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Chrono Cross Modification / Re: Is there a Wazuki sprite model, anyone???

« on: April 18, 2022, 05:40:46 pm »

Those are only the models he included in the online model viewer, there were also files dumped which could be viewed in Blender.

I exported this a long time ago, unfortunately Blender is kind of an annoying tool to get used to.

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Chrono Cross Modification / Re: New Party Mods

« on: April 18, 2022, 04:14:30 pm »

There's some good shit in that discord, but I think these ideas are a bit too ambitious. Several of these characters lack either a battle or overworld model. Making custom ones and somehow making that work seems like a really difficult task.

Would be awesome tho.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Revisiting Guile being Magus retcon with added info from CC remaster... SPOILERS

« on: April 15, 2022, 05:58:22 pm »

Guess that’s what New Game+ is for. You can’t see every unique dialogue in one playthrough anyway. And Irenes is a cool character, glad I’m not the only one who likes her.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Revisiting Guile being Magus retcon with added info from CC remaster... SPOILERS

« on: April 15, 2022, 05:13:03 pm »

Are you really sure about that? I could've sworn that wasn't the case... But I know for a fact that if you don't bring Karsh to the Isle of the Damned, Solt and Peppor will just tell you to piss off and go get him. Nothing happens until you bring him yourself.

I may be mistaken about Isle of the Damned, but I can 100% confirm the Dario scenario as well as Razzly.  I have tested both of these personally.  For Dario, Riddel must be in your party but Radius and Karsh are also present regardless of if you bring them.

As for Razzly, there seems to be a Mandela effect going on here because I triggered this last night trying to get the campfire scene while taking the "save kid path".  When I googled it, many made the same claim as you.  However regardless of the fact that I never used Razzly, she was still present for the scene with the surviving fairies and no campfire scene took place.  Upon further testing, the only way Razzly is not present is if you do not recruit her at all and instead go straight to the Hydra.  Then and only then will she not show up, and you get the campfire cutscene instead (aside from taking the NOT saving kid path, for obvious reasons).

What makes the Razzly one so relevant to this topic though, is that she HAD to have been brought there by Serge.  When you recruit her, she states that she is not strong enough to cross the sea on her own.  So what this tells us is that even if she is not part of your party of three, she is indeed still present.  And that is what is relevant to Guile and Kid potentially still being present for this monologue to take place regardless of your three person team, in a scenario where you recruit Guile and do not ignore Kid.  In this instance, the gameplay mechanic of a three person party does not apply to the actual lore or events happening on screen.

Water Dragon Isle is probably the single segment of the game with the most possible variations, and I wonder why they did that. Razzly can be there and Rosetta can die, Razzly can be there and Rosetta can live, Razzly can be absent and Rosetta can die, Razzly can be absent and Rosetta can live, or if you just never go there the fairies are eradicated entirely by monsters.

Anyway, the point was… they clearly can convey the story of party members even if you don’t bring them along, which is why I find it confusing they couldn’t convey Magus in CC… the large roster of characters shouldn’t matter, just have him show up whenever he’s relevant, regardless of whether he’s in the party or not. Maybe the real reason is they just ran out of developer time.

I've noticed that if you have Norris and Zoah on your team in Termina, Another World Norris will be surprised to noticed Zoah and himself in your team. ironically, i've been using serge,kid,and guile and Guile does make a statement to you in Termina happy to learn you're alive, abit in Lynx's body, but cannot join due to unforseen circumstances.  been taking screenshots and video captures for some hilarious moments.

speaking of which, defeating miguel last night made me dream of him for some reason. must have been art inspiration.

There’s many, many instances like that. If you refused Kid and got Leena, Kid will assume she’s your girlfriend. If you go to the inn first thing after entering Termina, she’ll add a comment about Serge being sleazy. If you chose not to save Kid and bring Glenn to Mt Pyre and Fort Dragonia, he’ll have interactions with the Dragoons and General Viper. If you take Radius and Zappa to the Dead Sea, they’ll have a horrified reaction upon seeing the other Dragoons frozen in time. If you bring Another World Karsh to Home World Zappa, they’ll have a slight heart to heart.

There’s too many to list them all, but usually if you bring a character to a scene they’re relevant to, there will be some funny or interesting special dialogue. It’s one of the things I love about CC.

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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!

« on: April 15, 2022, 04:50:14 pm »

Yeah, it is. That does not show up in-game.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Revisiting Guile being Magus retcon with added info from CC remaster... SPOILERS

« on: April 15, 2022, 03:45:33 pm »

Are you really sure about that? I could've sworn that wasn't the case... But I know for a fact that if you don't bring Karsh to the Isle of the Damned, Solt and Peppor will just tell you to piss off and go get him. Nothing happens until you bring him yourself.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Revisiting Guile being Magus retcon with added info from CC remaster... SPOILERS

« on: April 15, 2022, 03:07:26 pm »

Actually, if you don't bring Razzly to Water Dragon Isle, she won't be present during any of the scenes and the fairies will just throw a hissy fit at Serge. There are other character interactions that are entirely optional and possible to miss. If you bring someone related to Dario to meet him in Home World, they'll each have a unique dialogue with him.

Kid is the only character in the game (and Harle I guess) that will be present for major events no matter what you do, even if you refuse her multiple offers to join the party. She'll be there in Viper Manor, and in Fort Dragonia, I'm pretty sure Serge still reminisces about her aboard the S.S. Invincible, and she'll be there in Chronopolis. Terra Tower I'm not sure, I think she's absent if you don't save her from her coma.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Revisiting Guile being Magus retcon with added info from CC remaster... SPOILERS

« on: April 15, 2022, 01:46:16 pm »

It’s intriguing, but not much more than that. Nothing was shown or heard, just some plains walls of text on a plain background. Reading it just makes me wish that much more that they could have found a way to include Magus in a more meaningful way in CC. I understand that the ability to bring any party member you want would make it difficult to tell his story, but then again isn’t it the same for Kid? You can pretty much ignore her and never recruit her, and she will still be present for some of the game’s major events. They could have done the same for Magus.


Then again, if Magus was in CC, everyone would pretty much just constantly have Kid and Magus in the party and ignore the 42 other characters. Except Glenn, maybe.

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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!

« on: April 15, 2022, 01:12:03 pm »

https://www.rpgsite.net/news/12648-chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-has-a-new-hidden-post-credits-scene

This article says there's a new post credits scene if you beat both Chrono Cross and Radical Dreamers?!?

I didn't read it because of spoilers and I'm still working through the game, but you can read the first half of the article before it goes into the clearly marked spoilers.

It’s a pretty boring ending, plain text on a black screen. So much for effort. Didn’t read it all, but it’s Magil related, probably something to make a closer connection between him and Guile.

Also figured out what pressing the right stick does btw. It doesn’t increase enemies on the map, or even in battle. Just maxes out all characters’ element level right from the start of the battle. Guess all the Dreamer’s accesories are uttery pointless now.

Edit: Pressing the right stick has even more functions. Your stamina level never depletes, and also any attack enemies make against you will miss and do zero damage. Guess they added God mode. Because Chrono Cross was such a hard game.

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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!

« on: April 14, 2022, 07:16:09 pm »

Also, this shows up in the game now after Terra Tower. I can't remember if it showed up in the original game, but I seem to remember reading that the text was in the game files but never displayed. Well, now it is.

Still can't re-enter it or anything... but neat I guess.

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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!

« on: April 13, 2022, 04:59:56 pm »

There's a lot of talk going around that the game is really just an emulated version, even has the CDROM.dat files inside the data folder...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Just some dat files with the game files inside it.



Looks like this port has been in the works since 2019, going by the files timestamp lol.

I believe there was a Nvidia leak or dump somewhere around 2019 (or 2020?) that leaked CC getting a remaster or update of some kind, along with another Onimusha game that has been hush hush so far.

I bought the game on PSN and my goodness those new tracks at the main menu are beautiful. Love the artwork too, and I actually find it interesting that Leena is next to Serge, and Kid was down in front. Of course you got Guile in the back too, cuz Magus 

Speaking of Magus, has anyone played up to the part with Kid reading the letter from Lucca? Was that character shadow still there?

Shadow's still there...

I hope someone finds a way to rip the backgrounds from the Remaster, some of them are pretty well touched up.

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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!

« on: April 11, 2022, 03:45:20 pm »

There’s a weird bug going on, at least in the Switch version. When you go to the top chamber of Home Fort Dragonia and activate the pedestal with the Dragon Tear, the wall doesn’t light up when the scene about the origins of life is going on. As a result, the spark just moves along a dark, stone wall. Kinda ruins the scene a little bit.

They also fixed the Viper lvl 7 tech glitch. No more getting tons of Dragoon’s Glorys for EZ money.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Why, between so many endings there's not one which Serge and Kid end together?

« on: April 11, 2022, 02:23:08 pm »

Actually, I'm pretty sure Razzly can be recruited. You just can't bring her to the Ice Breath quest. If you do that, the Kid campfire scene is substituted for Razzly's scene with the other fairies.

As for why there isn't an ending like that... because the endings are alternate realities, I guess. And Serge and Kid ending up together is the main reality and the true ending.

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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!

« on: April 10, 2022, 06:58:19 pm »

Also has the pointy tooth in his pirate getup... I think I prefer the old one, this version looks too tan... but it's not bad I guess

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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!

« on: April 09, 2022, 04:20:30 pm »

The casino trick no longer works You are now unable to pause the game while playing… can’t even use Time Shifter.

There goes an easy Rainbow Shell and Denadorite farming…

Also “Cat on a hot tin roof” is now “Catamorphosis”… ok…