Finally got around to playing this. Used Winape 2.0 B2 and an Xbox controller.
Well, it's certainly a faithful conversion in terms of how tough it is! Respect to the programmer(s) who took on this challenge. For me, bizarre as this may sound, it's too close a conversion and the colour scheme made it difficult to watch in my eyes. Because you see, the reason I like, for example, Space harrier on the Amstrad, and even Dragon's Lair or R-Type, is because all those conversions contain the particular idiosyncratic qualities that for me, make it an Amstrad game. Maybe I am not explaining this that well. Whereas this conversion, when playing it, makes me think "Well, I may as well just play the emulated Mame version."
But I take my hat off to you for putting in the time and energy into programming this and I hope it is a success.