Citra (3DS emulator) is getting custom texture support (HD texture packs finally!)

[Becks']

Finally, we can dump and replace textures in Citra. I am fine with the original art but I really hate how UI and fonts scale up in high resolutions, especially in Pokemon games, so the experience is going to be much better, at least for me. I hope we can use AI upscaling tools like ESRGAN and Waifu-2x to upscale art, it will be much faster to create packs.

This is currently WIP and it is only available in experimental Canary builds so it will probably take some time to get into official builds.

Some screenshots:

 

[moonsofvenus_]

oh hell yes! the 3DS has some amazing classics that look great scaled up, sans their very low res textures. this will make those so much more fun to revisit on a powerful PC! :D

 

[baggage]

I have not found a good ESRGAN dataset for MM3D textures, probably gonna be a multiple dataset thing. Upscaling Project Mirai DX textures with the higher resolution looks really quite good.

 

[Falchion]

I didn't even know this emulator was a thing. Seems really nice.

 

[Flandy]

I look forward to HD UIs

 

[Hero Prinny]

I'm down. Do luigi's mansion 2 pls

 

[xxbrothawizxx]

Sounds good to me. I'll be there the minute one comes in for KIU.

 

[elektrixx]

I'm down. Do luigi's mansion 2 pls

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I think they still have to do the work to make the game run at full speed first.

 

[Barn]

I will be here for the screenshots, thank you.

 

[Lashley]

Great addition

 

[Doskoi Panda]

Samus Returns is in dire need

 

[Deleted member 873]

Swash has competition

 

[Joqu]

Awesome. How I wish we had a PS2 emulator with the same feature though.

 

[DSP]

smt4 with hires 2D art could be great, maybe they can source art from material outside of the game. probably not possible....

 

[Deleted member 49319]

HD bravely games >> Octopath

 

[Becks']

I dumped a bit of textures from WarioWare Gold and used default Waifu2x settings, already looks better. I might do Bravely Default next using these or Pokemon.

Original (Left) vs Upscaled (Right)

 

[Jessie]

Pokémon with legible fonts is a game changer.

 

[Yiazmat]

Pokémon USUM (using Waifu2x). The biggest improvement is in the cloud textures:

Original:

 

[Jessie]

Imagine how good Bravely Default will look with upres'd textures.

 

[Taco_Human]

Holy hell those clouds. What the fuck, I wanna keep using my hardware to add hours to those sweet stats, but this is too beatiful.

 

[mogster7777]

does using HD textures on things like this normally have a big performance impact or is it minimal?

 

[Tigerfog]

Warioware looks like something straight out of the Wii one. Impressive!!

 

[Xpike]

now if someone modded kid icarus to not play like shit...

 

[kiich]

This is amazing.

 

[cdm00]

whew lad this looks AWESOME

 

[texhnolyze]

Can it fix the pixelated characters textures in Fire Emblem games?

 

[Deleted member 48813]

Finally! This makes me super excited for a potential HD texture pack for OoT 3D by Nerrel after he's done doing Majora's Mask. I'm sure it'd look amazing.

 

[neon_dream]

If I get nothing but the 3 zeldas, I'll be happy.

Wonderful news.

 

[TheCongressman]

does using HD textures on things like this normally have a big performance impact or is it minimal?

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iirc, no. Usually the hangups in this kind of emulation come from shaders, not textures.

 

[ChrisD]

now if someone modded kid icarus to not play like shit...

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Can't mod out the only control scheme that could ever work for the game.

 

[Aurica]

Can't mod out the only control scheme that could ever work for the game.

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Would keyboard+mouse not work fine?

 

[BasilZero]

This and the PS3 emulator are doing wonders.

 

[Inugami]

Did they ever implement the JIT recompiler? Last time I used it, the emulator was still quite slow even on my fairly high end rig of the time.

 

[ChrisD]

Would keyboard+mouse not work fine?

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I figured that's already how it'd have to run on an emulator. That would work totally fine, though it may, ironically, be less comfortable than playing with a stylus since you're moving your wrist a lot more. And you'd have to lift the mouse a lot.

Really though I was just replying to what I quoted because I'm assuming they want dual sticks and that will never work with Uprising's balance. It was made with the control layout in mind, down to the enemy and level design.

 

[Doskoi Panda]

Would keyboard+mouse not work fine?

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Steam Controller would be LIT

 

[Nerrel]

I have not found a good ESRGAN dataset for MM3D textures, probably gonna be a multiple dataset thing. Upscaling Project Mirai DX textures with the higher resolution looks really quite good.

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I tried Gigapixel and also couldn't get any good results on the 3D Zeldas. I've been drawing a pack for MM on the 64 and I'm going to attempt to convert it to MM3D, since a lot of the textures seem to actually work there as is, so there'll be that at least.

Finally! This makes me super excited for a potential HD texture pack for OoT 3D by Nerrel after he's done doing Majora's Mask. I'm sure it'd look amazing.

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If the mappings are practical to deal with, I'll do it. The 3D games densely pack the textures in a way that can be really hard to sort out:

It's mainly for the character textures, most of the big environmental textures are basically the same as the 64 textures.



In fact, MM3D reuses some of the 64 textures with little to no alteration:

 

[Aleh]

Pokémon USUM (using Waifu2x). The biggest improvement is in the cloud textures:

Original:

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FINALLY
Those damn clouds can no longer haunt my dreams

 

[Yiazmat]

Bravely Default (ESRGAN with Manga109Attempt model)

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/JB21CNNU#

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ESRGAN above, Original below:

 

[Jessie]

Perfection. The upres works really well here because the brush stroke look matches the art style.

 

[Yiazmat]

Bravely Default

More comparisons in the link:

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/JJCMMNNU