As stated previously, with rice video you have 1 base texture = 1 texture replacement. In Mario Kart 64 Reloaded, the same base texture can be found in multiple maps with different replacements, allowing to give each map its very own design and reduce redundancy

Rice video allows to replace a texture by another one, which is fine but i wanted to go one step further. Mario Kart 64 Reloaded plugin is able to take one texture and replace it with several ones to animate a static image and bring more life to the game

In Mario Kart 64, the sky is not a texture but a background diffuse color, therefore it is not possible to alter it with the standard rice video plugin. Mario Kart 64 Reloaded plugin dynamically updates the background color every time it is rendered to enable sky color modification

Mario Kart 64 Reloaded is a retexturing project for Mario Kart 64. It uses my own personal fork of the famous Rice Video plugin, introducing three additional features :

Does this work on linux ? There is no .so version of the Mario Kart 64 Reloaded plugin, so you cannot use it directly inside Mupen for example, but it was successfully tested with Wine

Does this work on everdrive 64 ? I did not test it but unless you can define by yourself the video plugin to use at runtime in everdrive, probably not

It works but the game is really slow... what could be the problem ? Some people have experienced slow game when using specific audio plugins (1964 Audio plugin, for instance) and it is strongly advised to use Jabo's DirectSound for the audio plugin. Also, you can try to cache the textures inside the video plugin options (see advanced install)

The emulator often crashes when I close it The longer the game runs, the greater you may encounter this issue : this is because the video plugin sometimes (often) fails to release the memory resources acquired at run time during the short delay given to it for that task upon exit. This should not be too problematic though since it doesn't seem to affect the game at run time.

Can i use the standard Rice Video plugin instead of the Mario Kart 64 Reloaded plugin ? It should work, but you won't have the modifications detailed in the "Presentation" part of the website

Do you plan to retexture the battle mode maps ? Not at the moment, but maybe I will if many people ask for it

Do you plan to retexture the characters ? No, because unfortunately, retexturing characters is a really tedious task considering the way this part of the game was programmed

Are there any other good texture packs for Mario Kart 64 out there ? You can try Kerber texture pack for a HD version of the original textures which is quite good and also BFrancois texture pack for a Super Mario Kart like texture pack