The future of texture packs

[SomberShroud]

With Recompilation/Decompilation projects getting more development https://decomp.dev/projects I think it's a good time to talk about the pros and cons of emulator vs decomp texture packs.

Decompilation
+All textures can be altered
+Uncapped FPS & significant performance boost
-Each game requires it's own modding tools to change textures making it harder to make packs for
-Audio needs fixing

Emulator
+Easy to make Texture packs*, no coding required
-Capped FPS, High resource usage
-Emulation imperfections to source code, some games textures can't be altered

*Most games dump properly, on rare occasions, games require lots of cleanup or even coding with symlinks.

I'm excited to try a decomp texture pack when Need for Speed most wanted is finished

 

[dorkasaurusrex]

I never understood why you can't have recomp WITH texture packs. Even Recompilation/Decompilation projects don't necessarily upscale the textures, do they? Seems the right thing is to have the best of both worlds.

 

[Nakamichi]

I never understood why you can't have recomp WITH texture packs. Even Recompilation/Decompilation projects don't necessarily upscale the textures, do they? Seems the right thing is to have the best of both worlds.

you can, it exists already.
theres a texture pack for ocarina of time recomp, majoras mask recomp and the banjo kazooie one too.
those are only the ones i know for sure, there might be more.
its already a thing

 

[ironhulk33]

I'd take on sly cooper.