Is this a hack?

[nomercy]

Yesterday i got a new weapon called The Eighth Blade,which i payed 50000 meseta to get.It is really strong and i have an ATP of over 2200 when i equip it.The only problem is,i've nevr seen it in any item guides before.If anyone knows about this please write here.If it is a hacked item i am willing to get rid of it as i'm not a cheating person and believe in getting things fairly.Thanks.

[Poo Fly]

Is it written in red writing? it could be an s-rank, but i seriously doubt you could get one for just meseta, especially that little :S

[nomercy]

It's written in blue,even though the tekker says that i have no unknown items.The actual weapon is a doublesaber type weapon.It has a kind of rainbow coloured blade.

[Fabo Craven]

well, im doubting that its legit, although it is a kinda interesting weapon.

[whiteninja]

You say you are a GC player in your profile... and I know that is not a weapon in GC... I have seen pictures of a black Double-Saber before... and it wasn't a BKB... it was Twin Brand style, but black...

Sounds cool, but not legit. Sorry.

[Teh EkwEE]

No, he said a rainbow colored blade. It sounds cool....>Hell, I'd Mod wepons too if I could get em' to look cool like that. >>; But yeah, it could be they just took a normal Twin Brand, pumped up the strength, and messed with the photon transparencies in a repeating cycle get it to make the rainbow effect. either way, it sounds like an awesome wepon, but it's an obvious hack....So do what you want, I would say keep it for cooln3ss factor, but just store it in your bank and don't use it....

[nomercy]

Yeah,i think i'll do that.I wasn't too sure before.

[NetNomad]

Yeah if you're on GC that's obviously a hack... on any other platform, probably a hack...

Do you have a screenshot of it maybe?

[nomercy]

No.I don't have another controller at the moment so i can't use the snapshot function.

[Anti Hacker]

Yesterday i got a new weapon called The Eighth Blade,which i payed 50000 meseta to get.It is really strong and i have an ATP of over 2200 when i equip it.The only problem is,i've nevr seen it in any item guides before.If anyone knows about this please write here.If it is a hacked item i am willing to get rid of it as i'm not a cheating person and believe in getting things fairly.Thanks.

It's not just not legit (like a dupe) it's a hack.

I can see what the guy must have done, you can edit the RGB colour of weapons if you know how, it's all down to how PSO stores item data I think.

It doesn't say:

Player has 1x saber in inventory

It takes it down more like:

Player has 1x item in inventory that:
uses basic saber mesh/model
uses basic saber textures
uses a blade effect with the RGB colours of R:x G:x B:x (where each x = a number between 0 and 255 I think)
uses the basic saber animation
Weapon has a rareness of 0
Weapon is named "saber"
Weapon IS tekked

So, you can see that above if someone used an AR to edit the weapon in their inventory, they cour just set each RGB colour to "0" to make a black bladed weapon, edit the name to whatever they wanted and make it look un-tekked (blue writing) even though it already has a name. Because it is no longer called "special weapon" the tekker will not 'tek' it.

In actuality PSO may use slightly different coding to what I have stated, for one thing it would be encrypted and encoded so thats why you need the AR to weapon mod I guess. And thinking about it, I'm not sure if it uses RGB colour or is all done in some kind of hex (in which case to get a black blade you would need the number "000000")

It's because the blades of most basic looking weapons are more special effect than a textured model that weapon modding is possible. Of course, looking at the saber you can see the handle is a textured model, so I guess you wouldn't be able to mod that. You might be able to mix and match different weapon sections, though I'm not sure on that.