Edia will port PC Engine releases of Nihon Falcom's Ys, Xanadu, and Dragon Slayer games worldwide

Edia will port PC Engine releases of Nihon Falcom's Ys, Xanadu, and Dragon Slayer games worldwide

Edia announced that they have signed a license contract with Nihon Falcom that will let the former commercialize the latter's Ys, The Legend of Xanadu, and Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes series worldwide. Edia will do it by releasing ports of the aforementioned series' PC Engine CD-ROM2 releases to ongoing gaming platforms worldwide around the 2026 and 2027 fiscal years, which should mean between April 2026 and March 2028.

There are 7 titles that will be included in this project. The full list is as follows, while including the respective titles' release dates in parentheses:

  1. Ys I & II (21 December 1989)
  2. Ys III: Wanderers From Ys (22 March 1991)
  3. Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys (22 December 1993)
  4. Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes (25 October 1991)
  5. Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II (23 December 1992)
  6. The Legend of Xanadu (18 February 1994)
  7. The Legend of Xanadu II (30 June 1995)

The focus on the PC Engine CD-ROM2 will distinguish this project from what D4 Enterprise has been doing with their emulator series (Project EGG for Windows PC and EGG Console for Nintendo Switch). The latter mostly ported versions of the games based on earlier retro Japanese PCs, such as PC-8801 (pictured below) and PC-9801.