Ys II Special - The Forgotten Ys Game!

[FM-77AV]

It will never happen.

[FM-77AV]

I just looked through the advert papers that came with Ys Eternal (first release) and on a brochure about Falcom's company or something, there were some pics of their office, and on one of these small pictures, I noticed Ys 2 SPECIAL!!!!! It was standing in a row of a bunch of random Falcom games, some of which seemed to be chinese. The game was covered by something else, so only a small bit of it was visible - but I could clearly see that 이스2스페셜 text, which reads Ys 2 Special in korean. Very cool! I didn't know Falcom cared or knew much about this game at all.

[Red Hairdo]

Whoa, that was the most obscure discovery ever. xD

[FM-77AV]

Ys 2 Special is drawn to me. I didn't find it - it found me. Ys 2 Special is the meaning of life.

[lime]

I am interested in translating this game. I can speak Korean and I've been a fan of Ys series for a long time. I had played this game before (actually still in the progress ). Only problem is that I've never done game hacking before and I do not have enough time to study for it. If someone could provide the whole script to me, I can translate it. I don't think the amount of the text will be overwhelmingly large.

[FM-77AV]

You are a king, from now on. The King of Ys.

I hope someone will help. Maybe Doppiapunta? I don't think anybody's interested though, which is really, really sad. This game is criminally underrated.

[FM-77AV]

Have you heard its soundtrack Adoru? If you like adlib (who doesn't?!) it is heaven!

[Ascended Mermaid]

I would, if I knew how to hack DOS.

[Arjak]

An Ys II Special translation would be awesomeness distilled. Now if the team behind it would also fix some of those crashing bugs, that would be total booyah (whatever that means, I just made it up).

[FM-77AV]

Well, the game doesn¨t crash that much if you run it in native DOS (like, with Windows 98), or even using Windows XP¨s built-in emulator.

[Ascended Mermaid]

>.O" Remind me of this when we're done with the Faxanadu Remix Collaboration. While I'm doubtful this is something I'll simply be able to pick up and translate this (even in a team), I will do some research on the subject. If it turns out to be as simple as NES translations, I'd go for it. It all depends on things, and stuff.

[Deleted]

The game would definitely need to be fixed, the game became alomst unplayable at one point. If the glitches were fixed, the game translated, I think this would be an awesome game and Im sure people who previously havent played this game, would play it

Since you speak Korean, maybe you can figure out some of the games bigger secrets Im sure there is a few secrets I missed, I wouldnt be surprised if I missed a lot.

and Im still surprised FM-77 hasnt completed this game yet...

[FM-77AV]

If this is of any help, which I doubt it is... I once opened the game exe in a HEX editor, and immediately found strings like STRENGTH, DEFENCE, etc... all for the status menus. I edited these words into something else, and they did indeed show up as edited in the game. Maybe it¨s just as easy for the dialogue? Maybe the only reason I couldn¨t see those were because my HEX editor didn¨t support Korean characters? Just a small theory.

EDIT: Despite my love and fascination with this game, the Salmon shrine discouraged me so much that I still haven¨t played it since I posted about it here. I WILL play it again sometime though, that is for certain.

[Ascended Mermaid]

Hmmm... that does make a difference, yes. However, the hard part will be building the tables for it; unlike with FCEUXDSP, any other hex editor is just a hex editor that doesn't work or show work *during* gameplay. Simply put, it will take a lot longer. One thing that will make or break this: it'd either need to be a romanized table, or a Korean table. Depending on how things go (issues with Faxanadu have clued me in on this) more or less issues may be discovered in this alone.

Correcting the actual issues with the game, is a different story...

[Groenegel]

This is great news! I'm really looking forward to an Ys II Special translation. Sounds like quite a daunting task to me given the amount of text in the game.

Also, what's the fuss with those "glitches"? In countless hours of play, I never had the game crash (well, maybe twice? and I put it down to my computer, not to the game itself). Then again I played it on old PCs under pure DOS. But I also had a ride under DOSBox to record the music and, running from an advanced savegame, was able to revisit all areas, fight the final boss and watch the ending with no problems whatsoever...

[Ascended Mermaid]

Well to be clear:

It took me a little over five tries before the game would let me rescue Lilia without crashing. That's a little irritating, if I do say so myself.

[FM-77AV]

Yeah, but that only happens when you use DOS Box. The game is, as aforementioned, working rather well when you're NOT using that. I also tried Free-DOS, but it did not work well.

[Ascended Mermaid]

True, but I've yet to install a virtual machine on my computer, so I do not have the magnificence that is DOS.

[FM-77AV]

I have had problems running Ys 2 Special in DOS using Virtual PC. The scrolling gets corrupted. A lot!

[Red Hairdo]

I saved Lilia in DOSBox without crashing.... I think.

What I'm SURE about is that there was some trick to it not to crash.



And translating this game... OH! A DREAM!!!!! =DDDDDDDDD

This game is awesome. I need to play it now.