Random: Get Nostalgic For The Wii Days With Nintendo's E3 2006 Conference, Upscaled

Can’t wait for the next direct!

That's awesome!! They also have the 2004 (Reggie's debut) and 2005 E3 conferences uploaded on their channel in the same fashion.

I attended this E3! As soon as the doors opened, every single person literally ran to Nintendo's both. The queue time was at least 3 hours. I played Wii Sports Tennis, which to this day was amazing. I also saw Will Wright show off Spore in a tiny room with like 10 other people.

Well, my bejewelled silver crown is tipped to GoldMetalSonic for making a higher quality version available. People talk a lot about preserving video games but I think preserving everything around the games sometimes gets missed, and I'm glad stuff like this is being archived and shared around.

The Wii era is such an underappreciated chapter in Nintendo's history. I actually barely played the Wii when it was a current product (a combination of tough personal circumstances and disliking motion controls at the time). Now I've gone back and explored the quality of its library I realise I missed out in a major way.

Was watching it this morning. Such a funny thing, watching Miyamoto conducting the Mii orchestra. Who would have thought that would become one of the worst games of the Wii? But nonetheless, the rest of the games showed were great!

Nostalgic? I've just been playing my wii.

Hey everyone! Thanks SO much for posting about this Gavin Lane. It means the world to me to see my efforts get appreciated!

If anyone has any questions, fire away!

@RupeeClock No no, it's meant to better preserve the image quality on YouTube. YouTube very infamously will crush the bitrate/quality of a vid when you upload it. The higher the res is, the better the bitrate allowance is.

Hence why for example, if I uploaded the same vid, but at say 720p only, that will look worse than playing the 4K60 upload at the 720p setting. It really does make a world of difference.

@FlapjackProMax Thanks for letting folks know, I really appreciate it!

Links to save folks the trouble:

2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfVNo8yYDEo

2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLrai7W6mo

It looks like they’ve just tossed the DVD rip into a timeline and rendered it at UHD, which I find preferable to the waxy DNR abominations from the “4K Remaster” rubbish that populates YouTube, many of which are sourced from existing 320p/480p YouTube clips, which only serve to make the video look even less detailed than what is already available, but give the illusion of improvement to undiscerning eyes.

If they wanted to improve the video, the least they could have done is stretch out some of the obviously squished gameplay clips back to their native 16:9 aspect ratio.

@RupeeClock : Complete overkill uploading it at UHD resolution though. The footage looks subpar even by DVD standards with the poorly resolved edges, though this issue could be source related and/or attributed to the fact that native HD footage has been (poorly) downscaled to SD.

Considering that I am from a PAL region, it’s always worth uploading 576p/i footage to 720p at the very minimum in order to preserve the integrity of the footage for YouTube (as they do not natively support 720x576).

I also don’t understand why so many upload footage with double the frame rate. Doubling the frame rate only consumes additional data for no reason while alternatively, the greater evil of frame interpolation diminishes the integrity of the footage.

@Silly_G You're right, because it's not AI-upscaled.

I'd never say a vid uses AI is if it doesn't, hell I don't have the means to do AI-upscaling.

Any vid I would put up that would be AI-upscaled would say something like "4K60 AI Upscaled" or something. Upscaling is just literally enlarging the rendering size of the vid to better match your display. Like HDMI Upscaling DVD Players (also done in Blu-ray players now) do for DVDs.

It's not remastering it in the sense of making the image native HD as if it were AI or all-new, it's just larger for the reason I described above, if that makes sense.

Also the one I uploaded from that DVD came like this in terms of the odd pixels/jaggies? It's weird, there's a thank you vid of Reggie in the DVD (it's only like a minute long) that's properly interlaced and might be able to be restored to 60fps, but the conference vid wasn't. But it has that odd appearance of a deinterlaced vid that if done wrongly could look this way? However I think that the video may have always looked like this behind the blurriness of prior uploads. I say this because you see such jaggies if you look close enough in those alder uploads (like the sand golem thing in the Dragon Quest Swords bit, and the stripes on that boy's shirt in the Wii Sports Airplane section). That's just my theory anyway.

Oh and I double the framerate when doing this because 1. it apparently helps preserve the quality further than not doing so (folks alerted me of this months ago), but also 2. I don't use motion interpolation, it just copies each frame. trust me, I'm well aware of the ugly crust that comes with motion interpolation.

@RupeeClock I don't think there's anyway to avoid YouTube's re-encoding. Even if you were to copy the exact matching settings, it'd still re-encode the video and give you the compressed result.

I didn't know these shows had DVD releases.

It's kind of funny that when demonstrating TP gameplay they recorded the footage with the Wii set to 16:9 but kept the video 4:3 so everything looks thin as heck. Kind of odd to ruin the visuals of Nintendo's (and I quote) most beautiful game ever made.

Reminds me we could do with another Excite Truck game. The Wii game is still a blast to play..

Yeap it was a memorable E3 for Nintendo. I'm glad I still had my Wii U to experience all these games today.

I really wish I was at this E3, but unfortunately too busy. "Busy with what?" you may ask.

I was born 3 months before this.