In that linked Reddit post, they state they were using ReShade 4.9.1. So presumably you would have to determine what settings they used to get a similar result and then just take screenshots.

Shponglefan wrote on Yesterday, 17:08:

In that linked Reddit post, they state they were using ReShade 4.9.1. So presumably you would have to determine what settings they used to get a similar result and then just take screenshots.

Oh is that an upscaling tool? I thought this was more for the coloring and lighting. Will definitely look into it if it is free.

I've been using Seedream 4.0 via NightCafe.

Example below. Told it to "scale the image up" and set the output to 16:9 (2560x1440), input image was 1024x640. Seems to do a decent job. Not sure how it will do with lower res start images or pixel art. I'll mess with it later and see if I can figure anything out. I'm not a fan of normal scaling either, at least for pixel art.

Edit: So, this is the best I can get... I downloaded a 600x400 Monkey Island Demo screenshot and played around with some prompts. The best results came from "Upscale the start image. Maintain colors, style, pixel clarity and sharpness. No image softening". The result is below. Still better "recreating" using a start image than free upscaling software on lower res images in my opinion. Not perfect...but not terrible. Even the paid scalers on NightCafe suck at pixel art.

On a side note. I wanted a clear image of the condor and egg from FF7, I like how it turned out too. Created using Seedream 4 and a screenshot from the game on PC.

I mean, you can just use DOSBox with output=openglnb, scaler=none and aspect=true.

In the example above, the game is running on an 1920x1200 monitor, which scales the native 320x200 resolution perfectly (6x on each axis) and then adjusts it to a 4:3 aspect ratio. This screenshot was taken via Fraps, with no adjustments other than cropping the black borders on both sides.

Wow. Thank you both. This look much better than what I had so far. I will definitely try both.

A few more examples with the black borders left on:

Again, this is just plain old DOSBox-0.74-3 using the settings mentioned above running on an Asus ProArt 24" 1920x1200 monitor. Nothing else was needed.

Any image editor that can use the nearest neighbor resizing method will produce the same result. In GIMP you can do it by setting the "Interpolation" to none when resizing. In Photoshop set the resize method to Nerest Neighbor.

It's kind of funny that you are trying to use the most advanced upscaling when you needed to use the oldest, haha

I never even thought of just using DOSBox.... when I actively use it almost daily. haha

Stupid AI corrupting my thought processes. 😜