I'm not a mod, but I wanted to list some troubling differences I've found testing myself.
- There's no delay on right click scene rotation
- Time to save/load is faster, there's no delay past the first menu click; in the original, each menu button press waits for the sound to end to progress
- Conversations appear to move slightly faster, but I haven't A/B compared it
Cool tech for sure, though I think it provides a significant time advantage over the original game.
I saw this game on speedrun.com and saw that there wasn't any runs of it. I thought to myself "Alright! Seems like a fun idea, I can get any time and become the 1st place world record holder for a game!" But this game is honestly the WORST I've ever played. The reason nobody plays is not only because of the tiny view, but they screwed up the controls so bad. If you play Super Mario Bros. on the NES and see this expecting it to be an identical port or something, its much worse. Stay away from this game, I know I will. I spent 17 mins on this game and still couldn't get pass 8-2 with warps. Another thing that bugs me is the hitboxs, they fixed them and now you can't jump over the 'snakes'. Well that was enough of a rant, but the point is this game is BAD.