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Discussion Chrono Cross Radical Dreamers Edition Fiasco

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Chrono Cross "remaster" is currently fucked

Lost Branch

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The "remaster" of Chrono Cross was realised a couple of days ago and it's a complete shit show. It looks like at least half the user base is having problems just running the game, with a large chunk of them not able to play at all.

Everything from framerate issues to the game not being recognized to it claiming your system not having enough vram. Pretty much anything you can think of, someone is having that issue.

Steam forums are of course a mess, to no one's surprise, but it's actually goes further. The game doesn't have some of the promised additions for pre-purchasing and, it looks like, Steam itself is starting to limit the rate of refunds. The refund issue so far was only a single complaint, but I figured it's something to keep in mind knowing how Square has been handling these "remasters."

The more testing people have done, the more it looks like it's not actually a remaster, but an emulated port of the original PS1 title. Looking at the file structure shows zip files of the discs themselves and a "hd" zip file. As far as anyone can tell, Square sold a locked emulator that plays a single game. That emulator is so bad it's actually decoupled from the game itself so testing fps is a lot harder because the UI and the game itself are somehow separated. When measuring the fps, you're actually measuring just the UI and not the game. Digital Foundry seemed to have found a way to check it. They compared to the original version and found this new version runs worse than the original.


Also, since nothing can just be left alone, Square decided to change a bunch of stuff as well. One is confirming they see panties as inherently sexual by changing Marcy's underwear to bloomers. Just so everyone knows, the only time you can even attempt to see Marcy's panties is during combat. That is the only time you can directly control the camera.


As for other changes, what's been recorded so far is removal of character dialog quirks. Mojo no longer speaks with his usual mannerism. Oh, except he still does if you get him early, the only part they changed was his introduction but were apparently too lazy to change anything else.

We also have the removal of dialog mentioning things such as "she would make a good housewife" and similar dialog. Edit to add some more dialog changes:

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All of this was found in essentially two days. I'm wondering just how much more was fucked with considering a lot of the theming in this title.
 
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crudebuster

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Now who we'll find bragging about this imbecilic ruse to make something timeless completely dated?

And for god's sake, another lousy emulator coming from the god damned owners of the stuff? At least they could get a decent one.
 
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