I was specifically asking for this bugfix at various points in the past, and I am delighted to discover that this patch has been made and published. It’s one of those stupid little issues that would get under my skin so badly, I had an impossible time enjoying the game.

After downloading this, I immediately set out to combine it with the wonderful EJRTQ color hack. As an FYI, the rom won’t work if the EJRTQ patch is applied first, but if the cannon fix patch is applied before EJRTQ, the result works fine.

Once I had this running, I had to fix a couple badly drawn face pixels in one of Samus’s running frames and voila! The perfect version of the original game.