Muramasa: The Demon Blade UHD -v1.1b for Mobile/1080p Aug 2021-

[dangerism]

After a decade of waiting for Vanillaware themselves to make a remaster, I release this pack now in an attempt to breath life back into this beautiful slash-em'up. Using ESRGAN, every texture is upscaled 4x with noise-and-dither removal so that you'll get pristine visuals. If you have a UHD monitor, now's the time to bust it out.



Download link:


v1.1b for Mobile/HD screens Mega zip
- PNG half-sized version for Android HD devices, also a lightweight version for underpowered 1080p cards.
- Drop your internal resolution to 720p if you're having performance issues on your phone (like mine).
- Don't bother if your phone screen is quite small, perceptual difference is not worth the trouble.
- Added a sharpen filter so that it it's less blurry due to the resolution loss.


v1.1b Mega shared folder | OneDrive shared folder
- Trained an upscaling model specifically for the main character sprites.
- The only changed content from v1.1 is the Momohime and Kisuke folders, so only download those if you're already on v1.1
- Still keeping the unblended look as opposed to v1.0, so if you're not a fan of that don't update to v1.1

v1.1 Same download as above
- New upscaling model that has overall sharper details & contrast. Might have issues I haven't seen since I didn't 100% test this.
- Not exactly recommended for people who've already downloaded v1.0, since they are subtle upgrades.
- Remove/backup the old texture folder and replace with this one) if you're upgrading.


v1.0 Mega shared folder 
- Initial pack. Everything ESRGAN-processed.

Files must be placed in a folder named RSF in the Dolphin > Load > Textures folder.
Why shared folder? Because if I ever need to update, I can upload only the newer files. Besides, you can still download everything in zip from the respective sites.

Dolphin's default directory for Windows 10 is Appdata\Romaing\Dolphin Emulator, so the files needed to be in C:\Users\Username\Appdata\Roaming\Dolphin Emulator\Load\Textures\RSF

How to download:
Mega

• Click on Download as ZIP and get the entire 4gb (!) texture pack, or
  
• Use the Mega Desktop App and let it autodownload to the folder mentioned above, or
  
• Click on a folder, then Download as ZIP to break up your downloads into manageable size.
  

OneDrive

• Click on Download button in the bar to download everything in a zip. Requires a Microsoft account. Or,
  
• Right click on each folder and click Download. Does not require login.
  

Requirements / Compatibility:

• Latest Dolphin version that supports BC7 textures.
  
• Graphics card with plenty of VRAM (4gb and above). Use Pre-fetch Textures if you have more.
  
• Developed with RSFE7U version, but most likely compatible with RSFP99
  
• Usage with other Muramasa texture packs not recommended.
  

Known Issues:
There are some places where texture seams are apparent. This is caused by the double whammy of wonky mesh coordinates in the original game, as well as the way the game stores sprite textures in a broken-up state. I can try to fix minor masking issues, but doing a 'proper' upscale of objects reassembled together is out of the question for me, thanks.

Screenshot sliders:
v1.1
Compare vegetation and rocks.
Details are more obvious


v1.0
Hut
Cutscene
Cutscene II 

ESRGAN Details:
The model used for upscaling is an interpolation of FArtDIV3 and Fatality Mk II. Then it was sharpened and cleaned-up using an interpolation of Fatality Deblur and DeJPEG Plus Ultra. All of these models can be obtained from the GameUpscale wiki.

Credits:
The usual gang at the GameUpscale discord channel, your help and feedback very much appreciated. Big thanks to kingdomakrillic for introducing ESRGAN to the modding masses.

[iwubcode]

Despite thinking the story was a mess, this was always such a pretty game with excellent combat. And your texture pack make this GORGEOUS. Great job.

Wish my AMD card played nice with ESRGAN...

Files must be placed in a folder named RSF in the Dolphin > Load > Textures folder.

Actually, with the latest Dolphin, you can place it in any folder name, provided you have a <gameid>.txt file inside the texture pack folder. Ex: RSF.txt

[e2zippo]

Looks amazing, well done!

[dangerism]

Thanks mods for moving the thread.

Despite thinking the story was a mess, this was always such a pretty game with excellent combat.

Very much agreed. Only Momohime's arc was genuinely interesting, and most of the meat of that was at the very end. Kisuke's story seemed more like an afterthought.

Wish my AMD card played nice with ESRGAN...

Someone is porting ESRGAN from CUDA to ncnn. It's reported to have good speed. Not publicly released yet.

Actually, with the latest Dolphin, you can place it in any folder name, provided you have a <gameid>.txt file inside the texture pack folder.  Ex:  RSF.txt

Did not know this. Thanks.

[Cikay]

I registered just to say THANK YOU for your hard work. I've been dreaming of this for years. I tried the mod and it's stunning, it almost looks like a "true" remaster made by Vanillaware. I can't wait to play the rest of the game !

[e2zippo]

Looks amazing! Mega is usually fast to download from but now I'm getting 2-300kb/s, and seems like I capped out at 3,97GB, said my quota was done for the day?

[60fps Hack]

Fantastic work. Great video as well.

[smallpied]

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[smallpied]

Sorry for the bother but how do you get access to the load folder? Mine doesn't appear to have one

[e2zippo]

Sorry for the bother but how do you get access to the load folder? Mine doesn't appear to have one

It doesn't need to be a load folder, it only need a .txt file called RSF.txt in the root folder or any sub folder.