Official CT DS Differences Thread [IMMENSE SPOILERS ON PAGE 5 ONWARDS]

[Romana]

This has gotten to the point where I really wanna avoid adding stuff to the page. I'll skirt around the spoilers and add those later.

Dark Serge, seriously, you're fucking awesome. How the hell long have you been awake...?
And if I can ask, what levels were your characters when you finished off Lavos Core?

Part of me thinks the fellas at Square read some of the theories here.

I remember seriously thinking this yesterday when I came across some of the changes. I forget which ones specifically. But the Arena of the Ages is somewhat reminiscent of Chrono Coliseum...

[Shinrin]

I got the save to work in no$GBA 2.6a

[Dark Serge]

Alright here's a post with the new dungeons in CT DS in a more user friendly way

New dungeons

- Arena of the Ages
Something like Pokémon, you choose an element monster, Fire, Light, Shadow, or Water, and you can train it and fight other monsters with it. Accessible from the End of Time and Title Screen, from the first time you save your game.

- Lost Sanctum
Appears when the Black Omen rises in 65,000,000 BC and 600 AD. It involves helping Reptites with several errands. I haven't explored it fully yet so there may be special stuff left there.

- Temporal Vortex
It appears in 12,000 BC, 1000 AD, and 2300 AD after you beat the game once. From then on it's accessible on all of your savegames. You will make your way through several old and new maps and meet old and new enemies, most notably of which is Dalton. He will reveal his scheme of how he desires to raise an Porrean army to overthrow Guardia. After that you will fight a clone and one of your character's stats will be upgraded. I don't know alot about this dungeon yet but in the next days I'm gonna search through every single little tidbit of it in case there are more plot twists.

@ Pyt: lvl 99
@ Shin: Please, if you can, try to make a video. I know the dungeon is confusing but if you have time, explore it with me.

[Shinrin]

I can make a save then send it to you so you can use it in no$GBA, as i don't have a video capturing thing on my computer right now.

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[Dark Serge]

Alright, thanks. I'll get to it now.

[Prince Janus]

  So, we know that Chrono Cross still happens, at least in part. Likely, this is just representing a branch of possibility. The game has so many endings anyways and ways things can happen, Cross only assumes a handful of events occurred last time. This ending in CT DS assumes a different handful (but Guardia still gets asploded.)   So how do you think the castle gets torn apart? keep casting Iron Ball until it demolishes?  And how does Dalton finally die? Or does he slip away into yet another vortex?

[Ris]

Yes, my friends! I was RIGHT!!!! The guy in the Fall of Guardia FMV is DALTON!!! AND DALTON IS BEHIND THE FALL OF GUARDIA!

I was so fucking shocked when I saw this scene. Dalton caused the Fall of Guardia and stole the Masamune. Holy fucking crap. I knew it! He was just to awesome to disappear like that!

Makes me wonder (even more) how the Masamune ended up in El Nido.  Did Dalton engineer its placement there in order to weaken the Dragoons?  (It did result in the loss of either two or three Devas, depending on if you count Radius.)

Also, it's a bit like Dalton is being set up to be a major (final?) boss in a potential future Chrono game.

[Dark Serge]

I don't really know at this point, after you defeat him in the Vortex he just disappears. But he must be behind it now, there's no doubt.

Anyway Shin, how do I load the save in no$gba? And what savetype should the emulator be in?

[Shinrin]

Fram 32kb should work

[Eket]

Starting to think that the new ending might reveal what happened to Crono, and Marle during the fall of guardia.

Temporal Vortex seems to be setting things up as a prelude to the actual fall. And then this TimeDevourer/SchalaLavos thing shows up to keep Crono and Co busy. When they finally return to their own time, the fall of guardia has happened already.

Of course that could just be wishfull thinking on my part, to have the original cast survive the ordeal...

[FaustWolf]

UBER thanks for the gamesave guys! My level 99 Crono seems to have only 135 HP though, so beware -- the process of replacing the game save file may cause some slight corruption or something. I think that's the HP number I had Crono at on the fresh playthrough I was doing until the gamesave became available. Weird.

[Shinrin]

This topic just popped up on Gamefaqs.

[Ris]

Just thought of this - does the fact that Schala created Kidd while she had blue hair mean that we can consider it settled once and for all that Schala is a natural blond?

[Dark Serge]

UBER thanks for the gamesave guys! My level 99 Crono seems to have only 135 HP though, so beware -- the process of replacing the game save file may cause some slight corruption or something. I think that's the HP number I had Crono at on the fresh playthrough I was doing until the gamesave became available. Weird.

Uhh yeah that might be because I used AR Max codes to forcibly put their HP's at 999. But it could be something else.

[Romana]

Sorry to break in with unexciting news: Lucca has a new sprite that I just noticed. At least I THINK it's new. When you jump down the waterfall on Denadoro Mountain, look at Lucca. I've never seen that before. Looks rather... odd.