Yes but the AI needs the entire image to make sense of the pixels, so he would have to combine the sprites then cut them out again. Which means he'll have to do some extra work before and after scaling them up. I assume you used that program on every sprite Fraggoso. Chuwy if you don't want to do that I could help you do it since my photoshop knowledge is exstensive. As long as you extract the backgrounds and upscale them.

Give me a folder for every background in which the sprite layers are listed. Then I'll do the cutting and pasting unless you want to do it yourself.

Chuwy each background has layered sprites, so you wouldn't be able to just upscale those backgrounds. I suppose your would have to combine every sprite in every background, upscale them then use the original sprites as reference for cutting out the upscaled scprites individually. Unlike what Fraggoso did the AI needs the entire image as reference for figuring out how to upscale them properly. So I don't think you could take each sprite and upscale them, every background then cut the backgrounds up afterwards.

Alright thanks so:

1. Create a clean installation of FF9.
2. Open it in Hades Workshop.
3. Make any edits you want to the bosses/enemies and save.
4. Copy the P0data2.bin, the resources assets and p0data7bin out of the game folder. Let a copy of them stay behind for memoria to edit.
5. Make any edits you want with memoria to the game.
6. Drag the P0data2.bin, the resources assets and p0data7bin into the game folder again and replace the files.

This is going to modify the stats or attacks or behaviour of enemies/bosses and enable you to keep all the features from memoria.

Let's see if I get this right, do you mean this.

1. Create a clan install of FF9.
2. Open it in hades workshop.
3. Make the edits to enemies that you want, save.
4. Move the Assembly-CSharp.dll P0data2.bin, the resources. assets and maybe a p0data7bin out of the game folder.
5. Install a new clean version of the game again.
6. Modify it with memoria as you want it to be modified.
7. Drag the dll files that you made with hades workshop into the game folder and replace?

This would change the stats, attacks of bosses and also edit the game with memoria?

Is memoria able to modify the stats and abilities of enemies yet? I wouldn't mind making some bosses a bit harder since this is one of the easier Final Fantasy games.

Quite nice however there is too large a space in the left corner, the command menu needs to be dragged further towards the corner.

You created the background mod using a manga filter, perhaps you could attempt doing the same thing with artificial intelligence. The result in my first post is just from grabbing a low res image of Google. The result might be even better if done to ripped backgrounds. Each background has multiple sprites and animations, which might make things difficult if you have to do each sprite by hand, but not impossible.

At some point someone ought to enhance the backgrounds using artifical intelligence. Here are some more examples if anyone's interested.
https://petapixel.com/2017/10/31/website-uses-ai-enhance-photo-csi-style/

The main flaw of this game are the graphics, the UI, anything you see on the screen basically. So if you got to spend your time on anything it should be on that, I have no idea how hard it would be to extract all the game models and then insert them into the game again but if it's possible it should be done. Some properly zbrushed game characters, architecture etc would do wonders for this game. And the awful battle scenes need replacing too.

I think it's nice that you're doing this, however much is to be desired from this game. If you can't replace the 3d models itself it will always be a mediocre "remake".

Do you want true upscaled backgrounds, only way to do that is to either recreate the scenes and render them again or use artificial intelligence. Look at this result:
https://i.imgur.com/do07vyl.jpg

You can try it yourself on this site:
https://letsenhance.io/boost
(Select the photo upscale option)

If anyone wants true HD backgrounds you could take each sprite from every background and enhance them using the artificial intelligence. However you can only restore 4 free images then you've got to subscribe to the service for 6.99 a month. But perhaps that is a small price to pay for a super HD Final Fantasy 9 mod. An interesting find wouldn't you say, backgrounds as detailed and as crisp as the characters in the pc port. This same technology could be used for FF8 too.