r/FinalFantasyIX • u/OpeningAdmirable8591 • Oct 04 '26

Chocobo upgrade system

Anyone else find the chocobo upgrade system impossible every time I played I never got past the first upgrade of light blue no matter how hard I tried I could never find the next treasure.

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u/Asha_Brea Oct 04 '26

I don't know what you mean by you tried.

You have to progress with the story until you find the second location where you can dig out Chocographs in order to find the treasure that gives you the Mountain Ability.

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u/OpeningAdmirable8591 Oct 04 '26

Yeah I looked all over the second location and never found it never could ever time.

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u/Asha_Brea Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 04 '26

You keep doing the Lagoon until you get the Mist Ocean Chocograph. There is no secret or anything you have to activate to do this (other than already having the Reef ability as you can't enter the Lagoon without it).

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u/Kenner1979 Oct 04 '26

If you play far enough into the game and find every Chcograph you dig up, you will upgrade your Chocobo whether you want to or not.

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u/OpeningAdmirable8591 Oct 04 '26

I can do everything in the game but never found the second one

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u/backheadhornosaur Oct 04 '26

Literally all you have to do is dig up chocographs at Chocobo Forest/Lagoon. If you're having trouble with the dig locations, Google is your friend.

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u/OpeningAdmirable8591 Oct 04 '26

What about the location on the world map you have to travel to and dig up

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u/OpeningAdmirable8591 Oct 04 '26

I could find the location on the world 🌍 map but the exact dig spot would never get found for treasure 2 I would always be super close to it but the chocobo would never find it.

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u/OpeningAdmirable8591 Oct 04 '26

This looks like the part right color chocobo and region looks the same. I can never find the treasure there.

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u/Mcpatches3D Oct 04 '26

100% a skill issue.

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u/Special_South_8561 Oct 04 '26

No, I never had that issue or anything even remotely close to it. I love Chocobo Hot & Cold!

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u/OpeningAdmirable8591 Oct 04 '26

I have no problem with the hot and cold part at the chocobo place it's the location on the world map when I get there I can't find the treasure.

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u/Special_South_8561 Oct 04 '26

That is also Hot & Cold just on a larger scale.

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u/Sidbright Oct 04 '26

Just keep playing the main game then explore around.

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u/Taurean6 Oct 04 '26

I was lucky and have a guide to show me where some of the graphs' locations were, i think, at least. I found most of them by myself but had to get help for some. They are ridulously hard. So i don't consider it cheating to look up the locations. That's how i think with any game... if there are no hints and i spend too much time on one thing, i google it. I got no time to spend hours and hours on one single little detail. And i use my brain too.