The Nintendo 64 fan scene has been fairly darn busy recently, with the Zelda: Ocarina of Time PC port lastly launching — and getting a shed-load of enjoyable and weird mods — and much more video games rumoured to be made out there by reverse engineering. Subsequent on the checklist, nonetheless, is a really clean and glossy replace to a celebration sport favorite.
Fan group Mario Kart 64 HD has been working exhausting to create an HD texture pack for Mario Kart 64, and over the weekend, the group revealed that they’ve completed recreating all the characters. Now, you may race round as your favorite driver in lovely HD visuals:
Seems to be flippin’ good, would not it? The total pack is nearly accomplished — and because the video on Twitter reveals, each single asset of the sport shall be up to date. This implies even gadgets like shells and banana peels shall be remodelled in HD. No stone shall be left unturned.
The group makes use of the sport’s title display screen and promotional artwork to information them on what they need the fashions, programs, and gadgets to appear like. The workforce has been engaged on this for various years, with varied updates, however this newest one is trying just like the sharpest but. Heck, even the menus are getting a make-over!
It is wonderful to see simply how a lot smoother Mario Kart 64 HD has made issues look, and it makes an actual distinction. However the actual eye-opener is seeing the portraits and characters from the HD pack and the unique sport side-by-side. The distinction is staggering:
We’re big followers of every part we have seen right here, mainly. It appears simply how we would imagined it as children on our CRT screens!
Whereas the character fashions can be found to obtain, the remainder of the pack continues to be being finalised. And, once more, that is one other launch that is attainable due to the fruits of all that reverse engineering. You may try what packs can be found on GitHub, or be part of Mario Kart 64 HD’s Discord to get extra data.
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