Upscaling Castlevania (1986) sprites with AI
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Made with Midjourney AI for education and research purposes, obviously.
In this video, we showcase the power of AI by taking classic Castlevania (1986) sprites and using the MidJourney AI program to upscale the images. Watch as we progress from pixelated graphics to stunning, high-resolution art. Get a glimpse into the future of video game preservation and see how AI can bring old classics back to life.
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Simon Belmont came out looking like how Dean Venture imagines himself to be when he daydreams.
Venture Bros. is king of adult animated series
Huh, the last Dracula kinda looks like Peter Cushing called Vincent Price's stylist after a *very* productive day at the gym.
There's definitely some resemblance haha
that's exactly how i would picture him if the game was in 16 bits or 3D
it did Simon hella dirty, from muscular barbarian to kpoper
Probably my fault when I was cherry-picking the results.
Its interesting to see how minor interpretation faults done on Upscale level 1 lead to massive difference from the original in the final results.
Properly most noticeably with the Clock Tower and Simon.
But also noticeable in some others like how the monkey dude or what ever was on level one interpreted as a Dark Dwarf, the holy water's cross was moved from the lit to the center of the bottle or how the sign on the money bags changed so much.
Really funny tho is how the stop watch changed from visible time field to losing it in the first upscale only for the other ones to restore the time field by putting glass on its top.
And one more really interesting thing is that in the upscale of the opening did it on level one apparently notice its CastelVania as it actually recreated the iconic final path to Dracula's tower but that element than did go lost in upscale 2.
Thank you for amazing analysis. Yes, this was quite fun to do (FOR SCIENCE, idk) - because you can see how the AI interprets this and then builds up on these interpretations.
I did help the AI by imputing very simple prompts, so that's why Simon looks like he is. A lot of people said that he should be a barbarian type. When I did the prompt to the original image, I wrote something along the lines of “Vampire hunter in leather armor”.
And I agree that for environments it did a very nice job on the 1st iteration, but then deviated a bit. I did originally 4 steps, like with enemies and items, but step 3 and 4 of environments were the same, it didn't add anything, it was just another variant of an image.
@@neuralavocado
It really is interesting to see how the AI actually behaves
I still would have expected with such prompts something closer to Simon's artwork from CastleVania 2 but I guess it must have leached onto something else.
Ah I was already wondering why landscapes got less pictures but that obviously explains it than.
i would still love to see a graphic remake of CV1 with those cool designs
that's amazing. The workflow will change in the near future for so many people. Unbelieveable
Agreed! And thanks!
@@neuralavocado Some images worked out great than others; disappointed that Simon Belmont didn't come out looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger like his Smash Bros. Counterpart.
I JUST caught the stream in time, and wow, the quality is insane
Thanks!
Yeah, I also thought it's an interesting experiment. Will try to do more like this.
VERY IMPRESSIVE! i would be now curious with Legend of Zelda 1 or Adventure of Link or a Megaman game
I am getting Pokemon Red sprites upscaled and then will also do Zelda. Thank you for the feedback!
This is amazing. It would be awesome to see more of it, with other nes games
Goes unfathomably hard
I was expecting a Conan the barbarian look for Simon
Haha, I always imagined him skinny "Van Helsing" type of guy :D
Amazing, that's a nice work.
6:18
oh my goodness it's Peter Dante!
I what you did there 😂
4:35 this is what i'm talking about. Super Metroid ai upscale
6:20 is that scout from tf2
what if the new " Castlevania SOTN " had the budget of DOOM and the graphics ?
This is fantastic stuff!
You should try other game sprites like this. :)
I saw this vid once. Cool! What’s the song you used as background music?
Ironically Simon had one the the worst outcomes!
Cool I never knew Dracula was Peter Cushing this whole time.
Found your channel through the Frank videos just now, didn't expect this lol
Hope you enjoyed it! I am surprised Filthy Frank video got a lot of views, but hopefully people will stay for more diverse content :)
Imagine if this was a game
Woah!
Sounds interesting!
You bet!
Epic
Grand Moff Tarkin is back for revenge.
Who's that?
@@neuralavocado a star wars villain
It looks like holy water comes in Crown Royal bottle
Ai is getting crazy lol
Very very fucking cool.
Thanks a lot. I am glad you liked it :)
Simons supposed to look like he benches 415.. but still good results for the rest imo.
Cool concept, however the only criticism I have is that the spirit of most, not all, of the original sprites gradually fades the more upscaled they become; to the point were they almost become unrecognizable. Look no further than Simon as a great example of this. That being said, I did think Dracula looks the best out of the bunch, because it retains the same spirit as the original. He's the whole reason why I clicked this video the begin with.
I understand and agree. But think about this as if there was a remake made by Konami. They would probably come up with new designs to be relevant in 2023.
@@neuralavocado I see what you're getting at. If there was a part 2 of this, say with Simon's Quest for example, I'd most likely give it a watch.
I don't know how complex or specific your methods, but credit to the original working artsists for rendering such tiny sprites which such overwhelming clarity that the AI knows what to riff off of.
Really? No credit to them, huh? Figures
Agora Dracula não parece mais uma velha kkkk
Do sotn!
Will do Pokemon Red soon, and then SotN :)
you nailed it on dracula he looks creepy
omg idk on the look on simon here man looks too skinny