Famitsu Online published the first part of an interview with the development team recently.
Interviewees
Nobuhiro Yoshikawa - Producer & president of City Connection
Masahiro Arai - Chief game designer
Takanori Kazaana - Assistant game designer
Nozomu Akiyama - Main Programmer
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201709/04140830.html
Overview
They talk about...
- How CruisinMix came about The team met up when City Connection were putting together the 3 disc soundtrack release for Game Tengoku
- Why the Saturn version was chosen over the arcade? Yoshikawa-san wanted to do a Saturn port, but thought it would be impossible so asked about the arcade version. The team replied they could probably get the Saturn version working.
- The troubles involved with the port Locating and recovering the master data and source code for the Saturn version was far from easy!
- The Claris DLC A new character, added from scratch and recreated by the original Game Paradise designer, pixel by pixel.
.. amongst other things.
Unfortunately, we can't offer a full translation, but hopefully, we'll be able to arrange an interview with them all nearer release!