History Main / GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion

** Some bugfixes were also facultative GoodOldBugs that many players appreciated because they made the game easier, and people complained when they were removed, like the pause-exploit at the start of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', or the possibility to summon familiars even if you are not a mage by drinking and swapping a potion in the inventory.

* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s catalogue was almost entirely remixed in 2007 by Nick Davis, with the intention that the original mixes would [[https://www.genesis-news.com/c-Genesis-SACDs-Nick-Davis-talks-to-it-about-the-new-51-mixes-s89.html "disappear"]] from future releases (despite this intention, many of the original mixes are still available on streaming services, at least in the United States, and a few original mixes were used on the 2016 compilation ''R-Kive'' as well). Reception to these new mixes has not been very positive, mainly because the CD and digital releases were victims of the LoudnessWar.

* There's a very bizarre DVD edition of Ulli Lommel's 1983 film ''[[Film/TheBoogeyman Boogeyman 2]]''. The original version of the film wasn't very good by any stretch of the imagination, but it is unanimously preferred over what Lommel claimed was a "Director's Cut". This version consists of cheaply shot footage of Lommel being interrogated by off-camera police officers, and "flashbacks" that are 90% derived from Lommel's 1980 film ''The Boogeyman'', which ''Boogeyman II'' was a sequel to. The original version of ''Boogeyman II'' did consist of a lot of flashback footage from the first film, but it did have some new content, whereas the 2003 version of ''Boogeyman II'' is 90% footage from ''The Boogeyman'', 10% ''newly filmed'' content. So fans of the original version of the film were not at all pleased by this version, invoking the George Lucas Altered Version trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Early airings of "Timvisible" had Cosmo and Wanda being taught the Spanish for ''"Where is the government cheese?"''; all modern releases have it ''"Where is the '''smelly''' cheese?"'', with the teacher's dialogue altered accordingly. Whether this was because of [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents/September11th September 11th]] or something else remains unknown.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Early airings of "Timvisible" had Cosmo and Wanda being taught the Spanish for ''"Where is the government cheese?"''; all modern releases have it ''"Where is the '''smelly''' cheese?"'', with the teacher's dialogue altered accordingly. Whether this was because of [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents September 11th]] or something else remains unknown.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Early airings of "Timvisible" had Cosmo and Wanda being taught the Spanish for ''"Where is the government cheese?"''; all modern releases have it ''"Where is the '''smelly''' cheese?"'', with the teacher's dialogue altered accordingly. Whether this was because of UsefulNotes/September11 or something else remains unknown.

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* [[https://comich.vivian.jp/cr/ma/miuchi_suzue.php Suzue Miuchi's]] ''[[Manga/GlassMask Glass Mask]]'' is a very notable Manga example in Japan, the 24th volume is the final volume where the story and the Hana To Yume magazine issues are the same. The has different plotlines from volume 25 onwards from its magazine run. This also lead to longer [[SeriesHiatus hiatuses]] to both the serialization and the tankōbon releases. Volume 42 in 2004 is an entirely newly written story. This means that more than half of the story is made up of revision changes from Magazine to Volume. The amount of differences can add up to [[https://w.atwiki.jp/garakame/pages/20.html 10 volumes]] for the original Hana To Yume run assuming each volume is 180 pages.

* [[https://comich.vivian.jp/cr/ma/miuchi_suzue.php Suzue Miuchi's]] ''[[Manga/GlassMask Glass Mask]]'' is a very notable Manga example in Japan, the 24th volume is the last volume where the story and the Hana To Yume magazine issues are the same. Major revisions are made from volume 25 onwards. Volume 42 in 2004 is an entirely newly written story. This means that more than half of the story is made up of revision changes from Magazine to Volume. The amount of differences can add up to [[https://w.atwiki.jp/garakame/pages/20.html 10 volumes]] for the original Hana To Yume run assuming each volume is 180 pages.

** "The Shooting of Dan [=McGoo=]" had two cigarette rationing jokes altered. First, a background painting was redone to remove a sign outside the tavern, which had the word "CIGARETTES" crossed out and the phrase "Are you kiddin'?" written below it. Second, while Red performs onstage, Dangerous Dan [=McGoo=] tries to woo her by offering a valuable gift, a box full of cigarette cartons; it was later changed to a pearl necklace.

* ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was recolored for the 20th-anniversary edition, making the scenes darker and more muted, in contrast to its original, more garish colors. One striking change is turning ComicBook/TheJoker's tears red so it appears he's [[TearsOfBlood weeping blood]].

** This was a side effect of the Porygon incident, as ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' had its first 37 episodes heavily altered to tone down bright light flashes. These post-Porygon masters were subsequently used for international versions of the series, though not for all of those that made the cut (some later episodes among this pack were imported in their pre-Porygon versions). Later, the first episode was remastered again, this time as a compromise between the pre-Porygon and post-Porygon versions.

** [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening DMC3]]'' had to be re-released in America as a mistake resulted in its normal mode being the Japanese hard mode.

** ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' is a recent show that benefited greatly from the Blu-ray remaster, which fixed many of the show's notorious OffModel animation, continuity errors, and other glitches, resulting from the show's rushed production to premiere online. The Japanese TV broadcast features the revised episodes (with a couple more additional changes), as will the North American DVD/Blu-ray release.

** Some cartoons have been altered by reanimating [[UncleTomfoolery Mammy Two-Shoes]] as [[http://heykidscomics.wikia.com/wiki/Mammy_Two_Shoes a slim white woman]] and redubbing her voice. Those edits have been rarely seen since the early 90s, when Mammy was reinstated, but her voice was redubbed with a more realistic African-American voice instead of the stereotypical, dumb-sounding black voice she originally had. The [=DVDs=] have a mix of both voices, depending on the cartoon, but the recent Blu-rays retain the original voice for every cartoon.

** When the show was picked up for a fifth season by TNT, the pilot was reworked considerably, including redoing some effects shots, replacing the soundtrack, and dealing with various editing and pacing issues. The redone version was titled ''Babylon 5: The Gathering'', and aired as part of the show's fifth season.
** The show as a whole is a massive subversion: it was filmed in widescreen and cropped to 4:3, but the CG effects were only animated in 4:3. The assumption was that advances in special effects would render it trivial to re-do the effects when it came time for a widescreen, higher-definition remaster. It wasn't, the show has only ever been released in 4:3 or a 16:9 format created by cropping even ''more'' footage from the top and bottom, and the low-resolution CG models, especially in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness first season]], have aged terribly, especially compared to contemporaries which used practical effects.
** Series creator JMS has stated that a Blu-ray version will likely never be available because it would require updating the SFX at a cost of approximately $105,000 per episode, or about $12 million for entire series. Though the live-action portions were filmed with Super 35 film so they can be scanned at higher resolutions, the CGI archives for all five seasons were lost by Creator/WarnerBros. To make it worse, according to JMS, someone high-up at WB evidently has a grudge against him, and has been doing their level best to keep the show from being restored or bought by another network that might try to do something with it.

** The play was significantly rewritten by Thomas D'Urfey when he revived it in 1682, almost fifty years after [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] was last performed. The servant Pisanio gets a new subplot, and is blinded by villain Cloten after he kills one of Cloten's servants who's menacing his daughter. Several key characters are renamed: Posthumus becomes Ursaces, Imogen becomes Eugenia and the Italian villain Iachimo becomes the French scoundrel Shatillon. D'Urfey also significantly rewrote the last two acts, removed Zeus and the prophecy, and renamed the play ''The Injured Princess'', effectively hiding Shakespeare's identity as the playwright. D'Urfey's version became the default for the next fifty years, with a revival in 1718 giving it a new lease of life. The original version of ''Cymbeline'' eventually returned to theatres in 1746.

* The 1995 movie adaptation of ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2008 as ''Ghost in the Shell 2.0'', with added CGI, modified scenes, and rearranged and re-recorded soundtrack and dialogue with a key character being voiced by another actor. The English dub of the movie retained the original voice track, but re-mixed the audio and replaced the sound effects.

* The Absolute edition of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' featured re-done colours (and for one issue, even completely re-inked linework) for some of the issues, which had been let down originally by time pressures or technical limitations.

* The DVD and Blu-ray versions of ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' remove the [[EpilepticFlashingLights strobe effect]] from most shots of the Screenslaver's hypnotic screens. This was most likely an AuthorsSavingThrow, since these sequences faced criticism for being difficult on the eyes and potentially dangerous to epileptics while the film was in theaters.

* The DVD version of ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' removes the [[EpilepticFlashingLights strobe effect]] from most shots of the Screenslaver's hypnotic screens. This was most likely an AuthorsSavingThrow, since these sequences faced criticism for being difficult on the eyes and potentially dangerous to epileptics while the film was in theaters.

* For the ''[[WesternAnimation/BeavisandButthead Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection]]'' series of DVD sets, Creator/MikeJudge opted to reconfigure the show's run to remove OldShame elements. This included
** omiission of some 70-odd episodes he deemed OldShame, including all but a handful of episodes from before Season 5.