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* ''VideoGame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds'' was ported to the Xbox One with poor results. Lots of glitches were present such as the interior of buildings not loading correctly, poor loading performance in general causing objects to be at low visual quality for long periods of time (to the point that textures can seriously look like they're supposed to be in a Nintendo 64 game due to being so blurry), low frame rate during gameplay even on Xbox One X, and delayed inputs. Patches have since managed to bring the One X up to respectable performance levels, outside of instances where server lag is the main issue, but performance on the earlier models is still lacking.

* The Playstation 3 port of ''VideoGame/SeriousSam 3: B.F.E'' came out in 2014 due to Croteam's difficulty adapting the game for the [=PS3=] hardware (for comparison, the original PC version was released at the end of 2011 and the Xbox 260 port in 2012). While compressing the game down to a tiny 869 MB size is a moderatly impressive feat, this version suffers from awful framerate even when no enemies are on screen, a ridiculously low resolution, and an army of glitches as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcG538KKG4c shown in this video]].

* The Playstation 3 port of ''VideoGame/SeriousSam 3: B.F.E'' came out in 2014 due to Croteam's difficulty adapting the game for the PS3 hardware (for comparison, the original PC version was released at the end of 2011 and the Xbox 260 port in 2012). While compressing the game down to a tiny 869 MB size is a moderatly impressive feat, this version suffers from awful framerate even when no enemies are on screen, a ridiculously low resolution, and an army of glitches as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcG538KKG4c shown in this video]].

* The ports of the first three ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' games all have some bad problems. For all of them, the music doesn't loop properly (instead playing the first few seconds of the loop and then restarting), the tour on planet Todano in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando Going Commando]]'' has had the audio cut for some reason, and sometimes you can see through skyboxes and see the stars of the spacebox.

* ''VideoGame/PacMan'', quite possibly the reigning king of infamously bad porting jobs and one of the major players in UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983. Being the most popular arcade game of its day, Atari ''knew'' that having the home version on their system could be a license to print money for them, so they wanted the game on their hands as fast as possible, released the unfinished ''[[ObviousBeta alpha]]'' version as soon as it was done, bugs and all (the game couldn't even draw all the ghosts on-screen at once, instead having them flicker in and out of existence), and manufactured 12 million copies of it (2 million more than the userbase at the time, believing that [[KillerApp the game would boost hardware sales too]]). The end result was a complete disaster for Atari. And yet the buggy mess of a game was ''still'' the best-selling game on the 2600, ever (7 million copies). A pile of these, along with the equally disastrous ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', were buried in the New Mexico desert, creating a famous urban legend until [[http://kotaku.com/e-t-found-in-new-mexico-landfill-1568100161 they were unearthed in early 2014]].

* ''[[VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames Aladdin]]'' fares rather badly. While the bootleg port by Super Game still had graphical and control problems, the official port by NMS Software suffered from these flaws to a greater extent. But it got worse when another pirate original version, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDALg0iLeIU Aladdin II]]'', was released....

* The [=PS3=] port of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' is infamous due to the console not being able to keep up with the game physics and scope, long load times and frequent console freezes on large areas like the hinderlands and Skyhold. Not helping is the fact that later DLC and patches caused more instability and bugs to the game with the Black Emporium DLC bugging out the sound effects, music and an infinite load screen that leads to a console restart if the game is exited from the console menu.

* ''Akumajo Dracula X: Gekka no Yasokyoku''[[note]]"Devil Castle Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight"[[/note]], a Saturn port of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' which never left Japan, attempted to add some additional features by making Maria playable and adding two new areas. Unfortunately the novelty of the new features are quickly canceled out by the actual quality of the port itself: the added areas do not match the overall graphical level of the original PS version at all, the game suffers from constant slowdown when the screen is filled with enemies, most of the graphical transparency effects are lost or replaced with dithering, and the game loads before and after entering the transition rooms between areas (you know, those rooms that were there to ''lessen'' the loading times in the first place). It also loads when entering or exiting the main menu and due to the fact that the Saturn controller doesn't have as many buttons as the [=PS1=] one, there's no dedicated button to open the map: as a result, you need to enter the main menu every time you want to check the map, meaning a process that took a second on a [=PS1=] now takes around 30 seconds. This is because the game was originally built on a 3D engine (only noticeable in a few places like the FinalBoss), and the Saturn had trouble handling 3D games.

* ''Akumajo Dracula X: Gekka no Yasokyoku''[[note]]"Devil Castle Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight"[[/note]], a Saturn port of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' which never left Japan, attempted to add some additional features by making Maria playable and adding two new areas. Unfortunately the novelty of the new features are quickly canceled out by the actual quality of the port itself: the added areas do not match the overall graphical level of the original PS version at all, the game suffers from constant slowdown when the screen is filled with enemies, most of the graphical transparency effects are lost or replaced with dithering, and the game loads before and after entering the transition rooms between areas (you know, those rooms that were there to ''lessen'' the loading times in the first place). It also loads when entering or exiting the main menu and due to the fact that the Saturn controller doesn't have as many buttons as the [=PS1=] one, there's no dedicated button to open the map: as a result, you need to enter the main menu every time you want to check the map, meaning a process that took a second on a [=PS1=] now takes around 30 seconds.

* A DVD player example: After Digital Leisure did an overall good job on porting first two parts of [[VideoGame/DragonsLair that series with Dirk the Daring]], they suddenly decided to port ''Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair'' as well. As the result of '''double''' '''GenreShift''' (interactive movie -> third-person arcade -> interactive movie or something that resembles it), as well as completely non-cinematic camera angles during the gameplay and the badly decreased "clicks per minute" count (mainly caused by the fact that in the original ''[=DL3D=]'', not everything was trying to kill you), ''Dragon's Lair III'' is probably what you should ignore just to buy their ''[[PolishedPort Dragon's Lair Trilogy]]'' alone. Even ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' did better when ''Angel of Darkness'' hit the DVD players, no matter if ''TR'' fans loved it or not..

* ''[[Franchise/StreetFighter Super Street Fighter II Turbo]]'', widely considered the best ''Street Fighter'' ever made (and the greatest fighting game ever made by some), had an abysmal Playstation port that had numerous {{Game Breaking Bug}}s and an extremely imbalanced roster. Quite famously this was the version of the game that was used for [[Creator/TheKingOfHate DarkSydePhil's]] fourth tournament placement below three Japanese players [[SmallNameBigEgo that led to him proclaiming himself]] "the best pro ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'' player in America"; the terrible quality of the port and the balance issues were cited as a major reason to question the legitimacy of this dubious boast.

* [[http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Aladdin_II_(Mega_Drive) Aladdin II,]] an [[UnlicensedGame unlicensed]] conversion of the [[VideoGame/AladdinCapcom SNES version of Aladdin]] made by an unknown Taiwanese company. This port is notable for being significantly worse not only than the original, [[UpToEleven but worse than the]] [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]] conversion done by the other Taiwanese developer, [[http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Hummer_Team Hummer Team,]] despite being converted to the more powerful system. This version somehow makes Hummer Team's conversion look tremendously better, especially in terms of controls and game mechanics (yes, these were flawed in Hummer Team's conversion too, but not to such extent, because in this conversion, both controls and mechanics are just broken, compared to the original and ''even Hummer Team's conversion''). Also, unlike the original and the Famicom versions, this version lacks password feature, Genie's bonus games, a bonus round where Aladdin and Jasmine ride on the magic carpet, and finally, the developers of this version not even tried to port the soundtrack from the original game [[RecycledSoundtrack and just reused a few themes from some of their other games]], which were scattered and repeated ''through out entire game'' (for example, one theme was reused ''four times''). The only redeeming aspect of this version is that it has most of the cutscenes and the second phase of Jafar's final boss fight from the SNES original (where he transforms in to a snake), which were absent in the Famicom conversion. But that's it.

** Their conversion of ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' turned [[NintendoHard hard]], but playable Arcade original into nigh-impossible mess, by making controls ''ungodly slow and unresponsive'', along with plaguing the game with all of this developer's well known problems, such as slow frame rate, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading long loading times...on a cartridge,]] [[GameBreakingBug game breaking bugs (sometimes boss of stage 4 will fail to spawn),]] bland graphics [[MostAnnoyingSound and annoying sound effects.]] The Japanese version is even worse, as unlike overseas versions, [[DifficultyByRegion this version gives players absolutely]] [[UpToEleven zero continues,]] which means, that you are forced to beat the whole game two times in a row, to see the good ending, '''with only three lives'''. There is a code, that lets you continue infinitely in the Japanese version, but why decided to make the ability to continue hidden is anybody's guess.

* ''Aladdin II'', an [[UnlicensedGame unlicensed]] port of the [[VideoGame/AladdinCapcom SNES version of Aladdin]] made by an unknown Chinese company. This port is notable for being significantly worse not only than the original, ''but worse than the earlier [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] port done by the other Chinese developer, [[http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Hummer_Team Hummer Team,]]'' despite being ported to the more powerful system. This version makes Hummer Team's port look even more impressive, especially in terms of controls and game mechanics (yes, these were pretty flawed in Hummer Team's port too, but not to such extent, because in this port these are just downright broken compared to the original version and ''even Hummer Team's port''). Also, unlike the original and NES versions, this version lacks password feature, Genie's bonus games, a bonus round where Aladdin and Jasmine ride on the magic carpet, and finally, the developers of this version not even tried to port the soundtrack from the original game [[RecycledSoundtrack and just reused a few songs from some of their previous games]], which were scattered and repeated ''through out entire game'' (for example, one song was reused ''four times''). The only redeeming aspect of this version is that it has most of the cutscenes and the second phase of Jafar's final boss fight from the SNES original, which were absent in the NES port. But that's it.

** Their conversion of ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' turned hard, but playable arcade original into nigh-impossible hell, by making controls ungodly slow and unresponsive, in addition with all of this developer's trademark qualities, such as slow frame rate, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading long loading times,]] [[GameBreakingBug game breaking bugs (sometimes boss of stage 3 will just not appear)]] and bland audiovisuals. The japanese version is even worse, as unlike overseas versions, [[DifficultyByRegion this version gives players absolutely]] [[NintendoHard zero continues,]] which means you are forced to beat the whole game two times in a row, to see the good ending, with only three lives.

* An old VisualNovel, called ''Exodus Guilty Neos'', which has been previously released on [=PlayStation=] and UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, was ported to DVD players a few years later... and, apart from having fully voiced characters this time around, it throws all the interactivity it originally had out of the ''wall'', so now, you have to wait ''till the end of any of these 30-minute chapters'' just in order to pick a decision. Side note: no alternate endings, three [=DVDs=] with 6 hours of video on each. While the originals ran on a single CD and had additional endings to run on. With such level of interaction, no one shall call it ''a game''.

* An old VisualNovel, called ''Exodus Guilty Neos'', which has been previously released on [=PlayStation=] and UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, was ported to DVD players not so long ago... and, apart from having fully voiced characters this time around, it throws all the interactivity it originally had out of the ''wall'', so now, you have to wait ''till the end of any of these 30-minute chapters'' just in order to pick a decision. Side note: no alternate endings, three [=DVDs=] with 6 hours of video on each. While the originals ran on a single CD and had additional endings to run on. With such level of interaction, no one shall call it ''a game''.

* ''Aladdin II'' itself is also worth mentioning. Ostensibly a port of [[VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames Aladdin]] on the UsefulNotes/MegaDrive, the game is a broken mess with a plethora of glitches, poor control, all of the cutscenes removed and horrible audiovisuals. It's so bad, it makes the NMS version look like a PolishedPort in comparison.

* ''Aladdin II'' an [[UnlicensedGame unlicensed]] port of the [[VideoGame/AladdinCapcom SNES version of Aladdin]] made by an unknown Chinese company. This port is notable for being significantly worse not only than the original, ''but worse than the earlier [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] port done by the other Chinese developer, [[http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Hummer_Team Hummer Team,]]'' despite being ported to the more powerful system. This version makes Hummer Team's port look even more impressive, especially in terms of controls and game mechanics (yes, these were pretty flawed in Hummer Team's port too, but not to such extent, because in this port these are just downright broken compared to the original version and ''even Hummer Team's port''). Also, unlike the original and NES versions, this version lacks password feature, Genie's bonus games, a bonus round where Aladdin and Jasmine ride on the magic carpet, and finally, the developers of this version not even tried to port the soundtrack from the original game [[RecycledSoundtrack and just reused a few songs from some of their previous games]], which were scattered and repeated ''through out entire game'' (for example, one song was reused ''four times''). The only redeeming aspect of this version is that it has most of the cutscenes and the second phase of Jafar's final boss fight from the SNES original, which were absent in the NES port. But that's it.

* ''VideoGame/HiddenAndDangerous'' removes the squad-based elements entirely (the player's teammates became, in effect, ''extra lives''), has massively cruder graphics, is first-person only and is generally dumbed down

* ''VideoGame/{{Puzznic}}'' is a port of an arcade game that for some reason doesn't have the music from the original. That is, if you're playing the US version; the Japanese and European releases have music. The kicker: The music works ''on [=PS1=] emulators''.

* ''VideoGame/SegaRally2'' suffered from framerates that were poor compared to the less powerful arcade machine, which ran the game at 60FPS. There was even a code to enable a 60FPS mode, but even then the game still suffered frequent framerate drops.

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan Anniversary Collection'' suffers from input lag, a game breaking flaw for a game that requires such quick reflexes.

* ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: The Beginning of Destiny'', a [=PS2=] port of the first ''Tag Force'' game for the PSP, grossly suffers from music that skips around like a broken record, the game lags and locks up when certain cards are played, and worst of all, the one key feature in it that would've been a boon to the game -- multiplayer -- is taken out. Even the purported extras you can get by linking it up with the second ''Tag Force'' game were horribly lacking.

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan Anniversary Collection'', while not a terrible port, takes some getting used to, since the "shoot" and "jump" buttons were [[DamnYouMuscleMemory switched from the NES originals]] and there's no way to reassign the button configurations. The Control Stick can't register diagonal movements or only does so when it's exactly on those diagonals. Infuriating when you're trying to leap out and grab a ladder above a spike pit... and it made the shoot-em-up segment of Wily's fortress in ''[=MM8=]'' seem impossible until one discovers that the D-Pad works much better at the cost of being slightly awkward to reach, inverted if you use the Hori Game Boy Player controller [[CrackIsCheaper and if you are willing to spend a bit of money on it if you don't have one]]. Also, the arranged soundtrack from the ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rockman Complete Works]]'' games is entirely absent.

* ''Conan: The Mysteries of Time'', a [[DolledUpInstallment licensed]] port of a classic [=C64=] game by System 3 titled ''[[http://www.mobygames.com/game/myth-history-in-the-making Myth: History in the Making,]]'' suffered from poor play mechanics, graphics and music compared to the original [=C64=] release. ''Conan'' has been derided by many NES players, not all of whom are familiar with [[AdaptationDisplacement the C64 original]].

* ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (the Ubisoft release, not the earlier version released by Taito) was a port of a PC action game, which NMS Software saddled with horrendously grainy graphics seemingly produced by taking the graphics from the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem version and compressing the palette.
* ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' was based on the Atari arcade game, but like some other arcade-to-NES conversions, it became a ReformulatedGame rather than a straight port. Indy could now jump and use alternate weapons, but the controls for these were clumsy. Whereas the arcade game told players right on the screen what needs to be done, stage goals in the NES version were bewilderingly unintuitive. The graphics are also very poor for the NES, with the backgrounds consisting of hideous washes of blue or green.

* ''VideoGame/TheLastNinja'', an [[SequelFirst unnumbered]] port of the [=C64=] game by System 3 titled ''[[http://www.mobygames.com/game/last-ninja-2-back-with-a-vengeance Last Ninja 2,]]'' was handled by the same team that worked on ''Conan'' and suffered from the same issues. To make matters worse: Matt Gray, the guy who composed the music in the original C64 version, also did music for a number of Creator/{{Codemasters}}' NES games, including ''Fantastic VideoGame/{{Dizzy}}'' and ''VideoGame/MicroMachines''. But they couldn't bother to hire him for this one; instead, they wrote new music in-house at Beam Software. (This company also made the execrable ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' game with its horribly repetitive BGM.)

** ''Mortal Kombat V Turbo'' and ''Mortal Kombat V'' plus ''Trilogy'', ports of parts one and three respectively. Just about the only good thing you can say about these ports is that they have fatalities, but good luck pulling them off thanks to the awful controls. What's worse is that the latter game uses the B button to block, meaning that you can only kick while jumping.

** ''Pocohontas'' (AKA ''[[BlindIdiotTranslation Pocohontos]]''). Unfinished and slow. Super Game's version did it better.

** While they made a decent port, Hummer's first port of VideoGame/StreetFighterII qualifies, with only four characters playable, and the fifth (Bison/Vega, renamed Viga) as the final boss. As well as this, some of the characters' sizes [[OffModel were questionable]]. Also, the endings weren't the same as they were originally, but filled with [[BlindIdiotTranslation loads and loads of typos]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQjFpGB6_k Just look.]] An updated version of this game, ''Master Fighter VI'', added the rest of the characters (along with a clone of each), made the bosses playable and replaced most of the graphics with those from ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dmUmNz0Vc Super Fighter III]]''. However, the endings from the original port were replaced with a [[AWinnerIsYou generic congratulations screen]].

** ''Tekken 2'' (which is actually a port of the first game) is no better, and essentially plays like their other fighting games without the projectiles.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' is a very strange case. The graphics are surprisingly good, resembling the original SNES sprites, and the game even proved Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Mario series, wrong on one point -- Miyamoto stated that Yoshi was impossible to program on the NES. Hummer Team put forth impressive effort. This all said, the music was ear-bleeding at times; the jumping physics were not accurately ported, making certain levels all but impossible; and finally, the cartridge ''doesn't even contain the full game'', as it's missing the final 3 worlds! The only way to get the complete version of the game is to find a rare 45-in-1 multicart.

** ''Boogerman II: The Final Adventure''. Includes the boogerhero protagonist who moves even slower than the in-game snail enemies.

* Sachen is another example. ''Gaiapolis'' initially was a little-known arcade game by Konami (which never got an official home port), but it seems like Sachen was lucky enough to play the machine with this game while it was alive. Despite the speed and extremely wild amount of flicker, as well as traditional beepy Sachen music, however, it's still fairly playable (mainly in part due to the 99 continues you get at the start).

** They also did bootlegs of ''VideoGame/RallyX'' (as ''Jovial Race''), ''VideoGame/PipeDream'' (as ''Pipes'' or ''Pipe V''), ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' (as ''Huge Insect''), ''Battle City'' (as ''Final Combat''), and ''VideoGame/BusterBrothers'' (as ''Super Pang'').

** ''Biohazard'' a.k.a. Franchise/ResidentEvil was a third-person survival horror game, but became a top-down [=RPGish=] type game up until you got into random battles with zombies and other assorted horrors, wherein it switched gameplay to the combat model used in ''Resident Evil Gaiden''. The music is of dubiuous quality, too.

** Their conversion of ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' turned hard, but playable arcade original into nigh impossible hell, by making controls ungodly slow and unresponsive, in addition with all of this developer's trademark qualities, such as slow frame rate, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading long loading times,]] [[GameBreakingBug game breaking bugs (sometimes boss of stage 3 will just not appear)]] and bland audiovisuals. The japanese version is even worse, as unlike overseas versions, [[DifficultyByRegion this version gives players absolutely zero continues,]] which means you are forced to beat the whole game two times for best ending with only two lives.

** Their conversion of ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' turned hard, but playable arcade original into nigh impossible hell, by making controls ungodly slow and unresponsive, in addition with all of this developer's trademark qualities, such as slow frame rate, long loading times, game breaking bugs (sometimes boss of stage 3 will just not appear) and bland audiovisuals. The japanese version is even worse, as unlike overseas versions, this version gives players absolutely zero continues, which means you are forced to beat this whole game two times for best ending with only two lives.

** ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' suffers from pretty much the same issues as ''1942''.

Here are the porting disasters from consoles. [Insert witty description here]

* ''Cruis'n'' was not so much a new console installment to the 90s arcade racing series, than it was a DolledUpInstallment of a console port of the ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' arcade game Creator/{{Midway}} had lying around at the time--only with [[SerialNumbersFiledOff all references to the film edited out]] due to Midway losing the film license when the port was being made. Which wouldn't had been ''too'' bad if the game didn't suffer from long loading times (with wait times between races being as long as an entire minute), a terrible framerate (with the game noticeably chugging when cars encountered ''any'' sort of collision, or outright ''freezing'' when the player changed a music track), overly-sensitive controls, barely existent sound effects, and a pocketful of glitches. Most damningly, ''Cruis'n'' was overall a pretty {{egregious}} case of being a quick-and-dirty port job tossed out to cash in on the then-new console: despite being a a 2007 port of an arcade game made in ''2004'', the game looks ''exactly'' like the original arcade release, which graphically makes Cruis'n a game that has arrived one or even two generations too late (indeed, most reviewers cited ''Cruis'n'' as looking no better than a game released on the '''''UsefulNotes/Nintendo64'''''). It stands as [[MedalofDishonor one of the worst-reviewed games released on the console]]; and if Midway had any plans to make more ''Cruis'n'' console games in the future, the game's poor sales certainly [[FranchiseKiller put the brakes on them]].

* The downloadable port of ''Zero Gunner 2'' suffered from a large number of bugs at launch and innacuracies to the original game, such as missing graphical effects, bosses having far too little health, bullets appearing out of nowhere, and invisible bullets killing the player. In a blog post made immediatly after its release, the president of the company responsible for the port explained that they did not have access to the original development resources and titled the Switch version ''Zero Gunner 2'''''-''' as an apology for any potential innacuracies with the original version. Fortunately, the first patch released two weeks after releases fixed most of the major bugs, although the difficulty and many mechanics are still innacurate to the original game.