You're totally right and its one that I never beat. I haven't gone through it with an emulator either. There are some games I have since gone through with an emulator using save states that I didn't beat legitimately back in the day, like Castlevania, that I recognize would have been HAF to beat without assists. I still may try Battletoads the old fashioned way because I have a lot of respect for that game. I'm pretty sure if I or one of my friends had owned the game we would have beaten it, but we never managed to over the course of several rentals.