BelthasarProject
Chrono Trigger (SNES) reimplemented as a native PC game in C, with optional widescreen and 60+ fps. Requires your own copy of the original ROM; no game data is included. Not affiliated with Square Enix.
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Details
- External ID
- 1414396361
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- BelthasarProject
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.36
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- video game source ports
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- pc game engine reimplementation for chrono trigger
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Re-implementing Chrono Trigger natively in C from a SNES ROM requires extensive reverse engineering of 65816 assembly, custom SPC700 audio drivers, and Super Nintendo graphics hardware quirks.
What it would actually take: Requires static analysis and decompilation of the SNES ROM using IDA/Ghidra, mapping out game state machines, and writing a native C runtime that replaces hardware PPU/APU calls with modern SDL/OpenGL/Vulkan rendering. Achieving 60+ fps and widescreen requires custom game loop interpolation and rewriting tilemap renderers without breaking script timing.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #108 of 149 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
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