Hey.

 Two months back I finally bought a used PSX (perennially behind
the technology curve, that's me).  Friends immediately piled on me
stating that I had to play Final Fantasy VII or else, and after
spending 100+hours (which probably makes me a baby in the population
of this newsgroup) I had to agree that they had a point---Fantastic
game.

 I admit that this is a question born out of impatient
curiousity---roughly how many times did you have to try mating a
wonderful class S chocobo to a black class S chocobo to get a
golden, as opposed to Yet Another Black or even an ordinary?  All
the FAQs I've read seem to say that "You see, when a wonderful
chocobo and a black chocobo love each other very much and you feed
them incredibly expensive greens and race them both until they are
class S and give them a nice fresh Zeio nut, some sleepy music will
play and you will have a shiny baby Golden Chocobo the next
morning."  Some do say "with luck", but none say exactly how much
luck...

 It's just that I'm starting to get worried the disk spinning
assembly will quit on me from all the resetting.  I did buy the
system used, after all.

 Feel free to laugh at the newbie.