/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9645363
Just use an AI, they're now good enough to upscale anything. Life saved

>>9645363
yeah i love dreaming to but we both know that the real thing is probably a disappointment and that our memories are the most appealing

>>9645363
What are you even going to do with them? Satisfy your curiosity and then never look at them again?

>>9645558
"""preserve""" them and make autistic off topic shit threads on /vr/ about them?

>>9645387
lmao no, that shit always comes out scuffed as fuck

>>9645363
deal anon. your target is Bill Gates.

>>9645558
>>9645614
Yeah, why would anyone want to look at shitty prerendered garbage. When they can just look at the original low quality compressed version?

>>9645673
>make autistic off topic shit threads on /vr/ about them

>>9645687
You're right, sorry about bumping off the millionth 'which games are must plays on the N64" or "Fixing to play Dragon Warrior 1, what should I expect" or "What is your opinion on Megaman X?"

>>9645687
Oh no now there isn’t room for “popular games sucks” threads or “what went wrong” threats that we have every other day

>>9645663
>always
Used to, a few years ago. The models that came out last year can upscale on a completely new level, old upscales look like shit compared to that. As far as I know nobody actually did game upscales with these models yet

>>9645387
>recommending AI upscale in a Donkey Kong thread

Lurk moar

>>9646345
lookin good

>>9645363
Why do you think there would be higher resolution source assets than maybe 480p at most? 3D Rendering back then was ridiculously time and hardware-expensive.

>>9645687
>off topic

I'm sorry retarder asperger child, but how exactly is anything in this thread "off-topic"? I would've responded like the other fellow anons here:
>>9645727
>>9646232

Who have precisely the right idea about your attitude, but I thought I would take a different approach to figure out what insect-tier autism is lying underneath.

>>9645687
case in point

>>9644294
>>9646856
>>9632901
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>>9645387
>Life saved
I won't forgive you for this, you fucking viviphile.

>>9646805
i can't stand how everything has to be hyper focused or very blurry with this shit. when i look at things in real life they aren't coming in and out of focus in a very distracting manner. just do away with it in 3D please.

>>9645363
Wtf is the yellow thing on the right? I always figured it was a garbage bag filled with gold coins.

Lately I've been thinking about all of the mobile java games I used to play in the early 2000's, like from 2004 to 2006 or 7. Feels like an entire genre of games that nobody even really knows existed is gone. Like I used to play an officially licensed top down version of call of duty.

I've seen pictures posted in a /v/ thread I can't find anymore of some backgrounds from the Resident Evil remake stripped of the blurry jpeg overlay. They had very high resolution and razor sharp models or something underneath all that. They were just blank white textures but they were insanely detailed, down to things like rivets and nails and flower petals laying on a table. I have no idea how all that stuff works, so maybe it's like a separate flat layer for lighting? Either way it was really cool to see.

>>9648162
Gold seam in a mountain.

>>9648162
tunnel access to the Hive

>>9645673
I’m trying to 3D print them, retard

>>9648178
You mean games on phones before smartphones right? Like with pressing phone keys? Those were comfy. I wish there were websites to find and play them on pc. The DOOM rpg was good

I hope the original version of Metal Slug where you only play as the tank leaks at some point. It sounds like a whole other game.

>>9651346
>I wish there were websites to find and play them on pc

You need to enhance your googlefu. One small tip: j2me

>>9648132
>when i look at things in real life they aren't coming in and out of focus
if you're looking at things through a *micro* scope they will

>>9646805
>renders are assets

>>9650853
fuck yeah 3D

>>9651508
What do you believe "asset" means? If 3D scenes or individual 3D models are used to create prerendered backgrounds or sprites, THOSE are the assets relative to the game, not the source 3D files.

Not to mention OP is talking about "high resolution" and "uncompressed" stuff, so obviously he's talking about render output (or, alternatively, he may simply be ignorant I guess).

I am interested though in whether the source files have been preserved and could be still usable in modern software.

>>9648226
I couldn't find the thread but I did find a video showcasing the same thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0L5Y_T502U

>>9645363
No HAL gigaleak

>>9645363
They probably still have the assets on the old sgi computers so it would be possible, it has an abes odysee look to it. I find the DK games on the wii to be terribly ugly in comparison.

>>9653326
They don't. Which is why the GBA ports looks like ass

>>9646246
Are there examples of it upscaling a low res version of a render that we have the uncompressed one to compare the results to? That'd be the real test to see how good they are at this. The FFVII backgrounds recently upscaled by AI look pretty decent.

>>9645363
>lost media
Zoomers man..............

>>9653941
How the fuck do you think this is a Zoomer thing?
t. 34

>>9654103
>t. 30yo zoomer
Many such cases

>>9654113
I’ve been called a boomer and a zoomer in the same day
I have now ascended. I am free of time. Generations no longer have any meaning to me. From where I sit, I can see humanity’s beginning and their end. Also your great grandma was kind of a baddie back in the day.

>>9645363
they probably didn't keep them because of the file size if we're being real. toy story 1 had to probably take up like over 20GB in 1995

>>9645363
Would you kill... yourself? How much are you willing to sacrifice to get those assets, OP?!

>>9654118
The nice men in lab coats will be there soon to take you to a soft white room

>>9645387

I've tried multiple times. It's barely progressed since ESRGAN. We've hit the wall with single image super resolution; the majority of new models are focused around improving PSNR, a useless but easily testable metric, and usually the state of the art can only boast a 0.05 improvement on Urban100. And any model that did present a huge improvement would be too large to train on consumer hardware anyway. https://paperswithcode.com/task/super-resolution/latest#code

The DKC trilogy isn't like Myst or a PS1 rendered background, the graphics are so compressed that they have more in common with pixel art, especially 2 and 3.

>>9645387

I've tried multiple times. It's barely progressed since ESRGAN. We've hit the wall with single image super resolution; researchers are focusing their attention elsewhere (like video), the majority of new models are focused around improving PSNR (a useless but easily testable metric) and usually the state of the art can only boast a 0.05 improvement on Urban100. Any model that did present a huge improvement would be too large to train on consumer hardware anyway. https://paperswithcode.com/task/super-resolution/latest#code

The DKC trilogy isn't like Myst or PS1 games, the graphics are so compressed that they have more in common with pixel art, especially 2 and 3. There's not enough information for the AI to extrapolate.

>>9654329
dkc background assets could've made use of some good dithering algo

>>9654291
>implying they can do that legally anymore

>>9656297
Call a man with fake tits a man and see what happens

>>9654178
if I died how would i see them? think stupid