Mikola Lysenko has released Shrek Trigger, a parody ROM hack that drops Shrek and friends into the full Chrono Trigger campaign. Version 1.0.0 arrived on November 12, replacing the cast, rewriting more than 5,000 lines of dialogue and giving the SNES classic a decidedly less dignified relationship with onions.
The setup starts with Shrek trying to enjoy a quiet day in his swamp. A fair in Duloc, a missing pendant and Donkey’s definitely-safe invention put paid to that. Seven playable characters include Fiona, Donkey, Pinocchio, Puss in Boots and Mongo, plus a final party member the project deliberately leaves as a surprise.
All 116 techniques have been renamed, with moves including Swamp Belch and Are We There Yet? The project says some are deliberately overpowered or useless for the joke. Currency becomes toenails, onions restore health, garlic restores magic, and an All Star arrangement plays on the title screen using the SNES’s instruments. Subtlety was not invited to this party.
Underneath that, the original maps, music engine and battle system remain. The developer says enemy and boss balance is unchanged, despite the altered techniques, and every chapter and ending gets rewritten.
There is a significant production disclosure: the repository says AI coding agents built the hack for Lysenko, and that its character artwork includes image generation and other credited sources. That is worth knowing before deciding whether this particular trip through time is for you.
You need your own headerless USA Chrono Trigger ROM. The recommended BPS patch expands it from 4 MiB to an 8 MiB ExHiROM image. Current Snes9x and bsnes have been tested; real hardware and flash carts have not. A browser player can also patch your ROM locally, without uploading it. Unlike the hardware translation PCB for Chrono Trigger‘s Japanese cartridge, this changes the adventure itself. Whether that adventure needed more Shrek is another matter entirely.
- Description
- A swamp through time. Shrek Trigger is a parody ROM hack of Chrono Trigger (SNES, USA) that recasts the whole adventure with Shrek, his friends and a lot of people who should not be in a time-travel epic.
- Port type
- ROM Hacks
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Source: Shrek Trigger on GitHub
