Please Consider Subscribing: kzread.info Or supporting me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/St1ka Battle City (imkrut): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=30639 Bomberman Remastered (imkrut): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=30619.0 Castlevania 1 HD / SD / VK (kya): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=28754 Castlevania 30th Anniversary Edition (kya): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=24125.msg355609#msg355609 Contra: www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=33075.0 Donkey Kong (mkwong98): www.mediafire.com/file/5xgz6dr0tyiqm6g/Donkey_Kong_%28JU%29_HD_Pack.zip/file Donkey Kong Jr. Remastered (imkrut): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=30538.0 Duck Hunt Remastered (GBAGuy007, Aclectico): drive.google.com/file/d/1j4b0kousFpvSnvywld1_gHT-fUayfoXT/view?usp=sharing Ice Climber Remastered (imkrut): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=30581.0 Kung Fu (mkwong98): forums.nesdev.org/download/file.php?id=12070 Little Nemo Graphic Pack (Demo) (imkrut): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=28358 Megaman: Super (AxlRocks): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=25426.msg348677#msg348677 Metroid HD (Aclectico, kya): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=26811.0 Ninja Gaiden 1 HD Beta 1.0 (RichterSnipes): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=26164.0 Ninja Gaiden 2 HD Graphics Pack (RichterSnipes): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=26164.0 Nuts and Milk (evgeny): forums.nesdev.org/download/file.php?id=12071 Pac-Man (Ed Peppe): github.com/PepCodes/HDNes-Graphics-Pac Paper Mario Bros (mkwong98): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=31920 Shatterhand HD Pack (mugi): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TnyFHBrjssibSDw4aptEWawBW2iLBgkg?usp=share_link Super Mario Bros (mkwong98): forums.nesdev.org/download/file.php?id=12073 Super Mario Bros HD (lyonhrt): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1L8JmkTgGKf7nZ-VFjjL3Zu4VXvEASGv1?usp=share_link Twin Bee Remastered (Demo (imkrut): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1L8JmkTgGKf7nZ-VFjjL3Zu4VXvEASGv1?usp=share_link Zelda: Remastered (Aclectico, kya): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=31559.0 Zelda II Remastered (Demo) (Aclectico, kya): www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=33860.0

@tiagopereirasantossilva556

Жыл бұрын

Desculpa não pode ver video mais cedo. AI ou simples substituição das textura quando são chamada pelo emulador ??

@tiagopereirasantossilva556

Жыл бұрын

5:21 looks like Donkey Kong if ti was on Philips CD-I.

@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide

Жыл бұрын

Best video of the day April 12,2023🏆

@The_Blue_Otaku

Жыл бұрын

**Me watchs the first 2 minutes of the video** (My brain: "Ferb I know what we're gonna do today")

@godofwar6376

Жыл бұрын

Speaking of castlevania, why do you sound like Dracula?

Personally speaking, I think NES upgrades look best when they retain the original pixel resolution and just add more color depth. Even just doubling from 4 colors per sprite to 8 can make a huge difference without losing the simplistic charm.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

understandable

@tamerkoh

Жыл бұрын

I think higher res upgrades can work, it just depends on how you handle it. Like the PSP remakes of FF1, FF2 and FF4 are generally heralded as the best versions of their respective games, for instance. It just needs to be well done pixel art, rather than looking like someone ran the sprites through a filter.

@EmeralBookwise

Жыл бұрын

​@@tamerkoh: Well, yes, and I would absolutely agree that the PSP FF's are absolutely gorgeous... shame Square never ported them. Sprite work of that quality, however, tends to be beyond the scope and scale of what most armature fan mods like these are capable of delivering with consistency.

@tamerkoh

Жыл бұрын

@@EmeralBookwise Yeah they're still my favourite versions to play even with the Pixel Remasters, which I find rather ugly, lol. Mostly because they have the same issues going on as some of the graphics packs here: Style clash. They've got low-res 16-bit style sprites (with low-contrast shading, so everything looks flat), higher res 32-bit style spell effects and HD fonts, and it just looks a mess. There's also way too much screen space in the battles where both players and enemies alike look too small relative to the space given. Especially bosses that would otherwise fill the screen on the GBA or PSP versions, but are just tiny in the middle of a bunch of space on the PRs, lol. Honestly, I'd love to see FF PSP style remakes of all these old 2D pixel art games. Just comparing how much Cornelia from FF1 was brought to life from NES to PSP, or FF2's Bafsk, just really makes me wanna see other game worlds brought to life similarly with that kind of pixel art quality.

@TheLastLineLive

Жыл бұрын

@@tamerkoh I totally wish that SE would have ported these and did 3, 5, and 6 like this for the pixel remasters instead of what we got. That definitely would have been the best imo.

The animations in Ice Climber look amazing! I fully agree, that is a perfect example of what we SHOULD be doing with these graphic overlays!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right?!

@imkrut

Жыл бұрын

I like how you overlayed the footage of both game versions. Makes it really easy to compare the quality. I need HD Zelda 2!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had to be sneaky to get the gameplay on both windows to match too.

@haileeraestout5567

15 күн бұрын

@@st1ka The Sprite Is From Cadance Of Hyrule

Man that Zelda II is incredibly impressive so far. Out of all the projects that's the one that wows me the most.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right?! :D

The link in the Zelda pack is from Cadence of Hyrule an official crossover between Crypt of the Necrodancer and The Legend of Zelda and it's amazing

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

aaah thank you!

@theninjamaster67

Жыл бұрын

Now that you mention it it totally is I was kinda thinking it was a modified version of the 4 Swords sprite at first.

@DarkMageNuggetStudio

Жыл бұрын

I thought so. It had that idle bounce that made me recognize it.

@jakecross6212

Жыл бұрын

@@st1ka yw glad I could help great video btw

@AmeVIRUS_

Жыл бұрын

yeah a lot of its assets were borrowed from or inspired by CoH. that aquamentus was definitely from bs zelda tho

You can only avoid most enemies or stun them with candy as Nemo. The trick is that some enemies can be tamed by feeding them the candy and they'll then give Nemo various other attacks and movement abilities.

@ooommm4024

Жыл бұрын

it was surprising in Little Nemo: The Dream Master that you could not get a permanent attack item (the magic wand) until the final level. I never could quite figure out how to best use it as a kid & learning how to use it much earlier would have improved gameplay.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

aah thank you!

@galloe8933

Жыл бұрын

My favorite part of Nemo was feeding the animals knock out pills, climbing into their mouths and using them like Chibi flesh mechs. Not about the HD, I loved how bizarre the game was, that is all.

@LC-id6wx

Жыл бұрын

I love the movie, but the game is terrible. So frustrating.

@TheInflicted

5 ай бұрын

There's a completely different arcade game CAPCOM made at the same time.

What this project needs is artists who can draw the sprites as if they were part of a hand-drawn animated series, keeping the simplicity and (on a basic level) the style but adding more life.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

oooh yes please!

The nerve to rework Castlevania and remove Simon's music.

That is a real shame that the SMS hasn't seen any love in this regard. It absolutely deserves it! Can you imagine a Phantasy Star graphical overlay?? How amazing could that be!

@DoktorRockszo

Жыл бұрын

If your want to see the original Phantasy Star with improved graphics, hunt down a copy of the PS2 remake: Phantasy Star Generation 1. There's even a full English patch for it.

@skins4thewin

Жыл бұрын

@DoktorRockszo Oh ya, I've seen that one but haven't tried it yet. Would love to try it one day!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

oh I'd love to see a 16-bit version of Phantasy Star 1

@RolandoMarreroPR

Жыл бұрын

Closest thing would be Shining in the Darkness. Also the SMS Power FM hack make PS almost 16bit!

@skins4thewin

Жыл бұрын

@RolandoMarreroPR The SMS power hack doesn't change the graphics in any way tho... Not sure how you figure that.

Man, this is a fascinating scene I'm only learning about now for the first time! It is really weird to see these in action though; so many are bringing the visuals up to 16-bit (or _Master System_ - Sega FOREVER!) standards, but the bleeps and bloops are pure 8-bit NES stuff and it just feels like a mismatch, lol. Fun as heck though, and there's no denying the passion that's gone into these things. This was a real fun video topic, St1ka!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right?! it's so co ool!

I am fairly certain that the first Castlevania pack shown here is supposed to replace the music with custom OGG tracks, like the second one does. In fact, when I download the one posted in your pinned post, it does have the music. These typically have a patch that mutes the original music so the custom ones don't overlap. You can delete the "akuogg" IPS patch in the texture pack's folder and you can get the original music back.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it seems I installed the patch wrong. Whoops!

@markula_4040

10 ай бұрын

You can also go in the folder and easily figure out how to replace the music. I did it with music from the Castlevania Arcade game from 2009 which has remixed tracks from every stage and boss fight practically.

@cainthulaz1

7 ай бұрын

I think the music goes away also if you let the game into demonstration scenes before starting the game. It's a weird feature. 😅

Thanks for the video Dr. Nick!

The aesthetic of some of these have a TG16 vibe to them.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I agree! Hope you'll enjoy the full video when it's out today ^^

@bitwize

Жыл бұрын

Yes... the Bomberman pack made it look like the TG16 version of that game (which was a slight improvement over the NES original).

@espfusion

Жыл бұрын

Makes sense. TG16 was very much like an NES on steroids.

@skins4thewin

Жыл бұрын

Kinda makes sense, considering the TG-16 actually used an upgraded version of the NES CPU as it's main CPU.

😱🤯This is soooo cool! Thanks for covering yet another awesome way to mod and play classic games. I had no idea any of this was possible or even existed!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

I do my best ^^

Great video and reviews! Obrigado pela partilha :D And this is just a masterclass on why art direction and consistency is so necessary in games indeed ;D

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Muito obrigado! :D

The beautiful Zelda textures come from the Broadcast Satellite (BS) Super Famicom games where you would download a game to your SFC and play it in 4 parts across 4 weeks in real time like they were live streamed. Its nice to see these graphics on a NES rom because it takes some digging to find good dumps of BS titles. Highly recommend

I had no idea these texture packs existed! Thanks for the video.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I just discovered these myself and I HAD to talk about them :D

Not only is this a great videos that shows our favorite games from the NES with new textures. But, I love the music in this video too. It just brings me back to that time. I call the music in this video: REAL music!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

haha thank you, but this is not the video. It's just a trailer for the full video. The full video will launch in 3 hours. :)

Very cool of you to go through all the work of showing these packs in detail as well as providing links to where we can get all of them. Thank you.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I try ^^

Your impressions of what the updates look like-their hypothetical platforms, for example-are amazingly spot-on.

Wow, this is SUPER cool!! Makes the NES games almost look like SNES games! I hope this grows legs & becomes a bigger thing in the future cus this is VERY freaking cool indeed! Would love to see something like this even available for things like the MISTer & more advanced FPGA based Flash carts & such in the future!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

yeah I'd love the scene for these overlays become bigger

@JamesTDG

Жыл бұрын

Or more notably, RetroArch and RetroPie, as it would be cool to see these mods run on custom consoles

@skins4thewin

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesTDG Meh, that doesn't interest me. They already have this solution for Emulation anyway. I'm not really that into Emulation. I greatly prefer to play using original hardware or an FPGA based solution.

@tartatovsky

Жыл бұрын

@@skins4thewin doubtful

Hard disagree on the look of that Zelda 1 texture pack, if for no other reason than that the pixel resolution on different elements aren't uniform. That's a huge pet peeve of mine with pixel art - at very best it comes off as graphically inconsistent and inauthentic. That Zelda 2 one on the other hand, looks incredibly promising.

@albertwayne2323

Жыл бұрын

Agree. The Zelda HD texture pack is inconsistent; it uses ALttP assets, mixed with Cadence of Hyrule assets, mixed with BS Zelda from Satellaview assets; mixing art styles that just weren't designed to be in the same game. In reality, it is a mess.

@cabbusses

Жыл бұрын

The Zelda 1 pack seems to have a mismash of elements from BS Zelda, some fangame material from the early 2000s with awkward pillow shading, and LttP. If it stuck closer to one consistent style the whole way, it'd look a lot better. And BS Zelda would probably be the easiest fit since all the art assets for that would be accounted for.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

that's fair. ^_^

That Castlevania HD remake had me hooked, I had to try that immediately and I was not disappointed at all, great video showcasing all these!

That Zelda 2 remaster looks amazing, even considering all the glitches. Can't wait until it's finished

The graphics upgrade to Ice Climber looks so damn beautiful

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right?!

Little Nemo is a masterpiece! You don't throw candies to beat the enemies, but to tame some especial characters. When tamed, you "vest" them, and than you have the power to navigate the environment. This game is very special, play it to the end, you'll not regret.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

ah thank you!

@eukaryote-prime

28 күн бұрын

I second this. I unique gem I owned back in the day and probably traded with a bunch of other games for a lesser new one! Wish I still had it. I wonder how that remaster is coming….

Always glad to see the packs pop up on videos, glad you liked em

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

oh yeah these were amazing

What a great video! I really love this projects, and a compilation of these is really useful!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! ^^

It's crazy what Nostalgia Goggles do. The upgrades are what I remember it looking like back in the late 80s/early 90s!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

haha, understandable

@danielcobia7818

Жыл бұрын

#relatable

@mrbisshie

Жыл бұрын

Some Morrowind mods do that also. They don't make it look super high def, to the point it'd ruin the style, and make your eyes bleed. Just slight upgrades, where it looks like the Morrowind you remembered it as.

@hglbrg

Жыл бұрын

Ah good, I'm not the only one. I was like "I don't see it. How are the graphics 'upgraded'? this is how the games looked in my memories."

Fantástico trabalho como sempre Stika. Obrigado sir.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Muito obrigado! ^^

I have to say, this idea of improving the visuals basically on top of the original game is exactly what I've been itching for since the SNES released. (My parents got us a Nintendo back in 1988) I may not agree with what some of these modders have done, but without them trying we wouldn't get the other beautiful examples. Thank you for giving these projects some attention.

Amazing, i love the idea of NES games having HD texture packs, thank you for showing us this.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

glad I could help ^^

These graphical updates, and the couple Super Nintendo games that got widescreen updates, like Super Mario World are some of the most interesting updates that I have seen from emulators.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

oh damn, that's cool as heck

@Shinmsl

Жыл бұрын

​@@st1ka there's a subject for a new video 😎

The Link sprite from the Zelda 1 pack is from Cadence of hyrule on the switch.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

aaah thank you! ^^

Just discovered the channel. Thanks for the deep cuts.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

haha whoops

Holey crepe! Graphic overlay is genius! And additional things can be programmed in? Wow! Thanks for showing it for us.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

glad I could help! :D

brb, doing HD remakes of Crystalis, The Guardian Legend, and Faxanadu with this.

@euphoriaentertainmentcompa2605

Жыл бұрын

These games are legendary. Crystalis for the win!

@analogmoz

Жыл бұрын

You have God-tier taste in games. I would love to play your HD texture packs for these hand-picked, exceptional games.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

yes please! :D

The Megaman one is sick, my favourite of the list

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

it's SO cool

hello, excellent video and one question, do you know if these games or HD versions can be played on the nes classic mini? greetings

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

I assume you'd have to hack and mod the NES classic to include MESEN. So I assume it's theoretically possible, but no idea if it's actually possible right now

Amazing! Thanks for the content, I had no idea this was a thing!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help ^^

Thanks Dr Nick!

I would really love to see remasters like this for gameboy games!

@duffman18

11 ай бұрын

This is definitely the most exciting idea. Because yeah many gameboy games are absolutely fantastic and are just let down a bit by the graphical limitations. And there was a gameboy game that literally did this, where if you played it on a SNES super game boy, it turned it into a SNES game with preprogrammed colours and content that you can never access with just a regular gameboy. Space Invaders. The code for the SNES is just sitting there on the cartridge. I'd love to see something like Donkey Kong 94 get this treatment, as that's the best donkey Kong game by a long long way, it's got like 100 levels instead of just 4. So yeah to see it with SNES graphics would be fantastic.

@JASpiring

8 ай бұрын

@@duffman18 Someone remade Super Mario Land as a SNES game. It has the graphics style of New Super Mario Bros for DS and is called New Super Mario Land.

Love your videos. This is just what I need for my lunch break.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Haha glad you liked it ^^

This project is absolutely amazing!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Oh completely agreed! :D

I really hope the Zelda II one gets completed. It looks gorgeous!

Man, that Metroid upgrade is sexy as hell!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right? :D

Wow, some of these are really amazing!!

Didn't know this was a thing - thank you!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! :D

Regarding Ice Climber... in the U.S., clubbing seals is frowned upon. Metroid is a game I've always wanted to get into and my only gripe is the lack of a map. Looking forward to trying this new version. Thanks for posting this video!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Oh I get the issue with ice climber, but I do admit that the famicom just makes it seem more silly, but I understand why it was removed from the western version

@Heike--

Жыл бұрын

In fact, most Americans find the entire thing hilarious. If you're in the humorless politics part of America, though, then sure: get angry about a cartoon video game. You people are highly conformist, you regard it as your calling to police the minds of others. Fun fact: insisting that aboriginal peoples stop clubbing seals is oppressive and it's a form of colonization.

Zelda 2 REALLY looks great! I truly hope it gets finished!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

same here :D

wow this really blew my mind! it looks completely like a different game after enabling the hd texture packs. I need to try this!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right? It's so cool!

hey, may I know which emulator you use? I see game animation run so smooth with no flickering

a lot of the popular games here already have official remakes (with hacks that make their physics more authentic), but replaying ice climbers and zelda ii in 16-bit sounds fucking amazing. both are slept on af.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, i loved ice climbers!

Thanks for explaining texture packs to us over and over because before that we had no idea what texture packs were

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Considering how many people in the comments still asked what they were, I'd say I didn't explain it enough

Some of these look fantastic!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right?! :D

This is so cool man!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right? :D

Man, I haven’t thought about the NES HD packs for quite some time. I forgot how cool some of them were! I actually had the idea to try and make one for Sweet Home, of the color enhancement type more than complete visual overhaul, with maybe a few additional animation frames for certain enemies, but these days I’m already bogged down with more projects than I can reasonably keep track of.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

oooh please make it! I'd love to check out an improved version of Sweet Home

@spoonybard13

Жыл бұрын

@@st1ka Maaaaaaaybe someday, but no promises

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

@@spoonybard13 No pressure from me :)

The Battle City update uses sprites from Tank Force, an official sequel for arcade. Also a very good game.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Wait... THERE'S A SEQUEL?!

I been on a retro binge.I love going back playing them on HD

@st1ka

6 ай бұрын

it's such a cool way of playing these classics

I had no idea you could do this on Mesen. Thanks for the info, dude

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

anytime! :D

There was actually a Japanese-only port of the first Mega Man to the early mobile phones that also had a playable Roll, but with new stage select music and the ability to slide and use the charge buster from later games. As far as I know, it was not dumped and might never be, like the impressive port of X2 to mobile that let you fight Fake Zero and the ports of X3-X4 and MM9.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

whoa! really? That's amazing!

@rickydo6572

Жыл бұрын

Lost media right here then.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

@rickydo6572 yeah I've been trying to search for it but can't seem to find it

@marx4538

Жыл бұрын

@@st1ka There's an upload of a playthrough with Roll on KZread, and I remember finding videos of X2 and X3 ports as well, but I think the games themselves are legitimately all lost.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

@@marx4538 oooh can you link me to that video? I'd love to see it.

The metroid one is really neat, but honestly after playing Zero Mission, I'm not sure I can ever play it again. ZM is just so perfect.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

haha understandable

@Zeithri

Жыл бұрын

Original is better than Zero Mission. No contest honestly.

@JamesDatWork

Жыл бұрын

@@Zeithri I couldn't disagree more, but everyone has a right to their opinion.

@BainesMkII

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesDatWork NES Metroid certainly has shortcomings, but Zero Mission is too much of a GBA game and comes off too much as a Super Metroid wannabe rather than the original Metroid. You've got a giant Samus fighting giant enemies in tiny areas that had to be redesigned to fit them, with Super Metroid stuff bolted onto the whole.

@JamesDatWork

Жыл бұрын

@@BainesMkII that's an opinion ... I actually think Zero Mission is a better game than Super Metroid. SM still has that 'stiff' Metroid feel and personally I found the scanning and swinging mechanics annoying.

Zelda and castlevania look amazing. Thanks for sharing that content.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

glad you liked it! :D

That is simply amazing! I love it. I wish more pixel artists would remaster classic games like that.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right?! It's so cool!

I've been looking for a video like this! I would love to see a video for some of the MSU patches & different graphical packs for some SNES games as well. Subbed!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

thank you! :D

Would LOVE to see one made for the Dragon Quest games! I mean we already have SNES assets from the SNES remakes, so that would be a FANTASTIC overlay to have! SPECIALLY if enemy battle animations could be added!

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

oh yeah, a Dragon quest HD graphics pack would be tight!

@chall6761

Жыл бұрын

Looks like you found yourself a little project, Skins.

@skins4thewin

Жыл бұрын

@@chall6761 Lol ya right.

@chall6761

Жыл бұрын

@@skins4thewin You've got all the assets.

@skins4thewin

Жыл бұрын

@@chall6761 if ya say so 🙂

Fascinating, I like this. I especially wanna see the zelda 2 texture pack finished.

The download links in the TwinBee overlay page are all dead, do you happen to know why, or what I can do about it?

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

okay, I've updated the URL in the pinned comment. Try now

This is amazing! I need to try this out! Zelda II looks like it is going to be top tier visually when it is hopefully finished. I know that there was a PS2 Remake for it, but I would love to see a 16 bit - 32 bit version of the original Phantasy Star if someone were to do the HD texture overlay for the SEGA Master System. Btw, if you liked the Wily Wars, there is a fanmade sequel to it fittingly called Mega Man: The Sequel Wars which iirc is still a WIP.

@Hyrule452

Жыл бұрын

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

hope you'll enjoy it! :D

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

@@Hyrule452 Oh dude you're the one who worked on the Zelda 2 mod? Excellent work my friend!

@zacharyessey5904

Жыл бұрын

@@Hyrule452 You have done a fantastic job and I hope that you get to finish it someday. I would love to help if you need it in the sound department.

I have seen some. Calling a improvement is highly debatable. While technicaly they are much Better than the Originals, some of them have a worst art Direction, wich make them loose the charm, minimal design and on worst case scenarios is less prátical to spot the game elements from the background. Still some of them are indeed a improvment

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

It varies from game to game. Some look better, others don't. In the video I call out the ones that look worse imo

@ShytPump

7 ай бұрын

I think your spelling and grammar need a remaster more than these games

@PedroFerreira-sx2gd

7 ай бұрын

@@ShytPump English is not my native language.

Nice video!

Is it also possible to run these texture packs on FPGA hardware? Like on the Analogue Pocket or the MISTer?

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

No idea. Sorry :(

Hopefully they keep working on that Zelda 2 remaster. It's definitely glitchy and needs a lot of work but there's a lot of potential there.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right?!

Cool vid. THE CONTENT! Idk if I would refer to these as improvements though personally. I find it akin to colorizing a black and white film. Cool to see, but not enough to make them the defacto versions. The originals are pure. Products of their time made with the technology available. How they look, play, and sound defines the platforms they were designed for. Nonetheless, It's sweet to see these games with different coats of paint/artstyles though. I'd be interested to see some of these take manual art as the direct inspiration. Kinda like the Mario 64 HD pack that used the render art.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

understandable ^^

@the-NightStar

Жыл бұрын

God I hate purist elists like you. You just suck the fun from absolutely anything with this pedantic bullshit whining.

very good video, with nice demonstration and explanation.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

thank you! ^^

Oh man doing this sounds fun thanks man. I had no idea we could do this. Time to go mario kart excite bike.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

hehe

Ugh, its sickening that the superior versions of the Mega Mans (no slow down or disappearing sprites) are trapped on the Mega Man Anniversary Collection on Playstation 2.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention Mega Man Anniversary Collection never launched in Europe

@AxlRocks0TheOriginal

Жыл бұрын

I felt exactly the same regarding Legacy Collection. They did actually update it later on though and add a "Turbo" mode which is supposed to remove slowdowns, not sure about sprite flicker reduction though. I have to hand it to Digital Eclipse for doing that, since Capcom themselves didn't bother with such a feature for any of their other in-house developed collections, such as for X1-3, afaik.

I sure hope you have some links to these. I hate when people put these up Sean mom but don’t show people where they can get a hat from.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Oh crap! I was supposed to paste the links! Thank you for reminding me. I'm currently at my day job so I can't do them, but I'll do them tonight.

@popixel

Жыл бұрын

@@st1ka no problem. Just glad you have them. It’s so hard finding the good HD packs.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

@@MatthewDaviesParker Check the pinned comment :)

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

@@MatthewDaviesParker Yeah that's weird. It seems youtube is now randomly unpinning the pinned comment. Try it now :)

This looks incredible

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

agreed! :D

Usually not a fan of this type of thing, mostly with 3D games where the hi res textures makes the low polygon count more apparent. These, on the other hand, look amazing!

I'm honestly surprised Nintendo has never done this officially. They'd rather sell you a Super Mario All-Stars rom for some reason. Why even bother getting the physics right when you can overlay new graphics on top of the original game? Too much work I guess.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing Nintendo never even considered this possibility. With that said, I'd love to see Sega and Nintendo do this. It'd be amazing :P

Just found this. I both appreciate these and at the same time would never want to "replace" the originals.

@st1ka

26 күн бұрын

understnadable :D

I liked the garage band musical style of the Castlevania upgrade. Sounds pretty good to me.

Everyone still compares graphics to Flash games as a bad thing. Meanwhile, I have more nostalgia for Flash game graphics than 8-bit graphics.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

It depends on the flash games. Some looked great, others seemed to have little concern for aesthetics.

I’ve always felt that the NES was held back by its lousy color palette and four color limitations per sprite, sprite scanline limitation. Late 80’s gameplay vastly exceeds what the hardware is capable of presenting.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

yeah, I love the way NES games play and I do LOVE the way many late-nes games look. But early NES games tend to look pretty ugly

@johnsimon8457

Жыл бұрын

@@st1ka Megaman's face is a separate sprite on top of his head just to work around that colors per sprite limitation. It's a small thing. But it's still a hack that people had to invent. It also contributes to sprite flicker because of the sprites per scanline limitation. When I think of "Stereotypically ugly early NES games" I think Takeshi's Challenge - no clouds in the sky to break up solid blocks of blue color, no sprite multiplexing like megaman so the sprite design is pretty simple. You can see the 8x8 sprite size everywhere because everything looks like it was placed on that grid.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

@@johnsimon8457 Oh I tottally get what you mean, though admittedly, as someone who really enjoyed Mega Man: The Wily Wars, I kinda dig playing the NES version with Mega Drive-like graphics, but without akward controls of the sega version ^^

Some of these are amazing

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

agreed!

Damn. Doing this kind of stuff with overlays is absolutely amazing

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right? :D

In before NES purists come out and cry that we're ruining THEIR games.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Ah, I'm expecting a few comments like that yeah :P

Why would image swap affect music? Is this stuff actually a full on ROM hack (or patch) technique, and just happens to had the "texture" name stick because of being the most common use or something of the sort?

Great video.

14:55 what game is being used here as an example of vector graphics?

this is a really cool idea I'm surprised hasn't been done sooner.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

right? :D

Donkey Kong jr. Was so much fun I loved it.

Making NES games look like Snes games, I love it!!

@st1ka

6 ай бұрын

Right? :D

I got the Castlevania 30th anniversary mod working with music. Did you use the USA revision 1 rom? I like that pack better as Simon is just more detailed and not a weird looking sprite like in the other pack.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Not sure what I did wrong, but clearly I missed something somewhere

@ChaossX77

Жыл бұрын

@@st1ka did you apply the .ips patch that came with the hd pack? That's what makes the music work.

Amazing. I want to see this for Castlevania, Metroid etc

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

Oh this video already shows packs for Metroid and Castlevania ^^

@retrocrypt

Жыл бұрын

@@st1ka I got so excited I thought it was just a video for the Adventures of Link only then I watched the rest of the video 😅😅😅. Love your work, awesome video, sir.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

@@retrocrypt haha thank you

Good to see how the NES HD packs are progressing. It's not something I've delved into yet but I agree (mostly) with the opinions in this video. 16-bit style upgrades are my favourites. There were some great Ninja Turtles games on NES. I've seen some great OpenBOR Turtles games with a 16-bit style, so it would be good to see that kind of pixel art creativity utilised for the original NES games.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

I'm hoping these will evolve even more in the future ^^

Am I the only one how kind of liked what they did with Donkey Kong? Great Video

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

a few users liked it too. And hey, don't worry, in the end, my takes on each graphics pack are just my personal opinions ^_^

Very cool video. I would love to see a follow up down the road on this.

@st1ka

Жыл бұрын

As more of these come I'd definitely do it