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Playing Demon Souls in the modern day has never been better, mods are being made! (HD Fonts, Lighting Overhaul, Lens Flair Fix, No Depth of Field)

CenturionNami

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Thought this would be a cool thread to make. Later last month, a Demon Souls nexus page was created, and there's already a bunch of cool mods that work super well with the 60 FPS patch for the emulator that I think need attention.

HD Font Mod:

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One of the many annoying aspects of the emulated version was how bad the font and menus looked on an HD monitor, so someone was able to make an HD Font Pack, that make it way more pleasing on the eyes.

Lens Flair Fix
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Another inferiority was how glitched the lens flairs where when playing on the PC, modders were able to fix them to look way better on computers. I'll also throw in a mod that removes the primitive depth of field effect (which is subjective.)

Lighting Overhaul
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By far the most impressive to me, someone manually edited the param files to completely change and overhaul the way lighting looks and is displayed, bringing out the game's beauty. Since it doesn't use external programs, it isn't performance heavy at all. Has the Depth of Field and Lens Flair fix built in.

2019 is by far the best year to play Demon Souls in my opinion! There's already quite a few more mods and quality of life features being added to the emulated version of the title in the works. It's the next best thing next to an official remaster.
 
ScoobsJoestar

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I kind of like the way depth of field looks tbh but I love everything else. I never finished Demon Souls so I think I'll give this a shot instead of using my ps3.
 
Red Liquorice

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Lovely.

I'll never play it because I don't have a gaming PC :(. It's been a good while since I played it though, maybe time for a trip back to Boletaria.
 
mario_O

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Tower of Latria looks great with new lighting. Can't wait to see what Sony does with the remake.
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JMY86

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I still have my Demon's Souls disc and tried playing on PC shortly after RPCS3 supported it and the performance was not very good. I think it might be time to revisit things...
 
Castor Archer

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That's glorious.
There's gotta be a Demon's Souls remaster/remake in the works. Not a lot of people played it, it's the one Souls game not on current gen, and it'll tide us over until Elder Ring.
 
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I was trying to remove DoF from the game recently but with no success. Seems like I overlooked some files. At 4K it's a game changer. Distant detail is actually nice and sharp in the game but the overdone default DoF ruins it all at that high of a res. I just manually turned it off with the debug menu each time which was a pain in the ass.
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You can even add ray tracing to it via ReShade.

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The issue is that Reshade doesn't support Vulkan and Demon's Souls run best with Vulkan.
 
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Segafreak said:
No you don't, Demon's Souls came out a decade ago. How can you value something more where the game was not available all this time?
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It is available now and it's the best version. And it will be playable for many years to come on any future PCs I buy. Meanwhile you can't play this on consoles unless you have multiple consoles plugged in to your TV, since backwards compatibility has always been a joke on consoles compared to PC. That's why.
 
JMY86

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Oh my! The game look so crisp and clean after installing the DoF, Lighting and HD font mods + 60 fps. GreedFall can fuck right off, I am playing Demon's Souls tonight...
 
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mario_O said:
Tower of Latria looks great with new lighting. Can't wait to see what Sony does with the remake.
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You know it's sad they have dropped the ball a second time with Demons souls. (First when they didnt think anything of it years back)

What could have been an amazing revival this gen but they rather just ignore one of the best IPs ever created.

Good for the pc modders. They deserve some applause.
 
Garlic

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Honestly Demon Souls hideous lighting is part of its charm, if you ask me. Really sells the foggy nightmare feeling of the game. Those screenshots definitely look worse to me
 
texhnolyze

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Yeah, i've seem the news about Demons moding has started a fee days ago. Looking forward to see the future of it.

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Honestly Demon Souls hideous lighting is part of its charm, if you ask me. Really sells the foggy nightmare feeling of the game. Those screenshots definitely look worse to me
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That's the best thing about modding, you can choose to not install them.

The high resolution and framerates bump from the emulator alone should be enough to make this the definitive version of the game right now.
 
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Greebman said:
I was trying to remove DoF from the game recently but with no success. Seems like I overlooked some files. At 4K it's a game changer. Distant detail is actually nice and sharp in the game but the overdone default DoF ruins it all at that high of a res. I just manually turned it off with the debug menu each time which was a pain in the ass.

The issue is that Reshade doesn't support Vulkan and Demon's Souls run best with Vulkan.
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It should work with this fork https://github.com/crosire/reshade/pull/138
 
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Alexious said:
It should work with this fork https://github.com/crosire/reshade/pull/138
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Been trying some experimental Reshade Vulkan things this morning and while it initially seemed promising, there seems to be a glitch with flipping the depth buffer which you need to do to get the effect right side up. Seems like oblique angles get really dark for some reason. This doesn't happen in OpenGL, even though the depth and normal maps are identical. Probably needs some more work.
 
Jazzem

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Gosh I need to get on this :o Always appreciate an option to remove depth of field
 
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Shoshi

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If you don't already own it, be sure to buy the already cheap digital version of demon's to show your support.
That should help in getting the Remaster out.
 
gabdeg

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Greebman said:
Been trying some experimental Reshade Vulkan things this morning and while it initially seemed promising, there seems to be a glitch with flipping the depth buffer which you need to do to get the effect right side up. Seems like oblique angles get really dark for some reason. This doesn't happen in OpenGL, even though the depth and normal maps are identical. Probably needs some more work.
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Scratch that, the newest version of the RT shader 0.7a works. I used an older version but just go the newest one off of Discord and that one works flawlessly.
 
SigSig

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I didn't know RPCS3 was this good, damn. Last time I've seen it it could barely shit out a couple of fps of glitch art.
 
zma1013

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Is there a mod to have an improved DOF effect? I wouldn't want to outright remove it but would like to see an improved version.
 
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