As my 326 route run progresses slowly, I wondered, "Are there any hacks for Shadow?" and, as it turns out, yes. There is.
Part of me wants to snag this, but part of me wants to complete the vanilla version of the game. With improvements like lowering the objective numbers, increasing objects for those numbers, etc. how could I not think about it? It's also cool since this game aims to be what Project 06 is for Sonic 06, in this case making a bad game less awful to slog through. Maybe I'll give this a shake if I ever think about playing this game after doing all the routes.