Author Topic: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries  (Read 8390 times)

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It's here. At the end of August, I felt we had waited long enough, and began a blitz effort to insert the retranslation into the US ROM with Temporal Flux. Tons of beta testing, a few hard hacks, and many hours later, the Chrono Compendium Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch is complete. To immediately download the IPS patch and readme instructions, click  here. If you don't support the 7zip format, click  here. Thanks to Lena for this sexy banner:



But that's not the end by any means! Check out the "Making of the Retranslation" feature by clicking here. It details the grueling process that brought you the patch and offers up a link containing some of the hard hacks we made in the forms of patches for your personal use. So, three cheers for KWhazit and the new patch! Hoist the colors high; never shall we die! Be sure to report bugs if you catch 'em.

All the links have been fixed in the Compendium's features and encyclopedia. That just leaves forum entries, and we'll get to that eventually with a find and replace job on the database. Not all the music has been uploaded to the new hosting server yet, including the VGMix archive. It'll be there soon. On another note, I merged the entries for Monsters and Characters in the Prerelease since those entries were very small. Lastly, we've got some new fanart. [ Kid Rocks by Silver - Kid by jono - Glenn to the Rescue by mondragon369 ]

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2007, 02:05:29 am »
Congratulations Zeality, and all who helped make this retranslation possible!

It was a huge undertaking, and you should all be very proud of what you have done.
It is a huge step in the write direction for the Chrono series.

Hip, hip, hurray!
Hip, hip, hurray!
Hip, hip, hurray!

Sorry I couldn't lend my services in this endeavor, but I am glad to see you guys got it done.
Congratulations again!

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2007, 11:59:46 am »
Wow --

I have often visited this site to look at news on the various projects, and to view the beautiful art.

But I had to register and post for this event. Monumental. Astonishing. Awe-inspiring.

Truly a feat to behold, words simply fail me. Thanks so much!! As a die-hard Chrono fan, this made my...year.

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2007, 12:40:50 pm »
Whoa. It's here?! Hurray!

Fantastic work! You guys never fail to impress. Well done!

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2007, 09:01:38 pm »
Awesome...wish I had my comp so I could play the ROM...anyways...has word been given to the various retranslation/ROM hacking sites?

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2007, 01:11:34 am »
Awesome...wish I had my comp so I could play the ROM...anyways...has word been given to the various retranslation/ROM hacking sites?

Yes indeed. Although there's really on ROMHacking.net and board.acmlm.org, which is sort of just a husk of its former self...blame x-keeper for killing the forum a few times during updates and failing to tell anyone or making it look like it really WAS dead for good.

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2007, 01:50:50 am »
There's also Board 2 (formerly known as Acmlm's Board II).
Did you know about it?
« Last Edit: September 30, 2007, 01:54:16 am by Vehek »

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2007, 02:00:06 am »
Had no idea; thanks.

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2007, 02:54:54 am »
Hip, hip, hurray!
Hip, hip, hurray!
Hip, hip, hurray!

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2007, 03:08:57 am »
Thats great news, but I still wish I could have helped out better with the beta testing.

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2007, 03:32:17 am »
Ah hell, don't worry about it. I was determined to finish it, so I would have gone faster than everyone anyway.

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2007, 06:36:32 pm »
Hey, thanks for all your hard work, ZeaLitY and everyone else, including KWhazit putting his sweat into translating this game so it stays faithful to the JP version. This is superb! However, the only complaint I have with the patch is that it suffers the same problem as the NA version with the text not being able to display everything in one line without abbreviating any words, since the item/tech naming system was originally designed to handle Japanese characters (e.g. where in the NA version one of Crono's swords is Iron Blade, the JP version of it is called the Bronze Katana, but due to space limitations, it actually says BronzKtana, because as you know, it can only fit in 10 characters).

One of the guys in this board, Teh Mick, was making a WIP retranslation of this ROM, reducing the text size in the Status Menu to fit everything in, which I thought is very clever, but I don't know if he's still working on it. You can download the patch here at http://www.chronocompendium.com/Forums/index.php/topic,4122.0.html to see what I mean. If you can look into this, that would be cool.

There also seems to be missing some dialogue from the retranslation, like when you talki to the child on the bench at the Fair. It has the retranslation, but it's missing the part where he says they wouldn't have a Millennial Fair if Magus's army won.

Other than that, I think this is a solid effort, and I want to thank you all for taking the time to making the translated script into a playable ROM. Good job!
« Last Edit: September 30, 2007, 06:49:32 pm by KingKongFu »

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2007, 07:00:52 pm »
Yeah, that'd involve a variable width font. The issue is that it causes slow downs, so we decided not to put it in. Sadly, that means we have to keep those abbreviations for now.

Thanks for reporting that bug with the Millennial Fair.

It's refreshing to finally release this and let it spread like a slow-burning fire through the community. It's a serious high point in the Compendium's history.

The Retranslation project forum is now public.
« Last Edit: September 30, 2007, 08:45:18 pm by ZeaLitY »

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Re: Chrono Trigger Retranslation Patch Released! Media, Fan Art, Pre Entries
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2007, 09:42:44 pm »
Speaking of which, I have to apologize for my own actions yet again. Personal issues interfered with my ability to help out.

It's good to see it released though. How're those people over at ROMHacking.net reacting?