Thank you for the help :) I have another question- I bought the omochao menu theme but I don't have it even though I lost all my rings. I'm not too concerned about losing my rings, but I'm wondering if I will get another chance to get the theme?

I am having a problem getting the items in the black market to change. I've tried turning the game off, resetting, waiting 5 minutes, going into stages and completing them, but they're always the exact same items. I've never had this problem before, is there anything I can do to get different items?

I've done a fair amount of digging around and I can't find any codes that allow you to modify a chao's remaining lifespan (1 and 2, if they're both important) to the maximum value of 9999 (except on the PC, but I'm using GameCube). I was hoping that somebody here could potentially create such a code...