I bought the game on the virtual console several years ago. I'm talking about the n64 one btw. I had gotten 120 stars on my save file, but when my hdd crashed, I lost the save. this was before the current wii u hacks, so no saviine.
I never went back to play through the game since the first time was pretty brutal. I can't imagine playing the system with a dpad if that's in fact what you do with the ds version. I do own that one, but it's been so long since I've played it, I just can't remember anything. the vc version was/is the only one I've completed 100%, so I was pretty proud of that save. lol