AI Neural Networks being used to generate HQ textures for older games (You can do it yourself!)

Kayael · Apr 24, 2019

It just a side effect of swapping textures in real time on the emulator, depending on PC specs. Once the textures are loaded (.DDS format for faster loading compared to .PNG), everything's fine, you can even prefetch the textures in the RAM (I don't know if you're familiar with Dolphin for that matter).

The inventory has been remade from scratch to better accomodate the HD feel but you can eventually remove it if you don't like it, everything will be sorted in sub-folders for easy management.

We're currently seeing and testing what can be done about RE1, RE3 and eventually RE2 PC version.

Unr3al · Apr 24, 2019

https://www.reddit.com/r/texturepac...o_crisis_1_dreamcast_hd_texture_pack_reicast/

download
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LXXC9CT3PkwlgKnUlC6eZQclzKNQU5bB

comparison 1:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/134396/picture:0

comparison 2:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/134397

comparison 3:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/134399

comparison 4:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/134400

Blackbird · Apr 25, 2019

Kayael said:
Video preview of our Resident Evil 2 - Seamless HD Project :

germuso said:
Awesome, good job!

Are you going to make resident evil 3 hd?

I feel bad asking after such an amazing and demanding job with RE2 itself, but YES PLEASE!

All i wanna see now is Resi 3 in HD.

Deleted member 35011 · Apr 25, 2019

Jazzem said:
A Sonic Adventure 2 ESRGAN pack has been released!

Holy shit it's SA2...as I remember it as opposed to what it looks like :p need to install that.

Thank you!

Kayael · Apr 30, 2019

Here you go, you'll find here everything you need to play Resident Evil 2 on Dolphin with seamless HD textures :

https://www.reshdp.com/re2/

Mr Swine · Apr 30, 2019

Nobody can try Doom 64? Doom looks good and I want to see if it's the same with Doom 64

Anton Sugar · Apr 30, 2019

elyetis said:
cf :

I do color grading for video and Blackmagic added a "neural engine" to their color/FX software, DaVinci Resolve, including a new way to speedwarp (retime/slow down/speed up) clips. I wonder how closely related all this tech is: https://youtu.be/8fmvUsBPJn8?t=647

Blackbird · Apr 30, 2019

Kayael said:
Here you go, you'll find here everything you need to play Resident Evil 2 on Dolphin with seamless HD textures :

https://www.reshdp.com/re2/

I had no idea both RE1 and RE3 were coming "soon" as well.

Whoever made this, this is the work of a god. Thank you so much.

storaføtter · Apr 30, 2019

I personally think it depends from game to game. I feel like the classic res examples look a bit awful. Got that painted look when the prerendered were supposed to look more realistic or cgi (a lot of details get lost). The Monkey Island 2 is pretty good as it looks faithful to the style. Viewtiful Joe looks amazing. When textures or art work are more simple, it looks a lot more authentic.

It is still amazing all the effort everyone has put into these. I just hope the A.I technology keeps improving.

chandoog · Apr 30, 2019

Kayael said:
Here you go, you'll find here everything you need to play Resident Evil 2 on Dolphin with seamless HD textures :

https://www.reshdp.com/re2/

Kudos to you for sharing and the creator for making the package.

collige · Apr 30, 2019

Kayael said:
Here you go, you'll find here everything you need to play Resident Evil 2 on Dolphin with seamless HD textures :

https://www.reshdp.com/re2/

This is impressive work. I tried running RE2 through ESRGAN naively and gave up after seeing all the seam issues since I'm not an artist. This must have taken forever to clean up.

Kayael · Apr 30, 2019

collige said:
This is impressive work. I tried running RE2 through ESRGAN naively and gave up after seeing all the seam issues since I'm not an artist. This must have taken forever to clean up.

Believe it or not, I think getting the coordinates of the masks to be able to recreate them from the upscales was definitely not the hardest part.

chandoog said:
Kudos to you for sharing and the creator for making the package.

I'm one of the creators (everything related to the graphic part : upscales, manual edits and recreation), so thank you :)

collige · Apr 30, 2019

Kayael said:
Believe it or not, I think getting the coordinates of the masks to be able to recreate them from the upscales was definitely not the hardest part.

Damn, what was then?

Kayael · Apr 30, 2019

RE2 is nothing like a Final Fantasy game in terms of animated backgrounds, they're definitely static. But there are a lot of instances where there are mask switches (the crows breaking the windows for example), so tracking them all was not a walk in the park, and then it was a matter of finding the good bits inside the original mask texture to recreate a new "alternate" BG to upscale from where you can get those upscaled bits. If it wasn't painful, a few scenes have multi-layered masks so these steps had to be done for each layer.

I wish I'll have time to write about it and all the problems we overcame in a blog section of the site.

Deleted member 29237 · Apr 30, 2019

Kayael said:
RE2 is nothing like a Final Fantasy game in terms of animated backgrounds, they're definitely static. But there are a lot of instances where there are mask switches (the crows breaking the windows for example), so tracking them all was not a walk in the park, and then it was a matter of finding the good bits inside the original mask texture to recreate a new "alternate" BG to upscale from where you can get those upscaled bits. If it wasn't painful, a few scenes have multi-layered masks so these steps had to be done for each layer.

I wish I'll have time to write about it and all the problems we overcame in a blog section of the site.

I said this on the Dolphin forums as well - you've done a great job and should be proud! Will be downloading this to try out tonight.

erlim · Apr 30, 2019

Kayael said:
Here you go, you'll find here everything you need to play Resident Evil 2 on Dolphin with seamless HD textures :

https://www.reshdp.com/re2/

You are a true gift. Hearing that you and your team are exploring doing the same RE3 and especially the original RE have me hyped. Anyway, sincere thanks from a RE fan.

Croash · Apr 30, 2019

Kayael said:
Here you go, you'll find here everything you need to play Resident Evil 2 on Dolphin with seamless HD textures :

https://www.reshdp.com/re2/

This is astonishing work!

Becks' · May 3, 2019

People, I need help. I downloaded ESRGAN Resize and I did everything like the howto.txt says but CMD crashes when I put in a photo and try to rescale it. I am using a laptop though so maybe dual GPU can be a problem?

Waifu-2x Caffe says that it used CUDA processor though.

EDIT: Nevermind, I fixed it. I didn't drop the photo in LR folder.

EDIT 2: I didn't fix it. But I get this message though.

EDIT 3: Looks like I fixed it now. Just changed cuda to cpu in test.py

Cup O' Tea? · May 3, 2019

As a huge fan of PS1 era Final Fantasy games, I can't tell you guys how happy this makes me. Playing the original FFVII with upscaled backgrounds will probably be a lot more enjoyable to me than FFVII-R.

ApeEscaper · May 3, 2019

Does the RTX deep learning AI hardware tech help with this stuff or is GTX enough?

Able to do this stuff well with GTX 1660 TI with Ryzen 5 2600x CPU?

collige · May 3, 2019

Ametroid said:
Does the RTX deep learning AI hardware tech help with this stuff or is GTX enough?

Able to do this stuff well with GTX 1660 TI with Ryzen 5 2600x CPU?

There's no algorithms written to use RT cores afaik. Pretty much everything I've seen that's open source runs off Python wrappers for CUDA.

The main limiting factor for use is VRAM. I have an 11GB 1080ti and I max out at input images of about 1000x1000px.

ApeEscaper · May 3, 2019

collige said:
There's no algorithms written to use RT cores afaik. Pretty much everything I've seen that's open source runs off Python wrappers for CUDA.

The main limiting factor for use is VRAM. I have an 11GB 1080ti and I max out at input images of about 1000x1000px.

Nice thanks. Maybe my 6GB VRAM of 1660ti would be too limiting though it's GDDR6 maybe helps abit

BreakAtmo · May 3, 2019

collige said:
There's no algorithms written to use RT cores afaik. Pretty much everything I've seen that's open source runs off Python wrappers for CUDA.

The main limiting factor for use is VRAM. I have an 11GB 1080ti and I max out at input images of about 1000x1000px.

Does that mean the Radeon VII would be the best at it?

sickvisionz · May 4, 2019

Looks pretty great for something that doesn't require much human intervention and tweaking. Others have said it too, but my first reaction is that it makes old games look the way I remember them looking as opposed to how they look today vs modern games. I like blocky PS1/N64/SNES style models the way some people like pixel art. This seems like a godsend, because I certainly don't like the crazy aliasing and ultra low res textures that usually accompanied it.

JayBabay · May 4, 2019

Slaythe said:
What i did is :

- moguri mod (it installs the backgrounds and old font and also adds Analog direction, the pressure is busted but at least you can walk around 360 degrees now)
It comes with Memoria which lets you speed up the battle transitions and battle speed in general (make it run at 20 fps in the .ini it's perfect and pick "fast" battle)

Then install Reshade and do this :

- "HDR" (important to preserve contrasts with the CRT)
- Adaptive CRT make it high resolution so that it's subtle
- AdaptiveSharpen
-TechniColor1
-TechnoColor 2 (both at the same time offset each other to give colors that are very close to the original without "CRT")

They are selling the game like this

I can't

When installing ReShade what should I select for FFIX: D3D9, 10+ or OpenGL? FFIX wasn't listed in the compatibility list so I wasn't sure.

Slaythe · May 4, 2019

JayBabay said:
When installing ReShade what should I select for FFIX: D3D9, 10+ or OpenGL? FFIX wasn't listed in the compatibility list so I wasn't sure.

OpenGL.

JayBabay · May 4, 2019

Slaythe said:
OpenGL.

Thanks, those images looked great I had to give it a shot.

Slaythe · May 5, 2019

JayBabay said:
Thanks, those images looked great I had to give it a shot.

I ended up tweaking the CRT and the color filters a little, to try to match the color range and luminosity of the original (while not getting the washed out Steam version).

It's different on each monitor but it's fun to tweak it until you are happy with it !

That's for my 1080p display (to be seen in fullscreen because of the lines).

JayBabay · May 5, 2019

Slaythe said:
I ended up tweaking the CRT and the color filters a little, to try to match the color range and luminosity of the original (while not getting the washed out Steam version).

It's different on each monitor but it's fun to tweak it until you are happy with it !

That's for my 1080p display (to be seen in fullscreen because of the lines).

I can't see the image, but I couldn't get ReShade to work regardless: opened the exe and set the path to FFIX Launcher, slected OpenGL, then unchecked all and only left the one's you listed except there was no "Adaptive CRT" and "HDR", only "CRT" and "FakeHDR", so I slected those, booted the game up, but nothing. Shift+F2 didn't produce a menu and digging through the .ini files didn't seem like there was a toggle to turn ReShade on or off through that. Anything I must have done wrong?

Thanks for all of your help.

Deleted member 721 · May 5, 2019

from another thread if people missed it

DiipuSurotu said:
Fan releases 4x AI-upscaled backgrounds for Chrono Cross

https://www.reddit.com/r/GameUpscal...o_cross_4x_upscaled_backgrounds_gigapixel_ai/

Escaflow said:
Yes yes yes this , it's so dreamy . Has anyone did the Gigapixel AI for FF8 yet ?

edit : seems like there is

btw it would be interesting to create an organized OT with all the mods, download links, etc

Deleted member 49185 · May 5, 2019

Eylos said:
btw it would be interesting to create an organized OT with all the mods, download links, etc

I know what you mean. It's hard to keep track of all the in progress mods even in this thread.

Slaythe · May 5, 2019

JayBabay said:
I can't see the image, but I couldn't get ReShade to work regardless: opened the exe and set the path to FFIX Launcher, slected OpenGL, then unchecked all and only left the one's you listed except there was no "Adaptive CRT" and "HDR", only "CRT" and "FakeHDR", so I slected those, booted the game up, but nothing. Shift+F2 didn't produce a menu and digging through the .ini files didn't seem like there was a toggle to turn ReShade on or off through that. Anything I must have done wrong?

Thanks for all of your help.

Don't use it on the launcher use it on the .exe that is in the x64 folder.

Have a Nice Day · May 18, 2019

The Longest Journey also received some love thanks to this

The Longest Journey HD is a mod for one of the best adventure games ever made. It includes neural network upscaled backgrounds and sprites, redrawn user interface and a lot of other small improvements thanks to ResidualVM implementation of the game engine.

DieH@rd · May 19, 2019

Have a Nice Day said:
The Longest Journey also received some love thanks to this

TLJ is great, I'm glad it is still getting attention from modders.

Nacery · May 20, 2019

Have a Nice Day said:
The Longest Journey also received some love thanks to this

Thanks this is one of my favourite games ever.

Melpontro · May 20, 2019

Ended up running the textures from Sonic Heroes through Gigapixel
https://youtu.be/J9fD5OrwVgI

Jazzem · May 20, 2019

Melpontro said:
Ended up running the textures from Sonic Heroes through Gigapixel
https://youtu.be/J9fD5OrwVgI

Nice one! Can't wait to see this released as you said in one of the video comments, thanks for your work :)

CrankyKong · May 20, 2019

Could this be used to make higher res versions of old wallpapers?

collige · May 20, 2019

CrankyKong said:
Could this be used to make higher res versions of old wallpapers?

Yes, depending on the resolution. This algorithm has huge VRAM requirements, but anything around 1024x768 or smaller should work.

amon.akira · May 28, 2019

someone have tried to rework arcade games like final fight or similar? can be fine see something about old 2d arcade games

Sankara · May 29, 2019

Jazzem · May 29, 2019

Sankara said:
Laserschwert on Reddit made some for Curse of the Monkey Island:

Backstage: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MEMCNNNU

The Barbery Coast: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GPLNNNX

Behind the Cemetery: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GP7NNNX

Blondbeard's Chicken Shoppe: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/ME2FNNNU

Brimstone Beach: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GPWNNNX

Sea Cucumber Wreck: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/ME21NNNU

Cannon Room: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/ME2MNNNU

Goodsoup Family Crypt: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GPPNNNX

Goodsoup Family Hotel: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/66DWNNNX

Goodsoup Hotel Guest Room: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/ME2CNNNU

Goodsoup Hotel Unused Room: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GZWNNNX

Goodsoup Hotel Storage Room: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MECJNNNU

Goodsoup Hotel Upstairs Hallway: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MEC1NNNU

King André's Lair: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MMBCNNNU

Captain LeChimp: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/66DLNNNX

The New International House of Mojo: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MMJJNNNU

Deck of the Sea Cucumber: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/66D7NNNX

Mutual of Stan: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MMJFNNNU

God I want these modded into the game so bad! I desperately hope it's feasible

th1nk · May 29, 2019

Sankara said:
Laserschwert on Reddit made some for Curse of the Monkey Island:

Backstage: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MEMCNNNU

The Barbery Coast: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GPLNNNX

Behind the Cemetery: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GP7NNNX

Blondbeard's Chicken Shoppe: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/ME2FNNNU

Brimstone Beach: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GPWNNNX

Sea Cucumber Wreck: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/ME21NNNU

Cannon Room: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/ME2MNNNU

Goodsoup Family Crypt: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GPPNNNX

Goodsoup Family Hotel: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/66DWNNNX

Goodsoup Hotel Guest Room: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/ME2CNNNU

Goodsoup Hotel Unused Room: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/6GZWNNNX

Goodsoup Hotel Storage Room: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MECJNNNU

Goodsoup Hotel Upstairs Hallway: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MEC1NNNU

King André's Lair: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MMBCNNNU

Captain LeChimp: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/66DLNNNX

The New International House of Mojo: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MMJJNNNU

Deck of the Sea Cucumber: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/66D7NNNX

Mutual of Stan: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/MMJFNNNU

Thanks for posting this, the combination of dedithering and then inferring works wonders. Looks absolutely flawless.

Sankara · May 30, 2019

th1nk said:
Thanks for posting this, the combination of dedithering and then inferring works wonders. Looks absolutely flawless.

It's seriously impressive. Very true to the original art.

Anyone know if it's possible to mod in textures in Curse of the Monkey Island?

Deleted member 22713 · May 30, 2019

For anyone not in the Discord, there's an assortment of ESRGAN models compiled here, including the ones used for those MI3 upscales:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1asDV7NVBlLD25bd4w77mHMxSM7tvexXySafTzSugeHE/edit#gid=0

collige · Jun 3, 2019

I'm back on my shit, doing more Dolphin games. Next up is Mario Kart 64. The menus look kind of iffy, but I'm really happy with how the sprites turned out.

Download: https://mega.nz/#!uBFV0KRZ!9M6SROjZJ5Z3RlGMJu9UHSp1RYIZk4KfmGnssGwDkWg
Screenshots: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/959/picture:1

SephusJo said:
For anyone not in the Discord, there's an assortment of ESRGAN models compiled here, including the ones used for those MI3 upscales:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1asDV7NVBlLD25bd4w77mHMxSM7tvexXySafTzSugeHE/edit#gid=0

There's a Discord????

Jazzem · Jun 4, 2019

collige said:
I'm back on my shit, doing more Dolphin games. Next up is Mario Kart 64. The menus look kind of iffy, but I'm really happy with how the sprites turned out.

Download: https://mega.nz/#!uBFV0KRZ!9M6SROjZJ5Z3RlGMJu9UHSp1RYIZk4KfmGnssGwDkWg
Screenshots: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/959/picture:1

There's a Discord????

Please, please always be on your shit :'D

Amazing work as always! Thank goodness for Dolphin given how difficult it seems to be to inject textures into N64 ROMs

Deleted member 22713 · Jun 4, 2019

collige said:
There's a Discord????

It's an offshoot of the GameUpscale subreddit. Here ya go:

https://discord.gg/jkFHzGD

Kayael · Jun 10, 2019

After a lot of work, we're proud to say that RE3 is definitely coming soon. It's entirely different from RE2 on a lot of points and it wasn't an easy task to crack it, but we didi it ! The test phase will begin this week and after all the bugs are tracked and eliminated, you'll be able to enjoy RE3 in glorious HD :

Guess where Jill is hiding ?

See you soon !

.exe · Jun 10, 2019

Wow, that's really impressive. Very crisp. Showed it to a non-gamer friend of mine together with a comparison shot and they were also blown away.

I'm gonna guess she was right in the middle of the image and was shopped out :p

AI Neural Networks being used to generate HQ textures for older games (You can do it yourself!)

Is this going to change game dev?

Yeah

Naw

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