Hacking Ao no Kiseki PPSSPP HD Texture Pack

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Without a doubt it's going to take a lot of time doing this especially when you're the only one working on it.

How about you just focus on the playable ones like Lloyd, Tio, Randy and Elie?

You can reserve the monsters and the NPCs etc. for when you'll have a proper team of just do the ones you feel like doing.
 

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Ah, I just used it stand alone which seemed to work, but does that mean I'm missing textures then?

I mistyped. Yeah it's a standalone, but either way you shouldn't be missing anything in the pack

@riesyukira yeah for now my focus is playable character common sprites e.g. walking, running and combat.
 

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So as I mentioned before Ao Sprites are not natively compatible between PC and PSP. They need to be tinkered with before you can get a functional texture replacement.
However out of curiosity I tested if work I did in Ao can be inserted into Zero without going through texture adjustments again. The answer seems to be Yes. You do need to get hashes for them again tho. Do note I tested only these 4 sprites so it may not be as easy as I think it is.

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EDIT: Nevermind, hashes seemed to be fully identical by just doing a copy+paste. I now wonder if rest of hashes for locale textures overlap.

EDIT2: By just throwing my Ao texture pack into Zero folder it seems to be partially compatible with Zero without even doing anything. What is and isn't working varries, but if you want a half finished PPSSPP Zero Texture Pack project it's something for now.
 
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So as I mentioned before Ao Sprites are not natively compatible between PC and PSP. They need to be tinkered with before you can get a functional texture replacement.
However out of curiosity I tested if work I did in Ao can be inserted into Zero without going through texture adjustments again. The answer seems to be Yes. You do need to get hashes for them again tho. Do note I tested only these 4 sprites so it may not be as easy as I think it is.

View attachment 188516

EDIT: Nevermind, hashes seemed to be fully identical by just doing a copy+paste. I now wonder if rest of hashes for locale textures overlap.

EDIT2: By just throwing my Ao texture pack into Zero folder it seems to be partially compatible with Zero without even doing anything. What is and isn't working varries, but if you want a half finished PPSSPP Zero Texture Pack project it's something for now.

Looking good! We're getting closer and closer to a PC port of the PSP version!

I've been playing Zero and tested Ao on the ppsspp emulator with the 60 fps cheat code and by God it's glorious, it's just like playing on the PC!
 
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So this is a small little addendum that primarily replaces walking and running sprites for Lloyd, Ellie, Tio and Randy. While few other things have been done there's not much to them.

To apply: Insert folders inside Sprites folder into NPJH50473 folder and then add text in Hashes.txt to textures.ini file. This should also be compatible with Zero.
 

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Decided to put sprite editing on hold on focus on polishing up Zero Texture Pack.
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For some reason higher resolution font of PC version works in Zero and not Azure when inserted, although it tends to break if there is a special symbol in the text.
NPJH50311_00007.png
Fixing this is way beyond my capabilities, so it will stay like this for now.
 

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i have finish the zero pc version and i upscaling all texture from the games..10gig with 23k textures with topaz A,I really nice look if poeple want i can upload :P
 
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Decided to upload work I have done on Zero Texture pack up to this point.

NPJH50311_00005.png


A good number of portraits, environment and menu textures have been done, however there is a lot that still needs work. It also includes player character sprites edits I've done earlier.

To add put NPJH50311 folder into TEXTURES folder in PPSSPP emulator(path is (PPSSPP emulator folder location)/memstick/PSP).
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For best looking results Rendering resolution should be higher than native. Also Texture Filtering and Screen Scaling Filter should be both set to Linear.

P.S As this was based heavily on Azure texture pack done earlier there may be some wrong textures in spots.

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Decided to upload work I have done on Zero Texture pack up to this point.

View attachment 190941

A good number of portraits, environment and menu textures have been done, however there is a lot that still needs work. It also includes player character sprites edits I've done earlier.

To add put NPJH50311 folder into TEXTURES folder in PPSSPP emulator(path is (PPSSPP emulator folder location)/memstick/PSP).
Download Link

For best looking results Rendering resolution should be higher than native. Also Texture Filtering and Screen Scaling Filter should be both set to Linear.

P.S As this was based heavily on Azure texture pack done earlier there may be some wrong textures in spots.

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Heck yeah! I cannot wait until geofront esterior finishes up their work on Zero and coupled with your improvement patch/texture mod its just going to be perfect!
 

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Question about HD pack for AO, from all the picture ive seen my combat/character menu isnt in HD like the pics above did i do something wrong?
 

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An update to Ao/Azure texture pack. More work done on Sprites of Lloyd/Ellie/Tio/Randy. In addition I finished Master Quartz cards that appear when casting Master Arts, along with miscelaneous texture replacements and fixes.
Download link (March17)

Godamn thanks for all your hard work man!

It's unfortunate that Geofront didn't release a separate English Patch for Zero on the PSP, it would've been an amazing combination of quality translation and HD Graphics on an Emulator!
 

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I tried to apply this to my PC version of Ao mainly for the button prompts and for whatever reason, it's doing nothing for me.
I get the specialK overlay and all, but there are no changes whatsoever.

Is ReShade necessary? I left that out since the color correction seemed a little too dark for my tastes.
But other than that, i extracted all necessary files.
Is there something i'm missing here?
 

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