aphrodia81 wrote:moopthehedgehog wrote:--If you have a usv2 serial number in your dreamcast (and also (optional) a usv1 serial), that doesn't matter. You can have up to 3 serial numbers, conditionally. If you have, like me, a usv1 serial and usv2 serial, then you can only then use a serial from euv2 or jpv2. Simply, if you have usv1 and usv2, you CAN use euv2, but nothing else besides those 3 Same deal if you only have usv2, except you get that and any 2 other versions of DC pso.
Alright, two new questions, then: does this mean that I have to get a shared serial, or can I get a new one from Schthack? Do I have to flash-erase my Dreamcast for any new serial, if need be? I'd prefer to have my own serial number, if possible, since I already have one for PC.
Also, if by some miracle, I get my own new legitimate copy of EUv2 (I've found two on sale so far, the best copy, it seems, selling from Germany on eBay Switzerland
), do those come with serial numbers I can then use to register onto Schthack? Sorry if all these questions are easily answered elsewhere. I'll look it up, regardless.
Alright. No need to answer those last few questions. I've just finished reading AleronIves' FAQ for the EUv2 download. Lazy, aren't I?
(Don't answer that.
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Well.. Is there any way to get my own serial for DC using EUv2, regardless, or is the one provided in EUv2 Readme the only one? And if so, there will be no problems saving other people's guild cards, will there?
Sorry for all the questions.
littlesthobo wrote:Hehe yeah I play BB from time to time but one thing never changes...I always come back to DC V2 It's my spiritual home
I think because my first experience with PSO was on the DC I just feel more at home playing it.
Well, I was on Sega BB for its two final years, playing from when Cronus 1 actually was maxed out every day (March 2006) to the point where there was never more than 30 people on during the week (March 2008, when it shutdown). I had some good times on there, but it took forever to adjust to the gameplay style everyone else had, where the game begins and ends with Ultimate mode, and playing at all was all about finding rares, getting with the best and most reputable team, and trading with folks. The best rare I ever found at any point was a Caduceus, so I sucked at finding rares. My friends scared me off of soloing Ultimate mode all because my main was (and is, still
) a FOmarl, and they believed the conventional Sega BB community wisdom that all forces = support all the time, and thus, they "can't" and "shouldn't" melée, they should stay in the back always and keep everyone alive, and spam offensive techs to the end of time, which had me bored shitless, and made me not do anything harder solo than Very Hard PW3 by myself. FOmarls aren't great nukers, on V2 or BB, so nuking on Ultimate is ultimately (hah) useless, far more so on v2 than BB (and even more so on Ultimate Spaceship -- magic doesn't do SHIT there -- a nuke force is completely useless there); they were meant to be the more balanced force that could do a bit of everything without dying after two hits (at least, before the FOmar came out; then, the FOmarl just became the one who could outlast everyone without looking bishounen-ish); they're supposed to be able to solo worth a damn. So BB was fun, but I missed how relaxed and light-hearted v1 and 2 play instead. I didn't need to be a math wizard to remember all the stats of every character or every item in the entire game, I didn't need to be conservative with my mats (although I begin to see the wisdom of doing away with Hit mats -- they make mags obsolete), and I didn't have to acquire an inferiority complex for not playing a FOney (and thus, being everyone's magic pooper-scooper maid, taking care of everyone, keeping them from having to heal or buff themselves, and thus, be everyone's slave and be blamed when someone dies, and never get a hit on mobs except for J/Z -- VERY boring).
I played DC offline originally from v1 on and off for many years from 2001 on. If my Dreamcast didn't have its motor issues, I would've never discovered BB.
I used to settle for PSO PC offline when I couldn't afford BB or PS2/PC PSU (I was on there for about 3 years in total, too), but ever since I finally got a registered serial back in July, BB just kind of suffers in comparison for me. No offline mode; I still don't like how wonky some of the drops still are here compared to Sega BB, but I understand that that can't be helped; all the offline quests are unlocked; and the over-focus the community still has upon rare items -- all of those are a big turn-off for me. Yeah, it sucks that the drop rates are so psychotic that I'll never see a Heaven Punisher for the next 5 to 10 years, but I never understood the condescension the normal weapons and armor got, anyways. Not everyone has had the luck required to get decent rares. Not everyone has the patience to 'hunt' anything. I hate hunting. I don't think the "real" game begins at Ultimate; I hate the big rush to level to lv. 80 or whichever, just so I can get killed by Bartles because I didn't bother to level a decent mag in the meantime. I hate TTFing all the goddamn day; the Endless Nightmares are more fun for me. I don't mag-farm; I don't start a new character and fret how he or she needs a "mind mag;" I grow everything from scratch unless I'm replacing a character who's had something catastrophic happen to them. And I appreciate that PSO PC gives me the choice of having unofficial patches or playing as Sega left the game before support for it ended and the servers shut down (not exactly as "intended," but close enough), and whatever is added is rather conservative than radical. BB, I understand that there's no way to choose, but FOneys seem broken enough.
That's just me, though.
EDIT: The only thing I really miss from playing BB is Episode II, and all the stuff that comes with that. Episode IV is alright; I mean, the EXP is high, even in Normal, but I always thought the maps, music, and monsters were a bit simplistic...
PSO PC is a lot of fun: I get to have my privacy, and I get to have my Dreamcast gameplay without needing a working Dreamcast. I just wish that there were still more people to play with than with lv. 60 HUcasts with limited English wielding MKBs in Hard Mines. I mean, really? Is that necessary? I mean, who needs to cheat in a Japanese RPG? They're the easiest video game genre outside of most puzzles and kids' games. Most JRPGs just require minor hand dexterity (if you can go through OS menus at a decent pace, you can beat Final Fantasy VI -- seriously), good memory, and decent reading speed and comprehension -- cheating in them is just you being lazy. I understand trainers and such, and I understand how fun it was to use a Game Genie on the NES (where it actually made sense; those games are fucking hard) although all that did was make me wish I had the skills to not need one, (that's just me!), but no one needs a Monkey King Bar outside of Ultimate, even for brevity's sake; that's just stupid.
But, yeah.. I can go on. ^^;
To everyone else: If you're just scrolling down to skip the tl;dr text, here's the summary:
PC >> BB.
There ya go.
