Friday, August 24, 2012

Some notes, and updates!

 

Greetings true believers!

We are still working on RC8. Yes, it has taken us a while, but we are still working on it. So please continue to be patient and on the look out for further news.

As always, bug reports are to be e-mailed to: ruby.dragoon@gmail.com, include the details of the bug you encountered, which emulator you’re using, a screenshot of the bug, and a save state. Bug reports/comments that are posted to the blog are deleted.

We are also not going to tolerate anything posted onto the blog about Crimson Echoes. Anything posted onto the blog relating to Crimson Echoes will be deleted.

Share and enjoy!
~Giro

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  3. And about the Terra Tower/Dinopolis in the same shape from Chrono Cross ? Will be implemented in future releases ? And thanks for the good work.

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    1. This makes me wonder if closeness to Chrono Cross was even considered when the original Crimson Echoes developers made the maps for Dinopolis.

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  4. Heart pounding through chest.

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  5. Please finish it quickly as you can!

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  6. What do I have to do in the Choras Museum 1005. A.D.? Need a little help!

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  7. Cindy: Try showing it to the past Toma. You'll need his help to find the current Toma.

    Btw, are so efforts being made to re-balance the monsters? They're still insanely hard to beat without cheating :(

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  8. i beat the most recent release without cheating. some grinding was required and i definitely died a lot. but i thought the challenge is what made this game so worthwhile. they really make you think and build a strategy on how to defeat the monsters. and remember that the majority of the fights are avoidable. i'd like to see glenns sprite fixed on the overworld map and maybe some added exploration in certain parts but other than that keep the story and the difficulty the same. amazing work and i cant wait to play the next installment.

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  9. Hi! I got a little problem and i dunno what to do.Im at the catching frogs part.For some reason i only can catch 4 frogs.i found 1time the 5th one but time was out before i was able to get it.Now when i try to go get it it never appear so im always stuck with 4 frogs and a goddamn loop because i don't have 5 frogs.please help me!!! >.< i'm tired to do it again and again

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  10. youtube has some some answers, or atleast it used to.

    So i just got a secret ending by going in a green portal in 12001 bc (or whenever) fought the mammon machine and then lavos core. im not gonna spoil the ending but it was TERRIBLE. the dialouge is wonky as shit and its a bunch of text windows and one tiny scene at the end. weak. i love this project but WTF?!

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  11. I watch on youtube some video but i'm not able to solve my problem....(dunno if you read my comment but oh well) the 5th frog just never show up...unless theres another way to get it i'm just totaly stuck and won't be able to continu the game..

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  12. have you looked at the mini guide thats on the board somewhere

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  13. http://www.4shared.com/document/qPHyQE2D/ChronoTrigger-FlamesofEternity.html

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    1. thx but still it didint tell me how i catch the 5th frog lol oh well i found a way to skip it so far.

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  14. Hope you guys are still working on this. On the Chrono Compendium someone released the soundtrack for Crimson Echoes. It would be totally awesome if you could implement it into Flames of Eternity. Thank you for all of your hard work. :-)BTW I own every release in the US of Chrono Trigger. SNES, PSX, and DS. I see nothing wrong with a rom mod.

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  15. Quick question to the deities that be. or any followers of this awesome project that know their way around it better than I do.

    I'm just now finishing endgame on what I believe is RC4 or 5, just because my file is called "FoE2011-06-29.smc" I had no idea whatsoever that this cool little gem was being updated.

    How smooth is the transition to newer versions? Will I lose my game? My emulator saves?
    Do I have to update version-by-version or can I just shoot straight for RC7 atm?

    Thanks for helping :) I cant WAIT to see new content.

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  16. in my experience ive lost all save states and game saves and had to start over from scratch. the newest rc7 build is pretty epic IMO. worth stating over too

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    1. Thanks cal....I browsed through the blog here and read from the archives that I could rename my .srm's to match the .smc's name in my ROMs folder and load the save. I wouldnt mind starting from NewGame+.

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    2. I didnt want to sign up for 4shared so I dl'd RC7's .ips, matched file name with my old .smc, renamed the .srm's and loaded my save juste fine. Btw Snes9x auto-patches as long as your .ips and .smc have the exact same filename.

      Question about playing this on Snes9x tho : I used to get a lot of random freezing. I was always emu-saving in fear of that...is this fixed?

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    3. The original Crimson Echoes builds were made for ZSNES, so you need to use that.

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  17. i play on my psp so i have no idea

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  18. Why do you have altered the music? It was such a horrible (my opinion). The game was a great song "Yasunori Mitsuda - The Cathedral", now does not sound so good. A "Yasunori Mitsuda - World Revolution" is now generally distorted sounds on Snes9x.
    P.S. At worst could release two versions, with original music and reworked.

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  19. I'm confused, i'm was playing CE and would play FoE after. I didn't know they were similar. Should I play only FoE, as it seems more updated, or is it worth playing both ? Are there diferent endings or so ? Please, don't be ofended, I intend to spend months playing over and over and want to know if I'm spending my time in an outdated one.

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  20. Should I wait RC 8 to start playing ? Will this be the last update, or do intend to add more guns in later versions ?

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  21. @Eduardo Garcia

    It's worth playing both. Crimson Echoes for its original intention in how it is designed and Flames of Eternity for the updated, yet more in line with the Ted Woosley writing of the 90s. Whilst I do appreciate FoE, I do prefer the direction of Crimson Echoes.

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  22. anyone have a guess as to when the next update will be?
    ima say around christmas.

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  23. You really need to hurry up I'm dying of old ageover here I'm 81 on my death bed

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  24. Btw you really should turn marle into a confused boarder line bisexual lesbian. Other than that this is perfect i cant wait to see the new overworld lay you guys are making. Will the epoch be available in that over world? Or is that just a foolish hope lol

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  25. $100 cash if you release the new build before November 21 :)
    so i can take it with me out of town

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  26. There should be a gate located in marles vagina that she discovers when she is trapped in the dino place dying alone, it shpuld take here to Zeal where she falls in leabian love wirh schala and the gate created bt schala andarles leabian sex would spawn the frozen flame back into existance. Dalton should be gay and should hold cronos mom hostage in hope that crono will put out.... then cronos mom will say,"no! No! Son dont do it" then shell go on to say, "I rather die than havey son go gay" and she will die and dalton will die a virgin.

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  27. Anyone know how to get all 8 frogs in the hunting grounds? I'm missing one.

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    1. i dont remember if i even did it. there was some guides on youtube for a while and the mini walkthrough on this site. it might be bugged. whats the prize for catching all 8 frogs anyway?

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    2. Glenn get to be prrhistory human tribe leader deal. Did you get the frog from the girl also you pres l or r or some thing to draw them out you also absolutley have to pay that with the frog guy glenn

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  28. Not sure what the prize is. Nothing talked about it until I got there. And Glenn has been lead of party for this.

    Which girl are you talking about? The one you copy the dance from?

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    1. You also need to knock the snake into the splashing water with glenn

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  29. Did that one already. Did the dancing one,the rock throw, all the visible ones, I'm lost lol

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    1. Press L and R everywhere with fless theres a tree in thw first place of the huntingrange and one in the far left room of the hunt ing range

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  31. You guys aren't dead, are you? No updates in awhile :(

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  32. Do we have a pulse? If you're still out there let us know. If the plug has been pulled at least say so. I understand you're busy and are doing this for free but I don't think it's too much to ask for a "Still here. Nothing new to report." or "This project is dead." Loyal fan by the way. I hope all is well.

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  33. So are there actually some new features in this game which make it superior to the Crimson Echoes beta? I am curious if its worth another playthrough and not only has some small changes in the dialogue and mapping :)

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  34. lets post abunch of stuff about crimson echoes to see if they respond >:)

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  35. I used to work on this project for a bit and I recently talked to Giro over Skype. He basically told me that he (and apparently the other staff) has stopped working on this project all together for now, as more important and serious stuff has come into his life. So for now, don't expect any kind of updates until he comes back, if ever.

    Now I'm not one to advertise, but since I see no real harm in doing so at this point - I have an active FFVI hack/project going on over at: http://rotds.webs.com/ , if anyone is interested in FFVI hacks. It's in beta testing phase still but I can use some more testers soon if anyone is interested.

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  36. tell giro to finish what he "didn't" start

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  37. does anyone have the power to stop this?

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  38. words cannot explain my disappointment

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  39. just finish the damn game so i can get on with my life!

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  40. IM STILL HERE TOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  41. still here! Seems a few people haven't given up hope yet

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  42. To you guys still posting here:

    Things to look forward to in 'RC8'.
    - Expanded Mall in 2305
    - More open 2305 AD Overworld Map
    - This includes a 2305 AD Medina
    - Being able to skip the introduction

    That's not that much to do at all, mainly cosmetic, you could use Temporal Flux to make these easy changes yourselves, as well as take on some other stuff once you've learned the program. This project was basically ripped off of Crimson Echoes, so why not **** with it some more, right? It's now out of respect for the CE team that I don't continue this project any further myself.

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  43. @TheNattak Thank you for giving us an update :)
    It would've been nice if Giro could just give us an update instead of letting us wait like this. :|


    Also what is Temporal Flux?

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  44. Seems like I'm the only one still working on this.

    @Nattak, if I recall correctly, didn't you only contribute a few things to the project? Fixing broken tiles, reworked the intro, etc?

    The FoE Project was not "Ripped off" from Crimson Echoes, at least, that's not what the intentions were. My intentions from the beginning were to reconstruct the game from the Alpha to the 98% Beta, whereas Giro decided to add some things of his own, such as removing references to anime/old developers.

    The core of the game has stayed the same, where only minor details have been changed. The removal of the CE developer references was not out of spite, but out of getting it known that they were no longer involved in the project, so SE would stay off of their asses and deal with Giro and I if things went downhill.

    As for RC8, as I first mentioned, it seems that I am the only one still working on it, so progress is extremely slow. It WILL happen, and it will be the final release of FoE. The project has been going for nearly 4 years, and I think it's time we give it a proper respite in one last, finely tuned and polished release.

    As for the current progress of RC8, 2305AD has been completely opened up, buildings have been made/opened, and the intro can now be skipped.

    My current task at hand is inserting/scripting NPC's for the new areas, possibly adding a Dimensional Vortex-like dungeon (this has not been finalized), cleaning up some of the game's code (there's a couple of scenes where the text gets all funky) and of course, bugfixing. Once all of those are completed, RC8, er, FoE Final, will be released.

    If nobody else is willing to lend a hand (Natak, DarkSchnieder, Giro, etc.) it's going to be a little while, but it WILL happen, that I can promise you.

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    1. OMG that is the best news ive heard all month!

      what can i do to help you get this done?

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    2. "@Nattak, if I recall correctly, didn't you only contribute a few things to the project? Fixing broken tiles, reworked the intro, etc?"

      Yeah that is correct, I apologize if I came off sounding like I was contributing more than that, trying to take credit for this hack is not my prerogative. I never got fully on-board for the events and such mainly due to devoting my time to another hack, but honestly it did feel wrong working on someone else's (CE devs) core hack, but that's just me, and my position has somewhat changed regarding that. For the most part I really like what has been achieved here in FoE and am glad to hear the project still has life. =)

      And yes, I may indeed be able to help out once again - the other hack I've been working on is somewhat close to completion, so I will be sure and keep in touch here and hopefully be able to help out in the near future if needed.

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    3. To The craving critic
      Thanks for all your great work with this.
      Can you clean up the rom into one file which will run on the SNES?
      I am running CE on my everdrive on my SNES quite nicely but this hack has many roms in it, not just one. Its probably not optimised for SNES hardware either?

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    4. Thanks a lot for ur work. :)

      Is glenn's overworld sprites added on this RC8? the game is really great and perfect, the only two things i found it senseless was that glenn is still a frog in the overworld, and that he has the slurp tech (he doesnt have that tongue anymore lol, maybe could be replaced by another cure spell with other name?) besides that the story and the gameplay is beyond great, i really LOVE the difficulty of the monsters, the original CT was very easy to beat the fights and I prefer the more difficult battles of FoE, i will prefer even more difficulty battles to make u actually use ur head and ur spells harder.

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    5. @TCC:

      Is Giro even still involved? I haven't been in contact with him recently and I found out his e-mail account's gone.

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    6. Thanks for ur great work.
      Could you change the defaults of walking/running? It would be good to run by defaults like in CC & CTDS.

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  45. I don't know the history of this hack-rom, neither have I played it to the end, but you guys made a groundbreaking work on this, a truly fan-made tribute to the game, and I'm really thakfull to you all.
    Seriously guys, I really hope for the RC8 to be done, but as far as I saw the game, I'm really in debt to you guys, for enternity I guess lol
    I just love Chrono Trigger, and you guys can be sure that someone really apreciated this, but I guess there's a lot of fans out there thanking you too besides me;
    Anyway, thanks, and sorry for the typos, I'm brazillian you know lol

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  46. so it seems like its not too much to do...

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  47. Tools are open so anyone could continue the work if they want. Crimson Echoes evolved to Flames of Eternity evolved to ?. Anyway, the RC7 game file is only for premium users. Author could reupload it to mediafire if we're not getting the RC8 anytime soon. Then I could finally start playing the "finished" sequel-in-between-sequel.

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  48. Registering was enough. Have now played 6 hours. This is a great technical achievement, but so far the story hasn't pick up my interest. The game is playable, but somewhat unbalanced; and I really hated when I accidentally challenged Mammot M. without a warning (instant death)... Well shouldn't pick up everything shining. I also noticed when in Future you enter to colosseum with Glenn alone, the game will freeze.

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  49. soooo... does anyone know if it would be possible to repro this rom on to a cart? cause i know a guy

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  50. Hi. First of all I wanna say thanks to the guys behind this great proyect that FoE is, really, god bless u guys, what a wonderful work u have made, this is a true sequel to CT.. ur making happy thousand of really CT fans here, millions of thanks to ur efforts.

    I have some questions, I downloaded FoE here in this page: http://fantasyanime.com/squaresoft/ctdownloads.htm is this versión the RC7 or is an older one?? i'm confused about this but im just guessing is RC7, im playing this one and it seems ok but hope u guys can clear me up about wich version is this one on this page

    About the RC8, how many time will it take to be released? maybe on mid september or october? i'm really a true fan of your work here so i would rather wait to play the final version (the RC8 u guys are working on)

    Will this RC8 update have the overworld glenn's sprites? I have the same opinion of the other guys who have commented about this, its kinda awkward to have the frog's sprites on the overworld and not glenn's, I even recall reading some guy comenting that he can help u get the glenn's sprite (or maybe u already fix this problem on RC8, i'm not really sure). As a truly fan of ur work i believe this is a crucial update for RC8, it will give the glenn's character a more realistic feeling :)

    I hope u guys can write here soon and clear me up those doubts, and one more time.. million of thanks for such a wonderful game.

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  51. Is this still on? If so send a message saying the final version of the project will be still released please.

    Can someone add the glenn's overworld sprites to the game? that would be great. :)

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