I was listening to the lobby music through headphones and realized it sounded oddly tinny, so I listened to the itunes OST album and discovered that they seriously crushed the music files in the game itself. I've never really modded a game before, but I could I'd like to try to fix this myself...
Phantasy Star Online, being originally for the Dreamcast, used a special method of transparency that only the Dreamcast could do in real time for it's era, known as Order Independent Transparency (or OIT for short). When the game was ported to other platforms, it lost this ability due to...