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The debate on Remakes and Remasters is long-standing one, ever since the early 1990s. On YouTube, there are diffrent people who try to resolve the debate, with one of them being this one (skip to 1:35, as the beginning is the sponsor time):
If you don't care about watching the video or have little understanding of English, then keep reading below.
People constantly say that some game is a remake, while it's actually a remaster (and vice versa). That is wrong, and a permanent foundation on the whole role of game preservation must be established. So, to answer on that, here are the true rules of game remakes, ports and other kinds:
----1. Ports----
These are the first category. What they do is just to port a game from one system to another. You can think of the 2006-reboot Sonic The Hedgehog and how that game was ported from Xbox 360 to PlayStation 3 in 2007 worldwide (except Japan, who got the port of that game nearly a month earlier).
----2. Enhanced Ports----
These are, as the name states, an enhanced port of a certain game. But, they CAN be inferior to their original. For example, the Game Boy Advance® port of Mega Man and Bass suffers from screen crounch, which is what the original game on the Super Famicon didn't have issues with. On a superior note, the port of Mega Man 8 on Sega Saturn is better than the version on PlayStation 1 because the audio is actually looped.
----3. Remasters----
The third and the most common category. Remasters are versions that remain faithful to the original game, but with vairous QOL changes. For example, ports of Metal Slug 3 and Super Star Wars on PlayStation Vita are a good example, since they include various small QOL changes and other settings.
Another example would be Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy on the Nintendo 3DS, as it includes AI upscaled graphics, saving your game at any point, skippable dialog etc.
----3.5. Collections----
Now, collections are slightly higher than remasters, mainly because some include ports/enhanced ports/remasters/remakes into one package. For example, Sonic Origins Plus is one of these, as the 4 mainline games are remakes. This can also be said for Mega Man X Legacy Collection, as Mega Man X3 is a direct port of the PS1 Remaster.
----4. Remakes----
This is the second most popular. Remakes are versions of the games that are faithful, but go above and beyond in changes. For example, the remakes of Resident Evil games go into this category, along with Super Mario RPG remake. The same is true to fan remakes, including Sonic Triple Trouble 16-Bit, Mega Man The Sequel Wars etc.
----5. Reboots----
The top of the list are reboots. These go unfaithful to the original title, as they use the ideas from the said game. The most prominent example would be the 2016-reboot of Ratchet and Clank, as the game is a tie-in to the 2016 Animated Movie of the same name.
-----I think this will resolve the case. If you have any more questions, post down in this thread.----
Back in the day of old school gaming, games were at their "best". Nowdays, they are extremely outdated against the modern hardware and are console limited, especially Arcade and Atari titles. This is where types of games which bring them to modern day start their grand role. There are diffrent kinds of these, and that makes the question: What X (game title) is a remake, or a remaster?
The debate on Remakes and Remasters is long-standing one, ever since the early 1990s. On YouTube, there are diffrent people who try to resolve the debate, with one of them being this one (skip to 1:35, as the beginning is the sponsor time):
If you don't care about watching the video or have little understanding of English, then keep reading below.
People constantly say that some game is a remake, while it's actually a remaster (and vice versa). That is wrong, and a permanent foundation on the whole role of game preservation must be established. So, to answer on that, here are the true rules of game remakes, ports and other kinds:
----1. Ports----
These are the first category. What they do is just to port a game from one system to another. You can think of the 2006-reboot Sonic The Hedgehog and how that game was ported from Xbox 360 to PlayStation 3 in 2007 worldwide (except Japan, who got the port of that game nearly a month earlier).
----2. Enhanced Ports----
These are, as the name states, an enhanced port of a certain game. But, they CAN be inferior to their original. For example, the Game Boy Advance® port of Mega Man and Bass suffers from screen crounch, which is what the original game on the Super Famicon didn't have issues with. On a superior note, the port of Mega Man 8 on Sega Saturn is better than the version on PlayStation 1 because the audio is actually looped.
----3. Remasters----
The third and the most common category. Remasters are versions that remain faithful to the original game, but with vairous QOL changes. For example, ports of Metal Slug 3 and Super Star Wars on PlayStation Vita are a good example, since they include various small QOL changes and other settings.
Another example would be Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy on the Nintendo 3DS, as it includes AI upscaled graphics, saving your game at any point, skippable dialog etc.
----3.5. Collections----
Now, collections are slightly higher than remasters, mainly because some include ports/enhanced ports/remasters/remakes into one package. For example, Sonic Origins Plus is one of these, as the 4 mainline games are remakes. This can also be said for Mega Man X Legacy Collection, as Mega Man X3 is a direct port of the PS1 Remaster.
----4. Remakes----
This is the second most popular. Remakes are versions of the games that are faithful, but go above and beyond in changes. For example, the remakes of Resident Evil games go into this category, along with Super Mario RPG remake. The same is true to fan remakes, including Sonic Triple Trouble 16-Bit, Mega Man The Sequel Wars etc.
----5. Reboots----
The top of the list are reboots. These go unfaithful to the original title, as they use the ideas from the said game. The most prominent example would be the 2016-reboot of Ratchet and Clank, as the game is a tie-in to the 2016 Animated Movie of the same name.
-----I think this will resolve the case. If you have any more questions, post down in this thread.----
