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Unofficial Chrono Trigger Resurrection Impresses

Posted by simoniker on from the pretty-pictures dept.

Trinn writes "Planet GameCube has recently reported on a completely unofficial remake of the highly popular Square Enix RPG Chrono Trigger by an independent team, Resurrection Games [their official site is down, here's a mirror of some of the screenshots]. It certainly looks sharp so far. They're even redoing the audio. Their plans are to finish up by Christmas, at which time the PC version will be released for free to the public - 'console versions of the Chrono Trigger Resurrection demo will only be available to official developers with access to GameCube or Xbox development kits.'." Interestingly, this amateur project was formerly in development for the Nintendo 64, all the way back in 2000.

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  1. Re:only 10 scenes by n1ywb · · Score: 3, Informative
    RTFA
    Their goal is to recreate ten of the most memorable Chrono Trigger scenes for a Christmas 2004.

    The final release will be a complete remake. Visit the developer's web site.
    --
    -73, de n1ywb
    www.n1ywb.com
  2. Don't expect much. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    For starters, they're not remaking the entire game, they're remaking a select number of the 'best scenes', whatever that constitutes I don't know.

    Secondly.. Square/Enix lawyers are probably going to burn these guys.

  3. Re:There have been only 2 Chrono's by jx100 · · Score: 2, Informative

    There have been 3 games in the "chrono" series. The second game was a little-known text based game known as "Radical Dreamers". It was only accessible through the SNES Satellaview system released in Japan.

    link

  4. Three Chrono games, not two by Ayaress · · Score: 3, Informative

    Radical Dreamers was the second game, Chrono Chross was the third. It was on the Satellaview (sp?), which was a SNES/SFC accessory released in Japan where you could download games. Didn't have much for it. Had a remake of the original Legend of Zelda, and some pretty low-key games.

    Radical Dreamers was more interactive fiction than game, but it was definitely part of the Chrono series. It had Serge, Kid, and Lynx from Chrono Chross and Magus from Chrono Trigger.

    While on this topic, there's also another Chrono Trigger remake in progress by the same group that translated Radical Dreamers (demiforce.com). No news on that remake except that it has a SourceForge page up and not much else. The page for it on Demiforce's website has been broken since he moved the page. It was intended to be an exact remake, though, and not a fancy looking remake like this one.

  5. Re:only 10 scenes by A_Wandering_Nomad · · Score: 2, Informative

    RTFA back at you! In this link 1 of the developers puts the topic to rest. The demo of ten memorable scenes is all that there will be. As mentioned previously there are no plans to show this to any suit type people. http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/forum/Defau lt.asp?sub=show&action=posts&fid=1&tid=301&pid=303

  6. Re:Ocarina of Time: 2d by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hey, interestingly enough, I'm trying to get a bunch of my Ocarina of Time midi remakes featured in OoT2D, as well. I've got some pretty good responses from them. If you want to check some out, check it out here:

    http://tssf.i-web.net/oot/ootmusic_sofar.zip

    Anyway, I'm taking tons of steps to make sure Chrono Trigger: Resurrection stays true to the original music's musical styles and such. Think of it like Radical Dreamers' music being remade in Chrono Cross. Same sort of deal.

    Mathew Valente [TSSF]
    -The Chrono Trigger: Resurrection team