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it probably involves some pretty gross 'mount an sram upside down next to the mmc5 and run wires to the roms for address/data, but use the appropriate mmc5 pins for sram high address, /wr /rd /ce and /oe

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Bregalad wrote:Castlevania III can't be a donnor for Just Breed because it has no SRAM. You need one of the Koei games (any will do, because JB needs 8kb of SRAM, but any game with 16 or 32kb will work fine as well, JB doesn't relies on the SRAM to be mirrored or something evil like that).

Sorry to revive an old thread but I have a question about this comment. Is it actually true that any Koei will work as a suitable donor for Just Breed? I was under the impression that only Gemfire would work and thats a pretty pricey game nowadays. If this is true then Id much rather grab something like Nobunagas Ambition or Romance of the Three Kindoms instead since these are fairly cheap.

I haven't tried, but I think it should be true. I see no reason why having more SRAM on the board would break Just Breed.

That being said there is no need to sacrifice old carts - the Power Pak can play Just Breed fine with the new mappers that enables most of MMC5's features.

Do people enjoy playing Just Breed?

Well it is one of my favourites NES/FC games ever, even though I only beat it once.

The only part of the game which was bad is that I am stuck in the last dungeon with my save game and can't explore the rest of the game any longer
They should have allowed you to return back to the world.

I might give it another shot. I tried it a few times for the purposes of testing the audio expansion, but it didn't do much to grab me (though several of those times were in Japanese on the actual cart, so that's probably not a fair shake, given that I don't understand much of the text).

As far as NES RPGs go, aside from its music does Just Breed have a special place? Is the tactical battle system better than most?