Automatic 3Dification: Transforming Nintendo Games

The video discusses the idea of making Nintendo games 3D through automatic processes.

The speaker talks about the misconception that a certain game is the most representative of the Zelda series due to its 2D nature.

The speaker acknowledges the limitations and bugs in their current work but believes the ideas behind it are solid.

🗡️ You can obtain a sword from a character in the game, resulting in an emotional moment.

🌟 The graphics and visuals in the 3D version of the game are praised for their perfection.

🎮 There are certain issues with the in-game sprites and controls that need to be addressed.

🎮 The Nintendo game console uses a CPU and a picture processing unit (PPU) to render and send video to the television.

📊 The game scene is represented in shared memory through the pattern table, name table, and object attribute memory.

🔍 Interpreting the tables and main memory allows for the reconstruction of the scene's geometry, textures, and objects, enabling the creation of 3D games.

🔑 The Nintendo game uses pattern tables and name tables to draw the screen.

🎨 The color information for each tile in the game is limited, leading to the use of two by two tiles to form blocks.

🎮 The 3D rendering of the game includes rotating the camera and navigating the game environment.

🎮 The video discusses the process of automatically converting Nintendo games into 3D.

🕹️ Sprites in Nintendo games are objects that can move around on the screen and are made up of patterns from the pattern table.

🤝 To make 3D sprites, the video explains the concept of sprite fusion, where sprites that are lined up exactly are fused together into one mega sprite.

🎮 The process of 3Difying Nintendo games involves determining the camera, character position, and distinguishing walls from floors.

🔬 Running experiments in the game emulator helps identify the parameters that control the player's movement and sprite position in memory.

✨ By manipulating memory locations, it is possible to have control over the game's physics and change character positions.

🎮 Automatically 3Dify Nintendo games by mapping out the solidity of tiles through warping and moving experiments.

🔍 Understanding the player's position and the layout of walls is crucial for game AI.

🐞 Bug: Strobing issue in the current version, but there are games like Adventures of Lolo where the technique works.