View source for Packet 0x81

Clients send Packet 0x81 to the server to send a simple mail to a recipient. The server sends it to clients to deliver the mail. Note, a lot of this packet is pretty much not understood by me, but I do know enough to actually translate messages DC<->PC enough that they work.

It seems that the game doesn't clear the entire message buffer before sending a message, so some random data (probably meaningless) ends up in the sent packet. Simple Mail packets can be shortened by the server (to remove excess garbage), and clients will still accept them.

==Dreamcast Packet Format==
{| border="1"
! Bytes !! Meaning
|-
| 0x0000 || Packet Type (0x81)
|-
| 0x0001 || Flags (0x00)
|-
| 0x0002-0x0003 || Packet Size (0x0220)
|-
| 0x0004-0x0007 || Player Tag (0x00010000)
|-
| 0x0008-0x000B || Guildcard Number of Sender
|-
| 0x000C-0x001B || Name of Sender
|-
| 0x001C-0x001F || Guildcard Number of Destination
|-
| 0x0020-0x00B0 || Message to be sent
|-
| 0x00B1-0x021F || Unknown
|}

[[Category:PSO Server Protocol]]