Valkyria Chronicles 3 - Extra Edition

[LunaMoo]

Just my intial font replacement mixed with lazy machine upscaling.

Some textures actually look great, some so-so at best, others are horrible or have problems like seams or glowing borders and need to be manually corrected or removed. Sharing in this state mostly because I might forget about it in the near future, just completed VC4 to 100% and that's pretty much the only reason why I checked VC3 again. Also even with it mostly being machine translation it was still a few hours of work and some manual corrections which could help someone else.

Fun fact, first thing I tried to scale up was the "clock" showing turns left and my first impression was "horrible" as it couldn't even made a nice circle shape, but then I tried it in game and actually liked how it looked.

Also a bunch of the textures here could be replaced by much nicer looking VC4 textures, but I don't want to share any potentially copyrighted stuff from different game released on modern platforms.


Downloads:
- texture pack,
- fan translation patch it was made for (not the buggy one which most people uses).

Installation:
Run the game patched by the above fan translation, then close it and drag and drop or open zip to/from PPSSPP, it'll ask if you want to install so just confirm.

Installation will not work for the buggy english patch nor spanish patch as they messed up param.sfo, it will however mostly work on unpatched japanese extra edition version of the game, some UI text will not be replaced through.

Additionally you can use my enhancement patches from this post.


Samples:
   
   
   
   

Dumped textures only from few different maps so might not have all environments, I forgot how many there are in this game;p. Also I did tried to upscale all actual "maps"(the ones where scenes can be selected), but gave up on extra story maps as there are just too many of them and takes ages to enter-leave-repeat to dump all of their textures;c.

If someone wants font only patch without the AI stuff, I shared it long ago in the game's thread in here.


No clue what's the % of textures scaled, the game is really big and also slow to navigate around I checked snow, deserts, mountains, grasslands and port map types, don't remember how many others it had, but machine translation looked best on things like ground or wall textures and would like to someday try it on all of those textures.

[LunaMoo]

Version 0.2:
- add's mostly textures for some maps I didn't visited before, dumping textures is really the most time consuming part of this;c, everything else, even entries for textures.ini can be quickly generated from dir filelist and upscaling while can take a bit, is also automatic,
- also added ignore list, mostly for textures that create animation with CLUT change as they can't be easily replaced and create a lot of spam during texture dumping.

[Aurangzeb56]

Finally. Thank you sooo much for this.

[LunaMoo]

You're welcome, but it's not finished yet and I just don't have time for it.

Most importantly this has some textures that look awfully after upscaling, including some skyboxes and plants which needs to be removed or manually fixed. Then there's definitely a lot of stuff which differ per map/mission which I never dumped yet.
Some edits to unit icons could be done as well as I drew them myself before VC4 was released, had no high res versions to compare it with as some units did not existed in VC1 and got some details wrong due to low res originals.

[Aurangzeb56]

Well I hope that one day you'll finally finish it and I'll get to play this game in all of its glory.