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continuing the stranger of sword city revisited upscale. frida didn't work. an instrumented apitrace wrapper did. a code cave with REX-prefix bugs, a wrong texparts.lod hypothesis, and the realization that we'd been over-correcting the whole time.
trying to 4× upscale a 2016 jrpg's textures
a multi-day rabbit hole of reverse engineering EXG textures, YPAC archives, layout files, and an x86-64 sprite engine - to make Stranger of Sword City Revisited look less blurry on a 4K monitor.
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