Utilities (Chrono Trigger)
Utilities are listed in rough order of importance, with a tag denoting what type of ROM the utility is compatible with is included.
Some utilities are outdated and precluded by the ones on this page, but can still be found at Other Utilities (Chrono Trigger).
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Temporal Flux
Author: Geiger
Rom Type: Unheadered
Temporal Flux aims to become the ultimate Chrono Trigger editor. As of version 2.0, it can edit nearly every Location, Overworld, and Event setting, as well as perform a variety of other features.
Chrono Tweaker
Author: Chickenlump
Rom Type: Headered
Chrono Tweaker is a project by Chickenlump to do all sorts of things, including editing sprite assembly and palette pointers. It can also edit data for weapons, armor, and other items.
Chrono Trigger Editing Companion
Author: BlitzKrieg
Rom Type: Unheadered
Chrono Trigger Editing Companion can edit Item, Enemy, Playable Character, and other stats. It was designed as a companion for Temporal Flux until Geiger added these features to that program.
Chrono Trigger Shop Editor
Author: 'Frieza
Rom Type: Headered
This utility allows changing what items are sold in the various shops around the game. It took three days to make in 2001. Some stores are still marked Unknown, unfortunately.
Other Utilities
These programs weren't designed with Chrono Trigger specifically in mind, but they are vital to editing and offer more options to rom hackers. They are listed alphabetically.
Geiger's SNES9x Debugger
Author: Geiger
It has a built in hex editor, RAM editor, can save changes, can trace down code and data, and produce an offsets listing, remove headers, and other miscellaneous stuff.
Irfanview
Author: Irfan Skiljan
Irfanview is a lightweight image editor that is very easy to use. However, if you have your own and are experienced with it, disregard this.
SNESAmp
Author: SNESMusic
SNESAmp is the best .spc player and is a plugin for Winamp
SNESPal
Author: Yousei
SNESPal can search and edit palettes in roms.
TileMolester
Author: SnowBro
Tile Molester is a multi-format, user-extensible graphics data editor that lets you create, view and edit graphics in arbitrary binary files, with a particular focus on binaries for game consoles. The program is written entirely in Java, so it can be run on any platform that has a Java Runtime Environment installed. See the Documentation for more information. The full source code is also available under the GNU Public License.
Download Java Runtimes (Get the JRE package)
XVI32
Author: Chmaas
XVI32 is a lightweight, easy to use Hex Editor.
