ROM Hack RELEASE Final Fantasy IX - Crunched Moguri Mod Field Backgrounds

[masagrator]

Status: BETA
Because not whole game was tested.

Tools used:

Spoiler: List

- Hades Workshop: Extracting and importing textures
- Imagemagick: sorting tiles and editing/converting textures
- dd: cutting headers from textures
- UnityEx: Unpacking from Unity archives textures prepared by Hades Workshop
- UBPU: Compressing UnityFS archives
- PowerShell: Renaming 800,000 tiles in 15 minutes

It's not a full experience bringed by original Moguri Mod.

Why?
- High resolution backgrounds were downscaled 4x to match Switch textures
- There is no support for Memoria enhancements like shaders.
- Author of original mod was not involved in making this port (so don't send him messages that something is not working from this topic).

Here you will find only field background textures.
They are taking whole 9 bin files, so if more mods will come to FF IX for Switch, they will be compatible with this mod if they will not touch field backgrounds (s1data11.bin - s1data19.bin).
It's compatible with all CFWs.

Issues:

Spoiler: Knowing them your eyes can attempt to catch them unwillingly, so if you are fine with ruining beginning of your game - go on :D

Layers are not ideally aligned. PC shows them with thinner grey lines around layers (and should not at all). I don't know what is causing this issue.
On Switch small screen they are barely visible.

Screenshots:


Author of original mod: @Ze_PilOt
Link to original mod: https://sites.google.com/view/moguri-mod/


Link to Crunched Moguri Mod Field Backgrounds:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1621TuVFvkgsU71YYQpfeDJVS5xqGqdwz

 

[hominid9]

Thanks a lot.

 

[ashtonmachchine]

Thank you so much for this mod! Looks amazing on the switches little screen despite the resolution downscale!
Is there any way yet of making the game run in fullscreen instead of the crappy 4:20 resolution?

 

[Ninn]

Looks awesome, thanks.

 

[masagrator]

Thank you so much for this mod! Looks amazing on the switches little screen despite the resolution downscale!
Is there any way yet of making the game run in fullscreen instead of the crappy 4:20 resolution?

Real 16:9 - not possible
Stretched 16:9 - without external plugin looks not possible

 

[survive9]

i wont use this right away cause of possible bugs but ill definitely keep an eye on it!

 

[Fewtch22]

i wont use this right away cause of possible bugs but ill definitely keep an eye on it!

.... What??

 

[Nickky9x]

Omg, I was tried to port Moguri mod but nothing come to and end. All i could do is extract the texturea but it was so difference to the PC textures. So I gave up on it for a long long time and waiting for a savior like u .
Thanks so much for the great works :x

 

[Nickky9x]

I have tried the mod. But somehow I couldn't work on my SX OS >"< I've tried to capture the screenshots with mod and non mod. Both were look like the same @.@

 

[masagrator]

I have tried the mod. But somehow I couldn't work on my SX OS >"< I've tried to capture the screenshots with mod and non mod. Both were look like the same @.@

1. Did you restarted console?
2. Give me exact localization for one of .bin files in your sdcard.

 

[Nickky9x]

It's SXOS\titles\01007EF00B094000\romfs\Data\StreamingAssets
My Skyrim mods still work flawless when I put it on SXOS\titles\....
And I already checked my FF9 version title key, it's the same as ur mod.
Edit: After restart my switch, it worked, thank you so much

 

[Haevens]

Thanks ! I took a screen to show the difference.

 

[Gans_41]

Sick! next two coffees on me!

 

[tatundria]

Layers are not ideally aligned. PC shows them with thinner grey lines around layers (and should not at all). I don't know what is causing this issue.
On Switch small screen they are barely visible.

What does it mean? any example?

 

[masagrator]

What does it mean? any example?

Screenshots. If you don't see them, then better for you.

 

[ryan90]

This is a very cool mod but there are is noticeable compression artefacts and black pixelated lines around objects, don't know if this is part of the up-scaling process but could it be improved?

Either way still glad you made this as they're much better than the original backgrounds

 

[masagrator]

They are not compression artifacts. They are ESRGAN artifacts. You can see them even in original mod with disabled ReShade.
Lines are because of downscaling. I used bicubic scaler, but it looks like it's not perfect. Maybe bilinear will be better...

 

[ryan90]

They are not compression artifacts. They are ESRGAN artifacts. You can see them even in original mod with disabled ReShade.
Lines are because of downscaling. I used bicubic scaler, but it looks like it's not perfect. Maybe bilinear will be better...

Yes I see what you mean after looking at the original. Just out of interest would it be possible to use the same method on the upscaled backgrounds for FFVII?

 

[masagrator]

Yes I see what you mean after looking at the original. Just out of interest would it be possible to use the same method on the upscaled backgrounds for FFVII?

It's called remako mod and modders can't use anything as backgrounds because editing them on Switch version make them broken. I don't know the details

And about the same method - no. FF VII is different than IX. VII uses prioprietary format for Textures, when IX uses UnityFS archives for textures.

 

[cowkiller04]

Mate thank you for this but can you tell us how to actually install this into the switch? I download the files now what do I do? copy it to where?

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can anyone share with me how to actually install the mod? I download them files but where do I copy paste it? which folder? or do I copy the entire folder? to where? I am using Reinx CFW by the way

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can anyone share with me how to actually install the mod? I download them files but where do I copy paste it? which folder? or do I copy the entire folder? to where? I am using Reinx CFW by the way