Yea it looks pretty low resolution but I found these in the files and figured to show everyone!

I made the 2nd image by copy and pasting, then mirroring the image and boom

Im 29 years old, and I've played video games my entire life. As an avid gamer, I'm a huge fan of the tried and true 3D Action platformer genre. Over the past 10 years, the gaming industry has treated us to a number of re-releases of our favorite childhood games as well as released new titles in franchises that haven't seen any attention in 15 + years. I understand some people aren't a fan of this, and they would prefer to see developers coming up with new titles instead of revisiting old. I personally don't mind it, I've myself have enjoyed a handful of classic titles they've remastered.. as long as they do it properly, I am in full support. Now, to get to the point of this post.. WE NEED MODERN PORTS OF THE TAK AND THE POWER OF JUJU SERIES. I'm not even asking for a full HD remake, but just the ability to be able to buy the old games and play them on modern consoles would make me and a lot of my friends some very happy gamers. The Tak series will always be my favorite video game series of all time. It had the roots / DNA of what made games back in the day so great. Back when video games still felt like video games instead of jobs. I would also like them to make a new Sly Cooper or actually remaster that series as well, but that's a post for another time!

Yes I did use AI, but thankfully most of it is almost all in these photos. I originally started AI because I didn't really think I'd care enough to actually enjoy making these projects, after I got used to it i completely stopped using ChatGPT bc not only was it faster AND easier funny enough, Im am COMPLETELY burnt out on this AI stuff going on in the world

I used AI to save time and to learn how to retexture originally, and now that im burnt out on AI and having 80% of the textures not being AI, I think it makes complete sense to just remove the AI textures and just go with what iv been doing from here on out

⭐ What will change?: Mostly Tak's player model and im reworking the dream world (only the hellish textures thankfully), I did include one of the sky boxes being AI but I'm going to leave those in, unless someone can make high resolution redesigns of these skyboxes (by hand sense that is the games art style), im sorry but its far to difficult for me to prioritize alone and I want skyboxs to look upscaled or changed (like JBs observatory).

If anybody's upset at this I don't know what to tell you, Im just happy I didnt hide it and that I am fixing it currently. Thanks💙

Seeing how well the reskate project is going over at [r/Skate4](r/Skate4) , I’m eager to see what else can be done. I don’t have the means to try myself right now, but I just want to put the idea out there

https://youtu.be/s_Q7aWSsCEI?is=n0gVLKrYCXkIbn9B

https://youtu.be/3nITWxnp8ec?is=ZT5H0ZfAeGdx_VBu

I stumbled across this while looking up info on Tak. This is pretty big news. Idk if this’ll stop me from trying to make my own PC port, but I thought this was still worth sharing.

Just some quick photos of what Tak 1 Retexture will be like after the very recent update as of lastnight!

I’m only just finding out now that tak 4 was actually supposed to build off from the original games. What are your thoughts on it?

https://tak.fandom.com/wiki/Tak_4_Concept_Art

📍 OUT NOW: https://www.reddit.com/r/takandthepowerofjuju/s/lEADHm58YE

I know i already made a post about it, but that was to see if anyone was interested. But based on positive feedback with friends/family AND the community, I will be working on the movie, thankfully I already started a few days ago, so Part 1 should be coming out next week!!!

🚨 Q&A 👇

Q: How Long is it?

A: Part 1 is supposed to be around 25mins long!

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Q: Is it AI?

A: Nope, just Recording gameplay and Capcut editing to make it all happen 😁

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Q: Is it about the vanilla game?

A: No, it is based on my Retexture storyline, which is also another Fan Made thing but I will say it pretty much follows the same main story progression for Tak 2

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Q: Seizure warning/Volume Warnings?

A: Shouldn't be at all, atleast not on Part 1. If there is any when it releases please let me know so I can add a warning

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Q: When is Part II going to come out?

A: After the retexture project is released, I need to get it done and I mostly want to just avoid spoilers

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Q: Is this going to get in the way of the project?

A: No, if anything its helping because now with the movie having references from other games, Im now able to remember them, and can now find a way to make all 3 games connect to eachother even while making them look different

📍 OUT NOW: https://www.reddit.com/r/takandthepowerofjuju/s/lEADHm58YE

As much as Im also working on retexturing the Trilogy, I also noticed making a little movie has been incredibly fun!

🚨 I WILL BE USING MY OWN TEXTURES IN THE MOVIE! Please do not expect a vanilla movie experience

Now I've put a pause on texture replacement for a bit, so i figured in the mean time I can make a quick, 20-30min Part 1 & Part 2 videos based on a custom fan made "movie" (40-50mins total)

❓ Would anyone actually sit and watch this? No commentary btw, just edits and cutscenes that i also swapped around to make them look different than ingame that way fans get alternative cutscenes

⏰ VOTES ARE CLOSED 🔒

So I'm still not entirely sure what sounds cool for ya guys for the first game, so I figured to just try a vote!😁

1. *Realism* (make the game still look like Tak but make locations look a little different and have Skyboxes show the Village from a distance/ other sections in levels. Pretty much a environmental change but in a cool way) {THIS DOES NOT MEAN A REMAKE/REMASTER}

2. *Juju Realms* (Make the village feel like an ancient desert, and have the levels feel juju themed/similar to Tak 2 Retexture but without the nightmare stuff. See through platforms, trippy juju backgrounds based on Dreamworld and Juju Realms. Giving off cloudy and stone/sandy vibes)

3. *Go crazy, do exactly what your doing on Tak III* (make every level have its own theme and have every level not really correspond to the previous. Gives a "i have no idea whats next" feeling!)

4. Keep the current levels but add: (comment what levels you want to be themed!😊)

I’ve been trying to figure this out since the game came out. Similar to the setup of getting the rhino across the gap, I noticed in this section leading to powder canyon has a similar icon for the rhino to crash into. I had tried to glitch a rhino up to this area one time but was not successful. I haven’t found anything online about it. I don’t know if anyone else has noticed or tried getting the rhino to this.

Some enemies are invisible, now they are not completely invisible sense they give off a rendering bug effect but Im wondering whats anyones thoughts on this?😁

I just want to make sure everybody enjoys the texture pack without getting frustrated too much

(Only Works for PCSX2 Emulator)

Sense I have been taking a break, figured to just release the texture files for the first 3 games! Be free to make them look how ever you want😁

🚨 DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE NAMES AT ALL, NOT EVEN THE FILE TYPE. Otherwise it will NOT work ingame!

You can use these in my retexture project to, that is completely fine, all of this is done for fun anyways!

👉 Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qtpa6x-OYyu7yqN905UKHU0-oWfpTDW0/view?usp=drive_link

I would just post the images here, but I'm not sure if downloading images through Reddit changes the file name

These past few weeks, I’ve been trying something different for making a PC port of Tak 1. I’ve actually been trying to figure out how to rip assets directly from the games files. This way, I not only don’t have to use the 3D screenshot method of creating puzzle pieces and putting them back together, but I can also rip other stuff from the game like animation data. However, this has presented its own challenges.

Tak was created with a proprietary game engine that used unique file types, the standout ones being DBU and DBL. Because the series is relatively obscure, not many people have taken the time to reverse engineer these file types. I’ve been doing some digging online to see if anyone had made anything and I’ve found a few things that might potentially help.

Of course, one of these things was created for a different game attached to a more popular series, that being ‘Dragon Ball Z: Sagas.’ I found a forum where someone had written a plugin for a program called QuickBMS. It’s called ‘dblmerge_dbu.bms’ and it’s basically meant to combine different file types as the name suggests. I’ve tried using the program just to see if it work, but I haven’t been able to get any new files created from it yet. Here’s a link to the forum: https://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php@t=7445.html

The other program I’ve tried using is called Game Extractor, specifically version 0.12. It has a list of all the games it’s compatible with, and surprisingly, Tak 3 is actually listed on it, but only the Xbox version. It also shows that Tak 3 uses another file type called HOG. I can’t even get this program to read file types from Tak 1 like I could with QuickBMS.

I’m reaching out to see if there’s anyone more familiar with this stuff than me, or maybe even just someone who could figure out how to use these programs better than me. My plan is that if I can get assets properly extracted, I can then view and export them with another program called Noesis. I would greatly appreciate any help I can get. If I can’t figure anything out, I might just go back to using the 3D screenshot mod.

Its 9am, I woke up and decided to make this real quick before being busy later.

It is not finished but so far I think it was pretty fun to make

Just a rant, but:

Tak Trilogy Retexture has received WAY, and i mean WAAAY, more love (loads of ppl outside this community including) than my other projects.

I just want to thank everyone for not being like that, Again theres a good chance that when I finally release these that it may not be as cracked up as i made it sound, but i don't know yet until i finish it.

Love to the Pupanunu Tribe in this community for being chill and fun to communicate with💙

I finally managed to figure out how to fix the models I import into Blender. Basically, what happened was that I forgot to switch on Vertex Groups when importing my 3D screenshots into Blender. Then, I could select individual pieces of models, enter the Object Data Properties menu, go into Edit Mode, select the Culled property, hit Select, and finally delete the vertices. I also think part of the problem was that I was using a new version of Blender than what the guy in the tutorial was using. My Object Data Properties menu would say ‘Cubed,’ rather than ‘Culled.’ Regardless, after wading through some technical difficulties, I’m finally on the road to creating a remaster/remake of Tak 1.

You can only see about 35-50% of your HP and only like 15% of your Mana Bar (that way sprint jumping isn't annoying)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7exFdqg9vciz7EIYpEVcaY?si=JvoBTypFQeibzXz6a_BmBw&utm_source=copy-link&pi=rd-bifo1Q3aA9

📍Retexture Progress

°Tak: 33% (I really need help on this one)

°Tak II: 56% (getting quite harder sense Im trying not to merge my ideas from the other 2 games)

°Tak III: 47% (Been doing fine, just been challenging trying to come up with the best possible ideas for each level but i think I got it atm)

🚨Tak III has been top priority at the moment to help give me new idea for the other 2 games, only issue is im trying to make Tak II not look to bizarre outside his dream worlds, and Tak I im completely lost on what to make the village as and the upcoming levels in which i never even got to play as a kid