Thank you so much for the kind words and for the review! This should all be helpful as I've been thinking of creating an update for this with more gameplay. Those are not nitpicks at all! They are all perfectly valid and the one with the fire even got me thinking of bringing the fire back in some sections too. I really appreciate that you played both versions as well. I will let you know with a reply to this comment whenever the update for this game finishes, but alas I have my plate full these days. Thanks again!
Happy to help! If you are in fact using NESMaker, a good place to find help and advice would be the NESMaker forums (https://www.nesmakers.com/index.php)- there's a lot of good stuff that can help you there!