If youre confused getting through level 1, remember that you need something like 4 crystals and you also need to place platforms down while in 4 hot zones before the pillars will fall. Also, in general the finish line's box is really big so you just have to get near the floating ball thing.

i havent touched this game in a long time or even used whatever the split program is, but if anyone is looking for an auto splitter for this game i wrote one for visual boy advance. If i remember correctly youll have to still split after killing the final bosses. i dont remember which of these files even do what but i think that i used the US rom. heres a link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FBC0YjIX_vjTG1zMAi1865-Er-JM1aEx?usp=sharing