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Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« on: October 06, 2007, 06:14:53 pm »
Version 1.01 of the Chrono Trigger Retranslation has been released. Click  here  to download. If you don't support the 7zip format, click  here . It fixes minor bugs, a list of which exists here.



Chrono News >>>  [1]  V Translanka recently found a strange image in Chrono Cross which displays for the spell Black Hole on one of the Fates islands via the Bend of Time. For a split-second, an image of a young woman, a boy (or girl), and an art figure appear. See the image here. Some think it's a Janus and Schala easter egg.  [2]  Thanks to hankun, we now know the role of the Japanese ROM included with Final Fantasy Chronicles discs. The PSX rips the game data from the ROM (though in the case of the US release, the English lines are pulled from external data). Read the entire fascinating thing here[3]  New bit from Biccy added to the Chrono Trigger FAQ: getting short names to display correctly (like Cro in the Retranslation patch). The trick is to put spaces before the short name, not leave spaces after. This will display the names correctly in dialogue (whereas the other method leaves spaces between the name and punctuation).

Media News >>>  [1]  Chronofan.com, our new media server, does not automatically generate index files. Notwithstanding, I've made one for the VGMix archive (which is not linked to individual songs). Find it at http://chronofan.com/Black/VGM/[2]  I forgot to preserve the link to the Chrono Trigger Remake Project's "Unfinished Business" retrospective .zip file containing art and whatnot. I've added it back to the project's listing under the Dead section of the Fan Projects page. To download the .zip file directly (if you're curious), click here[3]  The name of Lavos's incomplete theme has been fixed in the Chrono Trigger SPC archive. This incomplete variation does NOT play in the Arris Dome Day of Lavos video, but in fact the Ocean Palace. There's no actual music difference, so there is little reason to redownload if you have the archive already. If not, grab it here and the Pre soundtrack here. Remember, the Compendium's SPC soundtracks are superior to SNESMusic.org's; information is in their readmes.

Site News >>>  [1]  Three Compendium strategic goals are being decommissioned. Firstly, Crimson Echoes is no longer a goal. It would take sacrificial amounts of time to complete, and the Chrono community is simply too small to pull it off. The forums will remain locked for the time being to safeguard the extraordinary plot. Secondly, fan project wikis will no longer be offered. There are not enough fan projects to justify this. Lastly, the mission to scour for fan art and fan fiction is pointless. It would be a huge ordeal to mirror fan fiction, while fan art is all at DeviantArt these days anyway.  [2]  When changing links, I noticed that the Lavos pages didn't have his isolated eruption sprite. I've added it to the sprite sheet, and I've also added the slightly different Prerelease eruption as an image of its own to the 1999 A.D. (CTP) and Monster (CTP) pages (see here if curious).

Fan Project News >>>  [1]  Molotov's hard drive crashed, meaning until data recovery is undertaken (and known to be a successful prospect), the new Chrono Cross speedrun is indefinitely postponed. Thread in question is here. let's all hope Molotov gets his data back (and not just the Chrono videos, of course).  [2]  The winner of the Chrono Trigger Novel Project's Wii contest has been announced: MagusChild, with 78 signatures. Enjoy!  [3]  Three more fan projects have been declared dead and moved to the abandoned section of the Fan Projects page. First is Chrono Stream, whose creators have been nowhere to be found since April or May this year. Second is the Cyrus Resurrection Novel Project, whose creator stated in a February forum post that he had lost all motivation to continue. Third is Chrono Prism, which went nowhere after June 2006 since Ale decided to do another project.  [4]  While digging through Kajar Laboratories, I uncovered a Chrono Trigger tileset pack for use in RPGMaker made by wishkas. Download it here.

ROM Hacking News >>>  [1]  I've combed Kajar Laboratories to post new data to the Modification encyclopedia, and I've also updated Geiger's offsets guide here to match his new revision. New pages: [ Breakpoint Addresses - Music Notes ] Updated pages: [ Attack and Tech Scripts - Character Animations - TF Event Tricks[2]  JCE3000GT has centralized his five FF6 Chrono Trigger SPC insertions (and the one RD insertion) and released them in a single archive. Download it here[3]  Geiger's Offset guide is now updated in the Compendium's files (he actually released the new version in June; it's just sadly taken this long to get it up). Pop in to Offsets (Chrono Trigger) to download.

Fan Art >>>  [1]  We've got some new fan art from Ema and an unknown artist. It's actually old fan art from the "Art Thread" of Kajar Labs, but I'm just now rediscovering it. Thanks to FaustWolf for bringing up the unknown Lucca piece. [ Ema Crono (color) - Magus Unknown Lucca[2]  Forumer cald attempted to recreate the 1000 A.D. plane graphic seen in the Alpha Version trailer. Find it at the end of this page.

Help Needed  >>>  [1]  ce.herograw.org's backup magically disappeared, so we're missing JLukas's original Japanese script and Chickenlump's updated Temporal Flux manual. If you have these, please post.  [2]  In this thread, two Spanish Chrono fangames were discussed. The links are now down, and we don't have any backups. If anyone has these, please post.
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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2007, 06:17:14 pm »
...Ugh, I just noticed the news content boxes have darker stripes than other parts of the site. It's sort of harder to read...

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2007, 07:03:16 pm »
 I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out. Odd. XD

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2007, 07:08:35 pm »
I have Chickenlump's TF manual, but it's too big to post as an attachment here.

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2007, 02:45:36 am »
So the fanart is now to be found in devianart, of course, the future ones?? Did Dream Splash failed??

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2007, 02:51:24 am »
Oh, we're still posting fan art submitted here. And the Dream Splash! is still definitely on.

In the past, I wanted to form a group of people to scour the internet for high quality fan art / fiction we could ask to host here. But it's not worth it to do that anymore, so that's the goal I decommissioned.

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2007, 03:03:30 pm »
Whee!  That's the biggest update we've had in awhile!  Awesome stuff.

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2007, 03:17:18 am »
That Lucca sketch you found is fantastic.

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2007, 04:03:21 pm »
I have JLukas's original Japanese script, its attached  8)

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2007, 04:48:14 pm »
Huge thanks.

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2007, 09:27:31 pm »
Here's Chickenlump's TF manual.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VI2HBIQS

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2007, 06:49:24 pm »
Wow, big assed update, eh...? That sucks about Crimson Echoes...Hopefully one of these days we'll have an awesome hack/completely original fan game based in the Chronoverse...*le sigh*

EDIT: At least there's still hope in Chrono Crisis, right?

Also, all of those fanarts are kickass! I immediately love anyone who puts the hammer in Lucca's hands. ^_^
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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2007, 07:52:08 pm »
Yeah, that Lucca art is scrumptious. I could have sworn I saved it from DeviantArt, but now I can't find it. I'll share the author's name once I rediscover it.

Too bad I didn't know before about the Compendium's mission of scouring the Net for fanarts. Heck, I do that for fun!

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2007, 03:47:50 am »
Awesome news !

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Re: Retranslation Patch V1.01, Compendium Mega-Update
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2007, 11:25:55 pm »
I refuse to accept that CE is dead and done.