Hi there, I'm long time fan of Ultima Underworld, I have play it through and through. I had never played the Japanese PS1 version of it until about a year ago when I heard there was a fan made English patch so I finally gave it a go.
I made notes of the differences I noticed in the versions and have posted the list on this wiki page:
The Ultima Codex: Technical Differences in Ultima Underworld on the PSX
Note this was about a year ago with the 1.0 patch, so i mention things like the Bandits bug which has been fixed in later versions of the patch.
Did I miss anything? Did you notice anything that I didn't? Let me know!
Also, if anyone has an idea on how to extract resources from the PS1 version, please let me know. Using the PC version file format documents that have floated around the internet I've managed to get a lot of info out of the PC version and am hoping to do the same with the PS1 version. The differences I noticed were all based on external observation, no under-the-hood comparisons.
Thanks for creating the wiki! It was a very interesting read for me.
One tool that I used to check the gameīs resources for creating the translation is jPSXdec.
It allows you to simply open the PSX gameīs bin file and shows a list of detected resources.
In the case of UW these were images, videos and textures.
There are many other resources which it doesnīt show but maybe itīs still of interest to you.
Cheers,
Gertius
Last edited by Gertius; 18th Jan 2025 at 16:53. Reason: typo