Phantasy Star Generation 2: English Translation V2

[rockphantom]

I have been a massive Phantasy Star fan since I first played the second game on my Genesis in April of 1990. I would like to know if the most recent English translation of PS2 Generation 2 is available in ISO or CHD format? I have never played the 2005 remake of Phantasy Star 2 before would love to play it on my Steam Deck. I did complete the 2005 remake of the original Phantasy Star on my PC back in 2019 and truly enjoyed it. Any assistance or guidance would be appreciated.

Also, do you receive anything special if you use PS Generation One Clear Save data when you start PS Generation 2?

Thank you!

[Screeling]

I would like to know if the most recent English translation of PS2 Generation 2 is available in ISO or CHD format? I have never played the 2005 remake of Phantasy Star 2 before would love to play it on my Steam Deck.

Hoping you found the .iso file on the main website already. To play it on Steam Deck, you can grab the EmuDeck app. You'll need a PS2 BIOS file for the Playstation 2 emulator, PCSX2, to function. Then playing the game is as simple as putting the .iso file in the ps2 folder in the Emulation folder. Run ROM Manager, it will find it, then it should be available in the Collections section of Steam.

Hope that helps!

[rockphantom]

Thanks for the information. I have the PSG2 English 0.8 beta. I am looking for the most recent build of the English translation and hope someone would be able to share it soon.

[Sarzac]

Does anyone know how to obtain this version of Generations 2? The download links on the first post no longer work.

[rockphantom]

Does anyone know how to obtain this version of Generations 2? The download links on the first post no longer work.

You can get the 0.8 beta here: https://cdromance.com/ps2-iso/sega-ages ... h-patched/

[1Dragoon]

For what it's worth, when I did my playthrough to figure out how keeping Nei works, I documented much of what I found about how the game tracks player/story progression:

https://github.com/1Dragoon/psgen2_hax/ ... _memory.md

Might be useful if anybody wants to quickly skip to certain parts of the game while testing on a real PS2 without having to alter the game code in potentially breaking ways that might have resulted in the project being stalled earlier. Although I don't have a real PS2 to test against, many of the scalar values I listed appear to be stored verbatim in the virtual memory card files.

As for bugs I've found in the current beta release, so far all of them seem to involve text bugs. One of which is where the game seems to list Shelly as "Sherry" occasionally. The other are apparent bugs in the enemy names. When I was trying to figure out how enemy stats worked, I wrote a parser that seems to have caught all of them, the output of that is here:

https://github.com/1Dragoon/psgen2_hax/ ... enemies.md

The actual code to generate that can be found in the same repository. Anyways, notice some enemy names are completely blank, and some have broken text. The ones with broken text mostly render as the \x12. I had to guess how the character encoding worked as it didn't appear to be compatible with any shiftjis documentation I could find, and my converter could be wrong, but it is so far consistent with the in-game behavior I've observed.