PSO News?

Things have been going well regarding PSO, but for the most part things have been so minimal that a post wasn’t really that mandatory, so I believe it’s better to use this post to tell those interested the new things that have been happening recently.

Ephinea Seasons.

If you play on Ephinea you probably saw this, they now have a new mode that you enter by typing a command before playing a game, you essentially start from the start, you complete milestones like leveling up and then you get rewarded in many ways, some rewards come from the lvl ups, an id change comes from participating and you can trade points to get other purchasable rewards.

Now, starting from scratch seems a lot like challenge mode, but here you play at your own pace, in fact you can play a very large portion of content but you cannot power level by playing with certain players (those outside seasons) and you can’t use certain quests that are notorious for fast leveling up).

Overall a nice change of pacing and the 1st iteration of the system, which seems to be well designed and tought all things considered so if you want something unique with unique rewards, check out Ephinea seasons, if that’s not your thing, you can always check Ephinea server if you plan on playing PSO, certainly one of the best private servers around

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Other private servers.

On Ephinea, you are allowed to advertise your own servers if you want and some have appeared in the meantime which is always nice, now I know what you’re thinking, “more servers? Won’t that scatter the community even further?”, well yes in a certain way, but having a choice and having individual ideas coming together in a server is always nice, Ephinea came out of nowhere although the foundation existed, but right now it has expanded and it certainly grabbed the PSO community, other servers certainly have that chance aswell, it’s a lot better than having like 1 choice, knowing you have to endure all kinds of nonsense just to play the game and have fun.

One even accepts GC players, that you don’t see every day for sure

The ones that stood out are:

• Destiny PSO BB server and Forums
• Gal Da Val GC server

There are certainly others like Trinity but they haven’t been around long enough to make their position in the PSO community, but that can change at anytime, so those that are new are always a good place for you to share your creative ideas, give them a go if you’re interested and you might be surprised with the results.

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Speaking of GC, recently Trypticon has made a topic on PSO-World forums where he seems to be looking for certain old “personalities” of the PSO community, i was introduced to this since i was one of those players he wanted to get in contact with (that surprised me btw) and he told me his idea, now i don’t want to get ahead of myself, so for now the idea will remain a secret and one of the reasons for that is because we don’t really know who is available and who isn’t, to be honest finding these ppl would be interesting because if you are from the GC generation of players you might know some of these names, i personally know some, but i don’t know all of them and for now the goal is to contact these ppl.

If you know any of these, if you have like an email or you are these players in concrete, then check the topic and give Trypticon a notification, maybe you’ll like what he has in mind.

The players he is seeking are:

09, Cypher, ADE, Photon Drop, Saifwin , The One Hero , KIREEK, Tycho, Dark Shadow, Lightning, Tyrant Flame, Android 21, DJR, Saiffwin, Cypher, 09, AIM, James, Rob, Kayak, Cranberry.

Are these names a blast from the past to you?

Jazz themed “Image of Hero”

I have been a fan of remixes for a long time and Phantasy Star has been a franchise that has many remixes out there, but when it comes to Phantasy Star Online it doesn’t become that plentiful, even SEGA when they did the original EP4 songs, many of the ideas in them actually came from older Phantasy Star games, regardless they are a joy to listen to. Fans however will sometimes pick iconic songs from the game and do their own version, a fine example is the one made by Zircon called “Ragol weather”

This song served as an inspiration for the jazz themed song, this team decided to pay a tribute to many different games like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda and Phantasy Star Online, this tribute called “New game +” is very well done and has 21 songs that were done by musicians from all around the world.

The website contains info about the band elements, the guest performers and even a list of all the songs that were included.

Now i don’t often do a blog post because of 1 remix, but this song was so unique in its approach that i just had to talk about it, i enjoyed listening to the music (and the other ones), so i guess someone out there will also like it.

You can check out this amazing Jazz themed “image of hero” in several places:

• Soundcloud
• Overclocked records
• iTunes

Truly a fantastic job, i was honestly impressed.

2015 in review + Ultima issue

Hope everyone has a wonderful new year.
While not game changing  there was a shift in attention from schthack related content to other things PSO related, such as skins, tools, images and so on. One could say that it’s because schthack is no longer a valid server, however i noticed this way before schthack was having issues.

I do plan on porting an echelon lobby skin in the future for PSO V2, but aside from that i have no idea if i will release or talk about anything else, Ephinea and Eden servers may announce some things, but for events and small changes it’s always better to check the websites themselves.
For sylverant i can’t do much, since dialogue is next to nill it’s hard to actually take anything seriously, especially since there have been several situations that had contradictory information and I’m not in the mood to correct them over and over.L33tserv continues to be a great server for PSO GC players, new servers have appeared for PSO BB such as Sieglindepso

There has been a recent interest in making animations by using the models in PSO, like a PSO animation project, you can read the stuff here.

If you are interested in seeing some of the stats on my blog, you can visit this page: https://kireekpso.wordpress.com/2015/annual-report/

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Now, for a situation that i tried to resolve but failed.
1st some back story, many ppl over the years used skins, wallpapers or certain screenshots that i provided here, at univers-ps or at deviant art as a way to decorate websites or to promote content.
Some users actually ask me for permission and i would say that i am fairly permissive since pretty much everything is allowed, it’s just a wallpaper or a screenshot, sometimes I’m the one that makes the banners and in the end why wouldn’t they be allowed to use the images?
Well, there are a couple of reasons, dubious content like scams is something i don’t want certain images to promote, but hardly anything falls on that category besides schthack, other reasons may be for example my support with a certain website or staff, if you disrespect me in a way that is beyond reasonable you can forget any help, ultima server is an example, the final reason that i may not accept is monetization, for example if you run a server that accepts donations.
This final one i may accept depending on the status of the server with me and vice versa, some servers i’m ok with providing them with screenshots or making banners like eden server.

I have had several situations where images or skins were being used by either entities that i don’t support or content that i don’t support (monetization related), for the most part after talking to the individuals, everything would be fixed, banners changed, skins removed, there was only one time where i had to find another way to deal with the issue, schthack decided to hype and advertise the server by using certain images (like the ones with really good quality on my deviant art) and since dialogue isn’t an option i decided to ask for a takedown of the post, with that matter solved i tought i would never see another one again.

I was wrong.
Ultima sometimes uses these images for banners and while talking to them works, it seems recently they made the mistake again, not only that but the banner changed only for a few days, so the original (that contained a popular background) remained there, advertising an event on a server that monetizes the content and that i don’t support.They don’t like me all that much, but at the same time they like me otherwise they wouldn’t able to find PSO images to make the banners, they probably can’t take screenshots or they don’t have anyone capable of doing the stuff, the mentality seems to be “if they can see it, they can use it”.
While this isn’t a huge deal, i prefer not making exceptions otherwise everyone will want to be in that situation, in other words, do you want to use screenshots and wallpapers on your website, you are free to ask and it’s likely that i will accept it even if you make a profit out of it, if on the other hand you belong to schthack or ultima staff then you can forget it, find someone else to stomp.

So to be clear, while you may see familiar stuff at ultima (banners or other content) don’t assume i had anything to do with the creation of said content, because trust me, i haven’t.

On a personal note: I remember reading a message from someone saying that “ultima had changed since then”,”we are better now” and i realized recently that hardly seems to be the case.

Dreamcast broke = no PSO :(

so i was about to record at 60 hz my gameplay, in ruins 1 room the dreamcast makes a reset, these resets strangely i couldn’t fix them and beleive me, my console has had this problem 2 or 3 times since it’s in my posesion so i know what i was doing but the console refused to maintain stable.
i open the console, i push the pins to make sure they receive power, however when i make a test with the dreamcast on, it has no signal and the main led was off, checked all the conections the led was okay, so why was it off? i really don’t know, but when i slaped the dreamcast on the side, the led turned on, but i kept getting no signal, if fact the dreamcast was not even reading the disk, or even trying and the image on my computer was pure black.
i decided to check the side with the power tranformator/convertor, i tried to check it it was okay since the led light was shaking alot especially when i touched the left side, the problem was there but i didn’t know the exact location of it.
by mistake i used a metal piece to check some stuff, the dreamcast was on and it made a short circuit, after that the dreamcast died.

with this i may never use my humar ever again, even if i get a new dreamcast it won’t work since the game has a protection the file will apear damaged or corrupted

in worst of options my char has died forever today, it will never kill a booma ever again

currently i will try and get a new power converter, with luck that was the only piece destroyed and since it’s not under anything then it’s easy to take it off and replace it by a new one……until then bye pso.

Rares and movies

1st the bad news, somehow i grabbed what i suposed to be a big % BRIONAC, after deposit the mag in the bank i saw the weapon had 0 %, so i basicly lost my 0/30/30/10 one.

there are many good news, 1st is the BRIGHTNESS CIRCLE, 1/37.000 drop from a ultimate ob lily, i was suprised when i saw the armor, i also found a 40/0/25/0/25 CUSTOM RAY VER.00, wich will replace my old one.

 

during my time i did some movies, me doing vhard and ultimate areas/bosses.

if you want to see them then go here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/KIREEKPSO

 

in the meanwhile, heres a sample

Vhard + Ultimate + videos and screens

Found a few INVISIBLE GUARD, did vhard and ultimate (forest) mode, no luck in finding good rares.
did yesterday hard mode and found a delsaber’s right arm, went to vhard to convert it to a DELSABER’S BUSTER, my first usefull enemy part

as for the last 3 zones in ultimate found a RED DAGGER in caves a SUBMIT MOON in mines and 3 IMPERIAL PICK in ruins, 2 of them had very good %, but i will not replace my current ones, also a LAST SURVIVOR wich i need to check with the one in the bank.

added a new gallery, also movies will come…..enjoy ultimate vol opt ver.2

Ultimate ruins+piping+3 zones in hard

hehe, did also ultimate ruins, no good rares, just the usual vjaya, kalagbolg, last survivors……..(all with not good enouph %)

forgot to say i found a INVISIBLE BARRIER and 2 god units in that run.
did some piping (pouilly slimes)

did hard f/c/m, found a Parasitic wear: De Rol 0 slots

also i may try and connect my dreamcast to a tv device in my computer, with luck better screens and movies will come

 

Some runs (hard/vhard/ult)

did hard mode and vhard mode, found a good % H&S25 JUSTICE and a 30% native DRAGON SLAYER, found some grinders to my new IMPERIAL PICK
made also a double save incase i lose my char to a stupid dreamcast shutdown

did ultimate forest and caves (no problems witht the dreamcast, but i am still caucious), found a RED SABER and a RED HANDGUN in forest, found a RED DAGGER in caves, a nice hunt if i may say, i didn’t found the dagger for a long time.
Also grinded to +9 the DRAGON SLAYER i found the other day…….going well

Ultimate and dreamcast new problem

Ultimate forest,caves and mines, found a SUBMIIT MOON and a RED HANDGUN, both with crap %, but i can play PSO Ver.2 again
I still need a run in vhard or so so that my skill return to wht it should be.
AND my dreamcast has a new problem, seems to be a poor connection somewhere in the console, sometimes when it reads the game, the television stops showing the game and i need to restart the console, the strange fact is that the console is on all the time, but something fails inside, gave it a few slaps and it seems that the problem is over for now.

ok, did ultimate ruins, found a 35% machine IMPERIAL PICK, teked it to 45%, it has a litle more atack power then my RED SWORD 25%, but not by much, but the ata will make for sure a big diference.

Also no 2nd controler for now, so no pics to show……..hope i can find a new controler.

Ultimate run and controler problem

well, after all the replaced resistors, i found one only 0.02 ohms different, after pluging the first controller everything was fine, but the 2nd controler made the fan run slower and the resistor almost melted, i found it strange so i pluged the controller, and besides the memory card not responding it imidiatly made the same stuff again, so the problem is the controller……now i need to find a new one that works perfectly.

did ultimate forest just to see if the resistor was damaged, no damage, found a VICTOR AXE, bad %

today did the remaining zones, found only a nice % BRIONAC at the ruins

Vhard run,piping and dreamcast problem

Did last week piping in search of the pouilly slime, no luck, same this weekend.

Did vhard, at ruins my controlers stop working meaning that after many years the resistor inside dreamcast blowed up, i need to replace for a new one but before that i replaced with a paper clip, altought it works, 2 or more controlers make the dreamcast fan,laser and graphic apresentation fails, so no pics to add to my gallery.

Found a DRAGON SLAYER and a DOUBLE SABER

Hard run

Well to day was a run in caves, mines and ruins, on caves i wanted a durandal, it is rarer then a red saber on ultimate so it might take some weeks if not months to obtain this colectors item.

on mines found a DOUBLE SABER, but i wanted more a s-beats arm or the proto regen gear……unfortunatly even with very good drop rates i did not found the items.

on ruins found an agito 1977……i wanted more a delsabers right arm……oh well, the run was so boring that i decided to do next week vhard mode and ultimate in the next week after that.

Did now a simple run at the hard forest, obtained a DRAGON SLAYER no %

Ultimate run and Lvl 200

well, i only found a SENSE PLATE 0 slots at the mines 1, an IMPERIAL PICK and a INVISIBLE BARRIER at the ruins.
Also at the ruins lvled up to 200…….yes……my humar has now the top lvl, 200 legit levels

Vhard run

Today was a very crappy run, only a DOUBLE SABER in the mines.
Feeded my bana some star atomizers since i made a double save to my nexus
i need less then 200.000 exp to lvl up, sunday will be a BIG day

Ultimate run

Did Ultimate today, found 2 REVIVAL GARMENTS, one at the 2nd boss and another at mines 1 box, 3 SUMMIT MOON at the mines, 2 INVISIBLE BARRIER at the ruins and a IMPERIAL PICK (bad %) also in the ruins.

I have also now 96 million exp