It'll work on a 3DS, too so you don't need to go hunting for an old DS, and is perfect for playing on the go.

They also used the dual-screen to reasonably good effect, getting all the menus off the main screen and letting the original art really shine. The port team, made up of members of the original development team, conducted a labor of love to get everything looking as good as possible on the handheld's tiny screen. This is probably the best of the non-original software for Chrono Trigger. We're also not going to link to any emulators or ROMs but you seem like a smart person so we'll leave the rest to you. If you bought the game once, misplaced your cartridge seven house moves ago and want to play again, we're not going to say it's entirely legally justified but I think you can be happy that the developers got their reward from you for their hard work. BUT, most available emulators are pretty dang good at getting just how Chrono Trigger looked and sounded on the original hardware. Look, no-one wants to get into a big philosophical debate about the moral ramifications of playing unofficially distributed ROMs of out-of-print software. Sadly, Nintendo's own Mini SNES does not support its original cart hardware and can only play what's pre-installed on it, unless. Our resident retro expert Tom recently discovered that the Super Nt made things looks just as good as his memory fools him into thinking they were, but there are other options with a newly announced console from Hyperkin called the Supa Retron HD which can also play original carts for slightly cheaper. The Analogue Super Nt is probably your best bet for enjoying the original pixel art and pleasing fonts upscaled onto a modern flatscreen. Actually, that's a lie now, thanks to the sudden deluge of SNES-like consoles appearing on the market. If you want the definitive version of Chrono Trigger, then there's only one platform for it: the SNES it originally released on in 1995. Chrono Trigger on SNES (or modern equivalents) So here's how to play Chrono Trigger at its best.

The PC version appears to be a port of the mobile port of the original, which is like watching Dunkirk in gif form on a 4K TV. Chrono Trigger's surprise Steam release yesterday reminded us that Square Enix don't really care too much about doing justice to their old games.

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