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Lost your save file? I feel your pain, it happened to me too. That's why on my way through the game a second time I started making bookmarks in every chapter to post here and save other people the hassle of having to restart like I did.

It may be necessary to disable cloud saves for this to work (untested). I recommend doing that anyways since the cloud save system for this game seems pretty broken as it is.


Here's the link to the save files:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rVT0uXTb682Q6X-EsZHyUKn2gPLYUReK?usp=sharing





Save it somewhere you'll find it, like to your desktop, or just save it directly into your save folder, which you can find using the next step.


In Windows, this is usually in C:\Users\*[USERNAME]*\Documents\My Games\Chrono Trigger
Replace *[USERNAME]* with your username, or just go to your 'My Documents' folder and find it from there. The path should look something like it does in the red square below.



For Steam Deck: Hold your power button for a couple seconds to get into desktop mode, then open Dolphin (file explorer). From there, make sure you enable "Show hidden files" from the 3 line menu in the top right. Then look in .local > share > Steam > SteamApps > compatdata > 613830 > pfx > drive_C > steamuser > Documents > My Games > Chrono Trigger

For Linux: the save folder can be found in: home / *[USERNAME]* / .local / share / Steam / steamapps / compatdata / 613830 / pfx / drive_c / users / steamuser / Documents / My Games / Chrono Trigger /

From there you should be able to replace the save files as you would in Windows.


Delete, rename, or remove a save file (circled in the image above) you wish to replace. If the file doesn't exist yet, you can skip this. The archive save file needs to be renamed exactly to one of these names for it to work. If a file with the same name already exists, you won't be able to rename the new save file properly (if it's in the same folder), or you'll have to replace the existing file when you copy it in because you can't have two files with the same name and type in the same folder. A good way to do this is to just add something to the name, like below.



Be careful doing this one! Best practice is to move or rename the files in case you make a mistake. At the very least, don't empty your recycle bin / trash unless you are absolutely sure you don't want the files ever again. If using steam cloud, there will be no way to recover them if you delete save files then sync. You have been warned.

Let's say, for whatever reason, you wish to empty your save slots. Here's how:
If you have steam cloud disabled you can just move or delete the save files from the folder and next time you go to save they will be empty slots again.

If you have steam cloud enabled and you want to wipe the saves from that, they need to be moved elsewhere or deleted while the game is running, then close the game right after. This way it will sync the deletion to the cloud and they will stay empty the next time you open the game.


The save needs to be in this folder to work, so move it here if you downloaded it somewhere else.


For the save to be recognized, you need to rename it based on the slot you wish for it to appear in.
For Slot 1, rename it save_00.bin
For Slot 2, rename it save_01.bin
For Slot 3, rename it save_02.bin
For Quicksave Slot, rename it save_03.bin
For Slot 4, rename it save_20.bin (????)
For Slot 5, rename it save_04.bin
For Slot 6, rename it save_05.bin
Etc, etc.
Basic rule is Slot # - 1 for the .bin save file #. Except slot 4. Slot 4=20 (maybe they were smoking something when they coded that? Who knows)

Anyways, if you did this step right, the archive save file should look exactly like one of the files circled in Step 2 and it will now be recognized by the game.


I had changed some inputs for it to work properly on my controller, as well as changing some of the battle speed settings because I found the ATB much faster on PC than SNES (at least faster than I remember). You'll likely want to change them back to what you're used to.


There you go, that's all there is to it! Hopefully you didn't lose too much progress, but this should save you some headaches at the very least.

P.S. I have also uploaded saves at turning points in NG+ for achievements. For these all you need to do is load it up and beat the game.

P.P.S. If you want to jump right in to New Game+, replace meta.bin and common.bin in your save folder with the ones from the archive.

Shout out to Wiz for providing the final save for Dream's Epilogue! The archive is now complete thanks to their help. Thank you Wiz!