I think the topic's title and the spiffy banner speak for the remainder of this post! (I IMPLORE you to read this entire post.)
I am proud to announce that ChronoTrigger+ is now out of it's "alpha" stage. Whoever would have thought it would ever have come to this? Especially since a vast majority of ROM hacks that die out of 'loss of motivation' or life issues that come up. (and life can be a f**king bitch sometimes...but hey, we endure!) I never would have made it this far without the valueable help that everyone has contributed! I thank everyone for their hard works and efforts, no matter how 'small' or insignificant it may have seemed. I personally thank everyone who has tested the alpha version and have contributed their bug reports. Thank you very, VERY much! Also, by some damn miracle I was able to fit the whole game in one 6-Meg ROM. (Geiger is has reached "Immortal" status in my book.)
With this release, this means that updates will happen less often, with the exception of a few bugfixes between Beta releases here and there...
Unless some horrible calamity comes up that I totally missed, I am taking some time off from this project. Though, knowing me, that'll last like a month or so, then I'll get sucked in again. ;p
Another thing to to take note of; there are a few cutscenes that are "automatic", so text windows close by themselves. This is because I synchronized the scene with the music. I apologize to people that can't read very fast, but I compensated the best I could. To my knowledge, most of the people that are going to play this hack are intellectuals that possess quick-reading abilites anyways, so it shouldn't be at all a problem for them. Such scenes to note are: Cyrus's Last Stand at the Denadoro, Prophet Banishes the Heros from the Kingdom of Zeal and Ocean Palace "Hall of Calamity" (aka. Hall of the Mammon Machine or "Immortal Shrine")
There were also some things I wanted to add to this version but ran out of time...that, and the 740,000 headaches that came up at the last minute. For instance, the extended Atropos/Robo scene is still non-existant (it's HUGE and still under development)....maybe next version. The Moonlight Parade Ending is still under construction, but enough is there that you shouldn't notice or care.
Also, it's very important to note that a few of the cutscenes are missing some animations and sprite movement. (95% of them are fully integrated) This goes in particular to Last Village & Lavos Core Cutscenes. (if Black Omen is destroyed all PCs will be at Lavos Core scene) the PCs will just stand there and converse. The anims, sprite movement isn't there, so don't fret. I tried many times to get a working version of this cut with everyone moving and such but to no avail (the sprites either glitch eachother's colors or freeze the game...soon I'll have it figured out). However, the cut works perfectly dialog-wise.
There are some things to note, of course. I didn't get EVERY typo, grammatical error, or text window fixed. (though I'm damn close). Don't bother reporting those as "bugs" (unless the text is corrupted and totally unreadable). Being a perfectionist as I am, I know where these are and will fix them when I get the chance. I only really want to know about glitches, game freezes, and corrupted text locations.
With that said, you can obtain Chrono Trigger+ Eternal End:
<here>To avoid any problems, make sure you apply to a NON-HEADERED Chrono Trigger ROM!
I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I had making it!
(in spite of the UNFATHOMABLE terrors of debugging...but hey, I'm a programmer, debugging code is my life.)
This thread will now be used to discuss this hack, therefore the "TemporalFlux Exports thread" is outdated and will no longer be used.
Please don't post any spoilers here, especially of some of the new, totally awesome, mind-blowing cuts that are thrown in here and there.
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What?! You listened to my advice and read THIS far?!
What the hell are you waiting for?!
Download the hack dammit! :p
~Z (aka. Zakyrus, Deitus and J. Jensen)
