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The following documents need to be translated to achieve a greater understanding of the Chrono series. If you would like to volunteer, please contact chronocompendium@gmail.com. Your work will be invaluable in helping us crack the last few mysteries whose answers have been forever barred from Western audiences.

  • Priority List

We're prioritizing the items below in this order. If you feel like volunteering, definitely start at the top if you can!

  • Chrono Trigger V-Jump Preview 2
  • Brut Press Volume
  • Chrono Trigger Ultimania
  • Chrono Trigger V-Jump Player's Guide Interview
  • Chrono Cross Missing Piece Pages
  • Chrono Cross Ultimania Pages
  • V-Jump Magazine Coverage
  • Chrono Cross V-Jump Interview Video
  • Chrono Trigger DS, portions relating to new dungeons (pending script)
  • Mitsuda interviews from Más allá del Tiempo
  • Chrono Trigger OAV Manga
  • Chrono Trigger Prerelease (Undecipherable Text from Earlier Builds)
  • Youtube Another Eden and FF Interviews

Chrono Trigger Prerelease

Script

  • Translated Text (CTP) (undecipherable portions from earlier builds); note that RyogaMasaki probably has translated this as well as will ever be possible at this point

Chrono Trigger

1995 Gendai Plus Chrono Trigger Feature

Discusses workplace life at Square. Download here. Any help translating what is said would be appreciated.

Chrono Trigger OAV Manga

It's around ~160 pages and intended for a young reading level, so perhaps it won't be as difficult to translate as other stuff. If possible, a scanlation would be mind-blowingly awesome.

NOTE: EVERYTHING THROUGH GATE 3 HAS BEEN TRANSLATED AT THIS TIME (PAGES 26-27.JPG). IF YOU'D LIKE TO HELP, START WITH 28, AND THANKS!

Chrono Trigger V-Jump Player's Guide

This guide is a goldmine of interviews and special features, including some early character sketches by Toriyama (see Official Art) for those.

  • Contest rules

  • Contest sheet (used)

  • Contest prizes

  • 29 3D Epoch

  • 38 Dream Team

  • 52 Character relations

  • 53 Character dialogue

  • 140 3D Epoch

  • 149 Dream Team interview

  • 150 Dream Team interview

  • 151 Dream Team interview

  • 152 Dream Team interview

  • 153 Dream Team interview

  • 154 Dream Team interview

  • 155 Dream Team interview

  • 156 Dream Team interview

  • 157 Dream Team interview

  • 158 Dream Team interview

  • 159 Fan feature

  • 160 Fan feature

  • 161 Fan feature

  • 162 Fan feature

  • 163 Fan feature

  • 164 Fan feature

  • 165 Timeline

  • 166 Timeline

  • 167 Timeline

  • 168 Timeline

  • 169 Timeline

  • 170 Timeline

  • 171 Special Talk

  • 172 Special Talk

  • 173 Special Talk

  • 174 Special Talk

  • 175 Special Talk

  • 176 Special Talk

  • 177 Special Talk

  • 178 Special Talk

  • 179 Special Talk

  • 180 Special Talk

  • 181 Special Talk

  • 182 Comics

  • 183 Comics (featuring Kato's)

  • 184 Comics

  • 185 Comics

  • 186 Unknown

  • 187 Unknown

  • 190 Table of Contents, maybe

Chrono Trigger Prerelease Coverage

Includes material on Chrono Cross, as well. We're hoping for something unique in here. The translations will be kept on that page.

Brut Press Volume, December 1994

Recovered by Cabbusses's Retro Obscurities here. Download the original file here (MP4, 250 MB). Original NicoNico URLs, now down:

A rip of a Brut Press volume from Dec. 1994 (sm21657890 + sm21628083 + sm21657890 -【非売品】ブルートプレス Vol 17 19). Contains previews for various Super Famicom and PC-FX titles. Chrono Trigger coverage starts at roughly ~15:43. Among the findings:

  • Different dialogue box
  • Different instrumentation for some songs (Chrono Trigger, Lavos's Theme, Battle 1 (very briefly))
  • A possible demo version of Battle 1's percussion/drum track
  • Mock-up battles (Goon on Zenan Bridge; Gato on the Blackbird)

Translation is hopefully forthcoming.

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Chrono Cross

Chrono Cross V-Jump Preview Video

No transcription of the spoken text exists. The video isn't very long. It can be downloaded here (MP4, 22.2 MB).

Chrono Cross Ultimania

Main Book

  • 464-465 Secrets

  • 466-467 Secrets

  • 468-469

  • 474-475

  • 478-479

  • 480-481

  • 482-483

  • 484-485 (interview portion)

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Chrono Cross" Reading Guide

In this section, we will select parts of the story of "Chrono Cross" that may be particularly difficult to understand and explain them, including links to related works. Since the contents are quite in-depth, we recommend that you read this section after you have completed the game, if possible. This section was compiled with the cooperation of scenario writer Masato Kato.

Frozen Flame


A legendary treasure said to heal all wounds and make any dream come true.

The Frozen Flame is a generic name for a fragment of a life form, of which there have been several since ancient times. The Frozen Flame, the subject of this work, was discovered in El Nido in the year 2300 A.D. It is one of the most powerful and dangerous of the fragments. It is said to have the power to manipulate time and fulfill wishes, but only a few people are able to use its power, and it is called the "living stone with a will" because it seems as if the stone itself chooses its users. It is also known as the "Shining Flame" because of its fiery red appearance.

Arbiter

The flame recognizes you as a mediator, depending on your choice. The frozen flame cannot be used, or even touched, except by those whom the flame itself recognizes. The term "mediator" refers to those who can do this, those who are "chosen by the flame," those who can link to the life form of the flame through the frozen flame and serve as mediators between the life form and the life of the planet. The mediator can be a powerful force. The mediator has great power, but if he or she does not use that power to "mediate" between life forms, i.e., to stop the conflict between them and reduce the negative emotions that are the cause of the conflict, he or she risks becoming a "time eater" and leading the world to destruction. In "Chrono Trigger", Sara, who had the power to control the magical weapon, is said to have been a mediator.

LINK TO TRIGGER : Dreamstone

The red stone "Dreamstone" in "Chrono Trigger" and the frozen flame are of the same species. Dreanstone has been recognized since 65 million years B.C., when Lavos was still a star in the sky, and has been highly prized since that time. In particular, the people of the magical kingdom of Zeal, who prospered by harnessing the power of Lavos, made the most of the stone. Among their various inventions, the greatest was the "Mammon Machine," which was used so extensively that the kingdom collapsed.

The pendants of Masamune and Princess Schala were also made from dry stones during this period. Among these, Schala's pendant was once passed from Schala's hand, which was swallowed by a dimensional vortex, to someone else's, and then passed to the Guardia royal family, where it became Marle's. The story of the frozen flame told by Kersh at the Snake Bone Pavilion is related to this pendant. The northern kingdom that passed it down from generation to generation refers to the Kingdom of Guardia.

Serge and the Two Worlds

Radius. "This world is not one. There is another, different world in a different dimension.

The Prophet of Time. "The bond with the world that was severed 10 years ago..."

The parallel worlds are infinite in nature, but the subject of this story is the parallel world that diverged 10 years ago due to Serge's birth and death. Therefore, the events that took place before 10 years ago are the same in both HOME WORLD and ANOTHER WORLD. If there is any difference between the two worlds, it is that they were created within the last 10 years. Then, how was Serge able to move between these two worlds? Because his existence itself is the key to the bifurcation of the two worlds, and thus the dimensional boundary is uncertain for him. Furthermore, his first dimensional transition is related to the power of a woman who invited him from another dimension.

Serge's Fate

The world of man will soon come to an end. Then, Serge, you will become the world's enemy, and the world will become your enemy.

What do these ominous words imply? Does it mean that Dark Serge will be wreaking havoc in various parts of the world? Serge's defeat of the fates will result in the resurrection of the dragon god, the enemy of mankind, and the destruction of mankind.

Does this mean that Serge will not act as Arbiter? and will bring people to the brink of crisis?

If Serge defeats the Fate, he himself will eventually be assimilated by the Time Devourer and lead the world to destruction? There are so many factors that could make Serge an "enemy of the world."

Childhood Memories

"Serge, you almost drowned after that, you were in a lot of trouble. ......" (Lena) Originally Serge was supposed to die 10 years ago. The existence of Chronopolis in God's garden is an extension of his death. But die! His fate was to be rescued, and a new dimension called HOME WORLD was born. This is no coincidence. This is a deliberate divergence by someone who knew that this irregular world contained the danger of a world collapse (see the Dead Sea section) and still had hope for Serge's existence. Serge was only seven years old when he was rescued, but his memories remain. The images of the beach that are occasionally inserted into the film are scenes from 10 years ago that are still burned deep into Serge's mind.

The movie may seem casual, but it actually hides a very important meaning in the story.

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DeepL struggles with this page, but in short, Ultimania claims that Kid remembers Serge saving at her at the orphanage as a kid, and that she (despite being the only thief) calls him a Radical Dreamer, even before she's met him. Of course, this a predestination paradox and just silly, so, whatever, sigh...

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Garden of God / Dead Sea

"Sleeping, that flame. In the garden of God, where past and future meet.

The garden of God, the place where the past and the future intersect. There are rumors that time is reversed inside." (Sage) The Garden of God was created when Chronopolis, a building that should have been in the future in 2400 A.D., was sent back 10,000 years in time by a time crash. Therefore, the time here is different from that of the outside world. If the possibility of the future existence of Chronopolis and Fate were to disappear (which is what Fate fears the most), the Garden of God would also disappear.

Signs of the Dead Sea's Doom

The Dead Sea is the future of this planet in its original form. HOME WORLD is an irregular world that Fate never envisioned. In this world, the Dead Sea exists instead of the Garden of God. This means that beyond this timeline in which Serge lives, another future in which Chronopolis does not exist - in other words, the scene seen in the Dead Sea - awaits him. The scene that unfolds in the Dead Sea is the image of the destroyed future that Crono and his friends avoided (i.e., killed) in the previous work. In other words, it is implicitly shown that the world will collapse if Serge is still alive. This is related to the fact that Serge is an Arbiter. This future image was created because at the time Serge survived and visited the Dead Sea, it was more likely that he would be consumed by the Time Eaters and bring about the destruction of the world. However, the future shown here is a fluid one. The fate of the world after this time may change depending on Serge's subsequent actions.

ZEALITY NOTE: This...how does this even work? The Time Devourer threatens to destroy all space-time, not just Home World. And it's still a threat, not a surefire thing that's occurred; why would it be reflected in Home World's future? And since it jeopardizes all space-time, wouldn't it also destroy Another World's future? Was there zero thought put into this game?!

The wild cat

Chrono Break or Other Interviews

Mas alla del Tiempo

The book Más allá del Tiempo was published in 2015 and later translated to French, containing interviews with Masato Kato and Yasunori Mitsuda:

The Kato interview has been translated:

2015 - Masato Kato, by Mariela Gonzalez

The Mitsuda interview has not been translated to English. If any Spanish-speaking of French-speaking Chrono fans can provide the Mitsuda interview, it would be hugely appreciated.

Youtube Interviews

We also need someone to watch these and provide the gist of any portions that talk about the Chrono series. A Japanese fansite that tracks interviews confirms they do, but the Chrono content is unknown.

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