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 # The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
 
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 Note: currently this is mostly a "trying out dsd" repo, it will be cleaned up later once everything works.
 Also I want to automate the setup process, i.e running the `dsd rom extract` and `dsd init` commands automatically from running `configure.py`.