Super Mario 64 and 'mod' culture: meet the man behind the high-def makeover

The revered video game is being re-imagined by Aryok Pinera, who started the project alone but now leads a motley crew dozens strong. The legality of such 'mods' is murky, but that won't affect its practitioners' passion for perfecting

It took Aryok Pinera a week to make Mario lean properly.

In the 1996 Nintendo game Super Mario 64, a player can instruct Mario to run forward; if he begins to turn left or right, he tilts to the side, like an airplane banking.

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