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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster Twitter Japanese Q&A

« on: August 24, 2023, 09:26:43 pm »

My comments and notes on part of the last round of Q&A, as translated by DeepL.

-When the Kid first met Serge, he said something a little tricky when he heard his name, [did Kid remember that Serge saved him when he was a child?]

Kato: Yes.
Yes, he did. I don't think the Kid ever forgot. But Serge doesn't seem to know who he is, and he actually looks younger than he did that night, so I guess he's still trying to keep it all to himself for now.

I hunted through the forums, but I don't think anyone here suggested that Kid recognized Serge from the beginning. (When Zeality analyzed parts of the Ultimania with DeepL, he found a similiar claim.) Smacks of predestination though. The assumption on the timeline pages is that the orphanage sequence is a genuine tweak to history, not something that was supposed to have happened all along.

-After the last fight, Serge vaguely remembers the trip, but does he forget it afterwards? If he remembers, does Serge also continue to search for the Kid?

Kato:
I don't know. I think Serge's memories of the trip may fade little by little. That is why Kid is searching for Serge somewhere, wandering through many time lines. To meet again someday.

Another confirmation that it's supposed to be Kid searching for Serge. It being because he eventually forgot the adventure sounds new though.

-If Sarah's pendant was passed on to the Kingdom of Gardia from Sarah's hand, which was swallowed by the dimensional vortex, to the Kid, how did it get to the Kingdom of Gardia?

Kato:
There may have been another story where the Kid, Serge and others traveled back in time and crossed over to the continent before the collapse of Galdia .......

The Compendium's stance on this, as stated on the "Pendant Paradox" page, is that thanks to Time Traveler's Immunity and Time Bastard it doesn't matter whether it was a heirloom in the new timeline; Crono materializes with the pendant and the team's adventure goes on unhindered. Another reminder that the original creators may not have thought things out as much as fans do.

-The title of the group picture that was released just before the release of the remastering and displayed at the cafe, "Let it be the days of our dreams," really resonated with me. Who gave it this title? And to what extent does this "we" include us?

Kato:
Almost 25 years have passed since Cross was launched.
The days that we, the staff, spent to create Cross and ......, and the days of the lives of the players who loved Cross and .......
Our Dream Days" is the counterpart of "Dream, Dream, Days of My Soul," which was named with this in mind.

The artwork that was asked about is the key art for the Remaster, and the music track mentioned is called "Dreams of the Past, Memories of My Soul" in English.

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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster Twitter Japanese Q&A

« on: August 07, 2023, 12:52:12 am »

So the Japanese Twitter account resumed answering questions briefly on July 6! The day before, they made an announcement that it would run until August. They posted one answer each on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Tuesdays. Unfortunately, Twitter now being mostly locked out to guests has crippled the "find the original version of the question" part of my usual procedure. (That saved some time typing up the question in its entirety.)

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-キッドがセルジュに初めて会ったとき、名前聞いて少し引っかかる言い方してましたが、このときキッドは幼い頃にセルジュに助けられたことを覚えていたのでしょうか？

Kato:
ええ。キッドはずっと忘れたことはなかったと思いますよ。ただ、セルジュの方は自分のことを知らないようだし、実際にあの夜の時より幼い印象なので、今はまだすべて自分の胸にしまっておこう、ということですね。

Response
-キャラターごとに先天属性が設定されていますが、由来は精神か肉体のどちらによって定められているのでしょうか？
また生涯の内に身についた技能や知識、生活していた環境によって属性が変化することはあるのでしょうか？

Kato:
やはり精神的なものが大きいんじゃないでしょうか。またその後の生き方によっては、属性は変化するものと思いますね。
決して絶対的なものではなく。

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-ダリオってもともと、先天属性は黒なんでしょうか？
それとも黒なのはグランドリオンの影響なんでしょうか？

Kato:
これはグランドリオンの影響、というか闇落ちしたからでしょうかね。
根は人の好き、好青年であったはずなので。そう思いたい。
その場合、「先天」属性じゃなくなりますけど。笑

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-ディノポリスが成立した世界線では、クロノたちがラヴォスを倒した結果、そもそも最初からラヴォスは飛来していなかった事になっているのですか？

Kato:
これはどうだったかな。クロノたちがラヴォスを倒した云々に関係なく、純粋に恐竜人が進化した時間軸だったと思います。

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-最後の闘いのあと、セルジュはぼんやりと旅の記憶が残っていますが、その後忘れてしまうのでしょうか？もし覚えているのなら、セルジュもキッドを探し続けているのでしょうか？

Kato:
どうでしょう。セルジュのそれもでの旅の記憶は、少しずつ薄れていくのかも。だからこそキッドが、どこかにいる「セルジュ」をあまたの時間軸をさすらいながら、探し続けているのでしょう。いつか再び、出会うために。

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-イシトはなぜ黒き風が良かったんでしょう？
パレポリ軍が他の軍と違う所ってなんなのでしょう？

Kato:
イシトはそもそも、パレポリのエリード軍人の家系の出で、当然のように軍に入隊し、その後黒き風に配属されて、こつこつと真面目に軍務をこなして頭角を現したという流れですね。

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-描き下ろしで改めてキッドとツクヨミ正反対なキャラデザだと思ぅたのですが、意図的にそのデザインにされたのかなあと。二人をデザインされた時の制作秘話など聞いてみたいです。

Kato:
キッドとツクヨミは、物語の位置づけ的には表裏一体といったところがあるのですが、それゆえデザインとしては全く異なる方向性で行きたいと考えていました。まあ人間と龍の娘で、盗賊と道化師なわけだし。

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-グランドリオンは永い間人の思念に晒される事で魔剣になってしまったそうですが、イルランザーにもそうなってしまう可能性はあるのでしょうか？

Kato:
道具というのは、どんなものも使われ方によって、変わってしまいます。そもそも武器である剣が絶対的に聖なるものであるって、どういうことなのでしょう？イルランザーも、絶対にとか、永遠にとか、そういうことはないと思いますよ。

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-ガルディア王国に伝わったサラのペンダントは、次元の渦に飲まれたサラの手からキッドに渡ったのなら、どのようにガルディア王国に伝わったのでしょうか。

Kato:
キッドやセルジュたちが、時をさかのぼり、ガルディア崩壊前の大陸に渡り……、という別の物語がまたあったのかもしれません。

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-リマスター発売直前に発売された集合絵、カフェで展示する際についていた「されど我らが夢の日々よ」というタイトルがとても心に響さました。このタイトルを付けられたのはどなたなのでしょうか？そして、この「我ら」とはどこまでを含むのでしょうか？

Kato:
クロスが発売サレテカラモウ25年近い年月が流れてしまったわけで。
僕たちスタッフがクロスを作るために過ごした日々と……、そひてクロスを愛してくれたプレイヤーたちの、それぞれの人生の月日と……。
我らの夢の日々というのは、そういう思いでつけました「夢よ、夢よ、我が魂の日々よ」と対になる言葉ではあるかなと。
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-用がなくても足を運ぶほど天龍の島の景色が大好きなのですが、やはり六龍達は最終的に敵になってしまうのでしょうか。炎龍は鍛錬やペツトを飼うなどこの世界で生きる楽しみを見っけてた様にみえました。子供の頃に龍達と一緒に眺めたいなと思ってたので少し寂しかったです。

Kato:
そうですね。クロスの物語では、人間と六龍は相容れない存在ではあったので、仕方ないとは思うのですが、両者が共に生きる別の時空とうのがあっても良いと思います。

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-キャラターの中で星の子が特別大好きなのですが、星の子の故郷にある他の子たちもみんな似たような外見なのでしょうか？色違のい子などもいたりしますか？

Kato:
星の子に関しては、アナザーエデンとクロスとのコラボで、その後のエピソードが描かれているので、ぜひそちらもプレイしてみてください。キッドやツクヨミの話も書かれているので。

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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Temporal Flux Plugins

« on: January 19, 2023, 11:06:59 pm »

Hmmm... I was pretty sure that somebody figured this out before... and that what I suggested, could elaborate upon it by a few simple hacks.

You might remember from back in the day there was an event trick to color the text.

How to change text color:

I don't know the details for it but apparently this command can change the color of the text in the dialogue boxes:

MemCpy2E(43, 09, 05, 01, 00)

This one makes the text yellow, but other variants are possible.

(Now known as "ColorMath", under Scene Manipulation. Don't know the equivalent parameters under the revised command description yet.)
But that changed all the text at once. It appears to alter the palette data directly. The text is still sharing one palette. I think the SNES can't update VRAM (including the palette) on the horizontal render, only vertical (by scanline), and that still requires some tracking to time it right.

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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Temporal Flux Plugins

« on: January 18, 2023, 11:01:34 pm »

This is something I once heard about regarding a different game, but on the SNES, you can't color each character separately in a game with a variable-width/proportional font. The background layers of the SNES are tile-based, including which palette they use. In a VWF, a single tile will contain parts of multiple letters. So that one palette would be applied to multiple parts, or sharply change mid-letter on the next tile.

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Chrono Compendium Discussion / Re: Encyclopedia needs Editing

« on: November 24, 2022, 09:54:31 pm »

Well, it's a bit late for this now... I noticed that all references to "Miwa Showa" were recently changed to "Miwa Ikuta...even though the official reading of her surname is "Shoda". ("Ikuta" is apparently a much more common reading.) I mean, it's even there in her website url that one of the interviews was taken from!

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Other Topics and the Prerelease / Re: Robo Racing an Empty Jetbike? (V.Net Dash Paper ROM Magazine Scans)

« on: November 23, 2022, 03:44:58 am »

That first one at least looks like the one Shmpulations translated.
https://shmuplations.com/chronotrigger/
But I'm guessing it was taken from the same Japanese site and thus its original source is still unidentified.

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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster Twitter Japanese Q&A

« on: November 15, 2022, 02:57:36 pm »

Did DeepL leave out some parts when translating huge chunks?
Some parts are missing, sometimes important to the context of the question.
For example, the Dreamstone one above, when I throw it through DeepL today:

The Frozen Flame and the Ancient Drystone seem to be strictly separate, but are they related in any way?

Both are set up as part of Lavos that fell to the ground.

(parts in bold are what's absent)
This random one I noticed when scrolling through the page:

-Do the dragon gods have their own gender, or is this a spiritual thing? Or is it a sign of generational change?

Kato:
This is the image of the individual division. There is no generational change.

Or the final answered question:

-After the battle with Dario, Grandrion is freed from his hatred, but the flow of events in which his liberation seems to be fulfilled just by defeating him is a bit disconcerting considering the development of the ending. Was there some hidden condition?

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Chrono Cross Modification / Re: Radical Dreamers Edition: Opening Up the Data Files

« on: August 14, 2022, 12:48:41 am »

At least one of the interviews explained it.
https://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/January_2011_-_GameSpite_Interview_with_Richard_Honeywood.html

I made a rudimentary search-and-replace tool that replaced all those syllables or phonemes with the corresponding tokens. We translators would tweak these by hand, then we would add those tweaks to a dictionary file so the system gradually improved as we taught it better implementations. It was a real head-ache that I doubt many loc teams would ever be able to implement. (Thanks to Yutaka, Sammy, and Rich for putting up with all the extra workload I added to them!)

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Chrono Cross Modification / Re: Radical Dreamers Edition: Opening Up the Data Files

« on: August 13, 2022, 09:20:29 pm »

One thing that confuses me is how portraits are called. There doesn't seem to be a command for it in the CSV files, which is strange. Does the event code itself call portraits and assign lines to it? Will try to dig deeper into this.

Yeah. You can see some of the commands related to it in the old reverse-engineering documentation.
https://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Chrono_Cross_Fieldscript_Notes.html

62 QQRR SSTT UUVV WWXX YYZZ - Set up a dialogue window at screen coordinates RRQQ, TTSS, with width VVUU, height XXWW, and flagset ZZYY (ZZYY = 64 -> display portrait)
9E XXYY - Set Dialog Portrait: Set current dialogue portrait to number YYXX
E3 WW XXYY ZZ - If character WW is in the party, have him say message YYXX from the corresponding dialogue file
E0 XXYY ZZ - Message: Display message YYXX from the corresponding dialogue file.

It's been a long, long time since I actively worked on Chrono Cross, so I can't say much, other than than evidently making an active party member speak is different from an NPC/out-of-party instance of a PC. Just which portrait is automatic in the former case.

This, for example, is from one of yaz0r's tools.

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0x0299: SETUP_DIALOG_WINDOW( X:150, Y:50, LettersHigh:0, LettersWide:0, Flag:0)
0x02A4: CHARACTER_DIALOG(Kid, 0x0002, 0x08)

+-------------------------
|Kid:
|Just you wait, Lynx!
|Today's gonna be the
|day of reckonin'!!!
+-------------------------
|Say yer prayers!
|...Not that it'll
|do ya any good!!!<Close>
+-------------------------

0x02A9: WAIT_DIALOG()(To be clear, dialogue text was not part of the raw event data. The dumper splices it in from the area's dialogue data section for convenience.)

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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Enabling Tile Animations (wip)

« on: August 03, 2022, 04:31:03 pm »

Ran a trace log on one of those offsets in the OP. So going off the raw machine code, those offsets for the second and third groups of unknown data are off by a few bytes.
The data Zakyrus was editing starts at 3DF9C7, two bytes per palette-set. The value it loads is used as an offset into unknown data starting at 3DFA77, and that's about as far as I've analyzed.

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FD/E2A5:        AEFE01          LDX $01FE
FD/E2A8:        BF0300F6        LDA $F60003,X ;Palette number in location data
FD/E2AC:        0A              ASL A
FD/E2AD:        AA              TAX
FD/E2AE:        C220            REP #$20
FD/E2B0:        BFC7F9FD        LDA $FDF9C7,X
FD/E2B4:        AA              TAX
FD/E2B5:        A92005          LDA #$0520
FD/E2B8:        8D8121          STA $2181
FD/E2BB:        A90C00          LDA #$000C
FD/E2BE:        8518            STA $18
FD/E2C0:        E220            SEP #$20
FD/E2C2:        A900            LDA #$00
FD/E2C4:        8D8321          STA $2183
FD/E2C7:        A00000          LDY #$0000
FD/E2CA:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E2CE:        29F0            AND #$F0
FD/E2D0:        F032            BEQ $E304

FD/E2D2:        C910            CMP #$10
FD/E2D4:        F034            BEQ $E30A
FD/E2D6:        C980            CMP #$80
FD/E2D8:        F030            BEQ $E30A
FD/E2DA:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E2DE:        992005          STA $0520,Y
FD/E2E1:        E8              INX
FD/E2E2:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E2E6:        992105          STA $0521,Y
FD/E2E9:        E8              INX
FD/E2EA:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E2EE:        992205          STA $0522,Y
FD/E2F1:        E8              INX
FD/E2F2:        A900            LDA #$00
FD/E2F4:        992305          STA $0523,Y
FD/E2F7:        992405          STA $0524,Y
FD/E2FA:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E2FE:        992505          STA $0525,Y
FD/E301:        E8              INX
FD/E302:        8074            BRA $E378

FD/E304:        E8              INX
FD/E305:        992005          STA $0520,Y
FD/E308:        806E            BRA $E378

FD/E30A:        48              PHA
FD/E30B:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E30F:        992005          STA $0520,Y
FD/E312:        E8              INX
FD/E313:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E317:        992105          STA $0521,Y
FD/E31A:        E8              INX
FD/E31B:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E31F:        992205          STA $0522,Y
FD/E322:        E8              INX
FD/E323:        A900            LDA #$00
FD/E325:        992305          STA $0523,Y
FD/E328:        992405          STA $0524,Y
FD/E32B:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E32F:        992505          STA $0525,Y
FD/E332:        E8              INX
FD/E333:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E337:        992605          STA $0526,Y
FD/E33A:        E8              INX
FD/E33B:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E33F:        992705          STA $0527,Y
FD/E342:        E8              INX
FD/E343:        BF77FAFD        LDA $FDFA77,X
FD/E347:        992805          STA $0528,Y
FD/E34A:        E8              INX
FD/E34B:        68              PLA
FD/E34C:        C980            CMP #$80
FD/E34E:        D028            BNE $E378

FD/E350:        C221            REP #$21
FD/E352:        8A              TXA
FD/E353:        6977FA          ADC #$FA77
FD/E356:        992905          STA $0529,Y
FD/E359:        A90000          LDA #$0000
FD/E35C:        E220            SEP #$20
FD/E35E:        A9FD            LDA #$FD
FD/E360:        992B05          STA $052B,Y
FD/E363:        B92005          LDA $0520,Y
FD/E366:        290F            AND #$0F
FD/E368:        850E            STA $0E
FD/E36A:        640F            STZ $0F
FD/E36C:        C220            REP #$20
FD/E36E:        8A              TXA
FD/E36F:        38              SEC
FD/E370:        650E            ADC $0E
FD/E372:        AA              TAX
FD/E373:        A90000          LDA #$0000
FD/E376:        E220            SEP #$20

FD/E378:        98              TYA
FD/E379:        18              CLC
FD/E37A:        690C            ADC #$0C
FD/E37C:        A8              TAY
FD/E37D:        C948            CMP #$48
FD/E37F:        F003            BEQ $E384
FD/E381:        4CCAE2          JMP $E2CA

FD/E384:        A900            LDA #$00
FD/E386:        992005          STA $0520,Y
FD/E389:        992C05          STA $052C,Y
FD/E38C:        993805          STA $0538,Y
FD/E38F:        994405          STA $0544,Y
FD/E392:        995005          STA $0550,Y
FD/E395:        995C05          STA $055C,Y
FD/E398:        AB              PLB
FD/E399:        2B              PLD
FD/E39A:        28              PLP
FD/E39B:        6B              RTL

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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Chrono Trigger extra editing documents miscellaneous data

« on: July 25, 2022, 01:02:04 am »

Attachments are very simple. Under the reply box, there's a section called "attachments and other options". Expand it, and there you can attach files to the post.

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Chrono Cross Modification / Re: Fully reverse engineering Chrono Cross back into C code

« on: May 30, 2022, 07:22:19 pm »

This is a list of SDK functions I got using radare2 (note: I was using a version from a few years ago) and FLIRT signatures originally meant for IDA.

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0x80010008    3 172          flirt.__SN_ENTRY_POINT
0x800100f4   19 304  -> 300  flirt.atoi
0x80010284    5 48           flirt.bzero
0x800102b4    4 64           flirt.toupper
0x800103d4    5 64   -> 52   flirt.memcpy
0x80010414    8 112  -> 108  flirt.memmove
0x80010484    5 48           flirt.memset
0x800104b4   11 252          flirt._putchar
0x800105b0    3 60           flirt._putchar_flash
0x80010714    5 96   -> 84   flirt.puts
0x80010774    1 48           flirt.rand
0x800107b4    1 60           flirt.setjmp
0x80010834   10 176  -> 164  flirt.strcat
0x80010924   10 112  -> 100  flirt.strcmp
0x80010994    6 80   -> 68   flirt.strcpy
0x800109e4    6 64   -> 52   flirt.strlen
0x80010d04    6 112          flirt.todigit
0x80011164    4 192  -> 180  flirt.SetDefDrawEnv
0x80011224    1 64   -> 60   flirt.SetDefDispEnv
0x80011264    1 64   -> 60   flirt.GetTPage
0x800113a4    1 64   -> 60   flirt.AddPrim
0x80011474    4 48   -> 40   flirt.SetSemiTrans
0x800114a4    4 48   -> 40   flirt.SetShadeTex
0x80011794    5 48   -> 44   flirt.SetDrawTPage
0x800117c4    4 96           flirt.SetDrawMove
0x800118d4    4 112          flirt.SetTexWindow
0x80011c34   12 372          flirt.ResetGraph
0x80011eb8    3 96           flirt.DrawSyncCallback
0x80011f18    7 152          flirt.SetDispMask
0x80011fb0   18 388          flirt.DrawSync
0x80012134    1 144          flirt.ClearImage
0x8001225c    1 96           flirt.LoadImage
0x800122bc    1 96           flirt.StoreImage
0x8001231c    5 184          flirt.MoveImage
0x8001249c    3 172          flirt.ClearOTagR
0x800125a4    3 112          flirt.DrawOTag
0x80012614    3 192          flirt.PutDrawEnv
0x800127ac    1 52           flirt.GetDrawEnv
0x800127e0   75 1272         flirt.PutDispEnv
0x80012cd8    1 52           flirt.GetDispEnv
0x80015784    1 32           flirt.atol
0x800157a4    1 32           flirt.atol
0x80015810   14 208  -> 204  flirt.PadGetState
0x800159d4    7 224  -> 152  flirt.PadInfoAct
0x80015bd0    1 256  -> 72   flirt.PadInfoMode
0x800165a4    1 204          flirt.PadStartCom
0x80016670    1 68           flirt.PadStopCom
0x800187d4   19 224  -> 220  flirt.__gedf2
0x800188b4   37 896  -> 884  flirt.__adddf3
0x80018c34   12 256  -> 244  flirt.__fixdfsi
0x80018d34    1 16   -> 12   flirt._bu_init
0x80018d74    1 16   -> 12   flirt.InitCARD2
0x80018d84    1 16   -> 12   flirt.StartCARD2
0x80018d94    1 16   -> 12   flirt.StopCARD2
0x80018da4    1 16   -> 12   flirt._card_write
0x80018e34    1 220  -> 68   flirt._patch_card_info
0x80018f10    3 148          flirt._patch_card
0x80018fa4    3 112          flirt._patch_card2
0x80019014    3 64   -> 52   flirt._copy_memcard_patch
0x80019054    5 144          flirt.InitCARD
0x800190e4    3 72           flirt.StartCARD
0x8001912c    1 40           flirt.StopCARD
0x80019154    3 128  -> 112  flirt._ExitCard
0x8001a994    2 64           flirt.DsFlush
0x800228d4    1 16   -> 12   flirt.InitHeap
0x800228e4    1 16   -> 12   flirt.FlushCache
0x80022904    1 16   -> 12   flirt.DeliverEvent
0x80022914    1 16   -> 12   flirt.OpenEvent
0x80022944    1 16   -> 12   flirt.EnableEvent
0x80022964    1 16           flirt.EnterCriticalSection
0x80022974    1 16           flirt.ExitCriticalSection
0x800229b4    1 16   -> 12   flirt.write
0x80022a04    1 16   -> 12   flirt.SysEnqIntRP
0x80022a24    1 16   -> 12   flirt.ChangeClearRCnt
0x80022cd4    1 16   -> 12   flirt.firstfile2
0x80022cf0    1 16           flirt.GsGetWorkBase
0x80022fe4    1 16   -> 12   flirt.InitPAD2
0x80023004    1 16   -> 12   flirt.StopPAD2
0x80023014    1 16   -> 12   flirt.PAD_init2
0x800230c4    3 112  -> 104  flirt._remove_ChgclrPAD
0x80023ca8   25 640          flirt.CD_sync
0x80023f28   29 712          flirt.CD_ready
0x800241f0   43 1036         flirt.CD_cw
0x800245fc    1 136          flirt.CD_vol
0x80024684    4 212          flirt.CD_flush
0x80024758    5 240          flirt.CD_initvol
0x80024848    1 76           flirt.CD_initintr
0x80024894   11 480          flirt.CD_init
0x80024a74    9 360          flirt.CD_datasync
0x80024bdc    6 256          flirt.CD_set_test_parmnum
0x80024cdc    3 240  -> 236  flirt.CD_getsector2
0x80025044    4 60           flirt.rsin
0x80025080    8 148  -> 144  flirt.sin_1
0x80025114   10 160          flirt.rcos
0x80025584   22 272  -> 260  flirt.SetFogNearFar
0x80025724    6 144  -> 128  flirt.SquareRoot0
0x80025b04    1 144  -> 40   flirt.LoadAverageShort12
0x80025f94    3 164  -> 76   flirt.PushMatrix
0x80026038    3 172  -> 92   flirt.PopMatrix
0x80026404    1 48   -> 36   flirt.TransMatrix
0x80026434    1 320  -> 312  flirt.ScaleMatrix
0x80026d54   13 656  -> 652  flirt.RotMatrix
0x80027274    1 512  -> 248  flirt.RotMatrixYXZ_gte
0x80027474    1 528  -> 248  flirt.RotMatrix_gte
0x80027684   41 384  -> 372  flirt.ratan2
0x80027804    6 172          flirt._ExitCard
0x800278e4   23 528          flirt.VSync
0x80027af4    1 48           flirt.ResetCallback
0x80027b24    1 48           flirt.InterruptCallback
0x80027b54    1 48           flirt.DMACallback
0x80027b84    1 52           flirt.VSyncCallback
0x80027c48    1 16           flirt.CheckCallback
0x80027c70   22 1348 -> 524  flirt.SetIntrMask
0x800281d4    1 16   -> 12   flirt.ReturnFromException
0x800281e4    1 16   -> 12   flirt.ResetEntryInt
0x800281f4    1 16   -> 12   flirt.HookEntryInt
0x80028204    5 288  -> 124  flirt.startIntrVSync
0x80028324    5 672  -> 112  flirt.startIntrDMA
0x800285d8    1 16           flirt.GsGetWorkBase
0x80028654   10 192          flirt.PCread
0x800287b4    1 32           flirt.SsUtReverbOff
0x800287d4    4 232          flirt._SpuInit
0x800288bc    3 120  -> 112  flirt.SpuStart
0x80028934   31 1088         flirt._spu_init
0x80028ed8   30 640          flirt._spu_t
0x80029158    4 132          flirt._spu_Fw
0x800291dc    1 100          flirt._spu_Fr
0x80029240    4 68           flirt._spu_FsetRXX
0x80029284   11 164          flirt._spu_FsetRXXa
0x8002940c    4 104  -> 92   flirt._spu_Fw1ts
0x80029474    1 48   -> 36   flirt._SpuDataCallback
0x800294a4   10 208  -> 204  flirt.SpuSetReverb
0x8002af30    1 320  -> 312  flirt.ScaleMatrixL
0x8002f860   13 656  -> 652  flirt.RotMatrixZYX
0x8003fc70    3 128  -> 116  flirt.SpuQuit
0x800421e8    2 48           flirt.GsSetLsMatrix
0x80049bf0   10 336  -> 204  flirt.CdInit
0x80049e50    1 64           flirt.TransposeMatrix
0x8004ac70    1 16           flirt.GsGetWorkBase
0x8004b1a0    4 96   -> 92   flirt.SpuSetTransferStartAddr
0x8004b200    5 48           flirt.SpuSetTransferMode
0x8004b8e4   14 156          flirt.SetRCnt
0x8004b980    4 56           flirt.GetRCnt
0x8004b9b8    1 48           flirt.StartRCnt
0x8004b9e8    1 52           flirt.StopRCnt
0x8004ba54    4 96   -> 84   flirt.SpuInitMalloc
0x8004bab4   20 320  -> 316  flirt.SpuSetIRQ
0x8004bbf4    3 64   -> 60   flirt.SpuSetIRQCallback
0x8004bc34    1 48   -> 36   flirt._SpuCallback
0x8004bc64    5 96   -> 92   flirt.SpuRead
0x8004bcc4    5 96   -> 92   flirt.SpuRead
0x8004bd24    3 48   -> 36   flirt.SpuSetTransferCallback
0x8004dd70    4 80   -> 72   flirt.SpuSetNoiseClock
0x8004dde0    1 48   -> 40   flirt.SpuSetReverbModeDepth
0x800516c4   20 464  -> 460  flirt.SpuSetReverbModeType
0x80051894   97 1232         flirt._spu_setReverbAttr
0x80051d64   19 416  -> 404  flirt.SpuClearReverbWorkArea
0x80051f04    1 16   -> 12   flirt.WaitEvent
0x80056440    4 64           flirt.SpuSetIRQAddr
0x80090e44    1 64   -> 40   flirt.DsFlush
0x80094118    2 64           flirt.DsFlush

13

Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster Twitter Japanese Q&A

« on: May 18, 2022, 04:48:56 pm »

On May 9, the Japanese Twitter account announced in this tweet that question submissions would be closed soon, and that answers were going on hiatus the next day. Here are the remaining answered questions from where I left off.

Question Response
-コアな質問ですみません。(それくらい好き)星の塔にいた、建物に組み込まれた喋る像(多分元人間)は、どなただったのでしょうか………？(設定資料集にはうっすら重大なことが書いてありましたが、多分ゲームに組み込まれていくうちに変わったのでは……？)と。

Kato:
あれは初期段階ではいろいろと考えていたのですが、描ききれなくて……。力不足でした。

Question Response
-ガライ・ミゲル・ワヅキ(ヤマネコ)と何度も親世代が立ちはだかりますが、(しかもやたら強敵)メッセージがあるのでしょうか？

Kato:
その辺は特に意識していなかぅたですね。まあ、親と子の対立というのは普遍的なテーマではあろので。

Question Response
-6体の龍神の中で天龍のみH(死海崩壊時に助けてくれる方)とA(白龍神の祈りをくれる方)両方の世界で会うことができますが、なぜ彼女だけがどちらの世界でも生きているのですか？また、他の龍神たちと合体したときに居たのはどちらの世界の天龍なのですか？

Kato:
天龍な通常はアナザーで生息していて、必要な時だけホームに出現します。龍神のリーダー格として、特殊な能力を有していたのかも。

Question Response
-トリガーで魔王の配下だったビネガー達が次元の狭間に行くことになった経緯と、あの場所に居るスペッキオはトリガーのスペッキオと同一神なのかを知りたいです。トリガーのスペッキオ本人なら、何故あの場所の彼はセルジュ達の強さに反映された見た目にならないのですか？

Kato:
三魔騎士は、何者かに召喚されて現れたようです。戦いの神と名乗る、今回のスペッキオは、神の別の顔か分身のような存在なのかも。

Question Response
-ダリオとの戦いを経てグランドリオンは憎しみから解放されることになりますが、倒すだけで解放が果たされているように見える流れはエンディングの展開を考えると少し違和感が残ります。何か隠れた条件があったのでしょうか。

Kato:
呪われたグランとリオンの両名は、時を喰らうものとは本質的に異なるので、その解放の仕方も異なる、ということになります。

14

Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Adding music?

« on: May 01, 2022, 08:28:27 pm »

There are four pieces of data associated with each song slot: Sequence data, the instrument table, the drum table, and some volume-related data.

Code: [Select]

070AE9 070AE9 DATA N Total number of songs ($53)
070D18 070E10 PTR N "SPC pointers (83 addresses), SPCs may be compressed, data doesn't match SPC files" 2003.05.08
070E11 071870 DATA N "Instrument table (83 elements, 32 bytes each)" 2003.05.27
071871 07241C DATA N "Unknown data, 0x24 bytes per song, 0x53 total" 2008.07.30
07241D 0724C2 DATA N "Unknown data, volume related? 2 bytes per song, 0x53 total" 2008.07.30


Code: (SPC Pointer table) [Select]

C7/050F:        BF180DC7        LDA $C70D18,X
C7/0513:        8512            STA $12
C7/0515:        BF190DC7        LDA $C70D19,X
C7/0519:        8513            STA $13
C7/051B:        BF1A0DC7        LDA $C70D1A,X
C7/051F:        8514            STA $14

Code: (Instrument table) [Select]

C7/01EA:        BF110EC7        LDA $C70E11,X
C7/01EE:        F01F            BEQ $020F
C7/01F0:        9212            STA ($12)
C7/01F2:        E612            INC $12
C7/01F4:        E612            INC $12

Code: (Drum table offset) [Select]

C7/05B2:        A971            LDA #$71
C7/05B4:        8512            STA $12
C7/05B6:        A918            LDA #$18
C7/05B8:        8513            STA $13
C7/05BA:        A9C7            LDA #$C7
C7/05BC:        8514            STA $14

Code: (Volume-related data) [Select]

C7/0A45:        BF1E24C7        LDA $C7241E,X
C7/0A49:        8502            STA $02
C7/0A4B:        BF1D24C7        LDA $C7241D,X
C7/0A4F:        290F            AND #$0FThe simple edit would be to change the addresses in these blocks of code to new locations and copy all the old data over to the new places and add the new data after. More complex was some Japanese RS3 hacks did to load data from a new location only when an additional song slot was used.

Even with the max-song byte edited, I don't believe Temporal Flux will allow you to select the additional song slots, so you'll have to use a workaround to insert them into events, similar to the tutorial on using the last few enemy slots. (Unless it's something done by setting a memory address, like the overworld music or default battle music for an area.)

15

Retranslation of Chrono Trigger / Re: The meaning of 'so as to not become butter'

« on: April 24, 2022, 01:23:26 pm »

kWhazit has his own site where he hosts his translations, which unlike the full retranslation document here, get updated from time-to-time.

https://kwhazit.ucoz.net/trans/ct/endtime.html

It comes from a children's book called The Story of Little Black Sambo, which includes a part where tigers chase each other around and around a tree until they melt into butter.

His update history for 2018 points out this line specifically as the main revision for that update to his text.