Material Requiring Translation

The following documents need to be translated to achieve a greater understanding of the Chrono series. If you would like to volunteer, please contact chronocompendium@gmail.com. Your work will be invaluable in helping us crack the last few mysteries whose answers have been forever barred from Western audiences.

  • Priority List

We're prioritizing the items below in this order. If you feel like volunteering, definitely start at the top if you can!

  • Chrono Trigger V-Jump Preview 2
  • Brut Press Volume
  • Chrono Trigger V-Jump Player's Guide Interview
  • Chrono Trigger Prerelease Coverage
  • Chrono Cross V-Jump Interview Video
  • Mitsuda interviews from Más allá del Tiempo
  • Chrono Trigger OAV Manga
  • Chrono Trigger Prerelease (Undecipherable Text from Earlier Builds)
  • Youtube Another Eden and FF Interviews

Chrono Trigger Prerelease[edit]

Script[edit]

  • Translated Text (CTP) (undecipherable portions from earlier builds); note that RyogaMasaki probably has translated this as well as will ever be possible at this point

Chrono Trigger[edit]

1995 Gendai Plus Chrono Trigger Feature[edit]

Discusses workplace life at Square. Download here. Any help translating what is said would be appreciated.

Chrono Trigger OAV Manga[edit]

It's around ~160 pages and intended for a young reading level, so perhaps it won't be as difficult to translate as other stuff. If possible, a scanlation would be mind-blowingly awesome.

NOTE: EVERYTHING THROUGH GATE 3 HAS BEEN TRANSLATED AT THIS TIME (PAGES 26-27.JPG). IF YOU'D LIKE TO HELP, START WITH 28, AND THANKS!

Chrono Trigger V-Jump Player's Guide[edit]

This guide is a goldmine of interviews and special features, including some early character sketches by Toriyama (see Official Art) for those.

  • Contest rules

  • Contest sheet (used)

  • Contest prizes

  • 29 3D Epoch

  • 38 Dream Team

  • 52 Character relations

  • 53 Character dialogue

  • 140 3D Epoch

  • 149 Dream Team interview

  • 150 Dream Team interview

  • 151 Dream Team interview

  • 152 Dream Team interview

  • 153 Dream Team interview

  • 154 Dream Team interview

  • 155 Dream Team interview

  • 156 Dream Team interview

  • 157 Dream Team interview

  • 158 Dream Team interview

  • 159 Fan feature

  • 160 Fan feature

  • 161 Fan feature

  • 162 Fan feature

  • 163 Fan feature

  • 164 Fan feature

  • 165 Timeline

  • 166 Timeline

  • 167 Timeline

  • 168 Timeline

  • 169 Timeline

  • 170 Timeline

  • 171 Special Talk

  • 172 Special Talk

  • 173 Special Talk

  • 174 Special Talk

  • 175 Special Talk

  • 176 Special Talk

  • 177 Special Talk

  • 178 Special Talk

  • 179 Special Talk

  • 180 Special Talk

  • 181 Special Talk

  • 182 Comics

  • 183 Comics (featuring Kato's)

  • 184 Comics

  • 185 Comics

  • 186 Unknown

  • 187 Unknown

  • 190 Table of Contents, maybe

Chrono Trigger Prerelease Coverage[edit]

Includes material on Chrono Cross, as well. We're hoping for something unique in here. The translations will be kept on that page.

Brut Press Volume, December 1994[edit]

Recovered by Cabbusses's Retro Obscurities here. Download the original file here (MP4, 250 MB). Original NicoNico URLs, now down:

A rip of a Brut Press volume from Dec. 1994 (sm21657890 + sm21628083 + sm21657890 -【非売品】ブルートプレス Vol 17 19). Contains previews for various Super Famicom and PC-FX titles. Chrono Trigger coverage starts at roughly ~15:43. Among the findings:

  • Different dialogue box
  • Different instrumentation for some songs (Chrono Trigger, Lavos's Theme, Battle 1 (very briefly))
  • A possible demo version of Battle 1's percussion/drum track
  • Mock-up battles (Goon on Zenan Bridge; Gato on the Blackbird)

Translation is hopefully forthcoming.

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Chrono Cross[edit]

Chrono Cross V-Jump Preview Video[edit]

No transcription of the spoken text exists. The video isn't very long. It can be downloaded here (MP4, 22.2 MB).

Chrono Break or Other Interviews[edit]

Mas alla del Tiempo[edit]

The book Más allá del Tiempo was published in 2015 and later translated to French, containing interviews with Masato Kato and Yasunori Mitsuda:

The Kato interview has been translated:

2015 - Masato Kato, by Mariela Gonzalez

The Mitsuda interview has not been translated to English. If any Spanish-speaking of French-speaking Chrono fans can provide the Mitsuda interview, it would be hugely appreciated.

Youtube Interviews[edit]

We also need someone to watch these and provide the gist of any portions that talk about the Chrono series. A Japanese fansite that tracks interviews confirms they do, but the Chrono content is unknown.

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