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Last Shout - Posted by: tsbaron - Mar. 27, 2011, 01:18:56 AM
I'm around as well. I check back about once a week or so. Just got Ys I and II chronicles for PSP and I'm liking it. Wish they used some parts of Atlus' translation from the DS game, but some of the new writing is funny (there's a reference to a Hall and Oates song in the beginning of Ys I that amused me)
 
Ys Typing Tutor Game

Details

The Ys Typing Tutor game (referred to by Falcom as "Typing of Ys") is a normally hidden mini-game included with the full Zwei!! PC game that can be unlocked provided certain conditions are met. It is based mostly around Ys II Complete (not Ys II Eternal), both in sprites and text related material.

Around May 8, 2005, some Ys fans were inquiring about the existence of this mini-game. That gave me the idea of perhaps trying to separate it out of Zwei!! and make it available for everyone since I had known about it after trying to hack Zwei!! itself long before. After about 7 hours of hacking and investigating such a task, I made a working separate copy by creating a launcher, extracting/obtaining all needed support files as well as making a few minor changes to the actual game executable component (DLL). I had given the text files over to Deuce for translation, and the hope was for quick release right after he finished. Well, he didn't, we both moved on to other things and the project sat idle.

Come August 14, 2006, I had a day or two to burn on the PC so I started doing my usual rounds of messageboard visiting among other things. While doing so, I happened to notice that old "Typing of Ys" thread that started this whole thing. A board member named Wrydwad had asked about the project status. Well, before I even responded, that got me thinking... I always lamented that Deuce and I never completed this project. So, I decided right then and there to just at least package the whole game in a nice installer, release it, and then maybe, just maybe, some other Ys fan might be willing to translate it. I knew Wrydwad mentioned he has Japanese knowledge and wanted to use it for fan translation purposes, so I mentioned in passing for him to take a crack at it if he wanted, no commitment required. Sure enough, he was that excited about it that he translated most of the strings fairly well, not Deuce-quality, but good enough, so I then edited all his work and released the fully English version now available for your downloading pleasure. Having everything translated also motivated me to finish the necessary font hacking that was needed to make it a fully English application despite expressing a desire to just quit given time constraints since I have more important things to do with my time right now.

So that's the quick history in a nutshell. Well, enjoy!

Screen shots

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Overview

It's a typing tutor... you know, except it's based on words related mostly from Ys II Complete, get it?? Don't worry, you will.

Progress

Version 0.85 (8/19/2006):
  • Fixed a bug with the font not showing up in the HISCORE screen.
  • Adjusted the font for the text bubbles that bosses fire at you to be smaller and made certain characters center better for easier viewing.
  • An edit or two to make sure text boxes are sized to fit their text nicely.
  • The application icon for Ys Typing Tutor now shows up instead of a DOS icon when using ALT+TAB.
  • The game window's TOP_MOST flag has been set, so even if you click on other windows, Ys Typing Tutor will always remain the top most visible window.

    • Version 0.80 (8/17/2006):
  • Wyrdwad, having been the catalyst to cause me to release this, went and translated all the strings, so I've now included his work.
  • I decided to spend another day now that I had the strings translated into fixing the font and I succeeded.

    • Version 0.60 (8/15/2006):
  • The first public release... It's quite incomplete and needs some behavior altered since it's been switched from Japanese to English, but since I don't know when if ever I'll even bother to complete this project, I made whatever work was done available so you can at least enjoy the game for now.

    • Downloads

    Take your pick, Guest. I'm sure there must be something listed below here that you'd find useful...

    Title/FileFile SizeDownloadsDescription
  • Ys Typing Tutor Game v0.85 (YsTT(US)v085.exe)
    		•  3058383 bytes17481 Click here.

    Ys Typing Tutor Game Installer Statistics
    VersionDownloadsComputers Installed OnRelease Date
    0.85174813141August 19, 2006
    0.8021569August 17, 2006
    0.60~5026August 16, 2006
    Grand total of downloads for all versions: 17746!