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List of notable ports

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|ActRaiser
||||||Windows<br>Nintendo Switch<br>PlayStation 4<br>Xbox One| style="text-align: left;"|Steam/Switch/PS4/Xbox One: A remake Titled "ActRaiser Renaissance" which has a completely new art style, new gameplay mechanics, new bosses, and remastered OST.
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|Chrono Trigger
|||||✓|PlayStation<br>Nintendo DS<br>iOS<br>Android<br>Windows| style="text-align: left;"|'''PS1: ''' Extra content including FMV & bestiary, longer load times.<br />'''NDS: ''' PS1 extra content (with load times fixed) plus more extra content, touch controls, more literal translation, French translation added.<br />'''iOS/Android: ''' Translation based on NDS with additional languages, touch controls, mostly unchanged graphics.<br />'''PC: ''' Was a broken PC port at first, as it was directly based off from the mobile version with no effort, but was eventually fixed officially due to negative reception the PC version got.
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|Clock Tower
||||||Windows<br>PlayStation<br>WonderSwan| style="text-align: left;"| '''PS1/PC: Titled ''' Titled "Clock Tower: The First Fear''". FMV, minor graphical changes; additional new weapon, enemy, & location. Wonderswan'''WonderSwan: ''' greyscale colors, poorer audio, lower graphical quality, slightly reduced screen size.
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|Contra III: The Alien Wars
||||✓||GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|Titled ''"Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX''". Removed dual wielding and mega bombs, added lock aim, Mode 7 levels replaced with levels from "Contra: Hard Corps", worse audio.
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|Donkey Kong Country
||||✓||GameBoy Color<br>GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"| '''GBC: ''' Weaker graphics & audio, new stage, longer version of "Winky's Walkway", mini-games, time trial.<br /> '''GBA: ''' Increased brightness, worse contrast, color saturation, and audio; mini-games, time trial.
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|Donkey Kong Country 2: <br>Diddy's Kong Quest||||✓||GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"| GBA: Titled ''"Donkey Kong Country 2''". Increased brightness, worse contrast, color saturation, and audio; mini-games, time trial.
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|Donkey Kong Country 3: <br>Dixie's Double Trouble||||✓||GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"| GBA: Titled ''"Donkey Kong Country 3''". Increased brightness, worse contrast, color saturation; new soundtrack by David Wise; mini-games, time trial.
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|Dragon Quest V
|||✓ PlayStation 2 (R)||✓ <br>Nintendo DS (R)|<br>Andoid<br>iOS| style="text-align: left;"|'''PS2: ''' Full 3D remake with party enhancements. Only released in Japan.<br />'''DS: ''' Remake done in a similar vein to the DQIV remakes. Has the same mechanics perks as the PS2 remake, along with some unique content.<br />'''iOS/Android: ''' Port of the DS version.
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|Dragon Quest VI
|||||✓ Nintendo DS (R)|| style="text-align: left;"|DS: Remake done in a similar vein to the remakes of the previous two games. Features some core gameplay changes.
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|EarthBound
||||✓||GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|Worse audio. Japan only.
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|Final Fantasy IV
||||✓|✓ PlayStation<br>WonderSwan Color<br>GameBoy Advance<br>PlayStation Portable<br>Nintendo DS (R)<br>iOS (R)<br>Android (R)<br>Windows (R)|✓| style="text-align: left;"|'''Original Version'''<br />'''PS1: ''' FMV opening and ending, new features, different translation, longer load times.<br />WSC'''WonderSwan Color: ''' Lacks Mode 7 effects (replaced by scaling effects), limited palette, poorer audio. Japan-only. <br />'''GBA: ''' Titled ''Final Fantasy IV Advance''. Based on the WSC WonderSwan Color version. New translation. Extra content, updated graphics, worse audio.<br />'''PSP: ''' Titled ''Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection''. Includes ''"The After Years'' " as well as an in-between ''"Interlude''". Includes all GBA content. Enhanced graphics, choice between original and enhanced audio.<br />'''3D Remakes'''<br />'''NDS: ''' Very different 3D remake following FFIII Final Fantasy III on DS (no PSP release unlike it).<br />PC: HD version of DS remake.<br />iOS/Android/PC: DS version port, followed by an exclusive 3D remake of ''The After Years'' on iOS/Android.
'''iOS/Android/PC:''' DS version port, followed by 3D remake of "The After Years".
 
'''PC:''' HD version of DS remake.
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|Final Fantasy V
||||✓||PlayStation<br>GameBoy Advance<br>iOS<br>Android<br>Windows| style="text-align: left;"|'''PS1: ''' First official English release of the game.<br />'''GBA: ''' Titled ''Final Fantasy V Advance''. New translation. Extra content, worse audio.<br />'''iOS/Android/PC: ''' Redone sprites (RPG Maker art style), touch controls. '''PC:''' Redone sprites (RPG Maker art style).
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|Final Fantasy VI
||||✓||PlayStation<br>GameBoy Advance<br>Andoid<br>iOS<br>Windows| style="text-align: left;"|'''GBA: Titled ''' Titled "Final Fantasy VI Advance''". New translation. Extra content, worse audio.<br />'''iOS/Android/PC: ''' Translation based on GBA version, redone sprites and Mode-7 sections (RPG Maker art style), reworked Cyan Bushido, touch controls. '''PC:''' Same as previous, reworked Cyan Bushidono touch control.
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|Front Mission
|||||✓ PlayStation<br>Nintendo DS (R)|| style="text-align: left;"|'''DS: ''' Only official English release of the game.
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|style="white-space: nowrap;"|"Ganbare Goemon 1<br />Yuki-Hime's Disappearance" /<br />US: "The Legend of the Mystical Ninja "|||||✓|GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|GBA: Worse audio, no multiplayer/co-op, more save slots than the Super Famicom release, can change character any time. Japan only. Bundled with Ganbare Goemon 1.
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|Ganbare Goemon 2:<br />General McGuiness<br />Japan-only|||||✓Kiteretsu Shōgun Magginesu|GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|GBA: Worse audio, no multiplayer/co-op, more save slots, can change character any time. Japan only. Bundled with Ganbare Goemon 2.
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|Kirby Super Star
|||||✓|Nintendo DS| style="text-align: left;"|Titled ''"Kirby Super Star Ultra''". Extra games, enhanced graphics.
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|The Legend of Zelda: <br>A Link to the Past||||✓||GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|GBA: Extra dungeon reliant on ''"Four Swords'' " game. More accurate translation, more shops, new enemies. Link voice clips from ''"Ocarina of Time''". Simplified difficulty (20 digs like PAL SNES version instead of 25 in digging minigame, Ice Dungeon layout).
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|"Mega Man & Bass" /<br />JP: "Rockman & Forte"||||✓||GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|GBA: Only official English release. Worse audio. No dash button. Smaller screen resolution makes the game borderline unplayable.
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|Mega Man X
||✓|✓|||✓ DOS<br>GameCube<br>PlayStation 2<br>PlayStation Portable (R)<br>iOS| style="text-align: left;"|'''DOS: ''' Different aspect ratio, worse audio, buggy wall climbing.<br />'''GC/PS2: ''' SNES version included in ''Mega Man X Collection''. The collection also includes extra content like music player and art gallery.<br />'''PSP: Titled ''' Titled "Mega Man Maverick Hunter X''". Full 3D remake, different Sigma stages. Serves as an alternate take on the original game.<br />'''iOS: ''' Touch controls, "redrawn" graphics (actually smeared versions of the SNES graphics), much slower gameplay, level movement restrictions, no stage changes after beating Mavericks in a certain order, optional microtransactions.<br /> '''PS4/PC/Switch/XB1: ''' SNES and SFC versions are included in ''"Mega Man X Legacy Collection'' " with extra content including achievements, music player, art gallery, challenges, and more.
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|Mega Man X2
||✓|✓|||GameCube<br>PlayStation 2<br>Windows<br>PlayStation 4<br>Xbox One<br>Nintendo Switch| style="text-align: left;"|'''GC/PS2: ''' Included in ''Mega Man X Collection''. The collection also includes extra content like music player and art gallery. '''PS4/PC/Switch/XB1: ''' SNES and SFC versions are included in ''"Mega Man X Legacy Collection'' " with extra content including achievements, music player, art gallery, challenges, and more.
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|Mega Man X3
||✓|✓|||PlayStation<br>Sega Saturn<br>GameCube<br>PlayStation 2<br>PlayStation 4<br>Nintendo Switch<br>Xbox One<br>Windows| style="text-align: left;"|'''SNES: Original. ''' Has a ROM hack that makes Zero a fully playable character and quality of life changes.<br />'''PS1/Saturn: ''' Remixed soundtrack and progress can be saved via memory card/RAM cart.<br />'''PC: ''' Port of PS1 version. Cannot be directly installed on 64-bit OSes; you must extract the files manually. Files fail to save after reboot if this is done.<br />'''GC/PS2: ''' PS1 version included in ''"Mega Man X Collection''". Loading times are eliminated.<br '''PC/>PS4/PC/Switch/XB1: ''' SNES and SFC versions are included in ''"Mega Man X Legacy Collection'' " with extra content including achievements, music player, art gallery, challenges, and more.
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|Metal Max 2: Kai
||||✓|✓GameBoy Advance<br />Nintendo DS (R)|| style="text-align: left;"|'''GBA: ''' Average port with a better font and worse music. You'll want to get the 1.1 revision because the initial one is so bugged and unplayable it had to be recalled.<br /> '''DS: ''' Full 3D remake with animated NPC sprites and much better graphics. Improved in every aspect and filled to the brim with new content. Based on the engine of Metal Max 3 for the Nintendo DS.
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|Ogre Battle: <br>The March of the Black Queen||||||PlayStation| style="text-align: left;"|Titled ''"Ogre Battle: Limited Edition''". Slightly enhanced graphics and sound.
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|Romancing SaGa
|||✓|||WonderSwan Color<br>PlayStation 2| style="text-align: left;"|Wonderswan'''WonderSwan: ''' Enhanced graphics, new story scenario & side quest (Japan only).<br />'''PS2: ''' Enhanced 3D graphics.
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|Secret of Mana
||||||iOS<br>Android<br>Windows (R)<br>PlayStation 4 (R)<br>PlayStation Vita (R)<br>Nintendo Switch| style="text-align: left;"|'''Android/iOS: ''' Partially enhanced graphics, enhanced fonts & menus, touch controls. <br />'''PC/PS4/Vita: ''' Full 3D remake with animated cutscenes, voice acting, and remixed soundtrack. <br />'''Switch: ''' SNES version included in ''Collection of Mana'' with borders around the game.
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|Shin Megami Tensei
||||✓||PlayStation<br>Sega CD<br>GameBoy Advance<br>iOS| style="text-align: left;"|'''SNES: Original. ''' Use the English patch by Orden as it fixes some issues with the original Aeon Genesis translation and changes names of demons, races, items, and spells to match with the official localizations of the later games by Atlus.<br />'''PS1: ''' Redrawn graphics, remixed music, dungeons are rendered in 3D, interface similar to its sequel. Has an English patch.<br />'''Sega CD: ''' Redrawn graphics, remixed music, cutscenes with voice-overs.<br />'''GBA: ''' Redrawn graphics. Has an English patch based on the official localization used in the iOS port.<br />'''iOS: ''' Based on the GBA version. Interface has been adapted for touch screens. Delisted in 2014 due to not being compatible with newer versions of iOS.
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|Shin Megami Tensei II
||||✓||PlayStation<br>GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|'''SNES: Original. ''' Has an English patch by Aeon Genesis.<br />'''PS1: ''' Same deal as its predecessor. Not translated into English.<br />'''GBA: ''' Same deal as its predecessor. Not translated into English.
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|Super Mario World
||||✓||GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|'''SNES:''' The version in ''"Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World'' " compilation has unique sprites for Luigi.<br />'''GBA: Titled ''' Titled "Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2''". Slight additions, worse audio, Mario voice clips. Different Luigi sprites from either SNES version.
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|Super Mario World 2: <br>Yoshi's Island||||✓||GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|GBA: Titled ''"Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''". New levels, different audio.
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|Star Ocean
|style="white-space: nowrap;"|||||✓ PlayStation Portable (R)| style="text-align: left;"|PSP: Titled ''"Star Ocean: First Departure''". Only official English release.
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|Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
||||✓||PlayStation<br>GameBoy Advance| style="text-align: left;"|'''PS1: ''' Slowdown removed.<br />'''GBA: ''' New levels, worse audio.
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|Tactics Ogre: <br>Let Us Cling Together||||||✓PlayStation<br>PlayStation Portable| style="text-align: left;"|'''PS1: ''' First English release. Slightly enhanced music.<br />'''PSP: ''' Very enhanced, more features.
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|Tales of Phantasia
||||✓||✓ PlayStation<br>GameBoy Advance<br>PlayStation Portable (R)<br>Andoid<br>iOS| style="text-align: left;"|'''PS1: ''' Cleaner graphics, different sprites, new effects, partial voice acting, food system, skits.<br />'''GBA: ''' Based on PS1 version but scaled down, additional content, worse audio, decreased framerate.<br />'''PSP (Full Voice Edition): ''' port of PS1 edition including GBA additional content plus full voice acting, new sprites.<br />'''PSP (''"Tales of Phantasia X Narikiri Dungeon"):'''): PSP version with even more additional content (Grade shop) and a remade spin-off.<br />'''iOS/Android: ''' F2P port of ToP X. Sub-par translation. At least GBA one had better controls and interface than this. No longer available.
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|"Trials of Mana" /<br />JP: "Seiken Densetsu 3"||||||Windows (R)<br>Nintendo Switch & (R)| style="text-align: left;"|'''Switch/PC (remake): Titled ''' Titled "Trials of Mana''". Full 3D remake with animated cutscenes and remixed soundtrack. PC version initially came with the reviled DENUVO anti-tamper, but it was removed on August 2020 and DRM-free as a result.<br /> '''Switch (SNES port): ''' An official translated port of the original game is included in ''"Collection of Mana'' " as ''"Trials of Mana'' " internationally.
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|Umihara Kawase
|||||✓|Nintendo DS<br>PlayStation Vita| style="text-align: left;"|'''DS: ''' As part of the JP-only ''"Umihara Kawase SE Kanzenban'' " compilation. Both games in the compilation were ported from scratch with minor enhancements and slightly differently-sounding MIDI music, with the physics properly implemented unlike all other ports.<br />'''Vita: ''' As part of the third game, but only included in its Vita port. Seems like emulation.
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