I think I believe you on Ikuto. I recall that dungeon took me quite a while to get through, even with a map...

Also that sounds like a pretty epic accomplishment for ya. I kind of had an experience like that with Tekken 2 back when I first owned a Playstation way back years ago. I spent the entire night beating the game to unlock all of the characters... but as I didn't own a memory card at the time, I wasn't able to save any of my progress.

Indeed. It's a good song to listen to as I traverse through the Dam dungeons at present. I kind of feel like revisiting the Phantasy Star games on the Sega Genesis Classics collection, so I may try to play through III next, even if it isn't all that great.

I hadn't thought to look into Virtual Clonedrive or MagicISO. I'll have to take a look at those. I heard that Mednafen is supposed to be difficult to use though... I'll probably save that as a last resort since command line emulators are kind of intimidating for me.

Will have to give the others a try and see how those work out.

Mind if I ask what emulator you're using to play Ys Book I and II? I would like to play it myself but I can no longer play the games via Daemon Tools+Ootake for some reason since getting my new computer last year. The best bet I have is TurboEngine but CD audio tends to be less than perfect... and a little warbled with certain games.

How are you enjoying Altered Beast on the PS2 so far? I have that as well, but I need to dedicate more time to it. I'm still in the first area of the game where I got my first transformation.

It does play funky, but I seem to like it okay.