Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis
Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Platforms: Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch Released internationally: June 9, 2021 This game has unused music. This game has regional differences. This game has a prerelease article

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Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis works as an expansion for Phantasy Star Online 2 rather than as a replacement, allowing players to switch between both games as well as bring items over to New Genesis such as cosmetics and equipment.

As New Genesis is built off of and shares a lot of the same files as PSO2's engine, unused assets found within the win32reboot folder should be placed here. Common internal names for New Genesis include reboot and ep7, while base PSO2 is referred to as classic.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Music

Grasslands Intro

The CPK file used for Aerio's music (0f3f071bbfb6e89bd45cc51a8f8c3a) contains this set of intro segments, labelled GL_Ad_I01. These are currently not used, and are very similar to the unused segments found within classic's Forest music CPK file.

Filename	Audio
GL_Ad_I01_OR01_01_T90_B3_hca.hca
GL_Ad_I01_OR01_02_T90_B3_hca.hca
GL_Ad_I01_OR01_03_T90_B3_hca.hca
GL_Ad_I01_OR01_04_T90_B3_hca.hca
GL_Ad_I01_OR01_05_T90_B3_hca.hca
GL_Ad_I01_OR01_06_T90_B3_hca.hca
GL_Ad_I01_OR01_07_T90_B3_hca.hca
GL_Ad_I01_OR01_08_T90_B3_hca.hca

Regional Differences

NOTE; Regional differences applicable to PSO2 Classic which were introduced prior to the release of New Genesis will not be documented here but rather in the original page for Phantasy Star Online 2.

The Japanese PC launcher has a login screen not present in the Global version as players are logged in automatically using the account of the platform they use to launch the game on (e.g Steam, Epic Games Store, MS Store)

Japan	Global

The Japanese and Global launchers are one-to-one for the most part, but the Global version lacks the option to launch the Cloud version of the game or to scan the file integrity; as the latter is handled through platforms like Steam, Epic Games or the MS Store.

Japan	Global

As is the case with a lot of Sega international releases, the light-blue logo representing Sega of Japan is replaced with the dark blue logo used to represent Sega's Western branches.

Japan	Global

The Katakana of the game's title is removed from the Global version's logo and the text "PUSH ENTER KEY" became "PRESS THE ENTER KEY".

Japan	Global

Like with PSO2 Classic, the Japanese version displays the game's Terms of Service on every boot-up whereas the Global version instead displays a prompt the first time the game's booted up which lets players read the game's Terms of Service or Privacy Policy on their web browser. This prompt does not appear on subsequent boots.

Japan	Global

Another change carried over from PSO2 Classic is the removal of options relating to Phantasy Star Online 2 ES, as said game did not see a Global release.