[PATCH] Chrono Trigger Fix

[Speedwagon]

Disclaimer

This patch is a quick and dirty job. It's based on rescaled assets from the Steam port and isn't 1:1 accurate with the SNES original version. If you're looking for a well crafted work go directly for the Chrono Trigger Restoration Project

These people are doing an amazing, dedicated work, which takes time. I insist on that, if you're looking for a faithful restoration, this is where you must head.


With that said.

What is it ?

This patch is a solution to bring back the good old pixelly look of the game. As you must know, Square-Enix decided to apply a blurry filter to all the game sprites. This patch is meant to undo all of this and instead, to give us this:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925925732343437235/6A21DC60D149C51D6BA82359553E967248F99314/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925925732343436321/198135CEF5514A56EA56B6E8B812E6387C00682E/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925925732343435884/270A3488967293D5F1EFE60201C4E689253FFC33/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925925732343436601/1E3A4230A3D36E0DE2B6A652A340B598D4386324/

On top of that, this patch has some slight QoL elements, like removing some glitchy buttons that appears in the fair and other places and some slight localizations typos that appear in the menu.

How is it done ?

Basically, the game has sprites and tilesets. The sprites are the pictures which contains the character data. The game has two set of these: The filtered ones and the original ones. What was done here was to double the size of the original ones to match the resolution of the new ones, without any filter applied to keep the good old pixelart look. Then, transparency was carefully applied to every single sprite sets, to avoid some sprites to be botched.

As for the tilesets, this is more complicated... as the original ones aren't included, I basically had to downsize the filtered tilesets to their original size, the resize them to the new size without any filter, to "nullify" the filter applied. Which means this isn't 100% accurate or 1:1 compared to the original assets. Then again if you want a real solution, wait for the Chrono Trigger Restoration Project

Here's how it looks compared to the SNES game:

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/10/4/1520523399-snes-steam.png

How does it works ?

Beforehand, you need two elements:
CTDefilter, made by Jed Lang/Nyxo, which disables the post processing blurry filter applied on top of the game.
CTExplore, made by Jed Lang/Nyxo, which allows to patch the game. To see how it works, just head here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/613830/discussions/0/1696040635910037783/

After you downloaded both tools you need to apply this patch with CTExplore:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qi3tgdypfj796ct/ChronoTriggerFix.ctp?dl=0




Once it's done, enjoy your game !

Also, credits goes to Jed Lang/Nyxo for his amazing tools and shoutout to the Chrono Trigger Restoration Project team, which is preparing a tremendous work.

Edit: Link has been fixed ! Thanks to Rhyagelle for bringing the issue to me ! It seems indeed I put the folder up too high ><

[Jiupex]

Though your hard work is appreciated - it's sad people need to create stuff like this for a game in 2018. Much less a game (and its fans) that should have been treated with some dignity.

[The Faceless Man]

SquareEnix has figured out that its just simpler to release garbage, and let audiences sort it out themselves.

kinda sad... but this is the world we live in.

[Orakio "O Gagá" Rob]

Nice work, thanks!

[Legendary X]

umm
are those the remake process of this game? because the graphic are way bad and blury as helll.

[DriemMastR]

Originally posted by Speedwagon:

Disclaimer

This patch is a quick and dirty job. It's based on rescaled assets from the Steam port and isn't 1:1 accurate with the SNES original version. If you're looking for a well crafted work go directly for the Chrono Trigger Restoration Project

These people are doing an amazing, dedicated work, which takes time. I insist on that, if you're looking for a faithful restoration, this is where you must head.


With that said.

What is it ?

This patch is a solution to bring back the good old pixelly look of the game. As you must know, Square-Enix decided to apply a blurry filter to all the game sprites. This patch is meant to undo all of this and instead, to give us this:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925925732343437235/6A21DC60D149C51D6BA82359553E967248F99314/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925925732343436321/198135CEF5514A56EA56B6E8B812E6387C00682E/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925925732343435884/270A3488967293D5F1EFE60201C4E689253FFC33/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925925732343436601/1E3A4230A3D36E0DE2B6A652A340B598D4386324/

On top of that, this patch has some slight QoL elements, like removing some glitchy buttons that appears in the fair and other places and some slight localizations typos that appear in the menu.

How is it done ?

Basically, the game has sprites and tilesets. The sprites are the pictures which contains the character data. The game has two set of these: The filtered ones and the original ones. What was done here was to double the size of the original ones to match the resolution of the new ones, without any filter applied to keep the good old pixelart look. Then, transparency was carefully applied to every single sprite sets, to avoid some sprites to be botched.

As for the tilesets, this is more complicated... as the original ones aren't included, I basically had to downsize the filtered tilesets to their original size, the resize them to the new size without any filter, to "nullify" the filter applied. Which means this isn't 100% accurate or 1:1 compared to the original assets. Then again if you want a real solution, wait for the Chrono Trigger Restoration Project

Here's how it looks compared to the SNES game:

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/10/4/1520523399-snes-steam.png

How does it works ?

Beforehand, you need two elements:
CTDefilter, made by Jed Lang/Nyxo, which disables the post processing blurry filter applied on top of the game.
CTExplore, made by Jed Lang/Nyxo, which allows to patch the game. To see how it works, just head here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/613830/discussions/0/1696040635910037783/

After you downloaded both tools you need to apply this patch with CTExplore:

http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/ZWKvx3uO/file.html

or

https://uploadfiles.io/zpi9d



Once it's done, enjoy your game !

Also, credits goes to Jed Lang/Nyxo for his amazing tools and shoutout to the Chrono Trigger Restoration Project team, which is preparing a tremendous work.

This is a really great intermediate solution while the CR project continues it's work. It's also impressive the time you took to clearly explain the difference between this mod and the other ones out there.

Thanks for being such a huge help to the community!

[Tallcat]

This is incredible. How did you fix Chrono Trigger in like a week but FFV and VI are still garbage?

[Zeikar]

Thank you Speedwagon, without your contribution we would be lost. I wouldn't have done the Translation Fix if you hadn't told me about one language being off, much less 4 languages.
Give this man your support, very good guy.

[Rhyagelle]

This is a great solution until my team and I get the 1:1 mod up and finished. I advise anyone who REALLY wants to play and can't wait to use this if you are willing to replay again, otherwise, wait.

I want to say that Speedwagon has been helping us since day 1 with his mod, just hours after Nyxo messaged me when his Tool went live Speed messaged me with his sprite and chipset dump. We've been using it as a guide for the mangled pieces in the mobile dumps. It has been TREMENDOUS value to us. He's held off posting his thread because he wanted to be considerate of me and my team's hard work, keeping his stuff to the discord, pms, guide and group, but now I wish he had posted sooner because someone without any integrity it seems ripped Speedwagon's method off and his work and posted it as his own work on reddit and apparently under the dishonesty of it being 1:1 SNES quality. -sigh-

I'm sorry Speedwagon, we've been borked by the piggbackers of society, but it is yours that got the full brunt of it. Again, my apologies man. Hopefully this is all a misunderstanding, but in this reality messed up crap is more common than misunderstandings or good things. :(

[Self Destructive]

So I tried applying this and it's not working.

- downloaded the defilter and CTExplore
- downloaded the patch
- ran the defilter first, applied sucessfully
- ran CTExplore, opened resources.bin archive
- patched archive with patch
- saved archive and exited

Loaded the game, and it looks the same as normal except the defilter worked.

What am I doing wrong? Does it only work with CTExplore 1.2? Because I'm using the newest 1.3a

Any help would be great. Thanks.

[Rhyagelle]

Originally posted by Self Destructive:

So I tried applying this and it's not working.

- downloaded the defilter and CTExplore
- downloaded the patch
- ran the defilter first, applied sucessfully
- ran CTExplore, opened resources.bin archive
- patched archive with patch
- saved archive and exited

Loaded the game, and it looks the same as normal except the defilter worked.

What am I doing wrong? Does it only work with CTExplore 1.2? Because I'm using the newest 1.3a

Any help would be great. Thanks.

Let me take a look at it for you. The patch structure may be off. I'll edit in a moment.

EDIT

Looks like the structure is off. I'll message Speed about it. For now, let me message you a fix. Hopefully he won't mind that.

[Self Destructive]

Originally posted by Rhyagelle:

Let me take a look at it for you. The patch structure may be off. I'll edit in a moment.

EDIT

Looks like the structure is off. I'll message Speed about it. For now, let me message you a fix. Hopefully he won't mind that.

Hey, thanks for the quick response. If it's any bother, I can wait until he takes a look at it. I'm in no rush.

Thanks again for all the work you guys are doing.

[Self Destructive]

Sure, you can send one. I don't mind. :)

[Rhyagelle]

Originally posted by Self Destructive:

Originally posted by Rhyagelle:

Let me take a look at it for you. The patch structure may be off. I'll edit in a moment.

EDIT

Looks like the structure is off. I'll message Speed about it. For now, let me message you a fix. Hopefully he won't mind that.

Hey, thanks for the quick response. If it's any bother, I can wait until he takes a look at it. I'm in no rush.

Thanks again for all the work you guys are doing.

I honestly don't mind helping. The edit took less than a second.

Would you might temp accepting a friends request so I can send you the new file? We can unfriend after, just rather not post the link without first giving it to Speedwagon to update OP. :)

[Orion1189]

Same issue here. Patch doesn't actually seem to do anything currently. Still a very good looking holdover until we get the finished full restoration.

[Rhyagelle]

I'll send you the file too Orion, just need y'all to accept the invite to get you the files, we can unfriend right after. :)

It seems to me his file structure was off....unless y'all using 1.3 and not 1.3a for the tool? There was an error in the tool that Nyxo made a hotfix for tonight. The tool should ask you to automatically update though, so that shouldn't be a problem either.