What's the best ROM hack for the original Metroid, in terms of quality of life improvements?
I honestly wanna have a map, and with that alone I would be pretty happy, but are there hacks that come with a map and also other things?
Are there hacks that make it so the game approaches what Zero Mission ended up being?

This is the best ROMHack as far as I know
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1988/

There's also this fangame called Metroid Planets that has the original game as one of its gamemodes
https://forum.metroidconstruction.com/index.php/topic,4952.0.html

videos of em both
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34-lfA3y2T8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOhr_GllWCg

>>1531502
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>>1531502
why, thanks!

>>1531502
Jesus, horrifying. Why do fags need to redraw graphics and make it worse?
Op, just use the QoL improvements
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1186/

>>1531509
I didn't realize there was one with a map and unchanged graphics, I should have read the description better sorry

I like the graphical changes in metroid planets though, still looks a lot like the original and has better physics imho.
the controls in the original are way too stiff for me so I almost always replayed the GBA remake since it came out. But I've always hated the stupid chozo statue hints they added to it (there's a hack to get rid of them though which I used)