Phantasy Star Merchandise List

[aaron_yume]

Nice collection you have there ZER0 DX.

The network trial discs are not that rare or expensive. Both the Gamecube network trials are readily available on the Japanese market and you can pick them up together for under $50USD,
though you often see western re-sellers marking up the price to ridiculous levels.

The Dreamcast network trial while older and perhaps has more scarsity, do turn up every now and again but never really command a high price either.
I've passed over the chance to buy it several times in the last year.

The Japanese retail boxes of PSO Blue Burst are a bit harder to find but usually can be had on yahoo auctions for 200-400yen.
The SEGA Direct PSO Blue Burst: Episode 4 retail box however is quite highly sort after mainly because it was the only way to obtain the OST,
but even the price of that has dropped dramatically recently when some Japanese seller on Yahoo auction seemingly had gotten hold of a box full of them and was selling them one after another.

PSO ver.2 for PC is the most expensive out of all of the above to obtain.
It comes with a random (out of 5 designs I believe) mouse mat and still works fine even on windows 8.1. I highly recommend you get this!

There is also a US retail version of PSO Blue Burst, and that is going to be by far the hardest one to obtain.
I really have no idea how to get my hands on that. Other obscurities you could get would be the SEA and Thai retail versions of PSO2.
I only have the SEA version myself and it really is nothing to look at.

I've been rather disappointed at the Japanese PSO2 retail releases apart from Premium Package 2 which came with the mini OST.
I really wish SEGA put more effort into them instead of just throwing in some items code in lieu of anything interesting.
So I've decided that I will wait until I can pick them up on the Japanese second hand market for peanuts.

I am really interested in the "Music Collection Box" you have. At the moment I can not justify buying it due to how much it costs and I do not know any other PSO collectors who own it.

So I was wondering if you could tell me a few things about it?
I'm curious as to what content is on the included DVD and if the Soundtracks (PSO/EPI&II/Blue Burst) still contain the bonus content (wallpapers and such) that were on the original releases.

[ZER0 DX]

I'll be honest I haven't really looked that hard for the trial discs, just something I'd like to procure in the future, and possibly get Japanese copies of all the games pre-infinity as well. I keep running across the Japanese Phantasy Star 1 at random places so I might grab it next time I see one. Seems to have been a pretty common import people are reselling. I know it has the better soundfont due to making use of the FM sound chip that only the Japanese Master System had.

I'll definitely start keeping an eye out though for some of the stuff you mentioned. Had no idea there was a physical US release of Blue Burst, I always assumed Sega was lazy and just made it download only for us. As for Ver 2 on PC, really interested in those mousepads now! I've had the ISO's of Ver 2 for PC downloaded since about 2003 or 2004, game ran and worked flawlessly on all of my older PC's and laptops but my current main PC just won't the game at all for some reason, tried everything.

That Music Collection box is pretty awesome, I'll take some pictures of it later. Basically comes with two box disc binders in the main box sleeve, discs are categorized by series in chronological order. The boxes split the discs by PSO tracks in one set and PSU tracks in the other. All of the music on these sets are of higher quality than the original discs, so they're not just re-purposed and re-labelled. That also means they don't have the bonus wallpapers either. However it does come with a booklet that has some of the same art and wallpapers from the old discs, includes lyrics for the vocal songs and has the item code for PSO2 which gives you all of the area music tracks from PSO (From Ep 1, 2, and 4) as jukebox discs. They're selling for quite a ton on the player market right now, I still have mine sitting in my bank for almost a year now since I haven't been able to choose between keeping them to use eventually or to sell for easy meseta. The DVD it comes with isn't really anything special, it's a PSU chronicle that quickly goes through the events of the entire Universe series. Overall it was a pretty cool box set. Definitely not worth the price tag though.

[Vintasticvin]

Keeping an eye out on this tread. Going to rob the OPs collection, be right back. >_>

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[the_importer_]

My collection is pretty small, but here it is anyway:

Spoiler!