Version 1.01 of the Chrono Trigger Retranslation has been released. Click
here to download. If you don't support the 7zip format, click
here . It fixes minor bugs, a list of which exists
here.
Chrono News >>>
[1] V Translanka recently found a strange image in Chrono Cross which displays for the spell Black Hole on one of the Fates islands via the Bend of Time. For a split-second, an image of a young woman, a boy (or girl), and an art figure appear. See the image
here. Some think it's a Janus and Schala easter egg.
[2] Thanks to hankun, we now know the role of the Japanese ROM included with Final Fantasy Chronicles discs. The PSX rips the game data from the ROM (though in the case of the US release, the English lines are pulled from external data). Read the entire fascinating thing
here.
[3] New bit from Biccy added to the Chrono Trigger FAQ: getting short names to display correctly (like Cro in the Retranslation patch). The trick is to put spaces before the short name, not leave spaces after. This will display the names correctly in dialogue (whereas the other method leaves spaces between the name and punctuation).
Media News >>>
[1] Chronofan.com, our new media server, does not automatically generate index files. Notwithstanding, I've made one for the VGMix archive (which is not linked to individual songs). Find it at
http://chronofan.com/Black/VGM/.
[2] I forgot to preserve the link to the Chrono Trigger Remake Project's "Unfinished Business" retrospective .zip file containing art and whatnot. I've added it back to the project's listing under the Dead section of the Fan Projects page. To download the .zip file directly (if you're curious), click
here.
[3] The name of Lavos's incomplete theme has been fixed in the Chrono Trigger SPC archive. This incomplete variation does NOT play in the Arris Dome Day of Lavos video, but in fact the Ocean Palace. There's no actual music difference, so there is little reason to redownload if you have the archive already. If not, grab it
here and the Pre soundtrack
here. Remember, the Compendium's SPC soundtracks are superior to SNESMusic.org's; information is in their readmes.
Site News >>>
[1] Three Compendium strategic goals are being decommissioned. Firstly, Crimson Echoes is no longer a goal. It would take sacrificial amounts of time to complete, and the Chrono community is simply too small to pull it off. The forums will remain locked for the time being to safeguard the extraordinary plot. Secondly, fan project wikis will no longer be offered. There are not enough fan projects to justify this. Lastly, the mission to scour for fan art and fan fiction is pointless. It would be a huge ordeal to mirror fan fiction, while fan art is all at DeviantArt these days anyway.
[2] When changing links, I noticed that the Lavos pages didn't have his isolated eruption sprite. I've added it to the sprite sheet, and I've also added the slightly different Prerelease eruption as an image of its own to the 1999 A.D. (CTP) and Monster (CTP) pages (see
here if curious).
Fan Project News >>>
[1] Molotov's hard drive crashed, meaning until data recovery is undertaken (and known to be a successful prospect), the new Chrono Cross speedrun is indefinitely postponed. Thread in question is
here. let's all hope Molotov gets his data back (and not just the Chrono videos, of course).
[2] The winner of the Chrono Trigger Novel Project's Wii contest has been announced: MagusChild, with 78 signatures. Enjoy!
[3] Three more fan projects have been declared dead and moved to the abandoned section of the
Fan Projects page. First is Chrono Stream, whose creators have been nowhere to be found since April or May this year. Second is the Cyrus Resurrection Novel Project, whose creator stated in a February forum post that he had lost all motivation to continue. Third is
Chrono Prism, which went nowhere after June 2006 since Ale decided to do another project.
[4] While digging through Kajar Laboratories, I uncovered a Chrono Trigger tileset pack for use in RPGMaker made by wishkas. Download it
here.
ROM Hacking News >>>
[1] I've combed Kajar Laboratories to post new data to the Modification encyclopedia, and I've also updated Geiger's offsets guide here to match his new revision. New pages: [
Breakpoint Addresses -
Music Notes ] Updated pages: [
Attack and Tech Scripts -
Character Animations -
TF Event Tricks ]
[2] JCE3000GT has centralized his five FF6 Chrono Trigger SPC insertions (and the one RD insertion) and released them in a single archive. Download it
here.
[3] Geiger's Offset guide is now updated in the Compendium's files (he actually released the new version in June; it's just sadly taken this long to get it up). Pop in to
Offsets (Chrono Trigger) to download.
Fan Art >>>
[1] We've got some new fan art from Ema and an unknown artist. It's actually old fan art from the "Art Thread" of Kajar Labs, but I'm just now rediscovering it. Thanks to FaustWolf for bringing up the unknown Lucca piece. [ Ema
Crono (color) -
Magus Unknown
Lucca ]
[2] Forumer cald attempted to recreate the 1000 A.D. plane graphic seen in the Alpha Version trailer. Find it at the end of
this page.
Help Needed >>>
[1] ce.herograw.org's backup magically disappeared, so we're missing JLukas's original Japanese script and Chickenlump's updated Temporal Flux manual. If you have these, please post.
[2] In
this thread, two Spanish Chrono fangames were discussed. The links are now down, and we don't have any backups. If anyone has these, please post.
