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About this mod
All retro-enemies from SoR1, SoR2, and SoR3 have been overhauled with my enhancement(s) in a maximum effort to put them on par with the newer SoR4 art, if not in identical style, similar quality.
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Enhanced Retro-Enemy Overhaul
by Larry Blomstedt
About this Mod:by Larry Blomstedt
All retro-enemies from SoR1, SoR2, and SoR3 have been overhauled with my enhancement(s) in a maximum effort to put them on par with the newer SoR4 art, if not in identical style, similar quality. And while the results are not perfect, these sprite replacements are about as close as one might get without totally redrawing all the included characters by hand, sprite by sprite. I want to be clear this is not my original artwork. I have merely refined or reproduced or remastered the original artwork already included in the game. I humbly call what I did to each sprite an enhancement and used the word overhaul, because I applied my enhancement to all the sprites making up all the retro-enemies in the game. I even applied the same process to some of the retro-objects in the game, and included those as a bonus.
This is not your typical enlarged sprite mod:
This mod represents a painstaking process of not just enlarging the original sprites, but also 20+ adjustments to each individual sprite to make each character look like they should at the resolution they were enlarged to. For the past 6 months I have been editing and testing these sprites whenever I played SoR4. I created, tweaked, and perfected my own methods using Photoshop and ended with a something I can use to enhance and overhaul nearly any sprites of similar size to the orginal SoR sprites. Somewhat of a balance had to be struck between detail and smoothing, and again while not perfect, I believe the results to be outstanding, IMHO. I hope you will agree. As a side-effect, I have noticed that the new sprites even look superb when the game uses them in survival with the retro-filter effect though they were redone not to need it.
Please enjoy the mod.
Installation:
You will need the program, SOR4Explorer.exe to install the new game art over the original art included in the game. The contents of this zip file mirrors the proper install path of the retro-enemy and retro-object sprites. Before that, be sure to extract the original sprites somewhere for safekeeping. Look up the process to do this on your own. It takes some intermediate skill to mod this game. I won't teach you how. ALWAYS MAKE BACKUPS OF THE AFFECTED FILES!!! -AND/OR- Keep an unmodded copy of the entire game directory as a precaution. SoR4 is small enough to do this without problem. By using this mod, you agree that I, as the mod's author, am not responsible for any mishaps or damages arising from use of this mod.