Phantasy Star II English Retranslation v1.0.1

Changes in v1.0.1

• Main menu fixed. With no saved game, the title menu showed a row of garbage tiles instead of Start a New Game.
• New Damage Flash toggle in the Start menu's Options: turn the red screen flash when the party is hit On or Off. It is saved with the game.

Download

PS2_Retranslation_v1.0.1.zip (below) contains:

• Patcher.html: open it in any browser, drop your ROM on it, and save the result. It works offline and accepts either US/European release, as plain .bin/.md/.gen or interleaved .smd.
• PS2_Retranslation_v1.0.1.bps: the patch for Flips or any BPS patcher, for Rev A.
• PS2_Retranslation_v1.0.1_REV01.bps: the same result from the first release.
• readme.txt: full notes, credits, and verification hashes.

Apply it to the stock ROM, not to a v1.0 ROM. Your battery saves carry over.

Required ROM

Phantasy Star II (USA, Europe), headerless, 786,432 bytes, either release:

• Rev A (GM 00005501-02, 1990): CRC32 904FA047, MD5 0fa38b12cf0ab0163d865600ac731a9a
• First release (GM 00005501-01, 1989): CRC32 0D07D0EF, MD5 75ea42b49a65ceb0395480126f426c6a

No ROM is included or provided.

Result

1,048,576 bytes (1 MB), CRC32 964194B3, MD5 fb983a252eb66a2a461c782dbb01da8d.

This tag is the exact source the zip was built from: running python tools/sourcebuild.py on it reproduces the ROM byte for byte.

Phantasy Star II English Retranslation v1.0

First release of a new English translation of Phantasy Star II, made from the Japanese script rather than the 1989 US localization. Unofficial fan project; not affiliated with SEGA.

What's in it

• The whole script translated anew from the Japanese, with Japanese names throughout (Eusis, Rudger, Anne, Huey, Amia, Kainz, Silka; Algol, Motavia, Palma, Dezolis; Dark Falz, LaShiec, AMeDAS).
• Proportional, mixed-case text in the dialogue and every menu; no length limit on a message (which also removes the Lutz speech music freeze); full-length item, technique, enemy and place names; six-letter party names.
• Phantasy Star IV-style menus, Equip screen and shops (who can equip what, and the stat comparison), battle commands with eight saved macros, TP costs in the battle technique list, damage and healing numbers, and an Options window on Start (Battle Speed, Message Speed).
• FlamePurge's Phantasy Star II Improvement v4.5 (lory1990's bug fixes, fast walking, faster battles, the rebalance), and EvilJagaGenius's centred field camera.

Download

PS2_Retranslation_v1.0.zip (below) contains:

• Patcher.html — open it in any browser, drop your ROM on it, save the result. Works offline; accepts either US/European release, as plain .bin/.md/.gen or interleaved .smd, and can save either format.
• PS2_Retranslation_v1.0.bps — the patch for Flips or any BPS patcher, for Rev A (plain binary source only).
• PS2_Retranslation_v1.0_REV01.bps — the same result from the first release.
• readme.txt — full notes, name changes, credits, verification hashes.

Apply it to the stock ROM, not to an already-patched one.

Required ROM

Phantasy Star II (USA, Europe), headerless, 786,432 bytes — either release:

• Rev A (GM 00005501-02, 1990): CRC32 904FA047, MD5 0fa38b12cf0ab0163d865600ac731a9a
• First release (GM 00005501-01, 1989): CRC32 0D07D0EF, MD5 75ea42b49a65ceb0395480126f426c6a

No ROM is included or provided.

Result

1,048,576 bytes (1 MB), CRC32 09170CFA, MD5 7fe92ed05337e61918f15902a06a854d. Internal checksum valid; SRAM configuration unchanged, so battery saves from the original game load (new settings start at their defaults, macro slots empty).

Please report text bugs with a savestate or a description of where the passage appears — Discord @Excalibur_Z, Twitter @ExcalZGaming, or an issue here.

This tag is the exact source the zip was built from: python tools/sourcebuild.py on it reproduces the ROM byte for byte.