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Recent Updates

05 Sep 2009: More revisions, fixed up the formatting on nearly every file, and changed mixed-caps (like "mixED") words in Robo's speech to either all caps or all normal case to cut back on the ugly. Some other terminology tweaks: 海底神殿 from the bland "Ocean Floor Temple" to the more evocative "Abyssal Temple", Frog's やろう from the overused "bastard" to the more distinctive "lowlife", Magus's きさま similarly from "bastard" to the more fitting "vermin". I can totally picture him sneering that. Anyway. Added alternate dialog possibilities to Crono's trial and the main ending. Added a bunch of missing NA version text. Added "spoiler masks" to general information pages.

And since I finally remembered to update the mirror for apparently the first time since February 2007 (yeesh!), the following three older updates are now here for the first time:

(07 Jun 2008): Fixed some typos, one of which caused a mistranslation. Magus says 他の者達 (others) when confronted, not 地の者達 (people of the earth).

(30 Dec 2007): I'm pretty much in the same situation as the last update as far as not knowing what changed, but at least this time I can say with certainty that I've added the terminology chart I was using to help with consistency during translation. I don't really know why I hadn't already done that, but...

(09 Jul 2007): To be perfectly honest, I'm not really sure what's changed since the last update. That's what I get for not updating for months at a time and not keeping track. But SOMETHING's different, even if it's just formatting.... (汗

Storyline

Non-Story Information and Translations

Various Notes

• I've kept the layout of the original text as much as possible.
• Lines that are colored like these are my comments, anything in gold denotes actions and such that the dialog doesn't explain, and this teal is for messages from the game (e.g., "You got a potion").
• If I'm not too comfortable with how I translated something, I've put a * after it. A (*) stands for something that I can't figure out even well enough to guess.
• All right... I've gotten sick of trying to come of with Enlgish approximations of name suffixes, and it doesn't seem right to drop them, so I'm just leaving them as is. If you need an explanation, go here: name suffixes.
• Significant sections of dialogue depend on who is in your party, or which option you choose. I've decided to mark alternate flows with colored borders and give explanations individially. The scenes where your party may vary generally have various roles that will be filled by the characters present. In some, the game apparently decides who to use for each role by going down a preset list and picking the first available character. In others, it just picks whoever is, for example, second in the party order. One result of this is that in many scenes, a character will always fill a given role if present, regardless of who else is in the party or in what order. Another is that some characters may never fill certain roles. Note that Marle and Lucca tend to take priority for getting lines, that Crono never talks except in a particular alternate ending, that Ayla tends to be low priority, and that the optional character hardly ever speaks.
• Since I feel like it, and it sort of contibutes to the mood, background music is indicated by the OST track number (first time only) and track name. For example, the title screen's music is 1-1 予感 (Premonition), meaning track 1 of disk 1, entitled 予感 (which means "premonition"). Some of the track names are difficult to translate, and these are noted. Sound effects are also noted now and then when appropriate.
• Original text, my translation, and the English version text are displayed side-by-side in columns for easier viewing, and to allow comparisons with the official translation. I'll generally refer to the original as the JP (Japanese) version, and the official English version as NA (North American).
• Even sections marked as complete may still have oversights, typos, or other errors. I'm trying to eliminate those, but nobody's perfect.

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