tcardlab/awesome-pso

Collection of PSO related assets, projects, and servers

Awesome PSO (Phantasy Star Online)

Collection of PSO ep1&2 related assets, projects, and servers.

I have no association to any application or distributable linked here (aside from the SVG Sigil).
Thus, I cannot vouch for the validity of external downloads or applications. Please do your own research and stay safe.

Games and Servers:

BLUEBURST SERVERS:

• Ephinea
• Ultima
• schtserv
• Eden
• Destiny

GAMECUBE:

May need a GameCube Emulator

• ISO - Internet Archive
• Schtserv Network - PSO GC Connection guide

Dolphin Status:

• PSO I & II
  • Forum Support Thread
• PSO I & II Plus
  • Forum Support Thread

DREAMCAST:

May need a DreamCast Emulator

• GDI - Internet Archive
• Phantasy Star Online : Dreamcast Live
• Sylverant
• schtserv

MOBILE:

I have not seen anyone run PSO on their phone recently, but should be possible in theory.

Dolphin can run on Android:

• Video
• Google Play Store
• Dolphin Download Page
• See GameCube section to get ISO if necessary

Redream can run on Android:

• Video
• Google Play Store
• Redream Download Page
• See DreamCast section to get GDI if necessary

RetroArch can run on Android and supports both emulators mentioned above:

• Video
• Google Play Store
• RetroArch Home

STEAMDECK:

Ephinea Guides:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/w9q6ub/installing_and_running_pso_bb_ephinea/
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I4AibIhq5M85wByePQ3wg8bK5s6DsOl9KQRjRkW-Oas/edit

PSO Game Dev

Remakes & Remasters
Project Name	Year of Origin (approx.)	Status	Showcase	Resources
PSO Remake (by Glader)	2014	Superseded by PSOBB2 in 2020	PSO Unity Remake: Forest	GladNet, BoomaNation
Benjamin Collins Version	2015	Dropped in 2019?	Showcase	Kion/DashGL Utilities
Pocket PSO	2017	Dropped in 2017	Pocket PSO PC/Mobile Test
PSO Clone (by Landon Ritchie)	2017	Superseded by Reverie Star in ~2018	PSO Clone
Andreas Scholl Version	pre-2019	Active - Low Priority	showcase	DashUnityProject
PSOBB2 (Glader, et al.)	2020	Indefinite Hiatus	announcement video 1, announcement video 2	Client, Proxy, Server, Content
VRChat PSO	pre-2019	Unknown	Phantasy Star Online in VR!?
Team Shonochan Version	2021	Active	Phantasy star and dothack dev
PSOQuest-VR by Foxeh	2022	Unknown	Weapons Demo, Forest Demo
Spin-Offs
Project Name	Year of Origin (approx.)	Status	Showcase	Resources
Reverie Star (by Zorlock Studios)	2018	Dropped in 2020	Reverie Star - New City Area, Reverie Star Progress Update
GladMMO (Superset of PSOBB2)	pre-2019	Stale since 2020	2019 Unification Announcement	GladMMO Github
Project STAR by aeXcess Team	2019	Stale since 2020	City Combat Demo
Project Pioneer (by Photon Drop Studio)	2021	Active - seeking funding	Metro-City showcase

Utilities

SERVERS, EMULATORS, & DEV-SUITES:

• DashGL Dev Suite
  • Snippets - Ikaruga
  • DashGL Model Format
  • DashUnityProject
  • Asset Lib & Exporter
• Solybum Dev Suite
  • Tethealla – PSO Server
  • PSO-Tools – PSO Utils
  • Utilities – General Utils
• Glader Dev Suite
  • Booma : (Library | Proxy | Client | Server) – PSO:BB Emulation Suite
  • PSO:BB2 : (Library | Content | Client | Server) – PSO:BB Remake in Unity
• PSO Kotlin
  • phantasmal-world – PSO Dev-Suite (web app, utils, and WIP server)
• PSO Rust
  • idolapsoserv – PSO Server
  • Telepipe – PSO on Dolphin Emulator

Private Servers:

• NewServe – PSO server/proxy

STATS:

• drop chart – PSO:BB plugin for drop chart
• Map Simulator – PSO:GC Map RGN simulation

ITEM DB:

• PSO-World Items DB
• PSO-World Mags
• MAG database – PSO:BB plugin

SECTION-ID CALCULATOR:

• Code
  • gamefaqs calc in various langs [Ruby, Py, C#, PHP, JS, C++, C]
  • eleriaqueen/pso-simple-section-id-calculator [ JS ]
  • PSOCalc – PSO:BB section ID calc [ JS ]
  • ID_generator – PSO:GC section ID calc [ Rust ]
  • secid-calc – PSO section ID calc [ Vue.js ]
• App
  • PSO-World Calc
  • Solybum Calc
  • Eleriaqueen Calc
• Reference
  • Pioneer2 Ref
  • PSO Fandom Ref
  • PhantasyStar Fandom Ref
  • PSO-World Articles

MAG CALCULATOR:

• MAG Calc – PSO mag calculator
• MAG AI – Generate Mag Feeding plan
• MAG Feeder – Mag Feeder Tool for PSOBB

Assets

UI:

• pso-highres-ui – highres ui for Dolphin emulator et al.
• highres-dreamcast-ui – highres Dreamcast ui for Dolphin emulator et al.
• Custom-HUD – PSO:BB custom hud plugin
• PSO Title Screen - JS, HTML, CSS
• @HelloKitty's PSOBB2 UI

FONTS:

• Archived psobb.com Font Source
• Fringes of Algo (I used PSO font from here)
• font2s/pso_test_regular
  • freefontsdownload/free-pso-test-regular-font (prob same as prior)
  • wfonts/pso-test (prob same as prior)
• eleriaqueen/stylised-pso-font (links are broken, but I'd like a copy if anyone has them)
• eleriaqueen/pso-highres-hud-font (For in game use)
• fontstruct/phantasy_star_online (includes punctuation)
• fontstruct/phantasy_star_online_cyr_ver_1 (includes punctuation)

MODELS:

• Josh Markham (World Art Lead at Bungie) - Phantasy Star Environment (never made public...)
• PSO Remake: Art - Forest | Trello
  • Click on cards, Asset files in popup
  • Showcase

Viewers and Exporters:

• phantasmal viewer
  • Code
• DashGL Ninja Viewer/Exporter
  • Code
  • Spec Sheet

QUESTS:

• GCI Quest files
• VMI quest files

MUSIC & SFX:

• PSO PC Music Pack Torrent
• @HelloKitty's PSOBB2 Sound
• sound effects
  • some are low quality, let me know if there is a better source

TEXTURE PACKS:

• Echelon's skins & modifications
• AshenbubsHD
  • image samples
• Re-Texturing Pioneer II

Souces to Searh:

• pioneer2: Skins and Mods

SHADERS:

• ZabaZu/mcflypg/Pascal Gilcher ReShade
  • phantasystaronline.net Announcement
  • pioneer2 Announcement
• Luminati-nerd-stuff/PSO-RayTracing

MOD PACKS:

• Sundark's Mod Pack
• Smokey's Mod Pack

VR Experiences

Remakes & Remasters
World	Creator	Year Created
Falz Memoria	Casuallynoted	2017
Falz Memoria HD	Flashfire	2019
PSO Forest Remake V1	Flashfire	2019
PSO Pioneer 2	Flashfire	2019
PSO_Forest	Lord Ardent	2019
Mines 1 - Phantasy Star Online	Silent	2019
Project Rogol ［Open-Beta］	Dosker	2022

Forums

• PSO-World.com
• Pioneer 2
• Ultima Forum
• Schtserv Forum
• Eden Forum
• Destiny Forum

Curated Info Sites

• PSO-World
• PSO Palace
• Wikipedia
• Fandom
  • PSO - Fandom
  • Phantasy Star - Fandom
  • Characters

Interesting Reads & Media

• PSO will never die: how the nicest fans in gaming keep a 16-year-old MMO alive - PC Gamer
• PSO’s original director from Sonic Team talks Diablo influences, cut features, and Christmas Nights - Polygon
• PSO devs on the story, the graphics, and the angry fans that used to call Sega - Polygon
• PSO prototype - Hidden Palace
• PSO - Unseen64
• PSO commercial - YouTube
• PSO DreamCast- gamefaqs
• PSO GameCube - gamefaqs
• PSO EpI&II Versus Strategy Guide - Internet Archive
• Book Of Hunters - Internet Archive
  • Alt-Source
  • Sygil Translation
  • Tekkers Translation
  • Newman Translation
  • Wolf Translation
  • Many More Translations

Other

• PSO Remastered 360VR video by Theanine3D [mirror]
• Stable Diffusion for Remastering

Notable Devs

Todo: Add Linkd DEV PFP's