Friday, May 31, 2019

Machine Learning Remasters Mega Man X4 and Mega Man 8 Cutscenes in Full 1080p


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, X4X6). 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!

13 comments:

  1. "It's true; these scenes have never looked this good in any official capacity. Bravo, AI."
    It looks worse, by a very large margin. These are not good examples of what machine learning is capable of

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    1. Then, can you provide a better version of it? Since you said this is pretty bad. I would like to see it.

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    2. Worse? Really? I, uh, don't know about that.

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  2. Nice work, but if he really wants to impress me... he should try to do something with the PS1 version of X3.

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  3. This is super neat! Thanks for sharing the news.

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  4. Awesome stuff! They really need to come out with a mmx anime.

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    1. I've been wanting a mmx anime to happen since the 90s.

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  5. Yeah the quality was never really looked perfect but this intro...amazing for ever!
    In despite of this, great job.

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  6. That's some pretty impressive coding. I've never really delved into machine learning, but this product is outstanding.

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  7. It's nice to see machine learning be used this way. Cool stuff!

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  8. I would love to know what kind of training data set was used. I wonder if there is a paper or report with the details.

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