It has been this way since the Famicom ports. I'm not really sure why, but the Nintendo Ys titles have always paled in comparison to the PC originals. Hell, even the PS2 remakes did better than the Nintendo ones, lol. In "recent" events, that would be Ys I&II Eternal remake for PSP ... I just hope they could add Adol as a new playable character if they do make a PSP port though (since the only way you could play him in the PC release was through a hack :( ). MrRobbyM ...