Proto:Final Fantasy II

While the NES sequel to the original Final Fantasy was never released in the United States, a release was planned at one point, and a prototype was uncovered and released by Lost Levels. The prototype's translation is clearly still in an early stage.

Title Screen
The title screen copyright was updated, which in turn gives a likely reason for this project's cancellation: namely, 1991 was the year Final Fantasy IV was released.

Graphical Changes
Even at this stage, changes had been made to satisfy Nintendo's religious imagery policies.

The star of David was replaced with a triangle. On the upside, some color was added.

The cross that replaces the character's face on the pause screen at death was replaced with a gravestone.

Maria's face portrait was given a slight hairstyle change and made a tad more feminine.

The fist icon representing "unarmed" was replaced by a hand, likely because the glove icon added for the English translation is very similar to the original fist icon.

Unused Graphics


These status "icons" are part of the font and were intended to be used in battle when a character was inflicted with a status effect. They use values below, which are reserved for text compression in this build, and normal text strings are used for these status effects.

A few status effects still use squished text like this, but they all use values greater than.