You can still play the first Star Ocean using an old translation from DeJap Translations.
Originally, only a game called Star Ocean 2: The Second Story was released outside of Japan, so DeJap Translations dealt with the highly advanced ROM for the original Star Ocean and provided a translation for it. For many years, this was the only way to play the first game in the series until Square Enix released an enhanced remake of Star Ocean and gave it the new title Star Ocean: First Departure.
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