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The Griffon Legend is an action RPG with screen-to-screen map. It features original storyline and design made in 16-bit style RPG’s of SNES/GENESIS era.

Originally The Griffon Legend was written in FreeBASIC using SDL for graphics and FMOD for sound/music. That restricted the game to be released for Windows only. The Griffon Legend was rewritten in plain C using SDL and SDL_mixer to be ported to GCW-Zero, the source code is licensed under GPL2 license. The port to 3DS by nop90 is based on the GCW-Zero code.

Release notes:

– Fixed many bugs
– Added music
– Warning: this version of the game doesn’t work with Citra.

A Winner is You is a collection of video game tunes played on real instruments. This is no ordinary musical cart.

This cart was created with a special custom board that has a whopping 64MB ROM and allows for full uncompressed PCM audio playback through your console! That means you get actual instrument sounds coming out of your NES! No modifications to your console are needed in order experience the full quality of these awesome musical recordings!

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