Same here. it caught me so off guard, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It looks so high quality and official, I love things like this and it truly shows the love and passion behind projects like this!
that's the thing though, these were done in the same way. 3d model turned into a sprite. it's just that now, we have the processing power to run the game with much higher quality sprites! there has actually been a lot of work to 3D model these characters as close to the original renders as possible.
The part where the "static" image of the Mario Kart 64 CG renders coming to life really caught me off guard, but at the same time, it's splendid to watch.
It's more like "how the game looks on a CRT screen". N64 games are meant to be played on a CRT, looks miles better on one of those than on modern screens
Yeah I'm really glad about that too. No "Mario Kart with ray tracing" or anything like that, just higher fidelity while remaining true to the style of Mario kart 64
the only problem is the game is not decompiled so there can't be resolution that changes to perfectly match window size when you drag corner of window like there is for mario 64
@@NinjaLobsterStudios there is mario 64 with ray tracing that is still real mario 64 with perfectly 100% accurate physics and they can do that easily without rtx remix because it is decompiled
@@theSato Spittin’, but Mario Kart’s sticks out like a sore thumb w/ how much & how far it’s managed to go & create compared to most other Nintendo mod/hacking communities.
@@theSato I never said they weren’t, how many thousands of custom tracks has MKWii produced over the last decade+? Not to mention CTGP, Item Rain, Time Trial Racing, Knockout mode, Mario Kart Riibalanced, etc. Now a fanmade deluxe verson of Super MK’s being made w expanded content alongside this w/ 64, 7 has a mod scene w/ plenty of custom tracks, same for DD, Super Circuit, DS, 8 had a mod scene since 2014/2015, & you would see some kind of pushback from Nintendo in some way (Mario 64 online or AM2R for example). As far as I’m aware, I have not seen any pushback w/ Mario Kart hacks & mods. Again, I never said any other Mario hacking scene or other Nintendo games were somehow lesser or implied anything similar. Well aware of the insane modding scene for Mario 64, Zelda OoT, Smash, Project M, etc. & I love me my mods, but whether you factor solely Mario Kart Wii or the entire series, I feel you can argue there’s a larger creative & mainly time-tested pool of hacks & mods you can pick out easier & acknowledge both freely & respectfully more w/ Mario Kart than most other Nintendo mod scenes.
That splash screen reveal was CRAZY. This looks so so amazing! I believe I remember back in the day there are over 1000 sprites per character? This is incredible work. The lighting on the models is spot on, and the courses look like how my brain remembers them. Amazing job to the whole team!
@@MysteryD A sprite is an image representing a state of an object (in games case any object on screen that isn't 3D, else that would just be a texture). You either think this uses 3D models or are talking about spritesheets
@@MysteryD Not only does this kind of attitude never look good on anyone, even when you DO know what you're talking about, but you doubled down on being both condescending AND incorrect!
@@massgrave8x No, I am correct. Though it is certainly animated, each character is an individual sprite on the screen. The sprites each have over 1000 frames of animation.
Awesome work... This brings back so much nostalgia, tugging at my heartstrings. I remember damn near getting into fights as a kid over how competitive I was in this game 😁😅😆😂.
uhm what? did you really want an excuse to own a nintendo device (nintendo has the worst security might as well take what they give out basically for free)
For anyone wondering what the bgm is it’s ua-cam.com/video/03V0_ci0oCo/v-deo.html, this video has their voices cutting in and out but the link in the description has the regular song
This was so beautiful to watch. When the title screen, music, and characters came alive, I couldn't help but crack a kool-aid smile and the tears just came down without me helping it. Thank you for this. 😄✨💛✨👏🏻
Some of the textures still look a bit blurry, while some are a bit too HD. But to be honsst, that's pretty acurate to the original game. The characters look incredibly clean tough. They look absolutly flawless.
An hour ago I was playing Mario Kart 64 in Project64 emulator and while playing I was thinking "I wish someone would make an HD version of this". I entered UA-cam and this video was recommended to me!
I downloaded it as fast as I could when I finished watching this. But, I usually use RetroArch to emulate N64 games. Is there any way I can add this to any sort of folder that's in RetroArch?
I'm not a PS4/PS5 kid, I grew up on N64/Snes/Sega Genesis/PS1/PS2/Dreamcast and my first games I played were Atari 2600, I played Tetris on Nes with my grandma, I played game boy games. I am in my 30s now and have a Nintendo Switch, I want a PS4 since I got games for it.. My point is you can always enjoy video games at anytime and any age of course. If you grew up very young on Nes then you should have been extremely excited for the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 game graphics and if you missed out on GameCube than I highly recommend Mario Kart Double Dash which is stunning and you can be two racers at once which is so much fun!!! I was thrilled with Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing in 1996/1997 era for Christmas and then in 2003 the Mario Kart Double Dash graphics and all blew me away it was a very exciting innocent time still back then. The 90s into the 2000s was the best time ever. I feel so bad for everyone younger living in today's world. Keep the fun games coming!!! 🎮☺👍
Nintendo is about as anti-consumer as you can get. They don't care that people want this, they ran the numbers and decided it isn't worth it financially. Too busy developing gimmick consoles with underwhelming hardware.
@@sbz666_ Breath of the Wild is all we wanted for Ocarina and much much more than we ever even dreamt in 1997-1998, in exactly the way we would wanted then. This, is a fucking HD remake for MK64, an old MK with just barely FINE graphics in 1997 (yes, many people were dissapointed on MK64 in 1997, specially after the glorious Mario 64) and VERY outdated gameplay by today standards. This do not prevent to congratulate the hard work from the fan creators of this MK64HD, they'll get all the credit, they DESERVE IT. But also, it is insane to say "Nintendo is anti-consumer" just because it is not doing cheap HD remakes (for a company) of outdated N64 games, spending its human resources on them. This is not fair. Also, they tried this in 3DS with Zelda OoT and MM and Starfox 64, and the general public mostly ignored those releases.
The „Welcome to Mario Kart!“ is so nostalgic. And as much as I like Nintendo bringing old Tracks to Switch I‘d love to have a „legacy version“ as well. Well now I can I guess.
It likes Pokemon SV. I wondered "Why the nature in SV isn't real？" long time. But after watch it, I understood. HD don't make real, backgraund patterm graphic makes real.
Why would anyone want to play this game when we have Mario Kart 8 deluxe? Even Wii and 3ds, so many better options. This version does not hold up. No matter how HD you make it.
Hey Andrat, thanks for this amazing journey! I wish I'd been a little more active in helping with this project, but that's on me. I'm glad this project turned out the way it did!
For me the N64 always felt bland. Empty levels with little details and tracks weren't very interesting. I prefer both the SNES version, GBA and GC over this. Good textures can't save this version although it does look a lot prettier.
The simplicity of the old games is something that you can’t enjoy today, not because they are not been Make simple any more is just something magic about the old games 😢
@@elcuy3544 the message is there, saying essentially the magic in old games is incomparable to nowaday games because in the old days your brain filled the gaps of what was there via imagination and simplicity instead of over the top fidelity. this mod is an amazing bridge between how we imagined and remembered it growing up
@@cattysplat when you quote someone, it helps if they actually said that. Also, somehow 16 tracks with 2D sprites for characters in a 3D game is somehow more complete than a game that will soon have 5x's more tracks? Stop strawmanning, you're bad at this.
You young people today have no appreciation for nostalgia. (kidding). It looks good. My humble 40" Toshiba doesn't have a composite (red, white, yellow) input. I ended up plugging my nintendo 64 to a composite USB capture card in my PC. I can play my N64 on my 40" tv through a capture card (full screen) plugged into my PC and my PC's surround sound.
My jaw dropped when the characters in the "static" splash image started driving around. Truly amazing work!
Yeah my nuts exploded instantly when that happened it was so smooth!
Same here. it caught me so off guard, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It looks so high quality and official, I love things like this and it truly shows the love and passion behind projects like this!
Oh my God I read your comment beforehand and it still surprised me for some reason
@@olive_liver same!
Caught me off guard even after reading this before it happened in the video ._.
Wow, this looks incredible. It's hard to believe the racers are still sprites.
Imagine this game at 60FPS, looking like this.
Proper 3D models as opposed weird 2D sprites for the characters. I love this.
that's the thing though, these were done in the same way. 3d model turned into a sprite. it's just that now, we have the processing power to run the game with much higher quality sprites! there has actually been a lot of work to 3D model these characters as close to the original renders as possible.
@@beardalaxyAlso further more, do you remember if you are a Yoshi Main or a Princess Peach Main?
@@markheying2830 luigi
Is Render 96 part of this amazing project?
Better graphics than pokemon
Me Watching It in 144p:
" _ "
thank you. it turned out great.
pretty amazing work guys, but seriously you didn't receive a cease and desist already from nintendo?
The part where the "static" image of the Mario Kart 64 CG renders coming to life really caught me off guard, but at the same time, it's splendid to watch.
I can tell by your avatar!
Correction: *starting screen image
How the game looks in our memories.
true
i replayed some really obscure and old games from my childhood and I just realized how low quality they were...
Yes
It's more like "how the game looks on a CRT screen". N64 games are meant to be played on a CRT, looks miles better on one of those than on modern screens
@@mistadudethey weren’t low quality if they gave you those memories
I was worried that this was going to be one of those gaudy UE5 demos, but this looks awesome! Great job preserving the look of the original
Yeah I'm really glad about that too. No "Mario Kart with ray tracing" or anything like that, just higher fidelity while remaining true to the style of Mario kart 64
@@EduardoGomez-eq3uf Nintendos jib is to make 1 good game a year and pump out 30 mediocre
the only problem is the game is not decompiled so there can't be resolution that changes to perfectly match window size when you drag corner of window like there is for mario 64
@@NinjaLobsterStudios there is mario 64 with ray tracing that is still real mario 64 with perfectly 100% accurate physics and they can do that easily without rtx remix because it is decompiled
Okay but now I kinda really wanna see it with UE5 graphics... 🤔
Will come handy once the MK64 decompilation finishes.
This and online functionality is the dream!
God, the entire Mario Kart series community never ceases to amaze me
The Nintendo modding/hacks community in general, honestly
@@theSato Spittin’, but Mario Kart’s sticks out like a sore thumb w/ how much & how far it’s managed to go & create compared to most other Nintendo mod/hacking communities.
What about Mario 64, or Super Mario World? Those hacking communities are insane. Kaze, skelux, and everyone at SMWcentral..
@@theSato I never said they weren’t, how many thousands of custom tracks has MKWii produced over the last decade+? Not to mention CTGP, Item Rain, Time Trial Racing, Knockout mode, Mario Kart Riibalanced, etc. Now a fanmade deluxe verson of Super MK’s being made w expanded content alongside this w/ 64, 7 has a mod scene w/ plenty of custom tracks, same for DD, Super Circuit, DS, 8 had a mod scene since 2014/2015, & you would see some kind of pushback from Nintendo in some way (Mario 64 online or AM2R for example). As far as I’m aware, I have not seen any pushback w/ Mario Kart hacks & mods.
Again, I never said any other Mario hacking scene or other Nintendo games were somehow lesser or implied anything similar. Well aware of the insane modding scene for Mario 64, Zelda OoT, Smash, Project M, etc. & I love me my mods, but whether you factor solely Mario Kart Wii or the entire series, I feel you can argue there’s a larger creative & mainly time-tested pool of hacks & mods you can pick out easier & acknowledge both freely & respectfully more w/ Mario Kart than most other Nintendo mod scenes.
its not that amazing.
That splash screen reveal was CRAZY. This looks so so amazing! I believe I remember back in the day there are over 1000 sprites per character? This is incredible work. The lighting on the models is spot on, and the courses look like how my brain remembers them. Amazing job to the whole team!
One sprite per character. The characters are still sprites. I'm wondering if you know what a sprite is.
@@MysteryD A sprite is an image representing a state of an object (in games case any object on screen that isn't 3D, else that would just be a texture). You either think this uses 3D models or are talking about spritesheets
Checked the github page and Bowser has 1798 sprites XD I'm sure the others have around the same amount
@@MysteryD Not only does this kind of attitude never look good on anyone, even when you DO know what you're talking about, but you doubled down on being both condescending AND incorrect!
@@massgrave8x No, I am correct. Though it is certainly animated, each character is an individual sprite on the screen. The sprites each have over 1000 frames of animation.
Awesome work... This brings back so much nostalgia, tugging at my heartstrings. I remember damn near getting into fights as a kid over how competitive I was in this game 😁😅😆😂.
I took a mean right hook to my arm over some cheeky shenanigans. Lured a bomb player to my Starman during a balloon battle. I'd do it again. ⭐💣💥🤬
0:15 please this music link...
ua-cam.com/video/EJG4FMSSprw/v-deo.html
Here's the link
Here
@@felipevaldes3487 thx
I really freaking hope that nintendo doesn't take this down because this looks really good
Oh they will...eventually.
@@abuttnugget6753 No it is a texture pack for hi-res they been doing this to all N64 games
I hope they take it down lol I love it when they dump on creative pukes like this.
go make something original.
Love the attention to detail. The opening animation. The voice overs. It wasn't even corny. Which I'm very surprised about and appreciated that.
it was super corny. at the end of the day its the same n64 game with gaudy HD textures and a moving static image lmao.
how tf is that impressive
@@matguimond92 asinine comment
absolutely love when people mod games to look like their splash art, LOVE IT
Given how differently this game was made, I'm sure this was a tremendous amount of work. Great job team!
Indeed, I've followed development and it seems especially the characters were a buttload of work!
Its amazing how communities can come together treat old games with more respect that the original company
uhm what? did you really want an excuse to own a nintendo device (nintendo has the worst security might as well take what they give out basically for free)
It's funny because the HD part now is what it looked like to us back then.
thank god its not one of those wet and shinny unreal engine remake, this actually look amazing
What do you mean, available for dolphin emulator? Can you run n64 roms through dolphin? Or is there a wii iso for the game?
Now my question is: will this run on N64 hardware via flashcart?
Woah this is amazing! Now this is exactly how it feels to wear glasses for the first time LOL
For anyone wondering what the bgm is it’s ua-cam.com/video/03V0_ci0oCo/v-deo.html, this video has their voices cutting in and out but the link in the description has the regular song
Thank you I was going to ask for it
@@BlackViperGX ofc, it’s a banger
Actual legend, was searching in the comments for it.
@@Xeznia gotchu bro
Amazing work. Thank you for sharing it with us. ❤
All I could hear is Vinny doing his SNL voice
git doesn't work 0/10 >:(
Bro after blowing it: OMG THE GRAPHICS ARE 4K
This is how it seemed to look when we were kids lol
omg it’s basically render 96 but for mk64. this is incredible!
This was so beautiful to watch. When the title screen, music, and characters came alive, I couldn't help but crack a kool-aid smile and the tears just came down without me helping it. Thank you for this. 😄✨💛✨👏🏻
Some of the textures still look a bit blurry, while some are a bit too HD. But to be honsst, that's pretty acurate to the original game.
The characters look incredibly clean tough. They look absolutly flawless.
Better hope that Nintendo don't take it down.
Truly the definitive way to play Mario Kart 64. And this makes me crave hard for a Doom 64 HD...
This is how it looks in my memory...
i cannot see this normally without thinking about luma ai's atrocious video generation
this is why i hate AI :(
@@ianmoises same
Can this be played on an everdrive?
My only complaint is that the "© 1996 Nintendo" text seems to use some form of Arial (or a similar font) rather than the original font (which seems to be a modified Helvetica? or possibly the Nintendo logo font, judging by the lowercase t). The "PUSH START BUTTON" text also seems to be using Arial rather than Helvetica. Other than those tiny nitpicks, this is *incredible!*
An hour ago I was playing Mario Kart 64 in Project64 emulator and while playing I was thinking "I wish someone would make an HD version of this". I entered UA-cam and this video was recommended to me!
Will the music have remastered instruments? And will it also have remastered voices because in the trailer I could hear remastered voices
meh
Download link?
How kids saw Mario kart 64 in the 90's
This is top notch! You’re really good!
Does anybody know the music(bgm) in the beginning of the video?
The amount of people who don’t get what this even is and just make ridiculous comments just astounds me.
This is how the graphics looked in my mind back in 1996
I downloaded it as fast as I could when I finished watching this. But, I usually use RetroArch to emulate N64 games. Is there any way I can add this to any sort of folder that's in RetroArch?
Watched the video in 360p, nuts to your HD!
nintendo lawyers: 🥵🥵
😂😂
A new dream unlocked:
You, guys, teaming up with the "Mario Kart Hooting Time" and "Mario Kart 64 Amped Up" people.
im hella scared that nintendo is just gonna shut this down, and then release super Mario 64 Hd
Can you move the hud to the left of the screen? Looks like a really bad position as it is rn.
I wasn't lucky to grow up with N64 (I'm an early NES generation), but I'm always excited to see these kinds of projects. Fascinating work!
Well then you must have been around when Mario Kart 64 came out if you were around for the Nes.
I'm not a PS4/PS5 kid, I grew up on N64/Snes/Sega Genesis/PS1/PS2/Dreamcast and my first games I played were Atari 2600, I played Tetris on Nes with my grandma, I played game boy games. I am in my 30s now and have a Nintendo Switch, I want a PS4 since I got games for it.. My point is you can always enjoy video games at anytime and any age of course. If you grew up very young on Nes then you should have been extremely excited for the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 game graphics and if you missed out on GameCube than I highly recommend Mario Kart Double Dash which is stunning and you can be two racers at once which is so much fun!!! I was thrilled with Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing in 1996/1997 era for Christmas and then in 2003 the Mario Kart Double Dash graphics and all blew me away it was a very exciting innocent time still back then. The 90s into the 2000s was the best time ever. I feel so bad for everyone younger living in today's world. Keep the fun games coming!!! 🎮☺👍
How is it impossible for nintendo to make stuff like this, good job for making such a good hd version
Nintendo is about as anti-consumer as you can get. They don't care that people want this, they ran the numbers and decided it isn't worth it financially. Too busy developing gimmick consoles with underwhelming hardware.
Who said it was impossible? If you notice, all of Nintendo's dev teams are working on other stuff. What developers would you have do this?
@@sbz666_ Pfft, amazing hyperbole there.
@@sbz666_ Breath of the Wild is all we wanted for Ocarina and much much more than we ever even dreamt in 1997-1998, in exactly the way we would wanted then.
This, is a fucking HD remake for MK64, an old MK with just barely FINE graphics in 1997 (yes, many people were dissapointed on MK64 in 1997, specially after the glorious Mario 64) and VERY outdated gameplay by today standards.
This do not prevent to congratulate the hard work from the fan creators of this MK64HD, they'll get all the credit, they DESERVE IT. But also, it is insane to say "Nintendo is anti-consumer" just because it is not doing cheap HD remakes (for a company) of outdated N64 games, spending its human resources on them. This is not fair. Also, they tried this in 3DS with Zelda OoT and MM and Starfox 64, and the general public mostly ignored those releases.
@@amosdeguzman9980 Nintendo European Research & Development Team
I give it 2 weeks tops before it gets cease and desist'd by Nintendo
Looks awesome, great job!
Great work! I've been dmca'd for less so, his yo kids.
The fans do what Nintendont has never been more true. I hate being a Nintendo fan.
not meant no offend, but to me, it looks exactly the same as the first release
One question: does this also support the Japanese billboards? And maybe the Japanese voices too.
I was about to ask the same Thing… any Luck findind the Japanese billboards for the HD Textures?
Awesome! Installed it and looks pretty good!
Nintendo: My Lawyer, NOW!!!!
The moving title screen was amazing.
The „Welcome to Mario Kart!“ is so nostalgic. And as much as I like Nintendo bringing old Tracks to Switch I‘d love to have a „legacy version“ as well.
Well now I can I guess.
Impossible to download ! It always stops before the end !
Will this work with an everdrive in real hardware?
Nintendo si no le tuviera miedo al éxito:
This is how it looked to all of us as kids lol
Ok lets watch Nintendo claim this game and have it taken down
It likes Pokemon SV. I wondered "Why the nature in SV isn't real？" long time. But after watch it, I understood. HD don't make real, backgraund patterm graphic makes real.
Mind explaining?
Although im too young to have enjoyed the game during that era this remaster looks phenominal and will allow future generations to enjoy this game.
Nintendo bouta roll up and ruin this shit
Why would anyone want to play this game when we have Mario Kart 8 deluxe? Even Wii and 3ds, so many better options. This version does not hold up. No matter how HD you make it.
Okay 👍 I’m gonna play it anyways
This is the type of stuff that nintendo should be releasing but they like to cut corners smfh
if nintendo made this they would make that shit $60
they would never do this in the first place though, all their ports and remasters are lazy af
this looks how I remember it looking!! amazing work!
Nintendo Lawyers: Did I hear DMCA?
(Jokes Aside, this looks amazing.)
(i can tell this might not actually be a joke)
0:24 based
Cool to see the final product
So would this work on a modded wii?
I upload a gameplay of mario kart 64
This looks incredible, it got me right in the 1080ps
Brrrruuuuhhh... what masterpiece did I stumble upon?!? This looks amazing
Fans do what Nintendon't
U can play it on pc on webflg and ublg
what is the name of the song in the beginning?
How does one go about being able to play this?
There’s a great guide on installing the texture pack by Unreal64! Highly recommend it :)
ua-cam.com/video/e5FhpNSKSKg/v-deo.html
Hey Andrat, thanks for this amazing journey! I wish I'd been a little more active in helping with this project, but that's on me. I'm glad this project turned out the way it did!
For me the N64 always felt bland. Empty levels with little details and tracks weren't very interesting. I prefer both the SNES version, GBA and GC over this. Good textures can't save this version although it does look a lot prettier.
no one asked
@@ToyotaKudoFan You must be fun at parties. If a video doenst have comments blocked I don't see anything wrong with commenting.
The simplicity of the old games is something that you can’t enjoy today, not because they are not been Make simple any more is just something magic about the old games 😢
what the hell did you just write
@@elcuy3544 the message is there, saying essentially the magic in old games is incomparable to nowaday games because in the old days your brain filled the gaps of what was there via imagination and simplicity instead of over the top fidelity. this mod is an amazing bridge between how we imagined and remembered it growing up
Shit sucked back then. I prefer the past stay buried.
Cool mod, nonetheless. A great novelty that comes from the passion of dedicated fans.
@@leavestrace5493 "Complete games with no microtransactions were so bad" 🤡
@@cattysplat when you quote someone, it helps if they actually said that.
Also, somehow 16 tracks with 2D sprites for characters in a 3D game is somehow more complete than a game that will soon have 5x's more tracks?
Stop strawmanning, you're bad at this.
if nintendo takes it down, it's canon
*countdown til Nintendo takes this down*
Can you run this on the N64 or is it for emulator only?
The N64 can’t handle textures like this, so an HD texture pack only really works for emulators or PC ports or stuff of that nature.
Fan does what Nintendont
You young people today have no appreciation for nostalgia.
(kidding). It looks good. My humble 40" Toshiba doesn't have a composite (red, white, yellow) input. I ended up plugging my nintendo 64 to a composite USB capture card in my PC. I can play my N64 on my 40" tv through a capture card (full screen) plugged into my PC and my PC's surround sound.