Firstly, I know this question has already been asked many times, and most of you have said "No, it's impossible, you can't replace textures within the ROM and load it in the emulator." Mainly because :
- It is hard to input the textures and remove the original ones
- No emulator would read the rom with High-res textures instead of normal ones
From what I've heard the second problem shouldn't be a problem in the next few weeks, as the next release of Project64 will support hi-res, from what I've heard.
Now I found a method of actually inputting the textures into the rom, the only problem is that I'm kinda of newbie in that kind of stuff, so I'll just link the tutorial for you guys. Before you go and read it, you have to know that :
- The tutorial only works for the US Rom of OoT v1.0
- It has been used to translate OoT into Russian, so it works!
The Tutorial : You'll arrive into a russian webpage, just click on the link under the banner on-top of the website and you'll have the English version of the tutorial.
If anyone manages to do this with one of the high-res projects, he could make a patch for it, as patches are legitimate, instead of putting the patched Rom for download. If this has already been attempted, then I'm sorry and please do delete this topic.
- It is hard to input the textures and remove the original ones
- No emulator would read the rom with High-res textures instead of normal ones
From what I've heard the second problem shouldn't be a problem in the next few weeks, as the next release of Project64 will support hi-res, from what I've heard.
Now I found a method of actually inputting the textures into the rom, the only problem is that I'm kinda of newbie in that kind of stuff, so I'll just link the tutorial for you guys. Before you go and read it, you have to know that :
- The tutorial only works for the US Rom of OoT v1.0
- It has been used to translate OoT into Russian, so it works!
The Tutorial : You'll arrive into a russian webpage, just click on the link under the banner on-top of the website and you'll have the English version of the tutorial.
If anyone manages to do this with one of the high-res projects, he could make a patch for it, as patches are legitimate, instead of putting the patched Rom for download. If this has already been attempted, then I'm sorry and please do delete this topic.