Y's 3,4 and 5 remakes.......

[SmoothCriminal]

Wasn't there a remake of Ys I and II on the Saturn?

I think they were part of a Falcom collection of some sort.

[Dyne]

i dont think they were the remakes......and it could have been on the DC, i can't remember.

[Recap]

Saturn's Falcom Classics Vol I includes a remake of Ys, while Falcom Classics Vol II includes one of Ys II. Both have prettier graphics than even the PCE version, but music is not as good. Ys I - II Eternal Story has been ported recently to PS2 from the Windows version by Di-Gi Cube, but the DC never had a Ys game.

[thray-walsh]

To really "get" Ys...you kind of had to be there. The ram-Adol-into-things gameplay of Ys I, II, and IV seems pretty naff these days, yeah. Really, the appeal was graphical, musical, and cinematic. But if you were there...you understand how obscenely cool these games seemed at the time.

Also, fun note: Ys Book I & II for TG-CD was the first game to get a 10 in EGM !

[isamu]

Saturn's Falcom Classics Vol I includes a remake of Ys, while Falcom Classics Vol II includes one of Ys II. Both have prettier graphics than even the PCE version, but music is not as good. Ys I - II Eternal Story has been ported recently to PS2 from the Windows version by Di-Gi Cube, but the DC never had a Ys game.

Doesn't one of the remakes of I&II(dunno which console) have a fan translated English patch? I'd like to play Ys I&II for the time and I want to start with the remakes. Which one has a fan translation? Link?

[Dyne]

the pc version is being worked on. its not finished tho. i had the link bookmarked but i cant find it atm.

[Grave]

You mean SuFami? It wasn't as good as the PC Engine version, but the instrumentation was still all Midi so the cart wasn't a hack job or anything. The Snes' sound chip was capable of some pretty impressive feats of audio with its sample modulators.

No, I mean the Famicom version. As in "same system as NES" version.

I didn't know it existed until three days ago, either. And I wouldn't trash the SNES music, the SNES version blows it out of the water.

[Frogacuda]

Doesn't one of the remakes of I&II(dunno which console) have a fan translated English patch? I'd like to play Ys I&II for the time and I want to start with the remakes. Which one has a fan translation? Link?

Yeah, Eternal does. Might just be I and not II though. http://donut.parodius.com for all your translation patch needs.

[StriderKyo]

To really "get" Ys...you kind of had to be there. The ram-Adol-into-things gameplay of Ys I, II, and IV seems pretty naff these days, yeah. Really, the appeal was graphical, musical, and cinematic. But if you were there...you understand how obscenely cool these games seemed at the time.

Actually, I thought that mechanic seemed pretty naff then too, which is why I was such a fan of III, despite that not setting the gameplay world on fire or anything either.

Also, fun note: Ys Book I & II for TG-CD was the first game to get a 10 in EGM !

Seriously? Nothing on NES merited a 10? Wow, you guys give them out every other month now. Review policy sure was different there under Semrad.

[NeoZeedeater]

Seriously?

Then later EGM gave 10's to Super Monaco GP on Genesis, destroying my faith in video game magazine integrity. It was certainly suspicious that Sendai's Sega mag Mega Play rated it much lower.

Nothing on NES merited a 10?

Well, keep in mind when EGM(at least under the EGM name) first appeared it was almost the 16-bit era.