Chao Island Info Center

Welcome to the Chao Island Info Center! Here you will find a full guide on Chao and how to interact with them. This website also is home to the Chao Wiki - a Chao Wiki which is an in-depth knowledge base for all your Chao needs - like Wikipedia, it can also be edited by members of Chao Island themselves for the latest information!

We have worked hard to get as much factual information as possible about Chao. Use the sidebar / mobile menu to select the topic you want to read about. If you have any suggestions or corrections, please feel free to post a topic on our message boards! If you would like to contribute, please contact us and we will be happy to update the website.

Common Abbreviations

You might see a lot of abbreviations and acnoryms mentioned accross the website. The majority of these are common in the Sonic and Chao community and I will list a few here that you may come across:

TermDescription
SA or SA1:Sonic Adventure - usually refers to the original Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast. Dreamcast specific is usually labelled as SA1DC. SA could also be used to refer to Sonic Advance on other websites!
SADX:Sonic Adventure DX (Directors Cut) - refers to all platforms. Only the Dreamcast version is non-DX.
SA2:Sonic Adventure 2 - generally applied to all versions of the game including Dreamcast. Dreamcast specific is usually labelled as SA2DC.
SA2B:Sonic Adventure 2 Battle - mostly used interchangably with SA2, but SA2B is usually used when referring to the Gamecube version specifically.
SAdv or SADV:Sonic Advance - which you may see abbreviated at SA outside of this website.
DC:Sega Dreamcast versions of the game.
GC:Nintendo Gamecube versions of the game.
Modern:Refers to the non-Dreamcast Chao system - which was greatly updated.
VMU:Visual Memory Unit, the Dreamcast memory card which could be used to play Chao Adventure 1 and 2.
CA / CA2:Chao Adventure 1 and Chao Adventure 2 respectively.
MT / TT:Mono-tone and Two-tone Chao colour types.
CWE:Chao World Extended, a popular mod for the PC version of Sonic Adventure 2.
FCE:Fusion’s Chao Editor, a popular tool for editing Chao for the PC version of Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Adventure 2.
KCE:Krzys2’s Chao Editor, a newer tool for editing Chao compatible with the CWE mod for the PC version of Sonic Adventure 2.
Coco the Mascot Chao