Modder “snouz” has released a new version of the fantastic Final Fantasy IX fan remaster project Moguri. This latest version includes many new, improved backgrounds, so it’s a must-have for anyone looking to replay this classic FF game.
We first reported on this mod in 2020. After four years, the modder has released a new version. That's quite impressive.
To go into more detail, Moguri V9.0 will upscale the newly rendered backgrounds, which will now be supported by Stable Diffusion and blended with the original result. It will also redraw many layer edges and improve most lights. The mod will also upscale the animated textures of monsters/NPCs and re-render, re-stitch and re-mood the battle backgrounds.
And that's not all. In recent versions, the mod has also received important additional improvements. For example, it now supports frame rates of over 60 frames per second. It also supports widescreen monitors. Anti-aliasing, texture filtering and it even has a new audio engine.
If you're feeling nostalgic, you can also use a PSX UI and custom fonts. And then we have some new cheats you can use. There's also a turbo dialogue/battle setting.
In short, this is what a faithful official remaster of Final Fantasy 9 could have looked like. So if you want to play this PSX FF game, I highly recommend you to use this mod. You can download it from this link.
As far as I know, no one has released a video for this latest version yet, so I've included the official trailer below that came out 3 years ago. It's a bit dated now, but it still gives you an idea of what to expect from it, so check it out.
Have fun!


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