If you want to play Final Fantasy VII in HD on your PC you I could wait for the remake to take off, or you can play the original game using this mod that uses artificial intelligence to enhance the visual.
Although I have written previously about witchcraft efforts like this …with this game, even!—This latest effort by Satsuki Yatoshi uses “deep learning techniques” to transform the game’s low-resolution pixels and polygons into an aspect that is a lot sharper and is a great improvement over previous efforts, especially since this is much easier to install and run.
“The main goal of the SYW modification is to get as much detail as possible without having a sharpness and sharpness effect,” says the modification’s YouTube page, “also to keep the representation as natural as possible and consistent in quality throughout the game.
So it basically goes in HD without going too HD, to the point that everything starts to look a little too clean, weird and dirty.
You can download it here.
(Thanks CHC!)