The up button is stuck, totally unplayable

[thelaughingcavscout19d]

I thought it was just my controller, so, I unplugged it. Crono still moves like i'm pressing up button. Also does this during menus. Final Fantasy 7 does this from time to time as well.

[Daedalus007]

Restart the game and make sure no keyboard keys or controller buttons/sticks are being held down in any direction. Sometimes it sets 'default' if you have a controller plugged in that hasn't been properly recalibrated within the OS.

If you still have issues, you can try contacting Square-Enix support, though make sure you aren't using any mods if you go that route ;)

[mikeydsc]

Type in windows search - game controller settings
A new window will open up
Click properties
Either do the calibrate applet
or
Do the button presses to see where your drift points are and correct them

[Daedalus007]

Better to not use Windows Search tbh.
Start -> Run -> joy.cpl

[Kaldaien]

Use Special K, I fixed this years ago.

https://special-k.info/

Simply installing that and running the game will fix the problem.

If you want to know what the technical problem is, the game's polling 16 devices at once, including devices that don't even have D-Pads, and it's those devices without D-Pads that the game thinks are returning the "hat switch" (D-Pad) position at 0 degrees (North/Up, in other words) instead of the special neutral value for no direction pressed.

[Daedalus007]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

If you want to know what the technical problem is, the game's polling 16 devices at once, including devices that don't even have D-Pads, and it's those devices without D-Pads that the game thinks are returning the "hat switch" (D-Pad) position at 0 degrees (North/Up, in other words) instead of the special neutral value for no direction pressed.

Hopefully you can lend your expertise to the Chrono Trigger modding community! We could use awesome people like you!
I'm not surprised that the game is coded so poorly that it does that kind of thing. What a disgrace. Hopefully the community can find a way to patch up and fix all the things that Square-Enix has left as-is. Seems they're taking a cue from Bethesda on how to abuse their customers.

[thelaughingcavscout19d]

I recently had to hard reset my laptop and reinstall everything. That seemed to work. Game works now, but if playing too long, it crashes, thankfully it bookmarks my progress and I don't have to backtrack too much.

[JohnKovalsky]

I use keyboard (Keychrone), and had the same issue. I found that unplugging my keyboard helps. Then I went to the Windows Device Manager, under HID devices, and started disabling 'USB input device' one by one, until I found the one that caused the problem.

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by JohnKovalsky:

I use keyboard (Keychrone), and had the same issue. I found that unplugging my keyboard helps. Then I went to the Windows Device Manager, under HID devices, and started disabling 'USB input device' one by one, until I found the one that caused the problem.

Special K will fix that. The game's reading your keyboard as if it's a gamepad.