The game design was even more difficult. Half of management suggested to just remake the NES version with fancy graphics, the other half said we can do whatever we want - except that real innovation will have to wait for the Xbox version. I think we agreed on the team that the ultra-hard NES version would be difficult to sell nowadays, and many sections look very dated by now. We looked at all the other Battletoads games and I think we even had the arcade board running. We wanted to keep many of the features that people remembered positively of the games, while trying to focus the gameplay on some consistent mechanics to avoid frustration. I'm personally not very happy about the tiny sprites in the GBA version, because with the small screen size and the thin character you hardly see any detail. No idea if that was the final approved design.

Een medewerker van het handheld team heeft destijds enkele beta's van games in ontwikkeling mee naar huis genomen. Sinds oktober worden deze via RareWareCentral op internet verspreid en kunnen deze kosteloos gedownload worden. Of Microsoft hiertegen in actie gaat is nog niet bekend. De beta is vanaf 19 november te downloaden.