Hi everyone. I'm planning on replacing the original FMVs from the PC port of Resident Evil 4 (Ultimate HD Edition) with these ones. The game's engine is unable to render and display HD videos properly, but there's a special trainer (made by Raz0r) that can remove these limitations. I'm sure this upscale will be a nice addition to albert marin's excellent HD Project: www.re4hd.com Also, for anyone who's interested, I left a few notes about RE4's video files in the Community tab of the channel: ua-cam.com/channels/I64fp_jtv6o_tZc1Ikp1jA.htmlcommunity
@@bardockofalecido the main campaign with Leon does have real time rendered cut-scenes, because that's how the original GameCube version was made (everything in-game). However Separate Ways was only introduced when the game was ported to the PS2. And the PS2 was not able to perform the cut-scenes in real-time due to its graphical limitations... so all cut-scenes were recorded as FMVs. That means that animation data for Separate Ways' cut-scenes doesn't exist in the game disc, since its cinematics were only pre-rendered and every port that followed has borrowed assets from RE4's GC version, and PS2's new content from Separate Ways (some weapons, a level and its FMV cinematics). tl;dr: Every RE4 including Separate Ways is taking the PS2's shitty FMVs for the cinematics in that expansion.
Cool little moment 11:37 Leon tells Ada to use knifes next time in close encounters and when Ada is getting choked by Leon she uses a knife. She listened to Leon. Not a lot of people noticed
I love Leon and Ada’s relationship so much. I started with RE2R and just fell in love with them and their relationship. Rewatching Separate Ways always reminds me how deep Ada’s affection is for Leon. So much for being the “deadliest spy” when she practically melts at the sight of Leon, and stops dead in her tracks when she realizes Leon could possibly, actually die on her. Her vulnerability always shows at the presence of Leon, it’s beautiful. Leon 100% would not have survived Spain if it weren’t for Ada constantly running around helping him even without his knowledge. Really shows how much Ada cares for him even 6 years later. The man she died for. She is still willing to die for him time and time again as demonstrated by the number of times she got captured or got cornered. There were many times where saving Leon would do her no favor, but she still persisted. Proves that there’s no one else in the world she would protect so desperately. Leon and Ada have been protecting each other since day one up to the very last time we saw them in RE6. Raccoon City to China-they’re just as willing to die to protect the other. I’m hoping that Capcom is planning their story’s conclusion already since they’re not getting any younger. With everything Leon has been through, the one thing he deserves the most is to finally be with the woman he has loved for 15 years and counting. Ada too. She deserves to be loved despite her flaws and errors. They just deserve their happy ending.
It's such a shame Capcom made these cutscenes pre-rendered. We may never see them in high resolution unless they exist somewhere in Capcom's files. These are MUCH better than what we have, but the lack of anti-aliasing is clear. It'd probably take someone re-creating the cutscenes in SFM or something for us to get them at the best quality imaginable now.
I'm planning on re-upscaling these cutscenes using different training models and techniques, and releasing it as a mod (if possible). I already managed to remove the aliasing from the videos ( imgur.com/a/zyWbfW6 ), but there's still room for improvement.
Some cutscenes already are from the Leon campaign, but with different soundtrack and sound effects, but the ones that are exclusive for Separate Ways looks like shit due the PS2 FMV instead of real time
@@TheGamingRestoration Has the RE4 HD project mod team contacted you at all? I know they recently posted about wanting to use this method to recreate these cutscenes when they get to them.
30:00 Goodness I love the ending with Ada riding the chopper and looking into the distance as it transitions to the credits with the lovely music. Such a mood!! update: Saw the post-credit scene (main campaign) of Ada in the remake. This is waaay waaaay better. I hope Separate Ways there changes things and is also good..
I like when they're idly farming and here and there mutter, 'Mierda!' even though nothing has notably changed for them and their body language is just more farming.
@@Gaff. I'd be saying "shit" all the time, too, if I had a giant parasite in my chest. Then there's that bit before Leon gets to the village at the beginning where the end of the men yelling on the cliff is all garbled. Yet that didn't happen on an earlier port of the game I played.
Which version has it garbled? I go back and forth between a lot of versions, but the latest HD PC release is the one I've played the least by far. I used to play the PS2 one most, then I did Wii for a while, and lately I play the NTSC GameCube one because it's a little harder and overall better than the PS2 one aside from extras. Haven't played in a couple years, though -- I really want to miss it when the HD mod is done so that finally playing it again and experiencing it like that for the first time correlate like a sort of planned magic.
I love me some Wesker. Great scene on the part where he starts getting annoyed by Ada not killing Leon and does that finger tapping lol such a great antagonist
@Alex Puckey Capcom has re-released RE4 countless times, yet they never bothered to rework the Separate Ways cutscenes, as they still look like from the PS2 era.
@@brendanw6080 that's because the ps2 port looked worse in general compared to the original gamecube release, and that port only used pre rendered cutscenes unlike the GC version which uses real time rendered cutscenes, which wouldn't be an issue for the remaster since it's based on the Gamecube version, but the Separate Ways campaign was exclusive to the PS2 so there's no real time cutscenes for it, and upscaling wasn't as advanced as it is now when they released the remaster so you're essentially watching 480p footage stretched to 1080p.
The sad part is that the original files for these cutscenes running in engine are saved in a hard drive... getting dust ...somewhere at capcom's buildings... As well as the builds for resident evil 3.5
6:19 - For anyone interested in what the two Ganados say in Spanish here: Ganado 1: "I heard the foreigner is still among us" Ganado 2: "Our chief will take care of the rat. Afterall his Plaga is much stronger than ours" Ganado 1: "[laugh] You're right! He's such a big guy"
Amazing improvements! Can't wait to see these reconstructed cutscene remasters added into Albert's RE4 HD project! And I cannot wait to play and finish the entire RE4 for the fourth time (if i'm not mistaken :D), once Albert's RE4 HD project is 100 % finished. You and Albert are doing God's work.
This is fantastic, during my gameplay I was horrified to see how the cinematics of the main game looked amazing while those of Separate Ways looked filthy, this work is just awesome, the only thing I would see is the effect of Sawtooth that affects some scenes like the beginning of the first chapter or the battle against Krauser.
i must admit as much as like the Remake there are story elements i definatly prefer from the original, like Krauser working for wesker originally ada and leon being closer
Oh well.. The original were so lame that not even the sorcery of the AI Machine could really save this one. Looks much better for sure, but hard to believe you could get better results from PS1 era CD based CGI than a PS2 era DVD based CGI. Thanks for doing it though. Looking forward to have these in the game.
I'm glad that you liked the results, even if they're not that mind-blowing :) Most CGI cutscenes use high-quality anti-aliasing techniques, which is why they always look so sharp and clean. In these cases, all you have to do is take care of the compression artifacts, and you're good to go. RE4's cutscenes aren't CGI though, they were rendered in real-time, and all the imperfections and tricks that they used to render the in-game graphics are present in the video footage. Read the reply I gave to Cheappy V, I explained this in more detail.
@@TheGamingRestoration Not in this case. The Separated Ways were all pre-renderd. PS2 couldn't handle the GC cutscenes so all cutscenes on the PS2 version were pre-rendered FMV videos as opposed to real time on GC. Separated Ways were brand new cutscenes for the PS2 version and as such, were completely designed to be pre-rendered only so they add a lot of new effects and camera pans that not even GC would be able to render them in real time. So these cutscenes don't exist running in real time in any version of RE4 even though they used the same assets as the GC version and were made and animated using a GC development kit. What I mean is, these cutscenes were always pre-rendered FMV videos and never had to run in real time.. so they could have made it cleaner, but I guess they wanted to keep the visuals as close as possible to the real time graphics... as opposed to CGI cinematics.
@@thiagovidal6137 You misunderstood me, I'm aware that all the PS2 cutscenes are pre-rendered. When I said "real-time" I meant that they used the game's engine to render the cutscenes, even if they weren't necessarily running in real-time when they were recorded. Anyways, that doesn't change the fact that the video footage looks identical to the Gamecube's in-game graphics, and it's the reason why ESRGAN had such a hard time trying to upscale it.
@@TheGamingRestoration I get it. It's a bummer Capcom didn't take the time to better extract those cutscenes for the HD release but it seems like they are constantly losing files of old games for some reason. No organization skills. Anyway.. this is surely better than we had before... so I will take it. Thanks for your work. Is there any ESRGAN tutorial out there? I haven't look anywhere but I'm curious in what it can do so I was thinking of experimenting with it.
Oh absolutely, and it's not just Capcom, most Japanese companies seem to loose their files all the time. Same thing happened with Konami and the source code for Silent Hill 2 and 3, same thing with Sega and the source code for The House of the Dead, Square Enix also lost the 3D assets from the original Kingdom Hearts and... basically everything they made before the 2000s. It seems like game preservation isn't exactly a priority for Japanese directors. Sure, here's one I like: kingdomakrillic.tumblr.com/post/178254875891/i-figured-out-how-to-get-esrgan-and-sftgan Also check out the Discord channel: discord.gg/jkFHzGD
People asked for these specifically because the originals' bitrate was very low? To my understanding, if there are huge encoding artifacts in the video, AI can't do much about it. Is this incorrect?
That's correct. If anything, ESRGAN makes the compression artifacts even more noticeable. The problem with these videos isn't just the low bitrate, but the fact that they were recorded on a real Gamecube at 512x288 and without any form of anti-aliasing. Not only that, but most Gamecube titles are plagued with dithering due to its 16 bit color output, and when the developers tried to convert their low-depth RGB recordings to yuv420p MPEG videos, they added a LOT of color banding... which further complicates the upscaling (I used a few filters to reduce the color banding, but there's only so much I could do). To make things worse, CAPCOM decided to use a very primitive video/audio container called Softdec, which was created almost 10 years before the release of RE4 (it was mostly used on the Sega Dreamcast), and it only allows for MPEG1 videos at very low bitrates, and with a very limited set of I-frames. Alsa64's denoising model did an incredibly good job at reducing the noise from the footage without touching the textures. But even without noise, ESRGAN still needs to upscale in-game cinematics where thousands of unfiltered polygons are shaking and twitching all over the screen :P Plus, the resolution is so low that it can't even enhance details that are too far away from the camera's POV. In conclusion, considering how fucked these videos are, the results are way better than I could ever expected 😅
@@TheGamingRestoration Separate Ways wasn't even shipped with the Gamecube version of the game. It was made exclusively for the PS2 version at the time... correct if I'm wrong, but ain't this fully recorded at a PS2, since all cutscenes at the PS2 are video files while at the Gamecube are rendered on real time? Anyways, we have this mess that can't be fixed in any form... unless someone took the time to somehow learn on how to make event scripts for one of the ports of this game to allow them to be rendered in real time and record them and higher resolutions...
@@dlib89 I never said the Separate Ways campaign was available for the original Gamecube release, but its cutscenes were obviously recorded using a Gamecube. If you open the Dolphin emulator, set the renderer to Software, and run the game, you'll get exactly the same graphics as the ones shown in the PS2 FMVs.
27:00 I wonder what exactly happened? As look like that Saddler would impaled Ada. But when Leon found her, she was simply unconscious and without a visible injury.
everyone loves leon’s dialogue in this game but after playing separate ways, ada also has funny dialogues haha “that’s a large thing you got there” “this dead body is sickening” (after she saw the regenerator) “this is gonna be hard to explain at customs”
Awesome, you did it! 😮👍 Now if the same can be done with the FMVs from Final Fantasy I-X, Tekken 4, Bushido Blade games, Resident Evil 1 Remake and Resident Evil 0, Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions's Intro and Metal Gear Solid 3's Secret Theater.
Remaster all the cinematics of Leon's RE4 Campaign and if you can also improve those of Assigment Ada, I would greatly appreciate it, you have a new subscriber ;).
Sally Cahill's voice is music to the ears. She really nails a seductive, confident spy and you can tell she really enjoyed voicing Ada. Sadly, that doesn't happen with Ada's new voice actress in the remake. What a total downgrade. Still disappointed Capcom didn't take the voice direction seriously.
This would've been good if not for the highly noticeable PIXELATION on the edges of the characters. If you can smoothen and enhance / sharpen the images a bit more then it'll be perfect
funny... the pre-rendered separate ways cutscene is still original even on the ps4 (maybe they retouched them a lil bit? who knows) they are low-res, grainy, interlaced... damn just how long does it take to remastered into like this one... amazing!!
So I guess Leon might know about Wesker in the remake but who knows tbh. Maybe if CV happened in the remakes then maybe Claire told Leon or maybe not lol 😂
Im sure you can get an even better upscale. you should use the Wii video files as source, since I think that Capcom tried to upscale them themself slightly since the HD versions which added a weird lining partically and made the pixels sharper than they should be unlike in the originals where it's more blurry but also less hard edges on them.
@@Phantron yes, some cutscenes already are from León campaign, but on Separate Ways have different soundtrack, and some different sound effects, but the only bad thing is the final cutscene, because that cutscene in game have the bomba counter
Im still thinking about this 'Organization'. Has it been revealed in any RE games lately? Was it 'the Family' in RE6? Or Mother Mirandas family??, Or is the Connections in RE7?
😂. Yes, the one Simmons belongs too. Obviously that has nothing to do with RE7 or 8. Those games just pretend to be in the same universe and shoehorn a wannabe Chris so you believe it. The true story ended after RE6 in vídeogames and has continued with the movies like Vendetta and soon in Death Island.
The bigger picture is this organization... So they are really shady secret society bend to remade the world in their image. But never got to see them fall apart like Umbrella
I have the all FMVs upgraded by someone manually and it looks vastly better than this. Even my Topaz Video AI software cannot touch that level of quality. If folks want them I am happy to work with you to get you the files. It is about 4GB of FMV files.
Damn, you were able to upscale the original cutscenes into full 1080p, but Capcom couldn't fucking do it? If I'm going to be honest, this is pretty amazing. If only Capcom would've did this instead of using the original, low quality cutscenes because just looking at cutscenes in the "Ultimate HD Edition", they look hella crispy and not very pleasing to look at!
To think all of this could have been solved had they simply ported it on the gamecube. Or had they made seperate ways while they were doing the main campaign. They did port Code veronica X on the dreamcast(the console which was at first it's exclusive) afterall. No wonder why Shinji ran a vendetta againts sony when the ps2 was released. Just look at it. Imagine had they ported the other two RE gamecube exclusives on the ps2. Random aplause goes towards fans who managed to finish re4 on the ps2.
@@bighead8060 PS2 version is so damn ugly and the sound is ultra poor. The ganadoes has plain textures for faces and for some reason the resolution is even lower.
Stop with the hate, please. The PS2 version is inferior, yes, but only because of technical limitations. It's a pretty good version considering the console it's on, and a perfectly valid way of playing RE4. One is welcome to prefer whichever version they do, but this gratuitous anger towards the PS2 and the 2007 PC port is ridiculous. Even then, many of us still play these ports instead of the newer ones. You wouldn't like someone insulting the games YOU play, so you shouldn't be doing it to someone else either.
ESRGAN can be much more specialized and produce better results when paired with a model specifically trained for a specific type of content. AI Gigapixel or waifu2x cannot do that.
@@jannuarytrash Of course, but Gigapixels deblur function is what would help the most here, unless this guy can make a much better model than this (I've played around with these cutscenes in Gigapixel). IMO these cutscenes are so heavily compressed its not worth upscaling at all because of the artifacts that will be generated, and denoising will just make the upscale an oil pastel painting.
@@sSpirit A.I. Gigapixel is amazing at removing noise and compression artifacts, but I'm afraid that it wouldn't make any difference with this type of footage. These FMVs aren't really that noisy, they just look dirty because of the extreme aliasing, the pixel format and formats used, the resolution, the color banding... Read the reply that I gave to Cheappy V, I explained this in more detail.
@@SRC267 Not really. Gigapixel excels at upscaling photographs and real-life footage (and it has a really good denoising filter), but it's a bit dissapointing when it comes to videos, game textures, 3D CGI, cartoons, pixel-art, etc. ESRGAN is a bit more difficult to use, but it's way more flexible and it can give you better results.
I think what he said was "Su plaga es mucho mejor que lá nuestra" or "His plague is much better than ours", refering to their chief Bitores Mendes and how he should be able to defeat Leon.
So... can anyone tell me something, if we get ANY ideo, and simply give it the proper name like "demo1.mpg", wouldn't the game read that? I'm talking the original here, not UHD slow-mo bullshit lol
Apparently, yes. I found a pack that replaces the FMVs from the 2007 PC Version with higher qualities ones, which I assume were recorded on the HD Edition. It's useful for those who prefer the 2007 PC port instead of the HD Edition. (Or if your PC can only run the 2007 version).
Olha mesmo com o remaster ainda ficou muito esticado mas ficou razoavelmente bem mais os porras da capcom não siquer remasterizaram por se tratar de um jogo de 2005 eles nem fizeram questão de remasterizar pra pc e xbosta e ps4 etc
![[TAS] GC Resident Evil 4 by SoulCal in 1:35:29.67](/img/n.gif)
Hi everyone. I'm planning on replacing the original FMVs from the PC port of Resident Evil 4 (Ultimate HD Edition) with these ones. The game's engine is unable to render and display HD videos properly, but there's a special trainer (made by Raz0r) that can remove these limitations. I'm sure this upscale will be a nice addition to albert marin's excellent HD Project: www.re4hd.com
Also, for anyone who's interested, I left a few notes about RE4's video files in the Community tab of the channel: ua-cam.com/channels/I64fp_jtv6o_tZc1Ikp1jA.htmlcommunity
I hope Albert & Cris from the RE4 Project are made aware of this awesome work!
Could you remaster RE4 Incubate DVD?
The HD Ultimate edition doesn’t have real time cutscenes?
@@bardockofalecido the main campaign with Leon does have real time rendered cut-scenes, because that's how the original GameCube version was made (everything in-game).
However Separate Ways was only introduced when the game was ported to the PS2. And the PS2 was not able to perform the cut-scenes in real-time due to its graphical limitations... so all cut-scenes were recorded as FMVs.
That means that animation data for Separate Ways' cut-scenes doesn't exist in the game disc, since its cinematics were only pre-rendered and every port that followed has borrowed assets from RE4's GC version, and PS2's new content from Separate Ways (some weapons, a level and its FMV cinematics).
tl;dr: Every RE4 including Separate Ways is taking the PS2's shitty FMVs for the cinematics in that expansion.
Can you make that cutscenes for the original 2007 PC version too?
I just love how we get to see the story from Adas perspective
20:45 "Practically a genius..."
Leon: _Isn't able to recognize Ada because she's wearing sunglasses_
He was probably just stunned because he last saw her almost dead in Raccoon Ciyy 😅
Oh come on he isn't dumb. I never got the vibe he didn't know it was her 🤔
Leon is smart he probably knew it was Ada although they did get in a fight sequence so he didn’t talk much
@@DreadRobby He didn't know it was her. When she took the glasses off he was like: "Ada!"
Like Doofensmirtz not recognizing perry.
PFFFFFFFFFF
Wesker: "SAMPLE! SAMPLE! SAMPLE! SAMPLE! SAMPLE!"
"I don't think I need to worry," Ada please, every cutscene you've been nothing but worried.
Not every cutscene.
Cool little moment 11:37 Leon tells Ada to use knifes next time in close encounters and when Ada is getting choked by Leon she uses a knife. She listened to Leon. Not a lot of people noticed
Yeah but tbh what else could she really do there?
Leon also took Krauzers knife in their first encounter and used it to cut the rope releasing Ada before the fight with Saddler.
@@PunkNDisorderlyGamerThat’s not true :)
@@brandonm6705 it is, look closely.
i mean i think that's more just trying to get him off her without seriously hurting him. she certainly wasn't going to shoot him.
I love Leon and Ada’s relationship so much. I started with RE2R and just fell in love with them and their relationship. Rewatching Separate Ways always reminds me how deep Ada’s affection is for Leon. So much for being the “deadliest spy” when she practically melts at the sight of Leon, and stops dead in her tracks when she realizes Leon could possibly, actually die on her. Her vulnerability always shows at the presence of Leon, it’s beautiful.
Leon 100% would not have survived Spain if it weren’t for Ada constantly running around helping him even without his knowledge. Really shows how much Ada cares for him even 6 years later. The man she died for. She is still willing to die for him time and time again as demonstrated by the number of times she got captured or got cornered. There were many times where saving Leon would do her no favor, but she still persisted. Proves that there’s no one else in the world she would protect so desperately. Leon and Ada have been protecting each other since day one up to the very last time we saw them in RE6. Raccoon City to China-they’re just as willing to die to protect the other.
I’m hoping that Capcom is planning their story’s conclusion already since they’re not getting any younger. With everything Leon has been through, the one thing he deserves the most is to finally be with the woman he has loved for 15 years and counting. Ada too. She deserves to be loved despite her flaws and errors. They just deserve their happy ending.
Hopefully we see their relationship in the RE4 remake.
I like Wesker when he sat on the chair behind the screen.
It's such a shame Capcom made these cutscenes pre-rendered. We may never see them in high resolution unless they exist somewhere in Capcom's files.
These are MUCH better than what we have, but the lack of anti-aliasing is clear. It'd probably take someone re-creating the cutscenes in SFM or something for us to get them at the best quality imaginable now.
I'm planning on re-upscaling these cutscenes using different training models and techniques, and releasing it as a mod (if possible).
I already managed to remove the aliasing from the videos ( imgur.com/a/zyWbfW6 ), but there's still room for improvement.
@@TheGamingRestoration please release when ready
Some cutscenes already are from the Leon campaign, but with different soundtrack and sound effects, but the ones that are exclusive for Separate Ways looks like shit due the PS2 FMV instead of real time
@@TheGamingRestoration Has the RE4 HD project mod team contacted you at all? I know they recently posted about wanting to use this method to recreate these cutscenes when they get to them.
the remake is soon
30:00 Goodness I love the ending with Ada riding the chopper and looking into the distance as it transitions to the credits with the lovely music. Such a mood!!
update: Saw the post-credit scene (main campaign) of Ada in the remake. This is waaay waaaay better. I hope Separate Ways there changes things and is also good..
Okay but is anyone gonna talk about how she slayed at the beginning💀👑
23:25 Leon was trying to do the ”Wake up” thing on Ada
Anyone else find it hilarious that one of the soundbites for the villagers is "What, my mother?"
I like when they're idly farming and here and there mutter, 'Mierda!' even though nothing has notably changed for them and their body language is just more farming.
@@Gaff. I'd be saying "shit" all the time, too, if I had a giant parasite in my chest.
Then there's that bit before Leon gets to the village at the beginning where the end of the men yelling on the cliff is all garbled. Yet that didn't happen on an earlier port of the game I played.
Which version has it garbled? I go back and forth between a lot of versions, but the latest HD PC release is the one I've played the least by far. I used to play the PS2 one most, then I did Wii for a while, and lately I play the NTSC GameCube one because it's a little harder and overall better than the PS2 one aside from extras. Haven't played in a couple years, though -- I really want to miss it when the HD mod is done so that finally playing it again and experiencing it like that for the first time correlate like a sort of planned magic.
@@Gaff. It's been on both copies of the Wii version I've had, yet the PS2 version I played as a kid wasn't garbled.
Interesting. Wonder what happened. I don't think I ever noticed the discrepancy.
I love me some Wesker. Great scene on the part where he starts getting annoyed by Ada not killing Leon and does that finger tapping lol such a great antagonist
Capcom has re-released this game a million times, yet they never bothered to upscale the Separate Ways cutscenes.
Nice job btw!
I love how a person on a computer can do what a multi billion dollar company can’t
I don’t understand
@Alex Puckey Capcom has re-released RE4 countless times, yet they never bothered to rework the Separate Ways cutscenes, as they still look like from the PS2 era.
@@Aego384 Heck, they look worse than they did on the original release.
@@brendanw6080 Because PS2 cutscenes are pixels on 4k monitors and screens, thus looking worse.
@@brendanw6080 that's because the ps2 port looked worse in general compared to the original gamecube release, and that port only used pre rendered cutscenes unlike the GC version which uses real time rendered cutscenes, which wouldn't be an issue for the remaster since it's based on the Gamecube version, but the Separate Ways campaign was exclusive to the PS2 so there's no real time cutscenes for it, and upscaling wasn't as advanced as it is now when they released the remaster so you're essentially watching 480p footage stretched to 1080p.
The sad part is that the original files for these cutscenes running in engine are saved in a hard drive... getting dust ...somewhere at capcom's buildings... As well as the builds for resident evil 3.5
I'd like those builds
but poorly blurry pre rendered cutscenes rule !
Good to see a small youtuber doing what Capcom didn't.
6:19 - For anyone interested in what the two Ganados say in Spanish here:
Ganado 1: "I heard the foreigner is still among us"
Ganado 2: "Our chief will take care of the rat. Afterall his Plaga is much stronger than ours"
Ganado 1: "[laugh] You're right! He's such a big guy"
Love how much this campaign shows her love for Leon and how much she cares about him, despite some people saying she doesn’t.
Amazing improvements!
Can't wait to see these reconstructed cutscene remasters added into Albert's RE4 HD project! And I cannot wait to play and finish the entire RE4 for the fourth time (if i'm not mistaken :D), once Albert's RE4 HD project is 100 % finished.
You and Albert are doing God's work.
This is fantastic, during my gameplay I was horrified to see how the cinematics of the main game looked amazing while those of Separate Ways looked filthy, this work is just awesome, the only thing I would see is the effect of Sawtooth that affects some scenes like the beginning of the first chapter or the battle against Krauser.
Thanks for this video. I was looking for all the cutscenes of this amazing character from Re4 ❤.
i must admit as much as like the Remake there are story elements i definatly prefer from the original, like Krauser working for wesker originally ada and leon being closer
1:48 So you telling me that Wesker got a dedicated TV camera that he swivels around for??😂😂 man this game is soooo cheesy lol I love it
Oh gosh how much i love her
I love Wesker's voice so much.
This is how the cutscenes should actually look like because I hate how the graphics look in the cutscenes because they're blurry.
Looks pretty much decent to me! Albert will be happy with this.
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*I hope that someday you'll upscale the biohazard 3.5 footage*
Yeah do it!
Don't worry, it's on the list ^^
13:26 i like how in the cutscenes it only takes a few bullets to take out the enemies but in the gameplay it takes a bunch of ammo
Even though you can tell the AI upscale with every little frame, this is much better than the compressed mess we still have. Thank you for this.
this makes mi benis become the big benis
Oh well.. The original were so lame that not even the sorcery of the AI Machine could really save this one. Looks much better for sure, but hard to believe you could get better results from PS1 era CD based CGI than a PS2 era DVD based CGI.
Thanks for doing it though. Looking forward to have these in the game.
I'm glad that you liked the results, even if they're not that mind-blowing :)
Most CGI cutscenes use high-quality anti-aliasing techniques, which is why they always look so sharp and clean. In these cases, all you have to do is take care of the compression artifacts, and you're good to go.
RE4's cutscenes aren't CGI though, they were rendered in real-time, and all the imperfections and tricks that they used to render the in-game graphics are present in the video footage.
Read the reply I gave to Cheappy V, I explained this in more detail.
@@TheGamingRestoration Not in this case. The Separated Ways were all pre-renderd. PS2 couldn't handle the GC cutscenes so all cutscenes on the PS2 version were pre-rendered FMV videos as opposed to real time on GC. Separated Ways were brand new cutscenes for the PS2 version and as such, were completely designed to be pre-rendered only so they add a lot of new effects and camera pans that not even GC would be able to render them in real time. So these cutscenes don't exist running in real time in any version of RE4 even though they used the same assets as the GC version and were made and animated using a GC development kit. What I mean is, these cutscenes were always pre-rendered FMV videos and never had to run in real time.. so they could have made it cleaner, but I guess they wanted to keep the visuals as close as possible to the real time graphics... as opposed to CGI cinematics.
@@thiagovidal6137 You misunderstood me, I'm aware that all the PS2 cutscenes are pre-rendered. When I said "real-time" I meant that they used the game's engine to render the cutscenes, even if they weren't necessarily running in real-time when they were recorded.
Anyways, that doesn't change the fact that the video footage looks identical to the Gamecube's in-game graphics, and it's the reason why ESRGAN had such a hard time trying to upscale it.
@@TheGamingRestoration I get it. It's a bummer Capcom didn't take the time to better extract those cutscenes for the HD release but it seems like they are constantly losing files of old games for some reason. No organization skills.
Anyway.. this is surely better than we had before... so I will take it. Thanks for your work.
Is there any ESRGAN tutorial out there? I haven't look anywhere but I'm curious in what it can do so I was thinking of experimenting with it.
Oh absolutely, and it's not just Capcom, most Japanese companies seem to loose their files all the time. Same thing happened with Konami and the source code for Silent Hill 2 and 3, same thing with Sega and the source code for The House of the Dead, Square Enix also lost the 3D assets from the original Kingdom Hearts and... basically everything they made before the 2000s.
It seems like game preservation isn't exactly a priority for Japanese directors.
Sure, here's one I like: kingdomakrillic.tumblr.com/post/178254875891/i-figured-out-how-to-get-esrgan-and-sftgan
Also check out the Discord channel: discord.gg/jkFHzGD
“a las plagas specimen, a sample, for evidence” i love the way she said that 😂
I wish they never killed off wesker and made him a clone and he just watches all of us
That would be boring. Like having Sigma in every Mega Man X game.
People asked for these specifically because the originals' bitrate was very low? To my understanding, if there are huge encoding artifacts in the video, AI can't do much about it. Is this incorrect?
That's correct. If anything, ESRGAN makes the compression artifacts even more noticeable.
The problem with these videos isn't just the low bitrate, but the fact that they were recorded on a real Gamecube at 512x288 and without any form of anti-aliasing. Not only that, but most Gamecube titles are plagued with dithering due to its 16 bit color output, and when the developers tried to convert their low-depth RGB recordings to yuv420p MPEG videos, they added a LOT of color banding... which further complicates the upscaling (I used a few filters to reduce the color banding, but there's only so much I could do).
To make things worse, CAPCOM decided to use a very primitive video/audio container called Softdec, which was created almost 10 years before the release of RE4 (it was mostly used on the Sega Dreamcast), and it only allows for MPEG1 videos at very low bitrates, and with a very limited set of I-frames.
Alsa64's denoising model did an incredibly good job at reducing the noise from the footage without touching the textures. But even without noise, ESRGAN still needs to upscale in-game cinematics where thousands of unfiltered polygons are shaking and twitching all over the screen :P Plus, the resolution is so low that it can't even enhance details that are too far away from the camera's POV.
In conclusion, considering how fucked these videos are, the results are way better than I could ever expected 😅
@@TheGamingRestoration Separate Ways wasn't even shipped with the Gamecube version of the game. It was made exclusively for the PS2 version at the time... correct if I'm wrong, but ain't this fully recorded at a PS2, since all cutscenes at the PS2 are video files while at the Gamecube are rendered on real time?
Anyways, we have this mess that can't be fixed in any form... unless someone took the time to somehow learn on how to make event scripts for one of the ports of this game to allow them to be rendered in real time and record them and higher resolutions...
@@dlib89 I never said the Separate Ways campaign was available for the original Gamecube release, but its cutscenes were obviously recorded using a Gamecube. If you open the Dolphin emulator, set the renderer to Software, and run the game, you'll get exactly the same graphics as the ones shown in the PS2 FMVs.
You kind of sound like a nerd lol.
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I wonder what exactly happened? As look like that Saddler would impaled Ada. But when Leon found her, she was simply unconscious and without a visible injury.
He wanted to use her as bait to lure Leon to him.
I Hope cutscenes will be badass like these one in the remake
duh we are talking about ada wong.
I think the remake is gonna be good lolol I think it’s gonna be cool to see how they use the grapple hook in the game play
9:50 I liked Luis and it's a shame they killed him off.
everyone loves leon’s dialogue in this game but after playing separate ways, ada also has funny dialogues haha
“that’s a large thing you got there”
“this dead body is sickening” (after she saw the regenerator)
“this is gonna be hard to explain at customs”
6:19 "Las plagas es mucho mejor" o love these two fr
Now I wonder if they'll bring back Ada's campaign in the remake.
Awesome, you did it! 😮👍
Now if the same can be done with the FMVs from Final Fantasy I-X, Tekken 4, Bushido Blade games, Resident Evil 1 Remake and Resident Evil 0, Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions's Intro and Metal Gear Solid 3's Secret Theater.
Remaster all the cinematics of Leon's RE4 Campaign and if you can also improve those of Assigment Ada, I would greatly appreciate it, you have a new subscriber ;).
Yeah, there are some minor cutscenes that are just videos with very low Quality, like the castle one
Sally Cahill's voice is music to the ears. She really nails a seductive, confident spy and you can tell she really enjoyed voicing Ada. Sadly, that doesn't happen with Ada's new voice actress in the remake. What a total downgrade. Still disappointed Capcom didn't take the voice direction seriously.
This would've been good if not for the highly noticeable PIXELATION on the edges of the characters. If you can smoothen and enhance / sharpen the images a bit more then it'll be perfect
Even in the separate ways DLC they had to include the classic bingo line
8:37 this like face it's like "oh shit we all dead"
Does anyone know the theme that plays whenever Wesker calls Ada?
funny... the pre-rendered separate ways cutscene is still original even on the ps4 (maybe they retouched them a lil bit? who knows)
they are low-res, grainy, interlaced... damn just how long does it take to remastered into like this one... amazing!!
Some of the shit this bitch says is gold
would be great to see the Freelancer intro Remastered in 1080p or higher
12:05 & 12:45 They Only Mention Each Other By Name But Never Met Each Other Which Is The Funniest Thing
Love the quality! Can I use this for my channel?
24:46 that's what she said 😅
Why are the cutscenes from Adas missions so blurry lol even on the PS4 and Xbox One
They Were Prerecorded For The PS2 Since Separate Ways Introduced In That Version Before The Updated HD Versions Were Released
So I guess Leon might know about Wesker in the remake but who knows tbh. Maybe if CV happened in the remakes then maybe Claire told Leon or maybe not lol 😂
Im sure you can get an even better upscale. you should use the Wii video files as source, since I think that Capcom tried to upscale them themself slightly since the HD versions which added a weird lining partically and made the pixels sharper than they should be unlike in the originals where it's more blurry but also less hard edges on them.
Also you could actually "just" record some videos from the maingame and use them as part for the video files in Seperate Ways :) how about that?
@@Phantron yes, some cutscenes already are from León campaign, but on Separate Ways have different soundtrack, and some different sound effects, but the only bad thing is the final cutscene, because that cutscene in game have the bomba counter
Ficou muito bom, vê nessa resolução faz uma diferença grande, comparada ao original que fica borrado no meu monitor de 2560x1600.
Im still thinking about this 'Organization'. Has it been revealed in any RE games lately? Was it 'the Family' in RE6? Or Mother Mirandas family??, Or is the Connections in RE7?
😂. Yes, the one Simmons belongs too.
Obviously that has nothing to do with RE7 or 8. Those games just pretend to be in the same universe and shoehorn a wannabe Chris so you believe it. The true story ended after RE6 in vídeogames and has continued with the movies like Vendetta and soon in Death Island.
@@SeventhheavenDK why would you say that the true story ended in RE6?
The bigger picture is this organization... So they are really shady secret society bend to remade the world in their image. But never got to see them fall apart like Umbrella
My theory is tricell umbrellas rival
I have the all FMVs upgraded by someone manually and it looks vastly better than this. Even my Topaz Video AI software cannot touch that level of quality. If folks want them I am happy to work with you to get you the files. It is about 4GB of FMV files.
Can you give us a link?
@@eymed2023 yeah I gotta dig it up but will post here.
@@cr4zyw3ld3r Good luck! We're counting on you! The fate of the Separate Ways cutscenes is in your hands!
*But don't feel your under any pressure.*
Really hope you can post them soon man, would love to see these cutscenes in all their glory.
Damn, you were able to upscale the original cutscenes into full 1080p, but Capcom couldn't fucking do it? If I'm going to be honest, this is pretty amazing. If only Capcom would've did this instead of using the original, low quality cutscenes because just looking at cutscenes in the "Ultimate HD Edition", they look hella crispy and not very pleasing to look at!
I wish there is a model for this needle weapon 08:04
To think all of this could have been solved had they simply ported it on the gamecube.
Or had they made seperate ways while they were doing the main campaign.
They did port Code veronica X on the dreamcast(the console which was at first it's exclusive) afterall.
No wonder why Shinji ran a vendetta againts sony when the ps2 was released. Just look at it. Imagine had they ported the other two RE gamecube exclusives on the ps2.
Random aplause goes towards fans who managed to finish re4 on the ps2.
The Playstation 2 version RE4 is so awful. GameCube version is state of the art.
What’s wrong with it? I’ve not played either.
@@bighead8060 PS2 version is so damn ugly and the sound is ultra poor. The ganadoes has plain textures for faces and for some reason the resolution is even lower.
@@yurieu5872 Fair enough, I get what you mean.
Stop with the hate, please.
The PS2 version is inferior, yes, but only because of technical limitations.
It's a pretty good version considering the console it's on, and a perfectly valid way of playing RE4.
One is welcome to prefer whichever version they do, but this gratuitous anger towards the PS2 and the 2007 PC port is ridiculous. Even then, many of us still play these ports instead of the newer ones.
You wouldn't like someone insulting the games YOU play, so you shouldn't be doing it to someone else either.
What are you 10 years old lol
8:09 Wait I thought only the castle priests do this. Not the villagers.
I think you might get better results out of A.I. Gigapixel
ESRGAN can be much more specialized and produce better results when paired with a model specifically trained for a specific type of content. AI Gigapixel or waifu2x cannot do that.
@@jannuarytrash Of course, but Gigapixels deblur function is what would help the most here, unless this guy can make a much better model than this (I've played around with these cutscenes in Gigapixel). IMO these cutscenes are so heavily compressed its not worth upscaling at all because of the artifacts that will be generated, and denoising will just make the upscale an oil pastel painting.
@@sSpirit A.I. Gigapixel is amazing at removing noise and compression artifacts, but I'm afraid that it wouldn't make any difference with this type of footage. These FMVs aren't really that noisy, they just look dirty because of the extreme aliasing, the pixel format and formats used, the resolution, the color banding...
Read the reply that I gave to Cheappy V, I explained this in more detail.
@@TheGamingRestoration Is Gigapixel best for picture upscaling out of all the upscaling programs?
@@SRC267 Not really. Gigapixel excels at upscaling photographs and real-life footage (and it has a really good denoising filter), but it's a bit dissapointing when it comes to videos, game textures, 3D CGI, cartoons, pixel-art, etc.
ESRGAN is a bit more difficult to use, but it's way more flexible and it can give you better results.
0:20 song name ??
Can they go all the way up to 4k remastered? would it even make a difference?
Is there any hidden/optional cutscenes for Separate Ways? If yes, which ones are they? Thanks. I'm missing one at the very bottom right.
So, capcom revealed several spoilers from the game just trought those cutscenes
I mean this is unlocked after the main game
Why there is no cutscene where leon fights zealots with TMP
“Las plagas is mejor que el tyrant” they just said that Las plagas is better than the t virus 6:26
I think what he said was "Su plaga es mucho mejor que lá nuestra" or "His plague is much better than ours", refering to their chief Bitores Mendes and how he should be able to defeat Leon.
Gheh, this story as well as the PRL-412 ain't on the GameCube version...
Ada Wong ❤️
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Why are cutscenes are so low quality in seperate ways?
Hello! I've emailed you. I don't know if you receive it ;D
Bro i play on ps2 and movie mode separate ways is no exist, how to fix it? Cuz i stuck in chapter 2 end
Does anyone, knows if this add on game, would be on the next extension for the ps5 RE4 remake? Thk 😎
ada linda perfeita
so uhm how do you install it and where are the links???? is it for uhd or hd project?
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This is the VA that the new deserved it not that awfull of lily gao
will you remake them again with a better training model, picture pack?
are there news on this, could you rework them better now or soon?
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24:46 Listen with your eyes closed
So... can anyone tell me something, if we get ANY ideo, and simply give it the proper name like "demo1.mpg", wouldn't the game read that? I'm talking the original here, not UHD slow-mo bullshit lol
Apparently, yes. I found a pack that replaces the FMVs from the 2007 PC Version with higher qualities ones, which I assume were recorded on the HD Edition. It's useful for those who prefer the 2007 PC port instead of the HD Edition. (Or if your PC can only run the 2007 version).
Tourist trophy Plz
no 1080p
The Video is better than the remastered version!
The song intro of the olds videos is better than this
Song intro?
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Olha mesmo com o remaster ainda ficou muito esticado mas ficou razoavelmente bem mais os porras da capcom não siquer remasterizaram por se tratar de um jogo de 2005 eles nem fizeram questão de remasterizar pra pc e xbosta e ps4 etc
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Yeah leon is good as she says but no one can beat ethan
Leon would wipe the floor clean of Ethan Lol