Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II Review

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 April, 2003

Review - Tom goes online with the Cube. Phinally.

Version tested: GameCube

According to messrs Nintendo, Infogrames and Sega, this is the first online game for a next-gen console in Europe! Well, that's just plain bollocks, isn't it? Xbox Live has been kicking around since the end of November, the PS2 has had online games to some degree for ages (like Tony Hawk), and wasn't the Dreamcast supposedly next-gen anyway? Let's not get bogged down by semantics, you might well say, but hey, we're not the ones who wrote the silly press release.

So what is special about Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II, apart from the crap name, the distinction of being the first online Cube game, and a dynasty of old-school turn-based RPGs?

Up and under

'Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II' Screenshot 01b

You'd think Nintendo would want something mainstream and accessible for its first online game. Tellingly, PSO is exactly the opposite. Fortunately, it makes up for it by being bizarrely addictive when played by more than a lone player, and it gets this aspect of the game right most of the time. However, it also makes plenty of mistakes. Cripes - three paragraphs in and we're already bouncing back and forth like war propaganda. We knew this would happen.

The game is, at its simplest, a hackandslashy science fiction RPG played by one-to-four players, in which the protagonists - colonials looking for a new home in the stars - are seeking to find out why the planet Ragol and an early settlement has been ripped to shreds by a big explosion, and where all the people have gone. The game is played out on and below the surface of the planet as a band of adventurers fight wave after wave of plodding enemies in pseudo-real-time, collecting money and upgrades in their wake and from crates scattered by the explosion.

The original Dreamcast game (including the version 2 upgrade) is there in full, and the "Episode II" element (you can see how it gets confusing) adds a raft of new content in the same game engine. It can be played offline by one player, by two-to-four in split-screen mode, or online by a single player co-operating with up to three others in a party. Sadly, you can't have people on your end make up the numbers in split-screen - an annoying restriction, but with a very tightly controlled serial/key/password system governing the online element, and a monthly subscription fee, you can sort of understand why.

Off and on

'Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II' Screenshot 02b

Instead of splitting the game up into single and multiplayer chunks, you simply play through the same levels and have more enemies to face depending on the numbers. In each case, you have to set up a character to start with, choosing from one of three classes and four sub-classes each, which all differ in their abilities. To quickly run through each one; Hunters are proficient with bladed weapons; Rangers specialise in projectile weaponry; and Forces are sort of wizardlike, with various spells which make up for their physical weakness. However in PSO, these are called "Techniques", and use TP instead of MP. Semantics again.

The Episode I element comprises four main areas: the Forest (with slashy humanoid "Booma" enemies, wolves and little yellow penguin-looking bastards), the Caves (with sharks and Nova dragons), the Mines and the Ruins. We lost interest in the latter stage enemies long ago and can't remember their names. Of the four sections, the Forest is easily our favourite, with its reasonable learning curve, increasingly cool battles (big, gorilla look-alikes turn up eventually at four times the size of a Booma) and one of the best bosses in the game - a big red dragon. However, none of them varies much from the hackandslash principles, and ultimately the gameplay is mainly about collecting items and doing whatever's needed to open the next door (almost universally by one of two activities; killing all the enemies in one area or just finding a switch nearby). Any variation in gameplay can be found in the enemies you face and the kit you acquire. OK, you can download quests from Pioneer 2 (and the Sega servers), which flesh out the story a little more, but they all take place in the same levels.

The act of walking around and clobbering people is admittedly quite fun. The lightsaber-wielding Hunters get the best of it, and the combat is based around a measured three-tap system (tap - downward stroke - tap - horizontal stroke - tap - uppercut). As you go on, you gradually accumulate better weapons from the crates you find and shops you visit back on your mothership, the Pioneer 2, and Techniques from special disks which are strewn around the same locations. Weapons, techniques and items can all be bound to the various face buttons on the controller through a complicated menu system, and eventually your little Mag - a sort of shoulder-mounted Tamagotchi who must be fed items regularly - will learn how to pull off massively powerful techniques which are best employed against bosses.

One to four

'Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II' Screenshot 03b

But playing the game on your own can be pretty tedious. It takes a long time and a lot of battles to level up your character to boss-beating status, and as you start out you'll often find yourself dying regularly or running out of Monomate (cough, health potion) and retreating to Pioneer 2 to tool up again. And of course this style of hack, slash, die, rinse, repeat only really appeals to a particular brand of gamer, and I'm not really one of them. Shove in a social context though and I'll happily play Diablo II until the early hours, and that's where PSO really excels - in that close-knit, team co-op guise. Get a few friends together and play online and it's amazing. You share experience by contributing to the death of the same enemy; thus you can help build up lesser players by having them dart in and smack an enemy once before you finish it off. You can fight over the loot. You can work through a level in a couple of little groups. You can even chat away happily - with the appropriate keyboard peripheral. And to a certain extent, the game is also fun in split-screen mode. To a certain extent.

Beyond that extent, we have the communal map overlay, which obscures a lot of the playing area despite some vague attempt at translucency, the absolutely ridiculous pop-up even in two-player (we used the term "Daytona-level pop-up" recently, but we're going to switch to "PSO GC-level pop-up"), and a camera which at times just does not want to show you the game. It's OK in single player with a big screen to peer at, but in little split-screen boxes you'll find that getting backed up by monsters often means you're left with screen clutter and big, fat, indecipherable graphics pulsating against the camera like a bloody ultrasound scan. "Where's the enemy? I don't see it." It's even worse in boss battles, particularly with dragons, because it only wants to look at their heads, meaning you get stomped because you can't see where you are. Honestly, Sega, did you even test this?

Down and down

'Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II' Screenshot 04b

Eek, we almost commenced the downward spiral towards the verdict you've already glanced at. But before we do, let's stick with what we do like about PSO, because for all its flaws (and it's taking a lot of typing to fit them all in), it does have some serious merit. To reiterate what's gone before, it's very addictive in multiplayer over the Internet, and for some, as a whole. The reward structure is great, with irregular level-ups interwoven with new weapons, new armour, new Mag levels and new enemies. However, the graphics have lost some of their sheen, so it's no longer a visual reward, but more of that later.

Still on the friendly tack though, the online setup and network attached seem to be in pretty good nick. We've tried the game using both broadband and modem adapters (although Nintendo's PR company was only allocated ten of the former for the entire UK press so we had to buy one), and set up is logical, albeit occasionally a bit confusing. Anybody with a smattering of network skills will be able to set either up. For broadband, we had to set a manual IP address because PSO refused to talk to our DHCP server, but that's about it.

As for lag, we didn't spot any, except a reasonable amount via modem, and the download pod in the City area came furnished with the promised NiGHTS GBA port. Handy, and a good reason to invest in the GBA-to-GC connector, although you'll have to finish the mini-game specific quests first.

Money, money, money

'Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II' Screenshot 05b

That said, you can't be expected to invest in every Cube peripheral under the sun, and that's what PSO seems to want you to do. You'll need a broadband or modem adapter to play it with other people at all, and that's £35, and then there's the keyboard peripheral from Datel or whoever, which is another £20. These are almost obligatory in order to gain much from the title - using the on-screen keyboard is horrible, and the Cube will only talk to the Internet using a standard, 'Nintendo-made-this' peripheral. Sorry. So that's £55 on top of the cost of the game.

To take advantage of the downloadable GBA games, that's another £7 or so for the cable, and since the game uses 28 blocks of your memory card, you're probably going to need another one of those (no reasonably longstanding Cube owner is going to have 28 blocks free on their main memory card, however poor the software situation has been). So you're looking at a big, big investment for a game which will only probably return it - and has rather insultingly been available on another system for several years. The only reason you can't play it on those any more (with all the peripherals you bought then) is that Sega turned the servers off - oh, and now they want £5.99 / €8.99 a month after a 30-day preview period for you to continue doing so.

What are they offering to justify this besides an ageing RPG? A smattering of new content (a few levels, bosses, weapons and so on), broadband support and a split-screen option - all things which should have been in "version 2". And they're still peddling those "you must walk to this specific two-metre-squared area to spawn baddies which, when dispatched, will unlock the doors you can't figure out" situations. Bad Sega, bad!

Final Phantasy: Please

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Aaaand we've been waiting to go on about the graphics, so indulge us; characters look like paper chain men with textures pasted onto them, and don't really do anything other than run like podgy charity workers dressed up as bears during the 24th mile of the marathon, occasionally halting to swing their swords or whathaveyou, animals move slowly and without much variation, and sometimes get caught jerking against the scenery, the collision detection is awful, and the environmental effects consist of little jets of water sprinkling out of octagonal pipes (which, without the water, we wouldn't be able to identify) and bubbling lava. The environments are even starting to look shabby now, with the exception of the new Beach area in Episode II, which looks rather splendid as you can see in the screenshots.

Phantasy Star Online has been kicking around for a long time now, and with each successive "update", Sega seems keen to endorse the snappy new slogan we dreamt up for it: Yesterday's Technology Tomorrow. This one is admittedly better value for money than the rather uninspired "version 2" Dreamcast release, but for a game which has seen as much development as this to suffer from fundamental flaws and dodgy design decisions in so many areas is bizarre.

Sega fans should rush out and buy it for the new content, ignoring every single word we say as the blinkers slowly unwind to obscure life outside Ragol, and die-hard fans of the genre will probably go for it - and more power to them, but they will want one of those keyboard pads too, unless they plan to stick with four stock phrases and a few smileys for the rest of eternity. Meanwhile, PSO virgins will find the package unwieldy and confusing to start with, and the online element a bit inaccessible. It's worth persevering with if you've got a regular group to play with online, but otherwise it just plain is not. Not any more. Too complicated for most humans, and it's going to be a lot more cost-effective on Xbox anyway, hence the score.

6 / 10

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Comments (125) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Blerk #1 9 years ago

    it's going to be a lot more cost-effective on Xbox anyway

    Why?

  • Mugwum Verified Operations Director, Eurogamer Network #2 9 years ago

    Because buying an Xbox Live package means you can play other games too (and you even get some thrown in, albeit demos), but in the Cube's case you're buying an adapter for one game. There are no other online games and we haven't the foggiest when the next one will turn up... Plus you won't need another memory card, or any other bits and bobs, and I bet there's no flipping pop-up or slowdown!

  • Blerk #3 9 years ago

    Ah!

  • Nemesis #4 9 years ago

    Oi. All you lot with OCD. Go play Diablo2 instead. Go on. It'll be cheaper. That's a hefty investment for a single game IMO.

  • RedboX #5 9 years ago

    Mugwum wrote:
    and I bet there's no flipping pop-up or slowdown!


    You be surprised, unless Sega have updated it since the Japanesse version.
    Edited by 1 at 02/04/03 @ 11:47

  • Cyhwuhx #6 9 years ago

    "how about a "quit all menus" button, Sega? And don't bind "Cancel menu" to "Use health potion even if you don't need to""

    Z-button people! I know it's small, I know it's clumsy but please try the buttons before moaning... ;) (what's next, you claiming you constantly use 'start' to enter the menu? :p)
    Besides you CAN bind your Monomates to the X-button and keep A and B for attacks. (Even smarter put items under you R-set).

    Note for the doubters; get your hands on Shining Soul (GBA) which if you like it, is the exact equivalent of Phantasy Star Offline. If you don't like Shining Soul steer clear of PSO. If you do like it, I'll be seeing you on EU/Arcturus3-1.

  • Mugwum Verified Operations Director, Eurogamer Network #7 9 years ago

    The bloody Z button! Ta, that'll keep me happy.

  • Cyhwuhx #8 9 years ago

    .::: Heheh, btw I totally agree on the score. If it wasn't for the addictive quality of the game, it would be terribly boring and very basic.

    As it is, it's fun to be constantly leveling together with some friends. But that's it...

  • Machiavel #9 9 years ago

    PSO definitely has packaged a rather fine magic inside its unwieldy and sometimes irritating gameplay. For me one of my gaming highlights was playing early on in the Dreamcast days and first reaching the final boss (of Chapter 1). Must admit I'd be tempted to revisit if the Xbox version doesn't look like a lacklustre, dodgy port (as some forumites have worryingly hinted)

  • Slim #10 9 years ago

    As you say, it's almost a shame it's out first on the cube and not the xbox. I love me cube, but there's no way I'm buying a broadband adapter just for one game.

  • otto #11 9 years ago

    Are you on crack? Low scores?? They've had two 10 out of 10s and four 9 out of 10s in the last few days ffs!!!

  • JabbaDaHut #12 9 years ago

    Heh - Makes Steel Battalion look almost good value for money....And I totally agree with the score Btw...

  • Dizzy #13 9 years ago

    Online games should be played on real online consoles. Not on the Cube. Nuff said...

  • AOFanboi #14 9 years ago

    What's a "real online console"? A console that came equipped with the hardware but no service? And which maker insists on being a monopolistic ASP as well, leading to certain game companies abandoning online play in their games for that platform?

  • Cyhwuhx #15 9 years ago

    .::: Oh grow up you all, just because you like a game doesn't mean it's worth a high score. Besides it's a 6/10, that's above average which makes it a good game right? (If not than I hope you're all getting better grades at any form of college)

    Besides, Shining Soul was receiving scores of 5 and 6 and I heard nobody complain about them. Just compare Shining Soul with Phantasy Star Online. It even has the four player option AND the limited ability to do some kind of summon next to being nearly identical.

    PSO is a limited game which isn't pushing any boundaries. That DOES NOT mean it's no fun. Quit getting off on scores. Sheesh. :p

  • mustardkid #16 9 years ago

    pffft if you ask me it's repetitive and pointless and mags are just freudian willy extensions. so don't you wave yr stag cutlery at me ... i'm not impressed

  • beep #17 9 years ago

    I'll stick with the eerily ghost town-esque Dreamcast versions then.

  • Pirotic #18 9 years ago

    Im going to have to comment, as i did get a keyboard and a modem JUST so i can play PSOv2, and i dont regret it for a second.

    Your argument that it hasn't changed much since the dreamcast release is valid, the graphics are pretty poor in terms of polygons and textures, and the pop-up does suck..

    ..however, the item popup is there on purpose, it speeds up the internet games a bit, you see it only updates the 'room' your in, and the items which are within your sight meaning even on the dreamcasts 33.6 modem you can play it without any lag. which is also why badguys always 'fade out' and 'fade in/pop out' and why they always stand still when inactive rather than 'roam' by default.

    they could of taken it out, but then the broadband people would have a big advantage (being able to see dropped items from a mile off)

    but despite this i think PSO is still one of the most beautiful games, it might be carved out of a limited number of polygons but everything is so stylized and 'cool', just look at the weapons, you pick one up, equip it and think to yourself "wahey - this is wicked" only to constantly notice that "that high level geezer" has an even better looking weapon!

    (why did that sound dirty?)

    its a very magical game and when ripped apart, yes, it isnt perfect, but its far greater than the sum of its parts and for many this will be there only chance to see ragnol before it vanishs forever.

  • Skeeve #19 9 years ago

    "Because buying an Xbox Live package means you can play other games too"

    The hunter's licence is supposedly extra on top of xbox live isn't it?

    "but in the Cube's case you're buying an adapter for one game. There are no other online games and we haven't the foggiest when the next one will turn up..."

    Buying console hardware for initially a single game is hardly a new thing now is it. ;-)

    "Plus you won't need another memory card, or any other bits and bobs,"

    I bet plenty of gc owners didn't need another memory card either, its a shame sega or nintendo haven't done a gc to usb adaptor for keyboards like ms have supposedly done for the xbox especially since that also has the voice chat stuff as well.

  • #20 9 years ago

    Yeh.. especially with the Xbox looking worse than the GC one. That was the smart thing to do. *looks at EG staff*

  • Azule #21 9 years ago

    PSO virgins will find the package unwieldy and confusing to start with, and the online element a bit inaccessible. It's worth persevering with if you've got a regular group to play with online, but otherwise it just plain is not.

    As a former virgin, erm, I mean newbie ;), I found the game took some getting used to, but that's only fair for a game that you'll most likely play every week, or more accurately, every day. If it was simple to pick up you would probably be seeing the faults of that simplicity rather quickly and be tearing your hair out wishing for something that makes more sense in the long run.
    Finding fun people to play with, more likely people who have picked up a keyboard, is no problem and obviously adds to the fun of the game.
    The cost was a factor, and still is, but for the kind of useage that this game is getting I don't regret it.

    Pirotic, thanks for the explanation on the pop up, et al. :)

  • #22 9 years ago

    www.codejunkies.com

  • CyberClaw #23 9 years ago

    Play the game the right way and find the damn weapons you shitty cheater. No one likes cheaters here. They disrupt our Online fun.

  • CyberClaw #24 9 years ago

    This guy is so fucking smart. He posts in a couple of forums he found through google that he'll return the game if we don't give him gameshark codes (like if we wanted more one cheater among us, or like if he returned the game we'd loose a celebrity on our online enjoyment). Not only that, but he posted in those forums asking for cheats, and the said cheats to be sent to his email... Probably because he won't check back on the 30 forums he posted the same crap. The only problem is, he forgot to leave his email ^^;
    Smart guy. He "finished" PSO and everything... LOL

  • FWB #25 9 years ago

    PSO CODES PLEASE!, can I shove my foot so far up your ass that it comes out of your mouth?

  • Blerk #26 9 years ago

    Why'd you buy it if you can't go online? Didn't you notice the huge 'online' on the front of the box? The single player game is next to useless....

  • FWB #27 9 years ago

    FUCK YOU all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Is that a promise? Can I have it in writing?

  • CyberClaw #28 9 years ago

    "I'll get you for this you twiddly brats" (while twisting and waving his fist)

    As far as my conscience goes, you, a kid by the age of 5, could very well be lying (I don't have online, buh-uh), so I'd never give ou anything. Not only that, but when called a cheater (which you are, with online or not) you promise to, and I quote "fuck you all". Unless you are a 20 year old, blond busty and sexy female, I think I'll pass the chance of having sex with you though. Sorry.

  • mal #29 9 years ago

    But if they gave it 8 out of 10 it would have to be as good as Halo!

  • nightmarex2 #30 9 years ago

    does ne1 know how to equip multiple wepons any help apriciated

  • Blerk #31 9 years ago

    I'm really glad I didn't pay to play PSO, given the amount of cheating scumbags who turn up just on here. Imagine how many of them are out there now, spoiling everyone's games instead of posting for cheats on web sites...

  • krieg #32 9 years ago

    this game is ugly, u pick a gun up, hit the shoot button and u win, whoopedy doo

  • Scimarad #33 9 years ago

    When did this place turn into the GameFAQs forum???

  • krieg #34 9 years ago

    i didnt buy it, i have better things to spend my dough on, my friend bought it... poor sap

  • krieg #35 9 years ago

    the fact that u suck so badly u need codes makes it even worse, go outside, play basketball, something

  • krieg #36 9 years ago

    but if you want a good rpg final fantasy VII (that would be a 7, zero data) is as good as it can get, if u arent stuck up enough to only focus on graphics the story and gameplay could beat out phantasy star's excuse for existance

  • mal #37 9 years ago

    I'm just fucking glad I stopped playing this after the first Dreamcast version. I see the cube version has just the same fuckwits duping and hacking the game as ever. Shame. Brave new world? No, same old morons.

  • krieg #38 9 years ago

    "DUM A$$" Now don't you sound intelligent.

  • Sleepy Magpie #39 9 years ago

    "zero data"

    -That just about sums it up nicely. Funny how these things work out.

  • Pirotic #40 9 years ago

    cheating's fine, but this is an online title - get a life and play fair.

  • krieg #41 9 years ago

    this game sucks, play a different one, if u want an rpg final fantasy 7

  • krieg #42 9 years ago

    all you code kiddies are such losers, dont hack or cheat, get a life, if u have to play a game as gay as this at least make it better for others by not being a cheater, what losers, dont waste space here either, if u wanna ask for cheats like the homos u are, just go to gamefaqs

  • mal #43 9 years ago

    Hey, I know just how you feel. Every time I find myself really enjoying a game, I can't stop thinking how great it would be to find a cheat for it that takes out all of the fun of competing. Think how much better it is if you can fuck up the experience for everyone else while you're at it!

  • krieg #44 9 years ago

    seriously people dont cheat, if u suck then go cry, play it and get better, cheating ruins the game for everyone else, by cheating u guys are being selfish, if u want to get an idea of how much people love hackers get counter strike and an aim bot and see how loved u cheating losers are

  • Lutz #45 9 years ago

    Sega need to pull there fingers out their arse and release a proper Phantasy Star game, which next in the series would be Phantasy Star 5. This is needed. Now.

    /sulks

  • mal #46 9 years ago

    You should be able to save at any point, but it will only save your stats. You have to complete each dungeon in one run through - though once you've levelled up enough, that should be a piece of cake.

  • hellmut55 #47 9 years ago

    Leider ist durch die tagelange Levelprügelei das Spiel doch recht langweilig geworden.
    Jetzt suche ich actionrplay codes für Meseta und Levelgain (PAL-Version)

  • chrgoku #48 8 years ago

    I really want some AR codes If anyone has real codes please send them to chrgoku@hotmail.com

  • #49 8 years ago

    ...or how about playing games like they were meant to be played .... ever try that?

  • mal #50 8 years ago

    Oi! Stop breaking my game. You can afford to pay me my 40 quid refund for breaking my game, can you?

  • psofreak #51 8 years ago

    please send me some action replay codes
    btheis@bresnan.net

  • psofreak #52 8 years ago

    the code doesnt fuckin work

  • Skyler #53 8 years ago

    Hello people, i was wondering if sombody could send me some codes, but im in the UK, so does anybody have any PAL codes? If you do, could you please send them to me at:
    Skyler0151@hotmail.com
    :)

  • Blerk #54 8 years ago

    Well... you guys have convinced me that I will never be playing Phantasy Star Online. Congrats!

  • Pirotic #55 8 years ago

    offline EXP is more i think, but you sometimes dont notice as its divided by the number of characters who attacked that monster or something like that,

  • Blerk #56 8 years ago

    Is there anyone actually still playing this game who isn't cheating their bollocks off?

  • Machiavel #57 8 years ago

    If only Sega had included some TRON-digitiser adapter.

    "We're saturated with cheats, sir."

    Zzzzappppp!

    /horrible whining noises

  • Lucky_dude #58 8 years ago

    holy crap... ok so im a big cheat freak and once i saw this board i almost shit my freaking pants... all these freaking codes!... ok... so anyways... yea... i was wondering if Unknown could send me those inf hp and tp codes... i have played the game about 5 months on the cube and i had an old saga account... but that doesnt really matter... sorry if i sound like a complete idiot but im sick as hell... one of those head colds... so... thanks for all the hard work with making the codes and... yea... merry christmas or whatever... ha, almost forgot, email is ryanclark214@hotmail.com, thanks agian
    Edited by 1 at 22/12/03 @ 02:39

  • Lucky_dude #59 8 years ago

  • Erhynn Megid #60 8 years ago

    I want to thank you all, Action Replay Masters !!

    Thanks to give us codes, both for US and UK Versions !! I really thanks you for the UK version. Since my chara, JENNY (HuNewearl, Lv 153, Lavis Cannon +5 (0%, 40%, 30%, 40%), Celestial Armor 4 Slots (God Ability, Hero Ability, Super Resist and Metal Body), Chao Mag (Lv 200), been killed and my save corrumpted... I'll never play online again, since no protection codes will be founded.

    Sorry for mistakes, I'm french. Thanks again for thoses great codes !!
    Edited by 1 at 23/12/03 @ 19:10

  • Erhynn Megid #61 8 years ago

    The codes are already found !!

    QUOTE >>
    EU Codes:

    with the combined effort of MY$TIKAL, DuPzOr and dopeman we have made the eu lv200 code:

    ERRT-JTJP-3VZYB
    EV0T-FEFG-TZH8D

    kill rappy to get lv200

    Armor Shop for EU version: MY$TIKAL, DuPzOr and dopeman

    NW1E-Y5JE-P1D36
    5HCR-AU8M-N6RRW
    C763-UJ5W-KV0NZ

  • Erhynn Megid #62 8 years ago

    @PSO RUELD :!

    The codes does works !! They are for Lv200, and Rare Armor Shop only for EU Version !

    The Lv200 code is a bit strange :
    You should start to Episode 2, find a Rappy, kill him fast !! And tadam, you're Level 200 !! All others enemies will hit you far away, and you'll hit them with 0 dmg !

  • Erhynn Megid #63 8 years ago

    I'm waiting for the Rare Weapons Codes, and some codes who changes the gameplay.

    I'm Jenny, Lv 200, HuNewearl, and I cry in Episode 2 in Ultimate !!!!

  • Erhynn Megid #64 8 years ago

    Wait for the return of Master Mind !

  • Erhynn Megid #65 8 years ago

    @FOR ALL :
    You know, this topic will no close because there's AR codes here !
    If someone doesn't like cheaters'hackers etc, simply clic on Ignore Poster, or leave this topic !

    We're free to cheat like we want, we've bought the game (56 €) !!

  • dark_solo #66 8 years ago

    OMG EVERYONE GO TO

    PSOCHEATS.COM THEY HAVE CODES

  • dark_solo #67 8 years ago

    so what are the sites?

  • Erhynn Megid #68 8 years ago

    What's the problems with gays ? I have no problem with them. Don't discriminate here, find another site to cry, here, we talk about games (Phantasy Star Online Episode 1&2.). Get away from this topic and this site. Or I'll hury your ass so hard you'll kiss the moon.

  • Erhynn Megid #69 8 years ago

    Does anyone have code for Saving on Another Memory Card ? My 59blocks is dying (Nintendo), and I can't save/copy it to my 251. I know there was a code on Dreamcast. Could you find it please ^o^ ?

  • Erhynn Megid #70 8 years ago

    DAMN DAMN AND DAMNED SAVE SYSTEM !!

    Before the crash of my Memory Card, I was playing a Multi Mode, and my Lv200 char (Inada Celstice, HuMar), was in Temp Character (Slot B). While the play, the console have crash (with a nice PUUUUUUUUUUU). Restarting the play, I've found my char, with no Meseta, no items, no mag, no weapons, no armors, no slots, nothing. Only the char.

    Now, he's :
    Lv 200
    Hp : 50 / 200
    Tp : 990 / 1200
    Exp : 0
    Next Level -9894
    ATP : 45
    DFP : 4
    MST : 880
    ATA : 9
    EVP : 60
    LCK : 0

    AAAAAAARGH ! Can someone find the Save On Another Memory Card code fastly please ? Both US and UK, this way, everyone will be happy.

  • Erhynn Megid #71 8 years ago

    It won't work, your AR'll says : This code is for another game. Sorry, I've tried

  • Chaos Knight #72 8 years ago

    Are there any u.s version 1.1 action replay codes that make rare wepons easier to find, or let you buy rare weapons from the weapon shop if so could you send them to jjhysick@aol.com

  • Chaos Knight #73 8 years ago

    Is there a U.S version 1.1 action replay code that lets you buy rares from the weapons shop.

  • Chaos Knight #74 8 years ago

    are there any codes that will make rare items/ weapons/ guards drop faster.

  • Chaos Knight #75 8 years ago

    Is anyone it able to change the buy rare guards at guard shop U.S version 1.1 action replay code in to a buy rare weapons at weapons shop action replay code.

  • Chaos Knight #76 8 years ago

    if that unknown person is still here can i have the codes to my email is jjhysick@aol.com

  • Chaos Knight #77 8 years ago

    are there any max stat codes.

  • Chaos Knight #78 8 years ago

    To get the orchi agito
    1. you have to have the 1975 edition agito
    2. you have to take it to a tekker that is standing near the deposit room on the quest "seek my master"

  • Chaos Knight #79 8 years ago

    to get the 1975 agito try the npc code for soul of steel if agito isnt there try npc code for the docs secret plan. The correct npc code should let you play as aperson called Sakon he has the agito
    Edited by 1 at 16/02/04 @ 18:38

  • Chaos Knight #80 8 years ago

    the npc codes are posted above by unknown

  • Chaos Knight #81 8 years ago

    the codes do work you just have to delete your PSO codes/folder you already have, and then create a new PSO folder for the npc code

  • Kaisho #82 8 years ago

    I have US ver1.1 i am requesting new updated from 02/19 codes if any of the code masters have any i'll be in pso us servers names Kaisho Lv 200 FOmar in advance thanks
    Edited by 2 at 24/02/04 @ 20:30

  • Chaos Knight #83 8 years ago

    I'M NOT A HACKER!!!!

  • Chaos Knight #84 8 years ago

    why dont they make a code for online that stops the effects of any action replay codes if anybody tries using them online.

  • Pirotic #85 8 years ago

    oh dear - dont you realise all your doing is throwing away your own enjoyment?

    the whole purpose of rare items is so that when you eventually find/earn one you're chuffed for the rest of the day, and while your egos may tell you that being lvl1 sucks - infact being lvl1 is probably the most fun - i got to lvl 100-odd without a single cheat and if anything it just gets more boring - easier to kill, harder to find a party and you end up playing with cheaters rather than other players of an equal skill.

    atleast when your low-level your playing with good honest folk and can enjoy the game much more.

  • itamae #86 8 years ago

    /throws a handful of ,,,,, ...... and '''''' at the above posts

  • Kaisho #87 8 years ago

    I don't understand what your non code users problem is if you don't like like then don't use them if you enjoy pso without codes then shit man just don't use them but for people like me who don't have their whole lives to sit down and play pso because I have a life outside of the game world want to use codes because it takes forever to get powerful but there are somethings i'm against dealing with codes such as pking and stealing ppl's items without them even droping it see this is what made the DC ver a mess now if this can be avoided then i don't see what the big deal is so once again if you don't like the codes then don't use then but don't knock anyone who does or the ppl who supply them it's just stupid and so are threts i mean can you imagine someone going to jail because of a modification to a game i saying wow ppl rape and kill other ppl in real life so it's so dumb to try to turn someone in not only is it a waste of time but nintendo most likely won't listen to you or you won't beable to get a hold of anyone real so basically all you haters stop being a baby and when your online just form your own parties to play in without any cheaters in it and if a cheater joins the game then just ask him to leave see cause the only way that this hacker and non hacker war is gonna stop is if both sides respect each others space ............it's not worth the stress it's only a game!

  • Kaisho #88 8 years ago

    Where have all PSO people gone? It's like no one uses this forum any more we still need codes people what's going on?

  • Kaisho #89 8 years ago

    I'm no hacker i'm here just requesting more codes it's great that people agree with me but i'm not hacker i wish i was i'd give out what ever i had i'm just wondering where the code masters have gone to if you have any questions or answers i play the GC ver 1.1 FOmar Lv 200 (LOL) Kaisho
    Edited by 1 at 24/02/04 @ 20:29

  • Kaisho #90 8 years ago

    Uh let's see do I know how to dupe or not well obviously NOT cause i clearly stated that i'm not a hacker and as for the person that called me a gay loser well i would like some reasons on why you would call me such a thing and i would also like some proof to how you are accusing me of having sex with little boys and old people.

  • glo #91 8 years ago

    It's all a bit scary in here...

  • Kaisho #92 8 years ago

    WOW you people are funny saying all that stuff about me LMAO

  • Kaisho #93 8 years ago

    Yeah really if your not posting, requesting codes or have anything to contribute to this game the get the fuck out of here! bunch of fucking retards!

  • Kaisho #94 8 years ago

    Honestly I don't give a damm what anyone does I just want to get some new codes for this game but it's really stupid when people talk shit about other people and because of this less and less people will post codes because they think there is nothing but a bunch of immature assholes using this forum.
    Edited by 1 at 27/02/04 @ 23:51

  • Kaisho #95 8 years ago

    Does anyone have Buy Rares at Weapon Shop code for US ver 1.1 ?

  • Great #96 8 years ago

    If that weapons code is real, how long will it take for someone to transfer it to the EU code?

  • Kaisho #97 8 years ago

    Nope sorry, i wish i did i'd trade in my GC ver and get the Xbox one instead but if you have some free time try and see if any of the GC codes work on it. Good Luck and God speed!
    Oh wait try asking some people on this site it's worth a try http://www.ragol.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?s =&daysprune=&f=7
    Edited by 1 at 02/03/04 @ 01:30

  • Great #98 8 years ago

    Is anyone working on a Pal buy rare weapons code or should I not expect to see one in the near future?

  • Great #99 8 years ago

    Oh no, I'm scared! someones copied my name and writen something about me, shock, horror.

    Ok now that, thats done can somebody that uses this forum for cheats tell me if codes are being made for the EU version, I am quite interested.
    Edited by 1 at 02/03/04 @ 20:55

  • Power Rangers #100 8 years ago

    If anyone has some action replay codes for the british version can you send them to me please at imabritishberk@hotmail.com. THANKS

  • Power Rangers #101 8 years ago

    Any action replay codes for gc version please
    Edited by 1 at 13/03/04 @ 19:45

  • Kaisho #102 8 years ago

    Yea I know PSO 3 is out but that doesn't mean that 1&2 should end if any action replay hackers are out there then lets have some codes plz!

  • Power Rangers #103 8 years ago

    Half of the action replay codes don't work
    On the positive side half of the codes work
    are there any others

  • Kaisho #104 8 years ago

    Yes,A rare weapons code can someone post it i know they are out there plz post them somebody helllllllllllp!

  • Kaisho #105 8 years ago

    Someones gotta keep this game hacking going

    Version 1.0 Codes US

    Online Mode Offline
    UCAA-0FT7-PER23
    FAQP-W5R9-D1PQ4
    0J9X-TDDC-9HAC8
    BX2W-QQFT-5C6ET
    CXKH-ZFMD-X6UHY
    55R3-E6J3-WT8RR
    9GWX-HA6M-73BFC
    123M-3NDA-433HN
    JZ25-FQPT-GM453

    Load "Heat Sword" Quest Enemy In "Battle Training", "Claiming A Stake" And "Magnetude of Metal"
    XTHP-N61E-ZYDVW
    KM5H-08GM-CCPU2
    AA4Y-U911-J6Z6W
    FGW9-E97K-28CYE
    D5EP-QYYY-8X556
    BVD5-1V61-C1AXZ
    T5EV-NA7U-X97UW
    JEQ3-E2G6-RJ9HM
    UHFW-C8P0-MXTYE
    PK4M-1A5M-GRVFK
    JYBW-41HJ-B6X5E
    B1CV-9EMQ-VXC1V
    MNMM-HZGV-DRF2G

    Load "Heat Sword" Quest Enemy In Battle Mode Forest

    RXJU-URG1-T830X
    VP0J-YM23-GREY5
    60GE-U589-E5MZF
    0BZ0-HAKY-YTFPD
    T5KV-BE8R-9QF4M


    Walk Through Walls - Both Eps (P2 Only)

    JRWU-K39B-21KK3
    KK93-TG7A-HD7P5
    HFW8-YTGU-0RJUY
    8NJE-A18Y-K91Y2
    DYRT-XF6W-ANK0T
    U0EU-KQ64-GWGH9
    G26J-YVN3-7UUU1

    Walk Through Walls For Lobby 06YW-J5UQ-DPE4Q

    MB0G-A5NR-7EPZ7
    V8XU-KV6J-0TAU1

    Walk Through Walls - Pioneer 2
    UCQ4-8ZCB-Q8RT7
    94HD-7PT3-G5TM7
    V8XU-KV6J-0TAU1

    Walk Through Walls All But Levels
    B8ZJ-FUKZ-9X9AX
    Z39M-HAXU-759C7
    M629-1T3E-2V29C
    MB0G-A5NR-7EPZ7
    V8XU-KV6J-0TAU1
    EMQA-HJWN-G9DJP
    XA2M-4MKU-NKQD7
    1R7A-9G2R-CQJC3
    3BEV-VQKG-J30FC
    Z8WQ-F0ZB-AZH9F
    80CP-T9X5-8VP2Y
    WPYE-CY0W-YX6BW
    DP4X-2GCF-BMQH0
    AZ6J-7G7E-N3RFH
    BCY7-7ZNB-GT6AF
    8QVK-H4QD-EFWW2
    WDA2-1H1C-XP30Q
    Edited by 1 at 17/03/04 @ 21:37

  • WoodenSpoon #106 8 years ago

    Huntin' season draws near.

  • valli #107 8 years ago

    I must buy this game and get online, seems like I'm missing plenty of quality gameplay time with you fellas!

  • timberwaterwolf #108 8 years ago

    Cheating is wrong. It is just acceptable now. People make money from it.
    Pso cheating is worse, why should I play a game for months
    just to have someone with a super character come over and laugh
    at me. That isn't fair.

    But if people want to cheat that is fine. They can get bored really quickly because they have the best weapon in the game in ten seconds flat.

  • westernmusic #109 8 years ago

    Someone raped the concrete. And it was good.

  • pylon #110 8 years ago

    www.gamefags.com

  • pylon #111 8 years ago

    No, Kevel!! I'm eating!! And you can't have any!!

  • dragonsrule #112 8 years ago

    Hey peeps just wanna say thank you for the level 200 cheat really helps. I just want to know is there any cheats to make me find only rare versions of a monster. If there is can you give me it, and i wanted to know if there is a cheat that lets you find only rare items. Thank you again.

  • Vegito515 #113 8 years ago

    yeah, does anyone know if there is a real U.S. rare weapon cheat for PSO? cause i need it

  • Sir-Orict #114 8 years ago

    hey can some one tell me how to equip more than one weapon at a time
    Edited by 1 at 22/08/04 @ 00:08

  • Sir-Orict #115 8 years ago

    Does any one have any AR codes (US) for rare weapons

  • Power Rangers #116 7 years ago

    Can anyone tell me if PSO Ep 1&2 has been taken ofline.

  • #117 7 years ago

    No. No codes!

  • #118 7 years ago

    Nnn! .. No. No code.

    ni!

  • PsoDevil666 #119 7 years ago

    yo is there any AR codes for pso plus????

  • PsoDevil666 #120 7 years ago

    If any1 has {have} cmode lvl200 code please send the AR code to Chaos92991@Yahoo.com or give them to me at Devil666Undergrd thanks and if u wanna find me at pso my 3 names is RareDevil-HuCast,Red-Devil-Ramar and Chaos-FOmar thanks

  • PsoDevil666 #121 7 years ago

    If any1 has {have} cmode lvl200 code please send the AR code to Chaos92991@Yahoo.com or give them to me at Devil666Undergrd thanks and if u wanna find me at pso my 3 names is RareDevil-HuCast,Red-Devil-Ramar and Chaos-FOmar thanks

  • Kaisho #122 7 years ago

    I have ver 1.1 and i put these codes in and i get this error code that says " code is for a different game" or some other error code this is for the must be on code is it my AR?

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #123 7 years ago

    Gah, I removed your post once!

    Obviously you're determined to help the community though.

  • marc45 #124 7 years ago

    Are their any action replay codes for phantasy star online episode 1&2 plus, I have the u.s version for gamecube. If their any AR codes please feel free to post them.

  • marc45 #125 7 years ago

    Does anyone how to get or to use GCNrd to use action replay for pso+ usa. so If anyone knows how please reply

  • ABCX #126 7 years ago

    Shadw89 i will tell u everything about photon drop if u mail me the european version of meseta bank mod!! PLZ I REALLY NEED THE CODE

  • ABCX #127 7 years ago

    Oh, my mail address is: ragon69pso@lycos.de">dragon69pso@lycos.de

    lol

    and one more thing: How can i check which version i have got???
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/05 @ 19:33

  • Ciccone #128 7 years ago

    Does anyone know any card cheats for Phantasy Star Episode 3 (EU)? Thanx.
    Edited by 1 at 11/05/05 @ 17:06

  • Serindel #129 6 years ago

    it is sad realy how the world of men and women are easily corrupted by the likes of gaining power through cheats. thow shall never get anywhere in life and thats the end of it. i bid the all farewell for i shall not post here again. seeing as how this forum stoped several months ago..... -_-'
    Edited by 1 at 31/10/05 @ 15:54

  • trunks31588 #130 5 years ago

    how do you open the door to the ruins after you beat the third boss in episode 1