Phantasy Star Generation: 2 English Translation

Phantasy Star Generation:2 is a remake of the game Phantasy Star II, originally released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1989, for the Sony PlayStation 2. It was developed by 3D AGES, a joint venture between Sega and D3 Publisher, as part of the Sega Ages 2500 series of games.

To learn more about the game, visit the dedicated Phantasy Star Generation:2 game section. This section includes everything from a walkthrough to manual scans.

Translation Credits

Programming & Assembly:

• Tryphon
• Goldenboy
• 1Dragoon
• RodolfoRG (First documentation/decompression tools used)
• CUE (Decompression tools, unpacking tools)

Translation & Correction:

• Kyence
• Hiei- (aka. Blaw-)
• Olivier (aka. Xanafalgue)
• Carl Broadhurst
• Shinto-Cetra
• Goldenboy
• FlamePurge (Formerly vivify93/SandyLandale)
• The Sonic Titan (aka. Dr. Gonzo)
• skymandr

Graphics:

• Kyence
• Hiei- (aka. Blaw-)
• Lyan
• M.Klein & Iconian Font

Optional Tweaks Hack:

• einlanzer

Special Thanks:

• Missagh Alami
• BenoitRen
• Wolfgang Landgraf
• bokokun
• Hiei- (aka. Blaw-)
• mziab
• Sega
• ...and everyone who encouraged Kyence and FlamePurge to complete the translation!

The game credits are available.

For any questions, concerns, or bug reports, please contact FlamePurge

• by using their website's bug report form
• by DM at ROMhacking.net's forum
• on the PS Cave Discord server

In the future, FlamePurge intends to make a series of tutorials on how to use Aeroprism. If you would like to translate Phantasy Star Generation:2 to your language, please wait until then.

Screenshots Version BETA 0.8

Screenshots Version RC 2F

Screenshots Version 4 (latest) & 3

Translation Effort

As of v4.00 the English patch of Phantasy Star Generation:2 is complete.

On real hardware, the game no longer crashes upon triggering most events, nor does it crash post-battle upon winning an item from an enemy. A wide swath of formatting errors and typos have been corrected, all while retaining Kyence's original high quality translation. As she strove for accuracy, there are no patches for alternate names.

In particular, the names of many techs and pieces of equipment seemed to be derived from German or other non-Japanese or English languages. Thus, rather than copy existing translations from the classic four or PS Online, a collaborative effort was launched amongst community members to determine the potential etymology of each tech and item to inform its translation.

Please read “LINER.TXT” for further translation details.

Version info

v4.00 - Finalized. Corrected crashing error on a real PS2, verified by Psxphile and Pally356. Several typos fixed. Contains the previous release's completed translation, the optional Tweaks addendum, all documents, and a virtual Memory Card for players wanting to start the Clear Game Quest immediately.

v3.00 - Features an optional gameplay rebalance hack, "Phantasy Star Generation:2 Tweaks"!

With this patch, the balance of the remake is much fairer: character starting stats are improved, the damage of slicers and a few other weapons has been corrected, characters learn more useful techs sooner, techs have fairer TP costs and powers. See PSGEN2 Tweaks' Changelog for details!

RC v2f - Countless errors corrected. Playable on real hardware.

Beta v0.8 - Initial public beta release.

This version is an open beta. Many pieces of equipment and techniques have had their names revised from their previous incarnations. Namely, many appeared to be German words spelled phonetically in Japanese (i.e., "Nish" is was actually spelled in Japanese as "Harnisch" which is German for "Armor." Thus, it was decided many techniques will not be seen as they were in previous games like PSO or earlier. This was a collaborative effort with the members of the PSCave forum. A document noting specific changes for reference will be provided with the translated ISO (CRC32: C10FD10C) and the patch.

Download Note:
The remake includes the original version of the game released for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. The English patch also translates the original game.

Download patch

If you are interested in manually applying an xdelta3 patch (CRC32: 0FF7A36B) to the original Japanese ISO, you can download them below. Refer to the included instructions for details on how to apply the patch in Windows/OSX/Linux.

• Phantasy Star Generation:2 xdelta patch (version 4.00) - 8 July 2026
• Phantasy Star Generation:2 xdelta patch (version 3.00) - 25 May 2026 - Unplayable on a real PS2
• Phantasy Star Generation:2 xdelta patch (version RC v2f) - 30 June 2019
• Phantasy Star Generation:2 xdelta patch (version Beta 0.8) - 17 October 2015 - Unplayable on a real PS2

If you wish to also play with the PSGEN2 Tweaks hack by einlanzer in version 4.00, please apply “PSGEN2_T-Eng_v300+Tweaks_v09.xdelta” atop your BIN after patching it with "PSGEN2_T-Eng_v400.xdelta".

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Phantasy Star Generation:1 translation?

The Phantasy Star Generation:1 English translation has been released! There is also a complete Phantasy Star Generation:2 French translation available.