I've added a pre-patched pso.exe for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users to be able to type without the IME, and I've also added a patcher for people who prefer to apply the fix to their current pso.exe file. Thanks go out to Wiccaan / atom0s for making a fix for this problem!
November 1, 2009
The max stat patch has been released, so hopefully this will fix the former disparity between the various classes and narrow the gap between "good" and "bad" characters. Grab it in the PC downloads section of the site, and check out the forum topic here.
October 18, 2009
Since the trackers in my PSO PC and DC Torrents were no longer active, I've altered the tracker URLs and given both of them multiple trackers to use. If you've been having trouble connecting to the swarm, please download the new files. Sorry for the inconvenience; trackers never seem to stay up as long as one might like. >_<
October 7, 2009
On a rather minor note, I've released a patch for PSO PC to change the dull ring effects used for Shifta, Deband, Jellen, and Zalure into sparkle effects similar to those used in Ver.1. You can grab the patch in the PC downloads section, and you can find the forum topic here.
September 9, 2009
I don't have any news specifically for PSO, but today is an important landmark. The Sega Dreamcast turns ten years old today. Without the Dreamcast there would be no PSO, so it should be a day of celebration for every PSO player. If you can, take some time today to play some Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, or the like. Happy birthday Dreamcast.
June 22, 2009
Yes, two updates in one month. =P I've just released the High Quality Music Pack to improve the quality of PSO PC's BGM. You can get it in the PC downloads section of the site, and you can view the forum topic about it here.
June 4, 2009
Today is a day I have long awaited. The PSO Ver.2 Enhancement Pack has finally been released! You can get the patch for PC in the downloads section of the site. I should have the Dreamcast image uploaded by tomorrow (I uploaded it to a file sharing site earlier, but it got deleted, so I have to upload it somewhere else.) You may also notice that the new drop charts and item statistics are available as well. You can also check out this forum topic for more information. Enjoy!
The Dreamcast image has been uploaded! You can get the link in the downloads section of the site. Thanks go to DC ISO Zone for hosting Dreamcast images like this one.
May 8, 2009
Well I thought that I would release a small patch for the game since it was easy to make. I've created the PSO PC Offline Map Pack, which will make the offline maps for Forest and Cave have full spawns like online mode. Finally the boredom of offline Cave having 2 Evil Sharks per spawn when there should be 10 is over. n.n You can grab the patch in the PC downloads section, and also check out its forum topic. Enjoy!
March 14, 2009
Hello all. I've got some good news for the PSO PC community. After plenty of testing and tweaking, I'm pleased to say that the PSO PC Graphical Fix Pack has been completed! You can now grab it over at the PC Downloads section. If you want to get a preview of what the game looks like once the patch has been installed, check out this page. You can also read the forum topic about the fix pack here. At long last PSO PC looks a little better. ;)
January 31, 2009
Once again I've failed to update this page as regularly as I should, but that doesn't mean nothing is in the works. I'm currently working on a long overdue patch to fix the terrible droprates in the game so that the multitude of items that are statistically impossible to find will become findable. Check this topic to see how it's going.
In other news, Lost HELL PALLASCH is available on the DC/PC Only ship as well as the revised Lost HAVOC VULCAN which is now known as Resurgent Darkness.
November 15, 2008
After a long hiatus, I have two great pieces of news for the PSO Ver.2 community.
First, after a lot of work and a multitude of CD-Rs, I have completed a self-booting copy of PSO Ver.2 PAL-E for the Dreamcast so Dreamcast users can continue to play online. You can get the Torrent for it in the Downloads section of the site.
Second, I have released Resist Mod 2.0 to further improve the damage that Forces can deal in Ultimate mode. You can download it for PC in the PC downloads section of the site, and I am proud to say that for the first time with the release of this new Dreamcast disc I have been able to bring the Resist Mod to Dreamcast users so Forces can enjoy doing useful damage on the Dreamcast as well.
In addition, I have added a download for DiscJuggler 4 to the downloads section of my site for people who want to use the old version to burn their Dreamcast images, and I have also added a tutorial on how to burn Dreamcast images in the Guides section of the site. Enjoy!
June 16, 2008
Well, there have been a few updates since the last time I posted on this page. First, the Japanese Blue Burst quest Fragments of a Memory has been translated and converted for use on DC and PC. Second, the updated Towards the Future has been uploaded. Third, Challenge Stage 9 has been fixed! It is now possible to play the quest cross-platform. Finally, The Tinkerbell's Dog 2 has been uploaded for DC Ver.2.
I've also taken the opportunity to update my Challenge mode section a bit now that Stage 9 is fixed, I fixed the part about doing stages in order as well as the information about the Stage 9 bug in both the FAQ and the Stage 9 walkthrough. I also added a bit more information about Falz.
April 4, 2008
Amazingly, I have added something to the Dreamcast downloads section. Schthack's DNS tool is up for people who have a BBA and don't want to use a CB to connect anymore. Since Schthack left he doesn't seem to be hosting it, so now I am.
March 24, 2008
Hello all! You might notice a new link on the sidebar, I have created a forum for PSO Palace. I'm hoping that since I seem to get pageloads on this site that people will use it, and perhaps we can revitalize the DC and PC communities. Get posting and tell your friends!
Unfortunately I cannot give only good news today, there was a sad announcement in the Schtserv project recently. Schthack has stepped down and passed the administrator hat to Crono. =( I believe this change was coming for quite a while, Schthack had been getting less and less active in the project for some time, so it was only a matter of time before he finally lost interest. Still, it is a very sad day for PSO fans everywhere across all versions, as the man who saved this game from falling into obscurity has finally stepped down. If you want to pay your respects, there is a topic on the Schtserv forum for it, which you can find here.
All hail Schthack!
March 12, 2008
Well, I'm pleased to say that the new Torrent is thriving. The morning after I started it I had 5 seeds helping, and now I currently see 10 seeds and 16 peers. Of course TPB's tracker sometimes gives inaccurate statistics, but usually the numbers it returns are lower than the actual count, rather than higher. ;) Thanks to everyone who's helping, it's good to see people still care about this game and want to keep it alive.
On another note, I've fixed the online README pages. I apparently forgot to upload them when I was doing the main site update, so that is now fixed.
March 8, 2008
Hello again. After a long hiatus, there is another update. If you have been trying to download PSO PC from my Torrent, you may have noticed that it's very difficult to connect to people. This is because ISOHunt has decided to block all users from the United States from connecting to their trackers. Because they acquired Torrentbox, the tracker my Torrent is hosted on, this means there haven't been any American users on the Torrent for many months. This has caused the Torrent to die after a successful three year lifespan. It really lived quite a long time, for which I am very pleased.
However, the old Torrent is no longer usable by most people. Therefore, I have created a new one which is now hosted on The Pirate Bay. It is my hope that this tracker won't go down, so the new Torrent will help people get the game once more. I will be seeding as much as I can in super seeding mode, so the tracker may not indicate that there is a seed in the swarm, but don't worry, I don't intend to go anywhere until we have a new seeding population. So please, download and seed the new Torrent to keep PSO PC alive! You can get it in the downloads section where the original Torrent was.
With the new Torrent, the site has also received a small update in that the registration information is now contained on the site itself rather than inside the Torrent. This should hopefully prevent the README file from becoming outdated like it was in the original Torrent.
July 27, 2007
Hi again! Did you think I wasn't actually going to update again? Don't be silly. As I said, I have compiled a fairly large Challenge mode database including a beginner's guide, in-depth guide, and detailed walkthroughs (including maps) of each stage as well as an about section on my Challenge mode experience and where some of my data came from. I hope people find it useful! I'm not sure if it's all completely done yet, I may make changes sometime down the road, we'll see if I think of anything to change or add.
Also you may notice that I've added a contact page, if you want to send me an e-mail you can do so, if you appreciate what I've got here I'd like to hear from you to know people really are reading this site. =) Bye for now!
July 11, 2007
Hi! No, despite what people may think, I'm not dead. It may seem that way, but really, it isn't true. There's really two main things that I'm updating for:
First, yes, Sega's Dreamcast server finally went down. =( PSO DC is no more on the official servers, alas. Oddly, the server went down twice. It went down and people believed it was gone, but then it came back up and stayed online for a while before it finally went down for the last time. Apparently some guy at Sega HQ in Europe didn't get the memo that they were shutting down PSO and flipped the server power switch back on or something. =P In another ironic twist, the EU DC server stayed up longer than the GC servers. Haha for PSO GC, DC ended up outliving it after all. ;) R.I.P. Sonic Team PSO servers. =(
In a spot of good news though, the Hunter's License server did NOT go down! It seems that Blue Burst shares the same authentication server as PSO DC, or at least they're in the same location, as the JP BB auth server has the same IP address as the DC HL server, or something to that effect. Apparently this means Sega won't kill the HL server until they retire the official BB servers, and *possibly* PSU might be linked as well, so we might even have until Sega retires PSU before we are forced to find a fix for the HL server. For the time being, USv2, JPv1, and JPv2 are all still playable online. =)
Now, the second bit of news:
CONTENT UPDATE!
Yes, there is going to finally be a content update to this site. I've been so disheartened at the lack of Battle and Challenge mode players that are still remaining, so I'm going to open the Challenge mode section of this site, which will have information, strategies, maps, and walkthroughs for the Challenge stages. Maybe if people have some idea of what Challenge mode is and how to approach it we'll get more people interested in tackling the mode. I just hope I get it all put together fairly quickly so I can get the ball rolling. ;)
March 30, 2007
As this is posted, it is 12 hours until Sega closes its Dreamcast servers for PSO forever. =( (Gamecube servers are being pulled, as well.) As you may be aware, with Sega's server closure it also means that the Hunter's License server will be taken down as well, and USv2, JPv1, and JPv2 will be unable to connect to any servers (including Schthack's or any other private server.) To remedy this, our ever faithful hacker Pseudo Proxen is trying to create a CodeBreaker code to disable the HL check in PSO so it can still go online. (Misty is helping him now, too.) I think it is likely that this will work, but I don't know how close it is to completion. Keep an eye on Schthack's DC forums if you want to keep track of our progress, or check here. I hope to be able to give the good news that the code is complete and working sometime in April, but as it has been demonstrated before we don't seem to have a whole lot of luck in these matters. >_< Cross your fingers everybody!
February 13, 2007
Although this isn't really any significant news, I'd just like to mention that this is the two year anniversary of my PSO PC Torrent. ^_^; Thanks to everyone who has helped keep it well seeded over the past two years, I hope it's been useful to people who wanted the real, full game.
January 30, 2007
Good news, Torrentbox.com's tracker is back online, so the PSO PC Torrent is once again working properly. I hope the tracker troubles didn't set too many people back.
January 28, 2007
Why hello everybody! No, I'm not dead, despite popular belief. As you may have noticed, the tracker for the PSO PC Torrent isn't working, Torrentbox.com and isohunt.com got temporarily nuked due to MPAA lawsuits, and they are still trying to get back on their feet. You can read up on their progress at isohunt.com. Sorry for the inconvenience. =( If you use Azureus, you can still download PSO using the DHT, though. I hope that when the tracker comes back up the swarm will come back, it would be sad to see the Torrent die after almost two years. Hopefully the problems will be fixed soon. I'm hoping that sometime in the next month or so I'll actually have enough news to keep updating this site, so cross your fingers.
As you may know, Sega is shutting down the official PSO DC servers on April 1, 2007. At that point, versions which required a Hunter's License fee to play online (USv2, JPv1, JPv2) will cease to function as the HL server will be no more. Currently Pseudo Proxen is trying to reverse engineer the encryption used in the HL server so we can run our own, which would keep the aforementioned PSO DC versions working. If that doesn't work, we'll have to resort to using backup copies of PSO DC that have had the HL check removed. More info on this to come as news becomes available. I hope people still read this site, lol. Many thanks to you if you do.
August 26, 2006
I've just released my Ultimate mode Enemy Resistance mod ver. 1.5 for PSO PC. As well as correcting a few bugs from the first one, this new mod contains a file to fix the resistances offline as well as online. Now Forces can do offline mode, too. ;) As usual, grab it in the downloads section. This version replaces version 1.0, so the original version is no longer up for download.
May 21, 2006
Thanks to Schthack, I now have new hosting on his servers, so hopefully this site won't have downtimes. Thanks man. ^_^ For all DC users, we're aware that USv2 won't connect with dialup, we're hoping to find a solution. Watch this topic on the forums for update information. Let's hope DC can survive this. ;_;
April 30, 2006
I've just released my Ultimate mode Enemy Resistance mod for PSO PC. This mod for PSO makes magic do more damage in Ult, so Forces are actually able to kill things. Go get it in the PC Downloads section! Complete instructions are included. ;)
March 15, 2006
As you may have noticed, psopalace.home-page.org no longer works. I've got a new redirect now set for http://psopalace.funurl.com instead. Please update your bookmarks (assuming you actually thought it was worth it to bookmark this site, lol. =P) and um... tell your friends? ;D
February 28, 2006 Note: I have removed the cheat downloads from my site. I'm tired of the fools who use Broomop's Trojan-infected tools to irritate players with being level 200 with coloured names, 9999 Battle wins, and stupid Challenge mode ranks of IDIOT. Also these same people generally run around with God of Equip, Double Cannons, and Electro Frames. I will no longer distribute the tools that make this irritating gameplay style possible, since players obviously can't use the tools responsibly.
February 21, 2006
Sorry guys, I know I don't update like I should... I get sidetracked by playing PSO rather than writing about it, lol. However this update has a new cusspatch in the PC downloads section, I suggest you read about it and download the new one. ^_^
December 17, 2005
Hi there everyone, two main events have occured today.
Number 1:
Today is the 2nd anniversary of Schthack's server. Two years of private server bliss. Thank you Schthack!
Number 2:
There is now a new PSOv2 quest! My friend Jodin and I have been working to create a Christmas quest for v2, and it's finally here! Currently it's on the ship Arcadia, but it'll be loaded onto the other ships soon. You can find out some about the quest in this Schtserv forum topic. Happy questing, and Merry Christmas everyone!
November 23, 2005
Another update for you people in serverland, the main servers are going down this evening for a major update. Lots of things are being changed and the admin community is trying to rework our strategy, so keep a look out for what will hopefully be a series of improvements. =D
November 21, 2005
Wow, this kind of gives you an idea on how infrequently I update. Sorry guys, lol. Anyway the server problems have been resolved for the most part. Apparently all the whiners were scared off by the threat of closure, so things are back to normal now. Of course there are always some stupid people around, but that's online gaming for you. ;)
October 13, 2005
Tragedy is striking the private server project; the community seems to be falling apart now. All the whining, complaining, flaming, and spamming has caused the community to crumble, it's now gone so far that Schthack has even posted a topic on his forums as to whether or not to even keep the server going. Many regulars and Schthack himself have been pushed to their limits and are giving up and leaving, so for any true PSO player who doesn't want to see this project end, please read and reply to the topic if you have something constructive to say, we can't let PSO die again. View the topic here.
September 7, 2005
I've added both an online version of the PSO PC Torrent installation README, as well as the old version that comes with the Torrent, so that people can get the updated version from the official source of the Torrent.
September 6, 2005
Yay, my provider's problem has been cleared up, so all the downloads are now up and running. It turns out that one of the server's hard drives was full, so I couldn't upload any more files. ;p Now every download link should work. ^_^
September 5, 2005
HUGE UPDATE TIME! WOO! I've finally put tons of stuff in the Downloads section, so go check it out! Note: Unfortunately my provider's FTP access keeps giving me errors about space, even though I have plenty of space left. So, although all of the links are there for what WILL be in the downloads, most of them are broken as it won't let me upload anymore. -_- Hopefully I can get this fixed soon...
August 8, 2005
Prompted by a post on the Schtserv forums, I've added the section detailing the differences between v1, v2, and PC PSO.
July 5, 2005
Well, for all of you visitors stateside, happy July 4th. ^_^ The version 1 Mines section as well as Vol Opt are now up, so go and read up on your favourite robots.
June 27, 2005
Whew! Hi again guys. =) Once again I'm being slow, so sorry about that. I've been trying to convert the site to be a bit more modern, but I haven't made any terrible breakthroughs except for that the site now uses CSS (if any of you actually care, lol.) I realize that the Schtserv forums are down now... so I'm hoping to have my forum up and running soon to compensate for that, but I have to figure out how to make MySQL behave lol. I'm also going to try to get the Bestiary section finished, I gotta take more screenshots of monsters so I can finish it up. In other news, I've actually changed hosts now. Schthack no longer hosts my site, so I won't be sucking up his bandwidth. ;) A thanks to him for hosting PSO Palace for all this time!
March 16, 2005
Just a minor update, Schthack has been too swamped with emails asking for registered serials, so from now on if you need serials for PSO you should email schtserv@gmail.com. You should get a reply back within a day if things are working smoothly.
February 13, 2005
Wow, it's been a while, hasn't it? Merry Christmas, happy new year, and all the other holidays I've missed... Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been spending far more time playing PSO than writing about it, but I just finished a major step in that I created a Torrent file of PSO PC for people to finally be able to have a working link to it. Go to the Downloads section to grab it!
November 19, 2004
Oops! I forgot when I originally put up the Caves Bestiary to include the rare monsters! That is now fixed. Sorry about that lol. =p
November 12, 2004
Well well, another day, another update. The V1 Caves section is now up, so read up on all those baddies. And yes, a new boss is there as well. Yippee! =p
October 31, 2004
I just finished the final performance of my school's haunted house, so I should be free to do more updates once again. We got some footage of it so I might end up posting it as a movie for download.
October 24, 2004
The Bestiary section is partially up! And here you thought I wasn't going to update again, didn't you? C'mon, admit it. =p Only the Forest for Version 1 is up so far, but the other sections will come up.
October 16, 2004
Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been struggling with my firewall/router trying to make it work to no avail. It seems I'll have to replace it with something else... ='( At this point I'm rather stumped, though.
October 7, 2004
The site now has a banner! Thanks to ffjamesX and his friend for putting up with my constant banner idea tweaking. =)
October 5, 2004
As you may have noticed, the counter on the splash page looks a bit different now, and hopefully loads much faster. I've switched from using seehits.com to using statcounter.com. As well as updating much faster, they also offer a larger amount of page statistics for free. On the information side of things, I think I'm going to add the bestiary section next, so get ready to read up on all those lovely monsters and bosses. I'm also hoping to have the site banner ready soon.
October 1, 2004
The character section is finished! Read up on all the characters and find out which ones suit your playing style the best. Once the weapons section comes up, more info will hopefully be added on unique weapons for each character.
September 29, 2004
The character section is partially up now, the rest of the info on individual characters will be added soon.
September 28, 2004
Well, Dot TK didn't like my url, so I managed to find smartredirect.com instead, and they accepted the site. So welcome to the new url, psopalace.home-page.org. Woohoo! I just hope they don't end up using tons of popup windows on the main site.
September 27, 2004
Congratulations, you get to see the first main update! :p The only real thing that has changed is I've added the Server Status window, and I'm about to get a Dot tk address for the site. Hopefully I'll get the info sections up soon.
