Many of the magic effects are riddled with this slowdown as well, giving me the impression that somebody was breathing down the programmer’s necks. You can tell that whoever was behind this port knew it, too, as the music has been re-synchronized in places, so that what you’re seeing doesn’t match up to the music in the same was as the SNES version did.

As hard as that GBA cart tries, it just never quite gets up to where it needs to be for this game. It’s like they didn’t care at all that many of the people playing this were those who had bought the 1994 release. Specifically, quite a few of the weapon/attack sound effects were edited out and replaced, so you end up with two weapons or attacks that made a different sound in the SNES version making the same sound here. The sound effects aren’t that great, either, chiefly because many of them just plain aren’t there.

For anyone who really got into this game in the mid 90’s, it’s kind of a buzz kill. There are places in the game where the music is supposed to fade out, but doesn’t. The timing of the music has some glitches it’s hard to describe, really.

Do yourself a favor apply Bregalad’s Sound Restoration patch it is quite lovely. There are badly-synthesized replacements of the original soundtrack. That’s nothing huge it had to be done to make the finer details of the game visible. The first thing you’ll notice is that the palette has been brightened up for the GBA screen. A little bird told me that SE was in need of some quick cash, and frankly, from the state of this port, it isn’t that hard to deduce. It was a concurrent release with their GBA port of Final Fantasy V, and both ports are known for being hamfisted affairs.

Circa 2006, Square Enix decided to cash in their chips with a portable conversion of their 1994 release, Final Fantasy VI.

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