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• I've kept the layout of the original text as much as possible.
• Lines that are colored like these are my comments, anything in gold is actions and such that the dialog doesn't explain, and this teal is messages from the game (e.g., "You got a potion").
• If I'm not too comfortable with how I translated something, I've put a * after it. A (*) stands for something that I can't figure out even well enough to guess.
• All right... I've gotten sick of trying to come of with Enlgish approximations of name suffixes, and it doesn't seem right to drop them, so I'm just leaving them as is. If you need an explaination, go here: name suffixes.
• Significant sections of dialogue depend on who is in your party, or which option you choose. I've decided to mark alternate flows with colored borders and give explanations individially. The scenes where your party may vary generally have various roles that will be filled by the characters present. In some, the game apparently decides who to use for each role by going down a preset list and picking the first available character; in others, it just picks whoever's in, for example, the second position. One result of this is that in many scenes, a character will always fill a given role if present, regardless of who else is in the party or in what order; another is that some characters may never fill certain roles. Note that Marle and Lucca tend to take priority for getting lines, that Crono never talks except in a particular alternate ending, that Ayla tends to be low priority, and that Magus hardly ever speaks.
• Since I feel like it, and it sort of contibutes to the mood, background music is indicated by the OST track number (first time only) and track name. For example, the title screen's music is 1-1 予感 (Premonition), meaning track 1 of disk 1, entitled 予感 (which means 'premonition'). Some of the track names are difficult to translate, and these are noted. Sound effects are also noted now and then when appropriate.
• Original text, my translation, and the English version text are displayed side-by-side in columns for easier viewing, and to allow comparisons with the official translation. I'll generally refer to the original as the JP (Japanese) version, and the official English version as NA (North American).
• Even sections marked as complete may have oversights, typos, or other errors.

26 Feb 2006 - I was going to hold off on updating until after finishing the script revision, but as I was browsing through earlier work by other translators posted on the Compendium forums, one of the chapter names caught my attention, and a rechecking revealed that I made a typo back when I first got the name for chapter 3 (in my defense, I wasn't yet using script dumps then... sigh). It's the PRINCESS (王女) who's vanished, NOT the Queen (王妃)! Maybe I was paying more attention to the NA version than the actual text? How embarrassing...! Other chapter names are also revised, since I figured, hey, why not?

I've also figured out a clever way to make my text indent after the first line, as much of the dialog in the game does, using css. Unfortunately, I have to add approriate tags to mark where I want the effect, and since it doesn't belong everywhere, I can't automate it, so it's going to be a while before that reaches every page. Especially since I have other priorities. It looks pretty nice where I have added it, though (try chapter 6).

18 Nov 2006 - Even more revisions and subdivision. Revisions are directly linked to my progress on the Chrono Compendium's retranslation project, which is coming along fairly well...

18 Jul 2006 - Mirror up! Yay!

23 May 2006 - Some more revision and more subdivision. With any luck I'll have the main storyline finished soon (hah).

19 Mar 2006 - I've divided up the storyline into smaller pieces based on the 'chapter' names that the game puts on save files. As an added bonus, I've also added a page listing location and enemy names.

28 Dec 2005 - Only minor updates this time... mostly correcting a few typos and changing the translation of 王国騎士団 to 'Royal Knights'.