RIDGE RACERS 2 HD TEXTURE BOTH PACK UCES00422 & ULJS00080 UPDATE + LINKS

[Fish0621]

Oops this got a bit long so consider it a "review" for whoever comes across this texture pack but I got mixed feelings, feels more like a mod rather than a faithful/vanilla replacement.

First of all, genuinelly really impressive work. It fixes one of my biggest gripes with replaying the game which is the low res of cars during races. The lighting of some tracks tracks looks very different because it uses RR5 textures I think?
Some textures are still missing, like dials for Class 1 Kamata or any Danver, and a lot of cpu cars. The gradient colors for cars is good on paper but aren't properly implemented because bumpers are misaligned, also I saw some coloring errors on a couple cars (C3 Androgenesis Raggio color 21).

That said I have many gripes with this pack because some texture changes are certainly... a choice. The most obvious is the HUD color scheme change, that's alright I guess. Another is replacing many of the in-universe sponsors for random pictures or real-life brands or some completely different AI generated images instead of upscaling the originals. Also some nitpicks like for instance Baraduke being plain Arial font and losing the seriff among other logo changes.

Worst of all is almost all cars have "Cody's mod" as a watermark on the most blatantly visible spot possible. Also for some reason Kamata Fiera have country flags? And some of those have the communist hammer and sickle????