Sylverant is an open-source Phantasy Star Online server written for Unix-like operating systems.





Sylverant was originally started as a port of Sodaboys PSO Blue Burst Server Tethealla to Unix-like operating systems, however, at this point there is no longer any of his code present in the server. However, the name Sylverant actually traces back to this heritage (I do not know if Sodaboys naming of Tethealla follows what I thought it did, but it seemed good at the time, also, yes I do know its Sylvarant; I didnt want any unnecessary confusion with the Sylvanet open shipgate for Tethealla (amongst other reasons)). I started this port, stopped, then started again. Either way, Sylverant wouldnt exist today if it werent for the fact that Sodaboys server existed when I was somewhat bored and looking for something to do. A big thanks to Sodaboy for his work on Tethealla, even if Ive never talked to him personally.





It was around August of 2009 when I realized that the 10th anniversary of the release of the Dreamcast was coming up soon (09/09/09), and I was trying to think of something creative I could do for that date (I do a lot of stuff on the Dreamcast, in case you didnt know). It was about that time that I thought that I could probably tweak what was Sylverant at the time to work for the Dreamcast versions of PSO (which would have been a LOT harder of a task than I had initially thought if it werent for some other events that occurred around this time).