Mars' The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures Texture Pack

I remember finally getting my hands on this game, putting the disc on and being deeply dissapointed by how muddy it looked. It detracted me from enjoying the game and never got any far.

After some experimenting I got working textures that are 8 times the size of the originals, maintaining their pixel ratio. Then spent over a month remaking all textures for the initial version of the pack using different methods like redrawing, retracing, Waifu upscaling, all of which resulted in a sharp and clean game experience.

I like to imagine this is what the developers originally intended for it to look, they used 1:1 sprites and couldn’t take into consideration the limitations of the console at the time, this pack aims to restore that vision.

Instructions

• Scroll down and download the file you need - Extract it’s contents into your “Dolphin Emulator > Load > Textures” folder

Note: It’s made for the NTSC-U version of the game (G4SE01).

Make sure ‘Load Custom Textures’ and ‘Prefetch Custom Textures’ are checked under the advanced tab of your graphic settings in Dolphin.

Version 0.2 - Stages 2 and 3 of Level 2 (Village of the Blue Maiden and Eastern Temple)

How to set it up

1. In Dolphin, open File > Open User Folder, then go into Load/Textures/.
2. Extract the download there, so you end up with a Load/Textures/G4S/ folder.
3. Open Graphics > Advanced and tick Load Custom Textures. Ticking Prefetch Custom Textures too stops stutter, if you have the RAM for it.