The same goes for every tree, cannon, bush, brick wall and, well, everything else. He needs to add realistic hair, stitches on all that denim and more to give him the depth of detail contemporary gamers expect. And because expectations around graphics and detail are so high today compared to 1996, he can’t just throw blue overalls on Mario and call it a day. Because the only thing he’s really “recreating” is the gameplay. To that end, “recreating” is probably the wrong word. You can’t just take a 3-D model from the original game and put it in your remake, because it would look terrible,” he explains. “You have to redo everything: 3-D models, textures, music, sound effects, characters, animations, everything. In fact, recreating the game has become a game itself, de Boer says, so much so that he loses track of time when he’s working on it. And if you love the game as much as I do, it’s worth it.” “But I’m passionate about it because I’ve loved the game since my childhood. “It’s a painstaking process,” he says of restoring the 1996 game, which was Nintendo 64’s flagship title and is still considered one of the greatest games of all time. Nearly six hours a day for the last three years, 24-year-old Harold de Boer has been mapping, measuring and remastering every single pixel in Super Mario 64 - even down to each blade of grass.
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