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title: "Devs Play: Legend of Zelda - Part 1: Explorer's Club"
date: 2015-01-13T00:00:00-08:00
author: Tom Kiss
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[Watch on YouTube: Devs Play: Legend of Zelda - Part 1: Explorer's Club](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bYrd6uDLeM)

# Devs Play: Legend of Zelda - Part 1: Explorer's Club

Hack N Slash creator Brandon Dillon and producer Matt Hansen get to the roots of Brandon’s inspiration by cracking open the NES classic The Legend of Zelda, literally. After taking apart the cartridge, de-soldering and dumping the rom, and booting the game up in an emulator, Brandon sets about altering the running memory of the game to cheat his way through and unlock some unexpected secrets about how the game was developed.Part 1 features Brandon explaining his personal history with the game along with some of the motivations behind it's development.

Duration: 13 minutes and 23 seconds long  
Published: January 13th 2015

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