Insane Difficulty: Chrono Cross - Insane Difficulty

I know you've received many proposals to increase the difficulty of some games.
In my first message I want to congratulate them on their website and I suggest the CHRONO CROSS, XENOGEARS and FRONT MISSION 3, three of the best games ever (for me) to increase its difficulty.
Regards and sorry for my english

creoyo, on 07 December 2011 - 03:47 AM, said:

Your English is fine

Chrono Cross and Xenogears are big ones, those would be great to work on

I'm looking at Chrono Trigger too

Do you know what is the state of hacking and tool development for modifying Chrono Cross / Xenogears?

Also if any rebalance mods already exist for those two games?

Chrono Cross is actually pretty hard on your first run in the very beginning of the game, like fighting the small version of the Red Dragon or The Dragon Divas, but later it gets piss easy (COUGH COUGH LYNX GLIDE HOOK SPAM)

Well, I pretty much finished decoding Final Fantasy VIII. Now I'm checking Final Fantasy IX, Chrono Cross, and Castlevania - Symphony of the Night to see if they are reasonably modifiable. If so, I'll be making a basic hard mode for each game.

LandonRay, on 07 December 2011 - 05:23 PM, said:

LandonRay, on 07 December 2011 - 05:23 PM, said:

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Oooooooo, I've got hearts and love!

The mods will be fairly basic, just enemy stat increases to start with. Symphony of the Night shouldn't be a problem. As for Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy IX, it will be largely dependent upon whether or not the stat data is compressed. My mod of Final Fantasy VIII is considerably more extensive.

Things I've changed in FF8:
The End no longer ignores death immunity.
Meltdown's Vitality 0 hit rate is reduced to 110. This means Meltdown has a base of a 10% chance to cause Vit-0, it's altered based on your magic and the enemies spirit.
Invincibility items have had their probabilities of success reduced. Hero 30%, one character. Hero-Trial 15%, one character. Holy War 20%, all characters. Holy War-Trial 10%, all characters.
All enemies stat curves rewritten.
All enemies AI scripts rewritten.
All enemies in Ultimecia's Castle spawn at a fix level of 100.
All enemies who had a maximum level cap now have a higher fixed level. For instance, Edea 1 had a max level of 20, now she has a fixed level of 30.

Good stuff dude. If you make a ff9 hardtype I will definitely give that a play, and possibly a SoTN as well. Good stuff man, and good luck.

Archael, on 07 December 2011 - 11:59 AM, said:

My English, I owe to google translator

The Chrono Trigger I inform you that there are already many patches in the network increases the difficulty significantly.

Yes yes, there are tools that have been translated into Spanish the two games (very good by the way). so I know hacking is possible.
These are the websites of the Spanish translations:
http://chronocrosses...o-completada-f4
http://xenogears.romhackhispano.org/
or
http://foro.romhackh...wforum.php?f=28

But I do not know if there rebalance mods for this two games

The Front Mission 3 is being translated into spanish but their website is now unavailable

thanks for replying

Chrono Cross is Marvelous game, the problem is the low difficulty, the NG+ is boring, i really want a hard version od CC i will be absolutaly wonderfull, i have searched on net but dont existe eny mod like this, sad

London, did you have any plan for Chrono Cross ?

I've been think about taking a crack at it once FFIX is finished. If I do a mod for Chrono Cross it will likely be a pure difficulty mod, no re-balancing.

So I've started working on Chrono Cross...

Edit: Damn I can't spell.

LandonRay, on 03 July 2012 - 03:34 PM, said:

Just in time too, because I was just contacted about a Chrono Trigger hack coming to ID

+1

LandonRay, on 03 July 2012 - 03:34 PM, said:

If you need any help with it feel free to drop me a PM.

Thankfully, Chrono Cross is really easy to modify. Hopefully I'll finish it this weekend.

LandonRay, on 12 July 2012 - 03:07 PM, said:

Man, I thought I worked fast,

but noouuu

Archael, on 03 July 2012 - 07:19 PM, said:

To Archael: not if you know but the Chrono Trigger already MODs that increase the difficulty. (I only say it if you did not know, anyway encourage)


To LondonRay: Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks.....

creoyo, on 01 August 2012 - 07:03 AM, said:

Hey Creoyo,

You can download the Chrono Cross mod here http://www.insanedif...index.php/games

As for Chrono Trigger, I know there's already MODs of it already, but we kinda wanted an in-house one (made by ID Members), so we can control quality

ID Bot, on 01 August 2012 - 10:04 AM, said:

Hi.
Of course I downloaded and "tested" the MOD of Chrono Cross, when done with Xenogears want to start a new game of Chrono Cross "Hard Type" .
Luck with the Chrono Trigger MOD.

And a question for LondonRay: can you tell the changes made to the Chrono Cross, the Main features? If there is no re-balance work, only increases the power and protection from enemies? The MOD affects a the New Game + ?

Thanks for the MOD

LandonRay, on 07 December 2011 - 06:07 PM, said:

Is that FF8 mod available for download somewhere?