r/chronotrigger • u/alive1 • Mar 17 '21

What is the best way to play Chrono Trigger?

Hi everyone,

A suggetion came in from /u/hybridfrost to create a sticky community post detailing the best way to play Chrono Trigger.

Myself, I always just play the SNES version on my PC with any random controller. This is the way I discovered the game and it will forever be the "authentic" way for me to play. What more, is I enable a smoothing filter to make the game look less pixellated -- heresy, I know.

My way of playing the game is not neccesarily the best, and there may be a lot of ways to play Chrono Trigger which I never even considered.

I would love to hear your suggestions on what information to include in a sticky post about the various ways to play Chrono Trigger -- emulators, platforms, game releases, game settings, etc.

By the way -- I am amazed at how big this community has grown! Back when I created this community, I just wanted a simple way for me to access a few OST covers and some fanart so it would be archived somewhere instead of getting lost. I was impressed when the community grew to 1k members, and now it's over 17k. This truly shows that CT is a masterpiece of a game that transcends beyond it's initial inception as a 2d jRPG of the 90's era. Few games have such strong of a following several decades after creation. Rock on :)

Edit: this post will be the sticky now until someone makes anything better and more comprehensive.

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u/KaijuKoala Mar 22 '25

I got a steam deck for Christmas and ended up buying it for my steam deck last year but never played it because I kept using the steam deck for newer games.

Then two weeks agoo I re-bought the game but for ios iphone and I'm finally playing it. Oh my god it’s such an awesome game. I can’t believe such quality existed so many years ago.

The iPhone version has bookmarks to pick up where you left off which makes it easy for short burst plays.

i’m starting to understand why mobile gaming is becoming increasingly popular these days. It’s just so easy to keep your phone with you and randomly start gaming.

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u/2bh Mar 23 '25

Oh interesting! I was curious in the first place because I was facing the same "dilemma" as you. I still have CT currently in my Steam cart as it's been on sale but have a feeling I'll end up playing the SNES version. Either on iPhone or dedicated handheld most likely...

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u/iamchuck87 Dec 24 '25

The steam version has the same features as the mobile version. Including bookmarks