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Mega Man fan using machine learning to remaster the series' various animated cut-scenes

Cleaning the rose-tinted glasses
by rawmeatcowboy
02 June 2019
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Any game that has an animated intro always impresses me, even to this day. Obviously things were even more impressive back in the day, as there were very few games that went all-out on animation due to hardware/software restrictions.

Capcom in particular, for a short amount of time, seemed to love using animated intros and cut-scenes for Mega Man games. Those animated segments were definitely fantastic, but their low-resolution look doesn't do them many favors nowadays. That's why a fan has taken to remastering these animated segments for today's audience.

VJ Ravenlight, the man behind the project, is using machine learning to take the original 320x240 quality videos and remaster them in 1080p. He's already wrapped work on both Mega Man 8 and Mega Man X4's intros, which you can see in this post. His plan is to remaster all the animated content from Mega Man 8, X4, to X5, and X6.

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