I am an outbreak fan, my favorite character is Yoko Suzuki because of the inventory space, as well as the dodge move. So moving on, since we\'re talking about the online servers, I have to admit that I didn\'t get the chance to play them (US, Japanese be it file 1 or file 2).
Recently, I\'ve been playing on the emulator trying to beat the game solo very hard (I barely make it to the end though, and I haven\'t honestly mastered file 2\'s very hard). I would be willing to lend a hand if we get to play multiplayer, although you pretty much would expect that I would be using an emulator by that time.
as for the server when it goes live: It would be fun if we get to be notified as well if such multiplayer session would consist of team death matches too. I don\'t want to play on a session that suddenly turns into a survivors based setting. =)
I apologize if I can\'t contribute to the technical aspects regarding the game, I don\'t know the mechanics of how online servers work.
So yeah, with concerns regarding server recreation, I can only name one person who explicitly states his progress on creating the servers, however the last time I checked his progress was that his blog was revised last december 2012, so I don\'t think we would be expecting any news from him for a while, by the way the guys name is fulci.