Make Your Own Recomp Texture Pack

Nintendo 64 games are instantly recognisable from their charming low-resolution textures. Recomps improve many things about a game, but generally leave those textures intact. For anyone wanting a more modern look, or a different artistic style entirely, texture packs offer a ready-made solution. As the name suggests, they let you replace in-game textures with images of your choice, often at much higher resolutions.

For all their promise, texture packs are a rare sight outside the most popular games, such as Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Mario Kart 64. This is unfortunate because making a texture pack is not especially difficult and there’s no shortage of talented artists in the retro gaming community. Indeed, I’m very grateful to M. Lee Lunsford, Moz and Jellsoup for contributing artwork to Snowboard Kids: Recompiled and Snowboard Kids 2: Recompiled.