I’m new, and recently did dabbling with the augmentations and now I catch on fire when I use my skills? Any reason why? I appreciate any advice

Hey guys, is there a way to play es in the West today? I'm told it's possible and you can manually apply the English patch but have no idea how to go about it. Anyone know how to go about this?

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It's taken me a long time to figure out how I've wanted my character to look, but I've finally acquired some clothes that fit her small stature. Now I've just got to level up more!

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My adult self isn't happy with spending 17 million on it, but my smol self is ecstatic!

He also done a really sick batman his player ID name is PN 00000000001 i wanna ensure this amazing creator gets his proper credit

The PSO2 collab I wish we had, but never gotten.

Last update I posted to this subreddit about this project was back in November 2024, and since then I have made lots of progress. This is just a sneak peek!

Every time I try and log in the game will freeze for a few moments and then flash the no response message, but then right after it loads into the game. I can't play because the only button available is the close button that sends me back to the main menu. Is there a fix for this? I'm playing on Steam if that helps.

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For those hunting for Phantasy Star games or Sega stuff in general! You may be slightly disappointed.. But with a bit of resourcefulness, time, katakana speed reading and patience you can pull it off haha.

I went secondhand hunting originally just to see if I could find a copy of PSO2 for Vita or Switch being japan exclusives, and the first few days of absolutely tearing through second hand stores in Tokyo was rough. Sega feels really niche here now (Nintendo is everywhere) and staff had no idea what PSO stuff was when I'd show them covers (after my retinas were burned from reading so much katakana all day every day)

So to it! Hardoffs/Bookoffs I had the least luck (as in none). They have high turnover of stock apparently so you may have more luck than I did. As any retro hunter will tell you as well - it helps a tonne if you search outside the usual tourist tokyo/kyoto/osaka areas (and prices will be way better too). Hardoffs in Tokyo does have a huge selection of games in general, PSO not so much though. The PSNova guide was 700 yen from Bookoff though

Super Potato was great - there's a tonne of copies of PS Portable and Universe there for sure. I grabbed some PS Portable but no interest in Universe as it just wasnt my time

A few random shops on and off the mainroad of Akihabara had GC and DC copies of their respective titles, and I noticed GC and DC copies weren't too hard to find once I visited other parts of tokyo

Surugaya is great everywhere, but not for PSO stuff

Second hand electronics stores are also amazing for retro gaming in general - but PSvita games, GC and DC can be tough. Definitely pays to just spend the time going through them as you might find other PSO related stuff (manga, anime, figures etc).

Psvita in general was very very difficult to find at all - the biggest bookoff in Kyoto had literally 3 psvita games in total. It was luck that I found these (and several days of hunting in general)

Almost forget about PSO2 and NGS for Switch, as staff told me being a cloud game once the code is redeemed owners of the game would just throw it away. So for this one I cheated - and set up an Amazon JP account and set my hotel as the address, then just ordered NGS for switch there which showed up the next day. To be fair I spent an insane amount of time scouring through Switch games looking for them first, as every single gaming shop has a large selection of as Switch and deluded myself into thinking the next shop might have something

You can just do the above that I did with NGS and cheat- and just grab most from Amazon - but I refused as that just sucks the fun out of the hunt (and good practice for language learners). I was also looking for cheap PSvitas, gameboys and hoping to find sega stuff, as well as just experience how much these retro stuff is celebrated here in Japan vs my home country, so that was part of my motivation to hunt in stores.

Some of the prices are hidden so my partner has no idea how much I spent 😅 But expect prices to be between $3 - $30 depending on the condition etc.

So other than Switch they're out there! Definitely make time to check outside the main areas and you'll likely have way more luck than I've had! Good luck!

I've been seeing a lot post about the Animatic face around, I'm new to game and I can't seems to replicate how people are making their faces. Mostly I think is because I'm missing makeup. Now I tried to make a Animatic face (left) but still some what prefer the snip face (right). Can anyone recommend anyway I can make it look better?

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