I only ever saw the ending to this on a real NES because it was on a demo machine at Toys R Us (never owned it myself) and someone had a save right at the final dungeon. All I had to do was beat 1 dungeon and I won the game! 😋
Damn... I made myself sad because that's not an experience you can have anymore. You can't go rent a game and have someone else's save to mess with. Shit, can you even rent a game period? 🤔😥