The Nintendo 64 was infamous for its lack of traditional role-playing games, especially in light of the booming success JRPGs were having on the PS1 in the wake of Final Fantasy 7. The platform's most traditional RPG is probably Quest 64 – an infamous game that's nonetheless getting full recompilation effort from fans, which could end up delivering a robust PC remaster of a long-maligned game.
Fans of numerous N64 games have been at work on decompilation projects, where they essentially pick apart a game's code to understand every aspect of it. Recompilation, then, is the process of putting that code back together in a format that can run on other types of hardware. A number of recompilations for the stone-cold classics of the N64 library – games like Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Star Fox 64 – have already resulted in full PC remasters offering support for modern controllers, 60 FPS action, and a wide array of visual and gameplay improvements.
