Phantasy Star Generation 2: English Translation V2

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Re: Phantasy Star Generation 2: English Translation V2

Postby rockphantom » Mon May 08, 2023 7:35 pm

I have been a massive Phantasy Star fan since I first played the second game on my Genesis in April of 1990. I would like to know if the most recent English translation of PS2 Generation 2 is available in ISO or CHD format? I have never played the 2005 remake of Phantasy Star 2 before would love to play it on my Steam Deck. I did complete the 2005 remake of the original Phantasy Star on my PC back in 2019 and truly enjoyed it. Any assistance or guidance would be appreciated.

Also, do you receive anything special if you use PS Generation One Clear Save data when you start PS Generation 2?

Thank you!
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Re: Phantasy Star Generation 2: English Translation V2

Postby Screeling » Tue Jul 25, 2023 4:54 pm

rockphantom wrote:I would like to know if the most recent English translation of PS2 Generation 2 is available in ISO or CHD format? I have never played the 2005 remake of Phantasy Star 2 before would love to play it on my Steam Deck.

Hoping you found the .iso file on the main website already. To play it on Steam Deck, you can grab the EmuDeck app. You'll need a PS2 BIOS file for the Playstation 2 emulator, PCSX2, to function. Then playing the game is as simple as putting the .iso file in the ps2 folder in the Emulation folder. Run ROM Manager, it will find it, then it should be available in the Collections section of Steam.

Hope that helps!
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Re: Phantasy Star Generation 2: English Translation V2

Postby rockphantom » Thu Jul 27, 2023 6:30 pm

Thanks for the information. I have the PSG2 English 0.8 beta. I am looking for the most recent build of the English translation and hope someone would be able to share it soon.
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Re: Phantasy Star Generation 2: English Translation V2

Postby Sarzac » Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:53 pm

Does anyone know how to obtain this version of Generations 2? The download links on the first post no longer work.
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Re: Phantasy Star Generation 2: English Translation V2

Postby rockphantom » Sun Dec 31, 2023 7:54 pm

Sarzac wrote:Does anyone know how to obtain this version of Generations 2? The download links on the first post no longer work.



You can get the 0.8 beta here: https://cdromance.com/ps2-iso/sega-ages ... h-patched/
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Re: Phantasy Star Generation 2: English Translation V2

Postby 1Dragoon » Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:09 am

For what it's worth, when I did my playthrough to figure out how keeping Nei works, I documented much of what I found about how the game tracks player/story progression:

https://github.com/1Dragoon/psgen2_hax/ ... _memory.md

Might be useful if anybody wants to quickly skip to certain parts of the game while testing on a real PS2 without having to alter the game code in potentially breaking ways that might have resulted in the project being stalled earlier. Although I don't have a real PS2 to test against, many of the scalar values I listed appear to be stored verbatim in the virtual memory card files.

As for bugs I've found in the current beta release, so far all of them seem to involve text bugs. One of which is where the game seems to list Shelly as "Sherry" occasionally. The other are apparent bugs in the enemy names. When I was trying to figure out how enemy stats worked, I wrote a parser that seems to have caught all of them, the output of that is here:

https://github.com/1Dragoon/psgen2_hax/ ... enemies.md

The actual code to generate that can be found in the same repository. Anyways, notice some enemy names are completely blank, and some have broken text. The ones with broken text mostly render as the \x12. I had to guess how the character encoding worked as it didn't appear to be compatible with any shiftjis documentation I could find, and my converter could be wrong, but it is so far consistent with the in-game behavior I've observed.
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Re: Phantasy Star Generation 2: English Translation V2

Postby darkwraith007 » Tue Jun 17, 2025 11:39 pm

Time to necro this thread again!
So for those who have been wasting time trying to figure out what is what, I've got a summary here.
Phantasy Star Generation 1 most recent patch is v3.00 (dated May 25 2025) and is available here: https://www.pscave.com/psg1/download/ or https://www.pscave.com/psg1/download/Ph ... xdelta.zip

Phantasy Star Generation 2 most recent patch is NOT v0.8b like the poster above (which is the old Kyence version from 2015), but is instead 'RC2-V2F' (dated June 25 2019) and seems to be the last public release that I have since neither Goldenboy nor anyone else has dropped an updated patch or anything anywhere. The PSCave website has NOT been updated with this patch version and all I have is the ISO itself (as I kept an already-patched backup for sharing).
Yes, this is the same 'V2F' that is from the now-deprecated ZippyShare link that Goldenboy had posted in the first post. I double-checked.

Due to things shuffling around on MEGA, I've had to deprecate the prior link and am dropping a new updated link here to the already-patched ISO of RC2-V2 of this Goldenboy translation:
https://mega.nz/file/RUBklQLI#a3OfJ6PFt ... vojnkYyvGk

Please DO NOT share this link elsewhere publicly (only here and PSCave discord please) because it seems I had issues with transfer limits due to too many people downloading it all at once or something. Be kind and try again after one or two days if you get a transfer limit error! (Limit is like 5GB a day so not sure how many people are downloading but yeah).

Also because of MEGA's changes with regards to non-Chrome-based browsers like Firefox & so on, you may need to get the Desktop Application in order to download from the link. Please DO NOT use a private browsing window.
I'd recommend just using Chromium portable: https://chromium.woolyss.com/

I will not be posting additional mirrors but I encourage others to mirror it as well. I'd like Goldenboy to PLEASE post in this thread soon and to provide an updated patch (beta or otherwise) for the latest version and to put a proper version number on it.
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