FFVI actually has a little known two player mode. I honestly had no idea of this until a few years ago. I've tried it out and it seems to work well enough. If I'm remembering this right, first player controls the top two characters in your formation, and 2P controls the bottom two. You of course have to enable two player mode, it doesn't just happen automatically.

Although there's no specific mode settings for FF2US, didn't both controller ports allow controlling everything?  Not exactly 2-player, but 2 people could take it upon themselves to agree upon which characters to take action for, I suppose.

Although there's no specific mode settings for FF2US, didn't both controller ports allow controlling everything?  Not exactly 2-player, but 2 people could take it upon themselves to agree upon which characters to take action for, I suppose.

Hi guys

I was wondering....has anyone bothered to hack CT so that another player can control the NPCs to allow for multiplayer play? This would be so awesome! I would love to be able to play CT over the net with my buddy and battle bosses in co-op!

Wow I didn't now that about the FF games. Sounds awesome  :thumbsup: :beer:

I thought Chrono Trigger had multiplayer, or was that Secret of Mana only?
Is it possible to have CT use Secret of Mana's multiplayer protocol, I remember that there was a hack made where the multiplayer protocol was copied and used in Secret of Evermore.

You didn't know? SOE was made using SOM's engine.

CD: It's been stated that although the combat and "Ring" menu systems used in Secret of Evermore are very similar to those found in Secret of Mana, that you guys programmed the system used in Evermore from scratch. Why were these recreated being that they already existed in Secret of Mana, and why was it decided to make them so similar in look and function?

BF: There was some reason why we had to develop from the ground up, but, to be honest, I can't remember what it was. I think it was one of those strange we're-wholly-owned-but-separate-for-tax-purposes sorts of things. Regardless, we did indeed end up writing absolutely everything from scratch, both on the tool side and on the game side.

There were two fairly simple reasons for swiping some of our systems from Mana.  For one, we were supposed to be creating a Mana-like game, so it made sense to retain the interface. For another, those systems were proven to work well, and if you can steal the design for the wheel without getting sued for patent infringement... eh, why not?  We also stole a couple of interface ideas from Final Fantasy 6, by the way.

The upside of rewriting their systems from scratch is that we had the option of tweaking or replacing things without having to tear up unfamiliar code and smush something different into it. Putting in alchemy, for instance, might have been difficult, and that would have been a shame. I think our map engine was more flexible as well.

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CD: Is there one particular aspect of Secret of Evermore that you as a programmer are most proud of?

BF: That's a tough one. We really did everything, absolutely everything, with little or no prior experience and no outside help, and that's something to be proud of, all by itself. I'm also proud of the fact that we managed to mimic the Secret of Mana engine pretty faithfully, to the point that most people think we inherited the code and tweaked it for our own purposes.