Moving characters between platforms

PSO characters are per-version — a GameCube character and a Blue Burst character are separate saves. But newserv can copy a character from one to the other through server-side save slots, so you can carry your progress between, say, GameCube/Dolphin and the PC (Blue Burst) client.

This works best when you play both platforms on the same account. Every account on this server already has both a Blue Burst license (UserID/password) and a GameCube license (serial / access key / password), so one character can hop between them.

The commands

Type these in the in-game chat (open chat, type the command, send):

Command	What it does
`$savechar <slot>`	Save your current character into a server slot (1–N).
`$loadchar <slot>`	Replace your current character with the one in that slot.
`$checkchar <slot>`	Show basic info about what's saved in a slot.
`$deletechar <slot>`	Delete a saved slot.
`$bbchar <username> <password> <slot>`	Save your current character into another account's Blue Burst slot (for handing a character to a friend).

The important part: $loadchar can load a character that was saved from a different version of PSO — that's what makes cross-platform transfer work.

Move a character GameCube → Blue Burst (most common)

On GameCube/Dolphin, log into your account and load the character you want to move.
Open chat and run $savechar 1 (any free slot number). You'll get a confirmation.
On the PC (Blue Burst) client, log into the same account and pick (or make) a character slot you don't mind overwriting.
Run $loadchar 1. Your GameCube character is now on Blue Burst.

Going the other way (BB → GC) is the same — $savechar on Blue Burst, $loadchar on the GameCube — with one caveat below.

Hand a character to a friend

On the character you want to copy, run $bbchar <their-UserID> <their-password> <slot>. It writes a copy into that account's Blue Burst slot. (You need their login for this, so it's a "share with a friend" tool, not a steal-a-character one.)

Caveats — read before you rely on it

Back up the target first. $loadchar overwrites the character in your current slot. If that slot has a character you care about, $savechar it to a spare slot first.
Conversions aren't lossless. The versions don't have identical feature sets — Blue Burst has Episode 4, mag behavior and a few items differ between the V3 (GameCube) and V4 (Blue Burst) generations — so expect minor differences after a cross-version move. Treat it as "continue your progress," not a perfect clone.
GameCube Plus and Episode III are save-only by default — you can $savechar from them but not $loadchar onto them — unless EnableSendFunctionCallQuestNumber is turned on in server/config.json. (Plain, non-Plus GameCube saves and restores fine.) Ask the admin to flip that if you want full two-way transfer on Plus.
Episode III characters are a separate namespace and can't convert to or from the other versions.

Admin note

$savechar/$loadchar slots and the resulting character files live under system/players/ on the server (and are included in the nightly backup). To enable two-way transfer for GC Plus / Ep3 players, set EnableSendFunctionCallQuestNumber in server/config.json and redeploy.