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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Using ChatGPT and other AIs for the development of plugins and other misc.
« Last post by Mauron on January 20, 2025, 02:57:32 pm »Ok, that is a decent summary of what it does - arbitrary editing of a specific address.
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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Items Cast Magic Spells RANDOMLY (wip)
« Last post by Mauron on January 20, 2025, 02:51:15 pm »ror is a bitwise shift, short for ROtate Right. The SNES also contains the instruction rol for ROtate Left.
These commands shift all bits one position left or right, with the highest (left-most) or lowest (right-most) being shifted into the carry flag, and the carry flag being shifted to the lowest or highest bit.
Then there's this bit of code.
These commands shift all bits one position left or right, with the highest (left-most) or lowest (right-most) being shifted into the carry flag, and the carry flag being shifted to the lowest or highest bit.
Then there's this bit of code.
Code: [Select]
ror $00A2 ; Default item behavior
That's not going to be the default. It's a weird snippet.3
Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Items Cast Magic Spells RANDOMLY (wip)
« Last post by Zakyrus on January 19, 2025, 06:16:18 pm »It's as usual, close on general concepts, but wrong on anything specific. Also it seems really unsure of whatCode: [Select]ror
does.
ror? WTFLOL.
Maybe that's Random on Read, or something? /hmmmm
~Z
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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Using ChatGPT and other AIs for the development of plugins and other misc.
« Last post by Zakyrus on January 19, 2025, 06:14:48 pm »Code: [Select]
size_t indexToEdit;
cout << "Enter the index (in decimal) of the byte you want to edit: ";
cin >> indexToEdit;
unsigned char newHexValue;
cout << "Enter the new value (in hex, e.g., 0xAA): ";
cin >> hex >> newHexValue; // Input in hexadecimal format
The gist of it is here: Basically cout(c->out) outputs the input of what the user is required to enter for the variable, which cin(c->in) accepts and sends to variable(indexToEdit), then again with (newHexValue)-->which is BASICALLY an 'ENTER hex value to replace with other hex value'.
This is the pre-lude to the HEXIDIXER(which will have 50 hex values as a TemporalFlux .import/.export system per "sheet")--could do more but 50 at a time seems logical per window without being to convoluted.
~Z
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General Discussion / Re: Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space
« Last post by Boo the Gentleman Caller on January 19, 2025, 12:15:42 pm »PART ONE: THE CAT BEYOND TIME AND SPACE
Chapter 1: Dawn Rises in Baruoki.
Adopted siblings Aldo and Feinne live in the Present Era of 300AD, having been found in the Moonlight Forest and adopted by the kindly Mayor of Baruoki Village 16 years prior. This era is one of unrest, with much of the human realm (based largely in the capital city of Unigan City (and Miglance Castle) fighting a war with the violent beastmen of a neighboring land.
The humans of this era take for granted the existence of Prisma, elemental magic objects that make everyday life comfortable and easy. This Prisma is made up of four magical elements: earth, fire, wind, water.
As the story begins, Aldo woken up by his sister Feinne.They live in the sleepy hamlet of Baruoki, far form the mainland and the Unigan kingdom. Feinne reminds Aldo that it's the 16th anniversary of their adoption by the Mayor, and she wants to make him a gift - a beautiful new cane.
While helping Feinne, Aldo also runs several errands as his newly-appointed job as part of the Baruoki town guard. While doing these various tasks around town, Aldo is challenged to find their missing pet cat Varuo. Aldo finds Varuo at the far edge of town, where Varuo is looking a strange, blue space-time portal. Varuo enters it and Aldo chases, where the two fall outside of space-time and find themselves at the Gallery of Dreams, a mystical clocktower that can summon allies across space and time (introducing the gatcha element of the game).
Upon returning to town, Aldo (and Varuo, who has joined the party as a cosmetic party member whose only function is to follow Aldo) finds the town under attack by beastmen, who are searching for Feinne. Among these enemies is a giant beastmen clad in gold armor, Vares, who is revealed to be the right-hand of the Beast King. Aldo rushes home to learn that Feinne has already been taken, and that the Mayor has been injured in the attack. Aldo gives chase.
Aldo pursues the beastmen to the hills outside Baruoki, where he faces the Beast King in combat. The Beast King mentions wanting Feinne for her special powers, before crushing Aldo. However, a mysterious voice calls out to the fallen Aldo, revealed to be Aldo's sword, which is actually a sentient, ancient sword of great power known as the Ogre Rancorem. The weapon offers to help Aldo, and Aldo zealously agrees. The blade transforms and is one of imaginable power, and with the Ogre Rancorem, Aldo is able to fight back against the Beast King...
But it isn't enough; Aldo is once again defeated.
Chapter 2: Pursuit: The One Waiting in Moonlight Forest.
Aldo awakens to find that the beastmen and their captive Feinne have fled into the nearby Moonlight Forest. He also finds that the Ogre Rancorem has reverted back into a normal sword, but regardless continues his chase.
In his pursuit, Aldo navigates the dimly-lit Moonlight Forest. He quickly begins making ground against his enemies, but is confronted once more by Vares, allowing the Beast King time to escape with Feinnes. Vares transforms into a monstrous Beast but is defeated, and after being questioned by Aldo, reveals that the Beast King somehow believes Fienne will be the savior of the beastmen. Vares is then able to summon powerful Chimera minions, allowing his escape.
Aldo, recognizing that the Chimera are too powerful for him to face alone, flees. He is quickly cornered, but a strange blue portal opens and pulls him in.
When Aldo emerges from the portal, he finds himself in a high-tech airport floating high amongst the clouds. He is attacked by a human girl, Amy, who accuses him of being an enemy: dangerous artificial human constructs known as a Synth Human. The misunderstanding is quickly resolved, however, and Amy is revealed to be a hunter of these Synth Humans - humanoid robots who are in a constant war against the humans of the time...
...which is revealed to be 1100AD (800 years into the future), in an era known the Far Future. Aldo learns that this is an era when much of the planet's surface is destroyed, with humanity now living on flying islands. This is ultimately due to an ongoing energy crisis in which much of the once-prominent elemental Prisma has slowly become inert, replaced by a new, artificial form of energy called Xeno Prisma.
Amy invites Aldo to her home, the bastion city of mankind: Elizon, the Shining City.
Chapter 3: Elzion: Echoes in the Sky.
Aldo and Amy travel across the flying airport, eventually encountering a pink android girl named Riica, who is under attack by Synth Humans. They rescue her, and she joins the group. Learning that Aldo is from the past, Riica kindly offers to help him find a way home.
The party soon reaches the city of Elzion, which is a massive megapolis encased within a protective bubble. The city has a multitude of corporate skyscrapers, green parks, and schools (including the elite campus known as the IDA School, which plays a part in several of the side campaigns).
Amy takes Aldo and Riica to her father Za'ol, a talented weaponsmith who is tasked with helping fix the Ogre Rancorem sword. Amy also reveals that she has intel from her mission at the airport: the leader of the Synth Humans army, Galliard, is hiding out in the Industrial Ruins outside Elzion. Amy decides to investigate, but Aldo and Riica are persistent in aiding her.
Soon after leaving Za'ol's weapon store, the trio runs into Amy's friend Sebastia, who reveals that she found a Sound Orb -- one that just so happens to contain a recording of Amy's mother singing. Amy reveals that, on her birthday ten years prior, she and her mother were attacked by Synth Humans at the dawn of the war between humans and Synth Humans, leading to Amy's mother's death. Sebastia is about to give the Sound Orb to Amy, but before she can do so, the Sound Orb is stolen by a robed robot. This robot is revealed to be Galliard, who expresses that Synth Humans have an interest in human knickknacks; he admits that he has a collection of other Sound Orbs just like this one at Route 99; as he flees he taunts Amy and challenges her to come find other souvenirs of her dead mother.
Aldo, Amy, and Riica travel to Route 99 and encounter Galliard once more. He reveals a second Sound Orb and plays it, revealing it to be a second orb from Amy's mother. Galliard muses that Synth Humans collect human artifacts because they envy human memories, as Synth Humans are constructs who only have data - data that is easily erased or replaced. Amy and her friends fight Galliard to retrieve the second Sound Orb, only to discover that this Galliard is a fake.
The group takes the two Sound Orbs back to Elzion, where Amy plans them together and learns that they were meant to be her birthday present ten years ago. Amy is touched and vows to continue fighting to make the world a better place.
Witnessing these events, her friend Sebastia offers to help them reach the Industrial Ruins so they can confront the real Galliard hiding there.
Chapter 4: Roar in the Ruins: Rise of The Synth Humans.
Aldo and his friends travel to (and into) the Industrial Ruins, where they eventually find Galliard talking to a female-like Synth-Human named Helena. They overhear Galliard discussing the threats of time quakes, once warned against by someone named Professor Chronos. They discuss that the Professor was correct and that space-time is being stretched too thin, and that the world will likely soon end. Helena and Galliard discuss the possible need to work with humanity to stop this from occurring, but Galliard muses that it's too late and the war between humans and Synth-Humans renders them unable to cooperate. He then discovers the heroes, who try to flee.
Galliard quickly catches up to the heroes aboard his motorcycle, forcing the group into battle. They manage to defeat Galliard, who warns them as he lies dying. He explains that the Xeno Prisma used to power Elzion is unstable and will cause a massive timequake that threatens the world. With his last breath, he then asks Helena for forgiveness. A distraught Helena refuses to fight the heroes and mourns Galliard's death, so the heroes refuse to fight her and leave the Industrial Ruins.
Chapter 5: You're Gone?! Our Lost Future.
Aldo, Riica, and Amy return to Elzion and celebrate the defeat of Galliard. During this celebration, Za'ol returns the Ogre Rancorem to Aldo. He explains that he could only fix the pommel and restore a very small amount of the blade's trapped energy, which is contained within very powerful magical seals.
Their celebration is soon cut short when the inhabitants of Elzion suddenly begin to fade from existence one-by-one (including Za'ol and Amy), followed by Elzion's buildings and then even Elzion itself...
Aldo helplessly and confusedly watches as the timeline warps and changes around him, and both Elzion and the entire world turn to apocalyptic ruins. Aldo now stands along atop the ruins of a destroyed world.
Suddenly, a mysterious voice states that "history has been rewritten." An enigmatic specter of blue fire, the Phantom, appears to Aldo and explains that the timeline was altered at some point in the past, bringing about this new, apocalyptic future. The Phantom opens a wormhole in time and motivates Aldo to travel back in time to save Elzion and its inhabitants, but warns that in doing so, Aldo may be dooming other possible futures from ever existing. Aldo zealously agrees to save this Far Future and enters the time portal.
...As Aldo travels through time, he witnesses a memory/flashback to when he and Fienne were children. In this memory, while exploring the Moonlight Forest, Fienne meets a kindly beastfolk girl, Altena. Fienne injures her leg, and Altena uses healing magic to heal her leg...
Aldo emerges from the portal at the Zol Plains, a lush valley of dinosaurs and prehistoric flora. Riica emerges just behind him, as she was not erased when the Far Future timeline was erased. Before they can make sense of where they are, the duo is then attacked by a T-Rex, and upon defeating it learns that it had also been attacking a young boy named Veron. Veron invites them back to his village.
Aldo and Riica are both unsure why Riica was able to survive the erasure of her timeline, although Riica does admit that she has enigmatic ghost data in her data banks. Before heading to Veron's village, Aldo examines the repaired Ogre Rancorem sword and finds that Za'ol's repairs have been undone due to the erasure of the future timeline.
Chapter 6: Salamander Encroached Upon from Another World.
The two travel across the Zol Plains and reach Veron's home of Ratel Village. There they are able to make sense of their surroundings and find that they are in the far past of 30,000BC, in an era known as the Antiquity.
This era finds the world freely utilizing magic, with humankind largely led by power-hungry King Palsifal and his masked aide, the future-seeing Oracle. This era also sees a unique blend of magical cities and prehistoric villages. While exploring Ratel Village, they also learn that the era has elemental protectors of the planet / deities known as Eidolons, one Eidolon for each kind of magic element: earth, fire, wind, and water.
Upon catching up with Veron, he explains that he was in the dangerous Zol Plains because he has ill feelings regarding the nearby Nadara Volcano, which has been reacting strange lately. He asks Aldo and Riica to go seek out the Eidolon of Fire, Salamander, at the heart of Nadara Volcano within the eastern Vasu Mountains, and see if Salamander can help.
The heroes traverse the lava-filled volcano and reach its' heart, where they find Salamander -- who has some sinister black smoke coming from it. Riica examines Salamander and recognizes that the black smoke is due to corruption, having turned it in to Dark Salamander. The Eidolon then attacks the heroes, who manage to defeat it. The elemental deity reverts to normal and thanks them, but explains that the evil that corrupted him was only a small amount of the evil's true power, and that a great disaster looms before them. Salamander asks Aldo and Riica to travel to Palsifal Palace, where he detects some sort of disturbance.
The pair descend the mountain and explain things to Veron, who tells them that they will have to cross the vast Lake Tiilen to reach Palsifal Palace.
Chapter 7: Acteul: A Figure on the Water.
Aldo and Riica continue travelling west in the hope of reaching the Palsifal Palace, the capital of the land. En route, the party visits the water city in the middle of Lake Tiilen, Acteul. Hearing of their exploits saving Salamander, Aldo is challenged by the villagers to help solve the mystery of a strange ghost-woman who oddly looks like the late queen of Palsifal. Aldo learns that both the queen and prince of Palsifal died some time ago, and King Palsifal hasn't been the same since.
Upon finding the ghost-woman at Lake Tiilen, they find that it's actually some sort of hologram, which is promptly deactivated by the Oracle of Palsifal Palance. The masked man admits to knowing of the future and warns Aldo not to get in the way of the mysterious plans that he and King Palsifal have put into motion.
Chapter 8: Palsifal Palace: Heed the Wishes of the Oracle.
Aldo and Riica cross the lake and pass along the Derismo Highroad, finally reaching the city of Palsifal Palace. Here, Aldo learns that the city is one of magic, with a great school for teaching magic. Going to the proper palace at the heart of the city, Aldo confronts King Palsifal about his plans, and the future timeline he erased.
King Palsifal is ultimately uncooperative and explains that he can rewrite history and control the future via the mysterious Tower of Time. Aldo learns that the destruction of Elzion he witnessed in the Future Era was actually the result of timeline changes by King Palsifal and the Oracle. Upon the advice of the Oracle (and fearing Aldo's possible interference), King Palsifal orders Aldo captured and thrown into an underground marsh / prison: the Man-Eating Marsh.
Chapter 9: Fear the Man-eating Marsh: Lord of the Abyss.
Now trapped in and underground prison/swamp, Aldo encounters Cyrus, a human-frog samurai from a faraway 'eastern land.' Cyrus blindly attacks Aldo before he can explain himself, but after the battle the two discuss the situation and decide to join forces, as Cyrus wants to help save the future Aldo describes.
They covertly return to Palsifal Palace and meet up with an old friend of Cyrus', Ratchett, who is one of the court magicians of Palsifal. She initially refuses to believe that Cyrus is who he claims to be due to his current frog form, but Cyrus is eventually able to convince her with information only he would know. She agrees to help Aldo reach the Tower of Time so Aldo can undo the timeline changes.
She also notices the Ogre Rancorem sword that Aldo has slung to his waist. She recognizes it as the same sword that King Palsifal wields, only Aldo's is much older. She uses her magic to release a seal on the sword, releasing a small part of its power, resulting in Aldo falling unconscious. In his unconscious state, Aldo and the Ogre Rancorem speak to another - the sword explains that it is the undying anger and desire for revenge of the ogre tribe, who were wiped out by the beastmen. It cryptically explains that the destiny between the Ogre Rancorem and Aldo have been entwined for ages...
Aldo awakens and the heroes are now ready to travel to the Tower of Time to confront King Palsifal and the Oracle.
Chapter 10: Tower of Time: Peering into the Embryo's Dream.
Aldo and his friends travel east along the wild and untamed Keruri Highroad and find the Tower of TIme, which on the outside looks like a high-tech spire. Upon entering it, however, they find it a techno bioorganic structure of mysterious and unknown technology.
They battle through various Synth Human-esque enemies and reach the top of the Tower of Time, where they find a massive chamber. The walls are covered in robotic-looking baby heads, and a central platform is surrounded by shifting images floating in the air. Riica recognizes the tower as a giant quantum computer, the various embryonic heads creating images of possible futures. Aldo demands this computer, known as the Visus Embryo, return the Future Era he saw, but they deny him as an unauthorized user and attack.
After defeating the Visus Embryo, they recognize Aldo as an authorized user and accept his request, reverting the timeline to as it was. The timeline now restored, Aldo investigates the Ogre Rancorem and sees that the part that Amy’s dad had previously repaired is now once again repaired.
Aldo recognizes the danger of the Tower of Time and apologizes to the Visus Embryo, deciding to destroy it. Riica interfaces with the Tower and reformats the CPU, erasing all data and programs and ensuring it cannot be reactivated. He hopes that this will stop King Palsifal’s meddling with history, but Cyrus reminds him that it’s really the Oracle that is pulling the strings.
Just then, the Phantom reappears and thanks Aldo for restoring the timeline; it then admits that by doing so the universe can once again “speed towards destruction.” The Phantom explains that Xeno Prisma amplifies temporal distortions, sending shockwaves throughout spacetime, expanding the universe with each distortion; this constant expansion requires energy to compensate, which will eventually cause the universe to expand to the point of a colossal timequake – the collapse of all of space-time. Because the future with Xeno Prisma had previously been erased, the universe was actually safe from this outcome. But the Phantom, unable to directly interact with the world, was able to manipulate Aldo to restore this future and once again doom all of space-time. He bids Aldo farewall, calling him the “Kit of Chronos.”
A space-time anomaly forms, pulling Aldo, Riica, and Cyrus in. As Aldo travels through time, he witnesses another flashback to his childhood with Feinne.
...A young Feinne and Altena walk the Moonlight Forest, bonding over their shared frustrations with their older brothers. Suddenly, the pair are interrupted and accosted by a group of kids (and a cat) from Buruoki, first cornering Altena for being a beastfolk. Feinne defends Altena, but they turn against Feinne, too. Luckily, Aldo appears and chases them off before things could get physical. He apologetically recommends that Feinne not return to the Moonlight Forest, seemingly ending the friendship between Feinne and Altena...
Chapter 11: Spacetime Rift: Lost in Time.
Aldo, Cyrus, and Riica awaken to find themselves in the strange Spacetime Rift, a floating construct akin to a cobblestone alley lit by streetlamps. Recalling their confrontation with the Phantom, Riica mentions that there is a researcher in the Future Era named Professor Chronos, and wonders if Aldo being referred to as the "kit of Chronos" has anything to do with him. Aldo muses if this means that this Professor Chronos is somehow his father.
The Spacetime Rift has a single building, a bar called Time’s Forgotten Stop, and upon entering they meet the kindly mustache'd barkeep, the Master, who explains that he was expecting Aldo, and that this place is a refuge for those who’ve lost their way. Several other patrons explain that lost souls end up here and gradually lose their memory of who they were before and where they came from.
Also also meets several other characters: First, Aldo meets Middalysse, aka Lady Midd, a wise and ancient woman that introduces class changes and other character enhancements that are part of the gacha and level-up mechanics of the game.
He also meets Sidekick Guy, a small lad with a pet slime who can detect the “wavelength of friends,” allowing Aldo to locate potential animal sidekicks.
Next, Aldo meets the small Nameless Girl, who, like the Master, has been expecting him. She explains that she is "the one who charts the course of dimensions traverse." Like most denizens here, she can't remember her past. She stands outside a magical blue door that leads nowhere (called The Dimensional Gate), explaining that she is somehow connected to it via fate. She implores Aldo to use it to help explore the dimensional dungeons beyond, which may help restore her memories. This gameplay mechanic gives Aldo daily dungeons he can rush to gain items and immense experience.
Last, Aldo follows a strange glowing cat into a space-time portal into the Astral Archive, a magical library similar to the Gallery of Dreams. A robed, bearded guru-esque man named the Gallery Master hands Aldo a corrupted tome and explains that these tomes are where the memories of the stars are preserved in book form. By helping fulfill certain requirements and missions, Aldo can help restore these tomes, refill the Astral Archive, and can unlock special talents separate from normal level progression.
A final concept introduced here are time layers - essentially parallel universes where characters and their stories happen differently, making them wholly unique from each other. This allows Aldo to recruit different versions of the same character, which are from other universes, who have unique backstories, looks, and battle abilities.
After learning about the Spacetime Rift and the various new gameplay mechanics, Aldo finds light pillars in the stone square that connect him to the Past of 20000BC, his Present of 300AD, and the Future of 1100AD. The Master explains that they these are connected to distortions in space-time that will allow him to travel through time as he wants. Content that the Future has been restored, Aldo and his friends decide to travel to back to Present Era of 300AD.
Chapter 12: Homecoming and Dark Clouds Gather: Ogre Rancorem Roars.
Upon returning to Baruoki village, Aldo finds that the war between Miglance and the beastmen has escalated into all-out war. While battling through beastmen troops headed to Miglance Castle, Aldo learns the truth regarding his magical blade, the Ogre Rancorem: it is cursed and is using Aldo to see all life destroyed. Hoping to break the curse, Aldo battles an ogre-like manifestation of the sword and is successful. Ogre Rancorem is not defeated entirely, but the cursed persona of the blade is put to sleep long enough for Aldo to continue to use its' power.
Chapter 13: Fight to the Death: Miglance Castle is Burning?!
The heroes continue on to Unigan city, only to find that the beastmen and the Beast King have stormed Miglance castle. Aldo and his friends battle through the castle and encounter the Beast King upon its' topmost tower. The Beast King has the human King Miglance cornered, claiming that beast men can truly harness the elements and are the true owners of the planet.
As the Beast King prepares to slay King Miglance, Amy appears and rescues the human King. She reveals that her memory is fuzzy (due to her timeline being erased and then restored), but that she was able to utilize a wormhole to travel from the Future to the Present with the goal of reuniting with and aiding Aldo.
With King Miglance saved by Amy, Aldo is free confront the Beast King once and for all, demanding to know where Feinne is. They battle, but the Beast King is bested by the powers of Aldo and the Ogre Rancorem.
Upon his defeat, the Beast King teleports in a mindless Fienne and his beastwoman sister, Altena (who is actually revealed to be a childhood friend of Feinne's, their friendship kept secret due to the tensions between humans and beastmen). The Beast King and Altena explain that Feinne's consciousness/memory has been sealed by beastmen magic, and that she has some unknown power within her that can control all elemental magics on a cataclysmic scale. As a result, he desires to unleash Feinne's power to destroy mankind.
Via flashback, we then learn that the Beast King, then known as Guildna, encountered Feinne as a baby in the Moonlight Forest, moments before they were found and adopted by the mayor of Baruoki.
With the current fate of Feinne now known to Aldo, Altena refuses to allow more bloodshed, convincing her brother that they should all depart. The sinister Beast King Guilda, a mind-washed Feinne, and Altena then teleport away and escape.
Aldo, Cyrus, Riica, and Amy regroup, King Miglance thanking the team for helping turn the tides of the war by defeating the Beast King Guildna. However, before they can celebrate, a massive time quake occurs. Fearing the threats of the Phantom regarding the end of the universe, the group decides to return the Future Era and try to discover just how Elzion and Xeno Prisma are connected.
Chapter 14: Return to Elzion: Reflections of Professor Chronos.
In Elzion, the group is able to learn that Professor Chronos and his family disappeared 16 years ago, and everything related to his project, Xeno Project, were classified. They receive permission from the leader of Elzion, the Administrator, to travel to the Xeno-Domain, a space station connected to Elzion via space elevator and the source of Xeno Prisma.
Chapter 15: Call from the Stars: Xeno-Domain.
The heroes battle the automated security of the Xeno-Domain, now rogue, and eventually find the living quarters of Professor Chronos and his family. There they meet a holographic representation of the kindly Professor.
Chapter 16: The Truth About Chronos: Family Portrait.
The holographic Professor Chronos first explains that Aldo (named Eden at birth) and Feinne (originally named Celine) are his children from this Future Era. With corporate backing by the massive and secretive KMS organization, his project studied a substance called Xeno Prisma, a form of Prisma discovered 400 years prior in 700AD. Because the planet was facing an energy crisis (with normal Prisma going inert), he hoped that his project could use Xeno Prisma to solve the growing energy crisis.
Professor Chronos and his team discovered that, although Xeno Prisma had potential to be a great power source, it had the unfortunate side effect of destabilizing space-time and causing time quakes. Despite these risks, the KMS corporation ignored these risks and proceeded with the utilization of new Xeno Prisma-backed power all across the planet.
Professor Chronos, recognizing that Xeno Prisma would ultimately destroy the universe, devised a backup plan and began investigating a safer, natural Geo Prisma. He created a prototype Geo Prisma, calling it an Alpha Prisma. This Geo Prisma seemingly needed an organic host, so he installed it within his newborn Aldo. After Feinne was born, she received a slightly more developed version of Alpha Prisma. His goal was for Aldo and Feinne to save the universe from the eventual threat of Xeno Prisma.
With his origins now revealed, Aldo and his friends traveled to the core of the space station where they discover two massive Prisma: enormous research samples of both Xeno and Geo Prisma. They are already extremely unstable, and after a battle with boss-level automated security robots, both Prisma become destabilized and break down.
The Phantom then appears, relishing that Aldo's efforts were ultimately futile and that the Xeno Prisma has started destroying space-time.
Chapter 17: Cataclysm: Escape the Great Timequake.
This results of this is made apparent as a temporal distortion and rip in space-time appears in the sky over every era, connecting all points in history to a fifth dimension beyond time called the Corridor of Time Layers, where all timelines and possibilities touch. Time quakes erupt from the spatial anomaly, and a ghostly version of the Oracle appears to Aldo and advises him to travel to the Corridor of Time Layers and use his Geo Prisma to stabilize space-time enough to buy them more time. With the help of the Administrator and an old teleportation device, Aldo and his friends are able to enter this enigmatic dimension.
While traveling through the Corridor of Time Layers, they encounter ghost-like apparitions, revealed to be minions of the Phantom, and witness as multiple timeliness overlap and layer. They ultimately encounter the Time Later Distortion, a living entity and embodiment of the time quakes.
Aldo and his friends defeat this entity, but the Phantom appears and once again gloats that they are too late. Despite having stopped the Distortion and the time quakes, the Phantom and its minions pull a massive floating island through the wormhole and deposit it into the Antiquity Era, with the intent that its destruction would act equivalent a final time quake capable of ending reality.
However, the elemental Eidolons of the Antiquity Era come together to stop the floating island and the temporal distortion, sacrificing themselves and shattering into elemental shards -- revealed to be the origin of the elemental Prisma seen utilized in the Present Era (and that this event was destined to occur and create the Prisma).
The Phantom relishes his victory as the Corridor of Time Layers begins to collapse and form a Dimensional Vortex, the chaos capable of slowly swallowing the entire universe. The Phantom's goal now complete, all he has to do is wait for the Dimensional Vortex to destroy space-time entirely.
Aldo and his friends are seen running back towards the Corridor of Time Layers entrance as it begins to collapse around them...
Chapter 19: Twilight of the World: The Shores' End.
Five days later, Aldo awakens alone on a small, floating island, still in the Future Era. This island is inhabited by humans, who have mostly shunned technology and live a simple life of farming. As he explores the island he laments that he failed in saving space-time, and it is only because of the Antiquity Era's Eidolons that the universe hasn't been completely destroyed just yet.
Aldo is soon reunited with Amy, Cyrus, and Riica, who have been searching for him the past five days. They reassure Aldo that even though the Dimensional Vortex was ultimately created to destroy space-time, there is still time to stop it before it consumes the universe.
Chapter 20: The Riftbreaker Embarks! Designation: Synth Hydra.
The heroes return to the Spacetime Rift and are urged to revisit the Future Era, where the Synth Humans have started showing more aggressive efforts to destroy mankind.
Upon returning to the Far Future and confronting the Synth Humans, they learn of the Synth Human's secret weapon: a conscious, flying battleship called the Riftbreaker, also known as the "Synth Hydra" due to its multiple weapons (each weapon also with its own persona). The Synth Humans plan to utilize the Dimensional Vortex, still connecting all eras in space-time, to travel back in time and alter history in their favor.
Aldo and Amy encounter their old Synth Human enemy, Helena, now despondent after the death of Galliard. Since that time, she has changed her outlook and no longer believes in the fight against mankind. As a result of her turn, Aldo manages to recruit Helena, who decides to helps them sneak aboard the Riftbreaker before it can travel back in time.
The group battles through the battleship and confronts its core personality, defeating the airship. As it falls to crash to the ground, Helena flies down to try and stop its descent, seeing a vision of Galliard that gives her the strength to stop the Riftbreaker from being destroyed entirely.
Aldo and his friends then work with a part-producing group called "Natural" to fix the Synth Hydra. Helena leads the repairs, and the living ship is inspired by the kindness of Helena and her human allies. It has a change of heart and resolves to aide Aldo and friends in saving space-time, becoming their personal vehicle. Due to its ability to fly, the Riftbreaker can utilize the space-time anomaly in the sky at will, meaning the heroes no longer have to use the pillars of light at the Spacetime Rift to travel through time.
***NOTE: With the flying Riftbreaker aiding the heroes, the party now has the ability to explore several new locations and side quests.***
Chapter 21: Tower of Stars: Behind the Mask of the Oracle.
The party uses the Riftbreaker to travel through time and return to the Antiquity Era, as it has the earliest access in the timeline to the Dimensional Vortex. However, they find that the Dimensional Vortex is protected by air currents and sort of black miasma that is fatal to both machines and humans. Aldo recommends tracking down the Oracle at Palsifal Palace, as he clearly knew much more than he let on and may know how to stop the Dimensional Vortex.
Arriving at the Palsifal Palace, the party confronts the Oracle, who reveals that he is Professor Chronos from the Far Future. He explains that the Xeno and Geo Prisma he was experimenting with, when they reached maximum energy output, created a wormhole leading to the Antiquity Era. He then devised a plan to stop the creation of Xeno Prisma and save all of space-time -- but in doing so he would have to manipulate events in the Antiquity Era so that his Far Future never came to be (as his Far Future is responsible for the utilization of the Xeno Prisma). He felt sorrow in this decision, as he knew that erasing his timeline would erase everything he knew and loved from history, but it was necessary to save space-time. He decided to bring his children when he traveled back in time, knowing that they would be separated from their native timeline and would still be able to exist even with the destruction of the future.
He says that he has more to say, but that time is running short. He asks Aldo to meet him at the Tower of Stars. The party travels there, defeats it's guardian giant Earth Golem, and navigates the secret passages and labyrinthian interior of the Tower.
Upon reaching the top floor of the Tower, Aldo and his allies find the Oracle and his robotic aide, Galliard the 2nd. The Oracle admits that the Tower of Time (where the Visus Embryo was) was his time research laboratory, while the Tower of Stars acted as his laboratory for elementals. He explains that he wanted to created a special alloy using both Geo Prisma and the power of the elemental Eidolons. He explains that his research bore little fruit until the Eidolons sacrificed themselves to stop the time quakes, and their remains - the radioactive fragments of elemental energy - gave him the breakthrough he needed. He continues, admitting that the radioactive fragments are so dangerous that he is slowly dying from radiation poisoning, but that they should lose their radioactivity after ~20,000 years and eventually be useful to mankind (which is by the time of the Present Era of 300AD). The Oracle then gives Aldo the fruits of his research: the Geo Metal.
Suddenly, an angry King Palsifal appears, having been listening to the Oracle's confession. Angry that he gave up everything (his "life, marriage, and kingdom") in pursuit of power (due to the Oracle's manipulation), he strikes the Oracle down. The despondent King Palsifal, having given into despair and longing for everyone to feel the pain and despair he feels, transforms uses magic to transform into an armored monster and attacks Aldo and his heroes.
With King Palsifal dead, Aldo rushes to the side of the side of the dying Oracle. The Oracle explains that when he and his children (young Aldo and Fienne) entered the wormhole to travel from the Far Future to the Antiquity, a surge in temporal currents blew into the wormhole and separated him from his children. He explains that he had no way to reopen the wormhole and was trapped in this Era alone, having no idea where his children ended up.
He tells Aldo/Eden how proud he is, and that he wishes they could've met under better circumstances, and that he wishes he could've also seen Feinne/Celine one last time. He apologizes for deceiving Aldo and putting him through so much trouble, but is grateful that Aldo stopped him from erasing his timeline (at the Tower of Time) and saving the millions of lives that would have been erased. He begins to offer help that will help Aldo enter the Dimensional Vortex, but is unable to and passes way.
The Oracle's aide, Galliard the 2nd, then gives the party the info the Oracle was unable to. He gives Aldo a Primeval Gem that should be able to dissipate the dangerous miasma surrounding the Dimensional Vortex, along with a short history lesson. He explains that thousands of years before even the Eidolons came to exist, the forces of Chaos and Order clashed. This clash created a Dimensional Vortex that dispersed Chaos throughout the Universe, while Order coalesced into magical stones like the incredibly rare Primeval Gem.
The party returns to the Riftbreaker and gives the living ship the Primeval Gem, but the Riftbreaker admits that it will take some time to analyze the stone before it can implement the gem's powers into the ship.
Suddenly, the Beast King's minion, Vares, appears, having traveled through time to deliver a message: Feinne's power is growing and nearing its' apex, and soon Feinne will be the savior of beastkind and will destroy the humans forever. He admits to toying with Aldo, taunting him to try and rescue Feinne.
With the Riftbreaker needing time to use the Primeval Gem, and knowing that the Geo Prisma within Feinne was created by Professor Chronos to help humanity, Amy convinces Aldo that now is the time to rescue Feinne once and for all. Riica also muses that the Geo Prisma is likely nano-technology, and that its use (or misuse) could have unknown consequences.
The party travels back to the Present Era and readies to storm the Beast King's Castle.
Chapter 22: Infiltration: The Beast King's Castle! Altena's Tears.
Chapter 23: Storming the Dimensional Vortex! Echoes of the Phantom.
Chapter 24: Chronos' Umbra Falls! Hear the Darkness Roar.
Chapter 25: Time Grieve...Fly! Mourning Kyros.
Chapter 26: Friends: To Another End of Time.
Chapter 1: Dawn Rises in Baruoki.
Adopted siblings Aldo and Feinne live in the Present Era of 300AD, having been found in the Moonlight Forest and adopted by the kindly Mayor of Baruoki Village 16 years prior. This era is one of unrest, with much of the human realm (based largely in the capital city of Unigan City (and Miglance Castle) fighting a war with the violent beastmen of a neighboring land.
The humans of this era take for granted the existence of Prisma, elemental magic objects that make everyday life comfortable and easy. This Prisma is made up of four magical elements: earth, fire, wind, water.
As the story begins, Aldo woken up by his sister Feinne.They live in the sleepy hamlet of Baruoki, far form the mainland and the Unigan kingdom. Feinne reminds Aldo that it's the 16th anniversary of their adoption by the Mayor, and she wants to make him a gift - a beautiful new cane.
While helping Feinne, Aldo also runs several errands as his newly-appointed job as part of the Baruoki town guard. While doing these various tasks around town, Aldo is challenged to find their missing pet cat Varuo. Aldo finds Varuo at the far edge of town, where Varuo is looking a strange, blue space-time portal. Varuo enters it and Aldo chases, where the two fall outside of space-time and find themselves at the Gallery of Dreams, a mystical clocktower that can summon allies across space and time (introducing the gatcha element of the game).
Upon returning to town, Aldo (and Varuo, who has joined the party as a cosmetic party member whose only function is to follow Aldo) finds the town under attack by beastmen, who are searching for Feinne. Among these enemies is a giant beastmen clad in gold armor, Vares, who is revealed to be the right-hand of the Beast King. Aldo rushes home to learn that Feinne has already been taken, and that the Mayor has been injured in the attack. Aldo gives chase.
Aldo pursues the beastmen to the hills outside Baruoki, where he faces the Beast King in combat. The Beast King mentions wanting Feinne for her special powers, before crushing Aldo. However, a mysterious voice calls out to the fallen Aldo, revealed to be Aldo's sword, which is actually a sentient, ancient sword of great power known as the Ogre Rancorem. The weapon offers to help Aldo, and Aldo zealously agrees. The blade transforms and is one of imaginable power, and with the Ogre Rancorem, Aldo is able to fight back against the Beast King...
But it isn't enough; Aldo is once again defeated.
Chapter 2: Pursuit: The One Waiting in Moonlight Forest.
Aldo awakens to find that the beastmen and their captive Feinne have fled into the nearby Moonlight Forest. He also finds that the Ogre Rancorem has reverted back into a normal sword, but regardless continues his chase.
In his pursuit, Aldo navigates the dimly-lit Moonlight Forest. He quickly begins making ground against his enemies, but is confronted once more by Vares, allowing the Beast King time to escape with Feinnes. Vares transforms into a monstrous Beast but is defeated, and after being questioned by Aldo, reveals that the Beast King somehow believes Fienne will be the savior of the beastmen. Vares is then able to summon powerful Chimera minions, allowing his escape.
Aldo, recognizing that the Chimera are too powerful for him to face alone, flees. He is quickly cornered, but a strange blue portal opens and pulls him in.
When Aldo emerges from the portal, he finds himself in a high-tech airport floating high amongst the clouds. He is attacked by a human girl, Amy, who accuses him of being an enemy: dangerous artificial human constructs known as a Synth Human. The misunderstanding is quickly resolved, however, and Amy is revealed to be a hunter of these Synth Humans - humanoid robots who are in a constant war against the humans of the time...
...which is revealed to be 1100AD (800 years into the future), in an era known the Far Future. Aldo learns that this is an era when much of the planet's surface is destroyed, with humanity now living on flying islands. This is ultimately due to an ongoing energy crisis in which much of the once-prominent elemental Prisma has slowly become inert, replaced by a new, artificial form of energy called Xeno Prisma.
Amy invites Aldo to her home, the bastion city of mankind: Elizon, the Shining City.
Chapter 3: Elzion: Echoes in the Sky.
Aldo and Amy travel across the flying airport, eventually encountering a pink android girl named Riica, who is under attack by Synth Humans. They rescue her, and she joins the group. Learning that Aldo is from the past, Riica kindly offers to help him find a way home.
The party soon reaches the city of Elzion, which is a massive megapolis encased within a protective bubble. The city has a multitude of corporate skyscrapers, green parks, and schools (including the elite campus known as the IDA School, which plays a part in several of the side campaigns).
Amy takes Aldo and Riica to her father Za'ol, a talented weaponsmith who is tasked with helping fix the Ogre Rancorem sword. Amy also reveals that she has intel from her mission at the airport: the leader of the Synth Humans army, Galliard, is hiding out in the Industrial Ruins outside Elzion. Amy decides to investigate, but Aldo and Riica are persistent in aiding her.
Soon after leaving Za'ol's weapon store, the trio runs into Amy's friend Sebastia, who reveals that she found a Sound Orb -- one that just so happens to contain a recording of Amy's mother singing. Amy reveals that, on her birthday ten years prior, she and her mother were attacked by Synth Humans at the dawn of the war between humans and Synth Humans, leading to Amy's mother's death. Sebastia is about to give the Sound Orb to Amy, but before she can do so, the Sound Orb is stolen by a robed robot. This robot is revealed to be Galliard, who expresses that Synth Humans have an interest in human knickknacks; he admits that he has a collection of other Sound Orbs just like this one at Route 99; as he flees he taunts Amy and challenges her to come find other souvenirs of her dead mother.
Aldo, Amy, and Riica travel to Route 99 and encounter Galliard once more. He reveals a second Sound Orb and plays it, revealing it to be a second orb from Amy's mother. Galliard muses that Synth Humans collect human artifacts because they envy human memories, as Synth Humans are constructs who only have data - data that is easily erased or replaced. Amy and her friends fight Galliard to retrieve the second Sound Orb, only to discover that this Galliard is a fake.
The group takes the two Sound Orbs back to Elzion, where Amy plans them together and learns that they were meant to be her birthday present ten years ago. Amy is touched and vows to continue fighting to make the world a better place.
Witnessing these events, her friend Sebastia offers to help them reach the Industrial Ruins so they can confront the real Galliard hiding there.
Chapter 4: Roar in the Ruins: Rise of The Synth Humans.
Aldo and his friends travel to (and into) the Industrial Ruins, where they eventually find Galliard talking to a female-like Synth-Human named Helena. They overhear Galliard discussing the threats of time quakes, once warned against by someone named Professor Chronos. They discuss that the Professor was correct and that space-time is being stretched too thin, and that the world will likely soon end. Helena and Galliard discuss the possible need to work with humanity to stop this from occurring, but Galliard muses that it's too late and the war between humans and Synth-Humans renders them unable to cooperate. He then discovers the heroes, who try to flee.
Galliard quickly catches up to the heroes aboard his motorcycle, forcing the group into battle. They manage to defeat Galliard, who warns them as he lies dying. He explains that the Xeno Prisma used to power Elzion is unstable and will cause a massive timequake that threatens the world. With his last breath, he then asks Helena for forgiveness. A distraught Helena refuses to fight the heroes and mourns Galliard's death, so the heroes refuse to fight her and leave the Industrial Ruins.
Chapter 5: You're Gone?! Our Lost Future.
Aldo, Riica, and Amy return to Elzion and celebrate the defeat of Galliard. During this celebration, Za'ol returns the Ogre Rancorem to Aldo. He explains that he could only fix the pommel and restore a very small amount of the blade's trapped energy, which is contained within very powerful magical seals.
Their celebration is soon cut short when the inhabitants of Elzion suddenly begin to fade from existence one-by-one (including Za'ol and Amy), followed by Elzion's buildings and then even Elzion itself...
Aldo helplessly and confusedly watches as the timeline warps and changes around him, and both Elzion and the entire world turn to apocalyptic ruins. Aldo now stands along atop the ruins of a destroyed world.
Suddenly, a mysterious voice states that "history has been rewritten." An enigmatic specter of blue fire, the Phantom, appears to Aldo and explains that the timeline was altered at some point in the past, bringing about this new, apocalyptic future. The Phantom opens a wormhole in time and motivates Aldo to travel back in time to save Elzion and its inhabitants, but warns that in doing so, Aldo may be dooming other possible futures from ever existing. Aldo zealously agrees to save this Far Future and enters the time portal.
...As Aldo travels through time, he witnesses a memory/flashback to when he and Fienne were children. In this memory, while exploring the Moonlight Forest, Fienne meets a kindly beastfolk girl, Altena. Fienne injures her leg, and Altena uses healing magic to heal her leg...
Aldo emerges from the portal at the Zol Plains, a lush valley of dinosaurs and prehistoric flora. Riica emerges just behind him, as she was not erased when the Far Future timeline was erased. Before they can make sense of where they are, the duo is then attacked by a T-Rex, and upon defeating it learns that it had also been attacking a young boy named Veron. Veron invites them back to his village.
Aldo and Riica are both unsure why Riica was able to survive the erasure of her timeline, although Riica does admit that she has enigmatic ghost data in her data banks. Before heading to Veron's village, Aldo examines the repaired Ogre Rancorem sword and finds that Za'ol's repairs have been undone due to the erasure of the future timeline.
Chapter 6: Salamander Encroached Upon from Another World.
The two travel across the Zol Plains and reach Veron's home of Ratel Village. There they are able to make sense of their surroundings and find that they are in the far past of 30,000BC, in an era known as the Antiquity.
This era finds the world freely utilizing magic, with humankind largely led by power-hungry King Palsifal and his masked aide, the future-seeing Oracle. This era also sees a unique blend of magical cities and prehistoric villages. While exploring Ratel Village, they also learn that the era has elemental protectors of the planet / deities known as Eidolons, one Eidolon for each kind of magic element: earth, fire, wind, and water.
Upon catching up with Veron, he explains that he was in the dangerous Zol Plains because he has ill feelings regarding the nearby Nadara Volcano, which has been reacting strange lately. He asks Aldo and Riica to go seek out the Eidolon of Fire, Salamander, at the heart of Nadara Volcano within the eastern Vasu Mountains, and see if Salamander can help.
The heroes traverse the lava-filled volcano and reach its' heart, where they find Salamander -- who has some sinister black smoke coming from it. Riica examines Salamander and recognizes that the black smoke is due to corruption, having turned it in to Dark Salamander. The Eidolon then attacks the heroes, who manage to defeat it. The elemental deity reverts to normal and thanks them, but explains that the evil that corrupted him was only a small amount of the evil's true power, and that a great disaster looms before them. Salamander asks Aldo and Riica to travel to Palsifal Palace, where he detects some sort of disturbance.
The pair descend the mountain and explain things to Veron, who tells them that they will have to cross the vast Lake Tiilen to reach Palsifal Palace.
Chapter 7: Acteul: A Figure on the Water.
Aldo and Riica continue travelling west in the hope of reaching the Palsifal Palace, the capital of the land. En route, the party visits the water city in the middle of Lake Tiilen, Acteul. Hearing of their exploits saving Salamander, Aldo is challenged by the villagers to help solve the mystery of a strange ghost-woman who oddly looks like the late queen of Palsifal. Aldo learns that both the queen and prince of Palsifal died some time ago, and King Palsifal hasn't been the same since.
Upon finding the ghost-woman at Lake Tiilen, they find that it's actually some sort of hologram, which is promptly deactivated by the Oracle of Palsifal Palance. The masked man admits to knowing of the future and warns Aldo not to get in the way of the mysterious plans that he and King Palsifal have put into motion.
Chapter 8: Palsifal Palace: Heed the Wishes of the Oracle.
Aldo and Riica cross the lake and pass along the Derismo Highroad, finally reaching the city of Palsifal Palace. Here, Aldo learns that the city is one of magic, with a great school for teaching magic. Going to the proper palace at the heart of the city, Aldo confronts King Palsifal about his plans, and the future timeline he erased.
King Palsifal is ultimately uncooperative and explains that he can rewrite history and control the future via the mysterious Tower of Time. Aldo learns that the destruction of Elzion he witnessed in the Future Era was actually the result of timeline changes by King Palsifal and the Oracle. Upon the advice of the Oracle (and fearing Aldo's possible interference), King Palsifal orders Aldo captured and thrown into an underground marsh / prison: the Man-Eating Marsh.
Chapter 9: Fear the Man-eating Marsh: Lord of the Abyss.
Now trapped in and underground prison/swamp, Aldo encounters Cyrus, a human-frog samurai from a faraway 'eastern land.' Cyrus blindly attacks Aldo before he can explain himself, but after the battle the two discuss the situation and decide to join forces, as Cyrus wants to help save the future Aldo describes.
They covertly return to Palsifal Palace and meet up with an old friend of Cyrus', Ratchett, who is one of the court magicians of Palsifal. She initially refuses to believe that Cyrus is who he claims to be due to his current frog form, but Cyrus is eventually able to convince her with information only he would know. She agrees to help Aldo reach the Tower of Time so Aldo can undo the timeline changes.
She also notices the Ogre Rancorem sword that Aldo has slung to his waist. She recognizes it as the same sword that King Palsifal wields, only Aldo's is much older. She uses her magic to release a seal on the sword, releasing a small part of its power, resulting in Aldo falling unconscious. In his unconscious state, Aldo and the Ogre Rancorem speak to another - the sword explains that it is the undying anger and desire for revenge of the ogre tribe, who were wiped out by the beastmen. It cryptically explains that the destiny between the Ogre Rancorem and Aldo have been entwined for ages...
Aldo awakens and the heroes are now ready to travel to the Tower of Time to confront King Palsifal and the Oracle.
Chapter 10: Tower of Time: Peering into the Embryo's Dream.
Aldo and his friends travel east along the wild and untamed Keruri Highroad and find the Tower of TIme, which on the outside looks like a high-tech spire. Upon entering it, however, they find it a techno bioorganic structure of mysterious and unknown technology.
They battle through various Synth Human-esque enemies and reach the top of the Tower of Time, where they find a massive chamber. The walls are covered in robotic-looking baby heads, and a central platform is surrounded by shifting images floating in the air. Riica recognizes the tower as a giant quantum computer, the various embryonic heads creating images of possible futures. Aldo demands this computer, known as the Visus Embryo, return the Future Era he saw, but they deny him as an unauthorized user and attack.
After defeating the Visus Embryo, they recognize Aldo as an authorized user and accept his request, reverting the timeline to as it was. The timeline now restored, Aldo investigates the Ogre Rancorem and sees that the part that Amy’s dad had previously repaired is now once again repaired.
Aldo recognizes the danger of the Tower of Time and apologizes to the Visus Embryo, deciding to destroy it. Riica interfaces with the Tower and reformats the CPU, erasing all data and programs and ensuring it cannot be reactivated. He hopes that this will stop King Palsifal’s meddling with history, but Cyrus reminds him that it’s really the Oracle that is pulling the strings.
Just then, the Phantom reappears and thanks Aldo for restoring the timeline; it then admits that by doing so the universe can once again “speed towards destruction.” The Phantom explains that Xeno Prisma amplifies temporal distortions, sending shockwaves throughout spacetime, expanding the universe with each distortion; this constant expansion requires energy to compensate, which will eventually cause the universe to expand to the point of a colossal timequake – the collapse of all of space-time. Because the future with Xeno Prisma had previously been erased, the universe was actually safe from this outcome. But the Phantom, unable to directly interact with the world, was able to manipulate Aldo to restore this future and once again doom all of space-time. He bids Aldo farewall, calling him the “Kit of Chronos.”
A space-time anomaly forms, pulling Aldo, Riica, and Cyrus in. As Aldo travels through time, he witnesses another flashback to his childhood with Feinne.
...A young Feinne and Altena walk the Moonlight Forest, bonding over their shared frustrations with their older brothers. Suddenly, the pair are interrupted and accosted by a group of kids (and a cat) from Buruoki, first cornering Altena for being a beastfolk. Feinne defends Altena, but they turn against Feinne, too. Luckily, Aldo appears and chases them off before things could get physical. He apologetically recommends that Feinne not return to the Moonlight Forest, seemingly ending the friendship between Feinne and Altena...
Chapter 11: Spacetime Rift: Lost in Time.
Aldo, Cyrus, and Riica awaken to find themselves in the strange Spacetime Rift, a floating construct akin to a cobblestone alley lit by streetlamps. Recalling their confrontation with the Phantom, Riica mentions that there is a researcher in the Future Era named Professor Chronos, and wonders if Aldo being referred to as the "kit of Chronos" has anything to do with him. Aldo muses if this means that this Professor Chronos is somehow his father.
The Spacetime Rift has a single building, a bar called Time’s Forgotten Stop, and upon entering they meet the kindly mustache'd barkeep, the Master, who explains that he was expecting Aldo, and that this place is a refuge for those who’ve lost their way. Several other patrons explain that lost souls end up here and gradually lose their memory of who they were before and where they came from.
Also also meets several other characters: First, Aldo meets Middalysse, aka Lady Midd, a wise and ancient woman that introduces class changes and other character enhancements that are part of the gacha and level-up mechanics of the game.
He also meets Sidekick Guy, a small lad with a pet slime who can detect the “wavelength of friends,” allowing Aldo to locate potential animal sidekicks.
Next, Aldo meets the small Nameless Girl, who, like the Master, has been expecting him. She explains that she is "the one who charts the course of dimensions traverse." Like most denizens here, she can't remember her past. She stands outside a magical blue door that leads nowhere (called The Dimensional Gate), explaining that she is somehow connected to it via fate. She implores Aldo to use it to help explore the dimensional dungeons beyond, which may help restore her memories. This gameplay mechanic gives Aldo daily dungeons he can rush to gain items and immense experience.
Last, Aldo follows a strange glowing cat into a space-time portal into the Astral Archive, a magical library similar to the Gallery of Dreams. A robed, bearded guru-esque man named the Gallery Master hands Aldo a corrupted tome and explains that these tomes are where the memories of the stars are preserved in book form. By helping fulfill certain requirements and missions, Aldo can help restore these tomes, refill the Astral Archive, and can unlock special talents separate from normal level progression.
A final concept introduced here are time layers - essentially parallel universes where characters and their stories happen differently, making them wholly unique from each other. This allows Aldo to recruit different versions of the same character, which are from other universes, who have unique backstories, looks, and battle abilities.
After learning about the Spacetime Rift and the various new gameplay mechanics, Aldo finds light pillars in the stone square that connect him to the Past of 20000BC, his Present of 300AD, and the Future of 1100AD. The Master explains that they these are connected to distortions in space-time that will allow him to travel through time as he wants. Content that the Future has been restored, Aldo and his friends decide to travel to back to Present Era of 300AD.
Chapter 12: Homecoming and Dark Clouds Gather: Ogre Rancorem Roars.
Upon returning to Baruoki village, Aldo finds that the war between Miglance and the beastmen has escalated into all-out war. While battling through beastmen troops headed to Miglance Castle, Aldo learns the truth regarding his magical blade, the Ogre Rancorem: it is cursed and is using Aldo to see all life destroyed. Hoping to break the curse, Aldo battles an ogre-like manifestation of the sword and is successful. Ogre Rancorem is not defeated entirely, but the cursed persona of the blade is put to sleep long enough for Aldo to continue to use its' power.
Chapter 13: Fight to the Death: Miglance Castle is Burning?!
The heroes continue on to Unigan city, only to find that the beastmen and the Beast King have stormed Miglance castle. Aldo and his friends battle through the castle and encounter the Beast King upon its' topmost tower. The Beast King has the human King Miglance cornered, claiming that beast men can truly harness the elements and are the true owners of the planet.
As the Beast King prepares to slay King Miglance, Amy appears and rescues the human King. She reveals that her memory is fuzzy (due to her timeline being erased and then restored), but that she was able to utilize a wormhole to travel from the Future to the Present with the goal of reuniting with and aiding Aldo.
With King Miglance saved by Amy, Aldo is free confront the Beast King once and for all, demanding to know where Feinne is. They battle, but the Beast King is bested by the powers of Aldo and the Ogre Rancorem.
Upon his defeat, the Beast King teleports in a mindless Fienne and his beastwoman sister, Altena (who is actually revealed to be a childhood friend of Feinne's, their friendship kept secret due to the tensions between humans and beastmen). The Beast King and Altena explain that Feinne's consciousness/memory has been sealed by beastmen magic, and that she has some unknown power within her that can control all elemental magics on a cataclysmic scale. As a result, he desires to unleash Feinne's power to destroy mankind.
Via flashback, we then learn that the Beast King, then known as Guildna, encountered Feinne as a baby in the Moonlight Forest, moments before they were found and adopted by the mayor of Baruoki.
With the current fate of Feinne now known to Aldo, Altena refuses to allow more bloodshed, convincing her brother that they should all depart. The sinister Beast King Guilda, a mind-washed Feinne, and Altena then teleport away and escape.
Aldo, Cyrus, Riica, and Amy regroup, King Miglance thanking the team for helping turn the tides of the war by defeating the Beast King Guildna. However, before they can celebrate, a massive time quake occurs. Fearing the threats of the Phantom regarding the end of the universe, the group decides to return the Future Era and try to discover just how Elzion and Xeno Prisma are connected.
Chapter 14: Return to Elzion: Reflections of Professor Chronos.
In Elzion, the group is able to learn that Professor Chronos and his family disappeared 16 years ago, and everything related to his project, Xeno Project, were classified. They receive permission from the leader of Elzion, the Administrator, to travel to the Xeno-Domain, a space station connected to Elzion via space elevator and the source of Xeno Prisma.
Chapter 15: Call from the Stars: Xeno-Domain.
The heroes battle the automated security of the Xeno-Domain, now rogue, and eventually find the living quarters of Professor Chronos and his family. There they meet a holographic representation of the kindly Professor.
Chapter 16: The Truth About Chronos: Family Portrait.
The holographic Professor Chronos first explains that Aldo (named Eden at birth) and Feinne (originally named Celine) are his children from this Future Era. With corporate backing by the massive and secretive KMS organization, his project studied a substance called Xeno Prisma, a form of Prisma discovered 400 years prior in 700AD. Because the planet was facing an energy crisis (with normal Prisma going inert), he hoped that his project could use Xeno Prisma to solve the growing energy crisis.
Professor Chronos and his team discovered that, although Xeno Prisma had potential to be a great power source, it had the unfortunate side effect of destabilizing space-time and causing time quakes. Despite these risks, the KMS corporation ignored these risks and proceeded with the utilization of new Xeno Prisma-backed power all across the planet.
Professor Chronos, recognizing that Xeno Prisma would ultimately destroy the universe, devised a backup plan and began investigating a safer, natural Geo Prisma. He created a prototype Geo Prisma, calling it an Alpha Prisma. This Geo Prisma seemingly needed an organic host, so he installed it within his newborn Aldo. After Feinne was born, she received a slightly more developed version of Alpha Prisma. His goal was for Aldo and Feinne to save the universe from the eventual threat of Xeno Prisma.
With his origins now revealed, Aldo and his friends traveled to the core of the space station where they discover two massive Prisma: enormous research samples of both Xeno and Geo Prisma. They are already extremely unstable, and after a battle with boss-level automated security robots, both Prisma become destabilized and break down.
The Phantom then appears, relishing that Aldo's efforts were ultimately futile and that the Xeno Prisma has started destroying space-time.
Chapter 17: Cataclysm: Escape the Great Timequake.
This results of this is made apparent as a temporal distortion and rip in space-time appears in the sky over every era, connecting all points in history to a fifth dimension beyond time called the Corridor of Time Layers, where all timelines and possibilities touch. Time quakes erupt from the spatial anomaly, and a ghostly version of the Oracle appears to Aldo and advises him to travel to the Corridor of Time Layers and use his Geo Prisma to stabilize space-time enough to buy them more time. With the help of the Administrator and an old teleportation device, Aldo and his friends are able to enter this enigmatic dimension.
While traveling through the Corridor of Time Layers, they encounter ghost-like apparitions, revealed to be minions of the Phantom, and witness as multiple timeliness overlap and layer. They ultimately encounter the Time Later Distortion, a living entity and embodiment of the time quakes.
Aldo and his friends defeat this entity, but the Phantom appears and once again gloats that they are too late. Despite having stopped the Distortion and the time quakes, the Phantom and its minions pull a massive floating island through the wormhole and deposit it into the Antiquity Era, with the intent that its destruction would act equivalent a final time quake capable of ending reality.
However, the elemental Eidolons of the Antiquity Era come together to stop the floating island and the temporal distortion, sacrificing themselves and shattering into elemental shards -- revealed to be the origin of the elemental Prisma seen utilized in the Present Era (and that this event was destined to occur and create the Prisma).
The Phantom relishes his victory as the Corridor of Time Layers begins to collapse and form a Dimensional Vortex, the chaos capable of slowly swallowing the entire universe. The Phantom's goal now complete, all he has to do is wait for the Dimensional Vortex to destroy space-time entirely.
Aldo and his friends are seen running back towards the Corridor of Time Layers entrance as it begins to collapse around them...
Chapter 19: Twilight of the World: The Shores' End.
Five days later, Aldo awakens alone on a small, floating island, still in the Future Era. This island is inhabited by humans, who have mostly shunned technology and live a simple life of farming. As he explores the island he laments that he failed in saving space-time, and it is only because of the Antiquity Era's Eidolons that the universe hasn't been completely destroyed just yet.
Aldo is soon reunited with Amy, Cyrus, and Riica, who have been searching for him the past five days. They reassure Aldo that even though the Dimensional Vortex was ultimately created to destroy space-time, there is still time to stop it before it consumes the universe.
Chapter 20: The Riftbreaker Embarks! Designation: Synth Hydra.
The heroes return to the Spacetime Rift and are urged to revisit the Future Era, where the Synth Humans have started showing more aggressive efforts to destroy mankind.
Upon returning to the Far Future and confronting the Synth Humans, they learn of the Synth Human's secret weapon: a conscious, flying battleship called the Riftbreaker, also known as the "Synth Hydra" due to its multiple weapons (each weapon also with its own persona). The Synth Humans plan to utilize the Dimensional Vortex, still connecting all eras in space-time, to travel back in time and alter history in their favor.
Aldo and Amy encounter their old Synth Human enemy, Helena, now despondent after the death of Galliard. Since that time, she has changed her outlook and no longer believes in the fight against mankind. As a result of her turn, Aldo manages to recruit Helena, who decides to helps them sneak aboard the Riftbreaker before it can travel back in time.
The group battles through the battleship and confronts its core personality, defeating the airship. As it falls to crash to the ground, Helena flies down to try and stop its descent, seeing a vision of Galliard that gives her the strength to stop the Riftbreaker from being destroyed entirely.
Aldo and his friends then work with a part-producing group called "Natural" to fix the Synth Hydra. Helena leads the repairs, and the living ship is inspired by the kindness of Helena and her human allies. It has a change of heart and resolves to aide Aldo and friends in saving space-time, becoming their personal vehicle. Due to its ability to fly, the Riftbreaker can utilize the space-time anomaly in the sky at will, meaning the heroes no longer have to use the pillars of light at the Spacetime Rift to travel through time.
***NOTE: With the flying Riftbreaker aiding the heroes, the party now has the ability to explore several new locations and side quests.***
Chapter 21: Tower of Stars: Behind the Mask of the Oracle.
The party uses the Riftbreaker to travel through time and return to the Antiquity Era, as it has the earliest access in the timeline to the Dimensional Vortex. However, they find that the Dimensional Vortex is protected by air currents and sort of black miasma that is fatal to both machines and humans. Aldo recommends tracking down the Oracle at Palsifal Palace, as he clearly knew much more than he let on and may know how to stop the Dimensional Vortex.
Arriving at the Palsifal Palace, the party confronts the Oracle, who reveals that he is Professor Chronos from the Far Future. He explains that the Xeno and Geo Prisma he was experimenting with, when they reached maximum energy output, created a wormhole leading to the Antiquity Era. He then devised a plan to stop the creation of Xeno Prisma and save all of space-time -- but in doing so he would have to manipulate events in the Antiquity Era so that his Far Future never came to be (as his Far Future is responsible for the utilization of the Xeno Prisma). He felt sorrow in this decision, as he knew that erasing his timeline would erase everything he knew and loved from history, but it was necessary to save space-time. He decided to bring his children when he traveled back in time, knowing that they would be separated from their native timeline and would still be able to exist even with the destruction of the future.
He says that he has more to say, but that time is running short. He asks Aldo to meet him at the Tower of Stars. The party travels there, defeats it's guardian giant Earth Golem, and navigates the secret passages and labyrinthian interior of the Tower.
Upon reaching the top floor of the Tower, Aldo and his allies find the Oracle and his robotic aide, Galliard the 2nd. The Oracle admits that the Tower of Time (where the Visus Embryo was) was his time research laboratory, while the Tower of Stars acted as his laboratory for elementals. He explains that he wanted to created a special alloy using both Geo Prisma and the power of the elemental Eidolons. He explains that his research bore little fruit until the Eidolons sacrificed themselves to stop the time quakes, and their remains - the radioactive fragments of elemental energy - gave him the breakthrough he needed. He continues, admitting that the radioactive fragments are so dangerous that he is slowly dying from radiation poisoning, but that they should lose their radioactivity after ~20,000 years and eventually be useful to mankind (which is by the time of the Present Era of 300AD). The Oracle then gives Aldo the fruits of his research: the Geo Metal.
Suddenly, an angry King Palsifal appears, having been listening to the Oracle's confession. Angry that he gave up everything (his "life, marriage, and kingdom") in pursuit of power (due to the Oracle's manipulation), he strikes the Oracle down. The despondent King Palsifal, having given into despair and longing for everyone to feel the pain and despair he feels, transforms uses magic to transform into an armored monster and attacks Aldo and his heroes.
With King Palsifal dead, Aldo rushes to the side of the side of the dying Oracle. The Oracle explains that when he and his children (young Aldo and Fienne) entered the wormhole to travel from the Far Future to the Antiquity, a surge in temporal currents blew into the wormhole and separated him from his children. He explains that he had no way to reopen the wormhole and was trapped in this Era alone, having no idea where his children ended up.
He tells Aldo/Eden how proud he is, and that he wishes they could've met under better circumstances, and that he wishes he could've also seen Feinne/Celine one last time. He apologizes for deceiving Aldo and putting him through so much trouble, but is grateful that Aldo stopped him from erasing his timeline (at the Tower of Time) and saving the millions of lives that would have been erased. He begins to offer help that will help Aldo enter the Dimensional Vortex, but is unable to and passes way.
The Oracle's aide, Galliard the 2nd, then gives the party the info the Oracle was unable to. He gives Aldo a Primeval Gem that should be able to dissipate the dangerous miasma surrounding the Dimensional Vortex, along with a short history lesson. He explains that thousands of years before even the Eidolons came to exist, the forces of Chaos and Order clashed. This clash created a Dimensional Vortex that dispersed Chaos throughout the Universe, while Order coalesced into magical stones like the incredibly rare Primeval Gem.
The party returns to the Riftbreaker and gives the living ship the Primeval Gem, but the Riftbreaker admits that it will take some time to analyze the stone before it can implement the gem's powers into the ship.
Suddenly, the Beast King's minion, Vares, appears, having traveled through time to deliver a message: Feinne's power is growing and nearing its' apex, and soon Feinne will be the savior of beastkind and will destroy the humans forever. He admits to toying with Aldo, taunting him to try and rescue Feinne.
With the Riftbreaker needing time to use the Primeval Gem, and knowing that the Geo Prisma within Feinne was created by Professor Chronos to help humanity, Amy convinces Aldo that now is the time to rescue Feinne once and for all. Riica also muses that the Geo Prisma is likely nano-technology, and that its use (or misuse) could have unknown consequences.
The party travels back to the Present Era and readies to storm the Beast King's Castle.
Chapter 22: Infiltration: The Beast King's Castle! Altena's Tears.
Chapter 23: Storming the Dimensional Vortex! Echoes of the Phantom.
Chapter 24: Chronos' Umbra Falls! Hear the Darkness Roar.
Chapter 25: Time Grieve...Fly! Mourning Kyros.
Chapter 26: Friends: To Another End of Time.
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The Great To-Do List / Re: [5000] Detailed plot summaries of Another Eden and Final Fantasy Dimensions II
« Last post by Boo the Gentleman Caller on January 19, 2025, 12:12:04 pm »I decided to revisit this game. Unfortunately, I haven't played it since ~2021 and have lost access to my account, so I fired up a new save. I'm going to edit my story synopsis post and make some fixes - when I had written it in 2021 it had been two years since I'd played through the main storyline.
Right now I'm breezing through the story and at Chapter 10.
While I love the art of this game, I'm not crazy about the graphics. The soundtrack is awesome and has tons of hidden motifs to Trigger and Cross. Hell, even many of the characters are blatant rip offs. What gets me, though, is the quality of this game -- it *feels* and plays like a jRPG from the late 1990s / early 2000s, and for a freemium gacha game, it holds up surprisingly well. All of the gacha content is optional, and they're generous with the currency.
Having played through part of Final Fantasy Dimensions II (I do intend to finish that at some point for our archival reasons), I do think Another Eden is the better spiritual successor of the two.
I want to finish the first segment of the main quest. While the first 26 chapters tell a complete story (and was where I stopped playing last time), there's since been several other continuations of the main storyline. From my memory, at the end of the game "our" Aldo had resovled the save the real Aldo from his role as being trapped in time and turned into a monster, and the storyline was going to actually provide an explanation for the Ogre Rancorum.
More to come.
Right now I'm breezing through the story and at Chapter 10.
While I love the art of this game, I'm not crazy about the graphics. The soundtrack is awesome and has tons of hidden motifs to Trigger and Cross. Hell, even many of the characters are blatant rip offs. What gets me, though, is the quality of this game -- it *feels* and plays like a jRPG from the late 1990s / early 2000s, and for a freemium gacha game, it holds up surprisingly well. All of the gacha content is optional, and they're generous with the currency.
Having played through part of Final Fantasy Dimensions II (I do intend to finish that at some point for our archival reasons), I do think Another Eden is the better spiritual successor of the two.
I want to finish the first segment of the main quest. While the first 26 chapters tell a complete story (and was where I stopped playing last time), there's since been several other continuations of the main storyline. From my memory, at the end of the game "our" Aldo had resovled the save the real Aldo from his role as being trapped in time and turned into a monster, and the storyline was going to actually provide an explanation for the Ogre Rancorum.
More to come.
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General Discussion / Re: Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space
« Last post by Boo the Gentleman Caller on January 19, 2025, 11:28:27 am »I had another thread where I posted the synopsis of Another Eden... does anyone know where it went? I know it still exists, but I'm having trouble finding it.
EDIT: Nevermind, fount it! I'm doing another playthrough of the game and have been wanting to play it. I've put in a few hours over the past few days. I'm going to put my notes and comments here in this thread rather than the other one I was using.
EDIT: Nevermind, fount it! I'm doing another playthrough of the game and have been wanting to play it. I've put in a few hours over the past few days. I'm going to put my notes and comments here in this thread rather than the other one I was using.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play 2024 - Chrono Trigger
« Last post by VidKid369 on January 18, 2025, 09:04:44 am »Hey, man. You must be so busy if you can't even play games, bro! That's good. Yeah, back starting last Nov & Dec I really started to really really push the weight loss. I started doing OMAD (one meal a day) and when I finally do have that meal it consists of chicken and a giant salad (no dressing). It was tough at first but I've gotten used to it and I'm keeping it up til now. I'm also trying this detox it's like lotus tree extract, thorn apple and green tea extract lol. I've also started doing weights starting off at a beginner 15 lbs and just swinging those around everyday as well as my 1 hr. walk everyday. It seems like grandma exercise but YouTube says it's efficient and I've seen results. Everyone here is complimenting me and rooting me on. Ever after I reach my goal weight / or just whenever I'm happy at what I see in the mirror I'm just gonna keep it up & keep moving everyday I wanna be fit and healthy even when I'm much much older.
Everything is good here. Same ole same ole, kinda boring? but I like that. They say no news is good news. Just mostly me dieting, fasting, working out everyday and playing games. I just beat Legend of Dragoon and now I'm doing Vagrant Story / Lunar: SSH. I kinda wanna knock out some more PS1/PS2 JRPGs. I kinda have a routine where I walk in the afternoon, have my one meal, and do weights at night.
It's so nice to hear you and the fambam are doing well. You're such a good guy Boo and talking to you always uplifts my spirits. You always have such a good attitude and go get 'em. Stay blessed!
Everything is good here. Same ole same ole, kinda boring? but I like that. They say no news is good news. Just mostly me dieting, fasting, working out everyday and playing games. I just beat Legend of Dragoon and now I'm doing Vagrant Story / Lunar: SSH. I kinda wanna knock out some more PS1/PS2 JRPGs. I kinda have a routine where I walk in the afternoon, have my one meal, and do weights at night.
It's so nice to hear you and the fambam are doing well. You're such a good guy Boo and talking to you always uplifts my spirits. You always have such a good attitude and go get 'em. Stay blessed!
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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Looking into the possibility of a menu editor.
« Last post by Mauron on January 17, 2025, 05:52:20 pm »So, basic viewing is working. Let me know how it looks.
It doesn't write back to the ROM yet - this is probably one of the highest complexity plugins, and save functionality will take a while. Strings are also read only, and I'm not sure if Japanese and Pre-release ROMs are displaying them correctly yet.
It doesn't write back to the ROM yet - this is probably one of the highest complexity plugins, and save functionality will take a while. Strings are also read only, and I'm not sure if Japanese and Pre-release ROMs are displaying them correctly yet.
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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Items Cast Magic Spells RANDOMLY (wip)
« Last post by Mauron on January 17, 2025, 05:46:02 pm »It's as usual, close on general concepts, but wrong on anything specific. Also it seems really unsure of what
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