Has anyone made an "old sprite" mod?

[what a funky]

I'm getting into AA for the first time and while I really love the game so far and art doesn't usually matter to me when I play games, the HD art sort of bugs me since I was always used to seeing the old sprites online and stuff. I researched it a little bit fully expecting a mod to have been made but... nothing.

It's honestly surprising how little people have modded the game considering it's made in Unity.

[Blue_Glasses]

how to spot a game made in unity?

[what a funky]

Originally posted by BG_Gaming:

how to spot a game made in unity?

I've just heard talk of it having been made in Unity from people who have opened up the files. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Blue_Glasses]

Originally posted by Kuma:

Originally posted by BG_Gaming:

how to spot a game made in unity?

I've just heard talk of it having been made in Unity from people who have opened up the files. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh i see.

yes i do agree, we need the ds sprites mod

[Svertok]

It will look horrible in PC hi-res

[Blue_Glasses]

Originally posted by Carnage Onred:

It will look horrible in PC hi-res

Perhaps somebody could make like, a high-res pixel art sprites mod

[Svertok]

Originally posted by BG_Gaming:

Originally posted by Carnage Onred:

It will look horrible in PC hi-res

Perhaps somebody could make like, a high-res pixel art sprites mod

Then the entire thing must be redone, not just sprites (which is, in the end, extremely time-consuming and not really worth the effort, imo)

[rbits0]

Originally posted by Carnege On red:

It will look horrible in PC hi-res

I've been playing Phoenix Wright on an emulator because I don't like the look of this new art, and it looks great.

[Svertok]

Originally posted by rbits0:

Originally posted by Carnege On red:

It will look horrible in PC hi-res

I've been playing Phoenix Wright on an emulator because I don't like the look of this new art, and it looks great.

I was talking about an actual port, not emulators, but k.

[BONKERS]

Play one of the other versions then. This version is incredibly faithful to recreating the original art style of the developers created for the GBA originals they couldn't nail it better if they wanted to. This art style was created first and then adapted to pixel art for the GBA. Not the other way around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8dvjYJDZX4 it's almost straight out of the artbook.

Play the DS versions emulated (Or buy a DS and get a flash cart or buy the actual games)or get a 3DS and play the trilogy version there. (Which is inbetween this and the original DS/GBA in terms of art. The 240p resolution helps the look as well if that's what you are looking for.)

[Feels Ranger Man]

Not what you're looking for but I use reshade with a posteurize/pixel shader on to try to simulate the DS art. It does work to an extent, the font gets a bit worse but it really improves on the new art to make it look like the classic one imo.

https://imgur.com/a/rnlXdzF

Here's an album showing the before and after. You need to view the full image to understand the effect and it improves on it imo. The new art is too smooth and looks like the colors were spray painted.

[Blue_Glasses]

Originally posted by Feels Duck Man:

Not what you're looking for but I use reshade with a posteurize/pixel shader on to try to simulate the DS art. It does work to an extent, the font gets a bit worse but it really improves on the new art to make it look like the classic one imo.

https://imgur.com/a/rnlXdzF

Here's an album showing the before and after. You need to view the full image to understand the effect and it improves on it imo. The new art is too smooth and looks like the colors were spray painted.

how do you accomplish this?

[Feels Ranger Man]

1. Install reshade from here https://reshade.me/
2. Select DirectX 11 on the installation and point it to PWAAT.exe in the phoenix wright steam installation folder.
3. Select all on the filters to install.

When the game boots you should see the reshade menu letting you know it's installed, then press 'home' on the keyboard, skip the tutorial then look for 'prod80_06_Posterize_Pixelate' and hit the checkmark. Then set the settings in the filter.

Here's my settings for it:

https://i.imgur.com/FXB4NDz.png

You can adjust the border strength setting to get the checkeboard DS look as well like this:

https://i.imgur.com/h8qf2K2.png

[nullSupernova]

Originally posted by Feels Ranger Man:

Cool stuff

I took this one step further and applied anti-aliasing in addition to pixelation since the original DS resolution makes the game look kinda blurry.

Here's the comparison between no AA and enabled AA, as well as settings and comparison between original DS resolution and x5 native DS resolution. [imgur.com]

Edit 1: Added DLSS view mode to the comparison, since that looks just as blurred as the original DS resolution.

Edit 2: Also added vanilla screenshots to the comparison.

[Vi]

Originally posted by Dei_Wa:

Originally posted by Feels Ranger Man:

Cool stuff

I took this one step further and applied anti-aliasing in addition to pixelation since the original DS resolution makes the game look kinda blurry.

Here's the comparison between no AA and enabled AA, as well as settings and comparison between original DS resolution and x5 native DS resolution. [imgur.com]

Edit 1: Added DLSS view mode to the comparison, since that looks just as blurred as the original DS resolution.

Edit 2: Also added vanilla screenshots to the comparison.

It looks so much better with the ReShade pixel filter! Thank you!