This is a texture pack created for the PlayStation 2 version of the game. Some of these textures were taken from other versions or parts of the game. Others were upscaled or modified.
It's compatible with all three regions of the game:
- NTSC-U (SLUS-20909)
- PAL (SLUS-21191)
- NTSC-J (SLPM-66090)
These are the improved textures included in this pack:
- Upscaled characters and Skins.
- Controller layout. (PS2, NGC and XBOX - Leave the folder of the layout you want and delete the other 2 folders)
- Custom Gift Shop icons for the cars (Manually rendered recreations of the originals) (Delete this folder if you prefer the original upscaled icons).
- Driving general frontend.
- Car classes icons.
- Character icons (Normal, destroyed and minimap).
- Gun icons (Menu, race and unselected).
- On-screen text - English
- On-screen text - French (TODO)
- On-screen text - German
- On-screen text - Italian (WIP)
- On-screen text - Spanish
- On-screen text - Japanese (Partially done, cancelled)
- Fonts from all three regional versions.
- Game modes icons.
- General frontend.
- Arrow and X on the floor from Adventure mode.
- Gift Shop icons.
- Grand Prix logos.
- On-foot levels, minigames and skyboxes.
- Loadscreen (Western and Japanese).
- Main menu.
- Map and icons from Adventure mode.
- Movie thumbnails (Manually taken from actual video frames upscaled).
- Die-o-rama thumbnails.
- Die-o-rama Japanese thumbnails. (Cancelled)
- Gag thumbnails.
- Gag Japanese thumbnails. (Cancelled)
- Story thumbnails.
- Story Japanese thumbnails. (Partially done, cancelled)
- Track Secret thumbnails.
- Theme logos.
- Track maps (Menu and ingame).
- Turret previews.
- General textures found in better quality in other parts or versions of the game.
Click on the "Code" button and select Download ZIP to download the pack. To use this texture pack you need PCSX2. Go into "textures" folder, if it doesn't exist create a folder with the game serial you're going to use (e.g. "SLES-XXXXX"), inside this folder create a folder named "replacements", and extract the texture pack inside. Your address should look something like this: "PCSX2\textures\SLES-XXXXX\replacements". To activate the texture pack, go to "Graphics" settings, "Texture Replacement" tab and activate "Load Textures", "Asynchronous Texture Loading" and "Prechache Textures".
On top of using the texture pack, it is recomended to do the following changes in the PCSX2 config settings to get the best experience:
- If you use a widescreen, activate "Enable Widescreen Patches" in the Graphics settings.
- In the game specific settings, go to Patches and activate the following patches: 50/60 FPS, 480p Mode and Unlock PSP Exclusive Content; then also activate the 180% EE Overclock in Emulation settings for the game.