Ys/Trivia

• Cut Song: Quite a few songs in the first game were unused, including the "Theme of Adol". Future ports and remakes use most of them.
• Fan Translation: The Dawn of Ys and Mask of The Sun. Also, the English version of Oath in Felghana actually began life as this. XSEED licensed the PC fan translation after it was completed and used most of it for the PSP release in the United States, and then went back and compiled their own version of The Oath in Felghana PC. The fantrans for Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand got stuck in Development Hell for a very long while due to difficulties cracking the game's code, but was ultimately completed and released, with Aeon Genesis timing the release to roughly coincide with the official English release of Memories of Celceta. Furthermore, in the case of The Dawn of Ys, a later independent patch added English voice acting to the Turbo-Grafx 16 release provided by fans.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Michael Bell (Duke) and Alan Oppenheimer (Skeletor) voice Dark Fact and Darm, respectively, in the dub of Ys I & II.
  • Cless with red hair.
  • Feena is a boy detective and is also part of Two-Mix. Reah is an Puru.
  • In XSEED's English dub of The Oath in Felghana, Dogi the Wallcrusher is Ragna the Bloodedge, and Father Jean-Pierre is Edward Elric.
• No Export for You: Actually rather complicated: some console ports of early Ys games actually did come out in the States, with the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 versions of the first three games getting a fair amount of promotion. The problem was that Ys I & II came out years after their original release... and instead of going up against the mid-late eighties competition the series had in Japan, it went up against offerings on the SNES and Genesis. And then of course, this was all followed up by the original Wanderers From Ys. The games got killed in the US market as a result, and so the series was considered unexportable. Nobody tried again until Konami translated its PlayStation 2 and PSP ports of The Ark of Naphistim and only recently has XSEED Games really committed to bringing over the bulk of recent releases. To date, no version of of Ys IV (both Mask of the Sun and The Dawn of Ys) or Ys V has been officially announced for release in English, and The Oath in Felghana wasn't officially released in English until XSEED Games localized the PSP port. However, in spring 2012, XSEED Games found Steam to be an easy way to bring over the Windows games, which fans thought nobody would pick up, with the original version of The Oath in Felghana being on Steam at this time, and finally fans will be able to play Origin as XSEED Games has announced that it is scheduled for release within months of The Oath in Felghana. This means that if a company (which would likely be XSEED due to its fondness of Nihon Falcom) translates Celceta, the Sea of Trees, which will no doubt be the definitive version of Ys IV due to it not being outsourced like older versions, people outside of Japan would be left with just one tiny gap in the form of Ys V.
• Port Overdosed: The original Ys is the most widely-ported JRPG ever made, having been continually available on virtually every Japanese platform from the last 25 years.
• What Could Have Been: Falcom originally had plans for Mask of the Sun to receive a Sega-CD port. Considering the excellent hardware that in many ways was superior to the Turbo-Grafx 16, a Ys title would have been right at home in the console's lineup, definitely would have helped its library and may even have given Anglophone fans a shot at getting a version of Ys IV in the 90's.
• The Wiki Rule: The Ys Wiki.