HD card textures

[keekoo]

Is there a way to modify the game to always load the high resolution textures for the cards?

One way I can think of doing it, is by dumping all the textures through Dolphin, and then replacing the low-res textures with the high-res ones. Although that will require a full dump of all the textures, and alot of manual work.

I did it through Dolphin texture replacement with 2 cards as an example:

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I looked into extracting the gamefiles through gctools, and replacing the files that way, but I couldnt get GCTools to work, and i dont know if the game would even load a higher resolution file that way atall (my guess is it wont).

One of my favorite things about card games is the card artwork, and Dolphin can load higher resolution textures just fine as seen in the example. So it would be a nice addition to the PSO EP3 Plus mod.

[keekoo]

The game wouldn't load any higher resolution textures without patching the game in some way as there's only so much space allocated for them, and increasing the resolution would break it for sure.

Dolphin texture replacement is most likely the only method you're going to be able to do.

[keekoo]

Looking at this page: https://ragol.org/cards under the "Large" column, there seem to be even higher resolution textures that are roughly 512x512
Do you happen to know when the game loads these 'Large' textures? I can only get the 256x256~ish textures to load so far.

[keekoo]

These are loaded when you access the cards at the card viewer in the Morgue.

Note that these images are not actually a 512x512 image, but rather 4 256x256 images stitched together.