I've tried multiple times to get into this hack and only once have I gotten beyond the second world.
Do not pick up this hack. There are tons and tons of terrible design choices, trial and error situations, and enough generally unfair sections that you will definitely be hearing the "game over" sound about 10 times in a single world, if you don't use savestates (which is the thing most people did when it came out - and continued to until about 2008). This hack remains a massively hyped hack for one reason - nostalgia, and nothing else. If it had been made today, no-one would like it and it would be decried as one of the worst hacks in existence, and that's definitely saying something.
I will repeat, do not play this hack. For the sake of your sanity, just don't.
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I've tried multiple times to get into this hack and only once have I gotten beyond the second world.
Do not pick up this hack. There are tons and tons of terrible design choices, trial and error situations, and enough generally unfair sections that you will definitely be hearing the "game over" sound about 10 times in a single world, if you don't use savestates (which is the thing most people did when it came out - and continued to until about 2008). This hack remains a massively hyped hack for one reason - nostalgia, and nothing else. If it had been made today, no-one would like it and it would be decried as one of the worst hacks in existence, and that's definitely saying something.
I will repeat, do not play this hack. For the sake of your sanity, just don't.