My Texture Pack Projects personal remasters for DuckStation & PCSX2

[Maximecool]

Hi everyone,
I’m creating this dedicated thread to share all my PS1 and PS2 texture pack projects for DuckStation and PCSX2.

I’m still learning and experimenting, so please keep in mind that I’m not a professional I’m doing my best to understand, test, and improve step by step.
My goal is to remaster the games I personally love, especially those that never received any remake or remaster and are often forgotten today. Before I start a project I also check that no one has already released a texture pack for the game I select, so I try to focus on titles that haven’t been touched yet and keep that advantage.

Each project is made with care and passion, even if sometimes I struggle or make mistakes I learn as I go.
If you find bugs, duplicates, or texture issues, feel free to report them; I always appreciate feedback and advice.

To keep things organized, I’m regrouping all my projects here instead of posting multiple separate threads.
-> If a moderator reads this, please delete or merge my old individual threads, since everything will now be managed in this one place.
because I can't delete:

Conflict Desert Storm HD Texture Pack for PS2 (PCSX2) by MaximeCool + Download

My First Texture Pack: This is my first texture pack, created using 4x upscaling with the AI Real-ESRGAN, containing 4,500 textures (2.42 GB) for the European version SLES-50902. Some textures are missing, but overall almost all levels are covered up to the last one. Only with the American...

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Inspector Gadget Mad Robots Invasion My Texture Pack HD for PCSX2

This pack was made for Inspector Gadget: Mad Robots Invasion, a PS2 exclusive released only in Europe (with multiple languages). I fully completed the solo campaign and upscaled 2,078 textures (374 MB) with AI Real-ESRGAN at 4x. Notes: The game was already visually very rough for a PS2 title...

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Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings HD Texture Pack for PSP (PPSSP) by MaximeCool + Download

My First PSP Texture Pack: This pack was created for Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (PSP), covering all solo missions up to the final boss. It includes 2,370 textures (749 MB), upscaled with AI Real-ESRGAN at 4x. Since PSP textures are much smaller than PS2 ones, the results are more...

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Thanks to anyone who might have an interest in my work or who wishes to follow these projects.
This thread will be updated in the future it’s not something I plan to abandon.

To start, I’ll begin with my latest updates for PS1 and PS2

For Duckstation:
If you experience crashes:
Make sure Preload texture replacement and OpenGL are enabled.
Your duckstation must be up to date to support the webp format.
Texture filtering: Nearest neighbor recommended for these packs

Toy Story Racer
(PAL german & French SLES-03397) mostly OK,all circuits have been redone (I had to remove the tyre textures to fix a graphical glitch,while waiting to find out how to fix this, only the tires are not retextured on the karts.
it may work in other regions if you rename the folder, but this is not guaranteed.
widescreen hack from emulator enabled
Original texture:


My texture:


Download it from my Google Drive:

SLES-03397.rar

drive.google.com

Crash Team Racing (USA English)
For Crash, a few icons show imperfections,this texture pack fully restores all tracks in both Adventure and Arcade modes.
Patches: apply widescreen/ 60FPS
PGXP geometry correction
Enable lcache (CPU): ON
Overclock: 1000%
Original texture:

My texture:

Download it from my Google Drive:

SCUS-94426.rar

drive.google.com

To conclude, I’ll finish with two PS2 games: one new and one that I’ve fixed. My closing words will be about my future projects that I’ve already started, along with a list of the ones I plan to work on. It’s not that I won’t come back to my older projects, but since I’m not very skilled, it’s not easy for me.

PCSX2 :
Gadget & Gadgetinis (PAL SLES-52845 contains multiple languages including English)
This is my best result, full texture, no defects, I finished twice to be sure everything is fine and it is.
original:

my texture:

Download it from my Google Drive:

SLES-52845.rar

drive.google.com

Inspector Gadget (it is not new already published however new link because I repaired textures which crashed on certain loading screens, and I was also able to improve the rendering of certain details, the final version, now everything is finally good)
original:

my texture:

Download it from my Google Drive:

SLES-51247.rar

drive.google.com

I didn’t include my old Desert Storm because it’s really broken and I couldn’t make it usable, and I’ve abandoned the PSP to focus only on the PSX and PS2 versions. Thank you for your understanding.

All texture processing is used by the RealESRGAN AI application.
For anime or cartoon-style textures, I use ESRGAN_x4Plus Anime.
Always at a 4x scale.

Here are my future packs in progress:
PS1:
Ace Combat 3
Mickey's Wild Adventure
Hercules(Disney)
Gran Turismo 2
Men in Black: Crashdown the Series(game based from cartoon)
MediEvil 2
Inspector Gadget Gadget's Crazy Maze (puzzle video game)

For PCSX2:
Wacky Races
Woody Woodpecker
Mummy return(based from movie)

 

[sneakyguts]

good work as always

 

[Maximecool]

good work as always

Thanks even if for crash I expected better a little disappointed and yet I did the same method as for toy story racer

 

[Mahan_Native]

that's really good. i'm looking forward to your future projects.

 

[Maximecool]

Texture HD Duckstation Dexter's Laboratory Mandark's Lab​

texture for SLES-03829 Dexter's Laboratory Mandark's Lab
original:

with texture:

link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dh1p6nJTIGsdqGS55pIlHaw69_0oiPsB/view?usp=drive_link

Post automatically merged: Friday at 9:43 AM

I haven't posted the link yet, waiting for a better version.

Dexter reimagined by me:

before:

 

[Maximecool]

Texture for Duckstation Rugrats Studio Tour​

I present to you Rugrats Studio Tour exclusively and in its best quality, with 8x the textures, the entire single player, and the bonus levels. This is the French version SLES-02524, but it should work on your PAL English and American version by renaming the folder. Let me know if you have PAL, I can't certify it for your version.
Before

Now:

I recommend these settings, but in any case check the box to preload texture important for stability given that it is quite heavy (700MB of texture) there are no duplicates I use software with an algorithm that removes duplicates, these are all textures

Link:

SLES-02524.rar

drive.google.com

 

[Maximecool]

PCSX2 Texture HD Wacky Races (SLES-50183)

My texture for Wacky Races Starring Dastardly & Muttley (PAL SLES-50183 contains multiple languages including English) all circuits and drivers in 8x (890mb texture , knowing that basically it's not a big game since it's a blue disc, so already quite a lot in terms of texture quantity)

Before:

Now:

Link https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Cy0BJSbjFWoO1Woi_XI5foToULxR4SI/view?usp=sharing


I strongly recommend using either Vulkan or OpenGL, and setting TC Offset X = -385 and TC Offset Y = -187