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

**frozenwings** · 04-30-2014, 11:31 AM **#971**

Yeah, I think a telethia. I know different bosses have different icons. I REALLY wish I would have saved my old dump folder now. Maybe after my next playthrough (going to be a NG+) I'll do another fresh run and won't cheat this time like I did with this one. I'm pretty much just blowing through the regular game since I'm using a double XP cheat.

**Bighead** · (This post was last modified: 04-30-2014, 11:35 AM by Bighead.)

Nope that's the only other one I have. Also your dinosaur Echoes in case you missed my edit: http://i.imgur.com/exmUm85.png

I guess I'm just too pro to get near death. Smile

(The more likely case, I deleted them all like an idiot.)

Edit: Haha ironically I've been playing at only 25% experience gain. I think 30% would probably be the best if you are one to nail every quest along the way and kill every monster. I did fall behind a few times and had to grind.

... I wonder how many variations of that icon there are. If there's one for each monster "type" than that would be insane.

**frozenwings** · (This post was last modified: 04-30-2014, 11:41 AM by frozenwings.)

Yeah I had a few (around 10 I think), but I don't remember how many exactly

And, yeah, I've done the total playthrough once already and it took FOREVER (including all special named boss monsters). I'm not doing another long playthrough until I feel like I have as many of the missing textures I can get. I just wanted a quick clear this run so I could get to new areas to dump as fast as possible. The New Game + should be clean up. And then a third playthrough that will be fresh with hopefully not an untexured repeating ID remaining. :p

Edit: Monster icon looks really good btw, Echoes.

**Bighead** · 04-30-2014, 11:55 AM **#974**

(04-30-2014, 11:40 AM)frozenwings Wrote: And then a third playthrough that will be fresh with hopefully not an untexured repeating ID remaining. :p

Edit: Monster icon looks really good btw, Echoes.

When I decided to play this game again, that's what I was hoping for this time around. Last time was in 2011 when it first came out, I actually imported it and played it on my wii. It was the only time I ever wrote about a single game on my website's news after 7 years of it being up at that point. Brief, but it deserved it (I'll spoiler what I said about it hehe). I knew there was a texture pack for Dolphin for awhile now but held off for a long time playing hoping it would be finished by this point. I was in for a surprise, it was far from finished, I wasn't happy, now I'm part of helping to finish it whether I like it or not Tongue

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And I second that edit.

Xenopraise: (Show Spoiler)

So yeah.. this game has some magic to it. Don't know exactly what kind of magic, but it's a special kind. I almost can't believe I waited THIS long to play it again.

**frozenwings** · (This post was last modified: 04-30-2014, 12:05 PM by frozenwings.)

Yeah, it's easily one of the best games I've ever played. And I've played just about every non-obscure JRPG out there. Not even exaggerating. I'm a JRPG/RPG nut/guru/nerd/etc, I even have a JRPG tier list, lol. Although most non Japanese RPGs get released on PC these days, so I usually stick to PCs. The only reason I even buy consoles is for JRPGs; main reason why I haven't bought a next gen console yet. I own about 40 games for ps3, and I think 35 or so of them are JRPGs. Because of convenience (and upscaling/better rendering), I don't even use any of my consoles anymore besides my PS3. Everything else you can emulate these days.

But after Xenoblade, the WiiU is going to be an instant buy for me when "X" is released. (Xenoblade was actually why I bought a Wii as well, also imported my Xenoblade.) I was also disappointed when I found out about this texture pack. Well, at first I was excited, but then I got in game and realized that NONE of the menus were retextured ever. LOL. So... I had to do something about that. But, I've already found more than twice the amount as last time. And I just found nearly 8 or 9 full sets (including menu palette textures) in between Alcamoth and the Prison Island events. So, it doesn't look like it's going to slow down anytime soon.

**Bighead** · 04-30-2014, 12:19 PM **#976**

They are some of the best games, dunno why I haven't played more... My list is short, but it goes something like: (SNES)- Chrono Trigger (PS1) - FFVII, Lunar 1/2, Suikoden 1 (PS2) - FFX, KH1/2, Ar Tonelico 1, Dark Cloud 2, .hack Infection (Wii) - Arc Rise Fantasia, and the obvious one. There's probably a few others that I can't think of atm but all these games were memorable in some way.

And to post something that's on topic so I don't feel like I'm spamming, almost finished with Mechonis Core so I can start mapping it out.

Echoes · 04-30-2014, 12:23 PM **#977**

Mmm. I think i should get rid of the dark outline. I'll hopefully be able to make it fit better over time.

I'm on the same boat as you guys. I even bought the US version when it came out too! But since all my saves are PAL, that's the one I transferred to Dolphin. I enjoyed the game from beginning to end, definitely among the best games of the past generation! I haven't re-played it yet though lol

Speaking of which, did you guys ever explore the Bionis' Left shoulder? Probably the biggest area in the game, and it was cut... Sad

**Bighead** · 04-30-2014, 12:36 PM **#978**

(04-30-2014, 12:23 PM)Echoes Wrote: Mmm. I think i should get rid of the dark outline. I'll hopefully be able to make it fit better over time.

I'm on the same boat as you guys. I even bought the US version when it came out too! But since all my saves are PAL, that's the one I transferred to Dolphin. I enjoyed the game from beginning to end, definitely among the best games of the past generation! I haven't re-played it yet though lol

Speaking of which, did you guys ever explore the Bionis' Left shoulder? Probably the biggest area in the game, and it was cut...

Yeah very disappointing, it's so awesome looking too. It needed some polish but it was basically done. I ran around it for a good 2 hours before I got bored of it. The more I explored the sadder I became because there was nothing there for me to kill. And I started having these thoughts of what if there was some way to edit the game and make this place a reality? But I doubt it's possible, and it would require tremendous effort. But if anyone finds a way, count me in.

Echoes · 04-30-2014, 01:10 PM **#979**

Oh, if only there was a way. It seems like that area would have been the connector between Makna and Eryth. And from a lore perspective, it seems to have been the place where the homs originally came from. Colony 1, maybe? It would have easily added about 20 hours of content, or more, with its affinity map and quests. Now I'm getting sad, hahaha!

**frozenwings** · (This post was last modified: 04-30-2014, 04:54 PM by frozenwings.)

I've never even explored there, maybe I will someday. But I'm turning of dumping first, LOL.

I have high hopes for X. Looks so amazing so far from the demo vids.

Anyway, do you guys think this pose is okay? I'm not close to done yet, have a lot to clean up around the edges. Just want to make sure this looks okay compared to the old one.

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Okay, so apparently the gem man load screen doesn't happen sometimes? I can't get his picture to come up at all. Or even the little circle thing. At first I thought it was my texture but I removed it and restarted the emulator and can't get it to go to the loading screen at all.

Edit: Okay I got him now. Sometimes it just skips the loading screen, don't know why.

Edit:

Best I can get it. I tried with different effects, and once again the clean one looks like best. Probably can get cleaned more, but yeah. Let me know what you guys think.

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Final edit of the night:
Rar-ed up all of my UI cleanup stuff I've been working on. I think I've put up screenshots of all of it so far, so you should know what you're getting into.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/pq5bhv610r5a39h/UI_Cleanup.rar

Here's the screenshot of that clean black bar:

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