Thanks a lot, really appreciate the kind and honest words! And good job for finding 3 of the Shine Pieces, that's already pretty good :)
Regarding music: Oh absolutely, since I had to make the music based on existing MIDIs, there unfortunately wasn't much I could do to adapt it ideally to PM64's vibes. I could have probably still done better nonetheless, though honestly I'm not really that skilled concerning music producing stuff. I hope it still sounded acceptable at least.