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| | We're prioritizing the items below in this order. If you feel like volunteering, definitely start at the top if you can! | | We're prioritizing the items below in this order. If you feel like volunteering, definitely start at the top if you can! |
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| − | *Chrono Trigger V-Jump Preview 2
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| | *Chrono Trigger V-Jump Player's Guide Interview | | *Chrono Trigger V-Jump Player's Guide Interview |
| − | *Chrono Cross Missing Piece Pages | + | *Chrono Trigger Prerelease Coverage |
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| − | *V-Jump Magazine Coverage
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| | *Chrono Cross V-Jump Interview Video | | *Chrono Cross V-Jump Interview Video |
| − | *Chrono Trigger DS, portions relating to new dungeons (pending script)
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| | *Mitsuda interviews from Más allá del Tiempo | | *Mitsuda interviews from Más allá del Tiempo |
| | *Chrono Trigger OAV Manga | | *Chrono Trigger OAV Manga |
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| | ===Script=== | | ===Script=== |
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| − | *[[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 | + | *[[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. |
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| | ==Chrono Trigger== | | ==Chrono Trigger== |
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| − | ===[[1995 Gendai Plus Chrono Trigger Feature]]===
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| | ===[[Chrono Trigger OAV Manga]]=== | | ===[[Chrono Trigger OAV Manga]]=== |
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| − | Image:Card_rules.jpg|Contest rules
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| − | Image:Frontcover2.jpg|Contest prizes
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| | Image:P184.jpg|184 Comics | | Image:P184.jpg|184 Comics |
| | Image:P185.jpg|185 Comics | | Image:P185.jpg|185 Comics |
| − | Image:P186.jpg|186 Unknown | + | Image:P186.jpg|186 Feature on TV commercial with clock mechanism |
| − | Image:P187.jpg|187 Unknown | + | Image:P187.jpg|187 Feature on TV commercial with clock mechanism |
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| | ===[[Chrono Trigger Prerelease Coverage]]=== | | ===[[Chrono Trigger Prerelease Coverage]]=== |
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| − | ===Brut Press Volume, December 1994===
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| − | Recovered by Cabbusses's Retro Obscurities [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4VN-nHzyEk here]. Download the original file [http://chronofan.com/Black/Video/Brut_Press_Volume_Dec_1994.mp4 here] (MP4, 250 MB). Original NicoNico URLs, now down:
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| − | 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:
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| − | * A possible demo version of [[Battle]] 1's percussion/drum track
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| − | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Q17vJ_bp4 アナデンまつり2018春 アナザーエデン超感謝！祝リリース1周年生放送] (supposedly, Kato talks about Chrono Break on this one) | + | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0MQE8IS1IU FFXI もぎたてヴァナディール！第45回 （テスト放送付き）] - there's some discussion on the battle system of Chrono Trigger towards the last quarter of the interview; hard to parse any new information. |
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| | + | Masato Kato discusses Chrono Break in this one; see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Q17vJ_bp4 here]. Using OpenAI's Whisper and DeepL, it appears the team We haven't had an actual translation by a volunteer, but I've used the OpenAI Whisper transcription tool to get what I can out of it. The raw text is below; here are my conclusions from feeding it into DeepL: |
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| | + | * There's some discussion of Chrono Trigger in the first half of the video, where (Kato?) discusses having writer's block for developing the story for roughly a year after the project was started, and resisting being fired from the project. |
| | + | * He started brainstorming ideas for a new Chrono game shortly after Cross's release around 2000, with the idea that it would be a PS2-era game. |
| | + | * It really is intended to be titled "Break", not "Brake", as he was imagining a story about time literally breaking somehow (DeepL says, "And the title was something like, 'That's when it all goes to shit.'") |
| | + | * Preproduction was in session around 2000/2001 (including the registration of the trademark). |
| | + | * Final Fantasy Dimensions II ended up recycling the main scenario of the story! |
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| | + | There's some mention of Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross afterwards, but it seems mostly inconsequential. The raw transcription is below. We're hoping someone will translate this snippet fully; see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYGvtqvAUOE this link]. |
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| | ''From'': [[Main Page]] | | ''From'': [[Main Page]] |
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.
We're prioritizing the items below in this order. If you feel like volunteering, definitely start at the top if you can!
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.
This guide is a goldmine of interviews and special features, including some early character sketches by Toriyama (see Official Art) for those.
Includes material on Chrono Cross, as well. We're hoping for something unique in here. The translations will be kept on that page. We've looked over most of them with Google Lens, but there a few untranslated interviews that would be great to have (look for "Priority" in the text, or anything that says "Interview").
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.
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.
There's some mention of Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross afterwards, but it seems mostly inconsequential. The raw transcription is below. We're hoping someone will translate this snippet fully; see this link.
