Hello! I wanted to make a thread showing how it was possible to create custom textures using the PPSSPP emulator.
I made a video about it and it's pretty long because I suck at pacing myself. This was the tutorial I used as a reference.
http://bs23-designs.blogspot.com/2017/01/ppsspp-texture-modding-tutorial-for-v13.html
I mainly decided to do this to clear up the confusion. I'm sorry once again. I didn't mean any harm and in the future, I'll use the default graphics within the game when submitting runs.
I feel like it's going to be a difficult choise if this should be allowed. Now that i've seen how it's done and how easy it is, i see absolutely no harm in it, unless something like having blank textures makes the game run faster etc is discovered.
Then again, i have usually been against allowing texture/QoL mods on the leaderboards so it doesn't become extremely confusing. And i do believe, or at least hope, that in most cases not allowing any modifications demotivates people of using any "malicious" mods.
I'm not a mod, but i personally would probably not allow this. Even though it's very cool and i would definitely want to make my own textures.
Opinion noted. RIGHT NOW documentation of method will be asked and only modifying car textures is allowed. This can be put on vote as wanted.
Rando's point is what I also thought of while I was making the video. Someone can easily just replace all the textures as blank and make the loadtimes faster if they so choose. That can definitely be an issue in full playthrough runs.
For the sake of everything, this video will just be a point of reference and I also encourage against the usage of implementing textures as well. It's fun as a casual thing, but, if you're submitting records to the leaderboards there should be as much of an equal opportunity for everyone as possible.
....a.k.a play on the emulator because playing on hardware in full playthroughs is a pain in the ass because UMD loading shenanigans are a blow-up LOL
For other game categories, I can't think of a single one where something like this is allowed. The closest I can think of is allowing audio files which are just stored in the folder to be replaced for Undertale, but that's a pretty different situation. I would say, if you can quantifiably prove that there is 0 difference between textures, which you could test by recording a "TAS" of an RTA run (just cause it'd be easier) and playing it back and timing it with both textures.
I'm personally not against something like this if it's functionally the same and proven to be as such, regardless of other community policies because this is our, the RR speedrunners', board.
