2005: Site Update History

The year of sorrows and technical challenges. There were only five recorded updates in this year, but some we're technically challenging. This was the year that the second webhost, Rodenta's Free Web Hosting, began to experience some serious problems. And by serious I mean the server would be offline for days at a time.

As if web server downtimes weren't bad enough, this was also the year that my original Dreamcast suffered catastrophic hardware failure. It died in the line of duty on a cold Sunday afternoon in February whilst playing PSO online in a team with Miyu and someone else, as I seem to recall. That Tweeg, for whom I believe was the 4th Tweeg, was level 110 at the time too. Which means that the Tweeg who existed until the end of the official servers was the 5th, and most fortunate, of the Dreamcast Tweeg's. There was another character I had on that system that failed as well. But, to be doubly unlucky, the 3rd party, 1600 block, memory card he was stored on stopped working.

There may have been other updates for this year, but I didn't intentionally begin keeping a record of them until December 2005. So, it's very possible that some for this year have been lost to time.

Announcements:
Website Updated: 2-06-2005 at 12:10 a.m. EST
Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst is officially Episode 4. The link to the official PSO:BB website is now in the to the links section.
A full translation has been added to the description of the PSO launch party invitation in the Museum section.
Sega is not commenting on the rumor of a Nintendo DS version of PSO. We'll just have to wait until E3 to see if it's true.

Announcements:
Website Updated: 3-05-2005 at 9:10 a.m. EST
Scans from two more magazines have been added to the Articles section. Both from the year 2001.
Episode 4 has been released as an expansion for the PC only title Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst. The link to the official PSO:BB website is now in the to the links section.
This website has been experiencing technical difficulties the past few weeks. Everything except the website counter is now working again.
Sega is not commenting on the rumor of a Nintendo DS version of PSO. We'll just have to wait until E3 to see if it's true.
About two weeks ago the Dreamcast I've always used to play PSO online with died. I'm a low level V1 player once again until Sega mails a friend in the UK my new V2 SN/AK. If I gave you my guild card more than three weeks ago then just delete it. My old V2 characters can no longer be used on official servers.

Announcements:
Website Updated: 3-27-2005 at 4:50 p.m. EST
The Easter Quest is now available for download directly to your Dreamcast!
New!!! A guestbook has been added!
As the Worms say in a certain Dreamcast game "The first of many". Four pictures have been added to Index #5.
A sad week for Xbox and GameCube owners indeed. It's been confirmed by Sega that PSU is only going to be released for PC and PlayStation 2.
A website statistics program has been added to PSO Archive. This replaces the faulty webcounter that caused so many problems.
All indexed pictures that needed it, over 150, have been restored using photo editing software to remove the dark appearence they had.

Announcements:
Website Updated: 11-03-2005 at 10:19 a.m. EST
Sega has launched it's official PSO 5th Anniversary website! From the looks of it they intend to update it weekly.
A new wing has been added to the Museum to display items from Japan.
Halloween decorations this year were up from October 23rd through the 31st.
Picture Index 6 is here! 50 Additional pictures for your viewing enjoyment.
Ship/server "24:EU/Titan" was taken offline on Wednesday, September 28th. It will be missed.
Dreamcast Magic is looking for some new personnel. If your interested be sure to check it out. http://www.dreamcastmagic.segaforums.com/

Announcements:
Website Updated: 12-19-2005 at 8:28 p.m. EST
Added 5th Anniversary Meet Up announcement.
5th Anniversary Meet Up! The 5th Anniversary begins on Tuesday December 20th at 10:00 AM EST (GMT -5) and ends on Wednesday the 21st at 10 AM EST (GMT -5). During the 24 hour period it's predicted that there will be more players online than at any given time in the previous year. So come online whenever you can during that time frame. And though it's kind of unlikely, Sonic Team may have something special planned for the occasion.
Three items added to the Museum's JP section.
Japanese servers returned to normal on Tuesday, December 6th, after a four day period of problems.
One item added to the Museum's JP section.
Sega has launched it's official PSO 5th Anniversary website! It is updated once a week.
A new wing has been added to the Museum to display items from Japan.
Halloween decorations this year were up from October 23rd through the 31st.
Picture Index 6 is here! 50 Additional pictures for your viewing enjoyment.
Ship/server "24:EU/Titan" was taken offline on Wednesday, September 28th. It will be missed.
Dreamcast Magic is looking for some new personnel. If your interested be sure to check it out. http://www.dreamcastmagic.segaforums.com/

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