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Famitsu Comes To An End, Bannings Ends And One More C-Mode Bug!

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Published on Feb 10, 2003 01:42 PM

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The 3rd Famitsu Cup comes to an end. In this news post, ST thanks everyone for their participation. The Famitu Cup counter ended at 151153409, exceeding the goal of 100000000 points, which we could not reach last year. However, we didn't hit 200000000 points, which could have gotten us a new item in Gallon's Shop. ST notes their particular satisfaction with the first Couples Mini-Event. To enjoy the Famitsu Cup ending day event, play the "Singing By the Beach" quest and sing the rappy song in the right order (you will first need to have gotten all parts of the song), you will get the Vol. 6 Disk which has the Nights song on it. Check our guide for the rappy song.

For those of you that did get banned after last night's S-Rank fiasco, it should be safe for you to go back online. Users have reported that their bans have been lifted, you should be unbanned now. However, rbf2000 has this to report: you can take your S-Rank weapons out of the bank; you will not get booted. But, if you go back online with your S-Rank in your inventory, you will get the same illegal item message and you will be rebanned. So keep your S-Rank in your bank or you will get banned when signing back online.

But here's another C-Mode bug for you guys to enjoy. According to our affliate, Cotan, there is a bug with Shifta in C-Mode. Upon completing C-Mode, a Force's Shifta will fall and reset to Lvl 15 if your Shifta tech level is Lvl 30. The change seems to be permanent. To get around this bug, we recommend playing C-Mode with a new character or playing a character with under Lvl 15 techniques. So Forces, be careful. We will post more news when we get it.

Update:
It seems that this bug also affects Gizonde and Deband. Forces please please be careful.

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Valentine's Event GBA Download Game

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eRUPT

Published on Feb 10, 2003 05:27 AM

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When you complete the new Valentine's Event in Gallon's Shop, you will get Puyo Pop as the GBA download. We have a new guide for the event to help you guys out. Check it out. Credit goes to jonny-5 and MissNade.

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C-Mode Stages, Illegal S-ranks Leads To Bannings, & Valentine's Quest. New lobby

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eRUPT

Published on Feb 10, 2003 02:33 AM

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C-Mode stages 7, 8 and 9 are currently up after the short 1 hour server maintenance tonight. Knock yourselves out and get that S-Rank. Valentine's Quest is also up. So get cooking! New Valentine's decorations are also up in the lobbies. ST's news post can be found here.

S-Rank weapons choices are: saber, sword, blade, partisan, slicer, gun, rifle, mechgun, shot, cane, rod, wand, twin and claw. Unfortunately; we don't know why; but S-Rank weapons are illegal online.

When you try to log online with an S-Rank, you will get this message before the ship select screen and then you will be booted;

"Your items are modified outside the rules of the game. You will not be able to join or create teams while you have the irregular items in your possession. You may only access the online mode after using the offline mode to discard your irregular items. The information of irregular items will be recorded in the servers. Based upon this information your access to the servers may be terminated without further notice."

This has happened to rbf2000 and GandorDurin.

Do not, we repeat, DO NOT attempt to go online on a U.S. ship with your S-Rank in your inventory after going ofline. If you do, you will get this message and be banned:

"Your account for PSO server has been suspended. Unable to play online game for 24 more hour(s)."

Way to go ST! Did ST forget to update their servers all the way? Same bug as X-Box with their S-Ranks? But X-Box users weren't banned for having S-Ranks online. Join the discussion and vent here. Credit goes to rbf2000.

The online scores screen now shows Battle record, Challenge Rank, Challenge Time Record 1 (which has C1-C9) and Challenge Time Record 2.

It was also reported that the Xbox Live service was also down between 3:30 til 5:30 on Feb 9. Everything with X-Box Live should be fine now.

Update:
JP users, you will not be banned for having an S-Rank weapon in your inventory if you stay on a JP ship. Just don't log onto a US ship with the weapon in your inventory. Keep the weapon in the bank and don't remove it.

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PC & GC Valentine's Quest Info

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eRUPT

Published on Feb 7, 2003 03:13 PM

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More news on the GC Valentine's Quest as posted by Sonic Team. You will need two people to play the quest, a male and a female character. Then you will need to find the chocolate items. Start by purchasing a plain chocolate from Gallon. Nol will then appear. Let her use it by using photon cook and she will create the special chocolate. But don't eat it. The last element can be found in the central management area. To get this item, you must kill an enemy. Find it, go back to Nol, talk to her, and she will give you the key for a new GBA minigame download.

The PC Valentine's Quest is now up for everyone to play. Click here for thenews post.

Also, click here for some funny android action!

Famitsu Cup Statistics

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eRUPT

Published on Feb 7, 2003 02:59 PM

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More Famitsu Cup statistics from Sonic Team.

Mini-Event Stats
The record for buttons Mashed in the 2nd Mini-Event that ran Jan 31st til Feb 1st totaled 15638921 points, way over the 1 million expected goal. 15004 participated in this Mini-Event, which makes it an average of 1042 points per person who participated. The average points per challenge is 83. However, there were high records of over 150 points achieved by some really skilled button mashers! That would make at least 15 hits/second! (Sonic Team's own highest record was 134) Sonic Team also notes that the kill points for Famitsu Max Attack went up sharply after the new Jungle route, "The Forbidden Way," was opened.

Max Attack Stats
Daily Stats:

Date	Kills	Average Points
01/31/2002	115958534	264.2
02/01/2002	119015267	263.4
02/02/2002	122495036	262.4
02/03/2002	125550580	261.1
02/04/2002	129734023	259.1

Kill Points Average Per Class:

Rank	Kills	Average Points
1	FOnewearl	272.5pt
2	FOmarl	265.8pt
3	FOmar	261.2pt
4	RAcaseal	265.0pt
5	FOnewm	258.8pt
6	RAmarl	255.8pt
7	RAcast	254.7pt
8	HUcast	253.1pt
9	HUnewearl	252.6pt
10	HUmar	248.6pt
11	RAmar	248.6pt
12	HUcaseal	240.2pt

PC Valentine's Quest

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eRUPT

Published on Feb 6, 2003 02:14 PM

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A new Valentine's Quest will be up for PSO PC players on Friday, February 7th and will end on Monday, February 17th.

In this quest, you would have to help three sisters running a cake store make handmade chocolate. You will be able to borrow a tool from the sisters to make the chocolate. After it is made, you can have the chocolate and you will be able to deliver it to your chosen person or "partner" on Valentine's Day. This quest will be limited to 1 person and female characters only.

There will be a server maintenance on February 7th from 2pm til 3pm JP time. Please do not connect to the servers at this time. Quest news can be read here.

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Famitsu Cup Ending Event News.

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eRUPT

Published on Feb 4, 2003 03:56 PM

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According to ST's post in their free PSO JP BBS, the Famitsu event will end on February 10, at midnight JP time. At this time the final change/ending event will take place in the Singing By The Beach quest. The Famitsu Cup Counter will also be stopped at this time. However, the Famitsu Cup Maximum Attack 2 and Singing By The Beach quests will be up til February 17th, you can still play it til the 17th but the counter will be stopped at the above mentioned date. The ST BBS post can be read here.

Also, the site for applications to exhange GC ver 1 to ver 1.1, http://www2.sega.co.jp/ and PSO BBS site will be down starting on 10 am Wednesday, February 19, until 6 pm for server upgrades. This news can be read here. The BBS that will be down are: PSO Comprehensive free BBS, Comprehensive secret BBS, PSO PC free BBS and PSO PC secret BBS.

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More Valentine's Quest Info And C-Mode 7, 8 &9

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eRUPT

Published on Feb 4, 2003 09:44 AM

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Sonic Team just released official word on the Valentine's quest.To access the Valentine event, play Gallon's Shop online quest. This modified quest will be start on February 10th and will be up until February 14th. To play the quest, you will need a minimum of 2 people.

Detailed information and statistics from the quest will be posted here.

Also, C-Mode 7, 8 & 9 will be going up. Good news for you C-Mode addicts! This completes all available C-Mode stages. S-rank weapons anyone?

There will be a server maintenance to put in the new quests and C-Mode stages. The server maintenance will be on Monday, February 10th, from 2pm to 3pm JP time. At this time, please do not connect to the servers and end all games before the scheduled server maintenance time.

New Valentine's lobby decoration too!

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New Upcoming Valentine's Day Quest Information

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eRUPT

Published on Feb 4, 2003 07:57 AM

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According to Gamespot JP, Sonic Team will start a new online Valentine's Day Quest For PSO GC on February 10th.

You will be able to purchase chocolate, a new item, from Gallon. You then talk to Nol who will be standing and present in the quest. When Nol uses the chocolate with "photon cook," it will create a new item. What the new item will be is currently unknown.

Sounds like a cute fun quest for V-Day. We will post more news on the quest when it's available.

Sega working on fix for FSOD corruption problems

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eRUPT

Published on Feb 1, 2003 02:38 AM

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On the sega boards there is a new announcement that was posted regarding sega working on the current FSOD corruption problem we are all having. You can read the post here.

A small number of users have reported experiencing data corruption when playing online since the last server maintenance was performed. Though we haven't completely identified the cause of this problem, we are working to get it resolved ASAP. We appreciate your patience while we work through this issue!

thanks to thewiredknight for this news.

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