Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst

[Diadu]

I never really asked him about the origins or how it all started. My guess was that it started as a server for PSO Ver.2 PC - that's what most of the GMs played and it probably was the easiest to reverse engineer. There was Dreamcast support when I joined during the later Gamecube days and I think that came after the PC Ver.2. I have no clue if the original version, Ver.1, of the Dreamcast PSO was supported. But Dreamcast users also faced the obstacle that broadband adapters were getting extremely rare and expensive.

According to Wikipedia, PSO BB was shut down in March 2008 in NA and EU and around that time (November 07 and February 08) Ambitions of the Illuminus was already live. I remember that he liked the loot system in PSU. When making a party you could decide how rare drops were being distributed - Ranom, Order or Normal (the one who picks it up gets it) and he tried and succeeded in implementing it into BB.

You can find the palette AR code here

Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II (GCN/AR/NTSC-U) - gc-forever - Gamecube/Wii Forums

There are a bunch of other QoL fixes like a code that makes Megid a damage dealing tech. "Foie always penetrates" is clearly broken in the early game when resistances are low. Low level Foie travels reaaaaaaally slowly and ends up hitting a target like 4 or 5 times. Probably less of an issue with higher level Foie and on higher difficulties. There's also a few download quest packs.

I remember Broomop, I knew about him before but then met him through Schthack. He was an alright guy and he sometimes popped on Schtserv to test something (non nasty). When people spotted him, they'd usually log in with a fat HUmar in the orange outfit called Broomop and swarm around him. I also remember Fingaz, Nugs, Myriad, Puppykicker, Optimus Prime and Bones. Most of them were alright people if you could get past them being little troublemakers.

 

[JellyjamLu]

I would like to play this version, is there a recommended site to get set up?

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I would like to play this version, is there a recommended site to get set up?

For Ephinea

Ephinea PSOBB | Home

A Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst private server that recreates the classic PSOBB experience while adding new content and features.

ephinea.pioneer2.net

For Ultima

Ultima PSO Server

PSO Blue Burst Server Free to play since 2008. still innovating the game for years with new custom content, events, updates, and more. Jump in to the greatest PSO Experience.

www.phantasystaronline.net

 

[JellyjamLu]

For Ephinea

Ephinea PSOBB | Home

A Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst private server that recreates the classic PSOBB experience while adding new content and features.

ephinea.pioneer2.net

For Ultima

Ultima PSO Server

PSO Blue Burst Server Free to play since 2008. still innovating the game for years with new custom content, events, updates, and more. Jump in to the greatest PSO Experience.

www.phantasystaronline.net

Thankyou so much, I did do a Google search prior, just wanted to make sure.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Thank you so much, I did do a Google search prior, just wanted to make sure.

There are also Sylverant, Eden and Destiny but I barely know them sadly.

Here's a link that summarises the private servers as of 2025:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PSO/comments/1nl2jiw/summary_of_the_current_private_servers_2025/

Spoiler: long post

Ephinea:
https://ephinea.pioneer2.net/
Discord: https://discord.gg/pvVJY5NqKt
PSO Blue Burst Only
Ephinea has alot of Quality of Life changes like:

• Different Graphic APIs,
• Fast Warp like its Instant teleporting,
• Analog Camera Control,
• HP Bar which also shows the Drops,
• a Sandbox mode where u can test around with items
• higher Difficulty's (Anguish 1-3) which increases the most Stats and also lowers the frames for Freezing and paralyze enemies Info
• it also has no DMC which means 4 people can shoot with Froozen shooter and the damage doesn't get cancelt.
• Ultrawide Screen support
• 32 Character Slots
• Addon Support
• Dedicated Wiki Page
• a lot of Custom made Quests
• Linux support Guide

Ephinea has also the highest playercount among the other servers which is mostly 200-400 players.

Ultima:
https://www.phantasystaronline.net/
Discord: https://discord.gg/m4r86SfQtG
PSO Blue Burst Only

Ultima has some custom items a higher EXP and drop rate but has the PGF stuff behind event so its not Year round like the Vanilla/Normal Pso Version if im not wrong it is only dropable at christmas there.

Player count is at the date i'm writing it around 10-15

Destiny:
https://playpso.net/
Discord: https://discord.gg/ZuazJ9YSRV
PSO Blue Burst Only
Destiny is imo the most unique one with the following stuff:

• Custom Enemies, some of them can be seen in this Video
• Custom Weapons like the D-Virus Launcher, Stormrender, Ultimate Double Cannon
• Custom Armors like the D-Virus Armor, Astral Cloak, Parasitic Armor 'Predator'
• Custom shields like the Golden Halo, Golden Bat Wing, Wings of Life
• Custom mags like the Twin Sato, Twin Wraith, Dark Chao
• Custom Units like the V503, State/Maintenance, Immortal version of Battle,Power,Luck etc
• Custom Bosses,
• a regular Happy Hour which makes the Regular 2x Drop rate to 3x for 3 Hours which is automated for every 15 Hours.
• EXP Rate is without Event 5x if an event is Active it's 10x
• Regarding to the New Items: the newer one are like Equip that unit to get a different Attack pattern or if u equip that the range of a specific weapon gets bigger stuff like that also 98% of the items are year round optainable unless its an event item which are also regulary the next one and also the biggest there is the ´"Anniversary Event"
• a lot of unique Custom made Quests like the newest Raid Quests
• no addon support but a dedicated floor reader
• Daily quests with daily crate rewards/drops
• No knockdown

to the Custom Enemies they broke the Barrier and found a way to Increase the Max HP of the enemies so there are bosses that have 2-3 Million HP iinstead of the normal BB HP Limit of 32767 and some quests which are also a lot custom made one have enemies with Immunity against Demon and Hell Special attacks which is indicated with a colored name on the HP bar.

Sylverant:
https://sylverant.net/connecting-to-sylverant/
Discord: https://discord.gg/R2ATFFm
Sylverant is more vanilla about drops, and likes to do more of it's special rewards and features in quests. The really unique thing Sylverant offers is a custom difficulty called Super Hard mode, that rebalances to be more like Dreamcast Version 2 Ultimate. Technique's can do more damage, and enemy evasion is lowered so that ATA is no longer the most important weapon stat. Sylv uses Photon Cyrstals as a currency to use special features on the server.

Here is an overview page: https://psopalace.sylverant.net/frameset.html

Sylverant works with GameCube with Episode 1 and 2, Episode 3 ,Dreamcast, xbox and pc
Has crossplay between GameCube and Xbox/ Dreamcast with PC non Blue Burst version

Ragol
https://ragol.org/about
Discord: https://discord.gg/SdcYWBX2xT
Ragol, being newer, has a lot of features the other servers don't, including Instanced Drops, so each player receives the drops on their game. No more need to sprint like crazy for a Rare Drop, so you can hunt items comfortably and focus on playing the game. The drop tables are adjusted to streamline useful drops across the section IDs and making the Holiday mag items available year round.
EDIT: Ragol is also live testing a patch to remove Damage Cancel (DMC) on version 3, which is huuuuge. Fuzzi is a hardworking genius!

Here is link for details: https://ragol.org/features

Ragol supports also the same Versions as Sylverant but additional to that it also Supports this Romhack :
https://www.reddit.com/r/PSO/comments/1dluqgv/return_to_ragol_is_here/?tl=de

as far as i know there are some patches to add the HP bar and stuff like that for the Console Versions

SCHTHACK
https://schtserv.com/forums/app.php/welcome
Discord: https://discord.gg/J2VFPR4
Schtserv has a lot of drop chart adjustments, minor drop rate improvements, QoL features, custom made quests, Level 0 Mags, and various types of Events for players. It has a couple custom currencies used to activate more advanced special features on the Server. There's a focus on expanding the late game to keep players more engaged.

EDEN
http://edenserv.net/
Discord: unknown
if Someone can provide some info about that Server so i can change the description/info about it let me know!

This page links to an overview: https://gc.schtserv.wiki/index.php/Server_Features

SCHTHACK works with Gamecube (GameCube with Episode 1 and 2, Episode 3), Xbox, Dreamcast and Blue Burst

So if u want something Special with a lot of Development into it play on Destiny if u want a Vanilla Like experience with alot of QOL feature i would suggest Ephinea for the Console players i would say playing on Ragol is the best option since it has downloadable patches. if i forgot a Server let me know

 

[darkeholy]

need a android version

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Need a android version.

There's ReDream on Android.

 

[darkeholy]

There's ReDream on Android.

but not a pc convertion, this game add a lot of quests and new places and enemies

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

But not a pc conversion, this game add a lot of quests and new places and enemies.

Oh right, sadly not (unless you wanna emulate Windows XP on a mobile phone).

I don't know if PSO Episode 1&2 is on smartphone.