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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

I never got the beta info great progress though

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

Like sonic says waiting lol

I applied and got accepted, still waiting on information!

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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!

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

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

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

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.