History PortingDisaster / Multiplatform

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' and its "Remastered" version on Xbox 360 and [=PlayStation=] 3, except based of the 2013 mobile version by War Drum Studios, except much worse in many ways. On top of the contention visual aesthetic changes, these mobile-to-console ports are rife with various graphical glitches and corruption issues (especially on the Xbox 360), broken and/or missing effects, random voice-overs cutting off mid-sentence during cutscenes, sound effects compressed so badly to the point of being ear-grating, radio stations randomly bugging out thanks to poorly removing the expired licensed tracks, mission-related crashes that can render the game unbeatable, and a poorly implemented checkpoint and auto-save system that can hinder you more than help. Adding insult to injury, Rockstar used the broken Remastered version to outright [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes replaced]] the older yet functional original Xbox port that used to be available via Games on Demand, without warning or giving them the option to re-download the old Xbox version if they had it on their Xbox accounts.

* The newer Steam version of ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' is not only missing 1/10 of its music thanks to expired licences like in the mobile and remastered versions, it also ignores bugfixes from the previous releases and patches while introducing more bugs and problems of its own. It also has very barebones modern Xbox 360 controller, lacks the colored lighting from the [=PlayStation=] 2 version, poorly implemented widescreen support which squishes the image to look flatter than it should be, and a sudden update caused some players from certain regions to loose their progress thanks to incompatibilities with their save files. The Steam version would also serve as the basis for the Rockstar Games Launcher version, which is also marred an even worse mouse bug and anti-modding measures to undo changes or prevent players from being able to play the game at all if they try to mod it. Thankfully the modding community not only have made tools available to downgrade these versions to the original v1.0 release, but can also be fixed up with mods such as [=SilentPatch=], [=GInput=], [=SkyGfx=], Widescreen Fix, and much more, along with efforts of restoring the original features of the [=PlayStation=] 2 version or porting the genuine improvements from the mobile port to the PC version.

* The ''Franchise/SilentHill HD Collection'', an UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' and ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' for UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}.
** The remaster job was outsourced to Hijinx Studios, a mobile/handheld game developer that had never done a console game before, using source code from [[http://www.1up.com/features/the-problem-with-preservation the unfinished betas]] of both games due to poor archiving. It shows, with both games suffering from many bugs major and minor and overall being noticeably worse than the originals on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}. There is rampant slowdown to the point of rendering the games (particularly ''[=SH3=]'') virtually unplayable, the voices fall out of sync with the characters' lips, some of the texture work looks unfinished and recycled from the original versions (clashing badly with the redone sections), the lighting is actually ''worse'' to the point of making navigation almost impossible in some parts, and most damningly, ''[=SH2=]''[='=]s famous fog effects are so broken as to render certain parts of the game laughable.

** Art Data Interactive's port on the 3DO. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msfL7XRe6DQ Small screen and low frame-rate ahoy!]] When put next to Interplay's port of ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' on the same console, this is inexcusable. The single bright spot, picked up on pretty much every review, was the awesome music, rerecorded specifically for this version. Just a shame that there were so few levels that some of the original songs were not present. The port was frequently rumoured to have been accidentally mastered from an earlier build, but as [[https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do it turns out]], it was programmed by ''one person'', who was misled on the state of the port before their arrival and then ''[[ChristmasRushed only given ten weeks]]'' to actually create it, with JPEG images of assets being handed over along with a copy of ''Ultimate Doom''. Rebecca Heineman, the sole person responsible for the port, recalled that she had to work under pressure at the time and whipped up a hastily-done port to placate Randy Scott with his unrealistic expectations for the port--it has been said that Randy grossly underestimated how difficult it is to develop a video game, more specifically convert ''Doom'' for a vastly different platform, and thought that having it ported to the 3DO would make for a [[MoneyDearBoy get-rich-quick]] scheme.
** The Saturn port is an absolute mess, being close to the 32X port despite being on a noticeably more powerful machine. The primary reason for its issues is that Creator/JohnCarmack was [[ExecutiveMeddling very strict]] about not allowing them to use hardware rendering (which with the Saturn's specs would have allowed double the framerate of the [=PlayStation=] version) due to texture warping, so they were forced to ditch the original high-performance renderer in favor of a hastily-reprogrammed version of the 32X port's renderer - the result being that there's no texture warping, but at the cost of completely random bouts of slowdown, sometimes even when looking at a blank wall, with the overall experience generally ranging from mediocre in the ''Doom I'' levels to nearly unplayable in the ''Doom II'' levels. It's further plagued with jerky, unresponsive controls that are mapped to a decidedly questionable control scheme, non-musical sound effects of low quality, and no multiplayer of any kind in the North American version, which takes half the fun out of ''Doom''.

** Art Data Interactive's port on the 3DO. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msfL7XRe6DQ Small screen and low frame-rate ahoy!]] When put next to Interplay's port of ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' on the same console, this is inexcusable. The single bright spot, picked up on pretty much every review, was the awesome music, rerecorded specifically for this version. Just a shame that there were so few levels that some of the original songs were not present. The port was frequently rumoured to have been accidentally mastered from an earlier build, but as [[https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do it turns out]], it was programmed by ''one person'', who was misled on the state of the port before their arrival and then only given ten weeks to actually create it.

** While the SNES version is indeed a marvelous achievement, the pros are ''far'' outweighed by the cons. The graphics of the original were greatly downgraded; enemies are no longer [[LudicrousGibs gibbed]] when suffering from close-range explosions, many textures have been simplified or removed outright (and enemy sprites, leading to the infamous "crab-walking" baddies that always faced you), the framerate is rather uneven, and the frames can even skip some sprite animations if more than three enemies are on-screen at close-range. The lighting was also significantly altered, making certain lit walls where secrets are hidden like any other wall, which can cause frustration if you're trying to remember which freaking panel that upgrade was put behind. To make it worse, they even had the '''gall''' to add EasyModeMockery; if you're playing the easy difficulty levels, it only lets you play the first episode, ''Knee-Deep in the Dead''. If you want to play the third episode ''Inferno'' and see the FinalBoss, you were forced to play on Ultra-Violence or Nightmare!, the two hardest difficulties. The Super Famicom version fixes this.\\

The sound effects are muffled as well, a good portion of the levels have been excised, and [[FakeDifficulty it's impossible to turn and sidestep at the same time]]--something that even the SNES port of ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' could manage. The only truly good part of the game is its soundtrack, which is fun to listen to because the SNES's sampler makes the MIDI soundtrack sound much more like real instruments than the Sound Blaster's FM synth ever could[[note]]Unless you cut your teeth with the PC version of Doom on a PC with a Gravis Ultrasound, then the SNES version sounds absolutely muffled compared to its glory. Because, like the SNES' [=SPC700=], the Ultrasound was a sampler-based sound card, which Doom had full support for and would load its own custom soundfonts if one is used, and unlike the SNES' [=SPC700=], it had ''at least'' '''four''' times the amount of memory compared to the [=SPC700=] (256kb upgradable to 1MB, vs 64kb). And the [=AWE32=] (another sampler-based card) ain't too far behind either.[[/note]].

** The ports of the first two games on UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch for the "Year of Doom" in 2019 have problems, many of which are due to the inexplicable decision to port the games to Unity, rather than porting the [[PortOverdosed infamously-adaptable]] ''Doom'' engine to the new hardware properly. While much more playable than several of the ports in the game's heyday, they have issues with the playable resolution being improperly scaled somewhere between 4:3 and 16:9, making everything appear stretched; areas being too bright because shadows are improperly emulated; music and sound effects being slowed down; and a complete lack of ''any'' online features other than a mandatory login to a Bethesda account.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' received home computer ports of the original ''World Warrior'' for the western market in 1993.
** Aside from the fact that ''World Warrior'' was already considered vestigial by that time (the 16-bit consoles were already receiving ports of the previous year's ''Champion Edition'' and ''Hyper Fighting'' editions), the conversions were all being handled by U.S. Gold, a company with a spotty track record when it came to porting arcade games to home computers.

** The [=C64=] version had the large, detailed character sprites became tiny, unrecognizable messes of pixels and five-minute loads to move on to the next stage. On top of all that, instead of three-punch and three-kick buttons, it was played with a joystick which only had one button.

* All three console versions of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' suffer from some form of issues. Both the [=PS3=] and Xbox 360 versions suffer from some nasty [[GameBreakingBug Game-Breaking Bugs]] that apparently Warner Bros. simply has no interest in patching, which involves the game randomly crashing when trying to enter certain areas, along with both versions having a somewhat inconsistent framerate. The 360 suffers from even more freezing issues, occasional black screens, and even save data corruption. The Wii U version seemed to not be hit as hard, as its main issues mainly just involve a somewhat choppy framerate like the other versions, and the gamepad features feel a bit bare bones compared to the Wii U port of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' (likely the result of the Wii U version being handled by Human Head Studios, the people behind ''VideoGame/Prey2006'', instead of the game's primary developer, WB Montreal, who were the studio behind the Wii U port of ''Arkham City'' in the first place), but otherwise the Wii U game actually seems better by comparison due to higher quality graphics and much less game-breaking bugs.
* While not a "disaster" in the "this utterly shames the original product" sense, ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' has a unique issue: it ''cannot'' be ported correctly. The original game has a very strange encryption scheme which never been decoded, and all related parties who created it have never been willing to help out with breaking it. So all the ports are based on code that has been [=DRM'd=] by this encryption, resulting in various glitches, missing effects (such as blood color) and being unable to perform certain combos and fatalities properly.

The sound effects are muffled as well, a good portion of the levels have been excised, and [[FakeDifficulty it's impossible to turn and sidestep at the same time]]--something that even the SNES port of ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' could manage. The only truly good part of the game is its soundtrack, which is fun to listen to because the SNES's sampler makes the MIDI soundtrack sound much more like real instruments than the Sound Blaster's FM synth ever could[[note]]Unless you cut your teeth with the PC version of Doom on a PC with a Gravis Ultrasound, then the SNES version sounds absolutely muffled compared to the glory that is the Ultrasound. Because, like the SNES' [=SPC700=], the Ultrasound was a sampler-based sound card, which Doom had full support for and would load its own custom soundfonts if one is used, and unlike the SNES' [=SPC700=], it had ''at least'' '''four''' times the amount of memory compared to the [=SPC700=] (256kb upgradable to 1MB, vs 64kb). And the [=AWE32=] (another sampler-based card) ain't too far behind either.[[/note]].
** The Sega [=32X=] port was inexplicably inferior to the SNES version despite being on a superior hardware. Despite the graphics being better, the entire third episode was missing along with the bosses and BFG-9000, beating the game would load up a DOS prompt if the player cheated or used the level select and the soundtrack was ''butchered''. Especially unforgivable because the FM chip in the Genesis[[note]]the [=YM2612=]; the 32X uses 2 PWM channels[[/note]] is very similar to the [=YM2608=] (the FM chip used on later versions of the UsefulNotes/{{PC88}} and UsefulNotes/{{PC98}}), and it even has an additional PSG chip for sound effects.

** The ports on UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch have problems, many of which (at least for the Switch version) are due to the inexplicable decision to port the games to Unity, rather than porting the [[PortOverdosed infamously-adaptable]] ''Doom'' engine to the new hardware properly. While much more playable than several of the ports in the game's heyday, they have issues with being improperly scaled somewhere between 4:3 and 16:9, making the picture appear stretched; areas being too bright because shadows are improperly emulated; music and sound effects being slowed down; and a complete lack of any online features other than a mandatory login to a Bethesda account.

* ''[[VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos Metal Wolf Chaos XD]]'', while it has given many the opportunity to experience this game overseas on their [=PlayStation One=] and Xbox without paying a fortune as the original Xbox release was Japanese-exclusive for almost 15 years, it is unfortunately marred with a plethora of problems at launch. Issues includes many missing visual effects and shaders, resulting in the many of the game's environments to look drab and lifeless compared to the original Xbox version, with poor audio mixing and sound balance issues where some versions are missing sound effects, sounds playing off sync due to an uneven frame-rate, have not been properly balanced, voice-overs cutting off shorter than expected, or all of the above. Some players have also ran into bugs present in the ''XD'' version that wasn't present in the original, such as certain collectible items sometimes not appearing when they should at best, or the game being prune to crashes at worst. Other issues also includes errors in the game's localization as well.

** The Saturn port is an absolute mess, being closed to the 32X port despite being on a noticeably more powerful machine. The primary reason for its issues is that Creator/JohnCarmack was [[ExecutiveMeddling very strict]] about not allowing them to use hardware rendering (which with the Saturn's specs would have allowed double the framerate of the [=PlayStation=] version) due to texture warping, so they were forced to ditch the original high-performance renderer in favor of a hastily-reprogrammed version of the 32X port's renderer - the result being that there's no texture warping, but at the cost of completely random bouts of slowdown, sometimes even when looking at a blank wall, with the overall experience generally ranging from mediocre in the ''Doom I'' levels to nearly unplayable in the ''Doom II'' levels. It's further plagued with jerky, unresponsive controls that are mapped to a decidedly questionable control scheme, non-musical sound effects of low quality, and no multiplayer of any kind in the North American version, which takes half the fun out of ''Doom''.

* A tie-in for the film ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' was released on several platforms, including the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, and PC, among others. The Amiga version has smashing music due to the Paula audio chip. The Atari ST, Spectrum 128K and [=C64=] version was bearable thanks to the PSG sound systems of the former two and the SID chip of the latter. The PC version, however, is this trope played straight. Using only EGA graphics and PC speaker sound, despite the [=AdLib=] and Game Blaster, and indeed the first generation Sound Blaster, being already released when the game came out and VGA was already picking up steam. And even then the PC music was often described as someone strangling an ice cream truck. (The music speed is also tied to the CPU speed, so the faster the computer is, the worse the music sounds - using DOSBox with the default CPU cycle setting produces the most painful result.)

The more ports a game receives, the likelier it is that one of them will suffer from this trope. Sometimes, however, it may take multiple ports to get it right.

Here are some Porting Disasters that were spread across multiple platforms.

** While the SNES version is indeed a marvelous achievement, the pros are ''far'' outweighed by the cons. The graphics of the original were greatly downgraded; enemies are no longer [[LudicrousGibs gibbed]] when suffering from close-range explosions, many textures have been simplified or removed outright (and enemy sprites, leading the infamous "crab-walking" baddies that always faced you), the framerate is rather uneven, and the frames can even skip some sprite animations if more than three enemies are on-screen at close-range. The lighting was also significantly altered, making certain lit walls where secrets are hidden like any other wall, which can cause frustration if you're trying to remember which freaking panel that upgrade was put behind. To make it worse, they even had the '''gall''' to add EasyModeMockery; if you're playing the easy difficulty levels, it only lets you play the first episode, ''Knee-Deep in the Dead''. If you want to play the third episode ''Inferno'' and see the FinalBoss, you were forced to play on Ultra-Violence or Nightmare!, the two hardest difficulties. The Super Famicom version fixes this.\\

** The remaster job was outsourced to Hijinx Studios, a mobile/handheld game developer that had never done a console game before, using source code from [[http://www.1up.com/features/the-problem-with-preservation the unfinished betas]] of both games due to poor archiving. It shows, with both games suffering from many bugs major and minor and overall being noticeably worse than the originals on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}. There is rampant slowdown to the point of rendering the games (particularly ''[=SH3=]'') virtually unplayable, the voices fall out of sync with the characters' lips, some of the texture work looks unfinished and recycled from the original versions (clashing badly with the redone sections), the lighting is actually ''worse'' to the point of making navigation almost impossible in some parts, and most damningly, ''[=SH2=]''[='=]s famous fog effects are so broken as to render certain parts of the game laughable. Given that the remasters were running on superior hardware, there was no excuse for them to be worse on a technical level. What makes that all even worse is that source code is not even required to produce an HD version of a [=PS2=] game. All you need is a retail copy and a team of programmers savvy in the [=PS2=] language, which was how the HD versions of ''VideoGame/{{ICO}}'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' were made. Thankfully, Konami patched the [=PS3=] version, and ''[=SH2=]'' works pretty well now with minor issues (they mostly fixed the fog effects, though they're still somewhat less impressive than the original). Xbox 360 owners, however, were screwed as they didn't get that patch.
** And all of that doesn't even get into the creative decisions, the biggest one being that both games came with redone voice acting that quickly proved controversial among fans of the series. In ''[=SH3=]'', for instance, the teenage protagonist Heather suffered a dramatic case of DawsonCasting, sounding like a forty-year-old woman imitating a teenage girl. (Comparisons between the originals and the remasters can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV_NC4JGntM here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu0JUqrZoYM here]].) Fortunately, with ''[=SH2=]'' the original voice track is still available as an option, but because Konami couldn't clear all the original voice actors for ''[=SH3=]'' in time for release (the VA for Heather turned out to be working in China, and the VA for Douglas had [[AuthorExistenceFailure died just before the original game was released]]), only the new voice track is available in that game.

** The remaster job was outsourced to Hijinx Studios, a mobile/handheld game developer that had never done a console game before, using source code from [[http://www.1up.com/features/the-problem-with-preservation the unfinished betas]] of both games due to poor archiving. It shows, with both games suffering from many bugs major and minor and overall being noticeably worse than the originals on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}. There is rampant slowdown to the point of rendering the games (particularly ''[=SH3=]'') virtually unplayable, the voices fall out of sync with the characters' lips, some of the texture work looks unfinished and recycled from the original versions (clashing badly with the redone sections), the lighting is actually ''worse'' to the point of making navigation almost impossible in some parts, and most damningly, ''[=SH2=]''[='=]s famous fog effects are so broken as to render certain parts of the game laughable. Given that the remasters were running on superior hardware, there was no excuse for them to be worse on a technical level. What makes that all even worse is that source code is not even required to produce an HD version of a [=PS2=] game. All you need is a retail copy and a team of programmers savvy in the [=PS2=] language, which was how the HD versions of ''VideoGame/{{ICO}}'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' were made. Thankfully, Konami patched the [=PS3=] version, and ''[=SH2=]'' works pretty well now with minor issues (they mostly fixed the fog effects, though they're still somewhat less impressive than the original). Xbox 360 owners, however, were screwed as they didn't get that patch. All told, the InternetBackdraft from the whole debacle was so bad that many ''Silent Hill'' fans boycotted the collection out of spite.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' was screwed up horribly in some way in most ports (excluding ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94'', which is more of a remake), ranging from awful controls, to completely messed up graphics and music, to even cutting out the cement factory or elevator stages (or both). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErdZEOTpKL8 These]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVcKjBBuKIE videos]] show several different versions of the game. One of them is the NES version, and another is a graphics hack of the NES version, both of which are very good despite lacking the cement factory stage -- and even that was re-added to a limited rerelease during the '[=10s=]. The rest? They all suck horribly, though special mention goes to the ZX Spectrum version, which is especially bad. When the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} version was released, people at Mattel suspected it to be an act of sabotage on the part of Coleco.

** The UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows port was cited by some to have been the reason why game developers initially stuck to MS-DOS, and as one of the reasons for [=DirectX=]'s inception. The game used [=WinG=], a graphics backend library Microsoft developed in an attempt to address issues with game development on Windows, as the latter operating system added unnecessary overhead and did not allow for close-to-metal access to hardware unlike DOS. While the Windows port did work to an extent, it caused quite a PR disaster when millions of Compaq Presarios came shipped with incompatible graphics drivers, leading to [=BSODs=], tantrums among children, and thus disgruntled parents.

* ''VideoGame/LichdomBattlemage'' on [=PlayStation 4=] and Xbox One has two huge problems: ''atrocious'' performance, with the game always staying between 10-20 frames per second, and ''atrocious'' loading times, clocking in at several minutes, while having the audacity of still needing to stream in textures afterwards. But on the bright side, a patch was later released, showing astronomical improvements in performance over the earlier build. The Xbox One version stays at a near constant 30FPS with vertical sync. However, the PlayStation 4 version has an unlocked framerate up to 60FPS, making it inconsistent but still playable, especially compared to the stock version. The only sacrifice made was a drop from a native 1080p to 900p on both consoles.

* The [=PS4=] and Xbox One ports of ''VideoGame/LichdomBattlemage'' had the dishonor of being named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JXeX9sYYE the worst-ever performing PS4/Xbox One ports tested by Digital Foundry]] at the time. Both ports were weighed down by frame rates that rarely ever rose above 20 FPS, and LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading that could fill an average TV commercial break. The Xbox One port, on top of those problems, also washed everything in an extremely dark color palette, and screen tearing happens all too frequently thanks to the lack of vertical sync. Even worse, the tutorial videos shown during normal gameplay run fine, but they're simply taken from the original PC version of the game. [=CryEngine=] 3, while it has had its share of console duds (most infamously ''Sonic Boom'' on Wii U) ''is'' capable of producing good results (''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome'', ''VideoGame/EverybodysGoneToTheRapture'', ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'', etc.), so it's unfortunate that the console versions of ''Lichdom'' were released in such a dire state. Luckily, patches fixed these issues (though only mostly in the case of the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PS4]] version, which has an unlocked framerate that jumps everywhere in the 30-50 range).

** The Saturn port is an absolute mess, being closed to the 32X port despite being on a noticeably more powerful machine. The primary reason for its issues is that Creator/JohnCarmack was [[ExecutiveMeddling very strict]] about not allowing them to use hardware rendering due to texture warping, so they were forced to ditch the original high-performance render in favor of a hastily-reprogrammed version of the 32X port's renderer - the result being that there's no texture warping, but at the cost of completely random bouts of slowdown, sometimes even when looking at a blank wall, with the overall experience generally ranging from mediocre in the ''Doom I'' levels to nearly unplayable in the ''Doom II'' levels. It's further plagued with jerky, unresponsive controls that are mapped to a decidedly questionable control scheme, non-musical sound effects of low quality, and no multiplayer of any kind in the North American version, which takes half the fun out of ''Doom''.

* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Hot Pursuit 2'' was a completely different game on the the Xbox, PC, and [=GameCube=], all designed by a different development house from the [=PlayStation=] 2 version. While there are some track similarities, the sense of speed is all but gone, the handling is worse, the game in general is far more boring, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the menus don't look as nice]]. These versions of the game aren't "bad", ''per se'' (as games they're fundamentally sound and could even be fun if you didn't ever get to play the "good" one), but they are considerably inferior to the [=PlayStation=] 2 version.

* ''VideoGame/SimCity 2000'' has the same issues in every single console version. Control responsiveness is unbelievably bad, and for something that stores data on flash or battery-backed RAM instead of magnetic media, the save game loading times are incredibly slow. Also, looking for help? [[ObviousBeta You're instructed to press shift + enter!]]

* A tie-in for the film ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' was released on several platforms, including the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, and PC, among others. The Amiga version has smashing music due to the Paula audio chip. The Atari ST, Spectrum 128K and [=C64=] version was bearable thanks to the PSG sound systems of the former two and the SID chip of the latter. The PC version, however, is this trope played straight. Using only EGA graphics and PC speaker sound, despite the [=AdLib=] and Game Blaster, and indeed the first generation Sound Blaster, being already released when the game came out and VGA was already picking up steam. And even then the PC music was often described as someone strangling an ice cream truck. (The music speed is also tied to the CPU speed, so the faster the computer is, the worse the music sounds - using DOSBox with the default max-cycles setting produces the most painful result.)

* A tie-in for the film ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' was released on several platforms, including the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, and PC, among others. The Amiga version has smashing music due to the Paula audio chip. The Atari ST, Spectrum 128K and [=C64=] version was bearable thanks to the PSG sound systems of the former two and the SID chip of the latter. The PC version, however, is this trope played straight. Using only EGA graphics and PC speaker sound, despite the [=AdLib=] and Game Blaster, and indeed the first generation Sound Blaster, being already released when the game came out and VGA was already picking up steam. And even then the PC music was often described as someone strangling an ice cream truck. (The music is also tied to the CPU speed, so the faster the computer is, the worse the music sounds.)

* A tie-in for the film ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' was released on several platforms, including the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, and PC, among others. The Amiga version has smashing music due to the Paula audio chip. The Atari ST, Spectrum 128K and [=C64=] version was bearable thanks to the PSG sound systems of the former two and the SID chip of the latter. The PC version, however, is this trope played straight. Using only EGA graphics and PC speaker sound, despite the [=AdLib=] and Game Blaster, and indeed the first generation Sound Blaster, being already released when the game came out and VGA was already picking up steam. And even then the PC music was often described as someone strangling an ice cream truck.

* A tie-in for the film ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' was released on several platforms, including the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, and PC, among others. The Amiga version has smashing music due to the Paula audio chip. The Atari ST, Spectrum 128K and [=C64=] version was bearable thanks to the PSG sound system. The PC version, however, is this trope played straight. Using only EGA graphics and PC speaker sound, despite the [=AdLib=] and Game Blaster, and indeed the first generation Sound Blaster, being already released when the game came out and VGA was already picking up steam. And even then the PC music was often described as someone strangling an ice cream truck.

Here are some Porting Disasters that were spread across multiple platforms. [Insert something witty here]

* ''Redout'' has pretty mixed results across its console ports. The [=PS4=] Pro version averts the trope pretty nicely, looking and playing almost as well as the PC version. The original [=PS4=] doesn't do quite so well, with occasional slowdown, but is an overall decent enough port. The Xbox One X version is also pretty nice, boosting the resolution all the way up to 4K, albeit at the cost of slowdown comparable to the original [=PS4=]. The real disaster is the Xbox One version, which runs at a lower resolution, has several noticeable cutbacks in graphics quality, and has the peak framerate cut down from [=60FPS=] on the other versions to [=30FPS=], and can't even always manage ''that'' framerate smoothly.
* The [=PS4=] and Xbox One ports of ''VideoGame/LichdomBattlemage'' had the dishonor of being named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JXeX9sYYE the worst-ever performing PS4/Xbox One ports tested by Digital Foundry]] at the time. Both ports were weighed down by frame rates that rarely ever rose above 20 FPS, and LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading that could fill an average TV commercial break. The Xbox One port, on top of those problems, also washed everything in an extremely dark color palette, and screen tearing happens all too frequently thanks to the lack of vertical sync. Even worse, the tutorial videos shown during normal gameplay run fine, but they're simply taken from the PC version of the game. [=CryEngine=] 3, while it has had its share of console duds (most infamously ''Sonic Boom'' on Wii U) ''is'' capable of producing good results (''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome'', ''VideoGame/EverybodysGoneToTheRapture'', ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'', etc.), so it's unfortunate that the console versions of ''Lichdom'' were released in such a dire state. Luckily, patches fixed these issues (though only mostly in the case of the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PS4]] version, which has an unlocked framerate that jumps everywhere in the 30-50 range).

** ''[[VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders Zone of the Enders HD Collection]]'' had its problems on both [=PS3=] and Xbox 360, but the former got the raw end of the stick, even more so with ''The 2nd Runner''. It had very inconsistent frame-rate issues that were never present in the [=PS2=] originals (at most it ran only about 30 FPS) and visual effects went missing, all of which is inexcusable running on superior hardware. As it turns out, Konami hired High Voltage Studios to handle the porting job rather than doing it in-house or hiring Bluepoint, the studio that handled the HD Editions of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 3]]''. And to put icing on the cake, due to the negative reception the ''Zone of the Enders HD Collection'' received, [[http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/02/we-might-have-to-wait-a-little-longer-for-a-zone-of-the-enders-sequel/ Ender's Project has been put off indefinitely and the dev team dismantled as a result]]. Thankfully a patch for the [=PS3=] version of ''[=2nd Runner=]'' was developed by Hexa Drive and released a year later, which upgrades the resolution to full 1080p with much smoother frame-rate. Unfortunately, like the ''Silent Hill HD Collection'', Xbox 360 owners were left out from this upgrade.

* All three console versions of the game ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' suffer from some form of issues. Both the [=PS3=] and Xbox 360 versions suffer from some nasty [[GameBreakingBug Game-Breaking Bugs]] that apparently Warner Bros. simply has no interest in patching, which involves the game randomly crashing when trying to enter certain areas, along with both versions having a somewhat inconsistent framerate. The 360 suffers from even more freezing issues, occasional black screens, and even save data corruption. The Wii U version seemed to not be hit as hard, as its main issues mainly just involve a somewhat choppy framerate like the other versions, and the gamepad features feel a bit bare bones compared to the Wii U port of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' (likely the result of the Wii U version being handled by Human Head Studios, the people behind ''VideoGame/Prey2006'', instead of the game's primary developer, WB Montreal, who were the studio behind the Wii U port of ''Arkham City'' in the first place), but otherwise the Wii U game actually seems better by comparison due to higher quality graphics and much less game-breaking bugs.
* While not a "disaster" in the "this utterly shames the original product" sense, ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' has a unique issue: It ''cannot'' be ported correctly. The original game has a very strange encryption scheme and it's never been decoded and all related parties who created it have never been willing to help out with breaking it. So all the ports are based on code that has been [=DRM'd=] by this encryption, resulting in various glitches, missing effects (such as blood color) and being unable to perform certain combos and fatalities properly.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall: Deluxe'' on the [=PS2=] and Xbox may have levels and content from both the original games in one DVD, plus more, but both versions suffer from the controls not being anywhere as good from the UsefulNotes/GameCube versions. Worse yet for the [=PS2=] version having some framerate issues and, with the [=PS2=]'s hardware not being as powerful as the [=GameCube=], graphics that don't look as good as the original.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'' on the [=PS3=] and Xbox 360 was clearly an afterthought thrown together to milk the last remaining dollars out of those who hadn't upgraded to a current-gen system at the time. The obvious detail is that the entire single-player campaign from the [=PS4=], Xbox One and PC versions was cut, leaving only the game's multiplayer and Zombies mode. But it gets worse - the graphics look horrendous with art designs that would barely have gotten a pass in the early [=PS2=] era, there are numerous bugs that aren't present in the main versions of the game, it has a very frequent tendency to crash, and the framerate is capped at 30 frames per second, when even the last-gen versions of ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare Advanced Warfare]]'' ran at 60. And while the first two pieces of DLC were released (them being the Zombies map The Giant, and the first full map pack Awakening) much later than the current-gen versions got them, following that, Activision quickly abandoned these versions of the game, and no further DLC or patches were released. On the bright side, this also means the [[ScrappyMechanic Black]] [[BribingYourWayToVictory Market]] was never added to these versions...