Most of the changes introduced to the regular Robot Master stages feel very needless. The Doc Robot stages, however, features some much-needed balancing and so do the Wily stages. Unfortunately, Needle Man’s Doc Robot stage still has the huge gap which you need to cross using Rush Jet. If you die even once, you will be left with too little energy to cross the gap, and you’re basically forced to game-over yourself.

This stage is the very reason I came with the idea to edit the games so weapon energy refills whenever you lose a life. However, even that is not enough to actually cross this gap without perfection. You actually don’t even have enough energy to fully cross the gap without picking up the various weapon restore items lying around. These items vanish as soon as you’ve picked them up, even after losing a life. This all means that you still have to cross the gap within a single life, or you’re forced to redo the entire stage. The fact that this design choice has been completely overlooked for this hack, a hack that claims to make the Doc Robot stages not-ridiculous, is baffling to me.