It was remade in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance as Sword of Mana, wherein features of the original game were reworked to be brought more in line with the direction the Mana series had taken with the later games. It also severed the game from the Final Fantasy series.
The 2003 remake of "Sword of Mana" for Game Boy Advance aimed to modernize and align the gameplay with the direction taken by subsequent games in the Mana series, while also detaching it from the Final Fantasy franchise.