To all "non-programmers" here. ESRGAN will not come to ScummVM. The reason is simple: it is not real time, and is unable to produce 60 frames per second on modern computers. There are attempts to work around that by lowering the quality of the output, and algorithms like RTSRGAN produce 1...

Hey everybody, I am looking for a few high-quality scans from both the Korean and the FM-Towns version of Monkey Island 2. Specifically I am looking for the front and back covers of the Korean manual, and the back cover of the FM-Towns box. As part of my ongoing restorations (yes, the LucasArts Post...

Bringing up this old topic, I was wondering if there was a way to extract the dialogue, and have each line marked with which character in the game speaks that line? Maybe if it could at least mark the lines based on subtitle color, as that's usually different per ingame-character?

Right now all of this is not more than tossing around ideas anyway. I'm no developer, so there needs to be a dev who's actually interested in working on stuff like this. This includes swapping out the original backgrounds either with cleaned up ones (at the same resolution, but a higher color depth)...

I see. Well, technically using MP4 files at the original 640x480 resolution of CoMI would already allow for much better looking cutscenes, because compression wouldn't be an issue.

But since I am not sure how videos are handled in the SCUMM engine, I can't comment on whether this is doable or not in that specific engine. Didn't the "Broken Sword" games use specifically re-compressed cutscenes in older ScummVM versions, because the original Smacker format wasn't supp...

I've finally managed training my own models for ESRGAN, and right now I'm working on a model to clean up the compression artifacts in the "Curse of Monkey Island" cutscenes. Here are a few comparison shots: https://imgsli.com/NDYzNQ/28/29 (more comparisons can be selected from the drop-dow...

Unfortunately ffmpeg only supports decoding for the SMUSH codec.

Is there a way to compress my own videos with the SMUSH codec? More specifically I would like to compress some videos of Disney animation with the same codec CoMI used, to recreate the compression artifacts the CoMI cutscenes contain. Then I could train an AI model with the before and after versions...

I've posted many more comparisons of the CMI backgrounds here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GameUpscale/co ... ey_island/

I agree, having the undithered backgrounds in the game would be a great first step. Any ScummVM devs reading this?

I took another stab at the CoMI backgrounds and used ESRGAN for dither removal first and upscaling after that. The results are even better now: https://t.co/fGScl1VzL7 And here's a comparison showing the before -> dither removal -> upscaling: https://t.co/BsC3fW85qg There's quite a lot of ESRGAN mod...

Is there any usable tool for removing color dithering? I know ReShade has filters for that, but I'm having quite some trouble using ReShade with ScummVM, plus I'd rather use it on the raw extracted backgrounds. I think dithering is one of the things that still trips the algorithms up, so getting rid...

I think Mojo has them all in their gallery, unfortuantely they are down right now.

Until then: https://imgur.com/gallery/GG7oE

Yeah, I saw those as well... incredible stuff.

So, how exactly can you train the algorithm? Could we feed it with all the original MI2 paintings and the resulting VGA backgrounds and off you go?