Since I had so much experience with the original US release, I didn't find any other version hard. Plus, not many people seem to know this, but the original "FFII" we got wasn't the easy type version. FFIV Easytype was Japan exclusive and made AFTER the US release of "FFII." So "FFII" was just a different mod, but still harder than the FFIV Easytype version.

For more reading on this and other cool tidbits: http://arcanelore.net/articles/ff4wrong/