Dragon Warrior I & II
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| Developer(s) | Enix Corporation |
| Publisher(s) | Enix Corporation |
| Designer(s) | Yuji Horii (Scenarios) Akira Toriyama (Characters) Koichi Sugiyama (Composer) |
| Release date(s) | See release details infobox |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | See release details infobox |
| Platform(s) | Super Famicom, ported to Game Boy Color (hybrid cartridge) |
Dragon Warrior I & II for the Game Boy Color was originally published in Japan on September 23, 1999 as Dragon Quest I & II. It was then localized in English for publication in the North American market on September 27, 2000.
It is a single game cartridge compiling Dragon Quest I and Dragon Quest II from the Dragon Quest series. Both of the games collected here were originally developed and published for the Famicom (known internationally as the Nintendo Entertainment System) and later ported to MSX computers. The Game Boy Color remake was based on an earlier Dragon Quest I & II remake for the Super Famicom (SFC, the Japanese version of the Super NES), which was marketed exclusively in Japan, due to the closure of Enix America Corporation.
The most significant change to the games was the addition of a Field Log that allowed players to make a temporary save file. This is a concession to the game's portable nature; one might suddenly have to stop playing when disembarking from a train or when battery power ran low.
The Super Famicom version of Dragon Quest I & II was ultimately translated into English by an online fan translation group called RPG-One in 2002. It was also translated into Brazilian Portuguese by RPG-One in 2004. There are two versions of the translation patch. One version, called the DQ version, was designed to stay as close as possible to the original Japanese language script. The other version, called the DW version, utilizes a slightly modified version of the script used for the original Nintendo Entertainment System official translation.
[edit] Release details
| Platform | Release date | Region | Rating | Media |
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| Super Famicom | December 18, 1993 | Japan | Not applicable | Cartridge |
| Game Boy Color | September 23, 1999 | Japan | Not applicable | Cartridge |
| September 27, 1999 | North America | ESRB: Everyone (E) |
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