It is my hope with this to have all the theories of the games listed here, focusing mainly on PSO and PSU, with all their facts and whether they are true, false, or unknown...Please correct me if I get anything wrong or add in whatever I forget.
Before we start these are the 7 chapters that will be included within this compendium and to jump to each one you can use the find function of your browser to put in CHPT# and replace # with the chapter number to jump down the page. This is list is also not complete as of right now cuz that's a lot of writing, but this will eventually get done...even though people prolly won't look at it.
<--CHPT1: All games in the PS series are connected -->
<--CHPT2: Rare Items of PSO -->
<--CHPT3: Item Drop theories of PSO -->
<--CHPT4: Misc. myths/theoris of PSO -->
<--CHPT5: Rare Items of PSU -->
<--CHPT6: Item Drop theories of PSU -->
<--CHPT7: Misc. myths/theories of PSU -->
CHPT1: All games in the PS series are connected.
Ragol is Earth.
Facts
Ragol has 2 moons.
Ragol does not look like Earth though many claim it does.
Ragol as Earth has been denied by Sonic Team.
Verdict: Ragol is NOT Earth.
The Spaceship ruins on Ragol is the Alissa 3.
Facts
The Alissa 3 is a ship that either crashed into a terrestrial planet or Luna, the moon of Earth.
The terrestrial planet that the Alissa 3 landed on vaguely resembles Ragol.
Dark Falz was sealed via three totems carrying the words "muut ditz pumm" on board the ruins that resembles an esper seal of the original series.
A character that some say resembles Lutz can be seen in the ending credits of PSO.
Verdict: The ruins of Ragol is MAY BE the Alissa 3.
Lutz can be seen in the ending credits of PSO
Facts
A character some say resembles Lutz can be seen in the credits.
Under closer inspection Lutz and this character do not look alike.
Sonic Team denies this.
Verdict: Lutz does NOT appear in the ending credits.
Gurhal is really Algol and Ragol is Ryukros.
Facts
Gurhal and Algol both have 3 main habited planets.
Gurhal and Ragol both have evidence of ancient civilizations on them.
Palma was destroyed in the official time-line of the original series. Parum in this theory would be Palma which obviously still exists. However if you take temporal mechanics into account or place Gurhal civilization before the Algol civilization Palma can still exist and thus this means nothing.
Ragol is the place of Dark Falz's sealing.
Ryukros is the warning of Dark Force's seal weaking.
Gurhal's and Algol's entire system act as the seal on the SEED/Dark Force.
As far as known Ragol isn't near Gurhal.
Sonic Team has stated that PSO is in the same universe.
Verdict: Gurhal is COULD BE Algol and Ragol is NOT Ryukros.
Overall
Thoughts: While there are many common elements in all three games so far Sonic Team has maintained that they are not connected. This is the main deciding factor of why they are not connected. There is evidence that PSO was meant to be a continuation or a new piece to the original series through out the game and that many of these elements were slightly altered to make it untrue. PSU, however, was originally supposed to be a continuation of PSO and was marketed as the next step, but later most mentions of PSO in trailers were removed. With the new expansion of PSU it seems that PSO's Ragol will be added to the mix and create a connection between the two games. If this happens it could be said that PSO/PSU is a re-envisioning of the original series, but not a continuation.
Verdict: PSO and PSU MAY BE connected to PS, but are PROBABLY connected to each other.
CHPT2: Rare Items of PSO
To get Parasitic Gene Flow/Red Ring you must defeat Olga Flow/Dark Dalz with Red series weapon/Dark Flow series weapon and then wait for it to drop/stay in the room and do something and then Flowen/Rico will appear and give you the item
Facts
Both of these items are dropped from their respective owners
Both have drop rates set to 0
Both require the other to get if I recall
Verdict: FALSE. These never made it into the game legitimately
Egg Blaster, Sonic Knuckles, Lavis Cannon, Orotiagito drops off an enemy.
Facts
Egg Blaster, Sonic Knuckles, and Lavis Cannon were originally prizes for events in Japan and were never offered to NA/EU players till ep1&2 when they did became creatable or drops. Sonic Kn
Orotiagito does not drop off an enemy, but the unidentified version does.
Verdict: Semi-False. Originally they weren't but in the latest version they are.
The Book of Katana 1-4 which are not listed on PSO world for some reason are useless.
Facts
These books were originally used in v1 & v2 along with the unidentified real version or fake version of agito to create Orotiagito and Oraotiagito (also not listed for some reason) respectively. The second was changed into a dropped weapon of a different name.
In later versions of PSO the books weren't used but still dropped.
Verdict: Semi-False. Originally they were used for something, but later they just became a redundancy.
The Books of Katana before if gathered and given to the NPC that identifies the real version of Agito without an Agito will create the Orotiagito/Oraotiagito from them.
Facts
The books if given to the NPC in the original version with a version of the Agito would create one of the two swords. This was believed because of the redundancy that they were and not taken out.
Verdict: False
All theories concerning Tsumikiri J-Sword
All of them are false. No legit J-sword is known to have existed or proven to have existed. The most popular theory include killing 10000 mobs and then "using" with Sealed J-Sword. There is a known counter on it, but there have been no tests on whether this does anything or not and it cannot be proved with a hacked Sealed J-Sword because the counter bit for some reason erases itself. Also not many have found the Sealed version legitimately and even less have tried to actually attempt the killing of that many mobs in one sitting. If they have they also have not had reliable witnesses. If wish to know more about this weapon there are much longer and more in depth articles on it than I am willing to write >.>
The Photon Whip
Facts
All through out PSO's history it was rumored that there was a weapon called the photon whip.
In PSII there is a whip.
In PSU there will soon be a photon whip.
Hacking of every item in PSO and testing of these Hacks have proven that this item does not exist in PSO.
Verdict: FALSE
CHPT3: Item Drop theories of PSO
Facts
.Beat time drop frequency: At certain beat time counts a weapon is more likely to drop
Beat time effects some weapons' specials.
This theory has been tested.
This theory has not been proven, but there are proponents of it.
Verdict: Unknown - Because different weapons may rely on this while others may not and because enough tests as performed will result in anything like this being true it cannot be said whether it is true or not, but more than likely it is False.
CHPT4: Misc. myths/theoris of PSO
The medical lab doors and sparkle circle
Facts
During the early days of PSO it was rumored that the doors of the medical bay if you did something would open up to reveal something.
The Sparkle circle on the left side of the medical lab appeared during some quests in a few versions of PSO, but did nothing, but was rumored to lead to somewhere.
The Sparkle circle during a few quests later led to an area of ruins where there was nothing, but you could cause a certain weapon to transform and during another limited time only quest led to a place to exchange your rewards for another reward.
Verdict: Originally FALSE, but later implemented quests made some of the rumors TRUE.
CHPT5: Rare Items of PSU
Using higher level non-elemental photons in a synth will raise the star level of the item
Facts
Using them lowers synth success rate to near 0%
No one has succeeded at a synth that results in higher star level items and reported it.
Successful synths that have been reported have all proven this false.
Verdict: There are no known synths that this is true for, but it may be true with some synths.
CHPT6: Item Drop theories of PSU
Killing a MOB in a certain amount of time after their spawn effects their drop
Facts
There are no tests that prove this.
Since higher levels can kill faster and more drops will come up a certain way.
Verdict: FALSE. This is most likely an illusion.
Placing decorations in the various slots of a players room increases drop rates and/or effects what items may drop.
Facts
The slots in "my room" are various colors that match colors of dropped items.
Some people have noticed that upon switching items they get more or less drops, but later seem to have no effect.
Mods on official boards have denied this.
Verdict: While not unquestionably proven false it is very close and should be considered FALSE as any truth to it is very limited.
There are hidden section IDs that effects what you get.
Facts
People have seen that some of their characters good really good drops on certain maps while others do not.
There is no known proof against this sited yet.
Verdict: UNKNOWN
CHPT7: Misc. myths/theories of PSU
There are no general theories and or myths so far for PSU.
CHPT8: Why hackers became prevalent in PSO
In the beginning of PSO all was hack free and the servers were linked, but later PSO became known as the most openly hacked online game.
BEFORE hacking became common place most of the codes that became common were well known and already listed on a site, but there were not many hackers around and those that were were dealt with fairly quickly at first. One must ask then what happened that changed the tide? To understand why this happened you must understand what happened around that time.
There were two tournaments that took place. One was Japanese and exclusified to them. The reward for this tournament was the Lavis Cannon, the best weapon in the game. The other tournament was mainly for NA/EU, but the JP could compete. The reward for this tournament was to NAME the Durandel. The winner did not get the weapon which was bad enough and the weapon was a very low end rare about as good as a DB'S SABER which were already considered common-place then.
The results from this was #1 people became mad that they could not get the best weapon in the game and turned to the only way they could, hacking. #2 The winner of this tournament had also traded this weapon seeing that he could get more weapons for it or he duplicated it for his friends so they could have it. These friends duplicated for their friends and thus spread that plague. #3 The GMs themselves were outraged by this event and ended up passing out a few Lavis Cannons themselves. These same GMs were in charge of the system and when this happened they became more tolerant of hacks.
Once this happened and people saw that people weren't getting banned for their indiscretions more and more people began to hack. Some for fun. Some out of the hatred of the unfairness. Regardless of that people began to divide between 2 groups; Legits and Hackers. However, less known is that Hackers began to factionalize into their views of the situation.
The first group became malevolent hackers that are the most known and most pointed out. The second group became hackers that were against the malevolent usage of hacks. The third group was those who hacked only because it added to their game play experience, or because they liked to experiment with the coding to see what they could create.
by this time hacking had grown too rampant to stop and many hackers and legits had grown accustomed to the playing field so that when PSO left the DC many of these same people jumped to the new versions and found new ways to implement their old tactics.
This is why Hacking became prevalent in PSO. Personally, I have no idea why it wasn't fixed in the GameCube version, but in the Xbox version where it was less intense the reasoning behind that was because SoA and MS couldn't figure out how to work together.
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