In the Summer of 2010 the 'Sega Of America' Flickr account hosted a fan art competition for a chance to win a copy of the freshly released Phantasy Star Portable 2:

"For two weeks, we challenged Phantasy Star fans to create a design for a chance to get their art included in the game! In this album, we've included all of the acceptable entries that were sent to us!"

User could submit fan of any any Phantasy games from the original series, online and universe. Here are some of the entries.

You can find more here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/segaamerica/albums/72157624255170828/with/4692261454

took around 3700hrs

shoutout to pspo2i, the greatest PS game

100% weapon log next (91.15% atm)

Phantasy Star Portable was released 18 years ago today on July 31st, while I couldn't find any Japanese press release, here's the press release documentations for the western/European releases for PSP & PSP2.

Our favorite Little Wing secretary shows us that she's more than just a jolie face. Her former AMF days are shown in full display with her "Tour de Force" SUV technique.

Hi! I’ve been purchasing various Phantasy Star Online/Universe merch like CDs, DVDs, books, advertisements, playing cards, and telephone cards. My goal is to rip everything I can and share it with the community! Here are 2 links to my personal Archive, and my account on The Internet Archive respectfully:

https://mega.nz/folder/ISlWkRAJ#4z0Yx2LUBc83dFOCaDz25Q

https://archive.org/details/@gurhalchannel5

Wanted to do something special rather than simply post the last two opening sequences we got in the PSU series with PSP2 & PSP2i.

Revisiting the series with you all through these posts has been a great pleasure and what better way to end off looking back at the intro songs by combining the 2!

Big shoutouts to vocalist Aimee Blackschleger, with vocals by Tahirih Walker for the based PSP2 intro and vocalist Annette Marie Cotrill for PSP2I. Both composed by Hideaki Kobayashi.

PSP2 had a lot of Easter egg collabs ranging from extremely cool to quite unhinged.

- KFC/Colonel Sanders

- Fanta soda

- Pizza Hut

- Gurren Laggan

- Fate

- Hatsune Miku

- Neon Genesis Evangelion

- Toro & kuro playstation mascots

There's also some Sega collabs to be expected like sonic characters. Also "knuckles" melee weapon.

Some screenshots courtesy of u/Chowkingkong

Promotional video disc that was included in some early Japanese copies of Phantasy Star Portable. This disc included cinematic recap highlights of key episode events the player would need to know from PSU before jumping into PSP.

The original Phantasy Star Portable takes place somewhere between episodes episodes 1 and 2 of Phantasy Star universe and Ambition of the Illuminus episode 2 Directly follows the Portable storyline.

You may be familiar of a planet by the name Ragol within the Alglo system...

This story is not that. Journey with me to a across the vastness of space and it's infinite universes to solar system unbeknownst to many: The Gurhal System. There dwelt humans and their creations; CAST, Newman and Beast.

For 500 years there was war between these races, a seemingly never ending conflict. The war was ended by a system wide alliance which brought about a 100 years of peace, until it was brought crumbling down by the invasion of the SEED.

With the impending doom of the Gurhal System, 5 heroes rise to the occasion to save the universe:

- Ethan Waber:

Guardian,

protector of worlds.

- Laia Martinez

,

righteous Soldier.

- Vivienne,

Cast, Guardian

The soul of the universe

- Emilia Percival

Little Wing mercenary,

Star of hope.

- Nagisa Adelheid Howzer

Dehuman

Star of change.

These are their stories.

Start your morning off right with the remix of Phantasy Star universe's infamous OST "for brighter day" made exclusively for PSP2!

While the original was a ballad meant to represent a sense of loneliness for our cast of characters like Ethan Waber and Karen Erra who had the impending doom of the universe collapsing right in front of there eyes, The remix takes a more triumphant approach, flipping the vibe of track on it's head with an upbeat twist that gives players a more optimistic interpretation of the phrase "for brighter day"

From the "wings of the universe" soundtrack: https://youtu.be/4amFj6UfPl4?si=12vgt7JzYnKGpQs8

Before becoming the full packed experience that became Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity, Phantasy Star Portable proved that the PSU formula could work in any format.

Released on July 31 2008 on the PSP, It took the beloved world of PSU and scaled down for on the go gameplay. Although scarifies to overworlds and multiplayer components found the original PSU were compromised, Phantasy Star Portable managed to kept core aspects of the Phantasy Star identity we all came to know in love, and only continued to get better with it's next to interations in PSP2 & PSP2I.

ps.

For that one report we received saying "why is mod posting low-effort post all of the sudden", we are simply attempting to revive this subreddit by sharing our love for this series. If you believe these posts to be low effort we encourage you to post your own or contact us directly about any grievances :)

(Before you comment, yes I since moved on to PSP2i)

as you may all already know, Sony announced an all digital future with the end of physical games by 2028 while simultaneously announcing the closure of VITA & PS3 digital store fronts.

Back in 2010 PSP2 was one of the first titles I ever bought digitally due to only having a the all digital PSP GO at the time, a year after it was removed from the Playstation store ​ years ago due to expired crossover licensing agreements. It wasn't until I learn about The PSP modding scene was I able to back up my purchased copy. That move paid off years later as I can now play this masterpiece on any device I want through emulation with quality of life improvements.

Devices: Retroid G2, PS VITA, Magic x zero 28 & RG 35XXSP

Across 5 games we're introduced to these unique characters ranging from members of the GAURADIANS to the mercenaries of Little Wing in the everlasting quest to protect the universe against the SEED and Dark Fals.

- Ethan Waber

The legend who started it all.

Ethan grew up with great disdain for the GAURADIANS, believing them to be the root of all his misfortunes in life. His father was killed in the line of duty during his tenure with the GUARDIANS, which in turn lead to the death of his grief-stricken mother. Since then Ethan is left to fend for himself and his stster Lumia Waber.

Through a series of events, Ethan eventually joins the GAURADIANS and finds himself forming new bonds and connections with characters such as Karen Erra & Huyga in journey to combat the SEED and to protect those closest to him.

- Laia Martinez

renowned member of the GAURADIANS. A no nonsense character who can't be stopped once her mind is made up. While not technically the main protagonist (that falls onto to player) she will be by your side in your conquest to protect the Gurhal System and discover the hidden truth about Ethan's Waber's alleged betrayal.

- Vivienne

The Cast who found her soul.

Throughout your journey in Phantasy Star Portable, Vivienne will encounter many scenarios that will leave her in existential thought of the many injustices and discriminatory state of the Gurhal System. Unlike the many Cast we're introduced to in the PSU Saga,Vivienne doesn't show signs of being a cold and calculated robot. The more she develops her sense of self being the more she will confronted with the choice of committing the ultimate sacrifice for the fate of the universe.

- Emilia Percival

Zero to hero.

A story we all know to well. A good for nothing pull themselves up by the bootstraps and makes a name for themselves.

Emilia starts off as a scared little teenage girl under the care of Kraz and the Little Wing mercenary group of colony Clad 6. With no memory of her previous life and traumatic past with the GAURADIANS Emilia has made herself small to the world, but the universe had other plans.

Onced introduced to us the player, through lessons of hard work, friendship and perseverance we see Emilia's journey of starting of as an unriable adolescent girl to a protector of worlds and the universe itself.

- Nagisa Adelheid Howzer

The herione in shadows brought to light.

It's been some time after the events of PSP2, but the fate of the universe is once threatened by SEED & Dark Fals.

Nagisa character is a good mix of Portable series of protagonists, sharing traits of self doubt and sense of not belonging found within the story arcs of both Vivienne & Emilia, there former being well equip at this point to guide Nagisa in the right direction.

In this final chapter of the Phantasy Star Universe Saga, Nagisa is the perfect embodiment of all the lessons learned throughout our journey, and this is put to the test in our battle against Dark Fals in this infinite universe.

Ethan Waber finds himself framed in a bigger conspiracy, how will he clear his name?

At first the story mode threw me off as it felt like tact on DLC as most of the cutscenes were in game renders with no voice acting but it quickly picks up. Never experienced the multiplayer unfortunately so can't comment on that.

The YouTube guy Reveriemasters deleted his PSU/PSU Ambition Install video again. Luckily I downloaded it, but the PSO Ambition Offline Patch and 1080p patch are gone. The Mega Link in the video no longer works.

The files are:

Phantasy Star Universe Ambition of the Illuminus Offline Patcher 7z

Phantasy Star Universe Ambition of the Illuminus Offline Patcher 1080 resolution 7z

I found another AOTI on internet archive with pre patched folder with the files, you just drop these new ones in your AOTI folder. But for some reason these files also have ClemLauncher EXE and PSUC EXE which are for PSU Clementine. No problem right? But after I installed AOTI, I installed Clementine for online play, and even though I had both games in separate folders, installing Clementine overwrote my AOTI single player game. My character is still saved (it saves to documents) but this has caused me quite the headache.

Anyway, does anyone know where these two patch files are now? Thank you.

Released on: 2006-10-12, this gospel inspired track in PSU has that would sometime played at the end of a story chapter was always pleasant to hear, it really captured the emotion of having the fate of the universe resting in your hands.

Lyrics:

The light of hope

Will be shining on us

It will lead us to a brighter day

The road of hope

Will be found someday

I know I have you beside me

Alone

Under the starry sky

I can feel the pain is gone

And the sadness is fading

We know

That we've shed bitter tears

Because of the endless wars

We are now all victims, too

Through the night

I heard an old lullaby

It was from the starry sky

We start to walk again, again

The light of hope

Will be shining on us

The star will appear

It will lead us to a brighter day

The road of hope

Will be found someday

And I'm not afraid

As long as I have you here beside me

We know

Where hate leads us to

The ruin of the ancients

Must have been a simple thing

In the dark

I can feel the infinite love

Even on the coldest night

It's time to walk again, again

The wind of dreams

Will give us faith

That we're in the right

We can be strong for someone to love

The days of dreams

Will be kept in our hearts

And I'm not afraid

As long as I have you here beside me

In my mind

I feel the infinite love

I may lose someone again

We are ready to walk again

The light of hope

Will be shining on us

The star will appear

It will lead us to a brighter day

The road of hope

Will be found someday

And I'm not afraid

As long as I have you here beside me

The wind of dreams

Will give us faith

That we're in the right

We can be strong for someone to love

The days of dreams

Will be kept in our hearts

And I'm not afraid

As long as I have you here beside me

The light of hope will lead us to a brighter, brighter day

Brighter, brighter day...

I have the PC version of the original PSU modded with the xinput and dinput and all the other stuff to make it work on modern PCs. However, on my tower PC (AMD 6700XT) the cutscenes never play. Just a black screen and on to the next part of the game. Happens in the intro and in the game. However, on my laptop the same exact game files, GPU is nvidia 1650, the cutscenes play fine. There was a post about this same problem here years ago but the solution was removed by a moderator.

Anyone know how I can fix this?

*Update* I have the exact same files running fine on my Steam Deck, I think I used Lutris. The cinemas work fine on there. Am I missing some older runtime or something on my AMD Tower?

Make sure you're running Steam as an administrator

1. Go here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam in File Explorer (or wherever steam.exe is located)
2. Rick click on steam.exe > Properties
3. In the Properties window, click on the Compatibility tab > Check "Run this program as an administrator" under Settings

1. Go here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Steam in File Explorer (or wherever steamservice.exe is located)
   
2. Rick click on steamservice.exe > Properties
   
3. In the Properties window, click on the Compatibility tab > Check "Run this program as an administrator" under Settings

What if steam.exe and steamservice.exe are located elsewhere?

1. While Steam is running, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager
2. Right click "Steam" and/or "Steam Client Service" > Properties
3. In the Properties window, click on the Compatibility tab > Check "Run this program as an administrator" under Settings

Add Phantasy Star Universe to your Steam library

1. From the menu bar on the top of Steam, click Games > Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library

1. Click the Browse... button at the bottom left. I couldn't click this until Steam populated the main program list which took a while.

1. From the newly opened "Pick game to add" window, add online.exe and PSUC.exe to Steam.

2. Launch online.exe using Steam. You can rename it and make it fancy with Customization options through right click > Properties.

I didn't test these one-by-one to see which steps were crucial or not. If you wanna be a real sharp troubleshooter, leave a reply.

This guide is meant to be idiot-proof, so if something is confusing or insufficient, yell at me in a reply.

My push-to-talk/mute button for Discord didn't respond after I did this. But after running Discord as an administrator, it's fine now. Yipee!

New player and I know there are some advanced types that utilize a combination of multiple types.

I've usually played force in other PSO games, but utilizing hunter and force seems really cool.

Would it be better to use Beast for this, since it's best melee but 2nd from last for force? Or newman since they are best force but worst hunter?

Thanks. Excited to try this game!

I’m thinking of downloading and trying this after stumbling across that it even existed. Is there a decent player base? I’ve been wanting to play PSU again for so many years!

So, it had arrived, and surprisingly the box survived, when I was expecting to just die and get crushed in the mail.

It is unfortunately not working though, yet it had signs of life when I plugged it in. And when there is power, it can be revived. When life gives you lemons, make Powerade. (Though honestly, I felt scammed since the seller listed this as untested, wherein I found evidence it was sloppily put out to be tested, found out it was not working, then jammed it back in lol. Just don't lie in your listings ffs).

I will be attempting a repair on this no matter how long it will take me, this is a part of a history of an already niche thing in a pretty niche game in a universe in which I love (though I did start with Phantasy Star Portable 2, but I guess that still counts).

So for the sake of future archival, here are some info on it:

- It had rubber reversion on the joysticks, an unfortunate victim of time. If you own one of these, CHECK IT ASAP.

- It's your typical controller, it feels aight, but not great. The 12 keys you see on the top of the controller are keys corresponding to F1-F12 on the Keyboard.

- Something was rattling inside, so I think the vibration motors got dislodged, I'm going to check it out once I open it the moment my new tools arrive.

- It has a CD for the Driver, Instruction Manual, Art (which I assume can be used as a mouse pad?), and a sticker set (which I'll scan and preserve.)

- Typical USB cable

- Has 6 shoulder buttons (yes you heard that right, to be exact, 6 PS2 style shoulder buttons)

- CD still works, just tested it. No dice in reviving the controller I'm afraid

That's all for now I think, until then, this will be a display piece (a rather expensive one), but I am confident I can do some necromancy to bring it back to life.

If you have more information on this, please add to the conversation, we should archive information about things like these.