Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy (USA) HD Remastered

[HitoriHoshi]

Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy (USA) HD Remastered
Compatible: USA Region
Version: 1.0
PCSX2 wiki: https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Mana_Khemia_2:_Fall_of_Alchemy

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Install:

• Download the latest Pcsx2 nightly build.
• Extract the folder to the pcsx2 texture folder (...\Pcsx2\textures\SLUS-21890\replacements) (SSD Recommend)
• Go to title folder inside replacements folder and run title_symlink.bat. This will create 12 symlink files for title background (skip this if you're not on Windows)
• Config / Graphics Settings / Advanced tab:
  Load Texture: ON
  Async Texture Loading: ON

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Current Progress: ~99%

• Most UI textures has been upscaled and heavily edited so it may not match the game original font (except for Pinch text status where I never happen triggered it, I've played this game 4 times, 2 Raze routes & 1 Ulrika route & 1 Extra route)
• Font & dungeon backgrounds are missing, bad dumps, produce endless dumps every PCSX2 session
• Sprites are mostly completed but if I miss some monsters sprites, feel free to dump them and send it to me so I can upscale them (if you don't want upscaled sprites, just delete sprite folder)
• fx folder are bundled with texture and skill effects used by players and monsters/boss, I gave most of them an edit that add a bit blur so it doesn't look pixelated, most heavy edit is Whim ice attacks
• Packs are already optimized with pinga to reduce as much size as possible

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Download (Password to extract: Hitori):

• GDrive: ManaKhemia2_HD_Remastered_by_Hitori.rar
• Mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/08h08ejgn039rva/ManaKhemia2_HD_Remastered_by_Hitori.rar/file
• GDrive (AetherSX2): AetherSX2_ManaKhemia2_HD_Remastered_by_Hitori.rar

Optional add-on - Dialogue Portrait with symlink method (For Windows only):

• GDrive: MK2_Dialogue_Portrait_Symlink_Pack(Windows PC only)
• Mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/bxtqvdpbtgma65n/MK2_Dialogue_Portrait_Symlink_Pack%28Windows_PC_only%29.rar/file

What does optional add-on do? This game's dialogue portraits produces bad dumps, so to be able to load replacement texture, you must either replace all of them or create a symlink for every possible file. So this add-on helps you create all possible symlinks I have collected during my 4 playthroughs automatically with a batch script. But be caution that it doesn't replace everything but only most of them, as this game engine takes a screenshot before loading dialogue portraits so it filled the texture with the trash from the taken screenshot, for area with static objects, the symlink work great but it becomes a problem if the area has dynamic objects like random flying particles in Dragon Graveyard & Extra dungeon. So that's why I only make this one optional from main pack.

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Install Guide for optional pack:

• Extract the folder to replacements folder of main pack, final path should look like this (...\Pcsx2\textures\SLUS-21890\replacements\talk_portrait)
• Go inside "talk_portrait" folder
• Run GenerateSymlink.bat
• The batch will create 9953 symlinks in this folder automatically for you, don't close it before it's done

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Recommend PCSX2 settings for this game:

Spoiler: Settings

Any flipped sprites by game engine will be broken if not using Texture Filtering: Bilinear(Forced)
An example can be seen below:
Choosing Nearest fixes almost every misaligned UI elements while breaking flipped sprites and Bilinear(Forced) will fix the flipped sprite issues but make most UI misaligned,
so choose your own poison

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Credits: Hitori
Programs used: GIMP + Chainner
Models used: 4xHDCube4-Plus for most map textures and half of UI elements, 4xPixelPerfect for sprites, the rest is upscaled with various models + editing manually

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Quick trailer video:

Preview Screenshots:

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

[Plaidray]

wow looks great Thanks

 

[HitoriHoshi]

Update: Added AetherSX2 pack version!

 

[RequiemOfMadness]

when i run the optional pack it says the system cannot find the path specified everything else works fine & i have installed texture packs for other games in the past