Ocarina gets a spit-shine

Posted Jul 14th 2008 12:30PM by Phil Larsen
Filed under: Fan stuff, Screens

Who needs all the "newness" of E3 when you can relive a masterpiece of days gone by? A team of modders went to the trouble of improving a selection of screenshots from Ocarina of Time, with sharp textures and ultra-high resolution. At the end of the day, these graphics are technically far behind most of the games released this generation(key word: most), but since we all lovingly play Ocarina of Time on a regular basis anyway, a sharp upgrade like this would be just what the doctor ordered.

Check out the full set of new and improved screens here, with an ambient melody drifting over the flash page as you compare the original shots with high-res and cel-shaded versions.

[Via Go Nintendo]

Tags: adventure, high-res, legend-of-zelda, n64, ocarina-of-time, rpg, zelda

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-14-2008 @ 1:20PM

Exo said...

this is a few years old. are you guys getting news from gametrailers forum posts now?

7-14-2008 @ 2:05PM

Psy said...

Couple of things:

1.) 'bout 3 or 4 years too late.
2.) They didn't re-texture screenshots. They re-textured the entire game and then took screenshots of it. It's fairly common.

http://www.emutalk.net/forumdisplay.php?f=110

Sorry to burst your news bubble.

7-14-2008 @ 7:44PM

Nathew said...

sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but your link seems to be broken.

i was hoping i could grab a ROM or something.

7-15-2008 @ 2:12PM

dont sass said...

Sorry to burst YOUR MOM'S bubble, but you were adopted!!!

7-15-2008 @ 7:38PM

Jedimonkey said...

You won't find the rom on that forum, but you will find all of the information that you need to get this up and running. They did not alter the rom, they used a plugin for an emulator to dump and then reload the textures. You need to get the rom elsewhere.

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