What version of PSO do you prefer??

[HedKandi]

I've decided that the best version (for me) is the GC version, but i am playing it offline on the Wii as i don't have a modem on my GC anymore so may as well play on Wii.

Since i have decided that the last "real" Phantasy Star game of the series ended at Blue Burst (my personal opinion), i have chosen to dedicate my time on GC PSO.

Even though i've got a lv 200 char already from my online playing days, I've created a character for every single section ID and going to play on all of them so that i can collect as much of the stuff i want as possible, do you think this is crazy? I still think the game has a lot of life in it and even though i've been playing this since day 1, there is still items i've not seen/found/used as i've played it properly and refused to cheat or accept cheating items.

I also think it looks best on the GC, i'm playing it on my Wii through component cable on my 42" Samsung HD-TV and it looks lovely. The Xbox version is horrid and blurry even through component.

So, for those who are still playing it, what are you currently doing on the game? Just levelling up? Collecting stuff?

Thanks for reading.



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[kizu]

i never was able to experience the online days of gamecube so i was stuck in offline. I love offline PSO but after my card corrupted deleting my 4 lvl 130+ chars, i hit a slow point. I lost Ultimate and items and it took lots of will power to start playing again. Right now, im close to Ulitmate again but have only 1 good char that is doing good. I plan on reaching Ultmiate before christmas break is over. I also started playing blueburst and love online. With a good high lvl group, its easy to clean out areas quickly and the items are great. Its great how you don't have to play through caves anymore (reason why im stuck on GC) since in my opinion, its the worst ep 1 area to beat. Its so long and the items suck compare to RUINS. Oh well, thats just my opinion.

In both games, im trying to lvl up and hunt down some good rifles/mechs/shots. I really need some new equipment.

[AlexCraig]

I have only played on the GC and BB, but I have seen DC graphics and heard stories of Xbox. I think I prefer GC. Maybe because I am attuned to it http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

[joluh]

I'm also part of the GC PSO group.

[Rob19]

GC hands down. i'm currently hunting, leveling, and playing w/ friends online. i have 1 level 200 char, and plan on having them all 200 one day. and i plan on having every item PSO has to offer.

*in b4 LULZ YOUR CUBE GONNA DIE LULZ*

[joluh]

I'd still be playing it if I didn't break my first cube and sold my second, and if the fact that I don't like any GC game besides PSO, Smash Brothers Melee and Resident Evil 4, saddly, Melee gets old quickly and I got RE4 on my PS2. AND I'm starting to enjoy PSU a lot, after one year of neglecting it.

[EphekZ]

BB was good times.

[Mystral]

I have to throw my hat in with the GC people. Even though I've moved on to PSU, and never got online with my GC or old DCv1 versions, I've played a little Blue Burst and, honestly, it wasn't up to my expectations. At least in the version I played, the movies were replaced by still frames, a lot of the animations seemed rather, well, static suddenly, and generally the console versions overall looked cleaner. I probably wouldn't have given it a second thought if Blue Burst had come out five years before it did, but given the power of home PCs at the time, it strikes me as odd why the game looked so, well, bad, and really didn't add a whole lot to the experience.

Admittedly, I don't think I've ever run in to whatever vitriol others did that made them hate BB aside from my graphical complaints.

I just wish there was still a way all of us who still like PSO and think it's still a good game could legally continue to play online, but hey, one can always have a bit of a pipe dream, can't they? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

[HedKandi]

I have really enjoyed reading the replies here. The point about Caves being awful, i agree however i don't mind them so much now, anyway, Ultimate Temple for me is the worst level design, i hate that one so much, but it's there so you get used to it. I've found the Aura Field in Ultimate Temple before so that pleased me. I've found nothing special in Ultimate Caves as of yet.

I also agree with Mystral saying that there is no real reason to hinder us PSO players from playing online legally, after all, we bought a game for that very reason, well, it was the main reason although the offline game is an excellent addition (at least it has an offline addition as opposed to other versions i can mention !!!).

I don't want to go off topic and i don't want to flame any other game, but one of the main reasons why i don't like PSU is because it's so focused on the online aspect, and once the servers close on that, you've lost everything, that's so off putting. OK, so the game has about 5 or so years maybe left of it, but you're going to have die hard fans of PSU who are having the same experience as we have had with PSO (especially if it's their first PS game), so what then?? I love the idea that PSO you can carry on playing until you drop or your console blows up... with PSU you can't, there is a time limit so collecting all that stuff is a waste of time.

[Mystral]

That's why I say it's a nice little pipe dream. Personally, I'm sure a lot of people would be overjoyed if Sega/Sonic Team said "Hey, we know you still like this game, but it's not worth it to us to keep these servers going. Here's an open source version, though, and you guys have our blessing to do whatever with them," sort of like what id Software eventually did with the old Doom source. I know myself and probably a lot of others would be more than happy to play "official" and, more importantly, legal PSOW-backed servers.

I can see your argument about PSU shutting down, but then again, you can easily apply that to any MMO-type game. The rather unfortunate part is that, due to Sega/Sonic Team's development style, continual updates and all aren't really their thing, and they move on (perhaps rightly so) to another game. Games like EverQuest, well, they still have a large enough base to be popular and profitable, but I imagine that soon enough we'll see the final closing of that game, too, if it hasn't happened already; just imagine how many months or even years of work people have put in to that game, all gone.

Ah well. At least if you have buddies that live nearby, you can still maybe drag them on to some split screen action with PSO. Too bad none of my friends really like console gaming, much less PSO, but hey, at least some people can carry on their full groups and all; it's something, at least.

Eesh, sorry for hijacking your thread a bit with my reminiscing and pipe dreams.

[Obscenity]

I've heard far too many horror stories of character corruption on the GC version of PSO to ever play it. Also, the XBox version of PSO was the best version to play online due to voice chat. I don't think any other version had voice.

[HedKandi]

On 2007-12-19 04:39, Mystral wrote:

I can see your argument about PSU shutting down, but then again, you can easily apply that to any MMO-type game.


Just another reason why PSO is so unique and the best game on the Planet (no pun intended!)!

Just imagine, if we could just have another PSO game that allows you to level up forever both in terms of stats and character level, add a couple of new levels like a snow level, just mix up the variation a little, or maybe even have the option design your own levels! how cool would that be! Does anybody remember a game in the past called Gauntlet - The Deeper Dungeons? Well i class PSO as the modern day Gauntlet (which happened to also be one of my favourite games ever), and Deeper Dungeons was an extension of the game with 501 new customised levels in which you could create yourself, U.S Gold added them into the game if they thought it was clever enough. I think Sega should do the same, allow the existing PSO community to "take over" development lol...

[DC_PLAYER]

nah, gc never apealed much to me, but pso ver.2, that one yes, it has different game mechanisms and it's easier to understand the game rather then gc.

currently i'm just collecting and trying to find some weapons with better %, because excluding that, i just play for fun.

[Tweengo]

I play the 'Cube version offline only. After finding a Soul Banish, I stopped playing as much. I just can't seem to find anymore of the rares I want. That and our electric is now connected to a meter so I don't play incase it cuts off while saving http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif Plus I get frustrated. Plus I heard you can't play offline on Xbox inless you get some gamertag thing. Though I haven't been online, I have some online items from a trade which I abuse with the Dupe trick (I'd lose them if I didn't), and these have added some longevity to the game. But yeah, I don't play much now.

[zandra117]

PSOX, Its basically PSO+ from GC with Dreamcast controls, without the FSOD problem, and with added voice chat. Once you've played PSO with active voice chat, It's hard to move to another version.

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[DC_PLAYER]

blue burst has a texture at dressing room with voice effect or something, they probably took the texture with the words but never implemented the stuff in bb.

[--Tsunami--]

Right now im just preety much hunting 4 rar3 items(canes,mostly). oh and i play in GC

[zandra117]

On 2007-12-19 09:26, DC_PLAYER wrote:
blue burst has a texture at dressing room with voice effect or something, they probably took the texture with the words but never implemented the stuff in bb.



Blue Burst is a port of PSOX to PC with the voice chat removed and episode 4 added, the "voice effect" is a part of PSOX that was never completely removed. In PSOX voice effect was used to create custom voice masks. With enough time and skill using the voice effect editor a guy can make his voice sound female so he can get easy rarez off of pervs in the lobby. lol

[doubleEXP]

Topic: GC PSO

I consider Ep I & II Plus to be the best version of PSO ever released. BB has Ep IV (and GC doesn't) but PSO on GC runs very smoothly, like it was made to run on that system, while BB feels like a port.

I recently started playing PSU again (after being unimpressed with it last year). I must say, it has that pso feeling now. As for all my stuff going *poof* when it someday shuts down, that's okay.

I don't really have my PSO stuff anymore, either. I gave my GC to my little brother, including my PSO and PSO+ disc. I did keep my mem cards, so never say never, haha, but you get the idea: I don't play PSO anymore. Doesn't make my memories of the great times online with DC PSO and GC PSO any less real!

[Banish]

PSO GC EPI 1 & 2 PLUS seems like my favorite choice, as I play it all Offline aswell.

[HedKandi]

i that you both make good points, and if the game was still in it's prime, eg, active online, then it would be hard to choose a version because as suggested both the GC and Xbox have their strength and weaknesses. I started off on the GC version of EP1 & 2 and i was Fsodx a couple of times and vowed never to play it again, but of course that soon passes and you start again. The xbox version didn't have the FSOD problem, or at least not to the point where you lost everything, however, i didn't like the fact that in EU you couldn't play with ppl from the US or JPN where as on the GC version the servers were together, that was a major factor for me.

Now having to play offline only, i think the GC version is the way to go, especially since you can't play it on the 360 so therefore if your old Xbox goes wrong, you're stuffed as you can't easily transport your saved game unless you take the thing to bits and mess around with hard drives. I prefer to have it on memory card as with the GC version, it's much more portable. I still think it looks best on GC too http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[Mystral]

That is, assuming your memory card doesn't kick the bucket, too http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

I think I've got mine on an original Nintendo card, though, so it should be okay for a while now. I hope >_>

I forget, does PSO on the GC have that same sort of key locking and all that the DC version had, and you couldn't port over save games to another disc/system, because they were linked, or something like that? Maybe I'm just misremembering how that worked, though. It has been a while, obviously.

[HedKandi]

No, the GC and Xbox version doesn't contain the access key and serial so you're pretty much open to play PSO on any GC/Wii system & memory card. Oh, and i only use official Nintendo memory cards as i lean't the hard way, the first time i ever played PSO on GC, i used and unofficial card and i was FSODx immediately going online with it, luckily i only lost a lv30 char but that took me ages to get to at the time. It does say on the manual to only use the official memory cards. Aparently, the official black ones (256 blocks) are not that reliable online either, and although i have been FSODx using a black one, i've also been FSODx using the standard one as well so really i think i was just unlucky.

[Mystral]

Well, at this point, as long as it doesn't crash out offline, it shouldn't matter what happened online with that same card. That is, unless you use those weird routing tricks to do some less than legal things with your system, most of which I honestly wouldn't consider just on the chance it'd ruin your system itself or even your computer (who knows what those places would really send back to you?)

I think there used to be a trick to give a guaranteed FSOD, which was rather well documented on certain sites; all for the purposes of recognizing when it's about to happen to you, of course.

But, I digress. More on topic, regarding voice chat, you could technically get that with any PSO version, if you were crafty; easiest way is to set up a PC nearby your console, get them both online (easy now with cable and DSL et al, probably more difficult back when dial up ruled), grab a program such as Skype, Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, RogerWilco, whatever floats your boat, grab a mic and speakers or a headset, and there you are. Jury rigged voice chat for any PSO version http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

Incidentally, this is how my regular PSU group voice chats, and we have mixed PC/PS2 members who all do essentially this.

Edit: Also, what are people's thoughts on PSO+? I have the original release of PSO Ep1&2 on my cube, ignored Ep3 (though I have a feeling I should get it, if only for completeness sake), but somehow totally missed the existence PSO+. Does anyone think it'd be worth it to try and snag a copy of PSO+, since I never got to grab the downloadable quests that come packaged with it? I assume that it would work just like normal PSO, in that it has a language select and all, so that shouldn't be a problem, right?

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[Freeze]

I'm gonna have to say, xbox. I started with the DC which got me hooked in the first place and xbox has the same controls to it was an easy transition. I still play V2 every now and then but most of my hours are on the xbox.

[Mudkips]

GCPSO, always was ftw; always will be ftw. You cannot overcome the original, again the rise of PSO episodes one and two... GAMECUBE STYLE, motha @#$%er!

[zandra117]

On 2007-12-19 18:12, HedKandi wrote:
i that you both make good points, and if the game was still in it's prime, eg, active online, then it would be hard to choose a version because as suggested both the GC and Xbox have their strength and weaknesses.


Actually back in the day PSOW and the majority of the PSO community was heavily GC biased.

PSOX was the better choice because it was the same as GC version but with no possible way of FSOD hacks (xbox live doesnt allow packet editing) and it had voice chat along with keyboard, word select, and symbol chat. The xbox controller supports the easy dreamcast controls aswell.

The only downside to PSOX was the extra fee, you have to pay for live and the hunters liscence because there was no such thing as live silver back then. The lack of population in PSOX (mostly do to unlinked regions, 100 people in JP, 300 people in US, 200 people in UK) caused Sega to stop making updates for us. I think it was BS because PSOGC had about the same amount of players as US PSOX and the GC version is open across regions. Sega probably abandoned us because they couldn't see how popular the game was because every PSO fansite was GC biased at the time.



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[halohalo]

In Xbox version (and BB), few graphical effects are removed. So I think PSO+ is better, and BB is the worst when compared with PSO+ and PSOX.
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k167/halohalox/dolphin/test_1.png

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k167/halohalox/dolphin/test_2.png

With faster PC (K8 with X800/X850 on Win98se, or X1900 on Win2000/XP, but cards with native CF are not included), BB runs smoother than PSO+. And I prefer keyboard than joypad when playing BB.

[Mudkips]

Well said my friend, I agree though... Never really though about it in that way though... Maybe I should have taken that into consideration...

[DoubleJG]

DCv1 - never played
DCv2 - never played
PC - sucks
GC - Best one IMO
Xbox - Mics = annoying
BB - Nice try, but it takes 2nd

[JKKDARK]

BB is my favorite one

[kevlar_pso]

I have played every version. Loved the Dreamcast versions and really liked it on the Gamecube. I bought the keyboard controller shortly after getting the game. The problem I had with the GCN version was I did not have a regular group to play with on a consistent basis on GCN. Plus, if you wanted to see who was online you had to do a search through all 30 pages of your guild card list. On the Xbox was a different story. I knew 95% of the hardcore challenge mode players so I played mainly with them. The other 5% I knew of them and for the most part they knew of me. You have a way of connecting to PSO players that you can hear more so than in other versions of the game. That for me, even though there is a slight voice lag(it was one of the 1st Xbox Live games after all), puts it over the top. Although, one of my closest friends on the game never spoke, I played w/that person on the regular.

So yea, PSO-X it is for me.

[DC_PLAYER]

pso bb, graphics to max, resolution to max, set graphic board graphics to optimal and bb get's better then anyother version.......

[doubleEXP]

On 2007-12-28 07:18, DC_PLAYER wrote:
pso bb, graphics to max, resolution to max, set graphic board graphics to optimal and bb get's better then anyother version.......


I have to agree. I decided to give the, ahem, other server a try. So I downloaded BB and some... files... and anyway with my graphics card (8800 GTS) I can easily max out BB (all settings). Without a doubt, BB on max settings is the best version, as it also includes Ep IV and no other version does.

[DC_PLAYER]

ati alising-max = no noticible pixels
then your screenshot's become like this
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2195/pso1190239702wv6.jpg

[Mystral]

Oddly, I can't seem to make my Blue Burst client run at anything larger than 640x480. I'm sure I can force aniso and AA and all that through my card, but it doesn't seem to respect my resolution settings. It also doesn't seem to have in general as good of a graphics ability as the GC version I have, things just look more...static, less fluid than they do on GC. Like the laser gates doesn't really oscillate like they did on GC that I recall, they seem more like one or maybe two frames in BB. I wonder if the two are related, or if BB just in general doesn't look as good in action as other versions?

Almost wondering if that very "custom" launcher is interfering with it somehow, too...

[DC_PLAYER]

i beleive theres an option that makes images a bit blurry when something fast happens, for example when the dragon apears, if the option is enabled you will see several images of the dragon, making a good screenshot really hard
maybe the lazer fences folow the same since they are showed at high speed......search the options on the game....

[halohalo]

On 2007-12-28 09:02, DC_PLAYER wrote:
ati alising-max = no noticible pixels
then your screenshot's become like this

You can see the purple fog in Forest2 on PSO+ or PSOX, but BB(or Dolphin) doesn't show the effect.

[DC_PLAYER]

purple fog in forest 2? never saw that before...:S

[x_Shadow_x]

mine is the GC bucuz it is fun just playing offline with my frineds even if it may not nice cool to you it is to me

[SStrikerR]

On 2007-12-19 05:03, Obscenity wrote:
I've heard far too many horror stories of character corruption on the GC version of PSO to ever play it. Also, the XBox version of PSO was the best version to play online due to voice chat. I don't think any other version had voice.

Lol, you like voice chat? I didn't play on the xbox but I've heard too many "horror" stories of little 8 year old kids screaming and cursing in your ear because you took a db saber lol, I prefer the gc.

[Mysterious-G]

I liked the very first version the most. Exspecially the DC version. It feeled so different from all the others. Yes, it was the best one for me. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[Obscenity]

On 2007-12-29 19:24, Ryan113 wrote:
On 2007-12-19 05:03, Obscenity wrote:
I've heard far too many horror stories of character corruption on the GC version of PSO to ever play it. Also, the XBox version of PSO was the best version to play online due to voice chat. I don't think any other version had voice.

Lol, you like voice chat? I didn't play on the xbox but I've heard too many "horror" stories of little 8 year old kids screaming and cursing in your ear because you took a db saber lol, I prefer the gc.



Which is why I usually played in closed games with friends instead of random jackasses.

[RemiusTA]

On 2007-12-28 21:57, halohalo wrote:
On 2007-12-28 09:02, DC_PLAYER wrote:
ati alising-max = no noticible pixels
then your screenshot's become like this

You can see the purple fog in Forest2 on PSO+ or PSOX, but BB(or Dolphin) doesn't show the effect.





Blue Burst would be perfect if Sonic Team put the GCN distortion and lighting effects into the game.

Episode 2 water distortion MADE that game. When i found out it was taken off on Blue Burst Episode 2 became less and less mroe fun.


BEsides, after my best friend moved (we played GCN PSO together all the time) PSO in general got really boring.

[DC_PLAYER]

water distortion is visible in bb, just make all graphics to max and set all settings to on.....like shadow.....that stuff.

[halohalo]

On 2007-12-31 12:58, DC_PLAYER wrote:
water distortion is visible in bb, just make all graphics to max and set all settings to on.....like shadow.....that stuff.


In BB, the water distortion (seaside, jungle, seabed, and control tower) is poor when compared with PSO+ or PSOX, even with high-end option enabled.

Seaside of PSOX(480p):
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040930/pso03.htm

Seaside of BB:
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k167/halohalox/psobb/seaside.jpg

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[DC_PLAYER]

NICE, the distortion around the feet of players is the same, about the rest i don't know, maybe it's a bit more simple in bb.

[Ocin]

The BB version is generally the version I consider to be best, but oddly, I play GCN more often when I go to a friend's house. We just play GCN PSO all night.

[AlexCraig]

That is kinda how it is with my friends and I. I have all 4 episodes of PSO, and though I love playing BB, GC seems to take the cake. All my friends play GC as well.

[zero-kokojan]

gc for ever ya i lost a few lvs 100+ on a memory card but that made me work harder my main is a 157 humar pinkal and i love it (tho i got alot of the stormwands)

[SStrikerR]

On 2007-12-31 03:46, Obscenity wrote:
On 2007-12-29 19:24, Ryan113 wrote:
On 2007-12-19 05:03, Obscenity wrote:
I've heard far too many horror stories of character corruption on the GC version of PSO to ever play it. Also, the XBox version of PSO was the best version to play online due to voice chat. I don't think any other version had voice.

Lol, you like voice chat? I didn't play on the xbox but I've heard too many "horror" stories of little 8 year old kids screaming and cursing in your ear because you took a db saber lol, I prefer the gc.



Which is why I usually played in closed games with friends instead of random jackasses.

Which probably made it better than plus, yes. In your case, I'd go with pso-x. In my case, I'd prefer pso+.



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[Saphion]

For me, Episode I & II on the GameCube is the definitive version.

PSOBB was nice and all, but you just can't beat playing on a console. Well, that's what I think anyway.

[BW3Cmart]

Ive only played on the Xbox but i saw friends with gamecube, so im gonna say PSOX

[Jaspaller]

PSOX Hands down for me. Chances of corruption are practically 0, the voice chat was there, the guild card/friends list integration was fantastic, and there weren't any FSODers out there compared to GCN. I own the GCN one as well... corrupted twice. The graphics looked pretty dark and muddy when I played on it too (although component cables really helped make it brighter).

2nd would have to be PSOBB. The team system was interesting, it blew away the graphics on consoles if you had a good PC, and I liked the G-quests since I thought the story was interesting. Also the 1-0 keys being used as buttons was great as well.

[cystcloki]

i personally like all three but if i had to choose one id choose GC because i am used to the controls and the controller fo gamcecube. i never did like the xbox version to choppy and blurry. an what im doing is basically getting rares leveling up and just playing around all at once

[reapursoul]

hey im playing GC which is the only version i have any notable experience of (besides perhaps a few minutes on a friends DC version) at the moment im just tryin to get sum mega rares lol , besides that im considering investigation into the "other server".

can any1 tell me what kinda graphix card (at bare minimum) would have ben required to play BB?

[Altavista]

I love the GC version, and ive tried BB. But I think GC looks sweater and I got noone to play BB with anyways.

Currently, I'm trying to find all rares possible to find with my 3 characters in my sig. My sister found a Kasami Bracer on my Yellowboze when I had to go get some groceries. Items will make me play the game until I got them all. (At least the ones I want like TJ-Sword, NUG-2000 Bazooka, Double Cannon, Psycho Wand and some other things.) Im offline too so I'm just a little upset I can't get percentage on my weapons.

[Saphion]

I've actually been really lucky with corruption. I've spent well over 2000 hours on one character alone (goodness knows how many with all my characters together!) and I've never been corrupted or anything like that.

I did lose a Holy Ray to an FSOD once though. But then I went hunting for another and got one 40% dark!

[DC_PLAYER]

on ver.2 or ver.1 i beleive corruption is impossible, never saw a case, however your data can be lost online if the game saves bad (wich can happen in any game actually)
the problem is that dc pso only accepts 1 save per memory card, wich sucks, but considereing the difficulty of beating the game and drop rates i beleive you will not have much time to make other chars.....

also don't know why but ppl like the staus boost effect on ver.2 instead of the lights in gc, on ver.2 inside out means increase, out to inside means some stat is decreasing
http://www.blue-rappy.com/imgs/psongc/update/ep1&2/shifta.jpg http://www.blue-rappy.com/imgs/psongc/update/v2/shifta.jpg

most realistic freeze in ver.2 (my opinion)
http://www.blue-rappy.com/imgs/psongc/update/ep1&2/glace01.jpg http://www.blue-rappy.com/imgs/psongc/update/v2/glace01.jpg

also loadings to game/are/quest are different in ver.2/ver.1

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[Jaspaller]

I loved the Shifta/Deband effects on the DC version... also I've corrupted before on DC V1 (with an official memory card too!)

[DC_PLAYER]

how did the corrupt ocurred?

[Jaspaller]

I don't remember to tell you the truth. This happened around 4 years ago at the least. I remember leaving my DC alone for a long time when I invested time into some other games and when I came back it said the data couldn't be used.

[Mystral]

Just a guess, but it might have been the battery in the VMU going to crap and taking something with it. I know I had that happen on my Saturn too many times to make playing the system fun anymore, the battery in the system would go and the entire internal memory would just crap itself.

I haven't loaded up my own DC in a while, though, so I wouldn't be able to tell you for sure. I know my VMU had been dead for a long while but still seemed to work fine as just a memory card, though.

[DC_PLAYER]

still, a vmu is like a pen disk, it only works with power, but without it, it still keeps the info save.
weird corruption.
i also remind you that if you traded dreamcasts, pso becomes useless as it only works on the dreamcast that made the save

[Defend]

There's only 1 version that didn't have that boring invulnerable-for-2-seconds-after-taking-any-hit effect in all difficulties. That really added an edge to the gameplay that I always missed.

GC was the only version with the funky telepipes, wasn't it? Or did the Xbox also have them?
What about 4 player splitscreen.. Xbox or not?

I liked the hard-ass mechanics of DC ver2's Ult mode. I admit it was stupid in many ways - ridiculous exp requirements, FOs turned into S/D/R machines, etc - but I liked the stronger enemies (especially since a supported HUcast could rape anything anyway), and I especially liked the impression RA characters could make using ver1 weapons viably in Ult. My 55% Nat Chain Sawd kicked bum. After the DC, that kind of thing became meaningless.

[TwilightSea]

Before the hacked to hell days, my favorite was DC v1 for the sole reason that's what got me into PSO and where I have my most fond memories. That to me, was the golden age of online gaming.

[DC_PLAYER]

well, i know ppl that made theyre own private servers, created new chars and started to play the game again just for the fun factor, not using high lvl chars or anything.
i beleive there is a beta pso ver.1 disak that if you use hacks the player is notified with a message like "cheater......your using cheats", why didn't they make that onto later released versions? (this beta disk was used by programers)



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[sCI]

what level did you guys get to on ver 2, i loved that game, i am pissed at whoever watered it down for porr old GC'ers, cause thats what i play now, and if my DC had multiplayer, i would start that up agian...coincidentally, i played my character today for the first time in a couple years, im aooarently a lvl 86, with 200 hours, and my bro is lvl 126 with over 400 hours, what about you guys?

[DC_PLAYER]

hehe, i play ver.2, welcome to the old die hard players