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

Phantasy Star 2 is a direct sequel to the first game, set 1,000 years later, and is 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 truncates 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, which can be read in a hex editor, 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". This is not the case in the Japanese or Portuguese versions, where the line is displayed in full.

(Source: http://www.efkm.com/dezoris/pse_ps2.html)

Music

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The music underwent a large number of tweaks during localization, including the removal or reduction of a background beat that existed in many Japanese-version tracks.

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 palette of the cross on the Hospitals, and for some reason, writes the ASCII string "GREEN CROSS FIX" to the ROM.