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AI upscaling mods

Postby shadowcat » Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:49 am

I never cared much for (commercial or hobbyist) graphics "remastering" projects because of the way details get altered by artists. Shader upscaling or oversampling never tickled me either. Now that I read some articles

https://www.pcgamer.com/AI-upscale-mod-list/
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/pc-metroi ... 2-01-2019/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/list-of-hd- ... om.620163/
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/13/upscaling-the-sierras/
https://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=14787


Why the explosive interest all of a sudden? From PS2 - PC - consoles. Has technology really sped up that much?

Now I'm thinking .. what the heck have I missed out on?? Ermm.. am I going to regret not experiencing most / any of it before I have no time? But I'm torn about the creative liberties. And I also realize that I'm going nowhere on a 512MB VRAM card with 2GHz cpu for the next decade.

And I have to ask - does one feel like that warm nostalgia is being peeled away? What is original artist creative intent anyway? I hear this with Japan to English transations (Working Designs in particular - Lunar and Grandia series) being "butchered" although the English world seemed more friendly to Ted Woolsey (FF4, FF6, CT). Heck, fan rhdn translations can sometimes irk me too.

Although the graphics upscales look intelligently done, but sometimes feels like a really oily painting but much better than any Scale2x or x-shader I ever used.
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Re: AI upscaling mods

Postby Scaryfun » Sat Feb 11, 2023 6:25 am

Was meaning to comment on this but forgot. I think it's people with 4K monitors that want to play older games and due to the low-resolution and blocky early 3D graphics, they don't look good on modern graphics. For people with older systems, they can still play those games on original settings and get their nostalgia crave. But those with modern systems, these upscaled graphics of older games give them the nostalgia of playing their favorite older games and it still looking good now. I've run across some of these and added them to Mods/TCs section over the years. Even ones as old as Doom which is now 30 years old, still have great modding communities which keep the game alive with modern graphics. Thanks for the links, I will try to continue to add ones... especially for the older games.
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