My husband’s been obsessively playing Chrono Trigger since I bought it for him for Christmas. But he’s really stuck, so he asked me to ask what he calls “the font of all wisdom” for help. Here’s his situation:
Oh wait, I just thought of one he forgot: he has a mop. What the hell is he supposed to do with a mop?
Also, while you’re here, he was wondering if you have any opinions on these DS games: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride?
Thanks!
The mop is useless, it’s just there for fun.
As for the Derelict Factory, he has to find the password to get into the locked doors in the basement. If you know it already, you can skip finding it. If he’d rather figure out how to find it, he needs to go to the factory side and search around there. There’s two objects in the way that he’ll need to move using the lift, and you should learn how to operate the lift in the room right before it. As for the conveyor belt, there is no way to stop it, it’s there for a good reason, as you’ll see.
If he really wants to know the password, I’ll spoiler it:
It’s “Zabie”, which translates to XABY. When it asks you to input the password, just press those buttons in that order.
Also, FWIW, this is part of the classic game, so you should be able to find walkthroughs for it all over the internet. The new stuff isn’t added until very late in the game, though I have no idea where. The only problem with the walkthroughs is that if they’re for the classic version, they’ll have some different names for some items, abilities, and areas, so it may be a little confusing.
He’s been searching the net, and he’s found answers to some things but not others. Thanks for the help. He was telling me just yesterday that he has the letters XABY. 
Well apparently he already discovered the password, Blaster Master. He says:
Thanks.
No, there’s no way back in. That room serves no purpose except to shut down the factory and reroute power to the other dome where the door is currently un-openable.
To answer part of the other question, I’m a longtime Dragon Quest player, so I really enjoyed DQV, especially since it has (IMHO) some replay value. But then, that’s me. But if he likes JRPGs in general, I think he’ll like DQ in general.
sorry to hijack a bit here, but did they change anything for the DS version of Chrono Trigger? Wondering if I should invest in it, cause it’s one of my favorite games of all time. I still have my copy for the PSOne (lost my SNES cartridge years upon years ago) which is ok, but it pulls up menus so slowly it’s excruciating and the anime cutscenes, while cool the first time through, don’t add much, so I just play on a SNES emu whenever I get the hankering. Just wondering what they did to the DS version
Yes. The translation script is revamped (hewing much closer to the original Japanese in many key ways), there are two new dungeons, a “monster arena” with unique prizes and wireless head-to-head capacity, and a 13th ending. This in addition to many/most of the features the PS1 adaptation added (like the anime clips and galleries).
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Yes. The translation script is revamped (hewing much closer to the original Japanese in many key ways)
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hmm, interesting, but not necessarily a good thing. If there’s one thing I’ve learned while playing games in Japanese it’s that the English versions are MUCH better in almost every way, much more creative and much less dry (plus a lot less jokes making fun of how english sounds, which get’s annoying after the 3rd one you hear, much less than eleventy billionth. Super Paper Mario is absolutely unplayable in Japanese)
One of the biggest changes is that they toned down Frog’s medieval-style speech, and some people were mad that they retranslated Magus’ “the black wind howls…” line.
dotchan thanks. He may have missed his opportunity to shut down the factory–he can’t get back into the room and the factory is not shut down.
Leaper, thanks for the Dragon Quest info. He’s looking for something to play next, if he ever finishes with this game.
well if that’s the case I’m definitely not picking it up. I loved Frog’s style of speech (hell my old cell phone used to play Frog’s theme as a ringtone), and the black wind must howl!