News and Updates

Chrono Trigger Unglued - Episode 23: "Let's Get Enertroned!" is Here!

After a year of waiting (really sorry about that, I'll explain that further down) Chrono Trigger Unglued: Episode 23 is finally here! Watch as Crono and Company discover that maybe going south wasn't the most productive of directions to travel through the raging dust storm in their quest for batteries to put in Lucca's Gate Key. They do - however - have their first encounter with the much lauded Enertron, there's just some minor issues of comfort that have to be overlooked when the device is used. Afterwards, Crono finally acquires some much needed Ether... sweet-sweet Ether!

As for why this episode took so long, my old laptop became virtually completely unusable near the beginning of this year when I found myself charged and wanting to get production on this episode done. Later when I did finally get a new laptop in March, I realized that if I didn't crank-up the writing on my book I would never get it published in time for my mom - who has cancer - to be able to see it before she died. I am glad to say I was able to get it done while she was still alive (she doesn't look so good right now, she probably won't be here much longer). After that, various other forms of delays kept stalling production such that it took 2 whole months to get the episode done after I finally began working on it.

I beg your apologies, I have sacked those responsible (including myself).

Those you who are interested in reading my 100% original book "The Vagrant's Tale" (which is heavily revised from the first draft I showed long ago, and now has 2 bonus chapters never before seen online) you can find it - in dead tree format - for sale here: http://www.amazon.com/Vagrants-Tale-Clovis-Dye-Jr/dp/1463735359/

Anyways, now that Episode 23 is out, a casting call for Dubbed Episode 3 will probably begin soon.

"Fuck SOPA" - ZeaLitY

Chrono Compedium WILL be shut down if the Online Piracy Act (a.k.a. the SOPA) is passed. As well as every other popular fan site and all fan related content on YouTube (gameplay videos) and fan content on other social media sites (Facebook).

Here's a visual explanation of SOPA:
http://mashable.com/2011/12/07/sopa-business-infographic/

A video about SOPA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLYgs0xMDm0

Articles about it:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221339/Opposition_to_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act_grows?taxonomyId=17
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-PARASITE

Petitions to stop it:
[url=https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/stop-e-parasite-act/SWBYXX55]https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/stop-e-parasite-act/SWBYXX55[/url]
[url=https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/veto-protect-ip-act-s-968/4ykggyDq]https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/veto-protect-ip-act-s-968/4ykggyDq[/url]
http://americancensorship.org/

See, doesn't that just SUCK? Square-Enix dislikes fan projects as it is by the fan projects they've canceled. Imagine if they had the power to shut down fan sites too? They will not hesitate to use this power! So I highly recommend posting it in the news to inform people about it and encourage them to sign the petitions to stop it.

Combine OverWiki and The Vault Leave Wikia

Interesting news from the fansite realm; The Vault and CombineOverWiki (compendiums for the Fallout series and Half-Life, respectively) are leaving Wikia. The Vault has already transferred to their new location http://www.falloutwiki.com/Fallout_Wiki, while CombineOverWiki is set to move before the year's out. Among the reasons The Vault moved was the presence of far too many ads on Wikia. CombineOverWiki is moving as to gain freedom from Wikia's sometimes-prohibitive policies and intrusive, unwanted design changes. Are we seeing a return to the old fansite paradigm? Sometimes, the Compendium's founders like to mention that it was probably one of the last independent, old-style fansites (with a Wiki, though) to pop up and claim a piece of the net before Wikia came to dominate fandoms. We never considered going to Wikia (though invited), as it would have ruined the community, blocked a lot of content freedom, and forced ads on the site. We welcome these sites' defection from Wikia and wish them the best.

Chrono Cross out on PSN

So, uh, hey guys. Chrono Cross is out on North America's Playstation Network today. That means you can download it to play on your PS3, PSP, or both! Only $9.99! Get yours today! The more people buy new Chrono stuff, the more there is a market for new Chrono stuff. So tut-tut! Have at it!

There are ~1700 Chrono remixes, and 131 Corridors of Time remixes.

And we've added to the pile today! New forumer StarbeamAlpha found me on VGMCentral and provided a ton of new remixes, and helped catalogue several new doujin as well. I really can't understate how amazing Starbeam's contributions have been! It's a total musical renaissance! Instead of dis pear...



[RELEASES]  neo-fusion's released Chrono Apocalypse 6 after a long hiatus; check it out here!  [2]  Clovis has released the Chrono Trigger Unglued 2 voiced version! Download it here (68 MB).  [3]  WerderChile has released a remastered collection of Chrono Trigger tunes, taken from the source tracks. Check it out here!  [4]  Forgot if this has been in a past update or not, but it's worth checking out again if so! Be sure to stop by this thread to see CelestialPhantasm's Meeresboden!  [COMMUNITY]  The RPG Fanatic has reviewed Chrono Trigger! Check it out here.  [2]  FuzWuz is going to be doing a new Let's Play of Chrono Trigger using the Compendium as a reference. Watch for it here!  [3]  Thanks to FaustWolf, we've discovered a fan who's overlaying Chrono Trigger music on top of Lord of the Rings clips. It's a delight for fans of both series; check it out here!  [4]  Chrono Comix was updated. (Fuck you)

[FAN ART]  Guru of Reason Angerona is up first with Schala -The Day the Wind Blows-!  [2]  Next up is LadyMarle, who's still doing commissions; check out the latest one: After the Green Dream!  [3]  tushantin found an awesome two-part webcomic by DerificWolf, and we secured permission to host it on the site (thanks Bear!). Stop by and check...it...out! (Yes, live from the Porre snack bar!)  [ Fiona's Failed Forest - Best Friends Forever ]

Oh god, here we go...  [REMIXES]  [ '600AD Re-orchestrated' by SgtTimBob ][ 'Another Madness (Final)' by Hakstock ][ 'Don't Miss Millennial Fair' by monte573 ][ 'Improvisation on a Moment Seized by Time' by DrumUltimA ][ 'where threads connect' by Amaterasu, melody ][ 'Chrono Trigger Medley' by sbeast64 ][ [url=http://'Frog's Theme' by Leandro Foka ][ 'Sara's Theme' by Ellize ][ 'Memories of Green 1.0' by Lenster ][ 'World Revolution 2.0' by Lenster ][ 'Last Battle - Turn on the OD-Circuit' by New White ][ 'Manoria Cathedral - Downtown of 2003-12-24 Mix' by New White ][ 'Corridors of Time - The present age looked down on from clouds' by New White ][ 'Corridors of Time - from the inside of the fog' by New White ][ 'Star-stealing Girl' by oldwhtman ][ 'Reminescence Fingerstyle Guitar' by oldwhtman ][ 'Dimension Break' by Oldwhtman ][ 'Another Guldove Fingerstyle Guitar' by oldwhtman ][ 'Another Aruni Village' by oldwhtman ][ 'Galdove' by SoeiroBros ][ 'Dream of the Shore' by SoeiroBros ][ Vincent7995 Remixes ][ 'Battle with Janus's Persona' by Culden ][ 'The Wind That Shakes Da Marley' by Hat ][ [url=http://'Chronological Disorder WIP' by Mooman ][ 'Frog's Theme - Dubstep Remix' by smasherimp ]

[DOUJIN]  [ Dangerous Mezashi Cat - Weiβ Ritter ][ Daniel Tidwell - Versus Video Games ][ Daniel Tidwell - Versus Games 2 ][ Danimal Cannon - The Power Cosmic ][ Dxtilant Child - Chrono Eve ][ Elvira Madigan - Angelis Deamonae - Wiccan Aftermath ][ Magical Trick Society - Melodies ~RPG Piano Collection~ ][ Square Enix - SQ Chips ][ Video Game Orchestra - Awakening Concert in Boston ][ Video Game Orchestra - Rockestral Game Music ][ XL Project - RE:RESIST ][ Rare Candy - Bomber Blue and Gallant Green ][ Press Start - 2007 -Symphony of Games- Concert Bootleg ][ Vibon 2: Blip-pop Click ]  [AND...]  The password for B.G.M.'s Live in Route16 secret file has been found, thanks to StarbeamAlpha. It's LALA. The two extra tracks are not Chrono remixes, however, but remixes of a couple rock songs.

A VGMCentral user by the name of StarbeamAlpha has single-handedly launched a renaissance for the Compendium's archive of Chrono music. We've been able to get backups of a few doujins we lacked, along with a LOT of new Celestia remixes! There's so much to process, here! I'll just link to the individual Celestia folders: [ Celestia 4 ][ Celestia 5 ][ Celestia 8 ][ Celestia 9 ]  [RESCUED VGMIXES]  StarbeamAlpha also had some VGMix 2 entries that had been lost. Check them out now!  [ Another World (Majik Mix) by filharmonix ][ Memories of Good Days by k4m3k4z3 ][ Schala's Radical Dream by Novalon ][ Scars over Time by Saturn2888 ][ Calm by Sefiros ][ Big Brass Battle by Vaughn ]

For all these amazing contributions, StarbeamAlpha is our new Guru of Life! Thanks again!



BADLY NEEDED: CHRONO SERIES ITALODISCO REMIXES

Chrono Trigger OST is currently on iTunes

Did you guys know that the Chrono Trigger OST is out on iTunes? 'cuz I didn't. But I do now. The Chrono Trigger OST is out on iTunes. You should probably go check it out if you haven't already.

Masato Kato returns to his roots

As some of you may know, Masato Kato's first gig in the game industry, prior to his involvement at Gainax and then Square, was at Tecmo, where he worked on the NES Ninja Gaiden trilogy - games widely considered to be a milestone in video game storytelling for their use of cinematic cutscenes - as an artist and writer. As some of you may also know, when the series was rebooted in the 2000s under the stewardship of Team Ninja and legendarily deranged game designer Tomonobu Itagaki, Masato Kato was nowhere to be found, and while the games themselves were excellent, the storytelling components were - to put it kindly - not so impressive.

Well, according to Yosuke Hayashi, Itagaki's successor and current head of Team Ninja, Kato is back. The studio seems to be interested in making the upcoming Ninja Gaiden 3 more story-intensive than its predecessors (a move which I admit I was initially quite critical of), and to try and make sure they do it right they're going back to the source. According to Hayashi, there will be plenty of throwbacks to the NES games, including multiple characters making a comeback in for the first time in 3D. This is basically Kato's biggest gig since Final Fantasy XI, so I hope it goes well for him and he can get the opportunity to work on more high-profile titles instead of the DS and cellphone games that have comprised most of his career for the better part of the last decade.

For those curious, the Hayashi interview is here, and Ninja Gaiden 3 is currently scheduled to be released in the first quarter of next year for the PS3 and Xbox 360, with an enhanced port coming later in the year as a launch title for the Wii U. Anyone interested in checking out the previous Ninja Gaiden games can download all three of the original NES titles with which Kato was involved on the Wii's Virtual Console for five bucks a pop, and the 3D games (Ninja Gaiden/Black/Sigma for Xbox and PS3, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword for DS, and Ninja Gaiden II/Sigma 2 for 360 and PS3) should all be easy to find in stores. If you like flashy, fast-paced action games and are up for a serious challenge, I highly suggest giving them a spin.

Oh My God Mega-Explosive Ninetienth-Degree September Power Update

Fall is upon us! Time to kick the fruits of summer into maximum gear and carve a searing path through whatever winter may throw at us! There's not much abuzz in the official world right now, but things on the site have been stirring, and we've got some new remixes, art, and fanfiction to digest.



[SITE UPDATES]  Thanks to the badass Kodokami, we now have a complete set of Missing Piece pages of interest for future translation purposes. (We still need translators, sigh.) Thanks so much for scanning these pages! They're here.  [2]  Aardwolf_Zy has updated his Chrono Cross FAQ, considered the definitive text guide by the Chrono Compendium! View it here.  [3]  Vehek discovered that Demiforce's Radical Dreamers patch omits the graphics credits. They've been added here, and the record of personnel multi-game involvement has been updated here.  [4]  utunnels is testing a Chrono Cross glitch involving the Unicorn summon. If you have a PSX and patience, check this thread.

[OFFSITE]  Kirk Battle wrote an analytical article worth checking out, called The Systems of Chrono Trigger. Just click this elegant and finely-crafted link!  [2]  Here's what's new since the last site update in MegaElixir! [ 46 Wall Puncher - 47 A Wise Choice - 48 Third Time's the Charm - 49 Fiery Potential - 50 Lessons through Time - Infinity Ice ]  [3]  GlitterBerri.com is down right now, but Glitter had recently translated more Final Fantasy VII debug room lines, including the lines for Masato Kato's room. (Kato wrote the Cloud breakdown/mental journey part of the game.) While there's nothing related to the Chrono series, these lines were cool:

Nyuk nyuk nyuk… Welcome… to Kato's room. A summer bug flying into the fire. A bedbug in a shabby inn. That is what you are.

Huh? There's no way you're thinking of stepping on me, right...? It doesn't matter how many times you tell me I'm just a floor, that's terrible!!

Also present in the debug rooms for FF7 is a map select that allows the player to warp to the field "KURO_5". (This map.) The Japanese version listing for this map is "穴底の恐竜" (Dinosaur at Bottom of Hole). When the game was localized in English, they left the translation of the map select text to a Japanese-speaking employee. This employee localized the listing for KURO_5 as "Tirano", a reference to the dinosaurs of Chrono Trigger.

[FAN FICTION]  Zipp Dementia has wrapped up the Chrono Break fanfic! Check out the finished work here.  [2]  skylark's updated To the Sea of Dreams, a parody! Find the update here.  [3]  Lennis's CT Episode 1 updated in July; find the new updates here!  [4]  Speaking of finishing things, alfadorredux is done with Chrono Helix! Read the last entry of this long journey here. Alfadorredux also brought a new fic to our attention by a friend, called Dreams of a Faraway Dawn.

[FAN ART]  First up is Angerona, with an amazing Lucca piece, capturing her genius really well! Find it here.  [2]  Next is a Futurama-CT crossover piece, by Nina Matsumoto, aka Space Coyote! Check it out here.  [3]  Check out CelestialPhantasm's weblog entry on a song inspired by Chrono Trigger! Check it out here.  [4]  New Compendiumite sketchtacular made an awesome debut with Dark Eternal, seen here.  [5]  Katie Skyye had an itch to do the Zeal family, and produced a really cool work! Check out the variations: [ The Royals (sketch) - [u]The Royals (Colored) - Younger Magus ]  [6]  Sentou Ryoku is back with a sweet Dragon Quest/Chrono Trigger crossover called Chrono Trigger x Dragon Quest VI: Science and Religion! [ Pencils - Inks - Colors ]  [7]  Last up is Guardian of Ages with A Black Wind over Zeal!

[DOUJINS]  [ Play for Japan: The Album ]  [REMIXES]  [ 'Sime's Tcar' by GneatGeek ][ 'Cruisin'' by Hakstock ][ 'Secret of the Forest 18 Mix' by G. Zarapanecko ][ 'Scars of Time (Heavy Arrangement)' by Thiago Schiefer ][ 'The Brink ov Time' by G. Zarapanecko ][ 'Trippin' on Stars WIP 2' by Emunator ft. Neblix ][ 'Weaving the Threads of Time' by Chris | Amaterasu ]  [SPECIAL NOTE]  Thanks to pasq424, we now have an untruncated version of the unknown collection Corridors of Time remix, which we know to be the work of nuXion/Byron Long. We still haven't proven whether the other unknown remixes circulated in that collection are his work, but it's very likely. Find the complete version here.

Epoch to Warp onto iOS, Android

Big thanks to Compendium members tuxedojacob and Tishiablo for bringing this to our attention! This just in from TGS, via IGN:

At TGS today Square Enix reaffirmed its presence on iOS and also announced significant support for Android by announcing a bevy of new titles and ports for both platforms.

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On the games front, Square Enix revealed that Chrono Trigger will be hitting both iOS and Android, a move sure to send shivers of pleasure up the spine of any retro jRPG lover. Final Fantasy Legends, Itadaki Street and Dragon Quest Monsters will also be receiving updated mobile releases for both iOS and Android.

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FFXIII-2 interview with Motomu Toriyama mentions Chrono Trigger

In a recent interview with game director Motomu Toriyama, he explains the time traveling theme of Final Fantasy XIII-2, the sequel to last years Final Fantasy XIII.

https://member.eu.square-enix.com/en/blogs/we-discuss-time-travel-with-final-fantasy-xiii-2s-Motomu-Toriyama

Fast forward to the seventh question:

Jem Alexander: This is the first time time travel has featured so prominently in a FINAL FANTASY game, is this something you'd like to explore more in future games?

Motomu Toriyama: For the FINAL FANTASY series, each game has its own new game system, so it is not as if we are intending on making time travel key to all future instalments. We want fans to look forward to each FINAL FANTASY having its own unique system. For FINAL FANTASY XIII-2, we are experimenting with carrying out repeated large scale user tests to reflect the opinions of users in the game itself. We really have received a lot of feedback about the game, but among the voices there are those who say it reminds them of the classic RPG, CHRONO TRIGGER. For FINAL FANTASY XIII-2, we are aiming to make time travel a major thematic direction, and be able to express this on high-end game machines.

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