Ys: The Oath in Felghana

Ys
Ancient Land of Ys	1989
Ys II Special	1994
Ys Eternal	1998
Ys II Eternal	2000
Ys I II Complete	2001
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim	2003
Ys: The Oath in Felghana	2005
Ys Origin	2006
Ys Online: The Call of Solum	2009
Ys I & II Chronicles+	2009
Ys Seven	2012
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA	2018
Ys: Memories of Celceta	2018

Key points

This is a complete remake of the 1989 NEC PC-8801/NEC PC-9801 game "Ys III: Wanderers from Ys".

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Official English Website - Warning: Sound

Official Japanese Website

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Japanese only. Can run without the disc inserted.
GOG.com		English only.
Humble Store		English only.
Steam		English only.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\FALCOM\ysf_win\ysf_win.ini
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/207320/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\FALCOM\ysf_win\
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/207320/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

External video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Not supported by Japanese retail releases.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Not supported by Japanese retail releases.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Use windowed mode with native resolution.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)	FSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input settings[edit]

External key remapping.

External input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Configuration utility needs mouse or keyboard.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Seems to be DirectInput only.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings[edit]

External audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		BGM, SFX and Voice.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Excludes the 2 logo videos when starting the game in the English release.
EAX support		EAX 2.0

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
Japanese				Original language. Retail release only.
English				GOG.com and Steam releases only. The mid-February 2020 patch adds English voice acting from the PSP port of the game.^[1]
Russian				Fan translation by «ZoG Forum Team»

Issues fixed[edit]

Flickering Sprites[edit]

Although not a permanent fix, alt-tabbing will stop the flickering without needing to restart the application.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 800 MHz	Intel Pentium III 1 GHz or higher
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0c compatible	DirectX 9.0c Compatible
Other	DirectX 8.0 required	DirectX 9.0c recommended

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/207320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (207320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ "We've added English voices to Ys: the Oath in Felghana and we've added Japanese voices to Ys: Memories of Celceta (...)" - XSEED Games' Twitter Account

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/207320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (207320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[2] "We've added English voices to Ys: the Oath in Felghana and we've added Japanese voices to Ys: Memories of Celceta (...)" - XSEED Games' Twitter Account

[Note 1]

[1]

Developers

	Nihon Falcom
Publishers
English	XSEED
Release dates
Windows	July 4, 2005