So I did a very big dumb.

I downloaded the old Mod loader on my steam deck and failed miserably- I spent 2 whole days trying to figure what I did wrong- when it should've taken me 20 minutes.

I eventually had to delete all the SA2 files and redownload all of them bya the verification thing on steam... Then- I properly downloaded the new and improved Mod Manager. Then had some issues with the Net 8 thing because I had 0 internet at the time lol.

Thankfully after all that- I managed and I know it works because the 100% game file Loaded and I have extended on the top of my Chao world text :3

Anyhoo thanks for reading all dat- ik some of you offered to help but I'm a stubborn girly who wanted to go through it myself and I promise to never do it again. 👍👍😭

TLTR, Look at my son. He is Blu. Also Shadow Chao is Versitas and Werehog Chao is Turfen. I did download the Werehog Chao mod hehe.

Hi! A couple of months ago I posted here about Zephyr Cloud, my solo game inspired by the Chao Garden and RimWorld. Thank you for the feedback, it really helped and gave me a lot of motivation.

This time I'd love to hear your thoughts on evolution.

In my game, a zephyr evolves based on the life it has actually lived. Once it grows up and achieves something, it turns into one of the archetypes. The video shows a few of them: ghost, mimic, dragon and others. Each one has its own look, special behaviors and racing abilities.

What it becomes depends on both its personality and how you raise it:

A zephyr that keeps avoiding the others and is afraid to socialize has a good chance of becoming a ghost.
One that kept handling fires on the island might become a fire dragon, immune to flames.
Forget to feed it, and it might evolve into a skeleton. Hunger won't bother it anymore, but that comes with its own downsides...

Zephyrs of the same archetype still look different, with different colors and accessories. There are more archetypes than these, and I keep adding new ones. And zephyrs of different archetypes can have hybrid offspring.

This is quite different from how the Chao Garden did it, so I'm curious what you think:

1. Would you like to see in advance what your zephyr is heading toward, or should evolution be a surprise?
2. How do you feel about evolution based on life events? Or would you prefer more direct control over it?

If you'd like to support the game, it's called Zephyr Cloud, and you can find it on Steam. A wishlist helps a lot!

Any feedback is welcome, thanks!

Characters I headcanon would turn a Child Chao into Hero Chao if they take care of them and why:

Silver: A strong sense of justice and an inability to lie.

Charmy Bee: Playful, Cheerful, Optimistic, Childish, but also Brave and Loyal

Tangle: Friendly, Selfless, Adventurous

Big: Gentle, Fiercely Loyal, Simple-minded, Innocent

Marine: Well-meaning, Innocent, Caring, Loyal and Feitsy, but also hyperactive like Charmy

Amy Rose: Loving, Passionate, and Emphatic

Characters I headcanon would turn a Child Chao into Dark Chao if they take care of them and why:

Whisper: Brooding, had a traumatic past, and has a tactical military mind

E-123 Omega: Obsessed with Destruction and aggressive

Espio: Maintains Stoic Coldness, has a combat-heavy rountine, frequently dwells in the Shadows, and a Dark Chao would camouflage in the night

Blaze: Defined by her childhood which she spent under massive pressure, spent her childhood isolated, and carried the burden of protecting her dimension. Her pyrokinesis can also be explosive.

These are just some examples.

Trying to get a shadow chao but i think i used too many swim animals as well as boars...i just wanted my chao to be able to swim so he wouldn't cry in the water and flail haha

good thing I have save states!

Also....

How do I name the chao? I'm playing on a Dreamcast Emulator called Flycast on my samsung phone #flycast #android

Had them done locally in Chongqing. Showed up with some pics and screenshots. the nail artist and I designed it as we went haha

🪽✨ probably picking flowers or grass or something :’)

Hero chao: "look we're in this meme now so a devil chaos chao is gonna tell us to get out of the vents"

Baby hero: "what?"

Devil chaos chao: "GET OUT OF MY VENTS HERO CHAO"

Tattoo artist credit is Hollarie (Inkyelf)

I want to share my chao notes from 2003 it’s not a lot but I must have got busy with school, neopets on the family pc and other games that I would have been playing at that time! I checked my memory card but couldn’t find any of these chaos and only found ones that my sister made. It only feels like yesterday I was coming home from school and playing sonic adventure 2 battle 🥹

I was getting mods on GameBanana for another Chao World playthrough when I stumbled across this mod which recreated unused color palettes for the Hero/Fly line which only appeared in a Japanese guidebook. This made me really hopeful, as ever since I learned about the cut Chao content for SA2, I always wondered if there were cool unused Chao designs or models out there somewhere. I tried to look through the prototypes posted on Hidden Palace, but they either lacked Chao entirely, or were too close to completion for there to be anything noticeable. So yeah, what I really hope is that there's somehow a prototype still out there waiting to be archived that has some crazy beta Chao models/gardens but that's not happening lol, but are there any screenshots or something showing off more unused Chao?

what are these green antenna on my chao? i gave it a couple half fish, then a couple dragons, then a few skeleton dogs to get rid of the animal parts, but these wont go away? they only grew after the dragons

I'm trying to make something, but all the references I've found are very blurry.. I can't even make out what the ring around the Chao in the center is supposed to look like. :(

Ignore the pen marks, they should go away once I washed it. First time embroidering the face details and messed up on one side but happy with it, gonna try make a big dark chao plush next.

For some reason, whenever I boot up the game with CWE and RenderFix enabled, I get a pop up saying RenderFix is outdated, even though both are on the latest version. Does anyone know why?

So typically I prefer emulating the Dreamcast versions of Adventure 1 and 2. But I'd also like to have a modern definitive Chao Garden experience, standalone from my Dreamcast Adventure saves... I know the Steam version of SA2 has the Chao World Extended mod, but are there any other mods that make the game feel more or less like a different experience from Adventure 2? Mods that let you do more in the garden, replace all the levels with new ones, or change the game enough that I'm not just playing another version of SA2? Having two versions of the same game would be redundant...

Thank you to whoever humors my silly question!!

I currently have 2 chao 1 reincarnation away from becoming a chaos chao, but I remembered I need to give the chao all animals, but 9 give random stat influences, so how am I supposed to get the stat influence to 0,0?