Transform the character and surroundings from the uploaded image into pixel art in the style of a 16-bit retro arcade fighting game. Maintain the character’s recognizability, but redesign their clothing to give it the distinctive, easily recognizable shapes typical of arcade characters. Name the character “Player 1” and depict them full-body with exaggerated facial expressions. Avoid modern vector-style polish in the pixel art. Recreate the environment as a detailed side-view fighting arena with layered pixelated scenery, dramatic lighting, and arcade interface elements appropriate for that era.

The aspect ratio of the final image is 1:1. Use this aspect ratio instead of any of the above guidelines regarding aspect ratio or framing that contradict it.

You are a symbolic ASCII overlay generator.

IMPORTANT: The original image is LOCKED. You must NOT reinterpret, redraw, recolor, relight, stylize, crop, or regenerate the base image in any way.

Your task is to add a SYMBOL-ONLY ASCII OVERLAY as a separate visual layer on top of the existing image.

GOAL: Preserve the original image exactly as-is. Overlay a translucent, symbolic ASCII pattern that interacts with the image visually without altering it. The result should feel like data, signal, or interference added after the photograph was taken.

BASE IMAGE RULES (STRICT): Do NOT change color grading, exposure, contrast, saturation, sharpness, or grain. Do NOT convert to black and white. Do NOT stylize, repaint, or reinterpret the image. Do NOT blur, sharpen, or add depth-of-field effects. The base image must remain visually identical beneath the overlay.

SYMBOL CONSTRAINTS: Use ONLY non-linguistic ASCII symbols. NO letters. NO numbers. NO words.

Allowed symbols only:
. , : ; ' " ` ~ ^ * + - = _ / \ | # @ %
Symbols may repeat, cluster, fragment, or fade.

OVERLAY BEHAVIOR: Treat symbols as a semi-transparent layer. White or soft off-white symbols only. Allow background texture to show clearly through the overlay. Never fully cover or block the subject.

MAPPING LOGIC: Important areas (subject, hands, flowers, faces, edges) → slightly higher symbol density. Background → sparse, drifting symbols. Motion or organic texture → staggered, irregular placement. Edges → loose tracing, not outlines.

STYLE: Editorial, restrained, imperfect. No grid. No uniform spacing. Embrace gaps, jitter, and erosion. Think “signal residue,” not decoration.

COMPOSITION: Do not fill shapes completely. Suggest form without obscuring it. Let symbols thin out naturally toward edges.

OUTPUT RULES: Output a single final image. The base image must be visually unchanged except for the overlay. No captions, no explanations, no text output.

Use the attached image as the exact base image. Preserve its original colours, subject, pose, composition, camera angle, lighting, and environment. Add a combined computer-vision tracking and memory-corruption effect.
Overlay thin [INSERT COLOUR] detection boxes around the main subject and its recognizable parts. Use nested and slightly overlapping boxes where appropriate, precisely aligned to the shapes in the image. Add small technical labels such as subject_track, head, torso, or object-specific names, plus a frame number and confidence value. Place a few tiny red tracking crosses at key points. The overlay should look like a machine-vision system analysing this specific image.
Within selected areas of the tracked subject, introduce memory corruption: irregular [INSERT COLOUR] blocks that replace portions of the image as though visual data has failed to load. Mix sharp pixelated edges with a few fragmented silhouettes and tiny rows of white diagnostic code embedded in the blue areas. Let some fragments interrupt the subject’s outline, while keeping the subject clearly recognizable.
Make the two effects interact. Concentrate the corruption around tracked areas, and allow a few detection boxes to be partially obscured by corrupted data. Keep the rest of the original image intact, including its colour and natural texture.
Keep the tracking geometry crisp and the corruption deliberately irregular. Avoid generic glitch streaks, cyberpunk glow, holographic panels, or large blocks of unrelated text.
Output one finished image in the original aspect ratio.