1. Apply it to each individual sprite while loading the ROM.
2. Create an alternate sprite table with vector graphics.
3. Create two rendering loops, one internal for the original sprites and one going to the screen with the new sprites.
4. ???
5. Profit

And all those links have been slashdotted. Good job :D

Most of those filters have been around for quite some time. I remember using ZSnes with the SuperEagle filter in the begining of 2000s.

This kind of enhancement is only possible because some assumptions are made on the original content. This is equivalent to this enhancement tool which can recreate the text bellow a blurred image. The assumption is that you only have around 36 chars under the blur (or pixelization). In this case, the kind of information you are trying to retrieve is clearly defined and quite reduced.

This is obviously not true for other kind of applications, like faces, sprites and such. There is no way to reduce the information space to a practical size in order to constraint any algorithm. In those case, what you are doing is CREATING information, not RECOVERING information.

Because the information is simply not there ? You can add as much information you want to your pixels like curves and such, but you have no way to prove it is the original information.

From TFA : "The other problem is that the Depixelizing Pixel Art approach always smooths images, even when an object shouldn't necessarily be smooth. For example, are Space Invaders really meant to be cute and round? Maybe, in the creator's eye, they had long, angular, razor-sharp mandibles and straight-out antennae! "

They are adding information, but they have no way to know if it is what the original artist had in mind.

For what I gathered so far (I don't own a PS3), PSN is free, buying on it is not. The credit card is not required to register to PSN but only if you buy games on it.

You are the one without a clue, go play somewhere else.

Because you get the whole thing in reverse ? These are trademarks which became generic names, not the opposite...

Larger production budget != better movie...

Actually, i'm not sure where to stand on this, since the book clearly states it is a Macbook she is using (it is even over the top repeated in the book).

Cars are a really bad example of transparent product placement. I can't stop counting the number of movies where the main caracters are driving a car and you have a big 5sec long shoot of the front of the car where you can see the obvious logo of the brand. This is really annoying as it just cut the pace of the movie to show you a logo (usually before the car get trashed/shoot at/drive off a freeway bridge).

Not sure you can call someone unscrewing 4 screws a techguru...

I'm waiting for its return very much. I also want some cake.

Were you hiding under a rock for the last 2 weeks and the humble bundle event ? Event when given the possibility to pay 1c, people are ready to pay more for what they think is a good cause/quality product.

But Google is now promising students who cough up an .edu e-mail address access to the service within 24 hours.

So much for all the students around the world who don't have email addresses ending in .edu

Well, i guess it is time to check if no-ip.com has hosts ending in .edu and set-up a home mail server :)

I don't really get if you are complaining or agreeing...

Thing is, there are many differences between a ballot box and a e-voting system.

In the case of the ballot box, you need to tamper with it after the election, when it is best garded. Each ballot box only contain a limited number of votes, and you need to prepare a large amount of false ballots before hand.

In the case of the e-voting system, you can tamper with it before the election and make 'invisible' tampering (ROM flashing, replacing the display with hidden chips, etc). Once you got access to the machine once, you are good to change many elections. Also, the machine can contain more votes than a ballot box.

In my opinion, this is not a question of how hard it is to tamper with something, but the scale of the changes you can produce. Paper ballots only allow for small changes, while evoting allows for large scale changes