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by Granville
Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:50 am
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 Dreamcast AI Upscaled Texture Pack
Replies: 14
Views: 13783

Re: Rayman 2 Dreamcast AI Upscaled Texture Pack

This pack is just upscaled with an AI program. Nerrel's MM texture pack is fully custom redrawn, it's far more impressive. A lot of the time AI upscales don't look good, but I was lucky to have found a model that works pretty well with most of Rayman's artistic textures.

That said, I (finally ...
by Granville
Wed Jun 03, 2020 4:28 am
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 Dreamcast AI Upscaled Texture Pack
Replies: 14
Views: 13783

Rayman 2 Dreamcast AI Upscaled Texture Pack

Recently, the Dreamcast emulator known as Flycast (a fork of Reicast by Flyinghead) was updated with a fix for the texture duplication glitch that had previously prevented me from creating a texture pack. So I have now ported over my PC upscales to the Dreamcast version, and also upscaled the ...
by Granville
Tue May 26, 2020 4:19 am
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 PC AI Upscaled Texture Pack
Replies: 22
Views: 37523

Re: Rayman 2 PC AI Upscaled Texture Pack

The FPS fix didn't work for me...

EDIT- Scratch that, I think I fixed it. I had to launch the game directly, not through Rayman Control Panel. Dunno why this is necessary, perhaps Windows applies some compatibility settings when launched directly from the exe that are necessary for a proper ...
by Granville
Thu May 14, 2020 3:09 pm
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 PC AI Upscaled Texture Pack
Replies: 22
Views: 37523

Rayman 2 PC AI Upscaled Texture Pack

<r>I previously created a texture pack for the N64 version using AI upscaling. Now that the PC version supports high res texture loading, I have now created a new version of this pack compatible with that version too. This was created using ESRGAN with the Fatality MKII algorithm, which was ...
by Granville
Sun Sep 29, 2019 5:33 am
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)
Replies: 15
Views: 11004

Re: Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)

<r>I can see a few instances where the PC textures are a bit less dithered than Dreamcast, but how noticeable it is varies quite a lot. Still, glad to have some archives to properly compare, especially for Revolution. I can't really see a difference between the PS2 and Dreamcast textures.<br/>
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by Granville
Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:43 pm
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)
Replies: 15
Views: 11004

Re: Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)

I actually don't know if Revolution's textures are downgraded or not from the others. I'd have to see them for myself outside of the confines of the game and compare them side by side with the other ports. Ingame they don't appear to be very different from the DC textures. But I will note a few ...
by Granville
Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:12 pm
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)
Replies: 15
Views: 11004

Re: Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)


I would recommend using the PC version and 3DS version's textures as a base, the DC version's textures are somewhat lower quality and pixelated than the PC and 3DS versions and a lot of the PS2 version's textures were down-scaled to use less resources because of the PS2 version's higher poly ...
by Granville
Sat Sep 14, 2019 7:12 pm
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)
Replies: 15
Views: 11004

Re: Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)

The N64 version will run at 60fps if you play in an emulator. Newer development builds of Project64 also have an Overclock Modifier in the game settings that can iron out any lingering drops, it runs very smoothly for me. Obviously the geometry, lighting effects and sound quality will still be ...
by Granville
Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:59 am
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)
Replies: 15
Views: 11004

Rayman 2 N64 AI upscaled texture pack (sourced from DC and PC textures)

I've been working on an N64 texture pack project for a while. N64 emulation allows users to dump textures from games and then load back in higher resolution ones. For this project, I used the Dreamcast/PC textures as a basis for enhancement. These are generally 2x the resolution (or more) compared ...
by Granville
Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:08 am
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 textures request
Replies: 5
Views: 4155

Re: Rayman 2 textures request


I'd gladly see these textures processed by ESRGAN AI upscaler.
They have very low resolution.
Dreamcast version have bigger textures, but maybe not always better.
Pity that Rayman 2 doesn't support bigger textures.
Maybe OpenRayman project will. I don't know.


Most of the shared textures in the ...
by Granville
Wed Feb 22, 2017 6:43 am
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 Revolution 60fps hack (requires PCSX2 and good PC)
Replies: 43
Views: 40013

Re: Rayman 2 Revolution 60fps hack (requires PCSX2 and good PC)

I''ve beaten most of the game using this hack now, from a New Game. Only the final Prison Ship level and Crows Nest boss left and I doubt I will have any trouble with the rest. I guess my PC has enough power to handle this, the only time I had a frame drop was in one single area in the Sanctuary of ...
by Granville
Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:13 pm
Forum: Modding and utilities
Topic: Rayman 2 Revolution 60fps hack (requires PCSX2 and good PC)
Replies: 43
Views: 40013

Rayman 2 Revolution 60fps hack (requires PCSX2 and good PC)

All credit goes to a PCSX2 forum member named asasega. I hope this is okay to post here, I figured it would be better than it being buried in the regular Rayman 2 thread. The PS2 Rayman 2 Revolution has always fascinated and attracted me. It has some substantial visual upgrades, particularly to the ...
by Granville
Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:15 pm
Forum: Rayman
Topic: Rayman 3D
Replies: 520
Views: 56259

Re: Rayman 3D

Why is everybody so disappointed with this game? It's a handheld port of Rayman 2. Those have never been good and there were a thousand ways this could have been butchered. I don't care how good the screenshots looked, everyone's expectations of this game were far too high.
Well, people are ...
by Granville
Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:32 am
Forum: Rayman
Topic: Rayman Deluxe
Replies: 66
Views: 17721

Re: Rayman Deluxe

Ah i see. I assume you need that emulator to rip stuff because epsxe won't? My bad. The music at least is easy enough to find anywhere in high quality (i think it's actually on the CD itself and you can just play the files using any media player). Sorry i can't help.
by Granville
Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:34 am
Forum: Rayman
Topic: Rayman Deluxe
Replies: 66
Views: 17721

Re: Rayman Deluxe

Rayman can be gotten to work pretty much perfectly (or nearly at least) in epsxe. I think Pete's Software graphical plugin will get you the best results as far as graphics go. I'm not sure how the videos display (not tested it lately), but try the software plugin if you haven't. It's FAR more ...
by Granville
Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:03 am
Forum: Rayman
Topic: Rayman 3D
Replies: 520
Views: 56259

Re: Rayman 3D

Was the 1000th lum bug in the dreamcast version?
I'm surprised Ubisoft didn't make Rayman 3D a re-make of Revolution, I thought that was an amazing version. Or even Rayman 3.
Nope, the 1000th lum works in every other version (except for the PS1 version i think, which i don't believe HAS a secret ...
by Granville
Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:57 pm
Forum: Rayman
Topic: Rayman 3D
Replies: 520
Views: 56259

Re: Rayman 3D

I've been meaning to join for a while, but i wanted to wait until i had something relevant to post. Bought Rayman 3D a few days ago and have no 100% completed it. It's pretty good, but a clearly lazy port. As previous users have stated though, nowhere near the abomination that was Rayman DS.

Pros ...