Originally posted by Albeoris:

Coming soon...
http://imgur.com/a/3eMwM

WAIT do you mean you guys found a way to replace the backgrounds in the game???

Originally posted by Moogy:

Originally posted by ValhallasAshes:

The mod I'm waiting on is the music and sound effects mod that restores the audio to the PS1 quality audio at the very least. I really want to play IX again, but I can't bear the audio in this version. It's so grating because of the over compression they used. So I'm waiting eagerly for an audio mod to fix it.

Agreed same here.
Audio specifically and environment graphics would be nice but i would play it anyway.
Its just that i find the PSX version alot more interesting still atm.

Same here. Especially sound effects in menus etc. Also, I don't know if I'm the only one who gets annoyed by that, but since this is a story-telling game and the scenes usually transition smoothly, it REALLY bothers me that there's no fade out and you just hear a big CUT every time a scene shifts to another with different music. Same with cutscenes. I recently played the original and this is definitely not happening. I'm glad we got FFIX on pc and everything, but although this is their best port imo, it's still a LAZY port. It saddens me to think that these are the definitive editions of these classics. I'd give anything for proper reworked versions, with menus and HUDs made for PC!
Keep us updated about mods. SFXs and Pre-rendered import/export would be awesome

Any plans on importing/exporting sound files? HQ Music and the old SFXs would be very cool to have

If only I was a millionaire ^^. I would go over at Squenix and pay for the proper remasters myself, after kicking the butt of this greedy, lazy people who don't realize the importance of these games (that gave them a name btw). One of the coolest aspects of Final Fantasy imo was navigating the menus, equipping stuff and looking at stats and progression, and now it's so ugly to look at that there's just no fun in it anymore. Before you say Im a whiner, I'm really not, I just find it very sad that these are the FINAL versions we're gonna get from Square for these masterpieces, and that we have to rely on MODDERS to do Square's job.

Would it be possible for a modder to add the Change Disc Screen and the Save Game in this version? Weirdly enough the "Change Disc" part is more important to me, because it truly marks the end of a chapter every time, gives the player a moment to breathe, which is completely lost in this version. Thank you for letting me know!

Originally posted by haaa4649:

Originally posted by Nyx:

some backgrounds are missing here right?

As I said in the first post, these are the static backgrounds, if you didn't see some BGs, then they are most likely animated backgrounds. Animated ones depends on the engine's implementation, and needs to be handled differently, so unless someone figure them out in the Unity version, I'm not touching them.

That does not mean all static ones are here, some might be missing, I'm not sure.

Originally posted by Nyx:

Do you think there's a way to lower the "watercolor" effect by using something similar to what this guy used here for FF7?
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=16292.0
Look for that N1 filtered waifu 4x + some gimp filter: image
what do you think?

As I said in the other thread:

Originally posted by haaa4649:

Non "cartoony" look by definition means more details, and also by definition, low res images means less details, you cannot add details to an upscaled low res image and preserve it at the same time.

One of the touches that I considered was adding some detail to the images, but that will make them even more alien to the original than just a straight true upscale like what it is here. It's a problem without a perfect soultion I'm afraid, either a detailless original feel, or detailed foreign feel, pick your poison, and I picked the first.

I'm not adding details, and that filter looks like it reduces details even more, that will make it more cartoony, not less.

Plus, I'm guessing from the first image that they used bad upscaling parameters for this kind of images, which makes the filter applicable for them, I don't think this applies to what I did.

Anyone interested in modifying them, by all means, I however don't like invasive upscaling, it is like putting too much makeup, and no amount of makeup can hide ugly low res images I'm afraid.

Fair enough, they already look very good to me, especially when played on a small screen. A LOT of backgrounds are missing indeed. Lots of house interiors, Maiden Sari, most of the Lifa Tree and countless others... I hope we find them somehow....

Do you think there's a way to lower the "watercolor" effect by using something similar to what this guy used here for FF7?
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=16292.0
Look for that N1 filtered waifu 4x + some gimp filter: image
what do you think?

some backgrounds are missing here right? Im playing the game and comparing every background with yours (and they look absolutely amazing) but a few are missing. One example would be most of the areas in Maiden Sari. Man I hope modders are able to replace the current backgrounds with these ones, seems like tedious work but I would gladly support them and donate for this game to be remastered.

Originally posted by Albeoris:

No, a wrong term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_family_%28HTML%29

I am about font name. But yes, you can choose font what looks like PSX. :)

What is the original font called???

Please find a way to replace the sound effects with the old ones, for example while navigating the menus, opening chests or receiving an item!