 "Shiren the Wanderer 2" was developed by Chunsoft over a period of nearly three years.It was produced by Koichi Nakamura, directed and written by Shin-ichiro Tomie, and with planning and game balance handled by Seiichiro Nagahata.It was initially planned to be a 64DD game, but was later announced as being developed as a cartridge-based Nintendo 64 game.