Square need to hire these modders and get this stuff in all versions of all their games across the board. Modders are doing some truly awesome work with these old games
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Final Fantasy IX: Moguri Mod v8.0 released (Redrawn & Upscaled Backgrounds, Objects, Worldmap, Battle Backgrounds, NPCs, UI, 30fps FMVs, and more)
- Thread starter Shevek
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The PSX-style font is the real banger here. Could never stand the remasters' boring, Arial-like font.
Eh, Unleashed is pretty good, but he made Ozma pretty much impossible and that really pissed me off because I always want to beat the superbosses in these games.
Fun fact: the creator of the mod is French, which is pretty cool considering FF is not as big in Europe as in North America
AuthenticM posted it below, its a fantastic mod in general (but I only used it for the recruitable Beatrix part)
They go the extra mile and even include in her cutscenes and give her extra dialogue, its totally seamless other than the fact she doesnt have a trance form (last i checked anyway)
I managed to beat him with Yitan, Garnet, Eiko and Vivi. You have to kill him in four turns or you die if i remember right. And you need luck for Eiko to use Phoenix summon in a good try. It was really difficult but fun.
What i didn't manage is to steal excalibur 2 from him and them kill him. That really seemed impossible.
No problem! I was so impressed with this mod I made a thread about it in the past so always happy to spread awareness of it haha
I just looked into it and Beatrix does actually have a trance form now too, which is awesome. I think she is recruitable in Disk 3
I don't know, that fight seems like pure RNG bullshit and he constantly spams Curse. I could survive one Curse, but two in a row? Forget about it.
Also add to this that without the work put in to get this onto other platforms in the first place, this would have remained a PS only game through emulation. Now you have it on all platforms including mobile.
I have very little time for the lazy devs/the fans do it better rhetoric.
Also the possibility of getting Excalibur II without the 14 hours requisite is appealing.
The only thing I'm not sure is if any of these mods fix the missing sounds fom some spells and summons in the port. Ark sounds so much worse than the original version.
Time to load up the laptop and dive in. It looks great, nicely done. Now, if only consoles would allow this too like certain Bethesda games.
This is incredible, I'm definitely replaying the game with this mod.
It's amazing to see something like this for this gem of a game, warms my heart.
Edit: forgot about the Beatrix mod, definitely going to do that as well.
It's amazing to see something like this for this gem of a game, warms my heart.
Edit: forgot about the Beatrix mod, definitely going to do that as well.
This is PHENOMENAL work.
Everybody is doing AI upscaling, but only a selected few are post-processing things BY HAND on top of that.
This is the BIG thing here, the "selling point": it looks great because an actual human beign is improving things further.
Everybody is doing AI upscaling, but only a selected few are post-processing things BY HAND on top of that.
This is the BIG thing here, the "selling point": it looks great because an actual human beign is improving things further.
I've installed the mod, but I dont get the feature options when running the installer so I can't disable the orchestral music. At the setup part of the install it just says TabHost. Tried uninstalling it but the install still won't give me the choice on what to install.
Update: I've managed to sort it.
Update: I've managed to sort it.
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I've never played the original but want to soon, which with y'all suggest me playing for the first time?
you can copy back the p0data61.bin from your steam folder inside the moguri install folder.
Well I guess this is a good time to start a play-through.
I'm taking screenshots of every scene that catches my eye. The modders have done amazing work here.
I'm taking screenshots of every scene that catches my eye. The modders have done amazing work here.
This is why game pass is fucking shit if you ever what to do anything to your games.
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Steam version + Moguri Mod installed is the definitive way to play the game, so absolutely do make it your first experience. It is essentially an HD remaster of the original that fans should've gotten with the 2016 re-release on current gen platforms.
The mod only updates the visuals and fixes some bugs, but leaves the gameplay unchanged.
You can download the v5 Beta, which according to Snouz is the exact same as v8.0 but just packaged into a RAR file instead of an installer. Just bear in mind that the orchestral music is not available in the v5 Beta RAR.
You can find a link to the download in the OP here (installation instructions are in the RAR file): http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=19225.0
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I'm not sure since I'm not entirely familiar with the technology but I do know completed projects of a similar kind existed for Final Fantasy VII several years prior, such as Omzy's Field Pack mod for FFVII for example. While a huge step up from the original, results then weren't nearly as impressive as they are with current tech now though, obvs.
There isn't one that comes with Moguri, though there is a mod called Scaled Battle UI that attempts to bring the battle UI closer in line with the original PSX release but it hasn't been updated to be compatible with v8.0 yet.
Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy9/mods/11?tab=posts
I have seen a number of issues that are introduced with the Scaled Battle UI mod though, so I personally haven't been using it.
You're not wrong because that's a huge downside of games from the Microsoft Store in general and I would strongly recommend against buying anything from that Store. But to put things into perspective a little, Game Pass itself it's a game rental service that allows you to access a big library of games for a relatively low monthly fee. Calling it "fucking shit" because you don't have the same access to game files as you do with games you bought on Steam (or any other proper pc store for that matter) is a bit much, don't you think? Maybe my analogy is wrong, but to me, it's like complaining that you don't get to rip and store movies from Netflix, when you can do exactly that with the blu-rays you bought (in better quality, too!). It's not the point but it's a great complementary service.
Yeah, I read about that separate mod introducing issues so I was hoping the new version of Moguri tried to tackle it. But I'll keep an eye on it, maybe the next update will be better
Thank you, this worked for me, I just wish there was an easier way to toggle it. I'd like to go back and forth with the original and orchestrated soundtrack during the game.