F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI
F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI
There's still a $5,000 prize for the original Japanese Satellaview broadcasts.
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From the sounds of it, the AI wasn’t really necessary for this as the levels could have been recreated manually from watching the footage alone.
Not necessary but definitely a helpful timesaver.
I disagree, it absolutely was necessary. The AI tool it was based on (Graphite) creates a frame-perfect emulation of control inputs. While it would technically be possible to manually do it, doing so wouldn't be practicable. Even with the tool, it would take much more effort to actually build the level around the player view, and if they automated that then fair play to them.
You don’t need player inputs to work out the scale and shape of a map.
Again, you're ignoring what is practicable. You could in theory rewrite the game from scratch, but that's just not practicable.
People manually recreate shit all the time for a hobby.
And an F-Zero course is far less complicated than say a 1:1 recreation of a city in Minecraft. Shit having those round sprites on the border of the map already give you a perfect staging point for scale.
Maybe but it would also be immensely more time consuming. Why not use AI to accelerate the process?
People manually recreate shit all the time for a hobby.
Have at it then.
levels could have been recreated manually from watching the footage alone.
The point was to explicitly not just eyeball it but to be as close to pixel perfect as possible. A manual recreation may have been very accurate but certainly not 99.9%.
Your method would be a remake, this is restoration of the original.