>>22908362It's not third-party, PCL developed it with the intent of providing resources for GameFreak in the first place.
>>22908397It's nuts. There's no reason why they couldn't optimize them. At that resolution they'd look pretty much identical and not bring the 3DS to its knees.
>>22911847While it's great to have the original high-poly meshes around to reuse for the next several games, there's no sense in using them as-is when optimization can be automated in most cases. Most game developers produce meshes with a polycount in the millions and reduce them for the hardware they're targeting, I don't see why PCL and GameFreak couldn't have done the same - or if they did, why they couldn't have optimized them further.
