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 Released in EU: February 15, 2008 (Virtual Console) This game has regional differences. This game has a notes page This game has a prototype article

Sega: Dramatically killing off female protagonists before Square made it cool.

Version Differences

Region Differences

To do: Better document the changes

There are a number of differences and changes in the translation process:

• Lutz is supposed to be Noah from Phantasy Star, but they apparently forgot that they changed his name in the English version of that game.
• In the Japanese version, the musician Ustvestia (he teaches you the MUSIK technique) is openly gay. While his hitting on male members of the party was removed (by changing "He looks cute!" to "He looks smart!"), he still charges less to each male party members.
• The snare drum samples are much louder in the Japanese version.

(Source: Wikipedia: Phantasy Star II)

Virtual Console

To do: Somehow apply and better document the patch changes.

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 strong "GREEN CROSS FIX" to the ROM.