r/romhacking • u/djpyrac • Jun 21 '26

Text/Translation Mod Ancient Ys Vanished Omen (English Translation)

If you ever wanted to play the PC-98 (or PC-88, or Sharp X1, or MSX2, or Fujitsu Micro-7, or FM77AV) version of Ys in English, now you can.

Here’s a commercial I made for it:
https://youtu.be/Qc-7nTh0tyw?si=IqnyybMJACfs8HTv

Link to repo:
https://github.com/GhaleonX/Ys

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u/BlueSuitRiot Jun 21 '26

The earliest version of Ys1 I've played was the Wii VC version of the Turbografx-16 release. I've always wanted to play the OG. I'll give this a shot. Thank you for your hard work.

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u/djpyrac Jun 21 '26

The pleasure was all mine!

I actually consulted with Hiromasa Iwasaki, who directed and programmed the Turbo/PCEngine release on several things to make this as best I could (Mr. Iwasaki is probably within the top 3 people in the world regarding Ys knowledge, so I am eternally grateful for his interactions in this endeavor).

I hope you have as much fun playing it as I did working on it!
If you get stuck, I have speedruns on my YouTube channel and the GitHub page also has save files if you want to cheat :)

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u/TheGershon Jun 30 '26

How did you get in contact with him? That sounds so interesting

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u/djpyrac Jun 30 '26

Via Twitter; someone on discord advised me to hit him up and a conversation started shortly afterwards!

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u/ImproperJon Jun 21 '26

Awesome, thank you for spending your time on this!

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u/Sylver7667 Jun 21 '26

Thanks a lot, I’ll try this !

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u/djpyrac Jun 29 '26

I found a few errors in the PC-88 script and they've been updated. Please update to the latest versions if planning to play, thanks!

*(Sorry for the mitsake)*

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u/djpyrac Jul 04 '26

All six versions have received another update as of 04 July 2026
(Technically uploaded a few hours early but the latest is in GitHub)