Sega has done it. On April 1st, 1998 Sega released Phantasy StarCollection, a disc for the Sega Saturn that contains the gamesPhantasy Star, Phantasy Star II, Phantasy Star III, and Phantasy Star EndOf The Millenium (PSIV in the United States.) The disc also containsartwork from the series and television commercials for the games.

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• Phantasy Star Collection (Sega Saturn) Developer: Sega: North America: Japan: PAL: Publisher: N/A: Sega: N/A: Year: N/A: 1998: N/A: The games contained in this title are: Phantasy Star (SMS) Phantasy Star II (Genesis) Phantasy Star III (Genesis) Phantasy Star IV (Genesis) FAQs and FAQ-Like Information. FAQ Name: Author: Version: Size: No FAQs.
• Phantasy Star Collection Ps2 The latter would explain why when one inserts a proper format US PS rom over the jap, it still starts, but locks up at the title screen. Cyber Warrior X. Click to expand.I'd really like to know what kind of research was done to form such a crazy idea.

It seems very unlikely now that the game, which was released only inJapan, will ever be translated for the American market. or any othermarket, for that matter. Click on any of the thumbnails below to viewthe larger image. You can find Gameshark codes here.

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Included in the box, which is shown above, is a thick manual covering allfours games, and the collection itself. Also included are three mapscovering Mota of PSII, a portion of Landen from PSIII, and Motavia fromPSIV. On the back of each map there are respective technique and itemcharts. These maps are exactly the same as the ones originally included inthe games. Finally there is the jewel case with the Saturn disc itself,labeled as part of the Sega Ages series. The entire packaging is enough tobring a tear to the eye of anyone who bought PSI a decade ago, for as youcan see above it abounds with class and style that befit its designationas a true classic.

Once you place the disc in your Saturn (assuming yours canplay Japanesediscs) you are greeted with the title screen shown above. A brief but majestic and ethereal version of the first few seconds of the PSIwilderness theme plays. After a short while, if you do not press Start,the systems displays some animations.

First, it pans across a huge version of thispic while 'Phantasy Star Dec. 1987' float across the screen. Next, itpans across a huge version of thispic and 'Phantasy Star II Mar. 1989' floats across. Next it pansacross a huge version of thispic and 'Phantasy Star III Apr. 1990' floats across. Finally, it pansacross a huge version of this pic(without all the text and screenshots) and 'Phantasy Star IVDec. 1993' floats across the screen. During all of this, one of thesuper-techno songs from PSIV plays.

After that the four Japanese PS television commercials will play. PressingStart takes you to a menu with the following choices, in English. As youselect each choice, a voice announces your selection in English.

Game Select
Art Gallery
Option

-----Selecting Option simply allows you to choose between stereo and monosound.

-----Selecting Art Gallery takes you to another selection screen thatallowsyou to choose between Movies and Illustrations. These choices are inJapanese text, but the voice-overs are still English. Selecting Moviestakes you to a screen with the four PS titles displayed. Selecting any ofthe titles plays the appropriate commercial.

Selecting Illustrations takes you to another screen with the four titles,but this screen has a background image of Nei, Myau, Mieu, Rika, and aChirper. A version of this pic with added background elements(clutter) can be seenhere. On this screen, a light andairy high-tonal version of the PSI town song (the song I most associatewith PSI when I think about the game.)

Choosing PSI leads you to a navigable set of ten images, one per screen.Most of the images are available at this site. An up-tempo pseudo-rockversion of the PSI dungeon theme plays (the creepy and intense one.)

/arabic-font-for-microsoft-word-mac.html. Choosing PSII leads you to a navigable set of 15 images, one per screen.About ten of these are available here.

Choosing PSIII leads you to a navigable set of 23 images, one per screen.Fifteen of these are available here. I believe that the music is that ofwhen you are flying Wren around in PSIII, but I am not sure (shows howmuch I've played it!)

Choosing PSIV leads you to a navigable set of 167 images, one per screen.Many of these images are available here, many are not. I cannot place themusic here, though it is definitely from PSIV (obviously.)

Of these 215 images, almost all of them are in the PS Compendium book.However, some are not in the book or at this site. andmost of those are incredible . I'll look into someway gettingsnaps of them.

-----Selecting Game Select leads you to a screen that displays the coverimage to the PSI box, sans logos and text. You can move right orleft to bring up images of the other three box art images. A very soft andmellow tune plays in the background. it's sounds like most of the PSIIItitle theme, but I may be wrong.

Each of the games is in Japanese, though some of the title elements andcredits are in English. You wouldn't be able to play these unless you knewJapanese, or were so familiar with the games that you knew each of themenus by heart. The video quality is sharper than anything you'd get outof a Master System or Genesis, assuming you have an RCA, S-Video, or RGBsetup for your Saturn. If you have a Saturn and use an RF-modulation unit(coaxial cable) then I expect that the video quality would be comparableto a Master System or Genesis. Sound quality is better only due to abetter connection (RCA vs. RF mod coax.)

When you start each game, the traditional respective boot-up sequences ofthe machines (Sega Mark III and Genesis) come on. At any time during thegames you can exit back to the PS Collection title screen by pressingA+B+C+Start.

The system checks your available RAM when starting each game, and providesyou with a message if you do not have enough. Amounts suggested for thegames are: 129 blocks for PSI, III, and IV, and 65 blocks for PSII. Idon't know if these are minimum requirements or optimum requirements. Ibelieve that you would need that amount for each saved game, so itcan really add up.

Selecting PSI allows you to choose between hiragana or katakana font forthe game. It runs in a window (!) that doesn't quitefill the whole screen. Once the game starts, it is for all intents andpurposes identical to PSI. I did notice, however, that the sound has lower tones than my American SMS version. I don't know if that is due toan intentional change, of if the original Japanese version sounded thesame. Makuchan, a PS fan from Japan, told me that it is the FM soundversion (not available in America) and not the PSG sound version (both FMand PSG were available in Japan, I believe.) There is no option to switchto PSG sound. Also, it seems as though the colors are more subdued thanboth the SMS and ROM-emulated PC versions.

Selecting PSII allows you to choose between normal walking speed and avery fast walking speed (which appears to be at least as fast as, if notfaster than, PSIV's walking speed.) The speed of other features, includingthe battles, is unaffected. PSII runs full screen, and the music andcolors seems exactly the same as I remember them from the Genesis.

Selecting PSIII allows you to choose between normal walking speed and avery fast walking speed (which again is at least as fast as PSIV's walkingspeed.) What's funny here is that since PSIII had the most realisticwalking animations of any of the games, the characters actually seem likethey're power-walking! Colors and sound are as I remember them. Onenice feature is that there are now four saved game slots instead oftwo.

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Selecting PSIV takes you straight to the game, without any options.Everything seems identical to the Genesis version.

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Overall this is a wonderful item for PS fans seeking the ease of use ofhaving all four games in one place, as well as more save positions forPSIII-- if you can handle the Japanese text. It also makes the inevitablebattery loss of the originals irrelevant. The four commercials and 200+pics are a nice touch as well. though I really wished they had addedsome FMV intros to the games.

As it stands, unless you are a die-hard Japanese game player, this packageonly serves as a product of nostalgia. Vst synth plugins free download. exquisite nostalgia, butnostalgia nonetheless. If this was a final endnote to the PS series I'dsay that they could have put a grander effort into it. but since itseems that this disc is a bridge to a relaunch of the series on the nextSega console, I'm very pleased with the final product. I tend to think ofit as a fond recognition of the triumphs of the past, just as a brightfuture begins to loom ahead.