Not a hack, a pc remake, hence the ability to do widescreen. The NES doesn’t have the physical capability for that.

But it is good. Really good. It also has new content that’s genuinely fun, too.

I only wish it fixed the enemy shield AI so that it wasn’t perfect all the time… granted, there are still ways to win against it, I just wish that jump attacking wasn’t effectively the ONLY way to do it. Imagine if you could bait them to commit to one location while you stabbed the other. Alas.