Zelda II - The Adventure of Link SPECIAL

This has been released next to Kid Icarus and StarTropics in the newest update of the Nintendo Switch Online NES library.

In this special save game you really start in the game's 2nd Quest / New Game+ with your Attack, Life and Magic values maxed out, and with both sword techniques and all Magic Spells available. This is exactly what we proposed, when the SPECIAL version of The Legend of Zelda got released, and pretty much all it needs to make the game more enjoyable by taking away the necessity of grinding levels.

When I replayed Zelda II on the Nintendo 3DS in 2016, I had a lot more fun with the game's 2nd Quest mode with the exact same setup. Sadly, it removes the excitement of discovering new Magic Spells and the hidden sword techniques, where it probably would have been enough to max out all the levels. But in any case it should make the game more accessible to those, who found it too hard in the past.