Phantasy Star Generation:1 English Translation

Phantasy Star Generation:1 is a remake of the game Phantasy Star, originally released for the Sega Master System in 1988, for the Sony PlayStation 2. It was developed by 3D AGES, a joint venture between Sega and D3 Publisher, as the first title of the Sega Ages 2500 series of games.

To learn more about the game, visit the dedicated Phantasy Star Generation:1 game section. This section includes everything from a walkthrough to manual scans.

Disclaimer

Phantasy Star Cave was launched in the late 90s and has since become the largest website celebrating and promoting this classic RPG series by Sega. PS Cave does not run ad revenue or any type of monetization. All content on PS Cave is user contributed.

The Phantasy Star Generation:1 English raw CD-ROM and patch is not released to replace the original game. You are encouraged to purchase the Japanese version prior to downloading the file(s). You can also support Sega by buying other Phantasy Star games and licensed merchandise.

Translation Credits

Programming & Assembly:

Tryphon
OrakioRob
RodolfoRG (First documentation/decompression tools used)
Ignitz (First documentation/decompression tools used)
CUE (Decompression tools, unpacking tools
mziab

Translation:

Kyence
Tryphon (Graphic edits)
FlamePurge (Formerly vivify93/SandyLandale)
Nobunaga
Kini
mziab

Special Thanks:

Missagh Alami
BenoitRen
Wolfgang Landgraf
bokokun
Hiei- (aka. Blaw-)
Sega
...and everyone who encouraged Kyence and FlamePurge to complete the translation!

The game credits are available.

For any questions, concerns, or bug reports, please contact FlamePurge

by using their website's bug report form
by DM at ROMhacking.net's forum
on the PS Cave Discord server

In the future, FlamePurge intends to make a series of tutorials on how to use Algoring. If you would like to translate Phantasy Star Generation:1 to your language, please wait until then.

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Translation Effort

The magnitude of what Kyence has accomplished for the Phantasy Star fandom cannot be overstated. However, Phantasy Star Generation:1 was her first project, and after comparing the Japanese script against FlamePurge's 2015 expansion of Kyence's script, it was determined that the best course of action was to retranslate the game from the ground up, with no detail spared.

v1.00 offered two variants of the patch: one that names your fourth party member Lutz, and another that names him Noah. As v3.00+ aims for accuracy, there are no patches for alternate names.

Please read “LINER.TXT” for further translation details.

Included is an addendum patch to double experience earned, which should significantly reduce the grind.

Download patches

If you are interested in manually applying a patch to the original Japanese ISO, you can download an xdelta patch:

If you wish to also have double EXP on version 3.00, please apply “PSGEN1_T-Eng_v300_2x-EXP.xdelta” atop your BIN after patching it with "PSGEN1_T-Eng_v300.xdelta".

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