LunarCry: Remastered v2.2 by MCINDUS
For use only with the Steam release of Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
UPDATED 5/13/2020 With ALL ENEMIES including battle and field textures!
FIELDS ARE GLITCHED RIGHT NOW! They will be released with a separate mod.
Thanks to Maki and his amazing DEMASTER Modding tool, we can now inject ALL of the enemies into the game!
FF8: Remastered came with very few battle models actually improved for most enemies in the game. This mod fixes that by adding ALL enemies with ESRGAN and Gigapixel AI composited upscales in order to provide the BEST possible textures available!
The remaster also came with 3x upscales of the enemy field models, but the quality was VERY lacking, so I made these beauties, which are now 6x original size!
All enemy model textures have been re-created using custom texture techniques combined with using my own ESRGAN AI Upscaling models!
Only current drawback: Enemy Battle textures are currently locked to 3x original size.
I hope you enjoy!
Join my PATREON! (https://www.patreon.com/mcindusmods)
Battle Model Texture Comparison:
(https://i.imgur.com/RsXrIVD.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/5sVUWmN.png)
Requires Maki's DEMASTER Modding Tool found here:
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=19432.0
DEMASTER Instructions:
1. Download the DEMASTER release
2. Install DEMASTER into .../FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered/
3. Open 'ffviii_demaster_manager.exe' and run the 'unpack' feature - this creates the DEMASTER_EXP folder
Download Here:
LunarCry: Remastered v2.1 (https://bit.ly/LunarCry-Rem-v2-1) Direct: https://mega.nz/file/GshBBJjD#OzDWl5Ymf3lvhPKTvhwQ2xpw8qE999uj9yr4YpmBdl4
Install Instructions:
INSTALL ONLY THE hd_new 'textures' folder in FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered/DEMASTER_EXP/textures/battle.fs/
Field Model Texture Comparison:
(https://i.gyazo.com/b7a8e5827d62384f731bf71be7379027.jpg)
New (Left) vs. Old (Right)
(https://i.gyazo.com/c8a0fac2077d6d89ad915c466f0ae31b.png)
PLEASE DONATE HERE! (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=5DQW7QCTRSA3J&lc=US&item_name=MCINDUS&item_number=696969¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted)
Enjoy and happy modding!
Join my patreon: www.patreon.com/mcindusmods/
-MCINDUS-
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DEPRECATED VERSION BELOW - Can use without DEMASTER
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== (only field upscales, no battle textures) ==
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This version of the mod should be installed using one of the zzz extractors (zzzDeArchive 1.6.5 or later is recommended)
Get zzzDeArchive HERE (http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=19209.0)
Pick one or the other!
LunarCry: Remastered -EFM- v1.0 (http://bit.ly/LunarCry-EFM-rem-v1-0-zzz)
--- zzz archive for merging using zzzDeArchive ---
LunarCry: Remastered -EFM- v1.0 (http://bit.ly/LunarCry-EFM-rem-v1-0-folders)
--- folder archive (for use with Maki's new archiving method) ---
**CREATED 10/8/2019**
**UPDATED 5/13/2020**