I finally got my BBA and first thing I did was to pop in my PSO and the VMU with my beloved character. I used to play PSO online back in 2000, 2001... and there are so many good memories that I can't even count them. Knowing that Sylverant allows me to experience that again is just indescribably amazing.
After swapping the modem with the BBA. I first used the included Broadband Passport disc. Knowing how to read some Japanese it wasn't much of a challenge, however the "Provider Settings" has IP, Gateway, Subnet and "Broadcast Address". I did a quick search to see if it was equivalent to DNS but it obviously isn't. Then I tried searching for it's american counterpart: PlanetWeb 3.0. I did find one download but the binary file included was a .001 file and not a .CDI or anything clearly known. I tried loading the image on DJ but the error message "invalid image" popped up so I didn't burn it. It could have been a raw sector dump but who knows... I don't have that many CD-R available so I left that alone.
Then upon more research I read here and there about using games to setup BBA. I happened to have Quake III arena and I used it to setup the DNS. Saved the settings and confirmed these settings now always appear when loading the online screen. Now back to PSO, online gameplay, etc... it says "connection will be made through Broadband" so clearly PSO recognized it... push A... wait for the loading and...
I was thinking... that's a lie! How can you lie to me PSO? Well, lie or not it's a software and it will not reason with me. Search the web again, and I found some people who reported that message back in 2003. I think it's something that happens when it can't reach the servers since the person apparently got it working again later without doing anything.Connection attempt failed.
Phantasy Star Online does not support Broadband.
Then went on Sylverant website again and looked around... nothing about error messages, etc... that's when I spotted the twitter feed. Since it was fresh, I decided to tweet Lawrence and he replied right back suggesting that the game could require Modem settings prior to the BBA settings. Unfortunately I already had those in from my online play back then (I even popped back the modem and planetweb to see my old ISP settings were still in place. I added the DNS "just in case" to the ISP settings and saved it, but that didn't help either). Upon my report he suggested using PSO v2 to setup the DNS settings but I don't have it at the moment.
I wonder if it could be because I'm under a router? But I know 90% of broadband users these days use routers so I'd think everyone is in a similar situation that I am. In any case here's my network topology:
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192.168.10.x 192.168.1.x
(Internet) -> [Cable Modem] -> {Home Router} -LAN-> {Work Router} -LAN-> Dreamcast
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WiFi Switch
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{Range Externder} Other Stuff
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LAN
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Dreamcast
I've tried setting up Sylverant DNS as my computer DNS but it cannot navigate the web (perhaps the DNS isn't setup to forward calls it can't resolve) so that doesn't worried me much.
At this point I'm accepting any suggestions. I have an internal DNS server in my work network that I could try setting up to an internal PSO server for testing purposes, but I have no idea what is the original SEGA domain name that PSO tries to connect to, and that information is very had to find as I couldn't find it searching the web.
Any other thoughts? Ideas? I'm determined to make this work!