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!
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
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.
@@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.
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!
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)
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 😁😅😆😂.
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. 😄✨💛✨👏🏻
I'm blown away by the quality on display here. Not only were the visuals trimmed up to look good my modern standards, you maintained the aesthetic of sprite work.
Amazing faithful recreation. Although nothing can beat the gorgeous graphics that is MK8, there is something really nostalgic about this game, used to play it a lot with me dad when I was little.
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!
this is incredible. the older models from the n64 days are so classic and inspired its great to see all of this rendered in hd. ty for this all you who made it!!
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!!! 🎮☺👍
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.
Dude, I can't even express how floored I am by this. I finally took some time to get Render 96 and this working on my PC today, and man.. played through every cup as Wario with a giant grin on my face. Incredible work ya'll. This is just insane. Now I just cant wait to get some USB to N64 controller adapters and invite a couple people over for block fortress lol
Never played MK64 but this truly does look very well made. This must've taken you a longtime to make and the result for it payed off in my opinion. I'm actually tempted to get an MK64 rom just to try this out.
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
Nice work on this HD remake👍 - I also wish these HD versions magically worked with other mods. Because there's so many great ones that added additional courses too😅
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 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.
Mario Kart 64 is the first Mario Kart I've ever played and made me fall in love with the series This HD version is Awesome and wish Nintendo would do things like this to some of their big games instead of putting them in a subscription service
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.
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 ._.
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... 🤔
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.
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
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.
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 come handy once the MK64 decompilation finishes.
This and online functionality is the dream!
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)
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. ⭐💣💥🤬
This is top notch! You’re really good!
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. 😄✨💛✨👏🏻
Amazing work. Thank you for sharing it with us. ❤
It's funny because the HD part now is what it looked like to us back then.
Truly the definitive way to play Mario Kart 64. And this makes me crave hard for a Doom 64 HD...
I'm blown away by the quality on display here. Not only were the visuals trimmed up to look good my modern standards, you maintained the aesthetic of sprite work.
and it is all done through the work of very well done emulator Hi-Res setting.
Thank you and well done! I played countless hundreds if not THOUSANDS of hours of this as child, amazing to see this!!!
Looks horrible
Horribly time consuming. What a labour of love, fantastic work to all the people working on this
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.
The moving title screen was amazing.
Amazing faithful recreation. Although nothing can beat the gorgeous graphics that is MK8, there is something really nostalgic about this game, used to play it a lot with me dad when I was little.
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.
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!
this is incredible. the older models from the n64 days are so classic and inspired its great to see all of this rendered in hd. ty for this all you who made it!!
Woah this is amazing! Now this is exactly how it feels to wear glasses for the first time LOL
Looks awesome, great job!
A new dream unlocked:
You, guys, teaming up with the "Mario Kart Hooting Time" and "Mario Kart 64 Amped Up" people.
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!!! 🎮☺👍
I cannot WAIT to play this.
Also amazing impressions! A fellow Voice Actor is always appreciated.
It's already out. Download link in description. You'll need a ROM of MK64 and an emulator that supports texture packs.
Great job maintaining the originality of the game whilst amping up the visuals
Brrrruuuuhhh... what masterpiece did I stumble upon?!? This looks 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.
0:22 man predicted ai video generators
Same
Really good to see mk64 getting some attention, great work !!
Watched the video in 360p, nuts to your HD!
Excellent! Now we want killer Instinct Gold remaster! Happy new year!!!
this is beautiful work
, you earned your self a subscriber
this looks how I remember it looking!! amazing work!
It’s so Beautiful!! I had to rewatch it again and again!
Years and years of my childhood just came flooding back to me seeing those stages again, only now everything looks incredible. Great work
I am happy that after 25 years we can finally play our 64-bit games with the prerendered graphics we were promised.
Dude, I can't even express how floored I am by this. I finally took some time to get Render 96 and this working on my PC today, and man.. played through every cup as Wario with a giant grin on my face. Incredible work ya'll. This is just insane. Now I just cant wait to get some USB to N64 controller adapters and invite a couple people over for block fortress lol
This is some really cool stuff, dude! Looking forward to playing it.
Can it be. One of these HD remasters that doesn't destroy your eyes with lighting because it can? AWESOME!
This is how the graphics looked in my mind back in 1996
Never played MK64 but this truly does look very well made. This must've taken you a longtime to make and the result for it payed off in my opinion. I'm actually tempted to get an MK64 rom just to try this out.
This is how it looks in my memory...
This looks incredible, it got me right in the 1080ps
omg it’s basically render 96 but for mk64. this is incredible!
This looks jaw droppingly amazing
Holy crap -- I can finally see the tracks!
Wow, this looks incredible. It's hard to believe the racers are still sprites.
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
Cool to see the final product
This is my childhood dream of playing games that looked as good as the CG FMVs
Wow, that is insane. Amazing work guys!
So glad this keeps the old aesthetics of the 3D models instead of just replacing them with the new CG models
It’s like falling in love with the game all over again. Looks beautiful.
Thank you so much for this. Cheers 🍻
This is, beautiful, gg to everyone who worked on this, it looks incredible.
Nice work on this HD remake👍 - I also wish these HD versions magically worked with other mods. Because there's so many great ones that added additional courses too😅
nostalgia hit so hard that it makes me think this how the game actually looked when I was a kid
Amazing work, thank you very much!!!
Great job! I am here before this video blows up!
chill bro Nintendo's ninja might attack.
this looks beautiful great work!
thank god its not one of those wet and shinny unreal engine remake, this actually look amazing
You're about to find out how truly appreciative Nintendo is of its fans.
Awesome! Installed it and looks pretty good!
I don't know what it was, maybe the presentation but this brought a tear to my eye. Amazing job!
awesome big band cover of mk64 track did it
Mario: Wow! That Looks Pretty Good!
Luigi:Oh Yeah! Looking Good!
Yoshi: Y O S H I
Sick project!!!! Looks amazing
Congrats! Great great work
This is super clean af! I love how it turned out!
Hard work paid off in full
Awesome dude, will definitely play with friends.
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
Dang you out did your self great work
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.
Mario Kart 64 is the first Mario Kart I've ever played and made me fall in love with the series
This HD version is Awesome and wish Nintendo would do things like this to some of their big games instead of putting them in a subscription service
Growing up, if you played these games on an old school CRT monitor they did look just as sharp and clear as these HD mods put them on modern screens.
Bro after blowing it: OMG THE GRAPHICS ARE 4K
This is exactly how I remember Mario Kart when I first got it.
I will be playing this for streams to come! This is beautiful!
Do you remember which Character is your Main?
@@markheying2830 I'm a Mario man for sure! Sometimes Yoshi if I'm feeling risky
Nailed the promo vibe with this edit.
Dude, my mind exploded when the static renders started to move. especially because it feels like it would happen in the game.
0:53 The audio timing with the podiums 😚🤌
Amazing work, it looks so good !
0:30 is simply amazing. Gave me serious goosebumps
I like the little detail where Toad hit Wario with the red shell after Wario bumped Peach off track.
Do you remember if either 1 of those 3 Characters is your Main?
You managed to modernize it, keeping the original feel
This I will have to try out! Awesome work here!
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.
Now that's a good looking HD version.
YESSSS this is my childhood and how I imagine it being how it was!
I loved this game. I used to make up sides, so it wasn't enough for me to win, but my 'team' of co-op players had to as well.
This is incredible. Well done!
Great stuff, love blw they are actual 3d Models now