i am still conducting #retro school with my other-coastal friend who is interested in learning about pre-millennium gaming. it's been fun for both of us.
recently we started playing some SNES stuff and i became concerned that inexperience and an ill-configured RetroArch had them clutching their Xbox-but-SNES controller in some ungodly pretzel grip. so i made this diagram to illustrate normal thumb placement for 16-bit actioning.
Skyblazer-ing, specifically. have you played this? it's great. elegant, brief, beautiful. killer soundtrack. highly recommended...as a treat.