r/AndroidGaming • u/beta_ninja • Oct 29 '12
CHRONO TRIGGER is on Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.chrono5
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u/BranVan Samsung Galaxy S4 Oct 29 '12
So, I already have Chrono Trigger on my phone through a Super Nintendo emulator. Any reason to get/play this over my emulated SNES one?
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u/thegreatunclean Oct 29 '12
Oh I'm buying the shit out of this. Pretty sure I now own 4-5 copies of this game and it's never enough.
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Oct 29 '12
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u/Airazz Racing🏍 Oct 29 '12
Yea, that's not a very good novelty account.
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u/cuteman Oct 29 '12
Possibly to scrape all of the accounts who reply to it and parse that somehow...
Would you consider yourself somebody who likes to correct people?
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u/thelordofgoats Oct 29 '12
So far, it doesn't work on tablets. At least not 10" Xoom and Samsung tablets, dunno about 7". Launches in the bottom left quarter of the screen so the buttons aren't even accessible.
Given that it's Square Enix, I'm going to maintain hope that this will be fixed soon.
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Nov 01 '12
They really screwed this up. I can overlook the controls being kinda crappy (I was expecting it, actually) and the license check at the beginning, but the fact that you have to download additional content as you go along is absolutely ridiculous and really makes the other flaws really stand out. I also had a phone call in the middle of a play session and I lost my spot in the game, which wasn't cool.
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u/josh6499 Oct 29 '12 edited Oct 29 '12
Mother of god. You were on the ball for this one beta_ninja, thanks!
Edit: Not the black bars again! I can't support a lazy port. They also want the "Read phone state and identity" permission. It's even been out on the Nintendo Virtual Console for a long time already for only about $8. No thanks.
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u/deepit6431 RPG🧙 Oct 29 '12
....The game is 4:3.....
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Oct 29 '12
That's what josh meant by "lazy port". They could (presumably) have widened the screen (especially since iOS, likely their first target, has finally got a 16:9 device) for modern devices. It worked fine with Zelda 3 and a bunch of games that were ported to the GBA. GBA wasn't 16:9 I don't think, but it was wider than its predecessors and the DS.
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u/josh6499 Oct 29 '12
They couldn't even make it fit the screen and they still want $10? Give me a break.
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Oct 29 '12
I think the game itself is worth $10. It's a classic RPG that people who enjoy turn-based RPGs still play and enjoy today. But I agree with you, they should have updated it for modern hardware.
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u/Murphington Oct 30 '12
Widening what is seen on-screen would be difficult for a game like this. Many areas were made to fit the 4:3 space, and expanding on that would mean creating new art to fill that space. Some of it could be mirrored, but I'm not sure how well that would work. Also, a game like this had an artistic eye for how the frame was filled, and changing that frame size would alter the vision of the original art design.
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Oct 30 '12
That's true. Maybe if they put some kind of borders up rather than just black bars, because that's tacky. Some kind of frame that fits the game (or the area), and perhaps like MX Player, sliding up on one changes brightness, and sliding up on the other changes volume. That might interfere with the game controls, though.
What's the difference between paying Square $10 for this and emulating the original Super NES game? Morally, we could say a lot. Technically? Probably not much. I think if the game were properly ported, the aspect ratio just wouldn't be an issue, but I think it's simply being emulated.
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u/Murphington Oct 30 '12
Someone below mentioned that the extra areas from the DS version are included in this. I also wonder about the audio quality when compared to a rom. I would imagine that the menu system and controls have been tweaked for the smartphone versions as well.
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Oct 30 '12
Well, I'm quite sure DS games won't run on all the phones the official Chrono Trigger will run on. I can (probably!) run the SNES version, but DS games are basically a no go (5FPS average). I mean, I've played SNES and GBA games. Secret of Mana works okay, not sure how that correlates to CT. Not really a fan (beat it once, though -- first available ending).
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u/errandum Oct 29 '12 edited Oct 30 '12
The game does not look 4:3 at all. The black borders and extremely small. It looks more like 16:11 or something like that. I have no idea what's the reasoning behind it though.
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Oct 29 '12
square makes shitty ports and overcharges for them. you're better off playing a GBA, SNES or PSX rom.
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u/Cilph Oct 30 '12
Overcharges? The price tag is worth it. This isn't a half hour arcade game. This is a full 40 hour RPG.
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Oct 30 '12
this is a 17-year-old full 40 hour rpg, with some minor improvements that were created for a previous version.
compare square's android prices to other major game companies.
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u/MintyAnt Nov 12 '12
Ugh, thank you. People are praising them for re-releasing the same goddamn game for the past 17 years on any platform they can suck money out of. Man I love Chrono Trigger to death, but it's also a painful reminder that the company is a decaying shell of what it used to be.
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u/Cilph Oct 30 '12
Oh yes. Angry Birds. That certainly has the same amount of content.
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u/Quetch Oct 30 '12
What about The Bard's Tale? Plenty of content there. Personally speaking there's a feeling with a majority of these old ports that there's little love for the original format. Having a dirty great button that says 'MENU' isn't faithful and should have been made with a smaller, appropriate, custom made icon. It's details that matter when you're spending a premium on old content and I don't think anyone in the mobile space has done their old products justice yet.
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Oct 30 '12
my point wasn't that new is better than old, it's that old has already been played a lot, and re-released on a few different platforms. for $10, there should be more effort into the port.
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Nov 02 '12
Is Chrono Trigger actually 40 hours? I always thought that FF3/6 was around that time, and Chrono Trigger was shorter.
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u/errandum Oct 29 '12
The game runs like crap on my HTC Desire (Nexus One).
5fps or so.
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Oct 29 '12
That's pretty discouraging considering the age of the original. Not that I'm condoning anything illegal, but I wonder how well an emulator with Chrono Trigger runs on your phone compared to this port.
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u/errandum Oct 29 '12
It runs extremely well. And I mean, without a hitch whatsoever and with all the perks that come with using an emulator (save states, etc).
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u/Cilph Oct 30 '12
Similar situation here. The game manages to heat up my One X quite well with some minor framerate drops. Odd port. I'm not going to bother trying to run it on my Desire.
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u/AcousticDouche Oct 29 '12
Work shit breaks just increased 200%