Hey.
Basically one question that I guess it fits here than anywhere else, regarding the Gen7 Pokémon 3DS games.
One thing that makes the SUMO / USUM games "USM" -"Ultra Slow Mo"- is the Pokémon models stored inside. I've heard a number of reasonings: that the models are "overdone" and designed for the Switch or the PS4 instead of for a console with ~240p resolution; that GF is just incompetent and the models are completely unoptimized. Whatever the case, the games just run painfully slow in particular whenever there's a battle (kind of the point of a Pokémon mainline game) and even more when in a o3DS where this compounds with a number of other issues such as having to reboot in and out of the game.
But, since we already do have things like the Pokémon retextures hack for OR/AS, I was wondering, would it improve the performance of USM to have a romhack that replaces the models for more lightweight / more optimized ones? Has there been research in this direction? I haven't really been able to find anything. Perhaps there's something already done even but googling for "USUM lightweight models" or similar leads me to, at most, news articles about the latest Legendaries.
Basically one question that I guess it fits here than anywhere else, regarding the Gen7 Pokémon 3DS games.
One thing that makes the SUMO / USUM games "USM" -"Ultra Slow Mo"- is the Pokémon models stored inside. I've heard a number of reasonings: that the models are "overdone" and designed for the Switch or the PS4 instead of for a console with ~240p resolution; that GF is just incompetent and the models are completely unoptimized. Whatever the case, the games just run painfully slow in particular whenever there's a battle (kind of the point of a Pokémon mainline game) and even more when in a o3DS where this compounds with a number of other issues such as having to reboot in and out of the game.
But, since we already do have things like the Pokémon retextures hack for OR/AS, I was wondering, would it improve the performance of USM to have a romhack that replaces the models for more lightweight / more optimized ones? Has there been research in this direction? I haven't really been able to find anything. Perhaps there's something already done even but googling for "USUM lightweight models" or similar leads me to, at most, news articles about the latest Legendaries.