Huh, thanks for that info.

Yes, you're in exactly the same boat as me as goes the Legend of Demon Castle music. I used to really like it, but once I had the *.nsf "burned in" I started to realize that a lot of tracks don't fare as well in the expanded version. Some are much nicer (the name entry screen and other pieces of incidental music fare well, Mad Forest does pretty darn well) but the intro is not only "cleaner sounding" but really easier on the ears in the US version.

I like the new character designs and the moving fog from the intro. Besides that, though, the game with VRC6 chip isn't so much better that I'd say the chip was really worth it. Cavern levels are still pretty darn ugly, for example.