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You will never have to complete steps 1 through 4 ever again. Below we are going to discuss how to get the game running on a physical PS2 console, get your PS2 memory card formatted for playing the game online, and actually playing the game.

Before you can go online, you need to save a network save configuration file onto your memory card. This is what that ISO from archive.

Well you come this far, why not go further? By now you got FMCB on your console. And your memory card has a network configuration saved. You are ready to finally get into the game! Phew, that was a lot! For example. Without any of the options above, you can not launch, load, or install files from a USB. After using the USB as a base to get the permanent installations on, the USB should be wiped and used a storage device for your games.

I would also recommend organizing your games with OPL Manager from your computer. However you managed to get the game running and online, remember that most of the game is still in Japanese. There are basic bits that are in English that will help you through. Though English may not be your first language, or the parts in Japanese may be confusing.

Most of the dialogue for the offline mode is in Japanese. The menus, items, status, skills, etc It's enough to get around in the game. However there may be parts where you need help, finding a community is your best bet to getting the help you need be it things you don't understand, stuck on a step above setting up the game to play, finding a group to play with.

Here are ways you can get involved with the community. There are some prominent ways you can connect with the community when it comes to. If you like to stream your gameplay, please be sure to enter ". Thanks to. The area servers are dependent on whoever is hosting the game. Therefore you may not always see the same servers online each time or day. Check with the fan communities to ask someone to host an area server, and if you can't find one, you can host one yourself, more on that later.

There's a tool here on DHN that lets you install a Windows notification whenever someone logs onto the lobby server found here. While Build 8 of Coldbird's team led a deal of translations into the game itself, it had two problems. First issue is that it was a pre-patched disc, which means whatever changes they made to the game itself, you had to keep whether you liked it or not.

Which leads to the second issue, during their translations, they made efforts to change the games user-interface to look more like. For the purists out there, this was visually disturbing. So rather continue using that copy of the game, efforts are being made to make a standalone patcher that strictly does a translation change to the game only, one that does not pre-patch the game and lets you decide to have the changes added or not.

This is to help people find groups to play with and people engaged in the game. Always look forward to Fridays as a day to play. There are many ways of being part of the community be it inclusion and participation, the only way this game will become more active is if you make it more active and thinking outside the box to find inventive ways to get people to be aware this game even exists.

There are many turn offs to playing this game, outdated graphics; grinding game play, region lock PS2's, lack of online players, difficult understanding how to setup to play, or just an unwillingness to set it up for yourself. Understandably there may be challenges, but at this time this is the only way to play a. Here we will discuss the program that is used to host your own private server for.

Remember, the lobby server is the main hub. Once there, players can be waiting to find a host to be hosting a server for you and others to play on. And each Area Server only allows for 3 people to play, first come, first served. Therefore if 15 people area waiting in the lobby server and only 1 Area Server is up, that means only 3 can join and 12 people will still be waiting in the lobby server.

But if there were 5 Area Servers up, then all 15 players waiting in Lobby Server can all join in a server equally. Therefore the ratio of Area Server's hosted versus the people who are online playing is always preferred. And people who are kind enough to host an Area Server must keep the program running and port-forwarded for people to play. Well simply, just the software Area Server. However there are quite a few different versions out there available online.

The original from CyberConnect2's own website. The original requires you to set up the program with the game disc, meaning that option from the main menu that shows Offline Online and Area Server; this is the purpose of that last option, to setup the Area Server program on your PC.

Later a version removed this step and did a few other quality of life changes called the Netslum server. This became the basis of all future versions of Area Servers. There was even an alternative that allowed the option of hosting more than one Area Server from your PC called multi-Netslum server. The problem with these is the obvious glarring issue, all are in Japanese! Therefore it is our recommendation that you start and only use Kuskus English Area Server that we will refer to as the Kuskus server.

Now this version as you can see has English in most areas, the exception being the area keywords. When you first launch the program in a Window's machine or Window's emulated machine, you'll see quite a few splash screens.

The first thing you will want to do is click on the computer icon that says Map Editor. This will open a window with a static map box. You can click and drag the window "Map Editor" wherever you like on this simulated desktop. This will allow you to create your first Area Server by entering a Server Name of your choice, only limited to 20 characters long in name.

Along with a Symbol that is limited to 8 characters only. This can be an abbreviation if you like of your servers name. Then from the drop down menu, choose whatever Root Town you want associated with your Area Server. For this scenario we will use. For this purpose we will click on 2 and press the Save button. Then a popup says Data saved. From here you can close the map editor window. Now click on the Area Server icon on the top left. Click on Area at the top, then Publish Area Server.

Select your Area Server you created, in this instance we will select no 2. Click on the Publish button. A bunch of popups will appear temporarily and when it's all said and done the static screen will have a map of the Root Town you picked in the Map Editor setup and the last line in the Message Window should say Area Server is now open. Whenever someone log's onto your Area Server, you will see their name appear on the Status window along with their activity and position on the Message Window and Map.

If the players on your Area Server gate out to a field or dungeon, your Map screen will change and continue to show you their position. When people are done with your Area Server and no one is logged on, it is customary to wait for everyone to leave before you shut down. Otherwise you could end someone's progress or transaction.

Then click on Yes. The Local Server window will have the static map and show the status of Closed. From here you can click the Door icon Exit from the bottom left of the program. Believe it or not, the Area Server is capable of throwing players a random event. It is currently still unknown of what triggers these events.

So should you encounter one, let us know in our Discord chatroom. You can also force trigger an event, such as The One Sin event. You can trigger it by adding this save file to your Area Server installation.

Get a fine chocolate for Valentine's Day. And how about giving it to your precious PC on February 14th? Again, in root town, please find a certain PC.

In the dungeon, Black Rose is waiting for you. On February 3rd, we will hold a setsubun event to get rid of evil from "The World". Please find a certain PC in Root Town. Please discover a certain PC in the root town of the area server. There is a New Year greeting from the legendary PC.

Enjoy your new year's first adventure. We hope that you will continue to play an active part in "The World" in Therefore, we will hold a New Year's Eve event on December 31st. If you find a PC that is in the root town of the area server, ask for the area word. You may get a perfect present gift for the new year. I pray that all of you will have a good year next year.

March 13, Cherry blossom viewing event A cherry blossom viewing event will be held on March We will hold a cherry blossom viewing at The World prior to the real world. The event organizer for this event is that "Fiana's descendants".

What kind of adventure is waiting for you this time? Again, in root town, find a certain PC and get an area word. However, it seems that an event will be held for people who are not good at exercise.

Let's find and talk to "Coach Apprentice" in Route Town. We obviously believed it was triggered based off your machine's internal clock, however that does not seem to be the case. If you somehow triggered one of these events, we'd like to hear about it. So please share and take lot's of screen shots!

You may have come across someone's Area Server name shown as a different color. Other than the default grayed out when a server reaches max players 3 , you can change them to blue, green, red, and yellow. This trick requires work on your part, by adding the prefix B, G, R, and Y before your Server Name, simply is not enough. You will need the program CheatEngine to do more. Watch this Youtube video on how to use CheatEngine to make the prefix actually change your Area Server's name a different color.

All Area Server's created start at level 1. This applies to the Area Server itself, not the players on it, or restrict players from accessing it. However the higher the server level, will determine the highest level field your server can have, for that server level. To trigger an Area Server to level up it's server, you need to kill monsters and complete the Gott Statue's found at the end of dungeons.

The calculations is deeper than just that, but those are the basics. The real calculation includes server element type and a hidden exp value for each type. For your part in all this, you're practically done. However one more major step is needed on your end, port-forwarding. Be sure to check out our next guide below to learn how to set a port-forwarding on your internet connection. Without it, people may not be able to connect to your Area Server and play.

The Area Server is a useful tool, allowing you to create custom maps and dungeons with the Map Editor by creating custom keywords. Currently the ones pre-saved are in Japanese, but you can setup your own new English keywords.

Or emulated on your Mac and Linux machine, even a Raspberry Pi. What is port forwarding? Your PC, router, and internet connection has many ports from various programs to connect internally and externally from your network. When you would like for an external or remote connection to be allowed access to a program on your machine, the program is listening for a particular port, and if access is allowed in through that port number, the connection can be made.

If your PC or router denies that remote connection, the person on the other end will be denied access. Basically, Area Server is listening on port , and we want to allow people to join in through that port and have access to your program Area Server to have their character be seen in game. You assume all risks whenever you allow a port opened on your PC and router. Malicious users or programs can in deed take advantage of this opening for nefarious reasons such as malware, spyware, keylogging, etc So be prepared, take extra precautions and ensure it is run the way you want it.

So without further ado, where to begin? First place is to get access to your router, this can be done a myriad of ways depending on what brand router you may have, the most common being. Next you will want to know what your LAN IP address is, not the one the internet sees, but rather the one your router assigned to your machine regardless if you are connected with an ethernet or wifi, everything get's an assigned number.

You'll see a black window with a flashing line. Here type in ipconfig. The 11 at the end denotes what number that machine was assigned. It'll be important in the next step. Enter the one of the IP's above to access the router, preferably You may be prompted for a username and password, unless you know it, the default is always admin for password, no username is needed.

This will take you to a webpage with your router's brand in the top corner. You'll come across a screen that has a check mark, an empty spot for a description, a space labeled ports with a - dash between the two boxes, something that says type with the abbreviation TCP UDP or Both, and IP address. You will need to check the box to enable, enter whatever description you like such as Fragment Area Server, something to remember.

And you must enter port twice in both spaces, this means you are allowing external connections to look at ports between and , if you type in any other number in either space, you may be opening up a whole million of ports to look at. And the last space is the IP address where in the case above you would be entering 11, but your case will be different. Do not enter 11 unless your IPv4 Address says. The drop menu for type, TCP is fine for what we are doing.

Everyone will be seeing things differently during these steps, depending on your brands and setup. Remember to consider the risks before choosing to host an Area Server.

And should you change your mind, you can always erase everything you filled out and uncheck the enable box. Or just uncheck the enable box. Also if you really screwed things up with your router, a last resort would be to push the tiny pin button on the back of the router, this will factory reset all the settings done. And I do mean ALL, including wifi name, wifi password, etc But remember, by not doing this step, people can see that your Area Server is online because you are broadcasting that you are up, but nobody will ever be allowed to get on your Area Server because the bouncer at the port is saying no entry.

Most are plug and play, while others may require additional hardware and plugin's to work. Just make sure your plugin's are configured correctly. The default settings are fair enough, but should they be different, please ensure the highlighted area is unchanged. However this will prove difficult if you are trying to walk and rotate the camera. A physical twin joystick controller would be much recommended. But if you can't, here's how you can do so.

First off you'll have heard above about CLR-USB, this is a plugin that let's you type in-game for chatting and filling out information. This is NOT for pressing the buttons or moving your character around. The space on the left is for keeping tabs on what controller is assigned to what keyboard key. Just click on the button on the right, and the program will wait for you to press a key on your keyboard to assign that button.

For example, press the Up button in the outline Left Analog Stick area, and on your key board press the W key. Click on right and press D, press the down button and press S, and press the left button and press A.

So now while in game if you use the WASD keys, this will imitate the left analog stick. Complete the rest for all the other buttons to have a full controller assigned to keys on your keyboard.

But as mentioned, now certain buttons are assigned as a controller input. It's recommended not to use CLR-USB at this point as doing so will now type in random letters in the in-game's chat, as you play.

So you did the steps to get what you needed and the tools to point the game in the right direction. Depending on what version you have, you may be staring at Japanese and have no idea what you're looking at. Here we will discuss getting you from start to finish by looking at the screen's you will be encountering along the way. The fastest and easiest way to play is on the PC.

Versions 1. Earlier versions less than 1. Download the emulator via the installer or binary for your preferred operating system on PCSX2's download page. Once you've installed or run the executable file, you'll be prompted with this welcome message.

And now we begin the setup for this emulator. Congrats, you have successfully patched the game and now launched the game.

All that's left is to configure your network settings and save it to your memory card by either using the built-in network setup in. Most are plug and play, while others may require additional hardware and plugin's to work. Just make sure your plugin's are configured correctly.

The default settings are fair enough, but should they be different, please ensure the highlighted area is unchanged. Another option is to play through RetroArch if your big on emulation.

RetroArch operates on "cores" which are emulators consolidated into a universal platform. However currently the PCSX2 core is not publicly available.

There are some beta testing cores out there unofficially you can try. But at this time a networking option for this core is not available, so at best you would only be able to play Offline mode. When it does come available, it would look something similar to this. Download RetroArch from their downloads page based on what system and computer you have.

Either use the installer or unpack the binaries and launch the retroarch. Upon startup, you'll see a dark grey interface, this style is known as Ozone , but you may have seen this emulator as a blue wave similar to the Playstation 3's style. For obvious reasons, they choose not to leave this on by default but you can change it under settings, drivers, menu, and XMB. Chapter 4: Playing on PlayStation 2 through soft-modding. There's certainly a market of people who wish to play a PlayStation 2 game the way Sony wanted you to, on the actual hardware and not emulated through a PC, and in most cases denying playing on a PC are those who believe they have a potato PC.

Which is understandable, why play in a desk chair on a monitor when you could play on the couch on a huge 4k television? So with the restrictions of hardware and game discs from the the early 's, this means the game is "region-locked". United States and Canada, you can "soft-mod" your console to play other region games. The difference between soft-mod and hard-mod is that you use software to do a trick to allow the console to work the way you need it to, whereas hard-mod means opening up the console and usually using solder on a PCB board and adding new microchips.

Here in this chapter we'll discuss soft-modding quick and easy to play the Patched Game you created back in Chapter 1 above. We are going to start from the very beginning assuming you do not have a FMCB memory card already but own a PS2 memory card. You can skip ahead if you already have one. The model number must be less to work. Skip to next section. You now have FreeMcBoot version 1. See picture below. Chapter 5: Playing on PlayStation 3. You can play. The Playstation 3 is region free when it comes to playing PS3 disc based games.

All later models do not have any form of backwards compatibility packaged in. So if you wanted to play straight from the. A Playstation 3 Test Debugging model is region free when it comes to it's PS2 game discs, so this is an alternative option to playing straight from the disc. To do so, you will need to install on your retail PS3 a custom firmware. This will allow you to play. Just make sure you patch your. You can post now and register later.

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All Activity Home Forums Series. Reply to this topic Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Erroneous 28 Posted March 4, Posted March 4, When to play? Link to post Share on other sites. Chapter 1: Patching the Game for English to play in Japanese, skip this step The first and foremost part of this setup will be to patch your existing copy of. Insert your PS2. Levels gained and items obtained in offline mode transfer to online mode and vice versa.

Penalties for quitting the game without saving and death of all members in a party are the same across online and offline modes. Players are unable to pause the game. Spells and items may be assigned to shortcut buttons. Monsters give fewer experience points than in previous games. If all members of a party die, players and PCs lose experience points, equivalent to one level. Futher if a character quits the game without saving, they lose their entire inventory including equipment and items saved in Elf's Haven.

This penalty is to discourage players from attempting to duplicate items. Players may form a party with these characters. Playing the offline story mode unlocks Data Drain for players to use online.

The offline story does not feature voice acting. Featured Article.