Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles HD v1.0

[Sirbagsalot]

This is an HD texture pack for Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (USA) made using ESRGAN and a bit of Stable Diffusion img2img (Just to test the waters). While it is still not perfect I think it is at a point where I am comfortable releasing it.

Preview: https://imgsli.com/Mjg5NjYx

Main Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/c0ahtplp3...0.rar/file

Features Include:
-HD text across most of the game
-HD item, food, and subweapon icons
-Portraits and character art adapted from official DXC artwork
-Ai upscaled UI, stage, and character textures
-Smaller edits to a ton of different textures both done by hand and via Stable Diffusion img2img
-A somewhat organized folder structure and textures.ini file for easy editing
-An "Extras" folder with character reskins, alternate stage/ui textures, and other smaller edits.
-An upscaled texture for the playable Trevor model from the Trevor Mod by Iamme (available on the CastlevaniaModding forums)
-A few textures for SotN's menus too (These are mostly all still wip)

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Install Instructions:
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1. Copy the folder ULUS10277 to your \Textures folder
2. Enable texture replacements under developer tools
3. Under game settings set Screen Scaling Filter to "Linear"
4. Done!

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Recommended Settings:
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-Set the emulator to 4x rendering resolution (Or a multiple of 4x, I like 8x for this game personally)
-Post Processing Shader to "Off"
-Texture Filtering to "Nearest"
-Screen Scaling filter to "Linear" (Don't set this one to Nearest, it is easy to mix up these settings)
-Deviating from these settings may or may not introduce unintended visual artifacts.

Optional:
-You should also use the 60fps cheat code made by Arronmunroe found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH1CyRKkqTE&t=0s
Do note that the cheat isnt perfect. Some menu animations will be at 2x speed and some subweapons may hit more times then intended. It is otherwise fantastic and makes the game actually playable in my opinion.

*Put this .ini file together for convenience, it goes in your /cheats folder: https://www.mediafire.com/file/7zus89o5o...7.ini/file

-If you have a high refresh rate monitor you can use Lossless Scaling's AI frame generation option to 2x or 3x your fps. This works best when combined with the 60 fps cheat.