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title="A Definitive Guide to N64 Modding"
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The legendary Kaze Emanuar is famous for playing fire with Nintendo’s IP. Handmade Boston is 100% indie
so we’ll take the risk and welcome his teachings with open arms.
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Calling Kaze Emanuar “well-known” in the modding space is the understatement of the century: legend has
it he spends his days editing hexcode in Notepad.

With Kaze’s direct help you’ll learn to disassemble, modify and even improve the ROMs that ran on old hardware—using
the N64 as our example.

This is a skill that will help us weather the [software winter](/media/seattle-2022/weathering-software-winter) too.
