Yes, i know some player is also using the same disk as you.

The codebreaker is not needed anymore, also if you go strait to silverant it's because you have one of their modded ISO that have their server address coded in it.

All you have to do is to point your DNS setting to the server IP. If it's not working that mean your router or ISP is intercepting the ...

What version of pso?
Did you add your serial to the MyHL section?

took care of

Make sure you fallow this guide to register your serial/AK for pso GC
or to create an account for BB

thats the server April fool

get gdVoodoo2 here: https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases/download/v2.86.5/dgVoodoo2_86_5.zip

extract the content of the file
copy the content of the folder /MS/x86 to your psobb folder
that will run a wrapper to convert dx8 to dx12 call

Some video cards driver dont have DX8 support ...

I communicated how some exploit were done and how to prevent it to a GM on SEGA US

But i dont think it had any effect, they never explicitly refused.
anyway for some reason i feel like SEGA US never owned any of the code, they just received what ever to use as server software and ran it.

I will say the worst wasn't to get the feature working, it was to get them working like on SEGA server.
The whole drops thing took over 2 years of tweaking and to give u an idea, 3 years ago we finally got the rare enemy to match the original SEGA way.

We are still finding stuff and implementing ...

Short answer:

A few ppl got access to beta test
A Chinese group got access because Sega closed their BB server over there while Sega US still was providing support.

Was only a matter of not stepping in a market still supported by SEGA