Hi everyone. While updating a few textures with some minor fixes I also decided to update the health warning messages and the intro Nintendo/Retro Studios/Dolby Surround logos seen at the beginning of standalone Prime 1 and 2. As I noticed that the health warning in the PAL version of Prime 2 has a website link to the European Nintendo customer service in the texture I decided to check out the US versions of both games as well.
This led me to the discovery that both US versions of Prime 1 and 2 on the GameCube weren't using any of the HD texts of this texture pack as they are using completely different textures. In Prime 1 they were missing all the European special characters like ä, í, ú etc. while Prime 2 actually uses the text layout of PAL Prime 1. This means that both US and PAL Prime Trilogy versions are based on the PAL versions of standalone Prime 1, 2 and 3, as those all worked out of the box when I tested them after only doing the texts dumped from the Trilogy.
As I already did US Prime 3 earlier this year I only need to do Prime 1 and 2. I have already finished Metroid Prime 1 and have started work on Prime 2. However, as Bighead's texture tool doesn't work for US Prime 2's textures I am currently going through almost 300 text textures by hand, and this only includes all the texts encountered up until the first save station. EDIT: Luckily despite the US textures being slightly different Bighead's script does actually work for them as well, yay!
It is tedious work but if everything goes well I should have a new version of the pack ready by the weekend.
This led me to the discovery that both US versions of Prime 1 and 2 on the GameCube weren't using any of the HD texts of this texture pack as they are using completely different textures. In Prime 1 they were missing all the European special characters like ä, í, ú etc. while Prime 2 actually uses the text layout of PAL Prime 1. This means that both US and PAL Prime Trilogy versions are based on the PAL versions of standalone Prime 1, 2 and 3, as those all worked out of the box when I tested them after only doing the texts dumped from the Trilogy.
As I already did US Prime 3 earlier this year I only need to do Prime 1 and 2. I have already finished Metroid Prime 1 and have started work on Prime 2. However, as Bighead's texture tool doesn't work for US Prime 2's textures I am currently going through almost 300 text textures by hand, and this only includes all the texts encountered up until the first save station. EDIT: Luckily despite the US textures being slightly different Bighead's script does actually work for them as well, yay!
It is tedious work but if everything goes well I should have a new version of the pack ready by the weekend.
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