Yet another lobby update from ST, there will be white curtains added to the lobbies’.

Keeping in tone with Ragol.co.uk's 1st Birthday celebrations, i've gone competition crazy and added 4 new contests for all you Phantasy Star nutters out there!

The Phantasy Star Online MEGA-Quiz!

30 questions, 35 possible points, think you've got the knowledge to get the gold? This quiz challenges you on the dates, the series, the monsters, and the thing that started it all... classic Phantasy Star! I've also added questions to which Ragol.co.uk browsers will be able to answer! Give it your best shot!

CLICK HERE to go to this competition!

Guess the Item!

One picture, One item... How hard could it be? Post your guess of what the item in the screenshot could be, and you could be walking away with more then just 1 item!

CLICK HERE to go to this competition!

Name that Monster!

Each day for seven days, one clue will be given that describes the monster that has had its fair share of fame in Phantasy Star Online! But can you guess which one? Think so, then go!

CLICK HERE to go to this competition!

Create-A-Weapon!

We want you to show your creative side by making your very own weapon that you'd like to see in Phantasy Star Online! All you've got to do is draw your weapon of choice (By using only simple Paint programs), and then give us a few of its stats. The best one wins! And no, we won't be judging your ability to draw. It could be any weapon at all. Maybe a sword, maybe a spellbound glowing stick, maybe.... a spoon? It doesn't matter! Most imaginative wins!

CLICK HERE to go to this competition 

Enjoy them while they're here! And may Ragol.co.uk be here for many other birthdays to come!

P.S. Don't forget about other great competitions being hosted, such as the 'Guess The Midi' contest, and many more...

There will be some essential maintenance done very soon for both the Xbox and Gamecube game servers.

Nintendo Gamecube Players of Phantasy Star Online, Episode I & II (And maybe III):

(From PlaySega.com) During the 30th March 2004 between the times of 9am and 7pm, essential maintenance has been planned and could affect some players during this time. We reccommend you stay offline during this time just incase!

Xbox Players of Phantasy Star Online, Episodes I & II:

(From Sonic Team Japan) On March 26th 2004, Episode II, Challenge Mode 2 will be uploaded to the servers, along with Hanami decorations! During this time you may experience some difficulties accessing and playing online. This could possibly only affect Japanese players/servers.

To kick off Ragol.co.uk's 1st Birthday we're throwing a special competiton, imaginatively titled 'Guess That Midi!". We've put together a collection of about 21 midi (music) files from various console eras (sega and nintendo) that we will be posting 7 at a time over the next 3 days. Anyone is welcome to join in and try to guess what game each one is from!

Relive some old gaming memories here!

Today is the start of a 3 day birthday celebration for ragol.co.uk. We made it a year and are still going strong. We would like to thank all of our members, and mods for making ragol.co.uk the place it is and hope that you will stay with us for the upcoming years.

As a bit of fun we have decided to hold a little competition!
Head over to our forums and join in.

Oh and happy birthday to me ^_^

At last!

We have finaly updated the battle mode section of the guides. We have added guides for stages:

One  Two  Three  Four  Five  Six

We have two or three images for each stage of battles going on, some of them are ace others not so good but we did our best! Maps will be coming soon as we get them made and we will update the guides as soon as we have them.

Post all your feedback here, thanks!

The server maintenance has now ended and EP2 C-mode 4 is now available to the public. Also a new EP3 quest has been made available named "Kids soul" which is downloadable.

Now with winter comming to a close and spring is around the bend, the lobbys will be decorated to suit the spring theme with cherry trees ^_^.

Yes thats right, Xbox has another quest update to compliment the White Day event, enjoy.

Gallons Treachery:
Catagory: Retrieval

Rappy's Holiday:
Catagory: Retrieval

Towards the future:
Catagory: VR

Over the last week or so I've spent some time into making some guides for you, here they are.

Photon weapons
Weapon elements
MST requirements for disks
GC Ship list

Thanks

That’s right, to end the EP 2 set of C-modes ST have will be submitting C-mode 4 to PSO. The server maintenance will start on Tuesday 16th of March at 2PM to 5PM NOTE: Times given are JP local times.

This C-mode level will be set in the seabed and bring the 29 areas of challenge mode in EP 2 that little bit closer to the end. Good luck!

SonicTeam announced a few days ago that they will be adding decorations to the lobby for White Day.

There's also reports on 2 new quests for this: White Day Event and Principals gift. You can play them from Tuesday March 9, to Tuesday March 16. White Day Event is a quest for 1 to 4 people. You can get the Flower Boquet in this quest too! (One of those fun items to have)

The Principals Gift is a quest, but only for up to 2 players.All GC servers will be shut down on Tuesday, March 9th sometime between between 2pm and 5pm so that the quests can be uploaded. Make sure you end all online games before the scheduled maintenance and do not connect to the servers at this time.

Expect guide for these when they become availible!

Thanks to Ivan for this infomation
Please discuss this topic here.

Xbox has been given four new quests to enjoy over the last two months, here are they are.

Labyrinthine Trial:
Catagory: VR

Dream Messenger:
Catagory: Event

Today's Rate:
Catagory: Extermination

Lost Soul Blade:
Catagory: Retrieval

SEGA's most anticipated game (here): Phantasy Star Online, Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution has been released in America today!

The game takes the series into its 3rd episode, this time using a completely different style of battling. As the title suggests this time you take on the role as your favourite types of character and use Cards to battle one another in a more strategic style then the Hit & Run style we're all used too and love from playing Episodes I & II way too much!

A full article was previously typed up by Staff member GOLDIE which goes through the game in much more detail aswell as featuring items based around the game! Click Here to see it. Also on this website you might find handy the Episode III Card Database (Based on the Japanese version of the game). Simply click that link and scroll down to the highlighted Episode III area, and select the option you'd like to know more about!

Finally, with the launch of Episode III, SEGA have also released and updated a very nice looking webpage for it! Playing music from the soundtrack of the game while you browse at screenshots, movies, or wallpapers you can download from the site, i'm sure it's total bliss for the fans!

Visit the webpage at: http://www.sega.com/gamesite/pso3card/content.html

European PSO Fanatics will have to wait until later this spring/summer sadly (Currently pencilled in for EU release at April 2004) unless that is that your considering importing it now its all clearly made out in English. Websites you could import the game from that are reccommended include Import Madness, or of course the ever handy eBay.co.uk. However if you intend to wait until the European release (PAL), Pre-Order the game online now from sites such as GAME, Special-Reserve, GamePlay, etc.

We have closed the poll and the results are...
Out of 166 votes our fave online quest is TTF by a longshot but there is an large amount of you who aint online!

There is now a new poll up for US people asking you "What is your first opinion on EP III" GET VOTING!

From March 9th until March 16th, 2 new quests will be available:

• White Day (2-4 Players)
• The Gift of Governor-General (2 Players)

Also, on February the 27th, Episode II had its first challenge mode stage added! Stage 1 is available for play now.

This information was gathered from the Japanese Xbox Phantasy Star Online website. Therefore the above mentioned could only be available on the Japanese servers.

SEGA of Japan has begun BETA testing for the PC version of Phantasy Star Online, Episodes I & II across Japan.

Aparently the version of the game undergoing the testing is based around the Xbox version of the same game, with in-game features being more similar to this version of the game then any other! SEGA have also added some extra's into the PC game that won't be found in any other version of it!

A release date has yet to be announced and whether it makes it out of Japan is another matter! For more information, go to: http://www.sonicteam.com/pso/pc/