It's possible that alpha versions of PSO were configured to let you connect to ships directly, and even though the final version doesn't do that, the strings were left behind. PSOv1 contains a mountain of useless debugging information that Sega was too lazy to purge when compiling the final game, s...

The game tries to connect to port 9000 of pso02.dricas.ne.jp . There are other strings nearby in the binary that also look like server hostnames (such as pso03.dricas.ne.jp, pso04.dricas.ne.jp, and pso05.dricas.ne.jp, amongst other stranger hostnames). This port wasn't used by any other Dreamcast v...

Hello there, In which file is the log in server information stored on the disk for Phantasy Star Online on the Gamecube versions? Is it the same for Dreamcast versions? To clarify, I'm looking for the string such as "pso01.dricas.ne.jp" or similar. I'm sure its easier to use Dr. DNS to fig...

Episode III has been on my list of stuff to do for a long time, actually. The problem is that it doesn't seem like there was any sort of concerted effort to log packets to/from the official server (at least that I've seen) back when it was up. That somewhat limits the things that can be done to sup...

It seems my only feature suggestion is what no other private server has been able to do: Episode III game support. Knowing that you're very busy and on somewhat of a hiatus, how might one of us be able to volunteer time?