

*The pre-patched download here has both the Sound Restoration hack and the Color Restoration hack applied. The opera songs are now sung by true opera soloists, and the major part of the opera tunes are played by Tokio’s orchestra. This hack replaces the music with the original music from the SNES version (gone the aggressive fuzzy instruments, rhythm errors and missing flats and sharps). See for yourself in the comparison screenshots to the left. This made Final Fantasy VI Advance look nasty! Fortunately, this awesome patch will totally correct the game's colors and make it look beautiful like the SNES version. I'm fairly certain that wasn't one of Brendy's pisstakes, but you might feel differently.This “Restored” hack is a combination of two hacks:Īs any Game Boy Advance enthusiast knows, most games were altered to have bright colors to accommodate for the system's dark screen. You can also check out where we ranked Final Fantasy IX on our list of the best Final Fantasy games on PC. The Moguri mod is a 5GB download from its site, and is designed to work with the Steam release of Final Fantasy IX.

But at each turn, the modders seemed to have considered what the original designer's intent was. You can also turn a lot of these changes off and on, including the framerate and widescreen changes, if you decide you don't like it. The framerate will drop during action-packed scenes - moments when things appear on screen so briefly the AI can't work out what to do with them - but it's still remarkable. For some scenes, modders used images of the original 3D renders created for Final Fantasy 9, which were later scaled down into static backdrops that would fit on a PSOne disc.įor the cinematics, they've similarly used AI techniques in order to increase their framerate from 15fps to 30fps. This document explains the process at length. The Moguri mod increases the resolution of background textures using AI deep learning and a lot of manual work. I discovered it today thanks to this comparison video by YouTuber 2kliksphilip. It's been in development for years, and the version seen in the trailer above releasedlast year.
