Melty Blood
A video game console port for the PlayStation 2 was released as by Alchemist on February 22, 2007. "Higurashi" is the third dōjin game to be ported to a video game console; the first was "Hanakisō" by HaccaWorks*, and the second was "Melty Blood" by French-Bread and Ecole. Although "Higurashi" was the first to have a video game console port announced, its long development time made it the third to be released. Due to the popularity of "Matsuri", a second enhanced PlayStation 2 port, known as , was released on December 20, 2007. It was sold as an append disc to the original "Matsuri" and as a standalone game. It contains all of "Matsuri"'s content, in addition to "Matsuribayashi-hen" from the original games and other bonus content.