Mario Party 8 HD Texture Project

[zaozabot]

Hi everyone! I would like to share with you with some progress i've achieved in modifying textures for Mario Party 8.

I've spent a few weeks of my free time trying to make this great game to look nice on modern hardware.

There's still a lot of unfinished work, but i hope even with this mod fans and casual gamers will be happy to return to this great game with a fresh view.

Someone may not notice significant difference. It's because i mostly tried to stay faithfull to original colors and patterns. My goal was to update resolution, not to create a remake.

All used materials are properties of their respecful owners. I don't claim any rights for shared files and don't pursue financial goals.

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Download link (Mega.nz)

Mirror (mediafire)

What has been updated:

1) Most fonts, words, phrases, texts, names, etc. Mostly with waifu upscaler, but some of the difficult ones were remade by hand

2) Character avatars replaced with modern ones

3) Upscaled GUI textures wherever i saw low resolution

4) Character model textures upscaled with waifu, details corrected by hand

5) A lot of textures from boards replaced or upscaled.

6) Replaced or upscaled some textures from a random minigames

7) Replaced minigame screenshoots whenever possible. Didn't touched ones that are shown as first frame in video

--- I haven't spent a lot of time with completing all possible levels and modes, so i'm shure a lot of avatars, texts and icons can still remain in bad quality. I will update them sooner or later.

--- For people new to custom texture loading: extract files from archive into dolphin user data folder \Load\Textures\RM8E01 

Comparison screenshoots:

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[Miksel12]

Wow, looks really nice!

[e2zippo]

Looks really good! Nice!

[Mxyl V]

That looks amazing! I like it that you're taking on both the menu/select icons and the overall in-game textures; that really sells what you're going for!

[Zuglocks33]

This looks really good. I will make sure to use this pack the next time me and my friends play this game. it will be interesting to see if they notice the changes.

[Rozgen]

(11-22-2019, 07:16 AM)zaozabot Wrote: There's still a lot of unfinished work,

This is a good pack! Are there plans for any future updates to this?

[Leonzio]

The MEGA link for download is currently down, thankfully there is the Mediafire backup