Tales Of Phantasia PS1 English Translation

Translation is complete after 12 years but well worth the wait! Tales of Phantasia PS1 English Translation If you have already played this game on the SNES or GBA and enjoyed the game. It is well worth playing the PS1 remake.

Some of the many differences over the SNES version:

Cooking replaces the completely useless Food Sack system.
A more interesting character title system. Everyone earns new ones now, instead of just Cless. While for the most part they have no effect on gameplay, they are fun to earn. Especially those earned through events.
A greatly refined battle system:
Easier to control
Assign artes to directionals and execute them anywhere, anytime. No more range frustration.
Real combos. You can link regular attacks to a base arte and link arcane artes from a base arte to pound your enemies into the ground.
Blocking, Manual control, 4-person multiplayer, shortcutting, adjustable difficulty and more!
Suzu, a new playable character.
Chester has artes now, making him much more useful.
Skit system which fleshes out the story and characters even further.
Additional sidequests and dungeons.
Revised storyline script with additional character interaction and detail.
Better graphics: more colorful and detailed. Larger, more colorful enemies, and the character sprites now resemble the official Kosuke Fujishima artwork.

Advantages over the GBA version:

Faster and more fluid battles; no slowdown and animates buttery smooth at a constant 60 frames per second.
Possibility of up to 4-person multiplayer.
Battle controls not compromised by fewer buttons.
Revised storyline script with additional character interaction and detail.
Skit system which fleshes out the story and characters even further.
Exclusive sidequests and dungeons.
Better graphics: richer palette that isn't washed out, and more detailed tile work.


They are also working on Tales of Destiny Director's Cut PS2 and Tales of Destiny 2 PS2 which is the true sequel to Tales of Destiny. Tales of Destiny 2 for the PS1 is actually Tales of Eternia.

This is what a remake should aim for. SE should be ashamed of milking people with poor remakes of FF games and Chrono Trigger. Aside from FF4 for the DS, all the other remakes are worse than the original.

i'm interested in this. any idea where i can get the unmodified, clean dump of Tales of Phantasia for PlayStation in BIN/CUE format?

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FF4DS is actually a remake, that's why. Moving the same game data from one system to another is more accurately called a "port".

My comment is not just directed to remakes but also ports of the game. Whether you make a port or a remake of a game. Put in some effort to make it better than the original. Only game that stands out is FF4 DS which is better not just because its a remake but they actually put in a lot of effort. Two things that stood out the most is the higher difficulty of the game and better music. My mistake on mixing up remake of a game and port. Nearly everyone refers to a port as a remake.