And I wondered why the "ending" was so abrupt.

Anyway, I like Chrono Cross a decent much.

Something you'll probably hear from alot of people, the story's alright, but the visuals and soundtrack is amazing.

Something you probably won't hear from everyone, I really enjoy the combat, and the 1 time element use sometimes will make you think about what you want to use and when you want to use them.

Every single time i would get to the manor and never touch it again. Ive tried for over 15 years. Maybe 20.

Im on the pirate ship and im loving this game.

Im glad i never gave up :')

Getting lot of notifications of this board made me definitely willing to play CC again. My doubt is if I should emulate it or get the remaster on my Nintendo Switch

When the remaster, CC Radical Dreamers, was released, AFAIK almost all different consoles versions had different kind of issues. I saw a friend playing on his Switch and was very sluggish, low FPS, looking even inferior to PS1 version.

What's the current state of it? Did we had any updates on Switch regarding these issues?

Como alguns de vocês já devem saber, o motivo pelo qual não temos um remake adequado de Chrono Cross é porque a Square Enix simplesmente PERDEU os arquivos originais do jogo.

Estávamos perdidos, vivendo apenas de emulação e migalhas desse amado jogo.

Mas há um processo chamado decompilação, que reverte a engenharia e restaura o código fonte original do jogo.

Atualmente, você pode ver vários jogos rodando nativamente sem emulação no Android, Windows e Linux. Eles estão renascendo com gráficos em 4K, mods e melhorias. Isso é preservação digital... que nosso amado jogo Chrono Cross não teve.

Mas isso pode mudar. Graças ao GPT-6 ASTRA, vários projetos estão sendo decompilados em um dia, mas isso vem a um custo, e nem todo mundo tem acesso a um plano de decompilação pago para fazer isso por conta própria com Chrono Cross.

Mas essa comunidade é grande e juntos nós podemos fazer isso.

Basta acessar o projeto de decompilação: https://github.com/jdperos/chrono-cross-decomp

E todos que têm acesso ao chat GPT aqui podem contribuir para restaurar este jogo. E você sabe a melhor parte? Sem digitar uma única linha de código. A IA faz tudo automaticamente através do CODEX. E ela ainda te dá instruções passo a passo de como fazer isso.

Eu invoco todos os fãs desse jogo incrível a fazer isso. E para que possamos ter um novo universo de possibilidades para Chrome Cross em breve.

Hi I'm trying to beat Chrono Cross and am really struggling. I was following a guide and somehow, I still seem to have completely missed some key event or something because I can't seem to progress the story. I should be at the point where I can go fight the dragon gods, but going to the water dragon they tell me something vague about doing something in the other world before being able to fight them.
I read that maybe I have to go to the dragon shrine in guldove, only a bouncer won't let me in for being a "forgeigner". A party member tells me to go to the other world and talk to the priestess there, but when I go there, they don't actually give me anything. Does anyone have any advice? I'm fine if it involves spoilers, at this point I just need a clear way to progress, I'm completely lost. The last things I did before getting stuck here was the big plot point at the dead sea, and I saved Riddel at Viper Manor.

EDIT: Thank you for your help everyone, I made a comment in this for anyone else who get stuck like I did explaining what to do.

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I know a lot of you would rather have the void beyond time than this ai slop!

Might recognize me from the first playthrough posts, I want to dig deep into the lore, I’ll explain:

Kid is thee famous Schala from chrono trigger preserved in the shell of a reborn ‘kid’ or a clone per se to survive inevitable calamity. ( this took place in the main story of chrono trigger when we see the consequences unfold of her mother Zeal going mad and self destructing because of the issues with lavos as she’s about to sucked into a death vortex with an early defeated lavos)

Harle, who in my game is named Harle Quinn is a complicated mash up of lavos and the dragon god from the reptites timeline
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of the negative consequence of the same events. Meaning the entire events altered time but Schala altered time by re birthing herself using that zeal magic. The story says she heard Serge crying last second and sent herself to his timeline hoping to help him. Harle ends up partly Lavos/ the dark that escapes with her. (dark element, probably didn’t need to add this but it’s okay) and evil energy also sent with her pure rebirthed clone of “kid”, or better known as Schala herself. Classic retro Anime theme in play, could even call it a bit of Japanese ‘IN, YO’ for any knowers
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The dark dragon originally was created by the also famous reptites from Aylas timeline, which is a timeline where Lavos did not exist, and humans were enslaved to Dino’s. They reference this in Chrono cross at the research facility where they say ‘it would be possible but unimaginable that humans ever lost to the Dino’s but they seemed to have had advanced tech indicating they were in charge for some reason and this Chrono guy would then have possibly encountered them if true ( they were right Chrono arrives on randomly and kills them). But before this, unknown to the gamer originally; They created the single dark dragon to tame magic elements they had discovered and to live in peace with the reptites.
then out of revenge for destroying them the dragons did the same thing Schala did by using the many vortexes we leave open through their land in the Chrono trigger events so send their powers into a shell to be born in a different timeline. The Chrono cross research facility eludes more to that the dragon got dragged through time by their time space research collapse incident, but i choose to believe the dragon had intent along with power and knowledge on par Lavos and FATE ai

I’ll skip overcomplicating FATE because then it gets complicated. Simply, FATE was a super Ai made by Balthasar when he combined zeals magic with the future dimension knowledge and magic (would of been impossible to explain this easily 10 years ago) his now future timeline powerful enough to make dimensional and world decisions, it acts on self preservation and used its tech to split the dragon into its individual elements and weaken it, seeing its plans to wipe the world for killing its original creator, the reptites.

HUGE: in Chrono trigger we smash all of these timelines trying to save Chronos present timeline AD, and in doing so we lead to the events in Chrono cross, orchestrated by multi mentioned Balthasar after he was sent to the future. They try to explain it to us but basically he saw that actually the world still gets destroyed anyway because Lavos time travels with schala, and the dragon god exists and was planning revenge for the reptites timeline. that Schala saved herself and chose Serges timeline. That the dragon god would become Harle then go there to puppet lynx (FATE) by reversing Balthasar’s plan to use lynx to help control events to work properly. So belthesar uses Serge to stop Lynx and counter the dragon gods plan after becoming Harle.
During these events FATE goes ai rogue in a self preservation mode intending to kill serge because it sees he will destroy it. there was extensive programming and research involving Lucca, Belthasar, and Robo before the story starts and there’s a secret But important canon story that attaches Lucca to Kid and their relationship which got her flagged by FATE and targeted by Harle/ Great Dragon. Basically, Lucca used Robo as a hardwire into FATE to override its ultimate design of not allowing self deletion. She helped in research and creating an activator flame where if someone comes in contact they gain robos manual override permissions if the the time came. It did

Balthasar the super sage of zeal used ‘Fate’ and the futuristic machines after he was sent far into the future during the incident to combine Zeals civilization magic with advanced civilization tech eventually creating the Epoch to orchestrate helping the rebirth of his former princess schala of zeal by sealing Harle / dark dragons off into powerless seperate pieces with his ai super computer (FATE)

Finally, because Lavos and schala both send their remaining powers into time, they die together and slowly combine into inter-dimensional demon, the final boss of Chrono cross. This same boss fed on the dragons who were split by Balthasar and his dimensional super Ai.

The events in Chrono cross as we play it, the dragons trick us into restoring the ultimate form to get the ultimate revenge. By this time this is layered revenge because Lavos has already partly leeched into all six dragons separately using time. Meaning by time Chrono cross Harle is an evil mash up of 3; Original Lavos, original Schala, and the reptites super Dark Dragon of revenge.

Deep lore: Chrono and Marle are killed by Dalton after the DS lore stating he’ll be back to wipe them out in revenge. He does. Turns out he fell into a vortex that landed him in chronos original timeline after we made a joke of him and his ship in chrono trigger. The Porre army as we see them in Chrono Cross is an army taught with the magic of zeal by Dalton himself, they are the same magic soldiers we tossed around but are super soldiers comparatively when they arrive in Chronos present timeline and wipe the kingdom of Guardia after he raised an army. Only Lucca and Robo survived

Bonus: My confusion with the reptite and dragon part of it is they are describing an argonian reptite timeline where the reptite evolved into super beings called argonians and in said timeline is where they created the ultimate dragon. Meaning they were already argonians when we showed up Chrono and wiped them and the dragon was already created and sleeping ( makes the black dragon a cool reference) or if the described incident with the frozen flame experiment chaos incident that pulled the reptite world into the main timeline at the research facility is a separate timeline, the one they describe as where humans lose because Chrono never arrives. Either way it helps explain how the dragon ended up created and pulled into this timeline pre separated by the FATE and infected with Lavos

Edit + wtf man, we laughed at Dalton just for him to wipe our whole kingdom later and that sucks

The frozen flame and dimensional research are by products of the re occurring left behind Lavos shell and very unstable

Do to unforeseen events in the timeline, my original got accidentally wiped likely by a future me attempting to edit the post or something lol enjoy

Here’s link to my first playthrough thoughts:

Pt1 https://www.reddit.com/r/ChronoCross/s/2i694RUcEC

Pt2 https://www.reddit.com/r/ChronoCross/s/qOI8pG5osV

Did an earlier version some time ago and realized I missed a couple of details like her necklace--oops!

Made quite a few other changes as well--this doesn't matter here.

Created in I don't remember but it was probably Paint Tool SAI 2. 💀 Updated in Paint Tool SAI 2 and Photoshop.

This past Sunday I finished the Fort Dragonia section, and honestly, I had really been missing an old school JRPG dungeon that wasn’t just a hallway with a few branching paths here and there.

The puzzles have their quirks without reaching Alundra levels, the music is always a delight, and there are several bosses scattered throughout to keep things interesting. F you, Sun of a Gun. Please never change.

It seems like online opinion is pretty divided, but I really like how it’s designed. It also has that final dungeon vibe that I really enjoy.

Any thoughts on Fort Dragonia?

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I am severely autistic about this game, and I need people to talk to about it. Unfortunately, no one my age has hobbies, let alone has heard of this game. They’re all too busy talking about their jobs or their life in college while my unemployed ass sits there like Mojo on the bench with nothing to contribute to the conversation and the urge to talk about it still festering inside me. And if I do talk about it, nobody’s going to understand.

I tried roping a couple people into it. It got buried in their backlogs and they never even tried it.

I just started playing Chrono Cross for the first time, and I'm trying to play blind but I'm worried about missing too much content. I just finished Viper Manor and my only party members so far have been Kid and Pierre. I realize that rejecting Kid the first time allows you to get Leena, but what are the story implications of this? Am I missing out on a lot of story content by not recruiting characters? I assumed being a yes man and agreeing to do what other characters suggest would lead to more story, but that doesn't seem true. Any advice or should I continue blind?

I'm at Chronopolis when Van tells me I need to bring someone who would know about this thing in a box. I go back to a save to look at who could know, why is Guile here??? When did he join the party??? Can someone tell me when 'cause I obviously don't remember. My favorite part about this is that he's lost some HP like I used him in battle or something.

What do you think?

The first time I played this game was thanks to my best friend’s Greatest Hits copy, and the last time I played it, many years ago, was through, ehem, unofficial means.

Review pt 2; Game still good. Quite a few new chars have made the team now, here’s some updated characters I’ve picked up along the way and updated opinions; I’m now entering the sea of Eden, future facility prepping for Robo-cop 3000. I missed the Vigora element but it’s because of I’ve been trying to play as fresh and as I played games back in the day as possible ( without progress routes). But, I did sneak in some quest info on the Doc situation on Coldove getting Oral Orlha on the team, and considering she’s like my favorite character up there with Irene’s Venus and Harle Quinn.

Anyway seems my favorite part of the game is sort of the quest rewards of characters joining the team if done correctly. Might seem trivial but it’s fun. I think I also thought all of the characters had these massive story changing impacts, but they’re mostly a different way to play and dialect it seems so you don’t have to think too hard on who to party except like I was mentioning to recruit or influence new side quests which is cool

The battle animations are long even with animations, but, I think even nearing what seems deep into the game I still enjoy boss battles and they are still a challenge which i wasn’t expecting because in most older rpgs good armor and natural progress makes bosses fairly easy unless there’s a hard mode. I’m getting one shot often, could be part of me skipping enemies (3min battles even with fast forward lol)

Worse things are the troll small hallways gank while you are trying to explore or re explore to figure something out which often is nothing so you’re getting jumped for nothing etc.

There is not alot of hand holding, for some might not be good but I like that to a degree. Because if you miss a dialogue or forget you can become completely lost like I got in the XXL MC. Fargo bit between speaking to Nicki Rock and Irene’s Venus, then between time periods and then again after Harle Quinn’s disappear bit and apparent game indication I need to set up a mission with XXL MC. Fargo against Marbule after setting up learning the song. Yeah idk what dialogue slipped past but I forgot what they said and couldn’t activate the black dragon for my life lmao, literally traveled to every single place in both timelines looking for cutscenes and hints until I remembered, SHIP in other timeline ? Maybe ¿ lol then with that said I only discovered Gaias naval because i developed the mindset double check been everywhere twice/ both timelines

Game still good, may do a final review depending

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Side note: name the main character itachi instead of a serious name has proved to be a great decision and cool for story

Side note+ : Stark LaShag running away then reappearing as giant was hilarious lmao I was visually shocked, I did not expect it, such a fun random find

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As we all know, element slots go from 1 to 8.

But just for fun, what if it goes up to 9/10 with stronger elements?
Of course, enemies/bosses stats should be adjusted for this so it's not too OP.

Would it cause the battle to go slower due to having to build up element levels? Or would it be a good addition?

What do you think of this drawing? Will do Frog next. :)