Project EGG, D4 Enterprises' decades-old digital distribution platform for vintage games, is making its first big, direct push onto consoles with EGG Console, a series of standalone reissues set to hit the Japanese Switch eShop from next week—they're starting with the PC-8801 version of Bothtec's Relics, a side-scrolling action/adventure game fondly remembered for its body-swapping gimmick, mysterious setting and the multiple hidden personality values that change based on the player's actions and will ultimately determine the game's ending, ie the only part of the game that offers any real exposition on, like, anything that's happening. (It's also remembered for being a game that would show up early in the life of a ton of Japanese microcomputers, and D4E has knowingly kept that tradition alive by releasing Relics as part of the opening salvo of most of their initiatives.)
EGG has been handling/supervising the emulation for Edia's various Nihon Telenet collections, and what little they've revealed via this listing seems to line up with the front-end and feature suite of those releases: save states, button mapping, a scan of the original manual and a gallery for the game's endings, maybe even a sound test if they're feeling generous. I tend not to recommend anyone jump through the hoops to subscribe to EGG on PC due to those emulators being hilariously antiquated and not worth all the inconveniences required just to gain access to them, but I do think that one-off, standalone releases like these will be more or less adequate depending on the game, and I am curious to find out whether they're going to pursue a global release for any or all of these Switch reissues.
(D4E announced a licensing deal with An𐠒s𐠒ream not too long ago, so I was worried these would be locked to and/or tied up with their streaming service... thankfully, that does not seem to be the case.)
