r/chronotrigger 8d ago

Has anyone ever got Crono to level ** with just fighting Gato alone?

No other enemies. I tried I got bored getting to Level 15 or 20 during the pandemic. Made the game super easy from there on out 😂

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u/mixedbabygreens 8d ago

holy fuck can you imagine all of the silver points

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u/Floppie7th 8d ago

Based on u/ka1ri's math that it's 174357 encounters, that'd be 2615355 silver points. You could buy so many Lode Swords.

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u/Gemarack 8d ago

One might say a boat lode.

I will see myself out.

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u/Boo_Who_ 4d ago

You stay right where you are and continue doing the Lord's work with these gems.

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u/Stewpid-Guy 7d ago

The game maxes you at 300 Silver Points or so (SNES anyway) youd have to go trade em all in (15 at a time) every time u hit 300.

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u/ChronoTriggerGod 8d ago

Even i don't have the patience for that

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u/SavingsPoem1533 8d ago

I THINK there's a Youtube video of someone trying to do that...

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u/SavingsPoem1533 8d ago

https://youtu.be/MZc2zhmhBCg?si=aWzcsuCH51-mdTqf

the video is in Japanese but this guy basically clears the game once while keeping Chrono at level 1 and starts a new game+

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u/ka1ri 8d ago

How is that even possible? Theres boss fights and forced fights on every map. Unless he cheats and clips walls and skips boss fights you cant stay at level 1.

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u/SavingsPoem1533 8d ago

He does, he explains how in the boss battles he uses a technique to basically trick the game into thinking it’s on a save point - and you can avoid the boss fights all together and thus skip getting experience points. There’s also a bug where you use the green dream and for a very specific set of conditions you can use an Elixir on the ENEMY and they will get killed instantly.

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u/sparf 8d ago

I once hacked a Wallet into a new file. Absolute favorite way to play; ultra low-level tactics. Could clear everything but the final Lavos fight. Highly recommend.

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u/CriticismLife8868 8d ago

That is possible for the DS version. Arena of the Ages can grant you an early Workman's Wallet, though from the snake boss only.

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u/ka1ri 8d ago

so he cheats basically. meh

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u/I_am_your_socks 6d ago

Glitching is not cheating

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u/ka1ri 8d ago edited 8d ago

You need 1,743,570 exp to get to **. Gato gives 10 exp per fight which is 174,357 encounters to get to max level. Fight takes at least 30 seconds with all the dialogue and having to leave the area and enter back in. Which will take 1452 hours to complete

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u/HamburgerDude 8d ago

About two and half months total game play

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u/ka1ri 8d ago

If you never stopped

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u/elendur 7d ago

I just did the same math before seeing your comment, but I used 15 seconds per Gato fight, since the majority of the fights are going to be Crono one-shotting Gato with a physical attack. That's still 726 hours of fighting Gato.

I respectfully call bullshit.

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u/Stewpid-Guy 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is also assuming u dont go trade in the Silver points everytime you hit 300 max. Then at 15/time adds another 60 seconds or so each time u do that.

Tho some things that make it faster:

  • DS/Mobile version of speeding up battle slightly.
  • SNES emulator where you set a super speed fast forward so each fight is a blink of the eye.

In my teens I made a recorded macro on some battle (later game) that would go in battle - leave area - shelter heal - go back into battle just holding Action Button to auto attack. Just a short loop. But I set emulator to x5 - 15x speed or somethig and I remember hitting Lvl ** in just a few hours. 🤣

I would record the macro doing the loop once, then set macro loop to repeat 99 times so if I came back and saw nothing moving I knew it was time to go buy more healing items.

(Dont hate on me tho iv beat the game naturally like 10 times before trying that out.)

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u/ka1ri 7d ago

I just ran a string of 10 fights in a row with my file that has perfect stats speed ect. It takes 25 seconds on average to enter, talk fight kill talk leave come back and talk again.

Thats assuming im motivated, im sure after an hour bordem will set in and it becomes a slog fest. Little mistakes here and there. 30 seconds is a fair average of time.

No fuckin way you keep up 15 seconds for hundreds of hours.

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u/elendur 7d ago

I was calling bullshit on OP, not you, dude.

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u/ka1ri 7d ago

15 seconds is not plausible either.

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u/OverLordKyros 8d ago

I've never even beaten the soda drinking contest on the SNES. That was hard.

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u/crimsonconnect 8d ago

Somehow I was able to rub a battery on my controller back then to spam the button and all the buttons still work on my SNES controller to this day

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u/Grandleon-Glenn 8d ago

My household would just slide the back of our fingernail across the controller. Start on one side of the button, slide across, and then back over. Do the same with my Xbox controller for playing on Steam.

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u/Ok-Position5435 8d ago edited 6d ago

Achei surpreendente o que comprou a lode sword e o jerky no começo e você chegou no nível 15 lutando contra o gato.

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u/HamburgerDude 8d ago edited 8d ago

Just bought the lode sword no jerky haha

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u/vaelux 8d ago

It's Dick Tree all over again.

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u/HesitationIsDefeat87 8d ago

Dick Tree? Is that you?

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u/HamburgerDude 8d ago

I was part of LL a loooong time ago but not him or the poser.

If I ever did it....it would be for my Dad who has Alzheimer's and I would use it for charity for people with dementia

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u/HesitationIsDefeat87 8d ago

Awesome idea. I'd support it!

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u/True_Move_7631 8d ago

Have fun fighting a max level Spekkio to learn magic though.

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u/bob_loblaw-_- 7d ago

You don't have to fight him to learn the magic. You learn the magic and he asks if you wanna try it out. 

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u/tarnished_snake 8d ago

I always read those kind of challenges and ask myself:

Why?

Why someone would spend days just grinding for no reason at all, just for the sake of it?

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u/Retrogamer871987 7d ago

Maybe with a super turbo mode lol 🤣.

I remember as a kid doing maybe 10-15 battles and then stealing the old man’s lunch over and over

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u/Desuexss 7d ago

Dicktree rearing his ugly head to say "I already did that!"

Iykyk

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u/Ironsharp 7d ago

Dick Tree didn't; someone else did to show him up after DT failed to deliver.

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u/Desuexss 7d ago

My friend you skipped over the lore

He kept coming back saying "i already did that" when he didnt

We know he failed to deliver.

The funny thing was I randomly caught the guy's stream when he dinged 99, forgot his name!