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Recorded on June 2nd 2025

The original CEO aka the director and president of CyberConnect Ltd was 役社長 杉谷 伸二郎 Shinjiro Sugitani. This was from February 16th 1996 when the company was founded and up to 2000, one year into .hack//Infection's game development. Back then CyberConnect Ltd only had one office at: Their office moved in the years that followed. Prior to the founding of CyberConnect Ltd, Shinjiro Sugitani worked for Taito's Kumagaya Research Center as a graphic artist for the arcade game Ray Force in 1994. With just 15 employee's, they created two PlayStation 1 games including Tail Concerto and Silent Bomber. For their third game they wanted to work on a PlayStation 2 game. However Shinjiro Sugitani saw the gaming future being played on phones and want the company to focus on making games for mobile phones, in 2000 that would mean flip-phones. Smart phones and app stores like iTunes and Google Play didn't exist in 2007, the first iPhone was released in June 2007. After Shinjiro Sugitani's departure, Hiroshi Matsuyama became the new CEO president/director and renamed the company from CyberConnect Ltd to CyberConnect2 as we know it today. In 2009 Gamasutra published an interview with Hiroshi Matsuyama about the whole ordeal between these two friends, here's what Hiroshi Matsuyama himself had to say:

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For years I been writing guides and making videos on how to play .hack//fragment whatever year it happens to currently be. How to translate the game into English, how to connect to the current fan hosted server, how to play the game, and how to upscale the game to make it look better in the modern age since it's 2005 PS2 origins. Setup as of May 2025 how to play .hack//fragment on a PS2 emulator with online connection to play together with friends online. Super easy, just requires PCSX2 ver. 2.2 latest stable version, your PS2 BIOS file, a retail copy disc of .hack//fragment, and a fragment patcher such as Tellipatch or FragmentUpdater. Easy guide to setup the emulator, identify your BIOS file, load the game in the emulator, how to enable the ethernet network adaptor from the emulator, how to create a network config profile memory card save, how to create a character, how to play the game, and how to improve the game resolution and replace textures. Links to the programs and files below. Be sure to also check out the written guide of this setup found here. Written guide https://www.dothack.org/articles/fragment/ PCSX2 emulator https://pcsx2.net/ Dumping BIOS files https://pcsx2.net/docs/setup/bios Tellipatch https://github.com/vec702/tellipatch (alternative to above) FragmentUpdater https://github.com/Finzenku/FragmentUpdater 00:00 Intro 04:00 Download files 06:42 Patching the disc 09:58 Setting up the emulator 11:30 Enabling network adapter 13:42 Creating network config profile 15:53 Creating a character 20:00 Choosing online server 27:10 Creating shortcuts 29:36 Picking keywords 32:30 Fighting monsters 35:20 Entering the dungeon 36:28 Guilds 37:16 BBS 39:37 Offline story mode 40:40 Texture replacer 50:00 Outro