Chrono Trigger Endings Version 2.0

Updated for Sony Playstation

Introduction

When Chrono Trigger came out for the Super NES, I made a list of the
various endings and put it on my web site. When the game was released for
the Playstation, I couldn't find my original list, so I searched the web. I
found my list on a bunch of sites, but mostly without my name on it. Worse
yet, some of them made it look like they found the endings!

Please, if you use this information, give me credit!

I have reformatted the page, updated the descriptions in certain places,
and changed the names of the endings to agree with what they are called in
the Extras section. If you find any typos, or you think I missed something
important, send e-mail to wrp103@psu.edu.

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Here are the endings that I have found so far to Chrono Trigger. The times
are the soonest (I think) that you can get each ending. If you find
anything else out and/or get an ending sooner, or get a different ending,
please let me know. Contrary to what the Dream Team tells you (in the SNES
version - see ending 3), I found more than 10 endings (not counting minor
variations).



 1 Beyond Time
     This is the normal ending if you challenge Lavos at the end of the
     game.
     If you defeat Lavos after restoring Chrono, the opening scene of the
     game is shown, except that it is a soldier waking Chrono up, saying he
     will be executed. The king pretends to be upset, but then praises him
     for saving the past, present, and future. If you let the Chancellor
     out of the chest after the "Rainbow Shell" incident, he will be there;
     otherwise, it will be Pierre, the lawyer. Several characters appear
     (Doan, King Guardia from 400 AD, & Kino) saying what the team members
     had done. Marle realizes that these characters are her ancestors and
     descendants. After the Moonlight Parade at the fair, the characters
     assemble at the north side of the fair grounds and leave.
     Variations:
     If you didn't crash Epoch into Lavos, then Chrono's cat jumps into the
     time gate, followed by Chrono's mother. If you got extra cats, they
     all jump in together. Chrono, Lucca, and Marle take the Epoch to find
     them. (Can you avoid this by buying enough cat food?) Meanwhile, the
     king is stuck trying to hang the Nadia Bell.
     If you crashed Epoch into Lavos, then the gate closes after the team
     members leave, and Marle, Lucca, and Chrono talk to the King, who
     shows the Nadia Bell. Marle ends up holding some balloons and starts
     to float away. Chrono jumps on, and the two of them float away while
     the credits roll.
     (Note: if you killed Magus, he doesn't appear in this ending, but the
     rest is pretty much the same. Also, if you didn't get a clone before
     Chrono is killed, talk to the Keeper and he will tell you to go to the
     fair.)

     

 2 Reunion
     If you beat Lavos before you restore Chrono, you end up at the End of
     Time. Everyone is lying on the ground. You can control the characters,
     and when you talk the Guru, and he tells everyone that the gate is
     closing and they have to leave. All the other characters except Lucca
     and Marle leave to their respective times. Marle arrives at the Fair,
     walks in the Moonlight Parade by her self. She then sees the team
     members throughout the fair crowd.
     When she goes back to the north part of the fair, they are all there.
     The other characters go back for Chrono, and Marle sees her father,
     who asks her to install the new bell he has made in her honor. She is
     carried off by the balloons while the credits roll. She lands near a
     tree like the one on Death Peak, and in the distance you can see
     Chrono coming. Marle runs towards him and the screen fades to black.

     

 3 The Dream Project
     This is the hardest ending to obtain.
     There are two ways to get this ending. Jump on the right Telepod at
     the beginning of the game. Don't talk to anyone and Marle will go with
     you. You better try this after a Game+. Make sure you equip them well,
     and set the controller the way you want it before you enter the
     telepod. The second way to get this ending is to beat Lavos when you
     first fight him in the Ocean Palace.
     You end up at the End of Time. Each of the characters you see
     represent actual members of the Chrono Trigger development team. They
     say a variety of things: from saying hello to their family, jokes
     about how long and hard they worked, boasting about what they did,
     etc. One of them says: "Legendary Programming waiting for that Special
     Someone. Waiting for those cards and letters." In the SNES version,
     one of them told you there were ten endings. Of course, there were
     really 12. For the PlayStation version, it was changed to winning the
     10,000,000 Yen Jackpot.

     

 4 The Successor of Guardia
     Use the telepod as soon as you get back from 400 AD. You end up at the
     Fair. Some people tell Marle she is dressing normally, while others
     say she is in a costume. When at the Castle, the King says they have
     just found a 400 year old wedding movie. Frog and Queen Leene (or a
     descendent) are married, and Marle's father is a frog.

     

 5 Good Night
     Use the bucket at the End of Time as soon as you get there. (You will
     have to talk to the Guardian of Time and Spekio first.) During the
     credits a Nu and a Ribbit are chasing each other and doing various
     antics. The Nu keeps falling asleep while the Ribbit is harassing it.
     "THE END" has two 'Z's above it.

     

 6 Legendary Hero
     You can ge this ending as soon as you go to 600 AD the second time,
     but when you finish and try to save the system file, the game will
     think you are trying to save ending 5 instead of 6. So, wait until you
     hear that Tata is the Legendary Hero, but before you get the Hero's
     Badge from him.
     The first scene shows Robo and his wife (or girlfriend) in front of
     the Leene Bell in the Future. The girl runs into Robo just like Marle
     runs into Chrono at the start of the game. You then see them sitting
     together at the peak of Denadoro Mountain, similar to the "Beyond
     Time" ending, but without the Epoch streaking across the sky.
     The next scene shows Tata sitting on the throne with King Guardia &
     Leene standing around. Tata jumps off the throne, runs after Magus,
     only to find Chrono, Marle, and Lucca laughing at him.

     

 7 The Unknown Past
     Beat Lavos after you get the Hero Medal from Tata. During the credits,
     there are a number of clips of scenes with the various characters.
     Most are about scenes that you wouldn't see and characters you haven't
     met: Chrono, Marle, and Lucca coming out of the closet in the monster
     village; Kino & Ayla chasing reptites; Magus at the cove with his
     three henchmen; King Guardia & Queen Leene; Frog in the Cursed Woods;
     and at the end Robo running across the screen.

     

 8 People of the Times
     Beat Lavos after you get the Gate Key back in 65,000,000 BC. While the
     credits are rolling, various still characters are displayed singular
     or in groups around the credits.

     

 9 The Oath
     Beat Lavos after the Masamune is repaired and Frog joins you. You
     start out at Lucca's house, where she is fixing Robo. During the
     credits you see scenes of Frog. He defeats each of Magus' fiends, and
     then goes after Magus himself. After the battle with Magus, you see
     Frog standing on top of the statue above the gate to Magus' castle.

     

10 Dino Age
     Beat Lavos after you defeat Magus (Ayla will wake you up in 65M BC).
     The opening scene is repeated, except that Chrono and his Mother are
     Reptites! When you go to the Millennial Fair, everyone there are
     reptites as well, except for the Green Jogger, who is human. After the
     credits, Azala is alone on the screen, and "THE END" drops on her.

     

11 What the Prophet Seeks ...
     Beat Lavos after you defeat Azala at the Tyrano castle. During the
     credits, you see a scene of Frog approaching the statue of Magus in
     the Cathedral from 400AD. It is the same statue in the Dream Team
     ending.) You also see a number of scenes with Magus, Schala, and
     Janus.

     

12 A Slide Show?
     Beat Lavos after you see Schala use her pendant to open up the door,
     but before you power up Marle's pendant. This will be a slide show,
     with comments from Lucca and Marle about all the men in the game.
     At the end, Chrono actually talks!

     

N/A Bad Ending
     I don't really call this an ending, but someone included it on a
     previous list.
     If you lose the fight agains Lavos, you see Lavos coming out of the
     earth, the command center in the future collapses.

     

Comments

The best way to see all the endings is to complete the entire game and get
the first ending. Take your time so that you can build your levels up for
all the characters. (Playing an RPG is like eating at a fine restaurant;
you are supposed to enjoy the experience, not see how fast you can finish.)

Once you get Ayla, try doing Charm on all the enemies. There are a number
that have magic, speed, or power tabs. Many of these will reappear if you
leave and come back. That is an easy way to increase your stats.

Once you have beaten the game, you can start a "New Game Plus", which will
start the game over with whatever levels, equipment, and items you ended up
with. This means you will be able to breeze through the game the next time
around. The first ending you should be able to get during this second time
through is Ending 3, the Dream Team ending. Save just before you go into
the back of the Millenial Fair, then hop on the right transport. After you
beat Lavos, restart the game, starting from where you last saved. Then
continue through the game until the next ending. You should be able to get
all the remaining endings during this second time through the game. If you
feel lucky, beat Lavos at the Ocean Palace and get Ending 3 the second way.
Once Chrono is gone, and you get out of the Blackbird and Epoch, and meet
with Magus, you can then beat Lavos again to get Ending 2.

Often, it really doesn't matter how you get to Lavos. If you use Epoch,
there is a flight scene where you crash into Lavos. If you use the bucket,
you first fight the Lavos Spawn shaped monster. Once you beat this monster,
it stays beaten. If you leave at this point and come back later, it will
just be a shell.

The endings can be slightly different, depending on if you crash into Lavos
with Epoch, or if you get to him via the Black Omen or the bucket at the
End of Time. Sometimes, the endings are radically different (e.g., you will
see Frog or Glenn, depending on whether you killed Magus or not).

If you want to be able to see any of the endings whenever you want, you
will have to set aside an entire memory block. There are 12 endings, each
one would require one block. You also need one for the System File. There
is room for 15 blocks on a memory card, which means you only have two
blocks to work with for saving during the game. One of those you probably
want to use just before you meet Magus at the Northern Cape.

The endings are slightly different if you fight Magus or if you let him
join you, so you probably want to save just before you meet him so see all
the variations. Another variation depends on whether you save Lucca's
mother, so you might want to save Fiona's side quest until the end, so you
can see the two endings without having to redo too much of the game. So,
that's endings 1 through 12 in slots 1 through 12, the save before meeting
Magus in slot 13, and a save before Fiona's quest in 14. Finally, the
system file goes into slot 15. Now you can see any ending you want within a
half hour after you beat Lavos.



How to Beat Lavos

There are plenty of ways to beat Lavos. You should experiment with the
characters you have and how hard they hit with their double combos. Much
depends on the magic level of your characters. Everytime I get a Magic Tab,
I usually feed it to Lucca. She is the best offensive magic user; her Flare
is very powerful. Marle, on the other hand, is pretty useless, IMHO. Her
cure spells don't really do that well, and they are mostly single spells.
Frog and Robo, on the other hand, have better multiple character cures. I
have found that the best team is Lucca and Frog, who can do Frog Flare, and
Robo, who can either do Uzzi Punch or Heal Beam, depending on everybody's
status.

Start by doing your strongest spells that attach all the enemies. Your
goal, of course, it to finish off the right bit. However, as long as the
center character is alive, the right bit has high defense. As soon as the
center character is killed off, concentrate on the right bit with your
hardest attacks. Usually, those are single enemy attacks, but can be
multiple instead. For me, Frog Flare was stronger than any single spell, so
I tended to use that all the time. The third character healed when
necessary, and attacked otherwise.

When the center character is gone, concentrate all your efforts in doing as
much damage as possible to the right bit. After the center character is
resurrected, you still have a couple of turns to beat up the right bit
before the defense gets restored. Take adavantage of every chance you get.
Even if one of your characters are somewhat low, keep hitting the right
bit. If needed, use a MegaElixer to restore everybody's HP and MP at the
same time. Remember, you have saved your game before you started, and you
will restart the game using that save. That means no matter how many items
you use to beat Lavos, they will all be there when you restart the game.



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