Mega Man X3 Remastered Cutscene Compilation - NintendoComplete
511This is a compilation of all of the full motion video cutscenes from Mega Man X3.
Mega Man X3 was released on the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation in early 1996, just a few months after the original SNES game showed up in stores.
The PS1, Saturn, and PC versions all featured fully animated cutscenes to replace the SNES game's intro, stage openers, and ending sequence, and they were awesome. They were completely unnecessary, terribly compressed, and I loved them.
Since the PlayStation version had the best cutscene video quality, I pulled the clips for this video from it. The PS1 FMV clips were all originally encoded at 320x240 at 15fps, and they looked awful thanks to all of the compression artifacts.
I used MadVR and Anime4K HLSL shaders to treat the video, and I was supersampling at 4K to get as clean of an image as possible without resorting to AI upscaling. Additionally, I did some pretty heavy color-correction (since the compression created some nasty banding in gradients in the original video), and a lot of work went into clearing up the rampant macro-blocking that shows up in the darker scenes.
I was pretty impressed with the results, and I haven't seen anything like this done with the MMX3 FMVs, so I thought I would share the fruit of my efforts. If you look at these side-by-side with the original in-game videos, I think you'll notice a fairly dramatic improvement.
You can find my playthrough of the PS1 version of the game, as well as about 700,000 other Mega Man games here, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3gSj_kh1fHv_byjbzySGOUL9OBLnrQcP
Hope you all like this fun little bit of "omake"!
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