Awesome, I'll have to fire this up once I fix my computer troubles (hopefully tommorrow)
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Awesome, I'll have to fire this up once I fix my computer troubles (hopefully tommorrow)
Agreeing with Yoshi never felt so good. This looks superb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, NightWolve. I've been monitoring your progress and waiting till you got the second one done before diving in. I've wanted to play the Ys games since they came out on TG-16 way back when. Not being able to afford the CD player stopped me. The only one I've played is Ys III on the SNES which I liked a bunch.
Totally worth it for me to buy the import. But wasn't there an Ys Eternal release that had both I & II? Or was that yet a different version?
Heh heh. Welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Compass
Still haven't gone the route of an emulator?Quote:
I've wanted to play the Ys games since they came out on TG-16 way back when. Not being able to afford the CD player stopped me.
Yeah, you're thinking of the Limited Edition, which was Ys I & II Complete packaged together sometime in 2001. That's this:Quote:
Totally worth it for me to buy the import. But wasn't there an Ys Eternal release that had both I & II? Or was that yet a different version?
http://rigg.arrowsmash.com/translati...s/ys_12box.jpg
Falcom, Himeya, everyone is sold out of that. You can find it on ebay sometimes though. After that, about one year later, Falcom released Ys I Complete XP and then Ys II Complete XP as separate releases which is what I linked to. But don't worry about it. The benefit of LE is carried over if you apply my patches on the separate releases. I carried over the executable that launches Ys II right after you beat Ys I, so you still get that seamless behavior. Very few differences other than that assuming you got the DVD media and not the 2 CD set which only has 22Khz quality audio and not 44Khz. But even if one got that, they can get our alternative soundtracks which will set you up with 44Khz quality waves as well as being far better in quality than what Falcom included.
Also, keep in mind, the proper title for these is "Complete" and not Eternal. Ys I Eternal was released in like '98, then Ys II Eternal followed on 7/6/2000. Those are the older crappier versions and my patches don't apply to those. Then in 2001, Falcom took the improvements they made with Ys II Eternal, applied them to Ys I as well as making more graphical improvements overall to both, repackaged the whole thing and released "Ys I & II Complete." Unfortunately, they were lazy and didn't edit many of the bitmaps to remove "ETERNAL" from them. If you notice in my screenshots, we put "COMPLETE" there ourselves in the Ys frame to finish the job they didn't do in their hasty recycling of the games. ;)
Well, thanks to Nightwolve and his English patches, I finally started Ys I. It's about time. Hell, fifteen years or so since I first salivated over screenshots of Ys Book 1 & 2 for the TG-16 CD. It's fun. I like the running into enemies thing. So thanks again for that, Nightwolve. I'll paypal ya a donation when I finish Ys II.
I still have Ys III for the SNES, and recently bought Ys VI for PS2. But what do I do about IV and V? Was V ever even released in English?
4 can be found in the usual places for the turbo cd (english patch also). damned if daemon ever wants to boot it properly. and 5 was Super Fami only iirc?
If memory serves, Ys 5 was redone for JPS2. Sadly the only thing I ever saw on it was a bad review in Hardcore Gamer, so take that with a grain of salt.
The SNES Ys III is definitely playable enough, but man, that music is nightmarish. If you can't play the TG16 version, at least try the Genesis one, from what I recall it was a bit better. There is a rom translation for the SFC Ys IV, and like Dyne said, there's a patch for the PCE one as well. Not the same game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Compass
There is no English version of Ys V, and apparently it'd be difficult to hack the rom. I don't know specifics, but I recall hearing discussion on it a while ago. Judging from the little I played through, we're not missing much.
Supposedly everything on PS2 (minus the Napishtim port, which has the awesome costume-changing Adol) really sucks, and that IV and V had horrible, cheap engines and weren't worth playing at all. I don't know much about the PS2 version of Ys III, but it looks really nice and I'd like to play it, regardless of the port quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by JesusC
Still sitting on Oath in Felghana til that patch comes out. :D