Skies of Arcadia - Cham Locations

For Sega Dreamcast

By Paul Keating - houshin@talk21.com

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Revision History

5th December 2000   Version 0.04

Added a cham location that I missed from yesterdays update.
Added the location of the first Abirik Cham.
Added a little bit more detail to the Chom's.

4th December 2000   Version 0.03

Added another 2 cham locations
Added information on chom's
Added 3 locations for chom's
Added another name to the thanks section

29th November 2000  Version 0.02

Added the location of more Cham's, removed the section on configurations, I
need to do more research on this.  Also added another question to the beginners
guide.  Added a thanks section after all the emails I received.

27th November 2000  version 0.01

Created the basic guide and added information for the beginners guide and the
first four cham locations.  All of this has been done from memory so forgive
any spelling mistakes of locations and character names.

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Beginners Guide to Chams.

What is a Cham?

Cham's are special moon crystals that can be fed to Fina's pet, Cupeli.  As he
is fed cham's his attacks start to change.

Why bother looking for Cham's?

Well Fina's only weapon is a Cupeli and unlike the other characters this can
not be upgraded in a shop.  The only way to make Fina's weapon more powerful is
by feeding it cham's.

So, how do I find a Cham?

As you wander around the locations of Arcadia you may hear your VMU beep and as
you move it gets more and more urgent.  Then it stops.  This means you have
just gone past a Cham.  The beeping represents Cupeli who is getting excited. 
Look on the VMU display and you will see Cupeli bouncing about.  As you get
closer he gets more excited.  Once you are virtually on top of it his tongue
will transform into an arrow.  If you search the immediate area (pressing the A
button) you should find a cham.

The VMU is beeping, Cupeli is overexcited and I still can't find the Cham?

You will have to wander around in the immediate area to find it.  It can take a
couple of tries.

I have just started the game and can't find the Cham you have mentioned in
Pirate Island or Sailor Island.  Why is that?

Fina needs to have joined you as a playable character.

So I have my Cham, what now?

Open the menu and select Fina's face on the menu.  Go to the items option and
then select the Cham.  An icon representing Cupeli should appear press again
and you will feed it to Cupeli.

So how many chams are there?

I have been told that there are 30 chams and 3 aribik chams in the game [Thanks
to Troy McBride for this information]

What is a chom?

A chom is a tainted cham.  If you feed a chom to Cupeli he regurgatates all the
cham's he has eaten.

So what does that mean?

Below is a word for word copy of what David Litchman sent me, thanks.

  "Regarding choms, and why you would want to feed them to Cupil, here's why. I
don't know what his advancement table looks like, but let's just say that each
level requires one more cham than the previous one. Say you found three chams,
and one abirik cham. You feed him one for level 2, and 2 for level three, then
the abirik cham for level four. Now say you find three more chams. You would
need four to get him to level five, but if you give him a chom, he'll barf up 6
chams and one abirik cham. Then you can feed him 1 for level 2, 2 for level
three, three for level four, and the abirik cham to get him to level five.
Using the choms just allows you to optimize the way in which you feed chams to
Cupil."

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Cham Locations

Cham 1

Location:  Pirate Isle

How to find it:  Once Fina has joined your party head to the entrance to the
underground base.  As you enter the underground section you should hear the
beeping begin.  As the base opens up in front of you you should see the
fireman's pole in front of you.  Turn to the right you should see a catwalk
with cranes attached to it.  About a third of the way along the beeping should
be really fast now.  Search around here and you should find the cham.

Cham 2

Location:  Shrine Island

How to find it:  Apparently this cham is located on the second to last floor of
the island. I will add a proper description when I go back to get it.  [Thanks
to everyone who told me about this cham, see the thanks section]

Cham 3

Location:  Sailors Island

How to find it:  Head over to the lighthouse at the end of the Island.  Climb
to the top of the tower and you should hear the VMU start to beep.  Just walk
around the tower until it is beeping really fast and you should find the cham.

Cham 4

Location:  Maramba

How to find it:  In the first half of town there is an inn.  Head up stairs and
then out of the bed room to the balcony.  Once here your VMU will start
beeping.  Walk to the end of the balcony and the VMU should be beeping really
fast.  This is where you will find the next cham.

Cham 5

Location:  Temple of Pyrnn

How to find it:  As you run down the second Indiana Jones boulder trap
(copyright lucasfilms & paramount) you should hear the VMU beeping in the
second alcove.  If you are coming from the top (so the boulder is chasing you)
then you will find it in the right hand alcove.  If you are coming from the
bottom (so the boulder is coming towards you) then you want the alcove on the
left (same alcove I know).  The next cham is in there.

Cham 6

Location: Horteka, Ixa'Taka region

How to find it:  This cham is located in the northern part of the first section
of town.  Head past the save point and past the weapon/item shop.  You should
be standing on some grass now rather than all the catwalks that make up
Horteka.  You should be in front of an entrance leading to the abandoned ship. 
You will hear the beeping and this is where you will locate the next cham.

Cham 7

Location:  King's Hideout, Ixa'Taka region

How to find it:  After the cut scene with the king you should immediately hear
the beeping.  See the pot in the upper left corner of the screen?  The cham is
located around there.

Cham 8

Location:  Moon Stone Mountain, Ixa'Taka region

How to find it:  After first entering the mountain the door will shut behind
you. There will then be a brief cut scene.  Head through the next door and that
will shut behind you.  When you come out you should be in a room where mining
carts keep rolling past.  Turn left and around the large metal door you should
find the next cham.

Cham 9

Location:  Moon Stone Mountain, Ixa'Taka region

How to find it:  When you reach the first room with all the metal catwalks
there is a cham in this area. It is easier to show you via a small map.

           |   |
           |   |
   |-------|   |-------|
   |                   | S = Starting Position
   |   |---|   |---|   | W = Trap Door, doesn't open
   |   |   |   |   |   | X = Trap Door, opens
   |   |   | C |   |   | C = Cham
   |---|   |---|   |---|
   | W |   | X |   | X |
   |---|   |---|   |---|
---|   |   |   |   |   |
       |   |   |   |   |
---|   |---|   |---|   |
   |                   |
   |-------|   |-------|
           |   |
           | S |

As you can see from the map you need to walk up, turn left then head up on the
left hand passage.  Once at the top you want to come back down the middle
passage and stop before the trap door and you should find the cham there.

Cham 10

Location:  Rixis, Ixa'Taka Region

How to find:  When you first enter Rixis you will be infront of a massive
statue and two smaller statues either side of it.  Head over to the smaller
statue on the left hand side of the screen.  There is a small hill here so go
on top of it and you will locate the cham in the centre of this hill.

Cham 11

Location:  Rixis, Ixa'Taka Region

How to find:  You can't really miss this Cham.  When you enter the third
screen, the one with all the floating platforms on, you need to get on the
first floating platform and then stand on the left hand side.  When the
platform stops and you get off you will be in part of the ruins and should be
facing a flight of stairs. Climb up the flight of stairs to what is a balcony. 
At the end of the balcony is the cham.  Cupeli starts beeping as soon as you
enter this room, so as I said you can't really miss this one.  [Thanks to
Kristofferson Fenol for confirming this location]

Cham 12

Location:  Valuan Airspace

How to find it:  As you fly to retrieve the Yellow Moon Crystal in Valua you
will come across the Black Pirate Gordo who challenges you to a fight.  When
you win the Cham is one of the prizes.

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Abirik Cham 1

Location:  Fishermans Ship, Ixa'Taka Region

How to find:  Again this is taken from an email David Litchman sent me.

  "By the way, one of the abirik chams is gotten from a fisherman's ship in
Ixa'taxa airspace. He'll ask you for 10 Sky Sardis, and if you give those to
him he'll give you the abirik cham in return."

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Chom Locations

Chom 1, 2 & 3

Location:  Maw of Tartas, Valuan Empire

How to find:  when you land at the Maw of Tartas you will be in an area that
looks a little like stone henge.  There is a circle of stone pillars and in the
centre is a large steel gate in the floor.  The first chom is located by the
single pillar on it's own on the left hand side of the screen.  The second and
third are on the steel gate itself.  The steel gate has a large pentagram which
is shaded in a grey/brown colour.  The second one is on the bottom left hand
point of the pentagram and the third one is at the tip of the pentagram.

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Thanks to:

Mathew Greenwell, Scott Carey, Michael Convento, Zeningame325, Rilink for the
information on the cham in the shrine island.
Thanks again to those above who pointed out the location of the chams in the
Ixa'Taka region.
Troy McBride for the information on the amount of chams in the game.
Kristofferson Fenol for confirming the location of the second cham in Rixan.
David Litchman for the information on the Chom's and the location of the first
Abirik Cham.
Sherwin Tam for some general pointers on the guide.

Also:

CjayC for posting this guide on Gamefaqs.  Probably the best and most reliable
source of game guides there is.

Sega/Overworks for creating such a wonderful game.  Roll on Skies of Arcadia
2...

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Help required

If you see that I have missed any cham's or know of the location of any cham's
I haven't reached yet then email me on "houshin@talk21.com".  If it is a cham
that I haven't reached yet then it won't be added until I get there.

Anybody who sends me this information will be fully credited.

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Next Update

Carry on as normal now, the next update will be when I find more chams.
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Final Word

Remember this guide was bought to you by the letters A & F and the number 15.


