Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished Omen English translation
イース 失われし古代王国 序章 · Isu: Ushinawareshi Kodai Oukoku Joshou
GhaleonX's full English translation of the very first release of Ys on the PC-88, with carefully reconsidered names and confirmed to run on real hardware.
What it is
GhaleonX translated the original 1987 PC-8801 release of Ys, the version that started the series. It's the same author who also handled the PC-98 version, and the PC-88 patch first came out on 21 June 2026, exactly 39 years after the game, with an update on 4 July.
What's translated
All dialogue, item and equipment names, the books and the menus are in English. GhaleonX went back to the Japanese text instead of following later localizations: character names were chosen to match how they sound and the star names behind them (the villain becomes D'Arc Phact, for example), and some item names were adjusted to fit together. A document in the repository explains each of these choices.
Playing it
The patch comes in two parts, one for each game disk, and is applied to your own disk images following the instructions on the project page. Saving needs a formatted user disk in the second drive. The creator reports that the patched game also works on a real PC-88.