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Development-Related#

A build date of January 11, 1995, two months before the Japanese release.

A debug message which would have likely displayed the player's X and Y coordinates, along with some other info.

Dialogue#

Intended for the tutorial at the very beginning of the game.

Intended for when you run into Marle at Leene Square. Note that in the final game all messages by Marle before you've had the opportunity to name her are prefixed with "Girl:", unlike this message.

Two fairly meaningless lines for the Telepod exhibit.

Found among the text for Porre in 1000 A.D.

Likely meant to be said somewhere in 1000 A.D. Guardia Castle.

Presumably intended for when you meet Ayla for the first time.

Found among the Ioka Village lines. Presumably a reaction of one of the villagers after the events at Tyrano Lair.

Some generic filler lines found among the Blackbird text. Not sure where they were supposed to go.

This is actually a duplicate of a used line spoken by Dalton when he presents the modified Epoch, though it was localized differently in the US version. For reference, the used line is localized as "At last...! We did it! It's done!!"

Intended for when you reclaim the Epoch after the Blackbird fight. Every character has a line here, but Ayla's never shows up.

Alternate lines for encountering Magus at North Cape that are never used.

Very likely intended for Magus' flashback when encountering him on North Cape, as it is the only time Queen Zeal talks to the Gurus. If so, they would have preceded the first lines of the final game's flashback.

Also related to the above. Unlike her brother, Schala does not react to the Gurus being sucked away by the Gates in the final game.

Unsure what this was meant to be for, since you never actually acquire the Rainbow Shell during Marle's sidequest - you find it at the end of Giant's Claw, try to pick it up and fail, and then warp to Guardia Castle where King Guardia XXI orders his soldiers to bring the Shell to the Castle. You do break off a Rainbow Shard to present as evidence at King Guardia XXXIII's trial, but that's much different from obtaining the entire thing.

Marle has additional text for encountering the Lavos Core that comes right after her used speech. It goes unused due to a script error - the wrong control code is used, leading to the text box closing prematurely. Rather than fixing the control code, the American version just removed this paragraph entirely.

A whole bunch of lines intended for the main ending (beating the game regularly, with Crono alive), which also reveals that the 1000 A.D. Chancellor has children. None of these are used.

Another line intended for the main ending, shortly after all characters have returned to their respective time periods.

Intended for the slideshow ending with Lucca and Marle. These lines were completely removed in the American version.