How is your Dreamcast gaming going on?

[noiseredux]

I know you dumped your BBA, and you've got a lot of PC parts laying around. If you're interested in giving it another go, i'd be more than happy to try and help you get one running.

nah I'm all set. I wasted enough hours on PC-DC in the past, haha. If I was gonna play PSO on DC again I'd just use dialup as I have a landline still. But in all honesty I haven't had any consoles hooked up in 6 months or more. I've gotten my PSO fix via Blue Burst on PC in the meantime.

[Blu]

Spoony I won't leave you hanging. You name the date, time, and ship, and we can go Rappy hunting!

EDIT: Hey Spoony, are you using the patched disc? Because honestly that will spare your DC's laser a lot of grinding back and forth. I downloaded it from Sylverant and burned it to a disc, you might want to if you haven't. Seriously though, your Dreamcast will thank you by not raising its grindy-robot voice at you.

[SpoonyBard]

I snagged the Sylverant patcher ISO and burned it? As far as I could tell, that was the only way to connect. It requires the original PSO V2 GD-Rom. Is there a different version than that? I didn't notice one on the site.

As for playing - I'm free most nights. Whenever you've got the time to play works for me!

Maybe we can get BoneSnapDeez in on this too?

[Hobie-wan]

The computer i've got it set up with has a giant ISA modem in it. And I managed to get one of my PCI modems to dial once (I think the DC modem I was using at the time needed a line voltage inducer despite being a model A).

If you're not like me with a lot of modems laying around (I seriously don't know how I came into this many) Most of the guides and discussions i've seen claim that any serial modem should work.

Maybe the difference is between real hardware modems and the later crappy cost reduced 'winmodems' where Windows had to do a lot of the work?

[SpoonyBard]

I'm fairly certain that's the case. The more done on the hardware side, the better chance you have of it working. The modem also has to have 'voice' capability.

That said, this is a pretty minimal hardware setup. The computer i'm using is a Pentium II with 64MB RAM and it takes less than 5 minutes to turn the computer on, load Windows, and open and set up the dial-up server, then turn the Dreamcast on and load planetweb, connect to the internet and open a website. If you've got a ~1998 PC laying around with a voice modem in it and you know a little bit about computers. You can probably get it up and running a PC-DC server in no time at all.

[BoneSnapDeez]

If you've got a ~1998 PC laying around with a voice modem in it

I mean seriously, who doesn't have this?

Nice job getting it working.

As a solitary man I am content to play completely offline. I'll fire up Ver. 2 eventually.

[ninjainspandex]

I snagged the Sylverant patcher ISO and burned it? As far as I could tell, that was the only way to connect. It requires the original PSO V2 GD-Rom. Is there a different version than that? I didn't notice one on the site.

As for playing - I'm free most nights. Whenever you've got the time to play works for me!

Maybe we can get BoneSnapDeez in on this too?

I Have a BBA but I could never figure out how to go onto a private server with the damn thing, so I gave up haha

[SpoonyBard]

I Have a BBA but I could never figure out how to go onto a private server with the damn thing, so I gave up haha

Let's get it working!

First off - the game wants to check with SEGA to make sure you paid (which you can't do anymore!) - you need this bootdisc to bypass that:

Sylverant Patcher 2.0 - CDI Image

I used IMGBurn to burn the CDI image at 4x. I'd recommend burning at 4x if you can.

If you haven't used IMGBurn before, this guide will get you going. It also has links to the files you need to get it running.

Iso Zone tutorial on burning Dreamcast CDI images



The disc will prompt you to insert your PSO v2 disc after it's done installing (it doesn't take very long). Do that, and see what happens!

If that alone doesn't work, check this guide:

Connecting To Sylverant with a US version of PSO v2

If you've got a ~1998 PC laying around with a voice modem in it

I mean seriously, who doesn't have this?

I've got maybe five or six? "They might be useful some day!" (I really just didn't want to pay to get rid of them)

It's amazing the kinds of looks I got when I was dragging all this junk out to try and get this working. It's like people have never seen an Aptiva before!

Nice job getting it working.

As a solitary man I am content to play completely offline. I'll fire up Ver. 2 eventually.

I played the GC version of PSO with my roommate for awhile and i've got to say it's a lot more fun with other people. Once he stopped playing it got stale pretty quick.

Let us know if you come around!

(Also, reading "As a solitary man..." next to that avatar seems all too fitting)

[BogusMeatFactory]

If you've got a ~1998 PC laying around with a voice modem in it

I mean seriously, who doesn't have this?

We should seriously go full retro and make RacketBoy an old school BBS system, requiring people to use an old school modem to connect.

[SpoonyBard]

Weren't people doing BBS MUDs on here not too long ago?