BBS (Games Tetralogy)

List of BBS topics

.hack//Infection BBS post in a thread about keyword creation.

The BBS, or Bulletin Board System is a forum accessed by opening The World application from the desktop. Before logging into the game, players can check threads for news, events, or rumors. By reading BBS posts, it is possible to unlock new keywords for the Chaos Gate. As players progress through the game, new thread posts will appear over time, indicated by the icon.

The BBS is a dedicated forum for users of The World. This serves as a secondary method of storytelling in-game, and also delivers additional gameplay information.

BBS Format

Each post has a Thread title, post title, username, and timestamp.

Timestamp

Each timestamp is randomly assigned from 6 possible dates/times. When the games were originally released in 2002 most people playing the game would have done so on a CRT screen, which makes it difficult to accurately read the dates. Playing using an emulator on modern hardware makes it possible to make out the numbers.
The timestamps were most likely not intended to be read by players and do not bear significance to the plot or gameplay. These timestamps do not correspond with any known development milestones for CyberConnect2. Some posts are made chronologically out of order, with response posts predating the original post it was responding to. The Games Tetralogy takes place in an alternate history set in the then "future" of 2010, meaning these timestamps also do not match up with the timeline of canon events.

Texture file with timestamps and "New" icon for the BBS

The timestamps are formatted from largest to smallest unit of time measurement; YYYY/MM/DD:hh:mm:ss, where YYYY is year, MM is month, DD is day, hh is hour, mm is minutes, and ss is seconds.
The dates are stored as an image in the game files, limiting the range of dates to the following six possibilities:

 2000/03/03/00:25:41 
 2000/05/29/17:03:58 
 2000/09/16/06:38:01 
 2000/11/02/2:18:32 
 2001/09/20/05:03:49 
 2001/10/20/19:21:45 

Version Differences

Japanese	English (North America)	Korean	PAL English
WORLD BOARD システム解説 スキルって何ですか? RE:スキルって何ですか? スキルが紛失 RE: スキルが紛失 ありがとうございました スキルって何ですか? 送信者名: パーン このゲーム始めたばかりの冒険者です。 お店の人と話をしたら 「 武器や防具を装備する事でスキルが使える」 って言われたんだけど、スキルって一体何ですか?	WORLD BOARD System Explanation What's a skill? RE: What's a skill? Missing Skills RE: Missing Skills Thanks What's a skill? Author: Parn I just started playing this game. When I talked to the shop keeper he said, "You can use skills by equipping armor and weapons," but what's a skill?	WORLD 게시판 송신자:	WORLD BOARD Author:
送信者名 (sōshin-sha-mei, "Sender Name")	Author	송신자 (songsinja, "Sender")	Author

PAL French	PAL German	PAL Spanish	PAL Italian
WORLD PLATEAU Auteur:	WORLD BOARD Autor:	WORLD FORO Autor:	WORLD FORUM Autore:
Auteur	Autor	Autor	Autore

BBS Posts

Infection

Main articles: Infection BBS

Mutation

Main articles: Mutation BBS

Outbreak

Main articles: Outbreak BBS

Quarantine

Main articles: Quarantine BBS

Media

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  BBS Window Icon

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  BBS Background image