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Yes, after eight years of work, this long-in-the-making fan dub is finally done and released. The text translation patch was done years ago, but understandably, getting together a voices patch was much more difficult... sounds like it was quite the project. It was necessary in order to actually understand the whole story, though; TGCD cutscenes don't usually have subtitles.
And so, they put in the work, and the result is that now anyone can play the whole game, in English, and actually understand the whole story, including the previously Japanese-only voices. Just awesome, awesome work... go to the link above for the download.
Youtube trailer they also posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxusqqY5Kw
For anyone who doesn't know, Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys is a top-down action-RPG game by Hudson released in late 1993 only in Japan for the PC Engine Super CD (aka TurboGrafx Super CD in the US). The game plays a lot like Ys 1+2. As a Super CD game it requires the Super System Card in original Turbo CD systems. The game is an entirely different game from Falcom's Ys IV: Mask of the Sun for the Super Nintendo (which is also a Japan-only release). That game is also a top-down action-RPG, but it's a completely different one. Mask of the Sun has also Japanese-only PS2 and cellphone re-releases, and The Dawn of Ys is on the PS3 PSN in Japan, but neither game has ever had a Western release, unfortunately. Hopefully that changes someday, but in the interim, this is pretty awesome. And of course, it's easy to use a real disc copy of the game as the base for the text and now voice mods.
Yes, after eight years of work, this long-in-the-making fan dub is finally done and released. The text translation patch was done years ago, but understandably, getting together a voices patch was much more difficult... sounds like it was quite the project. It was necessary in order to actually understand the whole story, though; TGCD cutscenes don't usually have subtitles.
And so, they put in the work, and the result is that now anyone can play the whole game, in English, and actually understand the whole story, including the previously Japanese-only voices. Just awesome, awesome work... go to the link above for the download.
Youtube trailer they also posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxusqqY5Kw
For anyone who doesn't know, Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys is a top-down action-RPG game by Hudson released in late 1993 only in Japan for the PC Engine Super CD (aka TurboGrafx Super CD in the US). The game plays a lot like Ys 1+2. As a Super CD game it requires the Super System Card in original Turbo CD systems. The game is an entirely different game from Falcom's Ys IV: Mask of the Sun for the Super Nintendo (which is also a Japan-only release). That game is also a top-down action-RPG, but it's a completely different one. Mask of the Sun has also Japanese-only PS2 and cellphone re-releases, and The Dawn of Ys is on the PS3 PSN in Japan, but neither game has ever had a Western release, unfortunately. Hopefully that changes someday, but in the interim, this is pretty awesome. And of course, it's easy to use a real disc copy of the game as the base for the text and now voice mods.
