Chrono Trigger
Jump straight into Chrono Trigger for Super Nintendo (SNES): 100% free, runs in your browser, nothing to install.
Jump straight into Chrono Trigger for Super Nintendo (SNES): 100% free, runs in your browser, nothing to install.
Square put out this role-playing game for the Super Famicom and SNES in 1995, with character designs by Akira Toriyama and story work credited to Yuji Horii and Hironobu Sakaguchi. It opens at a millennial fair in the year 1000, where a teleporter demonstration goes wrong and tears open gates through time. Crono and the friends he gathers end up moving between prehistory, the middle ages, the present, a floating magic-era kingdom and a ruined future.
Combat runs on an active-time system with no random encounters. Enemies stand in the field and fights begin where you already are, so party positioning determines what your attacks reach. Every character has Techs, and pairing or tripling the right characters unlocks Dual and Triple Techs. Choices you make early are quietly recorded and read back at a courtroom trial, and finishing the game unlocks New Game Plus.
Nearly every decision here removes waiting: encounters trigger on the map, the field and battle share one screen, and a full run is short by the standards of its contemporaries. It is also one of the earliest games to offer New Game Plus, letting you carry levels and equipment into a fresh file and confront the final boss at almost any point in the story, which is how most of the alternate endings are actually reached.
You can play with keyboard, gamepad, or touch (on mobile). The default keyboard layout is below; remap any key inside the emulator settings.
Twelve on the original SNES version; the later DS release adds one more. Which one you get depends on how far through the story you are when you defeat Lavos. Several are only practical on a New Game Plus file, where your levels carry over and you can reach him almost immediately.
Yes. Following the Ocean Palace, an optional climb up Death Peak using the Chrono Trigger egg from Gaspar and a clone doll obtained at the fair restores him. Skipping the quest is allowed and alters the ending you receive.
They unlock automatically once the characters involved have learned the right individual Techs, so rotating party members matters more than sticking with one trio. Magus is the exception: he learns no Dual Techs at all, and his two Triple Techs only become available when a specific rock accessory is equipped.
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Yes. The emulator supports save states — you can save the exact moment you're at and resume later from any device by signing into a free OldGames account.
Yes. The emulator includes touch controls optimised for phones and tablets. iPhone, iPad, Android — all supported.
Yes. Connect any USB or Bluetooth controller (Xbox, PlayStation, 8BitDo, Switch Pro, etc.) and it will be detected automatically.
