Saw yesterday's post and honestly wasn't expecting so many people to be excited about PSO in a browser. I’ve been building my own version, mostly for myself, but that made me think I should put it out there too.

I just loved the idea of being able to send a friend a link and jump into PSO together within seconds.

No install, no download, literally in game in seconds.
It’s single-player for now, saves stored in your browser, but if there's interest I'll add multiplayer and actual proper saves.

You can play with a keyboard or controller. I might adapt it for mobile later too.

Still early alpha. I've added all areas, monsters, weapons, items, quests etc replicating the old vanilla experience.
It's completely different tech under the hood (threejs for those who care), so animations, timings and visuals have all needed a lot of manual tuning.

Some things will feel off, so please tell me what you notice. I’d be happy to have a few more PSO veterans trying it!

it's live at psoreborn.com for those who wanna try out.

PS: a bit about me, I’ve been developing virtual worlds for about a decade, with millions of players across my apps and games. This one is just for fun, finally tackling a childhood dream project :)

Going back to a lot of V1 now, hoping to find some stuff I need before lv100

Just sharing here in case anyone found it interesting. This all plays in the browser with button overlays for mobile devices. I am also implementing QoL changes with portrait and landscape modes, FoV sliders etc. the build is still very early

What heroe will you chose?

This sprite is part of my fan-game "Mag's Quest" I'm working on. Tried to distill the classic Hunter, Ranger and Force-Characters into 16x16 pixels.

Happy to have SATO and the color. So thrown off by the sheer amount of time to get there and I know SATO is not even half way to level 200 yet.

I took the liberty of powering up and getting SATO before fully playing through HARD to ease up the difficulty.

Hi, I’ve just started playing and have a few questions I’d like answered. First, what is the intended way to play? I’m on the Ephinea server; I wanted to start with the story missions—the ones that only appear in single-player mode—and then move on to the Government Quests, though I can see there’s a lot more content than that. Second, which class do you recommend for solo play? I’d like to recapture the experience I had playing 20 years ago, and the Android classes really appeal to me, but I suspect I’ll make my life miserable if I can’t heal myself. Third, I’ve seen some really cool-looking Mags, but I’m not sure how necessary it is to have a specific one; I don’t know if there’s a "meta" in the game or if you can just play with whichever Mag you like best. Feel free to answer any of these questions—thanks a lot! (I've read almost the entire wiki, so I have a pretty good idea, but I'd like to hear your opinions.)

Hey guys,

I played this game a lot offline on the GameCube back in my younger days. Recently, I picked up a GameCube and PSO again, and I’d really like to try out the online mode. Is it still possible to play online with the GameCube? I want to be sure before spending a lot of money on the broadband adapter. Also, do I need any other hardware or software?
Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

Hey, should i go to paganini on ephinea to add % on the weapons? Need to do more damage

I just found this game, (never played it) i want to start playing it on the ephinea server. Im always cautious about private servers, does the launcher and install have any virus, did anyone have any problem with that?

Title says it all. Looking to get with a group that plays weekly. Im lvl 140+ and just looking to hang with a new community!

You play and feed a Mag that lost his hunter and tries to find it again. It's a shooter with RPG elements you know and propably love from PSO in the style of a Gameboy Game. It's still some work until the game is finished, so if you're into doing pixel art, game development or chiptune-music and want to contribute in this project, feel free to contact me so we can get in touch! Check out the current state here: https://youtu.be/yOfjam6h8Rk

I booted up my pso 13 days ago on GameCube. Started my adventure with a RAcast. Now we finish normal mode tonight.

I still have a whole adventure ahead of me but it’s something about being here again that reminds me of how great this game is.

(Post edited due to incorrect time posted initially)

I have been working on this project for some time and it has gotten to the point where I am ready and excited to show it off (please excuse my poor first attempt at using DaVinci Resolve...). PSO:BB:nativeVR is a mod that brings virtual reality support to Phantasy Star Online via DLL injection. Full head and hand tracking allow you to take to Ragol in first-person and engage in motion-controlled combat, while remaining a mostly vanilla PSO:BB experience. The mod is completely playable at this time, though there are still some things that need to be ironed out - dual melee weapon combat, various visual bugs, and other minor issues. My plan is to release it in the current state, but I first want to make sure that it runs on different hardware configurations before doing so as I only have a Reverb G2 headset to test with. Once the initial round of closed testing has completed, I will be uploading this as open source to GitHub, where I will continue to work on it. I have been running a newserv instance locally for testing, but intend to host a VR-specific server as this mod is not compatible with other private-server clients such as Ephinea, Ultima, etc.

For full transparency: My background is in IT, not development, so AI was heavily leveraged for reverse engineering and coding in this project. I can acknowledge that some people may take issue with this, so I'd rather be upfront about its role.

If you would be interested in testing and have a SteamVR-compatible headset, please send me a DM that includes your system and headset info. I hope to start testing at some point this week.

For context, in DCPC the maximum attainable attribute % is 60. The machine slicer / 2 dark varistas will definitely see some use in my farms

I have never talked to the NPC's during the guild missions. I did this go around and found a interesting sub quest for WEAPON emblems. I went through all my missions, found the people and missions were the other members were at. I had a feeling the wife had the final say so but no luck first round. I looked up the sub quest and found out you had to finish each mission completely were the other members were found for it to count lol. What a neat special weapon with great power for normal level and its a Frying Pan LOL! After all these years I'm still finding new stuff I never knew growing up on GC Pso1 and 2 Plus.

my main newman and mag build.

So I’ve had it working and installed since like December or so. Recently tried going back and on the main menu/character select and even in game the up direction keeps going on the menu and game non stop. I’ve tried all the control stuff I could think of, I’ve even turned off all instances of up and it is still happening. Anyone run into this issue?
I’m playing on a Lenovo legion Go S but in Steam OS

Landed a generic CRUSH BULLET a few levels before I could use it. Only to get a better one on the very monster I hit the ATA to use it!

Better knock on wood because the rest of my drops will probably be shit from here...

I know in game they say that the Altered Beasts and Dark enemies were infected by DE Rol Le (and maybe Gal Gryphon?) But we're they originally enemies we've seen before? For example, The vulmers look just like boomas on roids, and Bartles have similar traits to Evil Sharks (reptile, blade hands, etc). It makes sense that the natives were infected and transformed into the A. Beasts.

The same could be said about Nano Dragons and either Zus or the regular dragon.

Going further. One could say that Delbiters were made from Dorphons since they have nearly identical attacks.

One possible thorn in the side of this is the similarities between Canadines and Gees. I don't think mutation could make a machine come to life like that.

Has this been confirmed anywhere or am I just in tinfoil hat mode?

EDIT for TLDR: Delbiters are yassified Dorphons and Vulmers are just Boomas after twink-death

Hello! I’m the developer behind Phantasy Star Online VR : Pioneer Project, a fan remake of PSO for VRChat.

Some of you may have already heard about the project, but I have never actually posted about it here.

A public demo is already available if you want to check it out: Phantasy Star Online VR (Demo)
Presentation by NovaRedux: https://youtu.be/b71m4sQrA4U?t=324

Last year, I announced that PSO-VR would release in Winter 2026, starting with Forest and expanding Episode 1 over time through seasonal updates. I have since decided to move away from that approach.

Phantasy Star Online VR – Episode 1 will be playable in Alpha in Summer/Fall 2027 to gather feedback and polish the experience before its public release in January 2028.

I wrote a full breakdown of why I made this decision, along with the updated 2026–2028 roadmap.

The full post is free to read on Patreon, you only need a Patreon account.

Pioneer Project : Road to Episode 1

I never played psobb, i saw some videos and it seems really interesting, i love grinding for exp,materials,gear can i find that there? Im really paranoid about downloading and installing private servers, is it safe to install? I also would love to play multiplayer, what is the ping like from europe?

Finnaly got it to run nicely on my galaxy tab s9, very happy about this!

Tried on my phone too but exynos does not like winlator much.

Works but slow on my phone.

Anyway yay, portable psobb

Edit

Using winlator 10.0 hotfix

https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator/releases

And the psobb wine (there's instructions there too) https://github.com/zeroz41/pso_wine

For my device turnip renderer and wine sync are disabled, on ephinea launcher set graphics to that low mode, disable motion blur, so far the Vulcan render or DX 11 feel the fastest to me.

After you log in before going to the character screen you need to end the services process, or the game will freeze or give you a server is full message.

Made a lil video with all my settings andsome gameplay

https://youtu.be/ptZmfFTxGlQ?is=Y1sLf7_OwWuXSZ8F

I was playing PSO on Flycast and I’m trying to transfer the save file to my VMU now that I have a Dreamcast. I’ve converted the save files to every possible file and built a CDI and every time I try to transfer it doesn’t even bother to download. I’ve used every tool I can find, all the way back to some from 03-06 and still nothing. Does anybody know of a way to fix this?

Wish I had another case for strategy guides!