anyways, do you have a savestate to load you into 1-2 ? just a theory of accidentaly loading it lol

an accidental emulator input, emulator or ROM issue or other stuff related is way more prone to me than the idea of this game actualy having a glitch that skips a level after a death that hasn't been found in 40 years lol

Indeed

Maybe Try To Go To The Hex Editor To Replicate It?

no i dont have any savestates so it definitely wasnt that

I don't remember why I said indeed 🤔