[General Discussion] This port tastes terrible

Heheh, I remember seeing that Double Dragon game in stores before (once)... I asked myself how that could even be possible, until I looked at the back of the box and noticed it looked nothing like the arcade game. Went for the Master System version instead ~,~

Ironically, I didn't enjoy Pacman until I played that horrible port (where somehow the whole pellet collecting business finally made sense---don't laugh!).

Horrible ports:

Ninja Gaiden Trilogy/Ninja Ryukenden Tomoe: On the surface, this looked like a dream come true. Initially, that seemed to be the case. But then one would notice how certain effects from the NES version are missing, some music is missing, there's no end credits (which had kickbitchin' music in the original games), some cutscenes looked worse than they did before, etc... personally, I don't like the "improved" music either, since the tracks are a bit too different in style from the original classic tunes, and rarely in a good way.
On the plus side, it was far more colorful.

I'll also add the GB versions of Mortal Kombat >__>;
Not that I like the originals they're based on, but the ports did away with stages, stage fatalities, bosses, characters, blood, etc etc etc... leaving you with fighting games that aren't very good to begin with.

Not so horrible ports but could have been better:

Ibara on PS2: I don't understand why the game loads so much o___o;
Otherwise, I love it. But geesh (lots of other arcade ports could go here as well, mainly of the PS1 era).

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike PS2: Well, I could complain about this very same thing on many 2D ports for the system... but for some reason it bothers me here the most. Everything is so blurry while in the arcade it's so... not.

Do the SNES ports of Valis IV and Dracula X count? (considering that instead of porting the games, they made them entirely different). They weren't really bad, but they did remove many of the elements that made the originals special (in both cases, being able to use more than one character, stages, story/cutscenes).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SonicPanda

I agree as far as the first two games are concerned, but the Trilogy version of NG3's soundtrack is the only one for me. Stages 3-2 and 4-1 are so much better than the NES versions...but to each his own.

I'd agree with the 3-2 theme being better on the SNES version... exept that that isn't even stage 3-2's theme >__>; the original was one of my favorite tracks, and it vanished from the SNES version. But for what it's worth, I do really like the SNES version of that theme! (while others, like the first stage's theme, I prefer on the NES).

There's nowhere I can't reach.