Texture Issues in Zelda Four Swords

[Mars]

I was playing around trying to make a texture pack work on Zelda Four Swords and this grunge overlay texture renders on top of the water when loading the custom textures, I tried it with the original dumped texture and it still renders on top of the river, on top of the big green gem blocking it from view and on top of the cloud reflections.

Edit: This was actually an issue with some textures but the other issue remains.

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And a second issue is how the game renders sprites, pixel ratio seems to fluctuate in some parts (you can see it happen in a grid) and in a lot of cases sprites are cut off around the borders.
I was just wondering if this is something that can be fixed via emulator, maybe I have a wrong setting somewhere, but I think this happened on the original game as well.

If you want to know any specifics just ask, thanks for any help

Fun Fact: Custom textures are around 10mb in size, load as 2gb lol.

[Shonumi]

And a second issue is how the game renders sprites, pixel ratio seems to fluctuate in some parts (you can see it happen in a grid) and in a lot of cases sprites are cut off around the borders.

Sounds like the game engine might be using slivers of textures? Can you post a screenshot? It might be that LoZ:FSA uses separate, super-thin textures for the missing parts of sprites whenever one moves into a certain position on the game's grid system. Just a wild guess.

[Mars]

Sounds like the game engine might be using slivers of textures? Can you post a screenshot? It might be that LoZ:FSA uses separate, super-thin textures for the missing parts of sprites whenever one moves into a certain position on the game's grid system. Just a wild guess.

The game uses a lot of sprites but not the way you say, it uses sprite sheets and it dumps thousands of different colored of each one.
I noticed the grid is just an effect because of the cut-off sprites at the border, I made a gif to illustrate:



The cut-off is more noticeable with the upscaled 1:1 textures since it doesn't look as blurry.
But as you can see it affects all sprites in the game, even connected ones.

I think it's an engine limitation, sadly, I was just wondering if it could be fixed.