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The characters of ''Chrono Trigger'' were designed by Akira Toriyama based on sketches from the story planner Masato Kato. The development team wanted a diverse cast to reflect the various eras visited by the player; while working on the in-battle actions of the game, they decided to include a playable character that was neither human nor robot. Kato drew sketches for a cast of eight playable characters, comprising a male protagonist, the daughter of a fairy king, a tin robot, a monster man, an inventor girl, a demon king, a primitive girl, and an old sage. Pig and monkey characters were also considered. Six of the initial ideas were reworked by Toriyama, while the old sage character was scrapped, and the monster man replaced with Toriyama's own frog man design.

[[Crono's Mother]] accidentally enters the time gate at the Fair before it closes, prompting Crono, Marle, and Lucca to set out in the Epoch to find her while fireworks light up the night sky. Alternatively, if the party used the Epoch to break Lavos's outer shell, Marle will help her father hang [[Nadia's Bell]] at the festival and accidentally get carried away by several balloons. Crono jumps on to help her but cannot bring them down to earth. Hanging on to each other's arms, the pair travel through the cloudy, moonlit sky.

Early alpha versions of ''Chrono Trigger'' were demonstrated at the 1994 and 1995 V-Jump festivals in Japan. A few months prior to the game's release, Square shipped a beta version to magazine reviewers and game stores for review. An unfinished build of the game, it contained unused music tracks, locations, and other features changed or removed from the final release—such as a dungeon named "Chanting Mountains", and its eponymous song entitled "Singing Mountain". The ROM image was uploaded to the internet, prompting fans to explore and document the game's differences, including two unused world maps, several character sprites, and presumed additional sprites for certain [[NPC|non-player characters]]. Rumors of a planned eighth character exist but are wholly unsubstantiated.

''Chrono Trigger'' used a 32-megabit cartridge with battery-backed RAM for saved games, lacking special on-cartridge coprocessors. The Japanese release of ''Chrono Trigger'' included art for the game's ending and running counts of items in the player's status menu. Developers created the North American version before adding these features to the original build, inadvertently leaving in vestiges of ''Chrono Trigger'' 's early development such as the song "Singing Mountain".  Hironobu Sakaguchi asked translator [[Ted Woolsey]] to localize ''Chrono Trigger'' for English audiences and gave him roughly thirty days to work. Lacking the help of a modern translation team, he memorized scenarios and looked at drafts of commercial player's guides to put dialogue in context. Woolsey later reflected that he would have preferred two-and-a-half months and blames his rushed schedule on the prevailing attitude in Japan that games were child's toys rather than serious works. Some of his work was cut due to space constraints, though he still considered the game "one of the most satisfying games I ever worked on or played." Nintendo of America censored certain dialogue, including references to breastfeeding, consumption of alcohol, and religion. Square shipped the game with two world maps, and Japanese buyers who pre-ordered received holographic foil cards.

The Wii Virtual Console contains the SNES version of Chrono while the Playstation Network contains the Playstation version of Chrono Trigger. The iOS, Android 2011 and Windows 2018 contains the Nintendo DS version of Chrono Trigger has been updated for the touch screen controls for iOS and Android, while the Windows PC Steam port uses the keyboard, mouse and controller support.

There are no plans for a new title, despite a statement from Hironobu Sakaguchi in 2001 that the developers of ''Chrono Cross'' wanted to make a new ''Chrono'' game. The same year, Square applied for a trademark for the names [[Chrono Break]] in the United States and Chrono Brake in Japan. However, the United States trademark was dropped in 2003. Director Takashi Tokita mentioned "Chrono Trigger 2" in a 2003 interview which has not been translated to English. [[Yūji Horii]] expressed no interest in returning to the Chrono franchise in 2005, while Hironobu Sakaguchi remarked in April 2007 that his creation Blue Dragon was an "extension of [Chrono Trigger]." During a Cubed³ interview on February 1, 2007 Square Enix’s Senior Vice President Hiromichi Tanaka said that although no sequel is currently planned, some sort of sequel is still possible if the ''Chrono Cross'' developers can be reunited. Yasunori Mitsuda has expressed interest in scoring a new game but warned that "there are a lot of politics involved" with the series. He stressed that Masato Kato should participate in development. The February 2008 issue of Game Informer ranked the ''Chrono'' series eighth among the "Top Ten Sequels in Demand", asking, "what's the damn holdup?!" In Electronic Gaming Monthly's June 2008 "Retro Issue", writer Jeremy Parish cited ''Chrono'' as the franchise video game fans would be most thrilled to see a sequel to.

*Chrono Compedium

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