Dreamcast PSO Help

[Bob Dobbs]

SITUATION:
My "PSO" DC died recently (forever rebooting). I am now attempting to use DC #2, which works fine. When I tried to play PSO, it wants my serial code (in otherwords, it will not accept my saves).

QUESTION:
Is there a way to allow the "new" Dreamcast to use the PSO save?

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

Yes, simply use the same SNAK used on the old dc

Think of it as a password to an account, you have to know the right password otherwise pso will think that you are a "stranger".

[Bob Dobbs]

Wouldn't I need to find the current DC ID and hex edit the save to match the DC ID?

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

No

I'm on my 2nd dc and i used my old snak for it to work, however i required to reset the memory of the dc for it to work.
On your case it's different, when you inserted PSO, it asked for a snak, so no one has ever used that dc to play pso, meaning it has no internal snak to compare.

Simply put your old snak and it will work

[Bob Dobbs]

Bad news for me...

1. I could not get it to recognize my SNAK, so I...
2. used DC Flash Erase and was able to re-enter the SNAK, but it would not recognize my save, which is on three different VMUs.

Is there anything else that can be done?

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

Then you are introducing the wrong SNAK, that's like the wrong password to your forum account, but the difference is that you can't ask for a new one.

The save is tied with a SNAK, you can't mess with that, you need to introduce not only a correct snak valid for the game itself but also for the save file.
This is up to you, do you not know wich snak you used at all?

I will give you an alternative if everything fails, simply make a new char (can be in a new vmu) then try to connect online and see if i'm around, i may be able to create your char at a specific level and then use the save and restor commands to transfer it to you, after that you simply request the items you had and i'll recreate them 1 by 1 without any concerns or restrictions.

[Macabre]

Have you figured out what was wrong with DC #1? If the rebooting is due to the optical reader or power board, why not just swap out the parts? You only need the mother board of the DC #1 to work if you can't get the DC #2 to accept your serials.

[brourke228]

I didn't have any problem with my new Dreamcast reading my PSO save after the last one died...