{"id":8218,"date":"2023-02-12T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8218"},"modified":"2023-02-12T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T17:58:46","slug":"retro-games-with-modern-graphics-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8218","title":{"rendered":"Retro games with modern graphics – using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’re already seeing a real revolutions in retro gaming via emulation. Preservation of old hardware is important, but it’s also seen as almost impossible task as devices mass produced to only last 5-10 years in the consumer market reach decades of age. Failure rates will <\/em>eventually reach 100% over enough time (unless people re-create the hardware). But with modern emulators, you can still play all the different games on modern hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a separate development note, we’ve also seen graphics effects like anti-aliasing<\/a> and upscaling<\/a> get the AI treatment. Instead of hand-coded anti-aliasing kernels, they can be generated automatically by AI and the results are now included in all major hardware vendors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what about the very graphics content itself? Retro game art has it’s own charm, but what if we gave it the AI treatment too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay Alammar wanted to see what he could achieve<\/a> by pumping in some retro game graphics from the MSX <\/a>game Nemesis 2<\/a> (Gradius) into Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, and Midjourney art generators. He presents a lot of interesting experiments and conclusions. He used various features like in-painting, out-painting, Dream Studio<\/a> and all kinds of other ideas to see what he could come up with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hand-picked results were pretty great:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He even went so far as to convert the original opening sequence<\/a> to use the new opening graphics here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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