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Nintendo Player's Guide: Chrono Trigger

America, Nintendo of. 1995. “Nintendo Player's Guide: Chrono Trigger.” Nintendo of America.

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Nintendo Player's Guide, Chrono Trigger (1995)
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© Nintendo of America; scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit
Nintendo Player's Guide: Chrono Trigger (Nintendo of America, 1995), the imprint and pp. 129 and 131.
Notes
The North American official player's guide. Its endings chapter names the mode "New Game +" (also written "New Game Plus") and states what carries into the new game: levels, spells, and inventory, while the character starts with a Wooden Sword and Hide Tunic. The copy has no copyright line in the OCR, but the staff page's imprint (scan image 3, page/n2.jpg) reads "©1995 by Nintendo of America Inc.", and Nintendo Power issue 76 (September 1995) announced that "A Chrono Player's Guide hits this month". The endings chapter's mode text is on p. 129 (scan image 77), not p. 128. The imprint credits illustrations "from Chrono Trigger B Perfect Player's Guide", a lead toward the Japanese 1995 guides for the Japanese name.

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New Game+ becomes available once Lavos has been beaten in one of the normal endings, reached by fighting through the Black Omen or by the Bucket at the End of Time; until then the load screen doesn't offer it. In the USA cartridge the offer waits on one save byte, and the code that sets that byte has not been found.p. 129 (scan image 77), Altered Destiniesp. 129 (scan image 77), Normal EndingsPublisher
Most of the game's endings are reached only on a New Game+ file. A gate in the right telepod at Leene Square leads straight to Lavos, and which ending plays depends on the quests done before that fight.p. 129 (scan image 77), Altered Destiniesp. 129 (scan image 77), The Lavos Gatep. 129 (scan image 77), Multi EndingsPublisher
The earliest known English print uses of the mode's name date from 1995: Nintendo of America's Player's Guide for the game, © 1995, calls it "New Game +" and also "New Game Plus". "New Game +" is the label the USA release's load screen draws.p. 129 (scan image 77), How to Find a Plus Endingp. 129 (scan image 77), Select the "New Game +"imprint (scan image 3)Publisher