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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Rent a Hero Translation for Sega Mega Drive
Mega Drive, Modification, Sega

Rent a Hero Translation for Sega Mega Drive

2015-02-21 rosewood 3 Comments

A fully playable translation of Rent a Hero has been released last month. Let’s transfer it to a Mega Drive cartridge using this tutorial.

First, you need a cheap donor cartridge with SRAM memory, e.g. World Cup USA ’94, and remove the mask ROM. If the battery cell is empty, remove it too:
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