firsttry51

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With a denoise filter, you can obtain the same and the benefit, in terms of the time lost to do it, is really minimalist
what do you use to denoise pics?, but yea the improvement would be more apparent if i could have kept the resolution at 4k,
back on topic caroline is the best girl.
 

joelurmel

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what do you use to denoise pics?, but yea the improvement would be more apparent if i could have kept the resolution at 4k,
back on topic caroline is the best girl.
XnViewMP with the internal filters, it's enough, fast and can be used in a batch.
 

Pitshruss

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just wondering, there is no sidra content on the game? it says that i finished her story even though i only spoke to her 2/3 times
 

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i thought some of the images in the game looked somewhat bad so i ran an ai upscaler in all of the .jpg of the game and downscaled it back to 1080p.
here's a comparison
ai upscaled
View attachment 3184295
original
View attachment 3184297

the image.rpa file went from 3gb to 5.5gb
So, if i understood correctly, the original 3,4 GB image.rpa can be replaced with your 5 GB image.rpa and the renderers in Milfy City ver. 1.0e will become the same as on your previews and the game will continue to work stably? No Ren'py errors, no missing backgrounds and etc?

If so, how much time did you spend on all this?
If so, i wanna look at what you did in my walkthrough.
If so, share archive with us when you have free time (gofile, pixeldrain, mega).
It would be wrong if such a huge work does not become public)
 
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firsttry51

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So, if i understood correctly, the original 3,4 GB image.rpa can be replaced with your 5 GB image.rpa and the renderers in Milfy City ver. 1.0e will become the same as on your previews and the game will continue to work stably? No Ren'py errors, no missing backgrounds and etc?

If so, how much time did you spend on all this?
If so, i wanna look at what you did in my walkthrough.
If so, share archive with us when you have free time (gofile, pixeldrain, mega). You can even divide it into 2 parts.
It would be wrong if such a huge work does not become public)
the upscaler i used has a bulk function that respects folder structure, so it wasn't labour intensive on my part,
the images.rpa file has 13k images, 3k being .png (mostly overlays) which i skipped, and 10k being .jpg mostly full screen images.
it took over 10 hours for the upscaler to finish, and the final 4k folder is around 11gb downscaled back to 1080p at 5.5gb,

i played for a few hours and there was no error on my end,

I'm uploading the image.rpa to gofile right now.
 

firsttry51

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AI UPSCALE PATCH 10k images from 1080p to 4k back to 1080p


Instructions
replace old image.rpa for the new AND replace the files on the main game folder with the ones on the ZIP file in the link, otherwise the game will give an error when trying to open the new image.rpa.
or
you could unpack the .rpa and place the image folder on milfy city\game and delete the original image.rpa.

it worked on my end but make a backup just in case

samples
original

upscaled


reason why some game files need to be replaced
i used renpy sdk 8.1.3 to compile the folder back to .rpa and the older version of renpy on the milfy city 1.0e doesn't support the new pickle protocol,
pickle is a python library btw
 
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joelurmel

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AI UPSCALE PATCH 10k images from 1080p to 4k back to 1080p


Instructions
replace old image.rpa for the new AND replace the files on the main game folder with the ones on the ZIP file in the link, otherwise the game will give an error when trying to open the new image.rpa.
or
you could unpack the .rpa and place the image folder on milfy city\game and delete the original image.rpa.

it worked on my end but make a backup just in case

samples
original

upscaled


reason why some game files need to be replaced
i used renpy sdk 8.1.3 to compile the folder back to .rpa and the older version of renpy on the milfy city 1.0e doesn't support the new pickle protocol,
pickle is a python library btw
Waste of time/bandwith for a very low benefit...
 
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Waste of time/bandwith for a very low benefit...
The images is a little sharper so it's a nice little upgrade.

firsttry51, if you need to replace the Ren'Py files, you might as well just zip them in 1 archive and call it a upscale version. That way people only need to download your version and can skip the Icstor download.

Any plans to upload the 4K version?

Thanks for sharing this.

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OK, since there's no file checking to see if your download is corrupted or not.

You can check MD5 in windows "power shell" by doing this.

Open your download folder where you downloaded the "images.rpa" file to.

Right click on a empty space and find "power shell 7" or whatever version of power shell you have and select "open here"

Copy and paste (or type it out by yourself) this command in power shell window

Code:
certutil -hashfile images.rpa MD5
Wait until it finish checking the file. It could be a long time or it could be very quick, just don't close the power shell window.

Once done you'll see the MD5 check sum come up in power shell window.

Check to make sure it's the same as the Gofile check sum (which is "d7090920ce88f0e69f26da46fc74d04d")

If it's the same then your download is good.

If it's not the same then you have to download it again.
 
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firsttry51

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The images is a little sharper so it's a nice little upgrade.

firsttry51, if need to replace the Ren'Py files, you might as well just zip them in 1 archive and call it a upscale version. That way people only need to download your version and can skip the Icstor download.

Any plans to upload the 4K version?

Thanks for sharing this.
the renpy files that need replacing are only like 20mb, it's just code stuff.

the 4k images didn't fit to screen properly for example
ingame
Screenshot (1091).jpg

outside game
2.jpg

i don't really know much about renpy to make it fit properly
 

SonsOfLiberty

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final steam version yes, but i have seen people in this thread saying there will be dlc in the future
You are correct, "e" is the final build as of now. There will be 3 DLC's, last I checked a month back, the first DLC was little over 30% complete, so who knows when the first will come out, let the next 2.
 
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