This secret ending is honestly nothing, and only serves as a preview of the sequel (which was absent in the SNES version for obvious reasons). Other cosmetic changes included the menus looking more like Breath of Fire II (which is better) and that a secret ending can be accessed.

The GBA version also has portability as its non opinionated upside to the SNES version.

The titlescreen was overhauled to have a arguably titular look with the candle and all that. This works really well with the brighter palette and some may say it looks better than the SNES one. The character face sprites got an uplift and look more anime-ish. All these together state that the GBA port is inferior, right? Well, it’s a matter of opinion really. Thirdly, and most importantly, is that it still retains the same infamously bad translation as the SNES version. Secondly, the GBA didn’t have a backlit screen, so the graphics were compromised to make it look brighter. First off, the GBA lacked the superior soundchip that the SNES was so proud of. If I could get both of those working with the Maeson hack that could be pretty sweet too, but that hack doesn't address Ryu's dragon abilities AFAIK.The GameBoy Advance port of the SNES RPG suffered a lot. On the other hand the SNES version of the game has none of the sound/visual issues the GBA version has, and also has both a highly-lauded retranslation patch and also this patch which makes improvements to the shaman fusion system. That said if it's a really good hack I could probably get past that, if only for the revamped dragon abilities. The only thing is that I haven't managed to get both the Sound Restoration and Palette Restoration hacks to play nicely together with this hack, and both of those things (especially the sound) are whats most nostalgic about the game for me. Right now I'm leaning more toward Breath of Fresh Fire, mostly because of the changes it makes to Ryu's Dragon abilities (they no longer zero out his AP and change how damage is calculated), which was probably my biggest issue with this game VS the others. It looks like there's two major 'overhaul' hacks for the game, Breath of Fire 2 Maeson for the SNES version and Breath of Fresh Fire 2 for the GBA version.

So I'm looking at rom hacks for this game and I'm having trouble deciding which one I should play.

Download breath of fire ii snes rom