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Anonymous No.8087431 >>8087965 >>8088011 >>8091826 >>8094532
y2k
I need some good y2k wallpapers. I'll start off with.
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Anonymous No.8087959 >>8087960 >>8092110
I have several vintage Y2K wallpapers I've been meaning to upscale/expand to HD but here's one I just found.
Anonymous No.8087960 >>8087964
>>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
Anonymous No.8087964 >>8092277
>>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.
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>>8087433
>>8087432
>>8087431 (OP)
These are great
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>>8087431 (OP)
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>>8088011
One of my favourites. But fuck that watermark.
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bump
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>>8089204
>>8089207
>>8089889
>>8089891
Holy crap these are amazing, thank you anons
Anonymous No.8089944 >>8089978
>>8088047
here you go pal
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>>8089944
Based. Thank you!
Anonymous No.8090008
y2k is such a fucking aesthetic, good shit fr
Anonymous No.8090048 >>8090062 >>8090105
https://www.desktopgeneration.com/
this site has a bunch of talented artists that specialize in this aesthetic
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>>8090048
Wow, great find anon!
Anonymous No.8090105 >>8090119 >>8090979
>>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.
Anonymous No.8090119
>>8090105
pretty sure its all free to download?
Anonymous No.8090153 >>8090252 >>8090419
killing off this shit aesthetic was the one and only good thing that came out of 9/11.
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>>8090153
Go be old somewhere else
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>>8090153
Terrible bait
Anonymous No.8090979 >>8092108
>>8090105
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Anonymous No.8091183 >>8091467
https://y2kaestheticinstitute.tumblr.com/
I'm too lazy to drop my stuff rn so just check out this entire blog
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>>8091183
This is sick, thanks bro
Anonymous No.8091825 >>8092236 >>8098164 >>8108048
animewallpaper narod ru/gallerea html
check it. (add a dot in-between wallpaper and narod and a dot on ru and one on html)
Anonymous No.8091826 >>8091838 >>8091914
>>8087431 (OP)
Thanks everyone for keeping this thread alive. I wish some of these were on wallpaper engine.
Anonymous No.8091838 >>8092104
>>8091826
I got several I'm gonna dump next week. Just doing touch-ups on them.
Anonymous No.8091914
>>8091826
you can add them simply by dragging the files on the bottom of the window.
Maybe try making your own?
Anonymous No.8092104
>>8091838
can't wait
Anonymous No.8092108 >>8092132
>>8091125
>>8090979
>>8089891
>>8089889
>>8089888
Metalheart is so cool bros
Anonymous No.8092110 >>8092292
>>8087959
What upscaler do you use? I've tried AI upscalers but they all output a sort of smeared watercolor look that I hate.
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>>8092108
Metalheart is underatted.
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>>8091825
is there a version of this but without the cartoon pornography?
Anonymous No.8092277
>>8087964
Edited the spheres on the bottom corners to reduce the lens warp.
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I'm almost certain I'll be updating this one in the future.
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I was apprehensive about expanding this one to 16:9 so you'll have to crop it or expand it yourself. Sorry.
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Anonymous No.8092287 >>8096646
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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.
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Anonymous No.8092291 >>8092548
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
Anonymous No.8092292
>>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.
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>>8092514
Anonymous No.8092538 >>8097496
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.
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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.
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Anonymous No.8092548 >>8092690
>>8092291
can you post the non-upscaled/edited ones as well? i've been looking for stuff to use on my old computers.
Anonymous No.8092690 >>8093087
>>8092548
I uploaded them to a folder since I didn't feel like posting them.
https://mega.nz/folder/qFRTCBKR#5aUllou_aLkh0TZ9dEBbqQ/folder/KZJ3HDrS
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Thank god, an actual good thread!
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>>8092690
danks anon :)
Anonymous No.8093101 >>8094533
>>8092696
this just makes me want to play the first Xenoblade Chronicles game again
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Anonymous No.8094515 >>8098164 >>8103146
Don't want to spam the thread with the same image, but I rendered some 1600x1200 and 2650x1440 versions also if people want.
Anonymous No.8094532
>>8087431 (OP)
Y2K and Frutiger Aero are amazing Aesthetic.
Anonymous No.8094533
>>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.
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Anonymous No.8095502 >>8096166
More please, I have a DIRE NEED for this aesthetic.
Anonymous No.8095511 >>8095512 >>8095896 >>8096405 >>8096647 >>8107177 >>8107232
are there games with this aesthetic?
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>>8095511
Broken Reality kinda...
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>>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".
Anonymous No.8095899
Is this good enough? i tried to restore a very fucked source and add some noise to hide the uncanney valley artifacts.
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>>8092513
Source?
Anonymous No.8096035 >>8096412
Is this too blurry? I'm trying to get the hang out of resampling.
Anonymous No.8096166 >>8096168
>>8095502
Caedes dot net
Abstract and surrealism sections
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Anonymous No.8096168 >>8096169
>>8096166
Digital illustration section also has some good ones and some very appropriate for the period
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>>8096168
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>>8088011
More like this?
Anonymous No.8096405 >>8096410 >>8096415
>>8095511
rollercoaster tycoon 3 (2004)
Anonymous No.8096410 >>8096415
>>8096405
silver
Anonymous No.8096412 >>8096623
>>8096035
It looks like 1080p with chromatic aberration. I am not a fan.
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>>8096405
>>8096410
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
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>>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.
Anonymous No.8096646 >>8096910 >>8097443
>>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.
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>>8095511
Hypnospace Outlaw
Anonymous No.8096910 >>8097115
Does this count?
>>8096646
I'm blind, i can't spot the ugly part.
Anonymous No.8097115
>>8096910
These early 3D renders of castles are max comfy. We can never go back.
Anonymous No.8097256
>>8088011
Thumbnail looked like the Jedi Council chambers.
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>>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.
Anonymous No.8097496
>>8092538
Is it perhaps this one?
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tiling y2k?
>Error: Image resolution is too small.
https://files.catbox.moe/zh7i4e.png
Anonymous No.8098164 >>8098257
>>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.
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>>8098164
Whoops, reuploading again. I mislablelled the file and thought I accidentaly rendered at the wrong res lmao. It should be 2560 NOT 2650
Anonymous No.8098536 >>8098688
Does this count?
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>>8098536
No, because it looks like poorly AI upscaled garbage. It would otherwise count.
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Found this one here http://imaputz.com/

I recommend Wiby for searching old websites
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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
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>>8099354
sorry for the weird resolutions, they came like that
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this one had a small height so I made this, the spaces are transparent
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another one I had to resize, in case you want the originals these 3d renders are in https://aminet.net/pix/addic
Anonymous No.8099443 >>8106626
source: https://groovythemes.com/abstract/
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Yandex also helps a lot finding similar pics
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Anonymous No.8101081 >>8101136
DON'T DIE
I'm gonna dump some stuff later

Welcome back
Anonymous No.8101136 >>8101160
>>8101081
Missed this thread
Anonymous No.8101160 >>8101174
>>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)
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sorry, the filenames of the 2 papes above are
>thepaininside_by_tw13ve_and_illphorm
>ENSNARE_by_Shadowness
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Anonymous No.8101174 >>8101177
>>8101160
Hell yea, epic dump, these are kino
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>>8101174
I'm surprised that a lot of these have pretty good quality, I guess that website didn't compress the files
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Anonymous No.8101220 >>8101224
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
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>>8101220 (me)
don't worry I'm not gonna hijack the thread, I'll be more selective
Anonymous No.8101270
Feels, I rekon I have used at least half of these papes at one time or another over the past 25years.
Anonymous No.8101456 >>8104542
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
Anonymous No.8101481 >>8101494 >>8101837
I just made this yesterday. Enjoy
Anonymous No.8101494 >>8101496
>>8101481
Nice, did you use Bryce?
Anonymous No.8101496
>>8101494
Looks like it.
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>>8101481
do you have any website with your art?
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>>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
Anonymous No.8103147 >>8103292
2/3
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3/3
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>>8103147
Gorgeous
Anonymous No.8104542 >>8104543 >>8104569 >>8109584
>>8101456
are you talking shit again anon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXL8Z93AnE
Anonymous No.8104543 >>8104569 >>8109584
>>8104542
Fucking posted the wrong one didnt I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK8ilaPZbKE
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>>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.
Anonymous No.8105734 >>8106334 >>8107088
>>8099326
>>8099327
Did you make this?
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>>8105734
nope, they're on the page I mentioned before those posts
http://imaputz.com/wallpaper/
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>>8099443
>https://groovythemes.com/abstract/
Hopefully someone can upscale these. Some look nice.
Anonymous No.8107088 >>8108020
>>8105734
More weird things like this?
Anonymous No.8107177
>>8095511
MGS2, Deus Ex, System Shock, Quake III, UT '99.
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>>8095511
The original Prey from 2006
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Anonymous No.8108020 >>8108021
>>8107088
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>>8108020
Edited
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Ace Combat Y2K
https://files.catbox.moe/qb8odv.png
Anonymous No.8108048
>>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?
Anonymous No.8108049
>>8092111
looks like that Pendulum album cover
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>>8104542
>>8104543
Copyright is a piece of shit
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>>8109591
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Bump. Any purple ones? Those ones hit the hardest.
Anonymous No.8110788
>>8101199
Is that drip car???
Anonymous No.8110796
>>8099327
>>8099326
These are amazing
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Any mobile ones?
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Lost my fav y2k wallpaper after da PC died, posted once in one of these threads. It was something like blue beams going upwards on a black bg. May some kind soul repost it one day.
The archive is not helping either, insanely slow and can't do a simple search. Fuck my life.
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Anonymous No.8115163 >>8115164
What program can I use to make my own Y2K 3d renders?
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>>8115163
There's bryce 3d, the results of that are more 90's than y2k though
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