This will come as a shock:
I've never played Ys: Books I & II for the Turbo Duo. Yup, you've heard me.
I only know about this game from reading a ton of articles about it, listening to mp3s and looking at all the pretty pictures.
Now, for the record, I DID play both Ys games...but only their Famicom versions.
I expect to get around to playing Ys I & II on Magicengine sometime down the road (when I'm not busy with university!)
One more thing, I also own the Ys I & II anime OAV's that Media Blasters licensed a couple years back. The first OAV is pretty mediocre but the second one really picked up the pace and made it more interesting. Although, I don't like the fact that they made Dark Fact in the anime look more human instead of gamilon!
True blue, baby!
You also mention Dalles. Funny, in the anime they call him Dares.
He also looks like a shrunken prune-faced old man than the oversized jawa in the game.
But, thanks again for the welcome and I hope we'll all get around to making this board more lively again.