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How many routers do you have? You should try at least once connecting the BBA directly to your DSL/Cable modem to see if that fixes it.

Do you get stuck looking out the Hunter's Guild window forever when you try to join somebody else's team?

Yes, staring out the hunters guild window. Then it gives me a message saying I was disconnected.

Does it happen no matter who is leading the team? It could be a problem on the other person's end, not yours. For testing purposes, have one other person create a team, then join him immediately. If it doesn't work, have somebody else make a team, then join that team immediately. If you can get into teams hosted by some players but not others, then it might not be your fault.

If you can't join other peoples' teams with a BBA, you're quite possibly not going to be able to with DreamPi either, unless you have some sort of hardware issue -- be it a bad BBA (unlikely, since you can host teams), a bad network cable (also unlikely, since you can host teams), or some sort of misbehaving router.

For PSO (and any other games that support both the BBA and the modem), the BBA will almost certainly give you a better experience online with less random issues than you will have with a DreamPi (or any other modem-based solution). The exception would be if you have some sort of issue with network equipment on your end (like a misbehaving router) -- sometimes having a modern network stack forwarding on your requests can solve that particular issue, but it really is an issue with your networking hardware.

Also, just to dispel some old rumors and whatnot, the MTU shouldn't have any impact on PSO unless you have it set below a certain threshold (the suggested value of 1400 is fine here) or you have it set to something obviously too large or something else odd like that. By default, most routers will set your network MTU to somewhere around 1500, which will work just fine with PSO. The MTU is a maximum value for a single packet, and most of the time you won't be sending maximal length packets. Whatever your router normally has set as the default will probably work just fine.

Also, back to the original topic of the thread... I suspect that if you have the PSO Patcher right before PSO on your GDEMU SD card, you might be able to make it work. That said, you'd probably need a button soldered to your GDEMU to swap the virtual discs, which is probably more trouble than it is worth to most people.

BlueCrab wrote:the MTU shouldn't have any impact on PSO

There was one player who used to crash every time he loaded a quest, but he fixed it by adjusting the MTU, IIRC.

BlueCrab wrote:you'd probably need a button soldered to your GDEMU to swap the virtual discs

GDEMU comes with a button for swapping discs.

Aleron Ives wrote:

BlueCrab wrote:you'd probably need a button soldered to your GDEMU to swap the virtual discs

GDEMU comes with a button for swapping discs.

Ah right... It does. I know there's also solder pads if you want to add one that's more convenient than having to reach inside the console to hit the button and risk disturbing the GDEMU board in the process.

im new to this so im sorry my dreamcast is gdmenu only took out disc drive i wanna play pso online i have version1 and version 2 do i still need the patch for v2 if so how do i put it on an sd

tanked wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 4:29 pm im new to this so im sorry my dreamcast is gdmenu only took out disc drive i wanna play pso online i have version1 and version 2 do i still need the patch for v2 if so how do i put it on an sd

I recommend going to this link below and download IVES_Phantasy_Star_Online_V2.cdi

Its a pre-patched disc so no disc swapping needed . Otherwise if you do want to disc swap I believe with GDEMU you have to put in folder 1 the PSO Patcher and Folder 2 the PSO Disc. Press the disc swap button on the gdemu to swap discs. But the above CDI is far better and easier.

https://archive.org/download/DC_ONLINE_CDI