"Screenshots taken from various formats"
As a ZX Spectrum owner that phrase is still traumatising.
True. However back when these games were state of the art, you somehow were able to imagine the graphics to be better than what was actually on screen. At least that's how it felt to me (played my first games in the early 90s).
Of course, although in the 90s there were also some that stood out in terms of graphics and soundtrack 10 years ahead of the rest, like MDK, a real gem. Now you can play it for free, right in your browser
https://playclassic.games/games/action-dos-games-online/play-mdk-online/play ( it loads DOS Box)
or download it from GOG or Steam for Windows (€9.99)
I bought MDK two years after release for 10€ because the screenshots on the box looked pretty but I was super disappointed once I saw it in motion on my PC... Back in these days game graphics got better so quick, that a (originally super pretty) two year old game looked bad on my PC.
Another young actor's life destroyed by drugs and alcohol (I knew something was fishy about these shrooms.)
Edit: I wish that GIF would play without clicking it (Jerboa). 🤔
Edit 2: Plays fine in Sync at least...
Mario meets long term workplace illness. Unfortunately I don’t think Mario belongs to a union. Bowser be like “just one more castle and you’ll make it big here Mario”
Because either the person who made this face the AI some extra prompting, which might explained the other oddities, or this isn't the work of AI at all.
Yeah, that botheres me, too. Also when a game is labeled to have "psx graphics" and it just means that they use low res textures without filtering but at the same time it has real time shadows, requires 4GB VRAM and uses bunch of other modern techniques.
Mario is suffering from incontinence these days. Dude is well over 70 years old maybe 80. He was a master plumber back in the early to mid 70s, so he would have been 25 bach then, at least.
Is this like when porn performers complained about 4K because you could see their imperfections?
I see AI still can't render hands well. Apparently pixelated feet give it problems too, judging from Mario's nightmare fuel feet.
There's AI that can sometimes do hands okay. It still often fucks up, so a human has to curate the work. And ideally selectively prompt the AI to regenerate parts of the image until the whole thing is perfect. I think Midjourney has the best performance so far. You can take a look for yourself in one of the many AI art communities. They're sadly not as active here as they were on Reddit, but there's imageai and stablediffusion communities (I forget the instance)