Also I have a very strong impression Legend of Mana for PC is... emulated. It has the same slowndowns it used to have on PSX, but somehow, worse, the game runs

Also I have a very strong impression Legend of Mana for PC is... emulated. It has the same slowndowns it used to have on PSX, but somehow, worse, the game runs quite poorly during combat, stuttering when there is any new sprite on the screen. I think they lost the source code, and made an emulator just f or this game, to allow them to shove the new "remastered" assets in (the remastered assets are just AI-processed backgrounds... quite poorly sometimes even, for example in one screen something that is clearly some grass near a fountain on PS1 became a green smudge on PC).