Falcom Classics

[heyadol]

Edia just announced they have licensed some Nihon Falcom PCE classics, including Ys, Dragon Slayer, and Xanadu, for "modern consoles." So far Edia released the console Valis games on Switch and Steam, along with several other PCE/MD games for Switch. Nothing fancy, no QoL improvements (at least on the games I've played through), but the ports have been pretty decent. Hopefully this new agreement will expand where they publish, probably PlayStation, maybe Xbox (but I doubt it). Here's the list:

• Ys I & II
• Ys III
• Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys
• Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes
• Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II
• The Legend of Xanadu
• Tye Legend of Xanadu II

『イース』『ドラゴンスレイヤー英雄伝説』『風の伝説ザナドゥ』は、いずれも日本ファルコムを代表するAR PG、RPGシリーズとして世界中のファンに支持されているタイトルです。

「イースI・II」（1989年12月21日発売　PCエンジンCD‐ROM²）
「イースIII」（1991年3月22日発売　PCエンジンCD‐ROM²）
「イースIV The Dawn of Ys」（1993年12月22日発売　PCエンジンCD‐ROM²）
「ドラゴンスレイヤー英雄伝説」(1991年10月25日PCエンジンCD‐ROM²)
「ドラゴンスレイヤー英雄伝説II」(1992年12月23日PCエンジンCD‐ROM²)
「風の伝説ザナドゥ」(1994年2月18日PCエンジンCD‐ROM²)
「風の伝説ザナドゥII」(1995年6月30日PCエンジンCD‐ROM²)

https://edia.co.jp/news/pressrelease/2025/09/03/15888/

[heyadol]

From @Edia3935 via Twitter, no international info yet, but I think all of their stuff had basic English support.

https://x.com/Edia3935/status/196307...Gu6OT-HzFD8q-Q

[heyadol]

Ys IV has never received an official international version, although it was redeveloped into Ys: Memories of Celceta. They're not on the list, but it would be great if the SFC games Ys IV: Mask of the Sun and Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand also got ported.

[Modren]

This would be cool but, judging from Edia's previous releases, it's going to be laughably barebones, overpriced, and not even include the original English versions of the games. The Valis collections had English text overlaid on top of the Japanese ROMs even when the games had English versions back in the day.

[heyadol]

Yeah, would have been nice if Edia licensed the US releases for the classic localization and voice overs. Same here, but I'm not holding my breath. Still looking forward to it.

[dyne]

Yeah the first Cosmic Fantasy Collection still has the damage display bug in it for the first title. It's never been fixed. I know what to expect from Edia.

[heyadol]

Yeah, seems like they “fire and forget” so they better get it right the first time.