Home Ports that were BETTER than the arcade original!

[gman72]

Renegade was better on the NES for sure.

[Shinobi]

Double Dragon Advance better then the arcade version
Turtles in time Snes better then Arcade and 360 versions
Mercs Megadrive
Tekken possibly for all the FMV endings on the PS1
House of the Dead 2 Dreamcast all the extra stuff on home version

[Dreamer]

Mega Twins/Chiki Chiki Boys (MD)
Chelnov/Atomic Runner (MD)
Mortal Kombat Gold/4 (DC)
Final Fight CD (Mega CD) Mainly for it's soundtrack.

[AmigaJay]

Well Tekken arcade was based on the PS1 hardware so the extras on the ps1 obviously make it the better version overall, same for most Dreamcast conversions as it was closely linked with the Naomi hardware bar less ram etc

The post saying Sega Rally was better on the Saturn because of better handling?! Are you kidding me!? You can't compare playing it on Mame to playing it in the arcade with pedals and steering wheel, it's so much better than any home version that way.

[HEAVYface]

Strider on the Atari ST was better too. The arcade game had big sprites that overlapped the scenery and jerked around quite a bit in their animations. The smaller and more restrained sprites of the 16-bit conversions made it all much more sensible and controllable.

i nearly spat my coffee over my laptop reading that. each to their own though!