Completed - HD Background Mod - Crossification

[Fraggoso]

I was never pleased with the poorly AI upscaler they use (or the model for the AI itself) so I upscaled them using a better interpolated model.
This Background Mod should be 100% complete without any seam issues.

Follow this link and let me know if anything is broken.

https://www.nexusmods.com/chronocrosstheradicaldreamersedition/mods/61/

[Fraggoso]

Because you said you can’t see much of a difference. I mean I respect your opinion but it’s clear as day that there’s a huge improvement. If you don’t like the upscale is another story of course.

There’s no original background to judge the upscale as with FFIX lost art but still it’s clear as day. But again everyone can download / use it or not. I’ll not not be the judge.

[Towik]

So we have to create folders and unzip the archive into a folder... if so, wow 4.4GB :eyes:

On another note, I doubt they will ever fix the crashes and freezes that I'm having, still surprisingly i had none in the last 2.5h of playing. now if classic mode worked, pressing ESC crashes the whole emulation

[MangorushZ]

Publicado originalmente por Fraggoso:

Because you said you can’t see much of a difference. I mean I respect your opinion but it’s clear as day that there’s a huge improvement. If you don’t like the upscale is another story of course.

There’s no original background to judge the upscale as with FFIX lost art but still it’s clear as day. But again everyone can download / use it or not. I’ll not not be the judge.

I would probably think about using the block feature if you're considering it, some trolls aren't here to be reasoned with or to listen. Don't let him/her derail your thread which is what it looks like this troll is intentionally doing.

[Fraggoso]

Publicado originalmente por Towik:

So we have to create folders and unzip the archive into a folder... if so, wow 4.4GB :eyes:

On another note, I doubt they will ever fix the crashes and freezes that I'm having, still surprisingly i had none in the last 2.5h of playing. now if classic mode worked, pressing ESC crashes the whole emulation

Everything that you need to know is written on the nexus page. But again, this is the old mod. The new mod is roughly 80% complete and not downloadable as of yet.

[birolay]

Publicado originalmente por Fraggoso:

Because you said you can’t see much of a difference. I mean I respect your opinion but it’s clear as day that there’s a huge improvement. If you don’t like the upscale is another story of course.

There’s no original background to judge the upscale as with FFIX lost art but still it’s clear as day. But again everyone can download / use it or not. I’ll not not be the judge.

he said himself he was born with broken eyes, don't mind him, bud
your work is fantastic and we're eagerly waiting for V2.0

[Fraggoso]

The mod is done roughly 95% btw. :)
There are still some nasty rooms that needs tweaks but the release isn’t too far away. :)

[Blackened Halo]

Publicado originalmente por Fraggoso:

Here are the comparisons so far:

https://imgsli.com/Mjc0MTI5
https://imgsli.com/Mjc0MTMy
https://imgsli.com/Mjc0MTM0
https://imgsli.com/MjUxNjIx
https://imgsli.com/MjUwMTgy
https://imgsli.com/MjQ1NTMy
https://imgsli.com/MjQ1NTM2
https://imgsli.com/MjQwNzA4

my god!! this should be officialy acknowledged by Square and released as an update!!

[MangorushZ]

Looking forward to it, keep up the good work!

[birolay]

Publicado originalmente por Blackened Halo:

Publicado originalmente por Fraggoso:

Here are the comparisons so far:

https://imgsli.com/Mjc0MTI5
https://imgsli.com/Mjc0MTMy
https://imgsli.com/Mjc0MTM0
https://imgsli.com/MjUxNjIx
https://imgsli.com/MjUwMTgy
https://imgsli.com/MjQ1NTMy
https://imgsli.com/MjQ1NTM2
https://imgsli.com/MjQwNzA4

my god!! this should be officialy acknowledged by Square and released as an update!!

I've been genuinely thinking about this.
I'm not sure about the legal hoops they would have to jump, but square should 100% acknowledge this. Ideally financially compensating him, but even if gratis.

It's legitimately a fantastic work! Giving new life to an all time classic!

[Blackened Halo]

Publicado originalmente por Fraggoso:

The mod is done roughly 95% btw. :)
There are still some nasty rooms that needs tweaks but the release isn’t too far away. :)

How did you do that? Simply the best enhanced prerendered backgrounds. I wonder what miracles you would do with Final Fantaay 8 or 9

[KABRUTUS]

Sup, first I would like to thank you for your amazing work with this MOD, really appreciated.

Secondly, I'd like to make a question: I am struggling with the installation, maybe I'm just stupid but the hd.dat is not a folder, and on nexusmods it says that I should go to /data/hd.dat/map/mapbin/, do I need to create these folders myself?

Like create a folder named hd.dat, then another one named map and finally one named mapbin to put the mod files inside?

Thanks in advance.

[Fraggoso]

As mentioned in the downloads section "Use 7-Zip or another unarchiving program and navigate to your Steam Game Installation steamapps\common\CHRONO CROSS THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION/data/hd.dat/map/mapbin/"

The .dat files are just compressed 7zip files. :)

[Blackened Halo]

Publicado originalmente por Fraggoso:

As mentioned in the downloads section "Use 7-Zip or another unarchiving program and navigate to your Steam Game Installation steamapps\common\CHRONO CROSS THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION/data/hd.dat/map/mapbin/"

The .dat files are just compressed 7zip files. :)

how did you make such high quality backgrounds?

[Fraggoso]

Publicado originalmente por Blackened Halo:

Publicado originalmente por Fraggoso:

As mentioned in the downloads section "Use 7-Zip or another unarchiving program and navigate to your Steam Game Installation steamapps\common\CHRONO CROSS THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION/data/hd.dat/map/mapbin/"

The .dat files are just compressed 7zip files. :)

how did you make such high quality backgrounds?

I use a bunch of different Tools, like Leonardo.AI, Comfy UI, ESRGAN etc... to create the last image.
Sometimes it takes 5 minutes and sometimes it takes several days to "forge" the final Image.

[Blackened Halo]

Publicado originalmente por Fraggoso:

Publicado originalmente por Blackened Halo:

how did you make such high quality backgrounds?

I use a bunch of different Tools, like Leonardo.AI, Comfy UI, ESRGAN etc... to create the last image.
Sometimes it takes 5 minutes and sometimes it takes several days to "forge" the final Image.

but your work is so good that is almost look like you literally modeled everything from the scratch :O :O

oh my, if you only could make some backgrounds for FF8 and 9 to see how the games would looked like you decided to start to remake their backgrounds