Best way to play phantasy star online w/o a dc bba

[Duane Dibbley]

Does anyone here in the community own the GC version? I have it and a BBA, and the ASCII controller--I'd love to get rolling with a few people if anyone is ever interested.

Yeah, I still have it. It's one of the reasons I still have my GameCube hooked up (the other being the Game Boy Player). I registered for the SCHTACK server several months ago, but haven't been on since. It would be fun to organize a Racketboy meetup. I will be pretty busy until the 17th, but maybe sometime after that would work.

To answer several people's questions: The Xbox version was online through Xbox Live, so that is never coming back. Private servers exist for the GameCube and Dreamcast versions. The sites I'm aware of that have servers are http://www.schtserv.com/ and http://onlineconsoles.com/. Also, I enjoyed playing PSO offline back in college with four player split-screen. It's in the GameCube version anyway.

[ninjainspandex]

so how do i play on a private server in pso with the bba? and which private server is the best

[Lakster37]

For the Dreamcast version I'd use the Dreamcast-Talk servers. I haven't yet connected to either on the Dreamcast, but I've heard that hardly anyone ever plays on the Schthack Dreamcast servers (though if you want to connect with a Gamecube or PC, I'd go there for sure). Here's a good topic about how to connect to the Dreamcast-Talk servers - it could really be used for any server, you'd just have to change the Server IP:
http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=274

You could try Online Consoles as well, but last I checked they have restricted access to their PSO servers (at least for GC, not sure about DC) which takes upwards of 6 months to gain access. Either way, it's REALLY simple to set up with BBA. I envy you...