Remastering Older Games With Texture Packs

[@RetroRenew]

What games are you going to try remastering first? Do let me know of any amazing texture packs or mods I should check out and they may be featured in a later video! ❤

[@ZBEKyt]

On God nr2003

[@John_Smith404]

NOLF 2

[@MRworldEtIkA]

Tony Hawk Downhill Jam or Downhill Domination. craziest games I've played in my PS2 era (i hate Europe, I litter bottles at people :3 )

[@ScotsmanGamer]

AI upscales of low quality textures are NOT remasters why do you lot use clickbait?

[@MRworldEtIkA]

@ScotsmanGamer Do you even know what remaster means?

[@logane1102]

@RetroRenew Thanks for mentioning my GT4 hd hud pack! I just wanted to say that an improved update for it is coming soon, so anyone that is interested in it, keep your eyes peeled for it

[@RetroRenew]

Thanks for commenting! You don’t have to thank me your work is incredible!

[@stufflike5844]

Black was so underrated , I never heard people talking about it

[@alexsilva28]

Deserves a proper remaster for sure

[@malevolentia28]

Nowadays if you ask anyone what's the best shooter on PS2 they'll say Black. But indeed back then it was highly underrated.

[@brianheaton5521]

Black was sick, never figured out the story, but lived that game!!!

[@mightywoll3]

Its somewhat of a meme due to its gun models.

[@MedicMain9]

Black was always considered THE PS2 FPS in Latin America

[@vjmural8117]

Love seeing high quality content like this from small channels. Keep it up!

[@robertesaum3]

Interesting content, but in my opinion, I find it a bit “lazy” to just extract all the textures from the game and automatically upscale them in Topaz Gigapixel or any other AI. Some projects are more dedicated, separating textures that can be upscaled by AI, recreating text/characters (which the AI simply turns into melted text or total garbage), as well as redoing and adapting the HUD (with new buttons for xbox/ps, corrections for 16:9, etc). Other projects are even more dedicated if you add the merit of having designers looking for the source images that the game developers used to create it (as we can see in the RoSA project for GTA SA and various other projects that exist in the Render96 community, VGTP, and others - including the project I'm creating with textures based on the original sources for Silent Hill 2). Of course, I don't judge the use of AI upscales because it does have some good results (I use them too much myself), and it serves very well as a placeholder to advance a project, but it still takes a lot of manual work to achieve brilliant results. I really enjoyed the content, it's really nice to see old games revitalized, success with your channel!

[@VideoBee_YT]

Yeah but he's alone, those projects have whole teams of artists and developers assigned, and it's still time intensive

[@we.value505]

I’m only half way through, if you have a problem with this predicament talk to rockstar, they started it when they “remastered” the oh gta trilogy

[@robertesaum3]

@@VideoBee_YT Sorry, I don't understand, who's alone? But yes, you're right too, it's exhausting to edit textures, it's the work of a team with more people to produce a game, and recreating from scratch or editing textures (alone) takes much longer, even with modern tools. I don't judge the batch upscaling process via AI, but it often requires some manual adjustments to get a good result. I'm also editing about 10,000 textures in Silent Hill 2 (there are about 3,000 files, which have about 8 different textures embedded), I first started with an upscale via AI and then started manual adjustments, but it will take me years to achieve great results.

[@robertesaum3]

@@we.value505 True, the definitive edition of the GTA trilogy is terrible, and I don't blame Groove Street Games for the result because they really had very little time to work on it. But it's remarkable how poorly they upscaled it, as well as the numerous bugs.

[@robertesaum3]

Oh, I hope you don't misunderstand me, I didn't mean the content of the video, but some of the work I see on the internet from people who just extract the textures from a game, upscale them via AI and insert them back into the game without filtering results. The video shows great work such as the GT4 HUD, Seamless Project for Resident Evil (which involves manually editing various textures to fix some of Capcom's mistakes), etc.

[@ganjaman59650]

Final fantasy 7 is just stunning with the ai upscale(guy did some retouching afterward) and 16:9. It's just amazing how many details were lost in the blur of the original release.

[@akafede4351]

Pro tip: If the game has progressive scan output, enable it and disable deinterlacing in the emu, that's the first thing you want to do. Ps2 had a weird way to present frames

[@GugureSux]

Nothing weird about interlacing. That stuff was common stuff for many decades. Obviously after we stepped into the HD era, this stuff kinda disappeared and was instead replaced by lower render resolutions and upscaler filters.

[@akafede4351]

@GugureSux no, it's not about interlacing alone, what I mean is that ps2 has a strange way to present frames, if not, how come other interlaced console emulator do not suffer this? All the jaggies and the fuzyness

[@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

0:22 missed the chance to transition from blurry text to clear REMASTERED text lol

[@RetroRenew]

Damn what a great idea!

[@PanagiotisChatzigiannis]

That's what I was anticipating lol

[@WolfeAensland]

i think it's fitting considering that even usually after a texture pack, text tends to still look like crap, bahaha. edit: wanted to add this heavily depends on the game

[@bittertruthnavin]

I have been doing this way before this video was uploaded. For anyone who doesn't want to go through these steps and not be limited only to emulator and their downloadable texture packs, you can use reshade (opensource) and a tool called 'lossless scaling'. With these two tools combined, I remaster my old game immediately. Lossless scaling works best if you run the game first in windowed mode and let the tool upscale it. Furthermore, any old games locked in 30 fps can now run 3 times the FPS. What a time we are living :)

[@leandrocalazans5517]

Those HD texture packs are just perfect to play on Android handhelds like Odin 1 and 2 and Retroid Pocket 5

[@MrMosebysLobby]

We have a few packs of the Nascar Thunder 2004 texture packs done on AJFails youtube. For everyone who doesnt know. Nascar modding wasnt possible until AJ basically made a custom version of PCSX2 to make all nascar games moddable

[@ScotsmanGamer]

yeah and it's not the easiest to setup now is it?

[@MrMosebysLobby]

@ScotsmanGamer oh dude it's super easy. He programmed a tool that auto swaps the cars, packs, randomizes paints, create your own packs, and custom seasons.

[@ScotsmanGamer]

@@MrMosebysLobby bud i have saw his video the fact you need to use a tool to constantly change decals etc is too much work it's for harden fans of the game

[@MrMosebysLobby]

@ScotsmanGamer an automated process with buttons and options where you don't have to edit Excel files now is hard? Ok bud. He made that tool specifically to make it as easy as possible. I guess every other game that uses a mod launch menu is hard to use too?

[@ScotsmanGamer]

@@MrMosebysLobby why you trying to sell me a product I'm not interested in??? I watch his videos it's not user friendly just yet!

[@hamtheman14]

great high quality video, def deserves more recognition, keep up the good work !

[@Hunter11930]

Quality of this video is incredible, I can’t wait to see your channel gain more traction. Keep it up!!

[@USBEN.]

This is how we remember playing these game, now a reality.

[@AuroraBorealis11111]

Awesome video, I’ve just got back into emulation, can’t wait to try this! ❤

[@evilbetty2004]

With the dolphin emulator you can literally use settings to dump all the textures you come across in game and can then open them in Microsoft paint or something and make your own versions of the textures and then use those in the game

[@undergroundcity9789]

If i didn't come across this video 3 days ago after i just woke up this video was recommended to me & i didn't know that texture packs for emulators existed it sucks there isn't one for Need For Speed Undercover, Shadow The Hedgehog (2005), 50 Cent Bulletproof or Midnight Club 2 hopefully those texture packs while come out eventually as of posting my comment the website has texture packs for 555 of the 4,000+ games in the entire PS2 library great video man can't wait to see this channel go places:)🎨🔥

[@malevolentia28]

instead of looking up that google sheets you can google the names of the games. for instance it seems some packs exists for undercover. but maybe you've already done so, in that case, sorry lol.

[@undergroundcity9789]

@ I’ll have to look up other sites with texture packs

[@Cautious_Gamer]

Bro. Thank you for the spreadsheet! I've been looking for a compiled list of texture packs! Subscribed.

[@Dekerus]

Really cool Dude! :)

[@stefo214]

Thats my man! :D great Video, keep it up! :)

[@ChrisKadaver]

This is great. I've been thinking about this but haven't made the effort to look into it. And this is better than I could've imagined. Once and for all we can forget about micro transaction or pay to win mechanics.

[@knifeknerdreviews4609]

I been building my collection so long I kind of forgot that people were doing hd texture packs out there... Thanks for the reminder, just added a bunch of them to my PS2 collection.

[@SacilvioSantos]

I already knew about texture packs and all, but that list you've provided came in handy. Have my like, thanks for the info

[@multiplefutures8206]

Thanks for this and glad it showed on my algo. subbed!

[@ll_spud]

Damn. Looks great. Havent looked at texture packs for a while now. Time to update my game list

[@coretaku]

Love the vid man. I've known about texture packs for a long, long while now, but this video might be the tipping point in trying them when I get a new PC.

[@rasheeddaley6773]

I love finding a channel before it reaches 100k subs 😊

[@RetroRenew]

Maybe one day!

[@PlatinumAdventures]

Amazing work!

[@klofiks]

very well made video! your channel is gonna blow up in no time!

[@radiocromoescobar9045]

I use a custom shader preset based on the crt royale to make the geometric detail look smoother at 4k and it looks amazing!!!!! I use also use lossless scaling at 3x to run the games at 165hz. Haven't tried any texture packs yet.

[@Silica.Animus]

I've installed texture packs in Tekken 6, played it in PPSSPP. It was pretty good

[@miletfan4363]

that spreadsheet is godsend thanks😊

[@RetroRenew]

No problem 😊

[@_Silly]

F-Zero GX with its texture pack looks like a game that came out yesterday

[@TrueGamingVault]

I wonder what upgrades we going to get for games from 2024 in 2050

[@ultrabugger4023]

this is amazing,!!!! you opened my eyes about something i didnt knew!!!!

[@gameplaynia5021]

underatred video, definately worth the sub

[@RetroMannGaming]

Nice video 😊 I really wish they’d integrate Reshade as well, or some basic functionality. Spiderman was a good example of missing some effects. It looks sterile. It was fine at the time. The low resolution and the CRT TVs masked most issues, but some nice distance effects would make this game look much better.

[@XuroX.]

You realize reshade is free to download and mess with yourself right?

[@AJ-po6up]

@@XuroX. Reshade cannot be fully used with certain emulators like pcsx2 because it can't access the depth buffer, so most effects don't work, it has been like that for ages.

[@beardalaxy]

Dolphin has built in support for shaders and a bunch of the more dedicated, hand made texture packs also have shader presets.

[@erickmagnus]

That’s a great reminder! Great video

[@TheAilmam]

Spiderman 2!!! OMG the nostalgia 😁

[@matteste]

When it comes to fan upscaled textures, one would be remis not to mention that giant project done for Final Fantasy IX. Seriously, the quality is fantastic, done with a mix of AI and hand refinement.

[@SavanBerry]

En Hora Buena! Fuistes Bendecido por el algorithmo de KZbin.

[@jakestafrm]

Probably the best hd texture pack I've ever seen is resident evil 4 hd. They spent years redrawing every texture by hand and even fixed a couple bugs in the process. I'd highly recommend it if you're looking to play the original re4.

[@melancholia7k]

just found ur channel love it

[@tysanrealm]

Metroid Prime and Echoes texture packs are reaaaally good, thought they were going to be mentioned.

[@idanshahar]

Spiderman 2 looks amazing!

[@ramunaskvedaras6628]

thanks 🥰

[@ll_spud]

I just subscribed. Looking forward to more tips ans contents from you. Also a guide for added texture packs for the newbies would help for different systems

[@undergroundcity9789]

me too i can't wait to see this channel blow up in emulation guides & resolution

[@paw565]

Epic channel detected. Time to sub. Great job bro ❤

[@RetroRenew]

Thanks for subbing

[@YannMetalhead]

The textures look amazing.

[@RetroRenew]

You look amazing!

[@zaca211]

Just patched the ratchet and clank games last night. They look amazing.

[@leoni7649]

Emulators should have built-in marketplaces for these textures

[@zwenkwiel816]

Hosting all these texture packs or maintaining all the links is quite a bit of effort for a dev of a free emulator though. Seems more like something that is a community based thing.

[@SonOfWalhall]

NFS Underground: 2 with texturemods would be something :)

[@BlooTeg]

holy, this is only your third video? awesome stuff! can't wait to see what you'll bring in the future!

[@Minimal_M]

I peeped the Bully music in the beginning. Salute 🫡

[@placeholder2924]

I have a feeling you're about to blow up. If that's the case, congrats on being blessed by the algorithm.

[@mobiusraptor7]

The Ace Combat community is also trying to remaster AC4, 5 and Zero, not just upscaling the textures, but also fixing some details on textures so that it fits better into the AC canon.

[@mige5fin]

Nice vid, was suprised u only had a few vids and not that many subs. - u know if theres similar modding going on for ps1 games?

[@AJ-po6up]

There was with DuckStation but afaik texture replacement was discontinued in recent versions like 1 or 2 years ago so that killed the momentum it had.

[@HoangDgNguyen]

well well, a fine content there

[@evilzinabyssranger5695]

THAT was a nice video! Greetings from Brasil! ps: Resident EVIL Seamless HD is amazing. One of the best and pioneers of the "texture mod" genre for emulators.

[@MUCKLEECH]

I've been playing GT4 Spec-II a lot lately, and it's amazing.

[@overdev1993]

upscaled textures could look pretty good but Im not a fan of completly different textures like the roof in the spiderman game, they changed the texture from light grey/brownish to dark grey almost black just cause its highres doesnt mean its a good idea to use the texture if they look nothing like the original

[@wuby3202]

i thought bro would teach me how to do the process of remastering or upscaling textures, but no. bro just showed me how to google search and download them from someone, like my ahh didnt already know that. waste of time.

[@fadishdog]

Agreed

[@CrashieTunez]

Fr. Legit clickbait

[@gamogm8234]

Yeah , he should del video himself

[@logane1102]

Not everybody knows. But hey, I’ll tell ya. For pcsx2 at least it has a feature built in to dump textures. The texture must be on-screen to capture it, so that can get a bit daunting but of course if you have enough dedication you can manage. PS2 is weird where textures have half opacity resolution, so the A channel caps out at 128. Most of the time you’ll need to run the image(s) through a tool that will double the A channel of each pixel. Imagemagick can do this, as well as a python script that’s out there. At that point it’s up to you to have the image editing skills to replace the texture with something better. Many people opt to simply dump tons of textures and then run them all through an ai upscaling algorithm, but this simply cannot match with something properly hand-drawn.

[@Bomberman66Hell]

This title is clickbait of the highest order

[@Lupothemanager]

well made video, I hope to see Max Payne texture updates!

[@6249569234]

I used to play gt4 on pcsx2 but automobilista 2 1.6 with Fred mods is amazing, and chances are if u can emulate gt4 u can play ams2

[@ilyhomesick]

6:01 bro i nearly had a heart attack i fr thought someone shot a gun in my apartment complex my god bro

[@HugoStiglitz88]

Imo it still is a remaster at higher res but obviously texture packs really do help a lot. I also think some lighting enhancements REALLY help though sometimes people whine about it "ruining" the atmosphere just by looking ten times better 😂

[@chr1998is]

There a great community online that have many 4k texture packs available for Dolphin. I’ve had some great success with upscaling old games. The only issue we have now is those pre rendered sequences, I wish there was a was a way to upscale those videos/ FMV’s It’s jarring going from a 4k game render image to a 480i video sequence 😂

[@AJ-po6up]

Some of those FMVs have been upscaled but extracting them and replacing them it's not easy at least in emulators, PC games do have many community upscaled FMVs and they look amazing at least compared to the originals.

[@Hoswaee]

great vid!

[@eduardocarvalho101]

a need part 2 of this video

[@Seea_]

Try using these HD textures with reshade. You can make full remasters with that

[@AJ-po6up]

Reshade doesn't work with PCSX2, or at least it didn't last year, I haven't tried it again but it has been that way for a long time.

[@Seea_]

@AJ-po6up it works now, I don't know how much of it works but it works. I used it last week to play Black

[@undergroundcity9789]

@@AJ-po6up it works now mate i just beat Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories with the Reshade Texture Pack & 60 FPS

[@prosetheus]

Outstanding content! Subbed

[@cydragon2.099]

sad thing is that Neversoft's/Activision's GUN HD remastering pack is complete but only for PS2 and not PC

[@storm8216]

At least we have it! ^^

[@SpeedyGwen]

I avtually have an HD pack for mario sunshine and mario galaxy 2 which I installed over half a decade ago back when I played those games on dolphin, I almost entirely forgot about texture packs in general

[@max_wayne7451]

Человек-паук 2 на PS 2 это что-то невероятное.

[@cho4d]

I for one value consistent art direction over an objectively sharper but inconsistent or uncanny image. Which is why i approach texture re-packs with a huge amount of skepticism. The fact is most people take the low effort route using a generic AI approach OR just simply don't have the same priorities as me when it comes to artistic choices. I would say about half of the stuff you demo'd here falls in to this category.

[@Sin_Alder]

"You Can Remaster Games Yourselves Easily Now" Proceeds to not remaster a single thing himself, just downloading premade packs. Nothing like a good ol' bait and switch.

[@RetroRenew]

Others have said the same and the new title wasn’t doing any better so I’ve changed it again to hopefully better reflect the contents of the video. So sorry about the confusion!

[@7EEVEE]

@@RetroRenew Title is perfect and fair as of now, good vid.

[@tacticalmattress]

Someone started a Dark Cloud 1 one but they pretty much don't develop it anymore. So I've been messing with it and improved it. Added to it a bit, about 50% of the game. The only issue is that the game engines can run into slowdowns with so many high textures. So some textures must be omitted. Explains why some games just haven't been done Also some textures require fine touches by hand in photoshop.

[@Kiyoshi_9606]

I cannot wait until PS3, PSVita, WiiU, and Dreamcast get 4K patches... I wish 120hz UNLOCK mods were a thing, too!

[@Kiyoshi_9606]

oh, and Saturn!

[@nostrace]

You can unlock 120 fps with an app called Lossless Scaling. It has amd frame generation included. An older version sure but still works well. Your emulator need to be in windowed/borderless window tho

[@Deetroiter]

Back when you bought a game and actually got the whole game

[@shastrimaharak1882]

would help if you had a side by side comparison

[@ZachlikesMetal]

Glad you're talking about this. HD Texture packs brings new life into these games.

[@ScotsmanGamer]

ai upscaling is not HD

[@athmaid]

I wish there was AI model upscaling as well. The poly count was absurdly low back then

[@TheRastafarianStuff]

i seriously thought that Grand turismo came out in 98 at least to be that excited for its graphics. but no, its just 2004😂

[@handshandshands]

I've been using Lossless Scaling(with frame generation) for modern games recently and its doing wonders for my mid range laptop. But i haven't tested it for emulation, and i'm guessing it might work there as well.

[@Gadoguz001]

I must try Fear Effect, one of my favorites PS1 games.

[@openlyracist8055]

I remember manually having to run games in a script to emulate them, now I'm trying to work on importing interiors to gt4

[@kalpeshrawat418]

Can you make a video on: "Best way to play Bully" ?

[@RetroRenew]

I sure can, stay tuned!

[@jed4276]

I think my favorite project was when, someone was able to get rtx working in Sonic adventure DX.

[@notturok7841]

I play on original hardware through a ossc or a tube when I’m in the mood. Along with “other” mods in place

[@Dregomz02]

With Upscayl you can make those texture upscaled pack on your own you just need to dump them. Downscaling is much harder and i dunno how to automate them. That's how i modified texture pack for MH4U for my liking since it wasn't really good.

[@clique1579]

should've added more comparisons

[@RetroRenew]

Next time :))

[@Teste-gp7bm]

The best textures of this era was the Dreamcast, if you take the Xbox out. It had a good 8MiB of VRAM and supported texture compression. There also seems to have been some bump mapping going on. Sonic Adv 2 holds up great at high resolution. Especially as it was an earlier console than the other 3. The PS2 always had very poor textures due to lack of VRAM. Even with the mods, I don't think it matches what was done on the DC and Xbox. At least on video it seems worse, even if a big improvement nonetheless.

[@jonathanpabon4477]

This is sooo cool. Im assuming this would work the same way for the android ps2 emulator NetherSX2.

[@RetroRenew]

I haven't tested it myself but I don't see why it wouldn't!

[@jonathanpabon4477]

@@RetroRenew I just tried it and yep it works the exact same way!

[@kevinbrodacki]

All i need is Nvidia DSR to play games at 8k + the new RTX HDR feature

[@dougr8646]

Next get good with reshade you can really add a lot

[@aryudsoh]

That Spider-Man 2 mod looks like it's missing some building textures as they look very low-res

[@StreetXS22]

You should have compared the ratchet and clank texture pack to the PS3 remastered collection, which also has higher res textures

[@mykeb1557]

Best texture pack imo is for jak 1 &2. OpenGoal

[@sibzay811]

And i stayed bcz of ratchet and clank. Goated game series

[@islam9199]

Bro actually took matter into his own hands 💀💀