Phantasy Star II Text Adventures English translation
ファンタシースターII テキストアドベンチャー
Jon Najar translated all eight Phantasy Star II side-story text adventures that Sega once sent to Japanese Mega Drive owners over the modem.
What's translated
All eight adventures have English patches, one per character: Yushis (Eusis), Kinds, Shilka, Anne, Huey, Amia, Nei and Rudger. Each patch covers the story text, room descriptions, battle messages and command menus.
The games
These are compact menu-driven adventures: you move between locations, examine things, pick up items and occasionally fight. Some lean toward puzzles, while others, like Amia's, are more about the plot. Together they fill in the backgrounds of Phantasy Star II's cast.
Playing it
The translated games keep both languages, so set your console or emulator to a non-Japanese region to see the English text. Each adventure has its own page with notes and screenshots on Jon Najar's site, and the patches are applied to your own copies of the games.