What did they do to Chrono Trigger?

[Ghostju]

I bought Chrono Trigger a while ago - played it for hours and enjoyment and fun - obviously its Chrono Trigger a great and epic game

Recently I decided to come back and run it again -

WHAT did they do to it? First I installed it would not run - at all, you would click play and it would just say playing for a few min then go back to having to click play like the game would not start at all ..

FINALLY found it its because of some .DLL that you have to make in order to make the game work , Finally get that made and started

Now the game starts, but only plays for about 3-5 min before it just shuts off- crashes, no error , no nothing .. just decides, I am done and stops the game entirely ..

Now, normally i would say "yea things have issues" but his game ran PERFECTLY when i bought it .. i spent over 15 hours in it when i bought it with ZERO crashes or issues- now suddenly hey "update" it and it doesn't work ? Some update..

Anywho .. any ideas WHY this is happening now -?

First i would click play- and it would not even load the game - i found the .DLL post and did that.. after 10 or 12 attempts i found one that actually worked..

Now it starts up fine. and i can "enter a game" - but about 3 to 5 min in the game just .. shuts off.. quits out .. and dies. .

[psychotron666]

Every update they have made has done more harm than good

[Jaiko 🐉]

I am having the same issue I'm afraid :( The devs did this game so wrong!

[Ghostju]

I gave up - ended up going to Chained Echos - (which is a great game as well) - I still can't play Chrono Trigger at all, the game will start.. run for about 3-5 min , and the just decide its done , and shut down - I've remove and uninstalled, re-installed, verified files till I'm blue in the face - all to no avail -

At this point just assumed its broken - and ill check back after playing Chained Echos, or other games for a year or two , - but yea .. when a update that is supposed to enhance game play - makes a good game unplayable, its disheartening.

Is what it is

[MysterEnigma]

Well, mine will play fine until I have to select a character or equip anything, then it crashes. Square Enix politely told me in a round about way that it is probably my fault, at least that's how I interpreted it.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Weird..been playing fine on my new windows 11 pc since i bought it last year. All i did was install the game and bam it worked for me. I do remember if you do not play it in english language mode, it can cause some issues.

NOTE: This is the same windows 11 that even microsoft says is bad...

[dmsephiroth]

I started some days ago.

Did not have 1 crash. Playing on an old pc, with windows 10.

Also with english language.

Did you guys used some mods or so? Have you tried to deinstall+reinstall? Helped me with another old game some time ago.

[TricksterTravvy]

Originally posted by dmsephiroth:

I started some days ago.

Did not have 1 crash. Playing on an old pc, with windows 10.

Also with english language.

Did you guys used some mods or so? Have you tried to deinstall+reinstall? Helped me with another old game some time ago.

That's what I was thinking. Maybe there are some files leftover from an old installation of the game which are conflicting with each other. I'd say try either installing to a different drive, or opening the installation folder, deleting everything, and verifying the game files via Steam.

[dmsephiroth]

The only problem i got with this game was the 2. minigame at the fair. There was a input lag with keyboard keys. Made it a bit hard to win the 2. game. But well..after a bit practice it was doable.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by dmsephiroth:

The only problem i got with this game was the 2. minigame at the fair. There was a input lag with keyboard keys. Made it a bit hard to win the 2. game. But well..after a bit practice it was doable.

That is odd. I play on controller though..and have no lag. Not even in the fast sections in the mimicry mini game. Have you tried playing with a controller? Logitech F310 controller works fine with this game, and costs 20 dollars us. There the best budget controller i have ever used. I did like this other power a controller too, but they discontinued it.

Even cheaper on amazon atm..17 dollars:

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-940-000110-Gamepad-F310/dp/B003VAHYQY

[me]

Come back after not being able to load the game and now it plays for about 10 mins then dies. Such a sad state for such a good game.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Could it be something with the most recent NVIDIA DRIVERS? i heard they are buggy in alot of games, and am not using the latest ones. Im using one from 2022.

[Paratech2008]

I had an update today and verified the game loaded and updated the save then quit the game.

Maybe today's update fixed whatever was wrong.

[PorterWake]

ZSNES, no other version is needed.