Okay maybe this is something you guys already knew about or whatever but:
I play through CTDS the first time and King Dalton gets sucked into the Golem Boss black gate like always. (i think... right?)
Now I'm playing through again and instead of that whole sequence he just dies in that red pixel fashion and the game goes on like normal.
Is that supposed to happen?
For info: It's New Game + , killing blow was a counter by ayla, and I did Marle's dimensional distortion before going to the Blackbird. (I did all 3 distortions prior to NG+ as well).
It would be interesting to see if he shows up in Crono's vortex....