Ys IV

[NightWolve]

If I run it with the the modded for everdrive bios I get a lot of lock ups, graphical glitches and other issues.  If I play the game without the everdrive in the system, and using just the Duo's bios, I get none of these issues.   Has anyone else run into this?  I guess I should also mention I'm playing on a PCE Duo.   

That's interesting, could you run a test with an original Japanese CD or unpatched CD-R and see if you still get the glitches mentioned ?

[Johnpv]

I do have the original Japanese CD so I will see if I can get it to do the same on that.  It probably won't be till this weekend though. 

[Serega81]

Il jump on the bandwagon.. Thanks for the excellent translation NightWolve Ys IV was one of the first games I played for my duo, my 14 year old ass was absolutely floored by it in 1995.. half screen character portraits, great cutscenes, I think I got sick from school instantly , and played it for 4 days straight till morning light. Thanks to you I can finally play it in English while simultaneously reliving my teenage years.

[NightWolve]

Falcom [is Great Again] occasionally goes on PC Engine nostalgia trips for their Twitter followers, this one for "Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys" [1993]. It was developed mostly by Hudson Soft (now absorbed by Konami) with Falcom providing a working story and soundtrack.

This scenario illustration is an example of cell painting, and they call it Nostalgia Illustration #19.

https://t.co/azSDP9LJZd
http://www.ysutopia.net/projects/ys4/

[elmer]

I love their art style! It's so cool that they post these things. 

I've got to finish playing your translation someday ... I'm stuck on one of the bosses, and am a poor-enough player that I'll probably have to hack myself an invincibility cheat to get passed him and back to the rest of the game.  :oops:

I was really enjoying it up until that darned boss!

[Gypsy]

I love their art style! It's so cool that they post these things. 

I've got to finish playing your translation someday ... I'm stuck on one of the bosses, and am a poor-enough player that I'll probably have to hack myself an invincibility cheat to get passed him and back to the rest of the game.  :oops:

I was really enjoying it up until that darned boss!

You gotta believe in yourself man! Plus Ys games are easy peasy.

[Johnpv]

That is some damn nice art work from them, thanks for sharing it!

[Serega81]

Seeing this thread pop back up again I have a question.  I started my Ys journey on the Snes with Ys III before I owned a Duo, since then I have played through Ys1 - Ys4 on the Duo/TG CD.  However I never touched any of the next gen Ys games, the PS2 ones etc..  To those who have, would you reccomend any of them?  How do they measure up against their classic counterparts?

[Black Tiger]

I love Ys I - III, Dawn of Ys and to a lesser extent, Eternal/Complete I & II.

Everything that came after doesn't have the same magic and feel very un-Ys.

[Necromancer]

NW: thanks for sharing the cool art.  I hope they post up more of 'em.

Serega81: I've played the four PSP games (Ys I & II Chronicles, Oath in Felghana, Ark of Napishtim, and Ys 7) and enjoyed 'em quite a bit.  They're worth checking out, especially for the sweet music;  they let you switch on the fly between the newer arranged versions and the old tunes from PC-88, X68K, or whatever.

[Gypsy]

The new games are great, but they are definitely very different experiences. For me, Oath is my favourite version of III though I'm sure many would have a different view of it. I would say just try the new games and see what you think about them.

[Johnpv]

Seeing this thread pop back up again I have a question.  I started my Ys journey on the Snes with Ys III before I owned a Duo, since then I have played through Ys1 - Ys4 on the Duo/TG CD.  However I never touched any of the next gen Ys games, the PS2 ones etc..  To those who have, would you reccomend any of them?  How do they measure up against their classic counterparts?

The Ys IV remake on Vita (Memories of Celceta) is really good.  I personally am not a fan of Ark of Napishtim, found it easily the worst in the entire franchise. The other new games are definitely worth playing though.

[Gypsy]

MoC definitely blows Ys VI away. VI could honestly stand a remake.

[ParanoiaDragon]

I love Ys 6.  It's not Oath, which is my favorite, but it's a great game.  Deffinitely better then the current versions of Ys 5.

[seieienbu]

Out of all the games in the series, I feel like Ys 5 plays the least like Ys out of any of them.  More than anything else, I think of Ys as games with fast paced action.  Ys 5 wasn't just slow for an Ys game, it was slow for a snes game.  There were few enemies on screen, it took forever to move around, and in the event that multiple enemies were on screen at once the game would somehow become slower still.

Even the 3rd one still has fast paced combat and quick exploration.  You can change it from top down to a side scroller but it still feels like Ys to me.  Perhaps the PS2 port plays better but I've never played it so I can't say.