As you are all no doubt aware, this post comes to you on CT -- Chrono Tuesday, March 11. Chrono Trigger is 13 today! *blows on a kazoo* This is the day when we should all reflect on the substantial impact one videogame series has had on our lives.
But enough talk -- down to business. Attached to this post is the world's first non-translation Chrono Cross hack. Thanks to the artistic wonders wrought by
BROJ, maggiekarp, and Thorn,
the many members who contributed to the CC model investigation, and
Terminus Traductions (who produced crucial tools slightly modified for usability by
Ramsus), Kajar Labs now brings you a patch that, when applied to digital copies of the Chrono Cross CDs, will change Guile superficially into Magil, or Magus if you prefer to name him that.
For an idea of what you're getting when you download this hack, here's a youtube video showing off Chrono Cross' brand-new character. Click on the very lovely Aeris holiday greeting to see the video:
The video is intended to represent Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Radical Dreamers simultaneously -- the whacked-out story bits against a black background invoke Radical Dreamers; Magus' presence fulfills the wishes of many a CT fanboy/girl (myself included); and the technical host for this wondrous fan achievement is Chrono Cross itself. Shame I couldn't implement dialogue changes in time -- that's still under investigation. If dialogue changes are feasible, consider it likely that the patch will go above version 1.00! I'll even do a video where Magil goes toe-to-toe with Lynx after some pre-battle conversation.
There will be multiple versions of the Guile -> Magil patch! maggiekarp has a whole wardrobe lined up, and red-eyed & green-eyed versions of Magil/Magus are also in the works. So if Magil doesn't conform to your aesthetic tastes here, you can try out some other versions in the future.
That will be all for now. Feel free to use this thread to reminisce about Chrono or something. And let me know if the patch readme is intelligible -- I typed it up at 2AM. Without coffee.
As a postscript, I would like to express my disappointment that Wikipedia passed Chrono Trigger over for a March 11 "Today's Featured Article" honor. I would also like to be quite frank with the community in claiming at least partial responsibility for this unholy "passover." You see, videogame articles have recently been panned for receiving too much attention there, and when ZeaLitY proposed that CT should get the nod for March 11, a huge argument ensued. Yours truly became a registered Wikian (something I was long overdue for anyway), and, filled with extreme Passion of Youth, I contributed a few supporting blurbs to the "Today's Featured Article" discussion as my first action at Wikipedia. *Apparently* this is looked down upon, and I was labeled ZeaLitY's "sockpuppet" -- some Wikians suspected ZeaLitY had created another wiki account under the name "FaustWolf" in an effort to turn the tide in CT's favor -- and wow, I thought it was just a discussion and not a vote. My involvement appears to have reflected badly on the effort to get CT a TFA nod, and therefore I offer my apologies to the community, for whatever it's worth, and regardless of how much I really had to do with it.
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