How To Upscale
A Bite to Remember

Digital Pokémon-Large

This model is designed to upscale the standard definition digital era of the Pokémon anime, which runs from late season 5 (Master Quest) to early season 12 (Galactic Battles). During this time, the show was animated digitally in a 4:3 ratio. This process was also used for Mewtwo Returns, most of Pokémon Chronicles, and the Mystery Dungeon specials.

Advice/Known Limitations:

  • This OmniSR model can occasionally produce black frames when run in fp16 mode. This seems to be more common in the TPCi era (seasons 9 and later). The issue is sporadic enough that it probably makes sense to do a first pass in fp16, then re-upscale any affected shots in fp32.
  • I recommend using QTGMC on a preset of "Slow" or slower for deinterlacing. While the show is primarily animated at 12/24 fps, some elements like backgrounds are animated at a full 60i, particularly for the Diamond & Pearl era, which increased the base animation frame rate to 15 fps.
  • The model is not great at handling fonts, particularly the italicized text in the episode credits. This is despite including font images in the training data.

Version History:

  • 1.1.0 (9/16/2025): Added images from SD portion of season 12, augmented training to better handle slightly resized images.
  • 1.0.0: Initial Release
ArchitectureOmniSR
Scale2x
Color Mode
LicenseMIT
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Date2025-09-16
DatasetScreenshots from seasons 6-12 of the English Pokémon dub, plus some manually created images for fonts.
Dataset size80
Training iterations510000
Training HR size64
Training OTFNo

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