Best GB/A ports of NES and SNES games

[Reverend]

SNES ports are amazing on the GBA, but I realized I'm much more interested in how particular developers decided to treat the GBA almost as a SNES 2, giving old SNES titles sequels or furthering a series in a SNES style.

Mickey Magical Quest / MMQ 2&3
Super Metroid / Metroid Fusion
F-Zero / F-Zero Maximum Velocity
Link to the Past / Minish Cap
EarthBound / Mother 3
And even Megaman 7 / Mega Man and Bass to an extent, at least for those of us outside of Japan.
Those were the only ones I could come up with, but you see what I'm getting at.

Though you have to admit the games were great.

[Mr.White555]

Metroid zero and Nightmare in dreamland were really good. Even though they were more like remakes than ports.

[jfrost]

Mega Man & Bass is really good on the GBA, despite the fact that they had to crop part of the screen (it is a problem against some bosses, but manageable).

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Agreed, MegaMan & Bass was a fantastic port if only slightly hampered by the GBA's sound chip and on screen resolution.

[marurun]

Agreed, MegaMan & Bass was a fantastic port if only slightly hampered by the GBA's sound chip and on screen resolution.

It was indeed a very good port. I just wish it was a better game.

[jfrost]

What didn't you like about it? It's one of my favorites. Much better than Mega Man 8, at least.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Yeah,I found it to be one of the better MegaMan's.

[marurun]

What didn't you like about it? It's one of my favorites. Much better than Mega Man 8, at least.

I wasn't super crazy about 8 either. Megaman really lost steam after 3. 4-6 were still decent, but 7 and 8 I found to be a real disappointment and MM&Bass didn't fix that, really.