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Superb job on bringing us the definitive version of Prince of Persia; however, there's a strange high-pitched beeping on the level exit music in version 1.3. As far as I can tell, this wasn't there on version 1.1. Maybe a fix for version 1.4? I'd love to get a physical copy of this hack so it'd be great to release an additional version that fixes this audio issue.

This improves the original a lot and now is at the same level as the original in mostly all aspects. Really awesome job. Can fully recommend this game now. Finally you can enjoy the game on the Mega Drive.

A wholehearted recommendation. I never post reviews on this site, but I've been going through a bunch of versions of Prince of Persia the past couple of days, and I've settled on this being what appears to be the definitive way to play it (at least if you're like me and have no nostalgia for the original). Playing old computer games can be a chore to get working well. That inclines me toward playing a console port. The SNES version is nice but it's very different from the original design. The Turbografx version has an intro that's pretty bad compared to the others and, while it seems in some ways to be more faithful to the original, this hack makes some drastic changes that I feel can only be considered improvements for any modern player. Playing with this hack and Retroarch's latency reduction features makes for a very engaging experience for a game I was concerned I would never be able to appreciate.

This hack is outstanding in every sense. The most notorious change is that the game is now playable without being a torture. Not because it was hard, but because it was poorly ported, with cluncky and tanky controls and absolutely trash fighting mechanics.

Now with this hack, that is completelly solved. Its way faster than the genesis original, now on par with the original PC and Mac game. The fighting mechanics are much better, still need a little tweak to the input delay, but once accostumed to it, its totally playable.

The intro was reworked, adding scenes from the original game that were lost on this port. But this hack lacks a few of the great animations found on the European version of this game.

So far, this is a great achievement for this game. It is now enjoyable and challenging as the original, and not a suffering and cluncky mess as the genesis port was.

On a side note, as a POP fan, i am used to play the original game without music at all, but coming from the genesis version that has at least an interesting approach for music at play, i would leave it as an option to the player to mute it or not.

What this hack needs are a few tweaks to the prince animation, like the running and turning animation that is pretty hard to spot on this hack, the intro animations of the european version, and a few tweaks to the fighting mechanics. With that, this hack would be perfect.