Worst Video game Ports FINALS! VOTE NOW

[burdette25159]

Have you ever played a port of a game that was terrible and made you wish that you played the original version? Like the Atari 2600 Pac Man that had you begging for it to be buried? Or Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis for the Game Boy Advanced? Or even Mortal Kombat for the SNES which made you begging for the Sega Genesis version? It took decades for home console, gaming to catch up with their arcade counterparts. But in the history of home console gaming, intellectual property owners and licensors wanted a piece of the monetary pie that arcades were taking in and they didn't care that the console hardware is not as powerful as the arcade. Some ports have suceeded, but many others have failed. Now, we will find out once and for all which is the worst VIDEO GAME PORT of all time.

Nomination stage
A minimum of 32 Games will be nominated for this tournament. Up to 5 Games can be nominated per post. After enough games are nominated. they'll be randomized and do battle with each other in one on one matches.
*I can go higher than 32 if need be, truthfully I would like to have 64 but I'll take what I can get.

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PortingDisaster is a good place to start

The Voting stage
The Voting is a all day vote in all matches except the final which is a two day vote.
UPDATE (12/12) Voting is now first to 3 until the quarters which is first to 4, semifinals are still an all day vote and the finals are a 2 day vote

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[matthew25177]

Final Fight (SNES) - Two player action GONE, Guy GONE and a whole level gone
Donkey Kong (Atari 2600)
TMNT2:The Arcade Game (NES) - they took away four player support?
Virtua Fighter (Sega Saturn)
Double Dragon (Atari 2600) - What would happen that long after The best days of the Atari 2600 were behind it, it received a port of Double Dragon and guess what, it's AWFUL!

[MrBRulzOK]

Dark Castle for the Genesis: awful controls, subpar graphics, and the fact that you can actually skip directly to the last stage without any effort whatsoever.

[Big Bad Brad]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis) - The Genesis version had glaringly inferior graphics. It had half as many playable characters; the ones they did have include Sisyphus, a weird mutant cicada who never appeared anywhere else in the franchise

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (PSX) - effectively downgraded port of the PS2 version

Chrono Trigger (PSX) (Part of Final Fantasy Chronicles) - LOAD TIMES lots and lots of long load times.

Guitar Hero III (PS2) - the PS2 version, which can't cope with some of the busier songs and suffers from clear lagging and skipping issues

Smackdown VS Raw 2011 (PS2) - Inferior graphics, no DLC, no training area, no online, no custom soundtrack, etc....

I hope SVR2011 counts for this my friend had the PS2 port of the game and it was the shits, I don't think the PS2 verison had online from what I heard and the graphics were so outdated, I'm glad the Smackdown games are no longer on PS2.

[Chronos]

I don't know what that article's on about with the Psychonauts port, it's awesome outside of some occasional slowdown.

Grandia II (PS2) - worse graphically than the original Dreamcast version, glitchy, slipshod. Terrible quality.

Sword of Sodan (Genesis) - didn't even know this was a port, but I played it a few times as a kid and it was atrocious.

Castlevania: Dracula X (SNES) - One of the best games in the series (Rondo of Blood) with its guts cut completely out, the levels shafted, and the difficulty turned up to an unfair level.

[burdette25159]

Dec 3, 2011 17:02:49 GMT -5 Big Bad Brad said:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis) - The Genesis version had glaringly inferior graphics. It had half as many playable characters; the ones they did have include Sisyphus, a weird mutant cicada who never appeared anywhere else in the franchise.

I hate to tell you this but there were 3 seperate TMNT Tournament fighters games, one each for the NES, SNES and genesis.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles:_Tournament_Fighters

[Big Bad Brad]

I just went by that link he posted in the first post

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PortingDisaster

I thought that sounded bad so I went with it.

[matthew25177]

Defender (atari 2600) - Horrible flicker, blocky cityscape graphics, and a game-breaking invisibility glitch when you fire and to top it all off, You have to go off-screen to use hyperspace or the Smart Bomb.

720 Degrees (NES) Horrible graphics, ear bleeding sound and a Ramp event that is UNPLAYABLE!

King's Quest V (NES) Try cramming 256 color visuals into a 8-bit cartridge and mouse control into a controller. IT WILL NEVER WORK RIGHT!

Pit Fighter (SNES) an Obvious Beta if you ask me. I'd rather play the arcade or genesis version.

Ghostbusters (NES) Not only do you have to hear the Ghostbusters Theme the entire time but the driving sequences are botched up to high heaven and unless you had a Game Genie, the stairway sequence is IMPOSSIBLE. There were other versions that wren't as awful

[Big Bad Brad]

Since one of my nominations didn't go through I guess I can nominate another.

Donkey Kong Country for Game Boy Color. The tasteful graphics were downgraded, it was slow, and they somehow managed to destroy the balance between Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. As a result, Donkey Kong had no weaknesses at all, and Diddy did less (and was ugly at that).

I got that from the website looks like a bad port to me.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Mega Man Anniversary Collection (GC): The hell were they thinking switching the A and B buttons for? Oh, and using the control stick to move is awkward as hell.

[matthew25177]

Crus'n USA (N64) The arcade hardware proved to be too much for the N64 to handle and it suffered. To add insult to injury, it was CENSORED

and Speaking of Crus'n:

Crus'n (Wii) which is simply put "The Fast and the Furious" the arcade game getting the Dolled Up installment treatment. Not only that but the graphics looked dated as the game was originally intended to be on the Gamecube

[matthew25177]

Mortal Kombat Advanced (GBA) - a trainwreck of a port of "Mortal Kombat Trilogy". Poorly-done sprites, poorly-ported music, AI that hovered between being stupidly easy or stupidly hard (especially Scorpion, who can easily ruin your game as early as being the first opponent), and various other screwups make this port a complete and utter mess.

Contra: the Alien Wars (Game boy)

Winter games (NES) Unskippable long subpar animation sequence and the selection of games was far inferior to the Atari 2600 version. The badly-animated, detail-lacking graphics and unresponsive control scheme are quite bad for the NES.

Donkey Kong jr (Atari 2600)

Street Fighter 2 (ZX Spectrum)

[matthew25177]

Double Dragon 2 (Genesis) released exclusively in Japan by Pal Soft for the Mega Drive and it doesn't take much of a genius to figure out why it was only released there. The graphics are pretty poor by the hardware's standards, with muddy colors and tiny character sprites, while the play mechanics suffer from poor hit detection, unfair enemy and trap placement, plenty of slowdown and glitches. There's an annoying pause every time an enemy mook dies and the controls are laggy when played with a 6-button controller instead of the 3-button one. The only good thing about this port is that the soundtrack is at ported over pretty well. Even sadder is the fact that a more superior port ofn the original Double dragon was released in America on the genesis mere months after this version, which proved that the Genesis version of Double Dragon II could have been done well had it been handled by a competent developer.

Doom (32X) On a system supposedly more powerful than the SNES, it was somehow inferior to even the SNES port. Some of the levels were missing, and the soundtrack was butchered.

Sega Smash Pack, Volume 1 (Dreamcast). All Genesis games had butchered sound. Emulation issues?

Burgertime (Atari 2600) The gameplay normally proceeded at a crawl, but ground to a halt when the pepper attack was used. The graphics were horribly degraded: burger ingredients and most enemies were rectangular blobs.

X-Men VS Street Fighter (PS1) - the animation is choppy and not to say about the eternal loadings. THERE'S NO TAG Mode

[burdette25159]

Now that we got enough nominations, it's time to shuffle up the ports

[burdette25159]

It's time for the tournament to begin:

Grandia 2 (PS2)
VS
Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis (Game Boy Advanced)

[matthew25177]

Sonic the Hedgehog genesis. Whoever developed this port should have been jailed for not using the original code. Let's not forget that the porters apparently felt it proper to rewrite the physics engine from the ground up, leading to hilarious glitches ensuing. And to add further insult to injury, the same person behind the "Knuckles in Sonic 1" ROM hack made a much, much, MUCH superior homebrew GBA port of Sonic The Hedgehog, proving that whoever made Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis just didn't care.

[Big Bad Brad]

Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis

[TOO SWEET]

Sonic

[Chronos]

Ha, I've gotta vote against my own entry. Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis wins here.

[burdette25159]

Sonic runs circles over Grandia 2 to move on to the next round.

Virtua Fighter (Saturn)
VS
Virtua Fighter 2 (Genesis)