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There's not much of a difference but if you find you can't do straight-line jumping consistently with your analog controller, the d-pad should at least make things easier (the analog axis threshold shouldn't make it a problem with the original hardware though).

Curiously, I believe the modern remake is actually harder due to the more detailed environments and shading making judging distances accurately somewhat more difficult.

Anyway, it's not a super difficult game but some of the requirements to 100+% it are may be a little demanding (perfect-running some of the longer stages to get colored gems for example), though still reasonable for any kind of player.