• PC PSO Demo/Trial released

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    gideon
    Published on Dec 21, 2001 10:51 PM
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    Anonymous writes, "The PC port of Phantasy Star Online is out and it can be found here with a faster mirror readily available for download. It is a 13MB download and is very bare and featureless. Download it. Install it. Run it. Evaluate it.

    ~ Keitaro ~ "

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    1. googles's Avatar
      googles - Dec 21, 2001, 11:29 PM
      wow an update!!!
    1. Dyze_Skeearmon's Avatar
      Dyze_Skeearmon - Dec 22, 2001, 01:53 AM
      Nope, doesn't work for me, either.
    1. 's Avatar
      - Dec 22, 2001, 04:18 AM
      Worked, but it isn't realy negood. lets u run around in forests as a HUMAR with a sabre. monster cant hurt u and u dont level, no sound either. It make me wonder why sega would bother releasing thiswhen all it probably do is turn people off the game.
      So if u wanna c 640 480 res on ya PC get it.
      If u wanna actually get some entertainment from it, wait till a proper demo or a fix to remove the invinvibility....
    1. Kryslin's Avatar
      Kryslin - Dec 22, 2001, 11:07 PM
      I got the demo up and running, first try. looks sweet (can't say anything about the sound, there isn't any). The specs listed on the mamak page are whacked; I was playing at 30fps on my Celeron 500 based PC and only got slowdown when there were some 20+ things on the screen - well beyond the point the DC version would have choked...
      As for what resolution it runs in, I'll dispute the 640 x 480 - it grabs a 1024 x 768 window on my system (640 x 480 is less than a quarter of my screen size, and WinPSO grabs a lot of the screen when it initializes...).
      Kryslin
    1. 's Avatar
      - Dec 24, 2001, 12:06 PM
      worst. demo. ever
    1. 's Avatar
      - Dec 24, 2001, 03:40 PM
      I too had problems with the demo.
    1. 's Avatar
      - Dec 24, 2001, 04:10 PM
      What do you mean the graphics are sweet? They are total crap.
      And I have no idea what you mean on 20+ thingy.
    1. EvilDeadite's Avatar
      EvilDeadite - Dec 25, 2001, 01:31 AM
      absolute crap. the graphics arent much better than dc. They've added some new pre-set sentences. I ran it pretty smoothly on a p3 dimension l550r. The control system is complete garbage. The arrow keys pick the various functions on screen (up = pre-sent sentences, left = mid attack etc) and you have to click and hold the mouse button to move. absolute crap.
    1. Kryslin's Avatar
      Kryslin - Dec 25, 2001, 05:57 PM
      On the graphics, opinion is everything. They are a heck of a lot crisper than they are on the dreamcast (which plays on my TV). There are details I can see on the PC I can't on the DC version.
      when more than 12 player sized monsters were on the screen the Dreamcast version, things slowed to a crawl (Darvants and Claws are low polygon count models, the players and player sized monsters have much higher polygon counts). That's what I mean about the 20+ creatures - my PC can handle around 2000 polygons every 1/30th of a second, before the rendering engine has to start skipping frames, thus causing a slowdown in the on screen action.
      Kryslin
    1. 's Avatar
      - Jan 14, 2002, 07:51 PM
      You can also control it with a joystick. :P
      Well, when it comes out anyway...
      I thought it was pretty good for a demo; I really enjoyed the god mode. TAKE THAT RAPPY!
    1. 's Avatar
      - Mar 5, 2002, 09:13 PM
      lol... my computer sucks horrible (Pentium II 450mhz) and it runs quite well... unless there are 4 rappys on the screen, then it gets a bit choppy...
    1. 's Avatar
      - Mar 19, 2002, 12:24 AM
      NOTE: you can turn NumLock off and move around with the arrows on the Number pad (2,4,6and
      Anyways yeah... if you could have a button configuration in the final version that would be cool.... I'm really tired of the disconnects I get playing on my DC thru my phone line. Demo seemed slow.. invinc annoying... no sound.... why did Sega release this again????
    1. 's Avatar
      - Jan 12, 2003, 12:13 PM
      Wtf it doesnt work!!!!! It freezes at the install, u guys got tha problem?
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