Phantasy Star Online Cheats & Tips

Hidden artwork
Place the game disc in a PC compatible CD-ROM drive to find images from the game in the "Extra" folder.

Hidden Costume Colors
Start a new game and select your character. Access the Character Name selection and enter the corresponding code for your character. Once you have entered your code, access the Costume selection to find 2 more colors to choose from for your character.

Hard Mode/Vhard Mode
If you the off-line version of the game, you can unlock Hard Mode. Beat it in Hard Mode for Very Hard Mode. You get more expierience and much better items in each of the harder modes.
submitted by FranticFolly

Make your characters come to life
This trick requires a Dreamcast keyboard. You can make your character perform different animated moves while you are in the game lobby. On your Dreamcast keyboard, hold down the "Alt" key and then press any of the function keys (F1 through F12) and your character will perform a different move for each key.

"Free" Moon Atomizers
In Forest 1, on Normal, there is a wooden chest inside the little curve area. There is one box that almost always gives out Moon Atomizers (it always has for me). So, you can build up money with that, or keep them for online use. But the trick is being there for them. Note: You have to reset the map(turn game off and on, i think will do it) for this trick to work.
submitted by Civer (HUmar)

Hotkeys to hit other players
1. Set Zonde or Grants to your custom B button.
2. Set Resta or Anti to your custom R + B button.
3. Tap R then hit B. Do it quickly. It should hit your teamate.
**This doesn't damage, but gives you PB.**
submitted by Shogun (freestyl@rocketmail.com)

Secret Weapons
Sometimes you come across a wierd item like a "delsaber's left arm" or a "book of KATANA1" well these items are actually used to help Dr. montague create a weapon for you. First off, you need to get one of these items. Second you need to finish the Job "Doc's secret plan", where you go and fight enemies in the ruins "test areas". Then, after you complete all the missions, you can go back and do the Job called "Doc Osto's research" and on pioneer 2. Dr. montague should be wandering around - go talk to him and he will say something queer like "go find items in the ruins or mines for me to make a weapon". Just have the item in your inventory and talk to the doc and he'll say "hold on a moment", leave and then come back back with a new weapon. (like Delsaber's Buster)
submitted by Unaju(Lao Tzu-PSO character) (Unaju@usa.net)

Quick Tips

1. To avoid being targeted by mines, any trap, or by enemies, hold "r" down and you will be able to run and not be slowed to walking speed by the enemies targeting device.
   submitted by BLAde - midgetdesigner@iolwest.com
2. To avoid traps in corridors, press start, then run through the corridor while the menu is up. You won't slow down, and so won't be hit by any of them!
3. Razonde + Rabarta (Gi- versions too) can be used to take out enemies from a distance (OBVIOUSLY), but still do damage if you're in a neighbouring room/corridor. They can't get you, but you can get them! Very useful in ruins!
4. When starting out, buy a couple of telepipes, then go through an area picking up everything you find until you have a full inventory. Return to Pioneer 2 and sell it all, and deposit the money, repeat on Forest/Caves until you have enough money/items stocked up so that you can feed your Mag early on and also get around without worrying about not having enough Monomates and Monofluids! (Same applies later on, on v.hard you can build up loads of money and items in no time at all!)
5. Early on use long distance weapons, as your attacks will be weak, and you don't have much HP to work with either! A lot of people I see online use Sabers early on, and usually they find it hard going, mainly as they're more prone to attacks!
6. There's one guy who calls himself DARK FALZ+ (Lv100), avoid him as he's a thief! (Didn't get anything off me though!)