


This is enabling Chinese Shield owners to play games like Punch-Out, Super Mario Galaxy, and New Super Mario Bros. That’s because Nvidia made a deal to bring first-party Wii games to the Shield there. It’s great for watching movies and TV as well as playing retro games, but in China, it’s even better. The Nvidia Shield is one of the best Android set-top boxes that you can get. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess update for Nvidia Shield Gigabyte software to make Nintendo games look better. It is also applying a similar idea to that A.I. This is a visual effect that makes edges of characters and geometry in a game sharper while also running faster than equivalent methods.īut that’s not the only place that Nvidia is using deep learning. Nvidia has its own deep-learning super sampling feature in its RTX graphics cards. It was also notable because the software was able to run on a $500 consumer-grade PC.Īnd that makes me wonder - why aren’t more gaming companies using this technology? And the truth is that they are starting to. When fans removed Henry Cavill’s mustache from Justice League, it wasn’t shocking simply because it looked better.

The people working on this mod plan to release a playable version sometime before the end of January. And that posed a big problem for the prerendered background images in Final Fantasy VII. But when SquareSoft was trying to fit Final Fantasy VII on a handful of CDs, it squashed down the resolution of these assets and threw away the originals. These are the JPG images that developers paint on polygons so that a box looks like a wall of bricks instead. One of the big reasons a game like Final Fantasy VII looks so ugly today is because of its textures. And it all comes down to neural networks and machine learning. While modern technology has easily surpasses those hardware limitations, new processes may have a way to make those old games look slightly better. The truth is that the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, and Saturn were like the Atari and Intellivision for 3D graphics. I think they are ugly in a charming way, but many people disagree with even that. The first generation of 3D video games are ugly. Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10.
