Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - The Contempt of Court HD

This is an HD remaster of The Contempt of Court, a game made by Cardiovore in the game engine PyWright, featuring 4 cases and being set a month and a half after Bridge to the Turnabout with the death of Marving Grossberg. Check the original game here. Spoilers for Ace Attorney 1, Trials and Tribulations and Investigations 1.
TCoC HD will be made in the upcoming Ace Attorney Turnabout Creator, a case maker that's being launched this december 28th and lets you create cases in a 16:9 aspect ratio. And before you ask, yes, I have Cardiovore's consent.

What to expect?

- A refined OST and SFXs: all the songs will be in high quality and properly looped, some are getting removed, some are getting replaced and new ones will be added. As for the SFXs, some of the custom ones are getting refined.
- Characters: with new designs but faithful at the same time.
- Backgrounds and scenes: all the custom backgrounds and scenes will be in HQ.
- Available in multiple languages: the will be launched in both english and spanish. This is because spanish is my native language and because the spanish AA community has been asking to Capcom to release their games in spanish for years. To give you an idea, only 6 games were translated to spanish: the PW trilogy on the DS, Apollo Justice, AAI 1 and PLvsAA. So why not give them one? if you wanna cooperate in launching this game in your native language, feel free to do so
- Miscellaneous: visual and gameplay improvements, bug and glitch fixes, etc.

Who is working on the game?

- Artists: janedoodlesthings, Amante De LaMorte and poripato.
- Beta testers: me and noname8147.
- Composer: me.
- Voice actors: marcellscx_16991 (Vincenzo in spanish), carloserx (Hemlock in spanish) and kibo2004 (Vulper and Brisbane).
- Writers: me (both), striker729 and marakusan (spanish translation) and JustNoahHere and glakiveravintunagch.

Estimated progress:

Latest news: SURPRIIIIIIISE! it's almost christmas, and I have good news regarding the characters. Jane has been working on new designs for all the TCoC HD characters, which means the 3 fully working sprites won't be used in the game and thus, will have their own categories, but you can use them for your OL videos. On this new category, we will also show rough drawings of Titus Krump and Erol Brisbane before the redesigns. Speaking of new designs, there has been good progress. Jane working on Vulper, Vincenzo, Snow, Brisbane, Krump and most recently Freude and Rubin, and poripato with Vincenzo, Greisen and Crane.

Beta characters:

List of characters:

Case 1: Turnabout Scapegoat


Case 2: The Haunted Turnabout


Final case: The Ensnared Turnabout

TCoC HD OST:

For guidance, if the song has a ";", it means the song next to it is the original one, and if labeled as "???", the original song has not yet found and could be replaced. And if it doesn't have neither, then it's official from the Ace Attorney soundtrack.
If you want to check the original OST for comparison, click here.

Case 1: Turnabout Scapegoat


Case 2: The Haunted Turnabout


Case 3: Turnabout of the Snow


Final case: The Ensnared Turnabout

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So an HD remaster meaning all new sprites and backgrounds? What all is getting Remastered here?

Basically yeah: sprites, backgrounds, evidence, SFX, they are all getting remastered.

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Hi!! I have played the fangame contempt of court and it is absolutely one of the best peices of ace attorney fan content out there. I think I might be able to lend some assistance as I have drawn ace attorney sprites a few times in the past a coincidentally a few weeks ago i have been making rough mock ups of what Snow and Vulper would look like reimagined in HD!! Heres Robert Snow for example!

That's amazing! I'm looking for people who can help me with the sprites, scenes and stuff. My Discord user is in my signature so add me and we can discuss this further

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Just saw this and wanted to make sure (reminder from someone who's been around the block) you have consent from Cardiovore on this.

Depending on the person, remaking (and taking creative liberties) may be in poor taste.

Provided you have that consent I'll be curious to see how this develops!

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Yes! I have the consent of Cardiovore.

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He's right you know

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THE LEGEND HIMSELF! Mr. C, I'm your big fan!!!

May I ask, will it be in the style of a remaster of the Phoenix Wright trilogy or in the style of a remaster of the Apollo Justice game? Also, I would like to ask if the 3D engine will be integrated into the game?

The style will be on the Phoenix Wright Trilogy. As for the 3D engine, well yeah. The game will be made on AATC. If that's not what you meant, tell me.

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Yeah, basically, that's what I meant.

To be honest, I am very glad that the game has successfully passed the test of time. Moreover, I will say, that back in December last year I started working on something global, which was strongly inspired by the plot and characters from CoC, details will be later. At the same time, I'm going through the Mr. C.'s game for the hundredth time, and I'm amazed at how well the plot was worked out, down to the smallest details (I was especially shocked by the connection between Docks and Terry Greisen and the disclosure of the main antagonist of the story), and how Mr. C. left references to future events back in the FIRST CASE (by the way, I'm still asking if the same Smith from Turnabout Scapegoat was Renwick or not).

Basically, since I'm not too busy with my work right now, I could also help you and speed up the process of working on the remaster, if you don't mind, of course.

UPD: Don't pay attention to the number of posts, I last logged on to the platform back in February, and I certainly didn't expect SUCH A GREAT EVENT to happen here

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Of course I don't mind getting more help! any help is and will always be appreciated. The more help the faster we can finish this game. You can contact me via Discord. You can find my username in my signature.

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Already did! (For the sake of such happiness, I even had to get a discord, XD)

Thanks! I hope I recieve an answer from you soon

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I can't wait to see what new fangames we get with this new case maker. Personally I think it looks like one of the best case makers to date. Plus I feel like we're heading into a new wave of games with everything that's been made recently, and even this, a fan remaster of a fan game!

I believe some day AATC will completely replace PyWright and Ace Attorney Online. Those 2 while are a classic and people still make games to this day, it is a payne in the ass to develop games in them, even if you know what you're doing. There's also Objection.lol but people mainly use it to create short videos, not games, plus it's missing a lot of stuff like characters and mechanics, so you need to use codes for that. It seems that will change in the future with all the new info we've got, but even so it uses the internet so good luck if you have a shitty conexion like I did until recently. That's why I say AATC could revolutionize AA games in a way never seen before.

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PyWright is a bit of a pain to use, (at least compared to modern standards). The only part of it I could ever get to work correctly was plugging in alternate music for the games I played. I had the same feeling toward AACT (Ace Attorney Casing Tool) as I did for the new AATC, however the owner shut it down recently, so I'm also glad that we're getting a new replacement game engine soon.

Why did the owner shutted down Casing Tool?

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It conflicted with his job. He didn't have enough time on his hands to keep working on it plus whatever his job was, they knew he worked on it and didn't like it because they considered it part of the "emulator" category, so he had to shut it down indefinitely

Oh damn

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How do you plan on remastering the ost? Is it just going to be higher quality versions of the same track, or are you going to remaster it from scratch?

I just grabbed the songs I found on the internet that are in good quality and make their intro and loop. There really isn't any mystery behind.

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