RENT-A-HERO No.1 - ENG

[Wombat]

This project is leaving me speechless, the amount of work and eye for details is incredible. The team effort on this one is amazing. GOTY incoming

[colgate]

I never got the beta info great progress though

[VincentNL]

Once the remaining bugs will be sorted out, I'll send the new patch to those who have applied last week

[Acey]

Like sonic says waiting lol

[Knowbeard]

I applied and got accepted, still waiting on information!

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[VincentNL]

Rent-A-Hero No.1 developers tried really hard to meet deadlines.
Such a rush caused a number of partially-implemented code and 3D modelling issues being mastered into the official GD-ROM release.

Thanks to our Beta testers Pichu and Guimli we got busy with fixes, but for today let's talk about the Bottle Cat:

As the story progresses you'll eventually meet Ms.Chae,
a wealthy old lady with an adorable multi-colored cat clipping through her dress... Wait, what?

For some reason, devs didn't pack the poor cat texture but used a bottle image instead!
Since the cat texture didn't exist and its U/V were unusable, we decided to redo the cat model.

Here's the task list (in order):

• Locate texture, identify model format (Egregiousguy)
  
• Extract and convert it in .NJ (Egregiousguy)
  
• Redo U/V in Blender and design a new cat texture following the art style (VincentNL)
  
• MODEL_ALL.bin PVR Extractor / Reimporter script (VincentNL)
  
• Recreate by hand new face index U/V data as per model format (Egregiousguy)
  
• Rotate / align model in order to fix the clipping issue(VincentNL)

It's a lot of work for such a tiny cat, but I hope you'll appreciate the final result!

Regarding second Beta testing phase, I'm happy to announce it'll start this week!
For those who are interested, before sending a PM please read guidelines first, Thanks!

[cicadas]

i've been following the project github for a few weeks. this cat issue in particular was so thrilling to watch unfold that i'd considered linking to it in this thread myself!

great work

[colgate]

That's so weird, is the bottle texture used somewhere else?

[Passion Wagon]

This is my first time hearing about it and I already love bottle cat.

[Dirge Of Ram]

Thank the heavens we have dedication a real team behind this, True Remaster. Otherwise Sega would had botched this right up with another no name company oh the horrors.