Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished Omen English translation
イース 失われし古代王国 序章 · Ys I: Ushinawareshi Kodai Oukoku Joshou
A new English translation of the original PC-98 release of the first Ys, part of a project that translates the game on several Japanese home computers, with custom font work to fit more text into the shops and houses.
What's translated
The whole script of the PC-98 version is in English. The translator went back to the original Japanese text, which is almost the same across all the early computer versions, and aimed to stay true to the original writers while taking later entries in the series into account. For this version a custom font with ligature glyphs squeezes more text into the small shop and house windows. A separate change log on the project page explains the translation choices in detail.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the PC-98 game disk, following the project page; there is also an optional patch to convert the disk to a format more emulators accept. Start with the game disk in drive A and a user disk in drive B for saving. The game does not run properly in DOSBox-X, so use a dedicated PC-98 emulator.
Credits
Translation and hacking by GhaleonX, who has also released the same translation for the PC-88, Sharp X1, MSX2 and FM-7 versions.