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* ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'', a hypothetical extended cut of Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio centenary short]] falls comfortably into this category, due to the small alterations to a number of scenes between WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} and [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Mickey]], and the whole rewrite of the climax, particularly the more grandiose of [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} "When You Wish Upon a Star"]] started up by Cinderella and [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]]. There is even a short epilogue scene set the following afternoon, where Mickey, Cinderella, Prince Charming, Fairy Godmother and several other characters bid the audience a warm farewell.
** The cast of returning voice acting legends is also even larger than in the original version; a few notable examples including Creator/ChristopherDanielBarnes as both Prince Charming and [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Prince Eric]], Creator/TonyGoldwyn and Creator/MinnieDriver as [[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} Tarzan and Jane]], Creator/LindaLarkin as [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jasmine]], Creator/ZacharyLevi as Eugene, and even Creator/TemueraMorrison as [[WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} Moana's father, Chief Tui]].

This process is sometimes referred to as a {{Remaster}} but that is actually about cleaning the image and/or audio to update it for modern entertainment formats, which often involves a brand new film transfer to help preserve it or restoration of old audio tracks. {{Colorization}} is similar, as making the colorization usually involves a remastering of the original to maximize quality.[[note]]People like UsefulNotes/TedTurner restored the films in his library prior to colorizing them, and simultaneously released the restored black and white films alongside the colorized versions. This helped ''preserve'' black and white films for future generations.[[/note]]

It's worth noting that a lot of this discussion comes from [[UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory who is considered the primary "author" of the final product]], and that many do not have a copyright on their work, [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld with this artistic collaboration being really owned by the corporation]]. Sometimes the new version is made by those who had nothing to do with the original. On the other hand, while having the clout to do so is rare sometimes they do get an opportunity to remake the work to their satisfaction.

* [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie 3D re-releases]] of movies that were originally shot and shown in 2D have become the 2010s equivalent of colorization, though they tend to not attract as much controversy since there's little chance of the 3D versions ever replacing the originals. Creator/JamesCameron kicked off the trend with ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', which lead to 3D conversions of other films such as ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', ''Film/JurassicPark'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. Sometimes, as was the case with ''Jurassic Park'', the CGI gets updated and elements like rain and debris get digitally beefed up to enhance the 3D effect.

* The Enhanced Editions of the two ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' titles were both praised and criticized for the changes, but prominently the first one since the new engine is an updated version of that of the sequel, which introduced new features and altered some mechanics in ways for which the original campaign was not balanced. Above all, kits were back in the day conceived for the sequel, and they completely change the pace of the game to the point that sometimes they feel GameBreaker. The various quality of life enhancements like the possibility to stack up way more than 20 arrows, pause during inventory screen, or use bags of gems, subtracted elements of difficulty from the original game. Last but not least, the new characters are not appreciated by all, and many think they feel out of place because they get much more screentime than the original characters because those did not have the same banter dialogues (which were introduced only with Bg2).
** Some bugfixes were also facultative GoodBadBugs 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.

* Following the extremely negative response to the original ending/s of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Creator/BioWare spent several months working on an improved version, including the creation of many new cutscenes and the recording of new dialogue as well as some minor retcons to the original story. It isn't a ''new'' ending, rather the scenes expand it to help it feel more fleshed out and satisfying. This would become available to download as a free DLC called the 'Extended Cut' several months later, which would replace the original ending if installed (and in the case of the Wii U port and the Legendary Edition, is the ''only'' ending since it's installed by default), and is thought considerably better by most fans. Still not quite the ending that they wanted in many cases, but certainly better than what they had before.

** More blatantly, in 2010, they patched ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' to, after the game is beaten once, add hidden radios in every chamber that have to be brought to a certain spot to pick up an encrypted signal; getting them all unlocks a new achievement, "Transmission Received". A further update added a new ending where Chell doesn't escape the facility after all, but [[YankTheDogsChain gets dragged back in by a mostly-unseen Aperture robot]]. These changes received surprisingly little outrage, as they ended up being the start of an [[AlternateRealityGame ARG]] that ultimately teased a [[VideoGame/Portal2 sequel]].

* ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'', a hypothetical extended cut of Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio centenary short]] falls comfortably into this category, due to the small alterations to a number of scenes between WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} and [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Mickey]], and the whole rewrite of the climax, particularly the more grandiose of [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} "When You Wish Upon a Star"]] started up by Cinderella and [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]].

* With the backlash of the re-edits of ''Franchise/StarWars'' and Creator/StevenSpielberg's similar changes to ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', when it came to releasing the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies on DVD they announced they would not make any changes. This was, in part, due to the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode (listed below) mocking and condemning the practice.

* ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'', a hypothetical extended cut of Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio centennial short]] falls comfortably into this category, due to the small alterations to a number of scenes between WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} and [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Mickey]], and the whole rewrite of the climax, particularly the more grandiose of [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} "When You Wish Upon a Star"]] started up by Cinderella and [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]].

* The original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' movie trilogy was remastered for the 20th anniversary. Visually, nothing is changed. The surviving voice actors re-recorded their lines and several characters noticeably sound older than we remember them to be. The soundtrack was completely digitized but the futuristic gun sounds were replaced with more realistic sounding gunfire sound effects. The music for several scenes was either rearranged or more often removed in place of MoreDakka and explosion sound effects. The "Soldiers of Sorrow" song, for example, was removed from the Battle of Jaburo and replaces the original somber ending credits song of the second movie. In the third movie, "The Beginning" (Lalah Sun's theme) wasn't heard in her first scene. And its use in the end credits was replaced by the more upbeat "Encounter". Very few fans are actually aware of these changes unless they were familiar with UC Gundam prior to [[TheNineties the late Nineties]] so these changes have not met with much criticism from Western fans.

* Creator/DavidLean's original cut for ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' was nearly four hours long with intermission. This was screened at the premiere but was cut down to three hours for the general release. In TheEighties, Lean collaborated on the restoration and revived his four-hour cut which had never been widely distributed theatrically. He got the surviving actors to re-dub dialogue despite being older than they were when they played the roles. This is the version subsequently re-released later, and is currently on home video.

* Creator/OrsonWelles himself was noted for making changes between previews and later versions. After the release of ''Film/TheTrial'', he went back and removed an entire scene, and the film currently in circulation is this version. After the ExecutiveMeddling of ''Film/TouchOfEvil'', he wrote a memo detailing how he would like to salvage the film and this memo led to a new version in TheNineties which created an entirely new version of the film, with altered scenes, some brought forward, others moved back, the opening credits removed entirely and moved to the end, and with a few inserts to suggest more nuance in character. Likewise, in TheSixties and TheSeventies, Welles tried to attract studios for a plan to salvage ''Film/TheMagnificentAmbersons'' by shooting a few scenes with the surviving cast which, Welles argued, would seamlessly match the existing version but failed to attract interest.

* The original ''Series/{{Star Trek|TheOriginalSeries}}'' series has been reissued with CGI special effects that were obviously not an option during production in TheSixties, replacing the original production models and matte paintings that were used at the time (though in the latter cases, mostly to make the planets more realistic and fix when the AlienSky behind the characters doesn't look like the planet from the space scenes), along with a few more establishing shots that the original show often didn't have the budget to do. Some original music, most notably the opening theme, was also re-recorded. The general approach was an attempt to emulate what was already done with sharper visuals rather than spice up every scene with added details. The CG itself was never intended to be particularly crisp but the old vs new contrast is still there.

* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil did this with the ''Theatre/{{Saltimbanco}}'' soundtrack in 2005 -- along with adding two songs that hadn't appeared on the original 1992 album, all of the original release's songs either had re-recorded portions or were new recordings, reflecting the significant changes made to the show's orchestrations over the years to sound less like products of TheNineties.
* For his 1998 career-spanning BoxedSet ''Tip of the Freberg'', Creator/StanFreberg decided to add some newly recorded material to the archived recordings on there. In one case, he re-recorded some lines cut from the original release of the 1954 UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy satire "Point of Order". In other cases, he did new re-creations of radio commercials he'd written and voiced back in TheSixties. There was one big problem with this: Freberg was in his 70s and had a much deeper and throatier voice than in his younger days, so it was blatantly obvious where the 1998 material got shoved into the older recordings.

** ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry4 DMC4]]'' got a few new scenes added in at the beginning and end for its re-release on the UsefulNotes/PS4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' both had this when re-released on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS. Both had improved visuals and a hint system, especially the latter, which was evident in the start of the game when the bank moves from West Clock Town to South Clock Town, Link can get the Bomber's Notebook without even going through the Bomber's quest, and even saving is much easier in that no longer do you wait for a sword and can do it even as Deku Link.
* To avoid triggering epileptics, many rereleases of old NES, SNES and N64 games on Nintendo's UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole and Switch Online services remove rapid flickering effects seen in the originals by changing them to single solid colors, replacing them with more subtle effects or other means.

* When ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' was reprinted in trade form in 2008, its colors were altered to be more consistent and less garish, and certain scenes were re-done in order to fix continuity errors that were present in the original versions.

* Creator/LewisLovhaug originally did the first redo to his ''Series/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', the first season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' to address the things he missed (Titanus, Scorpina, the Radbug, and the school staff), but then decided to apply it to every video he feels like, noting that several of the old ones opened with discussions that things that were out-of-date now (as well as -- albeit reluctantly -- addressing the [[ElephantInTheLivingRoom the red clad-elephants in the room]] in regards to ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' and ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'').

-->'''Lucas''': The special edition, that's the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it’s on VHS, if anybody wants it. ... I'm not going to spend the, we're talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be.

* The entire ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' comic book series got a full-color re-release in August 2012, which was supposed to coincide with the upcoming DownloadableContent for the BeatEmUp [[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim adaptation]] of the series (that adds Wallace Wells [[PromotedToPlayable as a playable character]] and online multiplayer) originally slated for an August 19th, 2012 release, until the [=DLC=] was pushed back until Fall of 2012.

* To avoid triggering epileptics, all ports and rereleases of ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' remove the rapid flickering effect seen in the NES original when certain spells are cast, bosses are defeated, or Link is killed, and replace it with a single solid color.

** Many of these limitations plus a treasure trove of others (the cheif one being Christopher Reeves not only being dead but in no condition to film new material even if he was still alive) means that the Donner Cut also had to use the ''very'' original ending for Superman II back when it was [[MovieMultipack actually ''Part 2'' to the first films Part 1]][[note]] When Superman started production the Roadshow film was in vogue, so to try and sell Superman as a "Big Deal" they'd make a 4-hour long film. The events of Superman are a version of what would've been Part 1, with the events of Superman II being... Part 2. However, as production went on Roadshow films went out of fashion and so the production split the film into two and the ending to the whole project (Superman traveling back in time to undo everything) was reused to end the first film. This is why Zod, Ursa, and Non are in the first Superman film despite having nothing to do with the plot.[[/note]] and not make an original ending.
* ''Film/BladeRunner'' was already famous for the number of {{Recut}}s: theatrical, workprint, Directors Cut and Final Cut, in large part due to the mystique surrounding Creator/RidleyScott being [[ExecutiveMeddling removed in post production]]. The biggest change noticed was the removal of the PrivateEyeMonologue in all subsequent versions along with the forced HappyEnding, while the workprint and Director's Cut were not officially approved by Scott due to still being unfinished. The 25th Anniversary Final Cut, the only one Scott was involved with directly, fell under this trope as it fixed continuity errors, airbrushed revealing mistakes, added a few CG-assisted backdrops, adjusted the editing in key scenes and modified the color correction throughout. Unique to most examples of this trope, Ridley Scott made most of the previous, unaltered cuts of the movie readily available for anyone who wanted them in Blade Runner's boxsets on DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

* ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925'' is an early and very mysterious example of a movie getting several alternate versions. The movie was originally released silent in 1925, but it was re-released with sound in 1930 to capitalize on the advent of "Talkies." About 60% of the movie was re-shot with sound (and with some changes to the cast), with the remaining silent footage just having new dialogue dubbed in. No film copies of the sound version exist (the soundtrack itself does, however), but there's ''another'' version of the movie called the Eastman House print, and nobody is really sure where it came from. It's silent, but some of the footage is obviously taken from the sound version, and the footage taken from the earlier silent version is slightly askew, suggesting it was shot from a secondary camera positioned to the side of the main one. There's also a scene that looks like it was shot for the 1930 version, but nothing that matches it can be found in the 1930 soundtrack. Home video releases offer several differing restored versions, one of which attempts to match up the soundtrack with the Eastman House print, ultimately making the situation even more confusing.

* [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie 3D re-releases]] of movies that were originally shot and shown in 2D have become the 2010s equivalent of colorization, though they tend to not attract as much controversy since there's little chance of the 3D versions ever replacing the originals. Creator/JamesCameron kicked off the trend with ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', which lead to 3D conversions of other films such as ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', ''Film/JurassicPark'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. Sometimes, as was the case with ''Jurassic Park'', the [=CGI=] gets updated and elements like rain and debris get digitally beefed up to enhance the 3D effect.
* There's a short film parodying this phenomenon, styled as a {{Mockumentary}} about digitally remastering all the audio for ''Film/TheSting'''s DVD release. The lead audio engineer [[ComicallyMissingThePoint wildly misses the point]]--for example, he adds sci-fi sound effects to all the outdoor scenes (because he insists the movie isn't set in the 1930s, but in [[DaysOfFuturePast a far future that happens to look just like the 30s]]) and redubs Paul Newman with [[CampGay a campy lisp]] (because that's ''obviously'' how director George Roy Hill meant for the character to sound all along), and so on.

* Creator/DavidLean's original cut for ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' was nearly four hours long with intermission. This was screened at the premiere but was cut down to three hours for the general release. In TheEighties, Lean collaborated on the restoration and revived his four-hour cut which had never been widely distributed theatrically. He got the surviving actors to redub dialogue despite being older than they were when they played the roles. This is the version subsequently re-released later, and is currently on home-video.

* While ''Film/JurassicPark'' got an authentic transfer in the 2012 Ultimate Trilogy boxset, the version released in 2014 was rife with this. It featured a BlueAndOrangeContrast colour grade, various odd sizing changes such as the size of Rexy's head and making Muldoon's thighs bigger, [[{{Bowdlerize}} removing Rexy chomping on the head of a Gallimimus]], or just cleaning up Creator/JeffGoldblum's hair for a specific scene ([[DigitalDestruction not to mention heavy use of Digital Noise Removal, removing a lot of the finer details]]). [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools On the other hand]], various infamous goofs are fixed, such as a light in the back of a shot or the cables used to flip the Jeep in the T-Rex breakout scene.

* In what it quite likely the earliest example, ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'' was released as a 210 minute EpicMovie, but director Creator/DWGriffith recut the film while it was still in theatres, shortening the segments covering the Crucifixion of Jesus and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre when he saw audiences were more interested in the modern story and the Fall of Babylon story (all four had equal screen time). Griffith then filmed new scenes for the latter two stories, which he would rerelease as standalone works in 1919 as ''The Mother and the Law'' and ''The Fall of Babylon'', including an unambiguous HappyEnding for the latter (The Mountain Girl survives and is reunited with The Rhapsode), and one hell of a DownerEnding for the former, although a happier alternate ending exists. To this day, the "original" version of the film is likely lost as the longest, most complete extant cut is 176 minutes long.

* When Creator/AynRand wrote ''We The Living'', she was not yet proficient at the English language, and she hadn't yet developed [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} her philosophy]], so when the book was reissued, she decided to rewrite several parts that were inconsistent with her philosophy.

* The original US publication of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' altered a scene in the climax [[spoiler:where a series of ghosts return in the descending order of their death. Unlike the UK Edition, where Harry's mother comes before his father, since she died before him, the US Edition, reversed it, with his Father coming second, implying, contrary to what was previously stated, that Harry's father was killed before his mother. Later reprints fixed this]].

** Creator/TheBBC repeated this again in 2019 when they released the ''The Collection: Season 18'' Blu-ray box set. Creator/TomBaker's swansong episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Logopolis]]", now has an optional alternate cut with updated special effects, the replacement of the model footage of the radio telescope in motion in Part 4 with live-action footage of the telescope at Jodrell Bank, and an additional scene [[spoiler: where, after watching his hand slip away from the strut as we do in the original, we see the Fourth Doctor plunge to his death]].

* In 1970, on the precipice of the band's break-up, Music/TheBeatles released their 12th studio album ''Music/LetItBe'', essentially cobbled together by producer Phil Spector from various studio recordings and out-takes. In 2003, Music/PaulMcCartney would release ''Let It Be... Naked'', a remixed version of the album that stripped out Phil Spector's choral and orchestral overdubs (which were probably necessary at the time to salvage parts of the material), and digitally cleaning tracks using technology not available at the time. Unlike most iterations of this trope, both versions remained readily available.

* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' Blu-ray release also updated the special effects in certain places, where showing the original in hi-def would only make them look worse. Unique for this trope is [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools many people actually applaud the work]], saying it breathes new life into the show by making it feel recent and not forcing you to enjoy it as a relic of the past. The key difference between the TNG and TOS remasters is that for TNG, CBS had an almost-entirely complete archive of the well-preserved original film to work from, and there were very few scenes that required all-new effects work (most notably the all-CGI crystalline entity from "Datalore" and "Silicon Avatar", which had to be recreated from scratch), and there were no redesigns or "editorial changes" involved (as was the case with the planets and other effects in TOS).

* From the '80s until its first DVD release in 2005, the English-dubbed release of ''Film/DangerDiabolik'' suffered from this; the original track was presumed lost, and the recordings that existed were mixed with new voices of inferior quality; also, a reference to RobinHood was removed, possibly in order to avoid the ire of Disney (who made an animated movie about the legend) or Warner Bros. (who had just come out with their own Robin Hood movie around the time the VHS and Laserdisc of ''Diabolik'' was released). It wasn't until 2005 that a DVD was released with the original English track as heard in theatres.

* In what it quite likely the earliest example, ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'' was released as a 210 minute EpicMovie, but director Creator/DWGriffith recut the film while it was still in theatres, shortening the segments covering the Crucifixion of Jesus and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre when he saw audiences were more interested in the modern story and the Fall of Babylon story (all four had equal screen time). Griffith then filmed new scenes for the latter two stories, which he would rerelease as standalone works in 1919 as ''The Mother and the Law'' and ''The Fall of Babylon'', including an unambiguous HappyEnding in both (The Dear One is reunited with her baby and The Mountain Girl survives and is reunited with The Rhapsode, respectively). To this day, the "original" version of the film is likely lost as the longest, most complete extant cut is 176 minutes long.

It's worth noting that [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld the majority of creators do not have final cut privilege or a copyright on their work, being really owned by the corporations]]. Sometimes the new version is made by those who had nothing to do with the original, and the level of clout needed to do this to your own work is rare. On the other hand, sometimes the new version is made by the creators themselves, who finally got the chance to edit the work the way they wanted to in the first place.

* The digital release of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' [[https://twitter.com/chrisagwrites/status/1689421335242416129 has many]], ''many'' alterations made compared to the original theatrical version released back in June 2023, and even the later theatrical releases (which has its ''own'' sets of alterations compared to the original premiere), from added, altered, and removed effects, to even whole lines of dialogues being re-recorded or striped entirely.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** 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 alterations are notably different between Japanese and international releases (reportedly, 4Kids received several pre-Porygon tapes and were left to remove the flashing lights on their own.) Later, the first episode was remastered again, this time as a compromise between the pre-Porygon and post-Porygon versions, although this version was never released outside of Japan.

* This is often done with remixes in pop/hip-hop/r'n'b music, where the original artist gets other artists to perform new parts of their hit single on the track's original beat.

* Music/DavidSylvian finally released the Japan outtake "Some Kind Of Fool" on his 2002 collection Everything And Nothing...but added new vocals to the original instrumental. Whilst Sylvian's singing had definitely improved, the vocals were incongruous with the older music. He did similar versions of Ghosts and solo track Brilliant Trees, the former also on Everything And Nothing, and the latter on a limited 3CD edition of it.
* In 2009, Music/{{Kraftwerk}} released remastered versions of all their albums, save their first three which they've [[OldShame more or less disowned.]] Among other changes, the album ''Electric Cafe'' was changed to ''Techno Pop'' (its' original working title), and the cover of ''Trans Europe Express'' was changed to a simple train logo rather than a portrait of the four band members (possibly because two of them had long since split from the band, and not exactly on good terms either).

* Two years after Music/DavidBowie[='s=] death, Parlophone announced a complete revamping of his much-panned 1987 album ''Music/NeverLetMeDown''. Dubbed ''Never Let Me Down 2018'', it featured completely new backing tracks produced by Mario J. [=McNulty=], who previously produced a similar remix of "Time Will Crawl" for Bowie's 2008 ''[=iSelect=]'' compilation album. The new version features a much more organic sound than the original 1987 version, lacking the heavy synthesizer work that marked the original album's perceived overproduction. The remix was released on October 12, 2018, exclusively as part of the BoxedSet ''Loving The Alien (1983-1988)''; a digital release of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTGGb2VUmGg the remixed version of "Zeroes"]] was released the previous July, with a physical 7" release containing an edited "Beat of Your Drum" as a B-side released in September.

** Some bugfixes were also facultative GoodOldBug 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.