Pony Textures for Super Mario 64

Download the Texture Pack Here

Play Super Mario 64 on an emulator? Never fear, we've got ponies for that.

The Super Mario 64 Texture Pack is at it's best inside Peach's castle. The walls are painted with a bright Equestrian landscape, the floor bears Celestia's seal, and stained glass Nightmare Moon and Celestia replace the original circular window. In-level, apple trees are visible and the ground textures have changed somewhat, but the feel of the game has changed little. Still, it's entirely worth a try!

Trailer and installation instructions after the break!

The thing that would really complete this mod is to sub out Mario for Twilight Sparkle (admittedly, a trickier task than textures.) Then, someone should get on making me a ponified Luigi's Mansion starring Fluttershy. Pretty please?

The description of the trailer above links to a video with full instructions for adding texture packs to Nintendo 64 ROMs. In case you wanted an abbreviated version, I've copied the gist of it below:

1. Make sure you have a working Super Mario 64 ROM running on the Project 64 emulator. If you've never used an emulator to play games before, make sure you have this working first.

2. Download and install Rice's Video Plugin. When it asks you to choose install location, make sure to give it the directory in which you've put Project64.exe. (Something like C:\foo\stuff\Project 64).

3. Open Project 64, go to Options>Settings>Plugins and select "Mudlord's Rice Video Build 6.1.4" as your Video plugin.

4. In Project 64, go to Options>Configure Graphics Plugins>Texture Enhancement and make sure "load hi-res textures if available" is checked.

5. Download the Texture pack and copy the folder "hires_texture" into "Project 64/Plugin."

Angry Ponies

Angry Ponies

Now we don't normally give mods a separate post here on Equestria Gaming, but this is somewhat of an exception. After all, who doesn't want to fling chubby little ponies at equally chubby changeling queens in their wee fortresses? This mod lets you do just that, and only a simple Google Chrome/Firefox plugin is needed to play (sorry users of other browsers!). It is still a work in progress, but I'm sure that you'll enjoy it anyways. So hit up the link above and take a look at the mod, then perhaps give it a try, ok?

Also, this isn't the first fandom that has made an Angry Birds-type game. The Portal fandom also did it with Aperture Birds, which you can find at http://www.moddb.com/games/aperture-birds and is far better in my personal opinion.