*sad update* ESRGAN AI Upscaling (ScummVM fork and tools pulled from github by author)

[MusicallyInspired]

I guess its possible to add the night screens to King's Quest IV which were removed from later versions. The link below has an explanation of what I mean and you can see for yourself with the comparison screenshots.

http://sciwiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php ... of_Rosella

Another thing I would like to add to the wish bucket is the amiga environmental sounds for the dos version. One guy has already gotten this working with a fan patch so technically it could be done.

version 1.000.111 Night Pool Screen


version 1.006.004 Night Pool Screen

It is possible, but one thing that would be off is the Control screen which determines where Ego can walk. In that particular screen, there are two small bushes in the foreground. In the original version of KQ4 you obviously cannot walk through them. If you were to replace that screen in the latest version with this one you would be able to walk through them as there is no Control screen replacement functionality. It was left out because the game won't care what resolution a replacement Control screen would be in because it's all script-based logic, not visual. So there's no point in upscaling it.

[dariwonka]

A bit of Lucas arts please!

[tomimt]

A bit of Lucas arts please!

This particular upscale mod works only on Sierra SCI engine. But considering how nicely this is evolving, I wouldn't be surprised if someone would take the task of doing something similar for Lucas Arts games.

[Mim]

Another SCI progress video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shVvW8O ... esJohnston

[tomimt]

Myles is also working on adding new audio files for SCI games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjYNO2p ... esJohnston

[Kasenshlogga]

A bit of Lucas arts please!

I wouldn't mind some Adventure Soft either

https://u.cubeupload.com/33833/mazar12344d36c4f3972.jpg
https://u.cubeupload.com/33833/b1fmazar ... 4f3972.jpg

[tomimt]

I guess this update speaks for itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7k-iea ... esJohnston

[MusicallyInspired]

Space Quest 5 fanmade speech pack here we come!

[Blakes7]

Space Quest 5 fanmade speech pack here we come!

If we can get a Gary Owens impersonator to narrate that would be perfect.

[tomimt]

If someone wants to play around with my Colone's Bequest HR mod, here's a link to my Blogger blog: https://bit.ly/3tp8Nyv

[dariwonka]

Since there are special editions of monkey island... the improvement is already done, just extract the backgrounds. Could it be implemented the monkey island support in scummvmx?

Also there are already enhanced versions of full throttle, day off the tentacle...

Thanks

[Mim]

If someone wants to play around with my Colone's Bequest HR mod, here's a link to my Blogger blog: https://bit.ly/3tp8Nyv

Nice, I will try it.

[Kasenshlogga]

Since there are special editions of monkey island... the improvement is already done, just extract the backgrounds. Could it be implemented the monkey island support in scummvmx?

Also there are already enhanced versions of full throttle, day off the tentacle...

Thanks

To be completely honest they did a terrible job at recreating the backgrounds for Monkey 1 and 2. They just applied a smoothing filter over everything and then sloppily painted over the backgrounds in Photoshop in an attempt to put some of the details back in (you can literally see the brush strokes in some backgrounds cause they didn't bother finishing them), but the end result still looks less detailed and the style doesn't really fit the games in my opinion. Check the first post of this thread again and you'll see that AI produces a result that's more detailed and much closer to the original artwork.

[Mim]

I agree and hope that some fan made remaster will be better than that. But I can live with the official remastered versions and would prefer MI3 HR first. Also MI4 HR would be nice. I liked MI1-3 more, but still would like to play MI4 with better graphics. There is 3D in this game, so HiRes support may be more difficult to implement, but it was possible with The Longest Journey too: https://tljhd.github.io/

[tomimt]

I'm sure Monkey Island-series has more than enough fans who would be willing to go and re-draw the backgrounds if just given the change of actually implementing them to the game.