Secret of Mana version differences

The following is a list of version differences between the various releases and remakes of Secret of Mana.

Initial Release
The first iteration of Seiken Densetsu 2 was released in Japan on August 6, 1993.

North American Release
The first international edition of ''Secret of Mana' was released in North America on October 3, 1993.

Name change

 * The game was renamed Secret of Mana for the North American market for unknown reasons, establishing the name's franchise outside Japan.

Graphical changes

 * The opening screen that depicted a large portion Mana Tree was now zoomed in and blurrier, focusing instead on the three heroes.

Script

 * The introduction screen in the Japanese version uses poor English that was rewritten and condensed for the North American release.

Censorship

 * Due to Nintendo of America's policies on religious imagery, the warp portals were altered from depicting triangles instead of hexagrams.
 * The Kettle Kin boss was censored in the North American version by removing its chainsaw, making it look like an identical palette swap of the earlier Kilroy bossw with different stats. In its second phase, the drill part is also removed.

Minor changes

 * The opening logo was given a trademark (™) in the North American version.
 * An additional frame depicting the English text "ALLRIGHTS[sic] RESERVED BY SQUARE" in the japanese version was scrapped in the other two Super Nintendo versions.
 * The Gnome spell Earth Slide icon in the ring menu was changed from a catfish to an exploding boulder. In Japanese folklore, Namazu is a giant catfish that can create powerful earthquakes.

European release
The european release of Secret of Mana was released on November 24, 1994.

Japan
A mobile phone release of Seiken Densetsu 3 was observed in Japan on October 26, 2009.

Worldwide
The international edition of the mobile remake of Secret of Mana was released on iOS December 21, 2010.

The same game was later ported on Android devices on October 30, 2014.

Worldwide
A 3D remake of Secret of Mana was released worldwide on PlayStation 4, PSVita, & Windows on February 15, 2018.