PCSX2 is a great emulator, it is one that we all use to play many classic ps2 games and of course including the Shadow Hearts series.
While we all want a HD remaster/remake but sadly the likeliness of that are rather slim unless if Wildrose does a major hit or able to do some kind of a deal with Universal Entertainment.
We have seen a difficulty mod for the 3 Shadow Hearts games on ps2.
Now there are possibilities for texture mods. Which is something that I just found out recently while it has been something that apparently it had been in the works for about year but only since January this year that it is public.
Even though the project of the emulator (mod) itself is still early days and there are issues but this is potentially exciting and this is definitely and emulator to keep an eye on and see where it goes and what kind of doors it can open for texture mod projects.
Emulator is called PCSX2-EX which you can get: here
A video tutorial with a link to Topaz-Reality's discord: here
I have done a quick test on dumping textures:
Yuri Model Extracted From Shadow Hearts:
Karin Model Extracted From Shadow Hearts Covenant:
Unfortunately liked mentioned there are issues currently the first SH game doesn't dump everything and replacing textures causes issues. Covenant dumping seems to be perfect but certain images if replaced are broken including font (to what extent I don't know). FTNW terrain images if resized to a certain size or beyond will crash the game and with similar issues to Covenant.
Regardless of that I still find this really interesting and hope to see this grow and who knows what it can lead to for certain games like Shadow Hearts combining that with the likes of a difficulty mod could bring experiences that us fans crave for.
Reason for me posting this is spread this information across and hopefully picks up interest with plenty of Shadow Hearts fans out there who knows what can happen. Here's hoping!
Until next time, bye for now!
