Phantasy Star II

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Phantasy Star II
Also known as: Phantasy Star II: The End of the Lost Age (JP) Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Platform: Genesis Released in JP: March 21, 1989 Released in US: February 1990 This game has a notes page This game has a prototype article

Sega: Dramatically killing off female protagonists before Square made it cool. Phantasy Star 2 is a direct sequel to the first game, set 1000 years after it, and the first of the classic series for the Sega Genesis. Gone are the monotonous first person dungeons and in their place are monotonous third person mazes.

Unused Enemy

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The second member of the VAN group, VANLEADR, exists in the game's code but isn't used in any formations.

Version Differences

Cut Line

The English translation cut off a line due to a programming error. When examining the entrance to Climatrol Rolf's line of dialogue is truncated to just "The color of water around here certainly". The full line should be "The color of water around here certainly looks different. It seems like the water is coming from the bottom of the ocean." This was corrected when the game was translated into Portuguese.

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The data for this line does exist in the English ROM. The full line is "The color of water around here certainly seems different. It seems to be water coming out of the ground." The wrong control code is used after "certainly".

Music

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Most tracks in the Japanese version had a loud beat in the background, which is gone in the American release.

Virtual Console

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The Virtual Console version of the game includes a plaintext ASM patch - complete with developer comments in Japanese - that is applied to the game in real-time. The patch changes the pallete of the cross on the Hospitals, and for some reason writes the ASCII string "GREEN CROSS FIX" to the ROM.