Hello All and question

[neo82]

Hello all, not sure where to begin.  Nice little home you have here for starters .

(skip down to the bottom for question)

Well I guess maybe i'll start with my "life" with Ys.  Since 1999 I have had friends that were into RPG type games that were bilingual (or could at least read), and they would play domestic/imported games.  One that they would sometimes bring up is this "Ys" game.  The only thing I could do at the time was listen to their music for the games and from what i had love(d) (To make the end of battle - anyone?)  But (to my knowledge) for years I could not experience these games, until early last year when Ys for the PS2 came out.  I quickly snatched it up and played through it, loving the charachters and the music.  I was always a fan of the older type games, especially falcom release (Legacy of the Wizard, Faxanadu), so not being able to play those games was always the thorn in my side....recently i asked said friends if there was any news about domestic releases, as since MMORPG have came out they have taken my full attention.  I heard about this "translate patch for the games"... so even I could play it!!!  Well my  journay has started and I have come across this little website.  Without further ado...

Question: I read that these games were re-released (and thats what the patches are for).  I'd LOVE to buy the game and have a nice hard copy of it (no i do not have a download of it).    However I have trouble navigating Falcoms website..... maybe I'm missing something or have missed something on the page but I can't read japanese either .  Can anyone give me a direct link to the Ys 1 & 2 Complete dvd(s)? or know of a place that is currently selling them so that I may pick up this diamond in the rough?  (I realize my post may be all over the place but I'm actually excited i have a chance to play this game, sorry so long and all over)

-neo82

[neo82]

well ask and ye shall receive.  when I asked about finding the ys games i had looked around already and had ignored "himeyashop" responses in google and the such because i already saw a link in an earlier post that was dead from them.  I went to the google one and low and behold...... I BOUGHT THE GAMES!!!!!  I haven't been excited over playing a video game since.....damn...I think when I bought Ys for PS2.  Today is truly a great day.  thanks for reading my behemoth of a post up there...I think you guys might be some of the only people that understand me...lol!

-neo82

[Gillian Seed]

Lol. Just ask if you need to order some other stuff directly from Falcom website.

[NightWolve]

Yeah, Gillian had a thread in this forum on how to buy them from Falcom.

https://www.ysutopia.net/forums/index.php?topic=10.0

But too late. Price won't be terribly different with the nasty EMS rate, but it matters if you buy a bunch of stuff from Falcom at once. Then you'll save more money than with Himeyashop.

[neo82]

doh, hit my head with the noob-stick.  I thought I went through the posts in order to make sure this information wasn't already out there...  well for the future i know, but for now i await the arrival of this game!!!  Kudos to you NightWolve for taking years out of your life to put this together. I appreciate it.

Well I'll be damned:

"Tenchi-no-ryu (Stephen Harris) from RPGFAN had introduced me to rare Japanese imported games such as this that I knew nothing of at the time."

the same person that turned me onto Ys was originally from (and still in?) rpgfan, and I'm constantly on the rpgfan IRC chat.  funny how small a world this is.

[NightWolve]

I believe you're probably getting that new Popular Edition version. Check the index page concerning a hotfix patch that you'll need to get Ys II Complete patched to English. This likely concerns you, because I believe Popular Edition is all you can purchase new, nowadays. Hopefully that is the one you bought anyway cause it's the cheapest and has both games.

Concerning RPGFAN: Small world indeed. I used to hang out there, but given that most of the posters there were big angsty libs I grew to hate by the day, I finally quit going. Only reason I ever went was cause of the huge interest in RPGs and Tenchi being a friend, but hey, no reason to aggravate yourself endlessly by hanging around unbearable a-holes. There's one other message board I finally managed to force myself to quit going after almost 2-3 years for the same reason. Hard thing to do, but life's twists and turns sometimes help make the decision much easier.

[neo82]

duly noted. Thanks for the heads up!!