Thanks :)

ewww, I never even thought about that. Man, that'd be lame.

Better question: How can the time gates support four people when they can only support...three?

"This oughta have NO lag, and with Mega Man 9 coming, there's an obvious "OK" from the modern gaming scene about sprite-based games."

Wait, what?

Also, I noticed how they're fitting the game into a DS screen. They're just cutting off the top and bottom pixels of the 256 x 224 (or whatever) resolution SNES version to fit it into the 256 x 192 resolution DS screen. You can see stuff cut off in the trailer, like Crono himself is barely visible during that one special attack in which he jumps into the air, and during the Johnny race, you can't see the actual side of the road that's closest to the screen. The top and bottom are cut off as compared to the SNES version.

This also means that the aspect ratio is screwed up, since the 256 x 224 SNES version is meant to be stretched horizontally a little to correct the aspect ratio. Playing the game on the DS (as opposed to on an SNES) will make everything look stretched vertically, you know, like tall and skinny.

Well, at least that's interesting information to me.

's definately interesting info. Dammit, Nintendo, choose a ratio and stick with it; you're making things ass to translate among your consoles. I mean, the unlockable Metroid on Zero Mission is flattened or stretched (depending on how you see it) into the GBA's ratio.

As for the "what", I mean that it being a near-straight copy of a game designed for the SNES, it shouldn't have any of the lag problems seen on the PS1 ports or on FFIVA. The sprite-based thing is that even with the modern focus being on 3D, Chrono Trigger is nice enough looking and there's enough interest in teh bloki visual style to keep Chrono Trigger from being brushed aside as easily by those not particularly in the know.