Just checked the Chrono Trigger site. On bottom of the page it only says about NTT docomo's "i-mode" service. (I'm Japanese and I can read Japanese) To be sure I also checked the top page for the SquareEnix Mobile site, http://www.square-enix.com/jp/mobile/ Chrono Trigger is only be releasing on "i-mode" for now. So as I posted before, the release is only for Japanese mobile phone carrier, NTT docomo, which I don't own If there is a plan for releasing on iOS platform, it should appear on the link below. The site is for the iOS platform. http://dlgames.square-enix.com/jp/ipod/ I wish Chrono Trigger will show up on the SquareEnix's iOS site someday.
Thanks ykazumi; I wish I could say I wouldn't buy any Square Enix games until they release Chrono Trigger but I will anyway. I'm hopeful iOS is just a matter of time.
emulators ftw I love it when people crap their pants about "finally" being able to play an old-school game on a handheld device when that is often achieved in mere months after the launch of any popular handheld device. 99% of the time the ports aren't as good as just using the emulators anyway (i.e. garbage interface, 21st century censorship, etc) so they don't do a very good job at giving you the incentive to re-purchase a 10+ year-old game.
Good point... I've long been tormented whether I should play the bastardized iOS Final Fantasy 1 or my faithful emulator ROM Final Fantasy 1. I went with iOS FF1 but it's not ok. A lot of people aren't jailbroken, intellectual property theft, etc, etc...
I feel for those who want their device to have only a small portion of its potential. I also lol'd @ theft. Owning the cart ftw
Thanks much for your concern. Some of us revel in the smallness of our device's potentiality. Some of us enjoy our iThingies not being jailbroken, either. Some of us *don't* own it, and never did. *brain e'splosion*
Yes... but it's only $59 SNES on Amazon Marketplace so you could get it and then contend with crappy emulation ftw.
And the iOS version, assuming it ever actually happens, will cost, what? $8, $10, $15 tops? And that'll be if I don't want to wait for the inevitable sale. In any case, to "own" the game, all I'll hafta do is sit in my house, pull up the App Store, search "Chrono Trigger", and hit "Buy". Digital Marketplace -- For. The. WIN. 8D
If you have the jailbreak download via Cydia the emu Snes9x Ex and the rom of Chrono Trigger. it's the same! End! I'm playing now and it's fantastic!
Meh. A homebrew emulator is NO match for a commercially built and supported app. The emulator is "cool" and all but it can be buggy and the controls aren't anywhere near as fluid as they'd be if the game was ported by the company that made it originally. I jailbroke my iphone 4 *just* for Chrono Trigger and honestly, I'm completely dissapointed. In landscape the d-pad and buttons are HUGE and you can't resize. And the sound cuts out after 30 seconds of gameplay. I'm using snes a.d. + Is there a better snes emulator for the iphone? Cause if that's the best...I'd rather wait.
snes a.d. was a very bad emulator, I agree. The new 'free' snes9x ex is AWESOME. Fluid controls, resizeable / configurable buttons, retina display and a host of other features. I'm sure that square enix will put some love into the official remake with some touch screen interface etc, but the new emulator does a GREAT job and I'm completely satisfied having my snes collection on my iphone now. RPG's especially play very well, but I'm able to play some action rpg's without any problems as well.
Download the snes9x ex, it's a new emulator that works perfectly with every title. The snes a.d. is the worst emu, same shit of zottd emus! The best emus on iphone are: imame4all, Pce.Emu and snes9x ex! THey works almost perfectly on my iphone 4!
Agreed. Plus, for many games, the fact that I own it isn't necessarily going to stop me from buying it again. I can think of a few games that I've purchased multiple ports for, usually because I enjoy the game and like the developers enough to want to support them.
I keep doing that. I have several DS titles that I bought again for iOS. I have several PS3 titles that I bought again for the PC. I have older games that I bought again on Steam because it's more convenient. I have like 5 copies of the original two Fallout games and three or so of Diablo 2 (which I kept misplacing and/or lending to "friends")...
Using the emulator the game is perfectly playable up until you have to catch that rat on the poles or whatever. That parts impossible you can't seem to catch it for some reason I tried for weeks and eventually gave up
SNES A.D.X. fails again... I think some of the Square Enix games are worth waiting on a formal iOS release because their ports often seem polished and fluent. Also keep in mind that Chrono Trigger got some video upgrades with the Playstation version and later a new quest area on DS neither featured with SNES. Chrono Trigger wikipedia...
I agree. I'd happily pay 14.99 for a SE port. Emulators do fail sometimes but they're still worth buying in Cydia. I also have chrono cross on PSX4all. That game plays pretty buttery smooth.
Im not saying I dont want CT on the iPhone, but the only upgrade to the PSX version was added cutscenes which were the opening and the endings, nothing inbetween. The DS release had all that and the extra quests/dungeon, but honestly it just wasnt that good. The extra content was very blah. The SNES version is still the best just because its not slowed down by load times or an additional quest (I know its optional, but I am a completionist, damnit!). That being said, if SE is allocating any resources to this, I would ask that they reassign those people to the FFT iOS release, just to make sure it gets all the polish it needs and gets released!
Damn you Dubstep and your emulated goodness! There are times I feel like going that same route but I just keep telling myself that I would rather experience some of these games for the very first time with a port worth playing rather than an emulator. I've played through a bit of CT and FFT on a SNES emulator on PC enough to make myself stop and wait for a proper iOS port. It's just the waiting that sucks. And I really would rather wait for mobile versions of them rather than playing them on a console. I have at times thought of getting a PSP just for FFT and some of the other "classic" Square/SE games but have held off to wait for proper iOS ports.
