*I forgot to mention: If you want to set up these custom textures yourself, after you move the folder to where I instructed in this video, you then need to go into Dolphin’s settings -> Graphics -> Advanced and turn on both ‘Load custom textures’ and ‘Prefetch custom textures’. Then you should be good to go!
Loved seeing Skies of Arcadia, and I never knew about improving texture packs. Your videos are not only enjoyable and fun but also very informative and helpful. I shall definitely be checking out that forum!
The texture pack for Nascar Thunder 2003 is one of the best ones out there- That is probably the last best Nascar game and the texture pack gives it new life.
Loving the videos, Ryan! I'm sure you have it on your schedule to make, but I'd love to see a similar video with PS2 games and texture packs to see if it affects the performance at all. If I can get texture packs to work on this and just have to bring the resolution down to like 2x instead of 3x I'd be fine with that probably.
You are best RUclipsr when it comes to anything about the Retroid Pocket 5! Do you think eventually you will do Pokémon stuff on it like rom hacks and fan games? Also today my birthday! 🎂
All your videos are fantastic! I've watched every single one. It's the only thing helping me as i wait for mine to get here. Please please PLEASE do a super in depth Winlator video that shows setup and game testing. I'd seriously watch an hour of you testing game after game. Push this thing to it's limit and throw some GTA5 at it! Skyrim, No Mans Sky, Cyberpunk 2077!
It should be noted that not all HD textures are AI upscaled. Some things cannot be upscaled using AI because it lacks data for the AI to work with, in which case those elements are redrawn by a human
Considering the quality of AI upscaling even on commercial released remasters, I'd be surprised if *any* of the good texture packs are AI upscaled instead of carefully recreated or datamined (sometimes games contain high resolutiom textures in their data but aren't used in-game) by actual humans.
Recently streamlined my collection only to receive an ayaneo pocket micro from my friends and a retroid pocket 5 from my colleagues… review’s gotten me excited!!!
Thanks for showing how to do this! I'm still waiting on my RP5 but when it get's here thanks to you I won't have to spend hours with trial and error for some of the games I want to play! Paper Mario and the thousand year door got an HD remake this year and it looks comparable to that version with the texture pack!
maybe its hard to see on camera but the difference doesn't seem generational to me. Thanks for the information and I might try it still but 1440P Pocket S GC looks better to me without texture packs. Love the content you are doing! Keep it coming
It looks a lot better when playing on the device to my eyes. It's hard to show a screen through a camera through another screen. Pocket S is a dream handheld - must be awesome. Thanks a lot!
Super cool video, I didn't even know this was a thing. Can you do AI upscaling on other consoles to? Sorry if that's a dumb question, I'm really not sure.
Thanks a lot for this gem of a video. I also never knew how texture packs work until now! I also didn't know about the quick save feature. I had to enable save states in the settings to see it. But Dolphin does warn that it may not be compatible with future versions or make it impossible to create normal saves states sometimes. Is this something to worry about?
Please can you try Wuthering Waves? It’s one of the more demanding android games. I want to know how well it will play. Thanks for all the awesome RP5 videos. I finally decided to order one for myself for Christmas!
So tempted by the GC colour console, but dang does the black look good with this screen. Stuck agonising over which one to get :/ Never played/owned GC, so no nostalgia for it, so these texture packs really don't feel blasphemous to me at all ;)
@ i agree, hence the agony of the decision 😬😵💫😵💫 think I’ll ultimately go for the GC version as that’s the one that caught my eye first, though I REALLY like the colour choices for the RP Mini (which I’ll likely not get) and wish they were available in the RP5
Shadow of the Colossus has aged pretty rough though. The cell shading of WW is still great. Same deal with the game Okami, holds up very well, far better than SOTC.
Do you have any good non-glitchy widescreen hacks for gamecube? A lot of these great games have been remastered and rereleased on the switch, do you think playing those variants would be better? I understand they can be a bit slow due to the processor requirements.
Thanks. However, those don't look like AI-upscaled versions of original textures, but new textures made by hand entirely. They've been around for a long time and I have avoided them precisely because I don't like the original games' art repainted by some stranger. Dolphin's 'Scaled EFB Copy' option does a fair enough job on textures for me while using upscaled resolutions.
I'm not sure which ones are done by AI and which are hand-drawn but the forum threads or some of them say they used AI. They may have been hand-drawn and then upscaled further with AI. I don't recall which is which but I saw the mention of AI while collecting the texture packs
idk if anyone has any pointers. but with dolphin i can’t get gecko codes to work on either skies of arcadia or wind waker. also cant get the hideous button overlay off the screen. any advice?
I just can't get the d-pad right button work in the formation screen in J league pro soccer club 5 (NetherSX). Similar issue appear in J league pro soccer club 7 manager technique selection screen with the "O" button this time(PPSSPP). Key mapping were correct. Can you help?😢😢😢😢
I tried to do this but I can't read Japanese so I'm not sure sorry :( all the buttons seemed to be working fine for me though so check other games and if other games are fine, maybe try and download the ROM again
Hello Ryan and dear community, I can't copy files into the android/xxx folders. No file manager I've tried so far seems to work, and it seems so effortless here in the video :( is there anything I can do on my device to make this possible, or do I need to connect to my pc?
Hi, a pc isn't required for copying any files. Which folder in particular are you trying to copy into? The file manager that came with the device should be fine. If nothing works, consider just putting the files somewhere else.
@RyanRetro1 I heard the files need to go specifically to [internal]/android/data/dolphin (or similar). This doesn't work with any manager :/ So I can put the folder basically anywhere and just tell dolphin where it is?
Uhm.. it’s seems the issue with these widescreen codes is that the HUD which is on the sides in 4/3 are then in the middle of the screen when in 16:9, obstructing the game
@ lol oh thats pretty cool! So the retro games like the GameCube Wii are already hd whenever you play the games right? It’s just like an added bonus for the hd textures?
The issues have all been ironed out and it's safe to order - the only issue is they are still making their way through the pre-orders so you're likely going to be waiting at least a month before they ship it out :( If you do decide to order it sometime, please consider using my affiliate link :)
The biggest one I got for this video was 800mb so I guess they could if you get a lot of them! I am using a 1TB SD Card so for me it wasn't noticeable but I can see them adding up if you grab a lot
@@RyanRetro1 800mb is the size of most GC games, you're almost doubling the size of your library with these. I'd use these for games that really benefit from it or that you play a lot, but otherwise I'd just leave them as is. Especially Wind Waker just doesn't seem worth it.
*I forgot to mention: If you want to set up these custom textures yourself, after you move the folder to where I instructed in this video, you then need to go into Dolphin’s settings -> Graphics -> Advanced and turn on both ‘Load custom textures’ and ‘Prefetch custom textures’. Then you should be good to go!
Ty
Pre-fetch crashed Baten Kaitos for us. Worked fine when Pre-fetch was turned back off.
Thank you for the rest of the info, though. Really helpful!
Dope, ill definitely be using this guide when my RP5 arrives. Thanks Ryan
Yes, keywords and "when it arrives." Hope you get your RP5 soon, as I'm still waiting over a month.
@@larryvue5835 I ordered mine 11/11, still no updates to the order page. Wishing upon a star that it rlly does come before Xmas :'''''']
@@larryvue5835 Damn this is not what i wanted to see after ordering it two days ago lol.
Loved seeing Skies of Arcadia, and I never knew about improving texture packs. Your videos are not only enjoyable and fun but also very informative and helpful. I shall definitely be checking out that forum!
Thanks a lot for the kind words - I'm glad they are coming across as intended!
The texture pack for Nascar Thunder 2003 is one of the best ones out there- That is probably the last best Nascar game and the texture pack gives it new life.
I love comments like this because such a simple thing makes me want to try something I probably never would have touched myself without a push.
Loving the videos, Ryan! I'm sure you have it on your schedule to make, but I'd love to see a similar video with PS2 games and texture packs to see if it affects the performance at all. If I can get texture packs to work on this and just have to bring the resolution down to like 2x instead of 3x I'd be fine with that probably.
Thanks for the kind words - it's definitely on the schedule!
You are best RUclipsr when it comes to anything about the Retroid Pocket 5! Do you think eventually you will do Pokémon stuff on it like rom hacks and fan games? Also today my birthday! 🎂
Thank you! Yes I'm going to make a Pokemon video soon :) happy birthday!
All your videos are fantastic! I've watched every single one. It's the only thing helping me as i wait for mine to get here. Please please PLEASE do a super in depth Winlator video that shows setup and game testing. I'd seriously watch an hour of you testing game after game. Push this thing to it's limit and throw some GTA5 at it! Skyrim, No Mans Sky, Cyberpunk 2077!
Thank you so much! I'm waiting for the next Winlator update because it's going to add Steam support which is going to be huge!
Thanks again for an usefull and entertaining video. So glad I found your chanel. My RP5 should be tomorrow in the mailbox. Set-up weekend incoming :)
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you love your RP5!
Thank you Ryan! I am still waiting on my RP5. I ordered the GC color and the shipping schedule for that color hasn't changed
You're welcome! Hope it arrives soon!
Did you get it yet? I ordered on the 16th and have barely got any updates :(
@@RetroHaley I got mine about two weeks ago. Are you in Canada
It should be noted that not all HD textures are AI upscaled. Some things cannot be upscaled using AI because it lacks data for the AI to work with, in which case those elements are redrawn by a human
Awesome
Considering the quality of AI upscaling even on commercial released remasters, I'd be surprised if *any* of the good texture packs are AI upscaled instead of carefully recreated or datamined (sometimes games contain high resolutiom textures in their data but aren't used in-game) by actual humans.
Thanks Ryan, always wondered how to mess with this, you saved me a lot of google searching! 🍻🤘🏼🔥💪🏼
Happy to help
Recently streamlined my collection only to receive an ayaneo pocket micro from my friends and a retroid pocket 5 from my colleagues… review’s gotten me excited!!!
Wow you've got some great friends!
Thanks for showing how to do this! I'm still waiting on my RP5 but when it get's here thanks to you I won't have to spend hours with trial and error for some of the games I want to play! Paper Mario and the thousand year door got an HD remake this year and it looks comparable to that version with the texture pack!
You're welcome! Hope you love the RP5!
maybe its hard to see on camera but the difference doesn't seem generational to me. Thanks for the information and I might try it still but 1440P Pocket S GC looks better to me without texture packs. Love the content you are doing! Keep it coming
It looks a lot better when playing on the device to my eyes. It's hard to show a screen through a camera through another screen. Pocket S is a dream handheld - must be awesome. Thanks a lot!
Congrats on 4k🎉🎉❤
Thank you!
Another great video!
Thank you!
Actually, if I remember well enough, the red flashes in skies of arcadia are not a bug. It's just an alarm because you are invading an amiral's ship.
That's good to know - thanks!
Correct ! That's totally normal ! Great video btw !
I just want my RP5 to be send out finally 😭, and then I will rewatch every video I guess haha
I hope it does! And I hope you do watch every video again for my ad revenue - err I mean for your research purposes and enjoyment!
@RyanRetro1 always haha
Super cool video, I didn't even know this was a thing. Can you do AI upscaling on other consoles to? Sorry if that's a dumb question, I'm really not sure.
I know they're definitely available for PS2 games
Thanks a lot for this gem of a video. I also never knew how texture packs work until now! I also didn't know about the quick save feature. I had to enable save states in the settings to see it. But Dolphin does warn that it may not be compatible with future versions or make it impossible to create normal saves states sometimes. Is this something to worry about?
You're welcome! I'm not sure about it being incompatible but I'd use in-game saves as my main source of reliable saving alongside save states
@@RyanRetro1 thanks for your answer, Ryan. I will follow your advice. :)
Please can you try Wuthering Waves? It’s one of the more demanding android games. I want to know how well it will play. Thanks for all the awesome RP5 videos. I finally decided to order one for myself for Christmas!
Yes I'm going to include that in my next Android video next week - hope you enjoy your RP5!
Have really enjoyed this series of videos thanks! Any chance you can or will do GB, GBC, GBA and SNES?
You're welcome! I'd love to do those too for sure
No Twin Snakes?
Did you have the brightness turned down really low here? The screen is way brighter in your other videos. It looks dim here.
So tempted by the GC colour console, but dang does the black look good with this screen. Stuck agonising over which one to get :/
Never played/owned GC, so no nostalgia for it, so these texture packs really don't feel blasphemous to me at all ;)
I think you'll be happy with both!
@ i agree, hence the agony of the decision 😬😵💫😵💫 think I’ll ultimately go for the GC version as that’s the one that caught my eye first, though I REALLY like the colour choices for the RP Mini (which I’ll likely not get) and wish they were available in the RP5
The GC version won't ship for months though, take that into account. They're only just at the orders from early November.
Wind waker might be the most beautiful game ever made. I agree. Shadow of the colossus is a close second.
I love the art style so much
Shadow of the Colossus has aged pretty rough though. The cell shading of WW is still great. Same deal with the game Okami, holds up very well, far better than SOTC.
Do you have any good non-glitchy widescreen hacks for gamecube? A lot of these great games have been remastered and rereleased on the switch, do you think playing those variants would be better? I understand they can be a bit slow due to the processor requirements.
Widescreen gecko codes aren't glitchy as far as I know
Is there any way to check the watts used with and without the texture packs?
Pretty sure the red flashing in Arcadia is meant to be there. If I remember correctly an alarm is going off because you broke into the ship.
Thanks for the heads-up!
Do you feel like the joysticks are too close to the d-pad and the buttons?
No not at all
Thanks. However, those don't look like AI-upscaled versions of original textures, but new textures made by hand entirely. They've been around for a long time and I have avoided them precisely because I don't like the original games' art repainted by some stranger. Dolphin's 'Scaled EFB Copy' option does a fair enough job on textures for me while using upscaled resolutions.
I'm not sure which ones are done by AI and which are hand-drawn but the forum threads or some of them say they used AI. They may have been hand-drawn and then upscaled further with AI. I don't recall which is which but I saw the mention of AI while collecting the texture packs
idk if anyone has any pointers. but with dolphin i can’t get gecko codes to work on either skies of arcadia or wind waker. also cant get the hideous button overlay off the screen. any advice?
I just can't get the d-pad right button work in the formation screen in J league pro soccer club 5 (NetherSX). Similar issue appear in J league pro soccer club 7 manager technique selection screen with the "O" button this time(PPSSPP). Key mapping were correct. Can you help?😢😢😢😢
I'll look into those after I finish work today and get back to you
I tried to do this but I can't read Japanese so I'm not sure sorry :( all the buttons seemed to be working fine for me though so check other games and if other games are fine, maybe try and download the ROM again
For android games you should try star wars knights of the Old Republic. Can't go wrong with stardew valley, dead cells, terraria etc
There is actually one downside... which is that they can often take up a lot of space
800mb was the biggest one I got so it depends on the size of your SD card I guess!
is there no way to store the texture packs on my sd card
so i don't have to download it to every android device i want to use
I'm not sure if it's possible but you can just transfer over the textures folder using a USB stick or USB cable etc
Hello Ryan and dear community,
I can't copy files into the android/xxx folders. No file manager I've tried so far seems to work, and it seems so effortless here in the video :( is there anything I can do on my device to make this possible, or do I need to connect to my pc?
Hi, a pc isn't required for copying any files. Which folder in particular are you trying to copy into? The file manager that came with the device should be fine. If nothing works, consider just putting the files somewhere else.
@RyanRetro1 I heard the files need to go specifically to [internal]/android/data/dolphin (or similar). This doesn't work with any manager :/
So I can put the folder basically anywhere and just tell dolphin where it is?
@@Kuchenwurst Oh really? Which files? Do you mean the textures?
@@RyanRetro1 Yes! I've got the texture pack, I've got the folder with the game id, I just can't seem to be able to put it where it needs to go 😅
@@RyanRetro1 I did it! "File Manager +" did the trick. :D
Uhm.. it’s seems the issue with these widescreen codes is that the HUD which is on the sides in 4/3 are then in the middle of the screen when in 16:9, obstructing the game
I personally like that. If you don't like that you can just use widescreen hacks and it'll stretch them to the edges :)
Can you do a video setting up Wii controller for Mario galaxy every one else’s video is complicated tried downloading profile can’t figure it out
Have you seen the Retro Game Corps video for setting up Wii controls in Dolphin? It's really good :)
@@RyanRetro1 I did was complicated
Isn't there a cheat that leats you play? Sunshine in 60FPS?
Do the texture packs work with the widescreen hacks?
Nvm I just had to keep watching 😂
Why can’t the emulation just come with the option to use the HD textures
These are textures fans made by themselves - in many cases they were hand-drawn. They aren't affiliated with the emulators or games
@ lol oh thats pretty cool! So the retro games like the GameCube Wii are already hd whenever you play the games right? It’s just like an added bonus for the hd textures?
@@kobexxballer Yeah right it's just an added bonus exactly :)
Can you check out how wuthering waves runs on android?
I will!
Is it safe to order it without issues yet or have they been ironed out?
The issues have all been ironed out and it's safe to order - the only issue is they are still making their way through the pre-orders so you're likely going to be waiting at least a month before they ship it out :( If you do decide to order it sometime, please consider using my affiliate link :)
@ Okay thanks :)) I can’t decide between white or black lol and okay I’ll go through the link once I have decided
It’s like a mini steam deck haha
Exactly!
So do you still play the game at 3x?
I played around with it but didn't notice a difference when the HD textures were added. This video was recorded at 3x
When you do your android games, you should test infinity nikki. Surprisingly high quality for the the of game it is lol
I'll add it to the list!
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i think that your video is a little bit to dark but no hate
Yes, I noticed this too.
I can see it too - it's the first video using a different camera so I'll have to tweak the settings for the next one. Thanks for the heads-up!
I'll tell you a downside, they take up a lot of space!
The biggest one I got for this video was 800mb so I guess they could if you get a lot of them! I am using a 1TB SD Card so for me it wasn't noticeable but I can see them adding up if you grab a lot
@@RyanRetro1 800mb is the size of most GC games, you're almost doubling the size of your library with these.
I'd use these for games that really benefit from it or that you play a lot, but otherwise I'd just leave them as is. Especially Wind Waker just doesn't seem worth it.
with all these videos made, do you have the time to actually teach ? haha
Sure, it's sleep that I don't have time for