Do we know if Intelligence/Luck cap at level 99 like the other stats, and if there are hidden grades which are passed down through breeding? Yes, and Yes. They cap at level 99, and have a maximum of 4000 stat points. Grades range from 0 to 255 (compared to normal stat grades, which have numerical v...

Seconding Mewtamer's comment- it has been a common rumor, for quite some time now, about blue, black, and gold animals being tied to intelligence and luck. And honestly, it could have been a cool feature. But all animals increase intelligence and luck the same amount. Blue, Black, and Gold animals a...

Indeed, all animals and all drives increase intelligence and luck. A level up in intelligence requires 5 drives and/or animals, and a level up in luck requires 5 animals or 2.5 drives. It was a common rumor about blue, gold, and black animals specifically relating to luck and intelligence, and it ha...

Are these chao pure, straight from where you got them outside of the garden? If so, Gold breeding with Silver can get you Gold or Silver for a child. Silver and Two-tone Normal (I assume) will get you Silver. Gold and Two-tone Normal will get you Gold. Jewel Chao, although they look pretty, aren't t...

Chao fruit do nothing to change the evolutionary path of a chao. You can find some more detailed information about it on the main site under "Gradual Evolution" but this page "First Evolution" should explain most of it: https://chao.hippotank.com/sa2b/first-evolution In summary, a chao's evolution i...

You have found a Monotone Normal Chao. "Normal" is a color of chao, and the chao you get in the garden are Two-tone Normal. A Monotone Normal chao is the monotone version of those. So, what does the color "normal" look like? It changes based on the chao's evolution and alignment! A monotone normal c...

My most common weird appearance for chao in the TCG has been a sort of black-purple mixture of colors, with some yellow thrown in there I think... It is pretty strange stuff.

It is definitely a topic worth looking into for documenting, at some point.
Your pure black chao is a Hero/Run correct?

like getting a default egg and plastering the Jewel attributes on top. Exactly like this. Delta5, the Jewel Chao from the TCG appear monotone, in that their body is all one color. But genetically they have two-tone genes, they just don't display them. There are genes for Color, Tone, Shine, and Jew...

Congratulations Nacho!

And really nice picture of Coco!

Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I kind of glossed over the SADX specification. Sorry.

My SADX racing knowledge is pretty minimal, since I never really got used to the different system.

Awesome work. Can you clarify the point on multiplying by 4? Like, it takes you chao's values and multiplies them by 4, in all races, to get the race-relevant stat numbers? So therefore the player chao always has values that are a multiple of 4, but enemy racers don't necessarily have that trend on ...

It also took me a long time before I found out about the animal glitch. And I loved to run through levels, although I did use the same ones for most occasions- Radical Highway for Dark Swim/Run, Sky Rail for Dark Power/Fly, and so on. And of course I would do some other levels to spice it all up. Bu...

If the chao garden is very good, then yes. This garden system has to be better than SA2B's (otherwise I would probably continue to play SA2B,) meaning more race/karate/competition features, or a more involved system, more breed options, more and/or better gardens, etc. And the Sonic game should be t...

Yeah I assumed that aside from the obvious ones (Neutral/Run, Dark/Run, Neutral/Fly, Dark/Fly, and Light Chao) they were pretty free in their inspirations. You can see that the evolutions all take color inspiration from the related stat's color: Fly's are purple-ish, Swim's are yellow/green-ish, Run...

Yeah, as you noticed, and can see from the evolved Neutral Normal chao picture, even though the chao is born pure white, even if you don't do any alignment changes or give any animals/drives, the chao will gradually become sky blue-ish. Kind (more opposite) of how a two-tone white chao at birth look...

I have definitely had similar problems with black eggs- I have had all emblems but never seen a shiny black egg in the market. I don't know if there is a conclusive answer to this. Possibly just poor luck- maybe some colors are less likely to appear than others (I don't think any testing has been do...

You have found a monotone normal Chao! A pretty iconic, only kind of weird chao. The chao we get in the gardens at the start are two-tone normal. And yes, "normal" is a color. These are the monotone versions of those chao- that means that the chao is one color*, but that color is determined by the e...

Wow, that is cool. I also had never known that about disliked fruits. Pretty weird circumstances that get you to that point, but that is very good to know, as one of the unexpected ways a chao's evolution can shift- apparently quite drastically.

I did some preliminary testing on those numbers. I checked eggs spawning in the TCG 100 times, and the results were mostly in line with the guide. In those 100, I never got a Topaz egg, and got 3 Onyx eggs. I can try for another 100 some time soon. Weirdest anomaly I got was 10 Aquamarine eggs, when...

If you don't have a Chao in the TCG, then only a normal egg will show up.

The game re-rolls for eggs every time you leave, through mini-games or levels.

Sadly, you can not get Jewel Chao in the newer releases of SA2B.

On the PC release, mods can allow for Jewels, such as DarkyBenji's Chao World Extended.

So yes, they did unfortunately leave an entire cool Chao type out of the game.

They are going so retro. I would have liked to see characters who are a bit more familiar (team Chaotix) but I am down for new characters regardless.

Child chao gain the same amount of evolution strength in all gardens. Only adult chao experience the different rates of growth. I think it was intentional, as a subtle kind of way of having control over how much second evolution. Maybe not, though, since it takes a lot of anecdotes and eventual look...

Definitely the sad part of second evolution (especially for those of us who like having Chao in Dark Garden, like me) is how it ends so quickly. The discovery that Hero Garden speeds up gradual evolution definitely made me use Hero Garden a lot more, for the Chao I really want to do fun second evo t...

As you kind of guessed, the problem is just a matter of getting the evolution strength value high enough for the appearance change to really start becoming apparent. You did the right thing moving it to Hero Garden (where the rumors you had heard are correct, Dark Garden increases evolution strength...