Chrono Trigger is Square's time-travel RPG for the SNES. This page contains tips and tricks, starting with the fight against Lavos. To fight Lavos straight away, start a New Game+ with the strongest gear, and at the Year 1000 fair, enter the wrong telepod the first time you try it; the fight is easier that way.
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Tricks and Secrets
Fight Lavos right away: start a NEW GAME+ with the most powerful equipment. At the fair in the Year 1000 enter the wrong telepod (the first time you try it): you end up directly at Lavos. It is easier with Marle on the team. By finishing the game this way you reach the secret area of the Chrono Trigger staff: talk to everyone to see the secret ending.
Faster Crono music: enter the Epoch and go to A.D. 1999; when you must choose whether to fight or flee, choose to flee; press B to return to the game and answer to fight to the same choice. The music starts at double speed and returns to normal when the Epoch crashes. It has no consequences on the game.
Easy Silver Points: they are needed for Crono's Clone and, early in the game, to earn enough for Excalibur. Play the race or beat the robot. To win the race listen to the old man behind the fence to the right of the starting point: he predicts the winner for the first three times; then always bet on him and distract the other runners by talking to them.
Easy tech points: on Mt. Woe fight the rubbles; at the second level (rubbles in the upper right corner) defeat them, go back to the previous level and re-enter: they are there again. Each victory is worth 1000 EXP and 100 tech points.
Lots of money and Lode Sword in the prison: after "kidnapping" Marle, wait three days instead of escaping. From the execution room turn right, go up to a cell with a hole in the wall, go out, go down along the wall to another entrance and explore the room until you see a black hole: go down with A. You find lots of treasures; come back the same way.
Best equipment for Magus: in Ozzie's fort, in the room where he tempts you with a treasure chest, ignore it and leave by the upper exit: he gives up and you can take the treasure. Under the upper exit there is an invisible hole in the wall: go down and you find a weapon, helmet and armor for Magus (and a magic tablet).
Free armor and helmets: at different times go to A.D. 1000 to Taban's house (Lucca's father): he gives you Taban Vest, Taban Elm, Taban Armor, often more powerful than your current equipment (only Lucca can wear them).
Get the MOP!: use Charm on the NU on the hunters' floor in 65,000,000 B.C.: even if you get there early in the game, it will still be very weak.
Secret room in Yakra's place: in the room with the fake queen, king and soldier, kill the fakes and run right: a room with singing monsters; after the statue there are 2 chests and you can challenge the monsters.
Sun Stone: bring it to 65,000,000 B.C. and place it in the sunkeep; in the Present go to the mayor's house (rays coming out of the house), who will not give it to you until you do something else. In 600 A.D. talk to the woman who asks to buy something: give it to her. Return to the present, get the stone, put it back in the sunkeep and go to the future with Lucca: she will take the stone to her house and build her best weapon, while her father will make an accessory that increases attack. Bring it with the rainbow shell to Melchior in the castle: he builds the best equipment for Crono.
Yaraka XXII: go to the Giant Crustacean in 600 A.D. and kill the enemies; near the rainbow shell ask the Castle Guard to help you carry it; in 1000 A.D. at the Castle Guard face the trial against Marle's father; a locked chest requires Yaraka XXII's key. In the cell there is the real chancellor; if you then fight Lavos, at the end of the game you receive the parade.
New Game +: after finishing the game a first time NEW GAME + appears: applied to a save, you start over with the weapons, items and experience accumulated, and you can see all the endings and beat enemies that had defeated you before.
More power in the future: a chest taken in the past is not there in the future; taken in the future it is also there in the past, but with a different item. In the past choose NOT to take the contents of a blocked basket, then open it in the future: the contents will be more powerful (for example White/Black/Red/Blue Vest and Mail in the past; Kali Blade, Shiva Edge, Siren, Valkyrie, Nova Armor and Moon Armor in the future).
Unlimited Power Tabs (requires Ayla): at the end of the Black Omen, in the room after the 2 Nu, use Charm with Ayla on the Turbo Monster to get a powertab; leave, re-enter and repeat.
Unlimited Shelters: in the Guardia Forest (600 A.D.) interact with the moving bush: a monster like Spekkio appears and runs away leaving a Shelter; leave and re-enter and repeat.
Factory door: if you have problems, every time the computer asks for the password press X, A, B, Y.
Secret painting of the Naga-ettes: in the cathedral (600 A.D.), in the first room on the stairs on the left with three chests, open the desk: the painting is a secret and after taking it you must fight.
Saving Lucca's Mom
Before the end of the game go to 600 A.D., after Fiona's house: a whirlpool in the sand. Bring Ice or Water magic with you and defeat the skeleton at the end of the area (similar to the one at the Zeenan Bridge), weakening it with water and ice.
Go back to Fiona with Robo in the party and say "YES" when she asks you to stay and help her.
In 1000 A.D., where the desert was, there is a forest with a cathedral: near the end, on a pedestal, there is an old Robo. Make him come down, talk in the forest and after everyone sleeps control Lucca: on the right of the screen she enters the portal.
Lucca arrives at her house in the past; Lara is sucked in by the machine. Run down, enter the central door, get on the machine and at the password press L-A-R-A: the machine stops and Lara is safe. At the end of the game you see her dancing with Taban.
