Anyone got the backgrounds from the original game?
I'm going to respond here to posts from
this thread, to avoid going any further off-topic over there.
Looked at the upscaled versions just now and hooooolyyy balls - VERY impressive!! Great job, Alc!!
Cheers, but I really can't take credit - it's a largely automated process, just a couple of sliders and a few clicks once the program is installed.
I think the ones on YT are possibly from that Extra disc included with some releases of the UK Soundtrack, apparently it's the highest quality version out there. I remember seeing a page from a old UK fansite talking about fixing the geometry for the anime opening, I'll see if I can dig it up.
Ah, ok - let me know if you manage to dig up that Extra disc version.
If you're ripping the adverts, especially the one with Kawase fishing in the river, is there any chance of a lossless video at original resolution? Huff YUV as a codec, or similar, uploaded to Mega.nz, or archive.org, whatever works. I have a strong suspicion that the neural net video tool will work best on uncompressed/native res, anything substantially higher res and it seems to get confused about pixel sizes (plus there's the unavoidable quality loss from lossy compression in the first place).
I did upscale your ripped image of Kawase fishing in the river, you can see it
here. I'd still like to play around with the panning video, though, if it isn't too much work.
I looked at the new BGs right now, they look really good! Quick question: what program do you use to upscale these? Just curious...
Gigapixel AI, by Topaz. It uses my GPU for acceleration, and it requires a card that supports OpenGL 3.3 or later, which means you need somewhat modern graphics hardware - Geforce 760/Radeon R9 280/Intel HD 5000.
I'm actually finding the lack of options quite limiting for other images, it's definitely a one-trick pony, but for the UK:S backgrounds it just worked like that bit in Blade Runner

Anyway, I put that game over screen through the Gigapixel AI, you can see the result
here. I think your upscale worked much better, dalek. What tool did you use?