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Zelda: Majora’s Mask is now a native PC game, and every N64 title could follow its lead

N64 Recompiled almost sounds too good to be true.

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. I thought opening the impossible door in Mario 64 was the coolest thing that’d happened to the Nintendo 64 in years, but Mr. Wiseguy’s just-released N64 Recompiled blows me away. It almost seems too good to be true: I just double-clicked an EXE file on my Windows laptop, told the app where to find a Majora’s Mask ROM file, and was immediately playing a copy of the game that felt incredibly responsive to my every press on a 165Hz variable refresh rate screen, with remappable controls, adjustable resolution, and a primitive form of auto-save.

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