My PS2 Packs

[Bl4ckH4nd]

To be honest with the correct settings on duckstation it is almost like an HD remake. If it is worth only please do it.

Think it's worth?

 

[CloudLionHeart]

Think it's worth?

Wow nice. It really looks very clear and nice I would love it. Can it be used on duck station? Since I use steam deck. Have you tried also the battle textures?

 

[Bl4ckH4nd]

Wow nice. It really looks very clear and nice I would love it. Can it be used on duck station? Since I use steam deck. Have you tried also the battle textures?

Sadly the packs only work on Beetle PSW (HW) in Retroarch. Duckstation doesn't dump textures properly.

I'll do a quick test on the battle textures later and send some screenshots

 

[dalmatian666]

I'm pretty damn certain you can run retroarch and its cores on a steamdeck, since most of the apis available in it arent direct x based. hell, whenever i use retroarch i usually always use vulkan, an api i know works with linux/wine so you should be good

 

[CloudLionHeart]

I tried to make it work in the past with many HD packs with no success.... If you find a guide please share it with me on a pm. Thank you.

 

[Bl4ckH4nd]

Wow nice. It really looks very clear and nice I would love it. Can it be used on duck station? Since I use steam deck. Have you tried also the battle textures?

 

[CloudLionHeart]

There is sure some improvement but I don't know if it is worth your time.

 

[Jayinem]

Any progress on Hitman games yet?

 

[dalmatian666]

I dumped the second one for Blackhand last week so should be in the final touches to finishing that. Contracts I havent started on yet, might do it next week. Want to see how Silent Assassin turns out first before i invest any energy into that.

 

[Bl4ckH4nd]

Any progress on Hitman games yet?

Hitman 2 is giving me some grief, but I'm working on it

 

[dorkasaurusrex]

I'll look into that, I don't know if any recent changes to PCSX2 messed with something in the pack because when I tested it, tthat didn't happen.

I'll run it again with a few different settings and see if I can find the problem

Thank you! Just seemed a bit "off" to me and thought I'd alert you to it, it's not exactly a super common game, and to me the difference in texture quality is noticeable enough to be pretty stark. Including a few more screenshots here on the off chance it helps

And thank you again, games like these are why the PS2 is such a unique and fondly remembered console to begin with

The textures of the first level in Rena's room are unmistakeably a LOT sharper:

Yamada family member faces, WAY sharper and more detailed:

Bit of an odd angle but you can certainly tell a stark difference between her blocky PS2 undetailed foot and leg/body vs her face off in the distance.

 

[ironhulk33]

Added:
24 The Game
Headhunter
Jak The Final Frontier
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter
The Getaway: Black Monday

Thank you @dalmation666 for dumping the textures.

I haven't had time to test these, so please let me know if there are any issues.

I should have the Silent Hill pack done in the next day or two, just know that due to how the game dumps textures, it's probably going be around 15 to 20gb.....

i have entered sacred ground.

 

[Bl4ckH4nd]

i have entered sacred ground.

Yo, nice to see you here dude \0/

 

[loveShmups]

Hi Bl4ckH4nd !
Thanks again for all your Texture packs : pretty impressive !!!
I've downloaded Initial D Special Stage.7z pack and I'm lost. I know the usual Game ID with inside the folder "replacements".
But here, I have , inside the archive, 1 folder and another archive :
* 1 folder "SLPM-65268"
and
* another archive , "SLPM-65268.7z", with inside 2 folders : "replacements" and "dumps".
What is the correct texture pack to use ,here ??? folder "SLPM-65268" or... "SLPM-65268.7z" ??

 

[Zyute]

I asked the same thing to him and he told me to use the folder instead of the zip as its the same thing just left behind by mistake. Hope this helps you loveshmups .

 

[Bl4ckH4nd]

I asked the same thing to him and he told me to use the folder instead of the zip as its the same thing just left behind by mistake. Hope this helps you loveshmups .

Ah damn, another one? I'll fix it tonight.

This is why I shouldn't do this stuff when I'm sleep deprived xD

 

[loveShmups]

I asked the same thing to him and he told me to use the folder instead of the zip as its the same thing just left behind by mistake. Hope this helps you loveshmups .

Thanks Zyute !

 

[dalmatian666]

From what ive seen in the past week i think Blackhand has forgetten to delete the dumps from the folder when he has uploaded the upscales also. The replacements work fine from what ive tested, apart from Cold Winter which i have been figuring out a solution to which is still in progress. Upscale looks good, but when youre moving around random polygons around where you are have shadow texture bugs on them, which change to different ones every few seconds while your moving. Does not happen with the replacements turned off but turning widescreen patches off, running at native res, turning mipmapping on/off, FXAA on/off, changing the blending accuracy all havent seemed to have made any difference. so i dunno how to solve it yet

 

[rex999]

Hi Bl4ckH4nd, do you have time for some requests?

 

[Bl4ckH4nd]

Hi Bl4ckH4nd, do you have time for some requests?

My requests are kinda overflowing but throw some at me and I'll add them to the list and then start as soon as I have some time