Final Fantasy 9 mod makes it look even better than you remember

(Image credit: Moguri Mod)

A fan-made Final Fantasy 9 mod's latest version may make the game look even better than your ro🦋se-colored🅷 memories.

is a total overha♕ul for the visuals of Final Fantasy 9's official Steam version, which was first released in 2016. It uses a combination of deep-learning algorithms and hand-made tweaks to remaster Final Fantasy 9's static backgrounds, animated elements, and NPCs. Where once there were muddy blurs, there is now a beautifully crisp yet fluid rendering of FF9's fantastical world.

for some extensive side-by-side comparisons of the vanilla Steam game and the Moguri Mod version - it was made by a third party, though the di𒈔fference still speaks for itself. The mod also fixes up some visual glitches that go all the wa🎶y back to the original PlayStation release back in 2000, which are documented in . Finally, no more treasure chests clipping through the rest of the environment.

It sounds like it was a monumental task making sure each background was remastered just right (the backgrounds were made from ), and that's not even talking abou🧸t tweaking all the layer masks so the new elements would sit perfectly.

Final Fantasy 9's flight from photorealism into a more cartoony fantasy was controversial, but it's become better appreciated with time. I can hardly think of any better tribute to the developers' original work than this mod. Way better than 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:accidentally deleting it.

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