Tales of Phantasia - complete English translation for Christmas!!

[frodo32]

For all RPG fans Christmas day is looking very special this year with the impending release of a fan-made 100% English translation of Tales of Phantasia patch coming this way......great on SNES even better on PSX!

details see here: http://zettaizero.wordpress.com/posts/

and yes according to the comments this will be playable on PSP pops :)

[mrgone]

this is a great xmas present...

i can just say : Ho, Ho, Ho !

[Blackpanda]

first i was thinking why patch when a english version exist but when i check gamefaqs, there wasn't a english version :O great news. Are the text similiar to the snes version translated patch? where Arche talks dirty at the ship when she was drunk

[Xenogears V]

Thanks for the news!.:)

[Gumbyx84]

My girlfriend is going to extatic when I tell her about this tonight. Now we just need to get a copy of it to patch so I can play it on my PSP and her on her PSX.

..... Wait, is it possible to play it on a PSX without it being modded?

[Ryupower]

My girlfriend is going to extatic when I tell her about this tonight. Now we just need to get a copy of it to patch so I can play it on my PSP and her on her PSX.

..... Wait, is it possible to play it on a PSX without it being modded?

you need away to play CD-R games on your psx

you need a mod-chiped psx
or
you need a plug mod(GAME ENHANCER)
or
you can try the swap trick(you need a way to hold down the thing the tell the system the top is open, use a spring)

look here:http://faqs.ign.com/articles/390/390263p1.html

or just play it on the PSP(pops) or PC(EPSXE)

[Gumbyx84]

you need away to play CD-R games on your psx

you need a mod-chiped psx
or
you need a plug mod(GAME ENHANCER)
or
you can try the swap trick(you need a way to hold down the thing the tell the system the top is open, use a spring)

look here:http://faqs.ign.com/articles/390/390263p1.html

or just play it on the PSP(pops) or PC(EPSXE)

Thanks for the heads up. I have have a PSP, so I will be playing it with POPs, but she only has a PSX and PS2. She has a Mac and I am not sure of any PSX emulators for Mac.

[battosai121]

I'm going to wait for Phantasian Productions version of Tales of Phantasia.
They have put in a lot of effort in their version of the patch, while Zettazero version is just a quick and dirty translation, the Phantasian Production translation is going to be a full blown localization... I'll wait...

[Veskgar]

Or we could wait for this which should be given an English language release in the not too distant future.

http://psp.ign.com/objects/836/836387.html

But this is definitely good news for Tales of Phantasia and PSP fanatics.

[battosai121]

Or we could wait for this which should be given an English language release in the not too distant future.

http://psp.ign.com/objects/836/836387.html

But this is definitely good news for Tales of Phantasia and PSP fanatics.

what the heck are you smoking, we are not getting the psp translation, nintendo owns the rights to tales of phantasia english, and the full voice edition is on the psp... not going to happen, also if you noitce the page you linked us to is from last year...

[baramos]

The Patch is out now
http://www.crosser.altervista.org/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=11

[irulethegalaxy]

The Patch is out now
http://www.crosser.altervista.org/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=11

And it works beautifully. Neato :) We're not stuck with the GBA version anymore!

[frodo32]

battosai121's concerns above appear misplaced, this is no 'quick & dirty' translation, just rivalry between translation teams.

This is truly excellent (so far), so good to play this again!

[firaX]

readme states it crashes on psp at some points...

[battosai121]

battosai121's concerns above appear misplaced, this is no 'quick & dirty' translation, just rivalry between translation teams.

This is truly excellent (so far), so good to play this again!

yes, and I shall take it back, it seems to be a decent translation, still I will probably play through the game with the other translation when it comes out...

[Ryupower]

Q: Is this patch 100% compatible with real hardware and PC/PSP emulators?
A: It works totally fine on real hardware, but it has some problems on emulators. ePSXe tends to
cut some XA audio samples (i.e. some Skits won't play at all), but pSX works totally fine, and
probably PCSX, too. As for the PSP emulator (POPS), it works fine most of the times, but testers
experienced some totally random freezes, like when casting one of Arche's spells or when leaving
Undine's cave, not to mention slowdowns when casting Ice Tornado, so save as much as you can.
Also, the game is reported to crash on version 3.52 and 3.70 when entering two treasure rooms in
Dhaos' Castle, right after you beat the four Ninjas guarding the Derris Emblems. However, the
game can be cleared even without entering those rooms.

so it may work on 3.71+

[firaX]

with 3.70 they prob mean 3.71, as the 3.70 pops is the same and in factwas never released as popsloader/custom firmware.
Only chance is either older pops or 3.72.
Note, tales of destiny crashes under similar circumstances, might be the same engine. If anything is fixed it would be 3.72. I dont feel like trying just to be stuck in the game in the end..

[Siio]

I tried running this game on 3.72 from the start. I got my first lock-up no less then five minutes into the game. Then my next five minutes later. Seems to only lock up when changing areas. I do have fast loading on so that "might" be the issue. Next time I play I'll turn fast loading off and see if that does anything. If it does I'll come back here and make another post.

[NinjaMic]

I'm playing it in 3.71 and have had no problems yet.

[zohar]

I tried running this game on 3.72 from the start. I got my first lock-up no less then five minutes into the game. Then my next five minutes later. Seems to only lock up when changing areas. I do have fast loading on so that "might" be the issue. Next time I play I'll turn fast loading off and see if that does anything. If it does I'll come back here and make another post.

I've been running the game on 3.72 all the way, and I've had no crashes (using normal disc speed). I just defeated Demeter in the island near Venezia. (about 4-5 hours in)

[battosai121]

I was playing in 3.71 pops but when ever I tried to sleep in a bed the bloody thing would crash, so I backed it down to 3.40 pops and it seems to work just fine there.

[Blackpanda]

i've played over 11hours and had no problem getting to midgar, the the only problem i had was when i battle and won, the whole screen turned black when it went back to world screen.

The pop loader i used was 3.71 i think, no lag from any spells during battle. :)
also sleep mode fine for me

[No Name Trowa B]

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5700/icon0iz6.png

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8872/pic1qf5.png

here is a bg and icon.... i made just because well... the one in the patch zip was not that well made.

[TrigunZero]

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5700/icon0iz6.png

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8872/pic1qf5.png

here is a bg and icon.... i made just because well... the one in the patch zip was not that well made.
luckily for you , your's aren't hardly any better than the ones in the zip.


ps on a side note, the game works perfectly on 3.40 no bugs yet.

[Ryupower]

here the from the PSP version

ICON0.png
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Ryupower/ICON0.png
PIC1.png
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Ryupower/PIC1.png
PIC0.png
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Ryupower/PIC0.png

[TrigunZero]

here the from the PSP version

ICON0.png
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Ryupower/ICON0.png
PIC1.png
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Ryupower/PIC1.png
PIC0.png
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Ryupower/PIC0.png

good yet still not professional enough looking(even for a commercially released game).
heres a few i made,
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top3.pnghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top2.png
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top4.pnghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top5.png
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top6.pnghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top7.png
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top8.pnghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top12.png

[Blackpanda]

newbie made of the eboot sound ;__;
Song - Yume Wa Owaranai (looped)

[Jinx13378]

Great work TrigunZero and BlackPanda.

My brother is playing this game on 3.40 pops, no crashing whatsoever.

[darknight88]

If anyone wants to check my files out, feel free. They are my custom made Pics for the eboots!:D

http://www.box.net/p/silentmastermind65672

[akadewboy]

here the from the PSP version

ICON0.png
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Ryupower/ICON0.png
PIC1.png
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Ryupower/PIC1.png
PIC0.png
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Ryupower/PIC0.png

Personally I think these are the best.

[Gumbyx84]

good yet still not professional enough looking(even for a commercially released game).
heres a few i made,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top4.pnghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/cloudnick/icon/top5.png




Thanks so much for the icon and background. They really look great. Also, thank to the TC for posting info on this. I was able to get the game and apply the patch. My girlfriend was just playing it on my PSP w/ 3.72 POPs and it ran great. :) Now I got another great Tales game to play after I beat Tales of Eternia.

[Jinx13378]

My brother plays this game on 3.40, still no crashes so far, he's several hours deep into the game.

People report success with either 3.72 and 3.40 pops.



Just thought I'd sum it up, heh.

Happy New Year's Eve everyone!

[frodo32]

I've been playing on 3.40 (3.71 with popsloader) and all was fine till I got Arche and a heap of offensive spells for her. I'm 9 hours in and have had 2 lockups in the last 30 min with Arche casting spells in battle.

Hope this doesn't become a pattern :|

[Ryupower]

on 3.71 using pops 3.72

3 lock-up :(
2 times Arche casting a spell
1 time casting Gnome

at "zodiac tower"

FIY: save anywhere code(cwcheat) helps

i dont thing it is cheating using it
it is for quiting at any time
good for portable gaming

[Blackpanda]

lol same, i had 3~4 time frozed when arche trying to cast fire storm in Void cave. My solution is....disabled all arche spell :3

The game itself is has easy gaining money so there shouldn't be any money problem i guess. I never had any lock up with klarth

[K_19]

Is anyone else's game freezing when I'm trying to apply CWcheat codes for this game? Since its not in the default database I put it in myself, but it keeps locking up as soon as I activate the codes... is it the codes or the way I put it in?

[Blackpanda]

Must be the codes, i had this type of problem when i played star ocean 2nd story when i enable access all items.

[K_19]

Yeah, it's the codes I think, since the Save anywhere code actually did work... others make it lock up for me however. I wanted the no encounters code mainly, but oh well.

[firaX]

the crashes sound like the ones in Tales of destiny. both games must indeed run on the same engine, as they lock up on the same occasions (spellcasting mainly).

[Ryupower]

the crashes sound like the ones in Tales of destiny. both games must indeed run on the same engine, as they lock up on the same occasions (spellcasting mainly).

it run on an enhance Tales of Destiny Engine

had a few lock-ups on Mint casting spells
and

this may be a popstation bug
because in happen on other games(wild arms 2 multi-disc eboot)
I save and right before the MS light come on to update the save file on the MS the psp freezes up

so my save work but is didn't update
it like i quit without saving

[wossa]

Well, first of all I'm new to this forum, so hi people :)

And now to the main point. I've had several freezes and I'm around 30 hours into the game.
- First was leaving Undine's Cave.
- Casting Ray against Ishrant in the Aerial Battle.
- I'm now in Dhaos Castle, and here comes the real problem. 1 of each 5-6 times I try casting Ray or Thunder Blade with Arche the games freezes. Ok, no problem, level up a bit and try going through not casting any spells. BUT when some enemies cast spells the game also freezes :mad:

I've tried every POPS from 3.00 to 3.52. Do you know if updating to 3.80 and trying pops 3.71, 3.72 or 3.80 will be of any help?. Thanks guys.

[manias]

Well, first of all I'm new to this forum, so hi people :)

And now to the main point. I've had several freezes and I'm around 30 hours into the game.
- First was leaving Undine's Cave.
- Casting Ray against Ishrant in the Aerial Battle.
- I'm now in Dhaos Castle, and here comes the real problem. 1 of each 5-6 times I try casting Ray or Thunder Blade with Arche the games freezes. Ok, no problem, level up a bit and try going through not casting any spells. BUT when some enemies cast spells the game also freezes :mad:

I've tried every POPS from 3.00 to 3.52. Do you know if updating to 3.80 and trying pops 3.71, 3.72 or 3.80 will be of any help?. Thanks guys.

hm :/ annoying.. also try different game ID's might also help

[wossa]

hm :/ annoying.. also try different game ID's might also help

Yeah, I thought about that. But I'm 30 hours into the game, and changing the game ID would render my game save useless, am I right? And on the other hand trying to find a suitable game ID will be hard, but I'll try if I'm wrong about the save. Thanks

PS: Sorry about my Engrish, as English is not my first language ;)

[mrgone]

Yeah, I thought about that. But I'm 30 hours into the game, and changing the game ID would render my game save useless, am I right? And on the other hand trying to find a suitable game ID will be hard, but I'll try if I'm wrong about the save. Thanks

you could save it in-game using cwcheat, and load it later in the new game

[wossa]

Ok, thanks. I'll try that

[manias]

Yeah, I thought about that. But I'm 30 hours into the game, and changing the game ID would render my game save useless, am I right? And on the other hand trying to find a suitable game ID will be hard, but I'll try if I'm wrong about the save. Thanks

PS: Sorry about my Engrish, as English is not my first language ;)

what? no! use a different GAME ID not a different SAVE ID :P lol!
they are not the same thing.

[firaX]

You can also always just copy the memory card files into the folder of the new ID...its no problem, the files are all the same.

[wossa]

45 hours into the game with 3.10 pops, and after Dhaos castle the PSP din't freeze even with Arche casting spells non-stop. Just finished the Ice Cavern and the Fire Tower... I'll keep updating, but I think the game will be completable. Cheers :)

[frodo32]

Gee, I thought this sounded good....no more lockups with Arche's spells if I use 3.10....but after changing to 3.10 in popsloader sure enough Arche still caused a crash with her spell casting turned on (conserve magic or higher).

Still its manageable, just turn her casting to off a use her spells manually. I'm back to 3.40.

[Jinx13378]

Gee, I thought this sounded good....no more lockups with Arche's spells if I use 3.10....but after changing to 3.10 in popsloader sure enough Arche still caused a crash with her spell casting turned on (conserve magic or higher).

Still its manageable, just turn her casting to off a use her spells manually. I'm back to 3.40.

Try different ID's using 3.10/3.40/3.52-2/3.72+ pops for each.

These pops version seems to differ in compatibility (I know it from my own Chrono Cross ID search + lots of threads I've read in this section of the forum).

First, I'd suggest to try the most known ID's which fix a game or two like:

Biohazard 2 JP
Syphon Filter 3
Breath of Fire 4

Sorry, I am currently not so interested in this game to try, but I really encourage everyone to do so. It is not as tiresome as you think. Just change the ID with ZingaBurga's popstation and use CWCheat to transfer saves.

edit:

Post the results here ofcourse, others might co-operate. I'm sure there is an appropriate ID with specific instructions for the emu for every crashing game to fix.

[BootsMegamix]

Every other GameID I tried for this actually made it worse. Also, no other popsloader seemed to fix it. So we may be screwed for the time being.

[wossa]

Gee, I thought this sounded good....no more lockups with Arche's spells if I use 3.10....but after changing to 3.10 in popsloader sure enough Arche still caused a crash with her spell casting turned on (conserve magic or higher).

Still its manageable, just turn her casting to off a use her spells manually. I'm back to 3.40.

Sorry, maybe I should have been more specific. In normal combats I put Arche in "Don't use TP" mode. Then again, I use her spells manually almost in every combat. And in boss battles I put her in "Don't hold back mode" and I haven't had any problems since going back to 3.10.

SPOILER ALERT!!!
By the way, I'm at level 65 and I can't even scratch Odin... Any help guys?

[Jinx13378]

Every other GameID I tried for this actually made it worse. Also, no other popsloader seemed to fix it. So we may be screwed for the time being.

Please write out which ID's you tried on which Pops version.


That could spare a lot of someone's time in the future.

[Xenogears V]

I have update .mcr savefile for cwcheat for this fantascis game.

http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?p=842454#post842454
Post number 563

[baramos]

I'm not sure if its just me but around dhaos' castle I started getting crashes with Arche's spells, but after i changed the disc speed back to normal and started using the romanized translation the game never crashed again.

[Blackpanda]

crushes for me on dhaos final castle with god breath i think, always crushes even with or without setting speed

[manias]

crushes for me on dhaos final castle with god breath i think, always crushes even with or without setting speed

(note: it's crashes) what game ID?

[cyx]

graphics glitch if I use "wing" a lot.. I did try 3.80,3.72,3.40.. any other method I should try ?

[wossa]

Game completed!!!
-Pops 3.10.
-Total game time: 67h 05min.
-Coliseum completed.
-Moria completed.
-All minor sidequests completed (except for Cooking and some Titles).
-All skills.
-All spells.
-All summons.
-Odin defeated.
-95% of the Monster Encyclopedia.
-363/399 -> 90.9% of the Collector's Encyclopedia.

Just posting these stats so you guys see that the game is completable and the sidequests too. True that I only used Arche spells for the Moria gallery (22 levels and no freezing whatsoever) and the Bosses. One quick recommendation: NEVER use Teleport while Arche or an enemy is casting a spell, you will get (most of the time) some kind of high pitch sound and a nice freeze...

I enjoyed the SNES version, but the PSX one is truly fantastic. Kudos to the Absolute Zero guys for the great translation. Thanks guys!

[B2K24]

Game completed!!!
-Pops 3.10.
-Total game time: 67h 05min.
-Coliseum completed.
-Moria completed.
-All minor sidequests completed (except for Cooking and some Titles).
-All skills.
-All spells.
-All summons.
-Odin defeated.
-95% of the Monster Encyclopedia.
-363/399 -> 90.9% of the Collector's Encyclopedia.

Just posting these stats so you guys see that the game is completable and the sidequests too. True that I only used Arche spells for the Moria gallery (22 levels and no freezing whatsoever) and the Bosses. One quick recommendation: NEVER use Teleport while Arche or an enemy is casting a spell, you will get (most of the time) some kind of high pitch sound and a nice freeze...

I enjoyed the SNES version, but the PSX one is truly fantastic. Kudos to the Absolute Zero guys for the great translation. Thanks guys!

what game ID did you use?

[wossa]

The original from the game: SLPS 01770

[TrigunZero]

the game freezes randomly in battle on 3.40 pops.

[Lycanthroat]

I've played Tales of Phantasia on both 3.10 and 3.40 (POPs) and Cless, Klarthe and Arche all cause freezes. I've got as far as just before Treant's Forest before giving up due to constantly having to reload and do dungeons again. I don't mind putting Arche on Manual (makes the battles a bit slow just attacking though) but whenever Klarthe summons there's a small to medium chance that it will freeze the game. One of Cless' moves also freezes the game.

[mog386]

yo, wossa, which eboot creator did you use to create your eboot. cuz as we've found out with chrono cross and FFVIII, and various others, sometimes the eboot creator you use makes a difference.

[TrigunZero]

i've used psx2psp for every game i've played so far and it's always been fine.
i'm trying it on 3.52 pops now

[TrigunZero]

no problems at all on 3.52

[abaraxas]

i couldnt even get outside the first town using 3.73 3.73 and 3.53 it would just freeze wit that nice high pitched sound it like to make
using 3.10 tho it works so far
granted i havent done the first forest still but i guess it was a significant enough change in my freezing problem that id post it up here
btw im using a psp slim using and the last 3.7XM33 oh and using romanized instead of translated text

[TrigunZero]

i don't know, i finished the game a while ago. after a while the freezes just stopped

[abaraxas]

great remake isnt it?
i hope the new patch is released before i finish it and that save games aint affected lol
i always loved the snes trans version but it between changing to linux and windows back and forth i lost my saves :( right at volt cave :( oh well
at least now its a really good remake lol

[Lycanthroat]

no problems at all on 3.52

don't know, i finished the game a while ago. after a while the freezes just stopped

Could you be a bit clearer? I would love to play this game some more and if all I have to do is switch to 3.52 that would be brilliant.

[TrigunZero]

Could you be a bit clearer? I would love to play this game some more and if all I have to do is switch to 3.52 that would be brilliant.

well i switched every so often betweent 3.52 -3.90 pops. i think only certain spells trigger crashes or certain conditions. for a long time i had a hard time getting past the moria mine because of crashes and thats really just a random thing there. once i got past that the crashes became more and more less frequent and at the time i'm pretty sure i was using 3.52 pops or 3.90. that much i am certain of

[tkdbboy]

mine gets stuck on a black screen when they fire the magitech cannon. Does a movie play there or something?
btw im running 3.90 pops and had no ingame freezes before.

[Ammar]

mine gets stuck on a black screen when they fire the magitech cannon. Does a movie play there or something?
btw im running 3.90 pops and had no ingame freezes before.

I'm on 3.90 and I haven't experienced any crashes. In fact, I've almost finished the game entirely (got all the summons except luna) and haven't had a single problem.

[TrigunZero]

mine gets stuck on a black screen when they fire the magitech cannon. Does a movie play there or something?
btw im running 3.90 pops and had no ingame freezes before.

it's a bad rip, i had the same problem. re encode the game or find a different ISO