English Translation Patch for Ys II Complete Released!

Falcom fans can rejoice as yet another Ys game for the PC has arrived on US shores. The project for this sequel began around 1/21/2003 as I was wrapping up "Ys I Complete" (since July, 2002). So, the result you have below is the product of work spanning across about 2 years, 8 months. There were plenty of times I wanted to give up on this translation project. It had its problems ranging from compressed data/support files, to encrypted script, then there was having my original Japanese/English translator disappear on me... In the end, I was able to get passed all the technical hurdles, and lucky enough to run into a translator down the road that was dedicated enough to stick with it to the end. Anyway, for those that blew money on this import, this is for you! =)

Downloads:

Patch: YsII(US)v101.exe

Alternate Soundtrack: http://www.classicgaming.com/ninjaga...downloads.html

(For that soundtrack, you've gotta register with fileplanet, login beforehand, then click the actual links you find on that page. Basically, it'll make the game work with Ryo Yonemitsu's PC-Engine arrangements from Ys Book I&II if you're familiar with it. Much much better music than what Falcom originally included with the game.)

Reference: All Downloads Page

And now begins the screenshot spamming in no particular order!

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I've been looking for this game for a while, anyone know where I can score a copy?

Very nice.

Suggestion - some links to importing the game

Sure.

http://www.himeyashop.com/advanced_s...Y%27s+Complete

You'd still pay about the same if you bought it directly from Falcom cause of the shipping. Other than that, I have seen it on ebay at times.

EDIT: Added for future reference. This other import shop that I just learned of sells them cheaper and ships faster than Himeya apparently, but I dunno about the actual shipping cost. They're both sold for 46 EURO ($56 USD) here:

http://www.japanpa.com/ms2fr/catalog...ds=ys+complete

can you install japanese windows games on a US os?

70 bucks? is the game really that awesome?

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can you install japanese windows games on a US os?

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Yeah, under certain circumstances, you can. If you're on Win2K/XP, you're set. You install Japanese language support, then you can reboot the PC in Japanese mode which works best. If you're on XP though, there's a program called AppLocale you can take advantage of which lets you simply launch any executable with another language codepage. Using that, you can stay in English mode and launch the setup programs in Japanese mode without having to reboot for a switch. Much easier.

If you're still on 98/98SE/ME, and the setup program for the game fails because of language related issues, you're SOL for the most part unless it's not that complicated to manually install it yourself. Then, of course, depending on how the game was made, it may not even be able to operate. So yeah, it's best to be on a 2K/XP platform booted in Japanese mode.

Anyway, if we're talking about Ys I & II Complete specifically, the setup program does indeed fail if you're not in Japanese mode or you're on 98/98SE/ME because of one file it tries to copy named with S-JIS encoded characters. However, it's very easy to install the game manually by copying the game folders off the CD/DVD to your hard drive yourself. I provide instructions on how in my patch's ReadMe. Also, Ys II will not save nor load a game properly if you're locale isn't set to Japanese. But, by applying my English patch, that's taken care of. So, in this case, both games can work on the Win98/98SE/ME/2K/XP (US) platforms when combined with my patches.

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No, it's not 70 bucks worth of awesome. Falcom sells 'em directly for 4,800 yen, which currently equals $43.56 USD. Still too much, but whatever. Unfortunately, the EMS rate to send it over to the US is also about that much. ;) You're looking at another ~4,000 yen ($36.23 USD).

i love you NightWolve ;) this game just looks like sex. hell......this shit is Dracula. and i was about to fire up the Duo for a go-round with the original.

Wow. I'm going to wait and order both I and II in November to make sure I can't afford a 360 that month.

lol, that would be great. That would be in the spirit of the old TNL.

Awesome, I'll have to fire this up once I fix my computer troubles (hopefully tommorrow)

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Wow. I'm going to wait and order both I and II in November to make sure I can't afford a 360 that month.

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Agreeing with Yoshi never felt so good. This looks superb.

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?

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Thank you from the bottom of my heart, NightWolve.

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Heh heh. Welcome.

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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.

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Still haven't gone the route of an emulator?

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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?

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Yeah, you're thinking of the Limited Edition, which was Ys I & II Complete packaged together sometime in 2001. That's this:

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.

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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?

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Still sitting on Oath in Felghana til that patch comes out. :D