Are there any ports that are better than the originals?

Nah, you trippin'

>>11793804 (OP)
Certainly not that one.

>>11793804 (OP)
Soul Calibur

SNES port of Prince of Persia was greatly expanded with more boss battles compared to the original version and faithful ports.

The PC port of Driver 1 had better framerate and longer view distances along with better quality textures.

The arcade port of Choplifter is far superior to the Apple II original.

The PS1 ports of Wizardry 1-5 include a soundtrack, upgraded graphics, redrawn enemy portraits, and a built-in automap feature.

The Win3.1 port and SNES port of SimCity are both considered superior to the original DOS release. The Win3.1 version has re-sizable windows so you can see more of your city at once, and the SNES port has a soundtrack and some additional buildings.

There's a PC release of Rayman that has a bunch of stuff that was never in the Jaguar original or PS1 release, including a level editor. Hardcore Rayman fans say it's the best version.

The NES and Win3.1 ports of the Macventure games are superior to their original releases, since they are color and the originals were all B&W.

Literally any port of Night Trap looks miles better than it's Sega CD original. 3D0, DOS, Mac, even the later 32X/SegaCD version. Original is a grainy and heavily dithered mess.

>>11793804 (OP)
>PS2 is better

lol, no. the PS2 version has a lot of gamebreaking glitches that were never patched, pop in, bad performance, god awful FOV. It's just less enjoyable, the PC version downgraded a lot of things but kept some improvements from the XBOX port. PC has its only quirks but they're so irrelevant.

>>11793856
What they did with soulcalibur is dark magic.

>>11793804 (OP)
Ecco DotF on PS2. I'm willing to bet the dev team pitched the idea to port it to Sega.

>>11793950
>SNES port of Prince of Persia was greatly expanded with more boss battles compared to the original version and faithful ports.
The added stuff kinda sucks and doesn't make up for worse graphics and framerate.

>>11793856
Tekken Tag is another instance of a game which was improved as part of porting it to more powerful home console hardware.

>>11793804 (OP)
Mods entirely fix the PC version and makes it way better than any other release. It just takes an evening to set everything up, that's the only downside.

>>11794708
Ps2 original will always be the best

>>11794718
>I love 15FPS and texture popin ten yards away!

>>11794738
>The game suddenly crashed for no reason

GTA SA on PS2 is bad

>>11794718
>no User Tracks custom radio station
Sorry, GTA:SA just isn't the same for me if I can't drive around and do drive-by's to Biz Markie's You Say He's Just a Friend.

>>11794708
There's some things in the PC port that were never fixed, like the way objects just suddenly pop in instead of fading in like they should to make it less jarring

>>11794738
ps2 is the original with all the effetcs and graphics while PC is just badly trying to copy that

>>11794762
True, but you can restore almost all of the effects and graphics with mods.

>>11794773
its still not the same as playing the real ps2 version

>>11794781
Agreed, the performance is fine on PS2. PC fags have this hypocritical chip on their shoulder about this stuff. Never sat right with me.

Castlevania

>>11793804 (OP)
gta in ps2 is so cancer

>>11793804 (OP)
LA really did look like that in 1992. Smog was out of control at the time.

Sonic R.

>>11793856
Namco were on a spree at the time. Time Crisis 2 was another big example of the sheer gap between being made on old arcade hardware, and the jump to PS2. There's room to debate the character design changes and whether they look worse in the higher-poly versions, but hey. Can't find good videos for a better comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYah2hm14HM
Crisis Zone on the flip side was totally overhauled and characters redesigned, so there's more to debate on whether the port overhaul was improved or not, like how enemies have more of a dynamic reaction to taking damage in the arcade whereas on PS2 they were more generic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZjkFfdxPK0

>>11793804 (OP)
For some reason, San Andreas is the one game where the piss filter was completely appropriate, necessary even.

california

I have been put off of replaying San Andreas for 10 years because every single version sucks

>>11793804 (OP)
san andreas is sovlless without the orange haze

>>11794975
What are your issues with the PC version? I have a mod pack somewhere that basically fixed all of my problems with it- restored the lighting and missing models and vehicle spawns, etc. It's like the PS2 version with better resolution and performance.

>>11794538
Objectively wrong and your taste is garbage.

>>11794781
feels>reals
>>11794802
it's not *fine*, it's tolerable. performance is important.

>>11794742
I must've played 1000 hours of SA on PS2 and it never crashed once for me

>>11796236
he's talking aboit the pc version you tard

>>11794781
yeah. it's better.

netcode

>>11793804 (OP)
Contra and Super C on NES. And if you count it as a "port" (even though it's kind of a half sequel) then Double Dragon II on NES.