Here's the patches that are available on the Login Server in the new "Patches" menu for PSOv2 on the Dreamcast:
- PSOGC Names: Patches the color of all players on PSOGC to display as cyan instead of gold. This way, you can easily pick out who is on PSOGC while you're in the lobby. This also has the side effect of patching the color for NPCs spawned with the /npc command.
- Battle Music: This is the same patch that is available on the Sylverant PSO Patcher disc to make the music accessible in battle stages when used in quests outside of battle mode. If you've applied this by the Sylverant PSO Patcher disc, there's no reason to apply it this way too (it won't hurt anything, though).
- Widescreen: Relatively self-explanatory -- patches the game to make it look better on a 16:9 display.
Feel free to report any issues or anything else here.
Non Plus versions of PSO Episodes I & II now also have the ability to load patches as well. I'll leave it to Aleron Ives to describe the options available on those versions, as he's the one that's been dealing with all of the patches there. Unfortunately, Plus versions of Episodes I & II will never have the ability to use runtime patches from the server, as Sega removed that functionality in those versions. I will leave it to Aleron Ives to describe what each patch does on PSO Episodes I & II.