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As someone with epilepsy I can say that this hack is a must for anyone planning to play Zelda II. The repetitive color flashes that occur in the original Zelda II upon death is just as rapid as the videos online to fix stuck pixels on monitors. Absolutely not meant for human eyes.

This hack could use some improvement though. Deep contrasted colors such as red and blue are not good for people with epilepsy and I would recommend changing the deep red death screen to an all black death screen screen with a white contrasted link.

If possible, I would remove the blue flash that happens after learning a spell from someone and only have the sound effect.

I highly appreciate the effort you put into this as allot of retro games can be very intense on the eyes.

It's a great hack for those with epilepsy or those that think the flash effect is just unpleasant.

However this is the exact same thing Nintendo did with the GBA, GC and Virtual Console re-releases. Though I guess if you truly wanted to play the original NES release with that fix, this is your only option and for that, it works.

My friend had epileptic seizures and I wasn't allowed to play games with him that contained flashy content. When NES first released this in 1987, nobody second thought the damage that game did. Now this epilepsy-free game is less worrisome. And I hope video game designers would quit adding flashing screens.