Hate to post again so soon after my last, but this time I wanted to get the input of the community. Is there anything I can do that I may not be doing to make the game easier for my son? Like I said in the last post, even if we save in a church, when the game ends, the only button we can hit is the top right bumper button. Then it immediately goes to new game before anything else can happen.
Plus, are there any known cheats or ways to gain hearts and lives? I just got here today after downloading and playing the game last night. I have tried to read in as much as possible, but if anyone in the community has anything constructive to add, that would be great.
To reiterate, I am not a great gamer, never have been. I'm not horrible, but lets just say I won't be winning any awards lately. My son is just starting to get ok, but it will be a few years before he is any real good. ( hope he doesn't run across this :p ).
Thanks again for answering newbies questions.
-Pat
EDIT: OK, I have tried Xpadder, and that has stopped the problem of auto choosing "start over". So now I can continue where I left off. There is still an issue though, because it is still a hard game, and I found myself starting over anyway if I died, because I only have those precious 3 lives for the entire game (unless there is a way to gain lives, I've googled that for the regular NES game as well, and could not find a way).
As I'm sure everyone knows, this version of the game is considered to be harder, which I'm sure most of your appreciate. That is great, but if there were a simple workaround where us non-seasoned players could find a way to gain extra lives without worrying so much and taking the fun out of the game in fear of dying and ruining the whole game. Several times, we have fell into water when we swore that we pressed the jump button hard enough to make it across, that equals a do over, because we are not sure we will ever get anymore lives and would love to finish the game. So part of the problem stands. If anyone is reading this, feedback would be appreciated. Thank you much.
-Pat