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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/115325837137483460">Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 16:15:22 JST</a><a href="https://urusai.social/@nazokiyoubinbou" title="nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/269147-48-20240723213930.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Nazo" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Nazo</a></section><article><p>I was just inspired to dig through some PS2 stuff as I started rebuilding a new drive for my old PS2.  Did you <a href="https://urusai.social/tags/retrogaming" rel="tag">#retrogaming</a> fans know that there is a Phantasy Star 1 remake on the PS2 known as "Sega Ages Phantasy Star Generation 1"?  It seems to have gotten... quite a lot more enhancement than the recent remake released on modern consoles.  As in they put quite a lot of work into it.</p><p>Why on earth wasn't this reused when they did the recent remakes?  If they worried people wouldn't like the enhancements they could have made it a toggle or something.  I mean...  the work was already done, why throw it away?</p><p>It looks like the second game got a similar treatment I think.</p><p>It seems there are fan translations for these two entries as well.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5728094#notice-11240107">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-10-06T16:15:22+09:00" title="Monday, 06-Oct-2025 16:15:22 JST">about 6 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://urusai.social/@nazokiyoubinbou/115325837137483460" rel="external" title="Sent from urusai.social via ActivityPub">urusai.social</a></span></span><a href="https://urusai.social/@nazokiyoubinbou/115325837137483460">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.think.it</div><h5><a href="https://www.think.it/">Think</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Think il nuovo brand globale su tecnologia, investimenti, lifestyle e impatto sociale.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5302633">The opening cutscene as Alis speaks to her dying brother.  The scene is drawn in a high quality anime style.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.urusai.social/media_attachments/files/115/325/801/932/396/548/original/061e37ffef261379.png" rel="external">https://files.urusai.social/media_attachments/files/115/325/801/932/396/548/original/061e37ffef261379.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5302634">The starter city.  It's rendered larger with orders of magnitude more detail to the buildings and hints of 3D effects.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.urusai.social/media_attachments/files/115/325/816/225/494/583/original/5135170e2efce565.png" rel="external">https://files.urusai.social/media_attachments/files/115/325/816/225/494/583/original/5135170e2efce565.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5302635">One of the battle screens as Alis fights one of the bat-things (I forget their name) in the forest.  Similar to the original it's sort of vaguely like a third person camera view behind the character, but again with orders of magnitude more detail to the monster and the character (and the background is a lot better too.)</a></label><br><a href="https://files.urusai.social/media_attachments/files/115/325/817/001/110/709/original/2bf4c60a16184a53.png" rel="external">https://files.urusai.social/media_attachments/files/115/325/817/001/110/709/original/2bf4c60a16184a53.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5302636">A dungeon made of stone.  Not particularly beautiful, but key here is it's rendered in actual 3D with a lot more detail and variance in the textures than the original SMS game.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.urusai.social/media_attachments/files/115/325/818/024/142/345/original/1d218f6efec4658a.png" rel="external">https://files.urusai.social/media_attachments/files/115/325/818/024/142/345/original/1d218f6efec4658a.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 16:15:22 JST Nazo
I was just inspired to dig through some PS2 stuff as I started rebuilding a new drive for my old PS2. Did you #retrogaming fans know that there is a Phantasy Star 1 remake on the PS2 known as "Sega Ages Phantasy Star Generation 1"? It seems to have gotten... quite a lot more enhancement than the recent remake released on modern consoles. As in they put quite a lot of work into it.
Why on earth wasn't this reused when they did the recent remakes? If they worried people wouldn't like the enhancements they could have made it a toggle or something. I mean... the work was already done, why throw it away?
It looks like the second game got a similar treatment I think.
It seems there are fan translations for these two entries as well.
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