EGGCONSOLE: Historic Japanese PC Games Coming to Switch in 2024
D4 Enterprises, who runs the Project EGG emulation service for Windows and once contributed the Wii's Virtual Console, has recently launched a series of enhanced emulation ports for J-PC classics on Nintendo Switch. These range from mid-'80s legends like Falcom's Xanadu to much more obscure stuff from Compile, Bothtec, and other long-gone developers of the period. Each port offers much needed quality-of-life functions: button remapping, slow/turbo play speeds, save states, and manuals/instructions. None of these releases have gone on discount yet, but they're priced near Hamster's Arcade Archives ports ($6.49 USD vs. $7.99) and competitive on features. I'm including all releases from late 2023 to all through 2024 on this list, plus some details and personal thoughts/recommendations for each game.
Until these EGGCONSOLE versions get IGDB pages, I'll link to those within each description, but I'm mainly using the original release versions for this list as reference. Loading Screen Simulator's here to divide released ports from unreleased, and games after Wishing Well are ones I'm hoping will join the lineup next year (or I've submitted them to EGG via their request form).
Until these EGGCONSOLE versions get IGDB pages, I'll link to those within each description, but I'm mainly using the original release versions for this list as reference. Loading Screen Simulator's here to divide released ports from unreleased, and games after Wishing Well are ones I'm hoping will join the lineup next year (or I've submitted them to EGG via their request form).
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My pleasure. I wish they'd get out of the '80s just for a bit to put out some newer, more accessible J-PC games (not just the boomer nostalgia ones, let's be real), but D4's off to a good start with this.
I attempted to add Egg console to IGDB a couple of years ago and it was rejected for one reason or another. Do you have a news link. May turnaround that position.
Holy sh*t this is cool. A lot of these are pretty obscure (to the non Japanese PC gaming enthusiast) so I'm glad they are being brought to light!
My pipe dream would be for Kumdor no Ken to get a Switch port. I'm not sure if there would be copyright issues on that one though, but it would be cool.
My pipe dream would be for Kumdor no Ken to get a Switch port. I'm not sure if there would be copyright issues on that one though, but it would be cool.
Actually it might be hard to bring that to the Switch for it's touch-typing controls...
@DizzySkullKid19 EGG doesn't sell any games from Michiaki Tsubaki on Windows, either, so I think Kumdor, INSIDERS, etc. are just out of the question. The former would be somewhat playable with USB keyboards, but far from ideal since the game's built around the native PC-98 key layout.
@bitterbatterdog There's articles on Time Extension reporting the releases of Xanadu, Silpheed, and Hydlide, plus what I linked in the list description.
@bitterbatterdog There's articles on Time Extension reporting the releases of Xanadu, Silpheed, and Hydlide, plus what I linked in the list description.
It seems thanks to this list there's now more pages on this site for the Eggconsole stuff so that's nice.
Uhh apologies for a comment again but they announced more games for this stuff. I couldn't really read all of them but I noticed Hydlide 3 is on their coming soon now.
@Angel_Arle I've added Babylon to IGDB and updated the list with the other two. Laplace no Ma is the one to watch out for since it's very unique and underplayed out West.
DeemonAndGames
4 months ago