Reserachers make old school nintendo games look awesome;)

[0roo0roo]

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[0roo0roo]

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[ahenkel]

Needs to be in 3D glorious 8-bit 3D

 

[Mike Gayner]

Even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBb9wFP7uZM

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

I hope this research wasn't paid for with my tax dollars...


Oh hell... I know it was. Fuck. How many billions did this cost?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Completely removes the original charm. Total blasphemy. If you can't see the pixels, it isn't real. 0/10 for their attempt.

EDIT: Doesn't this already exist to some extent in SNES9x anyways?

 

[dighn]

that's pretty sweet.

 

[Crono]

Completely removes the original charm. Total blasphemy. If you can't see the pixels, it isn't real. 0/10 for their attempt.

EDIT: Doesn't this already exist to some extent in SNES9x anyways?

Yeah, that was my first thought. Filtering in ZSNES and other emulators already do that. I always turned on everything possible to make Chrono Trigger look smoother

Smoothing works pretty well for animated/drawn content because you don't lose a lot of detail by doing it (there isn't that much in old console games). This is probably a new, better algorithm, but it's not revolutionary for SNES emulation.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms

 

[Mike Gayner]

I hope this research wasn't paid for with my tax dollars...


Oh hell... I know it was. Fuck. How many billions did this cost?

Two researchers -- Johannes Kopf from Microsoft, and Dani Lischinski from The Hebrew University

404 Tax dollars not found.

 

[nanette1985]

Completely removes the original charm. Total blasphemy. If you can't see the pixels, it isn't real. 0/10 for their attempt.

EDIT: Doesn't this already exist to some extent in SNES9x anyways?

Agree one thousand percent.

The "better" graphics are interesting but totally miss the point.

 

[ponyo]

It's already in nintendo emulators.

 

[0roo0roo]

well there are filters, but not this good.

 

[Crono]

well there are filters, but not this good.

Yeah, apparently (aside from all the technical aspects) this one works better at higher (above 2x scaling) resolutions. Which is good news I guess if you are playing on high res.

 

[Fox5]

Yeah, apparently (aside from all the technical aspects) this one works better at higher (above 2x scaling) resolutions. Which is good news I guess if you are playing on high res.

Better algorithms existed that already do more than 2x. I don't see anything unique about these, other than them publishing it.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Wow, I think this looks terrible. It looks extremely weird and is totally un-necessary.

 

[nublikescake]

Even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBb9wFP7uZM

That's sweet man. Thanks for posting. :thumbsup:

 

[shortylickens]

Yeah ummm, that happens in real time on SNex9x, and it looks better besides.

 

[Fenixgoon]

some things look better, others not so much.

 

[DrPizza]

Pong with a ball that looked perfectly like a tennis ball or something would suck. Higher resolution doesn't necessarily improve old games.

 

[CZroe]

Emulators have been doing similar filters in real time for over a decade. This algorithm just takes a couple different assumptions based on the source being understood to be deliberate pixels. IIRC, the examples in this post look bad compared to 2xSuper SAI filtering results I've seen. The example I saw on Google Reader associated with this news was much better (the dolphin from Super Mario World).

 

[darkswordsman17]

Yoshi and the Koopas look pretty good but Mario just looks messed up (his eyes). Background looks better too.

I wonder what Yoshi's Island would look like, as that game's art style would actually fit well with this.

Also, what would crappy low-res real pictures look like with this applied?

 

[SandEagle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHCbp5LTgbU&feature=player_embedded#at=31
bonus back to the future zelda

haha awesome

 

[CZroe]

Yoshi and the Koopas look pretty good but Mario just looks messed up (his eyes). Background looks better too.

I wonder what Yoshi's Island would look like, as that game's art style would actually fit well with this.

Also, what would crappy low-res real pictures look like with this applied?

The large Yoshi sprite is from Yoshi's Island.

 

[Ichinisan]

Wow, I think this looks terrible. It looks extremely weird and is totally un-necessary.

This.

some things look better, others not so much.

...and this.


What's wrong with most of you in this thread?

-How could ANYONE think the modified image is better?
-How could ANYONE think this is new?

 

[0roo0roo]

This.



...and this.


What's wrong with most of you in this thread?

-How could ANYONE think the modified image is better?
-How could ANYONE think this is new?

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/05/pixel-art-vector/
by not jumping to conclusions perhaps

conversion to splines = infinitely scalable without quality loss, it isn't a filter.

it isn't hq4x