I need some good y2k wallpapers. I'll start off with.

I have several vintage Y2K wallpapers I've been meaning to upscale/expand to HD but here's one I just found.

>>8087959
i dont mean to be a dick or pushy or anything but can you post the other y2k wallpapers you have, but upscaled? bc this one is alr so cool and beautiful

>>8087960
This one is more or less done. Expanded to widescreen with Photoshop AI. I'll try to drop a couple more next week if the thread's still up. I have another one I was about to post but I can't help but feel it needs a little more work.

>>8087433
>>8087432
>>8087431 (OP)
These are great

>>8087431 (OP)

>>8088011
One of my favourites. But fuck that watermark.

bump

>>8089204
>>8089207
>>8089889
>>8089891
Holy crap these are amazing, thank you anons

>>8088047
here you go pal

>>8089944
Based. Thank you!

y2k is such a fucking aesthetic, good shit fr

https://www.desktopgeneration.com/
this site has a bunch of talented artists that specialize in this aesthetic

>>8090048
Wow, great find anon!

>>8090048
Warez shit.
I have no clue how you people find this kind of websites.
It's a shame there is no option to pirate some of the stuff from this website.

>>8090105
pretty sure its all free to download?

killing off this shit aesthetic was the one and only good thing that came out of 9/11.

>>8090153
Go be old somewhere else

>>8090153
Terrible bait

>>8090105

https://y2kaestheticinstitute.tumblr.com/
I'm too lazy to drop my stuff rn so just check out this entire blog

>>8091183
This is sick, thanks bro

animewallpaper narod ru/gallerea html
check it. (add a dot in-between wallpaper and narod and a dot on ru and one on html)

>>8087431 (OP)
Thanks everyone for keeping this thread alive. I wish some of these were on wallpaper engine.

>>8091826
I got several I'm gonna dump next week. Just doing touch-ups on them.

>>8091826
you can add them simply by dragging the files on the bottom of the window.
Maybe try making your own?

>>8091838
can't wait

>>8091125
>>8090979
>>8089891
>>8089889
>>8089888
Metalheart is so cool bros

>>8087959
What upscaler do you use? I've tried AI upscalers but they all output a sort of smeared watercolor look that I hate.

>>8092108
Metalheart is underatted.

>>8091825
is there a version of this but without the cartoon pornography?

>>8087964
Edited the spheres on the bottom corners to reduce the lens warp.

I'm almost certain I'll be updating this one in the future.

I was apprehensive about expanding this one to 16:9 so you'll have to crop it or expand it yourself. Sorry.

Note: I don't know the actual title for many of these papes.

This one was made by 'J Bois' in 2004. That is all I know.

The quality is a bit spotty with some of these edits so if I ever get around to updating them, I'll post them here:
https://mega.nz/folder/qFRTCBKR#5aUllou_aLkh0TZ9dEBbqQ/folder/WZoS3ITJ

>>8092110
Sorry if I gave the impression that that was an unscale. It's just an image I found off the web. I mostly use Gigapixel AI, and on occasion, CupScale. But I don't know of any upscalers that can really produce HiRes upscales that truly have immaculate or photorealistic quality. We need AI that can recognize what it's looking at and actually 'imagine' what that image would look like at HiRes by creatively inputting missing details in a blown up image. Programs like Gigapixel can sort of do that with faces to a limited extent but little else. For better or worse, we're still very much neck-deep in the era of AI slop. Not so different from what life was like a century ago when people were first wrestling with the advent of airplanes and moving pictures.

All of this is part of the reason I'm not interested in super HD displays. There's a real issue of diminishing returns with upscaling. You can make a vintage wallpaper look passable on a 1920p display but it would be a lot harder to make it look decent at 4K. And by the time AI can do that, we might be done with traditional desktops anyways. Who knows.

>>8092513

>>8092514

Can someone help me? I've been looking for a wallpaper I had that's very similar to this. It's got some large, clear crystals in the foreground, a large pale blue or white field, and maybe a volcano or something orange like fire. Sorry if that's too vague. It looked fucking clean and powerful. I miss it.

A curiously large image for a wallpaper from 2001. It was uploaded by mistake on the website. Makes you wonder what other vintage wallpapers are available in HiRes on someone's hard drive somewhere.

>>8092291
can you post the non-upscaled/edited ones as well? i've been looking for stuff to use on my old computers.

>>8092548
I uploaded them to a folder since I didn't feel like posting them.
https://mega.nz/folder/qFRTCBKR#5aUllou_aLkh0TZ9dEBbqQ/folder/KZJ3HDrS

Thank god, an actual good thread!

>>8092690
danks anon :)

>>8092696
this just makes me want to play the first Xenoblade Chronicles game again

bump

Don't want to spam the thread with the same image, but I rendered some 1600x1200 and 2650x1440 versions also if people want.

>>8087431 (OP)
Y2K and Frutiger Aero are amazing Aesthetic.

>>8093101
Xenoblade Chronicles X has a similar Aesthetic. I would recommend playing it. It's futuristic but very cool. Definitive Edition is coming out in two months.

More please, I have a DIRE NEED for this aesthetic.

are there games with this aesthetic?

>>8095511
Broken Reality kinda...

>>8095511
The old Sonic games have this aesthetic in the special stages. Would be cool if it translated into the actual stages but I guess that's part of the schtick is that they're "special stages".

Is this good enough? i tried to restore a very fucked source and add some noise to hide the uncanney valley artifacts.

>>8092513
Source?

Is this too blurry? I'm trying to get the hang out of resampling.

>>8095502
Caedes dot net
Abstract and surrealism sections

>>8096166
Digital illustration section also has some good ones and some very appropriate for the period

>>8096168

>>8088011
More like this?

>>8095511
rollercoaster tycoon 3 (2004)

>>8096405
silver

>>8096035
It looks like 1080p with chromatic aberration. I am not a fan.

>>8096405
>>8096410
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom

>>8096412
Yeah i revisited this edit later and realized i didn't like it. Here is the original picture, maybe someone else can make it work better. I still have a lot to learn.

>>8092287
No hate, but what even is the point of upscaling the image if you can tell where the ai starts and the og image ends? I don't know if I'm just picky but a uniform pattern turning to slop ruins the pape for me personally.

>>8095511
Hypnospace Outlaw

Does this count?
>>8096646
I'm blind, i can't spot the ugly part.

>>8096910
These early 3D renders of castles are max comfy. We can never go back.

>>8088011
Thumbnail looked like the Jedi Council chambers.

>>8096646
1. They're just desktop wallpapers. If they look halfway decent on a surface level then I consider them passable as wallpapers. I have plenty of flawed stuff made by others and I can live with them. If you're anal about the technical flaws of AI generation then these are not for you. You're just gonna have to wait a while for them to be updated (or request someone on the /wg/ modification threads to do it).

2. AI slop is not huge deal since AI is at least competent enough to do 99% of the hard work involved with image generation. There is obviously room for improvement with these, I acknowledged as much in my previous post. I don't like the idea of waiting months or years to perfect something like a wallpaper before releasing it (again, they're just wallpapers). I welcome people to post flawed material. It's good to just get stuff out there. Seeing a vintage wallpaper expanded to 16/9 ratio might prompt someone to update it. I have updated other people's edits too. Not a big deal. I'm not the least bit bothered by AI slop since I know I can always fix it. And if the mood to update something finally strikes me I do just that. I recently updated an AI-expanded liminal space pape I did months back. Feels good.

3. Anon requested that I post them so I did. They were made on the spot. So flaws are to be expected.

>>8092538
Is it perhaps this one?

tiling y2k?
>Error: Image resolution is too small.
https://files.catbox.moe/zh7i4e.png

>>8091825
Some of these are pretty good, but I hate having that watermark in the corner.
>>8094515
I'd appreciate a 2650x1440 version, thanks anon.

>>8098164
Whoops, reuploading again. I mislablelled the file and thought I accidentaly rendered at the wrong res lmao. It should be 2560 NOT 2650

Does this count?

>>8098536
No, because it looks like poorly AI upscaled garbage. It would otherwise count.

Found this one here http://imaputz.com/

I recommend Wiby for searching old websites

these next ones I found them at https://aminet.net/pix/back
there are other pix categories if you're curious. It's kinda tedious checking the images, it's easier if you use the extension Imagus

>>8099354
sorry for the weird resolutions, they came like that

this one had a small height so I made this, the spaces are transparent

another one I had to resize, in case you want the originals these 3d renders are in https://aminet.net/pix/addic

source: https://groovythemes.com/abstract/

Yandex also helps a lot finding similar pics

DON'T DIE
I'm gonna dump some stuff later

Welcome back

>>8101081
Missed this thread

>>8101136
Me too, I can post now

I found all of these browsing customize.org through wayback machine. It's a goldmine for this type of stuff (sadly some wallpapers weren't archived, maybe they are on other sites)

sorry, the filenames of the 2 papes above are
>thepaininside_by_tw13ve_and_illphorm
>ENSNARE_by_Shadowness

>>8101160
Hell yea, epic dump, these are kino

>>8101174
I'm surprised that a lot of these have pretty good quality, I guess that website didn't compress the files

I've barely scratched the surface because this site has thousands of images, and I got these clicking on a random date so idk if later dates have even more

>>8101220 (me)
don't worry I'm not gonna hijack the thread, I'll be more selective

Feels, I rekon I have used at least half of these papes at one time or another over the past 25years.

RIP, The GOAT of 90s CGI got taken down. Apparently some guy has been going around abusing the copyright system and the original upload of Peshay Studio Set 1996 got hit. Fortunately, the guy who made the music back in the day reuploaded the video to his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXL8Z93AnE&t=1s

I just made this yesterday. Enjoy

>>8101481
Nice, did you use Bryce?

>>8101494
Looks like it.

>>8101481
do you have any website with your art?

>>8094515 here again
Got into a bit of a Bryce kick, so here's a few new papes. Let me know if you want them in different resolutions! 1/3

2/3

3/3

>>8103147
Gorgeous

>>8101456
are you talking shit again anon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXL8Z93AnE

>>8104542
Fucking posted the wrong one didnt I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK8ilaPZbKE

>>8104542
>>8104543
No, that video really did get taken down for a short while. You can look at both of the community posts from Ambiance and Peshay Music for the details. Even Peshay's reupload got taken down eventually, which prompted the community to create a petition to get the videos reinstated.

>>8099326
>>8099327
Did you make this?

>>8105734
nope, they're on the page I mentioned before those posts
http://imaputz.com/wallpaper/

>>8099443
>https://groovythemes.com/abstract/
Hopefully someone can upscale these. Some look nice.

>>8105734
More weird things like this?

>>8095511
MGS2, Deus Ex, System Shock, Quake III, UT '99.

>>8095511
The original Prey from 2006

>>8107088

>>8108020
Edited

Ace Combat Y2K
https://files.catbox.moe/qb8odv.png

>>8091825
>animewallpaper narod ru/gallerea html
this is dope as fuck downloaded the entire site for preservation, last updated 2003. How'd you find this?

>>8092111
looks like that Pendulum album cover

>>8104542
>>8104543
Copyright is a piece of shit