Chao Machine

A Chao Machine, from Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut.

'Name Machine' This is a machine that records Chao's name. Grab Chao and place Chao on the red button to start. Give Chao a cute name, OK?

— Hint Box, Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

The Chao Machine, also known as the Name Machine, Chao Transporter or Chao Departure Machine, is a machine that appears in Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, Sonic Adventure (2010), Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and Sonic Adventure 2 (2012). It is the successor/replacement of the Transporter Machine.

Description

The Chao Machine is located exclusively in each of the respective game's Chao Gardens. To activate it, the player has to push a red button on the foot of the machine. It has five options (without counting the quit option) to give a name or move a Chao, and some are only functional when a Chao is held whilst going to the machine.

Options

Drop off

It serves to move a Chao to the Tiny Chao Garden in Sonic Advance in different ports of the Game Boy Advance through a connection in the Nintendo GameCube. Due to this, this option is exclusive to the games for the GameCube. It has a purple Game Boy Advance icon.

Pick up

It serves to pick up a Chao from the Tiny Chao Garden from the ports. Due to this, this option is exclusive to the games for the GameCube. It has a red 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 their Chao, the name will appear in the statistics bar. It only appears in Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut due to it replacing the Chao Fortune Teller and the Move option in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle for it alone. It has a yellow pencil icon.

Move

It serves to move a Chao from Slot A to Slot B or vice versa, functioning like the Dreamcast VMU Machine. It only appears in the GameCube version of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle due to it being replaced by the name option for Sonic Adventure DX: Directors Cut. It has a yellow van icon with boxes charged.

Good-bye

It serves to release a Chao by departing with it in the forest. Once the Chao has departed, the player will permanently never be able see or retrieve said Chao again. It has a tree icon.

Game appearances

Sonic Adventure DX

The Chao Machine appeared for the first time in Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut. In this game, the monitor is a white Game Boy Advance with the name "CHAO adventure" written on the screen. It offers the options "Drop Off", "Pick Up", "Name" and "Good-bye".

In the 2010 remaster of Sonic Adventure, the GBA-related options were removed, and the GBA monitor was replaced by a Chao head monitor, though its screen kept the title "CHAO adventure".

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle

A Chao Machine, from the 2012 remaster of Sonic Adventure 2.

The Chao Machine reappears in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. Like in the previous game title, the monitor is a white Game Boy Advance with the name "CHAO adventure" written on the screen. It offers the options "Drop Off", "Pick Up", "Move" and "Good-bye".

In the 2012 remaster of Sonic Adventure 2, the GBA and move options were removed once again. Additionally, the Chao Machine's GBA monitor was replaced by a Chao head monitor, which is bigger that the one in the previous game title, with the title "CHAO Departure Machine" written on the screen.

Trivia

• The Good-bye option is the only option on the Chao machine that has never been removed from it in any of the game versions it has appeared in.

Gallery

Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Sonic Adventure 2 (2012)

See Also

• Transporter Machine

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