N64 Emulation Mods - Mario And Zelda (56K WARNING)
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: 3RA1N1AC
anybody seen these? people are using new features of N64 emu graphics plug-ins to modify old N64 games. it's all being discussed on the emutalk.net forums.
pictures. check it out. these are done by going through the ROM, finding all the textures for reference, photoshopping new ones from scratch, then loading them with the Rice video plug-in's ability to replace the textures. at first glance this may not seem all that great-looking, but keep in mind these are old games with very simple polygons, and it helps if you remember what they originally looked like (they were BLURRY. blurry polygons, blurry textures, blurry everything, in low-resolution).
Ocarina Of Time with high-res textures:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/6149/ocarinahighrestextures014qp.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4599/ocarinahighrestextures028qt.jpg
Ocarina Of Time with cartoon-style textures:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2900/ocarinacartoonytextures028it.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1702/ocarinacartoonytextures032qb.jpg
Majora's Mask with high-res textures:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2831/majorahighrestextures018ga.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9153/majorahighrestextures031yj.jpg
Mario 64 with high-res textures:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7082/mario64highrestextures6vr.jpg
Mario 64 with cartoon-style textures:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9840/mario64cartoonytextures019ky.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9965/mario64cartoonytextures027zf.png
Mario 64 with photograph-style textures:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/3081/mario64phototextures0vs.jpg
Posted by: 3RA1N1AC
this is a whole other feature. the Direct64 video plug-in's ability to apply a pseudo-cel-shading effect to the polygons. notice these two Mario screenshots are still using the original blurry textures from the N64 cartridge.
Mario 64 with pseudo-cel-shading:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9488/mario64celshaded013lo.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1346/mario64celshaded024ve.jpg
Ocarina Of Time with pseudo-cel-shading and high-res textures:
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8672/ocarinacelshadedhighres6av.jpg
Posted by: Busyman
:O
Noice!!!
Posted by: silent h3ro
Looks really good. Too bad I don't have a gamepad for my PC. I never owned a n64 (I was a PS1 gamer). I might check those forums out.
Posted by: iMartin
I play Zelda OoT with high-res textures...gotta love it. Keep in mind you'll still need a decent computer. For more textures get 'em at EmuTalk (http://www.emutalk.net/index.php?).
Posted by: abu_has_the_power
sweet! do u have a link?