Dreamcast Chao Garden restoration mod?

[jiveandmindcontrol]

I've been searching for a while for a mod that restores the original Dreamcast Hero and Dark gardens but I've had no luck - I always just get directed to the Chao World Extended mod pack which does not, as far as I know, restore the Dreamcast gardens, it just decorates the Gamecube ones. I was able to find a mod kit for SADX to restore it to its original beauty, but I haven't found much in the way of SA2B fixes. (I know that, for the most part, SA2's port was far more competently handled than SA1's, which may account for the lack of mods on SA2's front.) Does anyone have any recommendations?

[jiveandmindcontrol]

Or, for that matter, any mods that fix the missing / broken textures in this port would be appreciated. I don't like blindly feeling around for the Mystic Melody portals.

[Chocice75]

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

I think there is Chao World Extended, but I don't care for the Chao system in either Battle nor the Dreamcast version that I play on Null DC so I don't actually know. What I'd like to see is a mod that restores the Dreamcast game in the PC version, like SA1 has in the Dreamcast Conversion mod. I have screenshots of SA2 Dreamcast if you want to see differences between versions. They aren't as obvious as SA1 1998's ones however.

Chao World Extended only adds Dreamcast textures, music and fruit models if you have the Dreamcast skin mod on.

[jiveandmindcontrol]

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Originally posted by ChocIce75:

Chao World Extended only adds Dreamcast textures, music and fruit models if you have the Dreamcast skin mod on.

Oh. The mod seems a bit mis-named then.

Chao World Extended adds a bunch of other fan-made content, but really all I'm looking for is the original gardens. I reached out to an SA1 modder about it, they told me that SA2's models aren't as well-understood as SA1's are yet, hence why there's a suite of Dreamcast restoration mods for SA1 but not SA2 - additionally, SA1's various ports dumbed it down far, far worse than the Battle conversion and HD rerelease. There are a few things I'd like to see added back into the basegame, like a lot of the particle effects getting cut and the original 2P costumes being available as well as the Battle ones, but mostly I just prefer the look of the more intricate Dreamcast chao gardens, pathing be damned.

[DeLaKek]

It's out!
https://github.com/Exant64/DCGarden/releases

[jiveandmindcontrol]

I just found out and I'm so pumped!! I KNEW somebody had to be working on it :D