Ys NES English Translation Version 1 - March 25, 2000 Created by David Mullen http://www.geocities.com/makoknight.geo/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits and Thanks ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy (M'Rhan) - Head of Kakkoii Translations. He offered to give the Japanese scripts to his friend to translate. Without him, there would be no translation. ??? - Jeremy's friend, who translated the scripts. This person wishes to remain anonymous. Varkon and Tetsuya - Translated the item list when I posted it on the CTC Board. TheFreak and (wraith) - Volunteered for the beta testing. Zackman - For taking the time to translate some of the script at the beginning, when no one else would look at it. All the creators of hacking documents and utilities, because it was that knowledge and array of tools that made this possible. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I began working on Ys in August 1999, during a waiting period on Romancing SaGa 1, another project I'm working on. I wanted to do it for two reasons: to see if I could actually translate a game and do all the hacking work myself, and because I love the Ys series. I had made quite a bit of progress, figuring out everything about the text storage with my mediocre romhacking knowledge. But the biggest setback was the simple fact that no one wanted to translate the scripts. It sat on my desk for about seven months before I got a break. After giving Jeremy a little help with his own translation, he offered to help me by taking those scripts to a friend of his to translate. Within a few weeks, I had all of them back, completely translated. And after a few more days, it was completely inserted. This is the result of everyone's work, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed working on it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The file "ys1e.ips" must be patched to the original ROM image to play this translation. Any IPS patching utility should work. Two commonly used utilities are IPS.exe and Snestool. You can find these two programs at most emulation websites. *** Always keep a backup of the original ROM image. *** To use IPS.exe, run this at a command prompt: IPS Snestool has a graphic interface that makes it easier. After starting it, select "Use IPS", then select the IPS file, then the ROM image that it should be used on. The game has been thoroughly tested using the BioNES emulator, but I believe it will also work on the latest beta of NESten. I haven't had a chance to test it on NESten, since my computer doesn't seem to agree with it. Other emulators such as NESticle and FWNES have some graphical glitches when running Ys. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ys is (c)1987,1988 Nihon Falcom. This work is unofficial and is not supported by them. This patch may be freely distributed, as long as: - The patch remains unmodified - This readme file accompanies the patch - The ROM image is not distributed with this patch already applied This patch is not for sale, and is not to be exchanged for money, goods, or services of any kind. I won't be held accountable for any damage or undesirable side-effects this patch may create. Use it at your own risk.