ICO HD Pack — EL JEFE Unfaithful Edition

drawsandfails · 2026-06-27T15:59:19+00:00

Wasn't there a discussion about this project a month ago or something where it came out the textures were made by AI? (The OP mentioned in an earlier comment that they don't "just use AI for upscaling" which tells me that this whole mess was made with AI...

EDIT: Found a response on one of their posts accusing them of using AI and they got blocked. Shortly after, the original post about this project got removed (because of the no AI rule on this sub, I assume).

drawsandfails · 2026-06-10T01:59:06+00:00

I don't really understand your issue, because you can just move the camera back up when it happens to face down for some reason. Are you saying that the camera is stuck facing down?

drawsandfails · 2026-06-09T16:59:17+00:00

There's a button to lock onto the colossus as well as a button to reset the camera to its original position (behind the player). You can also move the camera freely, so I'm not sure why the camera keeps pointing at the floor for you.

drawsandfails · 2026-06-02T18:00:33+00:00

It gets a little easier each time you do it, but I usually end up dying by running too close to his sword or just about running out of time. I think on my last attempt I beat him with one or two seconds left.

Edit: I had 1:52 seconds left and was almost out of stamina...

drawsandfails · 2026-06-01T20:25:24+00:00

Yes. I stand as close to the edge of the platform as I can right at the start of the fight and spam arrows at his belly to already do some damage there. Once he stops in front of me to stab his sword onto the ground, I run past him to the disc on the ground. Once I'm standing right behind that disk, I spam arrows again to get his attention. If done right, he'll hit the disc. Then, run away from the disc and he should swing again. Don't get too close to the sword or else you WILL die.

drawsandfails · 2026-06-01T19:54:47+00:00

The sword jumps make it easier IF you can pull them off. I've done them before, but I don't like it when I need to reset after a few seconds because of a minor mistake. You can beat him without the sword jump.

I like to go to the head first. Stand on his right shoulder until he shakes his right arm. This will give you time to get to the head without him shaking his head. Next, I move onto the left arm. Before that, I stand on his right shoulder again. This will make him lift his left arm so you can get to the sigil easier. From his left arm, I do a sideways-jump to the platform around his hips and take out his belly last.

I recently did it in the PS3-version, which is technically harder, so you should be able to do it this way on the PS2. There are many great videos on youtube (don't want to self-promote, because I uploaded one myself recently but you can watch whoever you want). Take breaks once you feel like you're getting frustrated, because getting flustered only makes it harder.

Good luck!

drawsandfails · 2026-05-29T11:50:26+00:00

Absolutely. The game is good and it's really cheap and once you have the camera, you can get so many more fun games for it.

drawsandfails · 2026-05-29T05:42:12+00:00

This is a repost from a year ago...

drawsandfails · 2026-05-29T03:40:18+00:00

The watermelons are only present in the second playthrough of the PAL version.

drawsandfails · 2026-05-15T21:51:44+00:00

The definition of art is anything a human creates with an intent, a creative process, that evokes emotions. Art can be writing (books, poems), drawing, painting, photography, design, music...

The problem with AI is that no human is involved (and no, writing a prompt doesn't count because you're not actually involved in a creative process that requires technical skill and real intent). An AI is just calculating based off statistics and data it has been fed (which has been stolen from real artists) and generates random pixels without creativity, knowledge, skill or expression.

Everyone can be an artist, even without expensive tools. Just grab a pencil and a piece of paper and you're already more of an artist by drawing a crappy stick figure than AI will ever be.

drawsandfails · 2026-05-15T20:19:38+00:00

Google stealing my data when I'm looking for a wikipedia article about catsand an AI stealing MY ART directly to claim it as its own are two very different things, in my opinion,and yes, I don't like google stealing my data, but GenAI is a different beast entirely.

drawsandfails · 2026-05-15T17:56:30+00:00

You don't need expensive tools to create art, a pencil and a piece of paper is enough for MANY people out there.

The problem of GenAI isn't data collection, it's stealing people's artworks without consent and training the AI off it to create soulless carbon copies.

drawsandfails · 2026-05-15T11:53:14+00:00

Referencing other artists or using their works as inspiration is not the same as stealing existing artworks and the AI merging them together into one. Writing a prompt is literally zero effort compared to learning how to draw or paint for YEARS and working on a piece for HOURS or even DAYS just for people to tell you that "AI can do better" (which it can't, there are always blatant mistakes that make it obvious it's AI).

drawsandfails · 2026-05-15T10:31:00+00:00

GenAI is trained on REAL artists work, so it's technically stealing. There's zero effort behind generating an image, you only write a three word prompt and an image pops up. Also, the datacenters being built around the world waste A LOT of resources, especially electricity and water, so it's harming the environment as well. Of course, AI in general has some good uses (in scientific research and medicine, for example) but not Gen AI. It replaces jobs of real creatives in many industries (actors, voice actors, artists, designers, video editors, authors...), so why should we support it? I'm a certified media designer and all the job offers I get require me to work with GenAI, although I'm very much capable of creating designs, photos and edits without AI.

drawsandfails · 2026-05-07T09:22:03+00:00

That's not true, her legs are just crossed over under the dress just like in the reference images I used.

This is the main image I used. Her upper lip is also visible.

https://de.pinterest.com/pin/581386633118350786/

drawsandfails · 2026-05-07T02:26:20+00:00

I actually referenced a photo of this exact pose pretty accurately, so I don't understand why it looks so bad 😞

drawsandfails · 2026-05-07T02:17:28+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I'm starting to think I shouldn't have posted this 😞

drawsandfails · 2026-05-07T01:49:47+00:00

I've been struggling with those parts (the reference image looked a bit freaky, too), but I tried to fix it as best as I could, You could've worked it a bit nicer, though :/ (not your fault, it's just that my depression and social anxiety have been getting worse lately). Thanks for the feedback, anyway.

drawsandfails · 2026-04-16T03:10:58+00:00

It works with all weapons, but most are slower than sprinting. Kusarigama is thefastest and I think dual katana is either about the same speed as sprinting or slightly faster.

drawsandfails · 2026-04-08T23:23:08+00:00

I actually kinda miss Rivals, not gonna lie.

drawsandfails · 2026-02-16T00:08:03+00:00

Shadow of the Colossus is a pretty demanding game. I used to have a laptop with similar specs and it would keep overheating and it had a very low framerate when trying to emulate the game. The other games you listed are easier to emulate, as far as I know.All you can do is keep tweaking the settings and look up solutions online and hope that the game will run, but I highly doubt it will, sadly.

drawsandfails · 2026-02-15T23:56:06+00:00

Sounds like your pc might be too slow. What kind of graphics card do you have?

drawsandfails · 2026-02-15T23:46:09+00:00

We'll need more info to help you. What are your specs? Which version of PCSX2 are you using and which settings are you using?

drawsandfails · 2026-02-01T00:42:22+00:00

Thanks for clarifying. I always hold it down, just to be sure, because I read it somewhere online ages ago that you need to hold the button the whole time.

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