Chocobo Racing reward bug

[Serefina]

Hello guys,

did anyone else experienced the Chocobo Racing reward bug? Where you get other Items then you actually won in the racing?

as example: You have won a Potion and you've got a elixier.

Sorry for my english

[Nexus_Viatorem]

Never happened to me, sorry.

[LadGaga]

Nope here too.

Only been playing the game for *takes socks off* 16 years though.. so maybe I missed it?

Now if you had said FORT CONDOR.... lol

[didymos1120]

I've heard that happens with Hi-Potions, where you get a Tranqulizer instead, but don't know of it happening with anything else.

[gimoneto]

I think something similar just happened to me. After having won some fights at Battle Square (Gold Saucer), I spent the battle points on an item (a Fury Ring) but I was given the previous item on the list (Mimett Greens) :( Maybe the two bugs are related.

[Serefina]

well, it isn't a bad bug at all, so always when i've won a phoenix down, I got 300 gp :D

[gimoneto]

I am having the same bug with Chocobo Racing rewards. When I win an item, I actually get another. So, I have decided to make a list of all these "changes". I put it here because I think it can be useful for the people who have the same bug (like the opener of this thread).

After several hours of testing, this is what I have got:

Chocobracelet -> Elixir (200) -> Antarctic Wind (20) -> Tranquilizer (10) -> Hi-Potion (15) -> Ice Crystal (50) -> Sneak Attack (300) -> Bolt Plume (20) -> Phoenix Down (10) -> Megalixir (300) -> Chocobracelet (400)

Cat's Bell -> Ether (30) -> Fire Fang (20) -> Hyper (10) -> Turbo Ether (150) -> Swift Bolt (50) -> Cat's Bell (500)

??? -> Fire Veil -> Enemy Away (300) -> Hero Drink (15) -> Potion (5) -> ???

Counter Attack -> Counter Attack (300)

Precious Watch -> Precious Watch (300)

Magic Counter -> Magic Counter (500)

Sprint Shoes -> Sprint Shoes (500)

It is read as Item_I_win -> Item_I_get (GP) so, for example, when I win an Ice Crystal, I can change it for 300 GP or get a Sneak Attack materia. The ??? means that I have not been able to test that combination (I never won a potion, not even showed up), but I suppose that if you win a Potion you get a Fire Veil (or 50 GP).

A few more things about this bug:

- It has happened to me in both CD2 and CD3 (well, parts 2 and 3, since there are no CDs on Steam). I do not remember if the same happened in CD1 when betting.
- It has happened when betting and when racing myself.
- The list above is valid for every race level (although not all items appear on every level).
- The same happens for both the short and the long circuit
- The chocobo color / jockey does not affect.
- My FFVII is in spanish so it might be just a problem with the item texts.

I wonder if the lists above will work for all the people who has the bug...

[Razael]

That list is for bets at Racing.
For Winning a race themself you get a random item.

[AlexBeard]

I have this problem too, spanish version

[Kaldarasha]

This is a known problem within a non-english FF7exe. You should bother the support, because it's a bug which could be easily be fixed by a patch. Strange that they didn't do this already.

[BellDandy]

I am having the very same problem and I'm NOT using the Spanish version. It is a pain! However, thanks to gimoneto it is easier.

[Misao Sinappi]

I have the same issue here... I was going crazy trying to catch Sneak Attack. Thank you very much for the list, it works just as you say :)

[joshuacolyn]

Originally posted by gimoneto:

I think something similar just happened to me. After having won some fights at Battle Square (Gold Saucer), I spent the battle points on an item (a Fury Ring) but I was given the previous item on the list (Mimett Greens) :( Maybe the two bugs are related.

Not to say it isn't a bug, but could it possiby have been a mistake on your part? Like you hit up before circle or arrow up before "enter" accidentlly and not realize it.

[Matías Martínez]

I had the same issue in the spanish version so I changed the language and it fixed itself.

[Kain]

September 2015, this bug happens in my french version. This completely sucks... I'm trying to get that f**king "ennemy away" lame materia for materia overlord achievement and thanks to this ♥♥♥♥ bug I never had in PS version back in 1997, I'm not even sure I can have it... Always got completely messed up reward. It's not even 1-1 replacement, I got 2 items that became "potions" and some who become "bolt" (yeah, that's not even an item, really nice...woohoo).

Nice dev, this bug has been reported 2 years ago, still not fixed. Really nice ! Bravo.

[Im_2_old_4_this]

MFW i reply 2 a question from 2013 XD

The problem is also that the enemy away materia is only winable in a and above, but it is already shown in b races as prize.

Solution: change game language into english, no joke. works. I saved (worth the 5 GP) with my fresh into a promoted golden chocobo and made 4 races, enemy away didnt show once. After I got promoted into s i reload my savegame and in race 2 enemy away showed up - with teioh. I still won (there are hints and tipps 2 beat him) and i rolled the correct prize. So after all i needed 6 races to get enemy away after I switched into english.