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This makes the game less tedious. It can be very frustrating to have a slow walking speed and constant enemy encounters, and this makes the game much more tolerable.

There's a quite a few things you can change in Phantasy Star II to make it more palatable to newer players, but increasing character walking speed should be chief among them (another is fixing the camera but that's another story). Maybe I'm placing too much importance on the ability to zip from one end of a town to another, but this was one of the things Phantasy Star IV got extremely right and having it available for PSII is a godsend.

Unfortunately, this stand-alone patch doesn't play well with Fauntleroy's Modernization hack and was sorely missed.

Walking in Phantasy Star II is a CHORE; it feels like you move slower here than in the first game! I don't know if the developers made it so slow to artificially add more play time to your timer, or if it was a design decision for other reasons. This makes your team move just as fast as characters do in the other three main Phantasy Stars. This patch should be mandatory if you're playing Phantasy Star II on Genesis!