Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba said that they had approached Nintendo, the publisher and co-owner of copyright and sole owner of the trademark, about republishing the game for a wider audience. Nintendo only wanted to publish a new game if it was going to be exclusive to Nintendo Switch, while Platinum wanted the remaster to be on more platforms. Nintendo allowed them to do it, though they wouldn't publish the remaster. This gave Platinum the opportunity to try self-publishing. With the game nearly in a complete state for these new ports, they opted to use Kickstarter not only to judge how popular the game was, and thus mitigate the Kickstarter's stretch goals based on this, but also that there was still a necessary business element to self-publishing that the Kickstarter funds would help cover and deal with risks involved with publishing. Studio executive director Atsushi Inaba affirmed the Kickstarter was not about money for development but as a means to bring the community together and to make sure what additional content they could bring to the base game. Among other cosmetic updates, Platinum had devised a way to take the two-screen approach that had been used on the Wii U version (including the picture-in-picture) into a version that will work on the single-screen platforms. Drawing features are still incorporated in the Switch version. Within hours, the campaign had surpassed its goals for all three versions. The campaign concluded with over raised, achieving several of the stretch goals that included a separate 2D side-scrolling game based on the adventures of Luka. A celebratory Twitch stream held by PlatinumGames at the Kickstarter's conclusion brought in additional donations that allowed a last stretch goal, orchestral arrangements of two of the game's songs, to be made as well. Remastered was released digitally in North America on May 19, 2020, in Europe on May 22, 2020, and in Japan on June 11, 2020. Additional downloadable content for Remastered has been released, including a free time attack mode released on June 15, 2021, and "The Prince Vorkken" DLC on August 28, 2021, which allows players to control Prince Vorkken as the main character and temporarily summon enemies using "Enemy Morphs" in place of the usual "Unite Morph" abilities. While the game was successful in its funding goals, it is noted that there were some issues regarding the delivery of additional rewards to backers, such as art books,