Ys III: Wanderers from Ys

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Ys III: Wanderers from Ys
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Riot (JP), Renovation Products (US)
Developer: Riot
Original system(s): JP Home Computers
Developer(s) of original games: Falcom
Genre: RPG
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1991-11-01 ¥8,700 (8,961)8,700e T-49063 US 1991-12 $69.9969.99 49146 AU 199x
Non-Sega versions CD-ROM² MSX2 Nintendo Entertainment System PC-8801 mkII SR PC-9800 series Super NES X68000

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Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (ワンダラーズ フロム イース) is a Sega Mega Drive action role-playing game developed by Riot. A port of the titular 1989 Nihon Falcom game Ys III: Wanderers from Ys, it was first published in Japan by Riot themselves in September 1991, and was later brought to the United States by Renovation Products the following month.

The third entry in the popular role-playing game series Ys, Ys III is notable for its drastic change in gameplay; while previous entries in the series had been viewed from a top-down perspective, this entry is instead a side-scroller with minor platforming mechanics, and was ultimately not as well-received as its more traditional brethren.

Gameplay

The game takes a side-scrolling perspective. jumps. swings your sword, talks to people, opens treasure chests, and makes selections when talking to shop owners. uses selected items.  START  opens up the game menu. enters doors. You can swing your sword up by hitting and , and you can also point the sword down while you fall by holding(?) . Hold to repeatedly attack. Holding allows you to crawl; you can attack while crawling.

Beneath the game area are two progress bars that show your health and the health of the enemy you just encountered. Next to that are four stats: H.P shows a numeric representation of your health, EXP shows your experience points, R.P shows your ring power, and GOLD shows how much gold you have.

Health is recovered when levelling up, outside a dungeon, and with herbs. Levelling up only restores health partially; leaving dungeons and using herbs restores health fully. You can only carry one herb at a time.

 START  opens the game menu. EQUIPMENT opens the equipment screen. STATUS shows your current game status. BACKUP LOAD allows you to quit the current game and load a saved one at any time. BACKUP SAVE saves your game. You start off in the room and at the place within that room where you saved. CONFIGURATION allows you to change game options (TODO).

The equipment screen works a bit strangely. and selects between swords, armor, shields, rings, and items, and and chooses one of the five (or none, if you go left enough times). The current item is shown highlighted and its name at the top of the window; hit to find out more about it. Press to switch over to the right side of the screen, where you can get information about twelve quest items you collect as the game progresses. Press to return to the equipment selection side. Press to exit the screen. You can also see the four statues you collect during your quest, but you cannot get information on these.

When you select a ring from the equipment screen, Adol automatically puts it on and his armor turns gold. The ring power (R.P) section of the HUD indicates how much ring power you have. Ring power is increased by defeating enemies, and goes away slowly over time as long as you have a ring on. Some rings deplete ring power faster than others. You cannot put on a ring if your ring power is zero. You can alternatively buy full ring power (255) for some amount of money in towns.

History

A European release was once planned by publisher Ubisoft, but ultimately never materialized.

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 60 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 68 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU) 60 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 7 (RU) 70 Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J 70 Joypad (FR) NTSC-J 76 Joystick (FR) 76 Mega (UK) NTSC-U 36 Power Play (DE) 68 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC 78 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 79 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 69 Video Games (DE) 68

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Ys III: Wanderers from Ys

Mega Drive, JP
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Mega Drive, US
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 ea27976e MD5 fc016fc52d0d6baacda12df3a89d5b06 SHA-1 b3331b41a9a5e2c3f4fb3b64c5b005037a3b6fdd	1MB	1991-07	Cartridge (US)
✔	CRC32 52da4e76 MD5 bb632143831215d57f45765b5dccea58 SHA-1 28dc01d5dde8d569bae3fafce2af55ee9b836454	1MB	1991-07	Cartridge (JP)
✔	CRC32 69994c44 MD5 b73adce079985c1e68cefae35801f873 SHA-1 d50060178b0b966c60c954bde4828c63a6647df4	1MB	1991-08-28	CD-R disc				Page

References

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