[Arcade PC] New Video Remasters for Hypseus [update 23/11]

[HVG]

In recent years, emulators like Daphne, Singe, Singe2, and Hypseus have rescued the iconic LaserDisc games from oblivion. Thanks to these advances, and the recent dumping of video files from games that were thought lost (such as those from Picmatic), the preservation of this era of video gaming has been ensured.

For these games, beyond emulation, visual restoration is key. Intensive work is being carried out to upscale and clean up the original video quality (a notable example being Maximilium's Dragon's Lair project).

My purpose is to join this preservation effort with my own video remasters. My philosophy is to use the best sources available today, correct colors, and clean up imperfections, applying AI upscaling in a strictly controlled manner to perfect the image without betraying the original look of the LaserDisc recordings.

 

My first work is the NINJA HAYATE video. The base consists of the videos from the Taito LD Game Collection, to which I have corrected colors (especially the saturated red). In about five or six "death" sequences, the videos in this version show small cuts. To ensure integrity, I was forced to complete these sequences using the current Hypseus video. Therefore, you will notice small visual changes or a slight disparity in those specific sequences.

 

I invite you to try it and send me comments for improvement. The video is compatible with Hypseus.

 

 

My next target will be the American Laser Games videos, whose current quality is clearly improvable.

 

 

 

 

[23/11] New AI-generated version of Ninja Hayate video with Dehalo, Focus Fix and synchronized death sequences

https://mega.nz/file/d18k3Y6b#D6iEUwmbTbtEZykT7uu1wibq7DFwC3pk6FhD8Hvohjw

 

The latest Hypseus LUA for this game. You need to replace the original file with this one:

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data/raw/refs/heads/master/00-zip-roms/00-Elder-Modernized-zip-rom/hayate.zip

 

Edited Wednesday at 07:36 AM by HVG

[faluki]

One question, is it possible to achieve this quality in other laserdisc videos? 

 

[HVG]

Il y a 3 heures, faluki a dit :

One question, is it possible to achieve this quality in other laserdisc videos? 

 

 

The quality of the remasterings depends on the original sources. In the case of Dragon's Lair, there are high-quality, high-resolution sources that have already been remastered for Blu-ray. For other games, however, we have to start with the DVD source. In my case, I am going to try to achieve the maximum possible allowed by the DVD video sources (which are currently the best available for these games) and software like Topaz Video AI.

 

[ducon2016]

12 hours ago, HVG said:

In recent years, emulators like Daphne, Singe, Singe2, and Hypseus have rescued the iconic LaserDisc games from oblivion. Thanks to these advances, and the recent dumping of video files from games that were thought lost (such as those from Picmatic), the preservation of this era of video gaming has been ensured.

For these games, beyond emulation, visual restoration is key. Intensive work is being carried out to upscale and clean up the original video quality (a notable example being Maximilium's Dragon's Lair project).

My purpose is to join this preservation effort with my own video remasters. My philosophy is to use the best sources available today, correct colors, and clean up imperfections, applying AI upscaling in a strictly controlled manner to perfect the image without betraying the original look of the LaserDisc recordings.

 

My first work is the NINJA HAYATE video. The base consists of the videos from the Taito LD Game Collection, to which I have corrected colors (especially the saturated red). In about five or six "death" sequences, the videos in this version show small cuts. To ensure integrity, I was forced to complete these sequences using the current Hypseus video. Therefore, you will notice small visual changes or a slight disparity in those specific sequences.

 

I invite you to try it and send me comments for improvement. The video is compatible with Hypseus (it only requires replacing the current file).

 

My next target will be the American Laser Games videos, whose current quality is clearly improvable.

 

NEW NINJA HAYATE VIDEO for Hypseus

https://mega.nz/file/cstSWR5Z#Xh-Mf3ZkBK27ZK7APqpQ3YXCl3exQkJQPpoHEk74zvE

 

Very clean processing. Did not know the game, makes me want to play it. Great work. Wondering if it is possible to sharpen it a little bit more.

[Hoagie]

 

[danilocaprioli]

provato su batocera hypseus , il video va per i fatti suoi , come mai??

 

[80sRkadeGuy]

On 11/6/2025 at 4:56 AM, HVG said:

In recent years, emulators like Daphne, Singe, Singe2, and Hypseus have rescued the iconic LaserDisc games from oblivion. Thanks to these advances, and the recent dumping of video files from games that were thought lost (such as those from Picmatic), the preservation of this era of video gaming has been ensured.

For these games, beyond emulation, visual restoration is key. Intensive work is being carried out to upscale and clean up the original video quality (a notable example being Maximilium's Dragon's Lair project).

My purpose is to join this preservation effort with my own video remasters. My philosophy is to use the best sources available today, correct colors, and clean up imperfections, applying AI upscaling in a strictly controlled manner to perfect the image without betraying the original look of the LaserDisc recordings.

 

My first work is the NINJA HAYATE video. The base consists of the videos from the Taito LD Game Collection, to which I have corrected colors (especially the saturated red). In about five or six "death" sequences, the videos in this version show small cuts. To ensure integrity, I was forced to complete these sequences using the current Hypseus video. Therefore, you will notice small visual changes or a slight disparity in those specific sequences.

 

I invite you to try it and send me comments for improvement. The video is compatible with Hypseus (it only requires replacing the current file).

 

My next target will be the American Laser Games videos, whose current quality is clearly improvable.

 

NEW NINJA HAYATE VIDEO for Hypseus

https://mega.nz/file/cstSWR5Z#Xh-Mf3ZkBK27ZK7APqpQ3YXCl3exQkJQPpoHEk74zvE

Do you by chance have a dump of the American Version of Los Justiceros called The Diablo Brothers? 

[HVG]

il y a 54 minutes, 80sRkadeGuy a dit :

Do you by chance have a dump of the American Version of Los Justiceros called The Diablo Brothers? 

The only version of Los Justiceros available today is the one that was published a few months ago. This game has been considered the Holy Grail for decades, and we should be grateful to finally have the original version available to play once more

[HVG]

Le 06/11/2025 à 23:13, ducon2016 a dit :

 

Very clean processing. Did not know the game, makes me want to play it. Great work. Wondering if it is possible to sharpen it a little bit more.

Dreams Come True

[ducon2016]

2 hours ago, HVG said:

Dreams Come True

 

Amazing! Thank you! Looks like a professional high resolution remaster. Well done!

Do you know if there is a rom with better direction indicators? I have one with not good looking kind of yin and yang signs.

Edited November 9 by ducon2016

[xxOToTOxx]

6 hours ago, HVG said:

Dreams Come True

 

@HVG - This is a really nice source now, thank you so much.

 

Having the ability to see death scenes easier now with the LUA update, I would like to point out that there seem to be frame overshoots on many of the deaths scenes. Probably only a frame or two, I did a quick video of the early one that I spotted first:

 

https://youtu.be/J7Gxr8oGcqs?si=KnEkQKWNUPunHEU9&t=15     - @15s just after the respawn black screen.

 

Playing through (and dying with unlimited continues) I have spotted several of these.

 

This probably isn't helped by the fact you had to edit in death scenes, but also your video is @29.97 FPS, whereas the original is @25 FPS so this may be leading to the slight inaccuracies. The game would have been coded for a 25 FPS source.

 

 

Edit: Just for comparison, I did load the old 25FPS video sources into the new LUA and I don't notice those frame overshoots, at least on that scene. Just a FYI.

 

Edited November 10 by xxOToTOxx

[HVG]

I realize the problem. It's true that the issue might be caused by the difference in frames. I didn't check that the original was at 25fps. The problem is I don't think reconverting my video to 25fps is the best idea, as it could throw everything completely out of sync. I'm going to reconvert to 25fps and edit everything to see what happens

[Hoagie]

The original conversion source was a PAL (25FPS) CDROM video source I believe, back in 2011. It was horrible quality, but it set the precedent for the game LUA. Unfortunately RDG is no longer around to ask.

 

Thank you @HVG, the transfer is marvelous, if we can fix the frames, it would be a perfect transfer. 

[HVG]

After reviewing my edit, I see that the problem lies in small keyframe misalignments between the original version and the TaitoLD version. I believe the playback FPS is NOT the issue; rather, it is crucial to ensure the keyframes are correctly aligned just before the different death sequences. I will have to review the main videos for each sequence and adjust them manually to match those sequences.

[xxOToTOxx]

20 minutes ago, HVG said:

After reviewing my edit, I see that the problem lies in small keyframe misalignments between the original version and the TaitoLD version. I believe the playback FPS is NOT the issue; rather, it is crucial to ensure the keyframes are correctly aligned just before the different death sequences. I will have to review the main videos for each sequence and adjust them manually to match those sequences.

 

The VLDP is pretty good at matching the FPS discrepancy, so this makes sense, but it was worth pointing out. Great work 👍

The VLDP will log the FPS discrepancy, quite a lot, but as with the 60 FPS Dragon's Lair sources, it shouldn't be an issue if keyframes are corrected.
 

[ldp_vldp::nonblocking_search@455] NOTE: converting FPKS from 25000 to 29970. This may be less accurate.

 

I didn't notice these issues while the death scenes were broken in the LUA, but now they are fixed, it will be awesome to finally have a high quality fixed working game.

 

Thanks so much for undertaking this.

 

 

[HVG]

SOON: New AI-generated version of Ninja Hayate video with Dehalo, Focus Fix and Keyframes fixed

Edited November 16 by HVG

[HVG]

New version with corrected death sequences available.

[xxOToTOxx]

19 hours ago, HVG said:

New version with corrected death sequences available.

 

Really nice

 

I have made some minor tweaks on the LUA side, so you should grab this for use with this video.

 

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data/raw/refs/heads/master/00-zip-roms/00-Elder-Modernized-zip-rom/hayate.zip

 

 

In logs, it will now register as: Initializing Ninja Hayate Singe v1.22

Thanks again @HVG

[xxOToTOxx]

Making some comparison shots of the previous versions:

Original Singe 1: (PlayStation source):
 

 

 

AI upscale of Singe 1 video:

 

Raw Taito Laserdisc Collection Bluray (Over saturated 'red' and de-focused):

 

 

 

And finally @HVG version:

 

 

Just to re-iterate grab the latest LUA:

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data/raw/refs/heads/master/00-zip-roms/00-Elder-Modernized-zip-rom/hayate.zip

 

 

 

 

Edited November 26 by xxOToTOxx

[Jackie Brown]

10 hours ago, xxOToTOxx said:

Making some comparison shots of the previous versions:

Original Singe 1:
 

 

AI upscale of Singe 1 video:

 

Raw Taito Laserdisc Collection Bluray (over saturated red and defocus):

 

 

 

And finally @HVG version:

 

 

Just to re-iterate grab the latest LUA:

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data/raw/refs/heads/master/00-zip-roms/00-Elder-Modernized-zip-rom/hayate.zip

 

 

 

 

HVG and xxOToTOxx, this is just awesome!!! Thank you for the amazing work on it. 😁

Edited November 25 by Jackie Brown

[Nit3H8wk]

I am trying another shot at upscaling road blaster using video2x which converts it to mkv then I use shutter encoder to convert it back to m2v. It plays fine and looks great in any media player but in retrobat hypseus singe the playback is slow and does not keep up with the audio. Is there a maximum bitrate or file size that hypseus can handle? I have a 13900ks and 4090 so it's not a hardware issue.

Edited November 25 by Nit3H8wk

[xxOToTOxx]

12 hours ago, Nit3H8wk said:

I am trying another shot at upscaling road blaster using video2x which converts it to mkv then I use shutter encoder to convert it back to m2v. It plays fine and looks great in any media player but in retrobat hypseus singe the playback is slow and does not keep up with the audio. Is there a maximum bitrate or file size that hypseus can handle? I have a 13900ks and 4090 so it's not a hardware issue.

 

Hypseus is doing a little more than a "media player", it's emulating CPU cores, overlays, INPUT control system, field blending, scanlines and bezel drawing etc and rendering (whatever resolution) video on a "single-core", in much the same way as any emulator operates on a single core for timing purposes, including MAME. Watch the CPU load in task manager when you run it.

 

What you are trying to do is run 4k hi-bitrate video and a full emulation on a single core, so the answer to your question is: Whatever your "core" can support. It doesn't matter if you have 16 or 64 cores, the single core is the only thing that matters. Bear in mind the higher requirement you put on this, the fewer users will be able to enjoy it, including many, many SBC ARM systems. The VLDP was designed to run 720x480 non-square pixel "laserdisc" video, it can do that and very much more, but there is a theoretical "camel/straw" here dependent on current hardware.

 

Your original upscale of Road Blaster works great on decent desktop systems, certainly not Raspberry Pi's, but you are pushing it further up the CPU core requirements if you increase resolution and bitrate. So you need to experiment and see what will be possible on hi-end, or average systems, that's down to you really and for whom you are aiming this video at, just yourself and hi-end systems, or general users.

 

Edit:

I did a little calc some time ago, on the amount of pixels you expect to be processed and rendered every time you jump a resolution.

I'll post it here for context, remember this is just video not including any other emulated hardware and input/effects.

Using an FPS of 30, for this example, as it's near NTSC video standards.

360×240 = 86,400 pixels - 30 times per second
640x480 = 307,200 pixels - 30 times per second
1024×768 = 786,432 pixels - 30 times per second
1440x1080 = 1,555,200 pixels - 30 times per second
1920×1080 = 2,073,600 pixels - 30 times per second
2560×1440 = 3,686,400 pixels - 30 times per second
3840x2160 = 8,294,400 pixels - 30 times per second

 

 

But also let's not hijack HVG's thread.

 

 

Edited November 25 by xxOToTOxx

[Gigi71]

where i could get the correct ogg file for this version?

Thanks in advance

 

à l’instant, Gigi71 a dit :

where i could get the correct ogg file for this version of hayate ?

Thanks in advance

 

 

[Hoagie]

1 hour ago, Gigi71 said:

where i could get the correct ogg file for this version?

Thanks in advance

 

https://archive.org/download/singev1-hayate/hypseus_singe_hayate.zip/hayate%2Fhayate.ogg

 

[Gigi71]

Il y a 3 heures, Hoagie a dit :

 

https://archive.org/download/singev1-hayate/hypseus_singe_hayate.zip/hayate%2Fhayate.ogg

 

Thanks A lot !!!

[GodElite]

Thanks so much for this! Any chance of doing some remaster work to Braindead 13??

[dyniel83]

+1 to this, would be nice to have Braindead 13 remaster 

[Gtguy]

What are the controls for Ninja Hayate?  The action button never seems to work for me.  

[GodElite]

4 hours ago, Gtguy said:

What are the controls for Ninja Hayate?  The action button never seems to work for me.  

Space button for Action button - works for me. I just don't like the icons for this version, the up/down/left/right icons are very faint and confusing in my opinion. I altered mine, if anybody wants to give it a go.

 

hayate.zip

Edited November 30 by GodElite

[xxOToTOxx]

On 11/30/2025 at 4:46 PM, GodElite said:

I just don't like the icons for this version, the up/down/left/right icons are very faint and confusing in my opinion. I altered mine, if anybody wants to give it a go.

 

I've had a couple of requests on changing the direction sprites, so here is my alt and move away from RDG's original.

 

I took inspiration from GodElite, but tidied the spacing and added drop-shadow correctly.

You can grab it from here: https://archive.org/download/singev1-hayate/hayate_altsprite_rompack.zip/hayate.zip

 

Edited December 2 by xxOToTOxx

[GodElite]

@xxOToTOxx looks even better to match the aesthetic of Hayate! I had just used the Timegal's icons and changed the saturation to look more red lol

[GodElite]

@HVG@Max0011@xxOToTOxx You guys are the experts in this area  Just trying to help and throwing out the idea of making a Braindead 13 Remaster  I just managed to extract the raw/original video file from the CD-i disk:

https://mega.nz/file/TsxihbyD#WfOTkvb7FNiKNYWx5dJe4dhU_A1xsTLf-nWLc-QPJ_E

 

If any of you kind souls could work the magic of upscaling and using AI to enhance the resolution and quality and then integrate it again in Hypseus Singe, that would be an amazing Christmas gift!

I mean, the current version is OK but the AI upscale screwed up a lot of the faces of the characters in my opinion. With the new models and applications, I'm wondering if a better and more accurate could be achieved!

[Max0011]

This is what I do:

 

1) I rip the video from Blu-ray to .mkv 1080p.

2) I used Hitpaw, de-noice and upscale the video clips to 2K resolution .mp4

3) I did fix videos manually by editing the frames, to extract the frames I used Filmora 13. this software also allows me to adjust brightness, color etc....

 

4) Last, I run 1 more time on Hitpaw video restoration,  still on 2K resolution. I try to stay away from any A.I. model ... because it deforms things.. this one takes time...

 

After all that... I make the final video at 1080p with Filmora 13.

 

I always try to stay on fix bit rate, 30K.

Edited Thursday at 01:24 AM by Max0011

[Max0011]

Dirk spawning at Taco Bell 🔔 

[GodElite]

9 hours ago, Max0011 said:

Dirk spawning at Taco Bell 🔔 

Transparency Lord ahaha  he can now teleport anywhere!