Phantasy Star Set for DSiWare

Nintendo's DSiWare download service will be getting a major name shortly. Famitsu reveals in its latest issue that Sega will be bringing over a version of Phantasy Star for the service some time in March.

Titled Phantasy Star Zero Mini, this downloadable version of last year's Phantasy Star Zero (available only in Japan at present) consists of a score attack where players select from three characters and attempt to defeat a creature known as Raven. Just like its big cartridge brother, the game will support four player wireless play and a "visual chat" hand drawn messaging service.

Sega will be charging just 200 DSi Points for this title. This suggests a "mini" game indeed, but we'll be sure and make the download for ourselves to let you know if there's two dollars worth of game in there.

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...and the speculation has just started on if this signifies if PSZ will be expandable via DSi, or, more likely, if PSZ2 (or whatever its going to be called) will be DSi Optimized.