Square billed Chrono Trigger as a dream team project, with Hironobu Sakaguchi of Final Fantasy, Yuji Horii of Dragon Quest and Dragon Ball artist Akira Toriyama. It arrived in North America on August 22, 1995 on a 32-megabit cart, and its time-travel story has twelve endings depending on when you take on the final battle. Japan bought two million copies in two months. Later ports went to the PlayStation (in Final Fantasy Chronicles), the DS, phones and Steam, but it was left off the Super NES Classic Edition, so the cart is still the way to play it on an SNES. Reproduction carts go after games like this one, so check the board and chip markings before you pay collector money.
Before you plug it in
Should come with it
Check the listing photos against this list, and ask the seller about anything you can’t see. A missing piece should come off the price.
The save battery is the clock you're racing, since it's a soldered coin cell from 1995 and a dead one means no saves. The bigger risk is buying a reproduction, so judge the cart by its board.
New to retro hardware? How to check a used retro console covers testing, yellowed plastic and opened shells, and regions and video out explains what will run on what, and on which TV.
Buying guide
We'd buy the loose cart titled tested at $269 with free shipping, because the seller photographs the board, which is the real test on a game this widely reproduced. There are at least 27 listed; loose carts here ask about $232 to $425 delivered, a box with no manual about $506, and complete copies start around $550 with most at $700 to $840, so the $280 to $775 band mixes loose and complete copies. A real cart has a Nintendo SHVC-1J3M-20 board and a mask ROM marked SNS-ACTE-0 with a 1995 date code, so ask for a board photo on any copy and be wary of one priced well under $200. It saves to a 1995 coin cell, so ask the seller to save, power off and reload, or pay more for one titled with a new battery. Skip the $3,516 near-mint copy, and compare photos on the CIB title two sellers share.
$232.00est. delivered
An auction for a loose cart titled tested, at $232 delivered with four bids and nearly four days left, so it will climb. We'd stop at $269, what the tested cart with the board photo asks with free shipping.
Chrono Trigger Snes Super Nintendo RPG Tested Authentic Cartridge Only
$269.00delivered
A loose cart titled tested at $269 with free shipping, and the seller photographs the board out of the shell, which is how you check a Chrono Trigger. Match it to the Nintendo SHVC-1J3M-20 board and SNS-ACTE-0 ROM before you pay.
Chrono Trigger SNES (Super Nintendo, SNES) Authentic Tested Cart Only
$424.95delivered
Titled with a new battery from a seller that does restorations, so saves should hold without a swap. At $425 delivered it's at the top of the loose asks, about $155 more than the tested cart.
Chrono Trigger - SNES Super Nintendo - Authentic Cartridge Only New Battery
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Used$232.00est. delivered
$222.50 + $9.50 shipping
Auction · 4 bids · ends in 3d 17h
Good buy
Cart only, titled tested. Auction with four bids, so it will climb.
Seller: thebjorn
100% positive
Used$269.00delivered
$269.00 · free shipping
Buy It Now$269.00
Good buy
Cart only, titled tested. The photo shows the board out of the shell.
Seller: bslresale
99.8% positive
Refurbished$424.95delivered
$424.95 · free shipping
Buy It Now$424.95
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Good buy
Cart only, titled with a new battery, on a refurbished card.
Seller: oxenstonegamesandrestoration
100% positive
Used$256.97est. delivered
$225.10 + $31.87 shipping
Buy It Now$225.10
Our take
Cart only, titled tested and working, with a yellowed shell. Ships from Canada.
Seller: torontocrazydeal
99% positive
Used$506.34est. delivered
$500.00 + $6.34 shipping
Buy It Now$500.00
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Our take
Cart and box, no manual.
Seller: anttalm_70
100% positive
Used$757.07est. delivered
$749.99 + $7.08 shipping
Buy It Now$749.99
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Our take
Box, manual and cart, titled tested with saves working.
Seller: bmp_design
100% positive
Used$824.99delivered
$824.99 · free shipping
Buy It Now$824.99
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Check the seller
CIB, but another seller uses the same title at $1,289. Compare photos.
Seller: ultimateretrovideogames
99.7% positive
Used$3,515.92est. delivered
$3,500.00 + $15.92 shipping
Buy It Now$3,500.00
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Priced high
CIB titled near mint, at about eight times the median.
Seller: frozenplasma81
99.6% positive
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