Material Requiring Translation

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

  • Priority List

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

  • Chrono Trigger V-Jump Player's Guide Interview
  • Chrono Trigger Prerelease Coverage
  • Chrono Cross V-Jump Interview Video
  • Mitsuda interviews from Más allá del Tiempo
  • Chrono Trigger OAV Manga
  • Chrono Trigger Prerelease (Undecipherable Text from Earlier Builds)
  • Youtube Another Eden and FF Interviews

Chrono Trigger Prerelease[edit]

Script[edit]

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

Chrono Trigger[edit]

Chrono Trigger OAV Manga[edit]

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

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

Chrono Trigger V-Jump Player's Guide[edit]

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

  • 38 Dream Team

  • 149 Dream Team interview

  • 150 Dream Team interview

  • 151 Dream Team interview

  • 152 Dream Team interview

  • 153 Dream Team interview

  • 154 Dream Team interview

  • 155 Dream Team interview

  • 156 Dream Team interview

  • 157 Dream Team interview

  • 158 Dream Team interview

  • 159 Fan feature

  • 160 Fan feature

  • 161 Fan feature

  • 162 Fan feature

  • 163 Fan feature

  • 164 Fan feature

  • 165 Timeline

  • 166 Timeline

  • 167 Timeline

  • 168 Timeline

  • 169 Timeline

  • 170 Timeline

  • 171 Special Talk

  • 172 Special Talk

  • 173 Special Talk

  • 174 Special Talk

  • 175 Special Talk

  • 176 Special Talk

  • 177 Special Talk

  • 178 Special Talk

  • 179 Special Talk

  • 180 Special Talk

  • 181 Special Talk

  • 182 Comics

  • 183 Comics (featuring Kato's)

  • 184 Comics

  • 185 Comics

  • 186 Feature on TV commercial with clock mechanism

  • 187 Feature on TV commercial with clock mechanism

  • 190 Table of Contents

Chrono Trigger Prerelease Coverage[edit]

Includes material on Chrono Cross, as well. We're hoping for something unique in here. The translations will be kept on that page. We've looked over most of them with Google Lens, but there a few untranslated interviews that would be great to have (look for "Priority" in the text, or anything that says "Interview").

Chrono Cross[edit]

Chrono Break or Other Interviews[edit]

Mas alla del Tiempo[edit]

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

The Kato interview has been translated:

2015 - Masato Kato, by Mariela Gonzalez

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

Youtube Interviews[edit]

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

Another Eden Stream[edit]

Masato Kato discusses Chrono Break in this one; see here. Using OpenAI's Whisper and DeepL, it appears the team We haven't had an actual translation by a volunteer, but I've used the OpenAI Whisper transcription tool to get what I can out of it. The raw text is below; here are my conclusions from feeding it into DeepL:

  • There's some discussion of Chrono Trigger in the first half of the video, where (Kato?) discusses having writer's block for developing the story for roughly a year after the project was started, and resisting being fired from the project.
  • He started brainstorming ideas for a new Chrono game shortly after Cross's release around 2000, with the idea that it would be a PS2-era game.
  • It really is intended to be titled "Break", not "Brake", as he was imagining a story about time literally breaking somehow (DeepL says, "And the title was something like, 'That's when it all goes to shit.'")
  • Preproduction was in session around 2000/2001 (including the registration of the trademark).
  • Final Fantasy Dimensions II ended up recycling the main scenario of the story!

There's some mention of Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross afterwards, but it seems mostly inconsequential. The raw transcription is below. We're hoping someone will translate this snippet fully; see this link.

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