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REQUIREMENTS

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- At least ~6GB of available space in total. Nova Chrysalia Mod Manager/Tool saves a copy of the mod pack but in an unpacked state to install. These can be deleted afterwards, but you lose some automated and ease of access functionality, such as automated uninstall option.

- Nova Chrysalia, you can download Nova Chrysalia from the respective Discord Server -> https://discord.gg/b6MAf7UjZ3

- 3.5" 5900RPM or better HDD.

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Instructions - Nova Chrysalia [Unpacked Files]

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* Please note, the FMVs may bug out if you ever use the Reboot function in LR's toolstrip at the top.

1. Download either English or Japanese 60 FPS FMVs. Open the 7z archive and extract the NCMP file [it's the only file that you will see apart from the readme file].

2. Open Nova Chrysalia, go to ModPack Manager. You will see a list of any existing modpack that has been added to Nova Chrysalia. You need to add the modpack that you have extracted in the previous step.

To do this, click on 'Add ModPack' and open up the modpack that you have extracted.

3. Nova Chrysalia may be temporarily unresponsive as it is creating and duplicating the contents of the modpack within the Mods folder.
- The unpacked version of the modpack can be deleted after installing the modpack in Nova Chrysalia. The drawback of this is that you completely lose the automated process and flexability of uninstalling the 60 FPS FMVs, along with being able to restore backed up files automatically. The backed up files remains within Nova Chrysalia directory, so manual file restoration is possible.

4. When you see the modpack has been added onto list on the left. Double click on the mod. You will be able to see the preview screenshot, along with the mod description and the ability to view readme file.

5. To install the 60 FPS FMVs, hit on "Install Mod". A confirmation window will appear, asking if you want to install the mod. Click on Yes.
- The installation process may take a couple of minutes, depending on the storage medium used. For Hard Drives, this may take anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes. On SSDs, it'll be a lot quicker.

You will be alerted by Nova Chrysalia when the upscales have been finished installing.

6. When you are done installing the FMVs, go to Game Launcher tab. Ensure on the right panel, that the Filesystem is switched from Packed Mode, to Unpacked Mode. If necessary, adjust the game graphical settings accordingly. Then launch the game.

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Compiled on 18/03/23 @ 2:47 PM by NomNom
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Discord Server will be dead on the 24th of March.

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Join us at Discord, where you will get live updates regarding any new 4K Remastered FMVs and Pre-Rendered Cutscenes that are in the works and released. Besides this, you will always get the mirror links before anyone or anywhere else.

Invite Link: https://discord.com/invite/TwCvReWhP4

Please read the rules before doing anything else on the server.

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Credits

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- fskartd - For providing me the Japanese FMVs as I had a "you" problem when attempting to extract the Japanese FMVs.
- Surihia - For giving me the permission to use the lossless audio tracks that he has extracted from the PS3 version of LR.

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Version History

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v1.0-en
- Released 60 FPS FMVs [ENG].
- Passed the FMVs through a De-Block and De-Noise process, cleaning up the frames.
- Enabled 4 CPU Cores Multithreaded support, to allow multiple cores to be used to playback the FMVs.
- Encoded to Bink 2, with the bitrate being injected with steroids.
- Used the appropriate Bink VAQ configuration and Deblocking solutions.

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Troubleshooting

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There are few things you can try to resolve an issue that you may be facing.

- Ensure that all your game files have been verified through Steam. This can easily be done by right-clicking the game on Steam, go to Properties, then head to Local Files and click on Verify integrity of game files. Then try installing this pack again.

- Ensure that the remastered video files have been installed correctly. Follow the instructions at the top, to ensure you have correctly installed the pack.

- If you are running the upscales in-game, on a HDD, try defragmenting your HDD using a third-party defraggers, like Defraggler, Smart Defrag [Warning: iObit software contains bloatware], and such as Windows Defragmentation Tool is simply bad.

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Frequently Asked Questions [FAQs]

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1. If I downloaded your upscales but in a render resolution lower than the original game's video files, would I see any benefit from the upscales?

A. Yes you would. Generally, VEAI (Video Enhance AI), removes the compression video blocks and artefacts as much as it can. Therefore, making the frames look cleaner. Furthermore, if I offer many quality options to choose from, to download for a game, the chances are I have downscaled the maximum render resolution available to download, to lower the render resolutions.

You will see the clarity and upscale results via downscaling, however the lower render resolution will always be blurry due to lower output resolution and bitrate (but generally, has higher bitrate than the original video files). It is recommended to download the upscales appropriate to your screen resolution if they are available.

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2. In games that uses Bink for video playback, why do you only give an option to download in 4K and not any other video output resolution?

A. Firstly, it saves a lot of time. Bink uses a complex algorithm that reduces bitrate as much as it can, whilst providing acceptable video quality, without compromising so much detail. Due to this, Bink can take so long to encode MP4/MOV (Apple QuickTime)/AVI (uncompressed) to BIK files.

Finally, the different between FHD/QHD to 4K file sizes are minimal. The difference in file sizes varies but it is very minimal. It will only really benefit you if you are using an 12GB HDD. Therefore, this will be a waste of time.

Bink also scales the video playback to your display resolution, so it does not appear zoomed in. But this is also subjective to the game.

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3. Why are Bink 1 encoded video files appear "brighter"? [Only applies to games that originally used Bink 2]

A. This is due to the limited colour space that Bink 1 uses. Whereas Bink 2 uses full range colour space which obviously gives darker blacks and brighter whites where necessary. Some games adapts their videos for full range colour space, whereas few ignores this.

To kind of avert this issue, I need to (from now on), tell the encoder to convert pixels that are close to black colour, to black. This is what was done to #final-fantasy-xiii v1.0 and newer cutscenes, which mimics how the cutscenes played originally and on the PS3 version.

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4. Can I use your 4K Remastered FMVs & Pre-Rendered Cutscenes for XGP titles?

A. Starting from the 3rd of March 2022 I believe, Xbox app has been updated to allow you to modify the game files (except from the Executables since they have the UWP DRM still integrated). This means you can indeed use these remastered FMVs & Pre-Rendered Cutscenes in XGP for PC games.

My word of advice: Avoid games on XGP for PC, unless you do not mind spontaneous issues that comes up here and there that can be very annoying.

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5. Why are the 60FPS videos lagging or playing in slow motion?

A. There are two possible answers.

1. Your laptop or computer is unable to consistently stream or playback the videos in 60FPS due to a bottleneck. Generally, long videos would need to be consistently streamed and gradually loaded in so your HDD (if that is where you are loading the game from) might be struggling. This is dependant on per-game basis. Some games tries to load the entire video, but there are many that gradually streams the video.

2. You have an FPS cap below the video encoded FPS. So, if the videos are encoded to playback in 120FPS but you capped the game run at 60FPS, this behaviour would occur (slow motion playback). Either use the appropriately FPS-encoded videos or use full V-Sync.

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