Also, these pics are in English. With that, the names of three of the monsters in Ep. 2 have been named! Marillia, the plant-like things which seem to be booma clones, Gee, the enourmas Mothmant wannabe, and Ul Gibbon, a strange Savage wolf/Sinow hybrid. Also, we now get to face off against a Gal Gryphon instead of a Gar Griffon.
I hoped this keeps your PSO interest burning!
"Dust off the old Dreamcast. If you're one of the many like myself who still enjoy their Dreamcast or are aspiring DC hackers, then you may want to pay attention to a quiet announcement by CSI, the Japanese manufacturer of the Dreamcast Broadband Adapter (flaky, but understandable translation provided by the fish). If you have no idea what the BBA is, read the official page here. If CSI gets 1000 pre-orders for the unit, they will be willing to make another production run. Keep in mind that these units are very useful for the Dreamcast Linux efforts and NetBSD/Dreamcast,. For the record, Japanese units work on US systems.
"For the remaining players of the DC PSO that are desperate for a BBA, maybe you can signup though this.
Note: PSOW does not promote cheating in any way. We feel it's appropriate to inform you of any PSO news, even if it's negative.
Note: The list of pictures can be found here. Durn they're good!
Introduction of New Enemies
Gold Dragon (VR Sacred Sanctuary boss)
Melikarol (Jungle area mid boss)
Giburus (Highlands area mid boss)
Sinow Pigel (Central Factory monster)
New NPC
Pioneer 2's new lab operator & navigator, Elly Bason (Episode 2). After the hunter guild received the mission order from the government of Pioneer 2, she has been sent to the Lab to aid in the investigation. Mainly dealing with communications, file security and other sorts of data calculation, she also gives useful advise and hints to new E2 players!
Players of the Original DC version will remember Elly Bason (FOnewearl) giving you a mission to track down a survivor from Pioneer 1 in the depths of the mines area. She returns in Episode 2 to fulfill a much more important role as well as give further hints of what has happened to the A.I, CALs. Episode 1 & 2 is shaping out to be a full time drama.
CD Info-Phantasy Star Online Song of Ragol Odessy ~ Soundtrack - Episode 1 & 2 SCDC - 00215
"The ships affected are:
Japan
09:JP/Lysithea America
15:US/Puck
16:US/Cordelia
17:US/Ophelia
18:US/Titania
The above ships will be closed on the 19th of August of this year. Thanks goes to Segalife for the news.
"EDIT: NiGHTS has provided a screenshot of the fourth lobby. Click here to view!
"Ship: Gamecube: 01-01 Jungle setting on the exterior, wooden furnishing on the interior
Ship: Gamecube: 01-03 Objects such as chairs loiter the area, pictures of Ramar & Fomar sitting around. Sort of like a bar
Ship: Gamecube: 01-04 A water fountain is present in this particular lobby
Ship: Gamecube:01-07 multiple numerical numbers are present all over this lobby. The matrix..?
Ship:Gamecube:01-08 A rainbow is persent in this particular lobby
Ship:Gamecube:01-10 On the exterior, snow is falling. On the interior, winter type furnishing is present.
On a side note... two new bosses are now revealed! Don't scroll down if you would like to keep it a suprise!
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New Boss: Balbarei
The boss for Sacred Sanctuary. It is also confirmed that there are bosses present for both Sacred Sanctuary and VR spaceship. According to the magazine, Balbarei is actually the smaller version of its bigger brother "Big Rei", which is the boss for VR Spaceship.
Lobbies are approximately 1.5 times bigger than their DC counterparts
In the Dreamcast version of PSO, only the city is decorated when an event occurs, in the GC version, even the lobbies are decorated as well.
GC version will have more events and quest.
You can alternate lobby action for male or female characters by using the shift-key on the GC keyboard.
There are chairs in the lobby now, players can now use the sit action
Players with the keybord can use the 'I' or 'U' key to activate the action command, whereas players without a keyboard need to use the key X+B on their controllers
Players will not be allowed to feed their MAGs while in the lobby (just like the DC version).
Added features Users can write a small memo on the guild card they received (probably to remind them who that particular user is)
Players can use the check room in multiplayer mode, thus allowing the possibility of "muling".
More MAG colors and selectable MAG colors in costume select mode.
Each class will now have different material usage limits.
Each character class will now more unique merits and disadvantages to better differentiate their classes.