This is an excellent pc port which is close to a remake of the game, I don’t believe this wasn’t entirely rewritten because of claims I’ve seen that the game behaves differently from the original.
It’s a very solid experience and adds a lot. It’s somewhat buggy but I personally had no game breaking bug at all. Here are the changes which improved my experience.
Seeing more of the map and no screen transitions:
Being able to see a wider screen is genuinely nice and makes the game look incredible on anything bigger than a gameboy. Of course this implies a lack of transition screens, everything is seamless.
Sure this may spoil dungeon rooms and a few secrets but in my opinion it’s worth it and I don’t think it breaks the experience or anything, it just makes it better. My first time playing the game was on this version and it’s just great, I don’t feel like it failed me in any way and I would recommend it.
This feature also brings some changes to the game: monsters can move between maps and dungeon rooms and you can also bring pots around for example, so the solutions to some puzzles may be different. Occasionally it can be confusing because you don’t know where the limits of a room are so you might look farther than you need for the answer.
One other really cool feature, although it’s pretty useless, is that you can zoom out and view the ENTIRE map of the game at once and yes with the monsters being there and moving. This is probably why the game can be heavy on resources.
Better UI, more item buttons:
Really not much to say here. Instead of a bottom white bar taking a part of the screen, it’s just some info in the corners of the screen. Much better.
Four item buttons instead of two, meaning you have to switch items way less often.
And lastly, 60 frames per second!
It does lack a few things some hacks did, like removing the messages every time you interact with a rock or pot. Not a big deal though especially since you can sort of skip the text in this version.
Would Nintendo ever do a port that does any of this? Hell no, even less so now that they have a 3D remake of the game. Instead they’d rather DMCA this guy and this is why we’ll never see bug fixes. Fans are doing one hell of a job making these games so awesome, Nintendo will barely bother to re-release these games in a buggy state once in a while and instead focus on suing people who do a better job. Fuck copyright.
It’s a very solid experience and adds a lot. It’s somewhat buggy but I personally had no game breaking bug at all. Here are the changes which improved my experience.
Seeing more of the map and no screen transitions:
Being able to see a wider screen is genuinely nice and makes the game look incredible on anything bigger than a gameboy. Of course this implies a lack of transition screens, everything is seamless.
Sure this may spoil dungeon rooms and a few secrets but in my opinion it’s worth it and I don’t think it breaks the experience or anything, it just makes it better. My first time playing the game was on this version and it’s just great, I don’t feel like it failed me in any way and I would recommend it.
This feature also brings some changes to the game: monsters can move between maps and dungeon rooms and you can also bring pots around for example, so the solutions to some puzzles may be different. Occasionally it can be confusing because you don’t know where the limits of a room are so you might look farther than you need for the answer.
One other really cool feature, although it’s pretty useless, is that you can zoom out and view the ENTIRE map of the game at once and yes with the monsters being there and moving. This is probably why the game can be heavy on resources.
Better UI, more item buttons:
Really not much to say here. Instead of a bottom white bar taking a part of the screen, it’s just some info in the corners of the screen. Much better.
Four item buttons instead of two, meaning you have to switch items way less often.
And lastly, 60 frames per second!
It does lack a few things some hacks did, like removing the messages every time you interact with a rock or pot. Not a big deal though especially since you can sort of skip the text in this version.
Would Nintendo ever do a port that does any of this? Hell no, even less so now that they have a 3D remake of the game. Instead they’d rather DMCA this guy and this is why we’ll never see bug fixes. Fans are doing one hell of a job making these games so awesome, Nintendo will barely bother to re-release these games in a buggy state once in a while and instead focus on suing people who do a better job. Fuck copyright.