By now I’m pretty sure that most of you know how much I love ESRGAN and Topaz Topaz Gigapixel. We’ve been sharing a lot of AI-enhanced Texture Packs for numerous old/classic games these past couple of months, however today we’ve decided to share some really cool intro videos from some of our favourite 32-bit games.
YouTube’s members 60fps Hacks, Slowbeatle and Upscale have used ESRGAN in order to upscale and improve the intro videos for Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy 8, Onimusha 3 and Soul Reaver. As such, and for the first time, you can now watch these intro in high quality (believe me, the original videos look awful for today’s standards).
These remastered intro videos look incredible and this is another area in which classic games can benefit from the newly introduced AI techniques. Now imagine if the companies actually took advantage of these techniques in order to release proper remaster of their classic 32-bit titles. Oh boy, that would be so awesome.
But anyway, enjoy the videos for now and stay tuned for more!
![RESIDENT EVIL 2 Intro / Opening (Remastered in 4K using AI Machine Learning) [Impressive results]](https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FWP4aYnr6yMI%2F0.jpg)
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OMFG!!! How long till we get a remake or remaster of Soul Reaver!!!
I’ll go for a remastered version, no need for a remake or reboot.
Soul Reaver to me looks like the best version. i’d follow up with it’s method.
This is beyond amazing, this is beyond perfect. And I’m amazed that this will be better. My life is now complete, PC finally remastered all retro 3D games. ESRGAN is bliss upon gaming.
These are just the intros.
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Very nice, theres a lot of artifacts still, particularly in the FFVIII video but that Soul Reaver intro looks great.
STFU, you POLISH scumbag….people from Poland are M’Fers you know….They don’t have d**** and c****, so we all know only idiots like you come here to post…
sick of seeing your pathetic comments.
Watched the FF8 intro. Looks decent, although it doesn’t differ much from the the other HD intros that have been uploaded years ago on YouTube. Obviously it’s more clear but the artifacts are still noticeable. I guess I was kinda expecting it to be completely gone… It’s unbelievable that Square Enix completely ignored this game on its 20th anniversary. The most underrated title in the whole series no doubt.
Yeah, same thought. FF8 was unimpressive. It looked like an upscaled DVD, clearer but exaggerated the imperfections. Nothing special. The artifacts really hold it back.
Yeah, I can only see a remake solving all those issues but personally I don’t see the need for classics such as this to get remade. Would prefer if those development costs go into more original projects at this point.
The Resident Evil 2 one in particular looks great because the source is from a much better 480p 30fps version of the cutscenes released with a newer 2006 version of the game on PC in Japan. As opposed to PS1’s 240p 15fps videos, the same way they are in FFVIII as well, sadly including the PC version that came out around the same time. 🙁
Bummer. So I imagine the 480p image helps a lot more with the AI enhancements. All I know is the PC version of FF8 has been hampered quite a bit compared to the original PlayStation version which sucks.
Don’t forget the user on Youtube called Marcelus Castle Rain https://www.youtube.com/user/castleraingamer/videos who is also uploading upscaled FMVs over a week now.
He has Silent Hill and Tekken 3 and he has even done a few videos of RE games, including the N64 version of RE0 and the RE1.5 game where he shows a slideshow of all the prerendered backgrounds with Machine AI thingie upscales.
Waste of time because of Youtube compression…I’ll watch it when originals will be available
Lol, relax dude. I was just playing with you, but you easily got ‘triggered’. I didn’t mean to sound like a racist though. No hard feelings.