Mario Kart Wii HD Retexture

[bachfugue]

Hi,
Wishing to learn more about Gimp and Inkscape, I've embarked on a project of working on some textures for Mario Kart Wii.
The work consists mainly in correctly upscaling/downscaling/modifying some existing material and in redrawing some other.
The results are modest, but I'd like to share them with you.

So far, I've made

• redone a few fonts
• all weapons are in higher resolution
• the intro screens are sharpened
• the small character heads (bottom right) are changed with better resolution
  

The http://www.mariowiki.com website has been most helpful.

I'm working on the Pal version (RMCP01).
You have some screenshots here:
https://imgur.com/a/1v9BA with before/after states.

Edit (22nd oct 2015):
I did some work on this project: the font change wasn't very good, so I went back to Inkscape to have something closer to the original.
The countdown should look better now. So, it's version 03 now.

If there's some artwork that don't suit you, you can simply delete the corresponding folder and keep the rest.
I'm not trying to have a perfect reproduction of all the original artwork: just something that looks nice in HD (=not too pixelated).
Only goal here: learning and having fun with this wonderful emulator.

And here's the link to the pack:
RMCP01-v03-zip

Instructions:

• download the file
• extract it in My Documents\Dolphin Emulator\Load: it will create a folder named RMCP01
• install a recent revision of dolphin. Go to Graphics>Advanced and tick "Load Custom Textures" and "Prefetch Custom Textures" (rev>4.0.6415)
• launch the game
  

[Zooke]

I am not keen on changing the fonts, I think a HD Retexture should be the exactly the same look but in HD.

Anything which changes the game in this way is a mod rather than a HD pack.

[luizfersam]

Finally some new HD/retexture for Mario kart wii!! please keep this work o/, i really like this and i will download

[toto621]

Cool, a new project is always welcome, good luck on this

[Kolano]

Agree about disliking the font-changes, would also prefer if they more closely matched the original fonts.

[Sgt. Pepper]

Please do not change the fonts and icons, I want everything to look as close to vanilla as possible.

[themanuel]

+1 for improving original fonts instead of changing them.
Thanks for sharing your work.

[Barack91]

It has been removed

[bachfugue]

I've redone some fonts. See 1st post for more details.

[UmbraWitchJeanne]

No offense, but would you mind posting some new screenshots so we can see what they look like before downloading?