Modestly Upscaled Cutscenes Mod

Say goodbye to those pixelated full of noise FMVs.

Introduction

Finally!

After a lot of research with the people of Moogles & Mods Discord server, to figure out how the hell do this game's version of Bink 2 videos work, I bring to you the first mod for upscaled cutscenes.

The reason behind the "modestly" on the name, it's because I didn't want to go overboard with the upscaling.
These cutscenes are not extra sharp, super colorful nor high fps. They're upscaled just enough for them to not be blocky and full of noise, as Square Enix launched them, but not edited enough to depart from the creators vision.

It sounds like it's not a lot, but you'll see the difference!

Downloads

Version 1.3

Total files: 1
Total Size: 2.4 GB

Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-wX6PkFLHNLQO1kmG7EDbpCZ7JBM7jAM/view?usp=sharing

Mirror - Mega:
mega(.)nz/file/rWBkSaZK#jS5B8mx5MprazTcGI5OCTRvvRO-9klqODtQHYKXG3TA
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Instructions

• Open your game folder
  -- If you don't know how to:
  -- Open Steam, right-click the game, select Manage, and then on Browse Local Files
  
• Open the data folder
  
• Create a copy of your movie.dat file elsewhere, you'll need it for a certain part
  
• Paste and replace the downloaded movie.dat

Previous bug

If you downloaded the first release of this mod, please redownload!
It had a horrible bug that made the game crash on a certain scene on a ship.
This was fixed thanks to WhtSqurlPrnc, creator of Snooty A.I. Upscale Mod on Nexus. Thank you!

Final words

This is the SECOND release, and probably some videos will not work as intended. If that happens, please comment so I can fix them!

As this is the "modest" mod, cutscenes are at the original 15 fps. If you want the extra smoothness of 30 fps through AI interpolation, I can release a 30 fps version in the future. But let me spoil you this: 15 fps cutscenes look and feel better for this game, specially with all the lags the gameplay has.

Want to help with future mods?

As I said, this wouldn't be possible without the help of Moogles & Mods community, and maybe they can help YOU create the next mod! or maybe if you just want to be the first to get the news about a certain mod, that's cool too.

Join here: https://discord.gg/bSnpVBV

There's a discussion thread on Steam for Chrono Cross Mods too, check it here: Steam | Chrono Cross Modding Community

They're working on a lot of games aside from Chrono Cross!

That's it, enjoy!

[Shig]

Has anyone tried this on the steam deck?

[Slayzer Hiryu]

Cool thank you!

[Sir Gustav]

Hey Fei Wong! The game has 6 languages (de, en, es, it, fr and jp) for the intro and ending cutscenes, all of them have been upscaled so nobody is left out.

And thanks everyone for your words!

I'm currently testing the 30 fps interpolated cutscenes to update this mod, so you can choose which one to use.
Been on talks with WhtSqurlPrnc (the creator of the other upscale mod that's on Nexus) to find a way to fix the two cutscenes that caused the bug on my first release with no avail, will keep you all updated about that.

[Slayzer Hiryu]

If the language is other than english it changes the text from the opening to english or retains the user's language?

[Axel Firestorm]

Okay, just checked and this isn't the one that's on Nexus. The opening text looks fine and unchanged. Great job on the vids! Much better than the originals. :)

[Axel Firestorm]

Looks nice, but if it's the same mod as on Nexus, then the writing in the opening FMV is really smeared when that at least should not have been changed. I'll check and see if it is, but I hope that can be fixed if that's the case.

[ZENOGIAS]

How Square didn't do this natively is beyond my comprehension

[Mimh®]

I tested it, and I think the result is amazing, great job, thank you so much <3
I can't wait to see what the community will do for this game that deserves more love than what Square did with it.

[Roland]

I created a Steam group for those of us that don't use Discord and would like an aggregate for mods:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/RadicalDreamersModding

Also I personally would like to see a comparison of 30fps vs 15 before I decided which I'd use

[Nell]

Hello. Or you can make a mod to make the game work smoothly. And then in some battles, in some locations, the game works disgusting! Square Enix made a disgusting remastering that even the videos were not made in HD and, in fact, did not make a smooth picture... The game is intermittent, the picture is torn in places. Although the counter stands at 60 frames