Ys Remakes: Discuss.

[MarsKitten]

http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q2-2004/060104b.html

Also, Taito's Engrish page is nice.
http://www.taito.co.jp/d3/cp/english/

[AaronChance]

Hands on impressions of Ys6:

http://www.insertcredit.com/news/e3_2004/ys6/

[StriderKyo]

I know it's tough to find with our current search function, but there are already a couple of threads devoted to this very topic. For the record, I like Y's.

[youandwhosearmy]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CRAP.


This better come out here.

Like, tomorrow.

[StriderKyo]

yes, there are two fully different Ys 4s

There are?

[Recap]

There are?

Yep. The "real" one, by Falcom themselves for the PCE SCDRR (The Dawn of Ys) and the one for the SFC, by Tonkin House (Mask of the Sun). Obviously, the latter will be ignored for any future port. It's not by Falcom, after all.

[jiji]

Yep. The "real" one, by Falcom themselves for the PCE SCDRR (The Dawn of Ys) and the one for the SFC, by Tonkin House (Mask of the Sun). Obviously, the latter will be ignored for any future port. It's not by Falcom, after all.

Mask of the Sun wasn't ignored for the Ys VI bonus disc that had emulations of Ys 1-5. They put that on there instead of Dawn of Ys, probably because they already had a SNES emulator included for Ys V and didn't want to bother emulating a Duo. I have a feeling Dawn of Ys will be the base for the Ys IV remake, though.

[Virael]

Just read that insertcredit demo impression... Fire, Ice, and Wind swords? Hmm..

There was no Ice sword at all in the Ys 6 PC import. What an odd change, I clearly remember there being a Lightning sword instead of Ice.

On a sidenote: What is the deal with people typing Y's instead of Ys? Am I blind and do not see the ' in the Ys logo?

[jarrod]

Yep. The "real" one, by Falcom themselves for the PCE SCDRR (The Dawn of Ys) and the one for the SFC, by Tonkin House (Mask of the Sun). Obviously, the latter will be ignored for any future port. It's not by Falcom, after all.

Actually, didn't Hudson develop the PCE Ys IV internally (like Ys I-III on PCE)? Falcom was working on the canceled Mega CD release but I don't believe an actual Falcom developed Ys IV ever saw the light of day.

The only console projects I'm aware of Nihon Falcom doing themselves are Popful Mail for Mega CD, Ys V/Expert on Super Famicom and Socerian for Dreamcast. Everything else was done by Hudson, Tonkin House, Riot, GMF, Sega, Sims, Epoch, Microcabin, NEC Interchannel, Victor, DigiCube, Taito, Konami, etc...

[NightWolve]

There's always room for more Ys threads! I have a few translation projects underway for 'em btw - Ys4-Dawn of Ys is on the todo list.

Sidetracking here, but it just so happens I made some progress today on hacking the new YsVI Ark of Napishtim (import PC version). Do you guys think it's worth the trouble to continue with it given Konami will release it for PS2? Even so, I bought it and am pretty intent on following through if I can get a Japanese translator for the most part.

On a sidenote: What is the deal with people typing Y's instead of Ys? Am I blind and do not see the ' in the Ys logo?

Supposedly a typo in one of the older manuals from where it caught on (I think).

Actually, didn't Hudson develop the PCE Ys IV internally (like Ys I-III on PCE)?

Yeah, that's right. I always thought it was them, but they never touched consoles it turns out.

First "Dawn of Ys" hacked testing screenshot below. Only an uppercase font is supported, but I'm sure diehard fans will overlook that.