GamesRadar - Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger highlight 'Love SQ' soundtrack (News)

Oct 4, 2009

Square Enix has announced Love SQ, a soundtrack composed by a variety of Japanese artists featuring music from the Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger and other Square(soft) Enix classic titles.

Namco Bandai Composer Plagiarizes Music From Chrono Trigger, Lufia II, and Warcraft II (News)

Aug 28, 2009

Kennosuke Suemura of Namco Bandai recently "borrowed" the melodies from "Battle with Magus" from Chrono Trigger and "The One Who Will Save The Earth" from Lufia II for his recent Super Robot Taisen K soundtrack. Worse, this isn't the first time this has happened. The same composer was supposedly involved in a similar incident involving music from Warcraft II when working on a previous title in the series. Namco Bandai has since released a formal apology and paid a settlement to resolve the issue. OSV has located a video showing the plagiarism in action.

Chronotorious Revealed: A Bad Production Worth Getting (News)

Aug 4, 2009

The Bad Dudes are putting out an album of arranged music from Chrono Trigger. For those who are unfamiliar with the Bad Dudes, they're a group of top remixers in the VG remixing community who often band together to put together arrangement albums, and this time it's Chrono Trigger that's on the receiving end. The album is out later this month.

Chrono Trigger announcement revealed a bit early, but don't get too excited (News)

Jul 26, 2009

NE: "Artist Stephanie Laberis had been teasing a Chrono Trigger announcement of sorts for August 11th, though she was able to reveal the mystery a few weeks early."

RPG Land : RPG Deals 7/19-7/25 (News)

Jul 22, 2009

Russ writes "At least the first deal will: Target is offering a 'buy 1 360 game, get another 360 game 50% off.' Mondays also tend to be the days Target puts new stuff on clearance or lowers the prices on clearance items. Sunday is a big day for spending, so there might be few titles left. Most Target stores get daily trucks with shipment in them so check back during the week if a title is missing."

The Top 7... Fireworks (Video)

Jun 29, 2009

Still as revolutionary as when it first came out, this remake proves to be timeless.

The Top 7… bitchin' fireworks displays (Feature)

Jun 29, 2009

Every Fourth of July, Americans proudly celebrate the casting-off of British oppression by doing what we do best: staring at explosions. ...

Square: Want more Chrono Trigger? Buy More! (News)

Jun 6, 2009

Square Enix Senior Vice President Shinji Hashimoto revealed that the company wasn't very impressed by the sales of cult RPG classic Chrono Trigger on Nintendo DS during an E3 interview regarding Front Mission Evolved, a reinvention of the Front Mission franchise.

The Top 7… RPG towns that explode (Feature)

May 18, 2009

There are lots of excellent reasons to want to blow up an RPG town. If you’re a villain, for example, you might level a place because it’s friendly to some resistance movement, or it’s in your way, or the heroes are stopping in briefly on their way to kill you. If you’re a game designer, you might do it to raise the stakes, or to give players some emotional reason to want the villain dead. ...

Chrono Trigger - Top 7 RPG towns that explode (Video)

May 18, 2009

Still as revolutionary as when it first came out, this remake proves to be timeless.

Soundtracks you didn't know were stolen (Feature)

May 13, 2009

Sunsets, love, war, babies, baby war… There’s just no telling when and where exactly musical inspiration will strike. Well, with the exception of this here article. Using GamesRadar’s collective knowledge of games and music, we managed to scrape together numerous instances of game soundtracks that were, let’s just says, all too familiar for an expose decades in the making. ...

The Top 7… greenest games (Feature)

Apr 20, 2009

How noble, the human species! Once a year we selflessly take a break from wrapping products in toxic plastics and burning piles of old tires to appease this stupid, stupid planet we live on. How dare it demand more trees, breathable air and animals that don’t choke to death on our trash? ...

100 reasons fanboys hate RPGs (Feature)

Mar 26, 2009

The Week of Hate continues with our next “100 Reasons” video. This time, we score a 20 critical for double damage on the nerdiest of all genres. Save versus this, bitches! ...

Revealed: the games your girlfriend HATES (Feature)

Mar 24, 2009

Contrary to popular belief, most gamers are not sniveling, sweaty-palmed Towers of Awkward roaming the streets in search of any woman who will have them. In fact, most of us find a girl who’s willing to put up with our gaming habits, and forgive the many hours spent saving the world from glowy-eyed zombie Nazis.

But guess what – there’s at least one game that’s driving your girlfriend batshit insane. She might ...

In the spirit of valentine's day: video game proposal madness (News)

Feb 15, 2009

Rember PSN user DimmuJed, who proposed to his girlfriend in LittleBig Planet? Of course you don't. DimmuJed is not going to official wed his fiance inside of LittleBigPlanet, and is inviting people to join as "witnesses".

This is a really cool idea, and it also reminds me of someone who previously proposed using a videogame. TheRealPfhreak hacked an area of Chrono Trigger, and filled it with characters and dialogue that related to him and his girlfriend. It's actually a pretty long level, and the entire execution was very well thought out on his part. He even noted that his girlfriend was losing interest in the game, so he rushed to make it so she wouldn't be suspicious when he forced her to play it!

Times Online - Games Reviews: Street Fighter IV, Halo Wars, Killzone 2 (News)

Feb 15, 2009

Times Online reviews for: Street Fighter IV, Halo Wars, Killzone 2

Gaming's big-ass booms! (Video)

Feb 11, 2009

Still as revolutionary as when it first came out, this remake proves to be timeless.

Chrono Trigger Composer Signed to Lime Odyssey (News)

Feb 10, 2009

Game developer Sirius Entertainment has announced today that Japanese game music composer Mitsuda Yasunori would be in charge of sound for the 3D fantasy online game Lime Odyssey, which is currently under development by the company.

Chrono Trigger DS fails to reach UK Top 40 (News)

Feb 9, 2009

Chrono Trigger is a game that the people of Europe have been waiting to play for a long, long time. 14 years after it's original English language release over in the states, European RPG fans finally have a chance to play the classic on the Nintendo DS - but they haven't taken to the game as well as one might think.

The Top 7... Cringeworthy Kisses (Feature)

Feb 9, 2009

Since videogames are notoriously inept at rendering romance on the screen, we’re celebrating the Valentine “holiday” with these seven most embarrassing and excruciating moments. Beware - the following kisses are so bizarre, so disgusting or so damn awkward that they could literally cause you physical pain. ...

Square Enix New and Upcoming European Releases (February 2009) (News)

Feb 9, 2009

"So now you know what´s coming. The question is: are you ready to face the non-stop gamestravaganza formerly known as February!? We hope you are, 'cause March looks like it´s going to be CRAZY! See you then!"

Square Enix reveal the new and upcoming titles hitting European gamers this February and March 2009.

The Top 7... Best Beginnings (Feature)

Jan 26, 2009

Gamers are a fickle and impatient bunch. After spending our childhoods at the altar of a twitchy, flashy, interactive dream box, we tend to act a bit ADD. The best games, however, can cut through this clutter right from the start. They dazzle us with cinematic spectacle or immerse us with unexpected realism. They overwhelm our eyes and ears with technological power or capture our minds with extraordinary storytelling. Within those first few minutes of play, they demand our attention. ...

The Top 7… fictional holidays (Feature)

Dec 22, 2008

This week marks the beginning of the end for the 2008 holiday season, and by now, you probably either can’t wait for Christmas to get here, or you’re desperate for the whole ridiculous carnival of insane consumerism to be over for another year. Whatever your case, now is as good a time as any to take a deep breath and remember that, yes, there are other holidays out there. ...

GamesRadar's Officially Annual Platinum Chalice Awards 2008 (Feature)

Dec 19, 2008

Has it really only been 12 months since the last avalanche of “Best Games of 200X” awards? Well, we all love a good list, and you won’t find a better barf bag of random praises than our own Platinum Chalice awards, the place to have someone else’s gaming opinions shoved upon you. How important are these awards? So important. Real important. What do the other guys have, gold trophies? Screw that. ...

2008's most impressive DS games (Feature)

Dec 16, 2008

Reflection is customary at the end of the year. Where were we? What happened? What games did we love? And as we stared down at our copies of Club Penguin and Personal Trainer: Cooking, our thoughts turned to: What were the DS games that actually tried this year? ...

Chrono Trigger Dated in Europe (News)

Dec 11, 2008

Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of Square Enix interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, today announces that Chrono Trigger will be released across PAL territories on...

GameStop's Chrono Trigger Reminiscent of Napoleon Dynamite (News)

Dec 4, 2008

GameStop's product description for Chrono Trigger DS isn't quite how the original SNES version was. Unless there was always a subplot where Crono wanted to time travel to 1982 in order to throw a football over some mountains to win the state championship.

Is this the fabled Rico Trigger?

Chrono Trigger for Europe in February (News)

Nov 29, 2008

Eurogamer writes

"Sources close to Square Enix have told Eurogamer that Chrono Trigger DS will get a release here in February.

The fabulous RPG remake launched earlier this week in the US, and has picked up the sort of universal acclaim the original received back on the SNES."

Animal Crossing Passes Wii Music in its First Week (Famitsu) (News)

Nov 26, 2008

According to a recently released taste of last week's action in Japan by Famitsu, Nintendo's Animal Crossing: City Folk has crossed the 300k barrier, nearly doubling Wii Music's lifetime sales in only one week.

New Game Releases for the Week of November 23, 2008 (News)

Nov 22, 2008

Gamerdeals.net writes:

"Highlights this week include Sonic Unleashed (Xbox 360/PS2), King of Fighters: Orochi Saga (Nintendo Wii), Age of Empire: Mythologies (Nintendo DS), and Chrono Trigger (Nintendo DS)!

Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of November 23, 2008 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!"

Chrono Trigger (Review)

Nov 21, 2008

Years before powerful Japanese RPG-smiths Square and Enix merged, the minds behind Enix’s Dragon Quest and Square’s Final Fantasy came together to create a dream project that would allow them to experiment in ways their established franchises wouldn’t. The resulting game took the Super NES as far as it could go, technically speaking, and it has had only one other release since, an admittedly half-baked port to the PSOne. ...

New Ending Created For Chrono Trigger DS (News)

Nov 10, 2008

Alternate closures in Chrono Trigger ranged vastly from a cat filled parade in Crono's honor to everyone turning into reptiles. In addition to new dungeons and a monster arena, there is a brand new ending to find in the DS version of Chrono Trigger. Details about the ending have obviously not been announced aside from a two screenshots like this one of Marle, Frog, and Crono staring at a time gate.

Chrono Trigger (Screenshots)

Oct 27, 2008

Square Targets Existing Fans with Chrono Trigger Adverts (News)

Oct 22, 2008

Square Enix have taken an interesting approach to marketing the upcoming Nintendo DS remake of the Super Nintendo Classic Chrono Trigger, marketing it directly at those who have already played, completed and have nostalgia for the game. But are they cutting out that all important new market who have never even heard of Chrono Trigger?

Videogame Band Release "Frog's Theme" Cover to Celebrate Chrono Trigger DS (News)

Oct 4, 2008

Videogame Cover Band "The Red Wings" have released an MP3 download of their cover of Frog's Theme from Chrono Trigger to celebrate the upcoming release of Chrono Trigger DS, the first time the SNES classic will be released in their home territory.

The band is a UK-based rock group that takes classic music from videogames and performs them with guitars and other live instruments. They have a free album being released online via their website and MySpace later this year.

Download and more songs after the jump at their website.

Chrono Trigger DS Quietly Bumped Up In Japan (News)

Oct 2, 2008

No, North America you aren't going to get Chrono Trigger first. Square Enix covertly moved the release date for Chrono Trigger up one week to November 20.

Chrono Trigger Orchestra Extra Soundtracks Hits US as Pre-Order Bonus (News)

Sep 30, 2008

Last month it was revealed that Japanese customers pre-ordering Chrono Trigger would be treated to a 2-track promotional music CD featuring arranged orchestral music from the game. The disc has now been spied as a pre-order bonus at GameStop in the United States, as if you needed another reason to pre-order the game. The first track will be an arrangement of the main theme while the second will be a medley from the game.

Chrono Trigger DS' extra dungeons revealed (News)

Sep 22, 2008

The DS remake of the classic game, Chrono Trigger, has been announced to have an added mini-game. The mini-game involves the battling of monsters, either by yourself or with friends across the DS's wireless connectivity. While in-depth details on the mini-game have yet to be released, there are said to be 50 kinds of monsters, and winning a battle will result in a rare item.

You have to train the monsters in order to increase their strength, and as they gain strength their appearance will change.

In addition, information on the two extra dungeons in Chrono Trigger DS has been revealed:

- Dimensional Distortion
A mysterious dungeon suddenly appears. Travel through time to overcome the challenges, and reach the depths to claim a hidden power. Clearing the different parts of the dungeon will affect the End of Time in some way.

- Dragon's Sanctuary
In the last leg of the story, new gates to prehistoric times and the middle ages suddenly appear. Within the dungeon, one will have to complete various requests to continue. The quests gradually increase in difficulty, and you may have to go to a different era in order to continue. Help the reptites to reach the innermost parts of the dungeon. What could be waiting there...?

Chrono Trigger DS receives Monster Battling addition (News)

Sep 21, 2008

A new addition to the DS release of Chrono Trigger is Monster Battling, which lets players breed and fight monsters.

Chrono Trigger UK Boxart Revealed (News)

Sep 20, 2008

Square-Enix UK have revealed the box art for Chrono Trigger's first ever European release.

It seems the company is following the same steps they've taken with the Final Fantasy series, copying the Japanese box art rather than using the US box with EU ratings. But which is better?

Something Extra For Japan: Chrono Trigger Orchestra Extra Soundtracks (News)

Aug 30, 2008

Looks like Japanese gamers will be enjoying a cool bonus CD as their pre-order bonus for Chrono Trigger on the DS. It contains two tracks, "Chrono Trigger Orchestral Version" and "Chrono Trigger Orchestral Medley." Looks pretty sweet. Let's hope they give something cool to gamers in the United States as well.

America getting Chrono Trigger DS before Japan (News)

Aug 30, 2008

It is time to revel in a most minuscule victory for American Chrono Trigger fans, as news arrives that The States will be getting Chrono Trigger DS a whole TWO DAYS before Japan! Never mind the fact that Japanese pre-orders also come with a two-track orchestral theme music disc ... TWO DAYS! America's release date is October 25 while Japan has to wait until October 27.
In other news, the European release date for Chrono Trigger DS is still some time in 2009.

Chrono Trigger DS Hits America On November 25 (News)

Aug 19, 2008

Square Enix have announced today that their Chrono Trigger remake for the DS has a firm release date for the North American market. And that date is November 25. Which is a Tuesday, in case you were wondering. While we're on the subject of wondering, if you're outside of America (ie in Europe or Australia) and are wondering if you got a firm date, answer's no. It's still "2009". So set your importing watches to November 25.

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Chrono Trigger (NDS) Pins Down North American Release Date (News)

Aug 18, 2008

WorthPlaying writes: "When a newly developed teleportation device malfunctions at the Millennial Fair, young Crono must travel through time to rescue his misfortunate companion from an intricate web of past and present perils. Chrono Trigger is currently scheduled for release in North America on Nov. 25, 2008, expected in Europe early 2009."

Chrono Trigger DS site goes live (News)

Aug 8, 2008

The official Chrono Trigger DS site has gone live allowing users to read up on the story, look at some new screens and check out a trailer.

Chrono Trigger European Release Announced (News)

Aug 6, 2008

SquareEnix today announces that CHRONO TRIGGER will be released across PAL territories in early 2009 exclusively on the NintendoDS handheld system.

They say that "time is money" but for our hero, Crono it is much more than that! Get ready to travel through time to avoid the destruction of the world as we know it. With CHRONO TRIGGER, your notion of time will be turned upside down as you race against it like you've never done before, while all the decisions you make along the way will affect past, present and future!

Originally released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System...

E3 08: Chrono Trigger DS Playable (News)

Jul 9, 2008

Ripten's Beau Rosser writes:

"The biggest shocker is that the rumored-now-fact Chrono Trigger DS port is going to be playable on the show floor. I can't wait to see what kind of touch-screen doodads Square has chosen to add to the already phenomenal game."

Chrono Trigger Mini-Game Guide (FAQ)

Feb 18, 2009

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Chrono Trigger DS FAQ/Walkthrough (FAQ)

Feb 6, 2009

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Chrono Trigger Endings FAQ (FAQ)

Jan 15, 2009

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Chrono Trigger Game Script (FAQ)

Jan 14, 2009

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Chrono Trigger (FAQ)

Jan 5, 2009

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Chrono Trigger Endings (FAQ)

Dec 22, 2008

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Infinite Shelters (Glitch)

Dec 18, 2008

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Infinite Strength (Cheat)

Dec 12, 2008

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Bestiary (FAQ)

Dec 9, 2008

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The Lost Sanctum (Unlockable)

Dec 2, 2008

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Dimensional Vortex Dungeon (Unlockable)

Nov 25, 2008

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Game Endings (Cheat)

Nov 21, 2008

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New Game + (Cheat)

Nov 21, 2008

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