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F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by DannyMac@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

You don’t need player inputs to work out the scale and shape of a map.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Again, you're ignoring what is practicable. You could in theory rewrite the game from scratch, but that's just not practicable.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.