PS1 Translated Version:
So, a few issues are that your character's stats are randomized on creation. You really want to have more than 20 strength. You'll find yourself struggling juggling items and not being able to equip/wield gear, it sucks. It sucks because there's a bug where if there's too many items on the ground the game struggles keeping track of everything and can end up corrupting the items in memory causing essential items to get lost, ruining your save file. 30 is the max strength, so aim for a high strength value and throw lots of junk into the water to avoid this. I have a 17 strength paladin, it is not fun finding new armor and ending up unable to equip stuff and having to throw so many items away.
I tried editing my save file in a hex editor since I have a memcard pro so that I could raise my strength value, but there's a checksum I am too lazy to try and reverse engineer
Save times are also brutal, and with certain things being randomized like your chants to the ankhs, it can be kind of tedious trying to get good rolls to raise the skills you actually want to raise.
Outside of this though, really awesome and worthwhile experience. The overall game is a lot of fun, and the framerate is really impressive given other options on the system like King's Field struggle. Sometimes the way your character moves in this version can be kind of awkward though, you'll want to go straight and the game will kind of move you diagonally awkwardly.
Also specific to the PS1 translation itself, there's definitely some silly bugs and issues, maybe further patches will come someday that iron out some of these. I experienced glitchy text quite a few times.
The DOS game manual can explain a lot of important mechanics and is still worth reading for the PS1 version, good luck!
So, a few issues are that your character's stats are randomized on creation. You really want to have more than 20 strength. You'll find yourself struggling juggling items and not being able to equip/wield gear, it sucks. It sucks because there's a bug where if there's too many items on the ground the game struggles keeping track of everything and can end up corrupting the items in memory causing essential items to get lost, ruining your save file. 30 is the max strength, so aim for a high strength value and throw lots of junk into the water to avoid this. I have a 17 strength paladin, it is not fun finding new armor and ending up unable to equip stuff and having to throw so many items away.
I tried editing my save file in a hex editor since I have a memcard pro so that I could raise my strength value, but there's a checksum I am too lazy to try and reverse engineer
Save times are also brutal, and with certain things being randomized like your chants to the ankhs, it can be kind of tedious trying to get good rolls to raise the skills you actually want to raise.
Outside of this though, really awesome and worthwhile experience. The overall game is a lot of fun, and the framerate is really impressive given other options on the system like King's Field struggle. Sometimes the way your character moves in this version can be kind of awkward though, you'll want to go straight and the game will kind of move you diagonally awkwardly.
Also specific to the PS1 translation itself, there's definitely some silly bugs and issues, maybe further patches will come someday that iron out some of these. I experienced glitchy text quite a few times.
The DOS game manual can explain a lot of important mechanics and is still worth reading for the PS1 version, good luck!