THE BIG VERSION 2 RELEASE IS HERE!

The romhack now includes an in-game timer! It counts the number of frames of gameplay (loading times are not counted), and is displayed on the game's UI in the format of <minutes> . <seconds> F <frames of the current second (out of 60)>.

In order to implement the in-game timer, I had to sacrifice background sprite data of the cave, so in an effort to prevent undesired outcomes while playing the romhack, I have also closed off the cave and you can no longer enter it. (The lore is the cave collapsed) This has been reflected graphically by removing the road leading to the cave on the map as well as filling the cave hole on the overworld. If I can find a section of game code/data that is on the cartridge but is never used and is large enough to hold the custom code for the in-game timer, I will reopen the cave.

[FOR IF LEADERBOARD TRANSITIONS TO IGT]: Frames of the second should be divided by 60 to find the thousandths of a second when submitting your time to the leaderboard.