Hy! Could anyonedirect me to a site where i can find information about how the "Chrono Trigger" and "Chrono Cross" games engines work ? I would like to make a similar game, but i can''t quite get started... Anyway i observed that the Chrono Trigger ha a tile based engine, but it also has special rooms, wich are from side view, and gives the player a 3D effect. How was that done ? Also the Chrono Cross uses Semi 3D enviroment, but i don''t have a clue on how that was done ... I could use quite some help. Thanks ! "Find the path, follow the Master... Follow the master, understand the master... Be the master !"

well, chrono triggers psedo 3d was done by just making the map of where the character could walk 1 pixel thick, and the having a larger image in the background move at an according rate (i belive)

And chrono cross just had a large image split into smaller ones (for memory issues) and was sort of tile based, and used a depth engine like in ff7 - ff9

If you''ll notice, the "side" rooms use the exact same sprites as the rest of the game. It just limits the movements on the y axis that the players can move.