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General Discussion / New sig?
« on: September 03, 2005, 08:39:02 pm »
Ok, so I finished writing a journal on Lord of the Flies, and I didn't like my sig, so I decided to make a new one quickly even though I should've worked on the sigs that I promised to do first >_<

Anyway, I made this one first:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/ShadowDrago/ChronoCrossSig.png

Then, after saving that one as 'Chrono Cross Sig', I found something labeled 'Chrono Cross Sig 2'... I opened it up in Photoshop, and found a sig that I had started a while ago but never finished. I had already made a grunge background, cropped out a pic of the frozen flame, put a pic of Serge in the switch-dimensional cutscene in over the flame, and put a pic a Dark Serge in on the left... I really liked the grunge that I'd made, and the pic of Serge on top of the FF.. So, I put the pic I used in the first sig (^^^^) in, took away Kid, took away the Dark Serge pic that I had in it originally, and threw in the text from the first sig:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/ShadowDrago/ChronoCrossSig.png


Problem is, I can't figure out which sig to use... And now I have to find a new avatar because my current Cloud one is really old...

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Chrono Compendium Discussion / The Un-Official Avatar/Sig Request Thread
« on: August 20, 2005, 05:25:56 pm »
Ok, so it seems that Ramsus' request thread is being uncared for, and I can make sigs/avatars for people who need them, so I thought it'd be easier to make a new thread to attract people than to ask people what they want and stuff in Ramsus' thread

If no one finds this thread, then I'll probably just make the unanswered requests from the other thread, but it'll be easier if anyone who wants something requests it here


I have to read two books and do a journal on one and a book review on the other, but I checked yesterday and I still have 19 days until schools starts again, so I'm not in as much of a hurry as I thought I was.. I'll probably be able to do some sig/avatar-making once I finish the first book and its journal, and I can make sigs while taking breaks from the second book


So, request away! (Please don't just say something like "Make it cool and put 'Shadow_Dragon' on it", because then I'll spend time making something that I feel is cool, and it'll probably end up being something that really isn't that cool to the person who requested it

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Crimson Echoes / Chrono Trigger Music Library
« on: August 04, 2005, 05:30:34 pm »
I accidentally found this, but I think it might help with listening to remixes for CE
I downloaded a new version of CT from gpemu.cjb.net to do more beta testing, but when I unzipped the file, it came up with a long list of things. I assume that each file in the 7z file is a different version of the game, and one of them was 'BS Chrono Trigger - Music Library (J).smc', and it's basically just a menu where you can play songs from the soundtrack... that one, however, is in japanese, but there's a 'BS Chrono Trigger - Music Library (J) [T-Eng].smc' which is in english

It seems like a really convenient way to be able to listen to remixed music, rather than going to the part of the game that plays it... I'm not exactly sure how to listen to remixed music in the first place, but is there a way to patch this instead of the actual game to listen to the music?

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I've been quite frusterated with the all-too-commonly accepted reason for why Serge's existance causes the negation of Crono's actions for a while. In case anyone's not familiar with this, most people justify the Dead Sea's destroyed future by saying that Crono and co. can only travel into the future in one dimension, and since the dimensions split after Crono and co. travel into the future, they only can affect the original dimension, Another World.


In case I didn't make it clear before, I find this theory half-baked and used only to justify the destroyed future in the simplest way possible.


I'll try to disproove the theory with an explanation, so here it is.
Crono travels from 1000AD, before the split, to 1015AD, after the split. According to the theory, from Another World's perspective, everything is fine; Crono disappears in 1000AD, and reappears in 1015AD, having never aged. However, in Home World, according to its history of 1000AD, Crono disappeared and never, in all of the future of Home World, reappeared.
Here are some crude diagrams to show the example:






I hope I explained things clearly, but, in case, I'm just trying to get an answer as to what happens to Crono and co. in Home World if they apparently can only time travel into one dimension, even though they exist in both dimensions to start with.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Serj or Ser-gay?
« on: May 17, 2005, 03:54:04 pm »
Throughout my playing of CC I always assumed that the name was pronounced "Serj", but about a month ago my class started studying Russia in World Cultures, and the name Sergei/Sergey popped up (we had projects on 'Russian cultural heroes' and there were lots of Sergeis), pronounced like Ser-gay

I always assumed that it was Serj, and because I pronounced it in my head like that everytime I thought that the game did too, but they never speak the name..

So, which is it?

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Lynx/Dark Serge's Having Kid Around
« on: April 30, 2005, 01:57:16 am »
I'm at the point in my replay of CC where i have to get the dragon plates, and i though about how lynx keeps kid around (kid should've realized that dark serge/lynx STABBED her)

there's one line in CC aruond the time in which Lynx and Serge 'switch' bodies that implies that Serge and Lynx didn't SWITCH bodies, but that Serge's memories were sent to Lynx's body and vise-versa. Thus, when you play in Lynx's body you ARE playing as Lynx, but Lynx now feels as if he has been Serge for all his life, and Serge feels as if he has been Lynx.


I don't think that Lynx has any real reason to keep Kid around, I mean that he could've just killed her to hurt Serge. Maybe, somehow, Serge (as Dark Serge with Lynx's memories) hasn't forgotten his feelings for Kid, and wants to remain around Kid and instead controls her


I'm searching the CC Script that's on gamefaqs, but i'm downloading something so it stops loading (and the first time it stopped loading right at the place where it should be, when Harle talks to Lynx in that tower in the painting-like dimension)


I've always hated the Kid-Serge relationship, since I've always thought of Leena as Serge's true girlfiend, but if only they had decided to let Serge talk I think I'd be more accepting of Kid... my theory, however, makes it seems that Serge and Kid are 'destined' to be together, even if Serge is possed by 'fasle' (to him) memories


EDIT: i found it:
Harle: Ooh la lah... So, you still insist zat you are Serge, oui? Regardless your memoire az zis Serge... You may be able to rewrite it if you use ze Dragon Tear. In realite, you died 10 yearz ago in ze odder world. How can you say for sure zis iz ze real you? Maybe for you it is evident, but... I wonder if you ever really were Serge...? Furthermore... what waz zis Serge? A figure, a shape? A spirit? A soul? Where waz zis Serge?


It may be a minor detail, but i think it's important

and also, i think that it's important to note that Dark Serge implies that he's going to kill Kid while they're in the fort (he says that he's going to send her to meet Lucca), so something must've happened to change his mind

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I know this may be obvious to some, but i'm going to ask anyway cuz i don't remember the exact geography of the lower left of El Nido

In the scene with Kid on Opassa Beach (i forget where it's shown in the actual game, but it's in the intro collection of scenes, where she's looking out to the ocean) what's the mountain in the background? Is that Gaia's Navel or something else in the lower left of El Nido (i remember Opassa Beach sticking out so it seems logical for her to be facing southwest)? Or could it possibly be Denadoro Mountain? I don't remember any of the islands in El Nido as being shaped like that, so could it be the mainland?

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I never really though of fate (as in destiny, not the FATE in the game) when playing CT/CC, and i find that a lot of movies and stuff ruin the idea of fate, and I always thought that CT/CC never had any relation to it.. however, after thinking it over a bit, i think fate plays a major part of CC (in my opinion it is present in CT, but everyone's fate is unquestionable, except for whatever change of fate that resulted in the altering of the original timeline), however, unlike other things, neither game butchers the idea

after reading a bit of the Dead Sea FAQ Refutations and Salt for the Dead Sea, i thought of the fact that, according to some of the theories, Serge goes against the normal course of fate, on the level of Lavos' and the Entity's trying to change/change-back fate (i forget exactly, but from what i remember, Lavos brings back chronopolis to affect the past, and the Entity brings dinopolis from the reptite timeline to cancel out the affects of chronopolis, and chronopolis uses FATE and the records of fate to limit the changes in history, correct me if i'm wrong)

So.. i'm guessing that Serge has FREE will, or at least that his actions are unpredictable.. but then again, maybe the actions of Lavos and the Entity (chronopolis/chronopolis) allowed for Serge's living (because w/o chronopolis, Serge would've died from the panther, right?), and maybe it was just that Serge's actions have high effects

but, personally, i like Serge's having the ability to change the future without the influence of the Entity (thus being what i consider a chrono trigger), while the Entity is also a chrono trigger, and can influence anyone or anything into being one (like crono and co.)

thoughts?

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