If you were a little bummed out about the quality of Mega Man X4 and Mega Man 8's animated cutscenes in Mega Man X Legacy Collection and Mega Man Legacy Collection 2, then you really need to see this.
A one VJ Ravenlight has used machine learning AI to "remaster" the opening cutscenes from Mega Man X4 and Mega Man 8 in full 1080p, extracted from their original 320x240 source. You can watch X4's HD intro above (Japanese version here) and Mega Man 8's (Rockman 8 ver. only for now) right here.
Mind you, these aren't *perfect* conversions. It's next to impossible to truly remaster these cutscenes without access to the original film or cels. Nevertheless, it's true: these cutscenes have never looked this good in any official capacity.
VJ Ravenlight has informed me that he's currently working on 1080p versions of every animated cutscene from EVERY PlayStation-era Mega Man game (MM8, X4–X6). These videos will be posted to his YouTube channel in the near future.
All in all, this is some real admirable work. I can't wait to see what comes next!
"It's true; these scenes have never looked this good in any official capacity. Bravo, AI."
ReplyDeleteIt looks worse, by a very large margin. These are not good examples of what machine learning is capable of
Then, can you provide a better version of it? Since you said this is pretty bad. I would like to see it.
DeleteWorse? Really? I, uh, don't know about that.
DeleteNice work, but if he really wants to impress me... he should try to do something with the PS1 version of X3.
ReplyDeleteThis is super neat! Thanks for sharing the news.
ReplyDeleteAwesome stuff! They really need to come out with a mmx anime.
ReplyDeleteI've been wanting a mmx anime to happen since the 90s.
DeleteYeah the quality was never really looked perfect but this intro...amazing for ever!
ReplyDeleteIn despite of this, great job.
That's some pretty impressive coding. I've never really delved into machine learning, but this product is outstanding.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see machine learning be used this way. Cool stuff!
ReplyDeleteI would love to know what kind of training data set was used. I wonder if there is a paper or report with the details.
ReplyDeleteNot too shabby!
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