Chrono Trigger on Steam Gets a Final Patch to Fix Maligned PC Version.

Lang still needs to investigate whether Square made further changes to how it implemented assets, because it's possible they won't match up 1:1. It's also the more expensive version too.. :("Impossible is just a word to let people feel good about themselves when they quit." - Skies of Arcadia. The bad news is that replacing the background art would require dumping all the art assets from the original game and inserting them via CT_Explore, and that could prove complicated. Once he worked his way into the encryption, Lang wrote CT_Explore, a tool to unpack the game's files.

"I then went to work on expanding it to support saving changes back into resources.bin. As a result, the backend code to support saving changes back into resources.bin was almost trivial. The good news is that for some strange reason, the PC port contains two sets of sprite sheets for each character—and one set is the original, un-upscaled version. Are you ready for the feel-good story of the year? Chrono Trigger was released on Steam in February to fans’ delight, but disappointment quickly set in when players realized they were playing a subpar port of the game. And the UI, based on the mobile version, won't easily be changed.Thank you for signing up to PC Gamer.

So far, however, an initial test with Crono's sprite has been positive.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.Another filter messes with the colors.With CT_Explore, Lang has already proved modding Chrono Trigger is possible. ""So, if we got ALL of the original art (characters AND backgrounds), my belief is that it'll largely look 'better' (for some definitions of 'better')—in that, it'll probably mostly look like the original SNES game; with the caveat that it'll be running with a few modifications of the Steam release," Lang said. "CT holds most of its assets in resources.bin, and they wrote a proprietary, 'poor man's encryption'—that is, it's nowhere near as secure/robust as a mainstream encryption method like AES or RSA, but it's also much faster," Lang told me. You will receive a verification email shortly.But removing that filter didn't do much to fix Chrono Trigger's problems.

"So what will it take for modders to fix Chrono Trigger's ugly mishmash of upscaled graphics? And this (like with FFVI) is where their 'poor man's encryption' comes to bite them in the ass: I can re-encrypt the archive with new content just as easily as I can decrypt it. Square's biggest misstep was in aggressively and sloppily resizing sprites and tiles, making the art assets look blurry even without a filter slapped on top. Worse, the brute force upscaling creates glaring misalignments in background tiles (a problem Doucet talks about how to avoid above).