Chao Machine

The Chao Machine (also called Name Machine, Chao Transporter or Chao Departure Machine) is a machine that appears in Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, Sonic Adventure (re-release), Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and Sonic Adventure 2 (re-release). It is the replacement of the VMU Machine as its sucesor.

Description
This machine functions when the player pushes a red bottom from the machine, they are located only in all the Chao Gardens. It many has five options (without counting the quit option) to give a name or move a Chao, and they are only functionable once the player inserts a Chao in the automatic top.

Drop off
It serves to move a Chao to the Tiny Chao Garden from Sonic Advance in different ports of the Game Boy Advance through a conection in the Gamecube. Due to this, it is exclusive from the Gamecube version. It has a Game Boy Advance icon.

Pick up
It serves to pick up a Chao from the Tiny Chao Garden from the ports. Due to this, it is exclusive from the Gamecube. It has an apple icon.

Name
It serves to put a name to a Chao up to seven spaces, it can be named in any language, once the player named her/his Chao, the name will appear in the statistics bar. It only appears in DX, due to in Battle being replaced by the Chao Fortune Teller and the Move option. It has a pencil icon.

Move
It serves to move a Chao from Slot A to Slot B or vice versa, functioning like the VMU Machine. It only appears in the Gamecube version of SA2B. It has a van icon with boxes charged.

Good-bye
It serves to delete Chao as a departure in the forest, once the Chao departured the player will never see him again, so the player have to decide it well. It has a tree icon.

Sonic Adventure DX
It appears for the first time in SADX, in the Gamecube version the monitor is a white Game Boy Advance with the name of screen "CHAO adventure". It has options of name, move to GBA or departure a Chao.

In the PC/Xbox 360/PS3 version the GBA options were removed, and the GBA monitor was replaced by a Chao head monitor, keeping the title "CHAO adventure".

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
The Chao Machine reappears in SA2B in the Gamecube version, the monitor is a white Game Boy Advance with the name of screen "CHAO adventure", like in SADX. It has options of move to GBA, a different slot, or departure a Chao.

In the PC/Xbox 360/PS3 version the GBA and the move options were removed once again, and the GBA monitor was replaced by a Chao head monitor, even more bigger than in SADX, with the title "CHAO Departure Machine".

Trivia

 * The Good-bye option is the only option that wasn't ever removed from any version of Sonic Adventure DX.