Final Fantasy II (English)

About this project

The most widely used NES translation patch of Final Fantasy II is the NeoDemiforce patch, which while great for its time, is filled with jokes and translation errors, with even some completely made-up lines thrown in.

The aim of this project is to provide an English version of the NES Final Fantasy II with a much more accurate English script in addition to using official Square Enix names and terminology for the characters, items, etc.

The Demiforce script has been thrown out entirely, and replaced with a fresh new English script heavily influenced by the official GBA translation, but the content of the script remains identical to the original Famicom version, and certain lines that were changed between the Japanese Famicom and Japanese GBA versions were retranslated from scratch.

Please apply the patch to a clean Japanese Final Fantasy II ROM. For all questions concerning this hack and its maintenance, please PM Red Mage Joe rather than Chaos Rush, who has moved on from this project.

Staff Note: According to ChaosRush's readme, he used Demiforce's hack as base. So this is clearly an Addendum patch for Demiforce's hack.

Creator credits

Chaos Rush

Hacking
Hacking and Translation

FlamePurge

Script Editing/Revision
Formating and item name suggestion

Demi

Original Hacking
Used his translation hack as base

Rodimus Primal

Script Editing/Revision
Intro Text suggestions

SpiderDave

Hacking
B Button Dash

Red Mage Joe

Script Editing/Revision
Ongoing maintenance: Typos, cleanup, bug-fixing

Readme & instructions

2656readme.txt

Final Fantasy II Retranslation v2.2 (AKA Final Fantasy II: Refurbished) by Chaos Rush APPLY PATCH TO A CLEAN, UN-PATCHED JAPANESE FINAL FANTASY II ROM. This is a retranslation of Final Fantasy II for the Famicom/NES. An entirely new script was written that was heavily inspired by the official GBA translation.

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Final Fantasy II Retranslation v2.2
(AKA Final Fantasy II: Refurbished)
by Chaos Rush

APPLY PATCH TO A CLEAN, UN-PATCHED JAPANESE FINAL FANTASY II ROM.

This is a retranslation of Final Fantasy II for the
Famicom/NES. An entirely new script was written
that was heavily inspired by the official GBA translation.
In the making of this new script, the original Japanese
script of the Famicom version of the game was also
looked at as well, to insure that the content represented
in the dialogue only contains what was in the original
and not the added stuff that was in the GBA version
(not that there's anything wrong with the added stuff,
but the aim of this project is to act purely as a
localization of the original game).

The terminology used in this version matches that
of the modern official releases of Final Fantasy II.

No gameplay alterations were made (aside from B-Button
running). This patch acts purely as a translation/localization
of Final Fantasy II for the NES.

Credits:
* Chaos Rush - that's me, the guy behind this project
* Square Enix - for making this game and remaking this game
* NeoDemiforce - for translating this game in 1998, of which
 I am using as a base
* whoever made TileMolester
* whoever made TileMolester Alternate
* Vanya - suggestions
* Rodimus Primal - suggestions
* vivify93 - suggestions
* SpiderDave - B-button dash
* Red Mage Joe - (v1.8 - v2.2) proofreading/clean-up, script compression, DTE improvement, bug fixes

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