In my opinion, yes the gba versions are better. They don't change any of the story, characters, or music, only add details to it. And the numbers are also changed around to a sane level. One thing that I can not stand in the originals is the messed up things they did to you. In FFIII, I rushed through all the way to the end, beat the 4 crystals in the dark world. Then found out beating the last boss was impossible because I didn't have enough Skill Points, which reset when you change job. That really made me sick, it was brutal. And there's no way to go back and save or anything, that's the worst part. You just get thrown in there with no warning that you're about to waste 2 hours for nothing. I don't like when those older FF games do stuff like that, and all 3 of them did it. That stuff is gone in dawn of souls