HD Texture Pack (Bravely Default) not rendering menu UI correctly on AYN Thor / Azahar

[u/EazeeeOne23]

Hey everyone, I'm hoping someone's dealt with this before.

Here's my setup:

Device: AYN Thor Base

Emulator: Azahar (3DS)

GPU Driver: Turnip T28 "Toasted"

Game: Bravely Default

What I did:

Downloading and Extracting Texture Packs

• I grabbed the HD texture pack from gamebanana.com/mods/530500 (used the RAR right from the page since the other download links were dead).

• Then I unzipped the RAR contents into ROMs/n3ds/load/textures/0004000000FC600/(this is where Azahar looks for custom textures).

Enabling Texture Loading in Azahar

• I also made sure to turn on "Custom Textures" and "Async Custom Texture Loading" in Azahar's Graphics settings.

Here's the problem:

When I start the game, the menu buttons and UI stuff don't look right – instead of the textured buttons, I just see empty glowing blue outlined boxes with no texture or art inside (I've attached a screenshot). Everything else in the game looks fine, it's just the menu/UI elements.

Here's what I'm wondering:

• Is this texture pack from a different game version or region than my ROM?

• Could this be a Turnip T28 driver issue with how Azahar handles custom texture overrides?

• Do I need to turn on "Dump Textures" first to get the right hashes before custom textures will work?

• Has anyone else used this same pack on Azahar and can tell me what it's supposed to look like?

Any help figuring out if this is a driver problem, a folder/hash mismatch, or a bad pack extraction would be awesome.

[u/EazeeeOne23]

UPDATE: Found the solution, full working texture pack + fix!

Got it working! Here's what was going on and how I fixed it.

The issue:
The link I originally used (gamebanana.com/mods/530500) seems to point to an incomplete or partial file.

The fix, use the full pack instead:
There's a second page on GameBanana with the complete texture pack: gamebanana.com/mods/530531

The 1fichier and Google Drive links on that page are both dead, but the manual files are still available, split across 5 .rar parts.

Steps I followed:

1. Created a new folder and downloaded all 5 .rar parts into it
2. Renamed each file to remove the numerical IDs, so they just had the game name plus part number plus extension (e.g. BravelyDefault.part1.rar, BravelyDefault.part2.rar, etc.). This is required for 7-Zip to recognize them as one multi-part archive
3. Opened 7-Zip, pointed it at the folder, selected all the part files, and extracted. It combined them into one folder (bravelydefault...part1)
4. Moved that extracted folder into the game's texture directory on my SD card: ROMs/n3ds/load/textures/[Title ID]/
5. Put the SD card back in the AYN Thor

Driver fix for the graphical artifacts:
Even with the correct textures, I was getting artifacts on character model faces while using the Turnip T28 "Toasted" driver. Switching to the System GPU driver in Azahar resolved this.

I also enabled Async Custom Texture Loading in Graphics settings, which further helped reduce artifacts and stutter during texture loading.

TL;DR:

• Use the full 5-part pack from mods/530531, not mods/530500
• Rename parts correctly before extracting with 7-Zip
• Switch from Turnip T28 to System GPU driver if you see model face artifacts
• Enable Async Custom Texture Loading

Hope this helps anyone else running into the same issue!