Chono Cross Walkthrough

1. ??????
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- Find your way to the pillar of light
- Step on the glowing magenta platform, press
- Enter the gate

2. Arni Village
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- Talk to Marge (Mom)
- Go to the docks and talk to Leena
- Get a Shellfish Window Skin from the item stand
- Get the Shark Amulet from some guy in his basement
- You may get the Heckran Bone under the bed in the bar
- DO NOT let Poshul (the dog, I think that's what it is) join you!!
- Leave

3. Lizard Rock
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- Push the boulder in front of the cave, fight the first Komodo
- Use the cliff to leap onto the second Komodo
- You must just chase and fight the third Komodo, then fight Mama Kodomo
- Exit left to the beach, it's all straight forward to...

4. ANOTHER WORLD
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- Go to Arni and talk to Marge and Leena
- Go to where you got the Shark Amulet to get Mojo
- Go to the Cape Howl and examine the tombstone
- Fight Karsh, Solt, and Peppor
- Name Kid but DON'T let her join you (second option, three times)
- Leena and Poshul joins (this is the ONLY way to get Leena!)
- With either Kid or Leena/Poshul, procede to the Hydra Swamp

5. Hydra Swamp
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- Go northwest, find a guy who will give you the Radioactive Suit
- Leave for now, go to the Fossil Valley

6. Fossil Valley
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- Cool music, go up the ladder
- Here, get the Skull for a character named Skelly
- Also get the Bell Flowers and the Giant Egg (near the bird)
- Go back to the first screen, exit left, fight Solt and Peppor

7. Termina
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- Go to the statue at the top of town (get Kid, maybe)
- Go to very east side of town, give flowers to Glenn
- Choice One: Get Guile - Talk to him in the bar
- Choice Two: Get Nikki - Talk to Miki on Magical Dreamers ship
- Choice Three: Get Pierre - In Smithy, get his Badge from little boy outside
- You cannot get all three on one regular game, wait until you beat it...

8-A. Guile to Viper Manor
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- In Termina, find Korcha's boat
- The rest is easy, fight up the cliff

8-B. Nikki to Viper Manor
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- Find Slash in waterfall in Shadow Forest
- Get Aroma Bag, use it to lure Gels to sleeping plant monster with pollen
- Go through tree, be sure to block the hole with the cricket monsters inside

8-C. Pierre to Viper Manor
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- Go through the front gate

9. Manor Outside
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- Observe that the front door is locked
- The key is in the top right corner of the Dragon-feeding den
- You must play the drogon-feeding game at least once

10. Viper Manor
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- "Radical Dreamers" was this whole section only!
- Rotate snake statue, fall in trap
- Fight guards, take clothing, go in west rooms
- In Kitchen, talk to Glenn, then go to his room, he'll write the statue combo
- In east rooms, try to take the pendant, fall into another trap
- Fight Luccia's Frankenstein Onion Knights
- Back in entrance, use correct combo on snake statue
- Go west, to library (is this Belthaser...?) Search around, fight li'l Marcy
- Talk to old man, go back to large room, search pillars for a switch
- Fight guards, take elevator-throne to high levels, go in right door
- Fight Lynx, then there's some scenes, I won't spoil much now...

11-A. Guldove - Macha's Mission
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- Do NOT opt to save Kid (all top choices to Korcha)
- Get Pelvis for Skelly from trading girl near the boat
- Talk to Mamacha and everyone else in Guldove
- Take Korcha's boat to Termina, go to entrance, see Glenn
- Go back to boat, you'll get Glenn and Macha, go to Foggy Sea east of El Nido
- Do the "Pirate Ghosts" section then return to Guldove for Doc and Kid

11-B. Guldove - Korcha's Mission
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- Opt to save Kid yourself (bottom choices to Korcha)
- Get Pelvis for Skelly from trading girl near the boat
- Take boat to Termina, you cannot get Glenn, but get Greco anyway
- Go to Opassa Beach, use Kid's Astral Amulet to wormhole back HOME
- Go to Hydra Marsh, fight Pipapipa and get flute, use it at north most section
- Fight Giant Hydra Insect, then Kracken thingie, the get Razzly the fairy
- Procede until you fight Hydra Centipede, get medicine, return to Guldove
- Be sure to chase and catch Mel if you want her later (Only with Korcha)
- Get Kid, proceed to "Pirate Ghosts" section (Go to the Foggy Mist)

12. Pirate Ghosts
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- Go to the foggy shroud between El Nido and the Sea of Eden
- Once the ghosts attack, observe that the main door is locked
- Kill all skeletons and talk to all pirates to find the key
- Find your way to deck, fight the jelly-like Diamond Jar

13. Burnt-Out Hermit's Hideaway
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- Fight Harle, get her Moon Glasses accessory (a good one)

14. Viper Manor/Termina
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- Get Luccia in the manor
- Get Greco in Termina

15. Arni Village (HOME)
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- Talk to old fisherman near Leena, he'll take you to Water Dragon Isle
- Here, make your way to the Water Dragon, he'll give you the Icey Breath

16. East Coast of El Nido (ANOTHER)
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- Go through Mount Pyre; use Icey Breath to freeze the lava
- You should be sick of the next area by now...

17. Dragonian Fort
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- Solve each of the puzzles and bosses (I'll let you figure them out)
- For one of the annoying puzzles, you will have to switch character order
- After completing the puzzles, you can proceed to the second floor
- After Sun Face boss, it's same as the intro, you know what to do
- Lynx and Master Viper are here, be prepared to fight...

18. ABSTRACT WORLD and Beyond
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- Shake an apple from the tree, Sprigg comes out
- Go in her house, she'll join you (Yes, Sprigg's all woman!)
- Go north to weird room, follow Serge in each door he goes in (from your floor)
- Harle joins! Now leave, you'll be in Hydra (HOME)
- Try to go through the Wormhole on the beach, and the Fossil Valley
- Go to Aruni, talk to Marge, fight Radius, now go through Fossil Valley
- Get Zappa and Van in Termina

19. Viper Manor
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- With Radius, enter through woods entrance (Nikki's path)
- Get Skelly's Shoulders in the waterfall, if you haven't already
- Now in the dungeon, talk to Norris, he'll join only if Radius is there
- Go to Termina, you can now use a blow-up raft where Nikki's ship used to be

20. El Nido Triangle
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- Swim to the bottom, get the Star Fish Crest

21. Sky Dragon's Isle
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- Check chest, fight Starky, get him

22. Marbule
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- Talk to Toma, everything you can say, and the other guy
- Sleep in the "inn," talk to Irenes the Mermaid at night

23. Fargo's Zelbess
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- Try to go through door at bottom of boat (you can't, but Sage will)
- See Sneff's magic show, then talk to Fargo, attempt to play Roulette
- Go to Inn, see manager in a worry at his cat, be turned into cats by Sneff
- Go up ladder in Inn, get the Handle
- Play Fargo at Roulette again, he'll lose, now go through that door
- Fight Sage, get the Crab Key
- You can now get Irenes and Miki here on the boats

24. Sea of Eden
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- Use the Crab Key from the raft
- Enter, you'll see the Masamune
- After chat, go to Hermit's Hideaway, talk to Radius, get Garai's Keepsake

25. Island of the Damned
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- Get Mixed Bones for Skelly in cave at northwest of first screen
- Find your way to the left-most mirror (go down through the snake skeleton)
- Fight Garai (the coolest character in the game, too bad you can't be him...)
- Get Einlanzer (Elranzer... ^_^), use it to smash the Masamune in the Sea of
Eden

26. Mysterious City (Sea of Eden)
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- Make your way to the center building
- In this mall-type place there's a way too familiar area from Chrono Trigger
- Fight Miguel here, and the city will be destroyed (Sky Dragon will get you)

27. Termina/Viper Manor (ANOTHER)
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- Go to the bar, there's a hidden room here, get either Zoah or Karsh
- Go to Viper Manor. and talk to Norris in a west room from entrance
- Go to the sewer grating near the kitchen, first find and turn off the valve
- Back in the first section, now you can cross, turn off a second valve here
- Next screen, turn the valve up, then go back around to the other side
- Turn it down, then procede, you'll fight a big bug, then the Evil Chef
- After all that, head toward the library, you'll fight Grobye and Mecha
- Escape to the library, fight Mecha again, then escape out the window
- Grobye will now join, you can now leave

28. Guldove
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- Fight Orlha
- You'll get her Broach, give it back once you're Serge again to join you

29. Hydra Swamp
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- Look around, you'll find Skelly's Spine in a cave

30. Water Dragon Isle
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- Some guy'll give you Skelly's Ribs, now he's all good to go
- Skelly'll join in Termina, the house near Master Viper's Statue

31. Hermit's Hideaway
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- Many people will join, but Harle leaves (FOR GOOD!!)
- Triggers the Kid/Evil Serge event

32. Sky Dragon Isle
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- Trigger the events by talking to the Sky Dragon (ANOTHER)
- There are eight dragons, one for each element
- Remember to Loot (Fargo), each dragon has an element-blocking armor
- They are the most basic elemental enemies (ie. Use opposite element spells!)
- Opposite element characters deal and recieve 2X damage
- Same element characters deal and recieve 1/2 damage
- Same element spells will HEAL them
- There may or may not be a specific order, but this one works

33. The Water Dragon (HOME)
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- Go to the Water Dragon's Shrine (Fairy Island)
- He's at the bottom, of course

34. The Fire Dragon (ANOTHER)
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- Go to Mount Pyre
- Go to the lava waterfall room, go down the first fall and into the door
- The dragon is the little one, not Salamander

35. The Green Dragon (HOME)
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- Go to ANOTHER Hydra Swamp, get the Cactus (Pipapipa has it) and Flower
- Go to HOME Hydra Swamp, use the Pipa Flte near the second Pipapipa
- The Hydra Bug will take you to Gaea's Naval
- Here, get Leea, and deafeat ALL the Walking Mosquitos and Giant Birds
- If you did, the Tyrano will appear, behind him is the Green Dragon
- Be sure to cast any non-green spell if the dragon casts Green Field

36. The Black Dragon (ANOTHER)
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- Bring Fargo to see his HOME self on the Zelbess
- After the Magical Dreamers concert, go to Mabulle and defeat ALL the Efts
- Go to ANOTHER Marbule and the dragon is in the cave
- You may NOT have to fight him for the Black Crest if you've got Pierre

37. The Earth Dragon (HOME)
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- On the Earth Dragon's Isle, go into the big patch o' sand
- You should be in a cave, go left and down, get the dynamite from the guy
- You must kill and push each turtle into the geyser holes
- The dynamite blows up the right-most turtle
- Jump into the new geyser and fight the dragon (STEAL HIS YELLOW PLATE!)

38. The Sky Dragon (ANOTHER)
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- Go back to his shrine, FIGHT!

39. Guldove (ANOTHER)
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- Show the broken crystal to Direa and Steena, get the Six-Slotted Amulet
- Show this to the guard of Steena's tent in HOME Gardove
- Bring Steena to Dragonian Shrine

40. Dragon Shrine (HOME)
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- Just like the ANOTHER one, except no bosses, solve all riddles
- Put the Amulet in the slot at the entrance
- Fight Human Lynx in the elevator room
- Go down, and place the giant egg in the center to get Draggy
- Go up, go into the main room, you'll see what happens...

41. Sea of Eden (HOME)
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- With Einlanzer-equipped Glenn and Steena, go to a portal

42. Isles of the Fates
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- Go to each island
- The third one should have a fight with the Fates

43. Eerie Chronopolis
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- A surprise battle ahead
- Find a hatch in a computer room; go into the basement
- Use the remote-controlled robot to turn on a bridge
- In the main room, go right to the stairs room
- Sprigg's Forget-Me-Not Pot is in the bottom-most chest here
- Go to floor two, in a room you can activate the elevator
- Go to floors three and four, observe everything, you cannot get into one room
- Go to the first floor, on the docks, talk to the blue ghost (he should leave)
- Go to the room you couldn't enter, get the Card Key to the basement
- In the basement, there's another cool scene
- Now that the seventh dragon is here, the seventh element is activated

44. Divine Dragon Falls (HOME or ANOTHER)
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- The falls are just east of the Fossil Valley
- The pillars may be in either ANOTHER or HOME's falls, depending on whatever
- Use the two Crystal Fragments on the pillars
- You'll now get the Chrono Cross spell and item, place it in Serge's first slot
- Note the colored balls that appear in battle now

45. The Masamune Quest (HOME)
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- You'll need Riddle and Karsh
- Fight Solt and Peppor at Island of the Damned (ANOTHER)
- Go to the hidden island on the northeast corner of El Nido (HOME)
- Use the pendant (I think) and this'll trigger a fight with Dario
- The Masamune turns into the smashing swallow, Mastermune
- Put Glenn in the front posiotion and bring him to Dario's grave
- With the Einlanzer equipped, you can pull out the other one in his grave
- With two Einlanzers, Glenn is the most powerfull character in the game

46. Hermit's Hideaway ~ Lucca's House
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- Go to the island, you'll see Kid
- If you have the Mastermune, you'll enter a dream
- In Lucca's house, look around, there's a trap door in the upper-east room
- In the first room, press L2, Triangle, R2, and Triangle on the machine
- You'll get Kid's Level 7 Attack
- You'll need Lucca's Super Deluxe Ice Ray from one room to kill the flames
- Reach Kid, the dream's over

47. El Nido Triangle (ANOTHER)
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- Take Starky; fight the Giant Jellyfish at the bottom of the sea
- The Jellyfish is weak only to Fire, not even physical attacks!
- Now take the flying boat to Floating Dinopolis

48. Floating Dinopolis ~ Terra Tower
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- Here is pretty straightforward, defeat the six elemental Dolls
- You can use Trap Elements to get the Bosses's summons spells
- At the end, you'll encounter the Lunar Dragon
- Notice the order of colors of which he changes into, write them down
- If you beat him, the Frozen Flame gets lost in a time warp
- You'll get the Time Egg

49. Opassa Beach (HOME)
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- Talk to the three familiar characters
- Use the Time Egg (The Chrono Trigger) on the pink Wormhole when you're ready

50. Grand Finale: Into the Tesseract
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- Method One: KILL Time Devourer along with ??????! You'll get the Bad Ending
- Method Two: Save ?????? from Time Devourer!
- You must cast spells, make the balls appear in order of the Lunar Dragon
- The song is: Earth, Fire, Tree, Water, Gravity, Sky, and Chrono Cross
- It helps if you build everyone to Slot 8 and have each element in Slot 1
- Use healing spells so Time Devourer won't counter and screw up your ball order

Extra Quests
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*** New Game + ***
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- You'll have the Time Egg to fight Time Devourer at any time
- The Pass will transform Serge to anyone you want from your party
- The Speed Control lets you Fast-Forward or Slow the ROM with L2 or R2
- The game remembers who you had when you beat Time Devourer for later
- The following only apply to New Game +

*** Secret Programmer's Rooms ***
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- Beat Time Devourer with ONLY Serge at the beginning of a New Game +
- Use elements that power up your strength, and lower TD's magic power
- Do not waste turns with attack magic, use only physical attacks, it's easy!

*** Character Cross ***
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- In New Game +, go to ABSTRACT WORLD, use the Chrono Cross item
- You'll pull in all characters you had at beating the game before
- No matter what, you can never get Harle back (well, without Gameshark...)

*** Getting ALL the Characters ***
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- This is annoying and redundant, but it will get you even Harle back
- It involves beating the game FIVE TIMES!!!!!!
- Beat the game the first time to get New Game +, play it
- Work your way up to getting Harle and Lynx, then beat it again
- Now Harle is saved to your New Game +
- Beat the game three more times, each to get Guile, Pierre, and Nikki
- It takes a while, but it gets rid of that ANNOYING hole where Harle was

*** Ozzie, Slash, and Flea ***
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- Go to the Bend of Time (the circle of islands near El Nido in HOME)
- Go into the door, talk to the blob, and run around the room three times
- You need the Forget-Me-Not Pot from Chronopolis
- Equip Serge (or your best fighter) with the Forget-Me-Not Pot
- Cast MagNegate right away to block Flea's Charm Spell
- Use Serge (whoever has the F-M-N Pot) to finish them off
- Sprigg can now Dopplegang the three bosses!
- Slash (Sprigg) can do a Triple Tech with Serge and Kid

*** Earth, Wind, and Fire: the Criosphinx ***
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- He's the big bonus super-boss but has a great item
- Answer his riddles, the answers are all colors (use Elements)
- Just in case, have someone wear a Yellow Plate
- If you cannot answer his riddles, prepare to fight!