I’ve emailed one of the machine makers to ask for a review unit, and hope to report back with my findings soon.)Īccording to Kotaku, there is a mass debate over whether these machines actually work. (And yes, I’m as curious as you about whether these machines could be used to more effectively upscale your old NES games. Given how new technologies are nearly always first adopted by the gaming and sex industries, we’re actually rather surprised that it took this long for depixelation machines so long to appear. To this day, an 8-bit depixelation algorithm developed by Microsoft Research was one of the site’s most popular stories of all time. Now, for the discerning porn watcher, there’s finally another solution: A depixelation machine!ĭepixelation is a topic that’s particularly close to ExtremeTech’s heart - not because of porn, you understand, but because of 8-bit art. Unpixelated porn is produced, but because it’s illegal (and actually policed) it’s usually only produced by smaller studios or enterprising sole traders.
This might seem a little odd, considering the reputation that Japan has for being slightly on the sexually depraved side, but for decades there has been a law that requires all domestic porn to be censored. As some of you may know, one of the defining features of Japanese porn is that genitals are pixelated.
