Phantasy Star Extended?!

[MadBill]

It seems that 3 years ago or so Brazilian fans came up with this new take on the original PS1, is it good? Have any of you tried it?

http://www.gamingroom.net/games/rpg/pha ... -extended/

Free translation of the changes described there:

-Diagonal movement
-Optimized interface of menus and overall game experience
-Individual list of items
-Exclusive list of important quest items
-Game shows which enemies the player have found
-Possibility to change the party order
-Fly to any city already visited in the planet (Ryuka-ish)
-Battle shows all enemies on screen
-Battle with different monsters
-Most monsters appear only in one planet
-16 new monsters + 3 from PSIV
-Some monsters have fire resistance (e.g. red slime, red drake, giant fly…)
-Char with highest mental attribute will inflict more magic damage
-New level system
-Abion stores are initially closed
-Party gets info on traps after triggering them
-Opening of doors pressing just a button
-Boarding/unboarding vehicles pressing just a button
-When in a vehicle, most weak monsters will not be met (e.g. sworms, wing eyes)
-Some new weapons (more to be added in the 'Plus' version)
-Pistols cause more damage (Needle/Heat/Laser = 9/16/25 against 5/10/20).
-Odin/Tylon is much stronger than before
-Critical hits depend on the Strength attribute of the char;
-Character class concept (e.g., Alis is an adventurer, Odin is a fighter);
-Dungeons with alternate colors;
-Multi-language support (English, English (old translation), Portuguese, etc.);
-NPCs in town have new graphics (from PSIV)
-NPCs can be seen in the dezorian town of Aukba (twin city)
-Landrover now runs past lava rather than the Hovercraft
-Ice Digger slows down during drilling sections
-Screen and scenes adjusted to 320x240 vs 256×192 (original).
-'Search' was removed from the menu (action button is now used)
-New "secret" town with a new mission and new dungeon
-Arena Mode.
-"Play as Tylon" Mode

Judging by the screenshots it looks AWESOME! =D

[MadBill]

[Zucca]

Does it require much more than Java to run?

I'm asking because I only have Linux machines around here.

[MadBill]

I guess only Java is required.

[MadBill]

Instructions:

"Attention:
It is a java-based game and will run in any OS with Java installed. That is, you need to install the Java Runtime Envinronment (JRE).
After downloading the file named Phantasy.jar, the only one required to play, click twice on that .jar file or run the following command: C:\java -jar Phantasy.jar.
If the download in the Github repository is 0Kb, download the project (.zip) going back a few levels in the repository."

[MadBill]

Only bug i found so far is the town music that fades out and simply does not come back lol

I found some more screenshots and apparently...HAPSBY is the party 5th member! =O

EDIT: Camineet dungeon to the northeast corner has no music.