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I have been hoping for years to find a way to play the original Prince of Persia on console without too many compromises. The SNES version has always been the strongest console release, but the extra levels and alternate level layouts always felt like padding to me. Even hearing the music the entire time I'm playing didn't feel quite right.

For example, the first level starts you slightly higher up than the original game. This means you just have to climb down a little more completely arbitrarily every time you start the level. I never understood the point and it just made restarting more tedious. Even the area where you find the sword is much more buried than the original game which doesn't make it more fun to get, it just makes it more frustrating as you're learning the game.

This version truly restores the original design but in the beautiful packaging of this SNES port. I'll be playing this version from now on. Thank you so much for putting the time and care into this! Everyone should play this.

Prince of Persia was released on every console under the sun, but sadly every version had some kind of issue. The NES and Genesis versions had problems with the mechanics, the Gameboy version had to dumb down the game to fit on the small screen, the Sega CD version has "interesting" cutscenes added... And then there is the SNES version which is perfectly fine, except... it has completely different levels with different bosses!

This hack solves that problem and finally gives us the classic Prince of Persia experience on consoles. All 13 original levels have been recreated, the graphics have been tweaked to be more in line with the DOS version and only the original enemies and traps are present. Even the music was changed back to the original tunes.

Only thing that could be improved are the graphics of Shadow Man, they look a bit glitchy now with strange colors popping up. But don't let that distract you from the momentous work that must have been put into this hack to make it so faithful to the classic Prince of Persia. A big thanks to people involved in creating this awesome hack!

This is absolutely awesome. For some reason I was searching for this exactly same thing, some version of the original game for the SNES and this is it!

Thanks!

I wonder if the creator of this mod can add the blood effects to the normal SNES version of PoP too.

I beat for the first time the original game at MS-DOS. And I did this while beaten this hack side-by-side. And ... is incredible how similar both are. Awesome job!

Well, little to say here.

A considerable amount of fine work have been put here to make Snes Pop resemble the original.

If you like the aesthetics and smooth responsive engine of the great Snes version, but missed the original feel and levels, this hack is for you.