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Here we have what I'm going to call "B1" previously I labeled releases as Alpha since there was still quite a bit of work to be done and I had not really done any testing but since then Myself and @Canzah have been hard at work at restoring what we can.
Huge credit goes to @Canzah for going in and getting a strap back on the Magic Bikini, Moving Polygons for the Dancer to have the split in the skirt and the huge pain in the ass task of recreating the Bunny outfit which required redoing UV mapping and all sorts.
This release brings the Dancer/Bunny, along with an NPC we missed, and High Tension models have also been restored to match.
With this everything should now be restored and with any luck is the final release unless bugs are found.
First Image = Original 3DS
Second Image = Restoration
Don't worry about the glitched front, just the 3D Rendered on PC, fine in-game.
Use: Should just be a matter of dragging and dropping the folders onto SD Card and booting up NTR CFW, contains LayeredFS for JPN/EU not US as of yet.
"dq8res" should be on the root of your SD card doesn't need to be within a TitleID folder.
Huge credit goes to @Canzah for going in and getting a strap back on the Magic Bikini, Moving Polygons for the Dancer to have the split in the skirt and the huge pain in the ass task of recreating the Bunny outfit which required redoing UV mapping and all sorts.
This release brings the Dancer/Bunny, along with an NPC we missed, and High Tension models have also been restored to match.
With this everything should now be restored and with any luck is the final release unless bugs are found.
First Image = Original 3DS
Second Image = Restoration
Don't worry about the glitched front, just the 3D Rendered on PC, fine in-game.
Use: Should just be a matter of dragging and dropping the folders onto SD Card and booting up NTR CFW, contains LayeredFS for JPN/EU not US as of yet.
"dq8res" should be on the root of your SD card doesn't need to be within a TitleID folder.
For whatever reason I ended up watching various Censored Gaming Videos and came across DQ8 on the 3DS.
Now is it really "censoring" when the changes are made by the devs in Japan and not a localization team? debatable, which is why I'm calling this a "Restoration" and not "Uncensored".
With the game fast approaching the West I decided to take a look at restoring some of the changes, this pretty much comes down the outfit changes, not much I can do about the 2 "cutscenes" mentioned in the video since they don't appear to be .moflex files which means its not any easy change, maybe if the old animations got left in it might be possible but seems highly unlikely!
I myself haven't touched a Dragon Quest game but since they seem to get high praise I am looking forward to giving this one a shot, keeping that in mind, any changes I have made so far I haven't actually tested in-game.
This brings me to the changes I have done so far.
Now with all the screenshots out of the way, you might notice the modified version are lighter? in skin colour, seems all the skin in 3DS version got changed, due to this its possible the faces might revert back to the 3DS skin colour if they animate, without testing these in-game I've no clue, I do want to match the 3DS skin colour I just haven't quite found the right settings to get it exact atm.
I have seen images of another model that is "censored" that is not mentioned in the video and that is some sort of female warrior? since I had no luck extracting the textures straight out of the PS2 version I've had to run the game in an emulator and capture them using a tool which means I need to see the character in question, I have a save that can fast travel every where? I checked various towns for 30ish minutes and couldn't find her so any help on that would be great, screenshot in the spoiler below.
Look forward to the Western release so I can actually see how this all turns out
Now is it really "censoring" when the changes are made by the devs in Japan and not a localization team? debatable, which is why I'm calling this a "Restoration" and not "Uncensored".
With the game fast approaching the West I decided to take a look at restoring some of the changes, this pretty much comes down the outfit changes, not much I can do about the 2 "cutscenes" mentioned in the video since they don't appear to be .moflex files which means its not any easy change, maybe if the old animations got left in it might be possible but seems highly unlikely!
I myself haven't touched a Dragon Quest game but since they seem to get high praise I am looking forward to giving this one a shot, keeping that in mind, any changes I have made so far I haven't actually tested in-game.
This brings me to the changes I have done so far.
This outfit has proven to be a tricky one, the UV Mapping doesn't quite match the PS2 Textures which made it tough for me to modify the bikini top into what is found in the PS2 version, I couldn't get it looking right so for the time being just the Skirt has been removed.
I'm curious to know how this turns out in-game since I didn't actually edit the 3D Model and remove the skirt I just made it transparent within the texture and put some skin back since with the skirt removed there is like blue shorts.
Depending on how the lighting system works it could potentially still look like the skirt is there in shadows? or light just might bounce of the character wrong.
Hell, maybe its not even transparent in the game and just Ohana3DS, the tool being used to view/edit the 3D Model.
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
I'm curious to know how this turns out in-game since I didn't actually edit the 3D Model and remove the skirt I just made it transparent within the texture and put some skin back since with the skirt removed there is like blue shorts.
Depending on how the lighting system works it could potentially still look like the skirt is there in shadows? or light just might bounce of the character wrong.
Hell, maybe its not even transparent in the game and just Ohana3DS, the tool being used to view/edit the 3D Model.
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
PS2 Texture ported over great, fully restored.
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
Had some problems with skin just under the skirt, didn't port great from the PS2 version so I had to kinda do it myself, not quite happy with the results but I feel you can't really tell from a distance like the shot, be curious to know if its even something noticeable in-game.
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
PS2 Texture ported no problem but its not quite fully restored, in the original PS2 version her skirt parts a little on her right side? I tried to make a section transparent in the texture to replicate that but it didn't quite work so might need a model edit, so the only real change is you can see the top of her underwear now I guess...
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
PS2 Texture ported over great, fully restored.
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
First = Original
Second = Modified Version
Now with all the screenshots out of the way, you might notice the modified version are lighter? in skin colour, seems all the skin in 3DS version got changed, due to this its possible the faces might revert back to the 3DS skin colour if they animate, without testing these in-game I've no clue, I do want to match the 3DS skin colour I just haven't quite found the right settings to get it exact atm.
I have seen images of another model that is "censored" that is not mentioned in the video and that is some sort of female warrior? since I had no luck extracting the textures straight out of the PS2 version I've had to run the game in an emulator and capture them using a tool which means I need to see the character in question, I have a save that can fast travel every where? I checked various towns for 30ish minutes and couldn't find her so any help on that would be great, screenshot in the spoiler below.
Here in the first image you can see she has what? black shorts? where as the PS2 version she doesn't.
Third image is of another character I saw while looking through all the 3DS Models, seems to have the exact same thing done, I'm unsure if this is an actual change from the PS2 version or not though, if so I also need to find her.
Third image is of another character I saw while looking through all the 3DS Models, seems to have the exact same thing done, I'm unsure if this is an actual change from the PS2 version or not though, if so I also need to find her.
Look forward to the Western release so I can actually see how this all turns out
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