However, soon after he began work on the project, Capcom announced that an improved PC port of RE4 was in development. Morales was planning to release his own texture pack for the Wii version of RE4, using the Dolphin emulator to patch the game.
Marin Garau eventually ran into a fellow modder, Cris Morales, who was working hard on the same UV mapping issues that Marin Garau had run into, with slightly more success. When he considered the amount of work it would take to custom-fix all of the HD assets in the game, it just didn't seem worth it. (Fixing these imperfections, masked by the low-resolution nature of the original, would eventually become the bulk of the texture work of the project.) Like a lot of players, he was disappointed by the original PC port, which lacked basic features such as mouse support and correct button prompts for controllers. For one, many of the textures had problems with the 3D-to-2D mapping process (UV mapping), which required trial-and-error edits in order to make them look impressive in HD. Though his early attempts at improving RE4's visuals came from a place of pure passion, Marin Garau's efforts quickly ran into a number of serious roadblocks. I created a texture pack for the game, which obviously pales in comparison to the HD Project."īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's "The textures were simple TGA images, which meant I could move from compiling game assets to improving them. "When the first RE4 port came out in 2007, I was really impressed with how moddable the game was," Marin Garau tells GameSpot. In fact, he could even modify them himself. However, it wasn't until the first PC port of the game came out that he realized he could simply rip the images from the game. When he started working on RE4, he realized that many of the game's textures were blurry and low-resolution. He created repositories of these assets primarily for his own amusement. Over the years, he made a hobby out of collecting assets that had appeared in many of the series' best entries, including music tracks, textures, and pre-rendered backgrounds. It's one of the most impressive video game fan works of all time, and it's all thanks to a small team of dedicated hackers who literally traveled the globe to accomplish their goals.Īlbert Marin Garau is a longtime Resident Evil fan who dabbles in game modding. With Capcom's impressive remake coming out this year, the original is still kept relevant thanks in part to the fan-made Resident Evil 4 HD Project, a mod that updates the look and feel of the game to modern standards. Combining pinpoint moment-to-moment action with some of the best set pieces and boss fights of the 2000s, RE4 deserves its reputation as one of the greatest action games of all time. Upon its original release, Resident Evil 4 was nothing short of a revelation for the beloved horror series.
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