Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life --- HD Texture Pack

[torrax]

Hey Everyone!

After continuously going through the Dolphin forums to get new updated textures for all my old favorites, I felt it was time to try to give a little something back! Harvest Moon was always one of my favorite games growing up as a kid and I was surprised to see no one had taken the chance to do a HD pack for it yet! I'm not too artistic however this is a reasonably small game so I figured I would give it a shot! So far the pack is mostly just upscaled textures x4 via Gigapixel however I went through them all one by one to touch them up and completely redid the textures in a few spots. This in turn fixes up a lot of the graphical glitches in menus due to improper scaling. I haven't gotten the chance to play through the game myself so a lot of the items have not been upscaled yet however I plan on doing them as soon as I get to play the game through. I did use multiple peoples save profiles so most end game textures should still be upscaled. The place you will see the most change is in peoples faces, building interiors, and HUD/Menu layout (Also a few new item & expression textures). I have also played around a bit with changing up the map to make it look like it was a game made today with some very promising results I may release in the future! Unfortunately I'm not great at blending so if there is anyone who is artistic and good with photoshop your assistance would be greatly apricated!

**This is for A Wonderful Life. Most textures may work for Another Wonderful Life but you may have to remove a few textures. If someone is interested in the Another Wonderful Life Textures let me know!**

Current Gameplay:
Current Texture Pack Screenshots

Planned Future Updates:
Improved Dirt Screenshots
Map Overhall Screenshots

Known Issues
1. TV Channel Boxing
2. Lines in Order Menu

If there is enough demand,
Planned Future Updates:
1. Item & Plant Upscaling
2. Improved Dirt
3. Complete Map Overhall
4. Overall Touchups

To download the current version of this Texture Pack:

DOWNLOAD CURRENT VERSION

Place this pack under Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Load/Textures
** Make sure you have load HD Textures turned on in your settings**

Thanks to a thread by some other forum members I was able to use AR codes to spawn a bunch of the items items I was unable to access yet. If anyone is looking to use AR codes in their game, there is a great guide on them here:
Harvest Moon AR Codes

UPDATES
-------------------------
02/01/2021
- All food and fish has been upscaled and added
- TV Textures have been fixed
- Menu Items have been fixed
- NEW HD Seed Packs

Let me know if people are interested in this and if anyone would like to assist I'll try to do the few updates I mentioned!

Enjoy!
Torrax

[torraxisawesome]

Hello Torrax!

I made an account here just to thank you very much for your work on this texture pack. AWL is a very meaningful title to me, as I have very fond memories of the game from my childhood. I don't play video games anymore, and I haven't played for many years now, but I was setting up Dolphin for my three year old son so that he might start playing some of my childhood games if he wants to. I thought I'd look online for a texture pack since I coincidentally saw the feature in Dolphin while adjusting some graphical settings. I was about to give up before I ran across your post, actually. And boy was I glad I did, this is really, really awesome! I really hope you continue to work on this texture pack, it breaths new life into the game. I was so excited that I even dragged my wife over to show her how cool your work was. You really made my day, Torrax. Keep up the great work!

Regards,
Kev

[Kamiko]

Just found this today after deciding to play the game again.
Similar to the comment above I also just made a account here to thank you! Honestly didn't expect to find a HD texture pack but I was pleasantly surprised.
It does seem like I cant run it on a 1050ti though, not sure if the textures are too high or something but it seems to run at a low fps on the main menu, comparatively 3x (1080p) in dolphin settings seems to have no issues when the packs disabled.
Would love to see lower res versions of the pack just for lower end systems down the line just to improve fps
Either way great pack!

[torrax]

Hey folks,

Happy to hear this pack is getting some use out of it! Sorry to hear about the poor FPS with this pack, I've heard before that converting to a DDS pack can decrease loading time and stuttering quite a bit as it reduces the image size. Unfortunately I don't have access to edit my first post however I have updated the link with some new downloads.

I also added a couple of the addons I was working on. In order to add these to the MAIN pack, simply extract the folder overtop of the other GYW folder and it should load the additional textures.

Keep in mind if you get confused with all the new folders now, you only need one pack or the other. I recommend the DDS packs as they do load faster however I made the PNG pack available incase anyone wants them. You only need to download the MAIN pack however I have added ADDONS as well if you would like to try some of the additions I will be adding before they are completed.

Unfortunately I am rather busy with other projects right now so I wont be able to make any major updates until around May. But let me know if anyone has any issues with the pack and I'll try to deal with any quick fixes in the mean time.

Torrax

[torraxisawesome]

(02-08-2021, 11:00 AM)torrax Wrote: Hey folks,

Happy to hear this pack is getting some use out of it! Sorry to hear about the poor FPS with this pack, I've heard before that converting to a DDS pack can decrease loading time and stuttering quite a bit as it reduces the image size. Unfortunately I don't have access to edit my first post however I have updated the link with some new downloads.

I also added a couple of the addons I was working on. In order to add these to the MAIN pack, simply extract the folder overtop of the other GYW folder and it should load the additional textures.

Keep in mind if you get confused with all the new folders now, you only need one pack or the other. I recommend the DDS packs as they do load faster however I made the PNG pack available incase anyone wants them. You only need to download the MAIN pack however I have added ADDONS as well if you would like to try some of the additions I will be adding before they are completed.

Unfortunately I am rather busy with other projects right now so I wont be able to make any major updates until around May. But let me know if anyone has any issues with the pack and I'll try to deal with any quick fixes in the mean time.

Torrax

Hi Torrax,

I hope you are doing well, I know the feeling of having limited time for personal projects. I'll test out your new DDS pack and let you know how it fares on my system. I didn't have any real issues with the original pack, but I do remember being unable to maintain a consistent frame rate when applying strenuous graphical settings. By the way, my son and I still really enjoy your work, what a cool project.

Regards,
Kevin

[Voskhod_002]

It works just fine, thanks! I hadn't played that game much myself back in the days, but my cousin loved playing it on her GC, so I had my wife give it a try.
She loved it, and the texture pack really makes it feel like a much, much more recent game!

[nekosuki]

I found this yesterday last night I had to make a account just to say amazing i love this
I grew up on these games and to see a HD being made is a dream I love you lol keep it up this deff top notch 5 star
using it for another wonderful life as well would be a bonus

[thelistenersfury]

(01-01-2021, 11:37 PM)torrax Wrote: Hey Everyone!

After continuously going through the Dolphin forums to get new updated textures for all my old favorites, I felt it was time to try to give a little something back! Harvest Moon was always one of my favorite games growing up as a kid and I was surprised to see no one had taken the chance to do a HD pack for it yet! I'm not too artistic however this is a reasonably small game so I figured I would give it a shot! So far the pack is mostly just upscaled textures x4 via Gigapixel however I went through them all one by one to touch them up and completely redid the textures in a few spots. This in turn fixes up a lot of the graphical glitches in menus due to improper scaling. I haven't gotten the chance to play through the game myself so a lot of the items have not been upscaled yet however I plan on doing them as soon as I get to play the game through. I did use multiple peoples save profiles so most end game textures should still be upscaled. The place you will see the most change is in peoples faces, building interiors, and HUD/Menu layout (Also a few new item & expression textures). I have also played around a bit with changing up the map to make it look like it was a game made today with some very promising results I may release in the future! Unfortunately I'm not great at blending so if there is anyone who is artistic and good with photoshop your assistance would be greatly apricated!

**This is for A Wonderful Life. Most textures may work for Another Wonderful Life but you may have to remove a few textures. If someone is interested in the Another Wonderful Life Textures let me know!**

Current Gameplay:
Current Texture Pack Screenshots

Planned Future Updates:
Improved Dirt Screenshots
Map Overhall Screenshots

Known Issues
1. TV Channel Boxing
2. Lines in Order Menu

If there is enough demand,
Planned Future Updates:
1. Item & Plant Upscaling
2. Improved Dirt
3. Complete Map Overhall
4. Overall Touchups

To download the current version of this Texture Pack:

DOWNLOAD CURRENT VERSION

Place this pack under Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Load/Textures
** Make sure you have load HD Textures turned on in your settings**

Thanks to a thread by some other forum members I was able to use AR codes to spawn a bunch of the items items I was unable to access yet. If anyone is looking to use AR codes in their game, there is a great guide on them here:
Harvest Moon AR Codes

UPDATES
-------------------------
02/01/2021
- All food and fish has been upscaled and added
- TV Textures have been fixed
- Menu Items have been fixed
- NEW HD Seed Packs

Let me know if people are interested in this and if anyone would like to assist I'll try to do the few updates I mentioned!

Enjoy!
Torrax

I absolutely am interested in anwl textures please that would be awesome! I love these games