Chrono Trigger DS was probably TOSE's most perfect port to date. I really can't find ANYTHING to complain about it, there are no slowdowns, no loading times, all features from each version prior is included, and even the original music is identical. Maybe a few sound effects sound slightly different, but I really can't see much difference. They didn't even wash out the graphics or distort anything. I'm assuming they couldn't do much to hurt the game since it was on a system that was many many times more powerful than the original system.

Honestly speaking, I probably WOULD have been quite happy with a GBA port at the time. I wanted the game to be ported to GBA back when the system was big. But now, I'm glad they chose DS.

Here's the basic rundown of the other SE games ported by tose to GBA though-

Final Fantasy 1&2 DoS- This was originally two separate Wonderswan color games. Then later, a PS1 game. And then even later, a GBA game. The wonderswan benefited from being a full remake, instead of a port of the NES games. The GBA one in particular, I can't find anything wrong with. The music and graphics were slightly downgraded from the PS1 game, but that's minor and understandable.

Final Fantasy IV Advance- This was also a port of the Wonderswan game made by Sting, which in itself, was once again NOT a port of the SNES game, but more of a remake. Unfortunately, both WSC and GBA versions had some annoying bugs in the battle system. And the GBA version at least had some rather annoying lag in battles and the mode7 world map parts. Graphics were sort of upgraded from the SNES game. The sound was too electronic.

Final Fantasy V Advance- I hear complaints about this one, but I actually think it's a pretty good port by TOSE's standards on GBA. I had little slowdown, I didn't see much washing out of the palette, and I didn't mind the music quality. Of course, then I played that sound hack a while back restoring the music quality, and realized my ears are off. Still, not too bad.

Final Fantasy VI Advance- My favorite game in the entire series. Sadly, It actually had some annoyances, most of which will be fixed in this hack. The palettes were too bright, the music was off, and there was some noticeable slowdowns in battle and mode7 parts when things get hectic.

Honestly, a lot of early GBA ports could benefit from palette restoration and sound restoration. I can think of one of the first GBA games, which was Disney's Magical Quest, port of a SNES game.

Just take a look at the SNES game- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgrUH1Abnz8

Now look what they did to the GBA one- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7NeoS1uZ4g

There were a lot of games like this, so I can't really bash TOSE alone. Breath of Fire had these issues too. There were a lot. Even the Mario Advance series had their cutbacks in sound and graphics.

Didn't Chrono Trigger DS improve the color palettes significantly? Feels a bit more realistic, maybe toned down brightness or something?

You DO realize all of the FF*a ports had added content, right? all of them. Plus, FF5 had that PSX port. The translation was kind of iffy, but the game itself was ported fairly well. Better than FF6, the game it was bundled with...

It's not, DKC was still playable and fun, despite all the butchered graphics and sound. The worst GBA port was Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis. I dare you to try it out too.

However, the DKC trilogy on GBA are in a state where I have some doubts as to whether the original pelettes and sound can be restored. It was not a strait port, you can tell the engine is completely different. A lot of the graphics were resized and the palette changes were not just brightening, it was completely edited. I'm pretty sure you can't just go in a tweak the contrast or whatever. The sound I dunno about.

As for Chrono Trigger DS, I only saw the slightest difference in the palettes. Things looked a little less colorful, but only slightly. The luminaire spell I thought looked the most different. The original was bright neon green-

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/chrono/images/5/5e/Chrono_Trigger_Luminaire.png

The DS version's was a little...I want to say more yellow-toned. Not as saturated or high contrasted. You can see the DS version in this video (sorry only non-cam one I could find)-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L44i5b4eEf0

Hey, why are you arguing about TOSE's ports in my topic?  :huh:
I'm one of those who prefer to maintain my threads clean.

Nevermind... Just someone please move this to "Personal Projects".

Sorry about that. Shouldn't have gone offtopic. But I will say that if it weren't for TOSE's shitty porting skills, this topic probably wouldn't have been made.