There are three things I either won't or can't fix right now.
This is especially true of transparent textures, Dreamcast handles transparency effects very differently from N64 and I had to do a lot of editing to get things working and looking as good as possible. But I may well have missed some things, and some of the textures may not be perfect.
I did my best to play test it and fix the issues I was able to find just by eyeballing things. Notes: This pack is probably not perfect. People may alter or enhance this pack however they please. The second is a ZIP file containing a folder with all the loose bare PNG's (which I poorly organized into folders, not everything is sorted properly though).
I'll provide two links to the texture pack. This build is the latest one i'm aware of at the time of this post. Older versions of the plugin had issues with the dumping and loading. If you use Gliden, make sure it's an up to date WIP build. The pack may also work with the old classic Glide64 plugin too, but I haven't tested other plugins. I use GlideN64, it's the best plugin if you have the hardware required to run it. But just know that to use this pack, it was created for the NTSC-U version of the game and you need either Project64 or Mupen alongside a supported graphics plugin. I'm not going to go into a long tutorial on how to set up the emulator and plugin, you can find this information easily online. So the textures are 4x the resolution of the already higher res Dreamcast assets, and often 8x the resolution of the N64 textures. I then put the DC textures through an AI upscaler called ESRGAN using an algorithm called Fatality that was created for classic pixel art. These are generally 2x the resolution (or more) compared to the N64 textures, and also have better color depth (N64 ones are muddled and dithered by comparison). For this project, I used the Dreamcast/PC textures as a basis for enhancement. N64 emulation allows users to dump textures from games and then load back in higher resolution ones. I've been working on an N64 texture pack project for a while.
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