Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys English Dub Patch Released!

[dairugger]

i played it completley on my pspgo, it was freakin sweet, well worth the wait!

[NightWolve]

dairugger, you lurker, you're alive!! =)

[dairugger]

Hey Night! I hope the holidays treated you well.
I finally finished Ys IV about a week ago. I would play in spurts so that i could savor it. I still cant believe the work you and everybody put into it. its a better product than tti ever put out!

[Keith Courage]

I thought I'd post some info for people trying to burn this and thinking of using lightscribe in order to make a cool label. In my experience lightscribe discs are more difficult for pc engine based CD drives to read. I can get regular Sony CDRs to read on about 90% of all consoles I test. However, Lightscribe only works on about 50% of the systems I test and I have tested 3 different brands of lightscribe. So basically stay away from the lightscribe cause even if it works it may over work your CD lens.

I test all the systems I repair and sometimes sell this way. This is how I have been able to test so many DUOs and CD drives.

[NightWolve]

Hm, interesting. So, you get more skipping when it comes to Lightscribe discs (like when redbook background music is playing) or the game just doesn't get passed the boot/load screen ?

[Bernie]

Its most likely having issues loading period.  I had the same problems with LS discs.  I guess the quality of the disc itself is overlooked due to whatever reasons...  Either way, I wouldnt use em in my Duo.  You can hear it working over n over n over trying to load the game.

[spenoza]

Even some pressed CDs these days are poor quality. My wife picked up a CD over Christmas that had way more light transparency than a good pressed disc should. It was hit and miss whether it would work in the old CD player in her car (which does, admittedly, need to be cleaned).

[NightWolve]

Its most likely having issues loading period.

Yeah, that's what I figure. I was trying to find my big ole post on the question of "Do CD-Rs over work your CD lens?". Took a while, but basically, I still stand by what I talked about, if the disc works, that is, the game loads and the redbook tracks do not skip, there isn't any "lens raping" that is occurring. I wanna understand the physics better from those who believe the opposite and based on what I read and responded to in that linked post, I don't believe that additional wear and tear is introduced with the use of a CD-R.

[Keith Courage]

When there is a problem with a lightscribe disc the game won't even load or if it does load after trying over and over again it will eventually freeze somewhere else trying to load another portion of a game. I do not know for sure if it really over works a lens or not. I am just saying that your percentage of having a playable game is much higher with a standard CDR than trying to use a lightscribe disc.

[chadti99]

Was there a new release/update on 12/25/2012?  What changed?  Also, how do I donate?

[Burnt Lasagna]

There wasn't a new release on Christmas (12/25/2012).
The last update to the patch was v1.1 (don't remember the exact date), which fixed a small issue that happens on real hardware.

I personally do not accept donations.
This is just a hobby of mine, not something I wish to make money with.

Though Nightwolve, my right hand man in this project, does except donations (made the text patch back in 2004).
You can donate to him at YsUtopia.net if you feel so inclined.   

[spenoza]

I personally do not except donations.

Must... resist... Urge to correct too powerful...

[Burnt Lasagna]

Must... resist... Urge to correct too powerful...

....yeah, Homophones are always invited to typo parties.

[NightWolve]

I personally do not except donations.

Must... resist... Urge to correct too powerful...

Heh-heh. I had to look at it twice to catch it but yeah! I like the "homophones..."

Anyway, as Mike indicated, I personally do not accept 99% freeloading as the default behavior of the patch-consuming public, hobby work or not, so yes, you're welcome to donate to me... 99% choose not to donate, or even email a simple thank-you, that's how it is, thankless and cheap... So, choose to be in the <1% if you would. Break with the rest of humanity, show that there is some decency left!! You would be quite *exceptional* in doing so!

There, correct usage in both cases (accept v. except...ional), so take that, Mike! Hehe!

Was there a new release/update on 12/25/2012?  What changed?  Also, how do I donate?

Looks like me finally announcing the project being completed on my site led to this. Nah, nothing changed, it's the same v1.1 patch. I'm just a slow poke at everything and Christmas '04 is when I released the text version of the patch, so I saved the announcement for the holiday again. This allowed for plenty of procrastination on my part, but yeah, it had been finished ~2 months prior or so and there is nothing new or any changes, etc.

With no other feedback or problems reported, I guess there isn't much to do in the short-term. We do need a real patcher instead of batch files though for those that can't handle commandline too easily. I'd like to integrate TurboRip into a NSIS GUI installer that lets you rip the disc and fully patch all in one shot and have options like one that David Shadoff had suggested of choice in font (I can do that at patch time, have a few images of the font, and patch the font memory location in track 2 according to what is chosen), etc.. That'd be a nice ideal eventually, but since things are working well enough, I don't feel too much motivation now for this, plus I have other issues I wanna get out of the way this year.

[Burnt Lasagna]

There, correct usage in both cases (accept v. except...ional), so take that, Mike! Hehe!

Man, I feel like I'm in 3rd grade again...