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You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

26 points ronreiter 2 hours ago 11 comments

Founderarcstone 2 hours ago | parent

One of the best games ever made very cool you made this.

sph 1 hour ago | parent

Yet another downside of using ‘safe’ languages. You don’t get cool stuff like this.

surgical_fire 58 minutes ago | parent

Nuclear Gandhi would never have been a thing.

ufo 48 minutes ago | parent

Nuclear Gandhi is an urban legend though. Turns out there was no such bug back in Civ 1.

CodesInChaos 29 minutes ago | parent

Many safe languages still suffer from integer overflows. For example in Rust and C# you can pick between an exception being thrown, or silent wrapping when an overflow happens.

nubinetwork 1 hour ago | parent

The elixir glitch works on a lot of bosses...

falsaberN1 49 minutes ago | parent

I don't want Chrono Cross-contamination in my trigger, thanks.

Chrono Cross is a very interesting game on its own but it's a terrible sequel that is remarkably spiteful to its senior. (The thing with FATE and Robo, the Porre thing, the fate of Crono and co., it's a terrible fanfic made canon).

Trigger only worked because of Toriyama gathering the all-star staff (look up the interview with Torishima giving the details). Cross was out of his hands and it shows.

debo_ 41 minutes ago | parent

I loved trigger, got to play it on release. I loved Cross even more. I played that one about 5 years after its release.

Cross has this underlying sense of menace beneath the idyllic (and wondrous) atmosphere of the archipelago. I think it's incredible.

Personally I don't care much about stories in games. Most of them are awful anyways. I really gravitate towards atmosphere, and Cross has that in spades.

noodletheworld 20 minutes ago | parent

You can downvote the parent post all you like, but…

> Personally I don't care much about stories in games

I cant relate to this.

Chrono trigger is a game I love because of the great story.

If you’re playing rpgs and you don't care about the story or characters…

I have no idea. Its like reading a book and saying you don't enjoy the story; you're what, just there for the physical motion of turning the pages?

No idea. Chrono cross left no impression on me. I agree with the parent post.

acbart 39 minutes ago | parent

There's a live music concert for Chrono Trigger playing right now. That game had one of the best soundtracks of all time.

ramesh31 5 minutes ago | parent

You may appreciate these guys, I've had their playlist on repeat for years while working: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p636Rw_L3XU&list=PL1FBFF9D52E7...