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Absolutely. If you have the first two Zelda games you're doing yourself a disservice not getting the QoL hacks. I can't think of the hacks name of the top of my head, but for Zelda 1 it has an automap and shows very subtle bomb able walls and burnable trees. Zelda 2s sister hack actually makes the game playable finally.
[edit: the hacks are Zelda Redux]
I am legit curious what you mean by this. I've played LoZ2 in emulation a few times, but never to completion.
What does the ROM hack do? I always found the game physically (electronically?) playable, just boring.
OG Links Adventure is borderline not fun at all. I managed to get to Death Mountain when it was new. But man it's a damn chore, and theres still another continent after that to play through. Id put money down that 80% of the people that played Zelda 2 didn't even know about the other landmass .
The most popular hack for it, [edit: here's a Link to the Hack] it balances leveling up and the magic spells and changes a bunch of dialog so it actually makes sense.
"I am error" for example. If you look into the making of the game it's a cute little thing, but it's useless when you're playing the game. The hack changes that and another NPCs dialog to link them together as brothers so you actually know to talk to one and then the other in order to progress.
The spell changes make the game immensely more playable. All in all it's a bunch of really good QoL changes while still keeping it a challenge.
I highly recommend the Zelda 1 Redux hack as well.
Very cool! Thank you for the link, I'll check it out!