omg, from the quality differences alone in that screenshot comparison i'd be sold if i wasn't gonna already get it anyway, just so i can have the complete version of the game compared to the gimped one the U.S. got... mind you i did love the original, this will give me a chance to enjoy it again on my HDTV... let's face it, due to pixel stretching older games look like crap on HDTVs, it's why i still have my old systems hooked up to smaller monitors, the smaller the image gets the better it looks with older games...
anyway, there's a huge difference in the texture quality, i don't know how anyone could not see it, unless all you're looking at is the character positions on the screen as opposed to the quality of the textures used...