I'm no longer updating this thread regularly...


Now officially the largest thread on MKWii General Board!

This is the official home of Texture Hacking in Mario Kart Wii! This thread will also handle terrain-type (flag) hacking, should anyone ever try it.

Basic work on model hacking has started! Head here to take a look: The Official Mario Kart Wii Model Hacking and New Courses thread!

As some of you may already know, a while ago me and my younger brother discovered how the texture files for Mario Kart Wii are stored, along with how to modify them. So, us and now many other hackers have been changing textures around and creating videos of the results!

NONE OF THESE TEXTURE HACKS WILL WORK ONLINE. Only the texture hackers are able to view the changes that they made.

A video tutorial of how to do these texture mods can be found here (thanks to Lol-Alex!)



Texture hacking's only limited by the user's creativity (and a ton of technical stuff, but I can't be bothered to explain all that. Most of the time, if you put a picture in, it'll just go and work )

Some examples of texture hacks...


















Big List of Texture Hacks:


01. SNES Mario Sandpit 3 (the first ever texture hack) - Mr Bean
02. GBA Bowser Rainbow 3 - Mr Bean
03. N64 Crystal Lakeside - Mr Bean
04. Rainbow Valley - 4TLol-Alex
05. DK's Ice Mountain - 4TLol-Alex (2nd half of vid)
06. N64 Bowser's Sandcastle - Mr Bean
07. Moo Moo Desert - Maschell
08. Iced Rainbow Road - Maschell
09. Wario's Space Mine - Mr Bean
10. Yoshi's Metal Falls - 4TLol-Alex (contains Baby Rosalina)
11. Test Textures at Rainbow Road - midiman100
12. Luigi's Volcano Raceway - Mr Bean
13. Maple color land - UgotHacked (looks damaged)
14. Mario's Golden Road - 4TLol-Alex (contains Red Yoshi)
15. YouTube's DK Valley 2 - UgotHacked
16. UGotHacked Cape - UgotHacked
17. Weird Weird Meadows - midiman100
18. Bowser's Motor Way - 4TLol-Alex (contains Toadsworth)
19. Neon Gorge - Emiiel and 4TLol-Alex
20. Shy Guy Blood Beach - Emiiel (2nd half of vid)
21. Mario's Green Circuit - ScooP
22. Hilary Duff Castle - roflodor (Outdated v1 track)
23. Mario's Lava Road - ScooP (contains Fire Mario)
24. SNES Dount Plains 9 - ARM1
25. Luigi's Rock Path - ARM1
26. Wario's Rainbow Mine - ARM1
27. Stone Waluigi Siick Stadium - siickthelemon (Outdated beta track)
28. ARM1's Engraved White Road - ARM1
29. Siicky Stoned Waluigi Stadium - siickthelemon
30. Solo Battlers' Garden - ARM1 (Battle arena texture hack)
31. Dry Dry Bowser's Ruins Preview - roflodor
32. Baby Daisy Factory - roflodor
33. Daisy Remixed Circuit - roflodor
34. Grumble Volcano Stolen Texture Spam - roflodor
35. N64 Hilary Duff Castle - roflodor (v2)
36. Gual Stadium - roflodor
37. Terrain flag hacking at Mushroom Gorge! - ARM1
38. Terrain Flag Hacking at Moo Moo meadows! - ARM1
39. Terrain Flag Hacking Tests - ARM1 (SZS Modifier capability test)
40. SNES Tetris Valley 2 - ARM1
41. GBA Trampoline - ARM1
42. DS Snowy Hillz - UgotHacked
43. Super Whore Daisy - ARM1 (Click at your own risk!)
44. Naked Peach (at Neon Gorge) - ARM1 (Click at your own risk!)
45. Naked Rosalina (at N64 Bowser's Sandcastle) - ARM1 (Click at your own risk!)
46. Green Toadette - ARM1
47. Koopa Volcano - ricd61har
48. Summer Treeway - ricd61har
49. Jungle Mall - ricd61har
50. Wet Wet Ruins - ricd61har
51. Bowser's Golden Palace - ricd61har
52. NDA*Konata Roadway - UgotHacked
53. Shy Guy Town - UgotHacked
54. N64 DK's Delfino Parkway - ricd61har (contains Evil Toad)
55. Magic Treeway - roflodor
56. DK Jungle Summit - roflodor
57. Iced Koopa Cape - roflodor
58. N64 Hilary Duff Castle - roflodor (v3)
59. Ice Metal Grumble Volcano - metasmash
60. GCN Peach Oasis - roflodor
61. GCN Midnight Mario Circuit - ARM1
62. Twilight Ridge and Highway - ARM1
63. Dry Dry Bowser Desert - roflodor
64. Coca Cola Happiness Factory - ricd61har
65. Sky Road - ricd61har
66. GCN DK Ruins - roflodor
67. DK's Poisonous Jungle - roflodor



Please inform me if any of the above links are broken.


If you want to try texture modding for yourself, download this app:
SZS Modifier

You will need a Mario Kart Wii ISO and a way to extract SZS files from it. You can view all the textures in the game, and make changes to them.
If you actually want to test your texture mods, you either need the Dolphin GCN/Wii emulator, or your Wii will need a way to boot fake discs AND NEEDS TO BE v3.2 OR LOWER. Or you can send modified SZS files to me and I'll play them on mine and make vids if you want.

This is cool! Nice work!

lol
good one

Can you texture hack for TT's ?

I wud love to see a WR on a diff texture

Sherbet Land with N64 BC layout

really nice, looks great^^

I was desperately trying to download the RR World Record last night for use in the GBA BR3 video, but all I got were hacked ghosts with insta-finish... so my bro said he'd race instead. But yeah, it is very possible to show ghosts on these courses (if you can get ahold of them).

Sherbet Land with N64 BC texture sounds quite funny, heheh. The walls and floor would be all distorted though thanks to the strange layout of the course, but I might try my hand at this at some point.

Very interesting MrB, I look forward to seeing more like this.

Wow, the Rainbow Road has the Time Trial Replay music.

Oh yeah. Any music swaps in there are done by me, I did them months ago when I figured out that I could/how I could do it! So I messed around with almost every music track in the game, heh.

I love them. Keep it up! :]