[HD Texture Project] Xenoblade Chronicles (v5.0U - May 17, 2014)

[Bighead]

Looks perfect for our needs, I like it. I like how it even shows a picture. I got it downloaded and I'll try it out later, ATM I'm still finishing up Colony 6... sucks doing something you already did. And lol Bighead is almost like my real name, people call me it even beyond the internet world. Half of the people I know don't even know my real name haha, and I kinda like it that way. Ironically my head isn't even "big". Long story short there was a few weeks in high school I had a lot of poofy hair, that was a mistake. Who would have thought it would create a life lasting nickname. Hated it for a long time, but I got used to it I guess, enough to even refer to myself as it.

[frozenwings]

Yeah, I figured it looked pretty good. The picture is a super convenient bonus.

I never thought I'd be dumping the entire game AGAIN, lol. So I can relate to doing something over again :p

Haha. Mine is some pretentious name I came up with 15ish years ago (when I was 14) and it's just something I've stuck with since it's easy to remember and used in so many forums that are somewhat related. No cool stories for mine, and I refuse to have a pretentious name like frozenwings as my actual User name. Lol. Oh well, youth.

[Bighead]

Hehe my alter ego is StRoNgFoE which I use in online games, I came up with that about the same age in StarCraft looong ago (maybe 13 I think?). Dunno why I never changed it, part of the reason is probably because some of my work in those games is well known. Almost anyone who has played StarCraft 1 knows the Hydra RaNcHeRz custom game. Man.. I feel old now.

Anyway yeah that's gotta be much more monotonous than this. I'm surprised you have gone to extent that you have, but in the end it will definitely pay off. Everyone's combined efforts as of late have srsly taken this texture pack to a whole new level, and I'm sure people will enjoy it for a long time to come. v4.5U has had just over 2200 downloads since march 13th, that's short of only 2 months! And that's only for the Mediafire downloads, Mega doesn't show download counts unfortunately. It amazes me honestly, never thought the game was still that popular, and this is only people playing it on Dolphin AND know to search for a texture pack.

[frozenwings]

I've promoted Dolphin on a few different forums to play the game even before I knew about the pack, and promoted the pack even before I started help working on it. Pretty much any time I saw a complaint thread somewhere about the poor resolution on the Wii, etc. I'm like PC -> Dolphin, cranked internal res and AA/AF, HD pack from the dolphin forums.

Not to say I'm a big reason or anything, but I'm sure other people have done the same. So, by word of mouth, news travels fast. And this game was an instant classic the second it came out, it's too bad so many miss out on it because it's on a console usually labeled "for kids" or for "family" games, etc.

I personally haven't touched my Wii in a couple years now. (LOL?)

[Bighead]

Yeah it is a shame that some people missed out on it, not to mention it's very limited release in the US which skyrocketed its price. Wii really doesn't have too many appealing games. SMG 1/2 were good, Smash Bros Brawl was fun for awhile, Zelda Skyward sword was ok, didn't care for twilight princess, (keep in mind, this is hard for me to say about these games because I'm a HUGE zelda fan since NES), I loved No More Heroes 1 and 2, and I have yet to play The Last Story. Outside of that very small list, I don't know of any other good Wii games. I do have the Pikmin Wii versions too. I like those games but haven't played em that much (yet..).

[frozenwings]

I'm also not a fan of twilight princess, and also thought skyward sword was just okay. I really wish I had a DS to play link between worlds, though. The NES, SNES, and N64 zeldas are all amazing games.

Anyway, I only have a few Wii games and Xenoblade is one of the only games that's not a "Nintendo" regular like mario or zelda. I also have Last Story, and it's okay. Worth a play, but I don't think it's nearly as epic as Xenoblade.

Anyway, just finished Bionis' Interior. Hopefully I snagged most of the dumps. Going to hit Tephra and get all I can before sleep. I'm hoping to have the game beat before I go to bed Sunday night and start my quick run Monday.

[Bighead]

The GBC Zeldas are awesome too and definitely worth a play. Links Awakening (DX) for GB/GBC is my 2nd favorite next to SNES Link to the Past. Unfortunately they fixed the screen warp in the DX version (I made a fun video of it here about a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQ63pkUF6U&list=PLJWbCkkL2kFFXy5h9Ykt7Qcv8BnS6LPH_ ). Oracle of Ages and Seasons are both awesome as well, I think they were made by Capcom but reused the same sprites/concepts from Links Awakening. Minish Cap for GBA also keeps that lovable Zelda formula and is enjoyable all the way through. Ok, I'm definitely getting way off topic now with my Zelda lust, so I'm gonna shut up.

So... something related, just finished these Colony 6 maps so I'm starting Inner Bionis real soon.

[Echoes]

It's funny that some of the most memorable Wii moments for me were using it as an emulator with a CRT TV. I replayed Chrono Trigger and some other classics. It was a blast.

Last time I used my Wii was to play Skyward Sword, I think.

Going back on-topic, here's another armor. This one was simple enough, since I used the other light armor icon (hey, so did Monolith!) as a base.

I'm noticing that the game makes these textures look much better than they actually are. No complaints about that here though

[Bighead]

I dunno what you're going on about, I think it looks epic even in that picture. Good stuff.

[Echoes]

LOL I guess I just can't help but see a bunch of things that could have been corrected when looking at the stuff I made. There's something about the outlines that are odd to me. It also looks good in the thumbnail, hahaha. That reminds me, these armor icons are 5X the original size. The original is just too small, in my opinion. Re-sizing this ones to 136X136 should be alright, in case you guys want to re-size them before release.