Emulation Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D HD 4xAI upscale

[guily6669]

I made a 4x AI upscale of everything for MGS3 3DS

It's using a bit stylized visuals (Photo- Remacri mode at 4x) + custom textures from 2 mods (All credits for their creators).

I lost several days in this because somehow Citra hashes kept changing at certain points and therefore I could never have the whole game textures and had to finish the game several times and still don't know the full result as it's untested.

My info:
My game Title ID: 0004000000081E00
60 FPS cheat: 10908698 00000000 (V1.0 but I have included all cheats for 1.0 and 1.1)

Instructions:
1 - Download latest Citra from github -> https://github.com/PabloMK7/citra/releases and open citra-qt.exe;
2 - click above on file > Open Citra Folder;
3 - unzip and copy paste everything to that folder (attached cheats + save and the texture pack).
4 - setup your controller in citra settings, use vulkan, 10x the native resolution, activate loading custom textures and preload them to memory if you have a lot of RAM (note it will take a good time to open the game with the preload but you will have no visual problems after)...
5 - Run game and activate the 60 FPS cheat (emulation > configure current game).

Note: 60 FPS cheat is needed or the game runs super slow and the save is also needed to activate the 3DS 2nd joystick because if you activate in-game settings Citra always crashes so this save already has it enabled, don't ever disable it, but you can select New game and chose any difficulty and will always be active, also you likely need a fairly powerful PC...

Also only the 1st level is very customized because that's the Jimlafleur89 mod that sadly he never finished

DOWNLOAD TEXTURE PACK​

CREDITS:
Jimlafleur89
Kyim
Me

PS: I need Beta testers for this, also if someone can help me reduce the number of textures or want to make a much better custom texture would be awesome (If you want to know any item/animal filenames or want the original dump or found something bugged just ask here).

Spoiler: NOTES:

- Intro HD and no 3DS balancing icons are from Kyim;
- Intro airplane is a mix of original upscaled + some Kyim upscaled textures,
- Animals and items are a mix of Kyim upscaled and original upscaled;
- weapons\camos are all from Kyim if I remember well and upscaled;
- 1st level very customized are mostly from jimlafleur89 without upscaling mixed with some original textures upscaled.
- The rest of the levels are all original upscaled.

If you want to just test on easy using the EZ gun in case you don't like it gold delete the file "tex1_128x64_F39F56F12C44AB14_12" and leave the original upscaled one with the same name that end with mip0 ("tex1_128x64_F39F56F12C44AB14_12_mip0").
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All the original textures UPSCALED 4X are there in the pack if you don't like any custom texture you can delete it which will load the original one from the game but always upscaled.

For example the custom swamp water is likely "tex1_256x256_08E7A89989F964E7_13" and the originals upscaled always end with "mipX" in their name, "X = a number".

However windows file explorer is a pain-in-the-ass, sometimes even searching the name of the file it finds nothing but it's there

OPEN THE IMAGES AND ZOOM TO SEE THE REAL DIFFERENCE