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Black Chocobo is a specialized save-game editor created by Chris Rizzitello that gives Final Fantasy VII players direct control over every byte stored in their PC, PlayStation, and Switch save files. Designed for the RPG category, the open-source utility exposes the full internal structure of FF7 saves, allowing users to alter character statistics, inventory counts, materia properties, gil amounts, quest flags, chocobo parameters, and world-map coordinates without hex-editing knowledge. Typical use cases include recovering progress lost to corruption, experimenting with party compositions that would normally require extensive grinding, unlocking hidden scenes or items, and creating pre-tailored saves for speed-run categories or challenge runs. The editor presents data in tabbed human-readable tables, validates changes against game limits, and can import or export PlayStation memory-card images, Steam cloud saves, Nintendo Switch containers, and raw binaries, making cross-platform modification straightforward. Since its initial release the project has matured through three major versions—each expanding platform coverage and tightening data validation—culminating in the current stable release 1.16.0, which supports the 2012 PC re-release, the 2013 Steam build, the 2015 PlayStation 4 port, the 2019 Switch port, and the 2020 Xbox Game Pass edition while maintaining backward compatibility with original 1998 saves. The software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources (e.g. winget), always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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