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Like the Dreamcast's Chao Adventure, Tiny Chao Garden allows you to take your Chao with you and raise it on your Game Boy. Your Chao does not age like it does in Sonic Adventure, so you have plenty of time to raise all of its stats to level 99.
General Features
Hatching - If you don't have access to Sonic Adventure 2: Battle/DX, then you can still buy a Normal Chao Egg and raise it from birth. By rubbing the egg, you can help it hatch. Hatched Chao will come with a default name, which you can change.
Store - By pressing the L button, the store appears, where you can buy fruit, toys, and Chao Eggs using rings earned either in the main game, or in the minigames. The fruit and eggs can be uploaded to Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and Sonic Adventure DX. The Tiny Chao Garden has special-colored eggs, and is the only place to buy these and Normal Chao eggs, which are free.
Minigames - The two game boy advances at the top right of the screen start minigames, which will earn you more rings to spend on your Chao. The first (white GBA) minigame varies between games, but the second (purple GBA) minigame is always a memory match mini game. Earning rings through the minigames is inefficient compared to earning them playing Sonic Advance 1/2's main game.
Stats - Down the right side of the screen, the statistics of your Chao are displayed. These stats include:
Name - You can change it by clicking here.
Age - This space will either say Child, Normal, Swim, Fly, Run, Power or Chaos. Chao do not age in the Tiny Chao Garden, so this will not change unless they are uploaded to one of the Sonic Adventure series of games to age there.
Mood - How happy your Chao is, If mood and belly are kept empty for a long time, your Chao may run away. The mood decreases over time, and can be raised by petting the Chao, or by feeding it certain fruits. Mood decreases quicker if you let the garden fill up with weeds.
Belly - How full your Chao is. Most fruit will raise either 1 or 2 belly units. If its belly is full, your Chao will not eat fruit. It decreases over time and if it is starving its name will change to HUNGRY.
Swim, Fly, Run, Power, Stamina - These are your Chao's ability stats. Although you cannot see the exact points per stat like in Sonic Adventure, You can see the level of each stat.
Rings - How many rings you have. Spend them in the store.
Dialogue - Occasionally, your Chao will speak to you. Its dialogue is random, but is usually influenced by its mood.
Different Versions
There are many games with the Tiny Chao Garden, most vary in some way:
Version 1
Included in Sonic Advance, and downloadable via Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II, the first version of Chao Garden includes basic Chao care.
Version 2
Included in Sonic Advance 2, Sonic Pinball Party and downloadable via Sonic Adventure DX, your Chao can now Swim and Fly if it has high enough stats to, and will emit Z's when sleeping.
Minigames
The first minigame varies between games:
Rock, Paper, Scissors minigame as seen in Sonic Advance
Janken - Included with Sonic Advance and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. Several cards with either Rock, Paper, or Scissors hand gestures on them fly around your Chao, at the bottom of the screen, are three cards, also with a Rock/Paper/Scissors hand gesture on them. You earn rings by shooting the hands at the bottom into the hands spinning around. You have a time limit and only five hands. The rules of Rock/Paper/Scissors apply:
If the weapon you shoot hits a weapon it can beat, the card is removed, you get 1 ring, and your weapon is restored at no charge
If the weapon you shoot hits the same weapon, the card is removed, and your weapon is restored at no charge
If the weapon you shoot hits a weapon that beats it, the weapon is deflected, the card remains, and your weapon is restored with one from your stock
If you miss the cards, your weapon is restored with one from your stock
The weapons are randomized, so chances are good that you will have three Rocks when there are only Paper cards left on the field. As you remove cards, the remaining ones will go faster.
You lose if you run out of time or cards to shoot. If you remove all the cards, more cards appear, and you are given an extra 10 seconds.
Chao Bounce - Included with Sonic Advance 2. Cream and Cheese team up to get rings, Cream moves a spring on wheels in order to spring Cheese up to get the rings with fly across the sky. You clear the level by getting all the rings. Later levels have more rings which are higher up and require timing to launch Cheese higher, as the spring is also on a see-saw. If Cheese hits the ground, you lose a life. You lose the game if you let Cheese fall 3 times. The game ends after you win the 3rd round; if you win, you get 113 rings.
Chao Search - Included with the Chao Garden program downloaded from Sonic Adventure DX. Cheese wants Sonic to help him gather his 10 Chao friends. But with only the Chao's name to go on, the task is harder than it looks. Fortunately, Tikal will aid Sonic by telling Sonic clues as to where the Chao in question is. Clues include a direction, or what the Chao is currently doing. Using deduction, you have to find the right Chao and bring it to Cheese. Each Chao will get you 10 rings. You have 2 minutes to do this, and each incorrect guess will have 30 seconds deducted from your time.
Chao Ball - Included with Sonic Pinball Party. Several red and green balls descend lower, your Chao is at the bottom. By pressing A or B, you can throw more red and green balls upward. When 10 balls of the same color are touching, all the balls disappear, which will release any rings trapped inside. You lose if you let the balls lower into your Chao's area.
Chao Memory minigame, first seen in Sonic Advance, later incorporated with the rest of the Tiny Chao Garden Versions.
Chao Memory- The second minigame in all versions of the Chao Garden. Fourteen cards with seven different foods on them are set up on a 6-by-5 grid. After being flipped over, your Chao will walk around and shuffle the cards around. You can press A while your Chao is pushing a card to trip your Chao, briefly revealing the card he is pushing. If you guess two matching items, you will get rings for each card depending on where on the grid the two cards are located. Cards on the outer layer will earn you 1 ring each, cards on the middle layer will earn you three rings, cards on the inner layer will earn you 5 rings. You can only make three mistakes, and if you flip all the cards, you will get a bonus based on how many mistakes you have remaining:
1 mistake left: 10 rings
2 mistakes left: 30 rings
3 mistakes left: 60 rings
Store Items
Eggs
Normal - 0 rings
Chrome - 500 rings
Gold - 1000 rings
Ruby - 5000 rings
Sapphire - 7000 rings
Amethyst - 8000 rings
Emerald - 10000 rings
Garnet - 12000 rings
Aquamarine - 14000 rings
Peridot - 16000 rings
Topaz - 18000 rings
Onyx - 20000 rings
Moon - 20000 rings
Sun - 20000 rings
Toys
Trumpet - 1000
Rubber Duck - 2000
Television - 8000
Trivia
In Sonic Advance, deleting the main game's save file does not delete the Tiny Chao Garden data, but rings earned in the main game will not be transfer over to the Tiny Chao Garden.
