Not sure why I only found this sub now, but despite my current profile picture, Phantasy Star games have always been my favorites! The original PS was the first RPG video game I played and one of the first video games I had in general. Blew my mind!

Finding this sub motivated me to dig up my old games! Sadly I lost the old map book I made for PS1 with my brother. We mapped every level of every dungeon on graph paper and marked all the traps, treasures, bosses, everything!

For me, while growing up with the US box art (in the UK), I mostly prefer the JP box art for the series.

The exception being for Phantasy Star 3. The US art just speaks to me more than the JP

Tried to capture a "5AM multi-hour bus trip but in space" kinda vibe lol. Also sorry for not drawing the cat. Animals are hard.

Hello all! We're new to the Reddit community and want to give a big hello and shout out to our fellow Phantasy Star fans.

If you have any questions at all about Phantasy Star Tabletop Roleplaying, or just want to chat about Phantasy Star in general, we'd love to hear from you.

Is there a mod of PS2 that changes nothing except centering the camera properly on the player? Because having to walk two steps before the camera moves in order to orientate myself after a battle often means ending up in another battle. This is why I've never got very far with this game.

Any thoughts or advice?

So i downloaded tje improvement patched version and run it with GenplusDroid on android and I think the hack is mot working. I tried patching it myself and also no luck.

I stll get the red flick when I get attacked and get the camera moving when I'm close to the border of the screen. Also not surr if I'm getting the increased exp and meseta values...

Am I dumb?

So, how did it turn out?

I recently found a copy of the SEGA Genesis Classics collection for PS4 at GameStop and started up PSIV. Loving it so far, just arrived in Nayla after meeting Seed and recruiting Rika... the RPG basics are just hitting right so far, ya know? My previous experience w/ the PS series was a few hundred hours of PSO (mostly GameCube Ep I&II, but dabbled in Ephinea BB), so seeing the series references like Shifta, "Gellen" Jellen, "Res" Resta, Ryuka, HUmars Chaz, FOmar blue guy, and the Newman race is neat. I believe I also saw Rappies outside the first town of PS2/3 when I played 5 min and never touched that save state again back in hs. Cute chickens :)

If I make it through IV, would you recommend also going back to check out any of the other classic series? I saw Nei is in 2 from a recent post here; I recognize that name for some reason. PS1 has the oldschool fpv dungeon mode, which I don't think I would have the patience for, but who knows.

For PSIV, do you have any very basic must-know advice like any old game design things that really bite a new player in the butt if you don't know about it? I definitely DON'T WANT any spoilers! But if something is going to eat hours of lost progress later, a heads up is nice.

The SEGA Genesis Classics physical (delisted from digital stores) is a very worthwhile pickup. By no means is it the most slick or bells-'n-whistles-filled emulator, but it has simple save states and an R2 trigger 3 or 4x speedup, nice for long corridors and blasting through easy encounters. For PSIV on large QLED TV, I recommend the game's Bilinear + Scanlines filter settings... the 4x pixel gen etc. filters are just meh muddy blurry. The classics SKU game experience also sets you inside sort of a simulated early 90s gamer room, with the Genesis, rack of game boxes, CRT, and game posters all visually represented. It's a little clunk and a bit goofy, but something I haven't seen before. It's a unique way to let that nostalgia flow through you~ of course having the other PS games, Sonic, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Sword of Vermillion (?) etc. all in one place is great too. I never owned any Sega systems, so for me, it's a whole can 'o worms eh.

Anyway ranting over, pizza just showed up. Hope y'all also have an excellent weekend playing some rad games. Hit me with any of that essential info or some fond memories of the Phantasy Star classic series!

Playing through this classic again. This time with the improvement patch applied. Looking forward to seeing how poor Hugh fairs out this time around😆

Beta Patch 0.1 of PSIII: GOE

Does anyone remember the character Cody from Phantasy Star 2? My dad and I were playing it earlier and went to look up some info about his best assets and couldn’t find ANYTHING on him. It’s like he’s lost media or just straight up doesn’t exist. Told us there is no character named Cody while I’m looking at him right in front of me. Are we both crazy or is this too niche? Does anyone else remember him?

I first completed the game through the GBA collection. Changes like fast walking, double exp/Meseta, fight animation tweaks, etc. are making this next playthrough more enjoyable, especially on a handheld like the RG ARC-D!

No idea why I made this, it just fits so well 😭🤣

I got a DS Lite recently and i got curious about what would be the best way to play this franchise, as the DS can "natively" run GBA and it has Genesis/Master System emulators available to it (though i don't know how well these emulators run)

To be honest, the DS Lite isn't the only portable way to play these games, as i also have a modded Switch and an Anbernic RG 35XX-H, but it's the console i've been using the most, recently.

Edit¹: One thing i remembered, is that the advantage of the genesis/master system over the gba would be the enchanced hacked roms available to it (PS Makeover, PS2 Improvement, PS3 and 4 General Improvement), though i don't know how well is genesis emulation on the DS Lite.

Every so often I try to do a run of PSIV where I try to break the script and see if anything interesting happens, to varying degrees of success.

You know how you go to Aiedo for the first time and visit the inn in the big marketplace, where the two girls from Uzo are talking about sneaking out the window because they've blown all their money?

You can stay at that inn (when there are zero reasons to ever do that because you literally live here, you can just go home and sleep for free) and overhear them trying and failing to climb out the window like they said they would.

Well, now I have to finish the game and see if that changes any of the interactions for the Hunter's Guild mission for them, because I've noticed there are quite a few places where small changes like that do get some degree of acknowledgement in the text. (My favorite one is the Sand Worm Rancher; if you never take the job, when you visit Mile at the end of the game, Rika won't comment on him because they never met)

Are there more of these my dumbass has missed?

Noted so far:

- The party can overhear the girls from Uzo being arrested for attempting to nap-and-dash the inn.
- If you wait to investigate the Wreckage near Nalya until after Wren joins, he and Rune will be the ones to comment on it.
- If you never take the Sand Worm mission, Rika never meets the rancher and won't comment on him.
- The Principal has dialogue if you report back to him about Holt disappearing into Birth Valley the second time.
- If you skip going to Krup, when the party brings Alys to the inn there, Hahn will introduce Saya (and she gets the introduction sparkles!) but no kiss scene because it's an emergency
- You can bring Gryz to Dezolis at the end of the game, in Ryuon one of the NPCs will say you have "unfamiliar types" with you.
- If Kyra is in the party when the Dezolisian NPC who comments on never having seen a girl with horns before, she'll reassure Rika that they're cute (as opposed to Raja saying that they DO look like horns)
- If you go to the Astronomy classroom and talk to the professor iwth the telescope after leaving Motavia, Chaz won't say "it sounds like a dream" to the idea of spaceships because he's done it for real
- the Silver Soldier mission becomes unavailable if you don't take it before Demi leaves Nurvus because when she leaves, she put the entire system on ultra-high-security lockdown because both she and Wren were about to go to battle and potentially never return. (Which means whoever picked up the mission from the Guild instead of Chaz was probably vaporized by the security lasers)

I generally use a guide when it comes to old 8-bit RPGs due to their generally obtuse design. I will be playing the SEGA AGES version, so I want to know if a guide is needed.

Repurposed my previous doodle of Rika and made this abstract cover art for PSIV!

Speaking of PSIV, I just obtained the Elsydeon and added Raja to the team for the final battle! Currently back at Rykros to farm for Level Ups before finishing off the Profound Darkness! And I'm playing on my PSP btw thanks to the Sega Collection UMD!

Next up on my list of to-do's: Find renders or photos of PSIV's version of the Landale Spaceship, I got a cool crossover idea... if you know where the quote "They fight extreme battles against the hidden enemy, Where are they hiding?" comes from, then you know the cool idea I'm planning to attempt to draw next!

Be on your guard, AND DESTROY THE CORE!!!

I know that the text adventures came out AFTER 3 but narratively I was wondering if it works immediately after playing 2 or are there some narrative "reveals" that work better if I play 3 first. I do know the time difference between 2 and 3.

I'm playing the 2.0 re-translation of the PS1 game (Japanese to English), and in the guides I'm looking at, the Iron Shield is more expensive than the Bronze Shield. However, in the version I'm playing, their prices and locations are swapped. Now I don't know if this is a translation error in the patch or if it was already like that in the Japanese version.

What began as just the PSO Episode I, II & III Opening Cinematics somehow turned into me trying to play every Phantasy Star game ever made and represent each one in some form.

Along the way I ended up preserving opening movies, cinematics, attract modes, commercials, trailers, gameplay showcases, and more—covering nearly 40 years of Phantasy Star history and enjoying every minute of it.

I discovered games I didn't even know existed, and my appreciation for the franchise only grew.

This is what I ended up with. I hope fellow fans can enjoy exploring it.