HP. When you meet Big, you'll be added 10 to your A-Life's swimming ability. Lastly, meeting E-102 will make your A-Life 'Hasted'.
This clears up the puzzle that I had before. Your A-Life will turn away when he meets a character because your items store is full. Have fun!
Setting - Press A to find the first option, Sound. This allows you to on and off the sound.
The second option is Data. It allows you to give other people your information or not during battling or mating.
The third option is Rewrite. Press A and you'll find more options. Name is to change the owner's name. Gender is to select a gender. I don't know what's the Color is for. I think it's to select an A-Life's colour.
D.O.B is to select your date of birth in this order Month/Day/Year. Tel is to put down your telephone number. U Like is to write down what you like. Secret is your secret.
Press B to go back to the menu. The last option is Name to select an A-Life's name.
9. (Chao Race)
To race, go to the Station Square Chao Garden. Enter the automatic doors to the Chao Race.
Jump on the Entry button and a menu will show up. The Chao Race (Jewel) is the most important to get Emblems. The Chao Race (Beginner) is to practice while the Multi-Entry is to put more than 1 A-Life in a race.
In the Chao race, use the D-pad and move left and right to select which A-Life you want to watch. You can cheer your Chao by pressing the A,B,X and Y button.
If your A-Life have stars over him, press the A button to give him a boost of speed. Don't press this for the other A-Life.
If your A-Life always loses in the race, try play with your A-Life until its status is over 400.
If your A-Life has 999 in all his status, it is the God-Chao (well, a nickname). It will be the fastest of all A-Life.
10. (Evolving, Mating & HP)
Once you take care of your A-Life long enough or give him a lot of animals, he'll then evolve by transforming into a transparent egg. After evolving, then flowers will grow around him and that's the time to mate.
To mate, carry another A-Life near that ready-to-mate A-Life to get an egg if you are lucky. Hatch it and you'll find that your new A-Life has the mixed characteristics as its parents.
After mating, you may want the A-Life to mate again. To mate quickly, make sure you have a LifeNut in your VMS. Take your A-Life out so that the red nut will come out. Feed it to the A-Life and that should do it. Also, the A-Life won't mate if there are already 8 A-Life in that Chao Garden.
If your A-Life sleeps, carry it and put it down and it should be ready to mate.
Also, your evolved A-Life may turn into an egg. If you hatch it, it may die. To make it alive, choose Sonic, Tails, Knuckles or Amy (because they are easy to take care of the A-Life). Then, before hatching any egg, carry any nut, fruit or coconut to that particular egg.
Put it down. Press Y and move the directional button to hatch the egg. Then, QUICKLY take the coconut and go near that dying A-Life. That should do the trick. Be warned that your A-Life will die naturally after a while if you treat him badly.
If you found that your hatched A-Life dies and wanted to reset again, take out your VMS from the controller and then press the Power button on the Dreamcast or press A, B, X, Y and Start button together.
HP (or Hit Points) can be obtained during your presence in the Chao Garden. You can also get HP by taking care of it long enough in the Chao Garden, racing and feeding it coconuts. It also seems to me that feeding a coconut will raise its' HP by one.
11. (Unexplained Phenomenon)
There is many unexplained things in the Chao Adventure. Whoever can explain this will be credited. I also will appreciate any people who wish to send in more unexplained phenomenon for the Chao Adventure. Also, please make it in detail.
My brother and I went to battle. I won in the battle while he is still battling. His A-Life's HP is 0 in the battle when suddenly his HP is full with some additional HP that normally we didn't get!
After the battle, we check and found out that his HP is G6/38. He gave his A-Life some fruit and his A-Life returns to normal, 38/38. Strange, isn't it?
I have also encountered it twice. The status is not G6 this time and I figured out that when this strange thing happened, the first digit should be a letter and the second should be a number.
I keep on press right when battling with my brother. Do you think it's because of it? Any opinions? Please e-mail to me at clementchan@pd.jaring.my
12. (A-Life Special Present)
Whenever you're playing with your A-Life on a special day (Christmas and etc.) on the beginning (after that Chao Adventure logo and pressing the A and B buttons), your A-Life will give you a message like Merry Christmas and will give you a present (StarNut, HastNut, Lemon, etc.)
This is good as you can get a 'free' present from your A-Life whenever you play on that special day.
13. (Hide & Seek)
If you put your A-Life in the Mystic Ruins Chao Garden, your A-Life may hide away from you. It may hide behind the rocks, inside the water, on top of the rock or even INSIDE the rock!
If you can't find your A-Life, the only solution is to exit from the Chao Garden and re-enter again.
14. (Reborn Phenomenon)
When you had taken good care of your A-Life, never hurt it before (well, hurt it a little can be acceptable), never made it cry and etc. will allow it to reborn. When reborn, it will reborn into an egg where you need to hatch it.
Before you hatch it, get ready a
coconut or any fruit. Hatch it and quickly give it the fruit so
that it won't die. This will allow your A-Life to live a second
life. But, if you treat your A-Life badly, it will die without
reborn. 
The A-Life that reborn will have the same features, the jewel that is won from a race except that it will have reduced status. Its' status will be lesser and HP will be lower too.
If you want your A-Life to reborn faster, take out a few LifeNuts from the VMS and give one to it. Bring the other A-Life and mate them together. Continue to do this until he was reborn.
15. (Second Evolution)
There are lots of rumours out on the Internet saying that there is the second evolution. I had tried it myself and found out that it's half true.
Second evolution doesn't mean it will evolve into the transparent egg. It will just have different features which some of them look really cool! To make this second evolution work, your A-Life must evolved once.
Also, you need to give your A-Life more than 50 animals to make him look like that particular Chao you want.
Note: You need to get certain coloured A-Life first. Example: Get an Alien Chao for the first evolution then give other system animals to change to a unique A-Life. If it doesn't produce the A-Life you want, give the original animals. Try experimenting and have fun!
15A. (Yellow System)
Make sure you get an Alien Chao first (refer to section [6. Special coloured A-Life], then only you mix with other animals.
Advanced Alien Chao- Give more yellow system animals and it will have longer head ever!
Sharp Alien Chao - Give your A-Life more purple system animals and it will have a very sharp and pointy head. Plus, the colours will get a bit mixed up.
Tailed Alien Chao - Give your A-Life a mixture of green system animals. Actually, it doesn't really had a tail. Its' head has just gone flat down on the ground. So, the colour will be a bit greener as you will expect.
Great Alien Chao - Giving your A-Life red system animals will make him a bit bigger in appearance. He will be in the same colour of the green and yellow mixed together.
15B. (Purple System)
Remember, get the NiGHTS Chao first!
Great NiGHTS Chao - Give yellow system animals and your A-Life will turn pink with the ears bigger than ever.
Advanced NiGHTS Chao - Give more purple system animals to get this special A-Life! It's looks more to NiGHTS than the first evolution, with the two longer 'ears'.
Pink NiGHTS Chao - Give green system animals and your A-Life will turn pink too! The two ears will be a bit curly.
Red NiGHTS Chao - Lots of red system animals will turn your A-Life red! The ears will curl a bit, too.
15C. (Green System)
Great Sonic Chao - Give your Sonic Chao yellow system animals and it will turn light blue and a bit big and fat.
Advanced Sonic Chao - This time, it looks more like Sonic with more dark, blue spikes. Just give him more green system animals and that should do it.
Super Sonic Chao - Give purple system animals and your Sonic Chao will have straight spikes. It's better if you get a gold, Sonic Chao though so it will look more like Super Sonic.
Purple Sonic Chao - Mix your Sonic Chao with red system animals. This will make your Sonic Chao become purple!
15D. (Red System)
Great Dragon Chao - Give your Chao more yellow system animals and it will have a longer head. The colour will be bright red, too.
Sharp Dragon Chao - Give more purple system animals and it will have bright red colour and a sharp, pointy head.
Mini Dragon Chao - Give lots of green system animals to turn your Dragon Chao a bit smaller with the not-so red colour.
Advanced Dragon Chao - Give more red system animals and its colour will be bright red in no time!
16. (Light Chao)
To get this super and ultimate A-Life, you need lots of free time and patience. There are few ways of getting this special A-Life so I'll try to list as many as possible.
The first way: Get any new-born A-Life, whether it's a normal blue, gold, silver or black. Then, take care of it in the GARDEN, if possible. Make sure you don't give it any animals.
You can also play with it in your VMS and get lots of LifeNuts when the fruits come out in the game. If you don't mind having lots of A-Life, then give the LifeNuts the A-Life whom you want to be Light Chao. Once the flowers bloom around him, bring the other A-Life and put them together. Do this a few times. This way, you can make him reborn faster.
Then, you can feed it too. Just take care of it normally. Also, give it more coconuts to make your A-Life evolve quickly. Once it evolves, take care of it until it reborns into an egg. Then, get ready a fruit or coconut near it. Hatch the egg and quickly take the particular fruit and feed it IMMEDIATELY or it will die.
Then, take care of it until it evolves, then reborn again. Once you hatch the egg, quickly go out from the Chao Garden. You need to give it every 15 animals before it evolves, one animal each.
You need to give it one penguin, sea otter, seal, parrot, peacock, sparrow, deer, kangaroo, rabbit, elephant, gorilla and lion. Refer back at 5A. Location and Actions of Animals to make sure. Also, write a list which animals you had given to make sure you made no mistake. Use Sonic and Knuckles to get all of the animals.
Give all of them quickly and don't waste any minutes. If you haven't give all the animals and it had evolves, the whole process will fail. Once you give all the animals, give it a lot of coconuts to make it evolves. When it is evolving, sparkle of light will come our from its body. It will be white in colour with a ball of light on top of its head with two strange eyes. Congratulations! You've got it!
Okay. The second way: It's a bit strange and my younger brother has found it. Just get an A-Life and take care of it as normal and you CAN give it animals until it reborn to its third life (see above).
Then, just give it all the 15 animals and give it a few coconuts and it should reborn in no time and get a Light Chao. Why I consider it strange is because you can give it animals while the first way can't. This way is correct, just as the above one.
When you put your Light Chao in your VMS, his face will be funny looking. Also, for the American version, the Light Chao will not be displayed properly. All you need to do is to set the VMS language to Japanese.
This special Light Chao will not trip and fall, distracted by birds, play with ball while in the Chao Adventure. Totally cool! Even when you give him a LazyNut, it won't effect him! Neat feature!
Unfortunately, you can't mate him already in the Chao Garden, even when you give him lots of LifeNuts. The only way is to mate by using a VMS.
Also, your A-Life will not have those emotions icons such as question mark, heart, swirling and etc. You'll know the A-Life's actions by seeing it do something or hearing the sounds it produced on certain emotions.
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