info on each beneath the cut, for the uninitiated
Gale from Baldur's Gate 3:
rated most pathetic and yet also most arrogant man in the party
nerd who girlbossed too close to the sun. now all his old friends are telling him to sacrifice himself to make up for it
he wouldn't be charming if he wasn't so transparently needy
well known for suddenly acting like he's in a relationship with the main character regardless of the player's intention
given the opportunity he would absolutely girlboss too close to the sun again he has learned nothing
The Wizard Gale from Harvest Moon Animal Parade
Prefers to keep to himself but lives in the town to help the other villagers anyway. Most of them don't truly believe in his magic, though, and he's well aware of this
Almost never leaves his house, when he does it's to retrieve a stolen object and to help you with The Witch
Apparently will live longer than the average person
Drinks coffee to stay up all night so he can study the stars
Has no family, until he marries the farmer. Dreads outliving the farmer
Well known as the best husband in any game ever
Best Gifts: Fugue Mushroom, Hot Coffee, Shining Coffee Beans, Shining Ground Coffee, Coffee Ice Cream, Shining Tea Leaves, Pontata Root, Crystal accessories
I love him
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Guide to editing textures in Harvest Moon Animal Parade
Due to there being very little info on modding/editing HM:AP on Dolphin Emulator I went ahead and made a quick guide for anyone looking to do the same! (This will also work with Harvest Moon Pride Parade!)
Here’s an example of a quick edit I did of the playable character:
Textures in this game are super easy to edit! However, it does require a bit of work finding the texture you want to dump.
Dumping Textures:
Using Dolphin to dump and edit textures is really simple, however you must use Dolphin and only Dolphin. Dolphin uses its own naming convention for textures, so you cannot use them on any other emulator or on a physical Wii.
Get your iso booted up to play the game. I recommend skipping any intro scenes before continuing.
On the Dolphin emulator interface click on Options -> Graphics Settings -> Advanced. Next, under Texture Dumping, check the 'Enable' box and make sure ‘Dump Base Textures’ is checked as well.
Play the game! Dolphin will only dump textures it encounters in-game. So if you want the Harvest King’s textures, you will have to beat the entire game in order for them to get dumped! (annoying, but it does save you from having thousands of pngs uploaded to your computer at once.)
All the dumped textures will be png files located in your Documents folder on your computer: Dolphin Emulator -> Dump -> Textures -> RBIEE9(This number may be different for you - this is for the North American iso). If you played through the game with textures being dumped enabled, you will find an enormous amount of pngs ranging from blades of grass to entire houses due to everything you see in game being a texture! In order to avoid this, if there is a specific texture you want dumped, find it in-game and then turn on texture dumping to only dump the current textures on screen.
“I want to edit a character's face! Where the heck is that texture?” A character's face texture will look like this:
“Ok, now I want to edit their hair and/or clothes!” That is no problem for any character besides the playable character. The body and hair texture is combined into one, (the face here doesn’t matter - don’t edit it) so it will look like this:
For the playable character, the body and hair textures are also combined, however, there are a LOT of outfits to choose from. So if you want to change your character’s hair to black, you will have to change it on every outfit you want to use! It is annoying, but that also means you could have a different hair color for different clothes!
Editing and Inserting:
Ok, so now you know how to dump textures and where to find them! To edit them, use any program you want, but you MUST keep the EXACT name of the png.
1. To then see them in your game, go to your Documents folder -> Dolphin Emulator -> Load -> Textures. The Textures folder will be empty, and you need to create a folder with the same title of the file you found the dumps in. If you didn’t dump any textures and are simply uploading textures someone else edited and you don’t know what to name the file, right click your game on Dolphin, choose properties, click info, and the first part of the game ID is what you are going to use. (In most cases this is RBIEE9. If you are using Pride Parade, most likely it will be CBIEE9). (If you cannot find your game listed on Dolphin, make sure you set up a path to your game under Config).
2. After making the file (titled ONLY the correct combo of letters and numbers), you can then insert whatever texture pngs you edited. Remember, they MUST have the same name as the original texture so Dolphin knows what texture to replace.
3. Now, boot up the game, and done! You should see your edited textures in-game! (Make sure you exit the game and reboot if you are currently playing.) This can be done on a brand new game or a game you have been playing with for a while!
I have yet to find any errors due to editing textures so there should be no worries. Even doing crazy things like making a character transparent seems to have no effect on the game itself.
“This is annoying, hasn’t someone already uploaded these textures so I don’t have to dump them myself?” Unfortunately, from my research, no one has done so. There are a few possible reasons:
1. The naming conventions for textures may differ from game to game
2. It may not be legal to simply upload an entire game’s worth of textures out there for anyone to edit
3. There just isn’t enough interest in this game!
Luckily, I plan on creating some google drive folders of the face and clothes textures of all playable characters, bachelors, and bachelorettes for anyone to edit and insert into their own game! Also, if you know you have a specific texture you want to edit but you don’t feel like doing these steps or you currently have no way of reaching said texture, let me know and I should be able to grab it for you if you are using a RBIEE9 iso!
Have fun editing textures and let me know if you have any questions!
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