This is v1.0 of the Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys English Dub Patch. This patch will dub over everything into English. It requires that you apply it to an ISO/WAV/CUE archive of Ys IV; one that's preferably patched with NightWolve's text translation.
Place
your ISO/WAV/CUE archive, that you should of ripped from
TurboRip, (Included with this path) and place the files in the root
of the “Patch” folder.
Start the “Patcher.cmd”
to start patching the game. If all goes well you should be greeted
with a nice "The patching process is complete!" message.
A
backup of the original Japanese tracks will be placed in a new folder
called “backup”.
If you only have access to a
BIN/CUE rip of Ys IV then please mount it to a virtual drive
and rip it to ISO/WAV/CUE using the included TurboRip.
~Note
for users with {HCD3051-5-1116-R1P} rips~
There
are two different versions of YsIV, version {HCD3051-4-1108-R1F} and
{HCD3051-5-1116-R1P}. Both versions are essentially identical;
however there are a few extra sectors in some of the audio tracks in
version {HCD3051-5-1116-R1P}. This dub was built
around {HCD3051-4-1108-R1F} since that is the version I
own. When patching the opposite version the TOC will be messed
up after patching. This shouldn’t affect the game when being
emulated, but it will no longer be recognized as Ys IV. To fix this use the
included TocFixer to fix the games TOC.
Here are the credits for the actors that helped make this patch a reality,
~MALE~
Darm
- Alan
Oppenheimer
Eldeel
-
Michael
Hillard
Lefance
- Thomas Liebert (SkyeWelse).
Garuda
- Lawrence
"MasakoX" Simpson
Grandfather
Jeff
- Michael
Hillard
Leo
- Jess
Ragan
Duren
-
SonicShadows
Arem
- DanteWahou
Goban
Tovah
- DanteWahou
Gadis
- Jess
Ragan
Lemnos
-
Jess
Ragan
Ramess
- TetsuyaHikari
(Chris Hyde)
Slano
-
SonicShadows
Schultz
-
SonicShadows
Talim
- Duo_R
Rady
-
TetsuyaHikari
(Chris Hyde)
Miyu
-
SonicShadows
Enzo
- Nitro
Keith
Fact -
Nitro
Dr.
Flair -
ParanoiaDragon
Narrator
- ParanoiaDragon
Dogi
-
Chris
Adams
Soldier
B -
Collin
Pierce (Arjak)
Soldier A and Guy in Bar – Peter G. (LentFilms)
~FEMALE~
Lillia
- Bassplayerbabe
Leeza
-
Mizura
Karna
-
Mizura
Bami
-
deadlyrose7717
Tim
-
Dashe
Troxon
Lair
-
Haushinka
Feena
- Dawn
"Usamimi" Huestis
Torie
-
Dawn
"Usamimi" Huestis
Aria
- Dashe
Troxon
Mother
-
Dawn
"Usamimi" Huestis
Listed here are those that worked on the patch's more technical aspects/everything else that isn't acting.
Director -
Michael G. (Burnt Lasagna)
(The guy writing this readme) I
directed this dub project from start to finish and did all the voice
directing/syncing/mixing/ect.
Programming/Tech Support
- Nicolas Livaditis (NightWolve)
Made the text patch back
in 2004 and found all the ADPCM addresses as well as make a new audio
dumper/inserter for the project using SOX. Also helped by answering
any technical question I had along the way.
In-Game
Textual Translation - Shimarisu
Speech
Translator - Deuce
Special Thanks
Section
Justus Johnston - for not
only helping Chris Adams with recording his lines for Dogi, but also
for his attempt at directing this project back in 2004. Some of the
Characters dubbed from his attempt, such as Dr. Flair, remain in this
finished dub.
Charles MacDonald - for technical
info on SOX/ADPCM related issues, helping NightWolve to determine the
proper sample rate. NightWolve discovered the SOX (Sound Exchange)
software thanks to him and his documentation work on NEC
hardware.
David Shadoff - for being the creator
of the original ADPCM codec used for this project and for writing the
Ys IV compression code and font hack for 8x12 lowercase support in
the original text patch.
Andrew (cubanraul) He
wrote the patcher for my previous Rondo of Blood translation project,
which this project uses a modified version of.
Personal notes from team members are listed here about their
history/experience in the project.
~Non-Actors~
Director
-
Michael
G. (Burnt Lasagna)
This project for me, if nothing else, is a synonym for the word, inevitable.
I had been interested in doing a dub for Ys IV since around the beginning of 2010. At that point I had never once played a Ys game before and I only had vague ideas on what the series was exactly. None the less I did know about NightWolve’s fan translation for the fourth game and how it was incomplete in the sense that it didn’t have an English dub.
The way in which I got interested in doing this project was during a conversation with my brother about the newly localized PS2 game, Sakura Wars: So Long My Love. I started talking about how the English dub in that game was so extremely over the top that you couldn’t help but enjoy the acting. I jokingly said something like “That Ys IV game should be dubbed over with this spirit of voice acting!” With those words bouncing around in my head I become extremely interested in dubbing Ys IV myself, regardless of the fact that I had never played it.
Later that year I bought a copy of Ys IV off of EBay for about $12 with the intention of figuring out how such a dubbing project would be maneuvered…Oh, and to play the game too. I ended up finding NightWolve’s old ADPCM batch dumper on his website, which included all the addresses to the individual ADPCM clips. After reiterating all the addresses into a new batch to work as an inserter for Dave Shadoff’s PC-Engine ADPCM Codec tool, I was able to insert my own recorded dialogue into the game!(even though I ended up scrapping this tool later down the road)
Sadly after that I didn’t do much else. I guess I eventually took into account the amount of effort this project would entail and then just shied away from it. I did however end up finishing the game while reading along with Deuce's script for the spoken dialogue.
Later in 2011 my brother started talking with me about how he wanted to start running a dubbing project for Ys IV. However he didn’t do much other than just that, talk about it. Months later the idea for this project had become sort of an untouchable goal that I would be cursed to hear about forever!
It became inevitable. This project needed to be finished, by me, or I would never hear the end of it!
After talking with NightWolve a bit about restarting the project I began auditions on May 02, 2012. Now here we are five months later and the project is done and released!
I’m really happy with the way this project turned out and I would like to personally thank all the actors’ involved, along with Nicolas Livaditis (NightWolve). Without them I would never have been able to bring this elusive project to the surface, so give a big round of applause too them!
Now please, apply this patch to an ISO of the game, sit back and enjoy. Let me say that again, sit back and enjoy. I can't quite emphasize that little note enough! One of the best things about the Ys series is that it serves that note in just about everything that it does. In other words, sit back, take your Zero Punctuation review cap off and enjoy the game in all its English glory!
You won’t be disappointed!
~ADPCM
Note~
Getting audio
that was not intended to play inside a TG-CD when it was originally
recorded is problematic, to say the least. All ADPCM that is played
inside the TG-CD plays at around 6 decibels and usually has a very
precise cutoff frequency. If the newly inserted clip doesn’t
meet these criteria it will start clipping like crazy when played in
the actual game. I did not fully understand this when I
originally started this project, which caused quite a bit of problems
later down the road.
I would imagine TG-CD developers back in the day had a method for assuring that their recordings where being sampled in the correct format as they were voicing them; Such as recording everything under specific hardware/software that was set to sample the recordings in the prerequisite format while the clips were being voiced, so that minimal alterations to the audio where needed after initial recordings. Unfortunately this project was incapable of having that luxury since all the actors where scattered across the country, all using their own hardware for recording their lines. I also wasn’t fully aware of the TG-CD‘s ADPCM limitations at that time, so I couldn’t give specific instructions.
After much trial and error I finally got a vague understanding of how each clip needed to be formatted before inserted into the game. At first I thought I only needed to envelope each clip to 6 decibels, which was what I did in my first draft, however after testing that draft in the game I found out that the theory wasn’t necessarily true for most clips. Each clip does need to be around 6 decibels, but it also can’t have a low cutoff frequency. In order to fix this I applied a high pass filter of 6 decibels to each clip that was having issues with clipping in the game. Now this makes the clip sound a bit more grainer but I had to use it or they would never work in the game.
After
much repeated clean ups of the ADPCM and two complete playthroughs of
the game I was finally able to get all the clips sounding good and
not clipping!
Now my
method for doing this may not be the most efficient way to do it but
everything works and that’s what matters.
-Mike
Well, ladies and gentlemen, 8+ years and 2 failed attempts later, this dubbing project has FINALLY been completed!!! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Heh-heh! Third time's a charm anyone?? It's hard to believe that it finally happened, it really is... I'm glad that I was around to see this day come! Now for a little “retrospective,” if you will... I guess the main reason – and Arjak kind of alludes to it – why I never sought to organize this aspect of the Ys IV translation project myself is because I felt that since I had done all the other work in organizing the textual translation and making that happen (with my team), some OTHER Ys fan should've stepped up to the plate and helped me complete the rest of the project in a more managerial role when it came to this!! But, good help is very hard to find as I've often said... ;)
The first man to attempt this project with me was Justus Johnson in 2004 (who did an awesome job with the Darm Opening dub which we kept!), BUT as amazingly qualified as he was given his sound engineering background, he eventually quit... Years went by, the idea fell by the way side ever since and I simply waited around with a perpetual open call for anyone else to step up and pick up where he had left off. It might've helped if I had known about sites like voiceactingalliance.com back then, but by the time I learned about it, the interest to finally see this completed was far off in the distance due to frustration and being busy/distracted with other things, naturally... Things change, people change... and I felt if Ys fans didn't care to get this done, I shouldn't, in principle, care myself, etc.
The 2nd attempt was by “GeeMac32bit” in 2009, an Aussie from way down under, that was found over at Voice Acting Alliance trying to organize a dubbing project, but NOT to actually insert it into the game, no no, his was an effort for online presentation via YouTube videos which is how I ran into him (on YouTube)... He didn't have the technical expertise, nor was he apparently aware of me and the 1st failed dubbing attempt with Justus, so I wound up actually contacting him so we could work together on a REAL project that somebody would actually care about! ;) I cautiously posted about the good news on my site, but for my troubles, the very next day, I was “rewarded” by an Ys “F.A.N.” that popped up over at HG101, a ~removed at request~, some hack who works at a UK Gaming Mag (GamesTM), who made a blog post claiming that I was trying to make all of my Ys patches disappear and that I was actually trying to stop, NOT help, GeeMac32bit! That was his “donation” to me for my announcement, the proud member of the “99%” that he is... Heh. All I can say is, be afraid, be very afraid, that someone like this has a job at a gaming magazine doing “reporting” of any kind...
Nonetheless, I didn't have to “try” to “stop” GeeMac32bit according to ~removed at request~/HG101's later retracted/deleted claims... After I had set him up with some basic software, instructions and having talked about how to make it all happen, he later canceled the project himself... He cited “problems” and said that he was having his home Internet service terminated... His last words to me on Jan. 2010 were, “If you want to take the reins then go for it. I wish you the best of luck and hope you succeed.” I asked him to send me whatever work he had finished, he said he would, but I never got anything before he was cut off I guess... Thus, yet another FAILURE! A complete waste of my time it turned out. Figures...
Later that year in Oct., Arjak, also feeling frustrated after GeeMac's abandonment, contacted me and asked what he could do to help... Well, I told him, how about if I completely hand off all the software/tools/knowledge to you some time when I could? I myself didn't have a home Internet connection for more than a year and a half (I used the library for general email-checking in that time), and it was low priority at this point, but I DID wanna just fully hand off the project to someone else and see it completed once and for all with minimal involvement/management on my part! It was gonna take someone with fresh motivation, a youngblood, and well, someone lacking a highly negative opinion of Ys “F.A.N.s” to boot. Hehe!
Cue the drum roll... Enter Mike (Burnt Lasagna) who I first ran into on the MagicEngine forums on Jan. 2012 where another fella was claiming that he had a professional team of voice actors that had dubbed Ys IV in Spanish, but he just needed technical information for insertion. This interest led me to FINALLY make good on my promise to Arjak (a year later) and put together what I called the “Ys IV Dub Kit” and release it to the public! Mike had showed up in the same thread and expressed his interest to manage a dub project for Ys IV having just completed one for Dracula X, but was somewhat apprehensive given this individual's alleged project attempt... He didn't wanna go forward, organize a bunch of people, only to later find out someone beat him to the punch – naturally, few people wanna get caught in fan project competitions/disputes targeting the same game, it happens... Long story short, I believe we both concluded the guy was full of BS, so Mike went forward regardless and our successful partnership began from there! Over time, it turned out, I still had more technical research to do, ensuring that we got the exact sample rate used, understanding the clipping problems, and I even switched the ADPCM software to SOX from what David Shadoff had originally made for the project believing it to be superior. In the end, there was no obstacle that wasn't eventually overcome, and the rest is history! And/or victoly!!! ;)
Thus,
ladies and gentlemen, the 3rd
and
final attempt would be the successful one and it is with great
pleasure and pride that I can now finally say to you -- almost
8 years after the textual fan translation patch, and ~16
years after
having bought Ys
IV from TurboZoneDirect way back on December 6, 1996
--
Mission
Accomplished
as
far as realizing my dream to one day see this wonderful masterpiece
of a game FULLY translated (eh,
minus Japanese names in the Credits roll)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, but I gotta do it, I just gotta do it! This calls for the
“manly” Howard Dean yelp of all yelps: <Howard
Dean>
Well, thanks to most everyone that helped finally make this dream become a reality! And thank you for reading, now go play the game fully patched and enjoy, ya rotten freeloaders!! It's on us! Heh-heh! (*grrrrrumbles*)
-Nicolas L. (El NightWolve, the one and only! )
~Actors~
Lefance
- Thomas
Liebert (SkyeWelse).
Hello!
I did the voice-over for the Hero of Celceta, Lefance, and It was a
great experience working on the (finally!) finished project for the
dubbing of Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys. I still remember auditioning for a
few character roles for both the first and second times that this
project had been underway, and I was really starting to believe that
the dub may never be finished in it's entirety, which would have been
a shame.
I'm very happy to know that I was mistaken and I
would like to personally thank Burnt Lasagna, NightWolve, Deuce,
Justus, Paranoia Dragon and everyone who participated in seeing this
project through to the very end! Without such great planning and
dedication by the Ys and Voice Acting Alliance community, this would
still be the Ys IV Dub that would-have-been.
"All has
come to an end. The great power has been restored to its proper
place. Our ancient capital has vanished. With our mission
accomplished, so too will our spirits..."
-Thomas Liebert
(SkyeWelse)
Garuda
- Lawrence
"MasakoX" Simpson
It's
been an honour to be part of an iconic project to bring a classic
TurboGrafx-CD game to the English audience and finally give it the
recognition that it deserves. To voice a villain is a fresh
experience for me and certainly a fun and exciting opportunity. I
wish you a great time playing Ys IV!
Leo,
Gadis and Lemnos
- Jess
Ragan
It
was
exciting to be a part of the Ys IV fan dub. It's the first time
I've ever been involved in a project like this, and hopefully, it
won't be the last!
Ramess
and
Rady -
TetsuyaHikari
(Chris
Hyde)
As
someone who has been a fan of this franchise for many years, it was a
pleasure to be given an opportunity to work on this project. I hope
you enjoyed it!
Talim
- Duo_R
It
was
an awesome experience to be a part of this redub. I am normally on
the mod scene, it was awesome to breakout into something completely
different and contribute to the faithful Turbo community. My kids
heard me recording lines, and started repeating back some of it to
me. My older one (currently six) started making fun of some of the
lines and we had some good laughs. We will all enjoy this release,
thanks again for letting me be a part of this!
Enzo
and
Keith Fact
- Nitro
Ys
is truly an amazing series, and I am honored to be apart of an effort
to add an English dub to a Japanese-only release in the Ys series. My
roles may be small, but it doesn't matter to me. Just being apart of
an incredible cast of voice actors is enough to make me all the more
excited for this dub. I hope you, the player, enjoy our
performances.
Dr.
Flair and The Narrator
- ParanoiaDragon
....is
glad to finally see this project completed & is happy to have
been able to be a part of it.
Soldier
B -
Collin
Pierce (Arjak)
With
the Ys IV: Dawn of Ys voice dub complete, it almost feels like the
end of an era for me as an Ys fan. When I first started playing Ys a
few years back with an English translation of the MSX version of Ys
I, having no idea what I was doing, even to the point where I didn't
know how to use items and, therefore, getting stuck at the pillar
puzzle in Darm Tower, I didn't realize that it would be the beginning
of a love for this greatly under-appreciated series. I have since
played several of the Ys games, but there was always something that
bugged me. This one; Ys IV. The text had been translated for a while
now, and the first attempt at a dub (The Justus Johnson attempt)
wasn't finished "yet." I tried playing the SNES version of
Ys IV, Mask of the Sun, but several bugs with the patch that have yet
to be fixed really messed with my ability to appreciate it. So, I
tried out for the part of Tim for the Dawn of Ys dub (my voice hadn't
broken yet), and at that moment, Justus seemingly disappeared off the
face of the Earth. The dub quickly fell apart from there.
Years
passed. It seemed like nothing was going to happen, when all of a
sudden, another attempt to dub Ys IV began, this time by
GeeMac32BitMkII, I was ecstatic! We were finally going to get this
done! I tried out for the part of Duren, and actually got it, got
even more excited, and then, things fell apart AGAIN. It turned out
that GeeMac was originally attempting to only make YouTube videos;
the idea of putting the voices into the game itself hadn't crossed
his mind until NightWolve brought it up. Shortly thereafter, GeeMac
cancelled the project. AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
More years
passed. I was probably starting to lose hope of ever seeing this game
in full English. It got to the point where even NightWolve (Who, as
we all know from experience with his attempt to create an English
patch for Oath in Felghana, NEVER gets upset at anything or anybody.
:p Just messing, NightWolve! I know that you're a great guy
underneath!) was starting to get frustrated, I think, because he made
all the project materials available to anyone with the slightest
interest in finishing the damn thing. For a moment, I considered
finishing the project myself, but I chickened out because I had no
idea how to go about it.
Then, all of a sudden, Burnt Lasagna
came out of seemingly nowhere and revived the project. I couldn't
believe it; things were rolling again! BL was exactly the person we
needed, too. He got things going quickly, and was completely
dedicated all the way through. Even though I didn't get a big part in
this like I almost did in the past two attempts, the important thing
is that it's FINALLY done, and I am glad that I did get to
participate, even if it was just a little bit. The third try was
definitely the charm, here, and I feel like a long journey has
finally come to an end. Rejoice, Ys fans! The Dawn of Ys is now 100%
in English!
Tim
and Aria
- Dashe
Troxon
If
you're
reading this, you're probably playing the dub of Ys IV: The Dawn of
Ys. Thanks! It was a lot of fun playing Tim and Aria in
this dub patch. Tim was pretty much right in my comfort zone,
but with Aria, it was actually my first time voicing anybody over the
age of fifteen other than myself. It was a chance to try
something different, and I'd be game for doing it again if the
opportunity ever arises. Have fun with the game!
Feena,
Torie and Enzo’s Mother - Dawn
"Usamimi" Huestis
Hey,
everyone! I hope you all enjoy playing the game. I'm so excited to be
part of this project, even if it's not a huge part, because this is
exactly the kind of game that I loved when I was a teenager. So
having not just one role but THREE was a lot of fun for me. There are
a lot of super talented people involved that lead their voices to the
cast, and I'm honored to say that I got to be a part of something
with them. Happy gaming!
Soldier B
and Guy in Bare –
Peter G. (LentFilms)
Hello
and thank you for downloading the Ys IV English Dub patch. I’m
the older brother of Brunt Lasagna (Mike) and I have had a great deal
of respect for the Ys series and Falcom for many years (I have even
played a few of their games). Over the years I would always hear
people praise Ys
IV: The Dawn of Ys
as well as NightWolve’s translation patch but every compliment
would always end with “too bad the voices are still in
Japanese.” After my brother joked about dubbing the game
ourselves I became a little obsessed with the idea and fantasized
about it as well as pester Mike about it for almost two years.
Finally the project was started in May 2012 and while Mike did almost
everything himself I did help a little with editing instructions as
well as sending audition invitations to several actors. In the end I
wasn’t able to contribute that much to the project but I was
able to give the game a creepy soldier voice and a “hey, is
that…” I hope everyone enjoys the dub and respects just
how much blood, sweat, and sheer anger it took to make this freaking
thing. Enjoy.
Duren,
Slano, Miyu and Schultz
- SonicShadows
Having
never
played a Y's game before, I came into this project without any idea
of who any of the characters were, or what they were even doing.
Quite honestly, I still don't. However, I do know this: lending my
voice to this fan-translation was some of the most challenging, yet
most enjoyable, experiences of my amateur voice acting career. Each
character I voiced was significantly different from the others,
allowing me to tweak my pitch and tone to create a unique sound for
all of them. It isn't often that I'm given multiple roles for a
single project, and I have to say that I really took pleasure in
giving these characters their respective voices. I hope that everyone
who plays this English dubbed fan-translation can tell that I had a
blast, and appreciates my performance.
~Links~
Ys
Utopia.net - Nightwolve’s site/blog
that covers all his Ys related projects and is the main domain for
this patch.
http://www.ysutopia.net/
Pcenginefx.com
- The main hub for all NEC hardware discussion and the main
discussion hot spot for this
patch.
http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php
Voice
Acting Alliance.com - An amateur
voice acting community that was used to host this projects
auditions.
http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/forum.php
MagicEngine
Forums -
Listed here not only for being the main site for David Michel's PC
Engine emulator, Magic Engine, but also since it's the forum that
holds some of the first discussions for the resurrection of this
project.
http://forums.magicengine.com/en/index.php
(Topic
that discusses the resurrection of this project "skips to the
second
page")
http://forums.magicengine.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=2742&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
Ys
IV: The Dawn of Ys Wiki Page - The
Wikipedia page for Ys
IV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys_IV:_The_Dawn_of_Ys
RPGFan
Review - A nice review for Ys IV written
by Commodore Wheeler on
RPGFan.com
http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/ys4/Ys_4.html
~Copyright~
The
Ys series is copyright of ©Nihon Falcom
Corporation.
http://www.falcom.co.jp/
This
patch is for free and for personal use only! Unauthorized
pressing/selling of this patch will not be tolerated and is strictly
forbidden by law and by all creators of this patch
(Special
thanks to SkyeWelse and MP83 for help with obtaining this image.)
END.
