My write up on Final Fantasy VII for the Famicom seems to have made multiple loops around the Internet, slamming the server with 20GB of incoming traffic in three days. Well played, Anonymous. I’ll see your 20GB of traffic and raise you a Chrono Trigger.
ROM dumping group SKY LEAGUE has posted screen shots of what appears to be Chrono Trigger, now on the Famicom home entertainment system and branded “时空之轮.”
Unfortunately, the ROM is not currently available. Whether or not this is because they have not released it or because no one mirrored it before their download page broke is beyond my knowledge. Their dumping policies didn’t say anything about whether they even release ROMs of cartridges they dump, or if the ROMs are sent back to the cart’s supplier for him to decide.
Until a ROM is unearthed, the only known screen shots on the Internet are the ones in the above-mentioned post.
I have cleaned out some of the watermarking and filtered the screen shots through blargg’s NTSC filter to get an idea what the game may look like during play.
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- Title Screen
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- New Morning
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- Guardia Town
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- Status Screen
The dumping group has this to say about the clone’s game play:
As of October 1, this game must be played in FCEU. The SFC version of the game is really similar to Final Fantasy, so the result should have been good. However, despite waiting a long time for this FC version to come out, it is something only really dedicated players will enjoy. To beat one monster could take as much as half an hour, and that is below boss difficulty. It requires more patience than what the average player has.
Ouch. Why is it all these clone cartridges have such unbalanced difficulty?
Probably because they don’t want anyone to get very far into the game?
Conspiracy!
that sounds rough! this game is also on the japanese site (rinkaku) that the commenter linked in your previous post. I was wondering why he didn’t put up videos of it…maybe that’s why! But I bet you could cheat through it!
Totally. RAM hacking is trivial. I could easily hack up the stats enough to make it a walk in the park. If and when the ROM comes up for download, I plan to cover it the same as I did FF7.
awwww…. I wanted to play
http://www4.emu-zone.org/j2c/web/SoftView.asp?SoftID=891
Make codes for this.
Bah!
I loved Chrono Trigger as much as the next bloke but a half an hour to defeat a monster in battle? For me that kills off any interest in playing this game out in full.
If they release the ROM I’ll be sure to check it out just for the sake of seeing it but nothing more.
There are a lot more pictures here:
http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame3/65_fc_chrono.html
Looks like a Pokemon clone slightly themed after Chrono Trigger. Weird.
erk… no… not CT’s awesome music….
BTW, I fully agree about RPGOne’s translation of FF6, although I only played long enough to decide that the font made the game not worth playing, so I can’t say much about the translation.
Wow, I actually like how it looks. I would totally be interested in cheating it out.
chrono trigger is the best rom