In-game reset

Hold L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 + Select + Start during game play.

Alternate endings

A new option will appear after completing the game for the first time. Use this option and load a saved game to restart with items obtained in the previous game. Complete this special game to view an alternate ending sequence.

To see dialogue from Chrono himself, choose the new game plus feature after completing the game for the first time. Defeat Lavos after Schala opens the seal on the door leading to the throne room. Before you go through the door, return and defeat Lavos to see Chrono scold Marle and Lucca for admiring men instead of showing a slide show.

There are about twenty different endings in the game.

Changing your name

Go to 65,000,000 BC after you revive Crono. Go to the village that was burned down. Talk to the Nu that gave you the white rock and he will let you change one of your character's names.

Alternate God Of War appearances

As your characters advance in levels, the God Of War (who can be found in the back room at the end of time) takes on different appearances. When your characters reach the higher levels, it will change into Masamune (the one you fight in the Denadoro Mountains, only blue instead of yellow). When you take a party of people who are all at level 99 he will take on a final form of a Nu. He does all of the highest power magic attacks including Flare, Dark Matter, and Luminair. He also does Hallation (brings everyone down to 1 hp), a physical attack, and Salt (which heals one of your characters completely). Physical attacks do next to nothing on him, and magic is reduced. If you defeat him you get 10 of each tablet and 10 Mega Elixirs. If he is too difficult, you can always put someone in your party that is under level 99 he will return back to Masamune.

Silver Points

Go to the left of the tent where you bet on the racers. Talk to the man standing across the track when the runners line up. He will then tell you the name of the racer that will win. Run over to the betting tent and place you bet to get an easy 20 Silver Points.

Note: The following trick requires controller with an auto-fire feature, to allow Silver Points to be collected quickly during the Millennial Fair. First, reach the point in the game where you can switch all the characters in your roster around. Go to the Millennial Fair in the year 1000 A.D., with Magus, Marle, Robo, or Frog in the first slot and Chrono, Lucca, or Ayla in the second or third slots. Go to the pop chugging contest, activate the auto-fire, and walk up the man that runs the contest. Your first character should stay in place while your second or third characters chugs. You can now leave the game unattended as your Silver Points increase.

Extra items

Go to 600 AD and examine the black treasure chests. If one reacts to Marle's Pendant, do not remove its contents. Then, go to 1000 AD and return to the same black treasure chest. Remove the contents, and the item will be upgraded. Return to 600 AD and get the black treasure chest. Now you have both of them.

Magus' special armor

There are pieces of armor made specially for Magus. To get them, go to Ozzie's Fortress and go to the room with the great "treasure", with the falling axe right in front of it. Check the wall directly across from where Ozzie was cranking the axe from left to right to find a hidden room. Open the three treasure boxes to get Magus' ultimate helm, weapon, and armor. Note: Keeping the Prizm Helm and Moon Armor on him, if you own enough, is recommended.

Getting Lucca's ultimate armor

To get Lucca's ultimate armor, have Crono, Lucca and Frog in your party. Go to Lucca's house after you defeat the mud doll and the beasts. Talk to her mother. Taban will enter and tell her how much money he got that day. Walk back to the main room. Taban will be standing there. Talk to him and he will give you the Taban Armor, which is Lucca's ultimate armor.

Fighting Lavos again

It is possible to fight Lavos again easily after completing the game. Start a new game plus, go to Lucca's telepod machine, and enter the right telepod. Fight his stage before going through his shell and verything after that point with only Crono and Marle.

Finging the final Golem on the plane

When you are captured and taken aboard the blackbird after Chrono dies, you will fight the final Golem on the wing of the plane. Instead of wasting MP and effort fighting him, wait. After a while, his fear of heights will overwhelm him and he will run away.

Easy Sun Stone

Have Magus join your party and have him learn the Black Hole technique. Get into the fight with the "Son of Sun" (in 2300 AD) and use Black Hole to actually kill the two flames in front of the "Son of Sun". If it does not kill both of them the first time, wait until he uses Roulette Shuffle and use it again. You can now easily find the flame that hurts the "Son of Sun".

To get the Sun stone, you must go through several steps. First, defeat the Sun of Son's in the future, 2300 AD. He is hiding in the Sun Palace in the south. You need the Flying Epoch to reach him. When defeated, he will give you a Moon Stone. Travel to 65,000,000 BC and venture to the Sun Keep. Leave the Moon Stone there. Go to 1000 AD. The stone will be gone. Travel to the southern town of Poore and enter the house in that has sparkles are coming out of the roof. Talk to the Mayor -- the greedy father. He says he has not heard of the moon stone. Go to one of the houses and talk to the bartender. Buy the Jerky from him. Return to 600 AD and go to the same house that the greedy father lived in. Talk to the mother at the sink and give her the Jerky. She will reply that she will teach her children to share. Go back to the same house in 1000 AD. Talk to the former greedy father. He will say someone left the stone here and give you the Moon Stone. Go back to the Sun Keep in 1000 AD and leave the Moon Stone. Time travel back to the future, 2300 AD, with Lucca in your party. Go to the Sun Keep. The Sun Stone will be there and Lucca will make her ultimate weapon, the Wondershot, with it. You will also get the Sun Specs. If you have obtained the Rainbow Shell from Giant's claw in 600 AD, go to the basement of the 1000 AD Castle. Give Melchior the Sun Stone to get Chrono's Rainbow and the Prism Specs.

Stones for Triple Techs

There are several stones that show up as accessories are secrets to gaining new Triple Techs. For every stone there are only three people who can equip one. Those are the people you need to have in your party to do it (Chrono cannot do any of the Triple Techs gained by way of the stones). These Techs work like any of the others except for the gold stone, for which you need the powered up Masamune to be able to do the tech.

Triple Tech stones

Black Rock (Marle, Lucca, Magus - Dark Eternal)
Obtained in Zeal by opening the wind, water, and fire books in the correct order to open a secret door behind the Nu in one of the first two cities.
Blue Rock (Lucca, Robo, Magus - Omega Flare)
Obtained in Giant's Claw. The chest is half hidden by a rock wall nearby a door on the bottom of the screen.
Silver Rock (Robo, Frog, Ayla - Spin Strike)
Obtained by talking to the Nu in the Laruba Ruins in 65 million B.C. The Nu will not appear until the later stages of the game.
White Rock (Marle, Ayla, Lucca - Poyozo Dance)
Obtained in Black Omen. The chest is half hidden in a corner in the room with the line of Ruminators running through it. If not found here, keep looking elsewhere else in the Omen.
Gold Rock: (Frog is only needed - Grand Dream)
Obtained in the Denadoro Mountains. Later in the game, place Frog as the leader of the party and go to the area where rocks are thrown at you. Let Frog get hit by one and he will catch it instead. To be able to do Grand Dream, you will need to go to visit Cyrus at Hero's Grave so that the Masamune will power up.

9999 damage

There is a way to do 9999 damage to anything in the game in one strike. As Ayla's levels increase, her weapon (her fists) also changes. When her levels start getting high, her weapon will become the bronze fists. With these, her critical hit will do 9999 damage to anything (even Queen Zeals Hands will suffer it).

Fast money

Once Ayla is with you in 65,000,000 B.C., you will be able to trade petals, horns, and feathers for new items. Trade and equip them on your characters. After that, trade for more of the items. Then go and sell the items for a quick profit.

Fast tech points

When you get to Mt. Woe there will be a Rubble that gives you one hundred tech points that keeps appearing over and over. When you reach the first save point in Mt. Woe, go north of that save point. There will be a chain leading to the right. Cross through the chain and a Rubble will be there. Put the accessory "Berserker" on a character. Fight the Rubble, defeat it, then go south of the save point. Climb down the ladder to go to another area, then go back to the Rubble and it will appear again. Note: It is suggested you have Crono , any other character, and Ayla in your group. Place the Berserker on Ayla, since she will induce greater damage then any other character.

Chrono and Marle's ultimate weapons

Go to the ruins where Cyrus lays and Frog gets his Masamune juiced. There are several black treasure chests inside of the ruins. Marle's pendant will react to them, but not take the contents out. Use the Time Machine and go to the Present. Go back in the Ruins and now open the treasure chests to obtain Chrono's Shiva Edge and Marle's Valkereye. Note: This can also be done to upgrade the Nova Armor.

Chrono 's Rainbow

After the Rainbow Shell Quest, Melchior will give you the Prism Dress/3 Prism Helms/ Keep talking to him. He will eventually give you a Rainbow. This is Chrono's best sword, and is even more powerful than the Shiva Edge.

You need the Sun Stone so Melchior can make the alloy to make the Rainbow.

Unlimited Nova Armors

Go to the Black Omen with Ayla in your party. Fight a Goon and use Ayla's Charm tech on the Goon. Note: Equipping Ayla's Charm Top accessory will help. Eventually, theGoon will cough up a Nova Armor.

Rare accessories

Use Ayla in your party while on the Black Omen. When fighting Sub-Bosses, such as the three Mutants and the Lavos Spawn, use Ayla's Charm tech. You will receive Musclerings, Gold Studs, and other items. Use the Charm tech on other adversaries as well to get elixirs and other useful items. Another option is to use Ayla and Marle together and use the Double tech, Twin Charm.

Clones

After Crono dies you will able to choose anyone in the front of your team. After you get the clone of Crono, go back to Bekkler's lab and put anyone on the front of your team. Play the game where you have to mime to win. After you win, you will receive a clone of that person that will appear at their house. Note: Since Magus and Robo do not have houses, you will find their clone in the place where they were first met.

Be innocent at court

When you are captured and taken to court, there is a way to get a not guilty verdict. First, never eat the old man's lunch on the table in the pink sack. Second, locate the cat behind the table next to the table with the old man's lunch. Talk to the cat and it will follow you. Take it two screens to the right, to the screen with the pop chugging contest. Talk to the little girl there and she will thank you for bringing back her cat. Third, when Marle is getting candy, do not move. Wait for her to buy her candy. Finally, when you talk to the sword merchant and he asks about her pendent, do not offer to sell it.

Get a Magic Tab

Get the Naga-ette Bromide in the cathedral (first room up the stairs at the right, next to the three treasure chests). In 600 AD, go to the uppermost residence in the first town south of Zenan bridge. There is a locked cabinet with a Tab blinking inside. Talk to the old man and he will offer to trade. If you do, you will get a Magic Tab.