How the hell am I supposed to find my way through Cave To Rhone in Dragon Warrior 2?

[*Laurelindo*]

I mean seriously, how are they expecting anyone to find their way through those insane looping maze corridors and endless pitfalls?
The looping corridors are the worst thing about the whole dungeon, you will not only need to choose the right path in one fork, but in several forks in a row - and even those places have random pitfalls here and there which lead you to out-of-the-way areas.
Sure, drawing a map on a piece of squared paper definitely makes things easier, but it's hard even then.

[theundeadhero]

Persistence.
It's what old-skool RPGs were about.

[Gamblet]

Persistence.
It's what old-skool RPGs were about.

Yeah, Final Fantasy III NES scarred me for life.

[Jowy]

DQ2's hard just for the sake of being hard and isn't very rewarding. I'm gonna guess you're emulating; skip DQ2 and play the Game Boy Colour version of DQ3 instead. A nice little graphical upgrade and some simple user interface tweaks but still as tricky as the NES version.