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537: Final Fantasy ROM Hacks

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The Importance of Memory in ROM Hacks

It's actually worth saying that one major reason that we were even able to do ROM hacks and to improve on these games is because cartridges constraints were over. That was an issue of space like Ted Woolsey has been on that very tons of times. So we have this space now to take these characters put as many characters we want in the game, like instead of being constrained by tiny ROM size. It is a level of work is very difficult to describe how monumentally brain burning that kind of thing is,. especially for the Super Nintendo, which is not an easy system to do development for.

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