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Phantasy Star Portable

Phantasy Star Portable allows you to fight the battle for freedom (on the go, no less) in this continuation of the story that began in Phantasy Star Universe.

Debug Display#

A couple of simple debug displays can be enabled for the USA version below. These enable a CPU and GPU graph meter, as well as an FPS counter.

_C0 Debug Display 1
_L 0x00580154 00000001
_L 0x00543EED 00000003
_C1 Debug Display 2
_L 0x00580154 00000001
_L 0x00543EED 00000002

(Source: Original TCRF research)

60 FPS Mode#

This game can be rendered at sixty frames-per-second with the use of a simple code. Normally, this game is rendered at thirty frames-per-second.

_C0 60 FPS Mode
_L 0x00543EEC 00000001

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Regional Differences#

Japan

International

As is common with many western releases of Sega games, the light-blue Sega logo used in Japan was replaced with the dark-blue version used by Sega of America and Sega Europe.

Japan

International

The option to download DLCs from the game's website has been removed from the international versions.