Sylverant is an open-source Phantasy Star Online server written for Unix-like operating systems.
Sylverant was originally started as a port of Sodaboyâs PSO Blue Burst Server âTetheallaâ 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 Sodaboyâs naming of Tethealla follows what I thought it did, but it seemed good at the time, also, yes I do know its Sylvarant; I didnât 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 wouldnât exist today if it werenât for the fact that Sodaboyâs 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 Iâve 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 didnât 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 werenât for some other events that occurred around this time).
