>>1160254
>Imagine unironically recommending PSP and GBA versions.
Of what? PSP3 is DS without the online shit that doesn't work anymore (so the only real choice for 3-3D is it or PC, and PC doesn't have speedup or no job change penalty codes). PSP4 is GBA without the bugs+some mobile shit spinoff that's entirely isolated. PSP1 is bad because it's based on easy type, and PSP2 is debatable (it's GBA but with a
little extra content and different graphics).
Now, GBA1 is easy type and thus shit, GBA4 has major bugs in critical and omnipresent parts of the game (ATB not working right in non-EU versions), but GBA2 is probably the first really playable version of 2 (FC is broken, NES is a literally unfinished mess that's broken AND horribly translated, WSC might be fine except while it introduced Battle Theme B it lacks the cool instrumentation choice of later releases that make it work and I'm not otherwise familiar with it, PS1 has load times. Soul of Rebirth is fine if barren and demanding you understand the game's obtuse systems to not be fucked out the gate.), and GBA5's only issue is the sound (which can apparently be fixed with patches) and slightly lower detail graphics. GBA6 is the only one that's really any debate on: The translation
is better, as the SNES version is full of just flat out mistranslations and changes, and some of the new content is actually not just end-game bonus dungeon, but some of the glitches do impact balance, there's a removed scene (patches can reinsert), and the usual sound/graphic issues with SNES to GBA .
1 should absolutely be bug fixed NES (not sure of which patch) or translated WSC though. WSC is the last version to retain the difficulty (without adding load times) and fixes many patches while adding tasteful new graphics, but Intelligence still does absolutely nothing, while patches NES is as pure as you can be. OG NES has totally fucked balance due to glitches (Thief is useless due to his main specialties being bugged to not work, and when he becomes a Ninja many of the spells he'd want to use just don't work properly so he's just a Warrior that can cast Haste in exchange for being worse in every other way)