Moguri Mod
Final Fantasy IX Recreated
What's Moguri Mod ?
Moguri Mod is a faithful revamp of Final Fantasy 9 (on Steam), aided by AI (ESRGAN and Stable Diffusion). It makes backgrounds more detailed, highres, cleaner and less noisy, while respecting the original art.
It is aimed to first time players and veterans alike. It restores a lot of what made the charm of the original PSX game.
It is based on Memoria mod, which brings a mountain of features and polish.
Main Features
Moguri
HD backgrounds (aided by AI and polished by hand)
Manual redraw of all 11k layer edges and area names
HD textures (worldmap, NPC, monsters, battles, UI elements...)
Matching background FMVs
Memoria
Launcher with settings + mod manager + model viewer
A huge list of bugfixes, cheats, skips and QoL options
High framerate (30 / 60 / 120 fps)
16:9/16:10 Widescreen (where possible)
Smooth camera
Rendering and sound improvements
Alternative modes for battles (turn based...)
...and cards (Triple Triad...)
Original PSX font
PSX behaviors / features restored (UI, textures, randomness...)
Modding base for most other mods
More information on the project's github
30fps cinematics
You have the option to download Moguri 30 fps FMVs from the Mod Manager.
This is a fluidification of the FMVs in the game, from 15 frames/seconds to 30, using AI (DAIN). This is not part of the main mod anymore, as it is pretty heavy and can seem a wonky in some places.
Alternative orchestral soundtrack
Moguri Mod used to comes with 13 (optional) orchestrated tracks made by Pontus Hultgren, the soundtrack is now a separate mod that you can download from the Mod Manager. You can listen to more of his work on his youtube channel.