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With the help of AI new updates to PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast emulation are giving a new lease of life to some of the best games ever made


AI is helping emulation look better than it ever has before. Is there really a need to play on old hardware anymore?

SSX Tricky sporting a 4K texture replacement pack.Then, the world got in on the craze, and greedy money-grabbers started jacking up the prices of original hardware and games and fleecing those who were truly interested. While many of us can do those using an Upscaling program such as Topaz Gigapixel some modders are now training their own AI image tools and letting them run wild and the results are jaw-droppingly good – on a par with graphics we see in modern games, but with the gameplay and replayability of the golden era. Downloading some of these texture packs for emulation can take a couple of GB on your hard drive – when you think that most of the games came on a DVD or even a CD originally that is a bit crazy.

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